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The discovery of insulin in 1921 radically changed the treatment of diabetes, offering those with diabetes the chance to enjoy longer, healthier lives.
For years, insulin was the only medication available to treat this condition, until another major breakthrough came with the introduction of oral, non-insulin drugs. And yet, these drugs don't always sufficiently control blood glucose levels.
3 FDA-approved non-insulin drugs
In the last decade, researchers have developed new drugs that work with insulin—whether it's naturally produced by the body or injected—to help better manage blood sugar levels.
The three main types of non-insulin, injectable FDA-approved medicines that you should know about are:
- Symlin (generic name pramlintide)
- Byetta (generic name exenatide)
- Victoza (generic name liraglutide)
Symlin (generic name Pramlintide)
What does it do? This is a synthetic version of a hormone called amylin, which is produced in the pancreas along with insulin. Working with insulin, this drug helps keep sudden spikes in blood sugar levels in check, particularly after eating.
Who can use it: Symlin is for people with type 1 or type 2 diabetes who use insulin.
Possible side effects: Although Symlin is administered at the same time as insulin, each medication must be injected separately due to chemical differences. Common side effects include nausea, diarrhea, and vomiting, which may decrease over time as you find the right dosage.
Byetta (generic name exenatide)
What does it do? This medication mimics the action of a hormone called incretin, which triggers the pancreas to release insulin when blood glucose levels rise.
Who can use it: Byetta is approved for people with type 2 diabetes who require insulin. This medication requires two injections per day, within an hour before eating a meal.
Possible side effects: Common side effects include nausea, headaches, diarrhea, and vomiting. In rare cases, this drug may cause inflammation of the pancreas.
Victoza (generic name liraglutide)
What does it do? In the same class of drugs as Byetta, this drug also mimics the naturally-produced hormone incretin—allowing insulin to work more effectively at lowering blood sugar levels.
Who can use it: Victoza is approved for people with type 2 diabetes who require insulin. Unlike Byetta, which requires two daily injections, patients only need to inject this drug once per day—at any time of day. It can be taken with or without food.
Possible side effects: Common side effects include headache, nausea, and diarrhea. Rarely, this drug may cause inflammation of the pancreas.
The future for diabetes treatment is promising, as researchers continue to discover effective, new medications. You can successfully manage your condition and enjoy a healthy, active life. Talk with your doctor about the pros and cons of each medication to decide the best route for you.


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About us
Serengeti is a software development outsourcing company based in Zagreb, Croatia. The company was founded by Goran Kalanj in 2007 and has been continuously growing in terms of revenue, number of employees, and in level of expertise. Because of our, distinctive model of providing outsourcing services, Serengeti has become a highly valued partner for companies with no experience in outsourcing, previous bad experiences in outsourcing, or clients with critical time to market, resource or quality risks.
Our way of working is to always promise what we can deliver and then to deliver more than we promise. Our top priority is to provide professional services that exceed the expectations of what our clients imagine could be possible with outsourced engineering.
Teamwork is one of our core capabilities both between Serengeti engineers and between our engineers and your engineers. We select and foster those unique individuals with strong talent, great attitude and energy, and ensure that they will always work well within a team.
Today, the turbulent market is developing at a high speed and our goal is to tailor our customized services to help companies become and stay more flexible, focused and competitive to be able to achieve its business goals and strategic targets. By using our services for any project size, our clients gain flexibility, knowledge transfer, reduce development costs and shorten the time to market. We look always for win-win-win, long-term business relationships for our clients, our employees and Serengeti.
Goran Kalanj, Managing Director
Serengeti builds young, skilled and team talent and ensures that this is further enhanced within our work environment. Specifically, we strive to ensure that we have no weak players and no ''rock stars'' with inflated egos.
We pay great effort not only to hire most talented engineers but also to improve their skills and to keep them long term. As a result, churn rate which is already relatively low in Zagreb is effectively a non-issue at Serengeti. Zagreb is also fortunate to have technical universities and industry that produce world class engineers; however, because we are the fastest growing IT Company in Croatia and only IT Company in Croatia with a truly international orientation we have a distinct advantage when competing for these exceptional engineers. While formal education is only one measure of ability, more than 90% of our engineers have master degree or higher.
Why Serengeti?
EXPERIENCE: At Serengeti we know that successful software development outsourcing is more than great CVs and price. We think highly skilled individuals are just the starting point. We then must ensure that they develop with balanced personalities and then encourage their impulse to grow technically and develop industry knowledge. Our clients respect our ability to collaborate with organized and efficient teams that are managed by experienced team leads and project managers.
ACCOUNTABILITY: We believe businesses are built on trust. Our mission is to deliver premium-quality development services yet avoid the primadonna attitudes and price. We aim to get the job done right, first time, every time, and we're always on call.
Why is Outsourcing sometimes unsuccessful?
For many people, software development outsourcing means little more than one company providing engineers to another. For them, engineers are a commodity to be judged based on CV and price per head. This is what most customers ask for and as a result this is what most outsourcing companies are optimized around.
Ironically, most of these same people will recognize that their own success is dependent on far more than the sum of their internal engineering team's CVs and recognize that within their teams, great software has as much to do with things like leadership, management, and chemistry as it has to do with measurable skills. Yet, somehow they forget that this applies to all engineers, all teams, everywhere in the world. It not only applies, it is sometime even more important yet at the same time it requires somewhat different solutions than you use for your own teams.
At Serengeti, we have built a company around this concept. We also know things like:
- Transition from on-site to offsite is the highest risk part of any customer engagement and if company doesn't understand the problem well enough it won't be able to manage the process.
- Fixed price projects and/or micromanaged / on-site teams are not countermeasures to reduce risk of an outsourcing failure—in most cases they are cause amplifiers. Risk mitigation starts with understanding the risks and working with all customer side and supplier side stakeholders.
- Outsourcing transition can be optimized for speed of ramp, minimal distraction to existing team, or cost effectiveness. Each is very different in approach and setup. Most companies have never asked themselves this question let alone told their supplier.
Our measure of success is our ability to tactically assist in each individual delivery and to strategically build a flexible, scalable, agile extension of your own engineers so that we can add capacity or special skills as and when needed to react to your shifts in business demand. This is a longwinded way of saying, "success for us is when we make your engineering better able to support your business".

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Information About the Freedom of Information Act (3)+
Freedom of Information Act Requests from the U.S. Department of Justice
This web site contains information about how to use the Freedom of Information Act to obtain information from the Department of Justice. Content Detail
How to Use the Federal Freedom of Information Act
This booklet is designed as a general "do-it-yourself" guide to using the federal Freedom of Information Act. This is the ninth edition of the guide, which was originally published in 1976 and has been updated and expanded to include recent court opinions that affect the FOI Act. This booklet was researched and edited by The FOI Service Center, a project of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. It describes how to use the Act as an effective investigative tool, and provides sample letters, forms and directories to assist you in dealing with the government promptly and effectively. Content Detail
Using the Freedom of Information Act: A Step-by-Step Guide
The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) was passed by Congress in 1966 and amended in 1974. FOIA creates procedures so that any member of the public may obtain the records of the agencies of the federal government. The purpose of this Guide is to help you exercise your right to "open agency action to the light of public scrutiny." This document contains detailed information, instructions and sample letters designed to help you make an effective FOIA request. Content Detail


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First let me warn some of you off. If you never veer off the path of pure healthy eating, you will not care for this recipe. Second, if you like your meatloaf dry and able to be perfectly sliced like a loaf of bread (as my husband does), then this recipe is not for you either.
But, if you are willing to occasionally indulge in a splurge of homey, meat-and-potato goodness. . . . If you relish the thought of a moist bite of meatloaf, topped with caramelized onions and crunchy fried onions, all smothered in a tomato gravy atop a bed of mashed potatoes . . . then this recipe is for you! 🙂
Initially, my mom's recipe did not have the onions on top. Years ago, though, I ordered meatloaf at a restaurant (something I rarely do, because–well–who orders meatloaf at a restaurant??). Anyway, it was some of the best meatloaf I ever had, smothered in caramelized and french fried onions. I decided to make the onions a staple (and defining, I might add) part of Mom's meatloaf recipe.
One more note before I get into the recipe: Technically, this recipe does call for hamburger, which usually has a higher fat content than ground beef. The higher fat content helps the loaf better stick together. However, I usually use ground beef, which does mean that the slices of meatloaf somewhat fall apart when sliced. This does not bother me, but if it bothers you, use hamburger, as the recipe calls for.
I love to serve the meatloaf over mashed potatoes, spooning a little more of the gravy on top, then sprinkling the caramelized and french fried onions on top. Absolutely delicious!
- 2 pounds raw hamburger
- 1 large onion, chopped fairly finely
- Onion and garlic powder (to taste)
- Salt and pepper (to taste)
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup cracker crumbs (I used saltine-type crackers)
- 1 tbsp A-1 sauce (any steak sauce will do)
- 3 8-oz cans tomato sauce
- 2 cans golden mushroom soup
- 1-2 green peppers (chop ½ of 1 green pepper and slice the remaining to place on top of the meatloaf)
- Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees.
- Combine hamburger, chopped onion, spices, eggs, cracker crumbs, A-1 sauce, 1 can tomato sauce, and the chopped green pepper in a large bowl. Use hands to mix thoroughly.
- Form into a loaf shape and place in a casserole dish. (I recommend a 9×13 if you are going to make the gravy.)
- Place the pepper slices on top of the meatloaf, pressing them slightly into the meat mixture.
- Mix the remaining 2 cans of tomato sauce and 2 cans of golden mushroom soup. Pour the soup mixture on top of the meatloaf.
- Bake uncovered for 1 hour, 45 minutes.
- While the meatloaf is cooking you can prepare your mashed potatoes and caramelize your onions.
- For each serving, place a slice of meatloaf on top of mashed potatoes, add gravy, and sprinkle with caramelized and french fried onions.
- Enjoy! 🙂
{On Tuesdays, I share a yummy recipe. Typically, my recipes will be super easy, because I'm a mom with littles. I try to be healthy and frugal as well. But I like good food, so it will always be delicious! }
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Typically, Standard Mail delivery takes 10 to 14 days. Standard Mail is a special classification the U.S. Postal Service offers to businesses and organizations that need to mail many identical letters, catalogs or publications not requiring quick delivery.
Although postage per piece is lower than First-Class mail, standard-rate mailings require an annual fee and must be prepared according to strict guidelines to relieve postal workers of sorting time and labor. Mailers must sort the addresses in each mailing according to postal routing order. Each mailing must contain at least 200 identical pieces, with no personal messages or individual enclosures. Postal employees attend to Standard Mail after the First-Class and Priority letters and packages are delivered.


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LOL L!ve Comedy Special: Angry Indians
They may NOT be from Sentul, Brickfields or Klang, and they may not be old men. However, these guys have one thing in common with the stereotypical old men you see in movies, they all come with massive amounts of angst and flaring tempers.
This show proudly presents the best of the Machas in the comedy industry who will tickle you silly with their anger and sarcasm. Be prepared to have your eyes filled with tears of laughter, your cheeks ache from giggles and your belly aching with mirth as these men take the stage.
Comedians :
Andrew Netto graduated high school, college and the school of hard knocks voted as the individual 'Most Likely Become a Comedy Superstar'. That dream turned into reality for Andrew when he started his comedic career in 2006.
His talent is described as the comic with more spin than a high speed turbine, with twists and insights in the daily workings of the average Joe.
Andrew Netto lives with his life quote "Live Life To The Fullest, There's Plenty Of Time To Be Dead".
Kavin Jay may be grouchy, grumpy, and cranky, but he is undoubtedly a rapid-fire joke telling machine.
Since leaving his day job as a radio DJ, Kavin takes pleasure in bringing to light his love/hate relationships with his life, love and country whilst on stage.
Kavin is known in the underground scenes and open mic spots as having the ability to put a positive spin on the most dreadful negative issues.
Keren Bala Devan is a self-proclaimed advocate for telling the truth. Known for being perpetually angry with the world, he loves to share his unique views in a special kind of rant comedy.
Keren is a man who is quoted as a 'culture assassin'. His observations of the world perpetuates his brand of comedy where the slightest sight of either hipsters, ridiculous pop culture and conspiracy theorists would spark an irate and loud remark from Keren that's only reserved for the laughter of his audience.
Keren is an up and coming Malaysian comedian that brings his well-mannered, polite and positive brand of comedy to audiences. In truth, he may very well bite your face off while yelling about what annoyed him this week. Don't worry, he'll ask nicely first (He won't).
One looks at Prakash Daniel and the following description comes to mind: loud, quirky, chirpy hipster.
When he isn't pursuing his passion as a photographer and managing his portfolio of men with beards called 'Beards Of Malaysia' on Instagram and Facebook, Prakash dabbles with comedy on stage as well as features in comedy sketches on YouTube. His witty puns on everyday observations naturally have audiences curling up with laughter. Ever the livewire of the party, he believes in keeping the jokes simple, easy and relate-able.
Thenesh Skip: Secret weapon coming soon to a comedy stage near you.
Date : 26 / 27 / 28 May 2016
Time : 8.30pm
Venue : LOL @ Live House, TREC KL
Ticket Price : RM45 (inclusive of GST)
Music : Resident DJ
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- Venue
- LOL @ Live House, TREC KL, Jalan Tun Razak, Kuala Lumpur
- Tickets
26 May 2016 (Thu) SOLD OUT RM45.00 27 May 2016 (Fri) SOLD OUT RM45.00 28 May 2016 (Sat) SOLD OUT RM45.00
- Venue Address
- LOL @ Live House, TREC KL, Jalan Tun Razak, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia
- Directions
Near the new Zouk KL. Along Jalan Tun Razak from Ampang Park, pass Prince Court Hospital, after RHB building, before IKEA Cheras
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And now.... because Sir though she might be ready to face the future. And because Sir thinks that Freud sucks but ultimately made some good points on mourning. And because writing is never neat and sequential, even though authors who are actually published always tell their story as though it is so.
On the 14th of Novemeber, Sir got married. Hurrah!! Then, later that same November...
Last week there was a day when all things in the North seemed to awry. Trains to and from Rosanna went up shit creek, the Greens borough Mall collapsed, and Sir was stuck in traffic for 2 hours trying to get from Eltham to Diamond Creek to see Rose. When Sir got to Kilara Retirement home I had forgotten that one can get in to these facilities quite easily.... however getting out is quite another matter.
Never mind, Sir's mind was made up once the door was closed.
Suffice to say, Sir wasn't prepared for the musty flooded floors or the twelve sets of hopeful eyes that turned from the cricket on television to her when she walked into the living room. Sir's mind flashed back to the Christmas sing-a-longs that she went to in her teens, playing Violin, Piano and singing to the oldies at Mum's salt mines over the years. Shit.
So Sir found her notchalant fosterling sister. Sir realised that the path that brought us both togther have now forked away from each other. Notchalant fosterling sister told Sir that she was "happy for me to do what I though was best" to do, and to do so without her.
So Sir did. This is the story.
Today Sir went to that really expensive Nursery on the Maribyrnong in Alberfield. Sir went because Sir's dead Matriarch was jumping out of her skin (so to speak) all last night and Sir was just about going mental (literally... a normal reaction of most to the mother pressure).
Sir bought a Jacaranda, a Blueberry Ash, two bags of bourgeois potting mix, and two passion fruit vine seedlings. Sir came home, got a call from her wife and picked her up from Heidelberg Station with a box of succulents that she bought from the old-lady-with-the-card-table-
stall at Deakin University. It's Dr Wife now (blush) and it seems that plants have been calling us both the last two days.
When we got home it was dusk. We dug two deep holes, one medium and two little ones. We distributed the Matriach's ashes between the Jacaranda tree, the Blueberry Ash, a succulent in the fairy garden, and the two passion seedlings on the back fence. We shared wine and watched the huge full moon rise up over the trees against a mauve sunset. Then we put up the fairy lights in the fairy garden.
So it is done. The garden is beautiful.


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Research Associate I - The Sedrak Social Media Research Team
- Employer
- City of Hope
- Location
- California
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- February 21 2018
- Discipline
- Life Sciences
- Position Type
- Full Time
- Organization Type
- Healthcare/Hospital
City of Hope, an innovative biomedical research, treatment and educational institution with over 5,000 employees, is dedicated to the prevention and cure of cancer and other life-threatening diseases and guided by a compassionate, patient-centered philosophy.
Founded in 1913 and headquartered in Duarte, California, City of Hope is a remarkable non-profit institution, where compassion and advanced care go hand-in-hand with excellence in clinical and scientific research. City of Hope is a National Cancer Institute designated Comprehensive Cancer Center and a founding member of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, an alliance of the nation's 20 leading cancer centers that develops and institutes standards of care for cancer treatment.
Requisition ID: 11057
Job Title: Research Associate I The Sedrak Social Media Research Team
Position Summary and Key Responsibilities:
A Research Associate I position is available immediately to join the Sedrak Research Team at City of Hope. In this role, you will work under the direct supervision of Dr. Mina Sedrak, the Principal Investigator, assisting in the development, execution, and analysis of social media research projects. Our team is open to unconventional approaches, applying mixed scientific research methods, empowering the team to produce high quality, innovative research.
This is an exciting opportunity to launch your research career and build the skills necessary to be a successful physician and/or scientist.
What We Offer:
- Opportunity for variety, challenge, and growth
- Training and career development
- Mentorship opportunities
- Collaborative, team-oriented, and high-performing atmosphere
Essential Functions:
- Prepare, organize, and conduct interviews with research participants
- Recruit, screen, and consent eligible study participants
- Assist in formulating, designing, and conducting survey studies
- Collect data and safeguard the confidentiality of subjects as necessary
- Conduct quantitative and qualitative data analysis (e.g., code interviews and assist with data entry/data management)
- Perform literature searches and maintain reference databases
- Help prepare and contribute to reports and research papers for publication and presentation at conferences
- Assist with grant applications and progress reports to funding agencies
- Attend and participate in relevant staff meetings and trainings
- Assist with applications to Institutional Review Boards and other regulatory materials
- Manage and respond to project related emails
- Follows established City of Hope and department policies, procedures, objectives, performance improvement, attendance, safety, environmental, and infection control guidelines, including adherence to the workplace Code of Conduct and Compliance Plan. Practices a high level of integrity and honesty in maintaining confidentiality.
- Performs other related duties as assigned or requested.
The Sedrak Research Team studies how social media platforms can enhance the public's knowledge, health behaviors, and outcomes as they relate to cancer. Our goal is to understand the use and limits of new and rapidly evolving modes of participative communication (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn) as they apply to cancer research. We seek to understand how interpersonal connections influence personal health choices and actions, and identify pathways by which these new media platforms influence informational and social support, behaviors, and outcomes in oncology.
Resume/CV and Cover Letter should be addressed to:Dr. Sedrak. When applying, please submit both resume/CV and cover letter in one file.
Minimum Education and Skills Required for Consideration:
- Bachelor's degree or higher in related field (biology, engineering, computer and information sciences, bioethics, social work, psychology, linguistics, anthropology, sociology, preferred)
- Familiar with research methods from coursework, internship, or work experience
- Self-starter, driven, motivated to take initiative, and possess an ambitious curiosity
- Loves teamwork, but also great at prioritizing and managing multiple projects independently
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills
City of Hope is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with disability.


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What's Asheville's secret? There's no question that its entrepreneurial community is thriving. New businesses open their doors each week, helping keep our community alive with fresh ideas and initiatives. There's so much business news, it can sometimes seem impossible to keep your finger on the city's pulse. And the vibe isn't Asheville's alone — as a whole, the metro area and Western North Carolina have become a hub of biz spirit.
So for this week's Open for Business issue, Mountain Xpress gives you a chance to get better acquainted with these businesses, their owners and what they've been up to — they're part of what makes Asheville and WNC unique and vibrant. They have the podium in these pages to introduce themselves and so you can learn more about them.


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|The California's Motorcycle Helmet Law
Has NOT Caused Lower Fatality and Injury Rates, But it HAS Resulted in Drastically Lower Motorcycle Ridership, Ownership and Usage
Helmet law proponents claim that the 41% reduction in motorcycle deaths, 35% drop in injuries and 42% decrease in accidents, in 1992 and 1993, was due to California's strictly enforced helmet law, which became effective on January 1, 1992. They choose to ignore the unprecedented results of the state's award-winning California Motorcycle Safety Program (CMSP) which was solely responsible for a 43% decrease in motorcycle fatalities, and a 40% drop in injuries from its inception in 1986 to 1991, and continues to contribute to accident, fatality and injury reductions of at least 10% every year.
The numerical decrease in fatalities (before the helmet law) due to the results of the CMSP, a training and educational program for young and inexperienced riders (which was accepted and vigorously supported by all of California's almost 1 million riders and every state motorcycle rights organization) was over twice the amount claimed by the California Highway Patrol as a result of the helmet law. The decrease in injuries from 1986 through 1991 was more 12,258, compared to the 5,829 claimed by the CHP and other pro-helmet law groups, in 1992 and 1993, because of the helmet law.
Just why were there 210 fewer motorcycle deaths, and 5,829 less injuries in 1992 and 1993 as compared to 1991, when the helmet law appiied only to those under 15 1/2 years old? It is very clear that the most pronounced effect of the helmet law was to drastically decrease the number of motorcycle riders, and the miles ridden by those riders who remained.
The real reason fatalities and injuries dropped as much as they did in 1992 was that the number of riders and motorcycle usage decreased even more than the injuries and deaths did, coupled with the continuing six-year historical trend in the reduction in deaths and injuries due to the CMSP. This ridership reduction can be illustrated in at least three ways:
First: The CHP reports that the number of motorcycle accidents was down by 25% in 1992 as compared to 1991 Everyone, including helmet law supporters, agree that motorcycle helmet use had no role in preventing accidents The helmet use requirement did dramatically cut down on the number of people riding and the number of miles ridden. Motorcycle accidents had also been declining at an average of 7% (again, thanks to the CMSP training), so forced helmet use could not have accounted for the unexplained 78% reduction in accidents in 1992. That was simply a reflection of the fact that far fewer people were riding.
Second: in 1992, the first year of the helmet law, new motorcycle sales dropped 20% from the previous year, when new sales had risen a modest 5% from the year before. Overall registrations dropped 9% from 1991 to 1992. This translates into 56,000 fewer motorcycles ridden on California highways! The news for 1993 was equally disturbing, because registrations continued to drop over 25,236 from the totals in 1992. It's no wonder that deaths and injuries decreased with so many fewer motorcycles on the roads.
Third: ABATE of California conducted a random, verifiable survey of its members' riding habits and how the helmet law affected them, and the results from the 1,750 riders who responded were enlightening, predictable. The average decrease in miles ridden, because of the helmet law, was at least 18%.
It is clear that forcing riders to wear questionably effective "safety" helmets did not result in fewer fatalities and injuries (even with a rigidly enforced two-year old helmet law, 303 riders did die, and 10,910 were injured with helmet usage estimated at 99% by the CHP).
The following chart demonstrates the decrease in motorcycle fatalities, from 1986 to 1991 with no helmet law, due to the beneficial effects of the CMSP. It also shows the decrease from 1991 to 1993 of 210 deaths and a projection of what that total would have been by simply continuing the trend of the previous six years and correcting for the decrease in ridership (273 deaths).
Decrease in Motorcycle Fatalities and Injuries
This total would have yielded a lower number of fatalities than claimed by the CHP as resulting from California's helmet law...
Study these FACTS print it out even and now that you've got some added ammo, call the State Sentators on the Transportation Committee. Senators are busy and some like to only talk to their constituents. Don't be put off if you get brushed off on the phone and don't get angry or rude. This really hurts the cause. Just tell them you want to voice your support for AB-244 and then send them a good letter. You've got a ton of facts above.
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A Muslim woman in East Atlanta recorded a disturbing encounter that took place when she confronted a man who was taking photos of her in a coffee shop without her permission.
Atlanta's Creative Loafing magazine reported that 39-year-old Asma Elhuni — a graduate student in political science at Georgia State University and legislative intern to Democratic State Rep. Brenda Lopez — was studying at Joe's Coffee Shop in East Atlanta Village when she looked up and realized a man was taking photos of her.
"I was just literally on my computer, minding my business, and I look up and see a guy with a camera pointing at me," said Elhuni — who is Muslim and was wearing a hijab.
At first, she tried to ignore him, but he continued. When she addressed him, he said his name was Rob.
"I'm like, are you taking a picture of me?" she said to CL. "And he goes: 'Yeah.' Just like that! And so I was like: 'OK, I'll take a picture of you.' And he smiled, and I was like, OK, I'm going to videotape him now."
Rob — who said he's from Detroit, but who commenters at CL's website claim is Robert Koehler of Columbus, Georgia — said, "Are you getting offended?"
He then sat down at Elhuni's table and told her that she seemed "a little uptight."
"Am I uptight?" Elhuni asked. "I'd like to know why you're coming in here and taking a picture of me."
He offered a story about how the coffee shop looked like "a cool place" and he wanted to take some photos of it, "being from Detroit."
"I thought we were going to have a laugh," Rob said, "share that on Facebook, but then you started acting like a b*tch."
"Oh, so now I'm a b*tch?" Elhuni said.
"You are," he replied, then asked, "Do you have a green card?"
Elhuni — an American citizen — asked incredulously, "So you think I'm not American?"
Then another man approached and corralled Rob out the door.
Elhuni posted the video to Facebook, writing, "Fight back with your cameras y'all. This is Rob from Detroit. He came in and thought it's ok to take his camera out and take a pic of me. I asked are you taking s pic of me? He said yes. I said why, he said I want to. So I took out my phone and started recoding him. spread widely. Racists feel emboldened now."
She told CL, "Really what I wanted to show him was, one, what he did was inappropriate, and two, I'm not afraid of you. Because did you see how he sat down and got in my face? I knew my weapon was my camera."
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This weekend (well, this week, actually) has been all about being together and going on adventures.
Wednesday was Mu's 1st Birthday! I can't believe our little puppy is so big now!!!
We found a new part of the Greenbelt to explore and so we went adventuring.
It was rather nice out once we really got moving so I ended up shedding my jacket and donned (one of) my Little Owl sweatshirts... Perfect comfort and warmth for such a day of exploring.
Today I will be getting ready, packing and dropping Poe off at the "bird sitter" (thanks Pam and Rick!) before heading out early tomorrow morning for MAINE!!! I am so excited.
Not only will we be way up north, along the coast, we will be in an area I have never been!
See, I told you this week was all about adventures!
What are your plans this weekend?


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Tea. "Like," is an understatement. "Love," would be an understatement. "Subsist on," gets a little closer to the heart of it, but focuses too much on the consumption. Having tea in Azerbaijan is a social activity, a integral part of life. Mothers "decanting" tea to cool it off, pouring it into the saucer and holding it up for their children to sip, is the equivalent of a bed time story. Or a hug. It's all very ritualistic. Sugar cubes go in the mouth, not the cup. Candies are plopped in the cup, never the mouth. Jam can be added to tea or eaten with a spoon alongside it. As soon as one kettle is done, another is brought to a boil. We have never consumed so much tea in our entire lives. Azeris seemed to consume no liquid aside from it.
Bread. Sure, everyone likes bread. (Sorry, celiacs). But does everybody place it out in the yard for birds and animals to peck away at because it's too holy to put in the garbage with everything else? I didn't think so. Here, a man prepared long, flat loaves to replace the ones he'd just taken out of the oven at a restaurant. As soon as those were in, he would go about making more. And more. And more. Diners kept a piece of bread in their left hand as they ate with their right, using it to nudge food onto their forks or, topped with a small mound of something, making it into a separate utensil. Soups and stews were doubled in size with the addition of bread. Pieces would be ripped and dropped into the bowl until all liquid was soaked up. Then, the bready mash would be eaten. Of course, along with some more bread.
Outdoor Sinks. The omnipresence of this outdoor sinks were the result of another thing Azeri People like- washing their hands. A sink was placed outside the front door of every restaurant or tucked away behind a curtain right when you walked in. No one sat down without cleaning their hands first and we were beseeched by every host to make use of the sink upon arrival. In fact, we always made sure someone actually saw us wash our hands. That way, we wouldn't have to do it over again.
Statues. Sure, everyone likes statues. But Azeri people had a knack for them and really liked sprinkling them around public spaces. In almost every instance, the statues would depict regular people. In Baku, midriff baring women hailed a cab and baseball cap wearing men talked on cell phones. In Lankaran, two men laughed on a bench while another, stooped over with his hands clasped behind his back, consulted an information board. Behind this statue in Sheki you can see Heydar Aliyev waving from a billboard. Which brings me to my next point...
Pictures of Heydar Aliyev/Heydar Aliyev Museums/Heydar Aliyev. Former President Heydar Aliyev's picture is everywhere in Azerbaijan. Billboards show him in front of the flag or candidly laughing. Businesses hung enormous portraits of him shaking their CEO's hand. One cell phone company simply put up a banner with Heydar Aliyev, you guessed it, talking on a cell phone. Every town had a Heydar Aliyev Museum and at least one bust of the man. Anything that can be named after him is. You can tell his son, the current president, doesn't feel too competitive with his deceased old man.
Honorable Mentions
Cayxanas (Tea Rooms). I know I already said "tea," but this deserves its own honorable mention. Behind almost every door in any Azeri town is a cayxana. Most have no sign at all, just a rumble emanating from inside and the shadow of a dozen black caps in the foggy window. Men sitting in tea houses, sharing kettles of tea and nary a drop of alcohol, become rowdy and congenial. Tea houses are their bars, diners, elks lodges, pool halls all rolled into one. They seemed to spend their entire day here and grew silent and wary any time I entered their realm. Tea houses are like secret clubs and they are fervently male only.
Private Dining Rooms. Speaking of rooms, if an establishment served more than tea, they always had at least one private room in addition to the main dining space. This is where, most often, the police would go - some of the only people who eat out regularly. Sometimes, we were hidden away in one if there was a big party going on. In one restaurant, our private room was a mini picnic table in an faux beer barrel. Very cozy.
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The similarity to computers is clear, with neurons replacing transistors. The brain, in this view, resembles a hierarchical corporation, with low-level office workers passing information up the chain to executives at the top and getting their orders in turn passed down the chain, each dealing only with a few superiors and subordinates.
There were problems with the hypothesis from the start. First was the problem of "binding": How could information obtained by different means be bound together into a single perception? How could the separate neurons that recognized Grandmother's face, her voice, and the word Grandmother all somehow work together to create a single perception of Grandmother? Closely linked with this was the problem of how individual neurons could produce a single consciousness. In addition, the amount of information that could be stored in even the hundreds of billions of neurons in the human brain seemed grossly inadequate to account for actual human memories, which still dwarf the memory capacities of any computer.
More critically, the hypothesis lacked experimental support. Individual neurons did respond to certain features, like lines or edges; however, they responded not to just one, but to a statistical mix of several such features. Nor could a neuron, with an average of 10,000 contacts, or synapses, from other neurons, respond reliably to the input of another individual neuron. There was no one-to-one correspondence between the response of individual neurons and any kind of information.
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Gun-shop owner gets 'breath of fresh air'
Inspectors agree 'threat' from blog really wasn't significant
Red's manager Ryan Horsley
Federal authorities have agreed to tell a judge in Idaho that the "threat" from a gun-shop manager they had complained of probably wasn't anything significant, the manager has told WND.
According to a statement released by Ryan Horsley, manager of Red's Trading Post of Twin Falls, Idaho, his lawyers and lawyers with the U.S. Attorney's office met and "agreed to neutralize" the complaint that had been submitted by inspectors for the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
"Although an apology would be nice, this will suffice," Horsley said. "We are pleased with this decision and with the response that we have received from supporters across the nation who have been following this case."
The gun shop and the BATFE have been disputing for six years already over the store's license to sell firearms, with regulators using rules infractions such as a missing poster to attack Red's business operations.
WND documented earlier how the store appears to be caught up in a new campaign for gun control, focusing on the elimination of retail outlets through technical rules infractions.
Then the agency went to court with a report that its inspectors "suspended" their work at the store recently because of the "threat to the inspectors' safety created by Ryan Horsley, the Manager of Red's.
It appears he was posting a report of the inspectors' visit to his store on his webblog.
"There is still no court date in sight because of all of the attempts of the AFT to get the judge to terminate our injunction (to continue in business) that was granted," Horsley said. "I am assuming that the audits will continue but as I was pointing out in my now infamous blog that the scrutiny has dramatically increased, where as in our 2005 audit we had one inspector that covered five years worth of paperwork. In the last audit they flew in two inspectors and an area supervisor to cover 21/2 weeks of paperwork."
He said the agreement was "kind of like a breath of fresh air at this point."
The latest controversy had developed during the federal agency's visit to his store on July 17. He updated his blog, which he's been using to chronicle for readers his encounters with the federal bureaucracy, with the facts of the visit.
"AFT Area Supervisor Linda Young came in today from Spokane, Washington (567.72 miles; 9 hour drive) along with Industry Operations Inspectors Calvin Pavey and Mike Gorewicz from Portland, Oregon (570.96 miles; 9 hour drive) at around 9:45am. They showed up in a rented newer model Chrsyler … [it] appears they are staying at Best America Suites, which I have to compliment them on their taste, that is a very nice hotel for this area," he wrote.
He went on to describe how the inspectors were looking through the store's books and one of the store's supporters arrived with a camera and started taking some photos.
"We had been recording the audit because of some of the statements that Linda Young had made in the past," he wrote.
The inspectors, however, suddenly left, and within days, the federal agency's version arrived in the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho.
"[The federal agency] notifies the court than an inspection of Red's Trading Post … was initiated on July 17, 2007. The inspection was suspended due to the threat to the inspectors' safety created by Ryan Horsley, the Manager of Red's," the court filing said.
The filing documented how some unidentified person had taken pictures of the inspectors at work.
"At about this time, Supervisor Young's assistant from the Spokane office contacted her and advised that Mr. Horsley had updated his internet blog (http://redstradingpost.blogspot.com/) to include the information that ATF, and Supervisor Young personally, was at the store conducting an inspection," the filing said. So Young contacted others.
"The Director of Industry Operations, Richard Van Loan, agreed with Supervisor Young's assessment that the photographing of the rental car used by ATF personnel, coupled with the instantaneous posting on the internet of ATF's presence … posed a credible threat to their safety and was designed to harass and intimidate," the court filing said.
The court filing noted two other times when the inspectors had been photographed, including once by a news team.
"My point was to show the excess spending of the ATF," Horsley said, citing the assignment of three employees to investigate a couple weeks' worth of sales.
Larry Pratt of Gun Owners of America told WND that as recently as 15 or 20 years ago, there were 250,000 licensed gun dealers in the United States. The federal government confirms there are only about 108,000 now.
The saga with Red's began when the ATF inspection in 2000 discovered various paperwork violations, Horsley said, just shortly after he arrived to take over the store, mistakes such as a customer failing to write down the county in which he lived.
In 2001, "they couldn't find any violations," he told WND. A few other minor problems were found later, including a failure to put up a poster.
"I wasn't alarmed because this agent … had told us we were one of the best small gun shops he'd ever seen," Horsley told WND.
Then early in 2006, "We get a letter that 'We're [ATF] revoking your license,'" Horsley said. "I just came unglued. I couldn't believe it."
After an expensive appeal process within ATF, he ended up with the same result, and sought out a lawyer for the federal court challenge, a challenge which now is pending.
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A few months ago one of the girls from Slimming world asked me to organise her wedding stationery. The theme was blue - to match the bridesmaid's dresses. The order was quite a big one re numbers - this is what I came up with.
I added embelishments ie "Wedding Invitation" but you get the gist.
RSVP's and addressed envelopes included.
I know a lot of money can be made from weddings so I suggested I helped her with the reception flowers. I incorporated the table numbers - there were 14 tables in all. Total spent on flowers £35. The blue carnations were artificial - but when placed amongst the real flowers it difficult to tell them apart.
The seating plan - individual table details attached to the decorative heart I keep for resources - last time I used it was for our silver wedding celebration back in 2013.
I had a few bits and bobs floating about which I added to the postbox. As Joanne and John had been living together for a while they really had everything they needed - so contributions towards a honeymoon were requested.
I enjoyed creating the invitations etc. and one of the guests has made an appointment regarding her own wedding stationery etc so it will be another large commission. Whilst the wedding itself is a few months away by agreeing a theme early on makes the job more manageable, The seating plan is always the last thing I do as changes can take place right up to the last minute. I find it quite rude of people to leave the bride and groom hanging on before they let them know if they are attending, this is why I use a design that is easily managed.
I have also been busy with a lady's 90th birthday invitations. 20 in all, but she wanted something special - she loved the butterfly idea I often use.
Needless to say we didn't include "Wedding Invitation" - just leaving the front blank. The customer loved the invitations which is all that matters.
Whenever I do a wedding commission I order extra materials - which tend to mount up so once in a while I have a good clear out and pass the surplus materials over to people I know - an effort to cut down on clutter!
ABC Wednesday - Catching up and clutter issues!
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Just like the wedding I went to yesterday! My Sister made our cards to give, plus some matching gift envelopes to put the money in.ReplyDelete
Looks like you have a steady business going there!xxx
You certainly have been busy, Denise!ReplyDelete
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Yet another eye catchingReplyDelete
creation from the very talented Mrs Nesbitt. I rather like the Butterfly motif as well,
lovely work Denise.
I wish I could catch up on all the clutter we have amassed here!
love Di.
ABCW team.
PS hope you and John are coping with the loss of your lovely hen Bev, thinking about you xxx
How lovely! You did a super job!ReplyDelete
Thank you for your comments, always nice to know somebody has taken the time to let me know what they think.
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A simple quilt with less than simple process.
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Marston/Moran book..) to find the ones that read clearly "boy" because this quilt is for a friend's baby, and I haven't met her husband or talked to her at length in 10 years, and I didn't know how open they would be to having pink or hearts in their baby quilt (FYI, I'm all for gender mixing in George's toys, in case you were planning to make him anything ;) ). I had some strips of 6 squares, and a bunch of twosies.
I started filling in the gaps with any bright fabrics lying within arm's reach of the cutting table. At first it was just colored fabrics, then I sifted through the bin of 3.5" squares, and then I remembered the entire pile of novelty fabrics in a bin in the closet.. (seeing the dino print left over from george's apron reminded me). I didn't really dig for fabrics, but I knew I had a lot of cute prints that would be fun for this baby and his parents to find as he grows. I fussy cut into a scrap of sock monkeys from V's retreat, added in a dino from the apron scraps, and just pulled fabrics from around the room, being drawn to something if it was the right size or had a fun print. I gave George a couple of squares at a time and told him to put them up on the wall. Sometimes I'd leave them where he put them, sometimes I'd come up with a creative "reason" that we should move them around.
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Monday, February 6, 2012
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The Lovely Janelle of J.P. Photography! I'm so glad she won!
Everyone go check out her shop and blog!!!
Thanks for entering, ladies! Would you be interested in a monthly ad-space giveaway? Because i think that would be fun :)
Also, thanks for all the great questions on my Q&A post. New page/post will be published soon :) And btw you can still leave me comments with questions! :)
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Certificate: 15
Running Time: 119 mins
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Starring: Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
There's a little known, un-researched genetic disposition called McLean Syndrome, it renders the host perpetually in the wrong place at the right time and greatly affects their trigger finger across multiple movies. Mike Banning is one such man.
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Banning (disgraced former Secret Service Agent) finds himself trapped inside the White House on the day of a large scale terrorist attack, the likes of which has never been seen before. As Banning attempts to piece together the clues to who is behind the coup and prevent President Asher (Eckhart) from becoming the first U.S. Commander in Chief to be assassinated in his own home it becomes evident that someone on the inside it playing for the other side.
Going into Olympus Has Fallen expectations were somewhere around the Live Free or Die Hard level. After all we've seen this movie before. Whether it's Die Hard, Sudden Death (aka Die Hard on ice), Under Siege (Die Hard under water) or A Good Day to Die Hard (Die Hard having been lobotomised, pumped full of steroids and filled with shit) there's only so many ways to kill a hostage. What I wasn't suspecting, what came as the most enjoyable surprise since the first twenty minutes of Mad Max: Fury Road was the level of ferocity Fuqua (Training Day) hit the ground running with. So many first acts in these films carefully place and plot half thought-out ideas in an attempt to persuade the audience that it's something "more" than what it actually is. OHF has no interest in that. Imagine watching a season of 24 but starting in at about episode 16, that's where Fuqua drops the audience. You're expected to sink or swim, and even if you can swim you're likely to be shredded by a tsunami of bullets.
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If you're going into this film expecting character development then perhaps you need to ask yourself do I understand what to expect from this genre? Butler paints an action hero in broad strokes. Perhaps it's that we've been spoiled by the quality of TV acting over the last decade plus, or perhaps it's that we've seen him do this before (Gamer, Law Abiding Citizen) but he carries the film without really coming out of second gear. I like Aaron Eckhart, I've liked him since Erin Brockovich. I was stoked when he got the role in The Dark Knight and even Battle: LA was a decent enough movie because of him. Here he's the archetypal single father/widower. Most of his dialogue is thick with exposition and character bios but he does have moments in which he come across as Presidential.
There's not a great deal more that can be said. It's a very entertaining movie as long as you don't expect too much or interrogate what you're given. Big, loud, and brash but with more wallop in it than an angry colt.


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The National Committee of 'Kuwait Kerala Muslim Cultural Center' (Kuwait KMCC) launched the celebration of its 40th Anniversary with a series of programs and charity projects. The event was held at the Community Hall, Abbasiya on Thursday, 11 August. The Declaration Conference was inaugurated by Islamic Presentation Committee Chairman Sheikh Syed Saud Al Otaibi.
Kuwait Kerala Muslim Cultural Centre (Kuwait KMCC) is a glorious organization representing the heart of the 'Malayalees', who have crossed the seas in search of a livelihood. The organization, through its four decades of dedicated services, has spearheaded many valuable endeavors in the fields of social, cultural and compassionate service.
Well known Kerala Youth Leader Panakkad Syed Munawar Ali Shihab Thangal inaugurated the one-year celebration programs which include a Women's Conference, Arts Fest, Sports Fest, EID 'Sneha Samghamam' and Final Conference.
Former Minister of Kerala Dr. M.K. Muneer MLA announced the Charity Projects to be organized as part of this one year 40th Anniversary celebrations. The charity projects are arranging housing for poor people as 'Baithurahma', holding Cluster Marriages for poor couples, Educational Aids as 'Seethi Sahib Educational Scholarship', drinking water programs in the name of Late Panakkad Syed Muhammad Ali Shihab Thangal, Medical Services through C.H Centers, Providing Basic Health equipment to Public Hospitals and more. All the beneficiaries of KMCC charity projects are selected irrespective of religion, caste, or any political considerations.
Kuwait KMCC President K.T.P. Abdurahiman presided over the conference and Vice President Mr. Farooq Hamadan explained details about the proposed Charity Projects.
Sheikh Thahseen Husaini, Director of Municipality Safety Department, Hawally Governorate Engineer Badar Aboo Raghabah Al Otaibi, Colonal Ebrahim Abdurazaq Al Daei, Mathews Varghese (General Manager Bahrain Exchage Co. (BEC)), R.C. Suresh, Ayoob Kecheri (Grand Hyper), Afsal Khan (Malabar Gold & Diamond), Kuwait KMCC Advisory Board Chairman P.A.Rasheed, Former President and NORKA Welfare Board Director Sharafudheen Kanneth, Former Presidents A.K.Mahmoud, Kunjahammed Perambra, Former General Secretaries Basheer Batha, Salam Valancheri, Syed Ghalib Al Mashhoor Thangal, KKMA Vice President A.P.Aslam, Kuwait KMCC Office Bearer Mohammed Aslam Kuttikkattoor, Ateeq Kollam, Siraj Eranhikkal, M.R.Nasar, Salam Chettipadi, M.T. Mohammed (IIC) and Abi Varikad (OICC) delivered felicitations.
Sharafudheen Kanneth, former president of Kuwait KMCC, was honored by Syed Munavir Ali Shihab Thangal for the achievement of 'Pravasi Prathibha Puraskaram' by Indian Pravasi Legal Society for the Best Social Worker in the Middle East.
Dr. MK. Muneer released an immunization campaign leaflet by handing it over to Kuwait KMCC Vice President Mohamed Aslam in the presence of the Medical Wing team.
For achieving the constitutional rights of Muslims, other backward and minority people of India Indian Union Muslim League was formed in 1948. Indian Union Muslim League is the largest forum for the Muslim minorities in India to uphold their constitutional rights through democratic means.
Kuwait KMCC is the first overseas body of Indian expatriates of this kind for socio-cultural and charity activities in Kuwait which is under the umbrella of Indian Union Muslim League (IUML).
KMCC is the largest organization among Indian expatriate in various parts of world and is acting as a major charity organization for people living in Kuwait as well as in India since its formation with sincere services of their former leaders and members.
KMCC implemented social security scheme to the nominee of member in case of death and is the first expatriate organization in the Middle East started this kind of security system.
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I guess it's Wednesday Mojo sketch for me! Here is the sketch for this week, we had the choice of round or square, one of these days I will try a round card.
Here is my Easter version for the sketch. As you can see I really like pastel rhinestone stickers :)
And here is a close up of my peeping little chick.
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(All Supplies Stampin' Up!)
Cardstock: Certainly Celery, Bashful Blue, Lavender Lace, Barely Banana, Very Vanilla
Designer Paper: Sweetheart, Notations
Stamps: A Good Egg
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Barely Banana, Pretty in Pink
Ribbon: Pretty in Pink Satin
Glitter: Dazzling Diamonds
Stickers: Pastel Rhinestones (Martha Stewart Crafts)


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What's more, the procedure is loaded with numerous obscure elements that must be resolved subsequent to getting inked. The tattoo may turn out shocking and you may abhor it, the ink may bring about a hypersensitive response, you may lose your employment, your family may banish you (somewhat sensational) and above all IT IS PERMANENT (unless you can bear the cost of laser expulsion surgery which is exceptionally costly and not generally an assurance to free the tattoo in any case).
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Fwded from Dagobert ... -----Original Message----- From: Dagobert Soergel [mailto:email@example.com] Sent: 23 October 2004 04:01 To: Miles, AJ (Alistair) Subject: Re: FW: vision for controlled vocabulary use and management (1) I agree with you entirely. Information retrieval (or resource discovery) is to a large extent about enabling the user to improve his or her understanding of subjects, topics, issues, contexts that are a defined in terms of concepts, it is to a large extent to help users create meaning. Consequently, thesauri and other knowledge organization systems (KOS) need to be based on concepts and furthermore present these concepts in a meaningful arrangement. The semantic Web is by its very definition about concepts, it needs well-structured, well-defined concept systems called ontologies. Ideally, concept-based KOS will serve both for human information processing and for machine information processing. This thought is, of course, not new; what is significant that it seems adapted and acted on more broadly. On the other hand, human thought and language are very complex, and a pure concept-based approach may not capture all the nuances of language. Therefore, the model outlined in http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v04/i04/Soergel/ is primarily concept-based and links terms to concepts but also allows for treating terms as entities in their own right that can enter into relationships with other terms; these relationships complement the concept-concept and concept-term relationships. Finally, at the level of concept expression for human readers and programs for language processing we have strings, a term being expressed by one or more strings. Since concepts and language are inextricably linked, we need a structure of sufficient complexity. (2) Much search is based on free-text searching (or on automatically detectable image features in image retrieval; in that environment, limited concept-based search can be accomplished through query expansion supported by a KOS. In high-payoff situations, sophisticated indexing pays of. Such indexing, whether by people, computer programs (yes, computer programs can do concept-oriented indexing, particularly when supported by a rich KOS as a knowledge base), or human-computer collaboration, should always be concept-based. There are many advantages to record concepts by concept identifiers, preferable URIs, in the indexing record: The terms displayed to the user can be adapted to the user's language and to current usage. When the user clicks on the surface term concept, the system can use the underlying URI to quickly link to the specific record in a KOS where more information on the concept can be found. But again, users also need to be supported in understanding natural language terms, particularly if they read in a foreign language, and a good system for the retrieval and reading of documents would have a function that accesses multiple KOS on the Web to find such explanations. (3) is desirable in principle but a bit more problematic. In a system where concepts are defined axiomatically (as in a system that supports automatic reasoning) a change in definition certainly creates a new concept that should get a new URI. The new concept should be properly related to the old concept, and the old concept should be marked as no longer used in the system at hand (which would not stop some other system from using it). But consider he case of concepts defined for the purpose of gathering and reporting statistics, such as the definition of a branch of industry. or the Consumer Price Index or what constitutes poverty. A minor change in wording may be introduced to clarify, not change, the meaning. Do we have a new concept? Or the definition could be changed more or less drastically, definitely creating a new concept. The old concept would still be needed to understand historical statistics. This clearly requires fairly elaborate version control. So, in sum, a concept-oriented approach will go a long way to improve information retrieval and processing by people and machines. Dagobert At 10/8/2004 11:14 AM, you wrote: >Hi Dagobert, > >Would you be able to comment on this, for the email@example.com mailing >list? ... > > >-----Original Message----- >From: email@example.com >[mailto:email@example.com]On Behalf Of Miles, AJ (Alistair) > >Sent: 08 October 2004 12:46 >To: 'firstname.lastname@example.com' >Subject: vision for controlled vocabulary use and management > > > >Hi all, > >I thought I'd try to put down in words where I have assumed controlled >vocabulary development and use is (or ought to be :) going. Because SKOS >Core is forward looking, and has been designed with a lot of future-proofing >in mind, I wanted to check that some simple elements of this vision make >sense to everyone else. > >(1) Concept-Oriented Design and Construction > >The design and construction of controlled vocabularies, thesauri etc. will >become *concept-oriented*. This means that concepts are identified >explicitly, and the meaning of a concept is understood to be taken from the >combination of its labels, notes etc. > >(2) Concept-Oriented Indexing > >The use of controlled vocabularies, thesauri etc. for (subject-based) >indexing will become concept oriented. This means that the index values in >record metadata will be *concept-identifiers* and not terms. In turn, >indexing applications will hide these identifiers from the indexer ... so an >indexer will interact with a set of concepts via their labels and notes, as >part of selecting the appropriate concept, and the insertion of >concept-identifiers into metadata is performed by the application. > >(3) Concept-Oriented Maintenance & Management > >Once a concept identifier has been published, it is in the interest of the >publishing authority to avoid altering the meaning of the concept associated >with that identifier. If the meaning is significantly altered over time, >the identifier will be applied inconsistently in indexing metadata, and its >utility will be reduced. This means that, if an authority wishes to >significantly refactor/reorganise/redefine some of its concepts, this is >best done by defining and publishing some new concepts and new concept >identifiers. Replacement relationships may be then defined between the old >concepts and the new, which would support perfect interoperability between >systems employing old and new concept sets, and would also support automated >updating of indexing metadata. > >These are the kinds of assumption I've been working on ... so if these look >wrong to you, please tell me. Also, Stella's last email [1] highlighted the >difference between this vision and current paradigm and practise within the >thesaurus user community, wrt change management. Ideally, I would like SKOS >Core to be where the thesaurus user community will arrive in perhaps a >couple of years, so that it fits the requirements. However, this may be at >least in part unrealistic. Bridging the space between the current users of >controlled vocabularies and the framework of the semantic web is what I see >as the central goal of the SKOS work ... which may require a little more >meeting in the middle ... ? > >Anyway, food for thought. > >Al. > >[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-esw-thes/2004Oct/0048.html > >--- >Alistair Miles >Research Associate >CCLRC - Rutherford Appleton Laboratory >Building R1 Room 1.60 >Fermi Avenue >Chilton >Didcot >Oxfordshire OX11 0QX >United Kingdom >Email: email@example.com >Tel: +44 (0)1235 445440 Dagobert Soergel College of Information Studies University of Maryland 4105 Hornbake Library College Park, MD 20742-4345 Office: 301-405-2037 Home: 703-823-2840 Mobile: 703-585-2840 OFax: 301-314-9145 HFax: 703-823-6427 email@example.com www.dsoergel.comReceived on Monday, 1 November 2004 15:06:00 UTC
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The Argory has a fine setting on a slight rise overlooking the River Blackwater on the Armagh/Tyrone border near Moy. The Argory was built in 1824 for Walter McGeough. The house is a time capsule with everything as it was at the turn of the century. Electricity was never installed in the main rooms; instead the house was lit by gas from the acetylene gas plant which was installed in 1906. A celebrated feature of the house is the magnificent cabinet barrel organ built by James Bishop of London which is one of the most important of its kind. It is still in working order. There is a bewildering assortment of family treasures left by four generations including the weighing chair, watercolours by Mary Nichols, books, portraits and clothing.
Captain Ralph Shelton of The Argory survived the sinking of the H.M.S Birkenhead in February 1852 when it sank of the coast of South Africa. 160 years later, The Argory will host a number of special events in 2015 to celebrate Captain Shelton's heroics. Visitors can also see the vest that he wore on that fateful night when swimming through shark infested waters to get to shore.
Beyond the house and garden there are 315 acres of woodland and parkland with many interesting walks to be explored. There is also a Gift Shop on site, stocked with locally made crafts and souvenirs, and visit the second-hand bookshop, Blackwater Books.
Opening times and admission prices please click here. Check out the many events throughout the year.


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Wi-Fi Network implemented in 50 Primary and Secondary Schools
In order to mark the successful completion of the implementation of Wi-Fi networks in 50 Croatian schools, Microsoft Croatia, the Croatian Academic and Research Network - CARNet and the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports organised a ceremony at the Ruđer Bošković Technical Secondary School in Zagreb.
The ceremony was attended by the principals of the schools involved in the project, representatives of educational agencies and senior officials, who were welcomed by the Deputy Minister of Science, Education and Sports Hrvoje Šlezak, American Ambassador to Croatia Julieta Valls Noyes, CARNet Chief Executive Officer Zvonimir Stanić and Microsoft Croatia and B&H CEO Ivan Vidaković. In the course of the presentation, Samir Benkmakhlouf, Microsoft Connectivity Solutions Director, pointed out that the digital transformation occurring in educational systems all over the world needs to be welcomed. This project will enable a better connection for more than 26,000 students, which also enables them to enter the "world of knowledge". As pointed out by Alexander Toledo Leite, CEO of MS Connectivity, this will allow organisations, employees and students to access cloud computing in places where until now there was no good connectivity.
The project is fully financed by Microsoft Croatia and is carried out in cooperation with CARNet and the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports, as a part of Microsoft's commitment to providing modern technology to schools, and in order to help young generations in becoming more competitive on the labour market.
Apart from high speed Internet access, the schools will receive a high level of security and control when connecting to the network given that students can only access the network via their AAI@EduHr electronic identities, by which they automatically access the school system and MS Office 365.
"Nowadays life without Internet is inconceivable. Therefore, in addition to a modern way of life and a development of digital technology, the educational system needs to be developed as well, along with the creation of digitally competent and computer literate students. The project of the implementation of wireless Internet in 50 primary and secondary schools throughout Croatia will enable students and teachers fast and reliable Internet access, and thereby a broad spectrum of information and new knowledge" said CARNet Chief Executive Officer Zvonimir Stanić, adding that access to wireless Internet will also facilitate the work of principals and administrative staff in schools, and make it easier for teachers and students to use the e-Class Register and other CARNet services.


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If you just can't wait for Justin Bieber's concert in Minneapolis this fall, NBC will offer you a Bieber fix with a documentary surrounding 12 days of his world tour called "Justin Bieber: All Around The World".
The TV special will follow his Bieb-ness through seven countries with a variety of performances, culminating in a special performance in New York City. The special will feature live elements of the concerts, special behind the scenes footage, and even some video shot by Justin himself.
The special will air Thursday, June 21 at 7pm on NBC.


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