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Westpac Banking Corp., Australia's second-largest bank, said second-half profit almost tripled as it considers whether to raise borrowing costs by more than the central bank's increase.
Net income climbed to A$3.47 billion ($3.46 billion) in the six months ended Sept. 30 from A$1.27 billion a year earlier as bad debts plunged, Westpac said in a statement to the stock exchange today. The median forecast of seven analysts Bloomberg surveyed was for profit of A$2.87 billion.
Surging earnings may increase pressure on the government to curb the power of Australia's four biggest banks, which boosted market share during the global financial crisis by buying smaller rivals. Commonwealth Bank of Australia, the nation's biggest home lender, yesterday raised its mortgage rate by almost double the central bank's quarter-point increase, a move condemned by Treasurer Wayne Swan as a "cynical cash grab."
The political pressure "is not a positive development" for banks, said Prasad Patkar, who helps manage about $1.8 billion at Platypus Asset Management in Sydney. Federal lawmakers "are upping the ante for political reasons and not economic reasons," he said.
Westpac's shares rose 0.5 percent to A$23.42 at 4:10 p.m. in Sydney, paring this year's decline to 7.4 percent. The shares are the second-worst performers on the six-member S&P/ASX 200 banks index, which dropped 4 percent.
Second-half cash earnings, which exclude some tax charges, jumped 26 percent to A$2.93 billion from a year earlier, the bank said today.
Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd., the country's best-performing bank stock this year, last week said second-half profit jumped 69 percent to a record as bad debts declined and lending to home buyers increased. National Australia Bank Ltd., the biggest lender to companies, reported a 32 percent gain in cash profit as it expanded its share of the business loan market by targeting smaller borrowers.
Westpac Chief Executive Officer Gail Kelly, 54, joins rivals in reporting surging earnings amid criticism of Australian lenders, which face a Senate inquiry into competition, fees and funding costs, and opposition calls for improved regulation.
"The banks should not underestimate for one moment the determination of this government to put in place a range of reforms which will make the system more competitive," Swan told reporters in Sydney today.
Bank Inquiry
The Senate voted last week to hold an inquiry that will include questioning of bank claims that they are compelled to raise interest rates by more than the central bank because of rising funding costs. Independent Senator Nick Xenophon, who called for the inquiry, said the nation's four biggest banks should testify about the state of competition between them and non-bank lenders.
Westpac Chief Financial Officer Phil Coffey told reporters in Sydney today that the bank hasn't yet decided how much it will raise its mortgage rates after the RBA's unexpected quarter-percentage point increase yesterday, and said it will take a few days to consider the issue.
Mortgage rates are under review at ANZ Bank, according Sydney-based spokesman Kevin Foley. National Australia spokesman George Wright said yesterday that no decision had been made on interest rates after the RBA move.
Commonwealth Bank's standard variable home loan interest rate will be increased by 45 basis points, or 0.45 percentage point, to 7.81 percent on Nov. 5, the Sydney-based bank said yesterday. The decision means Commonwealth Bank customers face an extra A$1,056 a year in costs on an average A$300,000 mortgage.
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"This is a cynical cash grab," Swan told reporters in Brisbane yesterday. "Australians deserve a lot better."
Swan said today the government will announce next month reforms to make the banking system "more competitive" and put pressure on lenders "to behave in a better way."
Bank borrowing costs are a political issue in Australia as more than 90 percent of borrowers have variable-rate home loans, and debate has intensified as the biggest lenders increased their share of the mortgage lending market during the financial crisis.
Commonwealth Bank bought Western Australia-focused lender BankWest from the U.K.'s HBOS Plc in 2008, the same year Westpac took over the fifth-biggest lender, St. George Bank Ltd.
Lenders have also benefited from government guarantees on deposits and debt sales, introduced by Swan at the height of the financial crisis following the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.
Opposition treasury spokesman Joe Hockey proposed last week a nine-point plan to increase regulation of the nation's banks, and said "we must have a debate on whether we have lost adequate banking competition in Australia."
Lessons from Chavez
"Not only have small players been squeezed but international banks operating in Australia have become far less active," Hockey said.
ANZ Bank's CEO Mike Smith told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. on Oct. 28 that it would appear Hockey has "been taking economics lessons from Hugo Chavez," the president of Venezuela who has nationalized companies in the oil, food, cement and metals industries as part of his push for socialism since winning office in 1999.
Any attempt by Australian lawmakers to control banks' interest rates will take the country back to an era "long since gone," said Smith.
Australia's largest banks lend more each year than they accept in deposit accounts at home. That forces them to turn to offshore markets for about 30 percent of their wholesale funding.
Funding Costs
According to Moody's Investors Service, ANZ Bank and National Australia need to raise as much as A$25 billion each year selling long-term bonds to help fund lending. Commonwealth Bank and Westpac will need as much as A$50 billion, Moody's has said.
Westpac's second-half net interest margin, or the difference between what it earns from loans and pays to depositors, narrowed to 2.17 percent from 2.39 percent a year earlier. Provisions for credit impairments in the second half shrank to A$577 million from A$1.68 billion, the bank said.
The bank will pay a second-half dividend of 74 Australian cents, taking the full-year payout to A$1.39.
"Westpac certainly came through the crisis better than some others," said Angus Gluskie, who manages about A$350 million at White Funds Management Pty. in Sydney. "Employment is strong and that's the biggest driver of falling bad debts, and business conditions are slowly improving."


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A game John Murray (33-3, 20 KO's) gave a good account of himself tonight, but ultimately he was beaten up and taken out by the younger WBO Inter-Continental lightweight champion Anthony Crolla (28-4-1, 11 KO's) in losing by a 10th round TKO at the Phones 4u Arena in Manchester, UK.
In the 10th round, Crolla connected with a peach of a left hook that connected to the back of Murray's head, sending him down on his hands and knees. Murray, with blood oozing out of his nose and his right eye with an angry purple bruise, got back to his feet and let the referee know that he was ready to resume fighting. Crolla then pounced on Murray with a mini flurry that drove him to the ropes.
Murray moved laterally along the ropes hoping to escape, but Crolla followed after him and continued to nail him with nonstop punches. The referee then had no choice but to step in and halt the fight to keep him from getting hurt.
The seeds were there for Murray's defeat by the 9th round, as he was worn out looking and getting nailed at will by Crolla. At one point in the round, Murray threw a wild right hand that missed badly, sending Murray up against the ropes with his back exposed. Crolla then took advantage of the situation by hitting Murray with a half dozen punches before he could collect himself.
Earlier in the fight Murray was on the attack in going after Crolla with big body shots, and pressuring him nonstop. Crolla chose to stay on the move during the early part rather than standing still against the the more powerful Murray. There was absolutely no way that Crolla could match Murray for the kind of power that he had at that point in the fight, so it was a smart move by him to stay on the move and avoid exchanging shots with him as much as possible.
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Game 1: Sir Hubert Wilkins (10/31/1888 - 11/30/1958) - "Arctic Explorer" (he signed in as "X" and the panel was not blindfolded; salaried; very charming personality; he was the first to fly over the Arctic Ocean; currently from Montrose, Pennsylvania; for 16 years he has been a member of the U. S. Army's Quartermaster Corps and visits the Arctic each year to test equipment; see notes below)
Game 2: Clyde W. Farrar, Jr. - "Egg Inspector" (salaried; he inspects and grades eggs for the Virginia Department of Agriculture; from Portsmouth, VA)
Game 3: Peter Lind Hayes (6/25/1915 - 4/21/1998) & Mary Healy (4/14/1918 - 2/3/2015) (as Mystery Guest Duo) Peter Lind Hayes wrote on the blackboard "Who was that lady?" before he and his wife Mary Healy signed in. This was a reference to their recently opened Broadway play, "Who Was That Lady I Saw You With?" which ran at the Martin Beck Theatre for a total of 208 performances.
Per Gil Fates' handwritten logs, there was not enough time for the next scheduled contestant, a person who was an income tax investigator. - Suzanne (2008)
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Bennett Cerf: Everybody is being very complimentary tonight. So I'm going to stay right in the mold. I want to introduce one of the real aristocrats of television, Mr. John Charles Daly. (loud cheers and applause)
John Daly: Bennett is much too kind in his introduction, but there is something that I would-- we were talking about something just before the show and I think it needs mention. This week is National Library Week and I think it would do us all some good if we paused for a moment to think about those fine people who run the libraries in our small towns and our big cities and actually who do so much to keep good literature alive.
FLIP REPORT: John flipped the remaining cards for the first contestant at seven down because time was running short. Arlene figured out that he was a doctor and a scientist of some sort, but the panel wasn't able to identify this famous explorer, Sir Hubert Wilkins, who signed as "X" to fool them. - agent_0042 (2008)
(1) "WML?" SPONSOR AND PANEL WATCH: The main sponsor tonight is Helene Curtis. And because James Roosevelt was a Congressman at the time of this appearance, his guest panelist nameplate read "REP. ROOSEVELT" on the panel desk.
(2) "WML?" OVERLAY FONT WATCH: The regular contestants' overlays were set in the usual Futura Demi Bold font this evening; however, mystery guest duo Peter Lind Hayes & Mary Healy's lower-third overlay was hand-painted.
(3) This was Peter Lind Hayes' first appearance on "WML?" since EPISODE #344 of January 6, 1957, and Mary Healy's first since EPISODE #309 of May 6, 1956. And as for their "Who Was That Lady I Saw You With?" co-star Ray Walston's brief cameo, it was to be the only appearance by the future "Favorite Martian" on "WML?" in any of its incarnations. (As a side note, Mr. Walston's "My Favorite Martian" co-star, Bill Bixby, never made any appearances on either the CBS or syndicated versions of "WML?")
(4) "WML?" CREDITS CRUNCH WATCH: Tonight's end credits were a little more elongated than recent editions, going all the way up to a brief shot of the art card crediting Bob Bach and Frances Trocaine before cutting off. Yet there was GSN at the ready, on its December 18, 2008 airing of this episode, to spoil it all with their incessantly in-your-face "crunching" of the screen.
(5) A DOUBLE-DOSE OF MARY HEALY: Following the December 18, 2008 airing of tonight's show, GSN ran the April 23, 1957 edition of "To Tell the Truth," hosted by Bud Collyer, with Mary Healy making the first of four "TTTT" guest panelist appearances (she filled in for Polly Bergen); on this occasion, Miss Healy sat alongside then-regulars Ralph Bellamy, Kitty Carlisle and Hy Gardner. The first game featured Baron Ladislao de Torak (approximate spelling; it also may have been Ladislav de Torok; he served as a captain of the horse cavalry on the Russian Front during World War II, received an award from Pope Pius XII for his service to the Catholic Church in Italy, and at the time of this show, was a bartender at the Montsignor restaurant in New York - the spelling of this restaurant is also approximate) and two impostors; the second game featured Carol Morris (Miss Universe 1956, who had also appeared on "WML?" EPISODE #322 of August 5, 1956; Mr. Collyer, in his reading of her affidavit, referred to her as Miss Universe 1957) and two impostors; and the third game featured big-game hunter and African safari guide John Hall (approximate spelling) and two impostors. (As a side note, in contrast to Miss Healy's four consecutive "TTTT" panel appearances, which proved to be the only time she was on the program, her husband and longtime performing partner Peter Lind Hayes made only one nighttime "TTTT" appearance, as a guest panelist on the May 21, 1962 edition.) - W-B (2005, updated 2008)
REVIEW: This was somewhat of a decent night for the panel, and a fun one too. In the first game, there was a management dilemma regarding whether or not to blindfold the panel, because the first guest, Sir Hubert Wilkins, was so well known. Due to his ongoing Arctic research, his picture had been in newspapers on a regular basis over the years. However, the chance was taken and he walked out without the panel being blindfolded and by having him sign in as X. Luckily, the gambit worked and Sir Hubert gleefully stumped the panel. After the game, Dorothy made a rather cute statement by saying that he looked younger than in his photos. In the second game, Arlene was given credit for correctly guessing that the contestant was an egg candler, even though he actually was a full inspector. There also was a dispute over whether or not eggs should be considered a dairy product. It was ruled that they weren't and as John put it, "Even thought they are delivered with milk and butter, they aren't dairy." In the mystery guest round, Bennett correctly identified the panel's old friends, former guest panelists Peter Lind Hayes and his lovely wife "Miss New Orleans of 1918" Mary Healy. The couple was on the show to promote their play "Who Was That Lady I Saw You With?" They also gave the panel a treat by bringing out their co-star Ray Walston. Of course, Walston would go on to play everyone's favorite Martian in the 1963-1966 TV series "My Favorite Martian" as well as the history teacher from hell, "Mr. Hand," in the classic 1982 high school comedy "Fast Times at Ridgemont High." Ray's unexpected appearance put a nice cap on a pretty good evening. - Sargebri (2005)
WELCOME, PART I: At the end of the show, John Daly welcomed a new CBS affiliate, KMOX-TV, Channel 4, of St. Louis, Missouri. - Suzanne (2005)
WELCOME, PART II: It was around this time that CBS took over ownership and operation of KMOX-TV, which first signed on in 1954 as KWK-TV. In 1986, CBS sold KMOX to Viacom (years before the company acquired CBS) which changed the call letters to KMOV, which it remains today, although the station has been owned by Belo Corporation since 1997. - W-B (2007)
FIRST GUEST: Sir Wilkins had a delightful time stumping the panel! Sir George Hubert Wilkins, who was born at Mount Bryan East, South Australia, on October 31, 1888, achieved fame and distinction for his exploration work in the Arctic and Antarctic Regions, both by airplane and submarine. He achieved many "firsts" in his field, as John Daly noted. Wilkins always carried a miniature of the Australian flag in the cockpit of his airplane. He settled in the United States and worked in World War II for the American government, but never surrendered his Australian citizenship of which he was intensely proud. Wilkins died of a heart attack at the age of 70 on November 30, 1958, a few months after tonight's appearance. His body was cremated and the ashes taken on the nuclear submarine USS SKATE and scattered at the North Pole. - Suzanne & Dickcondon (2003)
JD (giving a conference warning): "I'll send you to the library for the whole week!"
AF to DK: "You haven't seen an egg come out of a cow..." (she gets cut off by laughter, rightly so, the panel could not decide whether an egg was a dairy product or not!)
::The great egg controversy of 1958::
BC (miffed because he had gotten a "no" answer when he queried whether the product could be eaten with cream over it): "When my Phyllis scrambles an egg, she pours some cream into the pan with the egg!"
DK: "Oh, and the French do too, all the time!"
JD: "Well, look at the mess France is in currently."
HUGE LAUGH! Great episode! - fiveninegal (2003)
James "Jimmy" Roosevelt is the son of the past president Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor Roosevelt. At the time of this appearance, he was a United States Congressman representing the 26th Congressional District of California. - Suzanne (2003)
Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy were married from 1940 until his death in 1998. They were appearing with Ray Walston in the Broadway play, "Who Was That Lady I Saw You With?" After they were identified, Mr. Daly asked them, "Is Ray with you?" and then Ray Walston walked on stage for a moment before the three of them departed. - Suzanne (2003)
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3,000 lb capacity. Used with Hi-Lift Jack for bumpers that are slotted or have a curved surface. Manufactured of high-quality steel. Makes raising one wheel of average vehicle easy. Designed to be used with Hi-Lift Jacks only.When used with the Hi-Lift Jack, which is not itself designed to be used on curved bumpers, the Bumper Lift makes raising one wheel of most average sized vehicles up to 2 (5 cm) above the ground an easy task.Never attempt to lift more than one wheel at a time.
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All the reviews I read said the instructions were awful, parts were hard to arrange, etc etc. took me thirty minutes with basic tools to install. I just left the hinge covers off in case I ever change my mind. Instructions were clear, logical and simple. Product seems sturdy. Jack fits. Doesn't rattle.
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I had to 1/2 uninstall the lower bracket to install the bracket. You really need to figure it out because the instructions are so bad.I installed the lower bracket fully. Then installed the driver side of the upper bracket and loosely installed the passenger side of the upper bracket. I then undid the passenger side lower bracket and loosened the driver side lower bracket. I then re-installed the lower bracket with the bracket on it. This was hard to get the spacers behind the bracket and through the hole I had to drill in the cover. It was annoying, but in the end it was worth it, the installation looks great.
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No major modification required. If you want to avoid the cost of purchasing a new rear bumper with a jack mount or lean over to remove you jack, this is the. mount for you.My son and I installed this jack mount. With a second set of eyes and the instructions we had partially assembled the mount three times. The instruction were photocopies. It was difficult to see the pictures. It would have been nice to have an exploded view of the mount assembled on the tailgate. The template to drill the holes into the plastic covers did not line up wi the pocket in the plastic covers. We centered the template in the pocket and it turned out OK.The design was well thought out. the tailgate can open fully without interference. It does an excellent job of keeping the jack out of the way. There is a place to mount a padlock, nice feature.
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But rather than leaving the inflamed partisan politics at
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The small beach of La Morena, about 25 miles (40 kilometers)
northeast of the capital Caracas, is packed.
While some take refreshing dips in the turquoise Caribbean
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wafts in the air, and children roll in the sand.
But not even the reggaeton pop music blasting at full volume
drowns out the discussions about inflation, violent crime,
and the political differences that divide Venezuelans and
have fed the unrest.
"We're never going to stop talking about this," said Carlos
Rivero, a 32-year-old security guard with a shaved head and
tattooed arms who was visiting from Caracas with his wife.
"Wherever you go, whether it's good or bad, people are always
talking about politics."
Hoping to ease tensions after at least 17 people were killed
in the country's worst unrest for a decade, Maduro extended
the long Carnival weekend by declaring Thursday and Friday
holidays too.
Since then, government officials have flooded social media
with images of busy shores and happy holidaymakers, and state
television has repeatedly reminded Venezuelans not to forget
the traditional family break at the seaside.
"Nobody will be able to take Carnival away from us," said
Tourism Minister Andres Izarra. "There's no fascist force
that can stop the people from enjoying the happiness."
To help them on their way, new Chinese-made buses wait
outside Metro stations to ferry Caracas residents to Catia la
Mar and the beaches north of the city such as La Morena.
But even with their toes in the sand, Venezuelans remain
divided. About half defend tooth-and-nail what they see as
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revolution of the late Hugo Chavez, who died from cancer a
year ago this week.
Others say they are sick of shortages of basic products such
as milk and toilet paper, with the horrific levels of violent
crime, and with annual inflation of 56 percent. And they say
things have only got worse since Maduro took office.
In some municipalities with opposition mayors, official
carnival activities were canceled.
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tension we have in the capital," said Jose Luis Vazquez, a
supermarket worker from Guarenas town to the east of Caracas,
as he sat and drank a beer with his wife, watching the waves.
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and it was time to pack up and pay the bill. "That's when
things turn to politics," said Rivero, the security guard.
"Prices have gone up since the last time, and there's always
someone who says that things weren't like this before."
Some of those who resisted temptation and stayed in Caracas
responded to the government's Carnival campaign with irony.
One group of opposition supporters set up a temporary 'beach'
in Plaza Altamira, a square in an affluent eastern part of
the city that has been the focus of their protests.
"There's no better beach than this," read a placard waved at
pedestrians and drivers by one female demonstrator in a
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Complementary and alternative medicine is popular among chronic renal failure patients – renal teams must increase their competence to advise patients with respect to efficacy and safety
- 1Center for Nephrology and Dialysis, Lindau/Bodensee, Germany
- 2Fifth Department of Medicine, University Hospital Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
- Correspondence to Rainer Nowack
Center for Nephrology and Dialysis, Dialysezentrum Lindau, Friedrichshafener Str. 82; D-88131 Lindau, Germany; nowack{at}dialyse-lindau.de
Implications for practice and research
■ Renal nurses should realise that a substantial subset of their patients use complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) to treat their renal disease.
■ Active inquiry about CAM is warranted, as some products may be harmful for the patient (eg, by causing interactions with medication).
■ To better advise patients, nurses and physicians need to improve their knowledge about efficacy and safety of CAM.
■ For the sake of the patient's safety, research on nurses' communication skills is warranted. Nurses need to be trained to inquire successfully about CAM usage, (eg, by using structured questionnaires).
A substantial subset of patients with chronic renal failure (CRF) has to accept that their disease will progress to end-stage renal disease (ESRD) despite modern evidence-based therapy. Dialysis-dependency is a bitter burden and patients fear the inconveniences more than they welcome it as a tool to survive. CRF patients may therefore not rely on conventional medicine alone to circumvent or postpone ESRD. They may seek treatment elsewhere in a wide range of scientifically unproven health products to be used in place of or in combination with conventional medicine, embraced under the term CAM.1 Knowledge about frequency and pattern of CAM usage by renal patients is currently sparse.
Akyol et al carried out a cross-sectional study on CAM usage in CRF before progression to ESRD. They explored the frequency and type of CAM usage in 206 CRF patients attending three renal centres in Turkey by questionnaire-based interviews.
A total of 2.9% of patients had used CAM prior to the diagnosis of CRF, but thereafter 25% of them turned to CAM, often assuming that this would cure CRF. Although significant, CAM usage is low when compared with dialysis and transplant patients in Germany and Switzerland of whom 50% consume herbal supplements.2 3 Cultural and/or socioeconomic reasons such as income and education on health issues may account for the lower prevalence of CAM consumption among Turkish CRF patients as countries like the USA and Germany have already higher rates of CAM consumption (20%) among their general population.4
It is interesting that Turkish CRF patients appear to rely more on mind-body medicine and manipulative or body-based practices than on herbal supplements. Other studies in renal patients do not include these treatments, but focus only on the intake of herbal supplements. It is therefore unknown to renal teams outside Turkey if their patients favour similar CAM products. Apart from this new information, the study confirmed already known patterns of CAM usage such as poor communication about CAM between patients and renal teams and the increased use of CAM by patients of a higher educational and socioeconomic level.
The study by Akyol et al complements what we already know about CAM in dialysis and transplant patients by extending these findings to CRF patients before progressing to ESRD. Some minor shortcomings such as missing information on the stage of CRF, exact renal diagnosis and concomitant diseases of the study population do not weaken the message that CAM usage is a common behaviour in many renal patients.
The renal team must somehow deal with this. Nurses and physicians should keep an eye on these aspects of a patient's life, often hidden from them. In order to do this successfully, CAM and its users should be addressed respectfully and knowledgeably. Clinicians should understand why patients turn to CAM which may be because of deficits and limits of conventional medicine. This is the most important message from the present study, in which patients declared the curative hopes they place on CAM.
Many CAM therapies have not been studied scientifically and their efficacy and safety is unknown. For safety reasons- the renal team should be notified of any use of CAM. A trustful atmosphere, which allows patients to be honest without fear of disrespectful comments, can facilitate this.
Harmful consequences of unnoticed use of herbal drugs have occurred in transplant patients. Herbal products beyond the infamous St. John's Wort may affect the metabolism of concomitant drugs, but such interactions have rarely been reported. They may be overlooked, because the intake of herbal products often goes unnoticed by the renal team. Pilot studies have shown that detailed inquiry about herbal drugs can lead to the detection of herb/drug interactions, for example, of those caused by herbal teas.5 However, an overall pessimistic view about herbal supplements is currently not justified as serious complications besides those linked to St. John's Wort and herbal teas have not been reported.
The popularity of CAM among renal patients challenges the renal team who should react by increasing their competence to better advise patients. Nurses could play an eminent role as they are often closer to the patients than physicians. CAM products need to be explored by clinical research in order to understand their potential benefits and risks.
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Reasoning based on this Japanese activity.
A number card game for 2-6 players.
This is a game for 2 players. Each player has 4 counters each, and
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A game for 1 person to develop stategy and shape and space awareness. 12 counters are placed on a board. Counters are removed one at a time. The aim is to be left with only 1 counter.
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Totality game for an adult and child. Be the first to reach your agreed total.
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A game for 2 players. Draw a daisy with at least 5 petals. Shade 1 or 2 petals next to each other. The winner shades the last petal.
Advent Calendar 2010 - a mathematical game for every day during the run-up to Christmas.
Here are a collection of games from around the world to try during the holidays or the last few weeks of term.
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You'll need two dice to play this game against a partner. Will Incey Wincey make it to the top of the drain pipe or the bottom of the drain pipe first?
Design your own scoring system and play Trumps with these Olympic Sport cards.
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Can you spot the similarities between this game and other games you know? The aim is to choose 3 numbers that total 15.
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A game for two people, or play online. Given a target number, say 23, and a range of numbers to choose from, say 1-4, players take it in turns to add to the running total to hit their target.
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Advent Calendar 2010 - a mathematical game for every day during the
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A game for 1 or 2 people. Use the interactive version, or play with friends. Try to round up as many counters as possible.
Use the tangram pieces to make our pictures, or to design some of
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This article supplies teachers with information that may be useful in better understanding the nature of games and their role in teaching and learning mathematics.
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Please be warned that there are spoilers in this review with specific regards to the âWar of the Green Lanternsâ installments that have occurred in both âGreen Lanternâ #66 and âGreen Lantern Corpsâ #60, both of which were also released on May 25. If you do not want any of the events in those issues to be spoiled, click away.
The ninth and penultimate chapter of the âWar of the Green Lanternsâ really doesnât seem that far off from where I last left this story â with the fifth installment. I decided to take a break from the Green Lantern titles as I was feeling burnt out by the Crayola Cavalry. The story simply wasnât moving me at the time.
This issue didnât really change much of that at all. Sure, Iâm comparing âGreen Lantern Corpsâ to âGreen Lantern: Emerald Warriors,â but given that the same story threads through both books, the title is virtually irrelevant.
On the upside of this book, Tomasi still writes one of the best interpretations of Guy Gardner, but the other characters were reduced to multi-colored candy shells of the characters they are and should be. The story feels less like a memorable tale of some of the universeâs greatest warriors and more like a cross-platform marketing ploy. The plot is thin enough for one title to stretch out over three months, but with the combined weight of nine issues so far - $26.91! â the combined story is more than just a little limp. Honestly, anyone looking to save a few bucks could just nab this issue, get the gist of the throwdown to this point, and move forward to the final chapter coming next month.
With the demise of one of the core members of the Corps spilling into this issue, the fallout â literally and figuratively â is enough to shift the tide of the battle that has been marking time for a number of installments. Guy Gardner, Kyle Rayner, John Stewart, and Hal Jordan finally figure out a way to counter the effects of Kronaâs replacing Parallax into the Central Power Battery, and in doing so, enable the Corps to stand in battle.
The Green Lantern Inking Corps employed in this issue never lets Fernando Passarinâs work shine beyond basic figurework and panel layout. Passarinâs work is usually very refined and keenly detailed, but much of that detail washes out here due to so many disparate styles, with many panels appearing to be filled with stuff rather than intricately loaded with details and refinements. Passarinâs storytelling shines through, thankfully, helping this issue to move from cover to cover.
This installment of the âWarâ was less than impressive, but leaves the Green Lantern corner of the DC Universe with some big moments coming up â decisions to be made, repercussions from decisions made, and fallout from, well, something. To this point, however, it seems as though thereâs only one major casualty and not a great deal of other changes that cannot be undone or forgotten.


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Translation of disarm in Spanish:
transitive verb
- 1 1.1 (remove weapon from)(country/troops/assailant)
desarmarExample sentences1.2 (defuse, neutralize)
- At conflict termination, those forces would be disarmed, demobilized, and restructured as part of a broader transformation from war to peace.
- He not only occupied central and southern Italy with exemplary speed, but ruthlessly disarmed the Italian forces and contained the Allied landing at Salerno.
- Regime change as a 'morally desirable side-effect' of disarming an aggressor is consistent with the Just War ethic.
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- As an article in the New York Times reports, the crucial point is that the Israelis are able to disarm their human bombs because they have prior intelligence.
- An American soldier was killed when he tried to disarm a roadside bomb that had been attached to a telephone pole.
- On the letter bomb front, army bomb disposal experts were called on to disarm a letter bomb sent to an unnamed agricultural business and a farm.
- Countervailing these reactions there is one other, and I think it is an emotion, a sensation rather, that entirely disarms these impurer thoughts and provides the surest signal one has encountered authentic art.
- I think Mr Gageler rather disarms your argument on that because he accepted that you could not by contrived insertions lift the matter up into the constitutional protection if it was not otherwise there.
- It disarms criticism, obscures realities, and prejudges results.
- 2 (win confidence of) he was disarmed by her smilesu sonrisa lo desarmóExample sentences
- He's bright, amusing and just vulnerable enough to disarm critics.
- Many actually planned and encouraged terroristic crimes so as to disarm suspicion and, in some cases, help their careers.
- Furthermore, the man is honest to a fault and disarms any critics by agreeing with them.
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Family Housing Program
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What continued efforts does the Army have planned for the future?
According to the Housing Service Office (HSO) approximately 67 percent of our Soldiers and Families reside in private sector housing. The Army is refining and enhancing its housing services to satisfy this requirement and increase its visibility to be recognized by our Soldiers. The HSO is the point of entry for community and privatized housing. The HSO enhanced referral services have new methods of delivery, including the Department of Defense web-based multiple housing listing service referred to as the automatic housing referral network (http://www.ahrn.com), and Army Housing OneStop ( http://onestop.army.mil), which is the hosts 13 installation welcome videos. The Army will increase its efforts to brand the HSO and develop an accreditation program to make it more widely known to Soldiers, Families, and external stakeholders.
The Army will continue to lease housing in areas where on post housing is not sufficient or not available. Leases will continue to be a transitional solution for housing Soldiers and Families while RCI projects and private development seek to meet the increased demand brought about by significant force increases due to the Army Transformation and the Grow the Army initiatives. Leasing houses is also a tool to stimulate private development in markets where it has been suppressed. Currently there are 9,119 leased housing units in AFH inventory.
The Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff for Installation Management will centrally fund functional and professional development training to ensure that housing employees and career specialists have the knowledge and skills necessary to manage and sustain the Army's increasingly complex portfolio of housing assets, and to provide quality services to support Soldiers and their Families' housing needs. Army housing is developing future careerists through recruitment, training and placement of Army Civilian, Training, Education, and Development System (ACTEDS) interns. In FY08, Army housing hired eight ACTEDS interns.
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When you are running a business, most of the time you are focused on three things: getting more customers; increasing sales; and earning more profit. So when, for example, sales are not really happening, I find at The London Coaching Group that most business owners start "reacting" and implementing activity to get more customers. "Let's run an email campaign", or maybe "Let's do some SEO" or "Let's get on the phone and call some customers."
A lot of random approaches start creeping in to their marketing activity – and it starts to get messy. What needs to be understood here is that these three things are important, but at the time of setting goals – when you are clarifying and planning the destination for your business.
From a day-to-day and marketing point of view, however, these are not what you should be focusing on. The really important considerations are the items that lead to these outcomes. "Of course" most people say, but I assure you, most businesses do not focus on the right variables on a weekly basis.
The main thing you need to get into the habit of is measuring and managing the Five Levers that lead to these outcomes:
You can download a one-page PDF of these Five Levers of growth here, with an explanation of each one. You should print this out and stick it up on your wall to constantly remind you of where your focus should be.
But the real key to managing these figures is to ensure you have a weekly business dashboard where you are gathering and monitoring these important stats. There are two main reasons that I believe almost every business owner should have a weekly business dashboard:
If you do not have a weekly business dashboard, then the truth is that you are not staying on top of what is happening in your business. This may be ok, because your business is operating fine right now, but as soon as something is not operating properly, instead of catching it at the start, it could become a major problem before you even know it is happening.
Here are a few of the must-have elements on your weekly business dashboard:
You will notice that this list does not include things such as conversion rates, which lend a deeper, richer analysis. That is because the weekly dashboard is not intended for that, you should be using those in your monthly dashboard. On a weekly basis, you want to review these eight pieces to get a quick overview of what is happening, and ensure you are on track.
Ideally, you should be measuring these against targets, which you should determine at the beginning of the year, or the quarter, as a part of your strategic planning. Creating a weekly dashboard is one of the first exercises I do with new business coaching clients. Not once have I had a business come back to me and tell me that keeping that dashboard maintained was a waste of time.
On the contrary, I have had multiple clients that have come back to me years later to let me know that they still use their weekly dashboard, as it really is the perfect way to keep on top of their business.
With the coming of age of a few businesses dashboard specialist companies, which allow data in businesses to be measured and reported event on a real-time basis, there is really no excuse today to not have a dashboard in your business.
Copyright © 2015 Shweta Jhajharia, principal coach and founder at The London Coaching Group. Follow her on Twitter.
With the giant cogs of the British economy finally whirring back into life, many businesses may experience significant growth in 2014. However, for companies to achieve successful and sustainable growth, they must expand with maturity. Here are my top five tips on how to go about it.
When a company grows organically, you create certain processes and people can get stuck in their ways. You may also find that when people take responsibility for things naturally, or by necessity, this can lead to them becoming possessive over one particular part of the company.
It's an age-old cliché but there is 'no I in team', and employees putting themselves in charge of certain things and then being unwilling to relinquish them could be very unhealthy for the company. Therefore, as you grow and start to hand over responsibilities correctly, it's important that you…
As processes grow, they often become more complex or require more detailed monitoring and management. For instance, in the case of officebroker.com these areas include the likes of pay-per-click advertising and database administration.
When we were smaller, these responsibilities were handled in an 'all-hands-to-the-pumps' type approach. However, to maintain their integrity and maximise their potential to influence service levels and revenue generation, boxing off these responsibilities into defined roles can be hugely beneficial. However, to specialise you need…
Specialising means handing over ownership and sometimes relinquishing the day-to-day knowledge that you gain from this interaction. This means you have to put trust in the person taking ownership. Sometimes this can be difficult, as you are very familiar and efficient in how you complete a task – but given the right support your successor will flourish and in many cases a fresh perspective can help to improve it. Nevertheless, for trust to be built you need to develop effective…
Growing companies are often built around a nucleus – be they the owners, investors or trusted employees. Stay mindful that those who were there on day one will often have a sense of ownership toward the company, built around their involvement and the part they have played in helping it grow.
As the company grows and new team members arrive, it's important to understand that their connection and attitude may be different. To keep them engaged, communicate clearly and find the "currency" that works for them (eg financial rewards, success, acknowledgment). And finally…
Change brings challenges, but similarly, challenges bring change and it's all too easy to resist them, have knee-jerk responses or fall back into old habits when they present themselves. You need to keep thinking forward and give the changes and people delivering them every chance of success. That said, never lose sight of the past nor ignore what it has taught you.
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Flight-Capable Self-Starting Scramjet Inlets
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AbstractABSTRACT: GoHypersonic Inc. is proud to present the following Phase II SBIR Proposal to the AFRL/RZA involving the development, fabrication, and testing of a high-performing flight-capable self-starting scramjet inlet. Under our Phase I SBIR work, we have developed and validated a self-starting inward-turning scramjet inlet concept and created a coupled CFD/thermal design and analysis capability. Our Phase II plan involves the design, fabrication, and testing of a large-scale flight-weight scramjet inlet 6ft in length. Due to the expected development and fabrication costs of the scramjet inlet, we are proposing structural and wind tunnel testing Program Options outside of the scope of the Main Program budget. To accomplish these Program Options, we have identified interest and potential external funding sources within the AFRL Air Vehicles Directorate and NASA Langley for respective structural and aerodynamic experimental validation programs. Details for these Options have also been included within the proposal to facilitate directorate and agency discussion and coordination once an award is made. BENEFIT: At the end of a successful Phase I and Phase II program, the GHI team will possess integrated aerodynamic, structural, and thermal design, optimization, and manufacturing capabilities for large scale hot-structure scramjet inlets. These capabilities will be directly extendible to include other major scramjet components such as combustors, nozzles, fuselages, and control surfaces. These tools will combine efficient CFD solvers, sensitivity solvers, grid and surface generators, thermal and structural solvers, and optimization algorithms into one very advanced high-fidelity design tool. In addition, the Phase I and Phase II program will generate a much broader understanding of the self-starting inlet technology and robust inlet operability, which we believe is crucial to the future of scramjet flight as a whole. Furthermore, the incorporation of high-temperature nickel-based and refractory material manufacturing techniques and processes into the design cycle will reduce both initial design costs and final production costs, and streamline the overall design-to-flight process from start to finish.
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I'm a sucker for grilled cheese. In fact, I adopted one of my Spring '08 PAC babies BECAUSE she had 2 recipes for grilled cheese! :) Randy, your recipe is great! I loved the mayo and hot sauce addition and it made for a yummy, gooey sandwich. Thanks for sharing! **Made for Spring PAC '09**
This is the second review I'm submitting for this recipe. The first one is not showing up like the last 3 I've submitted recently. I made this for the My-3-chefs tag. This makes very simple and delicious sandwich compared to the traditional grilled cheese. I like the addition of pimento, mayo, hot sauce and tomato slices. I also added some baby spinach and arugula to the sandwich because I was feeling a little guilty eating this alone. Had these sandwiches for lunch with Mendocino Brewing Co's Boonville Oatmeal Stout. Wonderful! Thanks for posting.


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There are certain games that make use of something in the original SNES called High Resolution Mode. Three of these games are RPM Racing, Rudra no Hihou (Treasure of the Rudras) and Seiken Densetsu 3.
Let's take Rudra no Hihou as an example. When you have 512x448 or a higher resolution in ZSNES, the text in areas like this will appear just fine:
It's all well and good. You can get this appearance in ZsnexBox as well, but only by disabling filters, which is not an option if you want fullscreen with Billinear + Simple2x in order to avoid corrupt pixels. Thus making the image look like it's from the real console. If these filters are enabled, this happens:
Obviously, not in an image as sharp, but you get the idea. As you can see, the text gets garbled. But everything else remains the same. Weird, huh?
Btw, 512x448 doesn't seem to work in ZsnexBox, even with 10x11 turned off. The image gets really, REALLY thin. Like anorectic.
I just want to know if there's a way to make the graphics, such as the dialogue text above, look right in ZsnexBox while keeping the filters enabled?
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Goodell: Don't sweat weather for 2014 Super Bowl
NEW YORK Super Cold?
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell says league officials arent just bracing for potential wintry weather at next years Super Bowl. Theyre embracing it.
Bone-chilling cold is now blanketing the area where the 2014 game will be held. Goodell said in Manhattan on Thursday that football is made to be played in the elements. He says the league will celebrate both the game and the weather.
Goodell spoke as he and Mayor Michael Bloomberg previewed a week of New York City events leading up to the Feb. 2, 2014 game at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J.
It will be the first Super Bowl in the New York metropolitan area.
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Brie Larson - ELLE 20th annual Women in Hollywood celebration at Four Seasons Hotel Beverly Hills - Arrivals - Los Angeles, California, United States - Tuesday 22nd October 2013 (12 Pictures)
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"Zealot" author Reza Aslan breaks down the nuclear deal between the U.S. and Iran.
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Reza Aslan interprets the nuclear agreement between Iran and America.
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Fox News explains how Sharia law changes everything.
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Sam Bee, Bob Odenkirk and David Cross repair diplomatic ties with Egypt.
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Kumail Nanjiani is surprised by an audience member's enthused reaction.
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Aasif Mandvi brings a unique perspective for less than half the price of an American reporter.
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Noted Constitution defenders Fox News refuse to be inconvenienced by the actual Constitution.
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Aasif Mandvi expresses relief that the Boston bombing suspects are not "Muslim Muslim."
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Egypt's Mohamed Morsi takes exception to Bassem Youssef's insulting of the presidential hat.
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The Egyptian government issues an arrest warrant for comedian Bassem Youssef.
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Susan Rice addresses the controversy surrounding the White House's Benghazi talking points.
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United Nations ambassador Susan Rice denies the existence of a Benghazi cover-up.
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Susan Rice elaborates on the lessons learned from Benghazi.
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John Oliver sits down with the secretary general of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.
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Susan Rice defends the White House response to the Benghazi attacks.
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Success of Global iPlayer in Australia providing valuable consumer insight
We're delighted that Australian consumers are reacting so positively to the Global BBC iPlayer pilot in territory and believe that the valuable insight we are receiving will enable us to schedule, nurture and optimise the service for the local market, working alongside our existing clients.' Deirdre Brennan, GM/Director for Channels and Branded Services at BBC Worldwide Australia
Click to tweet: Success of Global iPlayer in Australia providing valuable consumer insight, says Matthew Littleford http://bbc.in/xNL7Z7 #globalBBCiPlayer
Australia is the biggest market for global iPlayer to date and is providing some unique consumer insight, according to Matthew Littleford, General Manager for BBC Worldwide's global BBC iPlayer, who presented today at the 10th annual Australian Broadcasting Summit.
Launched in Australia in September 2011 as part of a pilot, the global BBC iPlayer is available on iPad, iPod and iPhone in 16 markets in Western Europe, Canada and Australia. In terms of subscription numbers Australia's global BBC iPlayer is now larger than the second and third countries combined (Germany and Holland), accounting for 20% of its global revenue. Twenty three per cent of global BBC iPlayer's subscribers and 19% of the title downloads are in Australia. Matthew revealed that there had been a huge number of downloads of the free app and, of all the major territories, conversions to the paid service are higher in Australia than anywhere else, across all devices.
In the first indication of how the pilot global BBC iPlayer is performing in Australia, Matthew said that it was in line with other territories in terms of the way that it was consumed. Thirteen per cent of Australian users access the app on multiple devices and 7% of subscribers don't have an iPad, implying that they are watching content solely on iPhone and iPod touch. Also in line with other markets, the average Australian subscriber watches 4.2 shows a week.
However there are significant differences. Matthew revealed that in Australia there was more demand for content to be viewed out of home. Australia significantly over-indexed in the use of the download-to-view offline functionality, implying that Australians are accessing content to view whilst travelling or commuting. Over a fifth of content is being accessed in this way (21%), compared to around 16% in other territories.
He also talked about viewing patterns in Australia. Global BBC iPlayer viewing peaks at 9pm and also 7am for the kids content, with daytime viewing higher at the weekends and around a third more viewers on Saturday daytime than during the week (daytime 10am-5pm).While Pareto's 80:20 rule says that 80% of a broadcaster's revenues generally come from their top 20% of content, with global BBC iPlayer in Australia and elsewhere the top 20% of shows generate around 60% of total views. This doubling of share for the long tail indicates that there is huge potential in VOD platforms to bring about some important changes in how TV businesses view their content portfolio, he said.
In Australia the most popular genres are Science Fiction, Family and Kids, and Comedy, with favourite shows: Doctor Who, Charlie and Lola and cult comedy Gavin and Stacey. The major brands draw users in, but it's the older archive titles such as Steptoe and Son and Yes Minster that make them stay. This detailed consumer insight, combined with direct viewer feedback, enables the Australian global BBC iPlayer manager, based at BBC Worldwide in Sydney, to tailor programs and collections for the local market.
Says Matthew Littleford: 'This graphically demonstrates the fact that VOD gives us a unique consumer insight. It clearly shows how a VOD service can quickly optimize itself to different territories by simply listening to its viewers. Editorial decisions are already being made on a whole range of completely measurable new insight gained directly from existing viewer interaction and localised for each territory.'
Adds Deirdre Brennan, GM/Director for Channels and Branded Services at BBC Worldwide Australia: 'We're delighted that Australian consumers are reacting so positively to the Global BBC iPlayer pilot in territory and believe that the valuable insight we are receiving will enable us to schedule, nurture and optimise the service for the local market, working alongside our existing clients.'
Press contact: Laura Dumbrell, Head of Communications, BBC Worldwide Australia on 02 9744 4502 or 0412 456 604.
About BBC Worldwide Australia
Australia is a priority territory for BBC Worldwide, focusing on growth across all five of its core businesses. Based in Macquarie Park, Sydney, the company's addressable market share has trebled in three years. BBC Worldwide Australia wholly owns five channels; UKTV, BBC Knowledge and CBeebies in Australia; UKTV NZ and BBC Knowledge NZ in New Zealand; and is responsible for the sales, promotion and distribution of World News which transmits in both countries. It distributes great British content from the BBC and other producers to all free-to-air and most subscription channels in Australia and New Zealand. BBC Worldwide Australia is a stakeholder in Australian production company Freehand and has a joint venture company with ACP, Park Publishing, which publishes BBC-branded magazines in the territory. It works with partners to bring BBC Worldwide DVDs, digital apps, innovative products and live events to the local market, as well as offering advertising opportunities for the BBC's world renowned bbc.com news site and lonelyplanet.com. BBC Worldwide Australia has recently launched the global BBC iPlayer in Australia.
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Baptist College of Health Sciences was honored as the 2015 "Healthcare Group of the Year" during Lifeblood's seventh Annual Awards Luncheon. Baptist Memorial Health Care was honored as the 2015 "Lifesaver of the Year." Last year, Baptist team members and Baptist College of Health Sciences students donated 900 units of blood.
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Scottsdale pharmacy robbed, suspects took medication
SCOTTSDALE, AZ - Police are searching for two men suspected of robbing a pharmacy in Scottsdale Tuesday.
According to the Scottsdale Police Department, two males wearing all dark clothing and masks entered the Ranch Pharmacy at 107th Street and Frank Lloyd Wright at 11:15 a.m.
One suspect displayed a handgun while the other went behind the counter and stole an undisclosed amount of medication, police said. Both men fled on foot.
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The CheerBot is a robot that roams the house and looks for certain colors using its camera. When it finds one of the colors I've told it to seek, it changes the color of the lights on my Christmas tree to match. It also submits the color to the Cheerlights service, which synchronizes the color of participating light displays around the world. It's a complicated setup, but I'll walk you through the basics. Most folks will find plenty of opportunities to learn with this project. I know I did.
To summarize the build process, you need to make a robot that can drive around without bumping into things, and then put a camera on it with code analyzing the video and tweeting when certain colors are found. As with most projects, there are near infinite ways to go about it. I'll give you guidance on one way, but I challenge you to learn new things and make the project your own.
The BeagleBone Black is ready to boot out of the box, but you will need to connect it to the Internet. I suggest powering the BeagleBone with a 5V, 2A wall adapter until your battery is ready. Likewise, connect to your home network with an ethernet cable until you get WiFi setup.
Connect your Beaglebone to your wireless network so it can update the Cheerlights service while roaming the house. When using a WiFi dongle, be sure to have your BeagleBone plugged into a 2A power source (be it wall wart or battery), and use a powered hub on the BeagleBone to connect the WiFi dongle. If the BeagleBone is only getting power from a connection to your computer's USB port, it does not get enough to power a WiFi dongle with its own USB port.
This library allows you to tweet from a Python script.
opkg install python-pip pip install tweetpony
git clone "https://github.com/BabyWrassler/CheerBot.git"
Create a Twitter account for your robot, or let it use yours. Login into dev.twitter.com/apps/new with the account of choice. Setup an "App" with the required information on the first page. Then go to settings tab and change "Application Type" to "Read and Write". Click the button to "Update Application Settings". Go back to the "Details" tab and "Create my access token". Wait a minute, then refresh the page. Your token will be ready to have its various parts copied and pasted into the CheerBot Code (both color.py and cheerServer.py).
The servos require a separate power source than the BeagleBone, but need to be connected to the PWM outputs of the BeagleBone. The infrared sensors output 5v, but the BeagleBone can only accept 1.8V to its analog-to-digital converters, so resistor voltage dividers are needed.
The BeagleBone Black prefers to be powered through its 2.1mm barrel jack. For the CheerBot, we're using a battery that outputs power via USB jacks. We need to make a cable that takes power from a USB connector and feeds it to a 2.1mm barrel plug.
I much prefer to scrounge for materials rather than place a big parts order for every project. For this project, we need a robot that wanders around without hitting anything, and is big enough to carry all of our hardware around. To build mine, I sat down and started fitting things together until they worked.
I happened to have a few infrared distance sensors that output an analog voltage that the BeagleBone can read through a voltage divider. If all you have on hand are sonar sensors that require precise timing, you might want to use an Arduino to read the sensors and either do all the driving or pass the sensor values to the BeagleBone.
I used Vex parts for my robot chassis, but if you don't already have a set of those, it will make more sense for you to use something different. You can even buy ready-made robot chassis, and get a motor controller that will allow a BeagleBone to drive regular DC motors with pulse width modulation.
Before letting it loose with your furniture, it's a good idea to test the sensor code and connections. Put blocks under the frame so the wheels aren't touching anything and move your hand in and out of range of the sensors. Watch the speed and direction of the wheels to see how the robot reacts. Basically, if an obstacle approaches on the left side, the right motor should slow or stop to make the 'bot turn away from the obstacle.
cv.InRangeS(imgHSV, (0, 200, 100), (3, 255, 255), imgColorProcessed)