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Mark Cuban, Ansel Elgort Headline 2017 Celebrity NBA All-StarsBy Chris Brandt, UniversityHerald Reporter
The NBA Celebrity All-Stars Celebrity game will soon take place once again. Last Thursday, it revealed their roster of celebrities who will take part in the game including Mavericks owner Mark Cuban and 'The Fault in Our Stars' Ansel Elgort headlining the pack.
Cuban and Elgort are teammates and part of the roster for the West team. Father and son rappers Master P. Romeo and Lil Romeo will also be joining Cuban's tram. Both rappers have deep ties with basketball: Master P was part of two different NBA training camps in the 90s while Lil Romeo had a two-year scholarship playing for the University of Southern California.
The West team will also be joined by Candace Parker and Baron Davis who will be representing the WNBA and NBA respectively.
The complete West roster includes Caleb McLaughlin of Stranger Things, Rachel DeMita of NBA2K games, Peter Rosenberg of Ebro in the Morning, YouTuber Brandon Armstrong, and Chinese-Canadian actor Kris Wu. ESPN personality Jemele Hill will coach the West team together with Fat Joe and Kyle Lowry
Meanwhile, the East team will be headed by billionaire and Bucks franchise owner Marc Lasry and Nick Cannon. Representing pro basketball are the legendary Brazilian basketball player Oscar Schmidt, NBA's Jason "White Chocolate" Williams, and WNBA's Lindsay Whalen.
To complete the East roster are Tom Cavanagh (The Flash's Harrison Wells), Chinese actor Jiang Jinfu, Anthony Mackie (who played Falcon in the Avengers), singer Andy Grammer, Miles Brown (Black-ish), Aaron Sanchez (Chopped judge), and Daily Show correspondent Hasan Minhaj. Coaching them is ESPN's Michael Smith who will be assisted by Rocsi Diaz and Draymond Green.
The NBA All-Stars Celebrity game will air on February 17 at 7 p.m. EST on ESPN.
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Tithing for New Testament Christians
A Reader's Response
The staff of Into the Light Ministries
Hi, every blessing to you and all the Saints there with you.
Thank you for your web site, we were set free, since then the Word of God has
given us so many Scriptures and my friend has written a booklet. It is our belief that it is our Lord has given us the
responsibility as Prophets to speak the truth and set the prisoners FREE.
The Tithe
In Malachi 3:10 Bring all the tithes into the store house, that there may be
food in My house (isn't it strange that God no longer has a house (building) because He allowed it to be destroyed and
born again Christians are His house now, so I fail to see how we can do this) and test Me on this (in Matthew Jesus said
you do not put the Lord your God to the test) if I will not open the flood gates of heaven and pour out all the
blessings you need (people who tithe do not this is lack of faith and they think that they have to bribe God to get the
blessing they already get through Abraham and his Seed),
In Malachi 3:11 and I will rebuke the devourer for your sake (isn't it strange
that most people who tithe have serious financial problems and have to go forward for prayer and have the devourer
rebuked in the Name of Jesus. Is God a liar? No! The answer is in Galatians 5:4. If you try to be made right with
God through the law, your life with Christ is over. You have left God's grace.
Isn't it a shame that our brothers and sisters get drawn into this situation,
(we have been there but praise God He set us FREE) where they have divorced them selves from Christ and prostituted them
selves with a law they have been set free from (Gentiles were never under this or any law we are free in Christ, set
free by His Precious Blood) and have to ask Jesus to rebuke the devourer who they have deserted. We never hear the
pastor or who ever ask them if they are tithing and set them free from the curse of the law and bring them back to
Those who preach the tithe say that they are being blessed, but we know that
the devil can bless.
The Israelites in the Old Testament saw that other peoples living near by were
getting blessed better than them because they found it almost impossible to keep the 613 written and oral law so they
started to worship these foreign god so that they would get bless, especially as they were farmers.
Jesus was born under the law, did He tithe, keep the Sabbath or any of the
law's? yet He fulfilled the law and nailed it on the cross, it is finished. If tithing was in any way important then
Jesus would have tithed and kept the law. Jesus fulfilled all the law by LOVE.
It is wonderful when we are able to set Christians free who have financial
problems and to know that they will be blessed and see them come in blessings from our Lord and Savior.
Please keep up the good work and we hope and pray that the truth of this
tithing lie will spread through the Body of Christ like leaven, yeast. I hope this is in some way helpful to you.
With love in Christ Jesus,
(Name omitted)
The original article: Tithing New Testament Principle or Religious Bondage?

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Juniors, Rang 1 and Rang 5 were very lucky to have Master Damien and his helpers from the Irish Taekwondo Academy in school to teach us some basic moves. We learned beginners poses and forms and we learned how to listen carefully to the master and be respectful. Thanks so much Master Damien for giving up your time to teach us. Have a look at the Facebook page to keep an eye on when the classes are on in the area if you are interested in starting Taekwondo.
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A conductor's life in allegro
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IN the past few years, JoAnn Falletta has emerged as one of the nation's most gifted young conductors. Right now she is juggling three orchestra jobs, which she admits takes some fine tuning in the planning and scheduling department.
In 1983 she was chosen from 150 candidates to conduct the Denver Chamber Orchestra. Later this summer she will become associate conductor of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra.
And she conducts a short season of the Queens Philharmonic in New York City, where she is a doctoral candidate in orchestral conducting at the Juilliard School. As a classical guitarist and mandolinist, she also performs with the Metropolitan Opera and the New York Philharmonic.
Yet Miss Falletta remains pleasantly and positively unflappable, and she is sure of her future in conducting despite the fact that only a handful of women are in the field.
``Many people still cannot seem to make the conceptual plunge of accepting a woman in the role of conductor,'' she explains calmly. ``Audiences, once they get over the initial surprise, respond very well. Younger people don't find it so difficult at all. But some older players are used to the old dictatorial, tyrannical type of conductor, which I am not. I feel that conducting styles have changed and that conductors no longer feel the need to throw Toscanini-like temper tantrums and fire musicians on th e spot. I think musicians should be protected and never at the mercy of one person.''
Still, she adds, ``it is a position of ultimate authority, and as conductor you have to make decisions and then assume responsibility for them. I don't let the problems of being a woman conductor loom large in my mind. I have avoided bitterness or anger by letting nothing stand in the way of the music, and by simply concentrating on doing the best I can and expecting people to accept me on that basis.''
Miss Falletta recently received one of the 1985 Young Achiever awards given by the National Council of Women of the United States, an award that cited her skill and training as well as her ``sensitivity, persuasiveness, and authority.'' Earlier this spring she became the first woman to win first prize at the annual Leopold Stokowski Conducting Competition, and she led the American Symphony Orchestra in her Carnegie Hall debut last spring.
She laughs at the adage that every conductor needs two good friends -- a good barber and a good tailor -- and agrees that, after their own fashion, women conductors require the same.
``When people ask me what standard dress is for a female conductor, I tell them it hasn't evolved yet. I have worn everything from tails to black skirts and white blouses. Right now I prefer the tux -- a cutaway with trousers -- because it allows maximum freedom of movement.''
Miss Falletta started studying the classical guitar at age 7 and determined at 12 to become a conductor because she was so fascinated by the symphonic repertoire. ``I wanted to participate in it in a way that would allow me to create and shape the performance. I had no idea what schooling was involved or how difficult it would be to attain that goal. But I was determined to do it.''
Piano and cello were added to her private lesson schedule in high school, and when she enrolled at the Mannes College of Music in New York, she elected a double major, conducting and classical guitar.
The master's and doctoral programs at Juilliard have involved her in a very intense program of study. ``There is much that one has to be master of in order to be a conductor,'' she explains, ``so the study itself requires an enormous amount of commitment. There is no way to be halfway about it.'' She has finished the course work and is now writing her thesis.
``Playing guitar in chamber music trios, quartets, and quintets,'' says Miss Falletta, ``gave me superb training for conducting, because the player has to listen so carefully, be flexible, and respond quickly. I find the guitar can be such a personal expression of myself, a nice contrast from the symphony orchestra, which is so large and involves so many different complex things.''
About her programming she says, ``Having been in Denver for two years now, I know what people in the community want, what they will accept, what they will put up with, and what they simply will not stand for. I have found that if programming is done in the right way, new music can be presented in a way that is acceptable and enjoyable. I do not agree that something new or educational must be forced upon audiences because you think they need to learn. I find that most people are excited by something new if they can be brought into the experience.''
Miss Falletta does that by inviting composers of new works to come and talk with the audiences. She writes extensive program notes that are explanatory and suited to people who may be hearing a piece for the first time. And she does preconcert lectures three days before each performance, explaining to people exactly what they are going to hear, what to expect and listen for, and how and why she chose the particular program.
``I share with these open-to-the-community lecture audiences what I am thinking about the pieces,'' she says. ``Of course, I continue to program the well-loved favorites, because everyone likes to go to a concert and hear a piece that is like an old friend. Familiarity is a very valuable thing, and it comes only with hearing things many times. So I always mix new and modern pieces with those loved classics. My primary goal is that people enjoy themselves.
``As for composers, I always love Mozart, of course, but I convince myself that every piece I am conducting is, for that moment in time, the greatest of them all, and I give it my all.''


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HCI ( HCP-IS ) Oauth deciphered – Retrieving Access tokens dynamically ( Initial Access Token, Refresh Token and New Access Token ) – Part 1
OAuth, SAML & JWT etc.., are now becoming the common way of authenticating web, mobile and desktop applications . The benefits these protocols brings in terms of security, simplicity and reduced complexity is immense which obviously makes a good choice for applications to implement these protocols as they way of authentication.
- Get the Initial access tokens. (A token always has a validity and a refresh token associated with it. After the the validity period, the initial access token is no longer valid to access the app. A new token has to be requested using the refresh token associated with the initial access token to access the app)
- Checking the validity of the initial access token and reuse the same token if it is still valid ( its of no use and more over a performance overhead to every time request a new token while we could use the initial access token to access the app , which is still valid.
- Re-new the token using the refresh token, if the validity is expired.
https://<host>:<port>/http/products/search ( more info on configuring sender https adapter here )
Further this subflow calls another subflow to Write/store the above message to the data store and call Hybris Products Search REST api to get products.
1a:Message Mapping Since the response JSON returns the "expires_in" value in seconds from the current time when the initial access token was requested. we use message mapping to capture the current date into an element called "expiry_date" ( <xs:element name="expiry_date" type="xs:dateTime"/> ) in format yyyy/MM/dd
1a:Data Store Write Operation is used to write the converted response XML message containing the tokens and the expiry_date, to data store username with the value of entry ID ${header.username} i.e. email@example.com
1a: Script to add authorization token:Eventually the following script clears the content of the body and sets the HTTP header key as "Authorization" and HTTP header value as "Bearer a62sbf19-c72d-47zz-935a-1c975cd24642"
function processData(message) {
var body = message.getBody();
map = message.getProperties();
var access_token = map.get("access_token");
message.setHeader("Authorization", "Bearer "+access_token.toString());
return message;
1a: Call Product Search REST API : using http sender adapter with "get" operation, REST product search api on Hybris is called to get products based on the dynamic User Group "${header.UserGroup}" in the URL.
So far we achieved the following in PART-1:
We make an initial call from API to HCI to fetch products. Since this is the first ever request our MainFlow in HCI receives, the data store "code_hashmap" would not exist. An exception in HCI would then trigger exception subprocess which in turn triggers the subflow to request Initial OAuth Tokens and subflow to store message/tokens in data store.
In the next part here, I'll share how we could check the validity of the obtained token and request a new token if the validity of the token is expired.
Last but not the least. I would like to thank Roy Sanders for helping me understand various authentication protocols and inspiring me to write this blog.
Part-2: https://blogs.sap.com/2016/12/28/hci-hcp-is-oauth-deciphered-retrieving-access-tokens-dynamically-part-2/


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If you were looking for more buzz, here you go: Conduit has announced a new Community Trends index, available at http://www.conduit.com/community/communitytrends/ . Conduit calls itself a "platform for building online communities via community toolbars" and claims over twelve million users. Trends here are based on searches done across communities.
It looks like the trends here are monthly, and include several different categories including sports (rugby is very popular), Web games, pets, and so on. You're not going to find items that have just turned up in popular culture or on the news page, but I was surprised at some of the things I DID find here (rugby?) and I certainly did find some terms that were unfamiliar (mostly on the Web Games list.)
In addition to the regular trends, this site will also provide monthly vertical highlights and show what's popular there. This time Green Earth communities and Al Gore came out on top along with words like "climate", "dolphins," and "Kyoto protocol".
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According to results from the SUSTAIN trial, the addition of semaglutide, a glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist, to a sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitor therapy led to significant improvements in glycemic control, as well as weight reduction, in patients with inadequately controlled type 2 diabetes (T2D).
In this double-blind, parallel-group phase 3b study, 302 patients with T2D taking SGLT2 inhibitors, either as monotherapy or in combination with metformin or sulfonylurea, were randomized to receive semaglutide 1 mg injection once-weekly or placebo for 30 weeks; the primary endpoint of the study was change in glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) from baseline at week 30.
Results showed that patients treated with semaglutide had statistically significant and greater reductions in HbA1c compared with placebo (estimated treatment difference: -1.42% [95% CI, -1.61 to -1.24]; P <.0001). In addition, patients in the semaglutide group had greater reductions in body weight than those in the placebo arm (estimated treatment difference: -3.81 kg [95% CI, -4.70 to -2.93]; P<.0001).
With regard to safety, gastrointestinal adverse events (AEs) were found to be most common, with 37.3% of semaglutide-treated patients and 13.2% of placebo patients experiencing these AEs. As for serious AEs, hypoglycemic events (severe or blood glucose-confirmed) were reported in 2.7% of semaglutide-treated patients vs 0% for placebo.
Semaglutide is marketed under the brand name Ozempic (Novo Nordisk) and is currently approved as an adjunct to diet and exercise to improve glycemic control in adults with T2D. It is available as a solution for subcutaneous injection using a prefilled pen injector.
"The results from SUSTAIN 9 demonstrated that Ozempic combined with an [SGLT2] inhibitor is effective in lowering blood sugar and reducing body weight [as a secondary endpoint]," said Mads Krogsgaard Thomsen, executive vice president and chief science officer of Novo Nordisk. "These data further reinforce the results from across the SUSTAIN clinical development program and the benefits of Ozempic that clinicians from many countries are already seeing in their day-to-day practices."
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Praying With Our Feet: How Non-Black People Can Show Up for Black Lives
"An entire generation of warriors are praying with their feet." Letitia James
I've always been quick to obey orders. Not because I like being told what to do but because I want to be liked. And after all, this was a rally, I was there to be of service. So, when a teen — young enough to be my daughter — told me to get down on the ground, I didn't hesitate.
The volunteer corralling a group of hundreds in front of the US Federal Courthouse at Foley Square in lower Manhattan was shorter than me. Fair as the porcelain-colored dolls I used to pretend were my daughters when I was a child, even though they looked nothing like me. The volunteer was dressed in all black and puffed a tough exterior though she hung her weight on the straps of her backpack nervously gripping them until her hands appeared bloodless. When she dropped the enormous pack to demonstrate what she wanted us to do, the echo of her stainless-steel canteen against the pavement grabbed our attention more than her commands. The presence of heavily armed police loomed in our nervous systems, but we'd all be damned if we let that show.
"Get on the ground. Kneel or lie down preferably lie down!"
I, of course, wanting to be a model protester, took the "preferable" option.
As I lay my body gently down, it occurred to me I'd never considered what this would feel like. There was no way to make the position more bearable. It hurt. It paralyzed. It dehumanized. And unlike George Floyd, I had put myself there.
The Coronavirus pandemic brought the world to a halt in a matter of weeks. As headlines warned of its dangers, the virus was dubbed "the great equalizer," able to kill without distinction of race, class, or gender. However, while popular influencers and wealthy celebrities boasted their negative test results online, the virus ravaged Black and Brown communities. Stories of Americans without access to tests surfaced, and the plight of those involved in "essential work" exposed the lethal disparities in the American health and economic systems.
By March most cities had imposed shelter-in-place orders, enforceable by local police departments. Evidence of excessive force and arrests for alleged social-distancing violations in Black neighborhoods juxtaposed besides cheerful images of cops handing white park-goers masks in lower Manhattan became further evidence of our country's racial inequities.
And, then, a mortar round of Black murder flooded American media.
As the Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones commented to CNN, "the collective grieving for the desecration of Black life is a regular daily experience for Black people in this country." However, within the cauldron of an international pandemic and subsequent economic depression, the murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Nina Pop, George Floyd, and Tony McDade in rapid succession from February through May caused long-standing tension to boil over.
And while gruesome forms of racial oppression such as police brutality prove endlessly captivating to audiences it can often obfuscate one of the cruelest and most insidiously pervasive functions of white supremacy: the suppression of self.
The right to protest, protected by the First Amendment of the Constitution, is an exercise in the unapologetic expression and preservation of self, magnified through mass mobilization. In public, coordinated, and lawful marches that have spread worldwide, the Black liberation movement has demonstrated the potential for great structural reform. Imperative change that would benefit us all.
The symbolic gesture I participated in at the rally lasted nine minutes — the amount of time it took Officer Derek Chauvin to kill George Floyd with his knee. Nine minutes is an eternity. I allowed myself to descend fully into the experiential act of empathy. I was overcome. We shouted names en masse: AHMAUD, BREONNA, GEORGE, NINA, TONY, TRAVIS, ERIC, DAVID, TAMIR, DARIUS, TRAYVON, AIYANNA, CHRISTOPHER, CAMERON, MIKE, AMIR, and on and on. I wept. With my head positioned to the east of the island, I could make out an inscription on the frieze of the neoclassical courthouse. It states, "The true administration of justice is the firmest pillar of a good government." Our bodies strewn below it attested to the collapse of the tenet. But I didn't feel defeated. I felt emboldened.
"I know how you watch, as you grow older, literally, this is not a figure of speech; the corpses of your brothers and your sisters pile up around you. And not for anything they have done. They were too young to have done anything. In any case, too helpless. But what one does realize is that when you try to stand up and look the world in the face, like you had a right to be here, when you do that, without knowing this is the result of it — you have attacked the entire power structure of the Western World."
— James Baldwin, London 1968.
We opened our eyes to a SWAT team now surrounding the perimeter of the courthouse. They weren't there when we began. The organizers, a group of young Black men and women, aware of the change began directing the crowd north up Centre Street when an elder community leader, Jenice C., shouted, "Young people!" parting the sea of bodies as though she were Moses.
"Young people, commend yourselves, you have taken a great stand! You're changing history! Yes! But you gotta know what you're fighting," she told us. The crowd listened intently for over five minutes, reverent as disciples, so deserving of this praise.
The Black Lives Matter movement, considered fringe and radical at its inception in 2013, has become the most relevant battle cry in the modern-day civil rights movement. In ten days organizers have sprung outposts in nearly every state; all four police officers involved in George Floyd's murder have been arrested and charged; nine members of the Minneapolis City Council have pledged to dismantle their Police Department and create a community-based system for safety.
The desire to be liked is incredibly human. Overcoming it is a matter of maturity. I must grow up in order to be effective in this mission. Taking action to support Black Lives Matter has grounded me in my own understanding of self — my privileges, obstacles, and potential. I've marched, donated, and amplified but most importantly I've committed to the daily work of self-examination.
Asking myself: Am I being defensive? When am I showing up in a performative way? When am I being driven by insecurity that wants to make a show of solidarity in order to qualify as "not racist?"
As a mixed-race Latina, I have internalized white supremacy — we all have, and I'm actively in the mindset to eradicate it. When I'm doing this work, because it will never stop, I am naturally directed to how I can best support today's charge. Each day will be different.
"It is not a racial problem. It's a problem of whether or not you're willing to look at your life and be responsible for it, and begin to change it."
— James Baldwin, London 1968.
Change has never felt more possible. The New York Times reported that these are the most diverse demonstrations of support for Black Lives Matter in the movement's seven-year history, and they show no signs of slowing down. The danger is to remain at a remove, to allow our fear of saying or doing the wrong thing to keep us away, absorbing messages through fluorescent screens, internalizing spin, and emerging in a trance of fear. We must all do our part to engage with clarity and authenticity.
For all non-Black participants, knowledge is power — listen, learn, take action. But don't retreat.
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men and women to do nothing."
— Edmund Burke
To find out about rallies near you visit Black Lives Matter
Educate: The Great Unlearn by Rachel Cargle, Rachel Ricketts, Opal Tometi, Alán Pelaez Lopez, Ericka Heart, Araya Baker, Robin DiAngelo, Seeding Sovereignty, Indigenous Rising
Action: Defund the Police, Repeal 50-a, Change.org, Black Alliance for Just Immigration
Subscribe: The Institute of Black Imagination by Dario Calmese, Come Through with Rebecca Carroll
Join: Nuru Space, Ethel's Club, Writers Club NYC
Donate: Brave Space Alliance, The Okra Project, National Bail Fund Network, NAACP, Color of Change
Read: "I Am Reading Black Women" @ZORA, Soraya McDonald, Charlene Carruthers, Hanif Abdurraqib, Danez Smith, Saeed Jones, Ijeoma Oluo, Ibram X Kendi, Layla F. Saad
Follow: Chelsea Miller @ FreedomMarchNYC, Djali Brown-Cepeda @Nuevayorkinos, Janel Martinez @AintILatina, Joshua Kissi, Jenna Wortham, Lucia Hierro, Ariana Brown, Raquel Willis
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Hi there. My name is Art from 6th Form, and I'm here to talk to you about the changes planned for FIFA 20, mainly to do with Career Mode.
Location, location, location
We are all happy to hear that interactive transfer negotiations are staying, and we were even happier to hear about the new locations to conduct business.
You can now meet in a plush rooftop bar, or a posh restaurant – Much better than the awful offices we have been using to conduct our business in the last two FIFA's
Get your look
For the first time ever, in Career Mode, you can customize your Manager, and, for the first time, you can become a woman. In FIFA 19, we got a taste of this, with a selection of six managers, plus the option to wear tracksuit or a suit and tie.
Since Fifa 17, you have had to aim with an arrow on the floor for penalties, and free kicks were just shots. Now though, for free kicks and penalties, if you wish, you can aim using a circle, making it a lot easier to score.
EA have confirmed that Alex Hunter will not have another journey in Fifa 20. There have been leaks of a different storyline, but we will find out on Friday, 27th of September, 2019
Street Football
The thing lots of people are excited about is Volta, which sees FIFA return to the streets for the first time in 7 years. Volta is, summed up, a way to practice skills on the streets. It means that people (at the start) can practice the new dribbling methods.
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Enrique Del Prado has become a Filipino hero after defeating 231 players in the 2011 Asian Poker Tour. Coming to an exciting culmination last Sunday, Del Prado synched the US$179,260 top prize at the APT.
Filipino Pride is Sky High
No less than SIX of the Top Ten in the competition were from The Philippines. Places 1, 3, 5, 8, 9 and 10 were all local poker players and between them they shared more than US$283k.
The US$2,500 buy-in event took place at the Resorts World Manila in Pasay City and Del Prado finally triumphed after a hard fought final.
Growing Online Poker Market
The Philippines is growing its reputation as a 'must visit' location for luxurious poker breaks. The Asian Poker Tour's soirée in Manilla can only raise the profile of The Philippines as an international poker venue.
Poker on the Move
Land based and online poker are both popular pastimes in the Philippines. Philweb, who are the largest listed internet company in the Philippines, are said to be interested in developing mobile gambling in the local market. This is because of the prevalence of mobile phones compared to home computers. With online poker a global favorite of web gamblers, this market should certainly be hot over the coming years.


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one of (if not The) last remaining All American Burgers
is being turned into a Chipotle
(the sign says "Burritofication in Progress".
although i like Chipotle and it will be nice to have one closer to me than the Grove, i liked All American Burger.
yes their burgers werent good (i preferred the Pastrami sandwiches)
but they harkened back memories of Fast Times at Ridgemont High
memories that are quickly fading now that the Sherman Oaks Galleria is gone
and many of the landmarks and stars seem to be going the way of the dingo.


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Animal Writing Prompts for Elementary HomeschoolersJuly 16, 2018
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Did you know that more than a third of babies' first words are names of animals? The wild kingdom seems to fascinate us almost from birth with its diversity, harmony, and entertainment value. Is it any wonder that so many children's books feature one or more animals and that plush animal sales figures are consistently above a billion dollars per year in the U.S.?
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- Imagine you could be a wild animal of your choice for the day. Write a declarative sentence about the animal you would choose and why you would choose that particular one.
- Do you know the four types of sentences? Write either an interrogative, declarative, imperative, or exclamatory sentence that includes the word "beast" in it. Make sure to use the correct punctuation for the type of sentence you choose to write.
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- Pretend that you are an animal whose habitat is in danger of being destroyed. Write a paragraph from the perspective of that animal that tries to persuade humans to do a better job of conserving native habitats.
- Without writing the whole essay, think about how you would conclude an essay on the subject of why people should volunteer at animal shelters. Then, write only the concluding sentence for that essay.
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11 May The Art of Light on Stage
Award-winning performance designer Yaron Abulafia has designed over 200 performances, installations, concerts and TV shows internationally. He has designed for Staatsballett Berlin, English National Ballet, Nederlands Dans Theater, the Hungarian State Theatre of Cluj-Napoca in Romania, Rambert Dance Company, Opera Ballett am Rhein Dusseldorf, Compañía Nacioanl de Danza Spain and Ballet BC in Vancouver – to mention but a few.
In his book The Art of Light on Stage, Abulafia focusses on the new tendencies of lighting design for contemporary 'post dramatic' performance, approaching lighting design from semiotic and phenomenological perspectives, with reference to cognitive studies and the arts. Abulafia introduces a conceptual framework for the analysis of the bodily experience, the meaning and the autonomy of light in contemporary performance, considering light as a performer and the 'sculptor' of spatial perception. In his academic writings – as well as in his performance designs – Abulafia explores the 'performativity' of light, examines the boundaries of its autonomy from the narrative and works to interweave dramaturgy of light along with the creation of other media in the performance.
Abulafia is in-demand visiting lecturer in universities and art academies around the world. He holds a PhD, Masters degree in Scenography, and B.A. in theatre studies. Abulafia was honoured to take part as a jury member in the most distinguished international exhibition of performance design – World Stage Design 2013 – organized by OISTAT once in 4 years.
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Air is free, why are we afraid of using it?
Last year I put together an article titled, "Taking air for granted," that highlighted the importance of VO2, touched on training on air, knowing your SCBA, and broke the ice. After continuing my training, competing, and preparing for the fireground, the importance of air continues to tug at me, why? Without air, we are dead, simple, that's it. With the exception of divers, frequent swimmers, and other oddities, the ability to hold your breath for an extended period of time is impossible. As I trained last week I knew I was into my emergency air supply as I climbed my training tower racing for time, how far can I make It I kept thinking. We as firefighters go into the IDLH with a limited supply of breathing air and a stamp stating how many minutes (a misconception) right on the cylinder.
We yearn as firefighters to cut things up in extrication, train in acquired structures with live burns, work on specialized areas of firefighting that have sexy names and equipment, yet we are afraid of training on that one thing we wear on our backs. Why is that? The number of firehouses with cascades and breathing air compressors can't be that few and far between, but we really are scared of running those tanks down. The exception of this rule seems to be on the fireground where we charge forward, many still relying on the low air alarm to signal it being time to exit the IDLH. I would even go as far to say there are departments working through that bell, staying on air because, "its just a single family residential fire and we're in overhaul. Maybe its a department that pops off air during overhaul because, well the fire is out. Sadly, many departments do this because, "thats the way we've always done it," and don't want to or don't know how to utilize ROAM. When that first cylinder is empty you're ready to get back in the fight, a statistic in the waiting.
What is it that makes pulling those SCBA off the rigs and running through the air so scary? Is it fear of being put on the spot that you might breathe through the bottle quickly? Does it take too much of your time to fill bottles? Is there fear of being able to instruct something like air management and discuss simple math and numbers? Perhaps it is laziness and complacency because, "it will never happen to us." I believe in most cases it is a combination of all the above answers. Air management may not be sexy, but it sure as hell is pretty important to us as humans. So important and interesting enough that the "Seattle Guys" put together the Bible about the subject titled, Air Management. It. Goes back to the ABC's from EMT training. Airway, Breathing, Circulation, you mess any of those three up and you have problems.
It starts with the truck checks… Checking those SCBA on the rigs, and not just checking that yep we have 5 SCBA on this truck and they "look" ok. It's pulling the pack, checking the straps, checking the pressure, checking any attachments, battery levels, turning it on and actually seeing that it will really function. Many problems can be fixed prior to the call when you need to enter the IDLH by just really checking your SCBA. Each time gets the firefighter more comfortable with the functionality and all the bells and whistles of the unit.
It means putting something in writing…SOG/SOP are great, if they are actually known and applied properly. It's something that is necessary so that your department HAS a standard to uphold and train from. Have clear standards of what is acceptable and what is not. Clearly state that SCBA will be functionally checked, not just that they exist on the rig. Clearly stating that you have an acceptable cylinder pressure when checking. Clearly stating the expectation that firefighters will know how much air is in the SCBA, and managing it so that you will leave the IDLH before the low air alarm activates is a key piece. Look up NFPA 1404 and do some reading, the SOP/SOG should easily write itself.
It's the little things…Really it is not too terrible to start implementing change at the very most BASIC level. Checking your air supply and knowing what the pressures are of your entire crew that's going in together. Routinely monitoring what your air levels are, for me that's when I turn it on, at the door, moving into another room, changing floors, once you have the knockdown, once overhaul begins, and sometimes just because. It takes a second, and just another moment to check your crew, isn't your life worth that? Now that you're staying more in touch with what your air supply is, it is also knowing to get out of the IDLH BEFORE your low air alarm activates. Sure that doesn't seem like much, until it hits the fan and there is an entrapment, or sudden change in the interior resulting in you needing that air. Here's a key thing for the finance people, the budget people, the people downtown, the chiefs watching the budget… These "little things" take ZERO dollars to implement. This comes down to training, now add in that SOG/SOP and now we are really getting somewhere.
Training on air… Here is a key piece because its one thing to be standing in front of the firefighters with a PowerPoint only, and talking about air, its another to do that and then follow it up with a hands on portion. I'm not saying take every pack off the rig and put your house out of service, but a few SCBA will be required. I'm not going to steal someone else's work out there, hit Google and do a search for air management training. There are several power points that will show you an obstacle course of tasks to do with your SCBA while starting from a set pressure point and calculating how much air your firefighters are using. If your firefighters have no idea how much pressure they go through per minute, how will they ever be able to tell how long their air will last or what their personal work cycle is? Obviously every job will be slightly different, but they will have a good ballpark of time to keep in their mind. Now take that one step further beyond figuring out the ACR and train your firefighters on your SCBA and how they function or react when the EOSTI warning bells/buzzers start signaling that they are into their emergency supply of air. Are your SCBA the new compliance where it is 33% or are they the older 25%, perhaps depending on your department you have a mix? What pressure does the alarm sound, what will they hear, feel, and how does it react? At what pressure does it stop making its noise signifiying that you are in a really bad situation if the RIT/RIC is not close with a supply of air? So many department trainings I see, watch YouTube videos of, and even have been involved with, deal solely with plenty of air supply, a known victim with plenty of air and maybe not even on a mask. How are you training that victim or the crew properly.
I had an emergency… As I said, last week on the training tower, one of my evolutions up/down 13 floors I ran into an air emergency. I knew it was coming, no I was not in an IDLH environment, and yes if I wanted to I could completely disconnect and go off air. That's not the point that it was safe. The point is that during this training I ran into an air emergency and I treat it as if its the real thing. Immediately I checked my gauges, quickly went over my pack, my location, distance up the tower, and formulated in my head the next statement. MAYDAY. I verbally made the MAYDAY call aloud and not in my head. Whether you use LUNAR or WWW or some other acronym out there, you need to be practiced in it if you want it to come out well. Now is not the time to panic and lose it. As I progressed up the tower I continued to monitor my location, change my breathing technique, and again issue the MAYDAY and relay information as to my new location. More intense than that alarm bell or vibralert going off is when it slows and then stops, telling you there is almost no air remaining. How much can you control your breathing now to make it last, will it be 12 breaths or maybe 24 before the mask sucks to your face? If you've never experienced this, training is a far better place to find out rather than in the middle of a fire situation. Train like its real, every time, and build the muscle memory so that your mind and body will react accordingly.
Sadly, it doesn't take much looking around on the Internet to find that air emergencies and close calls still do exist and are a contributing factor to injury and death, but little is being done to help it still. NFPA moving to 33% EOSTI was a huge change, but only for those with updated or new SCBA. In the end, this still comes down to the training in your house and the changes that you make. This doesn't have to start from the top down, this can start with YOU and build the change from the bottom up. Air is free, train with it. These changes for the most part are free, discuss it and work on implementing it. The potential cost lies in maybe having someone work on the SOP/SOG and then reissuing it.
Train hard!


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Jakupović, Selma, Department of Restorative Dentistry with Endodontics, Faculty of Dentistry with Clinics, University of Sarajevo
Jakupović, Selma
Jakupović, Selma, Department of Restorative Dentistry and Endodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Jamakosmanović, Anida, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive therapy, General Hospital "Prim.Dr Abdulah Nakaš", Sarajevo
Janković, Slavica, "Lavoslav Ružička" Polytechnic, Vukovar
Janković, Stipan, Department of Health Sciences University of Split, Split
Jatić, Zaim, Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo; Public Institution Health Centre of Sarajevo Canton
Jayadi, Jayadi, Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Therapy Medical Faculty of Airlangga University, Surabaya
Jazvić, Marijana, Department of Oncology and Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Center "Sestre milosrdnice", Zagreb
Jeglic, Arne
Jerčić, Minka, Department of Family Medicine School of Medicine in Split, Family Medicine Offices in Muć, Šestanovac Imotski and Runovići, Split
Jereb, Berta, Institute of Oncology, University Medical Centre Ljubljana
Jereb, Berta
Jerončić, Ana, Department of Research in Biomedicine and Health, University of Split School of Medicine, Split
Jevremovic, Dragan, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic Rochester MN
Jimenez, Alexis A., Department of Pain Medicine Mayo Clinic Rochester, Minnesota
Jogunčić, Anes, Department of Epidemiology, Institute for Public Health of Sarajevo Canton, Sarajevo
Joguncic, Anes, Department of Forensic Medicine, School of Medicine University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo
Johns, Gretchen S., Division of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic Florida
Johnson, Margaret M.
Johnson, Margaret M., Department of Critical Care Medicine and Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Mayo Clinic Florida (United States)
Johnston, Sebastian L., National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, Norfolk Place, London, W2 1PG, Department of Respiratory Medicine, St Mary's Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Praed Street, London, W2 1NY, MRC and Asthma UK Centre in Allergic M
Jokić, Radoica
Joksimović, Bojan N., Department of Basic sciences, Faculty of Medicine Foča, University of East Sarajevo
Joksimović, Bojan N., 3Department of Pathological Physiology Faculty of Medicine, University of East Sarajevo, East Sarajevo
Joksimović, Vedrana R., Family Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, University of East Sarajevo East Sarajevo
Joksimović, Vedrana R., Department of Primary Health Care and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine Foča, University of East Sarajevo
Jovanović, Dragutin, Institut of Microbiology, Military Medical Academy, Belgrade
Jovanović Simić, Jelena, Museum of Science and Technology – Belgrade
Jović Zlatović, Josipa, Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital Šibenik, Šibenik
Jukić, Marko, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Split, Split
Jukić, Marko
Jurčević Kozina, Slavica, Department of Psychological Medicine University of Split, School of Medicine Split
Jurcic, Jasna
Jurić, Hrvoje, Department of Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry, School of Dental Medicine University of Zagreb and Clinical Hospital Center Zagreb, Clinic for Dentistry Zagreb,
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Publication Date: 2004
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Strategies for Ensuring Trustworthiness in Qualitative Research Projects
Shenton, Andrew K.
Education for Information, v22 n2 p63-75 2004
Although many critics are reluctant to accept the trustworthiness of qualitative research, frameworks for ensuring rigour in this form of work have been in existence for many years. Guba's constructs, in particular, have won considerable favour and form the focus of this paper. Here researchers seek to satisfy four criteria. In addressing credibility, investigators attempt to demonstrate that a true picture of the phenomenon under scrutiny is being presented. To allow transferability, they provide sufficient detail of the context of the fieldwork for a reader to be able to decide whether the prevailing environment is similar to another situation with which he or she is familiar and whether the findings can justifiably be applied to the other setting. The meeting of the dependability criterion is difficult in qualitative work, although researchers should at least strive to enable a future investigator to repeat the study. Finally, to achieve confirmability, researchers must take steps to demonstrate that findings emerge from the data and not their own predispositions. The paper concludes by suggesting that it is the responsibility of research methods teachers to ensure that this or a comparable model for ensuring trustworthiness is followed by students undertaking a qualitative inquiry.
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Research Methodology, Credibility, Researchers, Methods Teachers, Trust (Psychology), Criteria, Data Analysis, Validity, Reliability
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CC Korea has given Creative Commons a cool 10th birthday present with the release of the CC10Musicians iPhone app (Android app coming soon). From CC Korea:
We introduce 10 teams of musicians sharing their music under a Creative Commons License. From Brazil to Iceland, from Hip-Hop to Indie Rock, discover awesome music from all over the genre, all over the world. CC10Musicians App allows you to listen to the 10 selected artists' work on live streaming and share some spread-worth music with your Facebook and Twitter friends.
The app looks (and sounds) great, and is easy to use. Many thanks to CC Korea for a fantastic birthday gift!


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Constance Lombardo is the author/illustrator of the illustrated middle grade Mr. Puffball series. Her debut picture book, Everybody Says Meow was chosen as an Anna Dewdney Read Together Award Honor book and included in several 'best of' read-aloud lists. Constance gets most of her ideas from talking to her cat and old beagle, Louie, who has been through a lot. They enjoy walking their neighborhood together, admiring flowers and making fun of squirrels. She loves visiting classrooms and has Zoomed far and wide recently, even visiting a class in Dubai. Her hope is to create books that make kids laugh and want to read more books. Drawing with kids is one of her favorite things to do. Other favorites include reading graphic novels, playing Pictionary, and eating chocolate-covered pretzels. She lives in Asheville, NC where there are lots of art galleries, greenways, independent bookstores, waterfalls, and the occasional mermaid.
Awards / Honors
2023 Anna Dewdney Award Honor Book – Tiny Spoon vs. Little Fork
Praise for Mr. Puffball
"In this heavily illustrated novel, Lombardo positively revels in loading on the cinematic clichés and topping them with a generous sprinkle of cat-themed wordplay...and Mr. Puffball's breathless, straightfaced delivery of one droll line after another adds to the fun."BCCB Reviews
Praise for Mr. Puffball
"A quirky, humorous debut...Mr. Puffball's positive attitude and growing understanding that good friends are what matter most light up the pages. "Publishers Weekly


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Small RNG use update to first example in skeleton package used by package creation helper (Dirk addressing #69).
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Correct one RcppEigen.package.skeleton() corner case (Dirk in #77 fixing #75).
Correct one usage case with pkgKitten (Dirk in #78).
The package now uses tinytest for unit tests (Dirk in #81).
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The benchmarking example was updated in its use of RcppArmadillo (Michael Weylandt in #56).
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Travis CI now uses https to fetch the test runner script.
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Fixed incorrect function names in the examples, thanks to ChingChuan Chen
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RcppEigen.package.skeleton() to use
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Eigen::MatrixXd and
Eigen::ArrayXXd using
Rcpp::as() no longer gives
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ifdef on one directory entry feature, with
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Clarifications concerning license and authorship of
Eigen (as opposed to RcppEigen) code added to
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Fixes to RcppEigenWrap.h and adjustment of tests accordingly. The changes allow RowMajor matrices to be wrapped (thanks to Gael Guennebaud) but cannot handle RowVector types. There will need to be more template metaprogramming done to redirect the case of RowVector, which cannot be changed to a ColMajor form.
Because of changes in R, -DNDEBUG is automatic. One must override it with -UNDEBUG in the local ~/.R/Makevars to activate the debugging code.
New (unexported) functions CxxFlags() and RcppEigenCxxFlags() for use in Makefiles
Fixes related to Rcpp 0.10.*
Upgraded to Eigen 3.1.0
Removed the "unsupported" Eigen module AutoDiff which defined a macro "sign" that conflicted with a function in the R API (which really should be visible as "Rf_sign", not sure why it shows up as "sign" and don't have time to investigate)
Commented out several tests involving complex vectors and matrices. Again there are compilation problems related to conflicting definitions in the std:: namespace and the R API and Eigen, which I don't have time to investigate.
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Added several "unsupported" Eigen modules including
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KroneckerProduct (as the name implies)
MatrixFunctions (matrix cos, exp, log, sin, sinh, etc.)
NonlinearOptimization (based on minpack but uses reverse communication - yay!)
NumericalDiff (numerical differentiation of vector-valued or matrix-valued functions)
Polynomials (polynomial representation and solution using a QR algorithm)
Skyline (sparse skyline matrices useful in finite-element codes)
SparseExtra (dynamic sparse matrices, now deprecated, and Matrix Market I/O functions)
Splines (multidimensional spline representations and spline interpolation)
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Ethiopian Airlines flight 302, a 737 MAX 8 (registration ET-AVJ) operating from Addis Ababa to Nairobi, crashed shortly after takeoff on 10 March around 05:45 UTC.
Update — 4 April
The Ethiopian Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau has issued a Preliminary report today, detailing findings thus far. You may read the full report reproduced below.
Update — 18 March
On 18 March, the French Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analyses issued a statement on the progress of downloading and analyzing the data from the Flight data recorder. The full statement is reproduced below.
Update — 11 March
The US Federal Aviation Administration issued a Continued Airworthiness Notification to the International Community on 11 March ' regarding FAA continued operational safety activity related to the Boeing 737-8 and Boeing 737-9 (737 MAX) fleet.' A CANIC is an update on FAA activities that operators will wish to be notified of, but not necessarily require action.
Flightradar24 Data
The flight departed Addis Ababa at 05:39 UTC (08:39 local time) and crashed just a few moments after takeoff to the east of the airport. The flight was operated by a Boeing 737 MAX 8 (ET-AVJ | MSN 62450) delivered to Ethiopian Airlines in November 2018.
Visualizing ET302 data
The following graph combines altitude data (feet AMSL), ground speed data (knots), and vertical speed (feet per minute) from ET302.
Important note: altitude data reported by ADS-B is the pressure altitude at standard pressure and not the altitude above ground level. This is why some values may be below the ground altitude at Addis Ababa airport. Standard pressure is 1013 hPa, pressure reported at HAAB | ADD at the time of accident was 1029 hPa. Airport elevation is 7625 feet MSL. All altitude data when the aircraft is 'on ground' is reported as 0. Airborne altitude values are report as stated above.
In the graph below we've removed altitude values of 0 for visual clarity.
For additional clarity, the third graph below shows only the ground speed.
Flightradar24 data for download
Below is data in basic CSV formatting (5 second reporting intervals), granular CSV (multiple reports per second), and KML (for use in 3D mapping software)


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Steward Health Care responds to COVID-19 outbreak
Salt Lake City — The health and safety of our community is our top priority. We continue to monitor the local, national and global situations regarding coronavirus (COVID-19) and are in close communication with the Utah Department of Health (UDOH), the Center for Disease and Control (CDC), and with other health care partners. Our medical staff includes expertly trained personnel experienced in routinely caring for patients with respiratory illness and infectious diseases, and we are committed to continuing to safely care for our community.
Out of an abundance of caution, we have activated hospital preparedness protocols to:
- Prevent the spread of respiratory diseases, including COVID-19, within the facility.
- Maintain the health and wellbeing of our employees.
- Promptly identify and isolate patients with possible COVID-19 and inform the correct facility staff and public health authorities.
- Care for patients with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 as part of routine operations, and potentially care for a larger number of patients in case of an escalating outbreak.
- Coordination protocols in place to effectively communicate with Public Health officials.
- Developing surge staffing models and operational plans in case of an escalating outbreak.
Patient Care
Our hospital and outpatient services are open. Scheduled appointments for surgery or treatments, and you are healthy, please plan to come in at your scheduled time.
Our Emergency Department is open and accepting patients.
Modified Visitor Policy – Effective Tuesday, March 10
Children ages 12 and under not seeking medical treatment will not be permitted to visit any Steward hospitals until further notice beginning today, Tuesday, March 10th.
Additionally, those outside this age group who feel sick and are not seeking care are asked to avoid visiting hospitals or other health care facilities for the protection of patients, hospital staff and the broader community.
About Steward Health Care
Steward Health Care is the largest private, for profit physician led healthcare network in the United States. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, Steward operates 37 hospitals in the United States and the country of Malta that regularly receive top awards for quality and safety. The company employs approximately 42,000 health care professionals. The Steward network includes multiple urgent care centers and skilled nursing facilities, substantial behavioral health services, over 7,900 beds under management, and approximately 2.2 million full risk covered lives through the company's managed care and health insurance services.
The Steward Health Care Network includes five thousand physicians across 800 communities who help to provide more than 12 million patient encounters per year. Steward Medical Group, the company's employed physician group, provides more than six million patient encounters per year. The Steward Hospital Group operates hospitals in Malta and nine states across the U.S., including Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Utah. For more information, visit www.steward.org


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Fort Irwin
The National Training Center (NTC), located at Fort Irwin, CA, is the only instrumented training facility in the world that is suitable for force-on-force and live fire training of heavy brigade-sized military forces. The realistic training provided at the NTC assures soldiers are adequately prepared to protect and preserve US interests here and abroad. Each month the NTC provides 4000-5000 soldiers, from other installations, the essential training opportunities necessary to maintain and improve military readiness and promote national security. The evolving sophistication of military equipment and advances in technology require a comprehensive battlefield that realistically simulates the tempo, range, and intensity of current, and future conflicts. The NTC must provide all the necessary components to achieve world-class training for the world's best Army.
The National Training Center is the Army's premier heavy maneuver Combat Training Center (CTC). As large as the state of Rhode Island, the fully instrumented NTC allows live Brigade level force-on-force exercises to be conducted numerous times each year.
The depth and width of the battle space gives brigade elements the unique opportunity to exercise all of its elements in a realistic environment. This is often a unit's only opportunity to test its combat service and combat service support elements over a doctrinal distance. BCTs must be able to communicate through up to 8 communications corridors, evacuate casualties over 40 kilometers, and navigate at night in treacherous terrain with few distinguishable roads. Other environmental conditions such as a 40 to 50 degree diurnal temperature range, winds over 45 knots, and constant exposure to the sun stresses every system and soldier to their limit.
Fort Irwin is located approximately 37 miles northeast of Barstow, California in the High Mojave Desert midway between Las Vegas, Nevada and Los Angeles, California. The installation is surrounded by desert hills and mountains. Natural vegetation is sparse and consists of mesquite, creosote, yucca's, and other low growing plants. Beautiful sunsets, blue skies, sunny days and wide open vistas are some of the pleasures of the desert and give many a sense of freedom. Do, however, expect the primary colors to be tan and brown. For those needing to see green, Big Bear and Lake Arrowhead are two hours away providing tall trees and lakes.
The entire reservation encompasses more than 642,000 acres of training area with the northern boundary less than 1.7 NM (3 km) from Death Valley National Monument. The San Bernadino and San Gabriel Mountains extend in an east-west path 73 NM (135 km) southwest of Bicycle Lake. The Sierra Nevada Mountains, oriented north- to south, are to the west. Elevations in excess of 10,000 feet (3,050 meters) are common in these ranges.
Soldiers assigned to the NTC Aviation Company work out of Barstow-Daggett Airport which is located in Daggett off I-40 a few miles east of Barstow. Many of this unit's personnel choose to live in Barstow, on the Marine Corps Logistics Base or at Silver Lakes (a small community located about 25 miles southwest of Barstow).
Because Fort Irwin is a fairly small community, people living here get to know their neighbors. After a short period, visits to the commissary and post exchange (PX) are usually accompanied by a series of friendly "hellos". Children often live next door to their school mates, play on the same sports teams, or go to daycare together. Fort Irwin maintains a small town atmosphere with town hall meetings and other community forums even though 4000-5000 soldiers from other installations rotate through the NTC each month.
The Fort Irwin area is rich with history dating back almost 15,000 years, when Indians of the Lake Mojave Period were believed to live in the area. Indian settlements and pioneer explorations in the area were first recorded when Father Francisco Barces, a Spaniard, traveled the Mojave Indian Trail in 1796. During his travels, he noted several small bands of Indians and is believed to have been the first European to make contact with the Indians of this area.
Jedediah Smith is thought to have been the first American to explore the area in 1826. A fur trapper, Smith was soon followed by other pioneers traveling the Old Spanish Trail between Santa Fe and Los Angeles. Bitter Springs, on the eastern edge of Fort Irwin, was a favorite stop over site.
In 1844, CPT John C. Fremont, accompanied by Kit Carson, was the first member of the US Army to visit the Fort Irwin area. CPT Fremont established a camp near Bitter Springs that served travelers on the Old Spanish Trail, and later the Mormon Trail, linking Salt Lake City to California. This camp was later to become an important supply center for pioneers during California's settlement and gold rush.
The California Gold Rush brought prosperous trade and unexpected trouble to the area. As California grew, and more travelers used the trails to enter the territory, raids and horse stealing became a problem. In 1846, the Army's "Mormon Battalion" patrolled the Fort Irwin area to control the raiding and horse stealing. During the Indian Wars the Army constructed a small stone fort overlooking Bitter Springs and patrolled the Fort Irwin area.
In the 1880's the area experienced an economic boom with the discovery of borax at Death Valley. From the late 1800's to the early 1900's, the area began to grow tremendously as mining operations of all types flourished. Soon railroads, workers, and businesses led to the establishment of the nearby town of Barstow. The years following the Indian Wars were quiet militarily.
On August 8, 1940, a Presidential order withdrew from public use almost 1,000 square miles of public land in the High Desert of Southern California. The land was established as the Mojave Anti-Aircraft Gunnery Range and later named Camp Irwin in memory of Major General George Irwin, , commander of the 57th Field Artillery Brigade during World War I. During World War II, Camp Irwin was used for training and served as an internment site for prisoners of war. In 1944, the camp was closed by the War Department and remained in caretaker status until 1951.
Camp Irwin reopened its gates in 1951 as the Armored Combat Training Area and served as a training center for combat units during the Korean War. Regimental tank companies of the 43d Infantry Division from Camp Pickett, Virginia were the first to train at the new United States Army Armor and Desert Training Center. The post was designated a permanent installation on 1 August 1961 and renamed Fort Irwin. During the Vietnam buildup, many units, primarily artillery and engineer, trained and deployed from Fort Irwin.
During 1964, the Fort Irwin Con-Site supported an exercise conducted by the US Strike Command called "Desert Strike". This large two-sided Army-Air Force exercise took place in a 12-million acre area of desert in California and Arizona centered on the Colorado River. Total Army troop participation was 89,788 of which over 4,000 troops being from the California Guard. 2nd Brigade, 40th Armored Division (CA ARNG) was assigned to Task Force Mojave on the California side of the river. 2nd Brigade drew all their tracked vehicles from the Fort Irwin Con-Site and then moved to an assembly area by Tonopah Lake. From there, the battle took the brigade to Bristol Lake, Sheephole, Essex, Amboy, Homer and Topek at the Colorado River. The Con-Site also assisted the Active Army. Then Con-Site personnel recovered non-operational vehicles, repaired them at Fort Irwin and returned them to the exercise. The equipment operational rate of all forces was very low after the exercise due to the numerous miles the equipment had been driven in the exercise. Personnel of the Con-Site recovered equipment for eight months. It took the Con-Site nine months to repair the vehicles used in the exercise.
Again in 1971, with the Vietnam war winding down, Fort Irwin was deactivated and eventually turned over to the State of California to train National Guard and Reserve Component soldiers. California Army National Guard units continued to train at Fort Irwin with limited support provided by the Sixth United States Army. As a result of post closure, the Fort Irwin ATEP moved to the current location of Langford Lake Road and MATES Road plus occupied the maintenance complex across the street and Building 860 (Warehouse) during 1970 to 1971. The California Army National Guard assumed control of Fort Irwin on 1 September 1972, operating it as a Reserve Component Training Center (RCTC) on a full-time basis for the next nine years.
During this period, the Army began looking for a site to house a National Training Center and out of the eleven sites considered, Fort Irwin came out on top. On 9 August 1979, the Department of the Army announced that Fort Irwin had been selected as the site for the National Training Center. The National Training Center was officially activated 16 October 1980 and Fort Irwin returned to active status on 1 July 1981. Today, it is considered to be the premier training site of the U.S. Army.
The designation of the Army National Guard Mobilization and Training Equipment Site was changed to Maneuver Area Training Equipment Site (MATES) in 1998. The MATES at Fort Irwin is scheduled to have a new twenty million-dollar facility built in the year 2002. This a long term project that has been working since 1985 when the first DD Form 1390/ 1391s were submitted to the Headquarters, California National Guard outlining the specifications and justifications for a new MATES. In 1986 a request was submitted to the National Training Center (NTC) for a 100 acres site that would accommodate a completely modern and larger MATES complex at Fort Irwin. The NTC indicated that this project must first be worked into the NTC master plan and approved by FORSCOM. In the mean time, revised DD Form 1390/ 1391s continued to be submitted. The request to the NTC for land was reinitiated in 1993 resulting in an allocation of 100 acres in the NTC master plan with FOSCOM approval. The process to complete the project's environmental assessment and documentation requirements was conducted from November 1993 to late 1997. In early 1998, an architect to design the facility was selected.
A 1996 survey of World War II and Cold War structures revealed that several buildings from Fort Irwin's Pioneer Deep Space Tracking Station (closed in the early 1980s) were eligible for the National Register of Historic Places. In 1997, the California State Historic Preservation Office recommended that this complex be considered an historic district. Because of the area's relative isolation and the high cost of potential renovation, the Team has since consulted with the California State Historic Preservation Office regarding options for recording it. In the meantime, the site is monitored frequently for impact.
The Army's new generation of sophisticated equipment and technology will move faster, endure greater distances and engage more enemies. The NTC must be flexible enough to meet the challenges presented by such equipment, tactics and technology well into the 21st Century. The Cold War may have been more dangerous, but the current geo-strategic environment is much more complex. The next generation of threats to U.S. security may come from a divergent array of sources; regional instabilities, terrorism, rogue nations. The ability to fight and win on any battlefield anywhere in the world for the foreseeable future is essential to the mission of the U.S. Army of the 21st Century.
In 1981, when Fort Irwin was designated the National Training Center, U.S. Army tactics were structured around equipment that could effectively engage an enemy at ranges of 1 to 12 miles. Today's Army equipment effectively engages an enemy at ranges up to 60 miles away. Also, the pace of tactical operations has increased from 10 miles per hour to more than 25 miles per hour. A modern tank can now reach speeds of more than 60 MPH. Our experience in the Desert Storm operation, has also confirmed the need to train heavy mechanized units in larger, brigade-sized assemblages. Modern tactics involve a more diffuse, faster moving array. The result is a greater number of soldiers and equipment spread over larger land areas. Therefore, the current lands at the NTC are not adequate to realistically support the changes in distance and pace of equipment, along with the training needs of today's brigade-sized units.
The NTC's proposed expansion will provide Fort Irwin with additional areas of operation for heavy force-on-force maneuvers. By so doing, NTC commanders can provide new and varied scenarios to rotational units and the Opposing Force (OPFOR) units. The value inherent in such flexibility cannot be overstated. Realistic training is at the very heart of the NTC mission. Diverse and unfamiliar training lands provide an essential element of realism for units and commanders who have become accustomed to the single theatre now in use at the NTC. The options represented by additional areas of operation can be used to test planning and execution of tactics without the drawbacks associated with being to familiar with the terrain.
The Army completed Land Use Requirements Studies (LURS) in 1985 and again in 1993, to determine the amount of training land required to meet current and future training needs at the NTC. The LURS takes into account the types of units, the kinds of maneuvers, and the organizational characteristics of realistic battlefield training missions. The studies indicated a need for approximately 552,000 net maneuverable acres to be consistent with current and future needs. The NTC currently has about 358,701 net maneuver acres available for training, leaving a shortfall of about 193,300 acres.
In October 2000, extended negotiations between DA and DOI resulted in a DA/DOI agreement on proposed legislation that would determine boundaries of a western expansion area. This legislative proposal is a culmination of discussions in which the Army modified its training land requirements to avoid use of Paradise Valley, the most sensitive desert tortoise habitat. Under this new concept, the Army would seek the use of about 133,000 additional training acres, which includes approximately 22,000 acres of Fort Irwin land that is not currently used for this purpose, plus 46,438 acres east in Silurian Valley and 63,673 acres west in Superior Valley. Congress approved the DA/DOI joint approval for expansion and President Clinton signed the legislation (H.R. 5666) on 21 December 2000.
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The United Kingdom is an ideal holiday destination for travellers who enjoy both urban life and the charms of nature. And to discover all its attractions, what could be better than to drive freely? Enjoy a rental car for your…Read more


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Billboards get all sorts of (justified) flak for polluting our mind-scapes. They are everywhere, flaunting famous people — in expensive clothes, drinking sexy beer, promising us recession-busting discounts. Unfortunately, billboards are also responsible for a more tangible type of pollution. At the end of an advertising campaign, billboard workers roll up the heavy-grade vinyl and toss it in the dumpster. When Peter Schulberg experienced this waste firsthand, he immediately took steps to remedy it by inviting artists to use the discarded vinyl as a canvas for their work, which he would then display on the exterior walls of his gallery in Los Angeles.
What began three years ago as artwork displayed on the front of the Eco-Logical ART gallery has slowly evolved into a citywide public art exhibition with the generous donation of display time from communication companies such as Van Wagner, CBS Outdoors, and Clear Channel. With transformed billboards in both Los Angeles and San Francisco, ECO-LA has received an equivalent of $400,000 of donated billboard time and successfully diverted several tons of vinyl from the landfill while creating artwork for public viewing all over the two cities.
Coming up this June 13, ECO-LA will unveil a new billboard atop its gallery to kick-off its first "Second Saturday" — an event to take place every month that will include exhibition viewings, workshops for kids, tree give-aways, eco-vendors, and more. Within the first hour of this new billboard's display time, it will be seen by more Los Angeles inhabitants than visit the city's museums in a month. It's a very simple turning around of the ad system. A recognition of privately-held public space. A chance for artists to be seen by a wide audience. A regulated form of ad-busting. And a nice break from beer-promising famous faces.


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NBC said on the eve of Sunday's Super Bowl that it has sold the last two of the 69 advertising spots for the game, pushing total ad revenue for the event to a record $206 million.
The network said its total of $261 million in ad revenue for all of Super Bowl day also is a record, calling it an especially impressive feat in the middle of the economy's steep downturn.
The Super Bowl is the premier advertising event with an U.S. audience of 100 million viewers, many of whom watch closely during game breaks for the debut of entertaining, big-budget commercials. The ads have sold for between $2.4 million and $3 million per 30-second slot this year.
"These advertising milestones show the power of the NFL brand and the strength of the Super Bowl as a TV property in this economic climate," said Jeff Zucker, president and CEO of NBC Universal, a unit of General Electric Co. "The Super Bowl has become one of our country's biggest holidays, a uniquely American day, and advertisers recognized the value in being a part of it."
Thirty-two advertisers in all will showcase their products during Super Bowl coverage.
NBC said the ads featured during the game also will be available for viewing almost immediately after they air at Web sites including NBC.com, Hulu.com and Superbowl.com.


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In 1882 the lawlessness was so bad that the railroad ask for help from the Texas Rangers. The closest legal authority was in Fort Stockton over 100 miles away. With the blessing of the Rangers and the railroad. A proprietor of a store housed in a tent in
In 1883 the judge moved his business and his court to Langtry, Texas. There he built the Jersey Lilly Saloon, Court Room and Pool Hall.
Some legends cite Bean as being a "hanging" judge, but there is no record that he ever sentenced a man to be hanged.
The "Judge" had great admiration and fascination for the famous English actress Lillie Langtry. She was internationally know as the "The Jersey Lily so he named his establishment after her. A sign painter commissioned (for food and drink) to letter the sign misspelled "Lily".
The only law book the Judge ever owned was the 1879 Revised Statues of Texas. Occasionally he actually used it.
One of the most colorful stories about the Judge is true. He successfully promoted the Maher - Fitzsimmons prize fight in February 1896. It was staged in defiance of U.S. and Mexico law on a sand bar in the middle of the Rio Grande River.
In 1972 another movie about Judge Roy Bean was released, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean staring Paul Newman as the judge.
I went to see the movie when it was first released and was fascinated by the character "Bad Bob, the original Bad Bob from New Mexico" as played by Stacy Keach.
That was when I decided to take on the moniker of "Texas Bob" and I have had it for over 35 years.
Now you know.
Update: 10 April 2020


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Spicy hamburger and refried beans wrapped in a soft fresh flour tortilla, smothered with a rich red sauce and topped with melted cheddar cheese. Served with 1 sour cream and 2 hot sauces.
DO NOT request food items here, you will not receive them. Special instructions is to be used for instructions regarding how you would like for your items to be prepared.


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I've long been a fan of Susie Lloyd's work (how can you resist a book titled Please Don't Drink the Holy Water?) Anyone who's a parent can relate to the tales she tells of her kids' shenanigans.
In her latest book, Susie uses her famous sense of humor and encouraging style for a different purpose: to inspire vocations to the priesthood and religious life.
I think she's on to something here. The point she makes in Yes, God is that regular, everyday families can raise children who grow up to do extraordinary things for the Church and the world.
Each chapter in this short book contains a vocation story, a family story, a prayer, and Susie's own commentary on the stories told by 5 young priests and 5 more young Sisters. These are not old stories about senior citizens; they focus on recent vocation stories.
Susie celebrates parents who say "Yes" to duty, affection, strength, spiritual poverty, tradition, the greatest commandment, generosity, humility and patience–in the regular, everyday circumstances and events of their lives. Even as the stories are told, you see Susie's trademark sense of humor shining through in the telling–and you'll find it in her encouraging reflections as well. Here's an excerpt from the chapter on Generosity to illustrate:
How could I relate to Father's parents, who worked so hard that I get tired just reading about it? Don't they seem a bit like those saints written about long ago, who were born fasting? I don't know about you, but I automatically separate those saints out in my mind as more angelic than human. I can't relate. Therefore, I can't imitate. Please, Lord, hold me excused.
For the record, I'm not above leaving this book around where one or another of my kids might take a peek inside. It couldn't hurt, right?


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Akasha is fully air-conditioned, and also comes with a Playstation 2 and satellite TV. The flybridge has cushioned seating, a sun bathing area & refrigerated bar & 360 degree panoramic views. The Catamaran also has a Bose wave entertainment system.
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Village Aid are excited to invite you to our night of…
Rock & Roll
with 50's and 60's band 'The Rapids'
When: Friday 1st December 2017
Time: Doors at 7pm
Where: The Medway Centre, Bakewell
Tickets: £10
Join us for a special evening of live Rock & Roll music and dancing.
All proceeds from this event will go to supporting Village Aid's work in West Africa.
For further information email us on firstname.lastname@example.com. Tickets are also available by calling 01629 814 434 or visiting the Medway Centre.