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When looking to find solid stocks with smooth upward momentum, investors can take a look at the 125/250 day adjusted slope indicator. At the time of writing Vireo Health International Inc. (CNSX:VREO) have a current value of -79.62110. The point of this calculation is to calculate a longer term average adjusted slope value that smooths out large stock price movements by using the average of the timeframe. This indicator is useful in helping find stocks that have been on an even upward trend over the past 6 months to a year.
The amount of financial information available to individual investors these days is staggering. Accumulating intelligence in the stock market is much easier to do than ever before. All the advances in technology have allowed regular investors to access information with relative ease. Making sense of all the various data can be overwhelming, but plowing through the data may create a solid foundation to start enhancing profits in the market. With so many investing options, traders and investors need to construct a plan that works specifically for them. Becoming educated about the stock market before tackling the beast might assist the individual investor in many ways. Studying how markets and prices move may help the investor decide which way is the best way to go. Understanding the difficulties and possible pitfalls that investors generally fall prey to, can go a long way in helping even before the first trade is ever made. As most investors know, the markets and economic landscapes are constantly changing. This requires the investor to be in tip top mental shape in order to confront tough buy or sell decisions when the time comes.
Drilling down into some additional key near-term indicators we note that the Capex to PPE ratio stands at 0.103364 for Vireo Health International Inc. (CNSX:VREO). The Capex to PPE ratio shows you how capital intensive a company is. Stocks with an increasing (year over year) ratio may be moving to be more capital intensive and often underperform the market. Higher Capex also often means lower Free Cash Flow (Operating cash flow – Capex) generation and lower dividends as companies don't have the cash to pay dividends if they are investing more in the business.
In addition to Capex to PPE we can look at Cash Flow to Capex. This ration compares a stock's operating cash flow to its capital expenditure and can identify if a firm can generate enough cash to meet investment needs. Investors are looking for a ratio greater than one, which indicates that the firm can meet that need. Comparing to other firms in the same industry is relevant for this ratio. Vireo Health International Inc. (CNSX:VREO)'s Cash Flow to Capex stands at -3.521208.
In looking at some Debt ratios, Vireo Health International Inc. (CNSX:VREO) has a debt to equity ratio of 0.15833 and a Free Cash Flow to Debt ratio of -0.770084. This ratio provides insight as to how high the firm's total debt is compared to its free cash flow generated. In terms of Net Debt to EBIT, that ratio stands at -2.59132. This ratio reveals how easily a company is able to pay interest and capital on its net outstanding debt. The lower the ratio the better as that indicates that the company is able to meet its interest and capital payments. Lastly we'll take note of the Net Debt to Market Value ratio. Vireo Health International Inc.'s ND to MV current stands at -0.126300. This ratio is calculated as follows: Net debt (Total debt minus Cash ) / Market value of the company.
Investor Target Weight
Vireo Health International Inc. (CNSX:VREO) has a current suggested portfolio rate of 0.01360 (as a decimal) ownership. Target weight is the volatility adjusted recommended position size for a stock in your portfolio. The maximum target weight is 7% for any given stock. The indicator is based off of the 100 day volatility reading and calculates a target weight accordingly. The more recent volatility of a stock, the lower the target weight will be. The 3-month volatility stands at 59.896700 (decimal). This is the normal returns and standard deviation of the stock price over three months annualized.
Near-Term Growth Drilldown
Now we'll take a look at some key growth data as decimals. One year cash flow growth ratio is calculated on a trailing 12 months basis and is a one year percentage growth of a firm's cash flow from operations. This number stands at 1.37134 for Vireo Health International Inc. (CNSX:VREO). The one year Growth EBIT ratio stands at 0.53743 and is a calculation of one year growth in earnings before interest and taxes. The one year EBITDA growth number stands at 0.58803 which is calculated similarly to EBIT Growth with just the addition of amortization.
Investors often have to face the issue of risk when dealing with the stock market. Creating portfolios that have the largest probability of attaining personal goals might be the course of action for many investors. Realizing that risk is a large part of the investment process can help the investor think realistically. Although completely eliminating risk is not reasonable, taking steps to reduce risk with proper portfolio management is well within reach for any investor. When first starting out, investors may be tempted to follow strategies from friends or colleagues that have dabbled in the markets with some success. Although using someone else's strategy could work, chances are that eventually each investor will need to tweak the process in order to maximize their chances for success. Often times these lessons may end up being learned the hard way. With proper planning and execution, the hope is that the investor will arm themselves with enough knowledge to avoid mistakes early on.
Taking even a further look we note that the 1 year Free Cash Flow (FCF) Growth is at 2.92499. The one year growth in Net Profit after Tax is -1.77416 and lastly sales growth was 3.82582.
Vireo Health International Inc. (CNSX:VREO) of the Other sector closed the recent session at 2.970000 with a market value of $182890.
As the markets continue to charge to new heights, investors may be trying to calculate where the markets will be moving in the next few months. Many market enthusiasts will be monitoring the current round of company earnings reports. A better than expected earnings period may help give the stock market another boost to even greater levels. At this point in time, investors may be a bit more cautious with stock selection. With so many names near all-time highs, investors may need to crunch the numbers to evaluate which stocks are still a good buy even at current price levels. Investors may also want to zoom out to the sector level and see if they can determine which sectors may be poised to outperform the overall market coming in to the second part of the year. Investors may also be looking at the overall economic conditions and striving to gain a sense of whether everything will align to keeping the bull run going.


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After losing his home and business to the August floods, Manzoor Ahmed, 37, is again able to buy food at the local market thanks to a pilot project which has replaced his food rations with cash. This way, WFP is supporting local markets and food production.
ISLAMABAD—Manzoor Ahmed needs help to carry all the groceries he's just bought at the local market. He hasn't made a trip like this in months. In fact, he's about to make it again as his wife reminds him that he's forgotten the milk.
"I bought eggs, sugar, soap and a matchbox to light the cooking fire," he says—all ingredients necessary for life in the tent where he and his family of five have been living since floods this summer carried their home away.
Why cash?
In situations where markets are still functioning, it makes more sense to give hungry people money to buy food than to give them food rations. That way, food aid doesn't compete with food on the market and the local economy gets an important boost.
Up until now, they've been subsisting on wheat flour and high energy biscuits provided to them by WFP. But now they're getting cash, which they can use to buy a greater variety of food as well as other basic necessities—like matches.
Cash for food
In much of Pakistan, the August floods wrecked the local economy, causing food prices to soar. But in the resilient Punjab region, prices remained relatively stable and markets continued to function well. That made it an ideal area for WFP to pilot the "Kash card" initative.
WFP uses cash transfers in areas where markets are working well but prices may be too high for people to afford the food they need. The poorest of the poor spend the vast majority of their income (around 80 percent) on food, and cash gives them more choice and variety.
WFP has begun substituting food rations with "Kash" cards that people like Ahmed can use to withdraw small amounts of cash at local bank points.
The scheme was launched in partnership with United Bank Limited and the National Rural Support Programme, and gives families 5,000 rupees per month (about US $58.00), an amount roughly equivalent to the cash value of the food basket they were receiving before.
Revitalise economy
So far, some 3,000 families like Ahmed's have been issued with Kash cards, under a programme which will help revitalize the local economy, support local markets, and give families the flexibility to buy the things they need most.
Amed is now working on a small plot of land where he's growing wheat and vegetables and hopes soon to get back to his business selling soft drinks from a roadside stall.
"Once my crop is ready, I'll sell it on the market and hopefully have enough money to reopen my street kiosk," he said.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After two days of Supreme Court arguments over same-sex marriage, the United States may be left with this irony: While the high court is not likely to alter the constitutional landscape for gays, the justices nevertheless have provided a rallying point for the gay-rights cause.
Three major legal outcomes appeared likely as the justices on Wednesday ended the second dramatic day of arguments in the most closely watched dispute of their current term:
* The court would not rule that gay people need special constitutional protection from discrimination.
* The court would not declare a nationwide right to same-sex marriage.
* At the same time, a majority would rule narrowly that the federal government must provide married same-sex couples the same benefits it gives their heterosexual counterparts.
Yet just as the nine black-robed justices made clear that they did not wish to play a leading role in the national conversation about same-sex marriage, they showed they could nonetheless raise its volume. Simply by agreeing to hear the two disputes - one over California's ban on same-sex marriage, the other over the federal law denying benefits to same-sex couples - the justices energized the debate.
Numerous public figures including former President Bill Clinton, who in 1996 signed the law forbidding same-sex couples from obtaining federal benefits, and prominent groups including the American Academy of Pediatrics in recent weeks came out vigorously in support of same-sex marriage and gay civil rights.
Individual members of Congress - Democrats and Republicans - suddenly voiced new support for gay marriage.
Perhaps most dramatically, Senator Rob Portman of Ohio, considered a possible future Republican presidential contender, earlier this month announced he was reversing his opposition to such same-sex marriage, citing the fact that his son two years earlier had told him he was gay.
Opponents of gay marriage have not witnessed any similar high-profile testimonials from people who were switching to their side. Recent opinion polls, taken in association with the Supreme Court's decision to take up the gay-marriage cases, have documented a surge in public support for same-sex unions.
The new cases also pushed the Obama administration to break new legal ground.
President Barack Obama had personally endorsed gay marriage but he had long asserted that same-sex marriage was a matter for the states to handle. At the last minute, however, his administration decided to enter the California dispute and argue that federal guarantees of constitutional equality forbid states from limiting marriage to heterosexuals.
The administration also contended that gays deserve extra constitutional protection from bias, as the Supreme Court has afforded women fighting sex discrimination.
Yet as much as the justices effectively propelled others to take a stand, they showed by their own comments and questions from the bench this week that they do not intend to be at the vanguard.
The lawyers who appeared on Tuesday and Wednesday were passionate in their presentations, yet none seemed to seize the justices and generate equal fervor.
To be sure, there were moments of excitement, including some sharp exchanges between lawyers and individual justices such as when Justice Elena Kagan challenged an attorney's assertion that government's overriding interest in marriage relates to procreation and childbearing.
There was also the suspense of what swing-vote Justice Anthony Kennedy might say. Kennedy sent conflicting messages at times, expressing concern about the children of gay parents who cannot marry but then suggesting the justices should be wise to stay out of "uncharted waters" on the issue.
There were moments of tedium, too, as the justices wrestled with procedural issues that could prevent them from deciding the merits of either case.
Such hurdles would likely prevent any decision on California's Proposition 8, the 2008 ballot initiative that defines marriage as only between a man and a woman. A majority of the justices signaled they might not reach the merits, most likely because California state officials have declined to defend the law and Proposition 8 backers may lack "legal standing" in the case.
A court majority most certainly would not conclude - as the challengers to Proposition 8 argued on Tuesday - that all 50 U.S. states must allow same-sex marriage. Currently nine states permit such marriages, along with Washington, D.C.
Nothing that emerged in oral arguments on Wednesday over a provision of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) would suggest that the justices had any second thoughts about delving into the larger issues of gay marriage. In fact, their comments reinforced the notion that a majority on the generally conservative court is not ready to carve out new rights for gays.
The Obama administration and other challengers to DOMA had urged the court to declare that government rules tied to sexual orientation deserve "heightened" scrutiny, meaning that the government needs an exceedingly persuasive justification for the regulation.
If the court were to adopt such a level of constitutional protection for gays, as it has in the gender-discrimination context, bans on same-sex marriage would be legally undermined. But that proposition for tougher judicial scrutiny in gay-bias cases gained no traction at the Supreme Court.
Chief Justice John Roberts suggested that the national activity surrounding this week's cases might have demonstrated that gays are, in fact, a political force in no need of special protection.
"As far as I can tell, political figures are falling over themselves to endorse your side of the case," Roberts told lawyer Roberta Kaplan, who was representing a New York woman denied a federal estate-tax exemption because her spouse was another woman, not a man.
Roberts may have been referring to national figures including Portman whose endorsement of gay marriage coincided with the court's consideration of the matter.
In the same vein, a record number of "friend of the court" briefs were submitted in the paired cases, most favoring gay rights. In yet another unusual move, marking one of corporate America's most high-profile efforts on same-sex marriage, close to 300 businesses urged the court to strike down the DOMA restriction. (Thomson Reuters Corp, which owns Reuters, was among them.)
Outside the marble-columned Supreme Court building, demonstrators rallying for gay marriage dominated the scene.
So no matter how this court ultimately rules - a decision is expected by late June - it seems clear that the justices' mere involvement was a boost to the gay-rights cause, at least in the court of public opinion.
Reporting by Joan Biskupic; Editing by Eric Effron and Will Dunham


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'Muhammad cartoon' proved fake
Imam added 3 especially provocative images to fuel outrage
Faxed photo, top, and original AP image
One of three especially inflammatory but undocumented Muhammad images distributed by a Danish imam as an example of an "anti-Muslim environment" in the European country turns out to be a poorly reproduced copy of an Associated Press photo taken at a French pig-squealing contest.
The weblog NeanderNews pointed out the image used by Imam Ahmad Abu Laban was a faxed copy of AP's Aug. 15 photo of Jacques Barrot competing at the annual French Pig-Squealing Championships in Trie-sur-Baise.
Since last week, Muslims throughout the world have engaged in protests and deadly riots in response to 12 cartoons caricaturing Islam's prophet Muhammad published in September by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten and three much more provocative images that Muslim leaders have been unable to document.
One of those images of mysterious origin, which never were published, is from the AP photo. Another depicts Muhammad as a pedophile demon and a third has a praying Muslim being raped by a dog, according to the weblog Gateway Pundit.
Three undocumented images Danish imams used as examples of anti-Muslim hostility (courtesy Gateway Pundit)
Abu Laban, leader of the Islamic Society of Denmark, took the images on a tour of the Middle East in December to rally support for his protest against the newspaper and Danish government. Tour spokesman Akhmad Akkari explained the three drawings had been added to "give an insight in how hateful the atmosphere in Denmark is towards Muslims."
Akkari claimed he didn't know the origin of the three images, saying they had been sent anonymously to Danish Muslims. But he rejected a request by the Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet to speak with the people who supposedly received them.
In a television interview, Abu Laban told Fox News the cartoons came from threatening letters, but he has not replied to the network's request to provide copies of the letters.
A profile of Abu Laban Friday night on Danish television documented his close ties to the Egyptian terrorist group Gamaa Islamiya.
Another program the same evening showed him speaking in English on Danish television in condemnation of the boycott of Danish goods, then, in an interview with the Middle East news channel al-Jazeera, happily remarking in Arabic about how well the boycott was going.
Walid Phares, senior fellow with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies in Washington, asked in an article published on Counterterrorism blog, "Why did it take five months for what Western media dubbed 'instant reactions to the insult' to materialize?"
Leaders of the Muslim community in Denmark said they attempted to resolve the matter locally by asking the newspaper or government to apologize.
But some analysts, Phares said, "see more of a greater agenda: taking advantage of the harm made by the pictures to impose a new political order in that Scandinavian country, and beyond."
Abu Laban seemed to affirm that in the interview with Fox News, which was noted by Gateway Pundit.
The Muslim cleric told reporter Jonathan Hunt of his demand that Danish leaders "within their abilities and competence and within the concept of dynamism of liberalism to create … a new set of rules. … "
Hunt: So, you want a new set of rules for the way Western Europe lives?
Abu Laban: Yes.
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PARIS, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- The director of the Tour de France said he does not want Lance Armstrong's seven victories attributed to other riders.
Christian Prudhomme said he does not want new winners declared for the races after Armstrong was stripped of his titles and the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency issued a lifetime ban to the cyclist, the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph reported Friday.
The USADA said Armstrong is at the center of the largest doping program in the history of sports and produced more than 1,000 pages of testimony this week to support its decision.
"We cannot be indifferent to what USADA has unmasked this week. It's a damning picture that's been drawn," Prudhomme said. "What we want is that there is no winner."


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Tinea barbae is an inflammation of the skin around the hair follicles of the beard and mustache area. It results in circular areas of scaling, redness, and irritation of the skin around the hairs.
Tinea barbae is caused by specific fungi. These fungi use the protein in the outer layer of skin for growth. It is most commonly transmitted to humans from farm animals that are infected with the fungi.
Risk Factors
Tinea barbae is much more common in men. Other factors that may increase your chance of tinea barbae include:
- Occupations that put you in contact with farm animals
- Hirsutism—excessive hair growth in women caused by elevated levels of male hormones
- Medications or health conditions that suppress the immune system
Tinea barbae may cause:
- Red, circular areas with clear borders in the beard and mustache area
- There may also be blisters
- Scaling and crusting
- Itching
- Pus-filled blisters around the hair follicle
- There may be generalized symptoms, such as swollen glands, malaise, and fever
Your doctor will ask about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done. Tinea barbae may be suspected because of how it looks and where it is located. To confirm the diagnosis your doctor may use:
- Woods light examination—to help differentiate between different types of skin infections
- Scraping—an area of the lesion is removed and examined under a microscope
- Culture—may be done for recurrent infections or infection unresponsive to treatment
To help reduce your chance of getting tinea barbae, wash your hands and face on a regular basis. Hand washing is especially important after contact with any skin lesions. Do not share razors.
If your occupation puts you in contact with animals, consider covering the bearded area of your face. Wash your hands and face immediately after contact with animals.
Revision Information
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VICTORIA, Australia, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- Australian police charge the Catholic church in Victoria has hindered its efforts to investigate cases of child abuse allegedly committed by clergy.
Victoria police made the assessment in a submission to a state parliamentary inquiry into child abuse, the Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported Wednesday.
The document says the church appears to have dissuaded victims from reporting abuse, alerted suspects to allegations and moved or protected suspected offenders.
Police also were critical of the church's complaint system and said the church's chief investigator had persuaded victims not to go to the police.
In a separate submission, Victoria church leaders urged lawmakers to preserve the sanctity of the confessional in considering any changes in existing law.
"Legislation requiring priests to violate the sacramental seal of confession will be ineffective as priests will be unable and unwilling to comply," the submission said.
Over the past 16 years, the church has upheld 620 complaints, most of which was committed in the 1960s, '70s and '80s, the document added.


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Rat Rod Reprise
Not too long ago I'd written a few choice words regarding my personal stand on the whole "rat rod" thing. Well, it seems they were somewhat misconstrued by a reader or two-or at least I perceived their negative responses to be misconstrued. So if I may, let me further explain not only my general perspective, but the magazine's as well.
Over the years, rat rods have been embraced, abhorred, and for the most part, misunderstood. While the exact origin of the term is unclear-some claim it was Gray Baskerville, while others credit a member of the Shifters Car Club back in the early '90s-there's really no arguing that it was derived from a style of Harleys built a couple decades prior, "rat bikes". (For a "third party" perspective, take a look-see at the letters column in the April '11 issue of Hot Rod.) At the offset of this so-called new fad, it seemed there was a general distaste for rat rods from the hot rodding community in general-but that would not be the case for long, and soon the whole fad came full circle.
What was once simply just another way of describing an unfinished or in-progress hot rod (or for some, myself included, they were finished!) snowballed into its own niche of the hobby; a soon-to-be lifestyle that went way beyond its core automotive roots. Eventually, the phrase rat rod got so overused it became a blanket term referring to pretty much anything with black primer and red wheels. Even worse, there developed this seemingly unwritten rule among rat rodders: the crappier the better. And that's where I start having serious issues with what I consider to be today's typical rat rod … or in this case, "crap rods".
For those of you with a '50s or '60s sedan with flat black paint, red steelies, and whitewalls, don't take offense to my comments regarding rat rods-at least not in regards to your car in particular … they're not rat rods. Neither is a primered or bare-metal fenderless roadster with uncorked lakes-style headers-they're just roadsters with loud exhausts and no shiny paint. And as previously mentioned, oftentimes this was and is the intended finished state of the car for many owners. (While I don't intend on running open headers, I have no plans of painting my highboy '33 Tudor, but I'm sure it'll be called a rat rod on more than one occasion, which is sad.)
Not to be confused with the above-mentioned are the cars cobbled together from any and everything (occasionally with parts having no business on a street-driven vehicle to begin with) that are really nothing more than personal "statements". OK, so here's where I think the line between hot rods and rat rods can get real cloudy, as I feel that all of our cars are personal statements in some form or another-I guess it's what the statements ultimately translate to. In the case of my perception of today's rat rods, they're statements that don't need to be made in Rod & Custom; to me, they're negative, and the last thing this magazine needs is any more negativity … at least not any more than what I interject in my editorials, right?!


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"What great adventures come in books? Let's discover some this month. Visit the library and learn to navigate your way through the "card catalog computer," down the aisles of many adventures, and to an adventure of your own choice. Sign up for your library card while on your visit. Create your own outdoor epic adventure on a hike, campout, or maybe at a ball field or park. Make a costume for one of the characters from your favorite story. At the pack meeting the boys can perform some of their favorite stories and share some of their adventures with the pack. Take part in Pedro's "Say Yes to Reading" program in Boy's Life. This might also be a good month to work on the Communication or Computer belt loop and pin. Encourage the boys to have the courage to search for, discover, and share adventure this month." - Program Helps
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Here is the error
[root@RAS ~]# pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core 106.0 KiB 51.3K/s 00:02 [#######################################################] 100%
extra 1441.9 KiB 136K/s 00:11 [#######################################################] 100%
community 1893.2 KiB 137K/s 00:14 [#######################################################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: intellij-idea-community-edition: requires intellij-idea-libs=12.0.1
[root@RAS ~]#
[root@RAS ~]# uname -a
Linux RAS 3.6.11-1-pae #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Jan 4 12:53:00 IST 2013 i686 GNU/Linux
[root@RAS ~]#
Please help.
If you need any other information about the system, please ask.
Last edited by prab (2013-01-17 03:00:44)
Try again with a different mirror? Looks like there is about 40 minutes between the the "Last Updated" times of the two packages, your mirror probably last synced in that gap.
Last edited by Scimmia (2013-01-16 18:59:37)
Just to expand on that, you can see that intellij-idea-community-edition is always tied to a very specific version of the libs (intellij-idea-libs=12.0.1, intellij-idea-libs=12.0.2, etc). The likely situation is that your mirror has gotten the intellij-idea-libs-12.0.2 sync, but is still on intellij-idea-community-edition-12.0.1. pacman won't let you upgrade the libs to 12.0.2 if you're still on 12.0.1 of the IDE, hence Scimmia's suggestion to switch mirrors, or just wait it out.
Thanks Scimmia and tdy!
I changed the mirror to Japan's ftp.jaist.ac.jp one but after that, running pacman -Syu said core up to date, community up to date, extra up to date.
Then I did
# mv /var/lib/pacman/sync /var/lib/pacman/sync.bak
Afterwards pacman -Syu worked correctly and upgraded Intellij Idea to 12.0.2-1!!!
Hopefully the second step I posted will help someone :-)
Just fyi, you don't need to do this manually. You add an extra 'y' to force a refresh of the package db:
# pacman -Syyu
Glad you got it sorted out.
Last edited by tdy (2013-01-17 03:23:06)
Just fyi, you don't need to do this manually. You add an extra 'y' to force a refresh of the package db:
# pacman -Syyu
Glad you got it sorted out.
Thanks tdy!! Learnt a new thing today :-)


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Atellica NEPH 630 System
Smart, Simple, and Secure Protein Testing
|Measuring principle
|Nephelometry; measurement of the scattered light intensity in a fixed angle of 13–24°
|More than 60 programmed assay protocols
|Sample throughput
|Effective: Approximately 65 tests/hour depending on the assay mix
Nominal: 100 tests/hour
|Analysis method
|Fixed-time kinetics, end-point measurement, VLin Integral
|Multi-point calibration
|Reagent Rotor
|Segments for 3 control serum vials
Segments for 2 reagent vials
|Sample Rotor
|Segments for 15 sample tubes
Segments for 7 standard vials
|Dilution unit
|1 frame for max. 96 dilution cups
|Size of sample tubes
|Diameter: 11–16 mm
Height: 65–100 mm
For pediatric samples:
Conical microtubes with a maximum filling volume of 1.5 mL
|Bar code reader
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230 V rating: 207 to 253 V
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|500 VA (operating mode)
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Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shad Khan unveiled new logos and a rebranding effort tailored to reflect three distinct and powerful attributes that will describe the team on and off the field _ "proud, bold and committed."
"To be a success in business or life, you have to stand for something and hold yourself accountable to the principles you believe in," Khan said.
"From this day, the Jacksonville Jaguars will live a brand mission of being proud, bold and committed in everything we do. Our new logo and campaign theme are the first initiatives of what will be many examples of bringing this philosophy to life," Khan said in a news release.
The new identity keeps the Jaguars' traditional colors of black, teal and goal while offering a fiercer looking and truer depiction of a Jaguar.
The Jaguars will introduce a shield featuring a bold graphic treatment of the nickname "Jags."
The new logos will be rolled out throughout the 2013 season as part of the team's "Stand United" theme.
"Stand United is about the community and theme coming together and a way of life that anyone who loves the Jaguars and Jacksonville can personally understand and appreciate," Khan said.


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The Essential Erasmus
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Meridian, 1983 - Philosophy - 397 pages
In his own day a center of controversy, in the four hundred years since his death known too often solely as an apostle of mockery and irreverence, Erasmus can be seen today in a new light?as a humanist whose concen is at once contemporary and Christian.
The Essential Erasmus is the first single volume in English to show the full spectrum of this Renaissance man's thought, which is no less profound because it is expressed with the grace, wit, and ironic detachment only a great writer can achieve.
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I think that this book is the greatest book ever because the ending is very exciting. I was happy when the egg hatched. It reminded me of when my baby cousin was born and how excited I was. The lesson that was taught in the book is that you have to be patient.
I recommend this book to all kindergarten and first graders. They will learn about how it feels to be patient and wait for something.


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This article was previously published in Foster's Daily Democrat on Sept. 2
By Andrea Bulfinch
NORTH HAMPTON — Bringing awareness and support together in one huge effort, bikers, firefighters, friends and law enforcement came out to remember late Portsmouth firefighter Sarah Fox, who passed away last December after battling cancer.
"It was easy to get involved with this," Al Coutois, owner of Seacoast Harley-Davidson, said. Riders came from the stores three locations including North Hampton, Rochester and Everett, Mass., entering the parking lot in one massive parade of bikes around 12:30 p.m.
"The how and why was easy. We got to know Sarah when she was here," Coutois said. Fox had attended the event herself just last year.
"This was really touching for all of us," he said.
Arielle Andrews, director of marketing for the shop, explained how a firefighter's chances of being diagnosed with cancer is double the rest of the population.
"For us it's really about bringing awareness," she said. "Sarah was an amazing ambassador for us to learn from. She just had an amazing spirit."
The event drew riders from the three regions who met at the racetrack in Seabrook before arriving as one group to the North Hampton store where food, music, and more support were gathered.
"I really think it's about camaraderie. And to celebrate an amazing life and continue awareness," Andrews said.
In the middle of the parking lot, a fire engine from Guardians of the Ribbon painted pink was covered in words, notes and names written in remembrance and support of loved ones who have survived, fought, or lost their battle with cancer, filling almost every inch of the truck.
"Sometimes people just need to know that someone out there is pulling for them," Mary Fish, New Ipswich firefighter who drives the pink truck to events, said. "It can be a very lonely disease."
"It's hard to go around the truck without crying," she said.
Steve Childs, member of Hog Chapter, the Harley Owners group at the store, said he attends a lot of events held there but really liked the idea of a tribute for Fox whom he met last year.
"This one's really special," he said.
Proceeds from the event will go to the American Cancer Society and to help young women attend Camp Fully Involved where they can explore what a career in fire services is all about.
Carly Osgood, whose father Russ, a Portsmouth firefighter, was a close friend of Fox, said she loved attending the camp.
"I was automatically in love. It was probably one of the best experiences I've ever had," she said.
Fox's stepdaughter, Cassie, also attended the camp and said it was a lot of hard work. She was in awe of the people who continued to show up in honor of her stepmother.
"It's just incredible so many people care," she said.
Law enforcement from Hampton, Portsmouth, Rochester, Chelsea, Arlington, Middlesex, and Everett, Mass., along with New Hampshire State Police led the hundreds of bikers from Seabrook up Route 1 to the shop.
Remembering Sarah Friends, family, firefighters honor her breast cancer battle
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Sometimes the line between real-life tragedy and action escapism is mighty fine. Wide-release movies have been known to get cold feet (post-9/11 and post-mass shootings) but always return to the well of exploiting our anxieties for cash. Perhaps that's why the tornado-packing "Into the Storm" feels like a disaster movie (all but a remake of "Twister") crossed with a horror-movie aesthetic (the found-footage craze). It used to be a show-business gag: How will it play in Peoria? Given that Illinois is tornado country, one might well wonder.
Scripted by young writer John Swetnam and directed by Steven Quale, "Into the Storm" features a motley, essentially unproven cast in a rail-thin tale of survival. Though largely composed of faux found footage from the pro cameras of reality-TV storm chasers and TV newscopters and the consumer-grade handicams of high-schoolers, Swetnam also includes omniscient-narrative footage when the conceit requires, diluting the purity of the style.
It's a style that, already tired -- yep, "The Blair Witch Project" was fifteen years ago -- has the added effect here of insensitive tackiness in the context of global climate change and an apparent increase in the frequency and severity of fatal storms. It's ironic but true that "Twister" remains more palatable by being a consciously entertaining action fantasy, a cinematic roller-coaster, rather than a hellish "you are there" safari tour through death and destruction.
The paper-thin characters include the aforementioned storm chasers (Sarah Wayne Callies of "The Walking Dead," Matt Walsh of "Veep," Jeremy Sumpter of "Friday Night Lights"...), high-schoolers on graduation day (wet blankets Max Deacon and Alycia Debnam Carey, and wiseacre Nathan Kress), and the boys' cranky vice-principal dad (Richard Armitage of "The Hobbit"), who inevitably finds paternal redemption. Tornadoes strike: These good folks dodge them or chase them and regret it.
"But how are the tornadoes?" you ask. Indeed, they are the real stars, and the digital effects increasingly wow as the picture goes on. Conserving budget and building suspense, Quale uses the ol' "Jaws" technique: Hold back the shark. Early storm sequences tease with cameras knocked out of commission before paying off with anything too close to a money shot, the better to induce gasps with the multiple climaxes to follow.
If there's one thing Hollywood is good for these days, it's delivering exactly what's on the tin. The results tend to be mulchy and of dubious artfulness, but will anyone really feel cheated by a carefully marketed genre pic like "Into the Storm"? It's for people who want to be scared by storms for 89 minutes, and they're welcome to it.
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Are you one of those people that gets squeamish when you have to put eye-drops in? Good news! A new type of contact lens can deliver eye medication with no fuss all day, every day for 30 days.
Researchers at the Laboratory for Biomaterials and Drug Delivery at Children's Hospital Boston saw the need for a new way of getting eye medications delivered. They found that, using traditional eye drops, less than ten percent of the medication stays in the eye; blinking and tears wash out the rest.
The solution that this team developed is a multi-layer contact lens, with a biodegradable medium containing the drug inside of it. The contact lenses can slowly release the drug into the eye.
I'm already getting a weird feeling, talking about biodegradable polymers in my eye. But all of the materials used in these contacts are FDA-approved already, and the lab is already testing on animals, moving on to human testing as soon as possible. It's probably better than multiple-times-a-day eye drops, but you still have to get this thing into your eye...
A drug-dispensing contact lens [via Science Blog]


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HEAVENER — The Heavener High School basketball teams split their games Friday night in the Class 3A District Tournament. The Wolves beat the Hartshorne Miners 61-51, but the Lady Miners defeated the Lady Wolves 56-26.The Wolves (17-7) will play Kansas, Okla., at 8 p.m. Thursday in the Class 3A Regional Tournament at the Muskogee Civic Center. The winner will not only advance to the 8 p.m. Saturday title game, but will also automatically qualify for next week's area tournament at Fort Gibson.The Lady Wolves (6-18) will meet Wyandotte at 1:30 p.m. Thursday in the regional tournament in Muskogee, and must win three times in three days to get to the Class 4A Area Tournament next week in Fort Gibson.


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| This article provides general information about the Cyber Chip.
For details and requirements for the award for Cub Scouts, see Cyber Chip (Grades 1-5).
For details and requirements for the award for the award for Scouts, Venturers, and Sea Scouts, see Cyber Chip (Grades 6-12).
The Cyber Chip is for all Scouts (1st through 12th grade) and helps them learn about internet safety.
Today's youth are spending more time than ever using digital media for education, research, socializing, and fun. To help families and volunteers keep youth safe while online, the Boy Scouts of America introduces the Cyber Chip. In developing this tool, the BSA teamed up with content expert NetSmartz®, part of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children® and training expert for many law enforcement agencies. Topics include cyberbullying, cell phone use, texting, blogging, gaming, and identity theft.
Integration Ideas
- Use the Cyber Chip as a tool to work with your youth to create additional open communications.
- Visit www.scouting.org/cyberchip and NetSmartz® for more content ideas and tip sheets.
Unit Leaders
- Tailor the requirements to your own unit rules. Complete the requirements for the Cyber Chip as a unit at a regular meeting, then hand out the cards and patches on the spot.
- Review the resources available on the website, including teaching materials, an implementation guide, and more.
- Create a fun challenge for youth to stump the unit leaders.
- Play a "Jeopardy!"-style game in a meeting to use what's been learned.
- Use the Cyber Chip as a foundational step in preparation for leadership positions such as Webmaster.
Councils and Districts
- Add Cyber Chip information to council or district websites. Create an area focused on cyber safety. Use resources from NetSmartz®
- Spread the word by communicating at events like camporees and Scoutoramas.
- Do a tech event for adults or youth—then set teams to compete with each other on their knowledge in a fun fashion.
Cyber Chip and the Scout Rank
|— Advancement News (March-April 2016) pg. 4
External links
- National Center for Missing & Exploited Children BSA Cyber Chip site — NetSmartz.org
- BSA Youth Protection Cyber Chip page on Scouting.org — Scouting.org
- The Scout Law and Cybersafety/Cyberbullying, No. 100-055 (2012 Printing) — Scouting.org
- Brochure announcing the Cyber Chips, NO. 100-053 (2012 Printing) — Scouting.org


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Sunday, April 26, 2009
On my refrigerator is a refrigerator magnet from folk song artist Jay Mankita, for his melodic and memorable album, 'Dogs are watching us." He talks about their trust in us (unlike cats, some might add; others have inspired the trust and love of one or more cats, but that's a different day's posting).
Some of us may find this topic mildly to moderately offensive (some may find it greatly or even profoundly bothering or offensive). It's an obvious takeoff from the song 'God is watching us' which gave many folks pause in the face of an unsettled society in multifactorial upheaval.
Others might think, well, if God is not vegan or even vegetarian (think of all the omnivorous animals in the creation and the deadly 'food chain' observation, even if some of us are exempt, as perhaps the stewards - we humans - who can honor God in the respect of loving all creation (a la NT scholar and professor Richard Alan Young: Is God a Vegetarian?), then at least (omnivorous) dogs CAN be (and should be, for ethical reasons.
Others object, but though cats need taurine (which CAN now be synthesized in a lab (it's good to be gifted with the neurological complexity that enables rational behaviors AND rational analysis, which can lead to the social construction of scientific method and scientific results which reshape society according to socially desirable HUMANE values), (omnivorous) dogs clearly CAN be not merely vegetarian, but also vegan.
The watershed book in the Vegetarian Dogs (and possibly! cats) movement was Dogs and Cats Go Vegetarian by the co-authors whose surname rhymes with EDEN: Barbara Lynn Peden (who did most of the journal research, I'm told; she is now a folksinger, I'm told) and her former husband, James Peden, who in the divorce got full rights to their shared book production AND VegDog & VegCat and empire (he had a paying job on the side and could sustain the D&GV 'empire' (enterprise) ("Harbingers of a New Age"), and she, claiming no extra-corporate skills of her own (though she had done most of the journal research and networking), left with little in the way terminated employees often do, with no IP rights to the work they have done along the way. Jim has since written new literature and a new chapter in the re-released book. In this light, one ought to read the book about Little Tyke, the vegetarian (not vegan) lioness, sold by the American Vegan Society (she died from being overstressed and overexposed on television as a celebrity - read 'oddity' or 'curiosity')
Blaming PETA in the recent media blitzes about vegan - read that again - not vegetarian but VEGAN dogs AND CATS - are those who (IMHO rightly) are concerned that some animals are, when not technically assisted with periodic lab-derived supplementary doses, suffer - read that again - SUFFER. However, the question persists, particularly in a Christian (read Genesis: God gave the animals the world; there was no DEATH (thus no killing for food) in Eden (rhymes with Peden).
More broadly, in monotheistic, Abrahamic 'traditions' of receiving the common literature of Genesis, the problem remains. Mohammed reported taught that 'it is better to drink milk than to eat meat', and while not PROSCRIBING the eating of meat (forbidding or teaching that it is wrong), there is remarkable tolerance in some branches of Christendom and Jewish practice, and even calendared encouragements of it (for its spiritual and 'meditative' or devotional benefits - as in Lent or in PRAYER AND fasting, etc.). Some monastics are largely or always vegetarian in some branches of Christendom. Dissident NON-MONASTIC groups have been suppressed, but often for doctrinary (not doctrinaire, but doctrinary - related to teaching or 'doctrine') or 'non-subscribing' (to doctrine) reasons.
What concerns me, though, is the philosophical problem of thinking inductively in the present world (as we all must) and committing oneself to a loving, rational (and both all-wise and all-knowing AND all-powerful) Deity, known among the uninitiated as God, though sometimes and by some through more personal names, quite reverently thought.
God has an interest in our intentionality - our behaviors - deliberate and unintentional
Some ways of being ourselves behaviorally and mentally are better (or at least less objectionable) than other behaviors. Some secular folks agree to this much; not all do.
In Genesis we are given stewardship in the sense of caring for all life; from this our (a) ecological and (b) humane AND (c) sociological stewardship obligations are derived.
In terms of our spiritually-derived public policy contributions, how can we endorse (let alone mandate) that we OR others care for animals - and humans, too - and the ecosystem in ways that trade off the well-being of some for that of others, even if mathematically one is numerically or quantitatively better.
Further, we're helped along in this reflection by the prophecy of Isaiah, where the predatory rests with the herbivore, and there is no more exploitation of one (type) of the other (type), nor of one (type) by the other (type).
So, is keeping carnivorous animals, even pre-existing animals BEFORE any possible PHASING OUT of carnivorous animals by massive spay-neuter programs, ethically tolerable, particularly for those who derive at least part of their moral reasoning and rationale from Biblical sources and indirectly from others who also derive their thinking from those Biblical sources/texts?
Searching for vegan-friendly pet food is laudable in general, but specifically in light of this contextual reflection, that somehow, in the process BEFORE God becomes 'All in All', we ought to live in light of the eschaton, the hope of which (perhaps the Indwelling spirit, would be a foretaste or earnest (like earnest money) of one's spiritual inheritance, a life in a world of no more violence, for which righteousness we are to hunger and thirst (and surely our food would be characterized by having no violence).
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After several seasons of carrying a heavy purse, I decided that for summer I would take a lighter approach. While I love my big bags, quite honestly, they can be straining on the shoulders and lugging them around can be a workout. True story: I went to my Doctor about four years ago because I was having chest pains. At the age of 25, I thought I was having signs of a heart attack. Typical hypochondriac behavior, I suppose (guilty!) Well, it turns out I wasn't so crazy. No, not a heart attack but the pain I was having was similar and it was caused by carrying a heavy purse. If you're interested, here's the medical mumbo jumbo on this condition, which affects mostly women and is very treatable. The Rx: lighten your purse!
I spotted the Melie Bianco Jane bag and knew that it would be the perfect summer purse. I loved the structure and neutral taupe color, and I love it even more in use.
I love being "handsfree" with the crossbody, and even though this purse is tiny, it still fits everything I need. I had to make a few sacrifices, but I'm considering it doctor's orders. The interior of the bag has a zippered pouch and two inserts that just scream "fill me with tubes of lipgloss."
This may look like a lot, but I assure you, it all fits.
- Boscia Blotting Linens: We stockpile these in every scent – this is the Rose.
- Ahava Dermud Hand Cream: This tube was actually in my January Birchbox. I use it often, and there's still some in there! I love this for the purse, because the twist-off cap eases any spill concerns.
- Sephora Electric Safari Pouch: This is a perfect makeup bag for small purses. I put Band-Aids, contact drops, a few brushes and powder in here.
- Pangea Organics Lip Balm: Another Birchbox sample! They come in the best scents and are so soothing – this is Italian Red Mandarin with Rose.
- Chanel Rouge Coco Shine in Boy: I've been using this one a lot lately. I swap out my lip products frequently with this bag, as it doesn't allow me to hoard a dozen!
- Tarte LipSurgence Lip Luster in Glisten: These glossy pencils are so lovely. They give lips a dewy look, and Glisten is the perfect summer peach shade with a touch of coral.
- Bobbi Brown Face Touch-Up Stick: The most useful thing ever for the purse. I use this constantly.
- Benefit Porefessional: My second tube of this self-proclaimed "miracle" product. Can't be without.
- GoSmile Touch-Up Ampoule: Now that I've whitened my teeth, these Touch Ups are essential for mid-day polishing.
The other items are the purse usuals, wallet, phone, bus pass, keys, headphones, hair ties, etc. The sunglasses always rest on top, because that's always the item that never wants to fit but that I refuse to be without. Amazingly, it all fits. Turns out, downsizing doesn't have to be inconvenient!


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We are a small company developing software for dog breeders. We are busy developing a new version of our software and want to start focusing on building our brand. In the future we will be developing software for other kinds of animals as well.
The target audience is dog breeders. Most of the breeders are very passionate about breeding and their kennels.
We want a professional logo that we will be able to use on our software and website. We will be developing software for other animals in the future and need a logo where we will be able to reuse most of the logo again with only needing to change one or two elements. We would like to build a brand that is universal across all animals e.g Dog Breeder Pro, Cat Breeder Pro. So for Dog Breeder Pro we need some element of a dog but the Breeder Pro part of the logo can then look the same for all our future software. If you have other ideas please feel free to suggest.
* A clean professional logo that we will be able to use on a white background. You can include designs on other backgrounds but it needs to work on white.
* The font must be easy readable. No italic font please.
* We are open to any color but we are thinking pastel colors will be nice.
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Lawrence Taylor is accused of doing some Very Bad Things. That means he's not allowed to tell us how he lost 35 pounds (results not typical) on Nutrisystem. Now pinch hitting: Matt Stairs.
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"We've made the decision to sever our relationship with Lawrence effective immediately because of the seriousness of the allegations," says spokeswoman Susan McGowan.
Okay, fine, but...Matt Stairs? Maybe Bill James thinks he could have made the Hall of Fame, but we think he's a chubby benchwarmer who had some pop in his bat 10 years ago. Not a living legend who invented the sack. And the dude only lost 30 pounds.
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More accurate view of customer addresses
Bell eliminates more than 5 million duplicate records
As a premier communications provider, Bell offers multiple services to its clients. Having the ability to know detailed information about a customer is essential to offering the appropriate goods and services. Bell wanted to combine its customer address information with details of Canadian dwellings.
Our experience working with Modern Analytics and SAS greatly exceeded our expectations. The team went beyond simply solving the problem; they gave us the information we needed to improve our business.
Yves Lapierre
Like many companies, Bell manages customer data in multiple applications. To improve customer service and support initiatives, Bell wanted to gain a unified view of the services already in use at a specific address. It also needed to verify that each address was, in fact, unique and distinct.
To achieve this unified view, the company used a third-party vendor to combine internal customer profiles with multiple external sources to create a master list of Canadian dwellings. However, after examining more than 24 million records from this process, Bell found errors, duplications and variations in the data. Inaccurate and unreliable data hindered the company's ability to offer new services to potential customers.
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|We first met in 5th Grade
|It should have been you and me sitting here
Soon after, I ended up at "Fort of Madridejos" – it served as a fortress to defend from the numerous onslaughts of Muslim Marauders who keep on resisting the Spanish religious conversion of Filipinos at that time. Guess what?, we had a love about to kick-start but we forgot to build our own fortress to defend from life's assaults on our heart's desires.
Like the boat, I was on my own and only the tides of time will tell if we will sail together again.
"As clear as an azure sky of deepest summer" I have learned to hope and hope I shall.
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I like to do things fast. Knock them out quickly. Before I get scared or tired or bored or distracted.
(What was I talking about again??)
This morning, in need of some reliable wifi and peace to work on homework, I drove into Taos. It was only 24 miles but took me a good 45 minutes.
You have to move slower when the road winds and twists and turns and the other side is a steep drop off. Down a giant mountain. Most of the drive is a no passing zone. You can't see down the road far enough to get out ahead. You are just stuck. Winding and turning. And following the advised speed limit or the car in front of you. Occasionally feeling your stomach lurch with another turn.
It is easy to not care about the time because it is so damn beautiful.
My husband is all about the mountains. He breathes easier in this thin air.
I am a water girl. Give me a beach or a paddle board and I am in my happy place. Even if I have to put on a swimsuit.
But I get it.
I get how much easier it is to feel alive here.
My kids drop their devices and play in the snow until their toes and noses are numb.
I stare out the window instead of down at my phone.
I read by the fire.
My coffee gets cold.
My son skis just like these mountain roads.
He uses the whole mountain. He goes slow and cautiously back and forth.
Winding and turning taking his sweet time.
Because really what is the rush? And truth be told I like to keep him in one piece.
My daughter is more likely to point her skis into French fries and head straight down.
I learn who I was and who I am from the parts of me that I see in them.
Genetics is so much more than my daughter having my freckles across her nose and my smart mouth. I also see so much of me in their questions, reservations and insecurities. They are often mine.
I see my daughter rush and fight and resist.
I see my son wind carefully down.
Taking it all in.
These days it all seems a bit slower.
My brain moves at a different pace.
I run slower. I do less. I sleep more.
There is frustration in that.
Seeking a balance between what I know I shouldn't do and will pay for with pain for days later and still living my life. Finding a difference between good healthy decisions and things that are worth the risk. I am sure that is probably a skill most people master by the age of 22, but it is still something I am working on.
Seeking a balance between what I know I shouldn't do and will pay for with pain for days later and still living my life. Finding a difference between good healthy decisions and things that are worth the risk. I am sure that is probably a skill most people master by the age of 22, but it is still something I am working on.
This morning I hole up at a hippie coffee shop down a windy road instead of joining my family
on the mountain. ( I have papers to write).
on the mountain. ( I have papers to write).
I try not to mind.
But I do.
On Saturday I ran a race. Well…I slowly jogged a race.
I told almost no one. I got in the car – headed there –changed my mind went all the way home and then changed my mind again and got back in the car.
I was crazy nervous. I used to run 5Ks as my warm up, but I wasn't sure I could finish. I have never not finished a race. The fear of not finishing almost made me not even start. Ironically the big inflatable starting gate was backwards.
The first words I saw when I lined up to begin was "finish".
The first words I saw when I lined up to begin was "finish".
I also cried for the first half mile. I was glad that it was raining a little so no one could notice. It is something I love and haven't been able to do in well over a year.
Slow and steady. Paying attention. Glad for my shortness of breath and stitch in my side. It probably wasn't my best idea. My face went numb halfway through. It was my worst time ever – but after 3.1 miles I ran through a huge inflatable "start".
And I couldn't have been more ready for a new one.
This morning my daughter asked if I had ever skied (even though I skied with her just last year).
"Yes, Tess – last year with you and Owen remember?"
Tess: "Was it before your surgery?"
Me: "Yes"
This before and after that seems to separate so much of my life.
I've started making dumb decisions. That involve living instead of protecting.
Tomorrow I think I will hit the slopes.
I need to feel that alive.
I need my kids to remember me there.
I need my knees to ache and my cheeks chap from the wind.
I need to make my way down the mountain just like my son.
Slowly. Carefully. Using the whole mountain. Soaking it all in.
I worry that I won't be able to make it down or get my money out of my lift ticket.
I worry about the pain that it might leave me in.
But then again, it might not.
In a few hours I will drive back on those same roads.
Windy. A little dangerous. And slower than I usually drive.
I can't see what is around the turn.
I have no idea if it will hurt or be fine.
I just have to go.
I will crank up my music.
And soak every damn bit of it in.


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NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Maggie Westfal, who was named first team All-Ivy last week, has earned another post season honor. Westfal was selected to the New England Women's Intercollegiate Soccer Association Senior Bowl. She was the top overall vote getter. The game will take place on Sunday, Dec. 7 at 11 a.m. at Salem State College.
Westfal, a senior from New Canaan, Conn., started all 17 games and led the team in goals (8) and points (24). She scored her first career hat trick against Sacred Heart en route to earning Ivy League Player of the Week honors. Westfal finished her outstanding career with 16 career assists, which is tied for the sixth most in school history.
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Dairy group pushes for guest worker program, opposes enforcement-only approach.
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In written testimony provided today to the Senate Judiciary Committee, the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) said that current labor and immigration policies put the U.S. dairy farm sector at a disadvantage, and that a change in laws is necessary in order to address the realities of dairy production in America.
In testimony presented to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, which held a hearing Tuesday on the agricultural labor crisis, NMPF wrote that there remains a persistent shortage of native-born workers interested in employment on dairy farms, which is why farmers cannot find enough American workers to milk cows and perform other critical job functions on dairies.
"Even in this time of high unemployment, our dairy farmers universally report an inability to find enough American workers . . . even if they offer better pay than other jobs," said Jerry Kozak, president and CEO of NMPF. "Sufficient numbers of local workers are simply not available or not interested in working on dairy farms."
The challenge of hiring workers in 2011 is no different than in 2008, when NMPF conducted a survey to quantify the workforce hiring practices of dairy farms. That survey found that U.S. dairies employed 138,000 full-time equivalent workers, of which an estimated 57,000, or 41%, were foreigners.
Some other sectors in agriculture facing the same problem may be able to use the H-2A visa program to hire seasonal immigrant workers despite the significant flaws in the program, but the dairy sector cannot, a situation that is "fundamentally unfair. America's dairy farmers need and deserve to have the access to legal foreign workers as other sectors of the agricultural industry," Kozak said.
Most current proposals to provide agriculture with a labor fix are designed to address the seasonal hiring needs of other portions of agriculture, but not the labor needs of dairy farmers every day of the year, NMPF's position is that the domestic dairy sector needs a year-round guest worker program.
Among other key criteria, such a program must feature no seasonality requirement, as does the H-2A program currently, along with most agricultural labor proposals in Congress; allow immigrants to work for at least three years; and make the process of applying for work simpler and quicker, NMPF said.
NMPF's testimony also highlighted concerns the organization has with an enforcement-only approach to immigration policy, such as shifting to the mandatory use of the E-Verify database system for verifying the immigration status of prospective workers.
"If Congress is going to enact a nationwide E-Verify requirement, then it also needs to provide agriculture with a workable guestworker program to meet our future needs and a means to allow those who are currently working in undocumented status to be eligible for that guestworker program."
"A failure to do so risks severely damaging the economic vitality of the nation's entire agriculture sector," NMPF wrote.


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Obama to pressure GOP to extend unemployment benefits
The president will meet with some Americans on Tuesday who have lost their benefits.
WASHINGTON — President Obama will meet on Tuesday in Washington with some long-term unemployed Americans, as the White House ramps up pressure on Congress to extend unemployment insurance benefits that expired for 1.3 million Americans last week.
The White House's announcement of Tuesday's event where Obama will press for the extension of the benefits came Friday as Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee released a report saying the expiration of federal unemployment insurance has already taken more than $400 million out of the economy.
The White House Council of Economic Advisers says failing to extend benefits would put a dent in job-seekers' incomes and would have a cascading effect on the U.S. economy that would cost 240,000 jobs in 2014.
The Senate is expected to consider a bill next week sponsored by Sens. Jack Reed, D-R.I. and Dean Heller, R-Nev., to extend emergency unemployment insurance for three months.
Labor Secretary Tom Perez told reporters on Friday that many of the unemployed who lost their benefits have gone from a "position of hardship" to one that is a "catastrophe."
"They have been looking day in and day out for work," Perez said. "They are trying to feed their families. They are trying to stave off foreclosure. They are making judgments between food and medicine —judgments that no person in America or anywhere should have to make."
Republicans are hesitant to extend the program without offsetting spending cuts or changes to the program, which costs about $25 billion annually. The Heller-Reed bill does not include cost offsets.
Some Republicans, most notably Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, have questioned whether the extended unemployment insurance has dissuaded Americans from rejoining the workforce.
"When you allow people to be on unemployment insurance for 99 weeks, you're causing them to become part of this perpetual unemployed group in our economy," Paul argued on Fox News Sunday last month.
Perez dismissed the Paul argument.
"The evidence belies that," Perez said. "Certainly the conversations I have across the board with people looking for work is they want nothing more than to get a job."


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Brienne Charles and her neighbours lost their homes when the January earthquake ripped through their remote mountain village. Now they're getting new ones thanks to a Chilean NGO and WFP's knack for reaching people in even the hardest-to-reach locations. Watch the clip
PORT-AU-PRINCE – "It's like magic," beamed Brienne Charles as she watched the unassembled parts of her new home descend from a WFP-chartered helicopter on to the hilltop in southern Haiti.
"Now my children will have a decent place to sleep again," said the 38-year-old mother of two, who has been living in a tent with her family since her home in the village of Petite Savane, 60 kilometers west of Port-au-Prince, was levelled by the January 12 earthquake.
Rough terrain
"They lost everything," said Erika Hibon, who works with Un Techo Para Mi Pais, or, A Roof For My Country. The Chile-based NGO provides shelter for disaster victims, in this case prefabricated wooden houses easily transportable by truck and capable of quick assembly in a few hours.
Finding more permanent shelter for people who lost their homes has become increasingly urgent with the onset of the hurricane season and a large part of the population still living in tents.
The trouble with Brienne and her neighbours was the site of their homes at the top of a steep hill just outside Petite Savane. "There was no way to get a truck up there. So we went to the UN Logistics Cluster to see if they could help," said Erika.
As the main provider of logistics services for the UN, and lead agency of its Logistics Cluster, WFP stepped up to meet the challenge. Its solution came in the form of a Russian-built MI 171 helicopter.
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"The MI 171 is ideal for this sort of task," said Emmanuel Jarry, the WFP logistics officer in charge of the operation. "It has a sling capacity of four metric tons, easily enough to handle those houses."
Parts for the three houses were trucked from Port-au-Prince to a site on the coast near Petite Savane and then airlifted up to the hilltop village. The job took all of a few hours – much to Brienne's delight.
"It has been very hard for us since the earthquake," she said. "We're far from the main roads so we haven't had much help. We need clothes and food and maybe some medicine. But at least now, we have a house to live in."
Erika said the project could provide houses to many other people in the same situation. "This was an experiment to see if it could work. Now that we know it can be done, there are hundreds of other people in isolated villages all over the mountains that we may be able to help."