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On LAKE's third full-length album for , Giving and Receiving, the sense that the world was at a serious state of unrest during its inception is haunting. The album was put together during the time when the Gulf oil spill was bumming everyone out, and this did a great deal to seep into the songs themselves, such as on the album's title track with the lyrics: "there used to be fish in the ocean baby...." But that's not to say that the album is depressing, it soars with beautiful melodies and gentle, yet deliberate instrumentation.
Written partially while staying at a little cabin in Northern Sweden, which band member Ashley says is the only place she's ever truly heard silence, songs like "Skeleton Costume," and "Pilgrim's Day" were born in a shed there, and have the creaky barn wood/fresh air sound to prove it. The album as a whole is all about moving forward; realizing what we as people are given every day, and figuring out how to pay back for it whenever possible.
In the band's own words: "Giving and Receiving is meant to be uplifting. It offers an antidote to depression. The more that you give, the more that you receive. However, it is contradicted by the great environmental and moral dilemma of our modern world in a cryptic nursery rhyme: 'There used to be fish in the ocean, there used to be fish in the sea, you've taken my fish from the ocean, bring back my fish to me.' I suppose the message is that although we have made irreparable damage on our planet, we still have a chance for reconciliation if we can abstain from 'overfishing.'"
Giving & Receiving was recorded at Dub Narcotic Studio in Olympia, Washington, with help from Calvin Johnson and Karl Blau. Special guest vocals by R. Stevie Moore on "Roger Miller."
- Intro
- One Small Step
- Roger Miller
- Within/Without
- The Stars
- Stumble Around
- Giving & Receiving
- Mother Natureï¾'s Promise
- Skeleton Costume
- Bird and the Berry
- Interlude
- Pilgrim's Day
- Efforts
- Distant Stars


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What on earth was published in 1909?
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I've consulted Wikipedia, and a very useful Chronology of Literature reference book that my Dad gave me, so it's not quite true that I've found no books for 1909. I just haven't found any books that I have - except Ann Veronica by H.G. Wells, which is on the maybe list (but quite long to fit in alongside all the rest, and one or two people have told me that it's not great.)
So I don't really want suggestions for books simply published in 1909 - I also want them to appear in My Library, which you can search here. So if any of you fancy doing some homework... let me know your ideas! You see, sometimes I delude myself into thinking that I'm Mildly Internet Famous, and that Blog Readers will run around being my minions... so if you want me to come back to reality, then ignore me ;)

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Older adults may have a higher risk of complications and death after abdominal surgery
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- December 23, 2009
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- JAMA and Archives Journals
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- The risk of complications and early death after commonly performed abdominal surgical procedures appears to be higher among older adults, according to a new study.
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The risk of complications and early death after commonly performed abdominal surgical procedures appears to be higher among older adults, according to a report in the December issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
It is estimated that one in six Americans will be age 65 or older by 2020 and that 15 percent of this population will be older than age 85, according to background information in the article. "Approximately 2 million older Americans undergo abdominal surgical operations each year," the authors note. "For clinicians, patients and families considering abdominal surgical procedures, informed decision making is challenging because of limited data regarding the risks of adverse perioperative events associated with advancing age."
Nader N. Massarweh, M.D., and colleagues at University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, examined complication and death rates of 101,318 adults age 65 or older who underwent common abdominal procedures such as cholecystectomy (gall bladder removal), hysterectomy and colectomy from 1987 to 2004. Complications were recorded within 90 days of discharge and deaths were recorded within 90 days of hospital admission.
The 90-day complication rate was 17.3 percent and the 90-day death rate was 5.4 percent. "Advancing age was associated with increasing frequency of complications (65 to 69 years, 14.6 percent; 70 to 74 years, 16.1 percent; 75 to 79 years, 18.8 percent; 80 to 84 years, 19.9 percent; 85 to 89 years, 22.6 percent; and 90 years or older, 22.7 percent) and mortality (65 to 69 years, 2.5 percent; 70 to 74 years, 3.8 percent; 75 to 79 years, 6 percent; 80 to 84 years, 8.1 percent; 85 to 89 years, 12.6 percent; and 90 years or older, 16.7 percent)," the authors note. "After adjusting for demographic, patient and surgical characteristics as well as hospital volume, the odds of early postoperative death increased considerably with each advance in age category. These associations were found among patients with both cancer and noncancer diagnoses and for both elective and nonelective admissions."
"Older adults may be less able to adapt to the stress of surgery or to the added stress of any postoperative complication, greatly increasing their risk of early mortality," the authors conclude. "These effects appear to be additive, highlighting the need for interventions to both prevent decline among older patients and avoid postsurgical complications."
This research was supported by a National Institutes of Health Roadmap Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Career Development Award Grant from the National Institutes of Health and the Hartford/American Federation for Aging Research.
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- Nader N. Massarweh; Victor J. Legner; Rebecca G. Symons; Wayne C. McCormick; David R. Flum. Impact of Advancing Age on Abdominal Surgical Outcomes. Arch Surg, 2009; 144 (12): 1108-1114 [abstract]
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I spent the weekend in Gillette, Wyoming, a nearly five-hour drive east of Cody, over the Bighorn Mountains and out on the spring-green northern plains (plains photo above).
Gillette is the heart of Wyoming's Powder River Basin with its gargantuan coal strip-mines. Coal didn't call me to northeastern Wyoming; writing did. Gillette happened to be the site of this year's Wyoming Writers conference.
I hadn't intended to go this year–I'm too newly returned home and I'm feeling pretty overwhelmed with all I have to do in writing, book reviewing, and house/yard renovation. Not to mention that I'm leaving next Friday for ten days in Yellowstone and my annual "vacation" as a weed eradication volunteer.
But my friend Patricia Frolander, former poet laureate of Wyoming, a powerful writing voice, a rancher and mom who is newly widowed, asked if I was coming and offered to share her hotel room. Which seemed like an opportunity I'd regret missing.
So Friday mid-morning I headed east, stopping near the McCullough Peaks just outside town to ogle deep blue Nuttall's delphiniums and starry white daisies blooming in the sagebrush country.
The snowy ramparts of Carter Mountain on the distant skyline; cobalt-blue clumps of Delphinium nuttallianum bloom in the foreground.
An hour and some later, I wound my way up Tensleep Canyon into the Bighorn Mountains, passed to the south of Cloud Peak Wilderness Area with its rounded peaks looking like snowy piles of clouds. Coming down the east side of the range, I had to stop again to admire the sunshine-gold swaths of arrowleaf balsamroot (Balsamorhiza sagittata) coloring the mountainsides, along with purple spires of silky lupine.
By the time I got to Gillette, I just had time to unload my stuff in the hotel room, and then head to the conference center to register.
After which the weekend was a whirlwind immersion in writing talks and workshops, informal talks with other writers, and thinking and breathing and even sleeping all things writing. (I even dreamed in typewriter letters last night!)
I'm still processing all I experienced and learned, but two things stand out: First, what a warm and supportive community Wyoming Writers is. Everyone I met was welcoming, and the workshop time was insightful and substantive, without degenerating into the kind of unhealthy competitiveness that marks some conferences.
Second, keynote speaker Nina McConighley, who grew up in Casper and is East Indian and Irish, talked about "growing up brown" and "the wrong kind of Indian" in Wyoming. In her workshops and her speech, she challenged us to go beyond the myths and stereotypes and look at The West and Wyoming through new eyes.
"Tell the unusual stories," she said. (If you haven't read her PEN-award-winning short story collection, Cowboys and East Indians, do. It's funny, heart-wrenching, and deeply perceptive.)
I thought about McConighley's words all the way home, driving west across the Northern Plains toward the shining peaks of the Bighorns, winding up and down over the range itself, and then zipping across the undulating surface of the Bighorn Basin toward the rugged ridges of the Absarokas, the mountains that call me home.
As writers, we have the ability to touch people's hearts and open their minds, to help enlarge their perspective on the world. In this time of polarized and angry political discourse and yesterday, yet another attack where ordinary people were killed simply because they represent a group, culture, or nation the bombers hate, writing the unusual stories can help us learn to value diversity rather than fear it.
Diversity like this meadow in the Bighorn Mountains, a mosaic pattered by dozens of species of wildflowers (including that gorgeous magenta Dodecatheon or shooting star), grasses, sedges, and shrubs, and this afternoon at least, abuzz with native bees and flies of varying sizes and echoing with the songs of half a dozen kinds of birds.
If we write in a way that reveals the unusual, the stories of lives who do not conform to the norm, we can help "normalize" differences and calm our readers' fears. If our work gives voice to the sometimes-hidden or overlooked diversity of our communities and cultures, we can help our readers understand or at least have sympathy for those whose lives and beliefs, whose skin color and choices are radically different from our own.
Writing the unusual, we can help break down barriers of hate and fear.
As a scientist, a plant-nerd, and an older woman, the perspective I bring to this conversation is a voice speaking on behalf of biodiversity. (One thing nature teaches us is that diversity is a healthy attribute for communities and ecosystems.)
The "unusual stories" I tell are those of our fellow species with whom we share the earth, those remarkable more-than-human lives who together weave this planet into numinous and shimmering life. Like the mariposa lily (Calochortus gunnisoni) in the photo above, offering its cup with nectar to pollinating insects.
I've been searching for my mission statement, a succinct way to describe my parallel passions in writing and ecological restoration. Perhaps it is simply this:
I work for biodiversity. To restore earth and humanity, word by word, plant by plant.
I write for the mariposa lilies blooming in ephemeral profusion before the moisture that fueled their unusually abundant spring emergence vanishes and the clay soil dries hard as brick. For the bumblebees and metallic green sweat bees who were pollinating those saucer-shaped blossoms today, the kingbird sitting on a nearby fence waiting to catch some of those pollinators to feed its growing nestlings, and the prairie dogs that savor the sun-fed sugars the mariposa lilies store in their underground bulbs. For the black-footed ferrets we saved from extinction to feed on the prairie dogs, and the big sagebrush, whose sweet turpentine scent perfumed my drive home. For the whole interrelated stew of existence, in all its glorious unusualness.
I work for biodiversity, to celebrate all life. Not just the lives like mine, not just the lives I prefer. All life. That our planet may thrive, and we along with it.


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Linda Montalto says: "I hope you can come to my opening at Moon News this Saturday night. Richard will be playing. We'll have some food and refreshments."
To read more about Linda, click here
When Linda says
Richard will be playing, she is referring to her world famous classical guitarist husband, Richard Patterson. Yes, he plays the classics but have you heard him do Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven?"
Here's Richard Patterson (at right) with Stevan Pasero (at left) playing at the Hastings House last year.
June 7, 2008
Saturday, 7 to 9 PM
Linda Montalto
Moon News Bookstore
315 Main Street
Half Moon Bay, CA 94019
Refreshments and live music


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There are many sources for maps in Egypt but for the most serious they're not easy to obtain. Many travellers are just happy with streets maps, but for the more serious, it's imperative to get a series of updated maps in good scale. Google Earth is not enough, so many alternatives are placed here and as is the case with all articles here receives updates from the SaharaSafaris Community.
Google Earth/Maps
Google Earth has eased the process tremendously now for Navigation exercises but it's neither complete nor accurate. For instance, throughout the middle-east, important geographic names are totally lacking. Contour maps are automatically interpreted into 3D model but which seems to be lacking in good measure of intervals, and of course the resolution although good in many areas (less than a 1meter) it's the same 30meters you find for the oceans and many other areas specially the Sahara.
The images of the Earth from Google in the middle-east remains rich with information and details you find no where else in any map except the most updated and most detailed. Also the community additions of some spots (although sometimes unbelievably wrong) is sometimes helpful specially near the resorts. It's no doubt one of the best sources available now for trips planning specially for desert offroading safaris.
Apart from the Egyptian Military Survey, ESA Egyptian Survey Authority (Arabic: الهيئة العامة للمساحة Al-Hay2a Al-3ama Lel-Mesa7a) is the National Mapping Agency of Egypt with a mission to map all the land in all needed scales for all sectors (except military and geological). If a place (or a bigger scale) is sensitive security-wise, they refer you to military survey that sells to businesses after security clearance (straight procedure but requests could be declined). Even ESA can decline some requests!
Sectors that benefit from their maps are plenty: all sorts of developmental sectors (urban, roads, etc.), environment, heritage conservation, individuals daily needs (seya7eya), etc. Mining sector use their own Geological Survey (EGSMA). Some of ESA's maps are extremely old (reprinted to fill the gap but virtually un-modified) from 20s of last century.
Some of their excellent maps are for Nile Valley and Eastern Desert. Both are covered by as big as 1:50,000 scale dated at the 90s. Western Desert is not as lucky and remains with 1:500,000 dated at the 40s. Some very good scale and date maps are available for hot spots like Wadi elRayan (they don't seem to have fixed price for them but LE 300 has been mentioned to me once) and Toshka, etc. What they call 'seya7eya' are big-scale maps of cities such as 1:15,000 that shows main Cairo's streets and can still fit in one sheet. They have Cairo in much bigger ones (up to the 'cadastral' scale of 1:500 and 1:250 sometimes)
Here's a brief on the normal procedure to buy (must be there before 12noon.) They'll ask for your ID (only at the gate and occasionally at delivery) and will not sell for non-Egyptians (they say security clearance for foreigners is done through them):
- buy a blank form (estimaret shera) for each map with LE 1 (room is right after gate)
- 'name' the map you want for the guy in the main room (left after gate) holding an index (or manager himself Ostaz Hamdy in the other delivery room) will check the code for this map and fill the form for you with your name
- you pay in elKhazina room ('cashier' located beyond the form room) and most maps will be around LE 40 (they change the prices sometimes depending on your 'appearance'!)
- take the stamped 'paid' form to the room of delivery and give it to the guy in the narrow low window and wait till your name is called.
Note: ESA doesn't like strange companies (copyrights issues) so insist that you are into hobby of 'ba7eb arou7 elsa7ara'. If you are wondering... yes!, they have came a long way out of the security cocoon. Me and others are very happy with the trend towards opening up but they sometimes seem not to understand markets' development.
Address: 1 ElRaees Abdel Salaam 3aref Str, Giza. Near Orman Gardens and next to Modereyet Amn elGiza (Giza Police Department) at Morad Str (or Charles de Gaulle Str).
Working Hours: Sat to Thu 9am-1pm (go earlier than 12pm noon!)
All maps sold from ESA are properly gridded in the Egyptian Transverse Mercator with Red, Purple, and Green Belts. They are as following:
If you have a GPS that uses "Users Grid", you may choose to customize it to the ETM coordinates (that appears on all Egyptian maps mostly in red color and in thousands of meters).
For Western parts of Egypt use Purple, for Nile Valley use Red, and for Eastern parts use Green. The PARAMETERS are here:
Purple Belt
Central Meridian = 27ºE, Latitude of Origin = 30ºN, Scale Factor at Origin = 1.0, False Easting = 700 km, False Northing = 200 km, Parallel North = 0, Parallel South = 0;
Red Belt
Central Meridian = 31ºE, Latitude of Origin = 30ºN, Scale Factor at Origin = 1.0, False Easting = 615 km, False Northing = 810 km, Parallel North = 0, Parallel South = 0;
Green Belt
Central Meridian = 35ºE, Latitude of Origin = 30ºN, Scale Factor at Origin = 1.0, False Easting = 300 km, False Northing = 100 km, Parallel North = 0, Parallel South = 0.
Not all GPSs can handle this or use the standard names above (eg, Central Meridian is sometimes called Origin Longitude). You have to test all the coordinates first, if there's variance still (usually in few hundreds of meters), then you must align the Datum as well (usually set to WGS1984 but you have to align it with one on the map such as Helmert, etc. for Egypt)
American Military:
They sell good maps covering the world including area of Egypt. Check out this index map (if you intend to cross the Sahara some day this might be the ones you need to buy):
You can write down the names of the maps you'll order and order them if you have a credit card and somebody to pick them up abroad (not sure about delivery in Egypt so let me know if you have experience):
TPC (Tactical Pilotage Charts) maps belong to the American military (NIMA, previously DMA) and sold for $9 each plus shipping. They're in 1:500,000 and are even better than the ESA maps at the same scale (dates of production and cartographic enhancements). Copyrights cannot forbid you from scanning them for your own use.
Russian Military:
Egypt's maps have a dedicated page at Omnimap.com:
The best you'll find there are the Russian ones. Here's a sample from the small scale (1:200,000):
They've an amazing 1:100,000 and are very detailed and the best of all: they're scanned! A bit too expensive though ($50 per map for paper and $75 for scanned). You have to learn the Cyrillic alphabet (Russian) to be able to read towns names like Cairo (but believe me that's not a problem when you have the few letters in a small paper with you). Click their index map below to get a view of it:
They have 1:200,000 too (sampled above). They're still valuable and better than the American TPC and the Egyptian ESA (in the Western Desert). Their index map (click the one below) could be used to order by clicking on the map square you want (unfortunately this is a bad index like the one before because no roads or towns are there to help you know which square, so you'll have to use long and lat for that):
Omnimap.com is a good place to buy maps (actually popular), but their website is a bit messy as you can see, so you need time to know what's there (tried to simplify it for you here). They cover almost everything you could find in a book shop in Cairo too (much more expensive though). Some of what they offered could be found only in EGSMA (Geological Survey of Egypt) but none from ESA.
Other Maps of Egypt
Map books for streets and roads have been attempted by other (private sector) on intermittent basis. Cairo from A-Z and AUC Press Cairo's Streets booklets are famous examples. Shell had a good one for national roads before but it's out of print now. Michelin's regional maps (famous for highways maps) are not bad but too small scale and not sure how much updating it needs for most roads. Mostly are for roads only and no good for any offroad navigation planning.
Why Maps Are Not an Easy Commodity to Get in Most 'developing' Countries?
In the past, almost all countries would look at any body interested in their country's maps with suspicion. They thought that they're all spies (well, many were actually). Now Google Earth and American and Russian military maps made available to public are slowly changing the minds of administrators in almost all countries (balancing it with security and copyrights issues). Egypt is no different. Signs of opening up are like that of India and Pakistan for instance. They'd comply with global standards of small scale maps (so that their maps could fit together perfectly if combined) but would still keep the maps confidential and not available. I have been told by an American friend in our GIS industry how Hungary for example have seen 'big-scale' (detailed) maps of Hungary by the American military, so decided that theirs should not remain secret too and opened up for civilian buyers. But some others who've seen the American big-scale maps (e.g., 1:50,000) for their countries confidential have asked NIMA that they don't make it available commercially either for security or for copyrights like many European countries.
To make a long story short. The deregulation trend (privatizing many developmental agencies) of most industries in many countries will force many governments to make the maps (necessary for national development and planning) available for the public or those agencies will fail to function properly. I know that we'll benefit from that for our recreational navigation purposes. Cross your fingers that it happens fast enough. For now, we'll just share resources to go about our Navigation adventures.
small final note: like most emerging markets, digital (and paper) maps in Egypt are thought by the local industry to be of interest only to businesses since 'local' vacationers maps is still too small a market specially in digital format. In Europe and the States, it's the 'local' tourists that their mapping industry is catering for, and not really international ones. 'Vector' maps (type of digital maps) good for 3D modeling and streets network is available commercially for some Western Parks but like Google-Earth/Google-Maps, we'd better forget about it for this region since they're expensive and copyrighted.


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The accredited dual study programme, with a focus on business management, begins on 1 October or 1 April and takes three years to complete. The theory and practical phases of the course alternate and are closely interconnected.
There are 18 full-time academic staff and more than 130 visiting lecturers teaching at the Bundesbank's University of Applied Sciences. They are coordinated by the teams of the Teaching and Studies section.
The Deutsche Bundesbank University of Applied Sciences provides various opportunities for international exchange.
Information on the various committees and governing bodies and their tasks can be found on the following pages. In addition, the most important legal provisions and regulations in relation to the study programme are available here.
At the Bundesbank's University of Applied Sciences, students will find an unusual campus with excellent study conditions. Their studies and life centre around a baroque castle located in the middle of the historical little town of Hachenburg.
New exchange programme with the Warsaw School of Economics


text: Dear Colleagues, I am interested in the genetic relationship between E.coli subtypes, particularly B, C, W and how close they are to K-12. I am aware of the various studies of comparing gene sequences and the info in the ASM "handbook" for coli and typhimurium. It is on the gross genetic differences which I am unclear, eg. presence/absence of genes, operons, metabolic pathways or even whole regions of the chromosome. In addition, I would like to know the amounts of coliB DNA in the strains HB101 (cotransduction of at least thr and hsd) and MC1061 (apparently a region around ara?). Any feedback, info or pointers to relevant literature would be most appreciated. It is incredible that we know so much about K-12 yet are unclear on the relationship between this strain and natural isolates of coli. Thanks, and Best Wishes, Jim Brannigan JAB5 at UK.AC.YORK.VAXA


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MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Typhoon Noru blew out of the northern Philippines on Monday, leaving six people dead, knocking down power in two entire provinces, trapping villagers in floods and forcing officials to suspend classes and government work in and around the capital.
The most powerful typhoon to hit the country this year slammed ashore in Burdeos town in Quezon province before nightfall on Sunday then weakened as it barreled overnight across the main Luzon region, where more than 52,000 people were moved to emergency shelters, some forcibly, officials said.
Gov. Daniel Fernando of Bulacan province, north of Manila, said five rescuers, who were using a boat to help residents trapped in floodwaters, were hit by a collapsed wall then apparently drowned in the rampaging waters.
"They were living heroes who were helping save the lives of our countrymen in the calamity," Fernando told DZMM radio network. "This is really very sad."
Police said a Bulacan villager drowned after refusing to heed appeals to leave his riverside house. Authorities were separately trying to confirm another death in Burdeos town and a missing farmer in a flooded village in western Zambales province.
In Aurora province's hard-hit Dingalan town, more than 6,000 houses were damaged and a newly built evacuation center housing more 200 displaced families was battered by the fierce wind and rain but no injuries were reported, officials said.
About 3,000 people were evacuated to safety in metropolitan Manila, which was lashed by fierce wind and rain overnight. Classes and government work were suspended Monday in the capital and outlying provinces as a precaution although the morning skies were sunny.
The entire northern provinces of Aurora and Nueva Ecija, which were hit by the typhoon, remained without power Monday and repair crews were at work to bring back electricity, Energy Secretary Raphael Lotilla told President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in a televised meeting the president called to assess damage and coordinate disaster-response.
Marcos Jr. praised officials for evacuating tens of thousands of people before the typhoon hit, preventing more deaths, but expressed concern at how Noru and another storm that devastated central and southern provinces in December rapidly intensified into super typhoons.
"Is this climate change?" Marcos Jr., who took office in June, asked. "We have kept watched on these storms for a long time but it wasn't like this before… This is something I have to deal with."
Marcos Jr. later joined an aerial inspection of typhoon-hit provinces in the rice-growing region, where many villages and stretches of roads remained flooded.
Noru underwent an "explosive intensification" over the open Pacific Ocean before it hit the Philippines, Vicente Malano, who heads the country's weather agency, told The Associated Press on Sunday.
From sustained winds of 85 kilometers per hour (53 mph) on Saturday, Noru was a super typhoon just 24 hours later with sustained winds of 195 kilometers (121 miles per hour) and gusts of up to 240 kph (149 mph) at its peak late Sunday.
By Monday noon, Noru had sustained winds of 130 kph (81 mph) and gusts of 160 kph (99 mph) and was moving northwest in the South China Sea toward Vietnam, according to the weather agency.
About 20 storms and typhoons batter the Philippines each year. The archipelago also lies in the "Pacific Ring of Fire," a region along most of the Pacific Ocean rim where many volcanic eruptions and earthquakes occur, making the Southeast Asian nation one of the world's most disaster-prone.
In 2013, Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest recorded tropical cyclones in the world, left more than 7,300 people dead or missing, flattened entire villages, swept ships inland and displaced more than 5 million in the central Philippines — well to the south of Noru's path.
Associated Press journalist Joeal Calupitan contributed to this report


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For 2 servings:
In a bowl toss tomato, salt, basil and 3 tablespoons olive oil. When bread is toasted, rub whole garlic on hot bread just for a mild taste. Spoon tomato mixture on top of toasted bread. Drizzle olive oil onto bread not to saturate. Place bread on cookie sheet. Set oven to broil and grill until golden brown. Do not turn bread over.


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Mr. Chief Justice, my dear friends, my fellow Americans:
The oath that I have taken is the same oath that was taken by George Washington and by every President under the Constitution. But I assume the Presidency under extraordinary circumstances never before experienced by Americans. This is an hour of history that troubles our minds and hurts our hearts.
Therefore, I feel it is my first duty to make an unprecedented compact with my countrymen. Not an inaugural address, not a fireside chat, not a campaign speech--just a little straight talk among friends. And I intend it to be the first of many.
I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your President by your ballots, and so I ask you to confirm me as your President with your prayers. And I hope that such prayers will also be the first of many.
If you have not chosen me by secret ballot, neither have I gained office by any secret promises. I have not campaigned either for the Presidency or the Vice Presidency. I have not subscribed to any partisan platform. I am indebted to no man, and only to one woman--my dear wife--as I begin this very difficult job.
I have not sought this enormous responsibility, but I will not shirk it. Those who nominated and confirmed me as Vice President were my friends and are my friends. They were of both parties, elected by all the people and acting under the Constitution in their name. It is only fitting then that I should pledge to them and to you that I will be the President of all the people.
Thomas Jefferson said the people are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty. And down the years, Abraham Lincoln renewed this American article of faith asking, "Is there any better way or equal hope in the world?"
I intend, on Monday next, to request of the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate the privilege of appearing before the Congress to share with my former colleagues and with you, the American people, my views on the priority business of the Nation and to solicit your views and their views. And may I say to the Speaker and the others, if I could meet with you right after these remarks, I would appreciate it.
Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.
To the peoples and the governments of all friendly nations, and I hope that could encompass the whole world, I pledge an uninterrupted and sincere search for peace. America will remain strong and united, but its strength will remain dedicated to the safety and sanity of the entire family of man, as well as to our own precious freedom.
I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our Government but civilization itself. That bond, though strained, is unbroken at home and abroad.
In all my public and private acts as your President, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.
My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.
Our Constitution works; our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here the people rule. But there is a higher Power, by whatever name we honor Him, who ordains not only righteousness but love, not only justice but mercy.
As we bind up the internal wounds of Watergate, more painful and more poisonous than those of foreign wars, let us restore the golden rule to our political process, and let brotherly love purge our hearts of suspicion and of hate.
In the beginning, I asked you to pray for me. Before closing, I ask again your prayers, for Richard Nixon and for his family. May our former President, who brought peace to millions, find it for himself. May God bless and comfort his wonderful wife and daughters, whose love and loyalty will forever be a shining legacy to all who bear the lonely burdens of the White House.
I can only guess at those burdens, although I have witnessed at close hand the tragedies that befell three Presidents and the lesser trials of others.
With all the strength and all the good sense I have gained from life, with all the confidence my family, my friends, and my dedicated staff impart to me, and with the good will of countless Americans I have encountered in recent visits to 40 States, I now solemnly reaffirm my promise I made to you last December 6: to uphold the Constitution, to do what is right as God gives me to see the right, and to do the very best I can for America.
God helping me, I will not let you down.
Thank you.
Note: The President spoke at 12:05 p.m. in the East Room at the White House following administration of the oath of office by Chief Justice Warren E. Burger. The oath of office and the President's remarks were broadcast live on radio and television.
The White House announced that Richard Nixon's letter of resignation as 37th President of the United States was tendered to Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger in his White House office by Assistant to the President Alexander M. Haig, Jr., at 11:35 a.m.
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We have written many a post about Kerry Morrison's weirdly obsessive hatred of the street characters at Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue and how she uses the power of her BID to attack them at every turn. Her surreality-based antipathy has at various times inspired her co-conspirators at the LAPD to crack down heavily on these performers, even to the point where Carol Sobel had to sue the cops in Federal Court to stop the neurotic vendetta.
She's spent at least a decade railing against these characters and working with the City Attorney, the City Council, private attorneys, everyone in sight, without notable success, to ban their activities, to stop them wearing masks, to require them to wear identity badges, to conflate them with terrorists, and so on. Well, we've been looking into the matter a little more deeply, and today we're here to tell you a story about street characters, the KKK, domestic terrorism, anti-mask laws, and property values in Hancock Park.1 First let's take a little trip through 7 years worth of the minutes of the Board of Directors of the Hollywood Property Owners Alliance, concentrating on the street characters of Hollywood and Kerry Morrison's efforts to thwart them by any means necessary:
- June 2006—Morrison and Deputy City Attorney Bill Kysella have drafted a resolution for consideration by Council President Eric Garcetti that the City Attorney's office work with the Hollywood Entertainment District and the Hollywood Division of the LAPD to evaluate potential solutions to document the identity of the street characters and performers, regulate their activities, and ban the use of masks in the interests of protecting public safety on the public right-of-way within the Hollywood Enterainment District.


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Royal City TP Volume 1 (Next Of Kin)
In his most ambitious and most personal project to date, JEFF LEMIRE spins the captivating and engaging story of a family from the small factory town of Royal City and the ghosts that haunt them. In a return to the literary and thematic territory of LEMIRE's breakthrough graphic novel Essex County, ROYAL CITY follows Patrick Pike, a fading literary star who reluctantly returns to the once-thriving factory town where he grew up. Patrick is quickly drawn back into the dramas of his two adult siblings, his overbearing mother, and his browbeaten father, all of whom are still haunted by different versions of his youngest brother, Tommy, who drowned decades ago. As each member of the family struggles to keep themselves above water, it quickly becomes clear that Tommy's death isn't the only dark secret tearing the town, and this family, apart at the seams. Can each member of the Pike family come to terms with their own guilt over Tommy's death, and make peace with the many versions of Tommy that still haunt them, or will they all be dragged down below the river along with his lingering ghost? ROYAL CITY promises to be a sprawling serialized graphic novel that will chart the lives, loves, and losses of a troubled family and a vanishing town, across three decades. JEFF LEMIRE is the creator of DESCENDER (with DUSTIN NGUYEN), A.D.: AFTER DEATH (with SCOTT SNYDER), Roughneck, Secret Path (with GORD DOWNIE), PLUTONA (with EMI LENNOX), Essex County, Sweet Tooth, Trillium, and The Underwater Welder. He had also written celebrated stories featuring Green Arrow, Animal Man, Bloodshot, Wolverine, Hawkeye, Teen Titans, the Valiant, the X-Men, and Inhumans for the major comic book publishers.
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Left 4 Dead
Valve's co-op survival horror game signed for Russia by Akella.
Moscow, Russian Federation. April 11, 2008 – Eastern European game publisher Akella announces the signing of a retail publishing deal with Valve to bring their upcoming cooperative survival horror game, Left 4 Dead, - to stores in Russia and CIS countries.
"Left 4 Dead is Valve's attempt to fill gamers' desire for a dynamic and engaging co-operative action experience," said Doug Lombardi, VP of marketing at Valve. "This has been validated by the press, who are calling it one of the most anticipated titles of the year. We will be working closely with Akella as we prepare the launch of Left 4 Dead in one of today's fastest growing gaming markets".
"Akella is thrilled to be able to bring this unique game to Russian speaking territories. We are very excited by all Valve's games and pretty sure of huge success of this new cooperative shooter hit in Russia and CIS countries. " said Vladimir Koudr, VP of Publishing at Akella, "Left 4 Dead is already highly expected throughout the world, and Russian FPS players are eager to play this game."
The release is scheduled for Fall 2008 and planned to ship simultaneously all over the world.
About Left 4 Dead:
Left 4 Dead (L4D) is a new action title from Valve, creators of the Counter-Strike and Half-Life games, and promises to redefine the co-operative genre as those titles did for multiplayer and single player action games.
Set in a modern day survival-horror universe, the co-operative gameplay of L4D casts four "Survivors" in an epic struggle against hordes of swarming zombies and terrifying "Boss Infected" mutants.
Valve's next generation AI technology, allows for games of 1 to 8 players. Players can play as a Survivor or as one of four types of "Boss Infected," each of whom possess a unique mutant ability such as a 50-foot tongue lasso or a giant belly full of explosive methane gas.
The gameplay takes place across four massive campaigns. The "zombie" population of each mission is choreographed by an "AI Director" that monitors the human players' actions and creates a unique and dramatic experience for them on the fly.
About Valve
Valve is an entertainment software and technology company founded in 1996 and based in Bellevue, Washington with offices in Irvine, CA. The company's portfolio of entertainment properties includes Half-Life®, Counter-Strike®, Day of Defeat®, Team Fortress®, PortalTM and Left 4 DeadTM. Valve's catalog of products accounts for over 20 million retail units sold worldwide, and over 80% of PC online action gameplay. In addition, Valve is a developer of leading-edge technologies, such as the Source game engine and Steam, a broadband platform for the delivery and management of digital content. For more information, please visit www.valvesoftware.com.
About Akella:
Akella, founded in 1993 and headquartered in Moscow, Russia is a leading developer, publisher and distributor of computer games in Russia, CIS and Baltic countries.
To date, Akella has released more than 600 gaming, educational and developing titles. The biggest Russian localization studio is owned by Akella making the most complicated gaming products available for Russian consumers with high quality translation reliably delivered on deadline. Some of the most famous titles include the best-selling releases: Neverwinter Nights 2, the Prince of Persia series, MMORPG EverQuest II, Painkiller, Sacred, Fahrenheit, Test Drive Unlimited, Armed Assault and others.
In-house and co-development studios are currently creating around 60 games. These studios are engaged into developing a diverse lineup of products varying from cartoon-based children games to the biggest of brand titles (Postal 3 for Xbox 360 and PC; Disciples 3: Renaissance, Jagged Alliance 3 – for PC, and others).
Akella's shareholders include Quadriga Capital (EBRD fund) and Intel Capital.


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In this article you will learn how to unlock your Samsung Galaxy S20 free, to use it with any mobile network, worldwide.
What is an Unlocked Phone?
An unlocked phone is a phone that you can use it with any SIM card from any network. SIM unlocking your phone allows you to use your phone with any mobile network, worldwide. Unlocking your Samsung Galaxy S20 will allow you to switch to another network before to finish your contract.
If you travel abroad, you will be able to use a local SIM card and make cheaper calls or navigate to internet without to pay expensive roaming services.
Before you do anything else, you need your IMEI number of your Samsung Galaxy S20.
You can find this number usually under the battery of the device or you can dial *#06#, you can also find it in the settings menu. Please make sure your IMEI number is 100% correct.
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"Chapter 40: Temple Work and Family History," Gospel Principles (2011), 233–39
"Chapter 40," Gospel Principles, 233–39
Chapter 40
Temple Work and Family History
Heavenly Father Wants His Children to Return to Him
The Atonement of Jesus Christ assures each of us that we will be resurrected and live forever. But if we are to live forever with our families in Heavenly Father's presence, we must do all that the Savior commands us to do. This includes being baptized and confirmed and receiving the ordinances of the temple.
As members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, we have each been baptized and confirmed by one having the proper priesthood authority. Each of us may also go to the temple to receive the saving priesthood ordinances performed there. But many of God's children have not had these same opportunities. They lived at a time or place when the gospel was not available to them.
Heavenly Father wants all of His children to return and live with Him. For those who died without baptism or the temple ordinances, He has provided a way for this to happen. He has asked us to perform ordinances for our ancestors in the temples.
Temples of the Lord
Why are temples important in our lives?
Temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are special buildings dedicated to the Lord. Worthy Church members may go there to receive sacred ordinances and make covenants with God. Like baptism, these ordinances and covenants are necessary for our salvation. They must be performed in the temples of the Lord.
We also go to the temple to learn more about Heavenly Father and His Son, Jesus Christ. We gain a better understanding of our purpose in life and our relationship with Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. We are taught about our premortal existence, the meaning of earth life, and life after death.
Temple Ordinances Seal Families Together Forever
What does it mean to be sealed?
All temple ordinances are performed by the power of the priesthood. Through this power, ordinances performed on earth are sealed, or bound, in heaven. The Savior taught His Apostles, "Whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven" (Matthew 16:19; see also D&C 132:7).
Only in the temple can we be sealed together forever as families. Marriage in the temple joins a man and woman as husband and wife eternally if they honor their covenants. Baptism and all other ordinances prepare us for this sacred event.
When a man and woman are married in the temple, their children who are born thereafter also become part of their eternal family. Couples who have been married civilly can receive these blessings by preparing themselves and their children to go to the temple and be sealed to each other. Parents who adopt children legally may have those children sealed to them.
What must a couple do to make the sealing power effective in their marriage?
Our Ancestors Need Our Help
What responsibilities do we have toward our ancestors who have died without receiving priesthood ordinances?
Mario Cannamela married Maria Vitta in 1882. They lived in Tripani, Italy, where they raised a family and shared many wonderful years together. Mario and Maria did not hear the message of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ during their lifetimes. They were not baptized. They did not have the opportunity to go to the temple and be sealed together as an eternal family. At death, their marriage ended.
Over a century later a great reunion took place. Descendants of Mario and Maria went to the Los Angeles Temple, where a great-grandson and his wife knelt at an altar and served as proxies for the sealing of Mario and Maria. Tears filled their eyes as they shared in Mario and Maria's joy.
Many of our ancestors are among those who died without hearing about the gospel while on the earth. They now live in the spirit world (see chapter 41 in this book). There they are taught the gospel of Jesus Christ. Those who have accepted the gospel are waiting for the temple ordinances to be performed for them. As we perform these ordinances in the temple for our ancestors, we can share their joy.
How does the doctrine of salvation for the dead show God's justice, compassion, and mercy?
What experiences have you had doing temple work for your ancestors?
Family History—How We Begin Helping Our Ancestors
What are the basic steps of doing family history work?
Latter-day Saints are encouraged to participate in family history activities. Through these activities we learn about our ancestors so that we can perform ordinances for them. Family history involves three basic steps:
Identify our ancestors.
Find out which ancestors need temple ordinances performed.
Make certain that the ordinances are performed for them.
Most wards and branches have family history consultants who can answer questions and direct us to the resources we need. If a ward or branch does not have a family history consultant, the bishop or branch president can provide direction.
Identify Our Ancestors
To perform temple ordinances for our ancestors, we need to know their names. Many wonderful resources are available today to help us identify our ancestors' names.
A good way to begin gathering information about our ancestors is to see what we have in our own homes. We may have birth, marriage, or death certificates. We may also find family Bibles, obituaries, family histories, or diaries and journals. In addition, we can ask relatives for information they have. After gathering information in our homes and from our ancestors, we can search other resources, such as FamilySearch.org. We may also visit one of the Church's local family history centers.
How much we learn will depend on what information is available to us. We may have only a little family information and may be able to do no more than identify our parents and grandparents. If we already have a large collection of family records, we may be able to identify ancestors from generations further back in time.
We can keep track of the information we gather on family group records and pedigree charts.
Find Out Which Ancestors Need Temple Ordinances Performed
Temple ordinances have been performed for the dead since the early days of the Church. Consequently, some ordinances for our ancestors may have already been done. To find out which ancestors need temple ordinances, we can look in two places. Our own family records might have information about what has been done. If not, the Church has a record of all ordinances that have been performed in the temple. Your ward or branch family history consultant can help you in this effort.
Make Certain the Ordinances Are Performed
Many of our ancestors in the spirit world may be anxious to receive their temple ordinances. As soon as we identify these ancestors, we should arrange for this work to be done for them.
One of the blessings of family history work comes from going to the temple and performing ordinances in behalf of our ancestors. We should prepare ourselves to receive a temple recommend so that, when possible, we can do this work. If our children are 12 years old or older, they can share in these blessings by being baptized and confirmed for their ancestors.
If it is not possible for us to go to the temple to participate in the ordinances, the temple will arrange to have the ordinances performed by other Church members.
How has the Lord helped you or members of your family find information about your ancestors?
Additional Family History Opportunities
What are some simple ways for someone with many other responsibilities to participate in family history work?
In addition to providing temple ordinances for the ancestors we know about, we can help those in the spirit world in many other ways. We should seek the guidance of the Spirit as we prayerfully consider what we might do. Depending on our circumstances, we can do the following things:
Attend the temple as often as possible. After we have gone to the temple for ourselves, we can perform the saving ordinances for others waiting in the spirit world.
Do research to identify ancestors who are more difficult to find. Family history consultants can guide us to helpful resources.
Help with the Church's indexing program. Through this program, members prepare genealogical information for use in the Church's family history computer programs. These programs make it easier for us to identify our ancestors.
Contribute family history information to the Church's current computer programs for family history. These programs contain genealogies contributed by people all over the world. They allow people to share their family information. Family history consultants can provide more information about the Church's computer programs.
Participate in family organizations. We can accomplish much more for our ancestors as we work together with other family members.
Think about what you can do to increase your participation in temple and family history work.
Additional Scriptures
1 Peter 4:6 (gospel was preached to the dead)
Malachi 4:5–6; D&C 2:2; 3 Nephi 25:5–6 (mission of Elijah)
1 Corinthians 15:29; D&C 128:15–18 (work for the dead)
D&C 138 (redemption of the dead)


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Winner of the 2019 Pura Belpré Illustrator Award!
A New York Times / New York Public Library Best Illustrated Book of 2018
In 1994, Yuyi Morales left her home in Xalapa, Mexico and came to the US with her infant son. She left behind nearly everything she owned, but she didn't come empty-handed.
She brought her strength, her work, her passion, her hopes and dreams. . . and her stories. Caldecott Honor artist and six-time Pura Belpré winner Yuyi Morales's gorgeous picture book Dreamers is about making a home in a new place. Yuyi and her son Kelly's passage was not easy, and Yuyi spoke no English whatsoever at the time. But together, they found an unexpected, unbelievable place: the public library. There, book by book, they untangled the language of this strange new land, and learned to make their home within it.
Dreamers is a celebration of what migrantes bring with them when they leave their homes. It's a story about family. And it's a story to remind us that we are all dreamers, bringing our own gifts wherever we roam. Beautiful and powerful at any time but given particular urgency as the status of our own Dreamers becomes uncertain, this is a story that is both topical and timeless.
The lyrical text is complemented by sumptuously detailed illustrations, rich in symbolism. Also included are a brief autobiographical essay about Yuyi's own experience, a list of books that inspired her (and still do), and a description of the beautiful images, textures, and mementos she used to create this book.
Author: Yuyi Morales
Publisher: Neal Porter Books, 2018
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Fan Page List
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President Obama and the Times are the two big winners after Klout changed its influence-scoring algorithm this week. That's according to
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In early October, the social networking giant introduced some new engagement metrics including People Talking About This (PTAT)...
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FanPageList: Ranking The Most Popular Facebook Pages & Twitter Accounts
"Social networking websites are jungles...the most popular celebrities and icons stand out. There should be a way to organize all of these popular pages and profiles...
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What brand has most Facebook fans? Facebook, Coke, Starbucks
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May 21, 2010
What Are The Top Brands On Facebook?
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, which is entirely dedicated to ranking the most popular Pages on Facebook as well as rankings for various categories, such as Actors, Politicians, Movies, Games, TV Shows, News, Athletes and more, in real time."
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Ensuring sound infrastructure
Case Study
Sineco S.p.A operates in the engineering sector with special focus on the control and planning of maintenance interventions for large transport infrastructures. The company was established in 1987 by Società Iniziative Nazionali Autostradali (SINA) and other important motorway representative companies. Sineco S.p.A is also part of the Autostrada Torino Milano (ASTM) group, leader in transport infrastructures with a national motorway network of more than 1,200 kilometres.
Early detection of bridge deck damage
To have a complete assessment of the corrosion, delamination and infiltration in the bridge deck at Rio Vizzana Viaduct, a survey using GPR was performed using the RIS Hi-BrigHT. This unique GPR solution enables users to interpret data easily using software specifically designed for bridge analysis.
By processing the complete collected data set with automatic estimation algorithms, Sineco S.p.A could assess the bridge deck conditions by cross-correlating all the information extracted, such as:
- depth of the rebar layer
- concrete slab thickness
- power reflected by the rebars, and
- estimation of moisture presence by propagation velocity estimation.
Following the assessment of the deteriorated status of the concrete and rebar mesh, the bridge deck was completely removed and the data from RIS Hi-BrigHT was compared to the actual status of the bridge deck.
The system is composed of a massive antenna array of sixteen 2Gigahertz channels with 10 centimetres spacing, mounted on a lightweight and highly manoeuvrable trolley and powered by a large, 24 ampere hour (Ah) 12 Volt battery. Compared to a single antenna GPR, RIS Hi-BrigHT is 1 metre wide and can scan a bridge with passes in a single direction. Thanks to the fast data collection of IDS Georadar's GPR system, authorities just needed to close the bridge during the survey for approximately 25 minutes for a total acquisition of 210 square metres.
"Thanks to the double polarisation of the RIS Hi-BrigHT antennas, it is possible to obtain a complete and detailed detection along each scan line over the bridge deck, instead of losing time creating a net of orthogonal ones," said Marco Umberto Conti, geophysicist at Sineco S.p.A. "Acquisition experiences on bridge decks, demonstrated how easily and swiftly the job can be accomplished with RIS Hi-BrigHT, having benefits for both operator and customer."
Post-processing analysis and data interpretation
Map of Asphalt Thickness
In the post processing phase, Sineco S.p.A evaluated the:
- asphalt thickness
- depth of the rebar mesh and,
- visualised corrosion, concrete cover thickness and moisture in different maps.
Map of Corrosion
Map of Moisture
All this was done using IDS GeoRadar software GRED HD Bridge.
Aside from reducing the duration of traffic interruption during field operations, the denser measurements provided by RIS Hi-BrigHT yield a more accurate characterisation of the condition of the bridge deck, a better prediction of the deterioration progression, and a better assessment of the rehabilitation needs. Such comprehensive and accurate assessments can also reduce the frequency of detailed follow-up inspections. In addition, data collected from the non-destructive tests of bridge decks can complement other information to better understand life-cycle costs, deterioration mechanisms, and the effectiveness of preservation techniques at various stages of the aging process.
"The advantage for the customer is clear: short time of single line or entire carriageway closure; less time waiting for the results of such detection; and a complete dataset for a restructuring planning," said Conti. "We have also seen through direct verification and scarifying of bridge concrete slabs that the Power Map exported using GRED HD Bridge is a very effective tool to identify areas potentially affected by the deterioration of reinforcing bars."


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"But who did the shooting? Who dares blame it on anyone without an investigation?"
An immense torrent of abuse and slander is being poured on the Bolsheviks for the demonstration of July 3 and 4.
They go so far as to accuse the Bolsheviks of "trying to seize the city", of wanting to "violate" the will of the Soviets, of "encroaching on the authority of the Soviets", and so on, and so forth.
The facts, however, show that the Bolsheviks did not seize a single building, a single institution, let alone a section of the city (although they could have), nor tried to do so even though the people were armed.
The facts show that the only political act of violence against an institution occurred on the night of July 4-5, when the military cadets and Cossacks wrecked Pravda on Polovtsev's orders, without the knowledge and against the will of the Soviet.
This is a fact.
It was a deliberate, malicious use of force against an entire institution, an "encroachment" and "violation" not in words, but in deeds. Had this encroachment been lawful, either the Provisional Government or the Soviet would have sanctioned the measure. Neither authority, however, did so. Those who committed violence against "Pravda" received no support either in the Soviet or in the Provisional Government.
The Bolsheviks appealed to the soldiers who had started the demonstration to act peaceably and in an organised way.
Neither the Provisional Government nor the Soviet appealed to the military cadets, the Cossacks or Polovtsev to act peaceably and in an organised, lawful way.
But, we are told, there was shooting.
Yes, there was. But who did the shooting? Who dares blame it on anyone without an investigation?
Please listen to a witness from bourgeois quarters.
This witness is the paper Birzheviye Vedomosti, evening edition of July 4—a witness whom nobody in the world could suspect of partiality towards the Bolsheviks! Here is what the witness says:
"At 2 p.m. sharp, when the armed demonstrators were passing the Sadovaya and Nevsky corner and a large number of spectators were watching them quietly, a deafening shot rang out from the right side of Sadovaya, after which disorderly firing began."
And so, even the witness from the bourgeois paper is compelled to admit the truth, namely, that the shooting began from the right side of Sadovaya!! Surely this is a clear enough indication that the shooting was aimed at the demonstrators.
Is it really so difficult to appreciate that if the demonstrators had planned or wished to use force, they would have sent people against a definite institution, as Polovtsev sent military cadets and Cossacks against Pravda? Since sailors were killed, and since the witness from the bourgeois paper says that the shooting was started "from the right side of Sadovaya" "when the armed demonstrators were passing", isn't this obvious enough proof that it was the Black Hundreds, the opponents of democracy, the quarters close to the Cadets, that wanted and were bent on violence?
Source: Marxist Internet Archive.


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This is a respin with a wider audience (all that get_maintainer returned) and I know this spams a *lot* of people. Not sure what would be the correct way, so my apologies for ruining your inbox. The 00-INDEX files are supposed to give a summary of all files present in a directory, but these files are horribly out of date and their usefulness is brought into question. Often a simple "ls" would reveal the same information as the filenames are generally quite descriptive as a short introduction to what the file covers (it should not surprise anyone what Documentation/sched/sched-design-CFS.txt covers) A few years back it was mentioned that these files were no longer really needed, and they have since then grown further out of date, so perhaps it is time to just throw them out. A short status yields the following _outdated_ 00-INDEX files, first counter is files listed in 00-INDEX but missing in the directory, last is files present but not listed in 00-INDEX. List of outdated 00-INDEX: Documentation: (4/10) Documentation/sysctl: (0/1) Documentation/timers: (1/0) Documentation/blockdev: (3/1) Documentation/w1/slaves: (0/1) Documentation/locking: (0/1) Documentation/devicetree: (0/5) Documentation/power: (1/1) Documentation/powerpc: (0/5) Documentation/arm: (1/0) Documentation/x86: (0/9) Documentation/x86/x86_64: (1/1) Documentation/scsi: (4/4) Documentation/filesystems: (2/9) Documentation/filesystems/nfs: (0/2) Documentation/cgroup-v1: (0/2) Documentation/kbuild: (0/4) Documentation/spi: (1/0) Documentation/virtual/kvm: (1/0) Documentation/scheduler: (0/2) Documentation/fb: (0/1) Documentation/block: (0/1) Documentation/networking: (6/37) Documentation/vm: (1/3) Then there are 364 subdirectories in Documentation/ with several files that are missing 00-INDEX alltogether (and another 120 with a single file and no 00-INDEX). I don't really have an opinion to whether or not we /should/ have 00-INDEX, but the above 00-INDEX should either be removed or be kept up to date. If we should keep the files, I can try to keep them updated, but I rather not if we just want to delete them anyway. As a starting point, remove all index-files and references to 00-INDEX and see where the discussion is going. Signed-off-by: Henrik Austad <firstname.lastname@example.com> Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <email@example.com> Just-do-it-by: Steven Rostedt <firstname.lastname@example.com> Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <email@example.com> Acked-by: Paul Moore <email@example.com> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <email@example.com> Acked-by: Mark Brown <firstname.lastname@example.com> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <email@example.com> Cc: [Almost everybody else] Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <email@example.com>


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Dell Inks $24.4B Takeover, Largest LBO Since '08 Crisis
Struggling PC maker Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) unveiled a $24.4 billion deal on Tuesday morning to be taken private by a group led by founder Michael Dell and private-equity firm Silver Lake Partners, marking the largest leveraged buyout since the financial crisis.
The deal, which includes a "go-shop" period and a $2 billion loan from Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), represents a big bet by Michael Dell and others that despite incurring heavy new debt, Dell can more quickly complete its transformation to a modern technology company away from the harsh lights of Wall Street.
Shares of Dell, which have rallied in recent weeks on speculation about a possible deal, rose 0.90% to $13.39 Tuesday morning.
Dell said shareholders will receive $13.65 a share in cash, representing a 25% premium over Dell's close of $10.88 on January 11, the last trading day before buyout speculation began swirling around the company. The valuation represents a 37% premium over the average closing share price during 90 calendar days ending January 11.
However, the offer price is a 26% discount to Dell's 52-week high of $18.36 that was set in late February 2012. The company's stock has been hurt by slumping sales amid an industry shift away from PCs in favor of smaller devices like tablets and smartphones.
The buyout group has agreed to buy all of the outstanding Dell shares not held by Michael Dell and certain other members of management. Michael Dell holds about 14% of the company, which is worth about $3.4 billion under the deal announced on Tuesday.
"I believe this transaction will open an exciting new chapter for Dell, our customers and team members," Michael Dell said in a statement. "We can deliver immediate value to stockholders, while we continue the execution of our long-term strategy and focus on delivering best-in-class solutions to our customers as a private enterprise."
The group is comprised of private-equity firm Silver Lake, Michael Dell and his MSD Capital investment firm and also features a $2 billion loan from software giant Microsoft. Previous reports indicated Microsoft would be an investor rather than a lender.
"Microsoft is committed to the long term success of the entire PC ecosystem and invests heavily in a variety of ways to build that ecosystem for the future," Microsoft said in a statement.
Shares of Microsoft gained 0.56% to $27.59 Tuesday morning.
Dell's rivals are ready to pounce as the company undergoes what could be a difficult transition to life as a private company with a heavy debt load.
Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) said in a statement it plans to take "full advantage" of the "extended period of uncertainty" now facing Dell.
"With a significant debt load, Dell's ability to invest in new products and services will be extremely limited. Leveraged buyouts tend to leave existing customers and innovation at the curb," H-P said.
The participation of Michael Dell in the deal raised some conflict-of-interest questions because in addition to being the buyer, the company's CEO also has a duty to look out for what's in the best interest of shareholders.
However, Dell noted that its board was acting on the recommendation of a special committee of independent directors that unanimously approved the deal subject to a vote of unaffiliated shareholders. The company also said Michael Dell recused himself from all discussions and the board vote.
Headed by lead director Alex Mandl, the special committee was first formed in August 2012 and retained its own bankers from J.P. Morgan Chase (NYSE:JPM).
Additionally, the deal calls for a so-called "go-shop" period that allows Dell to solicit alternative takeover proposals for 45 days. A successful competing bidder who makes a qualifying proposal during that period would bear a $180 million termination fee, Dell said. For a competing bidder who did not qualify during the initial go-shop period, the fee would be $450 million.
Dell said the special committee also engaged an unnamed leading management consulting firm to undertake an independent analysis and also engaged investment bank Evercore Partners (NYSE:EVR).
"The special committee and its advisors conducted a disciplined and independent process intended to ensure the best outcome for shareholders," Mandl said, adding that the "go-shop" period "provides a real opportunity" to discover a higher bid.
The companies said Michael Dell will remain chairman and CEO of Dell once it goes private. The buyout group also plans to keep the company based in Round Rock, Tex.
"Michael Dell is a true visionary and one of the preeminent leaders of the global technology industry," said Egon Durban, a managing partner at Silver Lake.
There had been questions about whether or not the debt market would be able to sustain the financing need for a deal of this magnitude. However, the buyout group received financing from Microsoft as well as the investment banks Bank of America Merrill Lynch (NYSE:BAC), Barclays (NYSE:BCS), Credit Suisse (NYSE:CS) and RBC Capital Markets (NYSE:RY).
The deal is expected to close before the end of the second quarter of Dell's fiscal 2014 year. In addition to shareholder approval, the transaction is subject to regulatory review.
Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) served as an advisor to Dell's board of directors, while Silver Lake's bankers were from the financing consortium of BofA Merrill Lynch, Barclays, Credit Suisse and RBC.


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Appeals courts differ on Obamacare; Supreme Court case likely
Posted: Jul 22, 2014 6:25 PM CDT | Updated: Nov 5, 2014 3:12 PM CDT
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- It was a tale of two rulings -- the best of times and the worst of times for Obamacare in the federal appeals courts.
First, a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit court of appeals ruled Tuesday against a key component of the law -- the federal subsidies for millions of people who signed up for health coverage.
The 2-1 decision created a legal path for a possible Supreme Court case that could essentially gut the 2010 Affordable Care Act, which passed with zero GOP votes.
A few hours later, all three judges on a 4th Circuit panel in Virginia decided the opposite by declaring the subsidies legal and proper.
Opposing rulings
The opposing rulings increased the chances for the issue to reach the nation's highest court, and demonstrated the deep political divisions over the law despised by conservatives intent on undermining it.
Both judges in the majority of the 2-1 D.C. Circuit ruling were appointed by Republican presidents, while all three in the unanimous 4th Circuit panel were appointed by Democratic presidents.
Republicans immediately hailed the D.C. panel's ruling against the subsidies as evidence of what they called fatal flaws in the health care law.
\"This is yet more evidence that Obamacare is not working -- and cannot work -- for the American people,\" said GOP Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, who faces a conservative primary challenger questioning his right-wing credentials.
At the White House, spokesman Josh Earnest expressed confidence in the administration's legal position, saying Congress clearly intended for all Americans to have access to tax credits if needed so they could afford health insurance.
The issue: subsidies
The legal argument involves a provision in the health care law that says people who obtained coverage through state-run exchanges can get federal subsidies such as tax credits. It doesn't specifically say that those signing up on the federal exchange also are eligible.
Opponents of the law contend that lack of specificity renders illegal the subsidies for anyone who enrolled through the federal exchange.
Only 14 states and the District of Columbia set up their own exchanges, meaning that the 4.7 million who signed up for subsidized health coverage through HealthCare.gov could be affected.
\"It will kill Obamacare,\" Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah said of an eventual Supreme Court ruling against the subsidies. \"It would make it very difficult for Obamacare to continue because the cost of health care is going to go sky high for those who are not in the state exchange.\"
For now, the law remains unchanged and the subsidized policies are unaffected until the legal case plays out, Earnest told reporters. The Justice Department said the government would appeal the D.C. panel's decision.
Partisan divide
The easiest fix -- changing the law to specify that it allows subsidies for coverage purchased through the federal government as well as state exchanges -- would mean reopening the debate in Congress.
Unlike last time, when Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate, Republicans now control the House and are expected to make gains in the November election, perhaps taking over the Senate too.
That means Obama and Democrats have no chance of getting Congress to approve any remedial change in the law.
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, one of the leading crusaders against the health care act, argued Tuesday that the federal subsidies amounted to assuming funding powers the Constitution granted Congress.
Earnest, however, said Congress intended \"to ensure that every eligible American who applied for tax credits to make their health insurance more affordable would have access to those tax credits, whether or not the marketplace was operated by federal officials or state officials.\"
The opposing rulings Tuesday pivoted over the meaning of the word \"ambiguous.\"
In Richmond, the 4th Circuit judges labeled the Affordable Care Act ambiguous on whether subsidies should be allowed for consumers getting insurance on federal exchanges.
When a law is ambiguous, courts give deference to a federal agency's interpretation of the law, which in this case is the Internal Revenue Service rule allowing the subsidies.
The D.C. Circuit decision concluded that Obamacare was unambiguous in restricting subsidies to insurance purchased on exchanges \"established by the state,\" rather than the federal exchange.
In his dissent, though, appellate Judge Harry Edwards -- a Democratic appointee -- argued that labeling the phrase \"established by the state\" as unambiguous \"strains fruitlessly to show plain meaning when there is none to be found.\"
CNNMoney's Tami Luhby and CNN's Joe Johns and Bill Mears contributed to this report,which was written by Tom Cohen.


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Press Release
Justice Department Settles with National Board of Medical Examiners Over Refusal to Provide Testing Accommodations to Yale Medical School Student
For Immediate Release
Office of Public Affairs
WASHINGTON - The Justice Department today announced a settlement under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) with the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME), a private, non-profit organization that administers the U.S. Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE), a standardized examination related to medical licensing. Under the terms of the settlement agreement, NBME is committed to providing reasonable testing accommodations to persons with disabilities who seek to take the USMLE, in accordance with the requirements of the ADA. In addition, it will grant Frederick Romberg, a Yale Medical School student, the accommodations of double the standard testing time and a separate testing area to take the USMLE.
"In the past, demands for unnecessary or redundant documentation, burdensome and expensive repeated professional evaluations, or irrelevant evaluative testing unrelated to the ability to demonstrate one's knowledge or skills on an examination prevented individuals with appropriately documented disabilities from pursuing their chosen professions." said Thomas E. Perez, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division. "By entering into this agreement, NBME is doing its part to ensure that people with a reading disability like Mr. Romberg will have the opportunity to take the USMLE with the reasonable testing accommodations they need to demonstrate their knowledge and ability."
Under the agreement, the NBME will:
· Only request documentation about (a) the existence of a physical or mental impairment; (b) whether the applicant's impairment substantially limits one or more major life activities within the meaning of the ADA; and (c) whether and how the impairment limits the applicant's ability to take the USMLE under standard conditions;
· Carefully consider the recommendations of qualified professionals who have personally observed the applicant in a clinical setting and recommended accommodations based upon their clinical judgment that the individual is substantially limited in one or more major life activities within the meaning of the ADA and needs the requested test accommodations in order to demonstrate his or her ability and achievement level; such recommendations are to be based on generally accepted diagnostic criteria and supported by reasonable documentation.
· Carefully consider all evidence indicating whether an individual's ability to read is substantially limited within the meaning of the ADA, including the extent to which it is restricted as to the conditions, manner or duration as compared to the reading ability of most people.
The Justice Department opened an investigation in response to a complaint from Mr. Romberg who alleged that the NBME had twice denied him reasonable testing accommodations to take the USMLE because of his disability, dyslexia, in violation of the ADA. Subsequently, the department and the NBME sought to resolve the investigation by reaching a settlement agreement.
The settlement was reached under Title III of the ADA which prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities by private testing entities that administer examinations related to professional licensing. More information about the Civil Rights Division and the laws it enforces is available at the website www.justice.gov/crt . More information about the settlement with NBME can be found at www.ada.gov or by calling the toll-free ADA Information Line at 800-514-0301 or 800-514-0383 (TTY).
Updated May 11, 2020
Press Release Number: 11-220


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Well, as I've said multiple times for years now: WikiLeaks= Distraction!! Nothing they've released is actually "NEW", it's all information that we ALREADY KNOW!!
I've been waiting for this big "OHHHHH, AHHHHHHH" moment of the release of WikiLeaks "VAULT 7" dump of information..... the thing that has kept the alternative media glued to their computers, rubbing their hands together in anticipation..... and Nope- I wasn't disappointed- This big "LEAK" is nothing more than rehash of stuff we already knew, Yet Again!!
So.... Ask yourself: What was really going on that they needed to keep the alternative media distracted?
This morning, WikiLeaks released "the largest ever publication of confidential documents on the agency". Since it can be quite difficult to search through the data yourself, we are assembling a list of the most notable information.
*The CIA can masquerade its malware as belonging to a foreign intelligence agency.
Already knew this- mostly they've been using Russian stuff to blame the Russians
*The CIA stole hacking malware from the Russian Federation for their own use.
Already surmised this, from the fact that the Russians are holding several people from Russian Malware companies on unknown charges.
*The CIA is hacking everyone, including US citizens.
Well, DUH!
*Every microphone and webcam is remote controllable.
Again, this is such old news as to be barely a yawn
*The CIA's exploits have been leaked internally and can be used by unauthorized people to gain access to virtually anything.
Again: Well, Duh!
*CIA malware can infiltrate iPhones, Androids, Windows Phones, and even your smart TV.
We've known this for YEARS!
*The U.S. consulate in Frankfurt is a covert CIA hacker base.
Already knew that- or at lease surmised this by the fact that Germany has been scrambling for over a year to cover up and spin doctor their participation in the spying on other EU countries for unnamed agencies
*The CIA created air gap jumping viruses that infect CDs, DVDs, flash drives, etc.
Again, we already knew that!
*The CIA created malware that specifically evaded certain anti-virus programs.
Seriously?! John McAfee anyone?!?
*The CIA can hack cars for "undetectable assassinations"
*yawn* Again, sooooo ollllldddddddd!!!!
*CIA malware can infiltrate your macOS and Windows computers.
*CIA malware infiltrates your smartphone to read messages on encrypted apps, before you send them.
Doubly boring!!! This news was released in the main stream media in 2013 for fuck sakes!!!
*CIA malware can infiltrate Linux and routers.
Not "news" but we definitely had already figured this out by ourselves
*The CIA was supposed to reveal major vulnerabilities, but instead, hoarded them for their own use.
Notepad++, a popular text editor, has a DLL hijack.
REALLY?!? I'm Just So Fuckin SHOCKED ...... again, even if we didnt' have proof, this was surmised ages ago!
*The CIA steals saved passwords from Internet Explorer
Buhahahahhaha!!!! ok ... this is a joke, right? Is there a hidden camera somewhere ..... 'cause calling this a "LEAK" is fuckin' hysterical!!!! I knew about this even BEFORE I "woke up", lol
*CIA can bypass Windows User Account Control
*CIA has Android malware that makes Android phones bulk-spy on WiFi networks around them.


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mDesign a568 Soft Fabric Over The Door Hanging Storage Organizer with 3 Large Pockets for Closets in Bedrooms, Hallway, Entryway, Mudroom-Hooks Included-Textured Print, 2 Pack-Linen/Tan
Regular price
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Brand: mDesign
Color: Linen
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Publisher: MetroDecor
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