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United States District Court, D. Vermont
February 26, 2018
UNITED STATESv.VIDESH RAGHOONANAN
Christina Reiss, District Judge United States District Court.
matter came before the court for a review of the Magistrate
Judge's January 10, 2018 Report and Recommendation
C'R&R") (Doc. 234). On May 1, 2017, Defendant
Videsh Raghoonanan, who is self-represented, filed a motion
pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 seeking a reduction of his
145 month term of imprisonment on the grounds that he
received ineffective assistance of counsel, and arguing a new
rule of law announced in Dean v. United States, 137
S.Ct. 1179 (2017) gives district courts discretion to order
consecutive sentences for trafficking and firearm possession
in furtherance of drug trafficking convictions. (Doc. 210.)
On July 28, 2017, Defendant filed an amended motion further
contending that the Supreme Court's holding in
Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015)
mandates the court vacate his conviction for possessing a
firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. (Doc.
229.) The government opposes both motions, contending that
his claims are time barred by § 2255's one-year
statute of limitations and because they lack merit. Neither
party has filed an objection to the R & R, and the time
to do so has expired.
district judge must make a de novo determination of
those portions of a magistrate judge's report and
recommendation to which an objection is made. Fed.R.Civ.P.
72(b)(3); 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1); Cullen v. United
States, 194 F.3d 401, 405 (2d Cir. 1999). The district
judge may "accept, reject, or modify, in whole or in
part, the findings or recommendations made by the magistrate
judge." 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1); accord
Cullen, 194 F.3d at 405. A district judge, however, is
not required to review the factual or legal conclusions of
the magistrate judge as to those portions of a report and
recommendation to which no objections are addressed.
Thomas v. Arn, 474 U.S. 140, 150 (1985).
In his
thirty-eight page R & R, the Magistrate Judge carefully
reviewed Defendant's factual and legal claims and
properly recommended that the court deny the § 2255
motion and amended motion. As the first basis for
recommending denial of the motions, the Magistrate Judge
noted that Defendant's claims are barred by the one-year
statute of limitations contained in § 2255. See
28 U.S.C. § 2255(f).
Magistrate Judge nevertheless proceeded to analyze
Defendant's claims and observed that Defendant did not
establish that his counsel's performance was deficient in
failing to raise meritless legal arguments based on
distinguishable cases, and that Defendant failed to support
his contention that, but for his counsel's inadequate
representation, the court would have dismissed charges
against him or altered his sentence. The Magistrate Judge
committed no error in concluding that Defendant failed to
satisfy either prong of the Strickland test for
establishing ineffective assistance of counsel. See
Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 687 (1984)
("First, the defendant must show that counsel's
performance was deficient. This requires showing that counsel
made errors so serious that counsel was not functioning as
the 'counsel' guaranteed the defendant by the Sixth
Amendment. Second, the defendant must show that the deficient
performance prejudiced the defense. This requires showing
that counsel's errors were so serious as to deprive the
defendant of a fair trial, a trial whose result is
respect to Defendant's arguments regarding the
applicability of Dean, wherein the Supreme Court
considered the district courts' discretion when
calculating sentences under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), the
Magistrate Judge accurately noted that the right recognized
in that case was not made retroactively applicable to cases
on collateral review; that Defendant's case is factually
distinguishable due to the mandatory minimum terms required
by law; and because the court exercised its discretion in
sentencing him to a term of imprisonment within the plea
agreement's agreed-upon range.
considering the applicability of Johnson to
Defendant's conviction, the Magistrate Judge accurately
found that Defendant's conviction under § 924(c) did
not rely on a predicate crime of violence. Defendant was
convicted of possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug
trafficking crime, as opposed to in furtherance of a crime of
violence. Accordingly, Johnson is inapplicable.
the Magistrate Judge did not err in his well-reasoned
conclusion recommending that the court deny Defendant's
request for counsel. See Pennsylvania v. Finley, 481
U.S. 551, 555 (1987) ("Our cases establish that the
right to appointed counsel extends to the first appeal of
right, and no further.").
For the
foregoing reasons, the court hereby ADOPTS the Magistrate
Judge's R & R (Doc. 234) as the court's Opinion
and Order, DENIES Defendant's motion for appointment of
counsel, DENIES Defendant's motion to vacate and amended
motion to vacate, and DISMISSES Defendant's § 2255
motion and amended motion (Docs. 210 & 229).
to Fed. R. App. P. 22(b)(1) and 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2),
the court DENIES Defendant a certificate of appealability in
this matter because he has failed to make a ...
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No, dog people; don't get excited. I'm not suggesting that you actually put cat people in crates and try to train them. As we all know, cat people are not trainable. That is why they admire cats. Cat people and cats are not trainable because they DON'T need to be trained. They simply do what they are supposed to do without fanfare or hot dog chunks.
Cat people, you know how hard it is to train a new kitten to use the litter box, right? Of course not, because it's the easiest thing you will ever do. You simply put the kitten in the box, grab it's little paw and dig in the litter with the paw. After that, the kitten will always use the litter box unless one of three things happens:
- The kitten is a male and you bring another male cat in to the house. Then, the cats will begin the ancient art of spraying (Note: the Ancient Art of Spraying was a great punk band in the 80's), also known as an all out urine war.
- You are lazy and you do not scoop the litter box at least once, if not twice a day. Cats do not like to walk through their own waste. Can you blame them?
- The cat is angry with you. Then, you may find a "present" on your bed. Don't be mad at the cat. You should not have made him or her angry.
Dogs are very different from cats. This is obviously the most profound statement I have ever made. Seriously, they require more attention, more cleaning, and definitely more direction. For some reason, Americans like needy creatures because dogs are still the most popular pets in the United States. While more cats are actually owned, more households have dogs. I'm guessing this is due to crazy cat ladies and hoarders. Basically, you can cram more cats in each house.
I'm a cat person who happens to have two dogs. One of them is an adorable Black Lab/Great Dane puppy named Sophie. Sophie is sweet, playful, and not fully potty- trained. Sigh. Yes, we are doing crate training, and yes she has only been living with us for a few days. Still, I am a little annoyed. I'm just not used to all of the training. Cats just don't do some of the idiotic things that dogs do. Here are a few examples:
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I'm sure Sophie will be a lovely member of the family once she is fully trained. Until then, I will take my lead from my three lovely cats and hide upstairs as much as possible. Sophie is not able to jump over the three gates we have in the house now. I give her another month. After all, she is a Great Dane.


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Increase Positive Emotions and Decrease Emotional Disturbance in Adolescents with Meditation
By John M. de Castro, Ph.D.
"Adolescence is a time of change and growth. It is the period of life reserved for rebellion and self-discovery, but as the demands in life increase for teens, this time is often fraught with confusion, anxiety or depression. For many teens these challenges lead to disconnection and isolation." – Making Friends with Yourself
Adolescence is a time of mental, physical, social, and emotional growth. But adolescence can be a difficult time, fraught with challenges. During this time the child transitions to young adulthood; including the development of intellectual, psychological, physical, and social abilities and characteristics. There are so many changes occurring during this time that the child can feel overwhelmed and unable to cope with all that is required. Indeed, up to a quarter of adolescents suffer from depression or anxiety disorders, and an even larger proportion struggle with subclinical symptoms.
Mindfulness training has been shown in adolescents to improve emotion regulation and to benefit the psychological and emotional health. Since adolescent girls are more likely to have emotional issues than boys, it would seem reasonable to hypothesize that mindfulness would have greater psychological benefits for adolescent girls than for boys.
In today's Research News article "Gender differences in response to a school-based mindfulness training intervention for early adolescents." (See summary below or view the full text of the study at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6174072/), Kang and colleagues recruited male and female 6th grade students and randomly assigned them to receive a school-based, 6-week program, 4-5 times per week for, on average, 5 minutes per day of either guided meditations or brief lessons on African history. Before and after training the students were measured for global emotional disturbance, positive emotions, mindfulness, and self-compassion.
They found that in comparison to baseline and the active controls, the adolescents who meditated had significantly higher positive emotions and significantly lower global emotional disturbance. For males there were significant increases in positive emotions for both groups while for females there were significant increases in positive emotions only for the meditation group. A similar trend was present for global emotional disturbance. In addition, they found that for females the higher the levels of self-compassion the higher the levels of positive emotions and the lower the levels of global emotional disturbance. This was not true for males.
The results appear to show that meditation training is particularly effective in improving emotions in female but not male adolescents. But the difference was not in the meditation condition but rather in the control condition. Whereas the female controls did not show any improvement in emotions while the meditation group improved. For the males, both groups improved. So, both males and female adolescents had improved emotions following 6-weeks of meditation practice. Adolescents is a turbulent time with strong emotions. The present results suggest that providing meditation training in school may be helpful in controlling and leveling these emotions.
So, increase positive emotions and decrease emotional disturbance in adolescents with meditation.
"Adolescence is a developmental moment of peak stress, and a teen's heightened self-consciousness ("Do I look weird? Did I just sound stupid in class?") cranks up the volume of the inner critic. Self-compassion encourages mindfulness, or noticing your feelings without judgment; self-kindness, or talking to yourself in a soothing way; and common humanity, or thinking about how others might be suffering similarly." – Rachel Simmons
CMCS – Center for Mindfulness and Contemplative Studies
This and other Contemplative Studies posts are also available on Google+ https://plus.google.com/106784388191201299496/posts and on Twitter @MindfulResearch
Study Summary
Kang, Y., Rahrig, H., Eichel, K., Niles, H. F., Rocha, T., Lepp, N. E., … Britton, W. B. (2018). Gender differences in response to a school-based mindfulness training intervention for early adolescents. Journal of school psychology, 68, 163–176. doi:10.1016/j.jsp.2018.03.004
Mindfulness training has been used to improve emotional wellbeing in early adolescents. However, little is known about treatment outcome moderators, or individual differences that may differentially impact responses to treatment. The current study focused on gender as a potential moderator for affective outcomes in response to school-based mindfulness training. Sixth grade students (N = 100) were randomly assigned to either the six weeks of mindfulness meditation or the active control group as part of a history class curriculum. Participants in the mindfulness meditation group completed short mindfulness meditation sessions four to five times per week, in addition to didactic instruction (Asian history). The control group received matched experiential activity in addition to didactic instruction (African history) from the same teacher with no meditation component. Self-reported measures of emotional wellbeing/affect, mindfulness, and self-compassion were obtained at pre and post intervention. Meditators reported greater improvement in emotional wellbeing compared to those in the control group. Importantly, gender differences were detected, such that female meditators reported greater increases in positive affect compared to females in the control group, whereas male meditators and control males displayed equivalent gains. Uniquely among females but not males, increases in self-reported self-compassion were associated with improvements in affect. These findings support the efficacy of school-based mindfulness interventions, and interventions tailored to accommodate distinct developmental needs of female and male adolescents.


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Here are 5 common mistakes in retaining wall design and construction—and how to avoid them
August 07, 2018
August 07, 2018
Improper design can create construction headaches and insurance claims later
When it comes to projects and insurance claims, sometimes the writing is on the wall. Last year, I attended a presentation by a professional liability insurer. The presentation gave a summary for claim dollars they had paid for various design professionals and various types of projects. The summary showed that, for the period their data had been taken, more than 20% of claim dollars for geotechnical engineers, and 4% of claim dollars for civil engineers, were related to retaining walls.
Retaining walls are commonly used when two areas on a property are at different elevations, and there is a desire to transition from one elevation to the other in a short distance—shorter than can be used if the land is just sloped instead.
As a geotechnical engineer, I've participated in design and construction monitoring of retaining walls on many projects. I've even participated in the redesign and rebuild of retaining walls that turned out to not be designed and/or constructed properly in the first place. I've seen issues crop up in project after project. So, here's my list of the top five mistakes made during design and construction of retaining walls—and how you can avoid them.
I've seen many projects that include a retaining wall as part of a much larger project, where the design drawings show the wall location with both top of wall and bottom of wall elevations at various points along the wall. To save time and money, the owner or civil engineer doesn't have the retaining wall design completed prior to having contractors bid on construction for the site.
The contractor must bid on the retaining wall portion of the project based on that limited information. What is the contractor going to do? They'll go to a manufacturer of retaining wall components, who will give them a "design" for free.
What is the manufacturer going to do? They'll provide a "design" based on the configuration provided and typical design soil parameters. Are those design soil parameters applicable to the site? Possibly. Possibly not.
Leaving the design to the bidding contractors can also lead directly to the next four mistakes below. If the retaining wall is properly designed prior to the contractors bidding, you'll know they've bid a wall that will meet the project needs. You reduce the potential for delays—if it's discovered that the wall isn't appropriate for the site, which is often the case—and extra claims by the contractor.
I know. Shocking. The geotechnical engineer—who specializes in soils investigations—is recommending having soils information prior to design.
Well, if there hasn't been some form of investigation prior to design, how are you going to know if the soils can support the forces produced by the wall? Are there soft or organic soils that will have to be removed or improved prior to construction? How do you do the global stability analysis to make sure the whole thing doesn't rotate? If a soils investigation is completed first, you'll have the information you need to properly design the wall.
So, design the wall for the soil conditions. It's harder, and often impossible, to change the soil conditions to fit the wall that was designed.
Even if quality-control inspection isn't a requirement for a retaining wall, it's still a good idea.
I've seen many retaining-wall designs that leave the check of global stability to "others." Global stability is the mechanism by which the whole wall, as well as the soil behind and below the wall, rotates.
If the global stability check finds that there isn't an appropriate factor of safety in the design, the most appropriate way to fix that is to change the design. This can lead to a lot of back-and-forth between the designer and the other professional who is analyzing global stability. If the global stability analysis isn't done before the wall construction begins, and the analysis finds an issue, then there could be a need to remove the part of the wall already constructed and start again. Make sure global stability analysis is done as part of the design of the wall.
I've seen many retaining walls designed to be right up against a property line, with grades on the adjacent property being higher than the grades on the property owned by whoever wants the retaining wall. But you need space to construct the wall. When you excavate to construct the wall, you can't leave the excavated slope vertical. There will have to be some sloping to ensure safety—so that the soil slope doesn't fail during construction.
If the wall design calls for geogrid reinforcement to hold the wall back from falling forward, then that geogrid is extending into the neighboring property—often by several meters. With any of these scenarios, the owner of the neighboring property may have issues with your excavations extending onto their property, especially if they have any structures, landscaping, trees, or fences near or on the property line. Make sure that there is enough room to construct the wall you want to build when you design it. If you want construction to extend into a neighboring property, make sure you have that neighbor's buy-in.
In the province of Ontario, where I work, the building code requires continuous review during construction of most retaining walls. Even if quality-control inspection isn't a requirement for the wall, it's still a good idea. Aside from identifying soil conditions that are not as good as the designer assumed, and coming up with solutions, the wall installer can make mistakes—such as choosing the wrong material, using the right material in the wrong way, or using material of the wrong size.
I remember talking to a contractor who had installed uniaxial geogrid—which is a geogrid that is significantly stronger in one direction—in the wrong direction for some fairly long walls. He said he had been doing it that way for years, and he probably thought he was doing it correctly. With the geogrid in the wrong orientation, the wall could move more than anticipated—possibly even fail. A proper quality-control program during construction can catch small errors so they can be corrected early on.
Avoiding these five mistakes can help steer your retaining wall project in the right direction and help you avoid insurance claims on projects involving retaining walls.


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Skip to 0 minutes and 1 second Hello. My name is Cinny Cusack, and I am the Physiotherapy Manager at the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin, Ireland. Part of my role is to help women know how to keep themselves and their pelvic floors fit and healthy during pregnancy, after childbirth, into the menopause and beyond. We know that urinary incontinence, or leaking from the bladder when you don't mean to, can affect 1 in 3 women at different stages in their lives. The amount you leak may vary from a few drops to complete loss of bladder control. It can be of minor inconvenience, or you might find it has a significant impact on your life, your daily activities, and prevents you doing the things and the exercises that you enjoy.
Skip to 0 minutes and 44 seconds It can be difficult in some jobs if you keep having to go to the toilet, and you may find you know all the toilets in the area where you live. It can impact on travel, and it may impact on your sexual relationships or the way you feel about yourself. One of the most rewarding parts of my job is to see women using their pelvic floor exercises and the different strategies and tips to regain control over their bladders, and to be able to return to the activities or exercises that they really enjoy doing. In this video, we're going to explore some of the science behind urinary incontinence, and how your bladder and pelvic floor work.
Skip to 1 minute and 24 seconds And you will be able to understand more about the different types of incontinence that you might be experiencing. So what is urinary incontinence? To understand how urinary incontinence happens, it will help you to know a little bit more about how the bladder and the pelvic floor muscles work together. Urinary incontinence can be caused by a weakness in the pelvic floor muscles, or there may be a change in the way your bladder behaves. So the pelvic floor muscles are a group of muscles that are attached to the underneath of your bony pelvis, and they make the floor of your pelvis. They are connected at the back to the coccyx, or the tailbone.
Skip to 2 minutes and 6 seconds You come around the sides of the openings in the pelvic floor, where your urethra, the tube to your bladder, the vagina, and the bowel are. They attach at the front to the inside of the pubic bone. Most of the time, the muscles are working to support your bladder, the womb, and the bowels up inside your pelvis. They work automatically, and you don't have to think about them, even when you're asleep. And they change their tension when you go from sitting to standing, or doing more activities. They work together with your abdominal muscles, and they stabilise and support your lower back when you're doing various activities, such as lifting your baby. They also coordinate their tension with your breathing.
Skip to 2 minutes and 51 seconds So when you take a deep breath in and your diaphragm descends, your pelvic floor also comes down. And when you breathe out, your pelvic floor comes back. And the pelvic floor moves up and down all day, along with your breathing. The pelvic floor also play a part in sexual relationships. They improve the sensations and the sexual arousal that you might have. You may only become more aware of your pelvic floor muscles when you need them to control the bladder, such as when you're in a queue for the toilet, or if you're going to cough and sneeze or do other physical activities.
Skip to 3 minutes and 27 seconds But as the bladder fills, you become more aware of the sensations of fullness, and it's the pelvic floor muscles that give the bladder a signal to hold on until it's time to go to the toilet, and they help you to reach the toilet on time without any leaking. When you sit on the toilet, your pelvic floor muscles relax, and that sends a message to your bladder that now is the time to empty. Once you've finished going to the toilet, pelvic floor muscles tighten and close the urethra, or the tube from your bladder. That gives the bladder a signal it's time to store urine again.
Skip to 4 minutes and 0 seconds By the time you've washed your hands and left the bathroom, the bladder will begin to fill again, so it never really stays completely empty for long. When you squeeze those pelvic floor muscles, you should feel them tighten around the back passage as if you were stopping yourself passing wind. Then as you bring the feeling forward, you close around the vagina, as if holding on a tampon, and further forward around the entrance of the bladder as if you were stopping yourself passing urine. So how does the bladder work? The kidneys make urine, which trickles into the bladder throughout the day, and more slowly at night.
Skip to 4 minutes and 37 seconds A normal bladder will empty between around four and eight times per day, and getting up once a night is common. It can hold between 400 and 600 millilitres, which is about the same size as a small bottle of water. For good bladder health, you should drink around six to eight glasses of fluid per day so that you pass around 1,800 mills of pale, straw-coloured urine in around 24 hours. If you drink significantly more than this, it can overload the bladder and make it harder to control. But drinking too little can make the urine very concentrated, irritates the bladder, and makes you want to go to the toilet more urgently.
Skip to 5 minutes and 19 seconds It's also important to sit on the toilet seat, rather than hover over it. This lets the pelvic floor muscles relax so the bladder can empty more fully, and you don't have to strain to empty it. You are more likely to get a bladder infection from not emptying the bladder fully than sitting on a toilet seat.
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Burger Shop - Cooking Fever ! Join a cooking adventure !
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Ultra crazy hungry customers are waiting for you to serve them their sky-high burger and fries, steak burger, sodas, and desserts! Make & serve yummy hamburgers, cheeseburgers and other sandwiches of their wish, unlock all three fast food stands and become the masterchef burger tycoon! Download Cooking Madness - Burger Shop for free and prove you're a real crazy star chef in cooking fever !
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Wow. Today was different. He kept his diaper on in the morning until he pooped. I was busy running up and down, doing the laundry, cleaning the kitchen, that I completely forgot to change him into his undies. Once I put his underwear on he did not pee at all ALL day!
He did tell me he had to pee. And we did go potty. He sat there. He tried. Some times he walked out of the bathroom as soon as I mentioned he had to sit in the toilet.
While eating dinner he simply had to go. He told me and I took him. Again he seemed a bit scared. But he peed…on me! I guess there's a trick for boys to go pee while sitting down without shooting straight…I am a girl, I have no clue.
Since we started potty training 2 days ago I've noticed that his pee is a bit cloudy. At first it was just a few drops. Now it is all. It worries me. And I think it hurts him to pee…he won't tell me. Every time I ask him he either ignores me or he talked about something else.
He is in bed now. And as I read him some books I noticed he jumped a bit and grabbed himself…he told me he had to pee…looks like it does hurt.
We'll have to take him to see a doctor tomorrow. It could be a urinary tract infection…I hope not. I hope it is all OK and that he is simply trying to tell us he is not ready to go potty by himself.
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I started writing fiction when I was about 10 years old. For those of you who don't know my age, that was twelve and a half years ago. Do the math.
I still remember the first novel I ever started (and never finished). Since then, I've grown A LOT as a writer and a person (I hope). I've learned a thing or two about my craft and about myself.
Fun fact: I won my first short story contest when I was twelve. It was a school contest. Mine was the only entry.
If I stumbled upon a time-machine and could go back to visit my younger self, here are five things I would tell myself (from a writer's perspective):
To 20-year-old me… "Don't rush. Be patient, be thorough. Write hard, edit harder, proofread hardest."
To 18-year-old me… "Value humility. You're good, but you're not great. Be teachable and study your craft. Don't assume you know more than the next guy."
To 16-year-old me… "Finish what you start. Don't chase new ideas like butterflies. Stick with a project until it's done, then move on to the next."
To 14-year-old me… "You're not Christopher Paolini, so stop trying to be. Relax, have fun, and come up with your own ideas."
To 10-year-old me… "Don't let anyone mock you just because you named your main characters Pobo and Button. You do you, kid."
Fun fact 2: I started my first significant novel project when I was 13. It was an epic fantasy story. I wrote 284 pages and then lost interest. I still have those pages.
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MEHTA & ASSOCIATES in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania is very pleased to announce it's joining of the Integra International network of independent Accounting and Consulting firms dedicated to exchanging information and advising growing businesses and professionals.
MEHTA & ASSOCIATES provides a wide range of services including Audit and Risk Management, Tax Services, Accounting and Legal Services, Business Advisory, Administrative or Company Secretarial Services, Recruitment and Human Resource Advisory. And joining a professional association like Integra can be a great way to do it.
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Thief - PS3
Release Date:February 25, 2014
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Thief will see players enter a city teetering on the edge of a bloody revolution. An oppressive regime subsisting on the rising tide of fear. An extraordinarily skilled thief lies in the shadows during this uncertain and troubled time, thwarting even the most cautious citizens out of their best-guarded possessions. But as the uprising, led by Orion, voice-of-the-people, begins to emerge, Master Thief Garrett finds himself entangled in the ever-tightening knot of conflict. The Baron's Watch refuses to ease their stringent regime, and Garrett's abilities may be the only thing that will prevent the streets from running red with the blood of the people. Will you redefine your role as Thief to save the City from a devastating fate? Slip into the silent shoes of the dark and solitary Master Thief and sneak through the City unnoticed and unsanctioned.
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As a genre, it has always seemed like stealth came and went as it pleased, much as the characters within these games often do to elude detection. Right now, we seem to be in a rather good phase for the stealth game in general. Between the introduction of new mechanics in independent games like Mark of the Ninja, the creation of exciting new franchises like Dishonored, or the return of storied franchises of yore like Metal Gear Solid or Splinter Cell, there is a lot for Stealth gamers to love. Sadly, the latest version of one of the older stealth franchises there is, Thief, is not one of these games.
The Thief games have been going for almost a full decade, and in the early days of preview coverage, it looked like Thief was going to be able to implement new mechanics from games such as Dishonored while still maintaining the feeling of a Thief game. Sadly, it seems like the constant rumors of serious development problems were well-founded, and there are countless issues that plague what is a game that maintains an interesting concept at its core.
Drawing a comparison between this game and the still somewhat recent Dishonored is almost a bit eerie. Both games involve rather similar plots involving a plague and some sort of dark voodoo magic behind everything, and Thief borrows quite a few ideas from Dishonored, including the existence of several small hub worlds within which are story missions as well as a selection of different side missions that the main character Garrett can choose to undertake or not.
The problem with Thief trying to use these mechanics is that it uses the same high roofs and narrow walkways without considering the fact that it is lacking the one thing that made traversing Dishonour's world fun, the magical powers. Sure, at the core of Thief's story lies some magical conspiracy that even after finishing the game remains a bit murky to me, but none of that really manifests itself within the gameplay, leaving you to clumsily search for ways to get up on roofs using context sensitive button presses.
Those button prompts are just the beginning of how Thief seems to constrain you, though. Whereas the older Thief games, particularly the first one, created a sort of open world even within the enclosed spaces of homes and sewer tunnels, every time the player enters a mission in this new Thief, they make a transition from a semi-open hub world to a painfully linear set of hallways and rooms. There is some freedom to how you deal with enemies, but the easy way out is always just to sneak up behind them and knock them out, which isn't hard thanks to the awful enemy AI.
Even stealing things in this new Thief feels wrong. Every time you would steal something in the older Thief games, it felt like a big score, like you were really achieving something. Here, Garrett is stealing literally everything that he can get his hands on from single gold coins to handheld mirrors. Instead of feeling like a master thief, Garrett instead feels like an insane kleptomaniac roaming through the city looking to steal garbage.
Even though the franchise is older than that of Dishonored, everything about this new Thief game feels like it was cribbed from Dishonored and then immediately made worse. Thief feels like what a cheaply produced knock-off version of Dishonored might feel like, and that is its biggest problem. If you like any number of the ideas that Thief puts forward, try out Dishonored.


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Overview… a retired man who lives on a grim council estate in London. Indeed, Harry has endured a life full of hardships. Not only has he just buried his wife, he lives in constant fear for his own safety – drug deals and gang fights have made his doorstep a dangerous place. Harry, though, has never been the kind of man to go quietly. As a highly decorated former officer in the Royal Marines, he's seen the absolute worst that humanity has to offer on the war-torn streets of Northern Ireland.
Personality… gruff, tough, and humble. Harry may look like another old man playing chess down the pub, but he's still got a bit of Marine left in him. Not that he's one to brag – Harry believes that actions speak much louder than words. And that's a lesson that the young toughs in his neighborhood are going to learn the hard way.
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Keep updated on the latest AAIM successes and take action on key policy issues affecting academic internal medicine.
August 2020—In the interest of identifying and developing an optimal approach to assess clinical skills for licensure, on July 10 NBME invited Alliance constituent organizations to share perspectives on the prior USMLE Step 2 CS exam and how clinical skills would ideally be assessed for licensure going forward.Read AAIM comments
June 2020—In recognition of Pride Month and the recent ruling by the US Supreme Court that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 confirming workplace discrimination protections extend to gay and transgender workers, the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine (AAIM) speaks out in support of all LGBTQ+ faculty, administrators, learners, and patients, and their right to be treated equitably in all professional, personal, and health care environments.Read the statement
June 2020—AAIM expresses its horror and sadness in agreement with the rest of the world at the death of George Floyd at the hands of police. For our African-American colleagues, this is a predictable fact of life reflecting several hundred years of history of unchecked police power and judicial authority. We are witnessing a tragic failure of a democratic society wherein African-Americans are continually and systematically treated unfairly, with overt discrimination, and must fear for their very existence.Read the full statement
ABIM has released a letter clarifying how residents and fellows can demonstrat competence in the performance of invasive procedures.Download the ABIM letter (PDF) | Review previous ABIM messages
February 2020—USMLE announced today that score reporting for Step 1 will move from a three-digit numeric score to reporting only a pass/fail outcome. A numeric score will continue to be reported for Step 2 Clinical Knowledge and Step 3. Step 2 Clinical Skills (CS) will continue to be reported as pass/fail. This policy will take effect no earlier than January 1, 2022.
October 2019—The Alliance joined 305 organizations, institutions, and businesses in signing a letter urging appropriators to work quickly to agree to provide a robust increase in funding for NIH in FY 2020.Read the letter
October 2019—At the request of the RC-IM, AAIM submitted language recommending required program administrator FTE equivalents in residency programs. The recommendation—developed by the APDIM Program Administrators Advisory Council—suggests a minimum of one FTE coordinator for programs with 24 or fewer residents and a minimum of 0.5 FTE additional personnel per every additional 14 residents.
Read the language and rationale | Read the invitation letter
September 2019—In June 2019, the ACGME Review Committee for Internal Medicine invited stakeholders to comment on three proposed paradigm shifts that were developed as part of the ACGME IM2035 scenario planning exercise. Through the intense work of a cross-council-committee work group, AAIM shared its feedback on the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and limitations of the preamble and the three paradigm shifts (implementing competency-based medical education, more widespread adoption of the AIRE innovation mechanism, and shifting to a data-based learning accreditation system).
Read the Alliance comments
July 2019—The Alliance has submitted its unified response to the recommendations from the Invitational Conference on USMLE Scoring. While allowing discussion of different perspectives of groups within the Alliance, the response emphasizes that the discipline's most important priority is to train the best physicians possible to care for patients, which requires better tools to assess readiness and knowledge as well as a comprehensive plan to improve the UME-GME transition.
Learn more | AAIM Statement to NBME and FSMB on USMLE Scoring: February 2019
June 2019—AAIM recently signed on to support the Opioid Workforce Act of 2019 (H.R. 3414).
Learn more
April 2019—The ABIM Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Boards proposed changes to the policies for dual certification in Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine.
Read the AAIM response
April 2019—AAIM provided support for ACGME's proposed program requirements on administrator ratios as part of the comments on focused program requirement revisions.
Learn more
April 2019—The Alliance agrees with the ABIM Internal Medicine Board's four recommendations that would remove the requirement for a common set of procedures to be performed by all residents for certification eligibility.
April 2019—AAIM is part of the GME Coalition, which recently sent a letter to encourage Congressional leaders to cosponsor the "The Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2019" (S. 348, H.R. 1763). This bipartisan legislation would provide a responsible increase in Medicare support for GME to address the impending national physician workforce shortage. The letter notes the projected shortfall of physicians by 2030 and the impact on already vulnerable populations in rural and underserved areas.
Read the letter
March 2019—AAIM offered recommendations to the ABIM Gastroenterology Board on approving a pilot program as an added pathway to Gastroenterology and Transplant Hepatology Certification.
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Brian Kemp threatens 'battle' with liberal activist
A Democratic group is petitioning to recall the secretary of state from office
Secretary of State Brian Kemp has set his sights on a new target.
No, we're not talking about the gun-loving gubernatorial candidate's newest hunting fascination. Kemp says he plans to "battle" a Democratic activist one of many who are calling for Kemp to be "recalled" from his post as Georgia's elections systems czar.
Check out the post from his campaign Facebook page below:
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There's something about sitting at a hotel bar with hundreds of performers, producers, vendors, writers, and other music industry professionals that can't be replicated by any amount of YouTube reviews or eBay delves. It's not even just that you can listen to an audio engineer tell stories of working on Bowie's last record while a photographer a few feet away geeks out over meeting both Zakk Wylde and Alice Cooper less than an hour ago — all while making enough connections to last any musician a lifetime over a single vodka soda. It's the sense of wonder that you can only get from being in a place where everyone knows so much but no one knows anywhere near all of it.
The best part of the National Association of Music Merchants' (NAMM) annual show isn't unlike the old days of going into Tower Records or Virgin Megastore. No matter how much you thought you knew about music, there were likely entire aisles and sections of the store that you knew nothing about. Experts in punk or metal probably weren't too familiar with the Latin jazz section, and those who could name most of the artists in the hip-hop and R&B aisles generally didn't venture into the classical or country areas of the store too often.
NAMM is the same thing, but from a gear-based perspective. National and international experts on everything from guitars to trumpets to digital audio workstations are used to being the smartest person in the room most of the time, but they're surrounded by people who know just as much about other corners of the music industry at NAMM.
As with any major industry, social media and online shopping have all but eliminated the need for any two people to physically be in the same place to learn about and purchase the latest and greatest musical instruments, accessories, and related products. But every January, incredible amounts of people and companies flock to Anaheim to get a look at what directions the biggest (and smallest) music brands are going for the next year.
Beyond just previewing what's up next from well-known brands like Ernie Ball and Zildjian and hearing the stories of legendary records from the people who were actually there, NAMM's most invaluable asset is the sense of community it builds among the entire industry. Sure, there's still some competition between the giant neighboring displays of brands like Fender and Gibson, but it's far overshadowed by the sheer amount of products and information available for everyone to peruse.
In an age where local guitar shops have been all but forced out of business by the internet and the corporate greed of stores like Guitar Center, NAMM allows even the most informed and musically educated of people to go learn about musical technology that they never even knew existed — much like a 12-year-old with rock star dreams walking into a local instrument shop for the first time. It's an experience the internet has taken away from a lot of people, and something that many of the most knowledgable folks in charge of the music industry today undoubtedly look back on fondly.
As much as NAMM is based around business and so many companies sink a ton of money into making sure they can put the best possible display up, no one got into the music industry without first being a fan. The social and community aspects of the four-day weekend make it so much more than just your average trade show, much like how San Diego Comic-Con isn't really just a comic book convention anymore. After all, despite all of the glorious displays and free swag being given out, the most crowded spot in the Anaheim Convention Center this weekend (since the hotel bar was technically next door) sure looked like the line to get a picture and an autograph from Zakk Wylde.


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How to Make Mozzarella Cheese
Benjamin Kilbride, Editorial Assistant at The Old Farmer's Almanac
Why Make Mozzarella?
Mozzarella is one of the simplest cheeses to make at home. The process requires very little time and only a few ingredients and is fun for kids and adults of all ages.
Basic Mozzarella Recipe
You Will Need . . .
1-1/4 cups water, divided
1-1/2 teaspoons citric acid
1/4 teaspoon vegetable rennet
1 gallon milk (whole or 2%)
1 teaspoon salt
Note: You will also need a food-grade thermometer and a pair of heat-proof rubber gloves.
In a bowl, combine 1 cup of water and the citric acid. Stir until the acid has dissolved. Into a separate bowl, put the remaining 1/4 cup of water and the vegetable rennet. Stir until the rennet has dissolved.
Pour the citric acid solution and milk into a pot. Over medium-high heat, warm the milk to 90°F, stirring occasionally. Remove the pot from the heat, add the rennet solution, and stir gently for 30 seconds. Cover the pot and let the milk sit for 5 minutes. Remove the cover and check the contents. If the milk has set correctly, the contents should have the consistency of Jell-O. If it still appears more liquid than solid, cover again for another 5 minutes. Once the milk has set, use a long knife to cut it into a grid of 1x1-inch squares on top, while cutting all the way to the bottom of the pot.
Place the pot back on the stove over medium heat to warm the curds to 105°F. Stir the curds slowly around the edge of the pot, trying not to break up the grid pattern. The curds will clump together and separate from the yellow liquid (whey). Remove the pot from heat once the desired temperature has been reached.
Ladle the curds into a glass or ceramic bowl and save the whey for later. Microwave the curds for 1 minute and drain off the excess whey. Put on rubber gloves and gently fold the curds over themselves a couple of times. Microwave the curds again for 30 seconds and check their internal temperature: If the temperature has reached 135°F, you're ready for the next step. If the temperature has not reached 135°, repeat the microwaving process until it has.
Sprinkle salt over the curds, squishing and folding them to combine. Stretch and fold the curds between both hands five to seven times. The curds will begin to tighten and become firm. Form the cheese into one large ball or multiple smaller balls. You've done it! Fresh cheese is at your fingertips.
Yield: Makes about 1 lb. of mozzarella.
How to Store Fresh Mozzarella
Use the mozzarella immediately or store it in the fridge: Mix a teaspoon of salt with a cup of whey and pour over the mozzarella in a sealable container. Cover and refrigerate for up to a week.
Great Mozzarella Recipes
Need help figuring out what to do with all of your fresh cheese? Here are a couple of ideas!
Marinated Mozzarella Balls
Simple yet sublime, this recipe will have your mouth watering before you even begin.
1/2 cup olive oil
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon red chili flakes
1/2 teaspoon kosher or sea salt
1/2 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper
1 pound very fresh, cherry-size mozzarella balls
1 pound cherry tomatoes, halved
3 tablespoons chopped flat-leaf parsley, as garnish
In a bowl, mix oil and seasonings with a whisk. Add mozzarella balls and tomatoes and toss gently. Marinate at least 20 minutes, up to overnight. Pour into a serving bowl, garnish with parsley, and serve with toothpicks.
Yield: Makes about 12 appetizer servings.
Tomato, Basil, and Mozzarella Sandwiches
A steadfast recipe that's easy to make and easier to eat: Tomato, basil, and mozzarella were made for each other.
1 small loaf French bread (or foccacia or other bread)
6 tablespoons basil pesto (or substitute olive oil)
6 large ripe tomatoes, sliced
salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
1 pound fresh mozzarella, thickly sliced
fresh basil leaves (about 24)
Slice the French bread on the diagonal, making at least a dozen thin slices. Coat one side of each slice of bread with pesto or olive oil. Layer on the tomato slices, season with salt and pepper, add the mozzarella slices and fresh basil leaves, and top with a second piece of bread.
Yield: Makes 6 or more sandwiches.


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76% of virtual presenters told us that they have difficulty getting people engaged or getting feedback from participants. It is both the subtle and the not so subtle things that make a virtual presenter successful.
While there are many specific behaviors and activities that virtual presenters must demonstrate to create worthwhile engagement for attendees, we've chosen three as critical for SMEs.
1. Creating rock solid virtual connections
2. Compelling your audience to listen
3. Making the virtual environment work for you
Webinar Length: One Hour
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Laura and Vernon are both master instructors and co-founded evoke virtual in 2010 with a focus on making leading, learning and collaborating in the virtual environment better for their clients.
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1. The wife rolling her eyes at him.
2. The wife criticizing him.
3. The wife complaining to her mother or girlfriends about his flaws.
4. The wife not respecting his knowledge, opinions or decisions.
5. The wife nagging him or assuming the worst in his actions.
6. The wife using sarcasm to communicate bitterness.
7. The wife disrespecting his work, protection, provision or leadership.
8. The wife disrespecting his need for physical intimacy or his "manhood" (wink wink).
I do respect my husband immensely. I make a great effort to show him respect in our home, in family situations and when I'm not with him, as well. One area I do need to work on is sarcasm. It's part of my personality and I must make an effort to watch my use of it with my husband. I tend to display my frustration with sarcasm, in many situations, not just with my husband. I need to work on that!
I will discuss this with dh tonight and share his comments.
Please check out the other views on Respect at Courtney's blog.
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One of the essential aspects of being able to speak Italian correctly is being able to conjugate verbs right.
You probably are doing that right, but are you pronouncing those verbs correctly?
Many English speakers don't, usually when it comes to the Imperfect Tense (Imperfetto) of verbs with NOI (we) as the subject.
The standard endings for regular verbs for the NOI subject (in the imperfect tense) are:
– AVAMO (for -ARE verbs)
– EVAMO (for -ERE verbs)
– IVAMO (for -IRE verbs)
(we attach endings to the "stem" of verbs, that is what is left from the infinite form, once the -ARE, -ERE, -IRE part is removed).
A common mistake when pronouncing these verbs is to stress the first vowel of the ending (Avamo, Evamo, Ivamo).
This is ALWAYS incorrect.
For example:
NOI PARLAVAMO (we were speaking)
NOI PRENDEVAMO (we were taking)
WE WERE FINISHING (we were finishing)
The stress is NOT on "parlAvamo" but on "parlavAmo"
NOT on "prendEvamo" but on "prendevAmo"
NOT on "finIvamo" but on "finivAmo"
RULE: The stress for regular verbs in the Imperfect tense for the NOI subject is always on the VA part of the ending.
Try my Pronunciation course: "Speak Italian Like an Italiano"
"We were playing" is pronounced "giocavAmo"
"We were thinking" is pronounced "pensavAmo"
"We were sleeping" is pronounced "dormivAmo"


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Microsoft Store Bundle Deal: Buy an Xbox One, Get a Free Digital Copy of Titanfall
I guess patience is a virtue! For all those shrewd consumers who have been waiting for a decent "Buy and Xbox One, Get an Awesome Game for Free" deal – your fortitude can now be somewhat justified. The Microsoft Store and Amazon are offering the Titanfall Xbox One bundle for preorder. The bundle includes an Xbox One (duh), a free digital download copy of Titanfall, as well an Xbox Live Gold month-long trial. And if you order anytime before March 8th, you're guaranteed release day delivery (March 11th).


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Good afternoon and Happy Friday! Whew! With the Holiday Program, it sure made for a busy week! We have one week left before our holiday break! This next week should be filled with wrapping up a few loose ends academically and then celebrating together on Friday.
Last call to signup for anything for our Holiday Breakfast on Friday, Dec 22 from 9:45-10:45! Click the link here to check out what we still need! Please see the following message from Mrs. Reagan regarding our parties, parent volunteers and parking:
Dear Parents,
Our class holiday party will be attended by the volunteers that are running the party. This is due to limited parking (snow). Mrs. Reagan has asked that I submit names of those people who are volunteering to run the party so that she can clear background check information in advance.
I have explained to the children to that this is a volunteer-run party — so not all parents will be attending. If your child is begging you to come, explain to your child that you cannot come because it is for the parents running this party only. Thank YOU for your help!
If you are part of the volunteer team (those helping run the party), your names are below. If I have missed anyone, please let me know by Monday at 4 pm.
List of parent volunteers:
- Kim Newenhouse
- Elizabeth Sayers
- Amanda Oldebekking
- Kelli Burri
- Megan Lemke
- Holly Peterson
- Elizabeth Schollart
- Allison Parm
- Shannon VanderPloeg
I'm looking forward to it! Below are some pictures from this week!


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Samantha Breakstone, an associate attorney with Weitz and Luxenberg out of New York City, announced Tuesday the firm is set to file 100 new sexual abuse lawsuits over the next month — 10 on Wednesday, two of which are in Erie County against the Diocese of Buffalo.
- Attorney discusses new abuse lawsuits
- Child Victims Act look-back window opens tomorrow
- Suits against churches, school and organizations in Erie County
With 1,300 new abuse cases across the state reviewed so far, victims range in age from 24 to 93.
"These are people who have been really anxiously awaiting their moment to talk about exactly what happened to them. And truth be told, they've waited too long," said Breakstone.
That, as the one-year look-back window for abuse victims opens Wednesday as outlined in the Child Victims Act, which was signed into law back on February 14.
The firm says the lawsuits are against a number of Dioceses across the state, and organizations like the Boy Scouts, as well as individuals, neighbors, camp counselors and those in foster care across Western New York.
"All of these entities were negligent in seeing what was in front of them. And for far too long, people have been able to prey on our most vulnerable members of society," said Breakstone.
And while there are a large number of church cases, Breakstone says what took her by surprise was the even higher number of public and private school cases in the state and at home, in Western New York.
"As parents, people trust their children all day long to a facility that's supposed to have their best interest at heart. And to find not only predators but repeat predators," said Breakstone.
The firm already represents about 1,200 abuse victims, including 129 in Western New York.
Bishop Richard Malone released a video apology to abuse survivors on behalf of the Diocese — which also published an FAQ on the Child Victims Act — on Tuesday:


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- Old friends are best. John Selden
Try Kopi luwak, World's Most Exspensive Coffee
Kopi luwak is the world's most expensive coffee. The main factor of it's high price is the uncommon method of producing such a coffee. It has been produced from the coffee beans which have been digested by a certain Indonesian cat-like animal called then palm civet or also civet cat. This is the reason kopi luwak is also called cat poop coffee or civet cat coffee. The feces of this cat will be collected, finished and sold as kopi luwak.
Making a mug of coffee is easy but making a delicious cup of coffee can be an art. I am sure that you don't want to waste your expensive kopi luwak beans because of a wrong preparation process. Fortunately, you just need to remember a few fundamental rules to prevent that from happening. The following instructions will help you to brew an excellent Kopi Luwak Coffee. However, you should also consider these instructions for every other coffee you make.
The origin of kopi luwak is closely connected with the history of coffee production in Indonesia. In the early 18th century the Dutch established the cash-crop coffee plantations in their colony in the Dutch East Indies islands of Java and Sumatra, including Arabica coffee introduced from Yemen. During the era of Cultuurstelsel (1830–70), the Dutch prohibited the native farmers and plantation workers from picking coffee fruits for their own use. Still, the native farmers wanted to have a taste of the famed coffee beverage. Soon, the natives learned that certain species of musang or luwak (Asian palm civet) consumed the coffee fruits, yet they left the coffee seeds undigested in their droppings. The natives collected these luwaks' coffee seed droppings, then cleaned, roasted and ground them to make their own coffee beverage. The fame of aromatic civet coffee spread from locals to Dutch plantation owners and soon became their favourite, yet because of its rarity and unusual process, the civet coffee was expensive even during the colonial era.


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