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Gilead paid Pharmasett $11 billion because it knew very well that it was about to rip off the American people and quickly recoup this sum and much more. Gilead announced that it would use its newly acquired monopoly rights to charge a whopping $84,000 per treatment for Solvadi (and $96,000 for Harvoni, a slightly different formulation), even though the actual production costs are estimated to be somewhere around $68 - $136. Gilead's markup over costs may be close to 1,000-to-1, probably a world record.
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Given the monopoly price, tens of thousands of Americans and millions of people around the world infected with Hepatitis C are being told by their doctors, their health insurers, or Medicaid, that they don't "yet" qualify for Sofosbuvir because they are not yet sick enough. Their livers are not yet scarred enough. They are not yet dead enough. They should come back when they are nearly dead, if it's not too late.
Sofosbuvir could reach tens of millions of people worldwide if the drug were available at its true production cost (inclusive of R&D). At $500 per treatment, or even $1,000, millions of people around the world would be able to access this cure. But today, only a tiny fraction do, those who are covered by Medicare, Medicaid, or private insurance to pay $84,000 or some other astronomical price set by Gilead, or a sliver of people abroad who are lucky recipients of some specialized access program. Outside of the U.S., countries and patients must jump through so many burning hoops that access is fatally compromised, and the human right to health is fundamentally violated.
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America has handed life and death decisions to corporate greed. Gilead is indeed the death panel that we were once warned about. Yet the Gilead death panel rations a life-saving cure not because it is too expensive to provide, but because it serves the interest of a patent-protected corporate monopoly. It is time for the U.S. citizens to demand the intellectual property rights that U.S. Government-backed science should give them; and for the government to use rational price-setting to tame untrammeled corporate greed and the monopoly power created by a highly inefficient and unfair patent system.


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<pauld> Scribe: dorchard
<pauld> Agenda: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-addressing/2006Jan/0092.html
No objections to agenda.
Minutes of F2F accepted: http://www.w3.org/ws/addr/6/01/19-ws-addr-minutes.html; http://www.w3.org/ws/addr/6/01/20-ws-addr-minutes.html
marc h: issue cr17 resolution
marc h: resolution accepted introduces some conflict in the spec
will add after cr 20 to agenda
<bob> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-addressing/2006Jan/att-0055/soap11onewayhttpbinding.html
<pauld> Scribe: pauld
dorchard: walks through his two
SOAP 1.1 proposals
... both are 'one-way' first had no envelope in the response which received some push-back
... both return status code 202
... optionalality has caused confusion - is it at the SOAP or the HTTP level?
<bob> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-addressing/2006Jan/att-0072/soap11reqoptresphttpbinding.html
dorchard: 202 allows SOAP envelope in the response or not is the difference between the proposals
marc: is the envelope in the 202 response a response in SOAP terms, but rather an RM-Ack-like protocol response
<bob> Links are to 1) the one way proposal, and 2) the request optional response proposal
dorchard: SOAP 1.1 (1.2 either?)
purposly blurs the lines here - my perspective
... something on top defines the distinction
anish: same question as Marc,
service respons with 202 is different with responding 200, in
both cases an envelope comes back
... 200 means done processing
dorchard: i don't think that's what SOAP says
anish: talking about HTTP
... 202 is non-commital - processing may or may not be complete
... if a 202 includes a RM or whatever response ..
dorchard: SOAP 1.1 in particular doesn't give us any terminology or anything to hang our hat on to describe this distinction
<Nilo> but does not HTTP's application layer semantics require that the response in a 200 OK be a response to the original request?
anish: SOAP 1.1 doesn't have an MEP ..
dorchard: discussion of terminology - exchange, MEP I deliberately avoid using these SOAP 1.2 terms
anish: two distinct cases 1) 202 no body, 2) 202 with a body
dorchard: understand why you might choose to see it that way, but I disagree
paco: the replyto of
non-anonymous means reply isn't going to be returned in the
HTTP response, which we indicate with 202. which is OK
... we need to describe how this exchange takes place, but I'm agnostic how
<dorchard> From soap 1.1 spec "SOAP HTTP follows the semantics of the HTTP Status codes for communicating status information in HTTP. For example, a 2xx status code indicates that the client's request including the SOAP component was successfully received, understood, and accepted etc."
<TRutt> +q
anish: renaming soap optional response to soap optional ack could be one way forward
marc: want to push on the impact on our specification, in particular section 3.4 and how to formulate a reply
dorchard: isn't that a separate issue?
marc: what is OK to send back, a bare RM envelope, or do I have to follow rules in the addressing spec
<TRutt> There is a big use case for a reply with a soap header only in the envelope
dorchard: I don't follow
+1 to Tom
dorchard: WG has purposely avoided binding to a transport in our SOAP binding document
marc: section 3.4 is very
specific about creating a SOAP reply, wouldn't this envelope be
covered by our document?
... seems like the proposal goes outside of what's allowed in section 3.4
paco: i think david is trying to layer away this kind of detail, and seems acceptable to me
marc: I need to understand where we're at
dorchard: use-case for the envelope is reliable messaging where the one-way message has been secured, but not processed
a header block which allowed a place for a intermediary to trigger if non-anonymous processing is allowed
<bob> zakim ack trutt
trutt: a header only response would meet most people's needs and allow the distinction
<Zakim> dhull, you wanted to strike "Any SOAP Envelope that is a response MUST be sent using a separate connection."
dhull: suggest striking "Any SOAP Envelope that is a response MUST be sent using a separate connection."
<dorchard> dorchard: would have liked to have a special defined header or attribute that provides a place for any spec that specifies a *To to indicate that it allows anon *To value. then intermediary has only one place to look and one dependency.
dhull: not helpful, and I don't think it adds anything, and may simplify the discussion
<TRutt> How about Request optional Soap Header Response?
<Zakim> anish, you wanted to mention a minor ed. concern about saying that '202' should be sent in case of success
anish: minor editorial suggestion: concerned about saying that '202' should be sent in case of success
dorchard: and a fault would come
back on a 500?
... faults come back regardless of this binding
... this is additive to the existing SOAP 1.1 binding
tony: sending of a fault depends upon timing
<TonyR> tony: this is not so much a success response, as it is a non-failure acknowledgment
anish: wording of BP may be useful "upon successful outcome of a HTTP request"
dhull: /
dorchard: 1.1 allows sending back a response ; this binding enables sending back a response following a 202
discussion over meaning of 202 and existing SOAP 1.1 binding
dorchard: SOAP 1.1 doesn't distinguish who sent back the 202 response. in Addressing we say by definition you must use the SOAP 1.1 binding, but you may also chose to support this note
discussion spirals around the meaning of response .. document isn't stand-alone, it builds upon existing SOAP 1.1 binding
dhull: i find the sending of 202 with optional responses bothersome .. might just be wordsmithing
vikas: is there anyhing to reconnect a session?
dorchard: akin to 300 status codes, seems a little out of scope for this discussion
trutt: what we need to get back is a header, but what about a SOAP fault
paul: fault processing is governed by FaultTo, this is about ReplyTo being non-anonymous
marc: is this 202 with an envelope a reply message covered by the addressing specification, or not?
paco: would it help to have text to describe how this message exchange and the optional envelope relates to the addressing request-reply exchange? I think it might be helpful.
<dhull> Replace section 2 with: "In addition to the options provided by [SOAP 1.1], the HTTP [RFC 2616] response MAY also have a 202 status code. If so, the response body MAY be empty."
marc: do we need to add an
opt-out clause to 3.4 to allow you to send another message
ahead of the formulated reply?
... I think we need some very careful wordsmithing to pull apart these concepts (in core, soap and wsdl documents)
... to enable sending back an intermediate message without any addressing headers
... this seems like a separate message exchange outside of SOAP semantics
<dorchard> 10.2.3 202 Accepted
<dorchard> The request has been accepted for processing, but the processing has
<dorchard> not been completed. The request might or might not eventually be
<dorchard> acted upon, as it might be disallowed when processing actually takes
<dorchard> place. There is no facility for re-sending a status code from an
<dorchard> asynchronous operation such as this.
<dorchard> The 202 response is intentionally non-committal. Its purpose is to
<dorchard> allow a server to accept a request for some other process (perhaps a
<dorchard> batch-oriented process that is only run once per day) without
<dorchard> requiring that the user agent's connection to the server persist
<dorchard> until the process is completed. The entity returned with this
<dorchard> response SHOULD include an indication of the request's current status
<dorchard> and either a pointer to a status monitor or some estimate of when the
<dorchard> user can expect the request to be fulfilled.
anish: 202 is clear that SOAP message has been received, but not processed. Therefore any message sent back in 202 can't be the response
marc: worried about how this changes my current understanding of the SOAP processing model
<anish> dave -- if you don't like 'optional ack', can you suggest a better term. I'm quite open to a different term. As long as it does not use 'response' which is used by the 'soap request-response'
dhull: if i'm using anonymous
address, i expect 200 with response; conversely if i don't get
back a 200, or a fault e.g. 202 - that's not using anonymous
response channel
... is that about right?
<dorchard> anish, I specifically like the term "response". It is most definitely a soap response
<marc> think we could make some clarifications in David's doc (section 2) to make it clear that the SOAP message in the HTTP response is not a SOAP response in the normally accepted sense.
<anish> dave, but how do you distinguish a 'response' sent with a 200 and a 'response' sent with 202. They are quite different.
<marc> i.e. normal SOAP processing rules do not apply, users should not expect mU processing etc
<anish> +1
dorchard: to send a SOAP envelope with a body and a response, you should send back a 200
dhull: interop danger that the RM Ack will be taken as the response
paco: how will that happen?
dull: split case, empty 202 could indicate the response or fault went elsewhere,
<TRutt> In WS-RX the ack to is out of band, it is pre negotiated on the sequence create request exchange
dorchard: someone could send back a 202 with a body and that would be the response, but we're talking envelopes not bodies ..
<TRutt> That is , there is no reply to or fault to for the ws-rx ack
<dhull> Paco, I'm not sure this particular case came up (but I may well have missed it)
<anish> at the f2f we decided on a one-way, which has not become request-optional-response on the ML
dorchard: object to the term "optional-ack"
<Zakim> dorchard, you wanted to object to "optional ack". Ack is a terrible term.
dorchard: my spec may allow 202 with a SOAP header, simply a kind of response, not necessarily an ack
<anish> request-optional-piggyback ? ;-)
trutt: it's a little more tricky
as WS-RX may ack out of band
... will send mail on this
<dorchard> tom, you are absolutely right that ws-rx implies a "stateful" acksto, where the message itself isn't self-describing wrt soap response on current http connection.
<TRutt> s/ack out of bane/request for request for ack out of band ( in earlier create sequence exchange) (in earlier createSequence exchange)/
bob: you and anish have been working on wordsmithing in irc, seems to be of value. Can you undertake to tweek that?
dorchard: yes
<bob> http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/addr/cr-issues/#cr18
paul: issue is precise meaning of
anonymous [destination] property, something we encountered
during CR testing
... would like a clarification, possibly in the SOAP binding
dhull: may be binding specific
paul: at the moment we're
ambigous and vendors have gone both ways
... Microsoft requires To to be specified for dispatch, and our spec allows that
... others default to the URI posted to, which is implicitly allowed
<anish> paul, i did not quite understand why u think a 'anon' URI for [destination] in a reply is ok. Is there place in the spec that you can point to, which says what it means?
<David_Illsley> From SOAP binding... 3.5... When "http://www.w3.org/@@@@/@@/addressing/anonymous" is specified as the address of an EPR, the underlying SOAP protocol binding provides a channel to the specified endpoint.
paco: related to CR20 about defaulting of To in a reply
<anish> right, we say what it means in the context of EPR not in the context of [destination]
<anish> which is a URI
paco: leaving things as they are, people to divine what anonymous means in various common cases is not helpful
marc: sees the two issues as being orthoganal
paco: it's about the meaning of anonymous, so I see them as being related
dhull: anywhere your binding
defines the value of the immediate destination, that makes a
sensible default value. We need to be constrained to something
within the binding and the named SOAP property works
... anonymous destination means SOAP destination property
... [that's a proposal]
paco: are you saying that's limited to the HTTP binding?
<marc> the two things are orthogonal: this issue is about the meaning of an anon [destination] regardless of how that value arises in a message which can be via a default or explicit inclusion
dhull: it's SOAP, not HTTP specific
paco: may not work with other
... do you want to limit this to request-response?
dhull: no
marc: not sure that immediate
destination is tied to request-response
... it has a meaning in response too
paco: we can't make a generic statement for all transports, we could break something
discussion around transports which might not provide an immediate destination
dhull: we could scope this to request-response
dull: in the case of proxies, anonymous may not be what you want to do
bob: lets take this to the list
trutt: i was originally thinking that a binding would provide the default, but interested in what the destination means
MikeV: sent an analysis to the testing mailing list
scribe: the spec is self consistant at the moment, and the meaning of anonymous is 'undefined'
MikeV: adding a defaulting mechanism would be adding a new feature
marc: how did this come up in the first place
paul: it's my fault!
marc: what's wrong with the status quo if the tests were at fault? unlikely to happen in the wild given how EPRs work
paul: would be happy if we explicitly stated 'anonymous to is undefined"
marc: we shouldn't preclude anonymous to given there may be use-cases such as two machines directly connected
anish: find the undefined
problematic, but am puzzled what this means for response
... nowhere do we say that an anonymous destination means 'the back channel' even for the reply
... as it is, anonymmous for wsa:To is undefined for both request and response
trutt: it seems odd to but
anonymous in To for an EPR. Are we using anonymous at runtime
as an optimisation?
... will send another mail on this!
<anish> too many dragons in 'anonymous'
paco: anonymous doesn't always
have meaning, not with all transports.
... I'm very weary about defaulting to property to anonymous. I'm not saying status quo is broken, just not very reasonable. Having to default to a meaningless value isn't useful.
... suggest we use a similar resolution to CR17
... doesn't make sense to treat optimisations on a per-transport baisis.
<bob> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-addressing/2006Jan/0078
marc: defaults should be simple syntactic defaults, "no To means default is anonymous" regardless of context and state.
<anish> +1 to what marc said
marc: I'd rather have no defaults than context specific defaults
paco: usage of anonymous
currently depends upon context, e.g. transport in use
... we're trading one problem for another
marc: defaulting stuff only
should reply in syntactic situations. I agree anonymous depends
upon transport, but that's really at another processing
... common use cases deserve common defaulting mechanisms
... anonymous to on a HTTP response is the 99 case
trutt: inclined to disallowing anonymous to on a request
discussion of how draconiun proposals are ..
dhull: very dangerous to argue based upon the HTTP 'common' use-case as we want to go beyond that
<Zakim> anish, you wanted to say that it is a premature optimization (having a default)
anish: we're into premature
optimisation when we talk about defaulting here. Validating
addressing headers independent upon the context will be more
complex with different defaults for request/response
... we could make the destination property optional
bob: let's work on this on the list, see you next monday


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So long as the accident was caused by the negligence of another driver, under the laws of Pennsylvania, you would likely be able to recover for your injuries. Exactly what you would be able to make a claim for will depend on the type of car insurance policy you have, the seriousness of the injuries, and the nature of the accident (pedestrian, auto, etc.). There are many variables and it is important to have your case reviewed by a qualified car accident lawyer who will review the facts of the case and advise you on how to proceed.
There are three legal avenues available to individuals injured in intersection auto accidents. First, medical bills would be payable via PIP (personal injury protection). PIP is paid by your own car insurance company. That's how PIP law works in all PA auto cases including accidents in Philadelphia. Among other things, PIP covers medical bills and lost wages. In PA, the required minimum amount of medical coverage under PIP is $5,000. Many residents of Philadelphia purchase higher limits; $10,000 and $50,000 medical coverage limits are very common.
In addition, it is important to note that PIP is available regardless of fault; this is the no-fault principle at play. Stated another way, it does not matter who caused the car accident. If you're injured, you make a claim for medical benefits with your own car insurance company. This sounds counter-intuitive to many people, but the reality is that this is how PA's no-fault law works.
Second, a pedestrian, driver or passenger can file a lawsuit against the at-fault driver and receive financial compensation for medical bills not covered by PIP, lost wages and pain and suffering. Pain and suffering claims may be limited depending on your tort election (i.e., whether you selected "limited tort" or "full tort" on your auto insurance policy).
Third, an individual injured in an auto accident in Philadelphia can make a claim for UIM (underinsured) or UM (uninsured) benefits. UIM/UM benefits are not mandatory. Unfortunately, many people opt out of UIM/UM coverage. If you have UIM/UM, you can make an insurance claim with your own car insurance company in two situations. See below for more info.
Auto vs. Auto Intersection Accident
If the accident only involved vehicles and was not a pedestrian-auto accident and you are a PA resident insured under a car insurance policy issued in this state, you will be bound by your tort election. If you elected full tort, you can make a claim for both economic losses like medical bills and lost pay and pain and suffering. If you elected limited tort, you can make a claim for economic losses and pain and suffering if and only if your injuries are serious and permanent. Alternatively, you can make a claim for pain and suffering if the accident falls within certain statutory exceptions (i.e., you were hit by a drunk driver, you were hit by a car registered in another state, etc.).
Auto vs. Pedestrian Intersection Accident
Pedestrians who are injured in pedestrian-auto accidents in Philadelphia are not bound by their tort elections. PA law has been clear on this point since 2004, when the Pennsylvania Supreme Court made it clear that a pedestrian's auto insurance tort election did not apply when making a claim for injuries following a pedestrian-auto accident. See L.S. v. David Eschbach, Jr., Inc. (Pa. 2004).
UIM claims are made when the at-fault driver does not have enough insurance to compensate you for your injuries and damages. In other words, the at-fault driver was underinsured. UIM coverage tends to apply in serious injury cases where the at-fault driver is covered under a low limit policy (i.e., $15,000). If your injuries and damages are valued well over $15,000, you would first seek the $15,000 from the at-fault driver and then make a UIM claim. UM claims are made when the at-fault driver cannot be located, i.e., a hit and run situation. If the intersection accident was a hit and run, then there may be a UM claim.
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Joe Harriott
Initially a bebopper, he is now widely acknowledged as one of the worldwide pioneers of free jazz. He was educated at Kingston's famed Alpha Boys School, which produced a number of prominent Jamaican musicians. He moved to the UK as a working musician in 1951 and lived in the country for the rest of his life. Harriott was part of a wave of Caribbean jazz musicians who arrived in Britain during the 1950s, including Dizzy Reece, Harold McNair, Harry Beckett and Wilton Gaynair.
While recovering from tubercolosis in 1958, Harriott developed his own style of free jazz independently from Ornette Coleman, although he used a piano-based quintet (sax, trumpet, piano, drums, bass). They recorded "Free Form" (1960) and "Abstract" (1962), considered the manifestos of British free-jazz, and an even more radical experiment, "Movement" (1963).
In 1965 Harriott met Indian violinist John Mayer, who, after relocating to Britain in 1952, had already composed "Raga Music" (1952) for solo clarinet, "A Violin Sonata" (1955), the suite "Dances of India" (1958) for sitar, flute, tabla, tambura and orchestra, and "Shanta Quintet" (1966) for sitar and strings.
The two musicians formed the ensemble Indo-Jazz Fusions. Harriott thus pioneered the fusion with Indian music culminating with "Indo-Jazz Fusions" (September 1966) and the "Indo-Jazz Suite" (October 1966), two albums (mostly composed by Mayer) recorded by a double quintet: Harriott's jazz quintet and an Indian quintet led by Mayer plus Diwan Motihar on sitar, flute, tambura and tabla. He pursued this idea on "Hum-Dono" (1969), featuring Indian guitarist Amancio D'Silva, trumpeter Ian Carr and vocalist Norma Winstone.
Harriott died of cancer in January 1973.
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Keto Travel Snacks for Every Trip
If you've read our destination guides, you'll know that we splurge on vacation. That being said, there's a difference between having one indulgent meal and abandoning your healthy diet completely. Eating a keto diet has helped us with anxiety and weight management. We stick to low carb eating most of the time, so that we can enjoy those decadent moments without guilt. Plus, it just feels good to not be bloated — especially while traveling. That's why it was easy for us to come up with the keto travel snacks we pack for every trip!
The best keto snacks for traveling will be high in fat, moderate in protein and low in carbs. Ideally, they should be compact, require no refrigeration, and be TSA compliant (no liquids!). Choose travel sizes or use storage bags to ration out portions ahead of time.
During layovers, you can always grab hard boiled eggs, cooked bacon and sausages from places like Starbucks or McDonald's. On the go, you'll need things that are low in carbs, non-perishable, and satisfying. Whether you're in a plane, train, bus or car, you'll be sharing the air space with others, so try to avoid anything too odorous. I'm allergic to oranges and lemme tell you, everytime someone cracked one open on the bus, I wanted to hurl. Don't be that person!
So, without further ado, let's talk about the low carb, keto-friendly snacks you can carry with you as you travel. Being prepared can help you stay on track and have no regrets following a fantastic vacation!
For a long time, almonds have been my go-to snack of choice. When I had gestational diabetes during one of my pregnancies, it helped me quell my hunger without spiking my sugar levels. We estimate that I ate around 75,000 almonds during the third trimester. It's probably well into the millions by now!
After going keto, my love for almonds intensified. I'll be honest, though. They aren't all created equal to me. I've got to have Blue Diamond Almonds, preferably the Wasabi Soy flavor. The combination of salty and slight sweetness hits all of my cravings and makes me feel like I've eaten something of substance. They are a little spicy, but even our four-year-old really likes them, too!
As a kid, I didn't spend a lot of time with my mother, but when I did, it often involved pistachios. The red ones, specifically, that would leave a residue from the dye on my fingers. There's a theory that, when you have to work for food, it tastes better and I tend to agree. My small hands worked hard prying open those shells, and every pistachio tasted like heaven. They're on the higher end of the recommended nuts for the keto diet, but they are worth it to me.
Again, I have a preferred brand. I'll only buy Wonderful Pistachios. At home, I'll get the original roasted and salted flavor, but while traveling, I get the ones without shells. It just seems pretty obnoxious to be sitting on a plane with a tray table full of shells. Plus, due to my germaphobia and desire to stay healthy while traveling, I avoid using my hands to eat, if possible. Instead, I just pour this deliciousness straight into my mouth!
Slim Jims
A lot of low carb eaters turn to jerkies and dried meats as snacks. I've tried so many, and while they are satisfying, it's just not a texture I enjoy. Maybe it's my age, but there are few things I enjoy more than snapping into a Slim Jim. There are people who roll their eyes or call it "dirty keto," but I don't care. My 70lb weight loss says otherwise *wink*
You can get the Giant Smoked Meat Stick (I like to keep them in my hotel room in case I'm hungry at bedtime) or you can get the minis. I like the Snack Size Slim Jims because they easily fit into backpacks and carry on bags and are the perfect size for a quick keto travel snack. The choice is yours!
Catalina Crunch Cheddar Cheese Bites
One of my favorite keto snacks is to have a plate of deli meat (like pepperoni or salami) with cheese slices. Obviously, that's not really practical on a flight, so I replicate it by pairing Slim Jims with Catalina Crunch's Cheddar Cheese Bites.
I've tried a lot of different of these types of cheese products, but these are my favorite. The taste is great and the texture works for me. The Cheese Bites are crispy and a little squeaky, and don't feel processed. Maybe that's because they contain only one ingredient — 100% grass-fed cheddar cheese. I love knowing what I'm eating!
Catalina Crunch Cereal
If you've never tried Catalina Crunch's lineup of cereals, proceed with caution. I'm a huge cereal fan and the first time I tried their Dark Chocolate flavor, I knew I was in trouble. There are a lot of products out there that claim to be low carb cereal, and most of them are pretty gross (sorry!). These, on the other hand, are ridiculously good!
In the past year or so, they've expanded their lineup to include a variety of flavors including Cinnamon Toast, Maple Waffle, Honey Graham and Chocolate Banana (I haven't tried this one!). If I had to choose two, it would be the Cinnamon Toast and Maple Waffle. I could eat them every day for the rest of my life drizzled with a little heavy cream. YUM! This is perfect as a dry snack or to keep in your hotel room as an easy breakfast!
Lily's Sweets
I'm not a big chocolate eater. That being said, I do enjoy treats. When I'm craving something sweet, I'll grab a dark chocolate bar from Lily's Sweets! In fact, I probably eat three to four squares every night with my tea (which contains just a splash heavy cream). Keto-friendly chocolate just tastes better to me! For Lily's dark chocolate, my must-haves are the Almond and Crispy Rice varieties. When I want something with a milk chocolate feel to it, I have the Salted Almond. All of them are just the perfect level of sweetness. They just put a smile on my face! When I want something a little extra, Lily's has me covered with their Peanut Butter Cups, Chocolate Covered Almonds or Chocolate Covered Peanuts. All of these sweets come in dark chocolate or milk chocolate style and are perfect for traveling. These come in handy when I know I'm going someplace where I know I'll be tempted!
Smart Sweets
My biggest weakness are things like gummy bears. Now that I follow a keto diet, eating the regular ones makes me feel so sick. They are really sugary and my blood sugar hits the roof. It's just not worth it. Fortunately, there's an alternative that keeps me on track.
Smart Sweets contain no sugar alcohols or artificial sweeteners, but some people might be sensitive to them. I've noticed that, if I eat too many, it upsets my belly so definitely stick to no more than one bag per day. While some have said that eating these stalls their weight loss for a day or two, I still think it's better than eating a bag of regular gummies!
Keto Travel Snacks Are Great!
So, there you have it. These are the keto travel snacks we just can't live without. We chose these because they are convenient, filling and aren't too smelly in enclosed spaces. For nearly two years, these have kept me on track over more than a dozen trips. Really, I can't say enough about being prepared, even if you're planning to indulge a little.
You never know how the food will be wherever you're going, so having a backup plan is important. We hope this list inspired you to make a keto packing list for your next journey. It was fun writing this, but the only problem is that it's left me feeling peckish. Be right back — there's a bag of Smart Sweets calling my name!


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Ford just announced a new version of some of the vehicles that are most likely to affect our lives while being the least likely ones we'll get to drive: the medium duty commercial work trucks F-650 and F-750. Without them we'd drown in our own garbage while desperately wondering why there isn't any beer or Chex Mix to buy.
The newly redesigned F-650 and F-750 still retain the basic massive-bulldog/separate fender look Ford's used on their medium duty trucks since their 1980 redesign, but now with more attention paid to aerodynamics, giving a sleeker, more modern look.
The headlights and indicators and front marker lights have all been integrated into one large unit, with the indicator stuck between the high and low beam lights like an amber patty in a big light burger.
Ford's retaining its 3-section grille, with the outer two smaller sections referred to as "nostrils" by Ford, who claim they "improve airflow for optimal cooling performance." Also notable is the badging on the trucks, which Ford points out is in their "Bold Leadership" font. This is apparently the same font used on the F-150 badging, and a quick search I just did does not show the font available for download anywhere, but I bet that'll change soon.
The new trucks come in regular cab, SuperCab, and CrewCab (SuperCab can fly and has X-Ray vision, CrewCab is powered by rowing, if I'm understanding right). Powering these trucks is Ford's 6.7L diesel PowerStroke V8 — here's some notable features, according to Ford:
Key innovations on the 6.7-liter Power Stroke V8 turbo diesel are its compacted graphite iron engine block and reverse-flow layout. The advanced design places the exhaust inside the engine's V-shape while the air intake is positioned on the outside of the V. This segment-exclusive design naturally improves a variety of attributes:
- Shorter airflow from the exhaust system to the turbocharger sitting between the engine's cylinder banks improves turbo responsiveness – key to providing torque quickly to truck customers when they need it most
- Positioning the turbo inside the engine's valley helps isolate the engine's hottest temperatures, helping improve performance and efficiency, while also reducing noise, vibration and harshness to improve driver comfort
Power Stroke drivability is enhanced with tow/haul mode that includes a switchable integrated engine brake. The driver can regenerate the diesel particulate filter on-demand to clear out trapped soot from the exhaust system to help maximize performance. Intelligent Oil Change Monitoring is standard so oil changes are based on driving patterns and load demands instead of fixed distance intervals.
Compacted graphite iron does sound impressive, I admit. And that diesel particulate filter "regenerating" thing — does that mean you can blow out a plume of trapped soot at will? Because that sounds pretty fun. Ford is also the only player in this segment to offer a gasoline/LPG motor as well, in this case a 6.8L V10.
The fuel and other tanks (which are now aluminum) are now located under the cab instead of on the frame behind it, which should offer more flexibility for custom body/trailer applications. That means more room for your extreme-mobility RV you've been saving all that plywood for.
Ford's also made a big deal out of their new robotic testing procedures, which allow for rigorous, difficult-condition and environment testing without making a lot of test drivers and/or horribly abused student interns exhausted and miserable. The video shows the rig in action, which seems to bolt onto the rear of the steering wheel and controls the truck via physical inputs, as opposed to any by-wire system.
So, the next time your project car conks out on the side of the highway, pay special attention to that cab of the flatbed tow truck you're crawling in — very soon, it may be one of these new F-650 or F-750s.


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Heavy-duty vehicles weighing more than 7.5 tonnes are now banned from the Pentagon – the area located within Brussels' small ring -, the alderwoman in charge of mobility within the city council, Els Ampe, announced on Friday.
"The historic city centre comprises three little streets that are not adapted to heavy-duty vehicles," Ms. Ampe said. "Signs indicating the ban will be posted. The city is also working with the navigation systems for them to propose alternative routes."


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Are you dealing with a nagging back pain you simply can't get rid of? Worst of all, you can't even recall the time when it started, and you have no idea what causes it in the first place? The answer will surprise you, but you might be carrying the source of your problems right behind your back.
We are talking about your ancient backpack. Back in the day, designers had no idea how to correctly anatomically shape rucksacks, and that caused a lot of trouble to some individuals, especially those who are used to having all of their belongings with them at all times. Luckily, nowadays, you don't have to go through this grueling ordeal, as it's very easy to buy one of the modern backpacks which offer plenty of support for your spine, and weigh close to nothing at all. One of such items is the Standard's Daily Laptop Backpack, and today, we'll take a closer look at this brilliant product.
A multifunctional masterpiece
Designing a perfect multifunctional daily backpack is not an easy feat. Sporty backpacks are oftentimes very flamboyant when it comes to design, while the professional ones are dreary and usually serve a single purpose – to carry your laptop around.
However, Standard's Daily Backpack presents an ideal middle ground between the two. What helps its case even further is the top of the line practicality it offers. Users can choose whether they'd like to carry it around as a messenger bag, regular backpack, or even an elegant briefcase! No matter which way suits you the most, you'll immediately notice just how comfortable this backpack is, with tons of cushioning on each side, as well as an excellent design that hugs the body at all times.
Intended for both work and travel
While the sheer dimensions of this backpack are quite modest, standing at 45 x 28 x 15 cm, it still offers more than enough space on the inside. In fact, the overall volume stands at 18L, and you better believe that Standard designers found a way to make the most out of it.
What makes this backpack an ideal work assistant is the special compartment perfectly suited for your 15' laptop, or MacBook Pro. However, don't think that the story ends there. In case you consider yourself a traveler, know that the daily has plenty to offer in that field as well. The first thing you'll notice are the three outside pockets, ideal for your personal documents, or other quick grab items such as mobile phones or keys. Photography enthusiasts will be elated to hear that the daily also has a separate camera and lens pocket as well.
The Daily comes jam packed with amazing features
Besides looking classy, there's more to this backpack that what meets the eye. What makes it super modern is the integrated USB port, allowing you to top off any gadgets on the go. But wait, there's more! Another modern feature is certainly the RFID secure pocket! If you don't know what that is, let's just say that with this backpack, all of your personal data will be safe at all times! Believe me, some people would pay top dollar for this feature alone.
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One of the things I've noticed with my Lumix G1/Leica M-mount lens combination is that the lens can "overfocus" at infinity. What that means is that I can't simply rotate the lens focus ring on my Voigtlander 40mm Nokton to infinity and expect sharp images. What happens is that the lens over focuses or, in other words, focuses beyond infinity. This isn't a problem for me as I can simply back off focus by about 1.5mm. That equates to setting focus to the leftmost loop of the infinity symbol on the lens.
For others, some have encountered the opposite where they can't achieve focus with manual lenses. Obaksan discusses this phenomenon in his blog post in my view …: G1 adapters and infinity focus (or much ado about not much). As he points out, there are probably two main factors to this focus issue, lens tolerance and camera tolerance. I'd actually like to add a third which is mount tolerance which can include camera, lens, and in the case of the G1, adapters. Since it doesn't take much to throw focus off on precision optics, a combination of small variations through the mount chain can add up to enough variance to over- or under-focus at infinity.
From my experience with the G1 to date, I agree with Obaksan and believe the errors start with the camera itself. As he said, today's electronic cameras with auto focus have "no need for any mechanical optical precision as in the days of Leica coupled range finder mechanisms." The technology takes care of any image plane distance issues by simply adjusting focus for us. We don't care if the lens shifts a bit, as long as the camera selects proper focus that's fine.
For manual lenses where humans need to be making focus decisions, slight manufacturing differences in the image plane, mount position and thickness, etc. does matter especially if one scale focuses. Admittedly, over-focus is far better than under-focus because one can simply not focus entirely to infinity to achieve focus. In an under-focus situation, focus can't be achieve without, as he said, stopping down the lens to say, f8.


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(The technology is in the developmental stage.) Pioneer Valley Renewables LLC uses two complementary patents to make improvements in the effectiveness of underwater turbines of 50-300%, depending on the size. The market is for what is called "hydrokinetic" power, which includes both rivers and tides. The technology has already been confirmed theoretically by US Navy engineers.
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Hydrokinetic turbines operate from underwater currents, whether from rivers or tides.
We applied computational fluid dynamic technologies to underwater river and tidal turbines. The result was a turbine based on two synergistic patents, one on shroud shapes and the other on blade shapes. Together, they are capable of revolutionizing the industry by making turbines produce 50-250% more power. This large improvement is possible because we in effect concentrate the energy in the flow of water in two axes simultaneously, thereby making its velocity faster in the plane of the blades.
The US Navy validated the 50% figure through simulations on one specific design of 10 meter blades.
We intend to make versions of many sizes for different rivers and tides.
First demonstration project is tentatively scheduled for November 2014 in a river in Massachusetts.
There is another way in which this would advance the state of the art. The shroud offers an opportunity to suspend a mesh and protect fish, so it can overcome one of the major regulatory barriers.
Below: A photo of early-stage prototype. Middle: A simulation performed by the US Navy, showing flow from left to right at 1 meter per second. As it enters the space perpendicular to the foil, its average becomes 1.3 m/s. The red, highest velocity zone of 2 m/s is the most important to capture with the blades in the correct plane perpendicular to the flow. The graph shows the percentage increase in power compared to a simple propeller system on the y axis and the relative position of shroud to blades on the x axis in meters. Look at the black line. In a shift of shroud position of less than 20 centimeters, the percentage increase falls from over 200% to 50%.


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Now that Oregon St. has missed the post season for the second time in a row for the first time in 13 years, its time to rate Coach Mike Riley using Fanoverboard's patented 5 Beavertail system that we use after the season ends for each of the Beaver's major programs.
Just as we made the editorial decision to take Beaverbysmal off the list for Coach Pat Casey last spring, after he guided Oregon St.'s baseball team to the NCAA Super Regionals, the 5 tail Beaveriffic assessment isn't an alternative in this assessment.
When you have just finished your team's worst season in 15 years, and were non-competitive in one third of your games, especially when it's the third consecutive season of declining results, the only "iffic" adjective that can be applied is horrific.
Oregon St. finished the season with a 3-9 record, more losses than any Beaver team in 15 years, since the end of the Jerry Pettibone debacle that, ironically, led to the hiring of Riley.
7 of the losses, and 10 of the last 12 defeats dating back to last year, were by double figures. 5 of this season's defeats, including the last 4, and 8 of the last twelve were by three scores or more, some times much more. Noncompetive outings include blowout losses dating to last November by 38, 35, 28, 25, 19, and on three occasions, 17 points. 5 of those were on the road, where Oregon St. is notorious for not making a serious overall institutional effort, despite having a sizable loyal following that routinely attempts to overcome an indifferent organization.On the rare days when Oregon St. was "competitive" in losses, that too was indicative of abysmal performances. One loss was to an FCS Sacramento St. team that posted a losing record playing a lower level of competition. The other was to a UCLA team that lost 5 games by more than 3 touchdowns, in a home game that was generally identified as the game that was as much of a must win situation as any that the Beavers would play all year.
Instead, Rich Neuheisel out-coached Riley, just as he had the year before.
Of their last five wins, all but one were over teams minus their starting quarterbacks. The fifth was over an Arizona team that was imminently going to fire their coach for the 'Cats poor on-field performance.
The embarrassing performances have been on both sides of the line of scrimmage.
The defense, under coordinator Mark Banker, gave up 411.3 yards per game this season, 10th. in the Pac-12. The Beavers were particularly hurt by their inability to even slow opponents' rushing games, giving up 196.8 yards per game, last in the conference, and 101st nationally.
The completely unbalanced offense under coordinator Danny Langsdorf didn't help matters. Redshirt freshman quarterback Sean Mannion threw for over 200 yards in the last 11 games of the season, and finished the season with 3,328 passing yards, the third most in a single season for Oregon St. behind Derek Anderson's 2003 and 2004 seasons. In less than a full season that won't include a bowl game, Mannion is already the Beavers' 9th. all time passer.
But while Mannion put up some spectacular passing numbers, his passer rating was only 10th in the conference. And he threw 18 interceptions, one shy of worst in the country.
Oregon St. quarterback Sean Mannion, like the Beavers' season, got dumped
too often, resulting in numerous sacks and interceptions.
And there was no ground game, Oregon St. ran for 86.9 yards per game, which not only was last in the Pac-12, it was 118th out of 120 teams nationally.
Relying on an offensive line that was undersized, and dependent on former walkons, a product of poor recruiting in prior years, was a factor in problems with the running game and pass protection.
Another failure was the team's turnover margin, -7, which was not only worst in the Pac-12, it was 102nd nationally. This despite the efforts of redshirt freshman Scott Crichton, who set a school record in fumbles forced.
Those numbers aren't just bad by comparison to BCS automatic qualifier conference competition Oregon St. is supposed to be able to be competitive against, they are worst in the business numbers. WAC and MAC conference bottom dweller bad.
So what caused this series of exercises in ineptitude?
A lack of depth in the face of injuries, and a team that resorted to youth on a record level.
The season ending loss of senior CB Brandon Hardin before the season got going, and season long struggles with lingering health problems never adequately addressed in the offseason for WR Jordan Bishop, LB Cameron Collins, and S Lance Mitchell hurt the team in terms of both performance and leadership.
With only one "big" defensive tackle on the roster, the loss by midseason of Castro Masaniai effectively ended any hope of ever being able to stop any opponent with a competent inside rushing game.
Despite being cleared after two off-season knee surgeries, WR James Rodgers was held out of action until the 4th week of the season, as was TE Joe Halahuni, whose' shoulder injury from last year wasn't adequately addressed until the end of spring ball, delaying his recovery window. RB Jordan Jenkins was also slowed by a similar slow diagnosis.
James Rodgers passed Mike Hass to become the career leader in receptions at
Oregon St., and finished 1 shy of James Newson's receiving touchdown mark.
But Rodgers was often overlooked and underutilized in the Oregon St. offense.
These problems further exacerbated what was going to be a serious inexperience issue anyway, and resulted in over 20 first time starters playing for Oregon St., a result of generally failed recruiting at some positions immediately before the current crop came to Corvallis.
A rash of injuries that depleated and disrupted the continuity of the line backing group only distracted attention from continuing scheme deficiencies that have made for career highlight days for any offense with a mobile quarterback.
While newcomers like WR Brandin Cooks, above, and DE Dylan Wynn, as well as Crichton, played well all season, there were both physical and experience mismatches to be capitalized on for opponents all season.
Apologists on the Oregon St. payroll tried repeatedly to dismiss the concern an increasing number of long time Beaver supporters held about the program returning to the dark ages of incompetence that resulted in 28 consecutive years of losing football, frequently citing individual bright performances in overall embarrassing outings.
The downturn would be brief, because things are not the same as they were then. And after all, its tough to recruit to small towns, like Corvallis.
Never mind that it has been demonstrated that it is possible to recruit well enough to regularly contend for BCS bowl appearances and top 10 rankings, in both AQ and non-AQ conferences, in anything but glamorous small city destinations like Blacksburg, VA, and Boise, ID.
The reality is things are exactly the same as they were back in the dark ages. There were always some good players, and some good performances, even in the worst of those losing seasons. There were a sprinkling of players who went on to pro careers, an all-conference player here, or a highlight of the week play there. But then as now, there was never enough quality or depth in support of those few players and plays to finish very many games that had competitive stretches, or be able to compete on a regular basis.
The last 5 wins have all been by double digit margins, a bizarre and extreme set of exceptions sprinkled through a series of mostly similar sized blowout losses.
These rare glimpses of what the team and players are actually capable of at once give hope and bring frustration to supporters who have been witness in recent times to the increasingly bipolar behavior of the Beavers, who have now moved on to displaying clinical signs of schizophrenia.
Schizophrenia is defined as a mental disorder characterized by a disintegration of thought processes and of emotional responsiveness. It most commonly manifests as bizarre delusions, or disorganized thinking, and it is accompanied by significant social or occupational dysfunction.
The gradual but steady decline in productivity over the last 5 years by Oregon St. on the football field wasn't initially seen as anything that couldn't be corrected, in large part because the Beavers were still winning most of the time. Further, when they did lose, they were often competitive, and even when they weren't, it was an isolated incident. It wasn't long before they bounced back. And the losses were mostly against very tough opponents, often under adverse conditions.
That changed midway last year, and Oregon St. has quickly slipped from being a top 25 contender, one who twice played for the conference title and a Rose Bowl trip as recently as 2008 and 2009, and was ranked midseason last year, until a coaching miscue on the shores of Montlake that Riley admitted to being the single coaching decision he would most like to have to do over, into a bottom 25 team.
A year ago, despite collapsing down the stretch for the second year in a row, Riley received an above Beaverage rating by 48% of BTD readers, and only 22% pegged his performance as somewhere below Beaverage.
The reason was the promise of having a mobile returning quarterback in Ryan Katz that analysts nationwide viewed as one of the bright prospects in the conference, one with the tools to become a pro, and an array of receivers the like of which had rarely been seen at Oregon St.
Despite the early departure of Jacquizz Rodgers, the message from the Valley Football Center was that last year was a temporary downturn, and a return to bowl contention was a certainty. Instead, Oregon St. was eliminated from any chance at a bowl game prior to the completion of the final game of the year for the first time since 1998, Riley's second season as head coach.
And instead of further developing Katz, Riley benched him after a slow start against Sacramento St. Against Wisconsin, Katz was pulled after 3 all productive plays, and Mannion was anointed the quarterback of the future.
So much so was Riley enamored with Mannion that after that, not only was Katz never allowed to see the field, even in the face of terrible early performances at Utah, California, and Oregon, even Cody Vaz was never given a snap, just to see if there was any chance to salvage a game, in a season Riley had long since written off.
Katz, who will graduate after winter term, will transfer, and be eligible to play next season for any FBS team outside the Pac-12. It leaves the Beavers with no experience behind Mannion in the event anything happens to him.
Preseason preparation was again totally inadequate, as Oregon St. went 0-4 through Oct. 1, and they never recovered. The Beavers are 1-15 on the road under Riley, and 19-24 overall, in games played before October. Only once has Riley ever posted a winning record in those early games.
Riley has promised a "long, hard look at the situation," and said he would be realistic, and not look at it with rose-colored glasses. But he has not given any indication that he feels there is any problem with his staff. And despite being thoroughly outplayed by Oregon as the Beavers lost their fourth consecutive Civil War, Riley said "We may not be that far away."
Banker admits to not returning phone calls on Sunday, and laughing at those who leave messages, supposedly because no one else knows anything.
Perhaps its time to reread that definition above of schizophrenia.
Is this analysis being too tough on Riley, who, to be fair, had resuscitated an Oregon St. program on life support, given the team their longest run of success in decades, and is a man of outstanding character?
Is yet another opportunity to turn the program around warranted? If so, based on what?
Why should Oregon St. settle for poorer performance than has gotten other experienced coaches, like Dennis Erickson, fired today despite getting Arizona St. to a bowl game, but after a season where opportunities were not realized?
(Photos by Andy Wooldridge)


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Friday Favorites & Lucky Finds
Friday, May 31, 2019
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Creme Brulee is my favorite Butter Gloss too. So amazing. And those hair ties are so cute. I think my girls would love them. Totally going to go find them. Love that tank top. I am all about comfort and good deals! Have a great weekend!ReplyDeleteReplies
It's such a versatile color! And can't beat the $5 price tag! Hope you had a wonderful weekend, xoDelete
Those ordinary moments end up being the best and are those sweet reminders of what life is all about. I picked up a few tank tops from Old Navy, too. I always joke around that I would not have a clue what to do with a little girls hair. Her Jasmine hair looks adorable. Those earrings are so pretty on you! I hope you have a great weekend! Sierra Beautifully CandidReplyDeleteReplies
I completely agree! Those are all of the "small" moments that we end up always remembering. Hope you had a great weekend and your week is off to a good start!Delete
I'm not sure how I'll ever be a good girl mama! I'm so used to two little boys that having a little lady's hair to do is going to be a whole different ballgame! That Jasmine hair is so cute though :) hope you're well!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Melissa! Don't worry, I'm going on girl #3 and still don't know how to do hair... lol! You'll be great. :) Hope your week is going well!Delete