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North Dakota Game and Fish Department fisheries biologists are asking anglers for help in documenting lakes that may have experienced winter fish mortality.
Fisheries management section leader Scott Gangl said some winterkill is expected every year, with the severity depending on winter weather conditions.
North Dakota's paddlefish snagging season opens May 1 and is scheduled to continue through the end of the month. However, depending on the overall harvest, an early in-season closure may occur with a 24-hour notice issued by the state Game and Fish Department.
Potential snaggers are reminded that opening day, May 1, falls on a Thursday. Snag-and-release of all paddlefish is required on Sundays, Mondays and Thursdays, so opening day is snag-and-release only.
State Game and Fish Director Terry Steinwand has appointed longtime employee Scott Peterson as the agency's new deputy director.
Peterson, a native of Montpelier in southern Stutsman County, will begin his new position May 1. He has been the Department's wildlife resource management section leader at the Lonetree district office, located southwest of Harvey, for 22 years.
"Scott has proven his leadership abilities over the years," Steinwand said. "I look forward to working closely with him on the issues."
Anglers and boat owners are reminded to review their licenses for the 2014 fishing and boating season.
Anglers must have a 2014-15 fishing license. Fishing licenses can be purchased online at the Game and Fish Department website, gf.nd.gov. A new state law requires residents age 18 or older to prove residency on the application by submitting a valid North Dakota driver's license number or a North Dakota nondriver photo identification number.
Confiscated hunting and fishing equipment will be sold Saturday, May 3 at the North Dakota Wildlife Federation's Report All Poachers auction in Minot. The auction is scheduled for 2 p.m. at the North Dakota State Fair Center's 4-H hall.
Auction items can be viewed between 12-2 p.m. Items include more than 70 rifles, shotguns and handguns; fishing equipment; bows; knives; spotlights; coolers and other miscellaneous merchandise.
The next guide and outfitter written examination is May 17 at 1 p.m. at the North Dakota Game and Fish Department office in Bismarck. The test is given periodically to anyone interested in becoming a hunting guide or outfitter in the state.
In addition to passing a written exam, qualifications for becoming a guide include a background check for criminal and game and fish violations; certification in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and standard first aid; and employment by or contract with a licensed hunting outfitter.
The North Dakota Game and Fish Department's annual bighorn sheep survey revealed a minimum of 293 bighorn sheep in western North Dakota, virtually unchanged from the previous count of 297.
In total, biologists counted 85 rams, 159 ewes and 49 lambs. Not included are 24 bighorn sheep introduced from Alberta in February, and approximately 30 bighorns in the North Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Year one of a multi-year walleye tagging study on the Missouri River and Lake Oahe is complete, and returns are providing biologists with valuable information.
Scott Gangl, North Dakota Game and Fish Department fisheries management section leader, said more than 9,100 fish were tagged in 2013, the first year of the four-year study, and nearly 1,400 tag numbers were turned in by anglers.
The State Game and Fish Department invites all North Dakota schools participating in the National Archery in the Schools Program to register for the annual state tournament. The 2014 tournament is April 11-12 at the VFW Sports Center in Bismarck.
The North Dakota Game and Fish Department's advisory board meetings scheduled for Monday and Tuesday in Williston, Turtle Lake and Walhalla have been postponed due to inclement weather and travel difficulties. The meeting scheduled for Tuesday in Makoti will take place as planned.
The meetings in Turtle Lake and Williston are rescheduled for Monday, April 14. The rescheduled date for Walhalla is April 15.
Anglers and hunters are reminded to be wary of ground conditions when traveling to and from a favorite fishery or hunting location.
Greg Power, fisheries chief for the North Dakota Game and Fish Department, said with fishing good statewide, many anglers are taking advantage of late-season ice and early-season shore fishing.
"However, travel can be difficult this time of year with the soft conditions," Power said. "We urge anglers to use common sense when conditions are likely to cause problems with township roads and access points."
Whooping cranes are in the midst of their spring migration and sightings will increase as they make their way through North Dakota over the next several weeks. Anyone seeing these birds as they move through the state is asked to report sightings so the birds can be tracked.


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ENTERPRISE – Governor Robert Bentley joined officials of HS Automotive Alabama, Inc., (HSAA) to announce that the company will invest $12 million to expand its facility in Enterprise and add 100 new jobs for the area.
The company is a Tier I automotive supplier for the Hyundai plant in Montgomery County. HSAA produces weather stripping, tubing and automotive high- and low-pressure hoses for Hyundai as well as Kia and Chrysler.
"HSAA knows what makes Alabama so successful in economic development: Alabama has the best employees in the world with a work ethic that is second-to-none," Bentley said. "We have a positive business climate, and that helps companies like HSAA expand and create more new jobs."
This is the second time HSAA has expanded its Enterprise operations. The company broke ground on its original facility in August of 2003 and announced its first expansion in 2006.
HSAA has seen tremendous growth over the last several years, and that continued growth led to the latest expansion announced on Monday. As part of the expansion, the company will build a 65,000 square-foot manufacturing facility, which will be located in the second phase of the Yancey Parker Industrial Complex, directly across from HSAA's current facility.
Lieutenant Governor Kay Ivey and House Speaker Mike Hubbard also participated in Monday's ceremony.
"I am proud to see another Alabama business add good-quality, high-paying new jobs to help put our people back to work," Lieutenant Governor Ivey said. "Alabama has made great strides, particularly in the last two years, to improve the economic climate so that businesses can develop and grow. HSAA is a solid economic partner, and I congratulate the company on 10 years of success."
The company is under the guidance of HSAA President Harry Kim. In 2004, HSAA had roughly $4 million in sales, and nearly a decade later, the company is estimating nearly $150 million in sales for 2013. HSAA already provides work to more than 270 employees in Enterprise.
HSAA in Enterprise is the first facility of Hwaseung Rubber & Automotive to be located in North America.


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I train archery as part of my martial arts training. What is the best way to lower or control heart rate before taking shot? Assuming I have been doing activity that raised it. I know just waiting for few minutes will resolve the issue, but I'd just like to know if there is any technique that would speed up that process.
In the fire service we have to train on conserving air in life safety situations. So we work on breathing control which lowers our heart rates as well.
One method Reilly-Emergency Breathing Technique (R-EBT):
The goal is not to 'hold your breath' because that will trigger your body to panic for O2. Take deliberate, calm controlled breaths and your heart rate will lower. In addition don't flex or tighten up, stay relaxed, and loose.
In hypnosis, we often see a subject's heart rate decrease as they begin to enter a hypnotic or hypnogogic state... Essentially, as the mind calms, the heart rate decreases... Therefore, an easy way to decrease your heart rate is simply to calm down.
Since this, of course, is not much of an answer, I'd suggest this little exercise.
This may seem completely bogus, but the result is a peaceful calm and assuredness in the shot, both of which will ease any anxiety and allow you to achieve a more relaxed heart rate. The first time, you won't see a significant difference, but with repeated use you create a recallable state which you can enter into at will. By reflecting on your visualization, you're helping to cement the idea that your visualized event was your reality and that you can take control of that reality at a moment's notice.
Swift reminded me of another thing that's similar in effect to what he was proposing – a form of yogic exercise called Pranayama. They have corollary forms in Togakure-ryu ninpo, and I generally teach it as an aside to training in the water to reduce the amount of air needed when under the water.
Rather than get into it in detail, since there are various aspects which could be of a great deal of use to you, I will suggest you check out a great introductory text on the subject, The Yoga of Breath.
Controlling your breathing, by slowing your breathing and movement right down. Big long slow breaths Helps to have a heart rate monitor and you can watch the changes in your heart rate based on your breathing and relaxing.
Keep breathing, as steadily and as deeply as you can. In tai chi you are often taught to breathe in to the count of six, and breathe out to the count of six (seconds), such that the hairs in your nose do not move. Not always possible even at the best of times but a good ideal to strive for. I find that simply focusing on this helps a lot after a quick burst of cardio activity.
Certain moves such as those practiced in qigong - raising the arms in sync with your breathing - help expand your lung capacity. Breathing deeply into your dantian using your diaphragm trains your body to engage your core muscles in the act. Doing this in a controlled manner should help you steady your pulse, but it also helps move air more efficiently during peak exertion.
Lastly, simply doing regular hard cardio sessions will naturally increase your capacity for being active with your heart rate staying relatively low. If your body is stressed beyond what it is used to, then all the techniques in the world won't help.
A way to lower your heart rate that, in my view, is easier than the other answers, is this:
If possible, first lie down. Then maximize the tension in as many muscles of your body as you possible can, and hold the tension for, say, three to five seconds. Then, all of a sudden, let go of all tension, and just imagine yourself floating in a calm sea, or lying back in you sofa on a Sunday afternoon, or lying in sunny, grassy meadows (this picture is my personal favourite), or whatever relaxes you most.
For me, inhaling as much as you can, and slowly exhaling.
I press my lips, much like when you try to whistle, and push air through. You may hear a quiet 'wooosh' sound.. It helps to reduce my heartrate so that i could pace myself.


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May I ask what is the verb form of statistics or is there any replacement word with the meaning of "the act of doing statistics"?
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The term statistics refers to the numbers that are generated by statistical analysis. Perhaps the phrase analyze statistically would meet your needs.
Various specific activities that result in the output of certain statistics have single word verb forms, such as average, correlate, sum, equate, and tally.
Well, Google reports some 300 instances of "statisticked" on the web. And the OED has statisticize, v. To arrange in the form of statistics... to collect or employ statistics....
Perhaps not a perfect match but the word, "figure", as in "figure up the tally" or "Figures never lie, but liars figure".


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Everything on this car that should work does work. Tires are new and things like wheel seals and brakes and everything else are either new or it great condition. It's ready to drive and absolutely nothing needs to be done to it. I drive it and it is not a show car. Its got a mild rebuilt 390, was originally a 3 speed automatic but is not a four on the floor, aluminum radiator, holley carb. Its got an aftermarket temp, tach, oil pressure, and voltage meter, and shift light. I will run all day as fast as you want to go at 160 degrees. I'm selling it because I have to many cars and some of them have been in my family and I can't sell or I'd get hung. I will drive it to the buyer anywhere in the lower 48 as long as you cover, a hotel and return flight to Houson. I can cover a lot of ground in a day so if you are close enough the hotel will probably be just one night. It was originally a South Carolina car and from my understanding the guy died and was sold to Georgia which does not require a title. I got a bonded title in Texas. They told me at the title office to just pretend I didn't show them the South Carolina title because that would make things easier on all of us. I've still got it the South Carolina title. I didn't undercoat the bottom of it because nobody would believe that it is in as good of shape as it is. I did pull out the interior, take it down to bare metal, cleaned it, etched it and POR15 enameled it, and then used dynamat before I put the interior back in. While I had it apart I put seat belts in the factory spots and re padded the seats. I didn't use cotton though I used foam and did it right. I kept the stock stereo in the dash and installed a dual voice coil speaker in the factory AM speaker position, 3 band Infinity 6X9 speakers in the back deck. I didn't upgrade the back deck because I didn't want anyone thinking there was a stereo in it to encourage them to break in. In the trunk I also removed the factory sound dampening goo with dry ice and tool to down to bare melt and POR15 enameled it as well. I used velcro to mount a 12 ported boxed sub with a higher quality kicker sub. Under the passenger bench seat I put I think a 1500 watt amp and an electronic equalizer. from the electronic equalizer there is a long 3.5mm headphone cord you can connect to your phone or mp3 player and there is also another dial that you can use to adjust the sub volume with a long cord. I put long cords on them and just zip tied the extra cord in case somebody in the future wanted to mount them in the glove box or something. I just rest my phone on the seat while I drive. I've got pictures at different steps. The paint is newer and in great shape. I have had it professionally detailed and clay barred. there are three little paint chips and one light scratch that can probably be buffed out...pretty sure its just in the clear coat. Runs like a top.
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Last week my 3 year old son had too many varieties of snacks and puked 3 to 4 times in the night. He started complaining of tummy ache. It became worse, anything he drinks, he was throwing it up, even little amounts of water. We took him to the pediatrician and she diagnosed it to be a stomach virus. He was treated with an shot to stop vomiting, and she gave ORS and advised bland food. From past couple of days he also having some loose bowels. We would be visiting the doctor again tomm.
But this tummy ache which he complains after eating anything is almost for a month. My wife puts a warm cloth on his tummy to soothe the pain. But nothing was serious except from the last week incident.
Has any of you seen where the child complains of tummy ache after eating? Any similar experiences?


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Courses in Biology, Earth Sciences, Environmental Science, Environmental Studies and Health Sciences provide Lesley students the opportunity the better understand how to repair and preserve the world's environment.
The Natural Sciences and Mathematics undergraduate program at Lesley University offers more than 50 sustainability related courses across multiple majors. The following majors, through coursework, internship placement and partnerships, allow students to build a strong perspective on contemporary sustainability practices:
GLASS is a way for students to gain credits while becoming more sustainably active abroad. Learn more.
The Lesley Garden is located on the Doble campus, directly behind 24 Mellen St. It is a student-created, organic, urban edible garden used for education, scientific research and connecting with nature.
Under the guidance of Professor Aileen Bellwood, students spend 2 semesters learning about the biological, ecological, and social impacts of how food is grown. Topics explored include: sustainable food systems, conscious eating, medicinal herbs, garden ecology, life in the soil, seed saving, permaculture, organic gardening, indoor seed-starting, community involvement, as well as harvesting, preparing, and preserving food. Students in the class take collaborative responsibility for the regular maintenance and future development of the Lesley Urban Garden.
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Let's say I have points $A(a,a)$ and $B(a,0)$. What is the equation of the line $AB$? If I'm correct the slope is infinite, but it never has a y-intercept. This would give $y=\infty x$, but there are infinitely many lines which should have this formula but are different (they have a different $y$). Is this a flaw in the $y=mx+b$ system? How do we handle this?
The equation of the line $AB$ is $x=a$. $x=0$ corresponds to the $y$-axis itself. We do not speak of the slope of a vertical line, so $y=mx+b$ does not apply here.
Let the equation of the line be $Ax+By+C=0$
As it passes through $(a,a),(a,o)$ so, $Aa+Ba+C=0$ and $Aa+C=0\implies C=-Aa$
$Aa+Ba+C=0$ becomes $Ba=0\implies B=0$ as $a\ne 0$
So, the equation becomes $Ax+0y-Aa=0\implies x=a$ as $A=0$ would imply $C=0$.
Any line with $x$ co-ordinate same, can not be expressed as $y=mx+b$ as $\frac 1m$ becomes $\frac{a-a}{a-0}=\frac 0 a=0$ as $a\ne 0$


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Consider an infinite series like this where x if defined for the natural numbers and n is fixed.
I know that when n = 1 the series diverges (harmonic series), and for n=2 I found a website that said it converges into $\pi^2/6$. Is there an easy way to find the value of n required to make the series converge into 1?


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Shanghai Tech Day
By yu on 十月 30, 2007
Last week I went to Shanghai tech day. This is my first time to be in Shanghai, and my impression about Shanghai is that it is a very...very modern city. It contains all the modern symbols as a big city: skyscrapers, fashion girls, terrible traffic, and subway rush hour.
Here's some photos I got from Shanghai. The landscape of the Bund, the Oriental Pearl, and the subway.
When I write in English, I tend to overlook the main point about the topic. Yes, this should be a blog about Sun tech day, not street photography in Shanghai. So, my presentation in Shanghai Tech day is about "OpenSolaris networking for developers", it is a slice put together by Nicolas targeting at software developers.
In this forty minutes presentation, I covered topics like SCTP/SDP/Crossbow/Kernel socket/Clearview/Nemo...that's a lot of topics. And guess which one got most attention? Not crossbow, because there were already enough speakers covered this project. Well, the answer is kernel socket. It seems to me software developers are very interested in seeing this project, they want to know what they can do with this project, as they are already familiar with socket applications. I admit this is a little bit surprise to me, maybe I should put more slices in the Beijing tech day this week.


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Should You Have Electronic Fetal Monitoring?
How monitoring is done
External fetal monitoring
The baby's heartbeat and the strength and frequency of your contractions are measured by devices strapped to your abdomen with wires that connect to a machine that produces a printout of the readings and an ongoing digital log on the computer.
Risks And Benefits
Should you have electronic fetal monitoring?
Although monitoring during labor is an important part of the care of you and your baby, there is some debate as to the benefits of continuous monitoring and some believe there may be associated maternal risks. As a result, most hospitals suggest intermittent fetal monitoring. Although you can refuse monitoring entirely, the staff may be unhappy about this and ask you to sign a form or statement releasing them from liability if anything goes wrong during the labor and birth.
Studies suggest that women who are monitored continuously are more likely to have a cesarean section or an assisted delivery with forceps or vacuum (see Methods of assisting birth). This is because your doctor may see changes in the fetal heart rate that concern her. Some changes, such as a faster heart rate (more than 160 beats a minute), known as tachycardia, or decreases in the heart rate that occur after your contractions, can be caused by decreased oxygen to your baby. If your doctor sees these changes, she may be unable to determine if they were caused by low oxygen or if your baby is actually fine.
If it's thought that your baby may be at risk, an emergency cesarean section may be recommended. If there are fetal heart rate changes while you are pushing, a forceps or vacuum delivery may be offered.
The benefits of continuous electronic fetal monitoring are not entirely clear. You are able to hear your baby's heartbeat and some women may find this comforting. Also, experts agree that continuous monitoring reduces the chance that your baby will have a seizure after the birth, a symptom of brain injury from low oxygen. Seizures are rare, occurring in around 2.5 per 1000 births with monitoring and 5 per 1000 births without monitoring. It is harder to prove that electronic fetal monitoring can prevent rarer complications such as cerebral palsy or fetal death.
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The Top 6 Technically Proficient Boxers Around Right Now
1. Floyd Mayweather (43-0-0, 26 KOs)
Considered the pound-for-pound best boxer on the planet by most boxing fans, Mayweather is in a class by himself when it comes to boxing technique. His defense is virtually flawless, and he's a lot better offensively than many give him credit for. It's no surprise that Mayweather is undefeated, as there is no better student of the game right now.
2. Andre Ward (26-0-0, 14 KOs)
Ward seems to be the next king of boxing, and his technical savvy has had a lot to do with his success inside the ring. Ward's most impressive performance was against Chad Dawson on Sept. 8, as "S.O.G" outclassed his bigger -- and also technically competent -- opponent, before finally putting him away in the 10th round.
3. Adrien Broner (25-0-0, 21 KOs)
Broner is arguably the most promising young star in boxing right now, and "The Problem's" future couldn't be any brighter. Unlike most technically savvy fighters, Broner also packs a lot of power in his punches, making him the likely heir to Mayweather's throne.
4. Sergio Martinez (50-2-2, 28 KOs)
Martinez is always fun to watch, and his performance during his last outing against Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. was quite entertaining. Like Mayweather, Martinez is a very hard target to find inside the ring, but he does have a few lapses every now then.
5. Juan Manuel Marquez (54-6-1, 39 KOs)
Even though Mayweather gave Marquez a boxing lesson when the two met in 2009, "Dinamita" is still one of the most technically sound boxers around right now. Just ask Manny Pacquiao who has consistently struggled against the Mexican.
6. Austin Trout (26-0-0, 14 KOs)
Trout earned a lot of new fans with his Dec. 1 performance against Miguel Cotto, and he's arguably the best light-middleweight around right now. Austin proved he can keep his composure in a hostile situations against Cotto, out-boxing a more experienced veteran on his way to the biggest victory of his career.
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No problem on Floyd as #1 but I think Donaire should be either #2 or #3...
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Rigondeux should be #1 - 6, seriously it doesn't get more proficient than him.
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Trout is good but I wouldn't put him top 5. I would say that you could put GGG up there, Rigo definitely or even Lara.
There's a difference between athleticism and skill, some can have both but few do.
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i'd put jmm at 3, rigondeaux at 4, broner at 6,, wlad at 5 and take sergio and trout off.
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Interesting that Rigo didn't make the list, but Broner did, when "The Problem" should be pulling up the rear. I mean, even with the listed names, no way Adrien should be ahead of JMM.
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So I am getting this error and I have no clue why.
When I run it on the server it's on,
I get a 404 error with a simple request like this.
$json = file_get_contents('https://graph.facebook.com/me?access_token='.LONGSTRING);
The error is:
function.file-get-contents: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
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REIT Returns Up but Trail Broader Market
Real-estate investment trusts enjoyed their best quarter since the first three months of 2012, but the REIT sector underperformed the broader stock market as investors developed a greater appetite for risk.
The Dow Jones Equity All REIT Index, which tracks 137 real-estate investment trusts, delivered a total return, including dividends, of 7.9% for the first quarter. The S&P 500 index and Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 10.6% and 11.93%, respectively, in the quarter.
Results in the REIT sector varied greatly among different asset types. Thanks to their high dividends, companies that invest mainly in commercial-mortgage loans and securities led the sector with a 22.6% return.
But companies that own rental-apartment buildings sputtered. The so-called multifamily REITs, which had been the darling of the sector for several years, declined 0.03% in the first quarter.
The decline reflected investor concern that the improving single-family home market might result in lower rents and higher vacancies at apartment buildings. "The thinking has shifted from no one is going to buy a house ever again, to if people decide they want to get back into houses, this is bad for apartments," said Joel Beam, fund manager for Forward Select Income Fund.
REITs have done better than the broader stock market for most of the financial downturn, outperforming the S&P 500 for 11 of the past 16 quarters. Since the market hit bottom in 2009, REITs have returned 233%, compared with 153% for the S&P 500 index.
Investors often gravitate to REITs during tough times because they typically pay higher dividends than other companies. Currently, the average REIT dividend yield is about 3.4%, according the Dow Jones REIT Index, compared with 2% for the S&P 500.
But when Wall Street turns bullish, as it has in recent months, REITs often underperform the broader market. "It's because [stocks] are cheaper and the anticipation that some of the other sectors will return more in the next 12 months to 24 months than REITs," that we think the industry will lag behind, said Hessam Nadji, a managing director at Marcus & Millichap.
Nonetheless, analysts generally expect REITs to generate returns this year ranging from 12% to 15% as long as job growth continues and interest rates remain relatively low. Over the past year, most REITs have reported stronger-than-expected earnings because they have been able to raise rents and boost occupancy as the economy has improved.
Since the market hit bottom in 2009, the value of property owned by REITs has gained 60% and is back to peak levels, according to an index compiled by Green Street Advisors. REITs also have benefited from a dearth of new construction in recent years and the record-low interest rates resulting from the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing program, which has enabled them to raise cheap capital.
CommonWealth REIT, an office and industrial landlord, ranked as the best-performing REIT in the first quarter with a 44% return. The stock price surged after two major shareholders launched a takeover battle for the company.
AvalonBay Communities, AVB 1.85 % Inc., the largest multifamily operator in the nation, was the worst-performing REIT, declining 5.78%. Post Properties, PPS 2.23 % Inc. was a close second, returning negative 5.2% on a total return basis.
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But the rate of growth is tapering off. Also, investors are concerned because of the increase in supply. The country's 54 largest metro markets should see about 150,000 new units this year, followed by about 300,000 more in 2014 and 2015, said Luis Mejia, CoStar Group's director of multifamily research.
The strong showing of commercial-mortgage REITs during the quarter reflected their high dividend yield of an average of 7%, according to the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts. Mortgage REITs, which use short-term debt to buy longer-term mortgage securities, also are at the greatest risk if interest rates rise because that would increase their short-term borrowing costs and cut the value of the mortgage bonds that they hold, possibly resulting in losses and reduced dividends.


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Forgive my description of the sound but it's all I can think of to describe it. Every few minutes, I hear a very very faint sound that sounds like what you'd expect to hear when someone is being electrocuted in the electric chair. It's very faint and near impossible to find out where it's coming from inside the fridge. The sound stops with a single "click" sound. Any ideas?
my fridge had exactly the same problem and it turned out to be a failing relay. this relay was part of a safety recall because when it failed, it was possible for it to catch fire.
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Teaser for New eBook on Securing Oracle Database 12c
By Troy Kitch-Oracle on Dec 18, 2013
I am really excited about our new book from the Oracle Database Security team here at Oracle. Securing Oracle Database 12c: A Technical Primer, will be available as an early gift to database and security practitioners around the world this holiday season. Go pre-register for your free copy (code: db12c) of the ebook and as a teaser, here's the Introduction. Enjoy.
Introduction to Oracle Database 12c: A Technical Primer
The problem of securing important information has unfortunately become a familiar one to organizations everywhere. A constant stream of news reports tells of successful attacks that gain access to sensitive data and the legal, economic, and reputational damage that results. Even though the vast majority of sensitive data is stored in relational databases, very little of the information security effort in most organizations is devoted to making those databases secure.
While there are many technologies and products available to improve the security of a database in various ways, what is needed is a brief but comprehensive overview that describes the major threats and appropriate techniques to address them. Attackers can be expected to exploit any available weakness including incorrect configuration of security controls in the database, unpatched operating system vulnerabilities, or compromised user accounts. More indirect methods such as SQL injection or intercepting data on the network are also possible. Truly securing a database system requires consideration of any opening an attacker might use.
Each chapter in this book covers a single threat area, but they are all related. There is no single solution that prevents all methods of attack, and each security mechanism reinforces the others. Defense-in-depth is the only way to effectively combat both threats that are known today and those that will be discovered tomorrow.
We begin with security features available within the database itself.
- Chapter 1: Controlling Data Access and Restricting Privileged Users describes the fundamental notions of authenticating users and controlling the data that they can access. It covers best practices for determining the access that each user requires and limiting the powers of highly privileged users.
- Chapter 2: Preventing Direct Access to Data explains the use of encryption to prevent attacks that attempt to gain access to data directly, bypassing the access controls described in the previous chapter.
- Chapter 3: Advanced Access Control covers more sophisticated access control mechanisms that allow for more precise control. These mechanisms include Virtual Private Database, Oracle Label Security, and Real Application Security.
- Chapter 4: Auditing Database Activity describes the techniques for maintaining an effective audit trail, which is a vital defense-in-depth technique to detect misuse by privileged users and unexpected violations of the security policies implemented in the previous chapters.
We then broaden the discussion to include external components that improve the security of the database and the data it stores.
- Chapter 5: Controlling SQL Input explains the use of a specialized database firewall to monitor the SQL statements going to the database. This helps to protect the database against SQL injection attacks launched by Web users
- Chapter 6: Masking Sensitive Data covers the use of data masking to remove sensitive information from data that is used for test or development purposes. It also describes the use of Data Redaction to dynamically mask the results of queries on production databases.
- Chapter 7: Validating Configuration Compliance describes the need to evaluate the database configuration against accepted standards and the tools available for performing the evaluation to ensure continued compliance.
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A modern-day King Lear written by Nagle Jackson, the play explores the events surrounding Shakespeare scholar Dr. Eliot Prynne's battle with Alzheimer's, and when it becomes too much to handle, his three daughters come home to decide his fate. Directed and Designed by Andy Henrickson. Costume Design by Kari Knievel; Sound Design by Donald Bovinett.


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Surgery and Surgeons
News about Surgery and Surgeons, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
Chronology of Coverage
Jul. 26, 2016
Growing use of new knee surgery to repair torn anterior cruciate ligament or ACL sparks debate among orthopedists regarding its merits; procedure, developed by Arthrex from research conducted by Dr Steven Claes and published in Journal of Anatomy in 2013, replaces anterolateral ligament or ALL to stabilize joint and prevent ACL re-injury; some medical experts doubt existence of ALL, while some claim surgery may cause long-term knee damage. MORE
Jun. 13, 2016
Side Street column; hip-hop musician Andre Brown, also known as Doctor Dre, suffers from Type 2 diabetes and is chronicling his journey through weight-loss surgery to promote awareness of disease. MORE
May. 28, 2016
Pakistani Prime Min Nawaz Sharif will undergo open-heart surgery in London, his second such surgery in five years. MORE
Apr. 7, 2016
Doctors at King Abdullah Specialist Children's Hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, successfully separate conjoined twins Fatima and Mishal Ghani from Pakistan, part of long-running program seeking to help poor families across world struggling with children joined from birth; program is little know because it rarely reports on its work in scientific journals, but it is largest of its kind in world. MORE
Feb. 8, 2016
Dr Urban Lendahl resigns as secretary general of Nobel Assembly, which awards Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine; move is due to expectation that he will be involved in investigation of surgeon and regenerative medicine researcher Dr Paolo Macchiarini, who is under investigation due to deaths of two of three patients upon whom he operated. MORE
Jan. 10, 2016
Malia Wollan Tip column shares advice from Kathy Magliato, director of women's cardiac services at Providence Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif, on how to hold a human heart. MORE
Jan. 3, 2016
Karl Ove Knausgaard article recounts experience of traveling to Albania to watch British neurosurgeon Henry Marsh perform awake craniotomy, surgical procedure he pioneered; says inspiration for request to observe surgery was Marsh's book Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery. MORE
Dec. 27, 2015
Natasha Singer Technophoria column examines innovations at the Josie Robertson Surgery Center, new $300 million outpatient facility founded by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City; notes facility's focus on patient data-gathering could lead to improved service, but also treads upon ethical grey area in which patients' privacy rights are not firmly established by law. MORE
Dec. 13, 2015
Profile of Kricket Jerna Nimmons, one of first low-income New Yorkers to undergo gender reassignment surgery paid for by Medicaid; Nimmons, who is black and was raised in rural South, has undergone long and fraught journey marked by discrimination, abuse and illness to arrive at pivotal moment; availability of procedure to Nimmons reflects changing attitudes in society and medical profession. MORE
Dec. 8, 2015
The Upshot; simple computer algorithms can help doctors, who often face overwhelming amounts of data, keep track of overwhelming amount of information they must process; computer analysis can improve diagnostic accuracy and enhance safety during medical and surgical procedures. MORE
Dec. 7, 2015
Surgeons at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine say they will perform penis transplant surgery for first time in United States within year; 1,367 US service members have suffered wounds to genitals in Iraq or Afghanistan from 2001 to 2013, and such injuries are generally cloaked in stigma and embarrassment; only two penis transplants have been reported worldwide in medical journals, only one of which was successful. MORE
Nov. 8, 2015
Nicholas Kristof Op-Ed column praises work of Nepali ophthalmologist Dr Sanduk Ruit, who has restored sight to more than 100,000 people blinded by cataracts in poor nations using highly successful microsurgery technique costing only $25 per patient; procedure, which he developed, is known as 'Nepal method' and taught in American medical schools; Ruit's technique brings hope to some 39 million people across globe who are blind, about half of them afflicted by cataracts. MORE
Oct. 27, 2015
Four people who developed infected from heater-cooler device used during open-heart surgery at WellSpan York Hospital in York, Pa, have died, although it is not yet clear whether infection was primary cause of the deaths. MORE
Oct. 22, 2015
Study published in The New England Journal of Medicine finds nonsurgical therapy alone for severe osteoarthritis is far less effective than knee replacement surgery in relieving pain and restoring function. MORE
Oct. 8, 2015
Tommy John surgery to repair elbow is becoming increasingly more common among MLB pitchers; surgery leaves distinctive scar that various depending on year surgery was performed and surgeon. MORE
Sep. 26, 2015
Op-Ed article by Mark G Shrime and John G Meara argues that it will be impossible for United Nations to achieve its 17 proposed sustainable development goals without addressing lack of access to safe, affordable and timely surgery across world; dispels misconceptions about cost of such endeavor and points out that creating reliable surgical infrastructure bolsters entire health systems. MORE
Aug. 27, 2015
Op-Ed article by cardiologist Lisa Rosenbaum submits one's personal fears and emotions surrounding medical treatment choices are often better guide than studies, which can prove inconclusive; describes case of two women who each chose a different strategy, either invasive surgery or wait-and-see approach, after learning they had early stage breast cancer; argues both decisions turned out to be right, and role of medical community is to help patients accurately assess their personal risk. MORE
Aug. 17, 2015
Surgical patients who listen to music — even while they are under general anesthesia — have less anxiety and need less pain medication during recovery than those who do not, a large review of studies has found. MORE
Jul. 22, 2015
Op-Ed article by Sandeep Jauhar asserts that policy of issuing report cards to surgeons has backfired; points to studies showing that best surgeons, many of who had incurred higher mortality rates because they took on most difficult cases, are choosing only to do safe and routine procedures in effort to avoid being penalized for bad results; suggests that report cards are classic example of well-intentioned policy having harmful effects. MORE
Jun. 22, 2015
Pioneering procedure called transcatheter aortic valve replacement presents new hope for growing number of elderly Americans who face grim prognosis of aortic valve disease; surgery involves inserting lining of cow's heart through catheter, avoiding dangers of open heart surgery; some skeptics warn that newly-approved procedure is being used too widely before evidence is in (Series: Mending Hearts). MORE
Jun. 17, 2015
Large study published in JAMA finds that prescribing antibiotics to treat appendicitis is safe alternative to appendectomy; findings raise questions about routine use of surgery to address condition; study excluded complicated cases of appendicitis, and some doctors suggest that surgery should not be abandoned as it is very safe and reliable. MORE
Apr. 28, 2015
Study published in journals Surgery and The Lancet Global Health reports that lack of surgeons and anesthetists in most poor and middle-income countries results in millions of deaths every year from treatable medical conditions. MORE
Apr. 23, 2015
Paul Mason, British man who once weighed 980 pounds but lost 650 pounds after gastric bypass surgery, is now weighed down by 100 pounds of loose skin; Lenox Hill Hospital plastic surgeon Dr Jennifer Capla, who read about Mason's plight and his inability to find a surgeon willing to perform the skin removal in England, has agreed to help him and waive her fees, as will the hospital itself. MORE
Mar. 9, 2015
People sometimes take Valium or Ativan to relieve anxiety before having surgery, but a new study suggests that these drugs have little beneficial effect and may even delay recovery. MORE
Mar. 3, 2015
Some medical professionals are critical of 30-day mortality rate standard adhered to in some states as measure of surgical success; detractors argue that standard, which grades hospitals on whether patients survive 30 days after surgery, discourages surgeons from performing procedures on some elderly patients who could benefit and consigns other to long stays in nursing homes or intensive care units. MORE
Feb. 26, 2015
Study in The New England Journal of Medicine says parents and doctors should weigh how urgently surgery is needed for children younger than three years; cites increasing evidence that general anesthesia may impair brain development in babies and young children. MORE
Feb. 25, 2015
A study of nearly 3,000 obese women found that weight-loss surgery lowered the risk for some pregnancy complications like gestational diabetes and miscarriage. MORE
Feb. 8, 2015
Examination of case in which OtisMed Corp illegally marketed and sold 18,000 of its OtisKnee surgical guides without Food and Drug Admin approval highlights how easily serious lapses can occur in the rapidly evolving world of medical devices; case, which resulted in an $80 million settlement, would likely not have been brought to light without key whistle-blower. MORE
Jan. 30, 2015
Some cardiologists are making millions of dollars from Medicare for performing controversial, and some say unnecessary, in-office procedures to relieve blocked arteries in the arms and legs; Advisory Board Company reports procedures to put stents in vessels outside heart rose almost 70 percent from 2005 to 2013 to 853,000. MORE
Jan. 27, 2015
Use of 3-D printed models is having dramatic effect on several areas of medicine, including surgery; such models allow surgeons to create physical models of body parts of patients they will operate on, improving both accuracy and communication; Dr John Meara of Boston Children's Hospital used 3-D printer to create skull model of Violet Pietrok, girl born with rare defect called Tessier facial cleft, before operating on her. MORE
Dec. 12, 2014
Profile of Dr Kathryn Ko, neurosurgeon at Kings County Hospital Center, and also an artist who specializes in painting anatomy of brain and cranium. MORE
Nov. 25, 2014
Sweden's Karolinska Institute is investigating complaints that surgeon Paolo Macchiarini carried out experimental implant operations without ethical approvals and misled medical journals about success of procedures; Macchiarini, who is considered pioneer in field of regenerative, denies claims. MORE
Nov. 25, 2014
Food and Drug Administration warns against use of laparoscopic power morcellators, devices used during uterine surgery that cuts tissue to be removed into pieces, arguing that it risks spreading cancerous tissue; does not take device off market or ban it outright, but critics complain that action does not go far enough. MORE
Nov. 14, 2014
Post-mortem examinations of several women who died after surgery at a government sterilization camp in central India suggest that tainted medications may be to blame, rather than unsanitary conditions or hasty surgeries; Dr R K Gupta, who performed majority of tubal ligation operations, was arrested on charges of culpable homicide. MORE
Oct. 20, 2014
A study found that robotic surgery for benign gynecologic procedures had a higher rate of complication than conventional surgery, and was more costly. MORE
Oct. 2, 2014
The Upshot; study in Annals of Surgery finds that parents who were asked to decide which form of surgery their child should undergo and told about the price difference tended to select the cheaper option regardless of their insurance or economic situation; offers compelling case for price transparency in helping reel in the nation's $2.8 trillion health care bill. MORE
Sep. 29, 2014
In a small study, researchers found that certain activity in patients' immune systems correlated to different recovery times. MORE
Sep. 1, 2014
Middle-aged and older patients are unlikely to benefit in the long term from surgery to repair tears in the meniscus, pads of cartilage in the knee, a new review of studies has found. MORE
Aug. 29, 2014
Non-surgical treatments can reduce the pain or discomfort from a bunion and keep it from worsening. MORE
Aug. 23, 2014
Medical advances that have eliminated the need for millions of blood transfusions are wreaking havoc in the blood bank business, forcing unprecedented wave of mergers and job cutbacks; American Red Cross notes transfusions are down almost one-third over past five years, largely due to the rise of minimally invasive surgeries; industry revenue is falling, and decline could reach $1.5 billion by the end of 2014. MORE
Jul. 31, 2014
Statins, the widely used cholesterol-lowering drugs, may have a role in surgical wound healing, a new analysis suggests. MORE
Jul. 27, 2014
Peggy Orenstein Op-Ed article, noting spike in prophylactic removal of second breast after detection of cancerous cells in first, points to research showing that procedure is unlikely to decrease risk of death; notes that surgery, known as contralateral prophylactic mastectomy, or CPM, carries risks of its own; holds that physicians need to better understand how visceral reaction to cancer diagnosis can drive patients to choose wrong treatment. MORE
Jul. 7, 2014
Children who have emergency operations on weekdays fare better than those who do on Saturdays and Sundays, a study finds. MORE
Jun. 10, 2014
Editorial welcomes progress on transgender rights in health care; praises Obama administration's decision to reverse 1981 policy that excluded gender reassignment surgery from coverage under Medicare; also notes Defense Department's new willingness to review ban on transgender military service and updated policy concerning gender designation on birth certificates in New York State. MORE
Jun. 10, 2014
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center have begun clinical trial in which they induce clinical death in severe trauma patients by inducing hypothermia and slowing metabolism in order to buy surgeons more time to operate; patients would then be revived later; some are questioning ethics of procedure, which has never been tried in humans, in part because unconscious patients will not be able to give consent. MORE
Jun. 2, 2014
Treatment for inflammatory bowel disease — Crohn's and ulcerative colitis — has made great advances, with less disruptive surgery. MORE
May. 19, 2014
In heart surgery, a patient's own red blood cells may be a better choice than blood transfusion. MORE
May. 18, 2014
University of Michigan study published in journal JAMA Surgery finds surgery patients covered by Medicaid arrive at the hospital in worse health, experience more complications, stay longer and cost more than patients with private insurance; study may offer preview of what to expect as millions of uninsured people qualify for Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. MORE
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Surgery Fixes a Ligament (if It Exists). Does It Fix the Knee?
A newly defined ligament quickly gave rise to a reconstructive procedure, but orthopedic experts disagree on whether the surgery helps or harms.
July 26, 2016, Tuesday
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The Paradox of Disclosure
Revealing your bias often makes others more likely to take your advice.
July 10, 2016, Sunday
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When Doctors Have Conflicts of Interest
What should a doctor say to a patient if he gets royalties for prescribing a drug or implanting a device?
June 29, 2016, Wednesday
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With Cataracts, My Own Private Light Show
Every patient experiences the development of cataracts a little differently. For me, the gray and beige high-rises in my neighborhood became a jeweled fairyland.
June 28, 2016, Tuesday
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David Wright Opts for Neck Surgery
The procedure will repair a herniated disk and creates still more concerns about the future status of the Mets' captain.
June 17, 2016, Friday
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Richard Selzer, Who Fictionalized Medicine's Absurdity and Gore, Dies at 87
Dr. Selzer, who spent years as a surgeon, turned his operating-room experiences into fictional stories about modern medicine.
June 16, 2016, Thursday
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Orlando Injuries Were Severe, but Trauma Care Was Nearby
A rise of mass shootings reveals the challenges facing emergency medicine, and doctors are re-evaluating how best to save lives.
June 15, 2016, Wednesday
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D.J. Doctor Dré Is Waging a Public Battle With Diabetes
The D.J. and former "Yo! MTV Raps" co-host has lost his sight to the disease, and he says that documenting his weight-loss surgery could promote awareness.
June 13, 2016, Monday
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A Breast Cancer Patient Who Also Wears a White Coat
After a double mastectomy three years ago, Dr. Lori Wilson, a cancer surgeon and researcher gained a new insight on what she was asking of her patients.
June 5, 2016, Sunday
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With Heart Surgery Done, Nawaz Sharif to Return to Pakistan
Prime Minister Sharif, 66, underwent four bypasses on Tuesday at a hospital in London, his second open-heart operation over the past five years.
June 2, 2016, Thursday
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As the fight over the Keystone XL pipeline drags on, US refiners are turning to railroads to bring crude from Canada's oil sands to many refineries along the Gulf of Mexico.
By BEN LEFEBVRE
Pipeline or not, lots of Canadian crude oil is headed to the
As the fight over the
Keystone XL pipeline drags on, US refining companies are turning to
railroads to bring crude from Canada's oil sands to refineries
along the Gulf of Mexico.
Shipments are set to double this year, to more than 200,000
bpd, according to one estimate, as Valero Energy, Phillips 66
and other US fuel companies make an end run around the
much-delayed pipeline.
TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline expansion would bring even more oil
-- 830,000 bpd, much of it heavy Canadian crude -- to the Gulf
Coast hub, something refiners have spent years and billions of
dollars preparing for.
TransCanada filed for a cross-border permit for the pipeline
two years ago, but the pipeline become a flash point in the
debate between advocates for North American energy supply and
environmental activists worried
about contamination from spills as well as increased oil
The White House isn't expected to make a final decision about
the $7 billion pipeline project until this summer at the
Meanwhile, large amounts of the oil are piling up in the
province of Alberta, driving its price down. Western Canadian
Select oil prices recently averaged just over $65/bbl,
two-thirds the price of US benchmark West Texas
Not surprisingly, refiners are eager for the cheap Canadian
crude. "We want it on the Gulf Coast as soon as possible," said
Bill Day, a spokesman for Valero, which recently bought 2,000
rail cars for moving crude oil to its refineries.
Some of those cars will make the trek from Alberta to
Louisiana, where Valero is putting the finishing touches on
multibillion-dollar processing units specially designed to
handle heavy crude, which is tougher to refine than the light
crude that has recently become abundant in the US.
It can cost $20 to ship a barrel of oil by rail from Alberta
to the Gulf Coast, double the price for pipeline transit,
according to Peters & Co., a Calgary-based
investment-research firm. Even so, rail terminals in Alberta in
2013 will be able to double from the year before how much oil
they load into rail cars to more than 200,000 bpd, or 6% of
total Canadian oil exports, the firm said.
PBF Energy, which runs two East Coast refineries, said last
month it would ship 80,000 bpd of heavy Canadian crude by
rail to its refinery in Delaware, starting next
year. And Phillips 66 CEO Greg Garland said earlier this
year that the company was looking at heated rail cars to move
heavy Canadian crude to its West Coast refineries.
"Crude from Alberta is going to make it to market no matter
if Keystone XL gets built," TransCanada spokesman James Millar
said. "This increase in the rail market, that just proves
Rail shipments haven't cut into interest in the pipeline expansion, which has 95% of its
capacity contracted, Mr. Millar said, adding that Canada's
crude-oil production will grow enough that pipelines, barges
and rail cars will all have parts to play.
Some oil industry executives and analysts, meanwhile, have
raised concerns about rail accidents involving carloads of
crude oil, despite the rail industry touting a drop in accident
rates in the past decade.
Refiners have already increased their rail capacity while
waiting for pipeline construction to connect new oil
fields in North Dakota and south Texas, where innovations in
drilling techniques have led to increased oil production.
Producers of heavy oil are doing what they can do to help
the process along. Meg Energy Corp. of Calgary plans to use
Canexus Corp.'s new 70,000 bpd rail loading terminal to ship
crude out of Alberta by midyear.
Even if it costs more to ship the barrels via rail than through
a pipeline, Meg thinks it can make that money back -- and more
-- if it can just get the oil to refiners in the Gulf Coast and
"There's a higher cost by rail and barge, but it's the only
way to realize higher prices," Meg spokesman Brad Bellows
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Is it not laughable at the way these oil industry executives and analysts have so called raised concerns about rail accidents involving carloads of crude oil. What a lot of baloney - this only serves to increase inflation and the cost of living in the USA. Surely these oil industry executives have more pressing matters (plant Safety and Preventative Maintenance) to worry about!!
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If you like shopping, you should visit the shopping complex at Nagoya Super Block in Batam, Kepulauan Riau province. It offers products in several modern shopping malls within one compound. In this pedestrian area, there are 450 kiosks and 170 shops with a Hypermarket on Nagoya Hill. The Nagoya area is located at Sudirman and Yos Sudarso Streets, Jodoh sub-district, Batam, Indonesia.
Since it is situated in the City Center, tourists will have no difficulty finding accommodations during their trip. Several star-rated hotels are available around this area.
This area is recreational and has an amusement park for families. If you are tired of walking, Nagoya has theaters showing the latest Hollywood movies.
This large area has many shops, restaurants, stalls, cafes, etc. Its super block malls are combined with offices, business centers, and residences including apartments and condominiums.
In Batam, Nagoya is not the only super block area. You can also visit other super block areas such as Imperium Super Block and Harbour Bay. Compared to other super blocks, Nagoya is more strategically located as it is situated within Batams City Center.
It's not hard to get to this area because it is located in Batam City Center, which is the economic center of Kepulauan Riau province. You can take a flight to Hang Nadim international airport and a private car, rented car or taxi for only 15 minutes to this area.


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5 Insane Petty Crimes Committed by North Korea
North Korea's policies, attempts at propaganda, and even simple children's cartoons are a crash course in the kind of absurdity that would be hilarious if it wasn't so tragic. Thanks to its impressive madness (and, you know, all the human rights abuse and stuff), the land of Kim Jong-un enjoys a healthy reputation as something of a criminal country in the eyes of, well, pretty much everyone else.
But have you ever wondered what kind of criminal a country as inane as North Korea can possibly be? Because while Kim and his cronies indeed dabble in many dubious activities, they're less of a James Bond supervillain and more of a small-time crook in an Elmore Leonard novel, pathetically scheming their way through life in a series of increasingly desperate cons and schemes. Like ...
#5. Two Words: Meth Labs
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Quick: Your time is running out, everyone's against you, and you've got mouths to feed. You have nothing left to lose -- what do you do?
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It depends on whether you have a pork pie hat or a Wookiee.
If you're Walter White, you embark upon a life of crime and start making crystal meth. If you're Kim Jong-un, you ... do the exact same goddamn thing, actually. Yes, the Dear Leader of the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea is looking for revenue in the same way desperate fictional chemistry teachers and countless real-life criminals of the wife-beater-and-missing-teeth variety do. This is one of the many reasons Kim Jong-un has his trusty Office 39.
No one outside North Korea really knows what Office 39 is. It may be an actual office, or a massive bureau, or just some random roofless room that is filled with pigeon poop. Even the number 39 is an educated guess rather than a confirmed code. All we know about Office 39 is that it's a government sanctioned shadow organization dedicated entirely to one mission: shenanigans. And among other things, Office 39 is suspected of manufacturing roughly 600 pounds of crystal methamphetamine every year and selling the shit out of it.
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Pfft, Heisenberg knocked that out every two weeks.
As one would expect, the North Korean government officially claims absolutely no involvement in the manufacture and sale of methamphetamine. They would especially like to point out that they know nothing of the 40 pounds of 99 percent pure crystal meth that were confiscated in a drug bust last November in Seoul, South Korea. You know, the meth that the dealers explicitly retrieved from a North Korean warehouse just before selling it to an undercover DEA agent.
If you think that scene from a bad cop movie was just a fluke and North Korea usually handles its drug dealings with rather more tact, well, clearly you haven't been paying attention to the country's antics. They're carrying their wannabe drug kingpinship like they're a two-bit biker gang from the 1980s. Their strategy of drug distribution is throwing giant bags of meth at a bunch of their diplomats and ordering them to sell $300,000 worth of the stuff "to prove their loyalty and mark the birthday of nation founder Kim Il-sung." They literally expect their foreign representatives to celebrate a former dictator's birthday with the joyous task of peddling hard drugs in addition to whatever it is North Korean diplomats normally do (sulk in the corner at international meetings?). Reports don't state how well the diplomats generally perform in their task, but we think it's fair to assume they are surprisingly popular at parties.
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"Are you staring at my rock, or my cock?"
#4. Duffel Bags of Cash from Obvious Insurance Scams
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When a country's entire regime turns to crime, there are many fearsome roads it can take. War crimes? Why, definitely! Large-scale oppression? Totally in the cards. International insurance fraud? Uh ... sure, North Korea. Whatever floats your boat.
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It's no coincidence that North Korea is the world's largest importer of neck braces.
Meet Korea National Insurance Corp., the world's only government-sanctioned agency that specializes in the kind of crime your grandmother might try when she doesn't quite remember where she parked the Segway. In 2003 alone, this state-owned monopoly cheated insurance agencies from all over the world out of millions of dollars with various bogus claims. The $20 million it gained was stuffed into duffel bags as, yes, a birthday gift to Kim Jong-il, then leader of North Korea. A couple years later, a heavily insured helicopter conveniently crashed into an even more heavily insured government warehouse in Pyongyang, resulting in a $58 million payout from Lloyd's of London and several other agencies. Of course, everyone immediately assumed the "accident" was staged, but what can you do when the entire bureaucratic system of a goddamn country crosses its heart and swears to die if it didn't happen the way they say it did?
The way North Korea managed to set up insurance companies is actually pretty clever: To do business with them, you have to sign a waiver agreeing to abide by any and all North Korean laws no matter the circumstances, even if, as many companies found out way too late, said circumstances actively enable state-sanctioned insurance fraud. Distracted by their boner to secure the market of an entire country, many insurance firms accepted these terms -- and as a result, it's almost impossible to determine how much money North Korea has conned out of them, simply because the companies are too ashamed to disclose their losses.
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"Man, this is embarrassing ... just put it under 'miscellaneous hooker theft.'"
#3. Counterfeit Cigarettes
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Any smoker who has traveled the world knows the risk of buying cigarettes from a dodgy vendor. If you don't know what you're buying, those fake cancer sticks could contain anything, even stuff that's not quite as good at giving you cancer as the real thing. There are any amount of gangs and criminal groups in the counterfeit-cigarette business, and it's actually pretty lucrative.
You can tell by how North Korea is all up that shit.
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Nothing like the smooth taste of Llama Cigarettes.
Yep, the country that may or may not be a nuclear power and that enjoys presenting itself as a legitimate player on the global stage is actively participating in cigarette counterfeiting and smuggling, otherwise known as "the pettiest hobo crime this side of aggressive panhandling." Official estimates place up to 12 counterfeit cigarette factories in the country -- some of them state-owned, others operated by organized crime syndicates that pay Kim and his cohorts for safe haven. In other news, North Korea is totally allowing the mob to hang around in their backyard. Apparently, it's getting so bad that the U.S. State Department and investigators working for major tobacco companies have taken to referring to North Korea as the Soprano state for its lucrative "import/export" business of counterfeit cigarettes, thus earning it the distinction of being the first country that is so far removed from actual country-ing that it can accurately be compared to a fictional dysfunctional crime family.


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Let $G$ be a finite group and $k$ a field. In modular representation theory the Brauer correspondence establishes a bijection between the isomorphism classes of indecomposable $kG$-modules with trivial source and vertex $P$ and the isomorphism classes of non-zero projective indecomposable $k[N_G(P)/P]$-modules. This bijection is induced by the Brauer map $$M \mapsto \operatorname{Br}_P(M) := \frac{M^P}{\sum_Q tr_{Q}^P (M^Q)}$$ $(Q < P)$ where $M^P$ are the $P$-invariants and $tr^P_Q: M^Q \to M^P,\;\; m \mapsto \sum_{g \in P/Q}gm$ is the trace map. This was proved in Theorem 3.2 of the paper
M. Broué: On Scott Modules and p-Permutation Modules: An Approach through the Brauer Morphism. Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 93(1985), 401-408
and the statement can also be found in this paper of M. Wildon (end of p. 12).
However, to my understanding, Broué's proof doesn't show that if $M_1,M_2$ aren't ismorphic then $\operatorname{Br}_P(M_1), \operatorname{Br}_P(M_2)$ aren't isomorphic as well (as $k[N_G(P)/P]$-modules).
Question: Does someone know, if the Brauer correspondence $[M] \mapsto [\operatorname{Br}_P(M)]$ ($[-]$ denotes isomorphism classes) is injective ? If so, a proof or a reference which contains a proof is also welcome.
Let me just explain why I think Broué's proof doesn't show injectivity in full strenght: He decomposes $kG \otimes_{kP}k = \bigoplus_{i=1}^n M_i$ into indecomposable $kG$-Modules whereby the ones with vertex $P$ are exactly those such that $\operatorname{Br}_P(M_i) \neq 0$. Assume this holds for $i=1,...m$. Then $$k[N_G(P)/P] = \operatorname{Br}_P(kG \otimes_Pk)= \bigoplus_{i=1}^m \operatorname{Br}_P(M_i)$$ and the $\operatorname{Br}_P(M_i),\;(i=1,...m)$ can be shown to be indecomposable. Since every indecomposable projective $k[N_G(P)/P]$-module is isomorphic to a direct summand of $k[N_G(P)/P]$, the Brauer correspondence is surely surjective.
However, to my understanding, it may happen that $M_i,M_j$ aren't isomorphic, but $\operatorname{Br}_P(M_i) \cong \operatorname{Br}_P(M_j)$ (i.e. this summand has multiplicity $>1$ in $k[N_G(P)/P])$.


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I know it's wrong, but I do it all the time or else my sentences would go on forever.
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What makes you think this is an error? All the greatest writers of English have started sentences with and. Mark Liberman, linguistics professor at the University of Pennsylvania wrote about this mythical "rule" in Language Log in 2005:
So, my answer to OP's original question is "mu": your question assumes something which is false.
The rule forbidding conjunctions at the beginning of sentences—"No Initial Coordinators" (NIC)—is something that even the most prickly old usage writers have rejected as Not A Real Rule. Arnold Zwicky wrote on Language Log in 2006 (emphasis added):
And Mark Liberman wrote more recently on Language Log:
I'll admit to possibly having been an accomplice in the perpetuation of this Zombie Rule. When I taught writing to third grade students I did use the NIC proscription [I believe I can use this construction to mean the rule that proscribed IC.] I did so because without it a large percentage of my students would consistently compose paragraphs such as this:
You can imagine the type of paragraph in which "but" is used similarly. Because such a large number of skills must be taught to students at this stage of writing development, it was more expedient to tell them to avoid the initial coordinator construction.
As students developed more advanced writing skills, some intuitively developed the ability to appropriately use initial coordinators and were given permission to do so in assignments, and some others needed to be taught this skill and to be given permission.
To be clear, the rule was that in writing assignments in this class you may not use initial coordinators unless and until you have mastered a number of other basic skills and have progressed to a certain level determined by me, your teacher.
However, I must admit that I'm sure there were many students of mine who left third grade with the idea that NIC is a hard and fast grammar law. If I were to teach third grade writing again I might try harder to disabuse them of this notion.
I would say it is one of those errors that is coming more into accepted use, especially in e-mails, but since most people continue to consider it an error, you are best off avoiding it.
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Similarly, There is nothing grammatically wrong starting a sentence with the word "and." However, if you find yourself linking together long sentences with a string of "and"s, you probably want to rework your sentences to make what you're saying more clear.
It is rank superstition that this coordinating conjunction cannot properly begin a sentence.
Reference: A Dictionary of Modern American Usage, Garner.


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(CBS/AP)-- A teenage girl who says she was raped by two Ohio high school football players testified Saturday that she could not recall what happened the night of the alleged attack.
The 16-year-old West Virginia girl took the stand on the fourth day of the nonjury trial of 17-year-old Trent Mays and 16-year-old Ma'lik Richmond.
She said she remembers drinking at a party last August, leaving the party then throwing up later. The next thing she remembers is waking up naked in a strange house, she said.
She said she realized she was assaulted when she later read text messages among friends and saw a photo of herself and a video made that night.
Mays and Richmond are charged with digitally penetrating the accuser, first in a car and then in the basement of a house, while out partying Aug. 12. Mays also is charged with illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material. The two maintain their innocence.
The case has riveted the small city of Steubenville amid allegations that more students should have been charged and led to questions about the influence of the local football team, a source of pride in a community that suffered massive job losses with the collapse of the steel industry.
Earlier Saturday, defense attorneys went after the character and credibility of the alleged victim, calling witnesses to the stand to accommodate their schedule, although the prosecution had not yet rested.
Two former friends of the girl testified for the defense that the accuser had a history of drinking heavily and was known to lie about things.
On the stand, West Virginia high school student Kelsey Weaver said the accuser told her what happened two days after the alleged attack then, sometime afterward, told Weaver she couldn't remember what happened.
So two different versions?" asked Mays' attorney Adam Nemann.
"Yes," Weaver replied.
Earlier, Weaver testified that the accuser was flirting at the party with Richmond.
Both Weaver and schoolmate Gianna Anile testified they were angry at the accuser because she was drinking heavily at the party and because of her behavior, which they said included rolling around on the floor. They said they tried unsuccessfully to get her to stop drinking.
Anile said she also tried to get her friend to stay at the party rather than leave with others, including the two defendants.
"When I told her not to leave, I was trying to, like, pull her back into the party. She was trying to shrug me off," Anile testified. "She kind of hit me."
Anile, whose lawyer was present during her testimony, appeared, like all of the trial's teen witnesses, reluctant to be there.
The day after the party, when Anile and another friend picked up the accuser from the house where she'd stayed, the accuser said she had no memory of the night before, Anile testified under questioning by defense attorney Walter Madison.
"'We didn't have sex, I swear,"' Anile said, describing the accuser's comment.
Anile said she'd seen the girl drink heavily in the past and that she no longer speaks to her.
The case has featured disturbing testimony from teens, both in person and in graphic text messages, and has shined an unwelcome light on what students in the community once considered private conversations. Some teenage witnesses winced at times as they were forced to read adult language from texts.
Anile repeatedly said she couldn't remember statements she made to police last September about the night of the party. Midway through her testimony, special judge Thomas Lipps agreed to let her listen to a 40-minute recording of her statement to refresh her memory.
On Friday, three teenage boys granted immunity for their testimony said the accuser was drunk and didn't seem to know what was happening to her that night.
Mark Cole, Evan Westlake and Anthony Craig spoke Friday of the West Virginia girl's behavior the night of a party and described her being digitally penetrated in a car and later on a basement floor.
Cole testified that he took a video of Mays and the girl in the car, then deleted it later that morning. He testified he saw Mays unsuccessfully try to have the girl perform oral sex on him later in the basement of Cole's house. Cole also testified that the girl was intoxicated and slurring her words.
Westlake testified he saw Richmond's encounter with the girl in the basement, as did Craig. Westlake also confirmed that he filmed a 12-minute video, later passed around widely online, in which another student joked about the attack.
Craig testified that he saw Richmond's hand in the "crotch region" of the girl, a less descriptive version than he gave last fall in another hearing.
If convicted, Mays and Richmond could be held in a juvenile jail until they turn 21.
The Associated Press normally doesn't identify minors charged in juvenile court, but Mays and Richmond have been widely identified in news coverage, and their names have been used in open court.


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Vandalism: Two windows shattered in vehicle parked in the 1600 block of Ridge Avenue overnight Friday.
Photo voyeurism: Shoppers reported someone taking pictures under women's skirts in the area of North Fourth and Washington streets, Saturday.
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Vandalism: Drivers side glass shattered in vehicle parked in the 300 block of Summit, Friday.
Theft: Wallet stolen from a residence in the 700 block of North Seventh St., Saturday.
Cited: Mitchell Hunter, 625 Grandview Ave., Steubenville, driving under suspension; Phillip G. McAllister, RD 1, Colliers, expired registration and driving on a license suspended in West Virginia and Ohio; Michael Murphy, Sistersville, WV, defective equipment and improper turn; Richard J. Godman, Scio, defective equipment; Amber Tomblin, Pittsburgh, no operator's license.
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LAKE WALES, Florida (AP) -- A Junction City businessman, his wife and their four children were killed Thursday when their small plane crashed into a swampy area near Tampa, authorities said.
Ron Bramlage was a prominent philanthropist and businessman in Junction City and owned Roadside Ventures LLC, to which the plane was registered. Also killed were his wife, Becky Bramlage, 43, and their four children, whose ages were not released. Mrs. Bramlage was the President of the School Board of Junction City's USD 475.
Their single-turboprop, fixed wing plane broke apart and went down about 12:30 Thursday afternoon in the Tiger Creek Preserve, just south of Lake Wales, the Polk County Sheriff's office said. Ron Bramlage, who was 45, was piloting the plane headed from the Bahamas to Junction City, Kansas. The family had stopped for fuel and customs in the eastern coastal town of Saint Lucie, Florida, and had taken off a half-hour before the crash.
Their aircraft was at about 26,000 feet when it first began experiencing trouble, officials said. Deputies reached the area by helicopters but it was clear there were no survivors, the sheriff's office said.
The cause of the crash wasn't immediately known, but parts of were found two miles from the crash site, which was only reachable by helicopters and all-terrain vehicles. The National Transportation Safety Board will lead the investigation but a Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman said it would take a long time.
The couple were graduates of Kansas State University, and members of the K-State Alumni Association, President's Club, Foundation Trustees and Ahearn Fund.
"We are shocked and saddened by the tragic news of the deaths of Ron and Becky Bramlage and their children today," said a joint statement released by University President Dr. Kirk Schulz and Athletics Director John Currie. "The Bramlage family holds a special place in the history of Kansas State University and K-State Athletics, and Ron and Becky have been loyal supporters and great fans of K-State. Our thoughts and prayers are with the Bramlage family during this difficult time."
Ron was the grandson of the late Fred Bramlage, a 1935 graduate of K-State and Junction City businessman. Fred Bramlage was the lead contributor to the construction of Bramlage Coliseum, a multi-purpose arena that opened in 1988 and is home to the K-State men's and women's basketball teams.
Grief-stricken friends said their deaths Thurdsay "will leave a giant hole in the community."
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I have different data modules, which take a couple of parameters from a configuration list. Do you think it's ok to pass a configuration object as a whole
module1(config) and let the module pick what it needs, or should I rather pass the individual parameters
module1(config.a, config.c, config.f)?
The first case doesn't require change interfaces in case I need more configuration parameters, but the second case encapsules more?
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I have different data modules, which take a couple of parameters from a configuration list. Do you think it's ok to pass a configuration object as a whole
The parameter object pattern is widely used in .NET and other object oriented frameworks.
This is essentially what you are describing what talking about passing in a single object and is considered a good practice, so long as the individual parameters have good defaults (so the modules will work even when only some of the parameters are passed in).
If your modules don't have a use for all items in the configuration object I would call this a code smell, however. If they are not needed, why pass them in? The configuration object should match the needs of the module.
So you want to write this method Module1, which depends on some subset of the properties of a Configuration object.
Some reasones you might want Module1 to take the Configuration object as a single parameter:
You might want Module1 to take the relevant properties as individual parameters if:
So really, it depends on how you expect the method might change in the future, and how much of a burden it is to change call sites if the signature changes.
You may want to consider using an interface for your parameter itself. Your configuration object will implement the interface, but the interface should include only the properties that you can use on this method.
We call this using role interfaces, and it is an important part of the Interface Segregation Principle. It means that as your configuration object changes, you can choose which properties this particular method is interested in, and add those properties to the interface. No additional refactoring is required. And you still don't have the code smell of getting passed a lot of information you don't need.
I've found it easier to make Configuration objects static. That way, you don't have to pass them around.
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It looks like RVP will now be a regular starter with Rooney out injured and I can see him scoring again at St Marys.
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