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Neil Young in Milwaukee for daughter's wedding celebration
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I wonder if Neil will be washing his hair and changing out of that ratty flannel shirt with the cut off sleeves he's ben wearing for decades for this occasion................Hide replies
jealous, are you?
Um, no - have you seen Neil lately?
You've really got it out for musicians today, hey estus? Baggin' on Neil here, baggin' on Fall Out Boy there.
Just callin' em as I see 'em
estus is KING of the trolls and goes by many different estus-themed names. Just like most people Neil looks one way while working (performing concerts) than he does at formal or semi-formal events.
I think Estus is wrong, anyway. I saw Neil live in 2008 and he was wearing a sportcoat. It was splattered with paint, but it was not a sleeveless flannel.
A lot of people have work uniforms.
Congrats, that's probably not a bad economic decision on Rajib's part, Dr. Chowdhury must be proud!Hide replies
He's an investment banker in San Francisco; he's probably wealthier than her.
Not all investment bankers are wealthy.....
On the other hand, hedge fund managers...
Will any of the events be held down by the river?Hide replies
at the gazebo by the dam.
This summer I hear the drumming, drum circle in Mad-i-son.
Hope the groom doesn't take to heart Young's song "A Man Needs a Maid."
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I don't see any details about when and where these events take place. What's the problem?
I get the feeling sadeye will be the one looking for any snippet of info she can find on the entire affair.
Enjoy Milwaukee Neil and congratulations to you and your family!
Oh to live on Sugar Mountain.....
Funny how whenever a celebrity comes anywhere near Milwaukee, it's big news. This place is like Mayberry.
Here's hopin' he plays a number with AIC tonight. THAT would be news.Hide replies
What on God's green earth is AIC????
If you have to ask...
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Reducing overall supply chain costs top priority among manufacturers, notes IDC study
When IDC Manufacturing Insights announced the results of the 2012 U.S. Supply Chain Survey, analysts were surprised by some of the findings.
The survey which examines the state of the industry, and how manufacturers are adapting and improving their supply chains, also explores and how technology plays a role in enabling manufacturers to be more successful.
"We were expecting respondents to say they were continuing to invest in technology," said IDC Manufacturing Insights Practice Director, Kimberly Knickle, "but we were pleasantly surprised that product quality was also ranked high on their list of priorities."
"Business Strategy: 2012 Supply Chain Survey-Manufacturing Priorities and New Technology Adoption" is based on feedback from 350 U.S. manufacturers. It found more than despite being product-centric organizations, 80 percent of respondents rate reducing overall supply chain costs as the number one supply chain priority in the coming year. \
Nearly 55 percent suggest supply chain agility is second and 52 percent suggest improving product quality and safety is the third most important priority.
When asked to rate the level of importance of new technology areas, big data/analytics came out on top, followed by mobility, cloud computing/software as a service and social business tools.
In an interview, Knickle said "reverse logistics" represented a large piece of the puzzle.
While manufacturers face increasing complexity as customer demand diversifies and supply globalizes, supply chain organizations are adapting to respond to requirements such as:
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-Volatile demand
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Manufacturing Insights recommends revisiting the profitable proximity sourcing approach and how that concept, supported by IT, can ensure sourcing decisions to create a competitive edge.
-Most manufacturers view their supply chains as focused primarily on product quality, yet their supply chain priorities usually start with reducing costs, followed by responding to supply or demand changes, ahead of product quality and customer service.
-With IT-based solutions for demand planning and forecasting and production scheduling viewed as key to manufacturers' business performance over the next year, this could signal a genuine shift to a more holistic approach to truly integrated business planning, inclusive of fulfillment excellence.
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Benton County, Ark.
(Oct. 19, 2010) - Starting in November, some expectant mothers and their families will have the opportunity to partner with Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute (ACHRI) and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) to have a major impact on the health of future generations by enrolling in the National Children's Study (NCS), the largest long-term study of children's health ever conducted in the United States. The National Children's Study is a mandate of the Children's Health Act of 2000, and it will follow 100,000 children from before birth through age 21 to study how environmental and genetic factors affect their health, development and well being.
The Benton County site is one of 105 counties selected throughout 40 states to participate. Each study location was selected to provide geographic and demographic diversity, representative of the United States as a whole. ACHRI expects to enroll 1,000 women into the study during the next four years.
"This is something that Benton County can certainly be proud of," said Charlotte Hobbs, MD, PhD, director of the Arkansas Center for Birth Defects Research and Prevention at ACHRI and professor of Pediatrics in the UAMS College of Medicine. "They'll be participating in a national study that will be a legacy for their children and grandchildren."
Dr. Hobbs leads the NCS's Benton County location as principal investigator, and Jim Robbins, PhD, also a professor of Pediatrics in the UAMS College of Medicine, serves as the lead local investigator. Additional investigators for the study include: Peter Kohler, MD, vice chancellor for UAMS Northwest Arkansas Region; Curtis Lowery, MD, chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at UAMS; and Kathleen Barta, EdD, RN. The Benton County team for the NCS is lead by program administrator Pearl McElfish. Additional team members include: medical relations manager Rosie Harris; field staff/data collector Amy McCoy; budget specialist Dale Cox; research assistant Trace Henley; and administrative assistant Linda Smith. The Benton County team will add additional staff over the next three years.
"We are very excited about bringing together the research team at ACHRI and the partnering physicians and hospitals in Northwest Arkansas to make a contribution to this ground-breaking study," said Hobbs.
ACHRI recruitment efforts for the National Children's Study will be in a provider-based strategy, one of three pilot programs being conducted in the initial study. The provider-based strategy will collaborate with 26 physicians and practitioners affiliated with six providers at 10 locations throughout Benton County: Siloam Springs Women's Center, Mercy Health System of Northwest Arkansas, Lifespring Women's Clinic, Pinnacle Women's Health Care, Inc., Parkhill The Clinic for Women, and Community Clinics of Northwest Arkansas. Participating hospitals currently include Mercy Health System of Northwest Arkansas and Northwest Medical System. Recruitment and eligibility will be initiated through the participating providers' offices.
Participant eligibility is limited to women ages 18-49 who reside in pre-determined segments of Benton County and who are either currently pregnant or plan to become pregnant. Registered nurses will conduct the data collection efforts, which will include in-home visits, telephone surveys, questionnaires and medical history. Participation in the study is voluntary and participants will receive modest reimbursement for their time.
"The study will collect a range of environmental elements-such as air, soil and water-where the children live, learn, and play. No other study has used the scope, size and duration to look at how a wide range of environmental exposures might impact children's health," said Dr. Robbins.
National Institutes of Health awarded the $14.4 million contract to ACHRI to facilitate the study in its newly established Benton County site located in Rogers, Ark. The NCS is lead by a consortium of federal agencies, including the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
"These agencies will work together as an integrated team on this unprecedented study," Hobbs said. "We will complement each other with our various strengths so that we can all learn more about the many biological and environmental factors that are at play. These have a tremendous impact on children, but they also go on to affect us into adulthood."
ACHRI will host community information meetings prior to beginning enrollment. Upcoming meetings include: October 27, 10:30 a.m., at Mercy Medical Center in Rogers; November 3, 10:30 a.m., at Northwest Medical System in Bentonville; and November 3, 2:00 p.m., at the Boys & Girls Club of Western Benton County in Siloam Springs. These meetings are free and open to the public.
For more information or to determine eligibility for enrollment, email Pearl McElfish at firstname.lastname@example.com, or visit www.nationalchildrensstudy.gov.
About ACHRI
Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute (ACHRI) is a collaboration between the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and the Arkansas Children's Hospital (ACH). ACHRI provides a research environment on the ACH campus research scientists at ACHRI conduct clinical, science and health services research for the purpose of treating illnesses, preventing disease and improving the health of children everywhere.
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Children's Hospital is the only pediatric medical center in Arkansas and one of the largest in the United States serving children. The campus spans 29 city blocks and houses 316 beds, a staff of approximately 500 physicians, 80 residents in pediatrics and pediatric specialties and more than 4,200 employees. The private, nonprofit healthcare facility boasts an internationally renowned reputation for medical breakthroughs and intensive treatments, unique surgical procedures and forward-thinking medical research - all dedicated to fulfilling our mission of enhancing, sustaining and restoring children's health and development.ACH is ranked 85th on the 2010 FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For®. For more information, visit
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9-11 Anniversary Toolkit from the National Alliance for Grieving Children, www.nationalallianceforgrievingchildren.org
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As our nation remembers the events of September 11, 2001, we hope that parents, teachers, community groups, youth leaders, mentors, administrators and anyone who works with and cares for children and teens will take this opportunity to educate themselves about the needs of children and teens who are grieving the loss of someone close to them. Here are some resources provided by the NAGC and its members.
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Good news for childrenand Bronies alike: At the end of the month Shout! Factory is releasing a new My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic DVD.Titled Princess Twilight Sparkle, thisDVD contains five episodes of the program, each episode focusing on thecharacter Twilight Sparkle. Join her, Rainbow Dash, Rarity and the rest of theponies as they learn what it means to be friends.
Here is a brief rundownof the episodes (and yes, there might be a few spoilers):
�Games Ponies Play� � Princess Cadence has chosen the ponies to bethe welcoming committee for the games inspector, hoping they�ll convince her tochoose Crystal Empire to host the Equestria Games, the biggest sporting eventin the land. But the gang mistakes another pony for the games inspector.Meanwhile Rarity is having great troubles helping with Cadence�s preparations.Rainbow Dash says, in a slight twist on the traditional lesson learned at theend of the episode, �You know, it feelsgood to help others get something you always wanted but never had. Almost asgood as getting it yourself. Almost.�
�Magical Mystery Cure� � The title is obviously a play on TheBeatles album and film, and like that film this episode has plenty of music.This episode opens with a musical number about morning in Ponyville, and about howeverything is great. But the song is interrupted by rain falling on Twilight.Now she�s not sure if everything is great after all. Celestia had sent Twilighta spell to work on, and somehow the spell changed the ponies� marks. Each hasthe mark of another, and is struggling with the new identity. And we get a second song, about the ponieshaving trouble doing what their new marks indicate they should do. Twilightlaments, �They�re not who they�re meantto be anymore. Their destinies are now changed. And it�s all my fault.� Soshe sings a song about having to fix things. Yes, that�s the third song. In themontage, we see that the ponies are all unhappy. The episode has a strong messageabout friends doing whatever they can to help each other, and they all singabout it in the episode�s fourth musical number. So then Twilight figures outhow to finish the spell, and she�s transported to some other realm where thePrincess sings a song to her (the fifth song). When Twilight returns, she haswings and is now a princess. And that leads to the sixth song. And to theseventh. Yes, seven musical numbers, which is a lot for a twenty-two-minuteshow.
(By the way, Twilightdoesn�t have the wings in any of the other episodes on this disc.)
�Mmmystery On The Friendship Express� � This is my favorite episodeof the collection. A special cake is made, and Pinkie is in charge of gettingit to the National Dessert Competition. She of course needs help from herfriends. They get the cake onto the train, where other bakers are on board withtheir creations. There�s some animosity among the contestants. Pinkie,expecting foul play, stands guard at night. When the shades go down over thewindows, she says, �Who turned out themoon?� A noise in the dark leads her to call out, �Stop, thief!� Another noise causes her to ask, �Oh, are you okay, thief?� In the morningshe sees that someone has eaten part of the cake. And the ponies investigatethe crime. Obviously the episode�s title is a play on Murder On The Orient Express, but there are other nice filmreferences in this episode. When Pinkie accuses each baker in turn, the episodeplays on various film genres, such as those early silent serials like The Perils Of Pauline and spy films, particularly the famous James Bond intro.
�Magic Duel� �Twilight�s magic has improved, but it will be testedwhen Trixie shows up, now in possession of a powerful magical amulet. Trixie challengesTwilight to a duel, saying the loser will have to leave Ponyville forever. Twilightrefuses to enter into such a contest, but Trixie forces her by casting meanspells on her friends. Trixie wins the duel, and then takes over Ponyville.Twilight trains elsewhere from someone who says, �Unlearn what you have learned.� Yes, like Yoda. It�s totally ascene out of The Empire Strikes Back.And it leads to another duel.
�Lesson Zero� � Is the title of this episode a reference to theBret Easton Ellis novel? It seems like it if you say it out loud,but of course this show is for children (mainly) so the similarities end there.Anyway, I love lists. I tend to make lots of them. And this episode begins withTwilight checking things off of her list of things she needs to make anotherlist. Twilight is more than a bit anal � freaking out because she hasn�twritten a letter to Princess Celestia this week. So she needs to find a friendwho has a problem she can solve so she can learn a lesson and write a lettersaying what lesson she�s learned. Makes sense to me. And the line, �Very efficient, and a little bit gross�made me laugh.
Bonus Features
This DVD has a couple ofbonus features. The first, �Sing-Along,� is one of the songs about friendshipfrom �Magical Mystery Cure,� with the lyrics on screen so you can all singalong. The second is a coloring sheetthan can be accessed on a computer.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Princess Twilight Sparkle isscheduled to be released on April 30, 2013 through Shout! Factory. My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Pinkie Pie Party was released in January, and Royal Pony Wedding was released in August last year.


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I know this is a basic question! But still, I need to know
- What is Grid View?
- How to use it?
- What is it used for?
Any documentation or links will be of a great use! Thanks!
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I know this is a basic question! But still, I need to know
Any documentation or links will be of a great use! Thanks!
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Here are some links about how to implement paging and filtering in SPGridView
GridViews, as linked to by Ziga, are a standard .NET control. If you're asking about that, then you'd probably be better off asking at Stackoverflow; this is the forum about SharePoint technologies.
However, SharePoint does have it's own SPGridView. It's much like the standard .NET one, but doesn't have some of the features of the .NET one (such as auto generated columns)
Both controls take data from an ADO Datasource (such as a DataTable) and display it as tabular data. The SharePoint one also formats and styles it to look 'SharePointy'. They also allow paging, sorting, grouping, etc.. In fact, they're very powerful controls.
Regarding using them - well, lots of examples are already online, but I'll highlight the MSDN one about SPGridView. Most examples that apply to GridViews also apply to SPGridViews. You do have to make a choice between declarative and programmatic syntax - that is, you could define your SPGridView just through ASP tags:
Or via C# code, or a combination thereof.
I don't know if this is what you are looking for, but it's a start - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms752213.aspx
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Have fun with a set of 8 Iron Man face party masks made of cardboard. Great to give out at your next Avengers party or when seeing the movie.
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Sounds great, but any idea about shipping? I don't want to give them all of my info just to find out I'm going to spend $10 on shipping.
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On the product page, there's an Info tab and next to it is a Shipping tab. Just click the shipping tab to see all the shipping details you need.
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svn repo to initialize my
git repo?
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I'm using
You can manually add the remote branch,
If you want to track ALL the remote svn branches, then the solution is as simple as:
This will fetch ALL the remote branches that have not been fetched yet.
Extra tip: if you checked out only the trunk at first, and later you want to track ALL branches, then edit
The key points are
If you want to fetch only specific branches instead of ALL, there is a nice example in
With older versions of
Another workaround by @AndyEstes: edit
It appears I just needed to
Maybe I messed it up somehow but I followed the instructions in vjangus' answer and it almost worked. The only problem was that newbranch didn't appear to be branched from the trunk. In gitk, it was kind of "floating" all on its own; it had no common ancestor with the trunk.
The solution to this was:
I recommend keeping
Instead of dealing with the git-svn quirks you may try SubGit.
One has to install SubGit into Subversion repository. After that one can use standard git workflow instead of using special git-svn commands:
See SubGit documentation for more details.
I have not found any documentation about this feature, but looks like git svn configuration supports multiple fetch entries. This way you can also add branches separately without need to add another remote svn repository entry to your config nor using wildcards to get all branches of certain directory.
Assume that your SVN tree is really nasty having lots of branches without any logic how they are located, e.g. having branches and sub-directories containing more branched.
and you just want to hand pick some of the branches to be included to your git repository.
You may first init your repository with only trunk without any additional branches:
After that you should see following configuration:
when ever you want to fetch new branch from MyRepo you can just add new fetch entries to configuration by:
Or you may edit the same configuration in .git/config
To fetch the new branches after adding them to config just run:
[Edit] Sometimes it seems to be necessary to run fetch with --all parameter to fetch newly added branches:
A simplification of vjangus' answer:
If you're using the standard layout in SVN and have done the usual svn init, git-svn will do the config stuff for you. Just:
An example. SVN url is
Step 1: find the branch-copy revision
# svn log --stop-on-copy svn+ssh://firstname.lastname@example.com/repo/branches/newbranch | tail -4 r7802 | someone | 2014-03-21 18:54:58 +0000 (Fri, 21 Mar 2014) | 1 line branching HEAD to newbranch ------------------------------------------------------------------------
So the branch point in SVN is revision 7802.
Step 2: Fetch the revision
# git svn fetch -r 7802 Found possible branch point: svn+ssh://firstname.lastname@example.com/repo/trunk => svn+ssh://firstname.lastname@example.com/repo/branches/newbranch, 7801 Found branch parent: (refs/remotes/trunk) 8dcf3c5793ff1a8a79dc94d268c91c2bf388894a Following parent with do_switch Successfully followed parent r7802 = 9bbd4194041675ca5c9c6f3917e05ca5654a8a1e (refs/remotes/newbranch)
git-svn did all the work and now knows about the remote:
# git show-ref | grep newbranch 2df23af4733f36f5ad3c14cc1fa582ceeb3edb5c refs/remotes/newbranch
Step 3: Create your new local branch tracking the remote one:
# git checkout -b git-newbranch -t newbranch Checking out files: 100% (413/413), done. Branch git-newbranch set up to track local ref refs/remotes/newbranch. Switched to a new branch 'git-newbranch'
To add to vjangus' answer, which helped me, I also found it useful to add use git grafts to tie the branches to the trunk at the appropriate point - allowing git to see the history and perform merges correctly.
This is simply a case of adding a line to
Credit to http://evan-tech.livejournal.com/255341.html
(I'd add this as a comment, but I've not enough reputation.)
If you don't check out with a valid layout, you won't be able to checkout a remote branch.
This is what I do:
After that, you can switch to a remote branch:
Then you will automatically be switched to your branch.


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Just returned from a road trip to my parent's house in Colorado. I stopped way too many times to get shots of scenes next to and on the roadside. Here is a sample:
Nikon D300, NN R1, Sigma 8mm, monopod.
(I think the guy in the 4Runner was following me. That car shows up in all the panoramas.)


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MANHATTAN, Kan. – Community members can now connect with Sunset Zoo's animal collection via the worldwide web. The Zoo's newest educational offering – Interactive Distance Learning (IDL) Programs – allow classes to connect with the Zoo via video conferencing equipment and an internet connection to experience a real-time educational program. The IDL programming is made possible through technology in the Zoo's new Nature Exploration Center and through the support of the Caroline F. Peine Charitable Foundation and Friends of Sunset Zoo.
"One of our goals when building the new Nature Exploration Center was to ensure we could connect with the next generation of learning environments," said Scott Shoemaker, Zoo Director. "Our IDL programs stream real-time, live animal encounters into a classroom anywhere in the world."
The Zoo's initial IDL programs provide elementary-school-aged youth with a hands-on exploration of animals, practicing observation skills to identify special adaptations and hypothesizing how those adaptations support an animal's survival. The 20-minute programs feature a specific animal species and are ideal for groups looking to enhance their lessons.
"Kansas is a predominately rural state and often times it isn't feasible for us to visit a school or vice versa," said Jared Bixby, Curator of Education. "Our hope is that these IDL programs bridge that gap and allow us to connect with even more youth."
Sunset Zoo IDL programs are offered on-demand and must be scheduled in advance. Resources will be mailed to a group prior to the scheduled program to provide maximum interaction for the students. Cost for a 20-minute program is $35. For more information visit SunsetZoo.com or call (785) 587-2737 (APES).


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I've used the ultimate series for a while and I love it. There is only one feature that I'm missing, as follows:
When doing a single row landscape panorama for a high res wide format picture, say using a 50-85mm prime and do 4 - 6 images I rarely want to have the horizon exactly in the middle.
Today there are three alternatives 1) make panorama with horizon in the middle, and crop afterwards (drawback: losing resolution), 2) use predefined 7.5-degree click-stops (drawback: to coarse, I rarely get horizon where I want it, so I need to crop anyway), 3) loosen and tighten the camera plate in a slightly tilted position (drawback: cumbersome and slight offset of nodal point)
Actually I often do a fourth alternative - make it dual-row to have more to crop from, but the more pictures in the mosaic, the more troublesome it becomes to handle any movement in the scene.
The ideal solution would be if it would be possible to separately without any click stops turn the zero-point of the upper rotator, so I can tilt it slightly upwards or downwards to get the horizon where I want it. It would be useful also for dual-row panoramas, when you then would use 7.5 degree clickstops to move between rows.
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I have a table with 1699 columns and when I'm trying to insert more columns I get the
too many columns in the table error. In this table I have only 1000 rows. For me the most important thing is the number of columns.
Are there any limitations on the table? I want to create 2000 columns. Is that possible?


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Partial Versus Total Thyroidectomy
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What is the difference between a total thyroidectomy and a partial thyroidectomy? What are the side effects of each? Where will the incision be made, how large will my scar be? Do I need a plastic surgeon? How long will I be in the hospital after surgery and when can I go back to work?
Rachel Kelz, MD, MSCE, at Penn Medicine responds:
Partial thyroidectomy involves the removal of a part of the thyroid (usually a half.) It is most commonly performed as an outpatient. People generally return to work 3-5 days after surgery but some take as many as 2 weeks off. Bleeding, infection and hoarseness and hypothyroidism can occur following thyroid lobectomy. The 1st three are uncommon but hypothyroidism requiring thyroid hormone replacement can occur in 20-25% of patients. The incision is made in line with a skin crease in the lower neck. The incision is between 1-3 inches in general. A plastic surgeon should not be required if your surgeon is conscientious.
A total thyroidectomy involves the removal of 95-100% of the thyroid. The risks include bleeding, infection, hoarseness, low blood calcium levels and tracheostomy. You will require thyroid hormone replacement for life. The other risks are VERY uncommon (<1-2%.) Many people take 10 days -2 weeks off from work. The majority of patients are admitted overnight following the procedure.
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Actually, I believe you could achieve something similar to what's been suggested by using an AuroraDLight.
I'm fairly certain that you could use them in placeable models for NWN, so I would assume the same is true for KotOR.
I might actually have a tinker and see what I come up with, if you don't mind.
Not sure if people want my opinion since I am talking abstract theory here, but the Jedi Holocron seems off to me.
From what I've seen on the Clone Wars tv show and read from EU(Luke and Exar Kun at the temple), the Holocron is the cube like you made it, but inside it's a swirling ball or two of lights. You could fix this in a somewhat hard-easy manner, if I have my theories working:
Change the texture on the sides of the cube to be about 60%-80% transparent and also without the swirls of color. In the model, add a sphere in the center of the inside with a completely different texture;this texture is the light, though I'd split it in two and animate the lights to move in a circled inside. You could then set the .txi of the texture for the sides of the Holocron to be either "blending additive" or "bleeding punchthrough". I think the second one is the one that I'm thinking of.
So if you think any of this has merit, could you attempt it and post screenies? If so, thanks!
P.S: If you are going to do this, someone else suggested adding an AuroraDLight on the inside for the "aura glow" effect. Hope ya found my suggestions helpful, DI!
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I have a site where users upload photos taken from their digital cameras. I want the photos to appear as big as possible, almost take up the entire screen. I also want all the thumbnails, of various users, and blown up photos, to have a uniform size so the design works on my site and everything lays out properly. Is this possible, or am I going to be stuck with different sized pictures because some people turned the camera on it's side to take a picture and got a picture way taller than wider. Do the pictures need to be a certain file format, certain size, etc?
You can store the photos just as they're uploaded and resize them in CSS. This is really the best option for displaying full screen, because you don't know what size screen your users will have.
However, the obvious limitation is that if you change the aspect ratio the photos will look wrong. Your options for photos which are in a different aspect ratio are:
In all cases, it's advisable to keep the original image around in case your layout changes.
IrfanView is a free desktop tool that you can use for batch resizing of images if you have a moderation process.


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Help keep our beaches beautiful by joining the Perth Scuba volunteers already registered in the great WA Beach Cleanup on Sunday 13th October 2013.
South Mole Beach, Fremantle
Fleet Street, Fremantle Carpark closest to South Mole beachFremantle 6160
See map: Google Maps
You can get involved by joining our clean up at South Mole, Fremantle on Sunday 13 October 2013 @ 9:00am. Contact us to register as a volunteer be it above or below the water.
Bring: Dive Gear & Catch Bag/Mesh Bag (if you're diving), Gloves, Sun Protection.
We Supply: Rubbish Bags, Sharps Container, BBQ Lunch & Drinks.
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Ideally, with as simple of install as possible and without requiring rebooting the servers. Mostly for DL380 G5's if it helps. Thanks.
This depends slightly on the operating systems you're running on the servers, but in general, it is possible to obtain alerts from HP ProLiant servers and Smart Array RAID controllers.
The full driver and software support listing for your DL380 G5 systems is listed here.
SNMP and a monitoring solution is the best approach... But you can augment that with some of HP's tools. HP offers the HP Systems Insight Manager, which is available for download and also comes with the servers. This is ideal for collections of servers. If you're looking for one-off alerts without building a management or monitoring infrastructure, you can simply install the HP Management Agents (aka ProLiant Support Pack).
For standalone Linux systems, I'll have the agents send traps via email. I'll usually configure the support pack with defaults or a custom bundle, then edit
If you're running Linux and don't want to install the full HP management suite, you can develop a script around the cciss_vol_status utility to query controller/disk status. Also see: Installing HP Agents on OpenFiler
Check out HP Insight Manager
I believe it should work with your Servers
I used the lightweight program that @ewwite mentioned in his answer: cciss_vol_status
If you follow the accompanying INSTALL instructions, the script is placed in
Here is a wrapper script I use to grep the output of cciss_vol_status, and send an email if any array has a status of FAILED.
Call the above script in cron. I run the check every two minutes:
We do use HP System Insight Manager to check if our HP's are up and running, but nothing beyond that. I found the Linux agent to be overkill for us, since we have other monitoring solutions in place, so this script above serves its specific purpose well.
Just a troubleshooting tip in case you run into this. This script proved helpful this morning when I got an email about a failed array with:
The device went read-only and was not visible in
I selected F2 and the RAID was fine and mounted on boot.
install smartmontools. Mails you BEFORE a drive fails.
Check out this script, using the cli in order to check the raid status. With a little change, it worked fine for me, on a Debian setup on a Generation 8 Proliant.


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The fourth planet from the Sun is Mars. This picture was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope when the planet was 43 million miles (68 million km) away from Earth. Two large storms are visible in this picture: one high above the northern pole, and another in the lower right portion of the planet. Astronomers want to understand the weather patterns on Mars in preparation for future missions to the red planet.
Fun Fact: Mars has an elliptical orbit, which periodically brings it within 35 million miles of Earth. The next such close encounter between the two planets will occur in the year 2287.
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Affordable Care Act & Ryan White: Adjust Your Systems
Affordable Care Act & Ryan White: Adjust Your Systems
Outreach, Benefits Counseling, Enrollment, Eligibility/Recertification | Provider Contracts/Relationships (Essential Community Providers) | Certification, Payer Status, Quality | HIV Finance Systems/Third Party Payers | Health IT/Electronic Health Records | Assess Organizational Position
ACA is making an array of broad changes to the U.S. system of health insurance coverage. Care systems are evolving under new delivery and payment approaches. Administrative operations involving data and information are expanding to better monitor quality and costs.
To keep pace, Ryan White agencies need to undertake corresponding adjustments in multiple areas. The types of changes required will be highly variable for any given agency, as they are contingent upon the agency's current situation. Key factors include the type of services provided by the agency (eg, medical services that are reimbursable versus support services that are less likely to be covered by health plans or Medicaid); existing third-party reimbursement systems and other agency operations like electronic medical records; contracting mechanisms with Medicaid, provider networks, and health insurance plans.
Below is an overview of key areas. See the Health Care Reform topic page for technical assistance and training resources as well as the links below. Ryan White programs are encouraged to share their resources here.
Outreach, Benefits Counseling, Enrollment, Eligibility/Recertification
Many Ryan White clients will be eligible for coverage under new ACA insurance options (both individual coverage in the private market and Medicaid). At the same time, Ryan White agencies must conduct eligibility determinations and periodic recertifications to determine ongoing eligibility for Ryan White services. Below are key considerations in helping clients with enrollment and eligibility.
Consumer Assistance
Ryan White grantees can use grant funds to educate clients about benefits and assist them with enrollment. Those eligible for new coverage should be referred to the Marketplace for enrollment help. A key part of helping clients is to maintain continuity of care as clients transition to new coverage. Thus, providers should explain to patients that Medicaid and private insurance plans usually require participants to get services from the provider networks set up by these plans. A patient will have to get HIV/AIDS medical services from another doctor or clinic if their current Ryan White provider is not part of the chosen plan.
Ryan White programs also have opportunities to participate in consumer assistance programs in Marketplaces (formerly called Exchanges). All state Marketplaces (state-run, federally facilitated, and state partnerships) offer assistance to consumers in understanding and selecting health insurance plans through in-person assister and Navigator programs. ACA mandates that community agencies be part of these programs as they are implemented at the state and federal level.
- See HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau information on how Ryan White service categories can be used to support outreach, benefits counseling and enrollment activities as well as support premium and cost-sharing assistance for private health insurance and Medicaid.
- See HRSA policy guidances on Medicaid and Ryan White, which includes guidance to Ryan White grantees to vigorously pursue Medicaid enrollment and billing for Medicaid-eligible Ryan White clients.
- See what enrollment assistance activities are available.
Eligibility Determinations/Recertifications
Ryan White programs are required to conduct eligibility determinations and recertifications, in accordance with the Ryan White payer of last resort provision.
- See the HRSA policies on eligibility determinations and recertifications.
Provider Contracts/Relationships (Essential Community Providers)
Under ACA, many Ryan White clients will be securing new coverage under Medicaid or approved private health plans known as Qualified Health Plans (QHPs). Clients will get their HIV/AIDS care from providers that have contracts with QHPs. Some Ryan White providers--especially larger agencies--already have contracts in place. However, many HIV/AIDS providers will need to establish new contracts with health insurance plans and Medicaid (including Medicaid Managed Care Organizations, MCOs) so that their clients can continue to receive care from skilled Ryan White providers. Providers also can focus energy on joining provider networks that, in turn, establish contracts with health insurers.
Contracting and Essential Community Providers
QHPs and Medicaid plans establish contracts with providers on an ongoing basis as they update their provider networks. Plans must comply with ACA provisions like the requirement for QHPs to include some, but not all, Essential Community Providers (ECPs) in their networks. ECPs are defined as providers (including Ryan White providers) that serve predominantly low-income medically underserved individuals. Learn more about the importance of being listed as an ECP for purposes of contracting with QHPs in the HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau ECP resources page. Also, keep in mind that states operating their own Marketplaces may have further defined ECP rules for QHPs, reflecting the traditional role of states as health insurance regulators.
With these ECP requirements in mind, providers should consider the following steps in establishing contracts with health plans, which are also presented in this tool: 4 Steps to Contracting with Health Insurers & Provider Networks.
Step 1: Start with Current Contracts
Some agencies already may have one or multiple contracts with private health plans and may have status as a certified Medicaid provider (a designation secured through the state Medicaid agency). Agencies with existing contractual arrangements with health plans and Medicaid MCOs should approach these plans to determine what coverage they will be offering in the Marketplaces. Also, ask these health plans whether the agency's contracts are up to date and what changes need to be implemented.
Step 2: Identify Potential New Partners
Identify the potential universe of contracting partners. They include health plans and Medicaid MCOs that are currently, or will be, offering coverage in your target area. In addition, identify provider networks that you may want to join, as those networks will carry out the contract negotiation process. Although an individual agency can carry out this time-consuming information collection process, an existing network of Ryan White agencies (or even a planning body) might want to take on that task as a project, sharing information will all interested parties. Regardless, much of this information is readily available online.
- Health Plans. Start with the HHS/CMS list of plans that are "benchmark" Essential Health Benefit Plans (EHBs). Also, visit state insurance department websites and access their lists of insurance plans.
- Medicaid. Agencies should do some homework before tracking down Medicaid contractors. First, determine the status of Medicaid expansion activities in the state. Next, learn about Medicaid MCOs, which most states are using to deliver services to Medicaid populations. With this foundation, agencies can next identify the health plans that have Medicaid contracts in the service area. Go to the State Medicaid website and find a list of current Medicaid contractors. It may be equally easy to type into a search engine something like: Medicaid managed care contracts <NAME OF YOUR STATE>.
- Provider Networks. Identify existing provider networks in your target area. This information may be available from Ryan White Part A Planning Councils and Part B Programs, and state insurance departments, and it is also likely to be available through Marketplace planning activities.
Step 3: Determine the Process for Establishing Contracts
Each plan, MCO, and provider network has its own process for contracting with providers. Thus, you will need to do some legwork to identify their specific processes. To determine what process to follow in order to become a contracted provider or a member of a network:
- Contact health plans. Go to the websites of health plans you identified in the step above and download their provider contracting materials.
- Contact major provider networks in your area and express your interest in joining their network.
- Contact your State Medicaid office to determine the process for becoming an enrolled provider.
- Contact current Medicaid contractors (especially Medicaid MCOs), express your interest in joining their network, and ask what process to follow.
When making the above contacts, you may want to provide some basic information about your agency (eg, current number of clients, their insurance/Medicaid status, the services you provide). However, this information will be more relevant to share when you actually engage in the next step, conducting contractual negotiations.
Step 4: Secure Contractual Status/Relationships
Establishing a contractual relationship is a process of assessing the contracting partner (eg, the financial viability of the prospective partner, and nature of its presence in your target area), providing information (usually a form or set of forms and related documentation, such as an agency's accreditation) and subsequent negotiations (eg, reimbursement rates). Contracts can be established with:
- Health Insurance Plans as part of a network of providers.
- Health Insurance Plans directly as an individual provider.
- Medicaid as an enrolled provider under Medicaid Managed Care.
- Medicaid as an enrolled/certified provider in fee-for-service Medicaid.
In securing contracts, information is crucial (eg, your expertise and accreditations, your status as an ECP, number of clients you serve and their current coverage status under Medicaid, Medicaid eligibility under expansion, and coverage under private insurance).
Certification, Payer Status, Quality
Health care providers secure accreditation from multiple entities, attesting to their qualifications and standards for delivering high-quality care. These certifications are essential as they are required by insurance and health care laws and regulations and health plans.
There are several certification, status, and clinic operational considerations that are particularly relevant and useful for Ryan White agencies in adopting new care delivery innovations and positioning themselves for enhanced reimbursement.
- Health Centers. HRSA's Health Centers Program delivers care to medically undeserved individuals. Health Centers take on various forms of designation, including Federally Qualified Health Center Status (FQHC) and FQHC Look-Alikes. Learn more from HRSA, including how to achieve FQHC and Look-Alike designation. See this slide set on What Does it Take to Become an FQHC?
- 340B Status. ECPs include those agencies defined in Section 340B(a)(4) of the Public Health Services Act and section 1927(c)(1)(D)(i)(IV) of the Social Security Act (safety-net providers that the Secretary of HHS determines would benefit from nominal drug pricing under Medicaid). Section 340B eligibility for Ryan White grantees is outlined on HRSA's Office of Pharmacy Affairs website.
- Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH). PCMH is an accreditation program that requires compliance with multiple criteria in order to be recognized as such under new health care reform and reimbursement policies. See the Medical Homes topic page for resources.
- Quality Management. HRSA's HIV/AIDS Bureau has many quality management training and technical assistance resources to build the capacity of Ryan White programs to monitor and improve the quality of services. Quality management is necessary for achieving certification/recognition under the above Health Centers and PCMH efforts, and it is an essential component in establishing contractual relationships with Medicaid, health plans, and provider networks.
HIV Finance Systems/Third Party Payers
As an increasing number of Ryan White clients transition to public and private health insurance plans, Ryan White agencies will need to adjust HIV finance systems that are focused on grant-based reimbursement.
Third Party Billing/Reimbursement
Ryan White agencies should review and enhance their third-party billing systems to make sure they are maximizing reimbursement by other payers (Medicaid, health plans, Medicare).
- See TA tools on the topic pages for Fiscal Management and Health Care Reform (e.g., billing, contracting).
Measuring the Cost of Care
Ryan White agencies will also need to enhance their capacity to monitor and measure the cost of care. This information is necessary in establishing contracts with provider networks and health insurers in order to help ensure that third party payments cover the cost of delivering care.
- See TA tools on the topic pages for Fiscal Management and Health Care Reform (e.g., billing, contracting).
Health IT/Electronic Health Records
Health information technology is comprised of the software, hardware, and processes to help providers manage patient care. Known as Health IT, this infrastructure includes use of electronic health records (EHRs), or electronic medical records, for maintaining health information that can then be used to improve care delivery and monitor outcomes. Agencies should enhance their Health IT/EHR systems in order to:
- Improve the monitoring of the quality of care, service utilization, and costs.
- Enhance information sharing among providers and payers.
- Provide for a seamless interface with Marketplace eligibility and enrollment systems, which will evolve over time to enhance information systems communications in order to help consumers access health coverage and services.
Learn more about Health IT. Access these Health IT resources and videos for patients and families explaining the benefits of information technology in health care, protection of privacy and security, and more.
Assess Organizational Position
Health care agencies are witnessing multiple changes in terms of insurance, care models, payers, and care needs. Medicaid eligibility and marketplaces are expanding and creating new payer options for Ryan White clients. Health Centers have been expanding for over a decade, creating new venues for care for low-income populations. HIV/AIDS care and treatment has evolved and improved but remains challenging. Although antiretroviral therapies are increasingly effective, agencies are faced with continued challenges to do a better job of engaging infected people in care in order to achieve full viral suppression, which will benefit the health of individuals and that of the community in terms of reduced viral transmission.
This ever-shifting environment suggests the need for corresponding moves by agencies to assess the need to make changes within their own operations. Adjustments might include assessments of current and anticipated positions in the community with strategic restructuring (eg, adjustments in the agency's mission, new collaborative ventures, specialization, merger). See Agency Readiness for ACA resources to help guide agencies in assessing their organizational position.


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I am wondering why every company doesn't keep their product a trade secret? Then almost nobody would be able to replicate the product instead of patenting, which reveals the inner working of the products. Patents expire after 20 years after which time anyone can implement the product at no profit to the inventors.
I certainly cannot speak to why a particular company chooses one form of intellectual property protection over another, but trade secret law has a few limitations. First, a trade secret is protected only against misappropriation (e.g., acquisition through improper means or breach of confidence). Therefore, a trade secret provides no protection against independent development. Second, there is some uncertainty with regard to whether a court will ultimately find the information sought to be protected actually constitutes a trade secret. As such, one doesn't know if one's purported trade secret is truly enforceable until a court tells it so. The factors considered by courts in evaluating whether information constitutes a trade secret include:
As part of a trade secret claim, the plaintiff also has the burden of proving that the information was wrongfully acquired by the defendant.
Not every product innovation is incapable of being independently developed (or reverse engineered) given enough time, money and developers. The exclusionary rights provided by a patent allow a patent holder to enjoin the infringer or receive monetary damages from the infringer, even if they independently developed the infringing technology. Of course, patents have their negatives as well, including cost and, as you mentioned, the disclosure requirements and limited lifetime.


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Everyday, I struggle to get up at around 7:00am to get ready for collage at around 8:00am. Over 95% of the days, I either:
(i) Miss the first class of collage
(ii) Not able to Brush and/or bath, and other activities to be done in morning.
because of not being able to get up.
After completion of classes, I come back to my room, I am tired and have not got enough sleep, so I sleep for 2-3hours
At night, around 11:30 when I actually want to go to sleep so that I can wake up early the next day, I am just not able to sleep. I do nothing, just laying in bed, drinking water, walking around but not able to sleep for upto around 2-3am and so again I am not able to get up in the morning.
My problem is that my whole biological clock is highly screwed.
What I want: To be able to get up everyday in the morning at around 6:30 am, so that I am able to get ready and attend the classes. My attendance in classes is going low, because of which I can be prohibited from giving the final exam by the institution.
Also, I want to be able to fell asleep at around 11:30pm or 12:30am or whatever time is right to get enough sleep to wake up without any trouble in the morning at 6:30am.


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Softball league changes
STEUBENVILLE - The Steubenville Men's Softball League is changing format to unlimited arc and one pitch.
For information on the upcoming meeting call Gene Cicarelli at (740) 346-6488. The league hopes to begin in mid-September.
Lady Barons split a pair
PITTSBURGH - The Franciscan University of Steubenville volleyball team split its final two matches at the La Roche Volleyball Invitational Saturday, beating Carlow University 22-25, 25-23, 2-25, 25-17, 16-15 and then losing to Washington & Jefferson 25-18, 25-21, 25-16.
College (18-25, 21-25, 16-25). Franciscan was able to corrected the on-court errors that cost them crucial points earlier in the tournament.
The victory was a big step forward for the young FUS team who has been trying to find an identity with so many new players on their roster. The Lady Barons proved they have been progressing with each game by beating a team the lost to in three games exactly one week earlier.
"We were honestly very evenly matched against them last weekend even though we lost," said head coach Kelly Herrmann said. "We just have to play to our potential. We came in today and played much more consistently. The girls were really looking forward to this match."
Sophomore Dani Link had 13 kills and newcomers Jen Pagano and Anna Polkach each had eight kills. Link had 15 digs and fellow sophomores Samantha Kelly and Christina Lawrence each had 12 digs.
FUS visits Chatham Univeristy at noon Saturday.
FUS runners fare well
LATROBE, Pa. - The Franciscan University of Steubenville cross country teams ran well at the Seton Hill Invitational Saturday.
"We had some good races on a really difficult course against some top-notch competition," head coach Dan Kuebler said. "We knew we weren't going to do really well in terms of team competition but we were just using this as an early season measuring point to see how we are and to handle a really tough course."
Junior Patrick Flanagan led the men's team with a 14th-place finish in 31:10.
On the women's side, Colene Smith (35th, 23:06) and Molly Chambers (40th, 24:09) led the Lady Barons.
"We didn't see any other teams that we normally run against," Kuebler said. "We want to run against these stronger teams to challenge ourselves on a tough course, see where we are at. They did really well for having to run against mostly scholarship runners."
The Barons will run in the National Catholic Championships in South Bend, Ind. on Sept. 20.
FUS tennis splits
STEUBENVILLE - The Franciscan University of Steubenville women's tennis team split two home matches Saturday, losing to Bluefield (5-4) and beating Medaille College (8-1) at Belleview Park.
"It was really difficult going from the Division II match to the conference match because the levels of play were completely different," said Barons head coach Jenna Lynch said. "They had to generate their own pace on the second match, which is often way harder to do than playing at the pace of your opponent's ball."
The Lady Barons visit La Roche College Sept. 8.
Barkley with hole-in-one
NEW CUMBERLAND - Ken Barkley netted an ace on the 165-yard No. 15 hole at Mountaineer's Woodview Golf Course. Barkley hit a nine wood.
Witnesses were Tom Smarrella, Jim Quickle, and Andy Gulish.
WBA to hold meeting
WINTERSVILLE - The September Board Meeting of the Wintersville Baseball Association will hold a board meeting at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at Zalenski's. Election of officers will be held. Any parent with children in the WBA is welcome to attend.


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Kentucky State Police say Frankfort police shot and killed an armed man who had trapped a woman inside a home and pointed a handgun at police.
Authorities said a woman called police on Sunday evening to report that the man had threatened to shoot anyone who came into the house.
The Tactical Response Unit and Hostage Negotiations Teams were called to the scene and gave him numerous commands to drop his weapon once he left the house. Police said he pointed his gun at police and was shot. Coroner Will Harrod confirmed that 55-year-old Gary Meadows died from gunshot wounds at the Franklin County Regional Medical Center.
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Ken and Peggy Powers, Dodge City, announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Shayla Powers, to Jason Werner, son of Ken and Amelia Werner, Hays. The bride-elect is a 2000 graduate of Dodge City High School. She is the Market Asset Protection Manager for Wal-Mart, Western Kansas. The prospective groom is a 2000 graduate of Hays High School. He is Store Manager for Nex-Tech Wireless and is a member of the Knights of Columbus. An April 13, 2013 wedding is planned at St. Fidelis Catholic Church, Victoria.
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David Mattson, Jr., MD, joins WYRK's Clay Moden at the Colorectal Cancer Expo to discuss various colorectal cancer treatment options, including surgery and chemoradiation.
WYRK's Clay Moden discusses how genetics play a role in colon cancer with Steven Hochwald, MD, FACS.
DJ Anthony called in to the Kiss 98.5 morning show on Thursday, March 13 with Goin' Bald For Bucks founder Anthony George.
On Wednesday, March 5, students from South Buffalo Charter School joined the Yroswell Street Team at the Kiss 98.5 FM studios to promote RPCI's Goin' Bald for Bucks program.
Univera Healthcare has committed to donate $95,000 to Roswell Park Cancer Institute's Esperanza y Vida initiative (Hope and Life), to address disparities in breast cancer, diabetes and cervical cancer within the Latino community in Western New York.
Transit Middle School is Goin' Bald For Bucks for the first time this year!
Dr. Michael Kuettel, the Chair of the RPCI Department of Radiation Medicine, has been recognized by the American College of Radiation Oncology as "one of the nation's leading radiation oncologists." Dr. Kuettel will receive the 2014 ACRO gold medal at the organization's annual meeting in Orlando, Fla., today.
On Wednesday, February 19, students from West Seneca East High School visited DJ Anthony at the Kiss 98.5 FM studios to share why they are Goin' Bald for Bucks.
Heim Middle School is Goin' Bald for Bucks for the third year in a row!
Another Boost for Burgeoning Genomics Program
You've probably been seeing and hearing the word "genomics" a lot in local and statewide media reports lately, and that's definitely good news.
Genomics is the science that makes personalized medicine possible. It involves analyzing tiny tissue samples using high-powered gene sequencers to produce a road map of a single person's genetic coding.


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February 8, 2013 @ 6:00 pm – 2:00 pm
February 8th and 9th 8th- 6:00 p.m. — 9:00 p.m., Saturday 9th 8:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
"Unforgettable, God's Relentless Heart for his Daughter's"
The speaker is Stephanie Henderson, speaking about her book
Registration is required, cost is $45.00(includes Fri. night dinner, Sat. breakfast and lunch)
registration deadline is Feb 3rd.
Lufkin First Baptist Church
Call the church at 936.634.3386 for more information.


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I'd like to password protect a text file. Not necessarily a
.txt file - just a file that's got text in it that I can edit with a standard text editor. I'd like to set a password and be prompted for it every time I open the file in any app. What's the best way?
You can put the file into an encrypted disk image.
You now have a password-protected disk image that you can save any kind of file in.
Assuming you're the file's owner, a built-in and system-wide way to do this would be to adjust the file's permissions so that only a specific user or users (I'm assuming you want to lock the file so only you can view/edit it) can read or write to the file.
As Mark pointed out in the comments, however, this only protects you if:
Making Coconut Man's solution by far a better one. I'll leave this answer here as an alternative that may be helpful in similar situations.
You can print->save as PDF->password protect the PDF. It's not as transparent as having the .txt in a
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Fall Movie Guide: Our Forecast on 20 Science Fiction and Fantasy Films
This fall is just packed with movie goodness. A lot of the year's most ambitious films are coming out in the next four months. Including huge space epics, massive franchise pictures... and Marvel's first post-Avengers movie without Iron Man in it. Here's our prognosis for 20 upcoming science fiction and fantasy movies.


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World War II was radical in one particular way; for the first time in a war, self-propelled cars, trucks and fighting vehicles (often with good off-road-capability) took over much of the role that the horse-drawn vehicle had previously played.
Progressive vehicles for military use
Volvo, being a progressive company with vast (for the day) resources, naturally played a major part in providing the Swedish armed forces with transport equipment during the period 1939-45. The most advanced vehicles were the TVA/TVB and the TVC, all these three vehicles being heavy towing vehicles for the artillery and anti-aircraft troops.
The TVC was the first all-wheel-drive vehicle ever produced by Volvo. It was based on the TVA/TVB, but with two major changes, forward-control design and the addition of front-axle drive.
Designed for the off-road
Since the TVC was intended for extreme off-road-capability it was natural to try to restrict the total length of the vehicle and also distribute the GVW as evenly as possible between all three axles. For this reason, a very roomy cab was designed to go on top of the engine, also adding perfect vision for the driver and the rest of the crew as well as the other advanced features of this unique all-wheel-drive truck.
The roomy crew-cab was an absolutely necessary feature for this vehicle since it was intended not only to tow heavy artillery and anti-aircraft guns but also to bring the complete crew to the site in question. The chassis design was virtually identical to that of the TVA/TVB, being based on a central tube and independent axles, with all six wheels driven and equipped with large off-road-tyres.
A long time servant
The engine of the TVC was identical to the engine of its predecessor TVB, a 7.6 litre petrol engine with 140 bhp. The TVC became quite popular for its intended duties, and had quite good cross-country mobility, despite the fact that it was heavy in the front, sometimes causing the steering wheels to dig themselves down into soft ground, a disadvantage that was, however, compensated by the very good traction of the two driving rear axles.
The TVC was used for a very long time by the Swedish armed forces. It was revised on more than one occasion, with, for instance, an improved cab with larger windows and even better vision for the crew. The 'FBT' engine was also replaced by an extremely powerful 10-litre petrol engine which had been developed from the diesel engine used for the 'L39 Titan' heavy-duty truck.


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I want to be able to edit the post_parent of a custom post type. Basically in my use case I want to mimic how WordPress uses attachments: have a custom post type that is sort of a subtype to post or any other post type. WordPress uses the post_parent field on the wp_posts table to link attachments to their parent posts so I want to be able to do the same. I've tried to use wp_update_posts but it seems to time out the connection when I try to call it during a post save. Is there a way of editing the post_parent directly?
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You can add the following HTML to a post metabox you'll have an edit field that lets you edit the raw
If I well understood the question you can set support for page-attributes when you register a CPT like this:
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| Reed, A., ESAI Energy, Wakefield, Massachusetts
In the next couple of years, collapsing Russian supply of straight-run fuel oil (SRFO) will undermine foreign supply of feedstock to the US Gulf Coast.
[US Gulf Coast]
[straight-run fuel]
[vacuum gas oil]
In the next couple of years, collapsing Russian supply of
straight-run fuel oil (SRFO) will undermine foreign supply of
feedstock to the Gulf Coast. Gulf Coast refiners currently rely
more than ever on imports of vacuum gas oil (VGO) and SRFO to
feed their cracking units. Russias refineries have
developed into the top source of this feedstock, thanks to an
oil export duty regime that encouraged the production and
export of feedstock. That is changing, though, due to new
export duties imposed by the Russian government.
Reduced feedstock supply adds another layer of complexity to
the feedstock choices confronting Gulf Coast refiners. Until
now, Gulf Coast refiners have compensated for increased intake
of domestic light crude by backing out barrels from West
Africa. Now that the last barrels of light crude imports are
being backed out of the market, refiners that absorb more
domestic light crude will turn to heavier crudes and SRFO
imports to generate feed for their cracking units. However,
shrinking availability of SRFO from Russia means imports are
likely to fall. This scarcity will lead to marginally higher
demand for heavy crude to generate the feed for cracking
The scarcity of feedstock will lead to rising
prices, which may lead to a deterioration of cracking economics
and constrain cracker utilization rates. At the same time, the
scarcity of Russian supply will boost profitability for other
suppliers of SRFO and VGO.
In 2013, Gulf Coast refiners imported a record 410,000 bpd
(410 Mbpd) of feed for their cracking units, more than half of
this from Russia. Imports of heavy gasoil account for 295 Mbpd
of that amount. The remainder was generated from imported SRFO.
Assuming that 60% of the SRFO is converted into VGO, the 195
Mbpd of imported SRFO generates another 115 Mbpd of feed for
cracking units, resulting in the combined 410 Mbpd of imports
shown in Fig. 1. Imports rose 100 Mbpd in the
last two years and now account for one-eighth of the feed used
by Gulf Coast cracking units.
Supply of VGO and SRFO from one source, Russia, accounted
for the growth of Gulf Coast imports. As Fig.
1 shows, Russian SRFO and VGO accounted for 220 Mbpd
of imported feedstock in 2013, 55% of all imports.
Growth of cracking capacity has fueled the demand for
imports. Between 2010 and 2013, hydrocracking and catalytic
cracking at Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast refineries increased
200 Mbpd, from 3 million (MM) bpd to 3.2 MMbpd. A nearly
400-Mbpd expansion of capacity enabled this
growth, illustrated in Fig. 2.
More capacity additions, though on a smaller scale, suggest
that processing will rise further in the next few years. The
60-Mbpd hydrocracker at Valeros St. Charles refinery in Louisiana, completed in
the second half of 2013, will contribute to higher
hydrocracking throughput in 2014. Two more 20-Mbpd units will
be commissioned in the next two years, one each in 2014 and
2015. The forecast in Fig. 2 assumes a 50-Mbpd
increase in processing to 3.25 MMbpd in 2016. If there were no
change in domestic supply, this implies that imports of fresh
feedstock from Russia and other
sources would increase another 50 Mbpd. However, supply from
Russia will actually fall.
In recent years, Russia exported about 500 Mbpd of SRFO and
a little more than 200 Mbpd of VGO. Beside the 190 Mbpd of SRFO
supplied to the Gulf Coast, the bulk of the 130 Mbpd of FO that
China imports from Russia is straight-run. Europe is also a significant
consumer. With 135 Mbpd of imports in 2013, Gulf Coast refiners
also absorbed the bulk of Russias more than 200 Mbpd of
VGO exports.
Up until now, Russias oil export duty regime
encouraged these exports. Oil export netback prices, the
international price less the export duty, are the basis of
Russian refining profitability. Over the
last decade, under various structures, export duties on
products have ranged between 40% and 90% of the crude export
duty. Until early 2011, the FO export duty was equal to 40% of
the crude oil export duty. In 20102011, the small duty on
FO relative to crude increased the export netback price of fuel
oil relative to Urals. The 3.5% fuel oil was priced at a $9/bbl
discount to Urals Med. But, in Russia, the export netback price
of 3.5% FO was $12/bbl higher than the Urals export netback
price (see Fig. 3).
Able to sell FO at a premium to crude, refiners maximized
utilization rates and investment continued to flow into crude
distillation capacity. These profits
were a disincentive to installing deep-conversion units.
Refiners with vacuum units were in no rush to add units to
process VGO into clean products. With so much crude
distillation capacity and few secondary units, the biggest
result of increased throughput was higher SRFO supply and
But the government is about to upend the flow of feedstock supply to the Gulf Coast.
Its objective in structuring oil product export duties was to
make simple refineries profitable so they could generate the
revenue necessary to invest in deep-conversion processing. In
the past few years, the government became frustrated with the
slow pace of refinery modernization. To increase pressure
on oil companies to accelerate investment, the government
decided to set the FO export duty equal to the crude export
duty beginning in 2015.
The transition to a higher export duty began in late 2011,
when Russia increased the FO export duty to 66% of the duty on
crude. Even with the higher fuel oil export duty, gross
refining margins were still quite high in 2012 and 2013. The
government planned to raise the rate to 75% in 2014, but a
resolution issued over the New Year holiday left the rate
unchanged at 66% in 2014.
However, the same resolution confirmed plans to raise the
rate of the FO duty to 100% of the crude duty in 2015.
Fig. 3 shows the impact of this change on the
fuel oil discount to Urals in Russia and the gross refining
margin of a simple refinery.
Given a gross refining margin that shrinks to zero, refining
expenses and the costs of transporting product, Russian
refineries with high fuel oil yields will no longer be
To adapt to the oil export duty reform, which transfers refining profits from the bottom to
the middle of the barrel, Russias refineries have been
accelerating investment. The construction of new crude distillation capacity has ground to
a halt. Many refineries are racing to add hydrocrackers and
other units that will help them cut production of fuel oil in
favor of middle distillate and other clean products.
This investment has significant implications for the roughly
500 Mbpd of SRFO Russia exports. With few exceptions, SRFO
exports from Russia originate from refineries with no upgrading
units. These refineries will be all but extinct after the FO
export duty increases. Russias biggest producer and
exporter of fuel oil just commissioned a deep-conversion
complex. Until the final quarter of 2013, the Kirishi refinery
produced 200 Mbpd of SRFO, but recently added a vacuum unit and
56 Mbpd of hydrocracker. The Taneco refinery in Nizhnekamsk also just
commissioned a 56,000-bpd hydrocracker in the first quarter of
These projects are just the tip of the
iceberg. By 2020, the ratio of hydrocracking and catalytic
cracking capacity to crude distillation will expand from about
10% to 25%.
In some cases, by special arrangement, refineries that have
upgrading units segregate SRFO. A few short years from now,
these refineries will be the only potential source of SRFO, and
Russian SRFO will be a scarce commodity. Those refiners that
are willing to export SRFO will command a premium.
VGO exports will also be subject to an export duty equal to
100% of the crude duty. The majority of Russias bigger
refineries will add deep-conversion processing that will result
in higher production of clean products, while some smaller
simple units will go out of business. However, a handful of
refineries unable to invest in cracking and coking capacity may be viable by
adding vacuum units. VGO exports will also fall sharply,
although Russian VGO exports will not disappear altogether.
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When I used Google Webmaster Tools to check one of my websites, I found that there are 37 links under site links which do not belong to my websites at all.
The site links should be the inner pages of my website!
I have not used Google Webmaster Tools for half a year and I know these links are hacking results or attempts.
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Small Business Must-Reads—Friday, Feb. 8
Off the road: Salespeople who hit the road to meet prospects face-to-face are becoming rare, replaced by a combination of email, phone, texting, social media, and web conferencing, research shows. Inc.com.
Real success: How reality TV helped a 30-year-old "Bachelor" kick-start his startup wine label. Entrepreneur.com.
Religious reasons: Orthodox Jewish founders of a food company made the decision to make their cuisine non-kosher, which means they cannot sample much of what they sell. Forbes.
Russia rising: In Russia, innovation is stymied by the state, which employs would-be inventors and owns all subsequent intellectual property and patents. But legislation expected to become law in 2013 could transform the entrepreneurial sector by granting IP to those inventors. Mashable.com.
Brewing up jobs: How beer maker Samuel Adams partnered with a micro-lender to help small food & beverage businesses hire new workers. The Huffington Post.
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