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It's in Her Kiss
The one and only time I saw X was at the Tomorrowland Terrace at Disney World during an event billed as the World Series of Entertainment. If memory serves, Tommy Tutone ("867-5309/Jenny," of course) and Bertie Higgins ("Key Largo," as if you don't remember) were competing on alternate stages, but that night those guys couldn't give it away. Meanwhile, the X show was packed, mostly with teenage kids in safety pins and mohawks who looked a little tipsy from one too many rides on the Teacups. OK, it was definitely unsettling to hear John Doe and his soon-to-be-ex-wife, Exene Cervenka, belt out "Back 2 the Base" ("Presley sucked on doggie dicks," don't you know) in the shadow of Space Mountain, not to mention within earshot of the New Mouseketeers. But if a seminal punk band from L.A. playing the Mouse House in Orlando can't avail itself of a little ready-made irony, what's a heaven for?
Since then, X has had more breakups and reunions than a whole month of Sally Jesse, but to mostly dismal effect. The band hasn't actually written any new songs in a long while, but if X's last studio album, Hey Zeus!, is any indication, no one should be complaining.
With any luck, then, Original Sinners, Exene's latest and definitely greatest post-X project, will make any future reunions totally superfluous. The five-piece band brings the singer full circle, reconnecting her powers as a Lydia Lunch-endorsed punk poetess to a long-standing, Southern-fried desire to be the world's weirdest country singer.
Original Sinners
Until now, the Knitters, a wholly owned X subsidiary, were the twangy side project that gave Exene her best shot at getting in touch with her inner coal miner's daughter. But the group only made one record, 1985's Poor Little Critter on the Road, and 17 years out, it still sounds pretty manneredmore Ellie Mae than Loretta Lynn, with Exene in the role of slumming country bumpkin.
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That's not a problem on the Sinners' debut. Exene serves up sour country disharmonies throughout, but the band she's assembled knows the virtues of no restraint: Most Sinners tracks feel like spasms; the best ones are full-blown seizures. "River City" is the disc's finest 2:16, a post-thrash "Delta Dawn" goosed hard every step of the way by drummer Mat Young's shit-kicking wallop. "Who's Laughin' Now" is also a blast, with Jason Edge's elastic slide riffage propelling Exene's maniacal wail to infinity and beyond (and back). Meantime, album opener "Birds and Bees" rekindles X's neck-cracking take on the Otis Blackwell classic "Breathless." Ah. Great lines abound, too, slipping through the cowpunk murk like greased pigs at a state fair. "Whiskey for breakfast/Wished I was in Texas" is a current personal fave, but "My fortune cookie said, 'My, oh my, oh my' " is definitely right up there (both are from the totally X-worthy "Whiskey for Supper").
Bassist Kim Chi makes a fine harmony sparring partner for Exene, but the instrumentals aren't throwaways. "Alligator Teeth" and "Mourning After," penned by guitarist Sam Soto, are lumbering, metallic surf rock, and the frantic album closer, "Tick Tock," provides great music for running in place really fast. There's even a bit of backward masking at the end of the track. These days, decoding isn't as simple as spinning the thing backwards while Dad's not looking, but I'm pretty sure I've got it nailed: It's the sound of Exene kissing X goodbye.
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On Saturday, August 20th, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue hosted the Quebec Rugby Federation (FRQ) Women's Rugby Championships. The Ottawa Banshees faced-off against the Club de Rugby Quebec for the third time this summer in the Division A final. After a hard fought 80 minutes the Banshees were victorious scoring 36 unanswered points. Cailin McCulloch was named played of the match for outstanding play for the Banshees at flyhalf. The Banshees would like to thank Ste-Anne's and the FRQ for hosting such a great day showcasing women's rugby. The Eastern Ontario Rugby Union would like to congratulate the Ottawa Banshees on their very successful first season in the FRQ interlock!
Banshees: FRQ Women Division A Champions
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"Ashley's Wedding Day", 14" Doll - Victorian Bridal Doll E-Pattern - Victorian Wedding Series - Pattern Category - Skill Level - Advanced
Ashley could hardly wait for her wedding day. She had been dreaming about this and her beautiful wedding dress since she was a little girl. Today was her day and she wanted to look as beautiful as she could for her future husband. So, she chose a beautiful satin lace trimmed dress with long flowing veil to compliment her beautiful blond hair which she decided to fasten in a bun.
Ashley is a 14" self-standing square-bottomed bridal stump doll. She has a cloth body and embroidered and watercolor painted face.
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Lace trimmed gathered sleeves cover her hands which are holding a bouquet of burgundy and white flowers with white streamers. Underneath her gown she is wearing a lace trimmed slip, under-slip, and tulle underskirt. She has beautiful blond hair fastened in a bow under her satin lined veil with flowing tulle and lace embellishments.
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Provide the thin provisioning Device Mapper (DM) target and supporting userspace utilities. This DM target allows a single pool of storage to be the backing store of multiple thinly provisioned volumes. Numerous snapshots (and snapshots of snapshots) may be taken of the thinly provisioned volumes.
- Name: Joe Thornber and Mike Snitzer
- Email:
- thornber AT redhat DOT com
- snitzer AT redhat DOT com
Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora 17
- Last updated: 2011-12-08
- Percentage of completion:
- kernel: 80%
- device-mapper-persistent-data tools: 50%
- LVM2 thinp support: 30%
Detailed Description
The main highlight of this implementation, compared to the previous implementation of snapshots, is that it allows many virtual devices to be stored on the same data volume. This simplifies administration and allows the sharing of data between volumes, thus reducing disk usage.
Another significant feature is support for an arbitrary depth of recursive snapshots (snapshots of snapshots of snapshots ...). The previous implementation of snapshots did this by chaining together lookup tables, and so performance was O(depth). This new implementation uses a single data structure to avoid this degradation with depth. Fragmentation may still be an issue, however, in some scenarios.
Metadata is stored on a separate device from data, giving the administrator some freedom, for example to:
- Improve metadata resilience by storing metadata on a mirrored volume but data on a non-mirrored one.
- Improve performance by storing the metadata on SSD.
Benefit to Fedora
Scalable snapshots of thinly provisioned volumes may be used as the foundation of compelling virtualization and/or cloud services. Fedora would be positioned to be the first distribution to provide this unique advance in Linux block storage.
The bulk of the change is in the kernel (localized to the DM layer) but userspace tools for checking and repairing the metadata are also under development. In addition the lvm2 package will be updated to ease configuration and management of thin provisioned volumes and their associated snapshots.
How To Test
A comprehensive test suite has been developed to verify the kernel code works as expected (depends on ruby, dt and dmsetup).
Any additional IO workloads (or benchmarks that model real workloads) that the community has an interest in would be welcomed tests. Data integrity is of utmost importance so all tests that increase confidence in the feature are encouraged.
See Documention for pointers to "how to" style usage/test guidance.
User Experience
Users will create a shared pool of storage that will host all thin provisioned volumes and their associated snapshots. So in contrast to the old dm-snapshot implementation the user will not need to manage or monitor the free space of N snapshot volumes -- the storage for thin and snapshot volumes is allocated on-demand from the backing shared pool of storage.
No other packages depend on this feature (and vice-versa). If not ready the associated lvm2 thinp code, if included in lvm2, will error out accordingly.
Contingency Plan
None necessary, no other packages or capabilities will depend on this feature.
See documentation that will be in the kernel tree:
- thin-provisioning -- overview and usage "how-to".
- persistent-data -- some details on the kernel library that enables storing metadata for DM targets (block and transaction manager, data structures, etc).


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PORT JERVIS - One person died after a two-alarm fire swept through a home at 8 Mountain Avenue. late Tuesday morning.
Fire officials confirmed that one person inside the home died and another victim was taken to Bon Secours Hospital with burns. Witnesses told police that one man was outside the home with burns on his upper body shortly after the blaze was reported at 11 a.m.
Police are waiting for a search warrant to enter the home and treating it as a potential crime scene. It's not clear how the fire started.
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Two Clark County women are among thousands of plaintiffs across the country who have filed product liability lawsuits against the maker of the diabetes drug Actos.
Delores Cipriano, 81, of Henderson and Bertha Triana, 80, of Las Vegas each filed lawsuits last year in District Court against Takeda Pharmaceuticals, a Japanese company that makes the prescription drug pioglitazone under the trade name Actos. Both women allege their bladder cancer was caused by the medication.
Their cases have been combined, and their lawyers are scheduled to present opening statements to a jury this morning.
"It's an important case because there's many cases nationwide," said attorney Will Kemp, who represents Triana and her husband, Hiram.
Cipriano's lawyer, Robert Eglet, said he plans to seek a multibillion-dollar verdict, which would be the largest in Nevada history.
Eglet holds the three largest personal injury verdicts in Nevada and more multimillion-dollar verdicts than any trial attorney in the state's history, according to a spokesman.
Jury selection in the Las Vegas case against Takeda began Feb. 10 and was completed on Tuesday. District Judge Kerry Earley is presiding over the trial, which is expected to last eight to 10 more weeks.
Takeda Pharmaceuticals is accused of failing to inform consumers and medical professionals about the risk of bladder cancer associated with the use of Actos.
"Due to Takeda Pharmaceutical's conscious decision to keep this information from consumers and their doctors, we now have patients who are left to bear the permanent injury caused by Actos," Eglet said in a statement. "That's why we will be asking for over a billion-dollar punitive damage verdict."
In a statement, Kenneth Greisman, senior vice president and general counsel of Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A. Inc., said, "We believe the courtroom is the appropriate forum to address matters concerning this case. Takeda is committed to patient safety and is confident in the therapeutic benefits of Actos."
In 2011, the Food and Drug Administration announced that using Actos for more than one year may be associated with an increased risk of bladder cancer.
Eglet said the judge will instruct the jury that any punitive damages they award should send a message without putting the company out of business.
"We have an expert economist in this case that will testify that it will take $41 billion to annihilate this company," the lawyer said.
Eglet said he will ask for an award of a "couple billion dollars."
Adam Levine, a Florida doctor and lawyer, said he does not know whether Eglet has a billion-dollar case.
"Suing a pharmaceutical company is just like suing a tobacco company because they both have deep pockets," he said.
But Levine said the defendant undoubtedly will appeal any large verdict.
"Even after you get a judgment, it's going to be a long time before you get dollar one," he said.
A federal trial involving hundreds of consolidated Actos cases is taking place in Louisiana. Eglet, who represents other clients in lawsuits against Takeda, said he expects both the Louisiana and the Las Vegas trials to end around the same time.
According to Triana's lawsuit, she was diagnosed with bladder cancer in May 2012 after taking Actos for about two years. Cipriano was diagnosed with bladder cancer in July 2012 after taking the drug for about 14 months.
Kemp said Triana has had four operations to remove bladder tumors and is undergoing her third round of chemotherapy.
Eglet said Cipriano, a widow and retired housekeeper, has had two surgeries to remove tumors.
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South Korean shipyards exited the business of making cranes a decade ago because of stiff compeitition from Chinese makers.
The nationwide trucker and third-party logistics provider said it hopes to raise between $281 million and $359 million with the initial public offering, and provided details on how it plans to use the proceeds.
Trucking industry executives visited the White House Thursday afternoon to talk about issues that affect their businesses.
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The International Longshoremen's Association is calling for a shutdown of ports along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts, and a march in Washington.
Yang Ming responded by saying it has unwavering support of Taiwan's government and has "proactively reorganized internally to effectively reduce its operating costs."
Danish ocean carrier Maersk Line said the acquisition of Hamburg Süd would boost its share of the world container fleet from 15.7 percent to 18.6 percent, and increase its capacity from 3.14 million TEUs to 3.76 million TEUs.


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Glass Candy, the group founded by mastermind Johnny Jewel, just released their new video for "Redheads Feel More Pain". The track, previously released on Italians Do It Better (Jewel's joint venture with Mike Simonetti of Troubleman United), got the visual treatment recently while overseas. Shot in Ibiza, Spain, the cinematic video feels a bit like a short film, with Ida No's narrative vocals backed by Jewel's signature disco-synth backdrop. Watch the video below.
The single, harbored on the free After Dark 2 compilation, plays a lot like a film score - which Jewel knows a thing or two about. The eclectic producer recently spoke to Noisey about crafting the score for the Ryan Gosling flick Drive, as well as a bunch of other films currently in the works.
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Drawing upon the Holographic Principle, the premise behind the Fermilab project is that space is two dimensional, and that the third dimension is inextricably linked with time. If that's the case, our 3D world is merely an approximate illusion. Assuming that's true, the illusion is likely imperfect and blurry, just as photographs and videos are, especially when viewed on a granular level.
http://www.fnal.gov/ FERMILAB
So, if they find out this is true what does that mean? Does it mean that the spiritualist are correct in saying everything is just an illusion?
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text: Health Benefits Under (COBRA) - The Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act CONTENTS --------------------------------------------- INTRODUCTION WHAT IS THE CONTINUATION HEALTH LAW? WHO IS ENTITLED TO BENEFITS? Plan Coverage Beneficiary Coverage Qualifying Events Chart: Periods of Coverage YOUR RIGHTS: NOTICE AND ELECTION PROCEDURES HOW COBRA COVERAGE WORKS COVERED BENEFITS DURATION OF COVERAGE PAYING FOR COBRA COVERAGE CLAIMS PROCEDURES ROLE OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CONCLUSION PWBA FIELD DIRECTORY INTRODUCTION Health insurance programs allow workers and their families to take care of essential medical needs. These programs can be one of the most important benefits provided by your employer. There was a time when group health coverage was available only to full-time workers and their families. That changed in 1986 with the passage of health benefit provisions in the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA). Now, terminated employees or those who lose coverage because of reduced work hours may be able to buy group coverage for themselves and their families for limited periods of time. If you are entitled to COBRA benefits, your health plan must give you a notice stating your right to choose to continue benefits provided by the plan. You have 60 days to accept coverage or lose all rights to benefits. Once COBRA coverage is chosen, you are required to pay for the coverage. This booklet is designed to: * Provide a general explanation of COBRA requirements * Outline the rules that apply to health plans for employees in the private sector * Spotlight your rights to benefits under this law WHAT IS THE CONTINUATION HEALTH LAW? Congress passed the landmark Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA)&ob;1&cb; health benefit provisions in 1986. The law amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), the Internal Revenue Code and the Public Health Service Act to provide continuation of group health coverage that otherwise would be terminated. COBRA contains provisions giving certain former employees, retirees, spouses and dependent children the right to temporary continuation of health coverage at group rates. This coverage, however, is only available in specific instances. Group health coverage for COBRA participants is usually more expensive than health coverage for active employees, since usually the employer formerly paid a part of the premium. It is ordinarily less expensive, though, than individual health coverage. The law generally covers group health plans maintained by employers with 20 or more employees in the prior year. It applies to plans in the private sector and those sponsored by state and local governments.&ob;2&cb; The law does not, however, apply to plans sponsored by the Federal government and certain church- related organizations. Group health plans sponsored by private sector employers generally are welfare benefit plans governed by ERISA and subject to its requirements for reporting and disclosure, fiduciary standards and enforcement. ERISA neither establishes minimum standards or benefit eligibility for welfare plans nor mandates the type or level of benefits offered to plan participants. It does, though, require that these plans have rules outlining how workers become entitled to benefits. Under COBRA, a group health plan ordinarily is defined as a plan that provides medical benefits for the employer's own employees and their dependents through insurance or otherwise (such as a trust, health maintenance organization, self-funded pay-as-you-go basis, reimbursement or combination of these). Medical benefits provided under the terms of the plan and available to COBRA beneficiaries may include: * Inpatient and outpatient hospital care * Physician care * Surgery and other major medical benefits * Prescription drugs * Any other medical benefits, such as dental and vision care Life insurance, however, is not covered under COBRA. ----------------------------------------------------------------- &ob;1&cb; The original continuation health provisions were contained in Title X of COBRA, which was signed into law (Public Law 99-272) on April 7, 1986. &ob;2&cb; Provisions of COBRA covering state and local government plans are administered by the U.S. Public Health Service within the Department of Health and Human Services. ----------------------------------------------------------------- WHO IS ENTITLED TO BENEFITS? There are three elements to qualifying for COBRA benefits. COBRA establishes specific criteria for plans, beneficiaries and events which initiate the coverage. PLAN COVERAGE Group health plans for employers with 20 or more employees on more than 50 percent of the working days in the previous calendar year are subject to COBRA. The term "employees" includes all full-time and part-time employees, as well as self-employed individuals. For this purpose, the term employees also includes agents, independent contractors and directors, but only if they are eligible to participate in a group health plan. BENEFICIARY COVERAGE A qualified beneficiary generally is any individual covered by a group health plan on the day before a qualifying event. A qualified beneficiary may be an employee, the employee's spouse and dependent children, and in certain cases, a retired employee, the retired employee's spouse and dependent children. QUALIFYING EVENTS "Qualifying events" are certain types of events that would cause, except for COBRA continuation coverage, an individual to lose health coverage. The type of qualifying event will determine who the qualified beneficiaries are and the required amount of time that a plan must offer the health coverage to them under COBRA. A plan, at its discretion, may provide longer periods of continuation coverage. The types of qualifying events for employees are: * Voluntary or involuntary termination of employment for reasons other than "gross misconduct" * Reduction in the number of hours of employment The types of qualifying events for spouses are: * Termination of the covered employee's employment for any reason other than "gross misconduct" * Reduction in the hours worked by the covered employee * Covered employee's becoming entitled to Medicare * Divorce or legal separation of the covered employee * Death of the covered employee The types of qualifying events for dependent children are the same as for the spouse with one addition: * Loss of "dependent child" status under the plan rules PERIODS OF COVERAGE&ob;3&cb; Qualifying Events Beneficiary Coverage Termination Employee 18 month&ob;4&cb; Reduced hours Spouse Dependent child Employee entitled Spouse 36 months to Medicare Dependent child Divorce or legal separation Death of covered employee Loss of "dependent Dependent child 36 months child" status ---------------------------------------------------------------- &ob;3&cb; The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1986 contained amendments to the Internal Revenue Code and ERISA affecting retirees and family members who receive post-retirement health coverage from employers involved in bankruptcy proceedings begun on or after July 1, 1986. This booklet does not address that group. &ob;4&cb; In the case of individuals who qualify for Social Security disability benefits, special rules apply to extend coverage an additional 11 months. ----------------------------------------------------------------- YOUR RIGHTS: NOTICE AND ELECTION PROCEDURES COBRA outlines procedures for employees and family members to elect continuation coverage and for employers and plans to notify beneficiaries. The qualifying events contained in the law create rights and obligations for employers, plan administrators and qualified beneficiaries. Qualified beneficiaries have the right to elect to continue coverage that is identical to the coverage provided under the plan. Employers and plan administrators have an obligation to determine the specific rights of beneficiaries with respect to election, notification and type of coverage options. NOTICE PROCEDURES General Notices An initial general notice must be furnished to covered employees, their spouses and newly hired employees informing them of their rights under COBRA and describing provisions of the law. COBRA information also is required to be contained in the summary plan description (SPD) which participants receive. ERISA requires employers to furnish modified and updated SPDs containing certain plan information and summaries of material changes in plan requirements. Plan administrators must automatically furnish the SPD booklet 90 days after a person becomes a participant or beneficiary begins receiving benefits or within 120 days after the plan is subject to the reporting and disclosure provisions of the law. Specific Notices Specific notice requirements are triggered for employers, qualified beneficiaries and plan administrators when a qualifying event occurs. Employers must notify plan administrators within 30 days after an employee's death, termination, reduced hours of employment, entitlement to Medicare. Multiemployer plans may provide for a longer period of time. A qualified beneficiary must notify the plan administrator within 60 days after events such as divorce or legal separation or a child's ceasing to be covered as a dependent under plan rules. Disabled beneficiaries must notify plan administrators of Social Security disability determinations. A notice must be provided within 60 days of a disability determination and prior to expiration of the 18-month period of COBRA coverage. These beneficiaries also must notify the plan administrator within 30 days of a final determination that they are no longer disabled. Plan administrators, upon notification of a qualifying event, must automatically provide a notice to employees and family members of their election rights. The notice must be provided in person or by first class mail within 14 days of receiving information that a qualifying event has occurred. There are two special exceptions to the notice requirements for multiemployer plans. First, the time frame for providing notices may be extended beyond the 14- and 30-day requirements if allowed by plan rules. Second, employers are relieved of the obligation to notify plan administrators when employees terminate or reduce their work hours. Plan administrators are responsible for determining whether these qualifying events have occurred. ELECTION The election period is the time frame during which each qualified beneficiary may choose whether to continue health care coverage under an employer's group health plan. Qualified beneficiaries have a 60-day period to elect whether to continue coverage. This period is measured from the later of the coverage loss date or the date the notice to elect COBRA coverage is sent. COBRA coverage is retroactive if elected and paid for by the qualified beneficiary. A covered employee or the covered employee's spouse may elect COBRA coverage on behalf of any other qualified beneficiary. Each qualified beneficiary, however, may independently elect COBRA coverage. A parent or legal guardian may elect on behalf of a minor child. A waiver of coverage may be revoked by or on behalf of a qualified beneficiary prior to the end of the election period. A beneficiary may then reinstate coverage. Then, the plan need only provide continuation coverage beginning on the date the waiver is revoked. HOW COBRA COVERAGE WORKS Example 1: John Q. participates in the group health plan maintained by the ABC Co. John is fired reason other than gross misconduct and his health coverage is terminated. John may elect and pay for a maximum of 18 months of coverage by the employer's group health plan at the group rate. (See Paying for COBRA Coverage.) Example 2: Day laborer David P. has health coverage through his wife's plan sponsored by the XYZ Co. David loses his health coverage when he and his wife become divorced. David may purchase health coverage with the plan of his former wife's employer. Since in this case divorce is the qualifying event under COBRA, David is entitled to a maximum of 36 months of COBRA coverage. Example 3: RST, Inc. is a small business which maintained an insured group health plan for its 10 employees in 1987 and 1988. Mary H., a secretary with six years of service, leaves in June 1988 to take a position with a competing firm which has no health plan. She is not entitled to COBRA coverage with the plan of RST, Inc. since the firm had fewer than 20 employees in 1987 and is not subject to COBRA requirements. Example 4: Jane W., a stock broker, left a brokerage firm in May 1990 to take a position with a chemical company. She was five months pregnant at the time. The health plan of the chemical company has a pre-existing condition clause for maternity benefits. Even though Jane signs up for the new employer's plan, she has the right to elect and receive coverage under the old plan for COBRA purposes because the new plan limits benefits for preexisting conditions. COVERED BENEFITS Qualified beneficiaries must be offered benefits identical to those received immediately before qualifying for continuation coverage. For example, a beneficiary may have had medical, hospitalization, dental, vision and prescription benefits under single or multiple plans maintained by the employer. Assuming a qualified beneficiary had been covered by three separate health plans of his former employer on the day preceding the qualifying event, that individual has the right to elect to continue coverage in any of the three health plans. Non-core benefits are vision and dental services, except where they are mandated by law in which case they become core benefits. Core benefits include all other benefits received by a beneficiary immediately before qualifying for COBRA coverage. If a plan provides both core and non-core benefits, individuals may generally elect either the entire package or just core benefits. Individuals do not have to be given the option to elect just the non-core benefits unless those were the only benefits carried under that particular plan before a qualifying event. A change in the benefits under the plan for active employees may apply to qualified beneficiaries. Beneficiaries also may change coverage during periods of open enrollment by the plan. DURATION OF COVERAGE COBRA establishes required periods of coverage for continuation health benefits. A plan, however, may provide longer periods of coverage beyond those required by COBRA. COBRA beneficiaries generally are eligible to pay for group coverage during a maximum of 18 months for qualifying events due to employment termination or reduction of hours of work. Certain qualifying events, or a second qualifying event during the initial period of coverage, may permit a beneficiary to receive a maximum of 36 months of coverage. Coverage begins on the date that coverage would otherwise have been lost by reason of a qualifying event and can end when: * The last day of maximum coverage is reached * Premiums are not paid on a timely basis * The employer ceases to maintain any group health plan * Coverage is obtained with another employer group health plan that does not contain any exclusion or limitation with respect to any pre-existing condition of such beneficiary * A beneficiary is entitled to Medicare benefits Special rules for disabled individuals may extend the maximum periods of coverage. If a qualified beneficiary is determined under Title II or XVI of the Social Security Act to have been disabled at the time of a termination of employment or reduction in hours of employment and the qualified beneficiary properly notifies the plan administrator of the disability determination, the 18-month period is expanded to 29 months. Although COBRA specifies certain maximum required periods of time that continued health coverage must be offered to qualified beneficiaries, COBRA does not prohibit plans from offering continuation health coverage that goes beyond the COBRA periods. Some plans allow beneficiaries to convert group health coverage to an individual policy. If this option is available from the plan under COBRA, it must be offered to you. In this case, the option must be given for the beneficiary to enroll in a conversion health plan within 180 days before COBRA coverage ends. The premium is generally not at a group rate. The conversion option, however, is not available if the beneficiary ends COBRA coverage before reaching the maximum period of entitlement. PAYING FOR COBRA COVERAGE Beneficiaries may be required to pay the entire premium for coverage. It cannot exceed 102 percent of the cost to the plan for similarly situated individuals who have not incurred a qualifying event. Premiums reflect the total cost of group health coverage, including both the portion paid by employees and any portion paid by the employer before the qualifying event, plus two percent for administrative costs. For disabled beneficiaries receiving an additional 11 months of coverage after the initial 18 months, the premium for those additional months may be increased to 150 percent of the plan's total cost of coverage. Premiums due may be increased if the costs to the plan increase but generally must be fixed in advance of each 12-month premium cycle. The plan must allow you to elect to pay premiums on a monthly basis if you ask to do so. The initial premium payment must be made within 45 days after the date of the COBRA election by the qualified beneficiary. Payment generally must cover the period of coverage from the date of COBRA election retroactive to the date of the qualifying event. Premiums for successive periods of coverage are due on the date stated in the plan with a minimum 30-day grace period for payments. The due date may not be prior to the first day of the period of coverage. For example, the due date for the month of January could not be prior to January 1 and coverage for January could not be canceled if payment is made by January 31. Premiums for the rest of the COBRA period must be made within 30 days after the due date for each such premium or such longer period as provided by the plan. The plan, however, is not obligated to send monthly premium notices. COBRA beneficiaries remain subject to the rules of the plan and therefore must satisfy all costs related to deductibles, catastrophic and other benefit limits. CLAIMS PROCEDURES Health plan rules must explain how to obtain benefits and must include written procedures for processing claims. Claims procedures are to be included in the SPD booklet. You should submit a written claim for benefits to whomever is designated to operate the health plan (employer, plan administrator, etc.). If the claim is denied, notice of denial must be in writing and furnished generally within 90 days after the claim is filed. The notice should state the reasons for the denial, any additional information needed to support the claim and procedures for appealing the denial. You have 60 days to appeal a denial and must receive a decision on the appeal within 60 days after that unless the plan: * provides for a special hearing, or * the decision must be made by a group which meets only on a periodic basis. Contact the plan administrator for more information on filing a claim for benefits. Complete plan rules are available from employers or benefits offices. There can be charges up to 25 cents a page for copies of plan rules. COORDINATION WITH OTHER BENEFITS The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), effective August 5, 1993, requires an employer to maintain coverage under any "group health plan" for an employee on FMLA leave under the same conditions converge would have been provided if the employee had continued working. Coverage provided under the FMLA is not COBRA coverage, and FMLA leave is not a qualifying event under COBRA. A COBRA qualifying event may occur, however, when an employer's obligation to maintain health benefits under FMLA ceases, such as when an employee notifies an employer of his or her intent not to return to work. Further information on FMLA is available from the nearest office of the Wage and Hour Division, listed in most telephone directories under U.S. Government, Department of Labor, Employment Standards Administration. ROLE OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT Continuation coverage laws are administered by several agencies. The Departments of Labor and the Treasury have jurisdiction over private sector health plans. The United States Public Health Service administers the continuation coverage law as it affects public sector health plans. The Labor Department's interpretative and regulatory responsibility is limited to the disclosure and notification requirements. If you need further information on your election or notification rights with a private sector plan, write to the nearest office of the Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration (See Field Directory at end of document) or: U.S. Department of Labor Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration Division of Technical Assistance and Inquiries 200 Constitution Ave., N.W. (Room N-5619) Washington, D.C. 20210 The Internal Revenue Service, which is in the Department of the Treasury, is responsible for publishing regulations on COBRA provisions relating to eligibility and premiums. Both Labor and Treasury share jurisdiction for enforcement. The U.S. Public Health Service, located in the Department of Health and Human Services, has published Title XXII of the Public Health Service Act entitled "Requirements for Certain Group Health Plans for Certain State and Local Employees." 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By Carlie Kollath/NEMS Daily Journal
The state Department of Health regularly inspects restaurants and food facilities.
The facilities are graded from A to C. "A" is the best. "C" is the equivalent of failing, but the inspection isn't bad enough to merit the closure of the restaurant.
The following Lee County facilities were inspected between June 27 and Tuesday. The facilities are listed as they are in the MSDH system.
Wellsprings #1 (nursing home in Saltillo)
Wellsprings #2 (nursing home in Saltillo)
Junkyard Burgers (Guntown)
HISSHO (sushi counter inside Kroger)
Bren's Diner
McDonalds #3 (North Gloster)
Pizza Hut (South Gloster)
Sonic Drive Inn (South Gloster)
Abner's – Monday – follow-up visit after the C score on 6/29 – Everything was in compliance. The inspector, Valerie Glass, previously said that if restaurant makes a C, the highest it can make on its next inspection is a B.
Abner's – 6/29 – Not in compliance: Food in good condition, safe and unadulterated; insects, rodents and animals not present.
The health department's disclaimer:
"If in doubt about any facility, call the responsible health department. Data are for informational purposes, not enforcement."
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To read the full reports or check facilities in other counties, go to msdh.ms.gov /food/defaultDates.aspx
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Resume: Logically it seems that companies pursuing different business strategies would also manage their relationships with other firms accordingly. Nevertheless, due to the lack of research in the field of network strategies, this link still remains inadequately examined. Based on the well-known framework of organisational behaviour developed by Miles and Snow (1978), this paper argues that the patterns of network behaviour practiced by firms greatly depend on the business typology of the company. That is, a company's business typology will to a certain degree dictate the network identity of the company. In this paper evidence is provided, that the relation between a company's strategy, structure and processes in fact have a considerable influence on its pattern of network behaviour. Three case studies from the Danish biotech industry exemplify and illustrate how a company's strategy is directly correlated with how it manages its strategic network relations, which consequently affects its network identity (Eisenhardt 1999). It is argued in this paper that the level of relational embeddedness, incentives for establishing strategic relations and the relation between the number of non-redundant and redundant relations are the most dominant elements distinguishing the types of network behaviour in relation to the business typology. The paper thus strives to argue how different business typologies develop a network identity on the basis of their network behaviour. Due to the correlation between a company's strategy, structure and processes and its pattern of network behaviour, knowing how to manage this relation becomes essential, especially during the development of new strategies. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6368 Filer i denne post: 1
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Which one is the better option this year. I'm leaning Jazz
quote:next to Hangout? You're on a beach surrounded by bitches in bikinis and as for drugs they are literally everywhere.
Buku does have a leg up on the rest of them in the drugs/partying area
quote:Eh, that wasn't really my experience in 2011.
as for drugs they are literally everywhere.
Compared to a lot of festivals I've been to, Hangout was pretty tame drug-wise
quote:Well it isn't exactly a wook festival
Nothing but custies at hangout
Buku isnt even close to Jazzfest or Hangout
Thats what I was thinking. My buddies want me to go, but aside form Kendrick Lamar, I really dont want to spend the money to hear computers.
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All entries went into my cute little Excel sheet, and Random.Org drew me a number.
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On occasion, I will get a request to review a product, and based on the initial description sent to me by a PR flack, I just know that I am going to hate it. That was my initial impression of the book The Apple Revolution by Luke Dormehl. Fortunately, I ultimately found the book to be much more enjoyable to read than I originally anticipated.
The book is yet another retelling of the Apple / Silicon Valley story with a focus on Steve Jobs. The Apple Revolution is subtitled "Steve Jobs, the counter culture, and how the crazy ones took over the world,"; which describes the book's premise very well. Dormehl had to write the book within the confines of history, so he travels down the well-trodden path of Steve Jobs as stinky hippie founder, genius behind the Macintosh, pariah who founded NeXT as revenge for being ousted from Apple, deep-pocketed visionary who bought Pixar, and triumphant leader of Apple after his return in 1997.
Despite the fact that this is a story that has been told many times, Dormehl uses a combination of literate writing and a profuse number of personal interviews with many of the original characters to bring a fresh perspective to The Apple Revolution. Ultimately, the book is not a deep dive into the personal life of Steve Jobs like Walter Isaacson's classic biography of the man, but a well-reasoned treatise on how the times helped to shape Jobs and eventually resulted in him being the person whose vision and singleminded pursuit of perfection shaped our culture today.
Dormehl's prose reads like the script of a good documentary, not surprising as he has a background in both journalism and documentary filmmaking. Since his specialty is pop culture, he was the perfect author to explore the connection between the counter culture of the 60s and 70s and the eventual rise of Apple to its dominance in the personal electronics industry.
The fruits of Dormehl's interviews are apparent not in pages-long descriptions of something that Jobs or his contemporaries may have done, but in short, to-the-point statements that help to bolster an argument or prove a point. TUAW's Michael Grothaus is quoted twice in the book, primarily for his perspective as an Apple employee during five years in the 2000s when the company was riding the success of the iMac and iPod to create the new computing paradigms — the iPhone and iPad — that are feeding the company's bottom line today.
Unlike Isaacson's biography of Jobs, The Apple Revolution has no photos of the many players who have helped to shape our current cyberculture. And there's no reason to include those images; anyone with access to the Web and a bit of curiosity can easily search for any number of pictures or wiki entries about those who became heroes of The Apple Revolution.
At 532 pages, The Apple Revolution is not a quick afternoon's read. Dormehl turns a story that we already know the outcome of — that of Steve Jobs and Apple — into a compelling page-turner that includes just enough unique details to keep even the discerning Apple historian happy. For example, at one point Steve Jobs was being considered for NASA's ill-fated civilian astronaut program and was turned down in favor of teacher Christa McAuliffe, who perished in the 1986 explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger. That's something I had never known until reading this book.
I won't ruin the book for other potential readers, but there are other little gems to be found in the pages of The Apple Revolution. It's a great read, and a must for the bookshelf of anyone who has found their life to have been benefited by the many fruits of the Apple tree.
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Removal Information
Symantec Security Response has developed a removal tool to clean infections of:
What the tool does
The Trojan.Qhosts Removal Tool does the following:
Terminates the Trojan.Qhosts viral processes.
Deletes the Trojan.Qhosts files.
Deletes most of the registry values that the worm added.
Note: The tool does not delete the values:
"Use Search Asst"="no"
"Search Page"="http:/ /www.google.com"
"Search Bar"="http:/ /www.google.com/ie"
from the registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
because these are custom settings and it is not possible to know what your previous setting was. All of these settings can be reset from within the program. Read you Internet Explorer documentation for instructions.
Available command-line switches for this tool
Switch Description
/HELP, /H, /? Displays the help message.
/NOFIXREG Disables the registry repair. (We do not recommend using this switch).
/SILENT, /S Runs the tool in silent mode.
/LOG=[PATH NAME] Creates a log file where [PATH NAME] is the location in which the log will be placed. By default, this switch creates the log file, FixQhost.log, within the same folder from which the removal tool was executed.
/MAPPED Scans the mapped network drives. (We do not recommend using this switch. See the following note.)
/START Forces the tool to immediately start scanning.
/EXCLUDE=[PATH] Excludes the specified [PATH] from scanning. (We do not recommend using this switch.)
/NOFILESCAN Prevents the scanning of the file system.
Using the /MAPPED switch does not ensure the complete removal of the virus on the remote computer, because:
The scanning of mapped drives scans only the mapped folders. This may not include all the folders on the remote computer, which can lead to missed detections.
If a viral file is detected on the mapped drive, the removal will fail if a program on the remote computer uses this file.
Therefore, you should run the tool on every computer.
The /EXCLUDE switch will only work with one path, not multiple paths. An alternative is the /NOFILESCAN switch, followed by a manual scan with your Symantec antivirus product. This allows the tool to alter the registry. Then, scan the computer using the current virus definitions.
The following is an example command line that can be used to exclude a single drive:
"C:\Documents and Settings\user1\Desktop\FixQhost.exe" /EXCLUDE=M:\ /LOG=c:\FixQhost.txt
As an alternative, the following command line below will skip scanning the file system, but will repair the modifications to the registry. You should then run a regular scan of the system with the proper exclusions:
"C:\Documents and Settings\user1\Desktop\FixQhost.exe" /NOFILESCAN /LOG=c:\FixQhost.txt
(The name of the log file can be whatever you choose.)
Obtaining and running the tool
Note: You must have administrative rights to run this tool on Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, or Windows XP.
WARNING: For network administrators. If you are running MS Exchange 2000 Server, we recommend that you exclude the M drive from the scan by running the tool from a command line with the Exclude switch. For more information, read the Microsoft knowledge base article, XADM: Do Not Back Up or Scan Exchange 2000 Drive M (Article 298924).
Download the FixQhost.exe file from: http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/FixQhost.exe.
Save the file to a convenient location, such as your downloads folder or the Windows desktop (or removable media known to be uninfected).
To check the authenticity of the digital signature, refer to the "Digital signature" section later in this writeup.
If you are running Windows Me or XP, then disable System Restore. Refer to the "System Restore option in Windows Me/XP" section later in this writeup for further details.
Note: This is done as a precaution to prevent the worm from accidentally being restored at a later date or from being detected by a scan. However, due to the changes that the worm makes to the registry, you may not be able to do this at this time. If you cannot, skip this for now. We recommend, however, that you do so after you have restored access to your system; doing so, will empty the System Restore folder and prevent possible future problems.
Double-click the FixQhost.exe file to start the removal tool.
Click Start to begin the process, and then allow the tool to run.
Restart the computer.
Run the removal tool again to ensure that the system is clean.
If you are running Windows Me/XP, then re-enable System Restore.
Run LiveUpdate to make sure that you are using the most current virus definitions.
Note: The removal procedure may not be successful if Windows Me/XP System Restore is not disabled as previously directed, because Windows prevents outside programs from modifying System Restore.
When the tool has finished running, you will see a message indicating whether Trojan.Qhosts infected the computer. In the case of a worm removal, the program displays the following results:
Total number of the scanned files
Number of deleted files
Number of terminated viral processes
Number of fixed registry entries
Digital signature
FixQhost.exe is digitally signed. Symantec recommends that you only use copies of FixQhost.exe, which have been directly downloaded from the Symantec Security Response Web site. To check the authenticity of the digital signature, follow these steps:
Go to http://www.wmsoftware.com/free.htm.
Download and save the chktrust.exe file to the same folder in which you saved FixQhost.exe (for example, C:\Downloads).
Depending on your operating system, do one of the following:
Click Start, point to Programs, and then click MS-DOS Prompt.
Click Start, point to Programs, click Accessories, and then click Command Prompt.
Change to the folder in which FixQhost.exe and Chktrust.exe are stored, and then type: chktrust -i FixQhost.exe.
For example, if you saved the file to the C:\Downloads folder, you would enter the following commands:
cdcd downloads
chktrust -i FixQhost.exe
Press Enter after typing each command. If the digital signature is valid, you will see the following:
Do you want to install and run "Trojan.Qhosts Removal Tool" signed on 10/03/2003 10:33 AM and distributed by Symantec Corporation?
The date and time displayed in this dialog box will be adjusted to your time zone, if your computer is not set to the Pacific time zone.
If you are using Daylight Saving time, the time displayed will be exactly one hour earlier.
If this dialog box does not appear, there are two possible reasons:
The tool is not from Symantec: Unless you are sure that the tool is legitimate and that you downloaded it from the legitimate Symantec Web site, you should not run it.
The tool is from Symantec and is legitimate: However, your operating system was previously instructed to always trust content from Symantec. For information on this and on how to view the confirmation dialog again, read the document, How to restore the Publisher Authenticity confirmation dialog box.
Click Yes to close the dialog box.
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In it, but not of it. TPM DC
'Dear Doctor Governor ... ': Women Protest On GOP Govs' Facebook Walls
One woman wrote:
Dear Doctor Governor-I have an issue with my vagina. I'm having a terrible flow and cramping. This happens every month. I'm not sure if it is related to the lack of an ultrasound or the lack of a pill (I know one is mandated but my poor addled lady brain can't wrap my head around this issue). I'm guessing that it may be the ultrasound since I heard the men folk on the teevee telling us that contraception and the like is one step from abortion. What do I do Dr. Gov? Should I come to your office for the exam?
Another took the same tack:
Dear Governor, I am taking paracetemol for a cold. I believe it has no contraceptive side-effects. Is this ok with you? I have that pesky sore throat, runny nose thing going on. But I'm sure you'd rather hear about my lady parts....
Another commenter asked:
Mr. McDonnell, are you going to address my monthly flow on the air? I asked you a question a last week because I didn't get my period and I'm worried that I'm pregnant. As an unemployed student I can't raise a baby (well, not that I have a choice with people like you in office). Please spend some time on CNN talking about female reproduction, of which you know so much! Thanks ;)
Other governors who have signed or are considering similar measures are also being bombarded on Facebook.
Many commenters embraced the theme: If you fancy yourself an expert on women's health, I have some health-related questions for you.
In Pennsylvania, Gov. Tom Corbett, whose state is also considering a mandatory ultrasound law, said of the bill, "I don't know how you make anybody watch" an ultrasound, "you just have to close your eyes." That prompted a wall post from a woman who wrote:
I know this has nothing to do with this, but being a woman and all, I can't stop thinking about my lady parts. You suggested women close their eyes when getting a transvaginal ultrasound, or Wand of Light, as we lovingly call it in some places. Do you also close your eyes when getting a mandatory anal probe for unrelated legal medical procedures? What else do you close your eyes for? I'm curious, your advice is so fascinating!
"I just called your office, and they wouldn't let me schedule a pap smear," a posting on Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback's Facebook Wall reads. "I'm confused, aren't you taking care of all this now?"
In Kansas, two local activists protesting an anti-abortion law that would allow doctors to lie to women about fetal abnormalities without any legal liability, posted their objections on Brownback's Facebook wall.
Gov. Rick Perry, who's anti-Planned Parenthood crusade is costing Texas millions in federal funding for women's reproductive care, has hundreds of comments on his page, a phenomenon first noticed by the Washington Post.
"I promise to vote for you during the next run," one woman promised Perry, "if you'll allow me to incorporate my uterus."
Another wrote:
I am so happy to hear that you are an expert on women's health...'cause you know, who can afford doctors nowadays? Anyhoo, I got my period for years and years... with no problems, and then suddenly it stopped! Should I be worried? Does the fact that I'm in my 50's have anything to do with this situation?
In Idaho, where the state Senate passed a mandatory ultrasound bill Monday, many have taken to Facebook, urging Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter to veto the bill. So far, the messages have a more serious, earnest tone.
A sample:
Please demonstate your moral courage and veto SB1387. You have repeatedly stood for small and less intrusive government. Surely this forced ultrasound procedure goes against your heartfelt principles.
Governor Otter: You have always been a proponent of less government in the lives of people. Please--do the right thing and veto SB 1387. It is an insult to the women of Idaho.


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Lobbyists representing Nustar Energy, 2010:
Lobbying Firm Hired | Amount | Subsidiary (Lobbied For) | Lobbyist |
Bracewell & Giuliani | $152,500 | Nustar Energy |
Krenik, Edward Segal, Scott H Zive, Joshua |
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Look up "hot mess" in the dictionary, and odds are you'll see a picture of Ke$ha there. She's been switching it up a little lately, but no matter what she wears, she always puts her own spin on it.
Read The Many Hairstyles of Brad Pitt (Or, Happy 49th Birthday, Brad!)
11. Kelly Osbourne
Who else do you know who would wear a $250,000 manicure to an awards show?
12. Rita Ora
Rita Ora wears more jumpsuits than anyone I know (or rather, anyone I know OF). It takes a brave woman to do that.
Lucia Peters is BettyConfidential's associate editor.


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di·al·y·sis pl. -·ses·
- Chem. any process in which the smaller dissolved molecules in a solution separate from the larger molecules by diffusing through a semipermeable membrane
- Med. any of various procedures, usually performed on a regular basis on patients who have impaired kidney function, in which chemical dialysis is used to remove toxic waste, chemicals, etc. from the blood
Origin of dialysis
Classical Latin ; from Gr, separation, dissolution ; from dialyein, to separate, dissolve ; from dia-, apart + lyein, to loose: see losedialysis
pl. di·al·y·ses- The separation of smaller molecules from larger molecules or of dissolved substances from colloidal particles in a solution by selective diffusion through a semipermeable membrane.
- Hemodialysis.
Origin of dialysis
Greek dialusis, separating, dissolution, from dial&umacron;ein, to break up, dissolve : dia-, apart; see dia– + l&umacron;ein, to loosen; see leu- in Indo-European roots.Related Forms:
- di′a·lyt′ic
- di′a·lyt′i·cal·ly
(plural dialyses)
- (chemistry) A method of separating molecules or particles of different sizes by differential diffusion through a semipermeable membrane.
- (medicine) Haemodialysis.
- (rhetoric) The spelling out of alternatives, or presenting of either-or arguments that lead to a conclusion.
- (rhetoric) Asyndeton.
Dated in the late 16th Century CE; from Ancient Greek διά (diá, "inter" "through") and λύειν (lýein, "loosen").


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Jake Hiller
Project Development Analyst
Areas of expertise: Corporate partnerships, energy management strategy, energy efficiency finance
Jake Hiller is the Project Development Analyst for Environmental Defense Fund's Corporate Partnerships Program. In this role, Jake works with the Director of Strategy and a diverse set of project managers to identify market opportunities, engage business leaders, and forge new corporate partnerships with the scale and impact to transform the sustainability of entire industries.
Key Projects
- EDF Climate Corps: Designed and piloted new assessment tool to measure organizational barriers to energy efficiency in EDF Climate Corps companies. Leveraging emerging data, the growing company network and new academic partnerships to implement systemic corporate energy management strategy in large corporations.
- Green Returns: Developed environmental benchmarking tool for portfolio companies owned by leading private equity partners in the Green Returns program. Assessing key opportunities around energy, water and waste reduction in The Carlyle Group.
- Energy Efficiency Finance: Co-wrote EDF white paper on energy efficiency financing barriers and opportunities. Participating in on-going discussions with investors, corporate partners and government actors to catalyze broader investment in the energy efficiency space.
Jake's work with EDF began through the High Meadows Fellowship, a two-year competitive program that places graduating Princeton seniors in leading non-profit organizations with an environmental focus.
B.A., Chemistry, Sustainable Energy, Environmental Studies, Princeton University
Jake has previously worked at the University of South Carolina's Graduate Science Research Center, the Princeton Chemistry Department and the U.S. Department of Energy. His independent work at Princeton focused on developing new varieties of organic electronic materials for applications in transistors and photovoltaics.
In 2010, Jake won the Princeton TigerLaunch Business Plan Competition and became a semi-finalist in the MIT Clean Energy Prize Competition for his team's efforts to bring scalable sustainable energy technologies to communities in the developing world.
"Show Me the Money: Energy Efficiency Financing Barriers and Opportunities," July 2011.
"Reducing Contact Resistance in Multi-Layer Organic Thin-Film Transistors," Princeton University Senior Thesis, 2010.
"Inclusion of electrochemically active guests by novel oxacalixarene hosts," New Journal of Chemistry, 2008.
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ALTER SCHEMA (Transact-SQL)
Transfers a securable between schemas.
Transact-SQL Syntax Conventions
In SQL Server 2005, users and schemas are completely separate. For more information, see User-Schema Separation.
ALTER SCHEMA can only be used to move securables between schemas in the same database. To change or drop a securable within a schema, use the ALTER or DROP statement specific to that securable.
If a one-part name is used for securable_name, the name-resolution rules currently in effect will be used to locate the securable.
All permissions associated with the securable will be dropped when the securable is moved to the new schema. If the owner of the securable has been explicitly set, the owner will remain unchanged. If the owner of the securable has been set to SCHEMA OWNER, the owner will remain SCHEMA OWNER; however, after the move SCHEMA OWNER will resolve to the owner of the new schema. The principal_id of the new owner will be NULL.
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In SQL Server 2005 the behavior of schemas is changed from the behavior in earlier versions of SQL Server. Code that assumes that schemas are equivalent to database users may not return correct results. Old catalog views, including sysobjects, should not be used in a database in which any of the following DDL statements has ever been used: CREATE SCHEMA, ALTER SCHEMA, DROP SCHEMA, CREATE USER, ALTER USER, DROP USER, CREATE ROLE, ALTER ROLE, DROP ROLE, CREATE APPROLE, ALTER APPROLE, DROP APPROLE, ALTER AUTHORIZATION. In a database in which any of these statements has ever been used, you must use the new catalog views. The new catalog views take into account the separation of principals and schemas that is introduced in SQL Server 2005. For more information about catalog views, see Catalog Views (Transact-SQL). |
To transfer a securable from another schema, the current user must have CONTROL permission on the securable (not schema) and ALTER permission on the target schema.
If the securable has an EXECUTE AS OWNER specification on it and the owner is set to SCHEMA OWNER, the user must also have IMPERSONATION permission on the owner of the target schema.
All permissions associated with the securable that is being transferred are dropped when it is moved.
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Want an autographed copy of SHUT UP AND GIVE ME THE MIC BY DEE SNIDER? Dee is selling MINT, NEW HARDCOVER 1ST EDITIONs of his book, SHUT UP AND GIVE ME THE MIC, on ebay. Each is autographed and comes with an emailed photo of authenticity!
Because the eBay auctions change, go to this Ebay link, Shut up and Give Me the Mic by Dee Snider (2012, Hardcover) Autographed – Personalized – Autographed – with Authentication Photo. If the listing is closed, look for the relisted item by seller "sttproductions".
As lead singer and songwriter of Twisted Sister, Dee Snider became the poster boy for heavy metal, hair bands, and the wild side of rock. Now, in his twisted new memoir, he reveals the real stories behind the crazy makeup, the big hair, and badass hits like "We're Not Gonna Take It" and "I Wanna Rock."
A classically trained countertenor who sang with his high school choir, Dee remembers the day he decided he was "not gonna take it" and stopped caring what people thought about him. Following in the footsteps of his idols Alice Cooper and Black Sabbath, Dee jumped from band to band before meeting Jay Jay French and Twisted Sister. But it wasn't until he met his costume-designing soul-mate Suzette that they developed his unique style. Dee's hard work finally paid off with an impressive resume that includes: a monster hit record; smash MTV videos; a long-running radio show, "The House of Hair"; appearances in film ( Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Howard Stern's Private Parts, StrangeLand) and television ( Growing Up Twisted, Celebrity Apprentice); and a starring role in Broadway's Rock of Ages. He even authored a teenage survival guide that was required reading in Russia!
In his journey from every parent's worst teenage nightmare to Renaissance man, Dee avoided the usual pitfalls associated with rock stars. But that didn't stop Tipper Gore and the Parents Music Resource Center from targeting hima fight that led him to testify before Congress with Frank Zappa. He may have been slapped with a Parental Advisory warning label, but, through it all, Dee stayed positive and focused on being the best he could be.
Filled with entertaining anecdotes and candid confessions, Shut Up and Give Me the Mic takes you through the good times and bad with a heavy metal star who worked as hard as he played, and who did it all for his wife, four kids, and millions of "SMF" (Sick Mother F******) fans.
"This story is mine. I'm the guy that gave it all to beat the odds, left everything he had on the stage each night, didn't screw around on his woman, took care of his kids, and was sober enough to remember it all and write about it . . . myself. The one thing that has surprised and confused me, though, is my unlikely transformation into a "beloved public figure." How did the unpopular kid, who grew up to be the angry young man, who became the '80s poster boy for the evils of rock 'n' roll, arrested for profanity and assault, and boycotted by parents and religious groups, become the likeable mensch he is today?"


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Patina Miller wins best actress in a musical Tony
NEW YORK (AP) — Patina Miller has danced away with a Tony Award for her role in the revival of "Pippin."
Miller, last on Broadway in "Sister Act," won the best lead actress in a musical trophy playing the same emcee part that won Ben Vereen a best-actor Tony in 1973.
The win caps a whirlwind few years for the Carnegie Mellon University graduate, who was nominated for back-to-back Tonys for her first roles on Broadway.
In Diane Paulus' retelling of "Pippin," Miller is a muscular creature with a hat and cane who dances Bob Fosse steps and does tricks on a trapeze while singing.
Miller beat Stephanie J. Block of "The Mystery of Edwin Drood," Carolee Carmello from "Scandalous," Valisia LeKae from "Motown The Musical" and Laura Osnes from "Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella."


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