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Amy Edmonds comes to the Wyoming Liberty Group with six years of experience serving in the Wyoming Legislature. During her time in the House of Representative she served on the Agriculture, State and Public Lands & Water Resources Committee, the Minerals, Business & Economic Development Committee, the Revenue Committee and the Appropriations Committee. She has also worked in the non-profit world as the Executive Director of the Wyoming Association of Public Charter Schools. As a native of Wyoming's neighbor to the east – Nebraska – Amy likes to borrow a statement once made by Wyoming's former Governor Stan Hathaway, "I wasn't born in Wyoming, but I got here as fast as I could."Amy holds a Bachelor's degree in Social Science from the University of Wyoming.
Anthony Vibbard is a Policy Analyst at Wyoming Liberty Group and a Liberty@Work Fellow through the Charles Koch Institute. His primary focus is on criminal justice reform. Anthony grew up in Lebanon, Missouri. After graduating with a bachelor's degree in Recreation, Sports, and Park Administration from the Missouri State University, he worked as an ocean guide in the 10,000 Islands National Wildlife Refuge along the coastline of Southwest Florida. Anthony attended law school at the University of Missouri School of Law where he served as President of the Federalist Society, studied Comparative Criminal Justice and Constitution in Cape Town, South Africa, interned with the Institute for Justice, and worked on multiple cases with the Midwest Innocence Project.
Benjamin Barr serves as counsel with the Wyoming Liberty Group and Pillar of Law Institute. Barr is an attorney with a national practice specializing in the area of constitutional law. He has litigated constitutional concerns in federal courts throughout the nation in favor of individual liberty. The U.S. Supreme Court relied on a brief drafted on behalf of the Wyoming Liberty Group to reshape its reasoning in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission.
Boyd Wiggam serves as staff attorney with the Wyoming Liberty Group focusing on property rights, local government, and land use planning and zoning issues. He previously worked as a civil litigation attorney and for various businesses serving farmers and landowners in Laramie County. Wiggam, a Wyoming native, was raised on a farm in Eastern Laramie County , received an undergraduate degree from the University of Wyoming, did graduate coursework in Community and Regional Planning at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and received his law degree from the College of William & Mary in Virginia. He is an active member of both the Wyoming State Bar and Virginia State Bar.
Charlie Katebi is a healthcare policy analyst at the Wyoming Liberty Group. Prior to joining the Wyoming Liberty Group, Charles interned at the American Action Forum, FreedomWorks, and the Reason Foundation, on issues ranging from regulatory policy to pension reform. He received his undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of British Columbia.


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Labor Day on Vashon Island
Home again, home again
that's what I sing;
graciously, (It could have been).
My daddy's polishing his car with wax again;
the new Corolla.
I cringe
his words still bring me to tears-
(don't worry I get that I'm not what you wanted daddy,
but you could at least try.)
I can't stay here,
I tell my mother that
on this holiday of sorts
this cringing Monday when the suns too high.
We leave,
she and I
'we'll hunt adventure' she says
(I miss that spirit of hers)
all over the place
but princess-like we board the ferry.
Twenty minutes
and made up names
we watch the waves crash.
I haven't been here since I was a kid
this Island:
torn from the mother-land
to be reached out again.
I remember
peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in the back seat of the Honda while it rained;
I remember my father was with us.
I can't think about him,
he tears at my flesh
wounds fester
too long against me,
they always have.
We drive for hours
we don't care where we go
(the last boat leaves at 2 a.m.
we don't care if we miss "his" dinner
he never was a good cook anyway.)
I drive
keeping close to the ocean,
I drive
like I did
(loving it)
before the accident
(I don't think about any of it,
I wont)
we stop off for lunch
and get the kind of food that we never could get on the main land.
I laugh
like I haven't laughed in months
and we tell stories about high school
-her days
and mine-
the football players
and teen pregnancies
the gritty
laugh about stuff
because we got through it
(the kind of get through it, where you have to laugh about it later!)
When we walk the beach
its the kind of walk that rejuvenates us.
Their is no wind
like the wind off of the sea.
The smell
of life
in the water
so far
from life lived on the land.
I breathe it in,
I take it with me
I keep it inside until I have to let it out;
it comes back to me
this air
it always comes back.
We talk
my mother and I;
we've always been good at being truthful
and the red-headed father and his gawky son give us the eye
(Insider's joke
-she bursts-
I never could resist a red head.)
I don't want to leave this paradise
this place
so far from home
but close enough that I can see
the tiny hill where I grew up.
I look through the land,
the freeway that will take us home
and I can see daddy over the stove;
little does he know that we're not coming home tonight.
On the ferry back
we stand on deck
(I love it on deck
but she hates the wind;
its too cold.)
She dares me to reach my hands out
I never could resist a dare
so I do it,
but where's Jack Dawson when you really need him.)
Seattle burns
hot sun on the asphalt
and we drive through Fauntleroy to pass the time.
Its a thirty minute drive home
but I go slow
I'm not interested in that place anymore.
So much of myself is invested in that white house
so much of myself remains there;
I know every wall,
every creaky stair;
honestly it has never been my home here.
My home has always been with my mother,
even today
on this holiday of sorts,
this cringing Monday when the suns too high.


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Watching an actor take on Hamlet is the closest we get to witnessing someone go into battle on stage. Does that sound like hyperbole? I don't think it is.
The mad rush for tickets to see Benedict Cumberbatch in Hamlet at the Barbican next autumn – which began yesterday – isn't simply about seeing the Sherlock star on stage. It's about seeing how he connects with what must rank as the greatest play ever written, and one from which no leading player emerges quite the same. He – or she – may prove victorious, or be defeated. It is a mettle-testing, rite-of-passage experience. Small wonder that most of us want to be present at the reckoning.
I say "or she" because the challenge of Hamlet can, of course, be undertaken by an actress. Back in 1899, the French star Sarah Bernhardt courted controversy and earned plaudits by tackling the part in a landmark four-hour production, and this September Maxine Peake will fill the role at the Royal Exchange in Manchester.
And yet, without wishing to rend the flag of equality in tatters, when we talk about Hamlet, we're thinking – more often than not – about a male character and when we talk about Hamlet in performance, we're thinking of the many male actors who have tried to make the part their own.
The mountain Cumberbatch, 38, has to climb isn't simply the colossal nature of the role – its bewildering abundance of choices, its world-famous lines and soliloquies, and the tortuous psychological journey inscribed in the character's epic five-act progress towards oblivion. No – just as Hamlet finds himself stepping into his father's shoes, spooked by his ghost, full of doubt and confusion, so every actor who lays claim to a fresh interpretation is treading in the footsteps of many others, some of them giants of the world stage. Their reputations haunt and daunt. How will Cumberbatch measure up? That is the question.
Hamlet has apparently never been out of the repertoire since Richard Burbage created the role of Shakespeare's Prince in the early 17th century. Many of us are far too young to have seen Burton, Gielgud, Olivier or Scofield; even Kenneth Branagh's career-making performance in 1988 has now receded into theatrical lore, as has Jonathan Pryce's tour de force in 1980. And yet these feats of performance are still referred to, held as benchmarks, just as the mighty conquests of Garrick, Kemble and Kean once were.
Since the turn of the last century alone, we have been spoilt for different shades of Dane. In 2000, Simon Russell Beale gave us an older, wiser, more rueful (and yes, more portly) Prince than we are used to, at the National. In the same year, Adrian Lester presented a different face as well, not just black but incredibly sensitive, sorrowful and gentle, in Peter Brook's fleet-footed version originating in Paris.
Four years later, 23-year-old Ben Whishaw's intense, painfully skinny and fearfully young Hamlet was a palpable hit at the Old Vic. Box-office hysteria engulfed then-Doctor Who David Tennant's angular, wistful and sweetly sardonic turn for the RSC in 2008. And there were queues around the block to behold Jude Law's febrile, muscular, petulant-yet-charming inaction-hero for Michael Grandage in 2009.
It's interesting that one of the actors who was most expected to shine as Hamlet – Michael Sheen – came a cropper at the Young Vic three years ago, in large part because of the conceit of the production, which rendered Denmark as a psychiatric institution. I hope the director of the Barbican revival, Lyndsey Turner, took note: the role itself is the wellspring of the play's intellectual excitement and emotional energy.
Each actor casts the part in his own likeness, and it will be up to Cumberbatch to dig deep to show us what he is made of. From what we have seen so far, he has great reserves of mercurial fascination. He's capable of charm, intelligence, wit and likeability, but that's almost only the starter-pack for Hamlet, who must burn with the rawness of grief, storm with the tempestuousness of youth, teeter on the borderline between insanity and revelation.
I worry that, as with far less celebrated performances – notably those by Ralph Fiennes and Alan Rickman – he may prove too buttoned-up and guarded. His Hamlet can never be all things to all men – but he must be his own man. He has the luxury of a year to brace himself for all this, though, and I'm sure that in his head those immortal words from the play, contemplating mortality, are already ringing: "The readiness is all."


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Case studies: Do I need multiple cases to make my point?
April 24, 2012 by Prof. David M. Schultz
Filed under Blog, Featured, Writing
My colleague Russ Schumacher and I have been discussing a paper that we want to write about banded precipitation along the Front Range of the Rockies. Russ has seen multiple events each winter, and the processes that produce these bands are not well understood, even though we have already written a couple of papers on […]


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According to Payscale.com, the fields of science, technology, engineering and math (also known as STEM fields) comprise the highest-paying career opportunities for college graduates. What's important to understand is that exposure to these lucrative areas of study can begin long before your child is in high school or college.
Dr. Craig Bach, Vice President of Education for Goddard Systems, Inc., is frequently asked how soon parents should begin introducing STEM subjects to their little learners. "It really isn't about introducing STEM topics to children," says Dr. Bach, "it is more about seeing the activities children naturally do for opportunities to guide them in STEM learning."
When preschoolers play with blocks or solve puzzles, they are already establishing a foundation for STEM learning. "The goal is to encourage a playful, inquisitive engagement with the environment and support children's play with appropriate activities, resources and tools," explains Dr. Bach. "The great news is that there are a lot of high-quality organizations and really nice resources being created to support early STEM learning."
Toy companies such as LEGO, Rokenbok and K'Nex all offer a range of toys that promote science, technology, engineering and math activities. And apps like Kodable.com provide great activities as well. Kodable describes itself as "the first step in early programming education for kids 5 and up" and provides "the skills needed to learn any programming language later in life."
Kodable helps even very young learners with logic, numbers, typing, reading and direction and develops problem-solving and memory skills. Fortunately, parents don't have to have a strong technology background to be involved. Adult lessons and resource guides include straightforward instructions and explanations of programming concepts while enabling children to work (or play) quite independently.
This activity from the Goddard Schools' national Teach.Play.Learn event supports 21st-century skill attainment and STEM learning outcomes. It is ideal for one or more children, ages 3 to 5.
Scenario: Your child identifies a problem and then uses Tinker Toys to develop a solution to address it. In the process, he or she learns the basic steps of completing an engineering project.
Activity: Work with your child to identify a problem he or she would like to solve. Try to identify a problem that allows for many different kinds of creative solutions. If your child has trouble identifying a problem, consider discussing different ideas that might inspire inventive thinking:
Future Transportation. In the future, we will need to develop new ways to transport people from one place to another. Encourage your child to build new ways for people to move around.
Living in New Places. What if we wanted to live under the sea, in a tree, in the desert, on the moon or on an elephant? What could your child create to help us do that?
Once the problem has been identified, lead your child through the following four steps:
This is a fun activity from the Goddard Schools for groups of two or more preschool-age children.
Scenario: A robot understands and responds to very specific instructions and often has limited abilities to do simple things. One child will play the role of a robot while the other child develops simple instructions to give to the robot. The goal is to accomplish the simple task of picking up a block and putting it on a table.
Activity: This activity builds fundamental intuitions about the difficulties and challenges of writing code for use in robotics.
Not all children will understand left and right, so remember to know the capabilities of the group and give appropriate directions that they will understand. You may have to model or give the directions until the children get the idea.
This generates a great conversation with children about core issues in coding and robotics. Review the time and challenges involved in providing step-by-step instructions for accomplishing one seemingly simple task.
Engage your children in the areas that most interest them. Keep in mind that, unless it's nurtured, the passion and creativity of your young child's mind can begin waning as early as the first grade!
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Crosslink Capital has led a $27m financing round for cloud based mobile customer services software company ServiceMax.
Existing investors Emergence Capital Partners, the Mayfield Fund and Trinity Partners also took part in the financing round, which took the total raised by ServiceMax to date to $52m.
ServiceMax said it planned to use the investment to fuel its continued growth and geographic expansion.
The company's latest funding round follows another quarter of triple-digit growth, while the company has seen bookings increase by more then 150 per cent over the last year.
Crosslink partner David Silverman will join the ServiceMax board as part of the investment.
He said, "The field service market is massive and one not to miss, in which its size nears salesforce automation. ServiceMax has the right team and technology to take full advantage of this incredible opportunity.
"Crosslink Capital invests in the most promising companies on the brink of exponential growth, and ServiceMax is primed to drive this market to new levels."
Emergence partner and existing ServiceMax board member Jason Green said, "Field service is the greatest use-case for cloud, mobile and social, and ServiceMax is built on a foundation of these technologies.
"The elite, proven team at ServiceMax combined with the huge market opportunity and their incredible pace of innovation, makes them the clear field service leader now and going forward."
Last month Crosslink Capital became the latest venture firm to invest in professional answer service Pearl.com by leading a $25.7m funding round.
Existing investors Glynn Capital and the Pearl board also took part in the Series B round, which took the company's total funding to more than $50m.
The website says it provides access to 10,000 professionals in 700 specialties, allowing users to have one-on-one conversations 24 hours a day.
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Time for a recovery Fluffernutter
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Track your rides and runs via your iPhone, Android or GPS device, analyze your performance, and compare with friends.
YES I have Fluff on a bagel after almost every ride. It's my little reward. Welcome Ted!
Ted, I had cinnamon sugar sweet potato fries dipped in marshmallow fluff last week and it changed my life.
Nutella and chunky peanut butter on whole wheat can't be beat
Don't forget the Maple Syrup.
Sweet ride Ted. Vacationing out here in CO and have been hitting some of the same (sort of) routes. Amazing riding out here. Not quite like back on the seacoast.
Fluffahnuttah if you're from Maine.
BTW- I am coming out there next week so both you and Matthew better look out!
I'm a die hard fluffernutter fan, but what Ben described sounds absolutely incredible.
Ben - those cinnamon sugar sweet potato fries sound pretty amazing!
So apparently you know my cousin, Macy?
Long live Marshmallow Fluff and Fluffernutter
Being an aussie, that means nothing to me. Can you please translate into english??
I am extremely impressed with your "recipes". I needed something with a little more staying power. Thanks guys ;-)
What a nice thing to say Peter.
Yessah! I haven't had a Fluffernutter since I left Maine.
You didn't spell it correctly... Fluffahnuttah!
I guess I've been in CO too long. Looks like I need to take a trip back East.


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Peanut allergy sufferers take note, your favorite chewy chocolate fiber bar may be a peanut bar in disguise.
General Mills has issued a recall for Chocolate Flavor Fiber One 90-Calorie Chewy Bars. A production error resulted in a limited number of individually-wrapped Chocolate Peanut Butter Flavor Fiber One 90-Calorie Chewy Bar packages being inserted into 5-count boxes labeled as Chocolate Flavor Fiber One 90-Calorie Chewy Bars. The ingredient label on the Chocolate Flavor Fiber One 90-Calorie Chewy Bars box does not list peanuts, a potentially serious allergen.
Alaska's Department of Environmental Conservation has verified this product has been distributed in Alaska.
To date, no allergic reactions or illnesses have been reported. However, consumers with peanut allergies who may have consumed this product and may be exhibiting symptoms of an allergic reaction or are concerned about a possible allergic reaction should contact a health care provider immediately.
The recall is for 5-count boxes of Chocolate Flavor Fiber One 90-Calorie Chewy Bars that contain 0.82 oz bars. The boxes have a Better if Used By date of 19May2012BV printed on the top.
No other products or code dates are affected by this recall.
Consumers requesting refunds or more information should contact General Mills Customer Services at 800-231-0308.
For more recall details, visit 1.usa.gov/ojKnl2.
For more information on recalls affecting Alaskans, visit DEC's website at bit.ly/urYhbX.


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Please help. I don't think I understand the syntax.
The question is as follows:
Please write down the 3x3 matrices.
a) A=(min(i,j))
b) B=((-1)^(i+j))
c) C=(i/j)
d) D=(i^(j-1))
Thank you.
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i,j denotes the entry in the ith row and jth column of the matrix. Let's do 1 for an example:
Can you do the others now?
That helped thank you. I also wasn't sure what the "min" operator was although that should have been obvious. I understand now. Thank you for your help.
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Business Administration is one of the most widely valued degrees in the modern work environment, as it provides a solid grounding in many areas of business and is flexible enough to prepare graduates for employment in many different careers.
Thanks to the understanding the course provides in many different areas of business, graduates can choose to pursue a career in varied disciplines such as marketing, operations, or administrative work.
In the modern job market, employers are increasingly seeking to find employees with the potential to contribute in multiple areas of the business – or who at least have an awareness of how their work can impact the rest of the company. This awareness is something a business administration degree indicates to them.
Many graduates will go on to work in a corporate environment, where a degree in business administration will equip them with a clear understanding of the business structure and should help to adapt their work accordingly. Overall, business administration is widely considered to be one of the most promising degrees in terms of potential employment opportunities following graduation, thanks to its flexibility and the range of subjects which it covers.
At SBBCollege we offer three degree levels of business administration (associate's, bachelor's and master's) which provide students with a range of valuable skills for the modern business world. The specific skills and the depth in which they are taught will vary depending on the degree level.
Some of the skills which you will gain on these courses include:
Due to the broad range of skills which can be developed during a degree program in business administration, there are many different career paths and opportunities available to graduates. This flexibility makes it a very beneficial degree to have earned, and can see graduates move into many different areas of business operations.
Here are just some of the paths which business administration graduates might choose to pursue following completion of their course:
Entrepreneurship – This course offers an excellent crash course in the basics of operating a business and many graduates use it as inspiration to run their own business. Due to the fairly comprehensive breadth of subjects the course covers this makes it a good basis for budding entrepreneurs.
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Ultimately these desirable skills can help you be more competitive and begin a promising career in a variety of potential roles.
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I run a garden maintenance services in norfolk we have had a mild winter compare to some in the country i must say i cut my last lawn at the end of november 2011 thinking thats it till march how wrong i was as on the 9th of jan 2012 the lawnmower came out of the shed and cut the lawns of my customers on a high cut then we had snow at begin of feb now again at end of feb i got the lawnmower out and cut the lawns agian and since then have been cutting slowly lowering the deck of mower i notice on firday that the houseing trust have been and cut the lawns near my house and they are looking very pooorly what am adviseing to anyone we should not say you only cut between march and october as it makes harder work for first cut and takes awhile to recover cutting throuh the winter taking alittle of and just when you can helps you alot when weather permits and keeps garden looking tidy through winter
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07 Dec 2012 10:49
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Is it too late to mow a lawn with very long grass? If I did would the grass die? I live in the North East of England.
No-grass wont die
It has probably stopped growing now-when the temperature drop to around 8-10C it tends to come to a stop.
You can cut if you want to-just not too short-blades set high-not if it is too wet or frosty-just a matter of picking the right moment
07 Dec 2012 21:04
I live in the North East as well, Middlesbrough in fact, I cut my grass the 2nd week in November before all the rains came but it's slowed down a lot now with the cold weather so will be Spring before the next one.
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I would like some advice on feeding the lawn in spring. In the past I have spread feed and weed all over the grass in spring but have had black patches and then holes appearing in the grass. What have I done wrong and how should I cope with feeding this year. I have not touched the grass yet as it is too cold but the grass is growing and looks untidy. Thanks.
I'd guess your black patches are where the feed n weed has killed off the moss so rake that out and in time the grass will come back and you can add a bit of grass seed to help it along. Sometimes if you're a bit heavy handed with the stuff it burns the grass a bit too -been there! You may just need to aereate the lawn and the site of the lawn is important so if it's shady it can have a big effect. Not sure what you mean about holes? Do you just mean bare patches?
31 Mar 2013 11:23
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There's sun shining and I really need to get the grass cut, but there was a thick frost last night and it's still chilly. Will I damage the grass if I cut it now?
Well do not cut if it has frost on it-give it a light trim with the blades set high then gradually lower the blades at each cut over the coming weeks
Never scalp it
31 Mar 2013 12:28
Can I please register a vote for dandelions which our parents all taught us to loathe. They are a great source of food for the bees etc. in early summer. It is also a beautiful plant, great flower, reliable, disease free, lovely cut leaf, prolific etc.etc. ...what more do you want in a plant??
Patabee, yellow trefoil often appears after you kill off the other weeds as it colonises the open spaces left. You did the right thing by spraying again with a specific weedkiller.
31 Mar 2013 12:33
Hi Fsirygirl, thsnks for your helpful advice snd yes I probably am heavy handed with the spreading and caused bald/bare patches in the grass as a result. (I did mean bare patches). Is there a way of perhaps adding something to the feed mix to thin it out - perhaps some compost of sand? Its lovely and sunny here today but very cold and frosty at night, so when would be the best time to do this?
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Strahota announced her resignation as 3rd District alderwoman in July because she is moving out of the city.
Westby, of 507 E. Fulton St., was one of two candidates to apply for the job. The other was Luke Gersich, 202 E. Fulton St.
Westby, 53, served on the city council from 2007 to April 2009, when Mark Wellnitz defeated him by one vote.
A project engineer and information technology manager for Johnson Industries International, Westby now serves on the City Hall Design Committee.
Westby wants to continue serving Edgerton because he loves the community, he said.
Gersich, 31, is a network engineer by profession and is retraining to update his skills, he said.
He took classes in local government in college and wanted to bring fresh ideas to the city, he said.
Strahota was appointed in April 2008 and was elected in April 2009.
"Serving on the city council was such a great honor to me, and I adore and respect all those that I was able to interact with," she wrote in an e-mail to The Janesville Gazette.


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text: Dr. Julie E. Strychowsky from McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada and colleagues note in their paper by way of background that obstructive sialadenitis makes up roughly one-half of benign salivary gland disease. Submandibular gland obstruction accounts for 80% to 90% of cases followed by obstruction of the parotid glands (5%-10%) and sublingual glands (< 1%). Traditional management involves a conservative approach, although refractory cases may require surgery ranging from papillotomy to complete gland extirpation. Surgical complications following sialadenectomy result in varying amounts of morbidity. Sialendoscopy offers a minimally invasive approach to disease management. "This technique allows endoscopic intraluminal visualization and offers a mechanism to treat diseases of the ductal system, ultimately reducing or eliminating the need for sialadenectomy and obviating related surgical risks," the authors point out. The "paucity of published data" on sialendoscopy, led Dr. Strychowsky and colleagues to pool data from the literature to get a better picture of the safety and efficacy of this approach. They searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, and the Cochrane Library through October 2010, identifying and including in their analysis 29 relevant studies. These studies were prospective or retrospective studies of adult patients treated with interventional sialendoscopy for the management of salivary gland obstruction. Outcome measures included rates of success (symptom-free and absence of residual obstruction), sialadenectomy, and complications. Based on the weighted pooled analysis, the success rates were 86% for interventional sialendoscopy alone (1,213 patients) and 93% for sialendoscopy with a combined surgical approach (374 patients). "Outcomes following interventional sialendoscopy for radioiodine-induced sialadenitis were reported in only three studies and success rates were "variable," they note. "Rates of sialadenectomy were low, and few major complications were reported." This analysis, they say, which provides a summary of the best available evidence, suggests that sialendoscopy is "efficacious, safe, and gland preserving for the treatment of patients with major salivary gland obstructive disease. It is a novel and powerful minimally invasive treatment modality that is relevant to all physicians and surgeons who treat patients with obstructive salivary gland disease." The authors did not respond to request for comment. SOURCE: Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 2012;138:541-547.


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imaginary outfit: cool may mornings
It's supposed to rain all week here, so the espadrille element of this outfit is total fantasy (rain + espadrilles = soggy unpleasantness). Still, it's been cool enough for coats and jeans and lightweight long-sleeved shirts (a.k.a. my favorite), so I'm happy with the weather.
I like these long rainy weeks in the city. It pins things down. Everything is a little less frantic and hurried, and when I do venture out, there's a tiny thrum of pleasant adventure, because even the simplest expedition is a small act of defiance against the weather.
Little adventures suit my mood. I've been working in an office, and my routines are slowly calcifying around me, the weight of the usual and expected accumulating through repetition and expectation. It feels a bit like building a shell. Not altogether unpleasant, but breaking out just a little here and there is a welcome thing. Makes me glad for rain.
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Have you ever avoided ordering Alaskan king crab legs because you didn't want to get your hands dirty from all the shell cracking and digging around for each succulent bite? Morton's, the Steakhouse, 849 E. Commerce St., is taking the work out of that by offering already-cracked crab legs for a limited time. It's part of a Classic Combination platter, which is available with a filet mignon for $69. The steak is also available with Australian lobster tail.
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Give it up to Cabbie Love!
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and so it goes
June 22, 2017
Getting my mind in the right space for a gig tonight at Kenny Dorham's Backyard in Austin.
It's been a bit of time since I last posted any news. Things are moving along, just returned from another wonderful trip to Italy performing some great soul and R&B with Bobby Soul. www.bobbysoul.com Speaking of Italy, my first meeting about immigrating to Italy will be July 13 at the Italian Council in Houston, one can only guess at how this may go but I will keep you up to date as it moves along.
Did I mention I'm back to playing flute and focusing on flute and tenor sax, still playing guitar but not much unless called for as for my own enjoyment I am really digging flute and sax gigs these days.
Thinking back on my many years, 47 years ago was my first paid gig, a bit of a snag, about 10 years away from music due to unforeseen circumstances but it's been a blast since.
If all goes as planned I will be back in Italy for some gigs and recording in September or October.


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In preparation for a visit to my friendly geochemistry lab bright and early tomorrow morning, I had to section two teeth this evening. They're both third molars from female immigrants to Rome, and I'll be processing them for strontium isotope ratios this week. Since the first molars only told me these two individuals immigrated to Rome some time after birth, I'm hoping that the third molars will either narrow down the age at which they immigrated or will show that they immigrated somewhere else before arriving at Rome. This is all in service of a paper I'm writing for this year's EAA conference with archaeological chemists Rob Tykot and Janet Montgomery.
So I thought I'd reprise a post that I wrote almost exactly three years ago: a how-to (with video!) for sectioning teeth using a Buehler saw. If you have this amazingly expensive saw and some archaeological teeth lying around (or your kid's baby teeth, whatevs), read on to learn how to cut them into pieces without reducing them to dust.
The first thing I have to do in order to prepare the ancient Roman teeth for strontium analysis is to section them. So I learned from Lee Boushell at the Dental School at UNC how to use a saw to do this - without having to embed each tooth in plastic or resin. The point of obtaining a thick section from the middle of the tooth is that I can theoretically get at the "good" enamel - the stuff at the dento-enamel junction, and therefore the stuff that will help me tell if an individual was originally from Rome or not. Once I get the middle section, I have to affix it to a slide and use a dental drill to get 5-10mg of enamel. Since I was sectioning some teeth today, I documented my afternoon.
I decided to make a video demonstration of sectioning ancient teeth using the spiffy saw I found a couple weeks ago. This is my first attempt at stitching together several smaller movies into one big movie - complete with title slide and credits - so let me know what you think (but be nice!). It's about 7.5 minutes long and includes an audio narration by me (plus the appearance of my ugly elbow and giant hands). So the next time you find yourself cozied up to a lab saw with 200 old, dry teeth and seven days to kill, you too can cut them into thirds. Without further ado, allow me to present to you, "How to use a Buehler Isomet 1000 to section teeth." Break out the popcorn and enjoy!
(If it doesn't play, drop me a line - it may mean that Google video no longer works.)


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Columbia Asia Hospital
Located on the Bhupindra Road, 22 No. Phatak, Patiala, the Columbia Asia Hospital has taken the healthcare services in Patiala to a much advanced period in the recent days. The Columbia Asia Hospital, Patiala is modern hospital to cater to all types of the patients needs. It has the capacity of 90 beds for keeping in-patients though there are several outpatient services for the people in Patiala and in the surrounding areas.
The patients get all-found medical services in this multi-specialty hospital of Patiala and they can go for the diagnostic tests, treatment for various health problems and the personalized care by the competent staffs and doctors of the Columbia Asia Hospital. The services available in this hospital of Patiala are- Cardiology, General Surgery, Laproscopic surgery, ENT, Internal Medicine, Opthalmology, Urology, kidney transplant, pediatrics and pediatric surgery, orthopedic surgery, nephrology, neurology , neurosurgery and many more.
The 24-hour facilities are here for the ambulance, radiology, pharmacy, and emergency. For the dialysis, endoscopy and clinical pathology, this hospital is considered as one among the best. People from places around Patiala also come to the Outpatient Clinics to get treated by the competent doctors in this hospital. The outpatient department is open from 8 A.M. to 8 P.M.
For the mothers, this multi-specialty hospital is considered as the best as it has the facilities for labor and delivery, neonatal intensive care unit and nursery which can take care of the mother and the new born child very well. Ambulance facility is available 24 hour a day. The hospital is also very good for the preventive healthcare in these fields- cancer diagnosis, complete cardiac assessment etc. To keep its standard with the various modern facilities of any renowned hospital, the Columbia Asia Hospital has the facilities for mental health also as it has physiotherapy unit which takes care of the people suffering from mental problems.
The hospital has got special clinics like growth clinic, hypertension clinics, stroke clinics and diabetes clinics. There are operation theatres both for the major and minor operations. The anesthesia department offers 24 hours services for all types of surgeries which are taken care of by a group of senior anesthesiologists. There is the facility of the day surgery in the Columbia Asia Hospital, Patiala. The Day surgery can be done for- eye surgeries including the cataract removal and removal of foreign bodies, any ear, nose or throat surgery, neurosurgery, and endoscopy (ERCP also). The dermatology unit of this hospital offers treatment for the skin, hair, nail and any types of problem of the mucus membrane. They have the facility o f skin surgery and cosmetic surgery for better looking skin and prevention of aging.
The Columbia Hospital has the group of highly qualified and trained doctors who focus on offering the best treatment to their patients. There are many doctors who are considered to be the best in their fields. The ultimate goal of the Columbia Asia Hospital is to provide the excellent patient care and services at the most affordable price.


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When I saw The Lion King in New York City shortly after it opened in 1997, I remember thinking how difficult it must be to perform in the orchestra for a show on Broadway. Now 17 years later, I am honored to join the orchestra in the touring production of The Lion King that is currently performing at the Kennedy Center. The Lion King celebrates themes of love and redemption, guilt and forgiveness, and the differences between great leadership and poor leadership. It entertains you by making you laugh one minute and cry the next. Each night, I find myself full of emotion when Simba cries over the loss of his father, and when Simba finally ascends to throne, assuming his role as King of the Pridelands. I praise God for the ability to play the world's #1 musical and truly grateful for the opportunity to be apart of the Washington D.C. theater network that offers one of Broadway's longest-running Award-Winning Best Musicals
Smokey Joe's Cafe is a musical revue showcasing 39 pop standards, including rock and roll and rhythm and blues songs written by songwriters Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. Victor serves as the Music Director for the 2014 Arena Stage production. This electrifying show garnered seven Tony nominations and became the longest-running musical revue in Broadway history!
The greatest music not only entertains, but heals and has at its core the potential for social transformation. The longest running musical revue in Broadway history, Smokey Joe's Café, written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, fulfills these three roles. I'm honored to work on a show that is as powerful as it is popular.
Classic songs like Yakety Yak and Charlie Brown remind us of our teenage years when most of us wanted to rebel against our parents in some way or play the class clown. "Why's everybody always pickin' on me?" the song says. Other songs like Kansas City, Love Me, There Goes My Baby and Spanish Harlem are songs that celebrate our search and desire for love. Read More
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel spins a musical tale of hope and forgiveness weaving together carols, and folk songs, this "beautifully stitched tapestry of American lives". Victor performed masterly as the Music Director incorporating a variety of musical instruments.
Violet is a musical with music by Jeanine Tesori and libretto by Brian Crawley based on the short story "The Ugliest Pilgrim" by Doris Betts. Part of the Creative Team, Victor performed "Violet" at the historic Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. and was noted for his talent on the keyboard. "The musical does have some wonderful scenes like a dance hall in Memphis (I noticed the audience waking up) and the appearance of a gospel choir which almost steals the show"
Memphis is a musical by David Bryan (music and lyrics) and Joe DiPietro (lyrics and book). It is loosely based on Memphis disc jockey Dewey Phillips, one of the first white DJs to play black music in the 1950s. The play won four Tony Awards®. Victor served as the Associate Music Director/Conductor for the National Tour.


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In the Neo4j world, we consider large datasets to be those which are substantially larger than main memory. With such large datasets, it's impossible for a Neo4j instance to cache the whole database in RAM and therefore provide extremely rapid traversals of the graph, since we'll have to hit the disk eventually. In those situations we've previously recommended scaling vertically by opting for solid-state storage to provide constant, low seek times for data on disk (avoiding the high seek penalty incurred by spinning disks). While the SSD approach provides a substantial performance boost in most scenarios, even the fastest SSD isn't a replacement for RAM.
I wrote previously that partitioning graphs across physical instances is a notoriously difficult way to scale graph data. Yet we still want the ability to service large workloads and host large data sets in Neo4j. Until the recent 1.2 release I think this was a weak point for the database, but with the advent of Neo4j High Availability (HA) I don't think it is anymore. In fact Neo4j HA gives us considerably more options for designing solutions for availability, scalability and very large data sets.
One pattern that I've seen using Neo4j HA for large deployments is what we're calling "Cache Sharding" to maintain high performance with a dataset that far exceeds main memory space. Cache sharding isn't sharding in the traditional sense, since we expect a full data set to be present on each database instance. To implement cache sharing, we partition the workload undertaken by each database instance, to increase the likelihood of hitting a warm cache for a given request – and warm caches in Neo4j are ridiculously high performance.
The solution architecture for this setup is shown below. We move from the hard problem of graph sharding, to the simpler problem of consistent routing, something which high volume Web farms have been doing for ages.
The strategy we use to implement consistent routing will vary by domain. Sometimes it's good enough to have sticky sessions, other times we'll want to route based on the characteristics of the data set. A simple strategy is where the instance which first serves requests for a particular user will serve subsequent requests for that user ensuring a good chance that the request will be processed by a warm cache. Other domain-specific approaches will also work, for example in geographical data system we can route requests about particular locations to specific database instances which will be warm for that location. Either way, we're increasing the likelihood of the required nodes and relationships already being cached in RAM, and therefore quick to access and process.
Of course reading from the database is only half of the story. If we're going to run a number of servers to exploit their large aggregate caching capability, we need to keep those servers in sync. This is where the Neo4j HA software becomes particularly useful. A Neo4j HA deployment effectively creates a multi-master cluster.
Writes to any node will result in all other nodes eventually receiving that write through the HA protocol. Writing to the elected master in the cluster causes the data to be persisted (strictly ACID, always), and then changes are propagated to the slaves through the HA protocol for eventual consistency.
If a write operation is processed by a slave, it enrols the elected master in a transaction and both instances persist the results (again strictly ACID). Other slaves then catch up through the HA protocol.
By using this pattern, we can treat a Neo4j HA cluster as a performant database for reads and writes, knowing that with a good routing strategy we're going to be keeping traversals in memory and extremely fast – fast enough for very demanding applications.


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Maharashtra: Shinde may replace Deshmukh
A BS reporter | December 27, 2007 03:17 IST
The rebellion by Maharashtra Revenue Minister Narayan Rane against Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh may be short-lived.
The Maratha leader, who crossed over to the Congress from the Shiv Sena and helped the former add seven MLAs to its kitty, has been asked to keep quiet.
Top sources in the party said Congress President Sonia Gandhi [Images] was considering a change of leadership in Maharashtra.
However, no decision would be taken immediately as it might suggest the party was shaky after the recent drubbing in Gujarat. Sonia will do nothing to help the BJP encash its Gujarat victory in other states, say sources.
The Congress has conveyed to Rane that Sushil Kumar Shinde is likely to be made chief minister if there is a change of leadership.
Party sources say Rane's rebellion has only consolidated Deshmukh. According to a senior Congress leader, if Sonia decides to replace Dehmukh now, it will appear that she has done so under pressure from Rane.
While the party's internal reports say there is a strong anti-incumbency wave against Deshmukh, a large section in the party is opposed to change. Their logic: There is no certainty that changing the chief minister will change the state government's incumbency record.
Deshmukh has also bargained with the high command that the party's state organisation should also be reshuffled in the event of a change.
"He is clear that if he has to go on account of anti-incumbency, the PCC president and others should also be removed to give the party a fresh look," said a party source.
Rane's chances are ruled out because of other reasons as well. NCP leader Sharad Pawar [Images], the chief of the Congress' alliance partner in Maharashtra, is opposed to Rane's elevation in the ministry. Pawar's party is fighting Rane for political space in the Konkan region.
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Mazda announces pricing and fuel economy for the new 2014 Mazda3
The new 2014 Mazda3 will undoubtedly be one of the most important new models to hit the road this year, especially in Quebec. Yesterday, Mazda unveiled the final details in regards to its new compact vehicle.
As always with Mazda, the 2014 Mazda3 will be available in three versions: GX, GS and GT. The 2014 Mazda3 GX will be offered from $ 15,995 while the GT model is available from $ 25 855. Between the two is the GS version and its starting price of $ 19 695.
Two engines both using SKYACTIV technology will be offered. The GX and GS models are powered by a four-cylinder 2.0-liter engine that sends 155 horsepower and 148 pound-feet of torque to the front axle. This is the same engine that is currently found in the 2013 Mazda3 GS-Sky. The GT version has a more powerful 2.5-liter SKYACTIV engine delivering 184 horsepower and 185 pound-feet of torque.
The GX and GS models come standard with a 6-speed SKYACTIV-MT manual transmission while the SKYACTIV-Drive automatic transmission is optional. On the 2014 Mazda3 GT, the automatic transmission is standard. The GT also gets a Sport mode which adjusts the engine and transmission to provide a more dynamic driving experience.
According to Mazda, the 2.0-liter engine's fuel economy will be 6.8 liters per 100 kilometers in the city and 4.8 L/100 km on highway with the automatic transmission. The manual gearbox subtracts 0.1 liter from each of these ratings.
The more powerful engine in the GT version displays a fuel economy of 7.2 liters per 100 kilometers in the city and 5.1 L/100 km on the highway.
All 2014 Mazda3 models will be offered with a keyless entry and start, Bluetooth connectivity and a USB port. In the GX version air conditioning is an option ($ 1 600), while it is standard, of course, in the other two versions.
The 2014 Mazda3 will arrive in dealerships next month.


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I wanna be like this guy someday. He is the epitome of cool.
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I am curious as to what celebrities and/or well known person do you rate for their dress sense. The purpose of this is to see the variance between tastes and also for when i'm bored to observe the people identified in photo's etc for inspiration.
Somehow don't think that trend's going to take off Kash
And I've said as much in the first thread of this nature, but it's James Dean. I'd post a picture but if you just use google you'll find loads.
Dead thread but somewhat relevant, last night I met Ed Westwick whose style I love. Unfortunately it was the one day where dressing well goes out if the window: St Patrick's Day. I was covered in green face paint, wearing a green t shirt and pretty drunk. He was dressed pretty cool though, rocking the double denim.


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How To Understand The Basics Of The Cash Flow Statement
I have good news for you – it is not too difficult to understand the basics of the Cash Flow Statement – even if you don't consider yourself a "numbers person"!
Although many entrepreneurs cringe and may even feel a bit of trepidation when they hear the words financial statements, in reality, once you understand a couple of basic concepts, they are quite straightforward.
Here we will focus on understanding the basics of the Cash Flow Statement.
First, let's review the basics of financial statements in general.
There are three main financial statements with which you need to be concerned as a startup or small company entrepreneur. Those financial statements are:
The Income Statement (a/k/a "Profit And Loss Statement," or simply "P&L")
The Income Statement gives you a picture of your Revenues and Expenses over a period of time, most frequently monthly, quarterly or annually, but it can be over any period of time. When you subtract your Expenses from your Revenues, you get your Profit (or "Income," "Operating Income," or "Net Income," depending which expenses you include in the calculation).
The Balance Sheet
The Balance Sheet gives you a snapshot at a point in time (not over a period of time) of your Assets, Liabilities, and Equity. Assets minus Liabilities equal Equity (or "Net Worth").
The Cash Flow Statement (a/k/a "Statement Of Cash Flows")
The Cash Flow Statement, as calculated in this article, pulls information from both the Income Statement and the Balance Sheet, to give you a picture of changes in your cash position over a period of time.
The Cash Flow Statement begins with the cash balance at the beginning of the period you are looking at, and ends with the cash balance at the end of the period you are looking at.
Three Parts Of The Cash Flow Statement
The Cash Flow Statement has three parts that you must consider in order to calculate the change in cash balance during the period in question. Those parts are:
Cash Flow From Operations (CFO)
This part starts with the Net Income (from the Income Statement) generated by your business, then adjusts that Net Income up or down for the non-cash effects of operating income. We'll touch on this in more detail in the example below.
Cash Flow From Investing Activities (CFI)
This part makes adjustments to the cash balance based on cash generated or used by investing activities. Such activities could include the sale of long-term assets, capital expenditures on equipment, and the sale or purchase of other assets, among other investing activities.
Cash Flow From Financing (CFF)
This final part of the cash flow statement accounts for changes in the cash balance that result from financing activities, such as taking out or paying off loans, selling stock, and paying dividends.
Here is a very basic example to illustrate the three sections of the Cash Flow Statement and walk you through some of the calculations you will have to consider in creating your own Statement of Cash Flows.
This sample Cash Flow Statement of John's Retail Store showing cash flows for the period January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016 will allow us to talk through some of the concepts described above.
The Cash Flow Statement starts with Cash Flow From Operations (CFO), with the first element of CFO being Net Income.
The Net Income figure would be taken from John's Retail Store's Income Statement for the same period of time.
The Net Income is then adjusted for non-cash items that occurred during the same period. The basic concept here is that whatever is shown on the Income Statement as Net Income results from subtracting Expenses from Revenues for the period. Usually though, not all the Revenues are received in cash, and not all the Expenses are paid in cash.
So, in order to understand the cash impact of these Revenue and Expense transactions during the period, you need to look at the change in relevant Balance Sheet accounts during the same period. For example, you'll see in the illustration above that there was a change in Accounts Receivable (A/R) during the period that had a net positive effect on cash of $5,000. In the world of accrual accounting, this would mean that A/R (on the Balance Sheet) went down $5,000 during the period.
I realize that this may be a bit confusing. Think about the opposite example, which may help to clarify it in your mind. That is, if A/R went up $5,000 during the period, that would have a net negative effect on Cash Flow of $5,000 during the same period. Why is that? Remember the adjustment here is to Net Income. If $5,000 of Revenues came in, but were not collected, that would be a $5,000 increase in A/R relative to the Net Income that was reported during the same period. In other words, $5,000 that is part of the Net Income is not part of cash during that same period, so it would need to be netted out (subtracted) in the CFO section on the Cash Flow Statement.
Let's take another example in the Cash Flow From Operations section on John's Retail Store's sample Cash Flow Statement. You can see that the change in Accounts Payable (A/P) had a negative $8,000 effect on cash flows. What would this mean? Similar to above, but actually opposite, since it's A/P instead of A/R, if A/P went up on the Balance Sheet, it would have a positive effect on cash flow for the period. If, on the other hand, as occurred in the case of the John's Retail example above, A/P went down, it would be a use of cash during the period. In this case, A/P on John's balance sheet was paid down, using cash, by $8,000 during the period.
I won't go into details here on the Depreciation and Prepaid Expenses entries in the sample Cash Flow Statement above, but if you have questions, don't hesitate to ask.
Let's move on to Cash Flow From Investing Activities.
This section is quite straightforward, as it doesn't involve adjustments to the Net Income. Rather, Cash Flow From Investing Activities describes changes in cash during the period that result from, you guessed it, "investing activities". In the case of the Cash Flow Statement, these investing activities include such things as buying and selling assets and investments, including capital expenditures on equipment needed to run the business. In the John's Retail example above, investing activities has a net positive effect on cash of $85,000 during the period.
Finally, let's talk about the third section of the Cash Flow Statement, which is Cash Flow From Financing Activities. As with the other sections, these flows can be positive or negative, depending on whether you are receiving the proceeds of financing activities, or paying off financing during the period. As you can see above financing activities in this context include such things as debt (loans), stock issuance, and payment of dividends. In the case of John's Retail during the period, investing activities had a net positive effect on cash of $25,000.
The final step on the Cash Flow Statement involves adding to, or subtracting from, as the case may be, the net result of the above three sections, the beginning cash balance for the period, to arrive at the ending cash balance for the period.
It's pretty straightforward:
Beginning Cash Balance
Plus: Net Effect of CFO, CFI, and CFF during the period
Equals Ending Cash Balance.
As you can see from the above example, although the calculations are slightly nuanced, given the peculiarities of Accrual Accounting (i.e. not all transactions are on a cash basis, so adjustments need to be made to the Net Income), the overall idea of the Cash Flow Statement is not too complicated.
As with the other two main financial statements, the Income Statement and Balance Sheet, it's important that you understand the basics of the Cash Flow Statement, as it will help you run your business better and it will help you more confidently manage financial conversations with important constituencies, such as employees, accountants, lenders, and other potential sources of financing or liquidity.
And, as the saying goes, "cash is king"!
I look forward to your questions and comments.
Paul Morin


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Green Bay Packers (6-3) head coach Mike McCarthy announced Wednesday that outside linebacker Clay Matthews is officially ruled out of Sunday's game against the Detroit Lions (5-4).
Matthews, who is tied for fourth in the NFL with nine sacks, suffered a hamstring injury in Green Bay's 31-17 win over the Arizona Cardinals (4-5) two Sunday's ago. Matthews fell awkwardly when he attempted to bring down quarterback John Skelton and immediately limped off the field. The medical staff looked him over and then led him into the locker room well before the conclusion of the game.
McCarthy is optimistic that Matthews could return sooner than anticipated. However, the coach is currently taking a week by week approach with his defensive star. Defensive coordinator Dom Capers appeared more worried about the injury immediately after the game against the Cardinals as he is concerned about how he will devise a plan to stop talented offenses without his top playmakers.
"Clay's a difference maker," said Capers. "Hopefully, we'll get good news, and hopefully he'll be back sooner than what we think."
Green Bay signed former Packer Vic So'oto to the 53-man roster to fill Bryan Bulaga's spot after the right tackle suffered a hip injury that cost him the season. So'oto will most likely see some decent playing with rookie Nick Perry done for the season and Matthews out at least another week. So'oto recorded seven tackles and one sack in seven games with Green Bay last season.
Wide receiver Jordy Nelson, fullback John Kuhn and tight end Andrew Quarless are healthy enough to play. The Packers desperately need the help of all three of these players if they want to defeat a talented Lions team.
Green Bay will have to do what they can to muster some sort of pass rush against Detroit's top ranked pass offense. This means outside linebackers Erik Walden and Dezman Moses, as well as, the defensive line must step up in the sack department if the Packers want to keep their four-game win streak alive.
Michael is a MLB and NBA Featured Writer for Rant Sports, but covers topics for various teams in baseball, basketball, and football. Make sure to follow Michael on Twitter @MichaelTerrill and on Facebook.


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June 27, 2013
Making Drinking Water From Sea Water Simply And Cheaply
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The need for fresh drinking water is a pressing one. A 2011 study from Yale University and the University of Notre Dame found that desalination will play an important role as water supplies become limited. The teams in Germany and Texas have described their process in the journal Angewandte Chemie (Applied Chemistry) and are now using the patented technology to create their own startup company called Okeanos Technologies.
"The availability of water for drinking and crop irrigation is one of the most basic requirements for maintaining and improving human health," said Richard Crooks with the University of Texas.
"Seawater desalination is one way to address this need, but most current methods for desalinating water rely on expensive and easily contaminated membranes. The membrane-free method we've developed still needs to be refined and scaled up, but if we can succeed at that, then one day it might be possible to provide fresh water on a massive scale using a simple, even portable, system."
The new plastic chip works by separating the salt from the water and directing it along a different path. There's only a small amount of voltage (3.0 volts) required to power this separation. As saltwater passes through the chip, a small amount of voltage is applied which neutralizes some of the chloride ions in the salt water. This creates what the team calls an "ion depletion zone" which increases the amount of electricity in that spot. Salt then separates from the water when it approaches this depletion zone, sending salt along one channel and fresh water along another.
At its present stage, the chip is very small and the team has only been able to achieve a 25-percent desalination rate in their tests. However, they believe that they'll soon be able to achieve 99 percent desalination, the necessary amount to create drinking water, when they ramp up the scale.
"This was a proof of principle," said Kyle Knust, a graduate student who works under Crooks in his lab and co-author of the paper.
"We've made comparable performance improvements while developing other applications based on the formation of an ion depletion zone. That suggests that 99 percent desalination is not beyond our reach."
Tony Frudakis, the founder of Okeanos Technologies also believes the team will be able to achieve 99 percent desalination with their new invention, thereby delivering essential freshwater to areas that desperately need it. Frudakis also said this technology could scale very well and work in applications as small as a soda machine or something large enough to provide disaster relief.


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Kaethe's journey from America to the broken ground of contemporary Germany becomes an act of recovery: of the lives intertwined by politics and passion, of memory and the invented self, and of Kaethe's search for a daughter lost to her, now grown and living in uncompromising isolation from her mother's past and present, somewhere in vast, resurgent Berlin.
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Does dilatation hurt?
Since the gastrointestinal tract doesn't have pain sensors, your child will not feel any pain; and our staff will be paying very close attention to make sure that she is sleeping comfortably.
What should I do to prepare my child for dilatation?
Your child must have an empty stomach for dilatation. Here are some guidelines to follow:
After midnight the night before your child's procedure, do not give him any:
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Who will perform the dilatation?
A gastroenterologist (GI)— doctor who specializes in the gastrointestinal system—will perform the procedure. There will also be a nurse present, who will carefully observe your child for the entire time. Our GI specialists perform close to 100 dilatations each year.
Where will my child's dilatation be performed?
At Children's Hospital Boston, dilatations are most often performed in our Gastroenterology Procedure Unit (GPU). Depending on scheduling, sometimes they may also be performed in the operating room. Your child's doctor will determine the best location, and if your child is scheduled for the operating room, a nurse will call you the day before to tell you where to come.
Where will I be during the test?
We ask that you wait for your child either in the GPU Family Waiting Area, or elsewhere in the hospital.
What will happen during the procedure?
First, your child will be given medicine intravenously (through an IV) to help her get very sleepy and relaxed or fall asleep. The doctor may spray a numbing medicine in her mouth to make the procedure more comfortable.
She'll be attached to a heart monitor by wires connected to three stickers on her chest, and also have a small lighted sticker on one of her fingers or toes that is connected to an oxygen monitor.
The doctor will then gently guide an endoscope— a long, thin, flexible tube equipped with LED lights and a tiny video camera that transmits to several monitors in the room—into your child's mouth and down into her upper digestive system.
Then, the doctor will put a tiny balloon through the tube, and guide it into the stricture. He or she will then inflate the balloon just enough to stretch out the muscles, making it easier for her to swallow.
After this, your child's doctor may insert some contrast dye through the endoscope and into the esophagus, and use x-ray images to make sure it's not leaking out of the esophagus.
Lastly, the doctor may insert a small tube called a stent through the endoscope and into the area of the stricture. The stent will remain in place to keep the esophagus open as the tissue heals around it. It will be removed in a follow-up procedure later.
What happens after the procedure?
After the procedure, your child's chest will be x-rayed in the recovery area, to make sure there's no evidence of a tear that needs to be repaired.
Most kids are able to eat and drink an hour or two after the procedure. We recommend they eat very soft foods for the next few days, and gradually start adding back other kinds of foods, according to what feels comfortable to your child.
Sometimes we keep younger children overnight to monitor them, but for older children, if the x-ray looks normal and he's able to drink, it's usually okay to go home. If the x-ray shows a tear, surgery may be required to fix it.
How will we be informed of the results?
Your child's doctor will speak with you as soon as the procedure is over.
If you have any questions about the procedure, call the GI/Endoscopy Unit at 617- 355-6172 between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. Ask to speak to one of the nurses.
For emergencies, you can call a GI doctor 24 hours a day. Call the hospital page operator at 617-355-6369 and ask for the GI fellow on call.
We understand that you may have a lot of questions when your child is scheduled for a dilatation:
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Man jumps out of courthouse window after being sentenced to 13 years in prisonBy Mason White 5:52 PM August 28, 2016
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By: Wayne Morin
(Scroll down for video) Police are investigating as to how a convict was able to get away from a bailiff and jump to his death.
42-year-old Jason Binkiewicz of Jefferson County, Ohio, was charged with attempted murder and felony assault after shooting a man in the jaw.
Police said that Binkiewicz was drunk when he went to the home of Ronald Horton and shot him in the face. He then ran out of the home to a waiting car.
An attorney for Binkiewicz claimed that he went to the home of Horton to buy drugs and he shot the victim during an argument.
Horton denies selling drugs. He did however admit to having drugs for personal use.
A jury found Binkiewicz guilty of the charges and he was sentenced to 13 years in prison.
As he was taken out of the Jefferson County prison, Binkiewicz somehow managed to free himself from the bailiff and he ran to a window. He then jumped to his death.


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Greetings SOM Blog readers! I'm Patrick, a first year MBA student here at Yale SOM. I hail from Toronto, Canada and prior to coming here to pursue an MBA I was an investment banking analyst with a Canadian investment bank. I came to SOM for its strength in the nonprofit sector, small class size, and most of all its unique culture among leading MBA programs. As for the internship hunt (a big topic that is on the minds of probably 99.99% of first-year students at this time), the application process has really only just begun for me. I'm looking to transition from ibanking into the nonprofit world, specifically community/sustainable development or perhaps Microfinance. As some of you may know, the nonprofit recruiting calendar is not nearly as structured as the finance/consulting/marketing/ processes, so I still have miles to go before I sleep. With that out of the way, I thought I'd write my first entry on the community blog about Global Social Enterprise (GSE), an opportunity that will allow me to travel to Brazil over spring break and participate in a pro bono consulting engagement with a locally based nonprofit or entrepreneurial venture. Over 20 of us will be going this year and we will be working on five separate projects. In addition to the groundwork in Brazil, GSE also features an in-class component and currently serves as my elective course this semester. This Thursday, GSE hosted its premiere fundraising event- a date auction held at Playwright. All money raised will be directed towards offsetting the cost of the trip, and as one of the people benefiting from the fundraising event, I put myself up on the auction block. I ended being auctioned pretty early in the night (I was the second person auctioned off), and my study group stepped up and collectively bid "fair-market" value for me--which at the time was $10 above the guy who was auctioned off first (the picture below is me trying to entertain the crowd and drum up some bids).
As the evening progressed, the fundraising activities increased accordingly. Much to the delight of the entire GSE team, prices for people started skyrocketing, from $150 to $200, $200 to $300, culminating with two separate ladies who were auctioned for $500 each! Ultimately GSE ended up raising almost $6000 that night--significantly higher than our initial projections of $1500. By raising this much money we offset about $200 per GSE team member. I'm happy and pleased the evening was a success, and I'm definitely grateful for all those who put themselves on the auction block, the crazy bidders, and everyone who came out on Thursday night. I'll end this entry with some more pictures from the evening. Some first-year faces--Jane, Patrick (me), Alissa and Dean
Four travelers that are Brazil bound--Justin (1st year), Julienne and Nadia (2nd years), and me


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I've attached one that I also got from the list some time ago, you may need to use something like bablefish to translate the comments :)
HTH Mark
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Last week I was bit by a corrupt block on an index. I run Analyze every week which I found has been blowing up for some time due to the block corruption. Since Analyze does not create a log I did not know the Analyze was blowing up. Now I know that there are messages in the alert log that would have told me I had problems with the Analyze and the index.
To make a long story short I need a good log scan script. Hopefully one that will work on Unix and NT. Mainly Unix. If anyone can help I would appreciate it.
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text: Eclipse Community Forums - RDF feed https://www.eclipse.org/forums/ Eclipse Community Forums RSE: Telnet terminal without password asks for login data https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/mv/msg/327016/841487/#msg_841487 I want to open a telnet terminal to a embedded device from my Eclipse. This device has no users/password. I created a 'Telnet only' connection and I have put at Settings: Login.required = false. But it keeps asking for an user/password combination. What I am losing? I have Eclipse 4.1 + CDT 8.0 + PTP (RDT) 5.07 + TM 3.1 + RSE 3.3 Thank you]]> jose ferreiro 2012-04-11T11:32:07-00:00 Re: RSE: Telnet terminal without password asks for login data https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/mv/msg/327016/841517/#msg_841517 More details are here: http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/tm-dev/msg00102.html If you could contribute some bug fixes or improvements, we'd be more than happy to help you get started. If we don't find any contributors, we will consider retiring the Telnet provider. Thanks, Martin]]> Martin Oberhuber 2012-04-11T12:16:41-00:00 Re: RSE: Telnet terminal without password asks for login data https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/mv/msg/327016/841544/#msg_841544 I am quite lost between all these eclipse projects. Some weeks ago I found the TM web but when I found PTP I forgot it. I should have remembered it when I saw this forum looking for a way to connect via telnet Is this link, h**p://wiki.eclipse.org/TM_and_RSE_FAQ#How_do_I_debug_a_problem_with_TM_.2F_RSE.3F ,still a good guide to try to debug the problem? Thanks you very much, Jose]]> jose ferreiro 2012-04-11T12:55:57-00:00 Re: RSE: Telnet terminal without password asks for login data https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/mv/msg/327016/842469/#msg_842469 I followed that steps on a new Eclipse 4.2 wtih PTP + TM + RSE. I selected the org.eclipse.tm.rse R3_3_1 version from the CVS. The problem is that Telnet connector is not loading its settings. When the connector is created, getTelnetPropertySet() at TelnetConnectorService.java tries to retrieve the settings. It can not. It use the defaults settings. I revised that function at SshConnectorService.java. It works slightly different. Telnet: the propertyset is created with the default values when the connector is created. It is never reloaded. SSH: a propertyset is created with the default values when the connector is created. When a session is started, a new propertyset is read and now the actual settings are loaded. I am not able to find why this second time the function found the settings. Best regards, Jose ]]> jose ferreiro 2012-04-12T10:21:16-00:00 Re: RSE: Telnet terminal without password asks for login data https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/mv/msg/327016/842628/#msg_842628 In the meanwhile, I decided to put the changed jar on the 4.1 environment. I put my values as default values I went to Export and overwrite org.eclipse.rse.connectorservice.telnet_1.2.200.v201101042155.jar. Then I went to plugins directory from eclipse41 and ... Ooops. In the eclipse 4.1 plugins directory there are only three rse jar files. Nothing like the changed jar. Where are this files on 41? How can I apply these changes to RSE on 4.1? [Edit] Solved: 4.1 has RSE jar on eclipse\dropins\plugins folder. I put ther the new jar and now can run my telnet terminal Thank you PD: I don´t know why the text is not visible PD2: now is visible]]> jose ferreiro 2012-04-12T13:26:31-00:00 Re: RSE: Telnet terminal without password asks for login data https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/mv/msg/327016/842630/#msg_842630 ]]> jose ferreiro 2012-04-12T13:28:14-00:00


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This UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply with integrated RF receiver module and activated remote controllers) is in order to supply electricity in case of electricity failure with an RF remote controller for to move roller shutters, rolling blinds, motorised garage doors, roller gates in shop, hospital, factory, industrial hangar, warehouse, house, villa etc. The remote controller (transmitter) activates UPS and moves tubular motors or roller shutter in same time. This remote controlled U.P.S called rolling shutter ups, roller shutter ups, roll shutters inverter, shutter generator, roller blind inverters, roller blind ups and roler shutter invertor.
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A Simple Hot Hide Glue Setup
Hide glue is one of my favorite glues, and one I consider almost perfect for many woodworking joints. It works easy, can fill gaps, leaves a clear line, mixes with sawdust to accept most wood stains and dies - and it doesn't "stain" the wood like yellow glue can. That's where glue-soaked wood won't accept stain and you get those blotchy areas around glue joints if you missed a spot when cleaning up the glue joint. It's also simply the best glue for dovetails and inlay, and is also used with traditional veneering methods.
Speaking of clean up, hide glue cleans up so much easier than *any* other glue - just scrape the excess off when it dries - and for the tools, hot water removed it, or a trip to the dishwasher will take care of it if it's dishwasher safe. It's also a reversible glue, simply by adding heat and/or steam. It's time-tested, being possibly the oldest glue still in use today. It's environmentally friendly - no nasty toxins or chemicals to pollute our precious Earth.
Some use the ready-mixed hide glue off of the shelf - but this glue has a few drawbacks. It uses a "urea" or some such to make the glue more stable at room temperature, and also to extend the glue's shelf life up to something like 6 months... but that includes the time it sits on the shelf, and these products effect the strength of the glue bond as well. In the end, hot hide glue is still the champion woodworker's glue.
So why isn't it used more? Good question. Perhaps one of the strikes against it is the requirement of a double boiler, which isn't cheap. Another is the fear of it going bad - hide glue has a short shelf life, after all. Well, I'm going to try and address both of those requirements to see if I can help out the cause of hot hide glue for the masses.
An Inexpensive Double Boiler.
I'll admit I don't use hide glue every day... I usually only do a project or two a year with it. Buying a full fledged double boiler has always seemed a bit too expensive for my tastes... and I usually don't need all that much glue at a time. A cheap and simple solution is to pick up a Rival "Hot Pot Express", available through Amazon or Sears, as well as Rival's own web site at the time of this writing for $12.99 plus shipping. Next, a standard meat thermometer that can be used to measure water temps in the pot, a small tapered jar (mine is a kid's Welch's jelly jar) that can be used to hold the glue, and a shop-made lid to hold the whole rigmarole in place:
Fill the boiler with water, and heat it to about 145-150 degrees. That's not so hot you can't touch it, but hot enough to melt the glue. To prepare the hide glue, mix equal parts of water and hide glue granules into the jelly jar, and place the jar into the special made lid, stirring occasionally. I use a double shot glass (shown in the photo above) to measure out the amounts needed - my jelly jar will hold exactly 2 double shots each of hide glue and water:
As the glue heats up, the granule begin to dissolve into the water, into a syrupy texture. Don't overheat the glue, as it will break down (essentially cook) and no longer bond to the substrate. Once the glue has fully dissolved, it's ready to use. Here, you can see the granules are not quite completely dissolved, but are getting very close:
I find using a cheap bristle brush the most effective way of spreading the glue, going directly from the jar in the boiler (which I keep at one end of the workbench) to the work being glued.
It's often recommended that you make no more than a week's worth of glue at a time, and that you refrigerate it after the work day is done. If that's all you need to do, then you can simply take the jar and put it directly in the fridge, and grab it the next morning when you head out to the shop (unless you are lucky enough to have a shop fridge).
Keeping the Glue Longer Than a Week
That's what I generally do for a weekend's worth of work. But I have a bit of an issue - sometimes I need to keep the glue good for longer than a week - sometimes even two or three. There's a simple solution - freeze it. Freezing hide glue allows you to keep it fresh almost indefinitely. One luthier makes a batch of hide glue and freezes it into ice cube trays, and just pops a cube out as he needs it (see Frank Ford's site, FRETS.com, which is a wonderful repository of knowledge!). Another option is to pick up some squeeze bottles such as these, and transfer the glue to it, then just toss it into the freezer:
I picked a ton of these squeeze bottles up from American Science & Surplus for next to nothing. The beauty of it is, next time you need some glue, you just take the squeeze bottle out of the freezer, and toss it into your double boiler. It give you a handy dispenser, and when you are finished for the day, you can put the bottle back in the fridge for the next days work.
Hide glue will only stand one or maybe two freeze/thaw cycle before it begins to break down (just like food!) and will not bond as well. But it's a great way to extend the useful life of the glue, letting you keep it without wasting it until the next weekend you have available to work with it.
Hope this was useful information.
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Squeeze bottle tip!
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Re: A Simple Hot Hide Glue Setup
That's great, Leif. I recently posted on my blog, The Workbench Diary, about my homemade glue pot. -> http://www.workbenchdiary.com/2011/05/homemade-hide-glue-pot.html
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Hot hide glue -- few more questions!
Great bit of information well laid out with great pics! Thanks!!
Lots of good ideas too and if you every make a mistake and if you error and cool your lemon-aide with a hide glue cube -- no problem. Its not toxic and the collagen is good for you.
I had a couple of questions:
1) How much time do you have after applying the hot glue (to both mating surfaces?) to line up your work and apply you clamps?
2) I assume that it is possible to clamp too tight and squeeze out too much glue? How do you guage that?
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