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Rock Ledge groups move into room at West Center
Located in what used to be the school's west wing, the site is called the Living History and Clothing Library. Visitors will see a 27-by-27-foot room containing 12 movable clothing racks, with one corner set aside for an LHA desk and phone.
LHA President Ron Wright doesn't mind if the office doesn't look like some executive suite. He's just grateful for the space. "The LHA has never had an office," he said. "Every president and every board of directors worked from home. Now we have a place to keep our things and be organized."
As for the clothes, most of them handmade to match the 1880s era of Rock Ledge, they had been "jammed into" a 10-by-10-foot space on the third floor of the ranch's Orchard House for several years, Wright said. So when the structure's multi-year restoration project was completed about two years ago, a new place for the clothing library was sought to allow full use of the Orchard House for tours. Accessibility was a factor too. With the house's steep, narrow, old-fashioned stairs, bringing clothing to and from the third floor meant a lot of climbing for a great many volunteers.
Wright said Parks Director Paul Butcher proposed using the room at West, "and I jumped at it."
Because it's a volunteer effort, the office/library will not necessarily keep regular hours.
The Rock Ledge Ranch Historic Site is off Gateway Road and 30th Street.
The remote-site possibility came about when City Parks took ownership of the Buena Vista property in a deal with School District 11 in June. The West community center had been in a smaller space in the West Middle School.
The main office for the center, which is open five days a week, is at the rear of Buena Vista's west wing, where there's a handicapped ramp.
As part of a major building reutilization effort, the district closed Buena Vista as a school, with its Montessori students slated to go to a new site at the former Washington school and non-Montessori to the new West Elementary.
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text: Amsterdam, 18 December 2005 -- In January 2006 HREA will start an intensive training programme for young human rights defenders in the Middle East and North Africa, in cooperation with the Arab Institute for Human Rights (Tunisia) and the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (Egypt)."This project will strengthen the Arab human rights movement by training young human rights defenders using a distributed learning approach", says Frank Elbers, HREA's Deputy Director. The 'distributed learning approach' is a training model that includes both on-site training as well as Internet-based, distance learning training. Trainees will enhance their skills in monitoring, advocacy and project development and management through a combination of introductory e-learning courses, self-study and intensive follow-up workshops. During the two-year training programme each trainee will design and carry out an advocacy or monitoring project, under the mentorship of an experienced human rights defender associated with a local or regional human rights organisation. "The project will be a concrete step in strengthening the Arab network of human rights defenders and cross-border collaboration", concludes HREA's Deputy Director.


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- Suarez On Individuation. Metaphysical Disputation 5, Individual Unity and Its Principle (review)
- Journal of the History of Philosophy
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 22, Number 4, October 1984
- pp. 476-478
- 10.1353/hph.1984.0066
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476 JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY 22:4 OCT I984 lace argues that it was his adherence to the Aristotelian method of scientific, necessary demonstration which encouraged Galileo to adopt a method of reasoning which, while expressed in hypothetical language, nevertheless satisfied the requirements of demonstration. Galileo took this method from Aquinas and Buridan as seen through his Jesuit sources, and Wallace presents several instances of its application in both Galileo's early works and the more mature works of his middle and late periods. Wallace's position on Galileo's use of ex suppositione reasoning has caused much debate in the past (and in response Wallace has appended a clarification to his original essay), and Prelude taken as a whole will certainly elicit additional controversy . The precise results of that debate are still uncertain, but it is clear that when the dust settles we will know far more about Galileo's early period and sources. For this we owe Father Wallace our sincere thanks. STEvEN J. LIvEsEY University of Oklahoma, Norman Jorge J. E. Gracia, translator. Suarez On Individuation. Metaphysical Disputation 5, Individual Unity and Its Principle. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 1982. Pp. ix + 299. $2o.oo. Suarez on lndividuation is an important Latin book felicitously translated and properly annotated. The translated text, on a topic of contemporary controversy, is accompanied by an explanatory introduction, a glossary of the kind Alluntis and Wolter included in their translation of Duns Scotus's Quodlibetal Questions On The Power of God (Princeton 1975), and a Bibliography of "Recent Discussions on Suarez's Metaphysics ." I will say something about each element after a few general remarks. The translation is needed because of the timely subject and to increase the corpus of Suarez's Metaphysical Disputations available in English. Suarez is not only an ingenious philosopher, he is also a learned (if not always accurate) and dedicated summarizer of the positions and arguments he supports or rejects. He influences the history and also comments on it. This work presents theories in perspective, historically situated in ways that make them intelligible, tracing their influences to their sources and to later effects. Gracia, by his careful distinction among the various aspects of the questions about individuation and individuality and his awareness of the way such issues have been confused recently with notions of 'individual essence,' presents a text and introductory explanation that can make a positive advance in the sophistication of current discussions. For one thing Suarez's exposition of the differences among Scotus, Aquinas , and Ockham is lucid. The notes and glossary go a long way toward Gracia's objective "to facilitate understanding" (viii) with adept explanations, citations, references to places in the works Suarez is referring to and deft accounts of technical expressions, e.g., the "nature of individuality" (24, note l) and "designated matter" (for Aquinas) (25, note 8). The glossary, like the Scotus glossary mentioned above can be consulted for its application to other texts by the references given in it and its correlation to a selective index of Latin and English words. BOOK REVIEWS 477 The device of selecting a single English translation for principle uses of muhivocal Latin expressions and repeating the Latin original in brackets when the translation requires a variant in English is very helpful and ties in with the selective LatinEnglish index, keyed to the Glossary. Add to that a careful bibliography, an intelligent introduction, a sensitive translation (with sensible bracketed interpolations) and an effort to make the unwieldy academic Latin come out less soporifically in English than it might deserve. The job is done as it ought to be, both at the scholarly and the historical levels. It cannot be denied that Suarez is tortuous and prolix. Even in this good a translation, one might plod the jungle of opinions, objections and replies, and miss the whole point of Suarez's doctrine. Gracia explains it in about twenty-five pages of Introduction. The main idea is that Suarez distinguished the different loci demanding explanation: (1) the diversity and plurality among things and (2) the indivisibility of actual beings. Aquinas seems to have concentrated on explaining how individuals come to be "different according to number," and...


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Thursday, April 3rd, 2003
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Okay, I'm not usually video game giddy, but Metal Gear Solid 2 : Substance is out for PC now. It wasn't entirely clear to me before why I went out an bought a new computer last month, but it is obvious now – I was preparing for this day. Or not this day, specifically, but the day about a week and a half ago when the game was released… without my knowledge… and I probably wouldn't have known if Kyle hadn't told me… Fine – maybe it's all a little less divinely-inspired than I'd like. But I still need to get this game. I finished Metal Gear Solid something like five times on two different platforms. I could finish that game in my sleep. It was so good. I hear in this one you don't get to take the 'kill em all and let the coroner sort em out' tactic quite so much, and there's more stealthiness required. I dunno, I don't do stealthy so well.
Radiohead are not happy about the fact that their new album is all over the internet. Not so much for the fact that it's being traded, but because this is still not a final mix and they would prefer that works they regard as being unfinished and not up to their standards be widely available.
It's been a while since I've had a giant squid post, and I know you're all really disappointed by that, but I make it up to you now with a colossal squid post. Check that mofo out – that is one bad-ass mollusc.
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'Ben-Hur' Remake in the Works
By the end of the 1950's, the studio system had been rocked by television, and MGM was on the ropes fiscally. They put a lot of stock in 1959's 'Ben-Hur,' which paid off big time. 'Ben-Hur' became one of their biggest hits (adjusted for inflation it's number thirteen on the all time list), and won eleven Oscars. Now that MGM is successful after 'Skyfall,' they're going to return to 'Ben-Hur' and remake it.
For those crying blasphemy at the prospect of a remake of a best picture winner, it's worth noting the 1959 version was a remake itself (of the 1925 silent film 'Ben-Hur: A Tale Of The Christ') and MGM tells Deadline that their version tells a completely different story that the 1959 film, though is drawn from the book by Lew Wallace.The question with this new one is: Can you do a chariot race nowadays and have it not be all digital?
The film would come in the wake of a number of biblical films, with Darren Aronofsky's 'Noah' leading the charge next year, and with Steven Spielberg and Ridley Scott circling Bible stories and a rumored version of 'Pontius Pilate' starring Brad Pitt. Now seems like the right time to remake 'Ben-Hur' so we'll keep you posted as the project comes together.


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Automated entry means improved security
This week, the Automated Installation Entry becomes the standard, not the exception, for entering Fort Gordon. So let's take a look at what that means – and what it doesn't.
It means that, during rush hour, nothing changes. In order to open additional lanes and expedite the flow of commuters onto the installation, gate guards will continue to hand check identification cards during rush hour. Visitors go to the Gate 1 Visitor's Center as usual.
It means that, after rush hour, when the AIE system is in use, ID card holders will swipe their registered IDs through the AIE terminal and proceed when directed. Again, visitors go to the Gate 1 Visitor's Center as usual.
However, when the AIE system is in use, two important distinctions are in place:
- If you're a DoD ID cardholder and you're not registered in the system, then you're a visitor – and the only place you can enter the installation is through the Gate 1 visitor's lane.
- If you're a criminal, if you're barred from the installation, if law enforcement authorities are looking for you for any reason, and you try to enter the installation using a DoD ID card, whether it's yours or one that was stolen, we'll get you.
The AIE system is about security, not about convenience. And, now that it's in full operation at our gates, Fort Gordon is a more secure place to live and work.
You see, when you swipe your card through the AIE terminal, your photo appears on a display screen in the guard's booth. If the photo he sees doesn't match the face in the vehicle, you're caught. If the ID cardholder was declared ineligible for entry, you're caught. The functionality of the AIE database, combined with the guard's intuition and experience, make Fort Gordon a harder target for potential wrongdoers.
But that security comes at a price – registration – and the March 15 full activation date did not sneak up on anyone. Wide-ranging publicity, from newspaper articles, social media posts, local media interviews and commanders' calls, informed the community about registration requirements for the past year and a half. The deadline didn't appear on the calendar suddenly. In fact, the deadline was originally set for Feb. 15, but was delayed to give more people time to register.
But eventually, time runs out, and in order to enjoy the full benefit of the system, we need to turn it on and use it. So, if you're an ID cardholder who normally uses Gate 2, 3 or 5, it's time to get registered, or get used to making the long drive out of your way to the visitor's lane at Gate 1.
Security comes at a cost, but you shouldn't over pay. If you're not yet registered, or you know someone who isn't registered, send them to the Visitor's Center or the MP Administration Office at Darling Hall to get registered right away.


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Association of Medical and Dental Graduates
Graduates of the Medical and Dental Schools of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin are automatically life members of the Association of Graduates.
The Association of Medical and Dental Graduates of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland was founded in 1932, to encourage and maintain social and professional contacts between graduates and to promote the interests of the College and its graduates throughout the world.
Dr Antonia Lehane, President, RCSI Association of Medical and Dental Graduates
|2018 - 2019 Officers of the Association
|Dr Antonia Lehane
|Class of 1982
|Immediate Past President
|Mr Mayilone Arumugasamy FRCSI
|Class of 1993
|Vice President/President Elect
|Dr Patrick Troy
|Class of 1986
|Honorary Treasurer
|Ms Amanda Browne FRCSI
|Class of 1994
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|Dr Jacinta West
|Class of 1989
|Prof. William MacGowan FRCSI
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|Mr Hyacinth Browne FRCSI
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|Dr Richard Brennan
|Class of 1978
|Dr Mary Coghlan
|Class of 1963
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|Dr Eoin Kelleher
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|Class of 1968
|Professor Sarah Rogers
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About the Association
The Association of Medical and Dental Graduates of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland was founded in 1932, to encourage and maintain social and professional contacts between graduates and to promote the interests of the College and its graduates throughout the world.
For many years, the Association facilitated individual class reunions and the first official annual reunion for all graduates was held in 1981. This has developed into the Alumni Gathering weekend, held in August every year and attended by hundreds of graduates from all over the world. The Association of Graduates arranges other events during the year including the Annual Dinner, held in the College, usually on the last Saturday in November. The Annual General Meeting is held in May each year and also includes a clinical meeting.
Involvement with the student body is promoted annually by the Association of Graduates' medal, awarded to the final year student, voted by their fellow classmates as the best all round student. The Association also contributes to undergraduate research programmes and awards a prize for a suitable clinical presentation. In 2014, the Association initiated the "Societies' Award, for which Student societies apply for funding for a project of their choice.
The prestigious "Distinguished Graduate" award for outstanding achievement is made to a Graduate member selected by the Association.
The Association presented perpetual trophies in memory of the late Dr Frank Prendiville (Class of 1961) for the Ladies' and Gentlemen's golf competitions taking place at the Annual Reunion/Alumni Weekend The Dr. Frank Prendiville Memorial Cup is open to graduates of the Medical & Dental Schools The Dr. Frank Prendiville Memorial Cup is open to graduates of the Medical & Dental Schools.
The Association would like to encourage more graduate members to become involved in future projects to promote clinical presentations and other interests. Please contact any of the Association officers or Committee members who would be delighted to hear your views.


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We noted last night that Tye Dillinger tweeted WWE NXT General Manager William Regal to ask for a match at "Takeover: The End" next week. Regal responded and announced that Dillinger will face the debuting Andrade "Cien" Almas, formerly known as La Sombra and Manny Andrade.
I love when I can accommodate talented competitors' requests. @WWEDillinger, you will compete at #NXTTakeOver against, @AndradeCienWWE! William Regal (@RealKingRegal) June 2, 2016
Here's the current card for Takeover next week:
Steel Cage Match for the NXT Title
Finn Balor vs. Samoa Joe
NXT Women's Title Match
Nia Jax vs. Asuka
NXT Tag Team Title Match
Dash and Dawson vs. Chad Gable and Jason Jordan
Austin Aries vs. Shinsuke Nakamura
Tye Dillinger vs. Andrade "Cien" Almas
New subscribers can sign up for the WWE Network today by clicking here and get their first month for free, which includes NXT: Takeover next week and WWE Money In The Bank on June 19th.
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Imprortant! New homework submission instructions!
adamsh 11 May 2010 11:43
Due to some very suspicious incidents of assignments disappearing from our mailboxes (and then reappearing a few weeks later), we present some new instructions:
1. The assignments should be submitted to mailbox 02 on Schreiber's ground floor (next to labs 004 and 005). Do not put the assignments in any of the staff's mailboxes.
2. Before you submit an assignment, make sure to have a copy of it, in case it gets lost.
3. We want you to know that we are taking these matters very seriously. If we somehow catch a student stealing assignments, he (or she) will not only fail the course, but will also be taken to a disciplinary committee (which may result in more serious consequences).
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I've started a 'little' project that promises to take up most of my free time (what little there seems to be of it at the moment) - I've decided to build a CNC machine.
To be honest, I've had gadget lust for a CNC machine for some time now... all the talk on the blogs about Cupcakes and Makerbots and RepRaps got me looking into CNC machines some time ago. I could never bring myself to spend the money on one though since they're a little pricey. The cheapest options that looked any good were the Zen Toolworks machines, which came with stepper motors but no power supply, controller boards or router/spindle. The cheapest of these can be got from Amazon for under 350 dollars. Still, it only works on a 7"x7"x2" area. The next machine up is around $600 and works on a larger area of 12"x12"x2". At this price I get a little scared and only being able to carve a foot is a little disapointing.
Anyway, I held off for ages but then came across these plans at solsylva.com which detailed the construction of a CNC machine that would cost a little bit more than the larger zen toolworks one (all inclusive), would use mostly materials from Lowes or Home Despot and also promised to be pretty easy to follow (a definite bonus for me, since I chose to do needlework and cookery rather than woodwork and metalwork when given the choice at age 13...). I've seen lots of online instructions for building various types of CNC machine (like this one, and this one, and this one... well, you get the idea), but they all left me a bit confused and unconfident about being able to build something worthwhile.
The promise of the solsylva plans were enough to make me order the 25"x25"x7" plans to see if they were idiot proof enough to give me the confidence to get started.
I received the plans a few weeks ago, read them over and then excitedly started to spend money on wood, bolts, washers, screws, pipes, all thread (threaded rod), forstner bits and skate bearings. So, yes, they appeared to be detailed and simple enough for me to follow from start to finish.
I like the fact that the solsylva plans allow for someone who doesn't have a truck. The wood measurements are for planks 8' and smaller, which fit fine in my little Nissan disappointment (with the back seats down). Recently I've been taking advantage of craigslist in order to pick up a few power tools on the cheap. I got hold of a drill-press ($50) and a miter saw ($60), which have been very useful so far. You'll laugh at me, but they were a bit intimidating to use at first - especially the miter saw. I kept having these images running through my mind of flying fingers and trips to the ER (in my defense, the miter saw is very loud). After a bit of practice I've become
flamboyantly reckless much more confident. I'm definitely enjoying learning the new skills involved.
The pictures at the start of this post are the main base of the machine, put together over a few hours on the weekend. In the picture below I've added the X-rails and X-stepper motor support (this was done on the following weekend).
So far, it seems that things are going well. I'll keep you posted.


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Black graduates receive special recognition
by Marirose Agpawa
UNLV's Alliance of Professionals of African Heritage held a ceremony Friday night, themed "Excellence in Education: Inspire Change for a New Tomorrow," capturing the hard work and success of this year's black graduates.
The event marked the second year that the 23rd Annual Students of African Heritage Awards Ceremony and the Ninth Annual African American Student Graduation Celebration were combined.
Dr. William Sullivan, president of the alliance and associate vice president for retention and outreach, said the turnout was the largest they've seen in 30 years.
Dr. Esther Langston was pleased with the turnout.
"It was a wonderful event that we planned many years ago to be sure that the students of African American heritage on this campus receive honors for the hard work they did," she said.
Langston is retiring this year but said that she will continue to be a part of future ceremonies.
Both Sullivan and Langston are two of the five original people involved in the ceremony.
The event featured spoken word poetry and entertainment by the R&R Jazz Band. Speakers included UNLV Professor and the Dean of the College of Education Dr. Christopher Brown, and graduating student speaker Brooke Reid.
"If your body is a temple, then your mind should be a shrine," Brown said in his speech.
Brown inspired graduates, reminding them that their journey has just begun.
Reid humbled everyone with her personal motivational speech, implying that different is not deficient.
She shared her own struggles as a child, being labeled illiterate and dealing with poverty, drugs, alcoholism and abuse while trying to focus on education.
Reid expressed her thanks to family, especially her mother and elder sibling Sen. Steven Horsford, who were in attendance.
"It was phenomenal to actually see the achievements of the African American student body," Reid said.
Reid encouraged all students, regardless of race, to get involved with the ceremony. She said the ceremony is held in recognition of the student body as a whole, not just black students.
"[Students] should get on board and strive for excellence…because this is for everybody to have that opportunity," Reid said.
The ceremony showcased members of the campus community and was also a chance to enjoy the upcoming graduation and commencement with family.
"African Americans only make up 7 percent of the population at UNLV and to honor those achievements and actually show the graduates their accomplishments is rewarding," Reid said.
Reid also explained that by succeeding, it will show friends and family that dreams can come true.
"It was a great event [and] an opportunity for the campus to celebrate one of the unique sub-populations," Brown said.
UNLV student Rhea Watson said that she was inspired by the speakers.
"I enjoy seeing that there are African American students who are empowered, responsible, self-sufficient and actually doing something on this campus," Watson said.
Langston offered a piece of advice and encouragement to attendees.
"I think the students need to [listen] to Dr. Brown's message and keep pressing forward to that higher mark," Langston said. "Because they're the ones that will make the change and they will make the difference in this world."


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Team Squads of IPL Season 10 has been announced, Get Team Players List, Most Expensive Players in IPL 2017.
IPL is a platform where young and talented players come and express themselves in front of others. In this tournament, Indian players can get a good chance to play with the global players who comes from diverse countries. In 10th season of IPL, 8 teams are going to play and the 1st season of IPL was started in year 2008. In IPL 2016, Sunrisers Hyderabad won the trophy and this team will be the defending champs in IPL 2017.
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Gautam Gambhir (Caption), Piyush Chawla, Brad Hogg, Jason Holder, Sheldon Jackson, Kuldeep Yadav, Chris Lynn, Manan Sharma, Morne Morkel, Colin Munro, Sunil Narine, Manish Pandey, Yusuf Pathan, Ankit Rajpoot, Andre Russell, Rajagopal Sathish, Shakibul Hasan, Shaun Tait, Jaydev Unadkat, Robin Uthappa, Suryakumar Yadav, Umesh Yadav, John Hastings
Mumbai Indians (MI)
Rohit Sharma (Caption), Corey Anderson, Jasprit Bumrah, Jos Buttler, Unmukt Chand, Marchant de Lange, Shreyas Gopal, Martin Guptill, Harbhajan Singh, Kishore Kamath, Siddhesh Lad, Mitchell McClenaghan, Hardik Pandya, Krunal Pandya, Parthiv Patel, Kieron Pollard, Deepak Punia, Nitish Rana, Ambati Rayudu, Jitesh Sharma, Nathu Singh, Tim Southee, Jagadeesha Suchith, Jerome Taylor, Vinay Kumar, Akshay Wakhare
Delhi Daredevils (DD)
Zaheer Khan (Caption), Mayank Agarwal, Khaleel Ahmend, Sam Billings, Carlos Brathwaite, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Quinton de Kock, Jean-Paul Duminy, Akhil Herwadkar, Imran Tahir, ShreyasIyer, Mahipal Lomror, Chama Milind, Amit Mishra, Mohammad Shami, Chris Morris, Shahbaz Nadeem, Karun Nair, Pawan Negi, Rishabh Pant, Pratyush Singh, Sanju Samson, Pawan Suyal, Jayant Yadav, Joel Paris
Gujarat Lions (GL)
Suresh Raina (Caption), Sarabjit Ladda, Akshdeep Nath, Amit Mishra, Dwayne Bravo, Paras Dogra, Eklavya Dwivedi, James Faulkner, Aaron Finch, Ishan Kishan, Ravindra Jadeja, Shadab Jakati, Dinesh Karthik, Shivil Kaushik, Dhawal Kulkarni, Praveen Kumar, Brendon McCullum, Pradeep Sangwan, Jaydev Shah, Umang Sharma, Dwayne Smith, Dale Steyn, Pravin Tambe, Andrew Tye
Kings XI Punjab (KXIP)
Murali Vijay (Caption), Kyle Abbott, Hashim Amla, Anureet Singh, Armaan Jaffer, Farhaan Behardien, KC Cariappa, Rishi Dhawan, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Mitchell Johnson, David Miller, Nikhil Naik, Axar Patel, Wriddhiman Saha, Pardeep Sahu, Sandeep Sharma, Mohit Sharma, Swapnil Singh, Shardul Thakur, Manan Vohra, Shaun Marsh, Glenn Maxwell, Marcus Stoinis
Rising Pune Supergiants (RPS)
Ms Dhoni (caption), Ankit Sharma, Baba Aparajith, Murugan Ashwin, Ravichandran Ashwin, George Bailey, Ankush Bains, Rajat Bhatia, Scott Boland, Deepak Chahar, Ashok Dinda, Peter Handscomb, Jaskaran Singh, Usman Khawaja, Albie Morkel, Ishwar Pandey, Irfan Pathan, Thisara Perere, Ajinkya Rahane, Ishant Sharma, RP Singh, Saurabh Tiwary, Adam Zampa, Faf du Plessis, Mitchell Marsh, Kevin Pietersen, Steven Smith
Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB)
Virat Kohli (Caption), Varun Aaron, Abu Nechim, Sreenath Arivand, Stuart Binny, Yuzvendra Chahal, AB de Villiers, Praveen Dubey, Chris Gayle, Travis Head, Iqbal Abdulla, Kedar Jadhav, Chris Jordan, Akshay Karnewar, Sarfaraz Khan, Vikramjeet Malik, Mandeep Singh, Parvez Rasool, Harshal Patel, Lokesh Rahul, Kane Richardson, Sachin Baby, Tabraiz Shamsi, Vikas Tokas, Shane Watson, David Wiese, Samuel Badree, Adam Milne, Mitchell Starc
Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH)
David Warner (Caption), Ashish Reddy, Ricky Bhui, Bipul Sharma, Trent Boult, Ben Cutting, Shikhar Dhawan, Moises Henriques, Deepak Hooda, Siddarth Kaul, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Abhimanyu Mithun, Eoin Morgan, Mustafizur Rahman, Naman Ojha, Vijay Shankar, Karn Sharma, Barinder Sran, Tirumalasetti Suman, Aditya Tare, Kane Williamson, Yuvraj Singh, Ashish Nehra


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Behind the French menu
Bryan G. Newman
Largemouth black bass.
Largemouth black bass is a North American freshwater fish introduced into European rivers for sports fishermen and women in the late 19th century. These American imports have established themselves in many streams and rivers in Europe. A French chef who is an active amateur fisherman, on the river where his restaurant is, told me eating largemouth black bass may be considered revenge as they eat young crayfish. Young crayfish, when left alone grow into bigger crayfish, and they have many of their own admirers in the French culinary world. Nevertheless, he considers black bass as a tasty fish, and when offered fish caught by local fishermen and women, he will place them on his menu; any fish, not just bass, that he catches himself are for his friends and family.
Catching black bass.
Largemouth Black Bass on French menus:
Black-Bass à Grande Bouche Poêlé à l'Anis – Largemouth bass fried with aniseed. (See the appendix Herbs and Spices, Mushrooms and Truffles: Anis).
Lightly fried black bass in a fennel-accented sauce.
Black-Bass à Grande Bouche Vapeur, Poireaux, Champignons de Paris et une Crème Légère au Citron - Steamed largemouth bass prepared with leeks and button mushrooms and served with a light and creamy lemon accented sauce.
Black-Bass à Grande Bouche Fumée et sa Marinade Citron –Largemouth bass smoked and served in a lemon marinade.
Black-Bass à la Fondue d'Échalotes – Black bass served on a bed of shallots.
A river in Maine.
Maine has over 1,000 lakes and an untold number of rivers and streams.
French and visiting freshwater sportsmen and women along with commercial fishermen and women catch these fish using a rod and line; they may reach 2 kilos or more. The professionals mostly sell their catches directly to restaurants and in farmer's markets near to where the fish are caught. Unfortunately, the catches are rarely large enough or valuable enough to reach the big cities. Nevertheless, if you are traveling in France, they will be on many riverside and lakeside menus. The larger fish will usually be served as grilled filets or fried filets, and they are a tasty fish.
My family and I caught the North American family members of these fish. We were on vacation in the lakes and rivers in Northern Maine, and it was, unfortunately, not the salmon season. One of our sons caught a young salmon but it was below the legal catch size, and it was returned to the lake. We stayed at a fishing lodge and took a fishing guide, who promised us good fishing and good eating with large mouthed bass.
Largemouth black bass.
Largemouth black bass is a tasty fish. The fish we caught were at most 400 grams (14 ounces, just under 1 lb) each. The guide knew all the best places for largemouth black bass, and we just reeled them in. When we had caught enough for lunch, we sat on the bank of the lake, fried them in olive oil and a few herbs. Together with the additions provided by the fishing lodge where we stayed along with a cold bottle of white wine. the fish made a magnificent lunch. The next day we repeated our success on the St John River; the St John River is part of the USA State of Maine's border with Canada. Some of the fish we caught that day may have been Canadian, but they tasted the same as the American fish! Maine has over 1,000 lakes and an untold number of rivers and streams. In two days we only saw two other people.
Largemouth Black Bass in the languages of France's neighbors:
(Catalan - perca americana), (Dutch -forelbaars, zwarte baars), (German - Amerikanischer schwarzbarsch, forellenbarsch), (Italian -persico trota), (Spanish - perca Americana,),
Connected posts:
Champignons on French Menus. The Champignon de Paris, the Button Mushroom in French Cuisine. The Mushrooms of France I.
Citron – The lemon; the fruit behind many of France's culinary successes. Also the Citron Vert - Lime, the Cedrat – the Citron, the Combava – the kaffir lime and the Chadec - the Pomelo.
Échalotes - Shallots. Shallots on French Menus. Shallots are One of the Most Important Herbs in the French Kitchen.
Écrivisse - Crayfish, Crawdad, or Crawfish. The Écrivisse is the Freshwater Crayfish and may be Among the Crustaceans on Your French Menu. Crustaceans III.
Behind the French Menu's links include hundreds of words, names, and phrases that are seen on French menus. There are nearly 400 articles that include over 2,000 French dishes with English translations and explanations. To search for more articles like this one simply add the word, words or phrase you are searching for to the words "Behind the French Menu" and search with Google or Bing.
Bryan G.Newman
Behind the French Menu
Copyright 2010, 2017.
For information on the unpublished book behind this blog contact Bryan Newman


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The new King Air Rolex Oyster watch
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Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered (Best Holocaust books review)
While Ruth Kluger's life trajectory shares certain features with other survivor stories, the way in which she narrates it-with deep intelligence, unblinking honesty and searing incisiveness, as well as the poet's facility for metaphor-puts STILL ALIVE apart. Her account avoids sentimentality and clichés; it eschews escapism and sanitizing as it unabashedly mines the depths of experience in extremis and brings to the surface a myriad of difficult truths.
Attempting to please no one, Kluger's courageous voice demands uncommon rigor of her reader as she debunks a number of myths-of roots, for example, ("...running away was the best thing I ever did...."); the myth of the moral superiority of survivors and the hope that some good must have come from the camps, ("Auschwitz was no instructional institution....You learned nothing there, and least of all humanity and tolerance"); the patriarchal myth and "old prejudice" that men will protect their women (whereas in reality the weakest were most exposed and often died abandoned and in misery). She dares heartbreaking speculations about her father's death and suggests that a "pornography of death" functioned in the camps.
Kluger is equally at home with the adult's capacity to analyze and the child's unerring eye for injustices, betrayals and humiliations as well as the inextinguishable nature of human desire. The story of her paranoid mother, who refused to release her to the safety of a Kindertransport, who as often as not gave unreliable guidance that nevertheless saved their lives at a crucial moment-the examination of this lifelong relationship becomes an exquisite and excruciating portrait of human connectedness in all its perplexities.
While the reader is compelled to agree with Kluger's insight that nothing good came of the concentration camps, and while one would wish for her a different past, STILL ALIVE is an unparalleled achievement that flies in the face of the murderers of Nazi Germany and of all brokers of hatred. One can only hope that her belief-that aside from love, reason constitutes the greatest good-is embraced by readers everywhere.
In the 1950s, when Kluger's children were small and growing up in the
, she caught German measles from them. Her family doctor said, "You must have led a sheltered childhood." In reality, she spent her early years in Theresienstadt and Birkenau-Auschwitz. Kluger's memoir which has already become a bestseller in U.S. is a startling, clear-eyed and unflinching examination of growing up as a Jewish girl during the Holocaust. Calmly, and chillingly, relating the everyday events of her youth Aryan students making colored paper swastikas and then asking Jewish students to judge them, breaking the law to go to an Aryan movie house to see Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and being challenged by a neighbor Kluger charts how she and her family moved from a middle-class Viennese life to dealing with the constant threat of death in the camps. Kluger's style is wry ("the muse of history has a way of cracking bad jokes at the expense of the Jews"), and she can shock readers with simple, honest admissions, such as her embarrassment, in the 1970s, when her mother asks unanswerable questions of a speaker about the death camps. Kluger, who is now professor emerita at UC-Irvine and has won awards for this memoir as well as her literary criticism, has written a deeply moving and significant work that raises vital questions about cultural representations of the Holocaust (why did the highly praised, socially conscious 1947 film Gentleman's Agreement never mention "the Jewish catastrophe"?) and searches for what it means to be a survivor. Already compared by European critics to the work of Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel, this is an important addition to Jewish, Holocaust and women's studies. (Nov.) Forecast: This is a standout in the crowded field of Holocaust memoirs and should have strong sales. Germany


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Everyday new technologies are inventing and this new technology is making our work very easy. Due to the latest technology our life is becoming much easier than we think.
With the help of such technology we can do most of the work with in single click or we can say with in few seconds. Similarly if we see the history of the technology invent than it is uncountable and we would not have determine that this technology will rise in such level; previously before few years there introduced a clock to make us easy to watch the time and to reach & do our work in time and after that lately mobile phone introduced for helping us to talk with our friends and family for the communications. But now see where the technology has reached; this time technology has come with the wrist watch and mobile phone at the same time.
This is one of the latest invent of technology which we can use it as our wrist watch, we simply need to wear it as we use to wear watch on our wrist. This technology works on both touch screen and the voice recognition technology. In the technology you can activate or deactivate the mobile phone according to your request through the red or green line given in device. This technology also has built in the scrolling functions which allow the users to move between the various functions which are available on device. Another best surprising thing in this device is it has built in camera which enable users to take pictures. This technology is one of the coolest technologies of ever.


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Pancreatic transplantation for diabetic patients with end-stage renal failure: a brief review
Fakhriya Alalawi1, Ajay Sharma2, Ahmed Halawa3
1 Department of Nephrology, Dubai Hospital, Dubai Health Authority, Dubai, UAE; University of Liverpool, Institute of Learning and Teaching, School of Medicine, Liverpool, UK2 University of Liverpool, Institute of Learning and Teaching, School of Medicine, Liverpool; Department of Nephrology, Royal Liverpool University Hospitals, Liverpool, UK3 University of Liverpool, Institute of Learning and Teaching, School of Medicine, Liverpool; Department of Nephrology and Transplantation, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, Herries Road, Sheffield, UK
Correspondence Address:Ahmed HalawaDepartment of Transplant Surgeon, Sheffield Teaching Hospital, Herries Road, Sheffield S5 7AU UKSource of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: NoneCheckDOI: 10.4103/jesnt.jesnt_9_18
Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
DOI: 10.4103/jesnt.jesnt_9_18
Renal transplant, undoubtedly, is the most physiological renal replacement therapy for patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESRD). It enhances patient's quality of life and improves expectancy when compared with dialysis therapy. However, diabetic kidney transplant recipients can have progressive diabetic nephropathy in renal allograft and other complications of diabetes resulting in relatively inferior patient and graft survival in comparison with nondiabetic patients with ESRD. Currently, the pancreatic-kidney transplant has proven to be a very good option in selected patients with ESRD with type-1 diabetes mellitus, that is, insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, and further smaller number of patients with ESRD with type-2 diabetes mellitus, that is, noninsulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. The aim of pancreatic transplantation is to enhance the quality of life, improve allograft and patient survival and to reverse some of the microvascular complications associated with diabetes.
Keywords: chronic kidney disease, diabetes mellitus, end-stage renal disease, kidney transplant alone, pancreas after kidney transplants, pancreas transplant alone, simultaneous pancreatic-kidney transplant


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Heidi is my Bernese Mountain Dog. Actually, my third – but my first rescue Berner. She is somewhat of a special needs girl because she suffers from chronic Dry Eye Syndrome, which is very rare in Berners. It's starting to slowly blind her.
Then just this past fall she developed a curious lump on her side, which I had examined immediately. The diagnosis: mast cell cancer. While undergoing a complete cancer work-up, we discovered something even worse. Cancer had started in her lungs, and the doctor ended up removing two of her lung lobes and treating her with eight sessions of chemotherapy.
Heidi came through it all just fine. Here she is in a video I made to celebrate her progress, half-way through the chemo. This is what I really love about dogs!
I have a confession to make. It was an accident, but in the midst of all of this, I neglected Heidi.
I let her outside for a couple of minutes during a late lunchtime, and didn't secure the gate. I figured it was no big deal. After all, she really never goes too far from me because she's partially blind.
But, she disappeared.
Barely half an hour later, I came out to call her. No Heidi.
I walked around the side of the house searching the area where my acre of property met my neighbor's half-acre. I fought down the urge to consider that she'd go beyond that invisible dividing line…
…because on the other side of that half-acre was one of the most ruthless commuting streets in all of town.
I stood there alone for a few seconds, trying to second-guess her movements. All that came to me was the steadily rising tempo of the after-school buses and early commuter cars as they whipped along.
And then, IT came. The TERROR, that my Heidi – a partially blind and frightened, loose dog – might bolt out into the traffic. Or worse.
I catapulted into action – I had to go find her.
When a quick, preliminary search of my neighbor's yard revealed nothing, I threw myself into full search mode. Fortunately, I had a very recent picture of her after her surgery and I quickly photoshopped that into a flier with my name, address and phone number to take around to the adjacent houses and streets (since our neighbors rarely know us anymore).
Traveling several blocks of houses down from mine in every direction – even dodging the relentless propulsion of speeding cars to skitter across the commuter road, in case Heidi had somehow made it – I stuffed fliers into mailboxes and grilled anyone who happened to be walking by. I didn't have much time. Dusk was lurking at the horizon, and I knew I had to find her soon.
Battling the rising panic to keep a clear head, I guessed Heidi probably was hunkered down somewhere for an afternoon nap – like she always did. That would mean she'd be hidden somewhere now, but up and about looking for dinner soon.
I went home and waited. The terror that had turned to panic had now seasoned into self-recrimination. But that wasn't going to help anything.
As calmly as I could, I sat in my living room monitoring the fading light of a mid-winter's evening. And when the light was just right, I gathered up Heidi's dog dish to use its familiar clang to summon her. It usually never fails.
One last loop around the perimeter of my house, dog dish in hand, I walked while calling her. I made a prolonged appeal along the "panic zone" – then stopped and listened hard. Nothing.
Finishing up my first sweep, I just stood alone in my driveway. What direction next?
Then, my cell phone rang. It was a lady named Ruth. She said she lived in the house for sale on the other side of the commuter road, maybe six houses down….
She was just walking her German Shepherd when she saw Heidi appear in the middle of the road, confused and frightened. Already, a young man in a yellow jeep had stopped traffic going southbound – and Ruth with her dog challenged the northbound traffic to a halt.
She grabbed Heidi by the collar, and led both dogs down her long driveway away from danger, stopping only to grab her mail. Once in the house, Ruth hustled Heidi into her dog's crate – with a cookie bribe. There, in her mail, was my flier. She called.
I came running! Ruth answered the door and immediately took me to Heidi. I was overwhelmed with emotion and gratitude…gratitude that there was another "dog mom" who happened to be out just then…SHE KNEW WHAT TO DO AND JUST DID IT.
I could rely on the love of another dog mom to save my dog's life.
A few days later, after I had calmed down, I wrapped up one of my new Silver Love Paw Necklaces and trudged through the headwinds of a nor'easter to slip it into Ruth's mailbox. She called me soon after to thank me, and we've exchanged a couple of resources helpful only to dog moms.
I'm so sorry she's leaving the neighborhood…
(For more information about Zelda's Song "Best in Show Silver Love Paw Print Necklace", go here – or see it on Etsy.)


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1) If sadness is the star of these poems…
Then it is sadness made beautiful. Look closely at what these poems describe: the arrangement of details will attend to the relationship of distances between objects in motion, bodies in flux. But these distances are not some other's sadness, they are the otherness of a sadness embodied in us all—the sadness we feel falling in and out of love, sadness for what we must shed in order to grow—a sadness not to dance to, but with…
2) If the problem is to bring abstraction to life…
Then it is exquisitely solved in these poems. Look at that first turn in "Animal Heart":
is over the lock has tumbled open
and tumbling are the blossoms and the girls' skirts
on the promenade like flags of countries
I want to visit. What I've known
in my body is my body smaller in hands larger,
The exterior scene in those opening lines, described with clear-eyed precision, is the external trigger, shifting the poem to an "I"—our narrator—and then to the interior state of our narrator's thoughts. How should we read those thoughts—that sublime image of the narrator in larger hands, those hands holding something smaller than expected? A reader will have to decide, but I would imagine some possible interpretations have already been proffered in that opening description, in the feelings evoked between:
...the cars carving the highwayfrom the white, and today
the blowsy peony, rose imposter, today
today the river runs again and over…
The choice to begin the poem with description in order to ease us into the poem's complex meditation effectively catches us inside the poem. The only way out from here is to go forward, but we have already been skillfully guided this far.
3) If you ever had a writing teacher say, Tell your reader what you are going to say, then say it…
Then these poems will untether that philosophy. Not until the last line of these poems will you feel the situation has been revealed. And it is precisely this late reveal that gives the reader a reason to read, to feel in full measure for instance the lyrical intensity of that final word in "Actual Animals": dumb. Thus these poems enact beautifully the struggles, both emotionally and physically, that precede realization. But none of that matters very much just yet. Dear readers, do your poetry jones a favor: appreciate the choices Rebecca Hazelton has made in these fine poems and get ready to follow a compelling new voice in American poetry.
Rebecca Hazelton attended The University of Notre Dame for her MFA in poetry, and completed her PhD at Florida State University. She was awarded a fellowship year as the Jay C. and Ruth Hall Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Creative Writing Institute, and also received a fellowship from Vermont Studio Center. Hazelton teaches creative writing at Beloit College. D.A. Powell chose her poem "Book of Janus" for inclusion in Best New Poets 2011.
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ZIFFPAGE TITLEData DrivenBy Connie Winkler | Posted 2005-05-23 Print
In 2005, more companies are requiring their executives to make decisions based on savvy use of business analytics software.
Data Driven
Likewise, James Craig, vice president of information systems at Cooper Communities, is just starting on the path to analytics and business intelligence. "My goal is to implement a real business intelligence tool and make it available on the desk of every executive," he says.
But managers at Cooper, a private developer and operator of retirement communities based in Rogers, Ark., are often on the road, so getting the data to them is as much of an issue as crunching the right numbers. For example, the president of one of Cooper's four operating companies was calling his assistants to read him daily sales figures. Instead, Craig's group created a data feed from various Microsoft Windows systems to the president's mobile phone and personal digital assistant.
"He's getting better information, faster," Craig says. "And it's delivered to where he is."
Quaker Chemical, an industrial-chemicals maker that posted $400 million in sales for 2004, has a more basic concern: dealing with spiraling costs of raw materials. Irving Tyler, chief information officer at the company based in Conshohocken, Pa., points to the volatile price of crude oil, a commodity used to produce many of Quaker's specialty chemical products for the steel manufacturing industry.
To be able to respond more quickly, Quaker is developing new business analytics applications to track the effect of these increases on its own prices, as well as its profitability for each customer and product line. Those applications will tap a data warehouse system from SAS.
"Over the years we've enriched our data with all kinds of dimensions, which allows us to look at different kinds of problems very quickly," Tyler says. "Now we want to look at the cost impacts by product, by customer, by geographyall the different things that help us target our pricing actions."
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This fall, the OVA will be offering a series of online coach development workshops on various topics to help coaches prepare for the season. In total, six webinars will be offered and delivered by some of the best coaches in the country. See full webinar descriptions below.
Coaches who attend the live webinars will receive:
- one (1) PD point towards the maintenance of their certification for each live webinar they attend up to a maximum of 3 points
- one (1) entry per live webinar towards a draw to win a free participation with accommodation at the 2018 OVA Coach Symposium in conjunction with the USport Men's National Championship at McMaster University in March
To attend the webinars, you simply have to provide us with your name, email address and NCCP number by using this form, at least 48 hours in advance of the webinar. A link to your webinar will be sent by email one (1) day before the session. (Attendance will be confirmed during the live webinar)
You can access recordings of all the webinars here.
Trainwave: Mental Performance for Volleyball Athletes
September 27th, 2017 @ 8pm
What is mental performance and why is it important for young volleyball athletes? In this session, Kyle will answer those questions and help coaches set a strong foundation to their mental performance plan. He will go over the Trainwave workbook and explain to coaches how to use it to effectively and positively impact their players.
This session will present the Trainwave workbook. You can purchase Trainwave for your players before the webinar by clicking here.
Keeping Your Athletes Healthy and Preventing Injuries
September 28th, 2017 @ 7pm
What does the latest research show about injuries in volleyball and how can you prepare your athletes to stay healthy throughout the season? This webinar will inform coaches about methods of preventing injuries in their daily coaching. It will also cover the important concept of "load" and how to manage it in practice to better prepare athletes for competition.
Maximizing your 13U & 14U Athletes' Development This Season
October 4th, 2017 @ 7pm
Acquiring the right skills while developing a passion for volleyball is what's most important for players when they begin in our sport. Is your annual plan designed in a way to achieve this goal? In this session, LP will discuss different ideas to help you prepare your players for the long term while inspiring them to love volleyball. This webinar will answer questions such as What kind of drills should I prioritize with my young players? What system of play should I use? How do I maximize the development of all the players on my team? How can I take advantage of the Triple Ball and Fair Play rules?
Seasonal Planning
October 9th, 2017 @ 7pm
A seasonal plan is an extremely useful tool but most coaches do not use one because they either find it too complex or don't know how to build one. In this session, coaches will learn how to create a simple seasonal plan that emphasizes their training priorities and that organizes the different areas of the players' development in a meaningful way. This webinar will answer questions such as How much training vs competing should we do? How do I plan physical training and mental performance in my program? How long should my General Preparation Phase be?
How to Design Good Drills in the General Preparation Phase
October 16th, 2017 @ 7pm
Designing drills that are productive and addressing your learning objectives is essential to the improvement of your athletes, especially at the beginning of the season when skill acquisition is most important. In this session, Chris will discuss different strategies to build the best possible activities for your athletes during your General Preparation Phase.
Game and Practice Preparation for Performance
October 21st, 2017 @ 9:30am
Everybody knows that physical training is crucial for the developing athlete. What should the athletes do at different stages of their development is less obvious. In this session, the experts from Mettle Sports Training will guide you through the basics of physical training for the volleyball athletes and how to incorporate it in your training program. You will learn how you can better prepare your players for practices and games.


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The Berg video
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The first time I saw the Berg decapitation video, I didn't really see the video. I cringed, looked away, turned down the volume when the scream was heard and pretended I saw the whole thing. Then I read Mark Ames' article linked above and I had to see it again. I did. It wasn't pretty - but the thing that struck me was the victim's passiveness. He just sat there and was slaughtered without a fight. Then those screams seem totally unconnected to the video... it started me looking around to see what's the word on the web:
As Ames notes there are major questions with the official story. Rense lists them all, but let me highlight a few here:
The perpetrator doesn't seem to be Zarqawi, because he doesn't talk like Zarqawi and he doesn't limp like Zarqawi is supposed to. Zarqawi was supposed to be dead anyway. Berg had personally known Moussaoui(!), one of the 9/11 hijackers. Then there's the question of the lack of massive bleeding.
I don't even want to touch (much less endorse at this point) more uncertain matters such as the chair (the type is common of course), or the more challenging conclusions, but can someone tell me what the hell was that we saw? Because it certainly isn't what they say it is...


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Artificial intelligence is a technology breakthrough that is part of an average person's everyday life. Our smartphones use AI for their digital assistants like Siri and Cortana. Amazon is using AI to predict what products you need or may be interested in when you shop. Listen to Pandora? The music you are hearing is based on an AI algorithm. And Facebook is using AI facial recognition to suggest "tags" when you upload a picture. Every industry and consumer is going to be impacted by AI, and banking is no exception.
In a previous piece, we discussed the role of artificial intelligence in the banking industry as it stands today. Here, we delve into the future of banking and see how AI will impact the industry in the coming years.
Artificial intelligence now…
The banking world is using AI technologies in myriad ways. For instance, banks are using AI to enhance fraud detection activities on credit cards. AI tools dramatically reducing error rates, as well as cut down on the time employees must dedicate to these
In addition, AI is having a key impact on how banks interact with and gain insights from their customers. Intelligent digital assistants can process big data much more quickly and extract the information necessary to better serve clients, accurately assess risk and assign interest rates. What's more, AI-based keyword recognition and speech analytics capabilities to guide client interactions and improve the customer experience.
"Smart machines and technology can turn data into customer insights and enhance service provisions, bringing the digital experience closer to the human interaction for consumers," stated Banking Tech contributor Gideon Hyde.
AI in the future
Bank Innovation contributor Philip Ryan proclaimed that 2017 would be the year of AI in banking, and for good reason. AI can help improve the customer experience without compromising privacy, for one. Being able to accurately assess customer data is also helping banks with fraud risk management activities.
"There is a series of disruptive changes taking place now that is dramatically reducing the fraud rate," Arif Ahmed, senior vice president of payments innovation for U.S. Bank, told Ryan.
Forbes contributor Steve Culp noted that AI is already becoming a major disruptive force in the finance departments of the banking world. In the coming years, as well, AI will be able to transform central functions in finance, like intercompany reconciliations, and help banks with strategic functions like financial analysis, asset allocation and forecasting, thanks to the speed and accuracy with which AI tools can assess portfolios.
It's going to be critical for banks to get ready for the emergence of AI. Investing in technology and innovation is one of the most important aspects of running a successful financial services operation in today's world, and keeping eyes and ears open when it comes to these kinds of artificial intelligence solutions is key.
Counts to have the right tools
The future of AI in banking is bright, and thanks to tools like DealPoint, banks and fintechs alike can take the big data being gathered and transform it into key business insights. Gone are the days when bank managers had to consult pages and pages of Excel documents and trudge through mountains of data – with DealPoint, analysis happens quickly and effectively so loans can be accurately assigned.
No matter how banks decide to utilize AI technology in the coming years, one thing is certain: AI tools will be a part of the industry, because consumers and banking professionals alike are becoming more excited about this technology as it grows more useful for their everyday and professional lives.
For more information about how fintech and banking intersect and to talk about how tools like DealPoint will make a difference in the coming years, contact the experts at Brilliance Financial Technology today.


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Hospital, Physician Partners Face Penalties for Privacy Leaks
HHS in its long-awaited privacy rule released today expanded liability of business associates of hospitals, physicians and other HIPAA-covered entities if they release data in ways that violate patient privacy.
Called the "omnibus" privacy and security rule because of its broad reach, it updates earlier Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act rules with more stringent privacy and security measures passed under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
"Much has changed in healthcare since HIPAA was enacted over fifteen years ago," said HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in a news release coordinated with the posting of the 563 – page rule in the Federal Register. "The new rule will help protect patient privacy and safeguard patients' health information in an ever-expanding digital age."
The rule clarifies when breaches of information must be reported to the Office for Civil Rights, sets new rules on the use of patient-identifiable information for marketing and fundraising, and expands direct liability under the law to the so-called "business associates" of hospitals and physicians and other "HIPAA-covered entities." Those associates might include a provider's healthcare data-miners and health information technology service providers.
It also restores a limited right of consent to patients to control the release to their insurance company of records about their treatment if the pay for that treatment is out of pocket. And it spells out how the greatly increased penalties for privacy and security violations under the ARRA are to be applied.
"This final omnibus rule marks the most sweeping changes to the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules since they were first implemented," said Leon Rodriguez, director of the Office for Civil Rights at HHS, also in the news release. The office is the lead privacy and security enforcement agency under HIPAA.
"These changes not only greatly enhance a patient's privacy rights and protections, but also strengthen the ability of my office to vigorously enforce the HIPAA privacy and security protections, regardless of whether the information is being held by a health plan, a healthcare provider or one of their business associates," Rodriguez said.
Official publication of the new rule in the Federal Register is scheduled Jan. 25. Its effective date is March 26 with a compliance date 180 days later, or Sept. 21, 2013.
Originally posted in ModernHealthcare.com by Joseph Conn


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This is a regular series which attempts to combine my passion for trading cards with my interest in celebrities. Today's featured cards highlight teams that won last week to help their playoff drive.
The New York football Giants beat the Dallas Cowboys to win the NFC East and make the playoffs (the Cowboys will not make the playoffs). Representing the Giants is Christina Applegate, one of my all-time favorites. Last week, I bemoaned the fact that she was not wearing a Chiefs jersey in an ad, like her showmate Ed O'Neill did. Well, Applegate more than makes up for that by wearing the Giants jersey for her Celebrity Jersey Card debut. I know she is undersized for a DE, but I am sure she would wreak havoc on defense (I wouldn't mind being tackled by her). The best #78 I could find is Greg Bishop, an offensive lineman from the 90's. I'd much rather have Applegate on my team!
The San Francisco 49ers had a great season and secured the #2 seed with a win last weekend. Jim Harbaugh has done a remarkable job coaching them. Representing them today is Marisa Miller, known mostly for her modelling work. For her Celebrity Jersey Card, Miller models #21, worn by Hall of Famer Deion Sanders. I love Miller's old school look, but Applegate still gets my vote between these two.
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Celeb Jersey Cards #86 Christina Applegate & Marisa Miller
5 comments:
- Fuji said...
Marisa Miller gets my vote... although 15 years ago, it was all about Ms. Applegate.
- January 6, 2012 at 7:58 AM
- piratesfan731 said...
I think you mean San Francisco 49ers.
- January 6, 2012 at 9:32 AM
- Johngy said...
Fuji-Call me old school...I still vote Applegate.
PiratesFan-Nice catch. I have corrected it.
- January 6, 2012 at 10:21 AM
- Iain Schnaible said...
Yeah... Christina Applegate isn't in a Giants jersey. It's a Bruce Smith Bills jersey, from when she had a sitcom based in Buffalo.
The white stripe on the sleeves of the Giants jerseys from the time frame are much narrower.
- January 11, 2016 at 9:06 PM
- Johngy said...
Wow. How did I miss that. I will have to correct that in the future. Thanks for reading and alerting me.
- January 13, 2016 at 11:14 AM
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Grand Forks man charged with domestic assault for third time this year
Editor's note: This story was originally published Nov. 16, 2017.
A Grand Forks man has been arrested and charged with domestic assault for the third time in 2017.
Travis Michael Lee Holt, 32, was charged with aggravated domestic assault Tuesday, a Class C felony, for allegedly choking a woman and striking her with a can of soup, causing a laceration and bruising in the 1100 block of 26th Avenue South.
The incident marks the second time this year Holt has been arrested for allegedly assaulting the same victim and the third time he has been assaulted for domestic violence this year, court records show.
Holt pleaded guilty to two separate misdemeanor counts of domestic assault with different victims that both occurred June 9. In both cases, Holt was sentenced to 30 days in jail, one case with 20 days suspended, the other with 22 days suspended. In both cases, Holt was allowed to serve the 10- and eight-day stints in jail in broken weekend shifts, according to court records.
He was also ordered to complete a domestic violence program.
Holt was arrested on July 17 for violating an order prohibiting contact with one of the victims and ordered to spend 15 days in jail. He was again allowed to serve his time in weekend stints at the jail and was released into the public during the week.
His next court appearance is set for Dec. 18. Holt is currently listed as representing himself in the matter.


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ModeShape offers a WebDAV service which allows any WebDAV compliant clients to interact with the repository, mainly around managing files and folders. Although this represents a relatively small subset of the repository's capabilities, it may prove useful in certain situations.
Depending on whether you want to use the WebDAV service in the JBoss Application Server or another web server, there are 2 different options:
To embed the WebDAV service in your own application, you need to use the modeshape-web-jcr-webdav-war artifact which comes pre-packaged with all the default dependencies (including ModeShape). The easiest way to use & customize this is to first add the artifact as a dependency in your project:
after which you need to overwrite (overlay) your own web.xml, repository configuration and optional additional dependencies. The former is the most important as it contains a reference towards your own custom repository configuration:
|Maven automatically overlays dependencies of type war, so all you need to do is make sure your project structure contains the correct paths: src/main/resource and src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml.
See also our examples for such a configuration.
JBoss Wildfly
Once installed into Wildfly, the ModeShape Wildfly kit provides the WebDAV service out-of-the-box, via a web application named modeshape-webdav.war. This application is configured by default via the standalone-modeshape.xml server configuration file and allows access to all the repositories configured & deployed via Wildfly.
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|Arkansas executed death row inmate Ledell Lee
Arkansas executed death row inmate Ledell Lee late Thursday night shortly after the US Supreme Court denied emergency motions in his case.
He requested Holy Communion as his last meal, and declined to make a final statement, the Arkansas Department of Corrections said.
His execution was Arkansas' first since 2005. The state had planned to execute eight inmates over 10 days starting April 17, but four of the men have received stays for various reasons
Lee was convicted in 1995 in the murder of Debra Reese, 26, two years prior. Reese was found dead in her home in Jacksonville, Arkansas, where she had been strangled and beaten with a small wooden bat her husband gave her for protection.
Several of Reese's neighbors saw Lee near the house and identified him to police.
Several of Reese's neighbors saw Lee near the house and identified him to police.


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One easy, inexpensive fix is to install low-flow shower heads and faucets in the bathrooms and kitchen. At a cost of about $15, you can decrease water bills by $45-100 a year. Another way to save is to lower the water level in toilet tanks. Having these features makes the property appealing because of the savings renters will experiences.
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Sealing off the windows and door frames will also cut down energy bills. Cracks around windows and doors let hot and cold air escape. Find some weather-stripping at a local hardware store that will stand up to rain, wind, and snow; you can cut heating and cooling bills by 6% or more, another incentive for renters to sign a contract. While you're at it, you might make sure that there are window blinds in place. This will keep the property cool in the summer (and cut down on carpets fading in the sun) and trap heat inside the rooms during the winter.
These fixes are things you can do as a landlord to promote your property and entice tenants to come your way. Taking care of these things before someone moves in is helpful because energy-conscious renters are growing more abundant; if you handle the installation and include it as part of the property's appeal, this limits any negotiations between you and renters who might want to update the property to be more energy efficient.


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More than 23 kilograms of suspected heroin was seized at Pearson International Airport in April, the Canada Border Services Agency said Monday.
The seizures, which occurred on April 21 and 28, came off of flights from Pakistan. After monitoring the baggage off-load, officers seized two suspicious pieces of luggage and found several taped packages of suspected heroin inside.
"Significant seizures like these at the Toronto Pearson International Airport demonstrate that the agency's efforts to prevent crime in our communities are working," said Goran Vragovic, Regional Director General of the CBSA in the GTA Region.
The suspected narcotics were turned over to Peel Regional Police for further investigation.
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