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Tobacco Control Policies Stop People From Smoking and Save Lives
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WASHINGTON — Tobacco control measures put in place in 41 countries between 2007 and 2010 will prevent some 7.4 million premature deaths by 2050, according to a study published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization Sunday.
The study is one of the first to look at the effect of measures since the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) was established in 2005. Jt demonstrates the success of the WHO FCTC in reducing tobacco use and, thus, saving lives.
"It's a spectacular finding that by implementing these simple tobacco control policies, governments can save so many lives," said lead author David Levy, PhD, professor of oncology at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center in Washington.
In 2008, WHO identified six evidence-based tobacco control measures that are the most effective in reducing tobacco use, and started to provide technical support to help countries fulfill their WHO FCTC obligations.
Known as "MPOWER," these measures correspond to one or more of the demand reduction provisions included in the WHO FCTC: Monitoring tobacco use and prevention policies, Protecting people from tobacco smoke, Offering help to quit tobacco use, Warning people about the dangers of tobacco, Enforcing bans on tobacco advertising, Promotion and sponsorship, and Raising taxes on tobacco.
The authors did a modeling exercise and projected the number of premature deaths that would be averted by 2050 through the implementation of one or more of these measures.
The study focused on the 41 countries (two of which are not Parties to the WHO FCTC) that had implemented the demand reduction measures at "the highest level of achievement," that is, at a level proven to attain the greatest impact.
These countries represented nearly one billion people or one-seventh of the world's population of 6.9 billion in 2008. The total number of smokers in those countries was nearly 290 million in 2007.
Of the 41 countries, 33 had put in place one MPOWER measure and the remaining eight had implemented more than one.
"In addition to some 7.4 million lives saved, the tobacco control policies we examined can lead to other health benefits such as fewer adverse birth outcomes related to maternal smoking, including low birth weight, and reduced health-care costs and less loss of productivity due to less smoking-related disease," Levy said.
If these high-impact tobacco control measures were implemented even more widely, millions more smoking-related deaths would be averted, said Douglas Bettcher, MD, director of the department of non-communicable diseases at WHO.
"Tobacco use is the single most preventable cause of death in the world, with six million smoking-attributable deaths per year today, and these deaths are projected to rise to eight million a year by 2030, if current trends continue," Bettcher said. "By taking the right measures, this tobacco epidemic can be entirely prevented."??
The WHO FCTC was developed in response to the globalization of the tobacco epidemic. Since the WHO FCTC came into force in 2005, 175 countries and the European Union have become parties to it. It is the most rapidly and widely embraced treaty in United Nations history, covering almost 90 percent of the world's population.
About the Bulletin of the World Health Organization
The Bulletin of the World Health Organization is one of the world's leading public health journals. It is the flagship periodical of WHO, with a special focus on developing countries. Articles are peer-reviewed and are independent of WHO guidelines.
About Georgetown University Medical Center
Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) is an internationally recognized academic medical center with a three-part mission of research, teaching and patient care (through MedStar Health). GUMC's mission is carried out with a strong emphasis on public service and a dedication to the Catholic, Jesuit principle of cura personalis — or "care of the whole person." The Medical Center includes the School of Medicine and the School of Nursing & Health Studies, both nationally ranked; Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, designated as a comprehensive cancer center by the National Cancer Institute; and the Biomedical Graduate Research Organization, which accounts for the majority of externally funded research at GUMC including a Clinical and Translational Science Award from the National Institutes of Health.


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The strange development may be an attempt to get around filtering software that checks the destination domains
Spammers have created their own services to shorten URLs (uniform resource locators) in an apparent attempt to circumvent security measures in place at well-known shortening websites, according to Symantec.
So far, some 87 URL shortening sites have been set up by spammers, said Nick Johnston, a senior software engineer at Symantec. The spammers have used an open-source URL shortening script and have not built the code themselves. The shortened links are only appearing in spam emails that advertise pharmaceutical products at sites such as "Pharmacy Express," he said.
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In May, Symantec noticed some spammers were using their own shortened URLs, but further investigation showed it was actually just a website that appeared to be a shortened URL but then redirected people to the spam websites. This is the first time the spammers have employed a real URL shortener, Symantec said in its latest intelligence report for October. Why the sites have been left public is unknown.
All of the websites that are advertised in the spam runs, which are on several different IP addresses, are hosted by a U.K. division of a hosting company, which Johnston declined to identify. The company has been notified, but many of the spam sites are still online, he said. All of the domain names were registered in Russia, he said.
Shortened URLs are a bit of a problem when they're abused since users can't easily tell if they are being redirected to a website that might try to infect their computer with malicious software.
The shorter URLs are necessary on sites such as Twitter, when users need the space because of the 140-character limit. To combat abuse, Twitter has introduced its own shortening service, which checks to see if the target is a potentially dangerous website and listed on security blacklists. It also changed the way the shortened links are displayed to give users a better idea of where they are going.
Other major URL shortening companies will remove malicious shortened links if it is determined the links could be harmful. Another method is to warn users they may be going to an attack site.
Johnston said it is quite easy to block the shortened links, since many follow a consistent pattern, such as 3xy.info, and seem only to be used for spam. Since the shortening services don't appear be used legitimately, there's "no risk of false positives by blocking them outright," Johnston said.
The shortening technique might help a bit in getting messages past spam filters if the spammer sends out a very large run of spam with a large set of domains. But more likely that not, the technique won't be that effective.
"You will probably accept as a spammer in less than a day all of those domains will probably be blocked, but that could be an acceptable tradeoff for them," Johnston said.
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PRINCETON, NJ -- Creating good jobs, reducing corruption in the federal government, and reducing the federal budget deficit score highest when Americans rate 12 issues as priorities for the next president to address. Americans assign much less importance to increasing taxes on wealthy Americans and dealing with environmental concerns.
The results are based on a July 19-22 USA Today/Gallup poll. Job creation's position at the top of the list is consistent with various measures of issue salience or importance Gallup has asked this year. Corruption in government usually ranks as an important issue when it is asked about specifically, though it is not as top-of-mind as jobs or the economy.
In addition to jobs, corruption, and the deficit, Americans also give relatively high priority to dealing with terrorism and other international threats, ensuring the long-term stability of Social Security and Medicare, and improving the nation's public schools.
Obama, Romney Supporters in Accord on Job Creation, Corruption
Supporters of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney likely disagree on how best to address the major issues facing the country, but they both rate job creation and reducing government corruption among their top priorities for the next president.
Romney supporters rate reducing the federal budget deficit as more important than Obama supporters do. In fact, slightly more Romney supporters say reducing the deficit is extremely important (51%) than say creating jobs is (48%).
Likewise, 50% of Obama supporters assign high importance to making healthcare available and affordable, two percentage points more than their rating of any other issue.
Obama and Romney supporters differ most on healthcare, dealing with environmental concerns, increasing taxes on the wealthy, and education. All of these are much higher priorities for Obama supporters than for Romney supporters. The deficit is the only issue that has a large party difference with Romney supporters saying it is more important.
Although there is a large difference in the relative importance of dealing with environmental concerns and increasing taxes on wealthy Americans, these issues are the lowest priorities for both Romney and Obama supporters.
In addition to job creation and corruption, there are relatively small differences in importance for terrorism and setting high moral standards.
Americans' to-do list for the president on Jan. 20, 2013 -- whether it be Obama or Romney -- includes creating good jobs, reducing government corruption, and reducing the federal budget deficit. Supporters of both candidates agree about the importance of jobs and corruption, while the deficit is a higher priority for Romney supporters than Obama supporters. In turn, Obama supporters believe the next president should have healthcare, Social Security and Medicare, and public education among his highest priorities.
Job creation has certainly been and will continue to be a major topic during the remainder of the campaign. And both candidates will surely need to outline their plans for reducing the federal budget deficit. However, it is unclear whether government corruption will become a major issue in the campaign, even though Americans see reducing it as an important goal.
The candidate who Americans think has the better plans on each of these issues will have an advantage. As of now, Americans believe Romney is better able to handle jobs and the deficit than Obama is. Still, the two candidates remain locked in a tight race, with voters' presidential preferences evenly divided.
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Today cannot be real.
I wish it were a bad dream.
Today was the day that I never actually thought would get here. It's a day that that has haunted me since the day he left my arms.
I told myself (and countless others who asked) that I was going to give myself a year after Tripp passed away to organize my thoughts, and then decide what I was going to do with my life.
A year seemed like an eternity... that's why I said that.
And now today makes one year... and if it's possible, I think my heart may be more broken today than on the day he actually went to be with Jesus. The shock has faded and reality is BANGING at my door. That's what I get for always trying to be in control... for giving myself a timeline to heal the loss of my child. A timeline is not possible.
It's been a whole year since I've held him in my arms.
A whole year since I've kissed his lips.
A whole year since I leaned close and told him I loved him.
It's been a whole year and I still don't understand why he's gone. I still can't comprehend why other people get to keep their babies and I didn't get to keep mine.
He was my world. My heart. My everything.
And now he's been gone a whole year.
Where did it go?
I can't kiss those big beautiful, plump lips...
I can't look into those big gorgeous brown eyes...
I can't hold that sweet hand, or rub and kiss my favorite little feet...
And what breaks my heart the most of all,
is that I can't see that beaming, glowing, amazing SMILE
that he gave me for 2 years and 8 months.
I can't hold him in my arms, or rock him in our favorite chair...
I can't play drums with him anymore, or sing Elmo, or dance...
I can't comfort him anymore like a mommy is supposed to do.
Instead, I have to trust that my baby is with Jesus in Heaven, and that he will never need comforting again. And it's not fair.
My heart is broken into about 4 million pieces.
And I know that I will never ever be able to get that one piece of it back. The piece that made me the happiest girl in the world. The piece that finally made me complete.
My baby boy... who is now my little angel.
Dear parents (whom I know or do not know) who have ever lost a child:
I am so so SO sorry that before January 14, 2012, I have had NO clue and was totally oblivious to your pain. Because there is no pain like it. There is no way to describe it. There is no way to make anyone ever be able to understand it, whether they have kids of their own or not... or whether they are a part of your own family or not. No one will never understand... unless they have lost a child themselves. And I'm so sorry for that. And you have beaten yourself up mentally trying to get them to understand. You can't understand why their lives can go on. How they can be so happy and so care-free when your life has ended and your heart has been ripped out of your chest. It isn't fair. And it isn't their fault. I try to picture myself before having Tripp. I think of how I might have acted around someone who had lost their child. Would I have said, "Oh hi, how are you?" And did they roll their eyes at me and think to themselves, "How in the *bleep do you THINK I am??" Or would I have had a conversation with them and totally ignored the fact that they had lost their child? Or never mentioned that I was sorry? Did I actually do these things with women I knew who had lost children? I don't know. Because I couldn't possibly have understood before now. I couldn't have understood what it would have been like to give birth to a human being, fall desperately in love with him or her, live my life for him or her, and then have them taken from me without explanation. Everything you love in life- things, people, possessions.... will NEVER compare to the amount of love a mother has for her child. Never. EVER. I don't care what anyone says. So, I truly do want to say that I'm sorry. I am sorry that you feel alone. I am sorry that you have to think about the death of your child all the time when most people don't remember. I'm sorry that you have to have Christmases and holidays and birthdays without your child. Because now I know what that feels like. And I would rather someone beat me unconscious every single day of my life than to have to feel like this.
Please know that I feel your pain... and that you are not alone.
The pain I feel isn't about "understanding why this happened" or "being mad at God." The pain is simply just MISSING HIM. It's a physical, gut-wrenching, nauseating pain knowing that you can't hold your baby. Or hug him. Or kiss him. So people that say it will be okay and that I "will be with him again one day," don't understand that I know I will be with him again one day... but that it's NOT okay. Nor will it ever be okay not to be able to be with my baby. It's not supposed to happen that way. I'm supposed to go first. Will I cope and live normally? Yes. But it will never be okay that my son is not here for me to hug. That pain of missing him will never go away.
I hope and pray it gets easier... and that I can see and play with other kids without having that gut-wrenching, guilty feeling the whole time.
That is my constant, daily prayer to God... Peace in my heart.
Peace to comfort my broken heart.
My parents have been a greater support to me than I could have imagined. And I guess now that I know the feeling of loving your child, I understand more how much they must love me. My heart hurts daily for my parents. Tripp was their first grandchild. And also had to suffer this past year, watching their friends and siblings with their grandkids when they didn't have theirs. I know how much they wanted grandkids and how excited they were when they found out I was pregnant. And I know that it's a different pain than losing your child, but I can imagine that they hurt for me, as well as hurt because they miss Tripp, too. And my sister, who just had a sweet baby boy of her own and lives states away, always manages to stay in daily contact. She will always be my best friend, and always always there when I need her.
I am just so grateful for the never-ending, unconditional love and support of my family
(especially on the days that I'm a complete witch).
I could have never ever survived those 2 years and 8 months without my mother.
That's a fact.
I'll never be able to re-pay her for all she's done and continues to do for me.
Best Mom Ever.
I am also overwhelmed with the blessing God snuck into my life 2 years ago.
I knew from the moment Stephen came into mine and Tripp's life, that he was a great guy. But with me being so hurt and mistreated in the past, it took me a little while to be able to appreciate the man that he really is. And when I finally did, Oh, can I tell you how good that felt? I finally have a real man. I finally know what it is like to be loved unconditionally. I feel what it is like to actually be comforted when I am sad. I know what it feels like to have someone believe in me, and want to be a TEAM- by working together every day to make our relationship better than it already is... not just using the excuse that it's hard. We have learned so much from each other. I believe God saved Stephen for me. I truly believe that. And I thank Him every night when I lay my head down on my pillow. This month also makes 2 years since Stephen and I started dating. Starting two years ago, almost every single day, he would come home from work, come over, and sit on the couch behind the rocking chair... for hours. And just hang with us. Never getting "bored" or never letting on that he wanted to be anywhere else. Always being perfectly fine with the fact that I couldn't leave the house or that we never got to be alone. He was so patient. He took to Tripp so wonderfully. He jumped right in, with both feet. I remember how nervous I was the first time Stephen came over to meet Tripp. I wasn't sure how he would act or what he would think. But he sat on the floor in front of his toys, and started playing with him like they had been best buds for years. The little drops of blood from Tripp's fingers when he would accidentally play too rough, never once bothered Stephen. And it made my heart melt. And since then, he has been the glue that has held me together. He would help mom and I with Tripp's baths... and just stand by our side for hours while I bathed him... handing me supplies as I needed them. He's shared my tears, my smiles, my meltdowns... and most importantly, he shared in my son's life. So he actually got to know and love a piece of my heart outside of my body... for an entire year of his life... which has been SO important in our relationship and being able to understand what we went through. He has held my hand through it all. He treats me better than I even deserve sometimes.
And I get to become his wife... I am a lucky, lucky girl.
God has also shown me how active He's been in my life by the friends He's sent me. I haven't figured out if they are angels yet, but I'm pretty sure one of them curses way too much to be an angel... just kidding, Amy! (those of you who know Amy, understand that :). I met Amy through Ch.6 news when they asked me to do a story. Since then, she has texted me every single day (never ever missing a day) to check in on me. She has been an amazing friend. If I don't text her first, because I'm having a crap day... you can always bet she is going to text, even if just to say "how was today, my friend?" A simple "how are you" and acknowledgment that I'm hurting means so much these days. And I can always count on it from her. Well through my friendship with Amy, I met Jenn Lormand, who I told you owns Ascension Fitness in Metairie. I have been working out with Jenn on and off for about 6-8 months now. Jenn is amazing. She has been an amazing friend and such a huge part of my healing process this past year. Well Jenn... being the one who is always wanting to do something to help me... just recently introduced me to another woman who works out at her gym, named Erin. Erin lost her precious son to an accident when he was 14 months old. It has been 7 years, and she has since then had 4 more children. She is amazing. She is exactly what I hope to be in 7 years. This friendship that I am just starting with her, is only one that can be sent by God. She's exactly what my broken heart needs. Someone who I can relate to. Someone who can say, "I know how you feel" and actually REALLY know how I feel. I can tell her anything. I can tell her that I lay my head on the pillow sometimes at night and pray that my heart stops beating because it hurts too much. And she understands the pain. She checks in on me regularly, and offers to get a sitter for her children so that we can have lunch. Or she will just text to check in and see how I'm doing. I am more grateful than words to have her to talk to, to cry to, or to laugh with (without feeling guilty about it). So it just shows, how God put Amy in my life when Tripp was a little over a year old, to be the friend I needed, and then Amy lead to Jenn in my life at the time I needed to pull it together, and then Jenn led to Erin into my life at the perfect time, when God knew that I was at the end of my rope and couldn't handle it on my own anymore. He knew I needed someone who had been in my shoes. And that before now, I was too hardheaded to ask for help.
I don't think this "chain of friendship" was a coincidence.
God knows. He listens. He is present. And He is GOOD. He had my life planned out from the beginning. He knew everything that would happen. And He knows everything that is going to happen. I just have to remember to trust Him. So my goal this year, is to TRUST HIM. Through the pain, through the heartache, through the torture of every birthday and holiday... through the days when I feel like giving up, I want to remember to trust Him. It will by no means be easy. But I believe the only way that I'm going to find some peace... is by building a better relationship with God. And that relationship begins with trust.
And I am, AS ALWAYS, overwhelmed by the continued support of all of YOU.
All of you wonderful people who have followed our story,
who have prayed with me and for me,
and who are still supporting me a whole year later...
I love you.
And I am so thankful for you.
I'll never be able to say that enough.
Thank you for the mail, the letters, the gifts, and the kind words.
But for most of all, continuing to remember my sweet boy.
And continuing to raise awareness about EB so that one day no one will have to suffer from it.
Thank you...
from the bottom of my broken heart.


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Rock fans can now get an inside look at the SEE YOU ON THE OTHER SIDE box set, the definitive vinyl collection of all of OZZY OSBOURNE's original solo material. Due out Friday, November 29 on Sony Legacy, this set marks the first-ever all-vinyl collection of all the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and Grammy®-winning singer and songwriter's career music.
Pre-order SEE YOU ON THE OTHER SIDE here.
Here are the details of the SEE YOU ON THE OTHER SIDE box set:
VINYL: 173 songs total on 16 albums, each of which is 150-gram, hand-pressed multi-colored splatter vinyl, making each pressing unique. Many of the albums are previously unavailable or are currently out of print on vinyl. The collection also includes
Flippin' The B Side, a new collection of non-album tracks, which has never been pressed to vinyl. In addition, Black Rain, Down to Earth and Scream have never been pressed in the U.S., while No More Tears was remastered from the original flat analog album masters and is offered as a two-LP set which will allow the album's songs to be uncompressed for the very first time ever on vinyl. (Full list of albums is below.)
ART: 10 newly designed 24″X 36″ posters (including some never-before-seen images) each accompany the 10 studio albums released between 1981-2010.
AR: Twelve AR (Augmented Reality) experiences will be included throughout the package. Additional details will be announced in the coming weeks.
SIGNED CERTIFICATE: Each collection features an individually numbered vellum certificate of authenticity hand-signed by OZZY.
"This one's the most elaborate collection so far," OZZY says. "It's very well thought-out and well put together. It's got everything in there that you possibly could want and some surprises along the way. The sound of a vinyl record is different, and I do believe that vinyl sounds better."
The full list of vinyl (all of which contain the original track-listings) is as follows:
Blizzard Of Ozz, 1980
Mr. Crowley (EP), 45 RPM 1980
Diary Of A Madman,1981
Bark At The Moon, 1983
The Ultimate Sin, 1986
Tribute (2 LPs), 1987
No Rest For The Wicked, 1988
Just Say Ozzy (EP), 1990
No More Tears, 1991
Live & Loud (3 LPs), 1993
Ozzmosis (2 LPs), 1995
Down To Earth, 2001
Live At Budokan, (2 LPs) 2002
Black Rain (2 LPs), 2007
Scream (2 LPs), 2010
Bonus features include:
Flippin' The B Side
Side A
"You Looking At Me Looking At You
Originally from the "Crazy Train" UK 7″ single, released 1980
"One Up The B Side"
Originally from "Bark At The Moon" 7″ single,released 1983
Originally from "Bark At The Moon," 7″ single,released 1983
Originally a hidden track from the "No Rest For The Wicked" US CD and cassette release, released 1988
"The Liar"
Originally from the "Miracle Man" UK 12″ single, released 1988
"Don't Blame Me"
Originally from the "Mama I'm Coming Home" UK 7″ single, released 1991
Side B
"Party With The Animals"
Originally from the "Mama I'm Coming Home" US CD single, released 1992
"Living With The Enemy"
Originally from the "Perry Mason" UK CD single, released 1995
"Voodoo Dancer"
Originally from the "I Just Want You" UK CD single, released 1996
"Back On Earth"
Originally from "The Ozzman Cometh" compilation, released 1997
"No Place For Angels"
Originally from the "Gets Me Through" CD single, released 2001
"Walk On Water"
Originally released on "Prince Of Darkness," released 2005
Flexi Disc, 7″ (45 RPM)
Unreleased version of "See You On The Other Side" (Demo)
Jason Price founded the mighty Icon Vs. Icon more than a decade ago. Along the way, he's assembled an amazing group of like-minded individuals to spread the word on some of the most unique people and projects on the pop culture landscape.


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Network Partitioning Scenarios
This topic describes network partitioning scenarios and what happens to the partitioned sides of the cluster.
What the Losing Side Does
In a network partitioning scenario, the "losing side" constitutes the cluster partition where the membership coordinator has detected that there is an insufficient quorum of members to continue.
The membership coordinator calculates membership weight change after sending out its view preparation message. If a quorum of members does not remain after the view preparation phase, the coordinator on the "losing side" declares a network partition event and sends a network-partition-detected UDP message to the members. The coordinator then closes its cluster with a ForcedDisconnectException
. If a member fails to receive the message before the coordinator closes the connection, it is responsible for detecting the event on its own.
When the losing side discovers that a network partition event has occurred, all peer members receive a RegionDestroyedException
with Operation
If a CacheListener
is installed, the afterRegionDestroy
callback is invoked with a RegionDestroyedEvent
, as shown in this example logged by the losing side's callback. The peer member process IDs are 14291 (lead member) and 14296, and the locator is 14289.
[info 2008/05/01 11:14:51.853 PDT <CloserThread> tid=0x4a]
Invoked splitBrain.SBListener: afterRegionDestroy in client1 whereIWasRegistered: 14291
event.isReinitializing(): false
event.getDistributedMember(): thor(14291):40440/34132
event.getCallbackArgument(): null
event.getRegion(): /TestRegion
event.isOriginRemote(): false
Operation: FORCED_DISCONNECT
Operation.isDistributed(): false
Operation.isExpiration(): false
Peers still actively performing operations on the cache may see ShutdownException
s or CacheClosedException
s with Caused by: ForcedDisconnectException
What Isolated Members Do
When a member is isolated from all locators, it is unable to receive membership view changes. It can't know if the current coordinator is present or, if it has left, whether there are other members available to take over that role. In this condition, a member will eventually detect the loss of all other members and will use the loss threshold to determine whether it should shut itself down. In the case of a cluster with 2 locators and 2 cache servers, the loss of communication with the non-lead cache server plus both locators would result in this situation and the remaining cache server would eventually shut itself down.


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Fort Dundas is situated behind the Rio Bueno Primary School in the parish of Trelawny. The date 1778, which is marked on one of the stones flanking the arched doorway, suggests that the fort was built around that time. The fort was probably built by local proprietors. In 1800, Lord Balcarres, then Governor of the island, believed that Rio Bueno was vulnerable to attacks from Cuba and therefore had the fort added to the island's establishment.
After its enlistment, the fort was named Fort Dundas, in honour of Henry Dundas, the British Secretary of War.
The fort had a fan shape and an impressive wall with eight embrasures for cannons facing the sea and bay. Loopholes were also built in the walls.
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Amazon One-Star Reviews
Have I ever told you that I really like author John Scalzi? Not just because I love his books, but I do really enjoy his work. I like him because he spends a lot of time promoting the work of other young writers and promoting the science fiction and fantasy genre in general.
Recently, Scalzi published on his blog all his Amazon one-star reviews. As a fairly novice writer who will never write as well as Scalzi, I found this quite liberating. If folks like him endure these bad reviews, maybe I should not let my own setbacks get me down. He has challenged other authors to do the same, publishing their Amazon one-star reviews online. In this post, he links a number of authors who have taken up the challenge, including Charles Stross and Jo Walton.
So, though I am not in the league of these other authors, I will post my one-star review for my book BMOC.
I like the concept for the book and like reading Warren Meyer's Coyote
Blog. I don't understand how crude and uncouth became popular and I am
disappointed that is the approach that was chosen with this book. I
should have paid attention to the review by "Warren's mother." I've
returned my copy to Amazon for a refund.
Wow, I actually feel better. Based on this review, I will warn you as I warn my friends when I give them a copy: The book has its crude parts, and I have only let my kids read highly edited portions. That being said, its not Fear of Flying either, and my parent's priest read it without spontaneously combusting. But don't buy it if you are turned off by harsh language and some sexual humor. I have two youth novels in the works, you can save your money for them ;=)
Postscript: This is one of the one-star reviews posted for Anya Bast's Witch Fire:
"Not romance, not erotica, basically porn - what little plot there is
exists to connect the sex scenes, note I didn't say love making scenes.
Altogether distasteful and I won't waste money on this author again."
LOL, if the review is trying to hurt Ms. Bast's sales, I am not positive this is the right approach.


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As I've continued to adjust my investing style with the removal of credit card purchases at Loyal3, I've been able to find a methodology that works well and is something I'll be sticking with moving forward. I'm planning on leveraging Loyal3 to the tune of $7-9,000 of new capital this year, which will allow this account to really accelerate. For those who aren't familiar, Loyal3 offers investors the ability to invest with as little as $10 per trade or even participate in IPOs with the big boys!
Loyal3 has no fees, no cost, every time you trade. Of course, this is only possible with Loyal3 generating revenue through social stock programs and assisting with the aforementioned IPOs. Given the list of stocks offered is still relatively small, 64 as of today, there are still some offerings to interest both groups. Looking for a growth stock, well BABA, BRK.B, GOOG, and AMZN might you're your fancy. For dividend growth investors, there are over twenty different options in which to invest. Some classic consumer goods DG positions can be found such as KO, PEP, UL, and WMT.
So with Loyal3 offering plenty to investors, even those like myself with a dividend growth focus, there is nothing left to do but keep on building that passive income stream. Going forward, my primary focus is to leverage the fee free ability to dollar cost average into some great companies. This will be reflected in the consistency of these updates going forward. Should they become redundant, I'll combine them with my passive income updates. However, since we aren't there yet, let's take a look at my actual January purchases where I invested a total of $731.98.
January Loyal3 Trades
Because of the number of positions, I thought it would be easier to present as a chart. Below you will find the overall totals for each position and related purchase information.
Of the purchases above, only one represents a new position in my Loyal3 portfolio, Nike. Nike represents another great dividend growth opportunity, having raised their dividends for 13 years in a row, with a 10-year dividend growth rate of 18.4%. While the initial yield is a bit low at 1.17%, over the next 30 years this accelerated with growth will pay off. As you can see in the positions above, quite a few of the positions represent a long-term growth play with a lower initial dividend. Since I currently hold some higher yielding positions, this will help balance the growth of my dividend stream in the future.
McDonald's continued to struggle during the most of January, allowing me to add some more shares below my cost basis. As a result of this latest purchase, I can now expect greater than $10 of dividends from MCD per month, which potentially opens up direct reinvestment. We'll know here in a couple of months. Currently only KRFT is getting directly reinvested in this account with UL and MCD potentially happening in March. Unilever is the classic defensive consumer staple company. Given the depth and width of their product lines, I'm going to continue to build this into one of the several cornerstones of my portfolio.
January Loyal3 Purchase Summary
As you can see in the chart above, January's purchases resulted in a total increase of $18.99 to my forward 12-month dividends and carried an overall average yield on cost of 2.59%. This is well below the average yield of the portfolio, but offers greater long-term growth and greater increases to my dividend income.
Containing 14 different positions now, my Loyal3 portfolio has a forward 12-month dividend total of $232.37. Amazing the power of regular investing. In just over 12-months, this "side" portfolio has grown to be its own dividend producing machine. As I mentioned in the beginning of the post, I would anticipate more than doubling the size of the portfolio in 2015, at which point it will really begin to take a life of its own, contributing several hundred dollars each year to its own cause. Plus, given it is in its second year of life, dividend raises will become a bigger part of its growth story.
The full details of this portfolio can be seen on my Dividend Growth Portfolio page. If you're interested in seeing what dividends this portfolio generate in 2015, check out my 2015 Dividend Calendar.
Go check out Loyal3 and let me know what you think.
What purchases are you looking at making in the near future?
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Classroom Champions Inspire Students
Real life sports heroes inspire students
As teachers, we must be able to think on our feet and have creativity constantly flowing to make our classroom inviting and interesting, while also making sure our students leave with more knowledge and insight than when they started with us.
This year, we're working with an organization called Classroom Champions, which pairs students in high-need schools with top performing athletes in order to motivate them toward recognizing their potential and setting goals, while educating them in the practical use of communications technology. This program has really helped us take our teaching to a new level.
An Athlete in Our Classroom
The athlete we were paired with is Jerome Singleton Jr., a Paralympic track runner who embodies all the "life lessons" that we try to pass along to our students in addition to their daily academic lessons.
In our classrooms, we have incorporated values, beliefs and strengths that have been set in place to help our students succeed. By bringing Jerome into our classes, we have allowed our students to have experiences they would not normally be able to have. They communicate with him via videos, through photos and, soon, through live chat. We recently received a TV that they will be using to live chat with Jerome in the next few weeks. They are so excited at the beginning of each month to watch a new video he has posted, and learn about a new challenge they are asked to come up with and see through. From the start of this project, we have seen our students really grow from the experience.
Meeting Jerome
September was our first month of getting totally immersed in the program, and when the students received the first video from Jerome, they were so excited! The video was a montage of the events and races that Jerome has been through to get to where he is now, including the ups and downs he faced throughout his career. We learned that it hasn't been an easy road for him, but his perseverance, determination and hard work have brought him to the Olympics!
Our students were immediately filled with questions for Jerome about what inspires him, how he felt to make it to the Paralympics in London, who his heroes were, etc. The students sent videos congratulating Jerome on his achievements and asking him questions about what helped him be so successful.
Monthly Activities
In the months of October and November, we focused on setting goals and exploring what inspires us to reach them. The video from Jerome about what he finds inspirational and who his role models are really got the students thinking about how they need to start preparing for the future in the present! They made posters about who and what inspires them, and then timelines for their future to show what goals they have and when they hope to accomplish them.
In December, our theme was to show how we could help our community. Our students decided that animals should be our main focus, and for four weeks they gathered donations to send to local animal shelters. We had more than five boxes overflowing with food, treats, toys and even a crate to donate. We were so impressed at how much effort our students put in to making the holidays better for animals that did not have a place to call "home." Their unselfish dedication is what makes this program amazing. We know Jerome is proud of them!
For January's theme of "fair play," the students received another video from Jerome, who happened to be just an hour away from us in Orlando at the time, and the students could not stop asking if we could go see him! In just a few short months, he has made such an impact on our students, allowing them to see that nothing is impossible, if they just try their hardest and never give up. Many kids in our area come from situations and home lives that don't give them many role models to look up to or aspire to be like. We know that Jerome truly fills that void and provides students with a person to admire who has faced adversity and tough times only to come out on top!
Future Topics
In the next few months, our topics will include "respect" and "health and wellness." Our students have already decided that they want to try to live a healthy, happy lifestyle like Jerome, and push themselves like he does to reach their goals. This experience has been life-changing for our students and has allowed them to see that nothing is impossible if you set your mind to it. This is an experience that they will never forget!
(If you are interested in working with Classroom Champions in the 2012-13 school year, the application period is March 1 to 31, 2012. Apply to Classroom Champions here.)


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SA Orthopaedic Journal
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The importance of the sagittal position of the arm in the measurement of external rotation of the adducted shoulder
J de BeerI; MG Pritchard II; CP RobertsII; DF du ToitIII
IMMed (Orthop); Orthopaedic Surgeon. Cape Shoulder Institute, Panorama, South Africa
IIFRCS (Tr & Orth); Shoulder Fellow. Cape Shoulder Institute, Panorama, South Africa
IIIDepartment of Anatomy and Histology, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
The measurement of external rotation of the shoulder is commonly performed in two ways: with the arm adducted or with the arm abducted to 90°. This measurement forms an important part of the assessment of shoulder function.
It has been shown that the observer reliability of external rotation measurement is poor.1-4 Following the observation that the range of external rotation of the shoulder with the arm adducted altered depending on the exact position of the arm in the sagittal plane, we conducted a study to quantify the effect of a small increment of forward flexion (15°) on the range of external rotation.
External rotation of the shoulder was measured in 40 asymptomatic shoulders and 20 'frozen' shoulders with the arm in a vertical position and in 15° of forward flexion. The range of external rotation decreased significantly in forward flexion in both groups. External rotation decreased by an average of 16.9° in the asymptomatic group and 13.5° in the frozen shoulder group.
This study has shown that the sagittal position of the arm has an effect on the range of external rotation of the adducted shoulder. This may account for some of the observer variation in its measurement and affect the scores of certain outcome measures.
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I have recently spoken to a lot of business owners at a networking event and the common theme is that they are worried about how their hair loss will affect their business. I did some research and got some information from the guys at HairTransplantGlasgow.org which explains a common method called the FUE or Follicular Unit Extraction. Read more below:
Follicular Unit Extraction or FUE is a hair transplant technique where genetically resistant follicular unit grafts are extracted from donor area by a specialized technique and instruments and then these special hair are transplanted to the bald or receipt area using specialized extraordinary slit blades of less than even a millimeter. This technique requires great expertise. Our experienced hair transplant doctors and assistants team use the precision to implant the hair to imitate the angle and direction of each person's hair which is unique to everyone.
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The whole procedure is done in complete comfort under local anaesthesia and mild sedation. Usually you you are awake and watching a movie during this procedure. You are given breaks and lunch is also served in between. Minimal pain is involved during and after the process. Most clients do not even need ordinary over the counter pain killers. The procedure can be scheduled over several back to back days. Because of micro surgical technique used by our experienced staff, only the tiniest incisions are made for extraction and transplant. This unique approach speeds the healing process and patients can usually return to most normal activities the very next day.
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What Occurred Over The Last Week
It occurs to me that I have not been well for at least a week. Almost every night for at least the seven days my sleep has been fitful and I have been luck when I have been able to get 3 – 4 hours of interrupted sleep. Some nights I have slept downstairs so as not to disturb my wife.
I ate one light meal on Monday. I ate one light meal on Tuesday. I ate one normal meal on Wednesday as I was really hungry. Shortly thereafter I found myself in the bathroom throwing up. I ate a light meal on Thursday. And I ate nothing on Friday lunchtime even though I was hungry and my two colleagues did their very best to persuade me to eat something!
In amidst all of this: I turned up at client sites to join my colleagues and do the work that was necessary; accepted the responsibility for generating the structure and writing most of the final presentation deck (40+slides); worked at least 8 hours a day whilst often in pain or just uncomfortable; and sat amongst my colleagues on Friday whilst the three of us finalised and delivered the final presentation to our client. Once it was all finished, I told one of my colleagues that I was looking forward to going home, eating something, and resting.
Why did I not chose the easier option of just calling in sick? In fact, my wife seeing my state encouraged me to take care of my health: phone in sick, visit the doctor, rest-recover and then get back to work.
Please notice that nobody had to devise mechanisms (rewards and punishments) or engage in propaganda (empty misleading talk in tune with most marketing communications) to get me motivated and engaged. I did not do what I did because of fear of punishment. I did not do what I did because of money – bonus. I did not do what I did because someone was call me onto the stage and say great words about me and hand me trinkets.
Why Did I Do What I Did?
I did what I did because it was never an option to let my friend and team leader (Richard Hornby) down! I knew that there is nobody else (with the appropriate skills) available to take over that work that is my domain – except for Richard. And I knew that Richard was already overstretched due to working on multiple engagements. I did what I did out of love:
"What we will do for love will always be far more powerful than what we will do for money. What we can do together will always be far greater than what we can do alone." Pavithra Mehta
Money, no amount of money, can buy genuine care-love-meaning-community. And that is what most, or at least many, of us yearn for, live for, and ultimately allows us to face death. Interestingly, what Richard, Matthew and I were able to do together, and indeed did together as one team, was more than what each of us did alone. This became clear when we put our presentation together from our individual pieces, and took what did not work and reworked it (by contributing, listening, debating, building on one another's insights-contributions) and ended up with a great presentation: a sentiment share by us and our client.
Please notice that I did not need anybody to preach to me on the value of social, or collaboration. Nor did I need people to provide me with social/collaboration tools. Indeed, I did not use any. Email and the phone were sufficient to keep in touch with my colleagues and do that which was necessary.
The Poverty of The Workplace
It occurs to me that the workplace is a place of poverty. What kind of poverty? A poverty of relationships of genuine caring (for one another as fellow human beings), mutual respect, and collaboration. A poverty of that which calls forth the very best of us: beautiful workplaces, meaningful work, climate of solidarity, and a context of love.
Am I alone in this? Look into yourself, look into those whom you know, and answer the questions for yourself:
- would you prefer to work in a beautiful environment or an ugly even bland environment?
- would you prefer to work in an environment of love or one of fear?
- would you prefer to do work that shows up as meaningful work or meaningless work?
- would you prefer to be enmeshed in caring-respectful-collaborative relationships or find yourself enmeshed in relationships of blame-judgement-competition?
Ask yourself what you want to have inscribed on your headstone? "Here lived someone who was loved and loved others, one that made a contribution, touched lives, left behind a better world." Or would you prefer "Here lies a person who spent their days and their life doing meaningless work in bland/ugly environments full of people who did not care for one another…."?
An Invitation
I share with you two quotes which show up as worth reflecting on:
"What you do today is important, because you are exchanging a day of your life for it." Unknown
"Living life without making a difference is to be amongst the living dead." Ron Travisano
I invite you to put love into your relationships, into the workplace, and into the world. I promise you that if you do so then you will enrich existence: yours (as lived-experienced) and all whom you touch. How do I know? Because amidst all the pain that I experienced over the last week, my existence was also rich: all that I was doing was doing for my friend who was counting on me.
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Structural foam injection molder major Horizon Plastics International Inc. has locked out unionized workers at its Cobourg, Ontario, main production plant.
Workers were locked out the afternoon of Jan. 5, according to a report in the Northumberland News. About 160 workers with Local 175 of the United Food & Commercial Workers Union are affected by the lockout. The union set up picket lines at 9 pm Jan. 5, according to union spokesman Paul Hardwick, who was quoted in the newspaper report.
Hardwick said the union and company are scheduled to resume negotiations on Jan. 7. He did not disclose major issues to be resolved.
The union and Horizon Plastics began negotiating a new labor contract in October. The previous contract expired in November. Union members turned down an initial offer in early December but the two sides then continued talks.
Horizon Plastics opened a plant in Mexico last year. In a Dec. 3 report, Northumberland Today quoted Horizon Plastics President Peter Garvey as saying Ontario manufacturers face stiff competition from the United States but he expressed hope Horizon Plastics can remain viable in Cobourg. Having a plant in Mexico should allow flexibility to fulfill orders, he indicated.
Neither union representatives nor Horizon Plastics officials were immediately available for comment. The company has been injection molding structural foam since 1972.