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Last night was a special night for a number of Deaf performers, artists and filmakers who graced the world stage as part of the dazzling opening ceremony for the Paralympics in London.
Their contribution to the event involved months of preparation, hard work and planning, and Limping Chicken would like to congratulate every single one of them. This was a night they, and we, will never forget.
For starters, the opening ceremony was co-directed by Jenny Sealey MBE, who is Deaf and has worked for years with Deaf and disabled artists in her role as Artistic Director of Graeae Theatre Company. Her joint vision (with Bradley Hemmings) was seen by billions of people last night: including aerial ballets, mass apple-eating, and much much more – spectacular moments that took the breath away.
Our first glimpse of Deaf performers at the event was the signing choir who signed 'God Save the Queen,' and if you're from the UK, you might recognise one or two of the faces in the screengrab below!
After the procession of athletes into the stadium, Deaf actress Deepa Shastri took to the stage to sign 'Spirit in Motion' along with Soprano Denise Leigh, who sang the song, just before the speeches that finally marked the beginning of the games.
I'm almost certain that this is Deaf actor Stephen Collins, dancing here on the left of the stage during the song 'Spasticus Autisticus,' displaying enthusiasm in its purest form with fellow members of the cast from Graeae's 'Reasons to be Cheerful.'
At the close of the ceremony there was one final treat for Deaf viewers when Caroline Parker signed 'I am what I am' with Beverley Knight, which rounded off the night with an uplifting, rousing finale as a massive firework display lit up the London sky.
One of the proudest people in the stadium must have been Deaf filmmaker Ted Evans, who made the film that was shown just before the ceremony began (hopefully this will be available online and we'll alert you to it as soon as we can). Ted has spent several months making a series of short films for Channel Four, highlighting some of the athletes involved in the games.
As well as those we managed to spot, there were numerous Deaf performers dancing, swirling umbrellas, and swinging high up on the poles who could often be seen in the background performing with other disabled and non-disabled artists. We didn't see them all on screen but thanks to Facebook and Twitter, we know how many of them were there, playing their part.
Well done to all of you. You did us proud.
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KNOXVILLE (Jan. 31, 2013) -- Thanks to their pro-active efforts, Knox County's Engineering & Public Works crews are prepared for this evening's winter weather advisory.
Knox County Highway crews will begin applying brine to county roadways after rush hour - around 6 p.m. - and will continue to treat primary and secondary roads until midnight.
Highway Department supervisors will monitor road conditions in the county and continue to communicate with authorities to determine necessary precautions.
The department divides the county into seven highway districts and will have a brine-equipped truck assigned to each one Thursday evening.
A dispatcher at the Highway Department will help coordinate the efforts of our road crews, which will allow them to more effectively and efficiently treat county roads. The Knox County Highway department maintains all roadways in Knox County, except private, state and federal roads or highways and any inside the City of Knoxville.
Anyone needing to report problematic or hazardous road conditions on a Knox County road should call 865-215-5800.
During winter storms, residents should stay off the roads whenever possible until crews have cleared the snow. Workers will start clearing main thoroughfares and known problem areas first, and then move on to complaints and secondary roads.
Prepared for the winter season
Last year, Knox County's Highway Department began installing brine tanks to be used together with regular granulated salt on major roadways and trouble spots during the winter. The new brine system includes three 1,600 gallon tanks mounted on tandem-axle dump trucks and seven 1,000 gallon tanks used with single-axle dump trucks.
Salt brine is a liquid mixture of salt and water that is applied to roadways to stop snow from sticking to pavements. Currently, Knox County has 20,000 gallons of liquid brine and 3,000 tons of granulated salt prepped and ready for use. An additional 2,000 gallons of calcium chloride, which is used to maintain the effectiveness of both liquid and granular material in extremely cold temperatures, is also on hand if needed.
"The Knox County Highway Department does a great job of keeping our roads safe during winter weather, and this brine system allows them to do their job more efficiently and at a savings to the taxpayers," said Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett. "Ultimately, the most important aspect of our winter weather plan is public safety."
Along with the added safety benefits of brine application, it is also a more cost-effective way to treat wintery roadways. When roads are pretreated with brine it lowers the need for regular salt and makes subsequent applications more effective.
In addition to cutting down on salt consumption, brine application has environmental advantages, too. Less salt on the side of the road means a smaller amount of it will go down our storm drains and into adjacent waterways.
Knox County Fleet Services also plays an important role in preparing the fleet to combat winter weather. The Fleet Services Preventative Maintenance Program ensures the dump trucks and four-wheel-drive vehicles are in top condition ahead of the first snow. Fleet staff inspects the vehicles for needed maintenance and change belts, replace hydraulic hoses and perform numerous other repairs as needed.
Depending on the severity of the weather, Knox County has a fleet of dump trucks equipped with snow plows, salt spreaders and brine tanks ready for dispatch. The county also has a dozen four-wheel-drive trucks equipped with smaller snow plows for use on more narrow roads.


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"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."
Friedrich Nietzsche
They're on for me.
Looks pretty sweet, glad they made a "Lore" forum.
They also appear to have the server lists on there.
US West Coast: http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=255
US East Coast: http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=254
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Race for Marseille ace Andre Ayew hottens as English side QPR join Chelsea, Newcastle for Ghanaian
English side Queens Park Rangers have joined Premier League rivals Newcastle and Chelsea in the intense fight to sign Ghana star Andre Ayew from Marseille.
The 24-year-old could be offloaded by the Stade Velodrome outfit before the transfer window closes which has sparked intense interest from top clubs in Europe.
English sides Liverpool and Arsenal have previously been linked with the Ghana star while Italian sides AC Milan and Inter Milan are said to still be in the race.
French newspaper L'Equipe say Rangers are set for talks over a possible deal for the player, with Marseille looking to sell him for around £6.3m.
The Marseille star, who is valued at £8 million by the Ligue 1 club, has been deemed surplus to requirements at Marseille, with manager Marcelo Bielsa keen to free-up transfer funds.
The 24-year-old impressed for Ghana at the World Cup this summer, scoring goals against Germany and Team USA in an otherwise disappointing campaign for the African nation.
A Liverpool supporter, the winger who can also operate as a second striker, has made no secret of his desire to move to the Premier League and while an Anfield switch looks increasingly unlikely, the Rs have emerged as contenders to capture Ayew.
QPR's superior financial position could ultimately help them land the Ghanaian, who would undoubtedly be tempted by a move to Loftus Road and the opportunity to live in London.
Any deal could ultimately depend on Loic Remy, with the French striker continually linked with a move away from the Rs following his recall to the club after a season-long loan at Newcastle United.
CommentsThis article has 3 comment(s), give your comment
fish says:August 26, 2014 11:03 pmGSN,Are you now teasing Dede Ayew.Only today you published that Marseille is offloading Ayew to Chelsea, and now it is Queen park Rangers.Anyway I hope, next time you will not tell us it is going to be Kotoko.
samva says:August 27, 2014 12:53 amsurplus to requirments or they want to cash in on him.gsn come again.
Jamesy says:August 27, 2014 02:05 pmItaly or Germany will be a better move. Over here he may get undermined becos of the financial pressure to succeed and disguised racism from commentators and sections of the football fraternity.


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While perusing eBay recently, I happened upon the work of Vernon Grant. Not Vernon Grant the wonderful graphic artist (and father of Kellogg's Snap, Crackle, and Pop) but Vernon E. Grant the wonderful cartoonist, whose work has never been reprinted to my knowledge, and which seems to be all but unavailable. I'm not a scholar, historian, or ravenous collector of comics and cartoons, but I definitely more than like them, and I know what I more than like when I see it. Fortunately, I was able to snag (for a reasonable price) the second issue of The Love Rangers, a black-and-white 'zine Grant self-published from 1978 through 1988.
Born in 1935 in
Grant's developing interest in Japanese cartooning and manga took a new direction after his introduction to The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers; it's all reflected in the narrative, composition, and stylistic detail of The Love Rangers. In fact, Grant is credited with introducing aspects of manga to the American underground cartoon scene.
Back in
You can find Vernon Grant's Boston Globe obituary here.
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We are pleased to announce that Sabin executive vice president, Ciro de Quadros, M.D., M.P.H., has been awarded the BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Development Cooperation, an international distinction of the highest level. Dr. de Quadros was honored for leading the efforts to eliminate measles and polio from the Western hemisphere and for being an important player in the eradication of smallpox worldwide.
The BBVA Foundation established the Frontiers of Knowledge Awards in 2008 to recognize outstanding contributions and significant advances in a broad range of scientific and technological areas characteristic of our times. The quality of the nominations received, the stature of the international judges and the excellence of past laureates have earned these awards a place among the world's foremost award families.
The award in development cooperation reflects Dr. de Quadros's commitment to working with UN agencies, governments, NGOs and academia to ensure universal access to immunization. According to the selection jury, his work is leading to a paradigm shift in which national governments own immunization financing campaigns, helping to make immunization programs sustainable and accessible to more people around the world.
"I have no doubt that the 21st century will be known as the century of vaccines," says Dr. de Quadros. "Today we have a number of vaccines against chronic or degenerative diseases, and many more are being developed. We already have vaccines that help prevent liver, cervical and stomach cancer. Vaccines research is also underway to prevent diseases of extreme poverty. A century of vaccines could be extraordinary as long as we ensure that available vaccines reach everyone in the world who needs them."
De Quadros remains active today in research and education. "Through his work," the jury concludes, "the world is closer to achieving the millennium development goal that aims at reducing morality rates in children under five by two thirds before the year 2015."
An awards ceremony will take place in June to honor Dr. de Quadros and the other BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge awardees. More information about the awards and Dr. de Quadros can be found a press release, linked here.


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A blog about the strategic application of technology
I recently found myself faced with a 2.5″ NTFS formatted laptop hard drive from a 5 year old laptop that wouldn't cooperate and would constantly fail so I decided to try and recover what I could from the drive by running SpinRite, a great application from Steve Gibson of Gibson Research that I have used successfully many times in the past to recover damaged or unreadable magnetic based media. The last time I actually used it was about 12 years ago over the course of several days to recover a failing HD. Computing and hard drive technology has changed a lot since then but they are still very much part of our day-to-day IT lives. When I encounter a problem that needs extensive evaluation I would just run SpinRite on the x86 based PC from which the hard drive came. However, after creating a bootable CD and USB key with SpinRite for use on the 5 yo laptop neither one would work so I decided to take a different route. Without another PC handy I decided to assess my options… My daily laptop is a MacBook Pro, doesn't (thankfully) have an internal 2.5″ SATA bay and is sealed tighter than the sub in the Hunt for Red October… So what's a Mac user to do with an NTFS formatted magnetic HD that can't be read, an old Laptop that won't boot SpinRite, and no other PC's within easy reach? Try to run SpinRite from a Virtual Machine on a Mac of course….
Now for those of you who don't know SpinRite was written in assembly and does very low level reads and writes against a computers magnetic mass storage drives. FreeDOS has been incorporated into SpinRite distribution to allow it to boot to a bare-metal PC and mount any connected drives so you can exercise the individual bits of 1's and 0's stored on the drive, exercising it enough to get a magnetic drive in as good a working condition as the physical hardware will allow. With any luck it will operate just well enough to get your information to a readable state and backed up before you have complete hardware failure… Running SpinRite from a VM was a bit more involved to configure via VMWare Fusion on a Mac and I wasn't completely sure it would work… so I thought I would share my experiences.
I created a spinrite.iso file from another Windows VM I use. I then created a new MS-DOS based VM mounting the SpinRite.iso created from the SpinRite.exe file. It booted to a familiar screen without any issues.
Now the challenge was to get the physical hard drive mounted to the VM… Looking through the settings there was no way to get RAW access to a physical HD. I used a SATA to USB adapter and had to connect the drive to my Macbook Pro ensuring it was mounted to the Mac not the VM.
I needed to create a Raw Disk vmdk to make the RawDisk accessible to the VM so I did the following:
From a Mac terminal (I prefer iTerm) type:
diskutil list
In my case the 160GB HD came up as /dev/disk2 but your particular configuration may be different.
Next from the terminal run the following command to list the partitions that rawdiskCreator can see:
/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmware-rawdiskCreator print /dev/disk#
Note: Ensure that the last entry /dev/disk# is changed to the drive you are targeting for raw access. In my case it was /dev/disk2
What you should see next is your drive partitions… My particular drive was split into two partitions (#1 was very small and #2 made up the bulk of my 160G HD)
With your partitions known and visible by the rawdiskCreator tool you can create the vmdk file that refers to the physical hard disk you are trying to mount and make it available to the existing SpinRite VM you created earlier. You will need to know the location of the Disk and the partitions you want to mount from the previous command, which in my case is /dev/disk2 1,2 which says it's disk2 and both partitions 1 & 2. You will also need the path to the actual SpinRite .vmwarevm Virtual Machine that you created earlier (in my case ~/Documents/Virtual Machines/SpinRite.vmwarevm/rawDiskFile). Now I used rawDiskfile but this is the name of your vmdk file and can be called whatever you like. Make sure to include the ide designator at the end so the VM knows how to mount the drive.
/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmware-rawdiskCreator create /dev/disk2 1,2 ~/Documents/Virtual Machines/SpinRite.vmwarevm/rawDiskFile ide
After you execute this command successfully you can option click the SpinRite.vmwarevm file and choose Show Contents. Here you should see the files that makeup the .vmwarevm file including the new .vmdk file (if that's what you named it) for each partition you listed above (1,2). In my case it was rawDiskFile.vmdk & rawDiskFile-pt.vmdk
If you boot the VM now you won't see the additional drive so you have to manually edit the configuration file for the VM to recognize the drive. With the VMWare file contents still being displayed in finder you need to edit the .vmx virtual machine configuration file. In my case it was called SpinRite.vmx because SpinRite is what I named my VM… You should probably back up this file incase there is a problem and you need to start over. Use your favorite editor (BBEdit, TextWranger, TextEdit, etc…) to edit the .vmx configuration file. You want to insert the following lines to your configuration file being careful not to duplicate an existing ide#:# entry:
ide0:1.present = "TRUE"
ide0:1.fileName = "rawDiskFile.vmdk"
ide0:1.deviceType = "rawDisk"
suspend.disabled = "TRUE"
If the VM already has in its .vmx configuration ide0:1, use another port such as ide1:1. It is also possible to use scsi#:# or sata#:# if the VM is somehow configured to use a SATA or SCSI controller. The suspend.disabled="TRUE" entry prevents the VM from suspending and being out of sync with the attached HD. Important since most of SpinRite's scans can take a long time to run.
The last step is to power on the VM and select your HD… You may be prompted to enter your administrators password to get RAW access to the HD as the VM powers up.
If you run into trouble it may be necessary to unmount the HD from your Mac by ejecting or un-mounting from Disk Utility prior to turning the VM on.
I won't go into detail on how to use SpinRite as the tool is pretty self explanatory but the 160GB HD partition did appear in the interface ready to begin SpinRite's operations.
Again this certainly isn't an ideal setup as SMART access to the HD wasn't available from within SpinRite menu options because, and I'm guessing here, of the SATA to USB setup but it might work in a pinch. Hopefully it proves useful to your IT Toolkit and helps you extend the life of your SpinRite license which is worth every penny…
Update: I tried a couple of drives and while it worked for one drive there was an error that completely stopped SpinRite and the VM in it's tracks… It only occurred on a specific section of the hard drive where there was clearly an issue…
The InfoWorld/Forrester Enterprise Architecture Award, presented by InfoWorld, Forrester Research, and Penn State University Center for Enterprise Architecture recognize organizations whose practice of enterprise architecture has delivered substantial business benefit. I'm pleased to announce that my team at Molina Healthcare was recognized this year for our re-organization efforts to make our department more business outcomes focused.
The announcement can be found on the InfoWorld Website:
Forrester Research VP and Practice Director, Alex Cullen stated:
Molina's EA team, headed by Cary Brown, Director of EA, responded with a strategy that simplified its own service offering, narrowed its focus, and fundamentally redefined how it needed to fit within the organization. As part of its re-chartering efforts, EA also reorganized services around two primary groupings of Enterprise Architecture offerings: strategic services (focused on future state planning, roadmapping, governance and standard setting) and tactical services (focused on new technology evaluation, solution design and facilitation).
Collectively these re-chartering efforts have resulted in a streamlined, partner approach. By partnering with stakeholders in each business area EA is now ensuring:
– Decisions made in one initiative benefit for the first time from an enterprise-wide perspective;
– The company no longer invests in "one-off" parochial technology solutions that favor a particular business unit or project;
– All initiatives, including ad-hoc IT efforts, have clearly stated objectives and end with a positive outcome or transparent decision be it a new capability or some new business function that improves quality or removal of barriers to healthcare services.
Of this submission, Eric Meredith, VP Architecture Governance at PNC Financial, said: "What was most intriguing was that they began by applying EA principles to the EA practice, i.e. applied EA principles to themselves to identify challenges in their own EA strategy. Brilliant and Gutsy. "
Source: http://blogs.forrester.com/alex_cullen/14-09-22-2014_enterprise_architecture_award_winners_wow
I recently had the privilege of delivering a presentation at Troux's Worldwide User conference in Austin, TX . Troux creates software that helps enterprise architects align IT planning processes (projects, governance, architecture, standards, etc…) to business goals such as building new business capabilities, creating new lines of business, and expansion into new markets. Ben Geller, Troux's VP of Marketing asked me to speak about the rechartering efforts taken to make enterprise architecture align more with business needs at Molina Healthcare. You can find my full presentation on the Troux Conference Website.
The theme of this year's conference is making EA stick. There were several fantastic presentations and Troux made a great effort, as they have in years past, to ensure it was not a big sales pitch.
It was fantastic to be among peers and several leaders across many different industries outside of healthcare who share many of the same struggles. I'm thankful for the opportunity to speak and look forward to continuing my interactions with other colleagues. There were several great partners present at the conference and it is clear they are working closely with Troux to ensure data is accurate, timely helping leaders build a better window into the enterprise.
At Molina we have developed several solutions around standards, governance, and future-state roadmaps all closely aligned with a business need and I was happy to share our efforts with everyone. I would love to hear how your organization Enterprise Architecture program is working to be more business focused. Leave a comment below or message me on Twitter or LinkedIn
I'm honored to have been asked to speak at the Troux Worldwide Conference 2014 in Austin, TX. I will be discussing the re-chartering and re-organization efforts for our Enterprise Architecture division at Molina Healthcare. Below is an overview from the Troux Website…
Molina Healthcare – Re-Chartering EA to Focus on Business Outcomes
Managing the demands of government funded healthcare is a certainly a big challenge. Re-Chartering EA to deliver positive business outcomes in the midst of massive healthcare reform is an even bigger challenge. This session will offer key insights and the approach Molina Healthcare has taken in reshaping Enterprise Architecture to tackle hurdles, such as defining how EA aligns with and supports the business, demonstrating the business benefits of an EA program, and how Molina uses Troux to improve the quality of information for decision making through the development of capability maps, standards, and customized roadmaps.
Cary Brown, Director, Enterprise Architecture, Molina Healthcare
The agenda can be found here: http://www.troux.com/resources/events/conference2014/agenda.asp#
We have taken some very unique and innovative approaches to leveraging the Troux EPM tool at Molina. I hope you can join us for what has historically been a very informative and educational conference.
While I can't attend CES 2014 myself this year the blogosphere is awash with updates of the new and innovative consumer electronics on display in Vegas this year. I'm fortunate to have colleagues there who are live sharing some amazing pictures and video's from the floor so I thought I would share…
I anticipated a huge uptick in the number of health conscious iDevices…. but CES appears to be overflowing with new "wearable" devices that track every aspect of your daily life. Hope their security is good so no-one knows when you go out of town or out for a long run and decide to steal your 105 inch curved OLED 5k display? (see below)
Just when you thought you had 4k televisions understood manufacturers start promoting a wider aspect ratios like 21:9 and add another 1k pixels to the screen and create 5k Televisions… Television is such a dated term… Why don't we call them retina-searing monstrosities… I can totally justify one of these in a network operations center… and by corporate network operations center I mean my living room…but really!?!
Head over to Engadget for the play-by-play or GeekBeat.TV
I've had relatively great success with running Apple's OS X Maverick since I installed a developer release on a second generation MacBook Air in June while at WWDC 2013. No issues. None. Never-the-less, I hesitated updating my primary Mac with developer pre-release software.
When VMWare announced during this beta that VMWare Fusion for OS X was upgraded to version 6 with specific focus on compatibility with Mavericks and Windows 8 I promptly upgraded. Running Windows on OS X 10.8 was every bit as fast as if it was running on native hardware. No complaints…
When Apple announced the general release of OS X Maverick's I upgraded my primary machine a 2 monitor setup to which I was looking forward to with the additional options available. I upgraded, again, without issue. When I started to run Windows 8 VM inside of VMWare Fusion I noticed a performance hit… Ugh… I knew it was too good to be true. I can accommodate a lot in order to help satisfy my inquisitive mind however when it comes to daily workflow I have much smaller levels of tolerance. I knew the performance issue probably had something to do with Maverick's so I dug a little deeper and looked at the newly refreshed Activity Monitor in OS X. Nothing exceptional in the CPU and Memory tabs. CPU was at a reasonable level before and after running a virtual machine in VMWare Fusion and I have plenty of room with 16GB of memory. Nothing seemed to be pegging either metric. I looked at Disk and Network… again nothing out of the ordinary. Knowing that Energy was a new tab I haven't seen before in Activity Monitor I selected it and noticed the "App Nap" column was listed and indicated "Yes" in the row defining VMWare Fusion. App Nap is the new feature in Mavericks that allows users, thankfully, to allow OSX to put to sleep applications consuming excessive amounts of your limited battery power. A great feature for laptop users but I'm using a desktop and plugged into AC. Not as big of an issue at my desk.
A quick scan of Apple's support site led me to how to disable this feature on an app-by-app basis… Here's what I did:
1. Open a Finder window and navigate to your Applications Folder
2. Locate VMware Fusion, right click and select "Get Info"
3. In the "General:" section of the dialog box you will see a checkbox for "Prevent App Nap". Make sure this is unchecked.
I terminated and restarted VMWare Fusion and launched my Windows 8 virtual machine and so far so good. Performance picked up and I'm back to my original daily workflow. Hope this helps other VMWare fusion users who might have similar issues.
Waiting in line is one of the many memorable events at WWDC. I've met several people from all over the world.
In less than 24 hours, the first Apple event in at least 6 months will be underway. There are a lot of eyes on Apple given their incremental product releases. Rumors abound about what will be unveiled however it seems a safe bet given the signs that are posted in the Moscone center that Apple will focus heavily on the OS X and iOS. Apple has released the innovative MacBook Pro with Retina Display and manufacturers have yet to really catch up with the design or hardware specs of this product so it makes sense Apple innovates in the software in their portfolio.
Follow-me on Twitter @cary_brown for updates…
So I came across this infographic on Business Pundit and thought I would share. It's a great example of where things have headed south in American healthcare… I use several of these statistics on the incredible rising costs and disease states in my speeches on healthcare IT, but a few stood out. Specifically the lack of funds being directed to preventative services like Home Health… Almost 50% of all deaths are related to only two disease categories… Heart Disease and Cancer. While there is not yet a cure for cancer there are preventative measures Americans can take to reduce their risk of Heart Disease, and chronic respiratory diseases… We are a privileged nation with a lot of luxuries afforded to us but we have to start taking care of ourselves and change our habits otherwise the trend of costs and burden on our system will continue its sharp upward trend.
The Per capita spending never ceases to amaze me… but putting it into tangible real-world examples makes a big impact. Would you pay $95,526 for a Volkswagen Beetle or $176.58 for a family dinner? How far could you get when gas is $13.50 a gallon?
Enjoy and thanks topmastersinhealthcare.com for putting this together.
I wrapped up training two weeks ago to be come a Certified ScrumMaster. The course was a solid foundation on the fundamentals of Scrum and the process of product management and development in an agile environment. While I've participated in Scrum sessions many times in the past this formal indoctrination into the process was very insightful and will prove very useful in future meetings with teams. Most sessions you see in practice are variations of the real process which, to the Scrum Alliance's credit, has evolved and been refined over the years is actually very good. With some effort, practice, and discipline of your teams the breakdown of product backlogs, into deliverable sprints could prove fruitful for any product focused company.


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London (Dec. 11)
Declaring that the surviving Jews of Europe have no place to go but Palestine, the closing session of the international conference of the Agudas Israel today urged that efforts be made to transfer displaced and refugee Jews to Palestine as soon as possible.
At the same time, it demanded that the military authorities and UNRRA improve conditions in the displaced persons camps pending emigration of the Jews, and asked the United Nations to recognize the Jews' right to Palestine "based on God's promise in the Forah," by abolishing the White Paper and carrying out the pledges contained in the Balfour Declaration. The nations of the world were also asked to create the elementary prerequisites for continued existence of the Jewish people.
The central bodies of the Agudas Israel were urged to contact other leading Jewish organizations in an attempt to establish a joint political front, while safe-guarding the Agudah's independence. An end to the "discrimination" by Jewish bodies against members of the organization wishing to go to Palestine was also demanded.


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On Wednesday, the Icelandic Volcano Eyjaföll erupted spewing a cloud of ash as high as 55,000 ft in the air. This has created a cloud of volcanic ash, made up of very small rock & glass, and it is fanning out over northern Europe. You can see some of this ash on the visible & [...]
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Icelandic Volcano Shuts Down Airtravel in Northern Europe
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Super Bowl Weather & Climate 1967-2008
January 27th, 2009 · No Comments
I have to give Jessee Ferrell from AccuWeather.com a hat tip for this. Over the AccuWeather twitter feed a [PDF] file came across with the complete Super Bowl Weather & Climate 1967-2008. If you want to see you can download the [PDF] but here are some fun facts listen on this form. Quick Fun Stats: [...]
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A Blog in Need of Direction
October 20th, 2008 · 3 Comments
First of all I want to apologize for my lack of updates here at WX-Man.com after a surge of tropical and winter forecast posts during the months of August and September, I lost the drive to blog and was having a hard time coming up with ideas others would find interesting. Unfortunately this blog has [...]
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5.4 Magnitude Quake Shakes Los Angeles
July 29th, 2008 · 2 Comments
UPDATE: It is being registered as a 5.4 Magnitude quake. For all the news on the Los Angeles quake click here for Google News Updates. It wasn't as large as it was estimated to be after it occurred. The last earthquake of this size to occur in this area was back in 1987 with a [...]
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Global Warming: and Now for Something Completely Different
June 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Maybe because it is past my bedtime or something it could be I am just utterly dumbfounded but I found two stories today that just make me shake my head. I will post these headlines and some description and I would love to hear your thoughts on these stories. Climate Change the Cause of Rotten [...]
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Its another sad and unfortunate day for the family of Late Amodu Shaibu. Information gathered by PZI People reports that Mr. Suleman Shaibu, who is the son of the late former national team coach passed away after a brief undisclosed illness.
He was student in JSS 2 of Navy Secondary School in Abeokuta. It was gathered that he came to Lagos and fell sick. He passed away while on admission in a hospital in Surulere on Sunday. He was buried same day.
Our heart goes out to this lovely family while we wish the gentle spirit of Suleman Shaibu a peaceful rest.


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http://7thpaycommission.in provides valuable news, breaking news, updates, pay scale predictions, information regarding progress of the seventh pay commission, demands from the central government employees associations as well as federation and all other details.
We have developed this website to help people i.e. Central Government Employees who are keen to know about the upcoming scale of the 7th Pay Commission. However, this is not the official website of the seventh pay commission, formed by the Central Government of India.
Anyone can also contact me for any suggestions or queries.


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Police are investigating after a six-vehicle pileup that closed a section of Bathurst Street just north of the Gardiner Expressway overnight.
Five people were taken to hospital after the collision near Bathurst and Fort York Boulevard at about 12:30 a.m.
One person suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries, according to police. The others suffered minor injuries.
Investigators are talking to witnesses and trying to determine what caused the crash, though they say alcohol does not appear to have been a factor. No charges have been laid.
Bathurst was closed for a few hours between Front Street and Fort York Boulevard.


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transitive verb-·iled or -·illed, -·il·ing or -·il·ling
- to plague diabolically; torment; harass
- to possess as with a devil; bewitch
- to confuse completely; muddle
- to corrupt; spoil
transitive verbbe·dev·iled, be·dev·il·ing, be·dev·ils, or be·dev·illed be·dev·il·ling
- To torment mercilessly; plague.
- To worry, annoy, or frustrate.
- To possess with or as if with a devil; bewitch.
- To spoil; ruin.
Related Forms:
- be·dev′il·ment
(third-person singular simple present bedevils, present participle bedeviling or bedevilling, simple past and past participle bedeviled or bedevilled)
- To harass or cause trouble for; to plague.
- Guerrilla attacks continued to bedevil the larger army's supply routes.
- To perplex or bewilder.
Usage notes
- The spellings bedeviling and bedeviled are preferred in the US, while bedevilling and bedevilled are preferred in the UK. However, the choice of spellings is not universal.
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This file defines the physical network interfaces on the local host. At least one /etc/hostname.interface file should exist on the local system. The Oracle Solaris installation program creates an /etc/hostname.interface file for the first interface that is found during the installation process. This interface usually has the lowest device number, for example eri0, and is referred to as the primary network interface. If the installation programs finds additional interfaces, you optionally can configure them, as well, as part of the installation process.
If you create alternate hostname files for the same interface, the alternate files must also follow the naming format hostname.[0–9]*, such as hostname.qfe0.a123. Names such as hostname.qfe0.bak or hostname.qfe0.old are invalid and will be ignored by scripts during system boot.
Note, too, that a given interface must have only one corresponding hostname file. If you create an alternate hostname file for an interface with a valid filename, such as /etc/hostname.qfe and /etc/hostname.qfe.a123, the boot scripts will attempt to configure by referencing the contents of both hostname files and would therefore generate errors. To prevent these errors, provide an invalid file name to the hostname file that you do not want to use in a given configuration.
If you add a new network interface to your system after installation, you must create an /etc/hostname.interface file for that interface, as explained in How to Configure a Physical Interface After System Installation. Also, for the Oracle Solaris software to recognize and use the new network interface, you need to load the interface's device driver into the appropriate directory. Refer to the documentation that comes with the new network interface for the appropriate interface name and device driver instructions.
The basic /etc/hostname.interface file contains one entry: the host name or IPv4 address that is associated with the network interface. The IPv4 address can be expressed in traditional dotted decimal format or in CIDR notation. If you use a host name as the entry for the /etc/hostname.interface file, that host name must also exist in the /etc/inet/hosts file.
For example, suppose smc0 is the primary network interface for a system that is called tenere. The /etc/hostname.smc0 file could have as its entry an IPv4 address in dotted decimal notation or in CIDR notation, or the host name tenere.
IPv6 uses the /etc/hostname6.interface file for defining network interfaces. For more information, refer to IPv6 Interface Configuration File.


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Maximum Carnage Goes Mobile as Crimsonland Launches on Playstation Vita
Tampere, Finland, August 20th 2014 - Finnish game developer 10tons' top-down dual stick shooter Crimsonland is now available for Playstation Vita on PSN. The list price for Crimsonland is 13.99 USD or 9.99 EUR. A launch week sale campaign is present in SCEA region.
We're very happy with how well Crimsonland has been received on Steam and on PS4 during the last two months. The numerous requests for a Vita version indicate there is demand for a handheld version of the game as well., says Tero Alatalo, CEO of 10tons Ltd.
Crimsonland is an immensely gratifying and addictive top-down shooter. The player is tasked with fighting a relentless onslaught of zombies, giant spiders, lizardmen and more with an arsenal of powerful weapons, devastating powerups and role-playing game like perks. The 60 mission campaign unlocks all the goodies for the main event, which is climbing the ranks in Survival online leaderboards and other score based modes.
Crimsonland is a remastered version of 10tons Ltd.'s first game originally released in 2003. With completely new HD graphics, new content and other enhancements, Crimsonland is set to appeal to new and old fans alike.
- Quest mode with 60 missions
- Five survival modes: Survival, Rush, Blitz, Weapon Picker, and Nukefism
- 30 unique weapons
- 55 awesome perks
- PSN Trophies and leaderboards
- Cross-buy with the PS4 version
Crimsonland PS Vita on US PS Store: https://store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com/#!/en-us/games/crimsonland/cid=UP4403-PCSE00453_00-CRIMSONLAND11111
Crimsonland PS Vita on UK PS Store: https://store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com/#!/en-gb/crimsonland/cid=EP4403-PCSB00581_00-CRIMSONLAND11111
More information, assets and development blogs: http://www.crimsonland.com
Crimsonland launch trailer: http://youtu.be/y2kBH2LJvCY
For more information, download codes and interview requests:
Jaakko Maaniemi, PR Coordinator, 10tons Ltd.
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What does american alligator mean?
Definitions for american alligator
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word american alligator.
Princeton's WordNet
American alligator, Alligator mississipiensis(noun)
large alligator of the southeastern United States
American alligator
The American alligator, sometimes referred to colloquially as a gator or common alligator, is a large crocodilian reptile endemic to the southeastern United States. It is one of two living species in the genus Alligator within the family Alligatoridae and larger than the other extant alligator species, the Chinese alligator. It is a species in which the males measure 3.4 m to 4.6 m in length, and can weigh 453 kg. Females are smaller, measuring around 3 m. The American alligator inhabits freshwater wetlands, such as marshes and cypress swamps from Texas to North Carolina. It is distinguished from the sympatric American crocodile by its broader snout, with overlapping jaws and darker coloration, and is less tolerant of seawater but more tolerant of cooler climates than the American crocodile which is found only in tropical climates. Alligators are apex predators and consume fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. Hatchlings feed mostly on invertebrates. Alligators also play important roles in wetland ecosystems through the creation of "alligator holes" which provide wetter or drier habitats for other organisms. During the breeding season, males bellow and use infrasound to attract females. Eggs are laid in a nest of vegetation, sticks, leaves, and mud in a sheltered spot in or near the water. Young are born with yellow bands around their bodies and are protected by their mother.
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of american alligator in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
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Just like in years past, I begin our expository unit with explaining the difference between narrative and expository with my "Grandma" page. You can read more about that here.
After we grasp what an expository piece should be, I ask students to write a 12-minute essay (Gretchen does it in 11 minutes) based on a picture and a truism. We use the same truism each year to begin because it deals with pets…and most students have SOME sort of experience with pets.
Truism: Pets can be a big part of a family.
I give students about a minute to think about that statement. Then we begin: 2 minutes to describe what that statement means to us, 3 minutes to tell how it is true in a tv show or movie they have watched, 3 minutes to tell how it is true in a book they have read, 3 minutes to tell how it is true in their own lives or someone they know, and then 1 minute to tell what it makes them think or wonder.
And just like that…in 12 minutes…they wrote their very first expository essay. I explain that due to the things they wrote, they have explained something…they didn't tell a story.
Students are always so proud after finishing. They count their words and the room begins to buzz with excitement. It's pretty awesome.
If you want to try this with your kids, you can find the truisms here. You can use any of them that you like. I use several throughout the year. The one about pets isn't too far down.
Curious what they wrote? Click here to read a sampling from my kiddos.
I couldn't be more proud.
If you have time…leave them a little note to let them know what you think. Yeah…they read this.


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September 7, 2009
Adults sliding with child on lap risky
Almost 14 percent of children's tibia fractures are sustained while sliding down a slide on an adult's lap, a U.S. researcher found.
Dr. John Gaffney, an orthopedic surgeon specializing in pediatrics in Cedar Knolls, N.J., says many parents think it is actually safer to hold their toddler while going down a playground slide, but this study may prove otherwise.The study, published in the Journal of Pediatric Orethopaedics, found all tibia fractures associated with playing on a slide were sustained while going down the slide on the lap of an adult or older sibling.
Although going down the slide with a child on your lap may seem like an enjoyable moment for both, it can be putting them in danger, Gaffney said in a statement.
As a pediatric orthopaedic surgeon I want to prevent injuries, not just treat them, and if we can prevent just one toddler from sustaining a leg fracture, we are doing our job.


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What is 'Market Share'
Market share represents the percentage of an industry or market's total sales that is earned by a particular company over a specified time period. Market share is calculated by taking the company's sales over the period and dividing it by the total sales of the industry over the same period. This metric is used to give a general idea of the size of a company in relation to its market and its competitors.
BREAKING DOWN 'Market Share'A company's market share is its portion of total sales in relation to the market it operates within. For example, if a company sells $100 million worth of tractors a year domestically, and the total tractors sold in the United States is $200 million, the company's US market share for tractors would be 50%.
The Importance of Market Share
Investors look at market share increases and decreases carefully, because they can be a sign of the relative competitiveness of the company's products or services. As the total market for a product or service grows, a company that is maintaining its market share is growing revenues at the same rate as the total market. A company that is growing its market share will be growing its revenues faster than its competitors.
Market share increases can allow a company to achieve greater scale in its operations and improve profitability. Companies are always looking to expand their share of the market, in addition to trying to grow the size of the total market by appealing to larger demographics, lowering prices, or using advertising.
The calculation for market share is usually done for specific countries, such as Canada-only market share or US-only market share. Investors can obtain market share data from various independent sources, such as trade groups and regulatory bodies, and often from the company itself. However, some industries are harder to measure with accuracy than others.
An Example of Market Share
All multinational companies measure success based on the market share of specific markets. China has been an important market for companies, since it is untapped and is growing. Apple, Inc., for example, uses its market share numbers in China as a key performance indicator for the growth of its business. However, the numbers were not good in the second quarter of 2016. Apple saw iPhone sales in China dip to an 11% market share in May 2016. This decline in market share stemmed from a 26% decrease in the company's revenue for the first quarter of 2016, the first time it's seen a quarterly decline since 2003.


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Network Musings, Feb 03, 2010
Sun CEO Tweetku's his resignation.
The Internet Generation prefers SMS/Tweets over blogs, a Pew study finds.. I think this has to do with none of them want to actually involve themselves with learning/running things on the Interwebs, but wants to use pre-built infrastructure.
VoIP scammer gets prison term. His mistake was living in a country that actually cares.
Packet8 launches Facebook click to call app.
Study finds people reuse the same passwords for multiple services. I've had a long standing observation about this practice. It has to deal with passwords and remembering them. The idiot uses the same password for everything, usually a weak strength. The newbie uses a different password for every site, but writes them all down on a piece of paper and never remembers any of them. The paranoid person uses a high strength password for each site, uses a different login for each one, uses a password memory service to store them all. While the veteran uses a few well thought out passwords, classifies those into usage categories, so that the crap password for a throw away site is always the same password, the login password to Windows / Playstation / Xbox is another, and only uses unique ones for banks. All this is alluded to at the end of the article:
The company's practical advice for users who don't wish to use a dedicated password application or password management website was to create three separate logins, one for financial sites, a second for any site holding sensitive data, and a third for sites not holding anything of value.
iiNet wins Safe Harbor ruling in Australia. Another article questions should Copyright holders pay for ISPs to deliver notices to end users? Since the FCC allows telecoms to charge for CALEA compliance, this is a solid precedent to site; Yes, the copyright holders should pay for DMCA-to-enduser delivery.
Cisco adds Unified Communications iPhone app to do VoIP over 3G. This totally makes sense, as you can minute shift from corporate PBX calls over VoIP data instead of Voice Minutes. Someone was suggesting Cisco buy Truphone to do this for them, but I think the minute Cisco did any investigation, they'd realize how bad Truphone is and end up buying someone like Packet8 or Fring. Both of those have a business end-user focus, and can tie in telepresence as well.
Xconnect proves ENUM and caller id can be a profitable business.
Canadian Cable ISP Novus offers 200 mbps to its customers. Prices still not in line with this amount of bandwidth outside of North America.


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Searcy County has a storied history of talented artists, probably the most famous of which is Essie Ward, who painted numerous scenes of life in the Ozarks in back over 30 years ago. But you may not know that there are many very talented artists continuing that tradition today.
To show their talents, on Thursday, October 11th, from 4:30 till 6:30 PM, there will be a reception of a group of local artists gathered at the Searcy County Court House in Marshall to hang their art work in the old court room.
This effort is the brainchild of Brenda Smith and Thereisa Housley, with the cooperation of our county government officials and with a donation from the Searcy County Chamber of Commerce, the upstairs court room is now an art gallery that is open to the Public.
There will be over 40 pieces of art to see.
For more information about this event or to possibly hang your artwork in the courthouse gallery, e-mail Thereisa or Brenda.
For now, the next time you are around the Marshall Courthouse Square, take a trip upstairs and and check out the public gallery.
Click on one of the smaller images below for a slideshow of photos of some of the art at the courthouse.


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Visiting Ireland House in Burlington
"Burlington is a great place to explore, experience and enjoy." Recently, I had an opportunity to take part in a Tour of Burlington with Tourism Burlington. The days activities included a visit with a guided tour to Ireland House in Burlington. Ireland House is part of the Museums of Burlington which also includes Joseph Brant Museum. Over the last 150 years, Burlington has evolved from a rural community to a city with over 170,000 people. Ireland House allows you to take a look into the past and see how people lived. The house was constructed by Joseph Ireland from 1835 to 1837. The four-acre property would have been rural back in the 1800s, but today is surrounded by modern subdivisions. The house was occupied by descendants of Joseph until 1985. The museum has been structured to focus on three distinct time periods – 1850s, 1890s and 1920s. Many of the
Things to do on Labour Day weekend
Kids either dread or love this phrase – Labour Day Weekend. For some, it's summer's last hurrah and for others it's a sign they'll soon reunite with friends at school. For adults it's much the same. Labour Day weekend marks the end of summer and indulgent days lounging by the pool, at the beach or on a patio. Back to work! To finish off the summer season on a high note, there are many things to do on Labour Day weekend that are fun and memorable. Camping With 42 national parks and numerous provincial parks, Canada has many places to camp. Despite some locations being booked up for Labour Day weekend, there are some further away from major city centres that may have spots available. You may also want to consider conservation areas that have camp sites – these places tend to be closer to major urban areas offering a
Visiting the Scenic Caves in Collingwood
Blue Mountain is know in Ontario as a great place to go skiing, mountain biking or simply as a getaway. It is also known for the Collingwood Scenic Caves & Nature Preserve. Blue Mountain is technically not a mountain, it is part of the Niagara Escarpment, which runs from Niagara Falls to Tobermory Ontario. Rising more than 300 metres in elevation above Georgian Bay, it is one of the highest points in southern Ontario. Less than two hours north of Toronto, it is worth the drive north. The views and the unique surroundings make for a worthwhile opportunity to explore. The suspension footbridge at Scenic Caves is one of Ontario's feature attractions. Take a walk across the 126-metre suspension bridge, which crosses 25 metres above the valley. This location gives fantastic views of Collingwood and Nottawasaga Bay. The bridge holds the title of being the longest suspension
Discovery Harbour Midland Ontario
A road trip is to Midland Ontario is not complete without a visit to Discovery Harbour. This original British naval and military base located near Penetanguishene, was built to provide protection to Upper Canada after the War of 1812. The British naval presence on Georgian Bay was to provide ships to supply British outposts westward. By the 1800s, it was home to sailors, officers, shipwrights and soldiers. In total, five large ships, 15 smaller vessels and numerous workshops and dwellings were built. As a teenager, my family and I would travel around Ontario, exploring the rich history that Ontario has to offer and Discovery Harbour was overflowing in stories from the past. Take your time and stop at the Base Commander's house or examine the cartographers quarters, it is truly a great way to learn the history of Upper Canada. Visitors will enjoy informative and
Port Severn Cottage Weekend
Getting away from the city during a spring or summer weekend can change your whole perspective. A chance to recharge your batteries and spend some time outside instead of sitting in front of a computer in the office. This particular weekend was spent at a cottage just east of Port Severn Ontario. Port Severn is the gateway to Georgian Bay. The locks at Port Severn are the very end of the Trent Severn Waterway. This water route begins at the Bay of Quinte and finishes at Georgian Bay with a total distance of 386 kilometers through locks, lakes and channels. Attached are some of my images that I think capture the some of the Severn region well. I hope you enjoy them. Check out some of the links below for more information about this area of Ontario: 400 Eleven – Travel Information
Ontario Summer Trips
Summer in Ontario is not complete without planning a trip to a cottage, provincial park or just visiting a town or city somewhere in our vast Province. I have assembled a list of three different Ontario summer trip destinations that are great experiences that I have personally enjoyed and would recommend. My three recommended destinations could be either a day trip, weekender or a week-long getaway. All of the listed destinations offer many different activities that can be enjoyed individually or as a family. Port Burwell, Ontario Port Burwell was originally surveyed in 1830 by Lieutenant-Colonel Mahlon Burwell, a surveyor for Colonel Thomas Talbot. Situated at the mouth of Big Otter Creek on the north shore of Lake Erie, it has over 1000 residents. Like many of the Ports along Lake Erie, it is known for its fresh perch and pickerel. It is also home to one of Canada's oldest


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JERUSALEM (Mar. 25)
Israeli leaders are at odds over how to handle the current crisis in relations with the United States. In fact, they do not even agree how serious it is.
Jewish Agency Chairman Simcha Dinitz described the crisis this week as "the worst in the history" of the State of Israel.
Dinitz is well qualified to make that judgment. He is a former Israeli ambassador to Washington and maintains close personal relationships with key figures in the Bush administration and Congress.
But Dinitz is also a politician. Formerly a Labor Party Knesset member, his present post as head of the Jewish Agency and the World Zionist Organization is also a party appointment.
His comment in a radio interview Tuesday immediately raised hackles in government quarters, where it was seen as part of the ammunition the opposition plans to fire at the government in advance of the June 23 elections.
As Dinitz spoke, Cabinet ministers quarreled publicly over how the government should deal with the crisis.
Interior Minister Arye Deri declared it was "criminal" for ministers to speak of "boycotting" the United States or "tearing the mask" off Washington.
The mask-tearing came from an impassioned speech against Washington delivered by Economics Minister David Magen at Sunday's Cabinet meeting, which was quickly leaked to the news media.
Such extreme expressions and conduct would do grave disservice to Israel's most vital interests, the interior minister and leader of the Orthodox Shas party warned.
The "boycott" Deri referred to was the subject of a headline story in the daily Ma'ariv. It reported that Finance Minister Yitzhak Moda'i had ordered his top officials to boycott economic talks in Washington next week because of the U.S. refusal to grant Israel the loan guarantees.
Moda'i later denied the story. But he took the opportunity to bitterly criticize the United States for sending a team of military inspectors here to investigate charges that Israel illegally sold Patriot anti-missile technology to China.
"What are we, Iraq?" Moda'i demanded in a speech to high-school students in Tel Aviv. "This American behavior toward us is very strange, to say the least."
Political sources say the ministerial exchanges reflect an intense debate behind the scenes, especially within the Likud, over how to "play" the deterioration of ties with Washington in the election campaign.
Some Likud strategists are urging a line that would brand Washington an enemy of Israel. It would portray Likud as the only party capable of withstanding American pressures aimed at pushing Israel back to its 1967 borders.
So far, Labor has avoided soft-pedaling its own differences with Likud in the face of the rupture with Washington.
The party's new chairman, Yitzhak Rabin, set the tone in his speech last week to United Jewish Appeal young leaders in Washington, when he distinguished between Labor's policy of limited settlement in strategic areas and what he calls the government's "political settlement" policy.
Rabin and other Labor figures have made it clear that if they are returned to power, they would scale down settlement building and hope to reopen negotiations over the loan guarantees.
Dinitz seemed to be following this Labor line when he criticized the government's "order of national priorities" as a cause of the standoff with Washington over the loan guarantees.
While he faulted the Bush administration for "dictating political conditions to Israel," he said "the magnitude of the crisis is also due to the government's inability to establish a set of national priorities."
First among these, the Jewish Agency chairman said, should be "the aliyah and the absorption of 1 million immigrants."


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One of the many problems for photographers is how those who couldn't care less about the business of photography do damage to the business of photography. Often, these are people who have other jobs that pay the bills, and they look to photo credit to give them pleasure, acclaim, and notoriety, getting their satisfaction at the expense — literally — of those who earn a living making pictures. Many times, these are "moms with cameras", or MWCs. What I'd like to highlight today is something different. It's a MWC who is endeavoring to do things right.
She is writing a blog, titled "Hey Girl, Nice Shot – It takes more than a camera to go pro." She's got several posts I'd like to highlight, and encourage you to read. They are:
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- Check out: 7 Bad Habits of Digital Photographers
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- Worth the Cost of Enrollment
In that last post on enrollment, she writes, in part:
And you may be thinking "What's the point of joining the PPA?"
What is the PPA? The Professional Photographers of America is an association created for professional photographers. The goal of the association is to help photographers be successful.
What are the benefits of joining? Well, I got two in the mail yesterday. One was the Professional Photographer magazine. I read it cover to cover every month. It has a section each month on helping you increase your profits, and it has lots of information on products and services for photographers. I look forward to getting it each month. The second item I got was the paperwork for my equipment insurance. When you are in an association you get the benefit of a group buy for insurance so the equipment insurance is less expensive than going it on your own, and the underwriter knows how to work with photographers!
So, thanks to this MWC for doing things right. My hat is off to you. Keep up the hard work!
P.S. MWCs — I was featured in the January edition of PPA's magazine on business practices; I hope it was a good read for you.


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Welcome from CT!
Funny thing is, we are planning a trip to Ocala January already around the same time. So that meet may work really well.
I'll have to get the details from where we are going exactly, my friends step dad is a scout master or something along the lines and he has this special spot he's taking us.
It's too bad all of this isn't happening while my work is shut down for the holidays. That would make it even better.
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Welcome from Denver. I've been on an eternal quest for comfortable sleep on a campout and a hammock is the best one yet.
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Father. Husband. Scoutmaster.
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A Beckenham man who, along with four others, used an explosive mixture of gases to blow up an ATM machine has been jailed for six years.
Lee Spinks, 28, of Waverley House, Foxgrove Avenue, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to burgle, conspiracy to cause an explosion and causing an explosion at Woolwich Crown Court.
Danny Smith, 30, from Sheerness, Gary Smith, 39, from Tonbridge, Luke Cassidy, 28, from Maidstone, and Jason Selwood, 30, from Tonbridge, also pleaded guilty to various charges.
The charges followed three offences committed during November last year when branches of Barclays Bank in Kent were targeted.
On November 1, at around 2.13am, an explosion took place at the Riverhead branch of Barclays in Sevenoaks.
Officers from Kent Police, alerted that the bank's security systems had been breached, arrived and found the ATM machine attached to the front of the bank severely damaged and the bank entered.
They also realised two cash cassettes containing £19,000 had been stolen.
An investigation was launched and CCTV seized.
Footage revealed a number of men placing tools around the premises before gas canisters were attached to the ATM machine and used to cause an explosion.
A hooded man then smashed his way into the bank with a sledgehammer and was followed by a second man in a baseball cap.
The incident lasted around 20 minutes before the men made off in a BMW car.
In mid-November detectives from the Met's Flying Squad began working alongside Kent detectives to identify and arrest the gang responsible.
On November 21 staff at the Borough Green branch of Barclays noticed the ATM machine wasn't working.
They checked CCTV and found two men were captured around 2.20am tampering with the machine and appearing to poke a large hose connected to a gas canister. This incident was linked to the robbery on November 1.
Enquiries into Spinks' movements found during October he was in contact with a number of companies that supply gas cylinders - these were the same type used to cause the explosion on November 1.
Officers found Spinks and Danny Smith travelled together during November when they purchased head torches and Velcro straps - the same kind used in the offence on November 21.
Spinks was arrested on November 11. He made no comment to all questions put to him. He was charged and remanded in custody.
On November 28 at 2.35am, detectives saw a Nissan Note and an Audi A3 entering Borough Green. The Audi pulled off the main road and began roaming approach roads to the village while the Nissan went to the village branch of Barclays.
Gary Smith and Luke Cassidy, wearing balaclavas, head torches and carrying gas canisters were seen walking towards the bank. They were arrested.
Various paraphernalia was found placed outside the bank including a sledgehammer, a wrecking bar and gas canisters.
Danny Smith was arrested shortly after driving the Nissan. He was found to be wearing one latex glove and one fabric glove.
Jason Selwood was arrested at 3.15am driving the Audi towards Tonbridge.
Detective Inspector Mark Bedford, from the Met's Flying Squad, said: "This was an organised group of criminals who used an elaborate method to steal money from the bank.
"However the Flying Squad worked alongside our Kent colleagues to mount a quick-time proactive operation to identify and arrest them."
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Passenger traffic through Dubai's main airport, one of the world's busiest, rose 7.5 percent from a year earlier to 6.29 million people in March, the airport operator said on Monday.
In the first three months of this year, passenger traffic at Dubai International increased 11.4 percent to 18.36 million people, driven by expansion in the networks of the Emirates and flydubai airlines, Dubai Airports said.
Freight volume handled by the airport rose 6.7 percent in March to 228,154 tonnes, partly because of increasing strength in the world's developed economies, Dubai Airports added. Three-month freight volume rose 5.0 percent to 613,876 tonnes.
Growth in the airport's operations is set to slow in the next two months as it plans to reduce the number of flights it handles by 26 percent during an 80-day period of construction work on its runways, starting from the beginning of May. Some of the traffic will be diverted to Dubai's new Al Maktoum International Airport.


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This service serves as the focal point for the development, and guidance of a cost-effective and flexible capital asset, acquisition, management, and disposal process for all types of capital investments. Specifically, the CAPPS Service will:
- Develop, recommend and promulgate Department capital asset policy by instituting a life cycle focus for investments, and ensuring all capital activities (from acquisition through disposal) are accomplished in concert with the Department's strategic vision and strategic management process. Policies will ensure consistency across the Department in investment strategy approaches and within programs and transactions.
- Establish an Investment Protocol (IP) to ensure a systematic and sound business analysis of proposed investments including standardized asset applications, verification of investment need, and guidance on the selection of the appropriate acquisition program. The IP will provide a prioritized structured decision tree to facilitate the determination of the most advantageous method for acquiring a capital asset.
- Develop and coordinate the Department's long-term Department Capital Asset Plan (CAP) and submitting the plan to OMB in support of the annual budget request. The CAP will streamline current interactions with OMB regarding capital issues, and serve as a vehicle for submission of required budget exhibits, 53 and 300.
- Develop a financing plan for the long-term CAP, which will consist of a mix of appropriated and non-appropriated funding, across all investment programs and all VA elements. The financing plan will be developed, in conjunction with the VA CAP, and coordinate VA's public and private endeavors.
- Set financing policy and strategy for private sector financing in order to minimize total cost to the federal government, which may involve many types of non-appropriated sources such as: bond financing; certificate of participation; local municipalities (financing); public backed financing; and special purpose or private purpose bond placements. Also, guidance and standardized language for financing structures for private and public asset development ventures will be provided.
- Set trust establishment policy and strategy by providing guidance and assistance in developing the appropriate business structure for the transaction (trusts), assuring that the consideration received meets Department business goals, and that the business commitments made by VA along with the financing plan are consistent with Department business objectives.
- Provide program specific guidance for investment categories by providing guidance and assistance in developing capital asset plans and processes for investment review that are compliant with directions from OMB, GAO, and Congress. Specific guidance will be issued for all capital investment programs (e.g., Non-Recurring Maintenance, Enhanced-Use, Energy Savings Performance Contracts, Leasing, Enhanced Sharing, Major and Minor Construction, etc.).
- Develop legislative proposals to provide flexibility to the Department in managing VA's assets. Activities may also include requesting clarifying language from Congress. Legislative activities will be coordinated with General Counsel and the Office of Congressional and Legislative Affairs.
- Ensure adherence to legislative requirements of GPRA, FASA, Clinger/Cohen, etc., by continuously monitoring the requirements of the legislation and against the products generated. Ensuring that required reports relating to capital asset management are submitted to OMB and Congress in a timely manner.
- Serve as liaison with OMB, GAO, Congress, Appropriating, and Authorizing Committees, and other interested parties with regard to the Department Capital Asset Plan. This office will serve as the Department's advocate for improved capital investments with OMB and Congress.
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It seems I anguish over Thanksgiving side dishes every year.
The question being, should I prepare the same sides as last year and make everyone completely happy or should I venture out of our "safe" side dish zone and create a few new dishes that will hopefully catch on and become new favorites? Ah the side dish dilemma.
I always try to set a selection of colorful and appetizing sides on the Thanksgiving table as well as sides that complement our roasted or grilled turkey. One of my daughters insists on some sort of potato dish, preferably a mashed potato, and my other daughter would never let me hear the end of it if we didn't serve apple and sausage stuffing. Ranger Craig is big on veggies, so there is always a hearty vegetable dish of some sort along with my favorite roasted cranberry and mandarin salad. Dare I forget the gravy and on occasion I'll throw in a sweet potato spoon bread for good measure.
As my youngest daughter once said, "I come to the Thanksgiving table excited for all the side dishes". 🙂
So in honor of the well-loved and obligatory side dish, I thought I'd share a collection of side dishes that just might tickle your taste buds and inspire a few new Thanksgiving side dish traditions in your home.
Maple Roasted Carrots and Parsnips from Alaska From Scratch
I think what I love most about these Maple Roasted Carrots and Parsnips from Alaska From Scratch and Perfect Roasted Brussels Sprouts from Luci's Morsels is that they make a colorful and delectable addition to the Thanksgiving table as well as they are relatively fuss-free – which is a good thing during the holidays.
Perfectly Roasted Brussels Sprouts from Luci's Morsels
These stuffed acorn squash make a lovely alternative to Thanksgiving side dishes and can serve as a vegetarian entrée option for your guests.
Cranberry, Wild Rice and Walnut Stuffed Acorn Squash
Oh who can resist the lush elegance of Gorgonzola mashed potatoes?! This is always the first of the side dishes to be passed around my table.
Add a little light, fresh and sweet to the meal with this gorgeous mixed greens salad with mandarin oranges. A tasteful compliment to the heavier Thanksgiving side dishes.
Mixed Greens and Mandarin Orange Salad with Candied Nuts
I've finished this round-up with one of my favorite sweet potato dishes, Maple Whipped Sweet Potatoes with Gingersnap Crumbles – you'll find the recipe below. This captivating dish often serves as my dessert!
Wishing you all the most delicious of holiday seasons. If you have any questions, comments or need a different recipe for your Thanksgiving table, please leave a comment below or feel free to email me.
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Sweet potatoes are delicious on their own, but add maple syrup, spices and ginger snaps and this bright orange side dish tastes like a celebration
- 3 large sweet potatoes or yams (I prefer yams due to the rich color and smooth texture)
- 6 tablespoons melted unsalted butter
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon ground all-spice
- ½ cup real maple syrup, divided
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 1/3 cup crumbled ginger snaps
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The Salween River begins its journey at 4,000 meters above sea level, high on the Tibetan Plateau in the Himalayas. It runs through the mountains of Yunnan Province in China, passing through Shan and Karenni states in eastern Burma before forming the border between Burma and Thailand for about 120 kilometers. It continues south through Burma before reaching the Andaman Sea in the Gulf of Martaban at Mawlamyine, Mon State. The total length of the Salween is approximately 2,800 kilometers. An international river, in Southeast Asia its length is second only to the Mekong River. It is also the longest river in Southeast Asia that has yet to be dammed.
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The Salween River basin covers 320,000 square kilometers, and the watershed area is located in China (53%), Burma (42%), and Thailand (5%). From the Himalayas to the Gulf of Martaban, the river is an integral part of the livelihoods and cultures of the ethnic peoples who live in the basin, which has one of the most diverse concentrations of such peoples in the world. At least 13 different groups live in the valleys and floodplain areas along the river and its tributaries in Burma and Thailand, including the Shan, Wa, Karenni, Pa-O, Palaung, Mon, Lahu, Padaung, Akha, and Lisu. Other ethnic peoples live along the river in China. As it travels its long journey, the river takes on as many names as the peoples it meets. It is called Nu Jiang (Nu River) in Chinese, Nam Kong (Kong River) in Shan, and Thanlwin in Burmese. "Thanlwin" was pronounced "Salween" by the British and this name in English remains today.
The most populated section of the river basin is the fertile floodplain area in the delta that covers thousands of acres at the mouth of the river. There, most people tend paddy fields in the rainy season and vegetable gardens on the river bank in the dry season. They also fish all year round.
The Salween River basin area is an ecologically and culturally rich zone. UNESCO has designated as a World Heritage site the area where the upper reaches of the Yangtze, Mekong and Salween run roughly parallel through the mountainous north-west of Yunnan Province in China. According to UNESCO, the site is one of the richest temperate regions of the world in terms of biodiversity. The Thai government, too, designated the stretch of forest along the Salween River on the Thai-Burmese border as an important international wetland in 2000.
Thai villagers along the Salween River in Thailand and Burma say that there are about one hundred species of fish that migrate between the Salween and its tributaries. These fish are an important food source for people in Thailand as well as in Karen, Karenni, Mon, and Shan States of Burma.
The forest along the Salween River on the Thai-Burmese border lies on a bio-geographic border that is rich in biodiversity. The Indo-Chinese sub-region meets the Sino-Himalayan (Indian) sub-region in the forest, so that in this area one may find plant and animal species that are similar to those found in the Himalayas and northern India, as well as those found in Indochina.
Not only is the Salween River basin abundant with wildlife and fish, but ecologists have identified the basin in Thailand and Burma as one of the world's most fertile areas for teak. Teak forests in this area grow in great density along the river, making it different from the teak forests in other parts of Southeast Asia, which grow in smaller patches. The forest upstream and downstream from the proposed Tasang dam site is one of the last remaining stretches of forest in Shan State.
The Salween River basin in Thailand and Burma is also an important historical area. Archeologists have found evidence of unique pre-historic artifacts that shed light on the origin and development of communities in Southeast Asia. Perhaps the best known site where such evidence has been found is the "Spirit Cave" in the mountainous area of Mae Hong Son District in Thailand.
Text from the book The Salween Under Threat
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Seed racks are sprouting up at nurseries and grocery stores across the city - it's time to start seeds. One reason to start your own transplants is to save money. One packet of 50 marigold seeds typically costs the same as one 4" little start. The budget growing may extend into seed growing supplies by using recycled plastic pots from last season or even reusing individual yogurt containers or other comparable containers. "Growing chambers" can be made on the cheap from clear plastic bags and chop sticks to keep the moist plastic off emerging sprouts. The frugal gardener will be tempted to put those seedlings in a south facing window, but beware: Pacific Northwest windows are NOT bright enough to produce healthy, sturdy seedlings.
Invest in a 4 foot fluorescent shop light from the hardware store. It is worth the small amount of money. Buy one 40 watt cool tube and one warm tube, or if you're feeling extravagant buy the full spectrum grow lights, which will cost more. These lights should be replaced every year or at least every two years. Once your seedlings are up, the lights should be about 2 - 4 inches above the leaves. This can be tricky if you have plants growing at different rates. Try placing a platform under the short seedlings.
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