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I recently was served notice that I have "made it" as a blogger --
power, influence, prestige, all the perks of fame. Which is to say that
I was sent a review copy of a book I probably would have bought anyway.
I mean, it doesn't get much better than that, does it? A free book!
Here's my bottom line: if I had paid good money of my own, money that could have been spent instead on ice cream or video games, I would consider it money well spent. You can't ask for better than that, right?
Oh yeah, I should probably tell you a little more, like the title of the book. I kinda feel like I owe the PR guy who sent me the copy that much at least. It was Atul Gawande's The Checklist Manifesto (available at Amazon.com for $10.00 with FREE Super Saver Shipping).
He has it named right: it's a manifesto, in the old sense -- it's a public declaration of a belief or creed. By which I mean Gawande has hit upon a good idea -- a very powerful idea with a lot of potential -- and he's not going to let it go. He worries at it like a dog at a bone, only with more evangelical fervor, and he's bound and determined to see it adopted as widely as possible.
It all began with his landmark article in The New Yorker, two years ago, called, more simply, "The Checklist". Indeed the first couple of chapters of the book amount in large part to a reprint of the article. I would have felt ripped off if it didn't go beyond that, but it does, fortunately. And the ultimate test of a good book -- it made me re-evaluate and change my thinking.
From my point of view, checklists in medicine seemed like a nifty idea -- for someone else. For surgeons and ICU doctors, they have good applicability, I thought. Those doctors are doing the same thing over and over again. Those doctors are vulnerable to the fatigue of routine and forgetting to do the simple obligate items, and a checklist can really help them. Central line? Good -- do a checklist. Ventilator patient? Good -- checklist. We're not like that in the ER. We don't do the same things over and over again -- we have too much variability from day to day and patient to patient. Our job is too different and unpredictable for checklists to play any role, right?
Maybe not.
Sure, in the ER there are lots of different patient types. There are the chest pains, the belly pains, the migraneurs, the minor traumas, the weak&dizzies, etc. But that applies to the OR as well, doesn't it? The checklists are not there to tell the surgeon how to resect the duodenum, and checklists for the ER would not tell me how to evaluate a patient with chest pain. Checklists are not for higher-level decision-making. They're for, as Gawande put it, "the stupid stuff." When Captain "Sully" Sullenberger decided to ditch his plane in the Hudson River, the checklists did not tell him how to pick the landing site or gently kiss the plane onto the river's surface. But the checklists did allow his
In "Checklist Manifesto," Gawande extends the concept from the ICU to the OR, as published in the NEJM article about the surgical safety checklist that produced such seemingly improbable reductions in morbidity and mortality, and to more chaotic endeavors such as the erection of large buildings. What struck me were how simple and obvious many of the critical items were, and how well some translate to the ER.
For example: before the operation, very person in the room must introduce him or herself and state their role in the case (thankfully, this is done after the patient is asleep), and is given the opportunity to voice any thoughts or concerns they may have. What a simple and effective tool! I think of the ER, where we have 300 nurses, including part-timers and floaters, and how often it is that a nurse does not know me, or I do not know the names of the nurses, and how often that leads to a failure to communicate. Gawande admitted that this was one of the harder steps to actually adopt, and I sympathize. Last year, we tried "shift huddles" in the ER for the same purpose. It was a failure and was quickly dropped by most providers, primarily because it felt silly and awkward. Now that I think about it some more, I think I will see if we can re-initiate these huddles. If they caught on, they could be very valuable.
When I initiated a discussion about checklists in the ER among our docs, there was widespread skepticism. Of course, I had to point out, we do already have and use a multitude of checklists, we just don't call them checklists. We call them protocols, or standing orders. Just like the USAir Airbus has checklists for "engine failure/restart" and "ditching," we have our checklists for "sepsis" or "Acute MI." Just as the checklists for aviation remind you of the critical actions, so the protocols make sure the simple but important items are not omitted. I recently had an MI patient who walked in who I nearly forgot to give an aspirin to! It's the most basic and hugely effective intervention for patients with heart attacks, but it's also usually done by the paramedics before the patient arrives. This got missed because this patient did not come in by ambulance. Fortunately, the
These are simple, stupid interventions that are absolutely critical, as critical as remembering to close the hatches on ditching, and as easy to overlook. Just as the typical airline pilot has a sheaf of emergency procedures for every conceivable circumstance, so do we have reams of protocol order sets for most every common serious illness: DKA, CHF, MI, sepsis, bronchiolitis, hip fractures, community-acquired pneumonia, etc.
I am wondering whether there are more concrete, global ways that checklists could be helpful in the ER, along the lines of the shift huddles. That will take some creative thinking.
Coming back to Gawande's book: It's more than worth the read. It's a great primer for anybody who is interested in organizational quality and patient safety. It also is very readable, with lots of patient stories and other anecdotes that ground the theory in real-world experience.


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Jimbo Hodunk drops a rare SMG I want, the Slagga. I don't recall ever fighting him, and if I did I don't remember where.
How do I find Jimbo Hodunk? Does he respawn? Do I have to chose to fight against the Hodunks in that questline to fight him or does it matter?


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(12/P55) TRENTON - The prestigious Veuve Clicquot Polo Classic will be moving to Liberty State Park in Jersey City this June, bringing the sport's top stars to a stylish sporting and social event that will feature inspiring backdrops of the Statue of Liberty and the New York skyline.
The fifth annual event, a draw for a host of celebrity participants and guests, will be held rain or shine on June 2 in the "green ring'' at Liberty State Park. It is expected to draw more than 5,000 spectators who will get to watch Nacho Figueras and his Black Watch team as they compete against some of the world's best polo players.
"This event will showcase Liberty State Park, with its spectacular views and ideal location, as a fitting destination for all types of major events," said Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Bob Martin. "It's part of our effort to make this park more of a destination for New Jersey residents and persons from other states to come here and visit Ellis Island, the Statue of Liberty, New Jersey's 9/11 Memorial, the Liberty Science Center, or just take in the incredible views of New York's skyline and enjoy our park.''
The Veuve Clicquot Polo Classic has been held at Governors Island in New York since 2008, but a construction project on that island's playing field required Veuve Clicquot to find a new venue close to Manhattan this year. The search for an alternate location, which included sites throughout the greater New York area, led the event's organizers across the Hudson River to New Jersey.
"With views of the New York City skyline, the iconic Statue of Liberty and historic Ellis Island, Liberty State Park truly reflects the spirit of the event," said Vanessa Kay, President of Veuve Clicquot U.S. "We are thrilled to have found the ideal location to host the fifth-annual Veuve Clicquot Polo Classic.''
Tickets for the event will include ferry transportation to and from Manhattan to Liberty State Park, or shuttle service from the Liberty State Park Station on NJ Transit's Hudson-Bergen Light Rail line. All guests must arrive via ferry or Light Rail as no parking will be provided onsite for the event.
The event will benefit a charity to be announced in the coming weeks by Veuve Clicquot, and will include a donation to the nonprofit Friends of Liberty State Park. Veuve Clicquot also will pay a user fee to the state and will upgrade the green ring field, giving the state an upgraded site for future use.
Liberty State Park will remain open during this event. All areas outside of the polo grounds will be available to the public, as usual.
In November 2011, Governor Chris Christie announced the state's Sustainable Parks Plan designed to keep all 39 of New Jersey's state parks open, to provide affordable recreation to state residents, especially during tough economic times. Components of the plan, which the Governor announced at Liberty State Park, include enhancing and expanding park programs, facilities and amenities to generate more visitors and revenues that can make the parks more financially self-sustaining.
Bringing a variety of events and attractions, like the Veuve Clicquot Polo Classic, to Liberty State Park is part of the DEP's overall strategy. Currently, the park is home to two travelling exhibits: Alcatraz: Life on the Rock and Gateway to Gold Mountain, The Asian Immigration Experience: Angel Island 1910-1940, which are on display for free through June 30.
"We want to give visitors to Liberty State Park a variety of interesting and entertaining opportunities that will draw them to this spectacular site,'' said Lou Valente, Chief Project Advisor for the Division of Natural and Historic Resources.
Since taking office, Governor Christie has taken strategic efforts to ensure New Jersey continues to be a leading destination for sports and entertainment events. In addition to the Veuve Clicquot Polo Classic, the Garden State is welcoming the Ironman Triathalon in 2012, the 2014 Special Olympics National Games and Superbowl XLVIII.
Liberty State Park consists of 1,212 acres with wildlife habitats, open water, fields, nature trails, bike paths, picnic tables and a two-mile waterfront walkway along the Hudson River - known as Liberty Walk. It is the most visited State park with 5.2 million visitors last year.
The history of the park and region can be found at the Central Railroad of New Jersey (CRRNJ) Terminal. Ferry service operation to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island departs from the CRRNJ Terminal. Liberty Science Center offers a variety of interactive exhibits focusing on invention, health and environment.
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Hey there! Sorry for the annoying link situation. I need to fix those. The oopsie rolls are: http://cleochatra.blogspot.com/2009/05/gluten-free-low-carb-buns-aka-oopsie.html
They're a bun made from meringue and cream cheese and then can be used for a bunch of different things!
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Hey, Jamie, I want to make this stuffing for Thanksgiving. Do you know if it freezes okay?
Hi, Mary. I have frozen oopsie rolls before, so I'm going to say yes–you can freeze this recipe. Just let it come to room temperature before heating.
back when I could eat stuffing {ok I confess I used stove top} what I would do for the liquid was use bone broth, or if I was out I would boil the neck & innards that came with the poultry and use that for the liquid…it was always the first thing to be gone.
I grew up in a StoveTop Stuffing house, too! It wasn't until later when I married my sweet baboo (he who can have no MSG) that I made a lot of changes. Your addition of bone broth sounds divine. I am going to be making turkey bone broth this year for sure.
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Reading 3-2 Middlesbrough. Give it up for Reading, the only team in the Premiership named after a railroad on the Monopoly board. They came back from a 2-0 deficit to win their first Premiership game, 3-2 over Middlesbrough. Boro scored twice in the opening 21 minutes, and it was all Reading from there. 'Boro's lucky they didn't lose by 2 or 3 goals, actually.
Arsenal 1-1 Aston Villa. Theo Walcott has had just about enough of your snickering. He didn't once see the pitch at the World Cup, but he made his presence felt today with Arsenal, coming on in the second half and completely changing the game. He set up Gilberto Silva for a point-salvaging goal in their first game at their new crib. Despite giving up the late goal, it's still a pretty nice result for Villa.
Sheffield United 1-1 Liverpool. Arsenal wasn't the only high-profile club to get a late equalizer, as Liverpool scored scored on a 70th minute penalty kick after a controversial call. The ref ruled that Steven Gerrard was fouled in the box by Sheffield's Chris Morgan, but to be honest with you, I didn't see a whole lot of contact; it looked more to me like Gerrard picked up some diving pointers from the Portuguese in the World Cup. Of course, Liverpool's coach said the guy deserved to be ejected as well as given a penalty.
Everton 2-1 Watford
Newcastle 2-1 Wigan
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When his brother is killed in a robbery, paraplegic Marine Jake Sully decides to take his place in a mission on the distant world of Pandora. There he learns of greedy corporate figurehead Parker Selfridge's intentions of driving off the native humanoid "Na'vi" in order to mine for the precious material scattered throughout their rich woodland. In exchange for the spinal surgery that will fix his legs, Jake gathers intel for the cooperating military unit spearheaded by gung-ho Colonel Quaritch, while simultaneously attempting to infiltrate the Na'vi people with the use of an "avatar" identity. While Jake begins to bond with the native tribe and quickly falls in love with the beautiful alien Neytiri, the restless Colonel moves forward with his ruthless extermination tactics, forcing the soldier to take a stand - and fight back in an epic battle for the fate of Pandora.
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Projected Entangled Pair States (PEPS) provide a local description of correlated many-body states. I will discuss how PEPS can be used to characterize topological spin liquids, in particular Resonating Valence Bond states. On the one hand, I will show how the symmetries in the local PEPS description allow to identify that these states appear as topologically degenerate ground states of local Hamiltonians. On the other hand, I will discuss how from exact diagonalization of the transfer operator one can extract both the topological order and the spin liquid nature of the ground state.


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Nowadays my weekly menu is devised on bases a little like this; is it something that we can all eat, does it deliver on the 'rainbow factor', does it taste good, is it quick to make and can we cook it together? The latter is important because there are repeated demonstrations of my little boy's best manners when he wants to get involved, 'mammap please may I help you, it will be educational for me'.
Today the answer was, 'yes of course' and oh my, the croquettes smell incredible; pillows of lightly sweet potato and mellow cauliflower with a subtle aniseed like flavour from the fennel seeds and most importantly, the creamy and oozy cheese. I generally love anything with a crunch and there is most certainly an magnificent sense of pleasure in the crisp shell giving way to steaming hot and moist, cheesy filling.
I know this sounds a little bizarre but I got that sense of eating chips on a cool walk home with my dad when I was a child, or in Brighton with my husband (before kiddo was born)…sitting in the car and listening to the radio and watching the waves. Except these croquettes have that 'special' factor.
Wyke Farm cheese asked me to try their cheddar and I found that the bold but not overpowering flavour really works well with delicately sweet and moist flavours of cauliflower and potato. Its creamy, oozy and yet gentle enough to balance the dish.
Make sure to bake the potatoes and steam the cauliflower and avoid the temptation to boil them; boiling them will leave them wet and overly moist. You can spice the croquettes up more if you like and I have used panko breadcrumbs for what I feel is a deeper crunch but you don't have to, the croquettes still taste great with standard breadcrumbs. I served them with harissa, but I like them with a red pepper ketchup too!
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Being in a quiet place where the sound of human beings is either absent or minimal.
What do I love? Just about every kind of seafood imaginable....fish (fried, grilled, baked, broiled), shellfish, you name it. Freshwater, ocean, no difference. On our trip to Grand Marais, MN last weekend, we had whitefish (grilled and fried), crab cakes, scallops, lake trout, and grouper. Cheese...hard, soft, aged, goat, cow, makes no difference.Fall...I LOVE the gray skies and crisp days of autumn as well its cool nights.I love the sound of rain or waves or wind in the trees, as well as the sound of crickets, frogs, and other nocturnal creatures.I love George Webb Hamburger Parlor (based in Southern Wisconsin) hashbrowns...simply the finest I have ever sampled anywhere...and that covers a lot of territory.Driving rural backroads through small towns, especially in Wisconsin in the fall.That's not all I love, but it's a start.
Pinball.My childrens' laughter.Good food, preferably with decent wine.And ambient.
what I love is to be sitting in crystal clear water on my surfboard looking out to the horizon to see the incoming swell break on an outer reef telling me to prepare myself and watching make the turn to paddle for the wave as it arrives to then hold me momentarily before coming to my feet and making the drop into the liquid glide as the reef below me flashes the wave disappears there is no shape or form but for the grace and slide I feel as the dance across the rising wall roars behind me then the sun illuminates the turquoise path that propels the sequence of movements to fast for memory until the energy is absorbed and the deep smile comes as I thank the universe for the ride of a life time......then what I love more as I paddle back out is to watch my girlfriend go through the motions and take the drop on another wave with a huge bottom turn she recoils into the most gentle display of fluid hydrodynamics in each arc and spray a courtship of elements she passes close to me her face of concentrated joy the body in unison a magnetic glow of ebb and flow.We have been back a few weeks from a surf trip to Bocas del Toro, Panama.....and of course the moral of the story, never ask a surfer to describe what the ride was like, could sound similar to the wonderful drivel above.Peace
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The US Open of Paragliding will be a Cat 2 Race to Goal USHPA sanctioned XC Competition held in Chelan this coming July. Registration opens March 1st @ 8am (Pacific Time Zone...View more
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The take off at Chelan is on top of the Chelan Butte located between Lake Chelan and the Colombia River. Access to the Butte is via the Chelan Butte Road. All vehicles driving to take off must be equipped with a shovel and a fire extinguisher.View more
How to get here
Chelan is located 3 hours east of Seattle. Most pilots choose to fly to Seattle, rent a car and drive to Chelan.
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The US Open of Paragliding will be a Cat 2 Race to Goal USHPA sanctioned XC Competition held in Chelan this coming July. Registration opens March 1st @ 8am (Pacific Time Zone)
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Most pilots choose to camp at Beebe Campground on the Colombia River. Beebe is an awesome facility with pristine grass, clean bathrooms and nice camp sites. Sites are $25/night and are first come first serve. YOU CANNOT RESERVE SITES. There is a max of 8 people and 3 vehicles per site.
In order to get a site on the weekend during the summer you usually have to be waiting for someone to leave around mid-morning and grab the site immediately it becomes vacant. Sites are much easier to come by mid-week. Beebe Campground is located 10 minutes drive from Chelan and 5 minutes from Chelan Falls Park.
There is also the Lakeshore RV Park located near downtown Chelan. While the Lakeshore RV park has a more central location within walking distance to restaurants and shops it is not as nice, more expensive - but it does take advance reservations.
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Provavelmente porque você não fez:
Acho que você pode editar /etc/cups/printers.conf e mudar:
Veja https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Scann ... ne_devices e https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HpAll ... ed_Scanner.
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https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CUPS#ConfiguringCUPS - ArchWiki wrote:To enable wireless scanning on certain HP multi-function devices using the hplip package, you may need to add the printer as a Network Printer using the HTTP protocol. To determine the proper URI to use, run the hp-makeuri command.
Acho que você pode editar /etc/cups/printers.conf e mudar:
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Ubuntu Documentation - HpAllInOne wrote: Next, there are two approaches to accessing the networked scanner:
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I wrote yesterday that U2 fans have been keeping up with the Bono motorcade while they're in town and a lucky fan was invited inside his SUV the other night for a photo.
Her name is Marley. The photo is attached. And the story is the cutest. In Marley's words:
Hey! I'm the fan that bono invited into his SUV! It was definitely the most exciting experience of my life and he was so incredibly nice. Whenever he would talk to me he would call me by my name and he told me I was beautiful and kissed my hand before I got out of the vehicle. Before I said goodbye I told him I would be at both u2 shows in Toronto in row 4 and he said "I look forward to seeing you again."
The next night, my mom went to u2's secret gig at MTV and waited outside for bono with an 8x10 of the picture of me and him. It caught his attention quickly and he said "Marley! I love Marley! Row 4 tomorrow right?!" I can't believe he remembered!!!
At the show last night, bono's driver came looking for us in row 4 and chatted with us for a bit and asked for our exact seats for the concert tonight- I don't know if it was for a specific reason or just making conversation. I guess we'll find out!!
Marley's account has been consistent with others – my friend LB also received a kiss on the hand from Bono yesterday and he was deeply moved when she told him that his music helped her through the aftermath of 9/11. She was living in New York at the time. It was an emotional moment, and Bono took the time to honour it with her.
Love these stories.
Because sometimes it's exhausting to hear about the hypocrisy all the time.
Bono is a Rock God. And he is very kind to his subjects.
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As of late Friday there were nearly 1,000 news stories about cannibals featured on Google News. Stories about zombies were also starting to catch on, mostly tied to the tragic and sad story of an attack on a homeless man in Miami that left the man faceless. Gawker weighed in on the story with a piece aptly entitled "Could People Please Stop Eating Other People's Body Parts?" Some have speculated that the cannibalism (zombieism?) is being caused by a virus, others like Forbes contributor Alice Walton have attributed it to synthetic drugs. In fact, cannibal stories have popped up not only in Miami, but other related stories with zombie/cannibal overtones have cropped up around the world including:
- A story in Maryland where a man has been charged with killing a man and eating his brain's and heart.
- A story in Canada about a porn star turned murderer and cannibal who is currently on the run from police.
- A story in Sweden where a man is alleged to have cut off his wife's lips and eaten them. And a separate story where a woman is alleged to have bitten her boyfriend's penis.
- A story in New York where a man chewed the ear off of of another man at a Staten Island restaurant.
- A story in New Jersey where a man stabbed himself repeatedly in front of police and then threw his skin and intestines at them.
That may look like a trend, but Scott Talan, a professor of public communication tells CNN:
Fact is, horrible crimes happen all the time. "This is all nothing new," said Scott Talan, professor of public communication at American University, with a long work history in public relations and the media. Bad news attracts attention, he said, and when it happens in bunches, people like to attach a name to it, hence, "zombie apocalypse."
Maybe. But, for those who are worried about the Zombie Apocalypse, fear not, the CDC has weighed in with a Zombie Preparedness webpage. Granted, they told The Huffington Post that there is no such thing as a zombie virus, stating "[The] CDC does not know of a virus or condition that would reanimate the dead (or one that would present zombie-like symptoms)." But would they tell us if they did? Governments have a record of keeping these types of thing secret as Jeanne Guillemin, author of Biological Weapons: From the Invention of State-sponsored Programs to Contemporary Bioterrorism pointed out in a blog post at The Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology:
...in the aftermath of the 2001 anthrax letters, when the US Postal Service (USPS) and the CDC, knowing the Brentwood postal facility in Washington, DC, was contaminated, waited four days before closing the facility and giving antibiotics to workers. By that time, one worker had already died of inhalational anthrax, another was hours from death, and two more were gravely ill. In another telling incident, for six weeks the government of China denied its 2003 SARS epidemic, causing international alarm and a preventable spread of the disease.
So maybe it's a secret government plot, my guess is that it's a news trend kicked off by the television show Castle. After all, it was late April when Castle and Beckett solved the case of a man beaten to death and partly eaten by a zombie. In the episode, the man was actually high on a synthetic drug and didn't remember attacking the victim. But, in the show (which aired before the crime in Miami) surveillance cameras caught part of the action, just like in Miami. You can watch the full episode here --- it's the type of story that headlines are ripped from.
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Professor Gregory S. McNeal, JD/PhD, is a Professor of Law and Public Policy at Pepperdine University. He is a nationally recognized commentator and a frequent keynote…
Professor Gregory S. McNeal, JD/PhD, is a Professor of Law and Public Policy at Pepperdine University. He is a nationally recognized commentator and a frequent keynote speaker about technology, law and policy.


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Wells Fargo sponsors a workshop offering a variety of assistance
Robert Loseto calls it bad timing.
Just one week after the caterer sold his New York property in exchange for a life under the Florida sun, the market began its historic collapse. His shiny new Cape Coral home was right in the epicenter.
It was not long before Loseto, thousands of dollars underwater, fell behind on his payments. Little did he know, the worst was still ahead.
Six months ago, Loseto lost his job as food and beverage director for an independently operated resort. With a wife and two kids to provide for, he was not quite sure where to turn. Efforts to start his own catering business were slow to get off the ground. Mortgage payments were the first to go.
Loseto thought for sure he would lose his home.
Although dire, the financial crisis confronting Loseto is not new. Housing agencies say stories like his have become commonplace throughout Southwest Florida -- the fallout of The Great Recession and a boom-bust real estate market buyers just never saw coming.
"We just fell into a hole, the same as everybody else," Loseto said. "Things started to get tight real quick."
Loseto hopped in his car Thursday morning and drove 100 miles up Interstate 75 to seek help. For the first time this year, he found it.
He was one of several hundred area residents still struggling with mortgage hardships who met with a Wells Fargo & Co. loan specialist at the lender's Home Preservation Workshop in Palmetto, its first in the greater Sarasota market.
Loseto walked away with a modified mortgage on the $203,000 he still owes. The interest rate was chopped to 3.32 percent.
Three-year road show
The foreclosure prevention workshop at the Bradenton Area Convention Center was part of a traveling road show the mortgage giant started in 2009 and has taken to Tampa, Orlando and Jacksonville. It is off to Palm Beach next week and Miami the week after.
More than 80 Wells Fargo underwriters, mortgage officers and credit counselors from across the country staffed the event, which was targeted to 12,300 of the bank's area mortgage customers more than 30 days delinquent. Officials estimate 200 attended.
"No one wins in foreclosure," said Hugh Rowden, senior vice president and regional servicing director of Wells Fargo. "The customer loses. The community loses because of the impact to values, and the bank loses. We're trying to prevent that."
Troubled homeowners who walked into the convention center were quickly greeted by bank representatives, who helped the borrowers check in and worked to understand their hardships.
More than 40 private underwriter booths, home equity desks and help stations of area nonprofit groups surrounded a massive kiosk that served popcorn and lemonade to waiting customers.
A projection movie screen in the back of the room showed cartoons as kids sat, buried in homework. Their parents were buried in mortgage documents.
The whole process, varying by issues and paperwork, took customers two hours in and out. Rowden estimates that seven out 10 who attended the workshops left with a settlement, mostly in the form of a modification.
Wells Fargo started the traveling program with a seminar in Phoenix in 2009. The lender has made about 80 stops across the country since.
"Sarasota was one of the places where we just hadn't done a lot of events," Rowden said. "There was an opportunity to help people in the market."
Demand for help still high
Most of the borrowers Thursday had questions about modifications, short sales and the general foreclosure process. Others were seeking to squeeze into the market's historically low interest offerings. All were either behind or underwater.
Wells Fargo also was signing up homeowners for an fall under a $25 billion federal settlement with the bank and four other lenders, for their role in the fraud that littered the judicial foreclosure process when the market crashed.
With $1.4 trillion in assets, Wells Fargo originates one in four home loans in the U.S. and services one in every six. From January 2009 through Sept. 30, the lender modified 812,019 boom-time mortgages.
Although the crowds are thinner now than the lender's first workshop in 2009, demand for foreclosure help among homeowners remains dangerously high, especially in Southwest Florida, Rowden said.
"What we're seeing across the country is fewer people entering into loss situations," he said. "But a lot of people are unemployed, and a lot of people are still facing hardships."
Nonprofits and housing agencies also were on hand Thursday to help recession-battered borrowers apply for Florida's Hardest Hit fund, which provides up to 12 months of mortgage payments to unemployed or underemployed homeowners.
Although home defaults have slowed of late, largely because of the pauses imposed by the federal government, more than 42,500 foreclosures have been filed between Sarasota and Manatee counties since late 2006, court records show.
"The foreclosure rate has not come down, it's still there," said Richard DiGiorgio, a housing counselor with the Manatee Community Action Agency. "We're trying to let people know of the help that's available. A lot of them are embarrassed of their situation, that's one of the biggest problems. In this economy, with the job market, it's tough."
Frederic Roy is an electrical contractor who installed ADT security systems. The 67-year-old Tampa man saw his business crumble in 2007 along with the housing market.
Roy stopped making payments on his home five months ago. He ripped up the letters from Wells Fargo. He stopped returning the lender's calls.
On Thursday, Roy was able to strike a modification deal that will allow him to keep his home. He also received pending approval from the Hardest Hit Fund for future payment assistance.
"I have years of good mortgage payments that just vanished," Roy said Thursday. "I was just in a jam. This has been very hard on a lot of people."
Tampa subcontractor Michael Hayes learned he would keep his home on his birthday. Hayes too made the drive down to Palmetto for the mortgage workshop and secured a modification that cut his monthly bill by more than half.
"It got tough and I just couldn't make the payments," he said. "I am just so glad to see this behind me.
"It's a situation where I can afford to live in my house now."


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Anything Sweetapolita makes would tempt even the most reluctant cook. For my version of her stout cake I opted for Chantilly cream and dark chocolate ganache frosting . This cake is dark and rich and oh so lush.
Cake recipe adapted from King Arthur Flour
Yield: One 9-inch round two-layer cake--12-16 servings.
Cake Layers
1 1/2 cups (12 fluid ounces) stout or dark beer (I used Guinness)
1 1/2 cups (340 grams/12 ounces/3 sticks) unsalted butter, cut into cubes
1 cup sifted (115 grams/4 ounces) King Arthur Double-Dutch Dark Cocoa or Dutch-process cocoa (I use Cacao Barry Cocoa Powder - Extra Dark)
3 cups (360 grams/12.5 ounces) all-purpose flour
3 cups (600 grams/20.5 ounces) granulated sugar
2 1/4 teaspoons (12 grams/11.25 mL) baking powder
1 teaspoon (8 grams) salt
3 large eggs, at room temperature
2/3 cup ( 165 mL) sour cream, at room temperature
1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease two 9-inch round pans (2" deep), line bottoms with parchment paper circles, then grease circles, dust with flour and tap out excess. Set aside.
2. Place the stout and butter in a large, heavy saucepan and heat on medium heat until the butter melts, stirring occasionally. Remove the pan from the heat, and whisk in the sifted cocoa powder until smooth. Pour into a large heatproof measuring cup or bowl and let cool.
3. In a medium bowl, whisk together dry ingredients: flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
4. In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment (flat beater), mix the eggs and sour cream on medium speed (I use #4 on KitchenAid) until well combined, about 3 minutes.
5. Add the cooled cocoa mixture, and mix on medium speed (I use #4 on KitchenAid) until combined, about 1 minute.
6. Add the dry ingredients slowly and combine on low-speed (I use #2 on KitchenAid) until blended, making sure to scrape the sides and bottom of bowl, and then mix for another minute.
7. Divide batter into prepared pans evenly. If possible, weigh the pans and batter with a kitchen scale for accuracy and even layers. If you do, each pan of batter should weigh ~1 kg/2.2 lbs. Place cake pans on middle oven rack side-by-side, but about 2" apart and bake until toothpick inserted into centre comes clean, about 35 minutes.
8. Let cakes cool on wire racks for ~10 minutes, loosen edges with knife or small palette knife, then gently remove from pans to cool completely.


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The outgoing head of the IRS disputed Republicans' suspicions that the tax-collecting agency's targeting of conservatives was motivated by partisanship at the first congressional hearing on the scandal.
IRS commissioner Steven Miller, who submitted his resignation earlier this week, faced lawmakers at a House hearing on the IRS targeting, insisting that he had not mislead Congress or the American people. NBC's Lisa Myers reports.
Steven Miller, the acting commissioner of the IRS who submitted his resignation from that role earlier this week, appeared on Friday to face lawmakers' pointed questions about the revelations that IRS officials had inappropriately singled out conservative groups for extra scrutiny.
But he and J. Russell George, the IRS inspector general whose report unearthed the controversy that has dominated Washington this week, testified that there was no evidence of political motivations among IRS employees who targeted conservative advocacy groups applying for nonprofit status. They instead blamed incompetence.
"I do not believe that partisanship motivated the practices of the people described in the IG report," Miller said. "I think that what happened here was that foolish mistakes were made by people who were trying to be efficient in their work."
GOP lawmakers also repeatedly sought to ferret out any information as to whether Miller had talked with White House officials about the targeting of conservatives, or – more ominously – had shared confidential tax information with the administration. (The implication of that line of questioning involved last year's presidential election, when Republican nominee Mitt Romney's own tax practices became an issue in the election.)
Acting Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, Steve Miller, testified at a House hearing on IRS screening and defended his actions before Rep. Boustany, R-La., saying, "I did not mislead Congress or the American people. I answered the questions as they were asked."
To that end, George testified that he told the Treasury Department's general counsel and deputy secretary Neal Wolin of the investigation before the 2012 election.
In the week following the first revelations of the inspector general report, conservatives have seized upon the scandal to ding President Barack Obama, demanding criminal prosecutions of IRS officials, and accusing the president (as Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., did Thursday) of a "culture of intimidation." GOP members of the committee spent much of the hearing trying to advance that narrative
But Miller repeatedly – and, at times, tersely – disputed speculation that IRS officials were deliberately targeting ideological opponents of the Obama administration, and denied that he had misled Congress in previous testimony about the IRS's actions. When asked sharply by Committee Chairman Dave Camp, R-Mich., how he would characterize his previous, inaccurate testimony to Congress, Miller shot back: "I always answer questions truthfully, Mr. Camp."
Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, criticizes the actions of the Internal Revenue Service at a House hearing on IRS screening, telling IRS head Steve Miller, "Is this government so drunk on power that it would turn its full force, its full might to harass and intimidate and threaten an average American?"
Miller, the ousted acting commissioner of the IRS, was the primary object of lawmakers' scrutiny at Friday's hearing, particularly Republicans who expressed incredulity and outrage at the IRS fiasco.
"Is this still America?" asked Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, who said the IRS controversy were evidence of a government "drunk on power."
Republicans came to the hearing armed with plenty of outrage and examples of Tea Party groups from their home districts running into red tape in their nonprofit applications, which they used to pummel Miller throughout the hearing. The outgoing commissioner parried their attacks by responding that he was not permitted to comment on specific cases.
Democrats spent the bulk of the committee's hearing, though, warning their GOP colleagues against cultivating evidence of a scandal where there is none. Rep. Sander Levin, D-Mich., asked both Miller and George, the inspector general, whether they had unearthed any evidence of political motivation in IRS officials' scrutiny of conservatives.
They replied identically: "We did not, sir."
Those answers scarcely satisfied Republicans, who have sensed a major opportunity – combined with simultaneous controversies this week involving the Obama administration's handling of last year's terror attack in Benghazi, and the Department of Justice's seizure of Associated Press journalists' phone records – to play offense against the White House.
For their part, Democrats have largely tried to match Republicans in their outrage at the IRS controversy, led by the president himself. Obama said this week that he was "angry" at the IRS for its actions, and asked for Miller's resignation. Obama named Daniel Werfel, who currently serves as controller of the Office of Management and Budget, as the new acting IRS commissioner on Thursday.
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Outgoing acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller listens at a House Ways and Means Committee hearing on the Internal Revenue Service targeting conservative groups on Capitol Hill, May 17, 2013.
The president has said he didn't learn about the actions taken by the IRS to target conservative and Tea Party groups until details of the inspector general report leaked to the media last Friday.
But while the controversy will likely spur plenty of future hearings into the IRS wrongdoing, Friday's testimony – for now – could help limit the political fallout to the IRS itself.
"As acting commissioner I want to apologize on behalf of the IRS for the mistakes that we made and the poor service that we provided," Miller said in his opening statement. He said later in the hearing that he should ultimately be held accountable for IRS employees' missteps, but denied that meant he was personally involved in directing political targeting.
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text: Hello, I am Allen D. Miller. I am 45,married to my wonderful wife Trish. I have 4 daughters and 1 son.I am an aircraft mechanic and my wife is a registered nurse. We live in Palatka Florida. I have been a Christian for 7 years now and we go to a Southern Baptist church. I have been studying Orthodoxy for about a year and I feel God is moving me towards becoming a Orthodox Christian. Pray that I follow Gods path for me in my life. Your servant in Christ Allen


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OIF Summary, Oct. 30, 2009: Forces Arrest Terrorism Suspects in Iraq
Dispatches from the Front:
WASHINGTON, Oct. 30, 2009 -- Iraqi forces, aided by U.S. forces advisors, detained several terrorism suspects in Iraq in recent days, including one believed responsible for the Oct. 11 bombing in Ramadi, military officials reported.
Special weapons and tactics personnel and U.S. forces advisors, under the direction of the Iraqi military and the Anbar Operations Center, detained a suspect Oct. 25 in Hit, northwest of Ramadi. The man is suspected in the planning and coordination of the Oct. 11 attacks on the Ramadi provincial government center and hospital.
The suspect is believed to be coordinate vehicle-borne explosives for an al-Qaida in Iraq terrorist cell and is believed to have coordinated the movement of materials and personnel used in the attacks.
Meanwhile, the Ramadi counter-terrorism unit, with U.S. forces advisors, arrested a suspected al-Qaida in Iraq operative Oct. 26 near Ramadi.
The man is charged in a warrant with being involved in insurgent activity. The Iraqi unit arrested two other suspects for questioning due to their links to the suspect.
(Compiled from Multinational Corps Iraq news releases.)
Labels: Dispatches from the Front, GWOT, Iraq, Military, OIF, Terrorism


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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review
Most disastrous weekend: Hurricane Ike slams the east coast of Texas and takes out Galveston, while Wall Street reels from the bankruptcy of venerable banking house Lehman Brothers, sending the Dow down more than 500 points September 15.
Worst sticker shock: Gas that could be found for $3.55 a gallon last week skyrockets to nearly $4 over the weekend in the wake of Ike.
Worst trend: Moped thefts are increasing, according to Charlottesville police.
Worst moped hit and run: A scooter driver slams into a Toyota Camry early September 15 and flees, NBC29 reports.
Latest foray into diplomacy: City Council adopts a resolution September 15 to not do business with Sudan because of the genocide in Darfur, although the city has no investments in Sudan. The city passed a similar resolution to divest from South Africa during the 1980s.
Biggest mistrial: A jury deadlocks on whether Jemel Walon Ross is guilty of manslaughter when he shot Gerald Everett Washington II seven times March 14, 2006. The jury deliberated until 2am September 16 when Judge Paul Peatross declared a mistrial. Scott Shenk has the story in the Progress.
Best news for generating your own: Albemarle considers allowing homeowners to have wind turbines in their yards, according to Brandon Shulleeta in the Progress.
Worst news for growing your own: Melvin Michael Lee, 57, is arrested with 72 marijuana plants growing in his Wayland Drive home in Crozet September 8, as well as two pounds of pot, $8,812 in cash, and three guns.
Best chance for low-income housing: Subsidized housing for Section 8 vouchers opens its wait list again after it was closed for five years, Rachana Dixit reports in the DP.
Oddest fire and water story: The motor in a water fountain at Red Hill Elementary ignites around 3pm September 9. Damage was minimal, and most of the students were gone for the day.
Biggest conundrum, week 2: Murray Elementary School is named a Blue Ribbon School– one of seven public schools in Virginia– for its No Child Left Behind Act acumen in making adequate yearly progress, according to a county release. Yet Henley Middle School, where Murray students go next in the county school system, failed to make the highly desired adequate yearly progress.
Biggest shortfall: Albemarle's looking at a $4.1 million deficit.
Quickest shortfall: Albemarle's only two months into its budget year.
Saddest backup: A two-car crash early September 11 seriously injures a 17-year-old girl who was passenger in a car struck while turning left from U.S. 29 into the UVA Research Park and shuts down both southbound lanes for nearly two hours, stalling traffic into Greene County.
Lovin'-est law school: University of Virginia Law School has 11 married couples on its faculty, according to the National Law Journal, and many schools no longer shy away from hiring husband-and-wife professors.
Least lucky in love: Eighteen-year-old Dillon Lee Shifflett pleads guilty to carnal knowledge of a 14-year-old girl September 9 in Albemarle Circuit Court, but maintains the June 5 interlude was consensual, Tasha Kates reports in the Progress. The former Monticello High student originally was charged with rape, and he could be sentenced to up to five years.
Least lucky in dodging bullets: Jonathan Lee Barber, 26, is wounded early September 14 in a Water Street parking lot and taken to University of Virginia Medical Center. According to a release, Barber also was the victim of a gunshot wound March 2 that took place in Albemarle County. That incident happened in the parking lot of a private party being held at a dance studio on Seminole Trail.


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I'm not really sure what happened.
All of a sudden, none of my applications wouldn't start. However, the only app I had open before I noticed this (Opera) still worked. I logged out and tried to log back in to see if that would solve the problem, and GNOME wouldn't start.
The loading window would pop-up, hang for a minute, and then crash back to the login screen.
I can still start KDE and my other desktops.
Can anyone tell me why this may have happened? And if at all possible, can somone tell me how to fix it?


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New Integration and Distribution Agreement Bring SOASTA's TouchTest to Appcelerator's Global Enterprise Customers
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA–(- Jan 24, 2013) – Appcelerator®, the leading mobile development platform, and SOASTA™, the leader in cloud and mobile testing, today announced a new integration between Appcelerator Titanium 3.0 and SOASTA's TouchTest™ mobile test automation solution and a distribution agreement between the two companies.
This integration allows mobile developers at Appcelerator's 1,400 enterprise customers to access TouchTest for continuous automated testing as part of the mobile application development lifecycle. Test automation is a mandatory requirement for mobile app development, and TouchTest delivers the speed, precision and affordability required by mobile development teams to scale their development practices that demand a continuous release process.
TouchTest is the first enterprise test automation solution to support Appcelerator's Titanium 3.0. The integrated solution provides a cost-effective, rapid and continuous product development lifecycle for mobile developers.
"We've adopted mobility as a key enabler to providing productivity enhancing technologies to our nationwide network of contractors and inspectors, in addition to delivering superior quality to our clients," said George Mehok, Chief Information Officer of Safeguard Properties, the largest mortgage field services company in the U.S. "As an innovator in mobility, we're actively implementing the integrated solution between Appcelerator Titanium and SOASTA TouchTest to further optimize the quality of our apps, reduce development cycle time, and accelerate adoption."
The new distribution agreement between Appcelerator and SOASTA enables Appcelerator customers to easily add TouchTest to their mobile development environment. Combining TouchTest with Titanium provides an integrated mobile development and testing environment, and accelerates time to success.
"Mobile is driving much shorter release cycles for application development," said Jeff Haynie, Appcelerator CEO. "SOASTA's TouchTest integration with Appcelerator Titanium 3.0 enables our customers to meet their time-to-market demands while improving overall application quality."
As enterprises and developers build mobile applications for a variety of devices and operating systems, they can now rely on TouchTest to simplify the testing process, utilizing SOASTA's patented visual test environment, precision capture and re-play technology. Apps are now continuously "testable," thoroughly validated and fully supported through the development lifecycle by leveraging TouchTest's embedded Jenkins plugin for 100% hands-free mobile test automation.
"The mobile application lifecycle presents the opportunity for enterprises to re-think their approach to software development," said Tom Lounibos, SOASTA CEO. "Appcelerator and SOASTA recognized this, and have combined our best-of-class solutions to present mobile development teams with the fastest, most complete development platform to support continuous testing of mobile applications."
TouchTest supports Titanium 3.0 today. For more information about functional testing for Titanium applications, please visit www.appcelerator.com/platform/functionaltest/ or www.soasta.com.
About Appcelerator
Appcelerator is the leading mobile development platform of choice for thousands of enterprises including eBay, Merck, Mitsubishi Electric, NBC, PayPal and Ray-Ban, as they become mobile-first organizations. With more than 50,000 mobile applications deployed on 100 million devices, Appcelerator's award-winning open source development platform (Titanium) and Appcelerator Cloud Services are used to create native apps across multiple devices including iOS, Android, Windows and BlackBerry, as well as hybrid and HTML5 mobile web. Customers who standardize on Appcelerator's solutions get to market 70 percent faster and achieve a significant competitive advantage. Appcelerator's worldwide ecosystem includes 400,000 mobile developers and hundreds of ISVs and strategic partners including SAP and Cognizant. For more information visit www.appcelerator.com
Appcelerator is a registered trademark of Appcelerator Inc. Appcelerator Titanium is a trademark of Appcelerator Inc. All other trademarks and copyrights are the property of their respective owners.
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SOASTA is the leader in cloud and mobile testing. Its web and mobile test automation solutions, CloudTest and TouchTest, enable developers, QA professionals and IT operations teams to test with unprecedented speed, scale and precision. The innovative product set streamlines test creation, automates provisioning and execution, and distills analytics to deliver actionable intelligence faster. With SOASTA, companies can have confidence that their applications will perform as designed, even in peak traffic. SOASTA's customers include many of today's most successful brands including American Girl, Bonobos, Chegg, Gilt Groupe, Hallmark, Intuit, Microsoft and Netflix. SOASTA is privately held and headquartered in Mountain View, Calif. For more information about SOASTA, please visit www.soasta.com.


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Our little garden this year has already produced several batches of strawberries and Israel loves picking them and eating them right away. That bowl he's holding? He ate the whole thing just moments later!
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Cute Berry Picker, congrats on being Esty's guest pinner:)ReplyDelete
aww! my little peanut loves strawberries. maybe next year I will have things more together that I can grow a garden...ReplyDelete
What a cute strawberry picker! Strawberries are one reason why I'd love to have my own garden :)ReplyDelete
Those are beautiful! I have a strawberry plant, but only get one or two sad looking strawberries a year. :(ReplyDelete
You must be so proud to grow such delicious treats! Adorable pics of them too :)ReplyDelete
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I love Israel's sandals - where did you get them? I've got a little guy not much older, and I'm always delighted by Israel's outfits.ReplyDelete
I appreciate a mom with a more eclectic sense of kid style beyond primary colors and superheroes.
adorable! My little boy loves strawberries too, he will eat them right off the plant some days!ReplyDelete
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They want to finalise the sharing of the internet among other things, so if someone who knows about these things and can make descisions can turn up, it would be great.Several new and old members of the infoseed volunteers group are meeting this Thursday 14th December, from 7-9pm for a discussion on how to move the area forward, to make sure its potential isn't wasted and to try and intergate more with the rest of The Forest volunteers, activities and projects.
If you have an interest in helping run the infoseed and may be able to volunteer some time, resources or ideas... please come along and give your views ...Ooo and brings some biscuits
If no one has been down recently, the place looks awesome. They have the biggest poster of Malcolm X, like, ever.


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Can Core Competencies Be Outsourced?
Kathy | November 1, 2005
In last month's column, we presented evidence that if a company uses assets to provide a product or service, maintenance is, indeed, a core competency. Still, there exists a school of thought that you should only outsource non-core business functions. Does this apply to maintenance/asset management?
Consider the following reasons to outsource maintenance.
The first reason has been a given since maintenance organizations have been in existence. Outsourcing maintenance is typically done in organizations that perform many projects or schedule outages or shutdowns. In these situations, there is a fixed amount of work that needs to be performed in a given time period.
If the work exceeds in-house resources, outside resources are brought into the equation. Also, if specialty tasks need to be performed, outside resources that specialize in performing these tasks can be brought in and perform the tasks at a higher level of efficiency and effectiveness.
The second reason for outsourcing maintenance is to provide specialty skills. In some organizations, certain types of maintenance on control, automation or HVAC systems is outsourced. This is a cost-benefit decision. In many cases, the work generated by these systems is insufficient to justify staffing a full-time employee. Thus, it becomes more cost-effective to outsource the maintenance function, provided certain performance guarantees are negotiated.
The third reason for outsourcing is beginning to grow among financial officers in companies. As CFOs continue to look for ways to increase shareholder value, they are examining every possible cost-saving avenue. Outsourcing companies now are directly approaching CFOs with the business proposition to replace the in-house maintenance function with an outsourced organization. The advantage? Reduced maintenance expendituresÐand any reduction in expenses is an increase in profit. No matter how you slice it, this can be an immensely compelling proposition for a CFO.
In-house maintenance/asset managers may try to refute these claims, but consider some statistics. What if 1/3rd of all maintenance resources really are wasted due to ineffective and inefficient management techniques and it does take three to five years (internally) to transform a reactive maintenance culture into a ÒBest PracticeÓ organization? Can a professionally-managed outsourced maintenance more rapidly reduce maintenance expenses while increasing equipment availability and efficiency?
What can maintenance/realiability managers do if they want to keep their maintenance/asset management as an internal business function? The key is to become professional maintenance managers. To do so, they must learn to translate their technical language into the language other company managers speak—financial… dollars and cents. If not, an increasing number of maintenance organizations will fail to show value. And, they will be outsourced.
Today's maintenance/ reliability managers must accelerate (their improvement programs lowering maintenance expenses), innovate (find better practices that improve asset reliability and efficiency) or evaporate (be prepared to be outsourced).
The responsibility of any CFO (or COO and CEO, for that matter) is to improve profitability. Unless their internal maintenance function is optimized, outsourcing will always be an attractive option.


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The perception that student-athletes have it easy wasn't lost on former Boston College point guard Biko Paris. But every time he heard it he laughed.
"I hear it a lot and I heard it a lot growing up," he said. "I wish it was true, but it's not."
The athletes at BC had their own tutors. But they were no different from the ones the other students enlisted at the university help center.
In some ways, Paris said, student-athletes have it harder. For instance, a normal student could skip a class if he had a long night. If Paris missed a class, he ran laps.
"I wish grades were given to us or we didn't have class," he said, chuckling. "I really wish it was like that but it's not. I don't know where they get that [perception] from, but we do just as much if not more than a regular student."
Paris arrived at BC with his mother's words ringing in his ear.
"The ball won't bounce forever," she told him.
He played four years, scored 783 points in 129 games, and graduated on time in 2011 with a degree in sociology.
"Making sure you graduated was a main priority at BC," Paris said.
The NCAA released its annual graduation success rate data this week (based on student-athletes who started school in 2005) and Boston College was tied for third in the nation among Football Bowl Subdivision schools, with 97 percent of its student-athletes completing their degrees. BC trailed only Notre Dame (99 percent) and Duke (98). Northwestern matched BC's rate.
The BC football team graduated 94 percent of its players, tied with Miami for the highest rate in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Seventeen of BC's 29 Division 1 programs graduated 100 percent of its athletes.
Nationwide, graduation rates in football and men's basketball increased. Basketball jumped to 74 percent, a 6 percent increase from a year ago, and football bumped to 70 percent, a 1 percent gain.
According to US News and World Report, BC is 24th in the nation in four-year graduation rate at 87 percent.
"Coaches as well as our academic advisors pushed us to the limit as far as making sure our grades were up to par and we were all up with our classes and actually on time to graduate. It was schoolwork then basketball," Paris said. "If you didn't have the grades or if you weren't caught up on your work, you would miss practice. You would have study hall. You would have to spend time with a tutor. Academics was forced upon us."
After the 2010-11 season, rather than stay for his senior year at Boston College, all-ACC guard Reggie Jackson entered the NBA draft and was taken 24th overall by the Oklahoma City Thunder.
But when he left the Heights, he needed only two classes to complete his degree.
"That shows you how hard they push you to make sure you're reaching your requirements and getting ahead," Paris said. "He can go back and finish those classes whenever he's ready to."
Paris had a chance to go to Southern Cal and play under Tim Floyd, but chose Boston College largely because of its academics.
His senior season, he was ahead of schedule. He needed just two core classes to finish. He took one in the fall, one in the spring.
He played professionally in Germany after graduation, then returned to the States and looked into getting his foot in the door as a coach. He checked in with a network of BC coaches, including Steve Donahue, Joe Jones, Pat Duquette, and Mo Cassara. When a job as video coordinator under Jones at Boston University opened up, he jumped at it.
Since he's been in the working world, he's discovered the strength of his BC degree.
"Getting a degree from Boston College is huge, especially up north, from New York, the Boston area down to Washington D.C., you having a Boston College degree it speaks measures for itself."
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- Downloaded the latest version of Apache Tomcat Server
- Extracted and installed it on a local server
- Ran the startup script and started the server
If I was him, I would have tried out my web applications with Apache Tomcat by following the three simple steps given below.
Step 1 - Create a demo user account at WSO2 StratosLive
This is a simple registration procedure and follow the steps given in my previous blog post to create a demo account.
Step 2 - Access WSO2 Stratos Application Server
You can access Application Server from WSO2 Stratos Manager home page or just type https://appserver.stratoslive.wso2.com in your favorite browser.
Step 3 - Upload web application
Click on Manage --> Web Applications --> Add in the left navigation menu. You will be directed to the following screen.
Browse the webapp (*.war) in your local machine and click on upload. I downloaded a sample calendar.war webapp from here for demonstration purposes. Once the file upload is done, the deployed calendar.war will be listed in Running Web Applications page where you can do all web app management tasks such as session handling, reloading webapps, deleting etc..
Isn't this the simplest way to run your web applications? You will not be charged a cent for the steps which I demonstrated above. Once you are satisfied with testing your web apps on Stratos Application Server, you can upgrade your usage plan as needed and have an enterprise ready web application running on cloud!


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What are the Child Care Food Programs?
The Child Care Food Programs are child nutrition programs funded by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The objective of the programs is to provide reimbursement for meals and snacks served to children in child care settings. The end goal is to provide access to food and a healthful diet to children in need, as well as promote a healthy lifestyle through smart food choices.
Can you Participate?
Various public or private nonprofit child care centers, Head-Start programs, outside-school-hours care locations, and other institutions that are approved to provide child care services can participate. Other for-profit centers that serve low-income children may also be eligible for the program.
Requirements for Family Child Care Homes:
- Licensed by the state of Florida and have at least one unrelated child in your care.
- Serve consistent meals that meet USDA guidelines.
- Keep accurate records and submit them monthly to Child Care of Southwest Florida
Requirements for Child Care Centers:
- Be licensed by the appropriate child care licensing authority or be legally exempt from such licensure.
- Be classified as a public of private nonprofit organization
- For-profit organizations that wish to participate must have an enrollment capacity of at least 25% low-income children who meet specific criteria.
- Child care centers or outside-school-hours care locations can participate in the program with a sponsor or as an independent center.
- Family day care home providers who participate must be licensed and affiliated with a sponsoring organization.
Child Care of Southwest Florida Can Help
We know how important diet and healthy choices are. They have a direct impact on a child's mind and ability to learn. That's why we've become a sponsoring organization and we're here to help you get your Child Care Food Program set up. One of our experts can help you fill out your application, get the program started at your location, answer any questions you may have, and provide you with sample menus and menu planning. We'll make sure you meet the USDA nutritional guidelines. Our Food Program specialists will explain record keeping and supply you with all the needed forms. Each month after the appropriate paperwork is submitted, a reimbursement check will be mailed directly to you or deposited in your bank account. We also have bilingual specialists available if you need them.
How you can Participate
Food is an essential element of life and no child should go hungry. Children also deserve to be taught how to make their own healthy food choices starting at a young age so that they can continue on a path to healthy eating their entire lives. Additionally through this program, you will learn proper training in nutrition, food safety, and sanitation, which can be passed on to the children in your care. Participating in this program will provide piece of mind to the parents of the children in your care, as they will know their children are receiving the proper nutrition. Lastly, the food costs of your center will be reduced by participating in this program.
The following counties in Florida are served by USDA Child Care Food Programs:


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Featuring a 5.5-inch 1080x1920 display (401ppi), a 64-bit dual-core A8 processor co-operated with an M8 co-processor, an 8-megapixel iSight camera with optical image stabilization and a two-tone LED flash, and, for the first time for an Apple device -- an NFC chip that facilitates mobile payments through Apple Pay, the Apple iPhone 6 Plus 16GB for Verizon (Silver) is not only the largest, but also the best iPhone to date!
Technical Details
Seamless Design
A polished glass front that is curved around the edges of the display, an anodized aluminum rear that contains two plastic strips for the antenna and silver finishes in the exterior achieved at a smooth, continuous form of the iPhone 6 Plus. With a thickness of 7.1 millimetres, the iPhone 6 Plus is the thinnest iPhone to date.
5.5-inch Retina HD display
The iPhone 6 Plus features a 5.5-inch 1920x1080 (1080p) display (401 PPI) with higher contrast, dual-domain pixels for more accurate color at wider viewing angles, and an improved polarizer. The world's thinnest, most advanced Multi-Touch display delivers crisp visuals for photos, videos and Web pages.
A8 Chip
The iPhone 6 Plus has a dual-core 1.4 GHz Cyclone Processor (ARM v8-based) and an M8 motion co-processor, which delivers a 25% increase in CPU performance, a 50% increase in graphics performance, and less heat output in comparison with the iPhone 5S. Thus, the A8 chip delivers outstanding overall performance including better performance and battery life - so you can play graphics-intensive games or stream video at higher frame rates for longer than ever.
LTE Capable
LTE support is expanded on the iPhone 6 Plus, with support for over 20 LTE bands, up to 150 Mbps download speed, 50Mbps upload speed, and VoLTE support.
Faster Wi-Fi
With support for 802.11ac Wi-Fi, which provides data transfer speeds up to 433 mbps—up to 3 times faster than 802.11n, the iPhone 6 Plus gives you an unrivaled network experience! Additionally, Wi-Fi Calling support is also available.
Touch ID
Touch ID is an easy, private and safe way to unlock your iPhone, as well as make purchases in the iTunes Store, the App Store and iBookstore, with a single touch.
Apple Pay
Apple Pay uses a near field communication (NFC) antenna, Apple's Touch ID and Passbook to make payments at retail and online checkout - convenient, easy and safe. Apple Pay is Visa, Master Card, and American Express certificated.
8-megapixel iSight Camera
With a new Backside illumination sensor that carries 1.5 micron pixels, an f/2.2 aperture lens, phase detection autofocus and more advanced features, the improved 8-megapixel iSight camera allows you to shoot 1080p HD video at either 30 or 60 frames per second and slow-motion video at either 120 or 240 frames per second.
FaceTime HD Camera
With the front-facing FaceTime HD camera that is capable of taking high quality snapshots in 1.2MP resolution and recording 720p HD video, you can stay in touch with someone across the country with fun!
iOS 8 and iCloud
With an easy-to-use interface, amazing features, and security at its core, iOS 8 is the most advanced mobile operating system ever. iOS 8 brings with new capabilities and functions that let you do things you could only imagine before, like newly released Health and HealthKit to record your health and fitness information, improved Siri that supports hands-free activation and music identification, intelligent Interactive notifications that let you respond to texts without leaving the app they are currently using, and much more...
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Give me Jordi Parra's Spotify Box working prototype over a Sonos or Onkyo receiver any day of the week. In fact, I might just try making one myself, by adding RFID tags to little wooden discs that can be slid inside the Spotify radio.
Each disk is linked to a particular Spotify playlist, and as the radio has a Wi-Fi component, putting the disc inside would instantly trigger the playlist. As the video below shows, little LEDs dance inside the speaker, so you get all the class of a style icon (Parra lists Dieter Rams as being the obvious influence here), with the flashiness of today's docks.
While it's just a prototype that only works when hooked up to a computer, Parra is confident he can use Arduino and an ARM processor to actually turn it into a standalone radio. Created for Parra's final degree project, he's been receiving advice from Spotify's Art Director, and is hopeful he could get some success with Kickstarter, and actually realize his idea. I'm sure I'm not the only one who'd jump at a chance to support this amazing project—and actually buy one, too. [Jordi Parra via Wired]


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Some of our favorite rappers hit the big 40 last year, but continue to make new music and are still in the game. Old rappers look foolish in my eyes and the young talent that has come forth since 2008 has been tragic! ( Wacka Flacka Flame is TRAGIC!!!) Furthermore, the young talent that actually know how to put together proper sentences are all going to jail, such as T.I. and Lil Wayne, with the exception of Drake.
Is Drake really raps only hope?
Is Drake really raps future?
Rappers such as Jay-z, Snoop Dogg, Nas, and Outkast are getting up there in age, so when is it time to put down the mic and what will become of rap?


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This is an example of an offering. An offering is a class, workout, workshop or other service that you provide. This information can help people understand what you are offering the community and build credibility and trust with new clients. If you schedule an offering, it will show up on your schedule and in the upcoming events section of your website.
Note: This is not a real class just an example of how you could use OfferingTree to show the world what you offer!
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More Live Windows for World Environment Day 2012, a cooperation between Fabrica, Benetton's research centre on communication, ECV - Ecole de Communication Visuelle Aix-en-Provence and IED - Escola Superior de Disseny, Barcelona. The project promotes the work of young talented designers and publishes their works on the mediawalls of selected Benetton flagship stores all over the world.
UNRIC has partnered with Fabrica to raise awareness on a number of International Observances, reviewing and endorsing selected video projects submitted by schools around Europe.
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Fabrica, Benetton s communication research centre
ECV Provence - École de Communication Visuelle
The Brussels based United Nations Regional Information Centre for Western Europe - UNRIC provides information on UN activities to the countries of the region. It also provides liaison with institutions of the European Union in the field of information. Its outreach activities extend to all segments of society and joint campaigns, projects and events are organized with partners including the EU, governments, the media, NGOs, schools and local authorities.
United Nations Regional Information Centre for Western Europe (UNRIC Brussels)
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Hey you there! Have an awesome day :D
I got 200§ for winning the gameshow.I spend 170 on it for a MS review :3
I bet for Troyio and he won.
I will be updating tomorrow to let all of the members post and give me a chance to comb the thread for their posts.
Ravi. Eyenstein lied. http://forums.sploder.com/index.php/topic,327524.30.htmlI don't see any posts. And I checked his post list. Nothing.
sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry lol I was goofinhttp://www.sploder.com/publish.php?s=d003apbobtw, Liam ignored me all night last night. Can you make a gameshow planning category for my gameshow, just name it Troyio's Gameshow. This is my only free time this week and I can't seem to recieve any help :/
Same as Lumber plox!
Can I get +50 exp for my promotion to Lt, or does it have to be while the shop is running?
Awesome group Ravi, I never quite noticed it... Btw, I would like to join.And, could you shortly explain to me what do I do here and how can I earn money?
*joins*btw, can I ask, does custom title, give me an actual custom title for my profile, or something else??
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Encarnacion leads charge in rout of D-backs
Slugger goes 3-for-3 with fifth homer in five games at Chase Field
PHOENIX -- At this point in the season, the Blue Jays are playing for little more than pride, and perhaps to carry some confidence into the offseason.
But knowing with certainty when its season will end will not stop the team from enjoying high-powered nights like Tuesday's and hot stretches like this one.
The Blue Jays pounded out 15 hits, including four home runs, as they slugged their way to their seventh win in their last nine contests with a 10-4 victory over the D-backs at Chase Field.
"It's been a tough year for us, but we're playing some good baseball right now," Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said. "We've got some guys in there that are contributing and bringing some energy."
At least in Arizona, no Blue Jay deserves that description more than Edwin Encarnacion. While six Toronto players drove in runs Tuesday night, it was Encarnacion who stole the show in just the latest eye-popping performance of his brief but now historic career at Chase Field.
After tallying two RBIs and launching his 35th long ball of the year in the series' opener, the slugger went 3-for-3 with two walks Tuesday, scoring twice and driving in a run on his 36th homer. That blast made Encarnacion the first player, home or away, in Chase Field's 15-year history to homer in five consecutive games at the stadium.
"When they told me that, I didn't know," Encarnacion said. "I see the ball good here."
To say the least. Through Tuesday, the 30-year-old has played 14 career games in the desert but has already collected eight homers and driven in 12 runs.
"Eddie hits everywhere; he just hits really well here," Gibbons said. "He's a good hitter, but you get in those certain spots where you're confident, and good things happen."
Along with from Encarnacion, the rest of the Blue Jays' bats had their way Tuesday with D-backs starter Wade Miley, who entered the game with a 2.29 ERA since the start of July. After Brett Lawrie put Toronto on the board with an RBI single in the first, the club strung together five hits and two free passes in the second inning to knock Miley out of the game and go ahead, 5-0.
Jose Reyes delivered the first blow of the frame, knocking an RBI single to left before Rajai Davis crushed his third home run of the year into the left-center-field bleachers for a two-run shot. Lawrie then drove in Encarnacion, who had doubled, before the D-backs brought in Josh Collmenter, who retired the side only after the Blue Jays batted around.
"They've got a lot of good players over there," Miley said. "Just look at their lineup -- they've got a lot of good guys over there. What's causing their struggle, who knows? But at any point in time they can just kind of outhit anyone."
Given a sizable cushion to work with, Blue Jays starter Todd Redmond cruised through his first three innings, retiring his first nine batters in order. The only thing preventing the right-hander from turning his decent outing into a great one were a couple of mistakes he left up in the fourth and fifth. After Adam Eaton lined a hanging sinker over the right-field fence to break up the no-hitter, Didi Gregorius swatted a slider that caught too much of the plate out of the park for a two-run dinger, bringing the D-backs within 6-3.
"Those were bad pitches," Redmond said. "And that's what they're going to do with those pitches. Besides that, though, I was able to keep the ball down and work both sides of the plate."
The 28-year-old finished his night allowing just the three runs -- on four hits over five innings.
"He's got a good sinker, and he was throwing a mystery pitch up there for a little while," Eaton said. "It was a little offspeed pitch we didn't know if it was a split or a changeup. Throws decent hard and has good sink on his ball."
Arizona trimmed the Blue Jays' lead to two when Miguel Montero homered in the seventh off Neil Wagner before Encarnacion, Adam Lind and Moises Sierra gave the club back its breathing room with a trio of home runs in the final two innings.
"The offense did a great job tonight; hats off to them," Redmond said. "The team is playing great right now. We're pitching great, and the offense is coming around big time; they're putting runs up, and that's enabling us to go out and do our jobs."


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Have you heard about the new Creationism Museum?
"A lot of that money is going into the animatronic dinosaurs, which are pictured as coexisting with modern humans before the Fall. According to the article, up to 50 million Americans believe this."
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