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The Russo Brothers Reveal What Happened to Captain America in His 'Avengers: Endgame' Ending
The following post contains SPOILERS for Avengers: Endgame. Unless you have an Infinity Gauntlet handy to wipe your mind, better not read it until after you've seen the movie.
The final scene of Avengers: Endgame left room for a lot of questions. Exactly where did Captain America go when he took the Infinity Stones back in time? How long did he live in the past with Peggy Carter? How did he do it for decades without anyone noticing him? Did he alter the past by doing that?
The Russo brothers explained a little bit of their intentions in a new interview with Entertainment Weekly. They confirmed that Captain America couldn't live in the past of the Marvel Cinematic Universe for decades, because doing so would have created a "branched reality" — a theory of time travel established earlier in Endgame that holds that it is impossible to change the past and that what you end up doing instead is creating alternate realities where different events take place.
Okay, so if Steve Rogers didn't just travel back into the past — or if he did travel to the past but then created an alternate dimension as a result — how did he get back to the main MCU in the present to hand Captain America's shield to Sam Wilson? Here's what Joe Russo said to those queries:
Interesting question, right? Maybe there's a story there. There's a lot of layers built into this movie and we spent three years thinking through it, so it's fun to talk about it and hopefully fill in holes for people so they understand what we're thinking.
The Russos also hinted that Bucky's aloof nature in that scene was meant to imply that he knew what Steve was doing before he did it, and that perhaps he had met this time-traveling Steve Rogers at some point in the past. This could be something explored in the upcoming television series about Falcon and Winter Soldier that's coming to Disney+.
I am not sure this really answers the questions we have so much as it narrows them down a little. Now we know a little bit of what Marvel intended with that ending. But there's still a lot more we don't know — and won't know until that Falcon and Winter Soldier show at the earliest.
Gallery — How Every Avenger's Costume Evolved From Movie to Movie:


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One-shot LED Trigger¶
This is a LED trigger useful for signaling the user of an event where there are no clear trap points to put standard led-on and led-off settings. Using this trigger, the application needs only to signal the trigger when an event has happened, then the trigger turns the LED on and then keeps it off for a specified amount of time.
This trigger is meant to be usable both for sporadic and dense events. In the first case, the trigger produces a clear single controlled blink for each event, while in the latter it keeps blinking at constant rate, as to signal that the events are arriving continuously.
A one-shot LED only stays in a constant state when there are no events. An additional "invert" property specifies if the LED has to stay off (normal) or on (inverted) when not rearmed.
The trigger can be activated from user space on led class devices as shown below:
echo oneshot > trigger
This adds sysfs attributes to the LED that are documented in: Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-led-trigger-oneshot
Example use-case: network devices, initialization:
echo oneshot > trigger # set trigger for this led
echo 33 > delay_on # blink at 1 / (33 + 33) Hz on continuous traffic
echo 33 > delay_off
interface goes up:
echo 1 > invert # set led as normally-on, turn the led on
packet received/transmitted:
echo 1 > shot # led starts blinking, ignored if already blinking
interface goes down:
echo 0 > invert # set led as normally-off, turn the led off

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A business industry code (BIC) is a five-digit code you include on relevant tax returns and schedules that describes your main business activity.
BICs are derived from the Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification (ANZSIC) codes and have been simplified for tax return reporting purposes.
Find the correct BIC for your business
Use the BIC tool to help you find the correct BIC for your business.
- If you know your ANZSIC code or BIC
- enter the code in the search field
- click through the relevant link and check that it covers your activities.
- If you don't know your code you can search by entering your main business activity or a key word that describes what you do into the search field (see example).
- Click through the relevant link and check that it covers your activities.
About the codes
The codes are very broad. One code might cover many different work types, activities and industries. If the codes are not an exact match to your role or title, choose the code that is closest.
If you have more than one work type or business:
- use the activity that gives you the highest gross income or smallest loss
- report this at the relevant labels on your tax return.
Example: search for codes
Search the broadest term for your business and select the closest match. If you're a:
- copywriter – search 'writing'
- financial manager – search 'finance' or 'management' separately
- ride-sourcing driver for Uber, Shebah, GoCatch or others – search 'taxi'
- teacher – search 'teaching', 'school' or 'tutoring'.
How to update your code
As your work or business changes or expands you may need to update your BIC. Do this by:
- entering the new code on your next income tax return
- changing it on the Australian Business RegisterExternal Link – if you have an ABN.
It's important to get it right
Using the right code is important as it ensures you are lodging your return in the right category. This helps:
- avoid delays in the processing of your return
- reduce the risk of your business being incorrectly targeted for compliance activities
- ensure you receive services and materials that are relevant for your business type.
After you have the right BIC, you can also use the small business benchmarks to compare your business' performance against similar businesses in your industry.
See also:
- BIC tool
- Business Industry Codes 2021 (PDF, 929KB)Opens in a new window for the full list of codes
- Small business benchmarks


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Support by Grupo Therrestra to the Moca Sports Federation, part of the company's sustainability program.
About Grupo Therrestra
Therrestra is the philosophy resulted from a cluster of Professionals in the fields of Engineering and Construction, inspired by its CEO, Hugo Pérez Ovalles, whom since the first day bestow all their talent, trust and capacity to the service of all tourist, residential and commercial investments in the Caribbean, that demand promptness, quality and excellence in detail.
Grupo Therrestra was founded in 2004 to offer services in Civil Construction Works. We specialize in Design, Construction and Oversight for Tourist, Residential and Commercial Projects in-country and in the Caribbean. Currently, our 200 direct employees execute projects in Jamaica, Saint Lucia, and the Dominican Republic, by generating 4,000 job opportunities in the region. We are also registered in Saint Maarten and in Aruba


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Postural Restoration
The human body is not symmetrical. The neurological, respiratory, circulatory, muscular and vision systems are not the same on the left side of the body as they are on the right, and vice versa. They have different responsibilities, function, position and demands on them. This system asymmetry is a good thing and an amazing design. The human body is balanced through the integration of system imbalances. The torso, for example, is balanced with a liver on the right and a heart on the left. Extremity dominance is balanced through reciprocal function; i.e. left arm moves with right leg and vice versa.
Postural Restoration Institute® (PRI) credentialed professionals recognize these imbalances and typical patterns associated with system disuse or weakness that develops because of dominant overuse. This dominant overuse of one side of the body can develop from other system unilateral overuse. For example, if the left smaller diaphragm is not held accountable for respiration as the right is, the body can become twisted. The right diaphragm is always in a better position for respiration, because of the liver's structural support of the right larger diaphragm leaflet. Therefore, the left abdominals are always important to use during reciprocal function, such as walking, to keep the torso balanced.
Keeping the right chest opened during breathing is also challenging since there is no heart muscle inside the right side of the chest. Standing mainly on the right lower extremity to offset the weight of the left upper torso, assists in moving the pelvis forward on the left and the shoulder complex down on the right. This asymmetry compliments the special functions of the two sides of the brain. Although the two sides (hemispheres) of the brain share responsibilities for some functions, each hemisphere has its own "specialties". Each hemisphere controls the opposite side of the body. The left brain has more responsibilities for speech and language and thus the right upper extremity becomes a dominant extremity in communication, growth and development. PRI credentialed professionals recognize when this normal pattern is not balanced sufficiently with left extremity neurologic and muscular activity.
When these normal imbalances are not regulated by reciprocal function during walking, breathing or turning, a strong pattern emerges creating structural weaknesses, instabilities, and musculo-skeletal pain syndromes. Balancing muscle activity around the sacrum (pelvis), the sternum (thorax) and the sphenoid (middle of the head) through a PRI approach best positions multiple systems of the human body for appropriate integrated asymmetrical function. PRI credentialed professionals incorporate reciprocal function to reduce 'leading' with the left pelvis and right arm, and respiratory function to maximize airflow in and out of the right lung.
Vision, occupational demands, in-uterine position, etc. can all influence asymmetrical tendencies and patterns. Humpback whales bottom-feed on their right side, lemurs tend to be lefties when it comes to grabbing their grub, toads use their right forepaw more than their left, chimpanzees hold a branch up with the left hand and pick the fruit with their right hand, and humans usually balance their center of gravity over their right leg for functional ease and postural security. PRI credentialed professionals recognize the more common integrated patterns of human stance, extremity use, respiratory function, vestibular imbalance, mandibular orientation and foot dynamics; and balance these patterns, as much as possible, through specific exercise programs that integrate correct respiration with left side or right side inhibitory or facilitory function.


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Observation of upper ocean organic carbon dynamics
Work Package Leaders
- Anja Engel (GEOMAR)
Mesoscale eddies are important vehicles for water mass transport from Eastern Boundary Upwelling Systems (EBUS) to the open oligotrophic ocean that can influence biogeochemical cycles on relatively small spatial scales (on the order of 102 km). These water masses are rich in carbon and nutrients affecting both primary production and export fluxes, which has consequences for the distribution of oxygen through locally variable remineralization processes (see figure 1). Since oxygen concentration is one of the major controls for the distribution of larger pelagic organisms, such as zooplankton as well as meso- and epipelagic fish, mesoscale activities in and around EBUS also have socio-economical impacts. However, the larger role of mesoscale eddies in the marine biogeochemichal cycles are still not well constrained.
To gain a better understanding of carbon cycling in and around eddies, research in the Engel lab will focus on three main topics: (i) The distribution of organic carbon by determining the spatial distribution as well as the lateral and vertical fluxes of dissolved and non-sinking organic matter across mesoscale eddies off West-Africa, (ii) organic carbon turn-over by quantifying microbial process rates (primary production, exudation, bacterial production, organic matter degradation and respiration), and (iii) organic carbon tracing by identifying organic biomarkers for water mass transport as well as organic matter production and degradation processes. Understanding the chemical composition, microbial cycling and eddy-driven transport of fresh dissolved and non-sinking organic matter in and out of highly productive EBUS will help us to better estimate climate change impacts on oxygen, nutrient and CO2 fluxes.
General Questions and Research topics
Overall aims:
- Determine the influence of submesoscale eddies on upper ocean organic carbon distribution
- Understand the influences of eddy dynamics on microbial productivity and organic matter turn-over
- Assess the role of EBUS in the lateral supply of organic matter to the central Atlantic Ocean
Current hypotheses:
- Eddies enhance the lateral transport of organic cabon to the open ocean
- Reduction of particulate carbon export on the shelf
- Laterally supplied organic carbon supports net heterotrophy offshore
Figure 1. Schematic showing the interplay between remote physical transport mechanisms and local organic matter remineralization processes creating oxygen and nitrate variability within the oxygen minimum zone off Mauritania. Picture credit: Thomsen et al. (2019). |


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In general, security by obscurity is one of the weakest forms of security. But in some cases, every little bit of extra security is desirable.
A few simple techniques can help to hide PHP, possibly slowing down an attacker who is attempting to discover weaknesses in your system. By setting expose_php = off in your php.ini file, you reduce the amount of information available to them.
Another tactic is to configure web servers such as apache to parse different filetypes through PHP, either with an .htaccess directive, or in the apache configuration file itself. You can then use misleading file extensions:
Example 32-1. Hiding PHP as another language
# Make PHP code look like other code types AddType application/x-httpd-php .asp .py .pl
Example 32-2. Using unknown types for PHP extensions
# Make PHP code look like unknown types AddType application/x-httpd-php .bop .foo .133t
Example 32-3. Using HTML types for PHP extensions
# Make all PHP code look like HTML AddType application/x-httpd-php .htm .html


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Siemens, despite being better known for their mainframes, ovens and refrigerators, had a historically significant impact upon the realm of PC based DVB devices, particularly from a Linux point of view.
Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG, formed from the merger of Nixdorf Computer AG and Siemens' Data Information Services (DIS) division, operated as an independent Siemens subsidiary. SNI designed one of the first PCI based DVB cards, the Siemens DVB-C, a "full-featured" device that is said to be the mother of many later designs.
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In 1999, the SNI division was split apart, with one portion being used to form part of Fujitsu Siemens Computers.


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Title: Wolf 2
Series: Westside Skulls MC Romance
Author: Jessie Cooke
Genre: MC Romance
Release Date: July 23, 2018
Starting over is never easy...especially after your heart has been broken. Wolf never wanted to be one of those guys that collected club girls, or chased every skirt he saw. All he ever wanted was one woman to love fiercely, and a family to take care of and protect. But sometimes no matter how much you want something, or how hard you're willing to fight for it, fate and karma have other plans.
Blair works with some of California's toughest criminals. She's a psychologist who follows former inmates back out into the community, and makes recommendations for their futures based on their current situation. It's her job to decide if they are likely to reoffend...and often her decisions make her less than popular with some very dangerous men. When one of those men decides he wants to get even with her, she finds a group of unlikely heroes in a motorcycle club that's been wronged by him as well. Something about the president of the MC appeals to her in a way that makes her question everything she ever believed and the fine line that some people draw between good and evil. Is it possible for a woman who has dedicated herself to upholding the law, to love a man that has dedicated his to walking a tightrope in between?
Wolf is struggling to start over. He lost someone that he cared for deeply and that left his chest with a deep, empty hole. When he meets Blair, the prison psychologist rescued from the clutches of an evil man by Wolf and his club, he begins to wonder if it's possible for him to love again...but before he and Blair can even begin to figure things out, Wolf is arrested for murder and it starts to look like there's no hope for the future for the freshly arrested inmate and the traumatized psychologist who just might not be able to trust or believe in a man like Wolf Lee.
Book 2 in the Westside Skulls MC Series.
This is a Standalone Romance Novel but characters from this story, will appear in future books in the series.
HEA and No cliffhanger.
Intended for Mature Readers.
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The Westside Skulls MC Series is about members of the MC club, their friends and associates.
Each story, while focused around one main character, is not necessarily about a Westside Skulls club member, but the story is related to Skulls members and the club.
Wolf growled as he grabbed a handful of that thick, blonde hair. "Don't stop, baby." He thrust his hips forward, pushing his cock deeper into her mouth, hitting the back of her throat. She could be a porn star with that mouth. He'd fucked her ten times at least...this week...and she had yet to gag once. He was so close...he closed his eyes and suddenly a picture of Amara popped into his head. She was on her knees like this little club girl was now, but as she sucked him, she stared up at him with those deep brown eyes...those eyes that he could never resist, those eyes...fuck. He opened his and suddenly, he was just done. Pissed off, he pushed the girl on her knees back and said, "Sorry, baby, I got things I need to do." He wasn't pissed at her, or really even at Amara anymore. He hated her, but he wasn't angry any longer...not at her. He was angry with himself for not being able to move on. The pretty girl sat back on the carpeted floor on her naked butt, big, pert boobs sticking out and blonde hair in disarray around a gorgeous face. She really should do porn, Wolf thought. Maybe he'd suggest she go see his friends in Boston. They could hook her up.
"But you didn't finish."
He was already zipping his jeans and buckling his belt. "I'm good," he said. "Go on and get dressed now, you can't stay here." They were in his little house behind the club. Maybe that was his problem...maybe he needed to stop bringing them there where Amara's ghost inhabited everything. The girl, whose name was Amber, pushed up off the floor and Wolf watched her get dressed. Her perfect body usually stirred something in him when he looked at her...but not today. Today was his ex-wife's birthday, and for some reason, although she'd tried to have him killed a few short months before, she was still on his mind. It wasn't that he wanted her back, it was more like she was in his head just to continue to torture him...and hold him back.
He tried to stop thinking about her and when Amber was finally ready, he walked her out and made sure she was gone before locking his door and heading over to the club. He never used to lock his door before, but the Colombian witch that used to be his wife had left him not only angry and bitter, but slightly paranoid as well.
He went into the back door of the clubhouse, entering through the kitchen. A few of the girls were there, cleaning up breakfast dishes. Wolf's favorite club girl, and his best friend, Tricia, greeted him first. "Hey, Boss, looking good. How are you doing today?" He gave Tricia a kiss on the cheek while the other girls looked on. He wasn't one of those guys that did the women right out in the open in the clubhouse, nor did he easily display his affections. But Tricia was different. She was proof that not all soulmates were meant to be love interests. Some people came into your life as stabilizing forces and to prove that there are such things as unconditional love and affection.
"You're looking good too," he said. "As always." He wasn't lying. For a forty-something-year-old woman, she was still hotter than most of the younger club girls. Wolf still fucked her from time to time...but in all honesty, he tried not to. He truly wanted her to be happy one day, to find a man that would make her his old lady and treat her right. He also knew that if he started to depend on her too much, he'd use her like a crutch and she'd let him. They both needed to move forward with their lives. He wasn't quite sure how to do that, and Tricia seemed to be stuck in place for quite a few years now herself.
Wolf realized that maybe he wasn't a very good friend. He honestly didn't know why she stayed around the clubhouse so much. She liked sex, and she got plenty of it there...but he didn't doubt she could get plenty of that anywhere. Something kept her coming back; he just never thought to ask her what that was. "The day's good," he lied. He could see in Tricia's eyes that she didn't believe him. It would be just like her to remember that today was Amara's birthday...not for Amara, Tricia never liked her, but for Wolf. It was things like that which sometimes made him think about saying Fuck romantic love and just marrying his soulmate...but he knew that at least one of them deserved better than that...and he doubted it was him.
"You hungry?" she asked, drying her hands on the dishtowel. Even if everything was gone, she'd make something for him, and it would be great. She was a freak in the sack, a whiz in the kitchen, one hell of a listener...she could dance, sing a little, and she was one of the smartest women he'd ever met. She was the whole package...older than him, but he wouldn't be bothered by that either. It was simply that as much as he loved her, he wasn't in love with her, and if that hadn't happened by now, it probably never would.
"Nah, I'm just gonna grab some coffee. Manson and I are going over some invoices today, getting things ready for the tax man. Hate that shit."
Tricia laughed as she poured him a mug of hot coffee. He said hello to the other two girls then, one he'd fucked a few days before, but couldn't for the life of him remember her name, and one he hadn't met yet...but already thought he might be looking her up later. One good thing about being in an MC when the woman of your dreams rips your heart out of your chest and stomps on it...you don't have to go far to find a distraction...they come out of the woodwork around the club.
He took his coffee and went through the kitchen door and down the hall to the office. He found Manson there already, as he knew he would, with his sleeves rolled up and a pile of invoices and spreadsheets in front of him. Manson loved this shit. Wolf hated it, and usually tried to get out of it...but Manson didn't want to make any financial decisions without Wolf signing off on them, even if Wolf told him it was okay.
He kicked out a chair with his foot, sat down, and said, "I think I need to go somewhere and look for some different pussy."
Manson stopped what he was doing and looked up at his president. Shaking his head and grinning he said, "Good morning to you too, Prez."
"Good morning. I was just thinking as I walked through the kitchen and saw the new club girl...maybe I need really new. Maybe I should get the hell out of this valley for a while and find some fresh pussy that hasn't been drilled by every guy around me already."
"Well, if that's your way of asking if I drilled that, the answer is yes...twice, and just this morning."
"See what I mean?" Wolf said. That was the thing about Amara. She was no virgin when he met her, but none of the brothers in his club had ever laid a hand on her. He could never love or have a relationship with a woman that had been with any of the rest of them. He knew that was chauvinistic on his part, since he was still willing to fuck them all...but it was what he knew about himself. Not that he was even sure he ever wanted another relationship...but still, fresh pussy sounded great.
"You're going to Vegas next weekend, why not look there?"
Wolf chuckled. "Right...fresh pussy in Sin City, that's exactly where I'd find it."
Manson shrugged. "You never know. At least she wouldn't have fucked all the brothers in the club. How fresh you talking? You want a virgin or something?"
Wolf made a face. He didn't think he'd ever had a virgin, but he was sure that wasn't what he wanted. He just didn't want a woman that every man in the room knew how she tasted. He wanted a woman who would be willing, no matter how many men she'd had before...to only be with him.
"Nah, don't want no virgin. But don't want one who's fucked all the brothers either."
"You looking for an old lady?"
"No. Hell no. Just...different, I guess." Wolf honestly didn't have any idea what he was looking for. Amara had messed him up, badly. When he met her, he thought that was it...that he'd fucked the last woman he would ever fuck, and he was surprisingly okay with that. She was hot...and they were so good together. If he lived to be a hundred, he'd never understand why it wasn't good enough for her. Maybe that was why he suddenly needed fresh pussy. His ego was wounded, and he needed a woman that didn't look up to him because of his position in the club, to tell him he was good enough. Maybe Manson was right, and Vegas would be a good place to look.
Wolf was going to Vegas the following weekend with Bruf, to meet up with Dax Marshall, his brother Gunner, and several of the other Southside Skulls from Boston. Together, they had invested in a gym not long ago and it was in that gym that one of the greatest MMA fighters in the US, Jacob "The Lion" Wright, was training Dax's brother Gunner for a PPV fight that was happening in Vegas on Saturday night. Jacob and his team had already flown back to Vegas and Gunner was with them, training for his last week at their gym. Jacob wanted him there where he could keep a close eye on him, making sure he stuck to his diet, training, and lifestyle. Dax and his guys were riding down from Boston and would meet Wolf and Bruf in Nevada on that Saturday afternoon. They all had front row seats and Wolf was looking forward to it, if for no other reason than he needed a vacation, a chance to shed the responsibility of taking care of a crew of almost fifty and their families. Not to mention he hadn't had a chance to get away and shake Amara from the corners of his mind.
"So, what's all this shit?" he asked, getting back to business.
"Payroll receipts," Manson said. "We're paying out more money than we're claiming to have made."
"Well, that can't be good."
Manson laughed, "You think? The gym isn't making money yet, but despite that, we've got eight people on that payroll. The garage made about thirty grand, legitimately last year, but we paid out over fifty in salaries. There's a lot of money coming out of the warehouse, but we can't claim any of that. I can see where Granite funneled some of it into repairs and upkeep on the timeshares, but I'm not sure where the hell the rest of it is. He was supposed to be here to explain all this shit. It's like looking at Chinese, and I'm the one that's going to have to explain it to the tax man."
Michael "Granite" Parker was the Westside Skulls treasurer, and quite possibly one of the strangest men that Wolf had ever met. He looked like he should be working on Wall Street instead of riding with an MC...but the man could ride, he could shoot the head off a pin at a hundred yards, and he was one of the most loyal sons of bitches that Wolf had ever known. Granite got his name thanks to the stone face he wore ninety percent of the time. He rarely showed any expression and even when he talked, it was hard to tell if he was happy, sad, or ready to kill himself. He had been treasurer of the club since Wolf's father was president. It wasn't a job most people wanted, but up to this point, he'd been doing a great job. He was responsible for laundering the "cash transactions" the club made and the way he did that was by setting up payroll accounts. Suddenly, however, that didn't look like the best idea.
"Well, tell him to get his ass here," Wolf said.
"I would if I could find him."
"What do you mean? Did you call him?" Wolf drew his brows together...a missing treasurer, privy to all the secrets of the club, would not be a good thing.
"Of course I called him, several times. It just goes to voicemail. I texted him too with no response and I sent one of the prospects over to his apartment." Granite didn't live at or near the clubhouse. He kept his own apartment on the north side of town. Wolf had a bad feeling, though—if Granite wasn't at the clubhouse, or on club business, he was almost always at home. He came from a wealthy family and he liked the finer things in life. He played the violin and listened to classical music and sipped expensive wine when he was in his own home, and he loved his alone time.
"I don't like it," Wolf told Manson. "Get some of the guys together and send them out to look for him."
"Where would they start? I'm sorry, but the dude is weird. If he's not here, he's there, period."
"Fuck...what could have happened to him?" Wolf was just talking aloud...until Bruf walked in and answered his question.
"Boss, we have a big problem. One of the girls just took a call from a guy calling himself 'Corporal Dan.' He says he has Granite...and we can have him back, for a price."
"Fuck." Wolf ran his hands through his long hair. His head was beginning to pound. "What's the price?"
"They didn't say. They gave her a number and told her to have you call it at exactly five this evening and they'll give you the details."
"Son of a bitch." Wolf stood up and said, "Let's go."
Manson was on his feet and Bruf was always ready. As they walked through the door Manson said, "Where are we going?"
"We'll start at his apartment. By the time I call these sonsabitches, I want to know who and what I'm dealing with."


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KR Fortec – The new heavy-duty robot series from KUKA
Augsburg, March 2014 – Strong. Stonger. KR FORTEC. In its new heavy-duty series, KUKA Roboter GmbH rounds out the heavy-duty segment
19 Mayıs 2014
The new robots cover the payload range from 360 to 600 kg, closing the gap to the service-proven KR 1000 titan.
In the KR FORTEC series, KUKA has adapted service-proven technology to customer and product requirements of today and tomorrow, opening up a payload range which was previously not available on the market from a single source.
25 robot types cover payload ranges from 360 to 600 kg with a reach of up to 3,326 mm. In addition to the standard robots, KUKA offers variants for ceiling mounting, machine tools and the foundry sector.
Together with the KR 1000 titan, the new KR FORTEC series now forms an integrated heavy-duty portfolio.
Strength and dynamics: the name says it all
The name KR FORTEC, derived from force and forte, stands for strength and dynamics. Just as for the KR QUANTEC series, the tec part of the word represents KUKA's leadership in technology and innovation.
Compared to the previous series (KR 360/500), the advantages of the KR FORTEC family are clear. The conversion of the in-line wrist from belt to gear technology makes the annual belt change no longer necessary and reduces maintenance costs. For the same payload and reach, KUKA was able to increase the axis speeds by up to 18% compared to the previous series. This significantly shortens cycle times.
The change of nomenclature in the KUKA portfolio and the unchanged interfaces simplify planning and user-friendly conversion to the KR FORTEC. The consistent identical parts strategy decreases maintenance and spare parts costs. The portfolio is also extended to include the 600 kg payload range.
Design allows new cell concepts
Its compact design without disruptive contours and its more streamlined appearance make it suitable for use in cramped cells as well as in completely new cell concepts. The KR FORTEC is also optimized for use on linear units. With the KR FORTEC series, KUKA is continuing its systematic use of energy supply systems with the service-proven K box in order to ensure durability and ease of exchange in the case of service work for this new generation of heavy-weight robots as well.
In the payload range from 360 to 600 kg, customers can now work with the more streamlined KR FORTEC robots. The 25 different product variants of the KR FORTEC series offer the highest degree of flexibility for planning the optimal automation solution. The heavy-weight robots set new standards in innovative robotics and energy-efficient drive technology – for pioneering automation and maximum customer satisfaction.


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BOSTON — January 23, 2011 — Strokes are a leading cause of mortality and adult disability. Those that involve intracerebral hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain) are especially deadly, and there are no effective treatments to control such bleeding. Moreover, diabetes and hyperglycemia (high blood glucose levels) are associated with increases in bleeding during hemorrhagic stroke and worse clinical outcomes.
But Joslin Diabetes Center researchers now have identified one key player that contributes to this increased bleeding, a discovery that may pave the way toward treatments that minimize adverse stroke outcomes both for people with pre-existing diabetes and those with hyperglycemia identified at the time of stroke.
Studies in the lab of Joslin Investigator Edward Feener, Ph.D., pinpointed a new mechanism involving a protein called plasma kallikrein that interferes with the normal clotting process in the brain following blood vessel injury with diabetes. Their work is reported online in the journal Nature Medicine.
The scientists began by injecting a small amount of blood into the brains of rats with diabetes and of control animals without diabetes. The difference was dramatic — the diabetic animals bled over a much greater area of the brain.
Work in the Feener lab had previously implicated plasma kallikrein in diabetic eye complications. When the experimenters pre-treated the diabetic animals with a molecule that inhibits the protein's effects, brain damage from the blood injections dropped to levels similar to that in the control animals. Conversely, when pure plasma kallikrein was injected into the brain, it produced little impact on the control animals but rapidly increased major bleeding in the animals with diabetes.
Further studies by the Joslin researchers showed that normalizing blood glucose levels in diabetic animals could block the effect from plasma kallikrein, and that rapidly inducing hyperglycemia in control animals mimicked the effects of diabetes on brain hemorrhage. This suggests that high blood sugar at the time of brain hemorrhage, rather than diabetes per se, is responsible for the increased bleeding.
"Given the prevalence of strokes and the damage they inflict, these findings are exciting because they suggest the possibility that rapid control of blood sugar levels may provide an opportunity to reduce intracerebral hemorrhage, which is a clinical situation that has very limited treatment options," says Dr. Feener, who is also an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. "This work could have broad implications since about half of patients with acute hemorrhagic stroke have hyperglycemia, whether or not they have pre-existing diabetes."
The work also raises the possibility of developing drugs that target plasma kallikrein and may provide protective measures in people with diabetes or others at high risk for stroke. Such drugs might also prove useful for patients suffering from the more common ischemic strokes, which usually begin as blocked vessels in the brain but can transform into hemorrhages.
Surprisingly, while plasma kallikrein has been studied for decades, the Joslin scientists found that the protein boosts brain bleeding through a previously unknown mechanism — by blocking platelet activation near damaged blood vessels.
Joslin's Jia Liu and Ben-Bo Gao were co-lead authors on the Nature Medicine paper. Other contributors include Joslin's Allen Clermont, and Price Blair and Robert Flaumenhaft of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Tamie Chilcote and Sukanto Sinha of ActiveSite Pharmaceuticals. Lead funding came from the National Institutes of Health and the American Heart Association.


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A simple WordPress Plugin to Schedule Content Updates
These days WordPress is scarcely used as a pure blog. Most of the time it is used as a full blown CMS with many additional requirements. Especially the publishing workflow for posts and pages as well as their changes becomes demanding. Using plugins like visual composer or advaced custom fields with their flexbox addon it becomes common to build huge startpages, subsites and langpages using a simple, understandable visual editor insted of bolting them together using custom post types. If this is a good and DRY way to go is not to discuss here 🙂
A Problem arises as soon as you try updating such a complex single page at a specific date in the future – there is no easy way so schedule changes to already published wordpress pages inside the wordpress core functionality. Existing plugins that try to tackle this problem are often far from feature complete and try to re-use the revision system. The experience we made with our customers showed, that the revisions approach is hard to grasp for less technical users and also rather error prone.
These are the main reasons for us to brew our own solution.
TAO Scheduled change is a really small plugin. It only does one thing, but tries to do this the right way: Take a copy of an arbitrary post/page/cpt, change it and make it replace the original post at a given date and time in the future.
This is just a little side project I am maintaining as time permits. If you find bugs or want to help in any capacity please visit the github repo:
- Upload the plugin folder to the
directory - Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
- No 3rd step neccessary
Contributors & Developers
"TAO Schedule Update" is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
ContributorsTranslate "TAO Schedule Update" into your language.
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- fix timezone issue in datepicker (thanks to joaquinjsb)
- add spanish translation (thanks to Manuel5cc and Julian Castro)
- fix typo in english text
- hotfix date warning
- fix date formatting in datepicker
- php7.2 compatibility (removed create_function)
- expand TAO_ScheduleUpdate\create_publishing_post action to also include the original post's ID
- add TAO_ScheduleUpdate\before_publish_post action
- add TAO_ScheduleUpdate\publish_post_date filter
- Fix error message in admin backend not working properly (thanks to LeniM)
- fix posts not being publicly visible when options flag was set
- fix timepicker stylesheet issue on https
- fix display of date in listview
- fix publishing fail
- added options page
- added recursive scheduling (enable this via the options page)
- code cleanup, unified comment styles, code formatting
- fix issue where releasedate would not display for post types that do not support authorship
- fix issue where other plugins register posttypes after tao-schedule-update initializes
- fix issue where gmt post dates where not updated correctly (thanks to CheeseDurger)
- add action TAO_ScheduleUpdate\create_publishing_post (thanks to ollietreend)
- add Japanese language files (thanks to yokotak0527)
- fix bug where kses filters would run on automatically published posts
- add check for empty array in copy_meta_and_terms function.
- fix bug where publishing a post overrides other content
- fix potential breakeage when cloning a post without meta infos
- directly go to edit screen after creating a scheduled post
- terms are now also copied over to the new post
- fixed bug where multiple meta keys with the same name were not correctly copied back to the original post
- removed possibility to schedule updates for posts in trash
- TAO_ScheduleUpdate::create_publishing_post now returns the created posts's ID
- fix scheduled posts appearing in search
- fix problems with l10n textdomain
- PHP 5.3 Support
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Over the course of the past 20 years of my involvement with GreenEarth Cleaning I have seen and heard a lot of cool things from a wide variety of sources. But just when I thought I had heard it all, I got a text Monday morning that caused me to drop what I was doing and call a longtime Member of the GreenEarth Family. Let me provide some context to why calling an Affiliate (something I do every day) was a little different that day.
Rewind to June of 1999. I was at the Four Seasons Hotel in Toronto, Canada, when Jim Barry, Ron Benjamin, and Jim Douglas attended the International Drycleaners Congress and gave a sneak preview of their new offering that was being rolled out later that month at the '99 Clean Show in New Orleans.
I jumped on board after that Clean Show and assisted with the first 29 GreenEarth Affiliates in our "Affirmation Site" program, which involved testing over 26,000 waste stream samples before we officially began selling to the dry cleaning industry. Just think about that for a moment—those first 29 Affiliates paid their license fee and then became the guinea pigs for testing of their still bottoms, cartridge filters, and wastewater for us to openly report to government regulators and other constituent groups. That's quite a leap of faith.
We were told by industry salespeople that our first "customers" were actually more like missionaries preaching to the industry about their experiences as they began their journey as a GreenEarth Affiliate. Pretty cool.
Our list of "missionaries" is too large to introduce here without doing an injustice to those that aren't mentioned—top-notch operators from all the way up north in Minnesota to southernmost Alabama, from East Hartford, Connecticut, to Fresno, California, and almost every town in between. They were the kind of people that would welcome other dry cleaners into their plants to spend a morning watching them run loads and pre-spot. They would allow other cleaners to bring in garments from their own shops in order to see, feel, and smell the difference after cleaning in GreenEarth. Pretty cool.
When the International Fabricare Institute awarded GreenEarth Cleaning the Technology Trailblazer Meritorious Service Award in 2007, we were honored to accept it on behalf of the more than 1,000 GreenEarth Affiliated Members around the world at that time. Many of those members had become comfortable being interviewed by local and national media surrounding their commitment to the environment in garment care. They told us that GreenEarth had given them a platform to become "disciples" for the cause of sustainable garment care.
Along the way, we heard from garment technologists employed by major retail brands that requested our assistance in getting trim components as abstract as alligator skin, LED lights, glass crystals, electronic diodes, and UV-proof coated textiles tested in order to expand their offerings to the ever-evolving needs of the consumer. Some of those technologists remain raving fans of GreenEarth as they moved from various companies within the fashion industry and bring their experiences with gentle aftercare to the boardrooms and quality assurance labs of their new employers.
We have received calls from landlords informing us that their bankers had "championed" that their dry cleaning tenant needed to convert to the GreenEarth Cleaning System in order to insure their property financing long into the future. Pretty cool.
I have viewed garments worn by celebrities at award shows, such as the Grammys and the Oscars, that were cleaned by GreenEarth Affiliates after the big event. And I know of a couple princesses that entrusted GreenEarth Members to preserve a couple of the most iconic wedding gowns ever created. Very cool!
So when I received that text Monday morning that GreenEarth had just got a shout-out on The Howard Stern Show, I needed a little more explanation of the scenario for me to feel comfortable. I was told that after a discussion on a previous show about how to care for expensive jeans, Howard read a letter that he had just received from a fan that recommended GreenEarth as the best way to care for denim—or any fabric that needs to be cleaned, for that matter.
Somebody took the time to write Howard Stern about GreenEarth Cleaning—why was I not surprised?


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Every major English city has a myriad of stylish, chic restaurants serving cuisines from all corners of the globe, in addition to hearty local dishes like roast dinners, pies, mash, and the famous full English breakfast, traditionally washed down with a pint of ale or a good old-fashioned cup of English tea. Menus are heavily influenced by dishes from former countries of the empire and mainland Europe with Indian curries, Chinese stir-fries, and French and Italian fare now integral in everyday English cuisine.
Bars and Pubbing in England
All of England's major cities have a vibrant nightlife scene, with a range of bars and clubs catering to every taste. It goes without saying that the capital city of London remains one of the most happening places on the planet, with endless options in which to enjoy a drink - whether it's grabbing an early evening cocktail at Dirty Martini (11-12 Russell Street, Covent Garden, London), putting a few back while checking out the latest band at Madame JoJo's (8-10 Brewer Street, Soho, London), or dancing until the early hours at Mayfair's Funky Buddha (15 Berkeley Street, Mayfair, London). Drinking times throughout the city vary depending on the establishment.
Manchester has long been renowned for its booming nightlife with one of the biggest clubbing and live music scenes in the country. It is also home to one of the largest student populations, which naturally makes every night of the week party time. One of the area's most celebrated venues, The Warehouse Project (Store Street, Manchester), is an underground rave with all genres of music and live acts. However, if you want a more sophisticated night out, head to Grinch Wine Bar (5-7 Chapel Walks, Manchester) to sample some of the finest wines around the world.
In the last decade, Newcastle has firmly established itself as having some of the best nightlife options in England. With areas like the Quayside and Bigg Market brimming with bars, clubs, and pubs, it is easy to find somewhere to enjoy a pint. Start the evening off in one of Newcastle's oldest establishments, Offshore 44 (Quayside, Newcastle), before heading over to the stylish area of Jesmond to see out the evening in the chic Osbournes (Jesmond, Newcastle).
Dining and Cuisine in England
London is recognized as one of the world's most culinary advanced cities serving contemporary and traditional twists taken from inspiration from all corners of the globe. In most areas of the capital, every street boasts a world-class restaurant. The hip borough of Camden has recently welcomed Shaku Zulu (Stables Market, Camden, London), which has become one the most popular eateries serving African classics from springbok to ostrich. For a more traditional English dish with a modern twist, try Piccadilly's The Portrait Restaurant (St Martin's Place, Piccadilly, London), which specializes in wild game meats for dinner and afternoon tea.
Manchester is rapidly becoming the country's second city in terms of culture and cuisine, picking up a reputation as the 'Barcelona of England.' With more than 300 restaurants in the city center alone and handfuls of Michelin-star establishments, this former industrial powerhouse spoils diners with choice. One of the starred restaurants which welcomes royalty and celebrities alike is The French (Peter Street, Manchester), located in the historic Midland Hotel. If during the day you happen to be shopping or are just in neighborhood, be sure to check out the delicious Harvey Nichols Second Floor Restaurant (21 Cathedral Street, Manchester). It is easy to find - the clue is in the name!
Although more renowned for its hedonistic nightlife than dining, Newcastle is nonetheless making a name for itself on the culinary front. A wide variety of fine dining options are available downtown, such as Jesmond Dene House (Jesmond Dene Road, Newcastle), which serves classic English cuisine with a contemporary approach, and Barn Asia (Waterloo Square, Newcastle), which has some of the best Southeast Asian food in Northeast England.


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Where are you Jezzie? I've been looking for you all day.
It seems like such a long, long time since you went away.
I don't know where you went 'cos Mum took you in her car,
and she was gone for ages, so it must have been quite far.
I've been out walking with our Mum, following your scent,
but it is fading fast 'cos it's been raining where you went.
I know that I usually think you are a big pain in the bott,
but it's very quiet here now and I miss you quite a lot.
Mum put me to bed last night and I was all alone.
That was the very first time that I have been on my own.
Your collar's hanging on the hook, so I think you're coming back.
I know it is YOUR collar – yours is red and mine is black.
Your basket looks so empty, but I didn't lie in it
'cos I thought you might be back here at any minute.
I'm sitting at the window, watching out for you,
but all that come are other dogs and next door's cat comes too.
Please come home Jezzie, I miss you so very much.
I miss you bossing me when I go my Mum to touch.
I miss your constant barking when you yell and shout,
so Mum comes along and orders us to both go out.
I don't like the way Mum keeps crying into her cup,
or how her teardrops drip into the washing up.
I don't like it without my litter sister here to spar with
Come back, Jezzie, 'cos I've loads more love to give.


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Starz has announced a script to series development of FremantleMedia North America's (FMNA) adaptation of Neil Gaiman's acclaimed urban fantasy novel "American Gods." The pilot script will be penned by Bryan Fuller ("Hannibal," "Pushing Daisies," "Heroes") and Michael Green ("The River," "Kings," "Heroes"), who will also showrun the series. They will executive produce along with Gaiman. FremantleMedia North America will produce the series.
Starz Managing Director Carmi Zlotnik said, "'American Gods' is a project that deserves to be made. With our partners at FremantleMedia and with Bryan, Michael and Neil, we believe we can create a series that honors the book and does right by the fans and viewers."
Commented Neil Gaiman, "When you create something like 'American Gods,' which attracts fans and obsessives and people who tattoo quotes from it on themselves or each other, and who all, tattooed or not, just care about it deeply, it's really important to pick your team carefully: you don't want to let the fans down, or the people who care and have been casting it online since the dawn of recorded history. What I love most about the team who I trust to take it out to the world, is that they are the same kind of fanatics that 'American Gods' has attracted since the start. I haven't actually checked Bryan Fuller or Michael Green for quote tattoos, but I would not be surprised if they have them. The people at Fremantle are the kinds of people who have copies of 'American Gods' in the bottom of their backpacks after going around the world, and who press them on their friends. And the team at Starz have been quite certain that they wanted to give Shadow, Wednesday and Laura a home since they first heard that the book was out there.I can't wait to see what they do to bring the story to the widest possible audience able to cope with it."
Thom Beers, CEO, FremantleMedia North America said, "Neil Gaiman's 'American Gods' is pure genius and we couldn't be more thrilled to bring this classic to life on screen. Craig Cegielski and Stefanie Berk have put together a dream team with Fuller and Green joining Gaiman on this amazing journey. Coupled with Starz' shared passion for this project, we're confident this combination will raise the bar for drama."
Commented Bryan Fuller, "Neil Gaiman has created the holiest of holy toy boxes with 'American Gods' and filled it with all manner of magical thing, born of new gods and old. Michael Green and I are thrilled to crack this toy box wide open and unleash the fantastical titans of heaven and earth and Neil's vividly prolific imagination."
The 2001 novel has been translated into over 30 languages and earned numerous accolades including Hugo, Nebula and Bram Stoker Awards for Best Novel. The plot posits a war brewing between old and new gods: the traditional gods of biblical and mythological roots from around the world steadily losing believers to an upstart pantheon of gods reflecting society's modern love of money, technology, media, celebrity and drugs. Its protagonist, Shadow Moon, is an ex-con who becomes bodyguard and traveling partner to Mr. Wednesday, a conman but in reality one of the older gods, on a cross-country mission to gather his forces in preparation to battle the new deities.
FremantleMedia North America's Thom Beers, Craig Cegielski and Stefanie Berk will executive produce the series along with Bryan Fuller, Michael Green and Neil Gaiman. Vice President of Original Programming Ken Segna will be the Starz executive in charge of "American Gods." Starz will retain all network pay TV and SVOD rights to the project. FremantleMedia will distribute the series worldwide.
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The article "Absorption-Heat-Pump/Boiler Systems" (by James Pettiford, Erin Sperry, Melissa Wadkinson, and Fabio Spreafico, September 2010, http://bit.ly/hmS991) misses the point. In my opinion, any effort to improve energy efficiency must also improve economic efficiency.
First, the heating requirements of new buildings have been reduced dramatically by code and good practice. Thus, technical and economic justification of more-efficient and more-expensive heating systems is more difficult.
Second, the energy table in the article assumes a building is fully heated and ventilated 24/7 during winter. That rarely is the case; it inflates heating energy to make the system appear more attractive.
Third, no mention of the assumed internal heat gains is made. Many new buildings are self-heating, with internal heat gains to outdoor temperatures well below the authors' 54°F assumption, reducing heating-energy requirements.
Fourth, more-typical one-shift operation with night setback substantially reduces heating-energy consumption without changing first cost.
Fifth, in many buildings, the authors' concept requires the use of a hydronic heating system, rather than a unitary or electric heating system. With the low-temperature hydronic system suggested, the size and costs of distribution equipment are greater.
Sixth, no mention of the increased first costs, parasitic loads, and increased maintenance and service of the authors' system is made.
Lastly, no mention of actual applications in this country is made.
Larry Spielvogel, PE, FASHRAE
L.G. Spielvogel Inc.
Bala Cynwyd, Pa.
Authors' response:
We recognize that more-efficient technologies often require greater capital investment. However, the hybrid concept described in the article can substantially reduce the cost premium for achieving the quantum leap in efficiency needed to reach the national goal of reducing carbon-dioxide emissions by 80 percent by 2050.
For certain applications, the hybrid system can achieve substantial capital-cost savings by reducing the size of ground loops or bore fields by up to 40 percent. Additionally, the cooling capability of the absorption heat pump can enable a considerable reduction in the capital-cost requirement of electric chillers, with the added bonus of reduced electrical demand charges during peak summer periods.
We recognize every building has unique heating- and cooling-load profiles that must be evaluated carefully for proper selection and sizing of HVAC equipment. The heat-pump-plus-boiler system offers the designer broader flexibility in meeting the thermal requirements of a building and the economic needs of the owner.
Many buildings with large internal heat gains during occupancy require significant heating at night and on weekends. While heating loads can be lower during short periods of non-occupancy, there will be abundant hours during which the absorption heat pump would accomplish its purpose of significantly reducing fuel consumption.
One especially notable feature of the absorption heat pump is that it can perform simultaneous heating and cooling. This could be especially useful in high-internal-heat-gain buildings in which some zones (or ventilation-air-preheating systems) require heating while others require cooling.
The absorption heat pump can produce 140°F supply water and, thus, function quite well within lower-temperature design criteria for thermal distribution systems.
We agree with a growing number of HVAC-industry members that smart hydronic systems provide an economically attractive means of providing thermal comfort and energy savings superior to that of traditional heating and cooling.
Thousands of buildings in Europe enjoy the benefits of absorption-heat-pump-based heating and cooling. The authors believe that we here in the United States should emulate the new, higher standards of performance that have been set abroad. In the coming months, we will seek to publish articles describing the results of field studies conducted in Europe.
We believe technology innovation can lead to even more efficiency in the use of precious energy resources.
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The 37-year-old donor, identified only as Lisa, will make her choice based on the contestants' history, profile and conversation with their family and friends.So the positive side of it is that it's drawing attention to the problem of the need for more donations. One might also say that decisions are currently made according to the priorities developed by health care experts and ethicists, but if there is a TV show, ordinary people become immersed in the process of decisionmaking. The viewers are drawn into thinking deeply about the difficult decision that they are normally content to leave to experts. I don't think we should picture the audience as idiotically gaping at a morbid spectacle. The show may develop their moral thinking and make them more compassionate... and more likely to respond to the need that the show is informing them about.
Viewers will also be able to send in their advice by text message during the 80-minute show....
The former director of TV station BNN, Bart de Graaff, died from kidney failure aged 35 after spending years on a transplant waiting list.
"The chance for a kidney for the contestants is 33%," said the station's current chairman, Laurens Drillich. "This is much higher than that for people on a waiting list."
"We think that is disastrous, so we are acting in a shocking way to bring attention to this problem."
I acknowledge, as I must, that making a game show out of this seems so wrong, for so many reasons, but nowhere near as wrong as the fact that Bart de Graaff, died from kidney failure aged 35 after spending years on a transplant waiting list.
UPDATE: This turned out to be a hoax -- intended to draw attention to the shortage of donors. ADDED: That is, there really was a show, but the donor, in the end, was revealed to be an actress. The contestants were really individuals who needed organs, and the show was not meant to trick people but to care about the problem and to feel moved to become donors.


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Located a mere 32 miles from Salt Lake City International Airport (SLC), Snowbird is among North America's most accessible, world-class ski resorts. SLC is serviced by nine airlines with about 650 departures and arrivals daily from 89 non-stop U.S. cities, not to mention a slew of international cities.Once you've arrived in SLC you can opt for a resort shuttle or rent a car. Unless you plan on skiing at Salt Lake City resorts other than Snowbird and neighboring Alta, you really don't need a rental car since Snowbird is self-contained and has everything you need right there. Ski.com's knowledgeable Mountain Vacation Specialists are here to help you find and book your preferred flight, and reserve shuttles and rental cars if needed. Call, or chat with, one of the today. Then, all you have left to do is dream about your future, powder-filled Snowbird ski vacation
If you do opt to rent a car, you'll want to head west out of the airport toward Terminal Drive. Continue straight onto Terminal Drive. Take a slight right to stay on Terminal Drive. Take I-80 E ramp on the left to City Center/Ogden/Provo. Keep left at the fork, following signs for I-80 E. Merge onto I-80 E. Take exit 117 toward Provo. In about a mile, merge onto I-215 S. Drive for 15 miles. Then take exit 6 for UT-190 E toward 3000 E. Turn right onto UT-190 E/6200 S/Big Cottonwood Road S. Follow UT-190 E for nearly two miles. Continue onto S Wasatch Boulevard, driving for about two miles. Continue onto UT-210 S/N Little Cottonwood Road. Drive for about eight and a half miles. Take a slight right onto Alta by-Pass Road. The resort is on your right.
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) settlement against a Business Associate (BA), CardioNet. This penalty was based on the impermissible disclosure of unsecured electronic protected health information (ePHI) that was a result of not understanding HIPAA requirements.
CardioNet has agreed to settle potential noncompliance with the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules by paying $2.5 million and implementing a corrective action plan.
This settlement is the first involving a wireless health services provider. CardioNet provides remote mobile monitoring of and rapid response to patients at risk for cardiac arrhythmias.
In January 2012, CardioNet reported to the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) that a workforce member's laptop was stolen from a parked vehicle outside of the employee's home. The laptop contained the ePHI of 1,391 individuals. OCR's investigation into the impermissible disclosure revealed
- CardioNet had an insufficient risk analysis and risk management processes in place at the time of the theft.
- CardioNet's policies and procedures implementing the standards of the HIPAA Security Rule were in draft form and had not been implemented.
- The Pennsylvania –based organization was unable to produce any final policies or procedures regarding the implementation of safeguards for ePHI, including those for mobile devices.
See the Resolution Agreement on the OCR website at https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/cardionet-ra-cap.pdf