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It offers an extensive listing of Yoga Practitioners who at some point in their continuing studies have completed, or are in training where indicated, a Centre for Yoga Studies/Viniyoga Britain Practitioner Programme with Paul Harvey, or an Approved Training with Practitioners who trained extensively within cYs.
The cYs Practitioner Programme Diploma is Accredited in the UK by the British Wheel of Yoga, as well as by the European Union of Yoga Federations to teach in any of its member countries. Being awarded the cYs/VB Diploma validates the holder as having qualified to Practice offering Yoga Tuition for Personal Learning or Therapeutic Healthcare in the UK and Ireland, as well as other member countries of EUFNY.
All cYs/VB Qualified Practitioners are also expected to attend Yoga related CPD/IST Courses in order to maintain appropriate UK Regulatory Body Certifications for Yoga Teaching and if required, renew CNHC (Complementary & Natural Healthcare Council) Registered UK Yoga Therapeutic Healthcare status.
The Qualifications and Accreditations of all Practitioners listed on the cYs Directory are designated as:
CNHC is the UK regulator for complementary healthcare practitioners that was set up with government funding and support. Its key function is to provide the general public and commissioners of services access to a list of practitioners that have been assessed as meeting national standards of competence and practice. It currently registers practitioners from more than fourteen disciplines. The Department of Health in 2009 stated: "CNHC is the only voluntary regulatory body for complementary healthcare which has official government backing. No other organisation has the same exacting criteria or focus on safety and quality."
I would like to thank TKV Desikachar for all that I received through his transmission of the teachings of T Krishnamacharya along with that of other students of Krishnamacharya and what these eminent teachers and all their students have offered to the world of Yoga.


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Alphabet of Thorn by Patricia McKillip
On a seaside cliff near a castle which houses the kingdom's library, a baby girl was left to be raised by the old librarians. The girl's name was Nepenthe. While translating a book whose language was written in fish and similar tokens, when she is told of an ancient book needing to be translating. Deep in the nearby woods is the mages' floating school, where a handsome young man gives Nepenthe a book that will change her life, a book written in a language of thorns. As she learns to decipher the thorns, Nepenthe and her friend Laidley unravel the seemingly impossible history of Axis and Kane, "the Emperor of Night, and the Hooded One…at his side always, who opens doors between stars." As Nepenthe digs deeper into the history, the young queen, Tessera, in the castle above must gain the help of an ancient king hidden in a cave deep within the cliff rock, and control the magic within she has ignored all her life, to save her kingdom from an ancient evil, and a present threat. With poetic analogies and picturesque landscapes, Alphabet of Thorn is a fantasy world to be savored, and a gateway to a life-long love of an eloquent author.
The Harper Hall trilogy by Anne McCaffrey, starting with Dragonsong, is a fantasy series that also involves time and space travel "like crossing some immense, black chasm in one step," but with the assistance of dragons, or their smaller cousins, the fire lizards, who can travel between and from there to any place their rider decides.
In The Magician's Nephew, the first of the Narnia series by C. S. Lewis, two children travel to a wood between worlds, and into other worlds as well, including Charn, which is also like "the still world seemed to be holding its breath," as it sometimes seemed in the library to Nepenthe.
Mages, wizards, and speaking trees are items that can be found in Lewis' friend's books, The Lord of the Rings, and it's prequel, The Hobbit. There, speaking trees are very wise and called Ents.
The concept of traveling across time as Kane does, "like a pattern on a cloth when you fold it," is an old one echoed in many stories, including the children's book A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle, and nostalgic adult book by sci-fi writer Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane.
Other fantastic books by Patricia McKillip that I can personally recommend include: Wonders of the Invisible World, Od Magic, The Bell at Sealey Head, In the Forests of Serre, The Changeling Sea, The Winter Rose, and The Book of Atrix Wolfe.
The Recipe:
Scones are very rustic and old-world. They conjure the image of fresh milk from a pasture, sweet cream whipped by hand in the days before electricity, and a cast iron oven from which baked goods come out piping hot and satisfying, before we cared about counting calories or tracking points. Scones come from a time when food was made to sustain our bodies for hard labor, and it was a convenient treat that could be wrapped and carried in a pocket a long trip, perhaps to the forest wherein floated the mages school, or in the pocket of a queen walking down long stone steps to a cave that holds an ancient sleeping queen.
Oatmeal, or boiled oats, was mentioned several times as a food which the librarians ate for breakfast, often with dried fruit and nuts. However, fresh fruit tastes best, and strawberries were a food favored by the odd, bear-lion magical creature kept by Felan. Also, sweets and fruit were enjoyed by Axis and Kane in his private chamber- the only place where Kane was ever truly free to be herself. To combine all these ideas, I chose a recipe for:
By Homemade by Holman; adapted from Joy the Baker, originally from Baking: From My Home to Yours by Dorie Greenspan
1 egg
1/2 cup buttermilk
1 2/3 cups all purpose flour
1 1/3 cups old fashioned rolled oats
1/3 cup sugar
1 T baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
Pinch of ground nutmeg
3/4 cup fresh strawberries, chopped
1/2 cup plus 2 T unsalted butter, cold, cut into small pieces
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees and line a baking sheet with a Silpat or parchment paper. Whisk together the egg and buttermilk and set aside. Combine the flour, oats, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt and nutmeg in a mixing bowl. Add the cold butter pieces and cut in with a pastry blender or your hands, until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Pour in the buttermilk mixture and stir with a stiff wooden spoon until just incorporated. Gently mix in the chopped strawberries. The mixture will be very sticky.
Turn the dough out onto a lightly flour surface and gently knead 8-10 times and press the dough into a disk about 1 1/2 inches thick. Portion the dough into about 12 wedges or balls and transfer to the baking sheet. Bake for approximately 20 minutes until golden brown. Transfer to a wire rack to cool about 10 minutes before serving.
Discussion Questions:
1. For Nepenthe, words and languages are capable of making time stand still. There is "no past, no future, no place I can't go." Did this book make you feel the same? If not, what stories do? How can this be a dangerous deception, especially for the busy modern reader? What about for Nepenthe or the other librarians?
2. Nepenthe spoke of someone who "had dropped a word like a weight on a plumb line straight into her heart and she had recognized her name." Do you think that was because there is power in a name, or was it because of the magic she was born with and into that made her name powerful? Can names affect children in any way, perhaps as a predictor of a trait or a behavior? Go around the room and discuss each other's names and their meanings and see if there is any truth to that idea. Also, later she says her true name is said, and it is "something with a shell in it, or… a moth." What items or creatures would oyu want in your name, if you could choose.
3. How was it true for Axis, as his father warned before his own death, that "whatever weapons you possess may also be used against you"? How did this apply to Kane, to Vevay?
4. Vevay notes that it was a miracle "she had survived her younger self," especially being at least as powerful (and perhaps far more manipulative) than Tessera. How do you imagine her as a young mage? Do you think the same of yourself, amazed that you survived your younger years, or is that often only true for certain types of people?
5. Tessera complains that she cannot say whatever she wants, or even what she truly thinks, because she is queen. But a prince's uncle informs her that "If you have nothing to lose, you can say whatever you want." Does anyone in the story have nothing to lose, or the freedom to speak as they want? Do we? Why?
6. Tessera, overwhelmed with responsibilities, longed "just to try to find some place where no one would want anything from her, not a smile, not a word." Is this introversion, or exhaustion? Did any place like that exist for her? Where do you go to seek peace in anonymity?
7. In defense of Nepenthe's obsession with the book of thorns, she told Bourne that "we do not choose our passions." In light of the ending, was this true for her, was her obsession something chosen for her? Do some people tend to have a certain proclivity toward certain passions and obsessions as a result of upbringing? What about genetically-can we be predisposed to obsession as Nepenthe perhaps was?
8. Why would it be a "useful quality in a mage," to be "more woodland animal than human"? Which characters do you think possess this ability, other than Tessera, of whom them were speaking? Why is it that, as Bourne noted, "some of us have a harder time forgetting our humanity?"
9. Vevay spoke of "Fire murmured…whispering things she had long forgotten." What secrets, or memories, do you think fire reminded her of? Would it have been kind and offered advice, or harsh, and admonishing with warnings? Have you ever personified fire before, or thought what it might tell you if it could speak?
10. One of Vevay's sources of conflict with Tessera is that it is "easier to know what you are than to remember what you were, so long ago that what you were then lived in an entirely different world." Are these the only reasons Vevay has trouble relating to Tessera? Is it this way for all older people when confronted with younger generations, especially the greater the age gap? Why?
11. Vevay notes Tessera's "inexperience had been transformed into a kind of wisdom unsullied by reality." Is it possible to have wisdom exclusionary to reality, or must wisdom come from experience, and therefore must have a connection to reality?
12. The mages' school in which Bourne was trapped was one of the many tests students had to endure, having layers and levels of previous mages' spells woven into rooms. Are there any creative examples of this that you can think of that weren't mentioned in the book? What sort of test would be appropriate for each of the magic-wielding characters? Similarly, as Felan's room is elegantly described, what type of room would fit Vevay best, or Tessera or Nepenthe, if they were allowed to choose anything they pleased to surround them?
13. Felan makes an interesting point about rulers, that each one "has always had to contend with contention. The possibility of war if they weren't making it themselves." Has it ever occurred to you how many wars some rulers have stopped or prevented, that perhaps the public was never told about? How does this make you see rulers in a new light, whether you are an activist or a pacifist?
14. "You'd think that being queen meant that you wouldn't have to do the things you disliked," a sympathetic army commander tells Tessera, yet this is obviously not true for her. Is it for anyone in a position of power? What about for the wealthy, the poor, or children- is anyone free from such a burden? Would it be good to remember the responsibilities and pressures of others as we approach them for our desires?
15. Do you think that Bourne is right about the thorns, that "every thorn is some form of sorcery apart from the word it makes…saying one thing to her eyes and mind, and another to her heart"? Is this part of why she is so obsessed? Has anything ever done this to you-a book, song, poem, historical event, river, tree, landscape, etc., where others couldn't understand, but you felt it was speaking to you differently, as if it had a secret to share with those patient enough to listen?
16. Is the beginning of magic, or innovation for that matter, to "Let your imagination run and follow it"? Think of innovators like Walt Disney, who created a world of magic, or famous inventors and writers who gave us new concepts. Is this the key to real life magic? What magic have you been holding back from running after?
17. Is there something powerful in the trio of Bourne, the mage, Laidley, the scholar, and Nepenthe, the woman who reveals magic? After finishing the book, is this still an appropriate nickname for her, or can you think of one better?
18. How did it show excellent planning and strategy the way that Kane handled the inevitable unveiling of "her face," and Axis' patient punishment of her abuser? Could you think of a more efficient way to have handled it while still not giving away Kane's true identity, or was their way perfect?
19. Did this book make you, like Bourne and Nepenthe, look at "life and time and history from a different angle"? What did you think of Kane's concept of time like a wheel with spokes? Did this make it easier for you to understand?
20. Was Axis' "unending ambition to find death and conquer it or become it," like any other famous historical rulers? What makes a man's ambition so insatiable-is feeding it with each new victory to blame, or is there more to it for them? What about for Axis specifically, is it also a matter of having one place where he can, in a sense, be exposed next to Kane and have no one stop them from being together? Is being with her part of his desire for immortality?
21. What did you think of the novel's final revelation of Nepenthe's connection to the thorns? Do you agree with her decision, or would you have chosen otherwise? Why?

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This week Facebook spent $2 billion on Oculus VR, the 75-person company behind the virtual reality googles that have become a video game phenomenon over the last two years. Mark Zuckerberg described Oculus as a communication platform whose mission is to "enable the impossible." Why a company that insists on being a medium for social exchange should be interested in the impossible is unclear, unless we accept the implication that socializing itself is becoming an impossibility. Following the pattern of Facebook's recent acquisitions, from the messaging service WhatsApp to the data analysis company SportStream, it seems Facebook has been trying to build a toolset to gather commercial data from non-commercial interactions. In the spirit of helping Facebook accept that it's a profit platform steered by social whim and not a catalyst for digital intimacy, here are a few predictions for which companies it might acquire next in its quest to enable the impossible.
While Oculus Rift began as a Kickstarter, a newer and even more personal form of crowdfunding emerged in 2013 with Patreon. The fundraising platform focuses on individuals rather than small companies, asking its users to setup recurring monthly payments to an artist, writer, designer, musician, or videographer to collectively pay them a partial salary. Patreon is less than a year old but already averages more than 2 million page views per month with more than 10,000 "creators" already promoting their work through the service. Directly asking for money from social acquaintances has always been an awkward and sometimes embarrassing undertaking, but Facebook has already become a personal branding and promotion tool for millions of people, from writers posting their own stories to small business owners sending out invitations to like their new page.
Facebook's various schemes for making money on promoted posts and advertising have been mostly one-way, essentially skimming money from their users in exchange for wider visibility. It would only be decent if Facebook afforded its users a way to raise money for their own work without having to refer paying supporters to external tools to actually complete the transactions. If Facebook is a genuinely social platform, it should accept that significant amounts of socializing center on friends helping friends make a way in the world. Incorporating Patreon's financial support system into Facebook might seem like an overly crude incursion on the quirky comments and cute baby photos party we have come to expect from the social network, but it would be a structural show of good-faith to its users, opening an avenue for them to make material gains from Facebook at the same time as Facebook makes material gains from them.
What matters in the long run is not the pursuit of miracles but a slow embrace of the mundane parts of our lives, from which there can be no escape. Facebook will probably continue to chase those companies it perceives as enabling the impossible, but it would be of better service to its users if instead it focused on achieving the possible and shared the benefits with those it claims it serves.
The Internet is for shopping, and Facebook's long-term money plan has always hinged on using social data to better channel shoppers to right sorts of sellers. Yet, advertisements and promotions on Facebook are instantly identifiable and generally unwelcome intrusions in one's Timeline. Groupon has long excelled at transforming advertising into social behavior, which is what shopping always defined shopping as a way to leave the house, travel somewhere new, talk to new people and discover new things. Groupon is a rapidly maturing company and the market excitement over it has died down and turned deeply critical in recent years, yet the company still generates hundreds of millions in quarterly revenue and could be given new life by being incorporated into Facebook, with group outings and one-day specials driven by Facebook tags and Timeline posts instead of cumbersome email threads and fragmented text messages chains.
More importantly, Groupon's services have flourished as more of its business has shifted to its mobile phone app instead of a browser interface. Quartz's Chris Mims' noted Facebook's fortunes have gone the opposite way, with steady profits from its browser form but struggling to make money from its otherwise popular mobile app. As more and more of Facebook's users shifts to casual computing devices like tablets and mobile phones it would benefit from both a stable and proven technology for making mobile advertisements tolerable, while also providing a new feature that shortens the distance between consumer and seller, which could make its advertising business even more effective.
Apache OpenOffice
When Facebook attempted to build an operating system for phones last year it was clear the company's long-term goal was to go beyond pure social interaction and encapsulate all in-roads into a person's life, from business calls to app sales. Home was greeted with either skepticism or indifference from reviewers but it opened the door to a future in which Facebook is not a social oasis that one escapes to during downtime, but an encapsulating digital environment that one never leaves. One of the major impediments to achieving this goal is the severe limitations to the types of files Facebook allows its users to create and share through it, keeping things limited to photos, plain text, and web links.
Open Office isn't exactly an entity that could be acquired, but partnering with the non-profit group or creating a similar bundle of productivity software built by licensing its applications could help Facebook become more viable as its own sort of operating system, structured around people and relationships instead of folders and control panels. Opening up Timeline to work with a wider array of content could greatly improve social play and experimentation, while creating a reasonable foundation for Facebook getting its users to stay logged in while writing TPS reports and building PowerPoint decks.
None of these options are quite as tantalizing as virtual reality goggles or wild encounters with the digital impossible. But even virtual reality will become boring if it becomes as ubiquitous as other revolutionary technologies like the car or iPhones. What matters in the long run is not the pursuit of miracles but a slow embrace of the mundane parts of our lives, from which there can be no escape. Facebook will probably continue to chase those companies it perceives as enabling the impossible, but it would be of better service to its users if instead it focused on achieving the possible and shared the benefits with those it claims it serves.
Michael Thomsen is Complex's tech columnist. He has written for Slate, The Atlantic, The New Inquiry, NewYorker.com, Billboard, and is author of Levitate the Primate: Handjobs, Internet Dating, and Other Issues for Men. He tweets often at @mike_thomsen.


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Ace Drummond - Chapter 2
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Ace escapes with Peggy. He comes back to his office to tell the Airways Commission about his discovery. He is now convinced that Peggy's father's disappearance is linked to the air crash.
Language: English
Year of Production: 1936
Length: 18:00
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The Palm Springs Intl. Festival of Short Films has announced its award winners for the 13th edition, which wrapped Tuesday . Fest said attendance jumped by 20% this year.
Best of festival award went to "Soft," from the U.K.'s Simon Ellis, while Moon Molson's "Pop Foul" received the grand jury award. "Pariah" by Dee Rees received the future filmmaker award and the student live action award.
A total of $14,000 in cash prizes, $7,500 in Kodak film stock, $6,000 in software prizes and a $60,000 Panavision camera package were awarded. First place winners in four categories are eligible to submit their films to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the shorts categories, and the P.S. Short Fest has screened 53 films that have gone on to receive Academy Award noms over the past 11 years.
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Passenger Profile: John Linscott
By Kenny Kerner
This month's profile is about songwriter John Linscott who is 76 years young. John wrote his first song when he was 16 and never stopped. His idols, Gershwin, Cole Porter, and Irving Berlin, are among the true songwriting icons in America. Here's John's story:
Did you come from a musical family?
: My mother was a collector/author, having written a book on New England folk music
Folk Songs of Old New England
. She played piano and could transcribe music. I play sax, clarinet, and keyboards.
Did your parents like it when you became more and more into music?
: I had always considered music as a career, however, my parents did not allow me to proceed in that field until I had "wasted" two years of liberal college education. After being discharged from the Navy (as a musician), I considered it as a career, but family commitments made it economically unsound. I have continued it as a part-time career throughout my lifetime.
Do you remember the first original song you wrote?
: My first original song was "The Fellow From My Town," written at age 16. It was musically correct, but would have had limited acceptance commercially, very limited!
How would you describe your music? What genre do you write in?
: I write in the jazz field. I best describe my music in the style of the Gershwin, Irving Berlin, and Cole Porterharmonically and lyrically. I often wish I had been born some 30 years earlier as my music would have been more commercially acceptable at that time.
What is it that inspires you to write songs these days?
: Many things inspire me to write, and with some I can directly trace the origin. One tune on my CD, "Passing Through a Forest in Maine," I wrote after coming home from a winter's cross-country ski one cold Sunday afternoon. The song almost wrote itself. Sometimes a lyric will emerge before the melody, other times it is the opposite creative experience. All come from an emotional stimulus. I have often felt that the music is already there in the ether and I am only a conduit to bring it to life. I hope that is not too philosophical for this interview.
How did you first hear about TAXI?
: I originally heard of TAXI during a summer course a few years ago. It was an ad in a recording magazine that stimulated me to join. As I have only submitted a few songs, I cannot fairly judge the results. My genre is not in great demand and I have been limited as to what I might submit.
Would you recommend TAXI to other writers?
: Yes, I would recommend TAXI to others. If one wishes to catch fish, one should put many lines in the water.
Have you ever attended the TAXI Road Rally and if so, what did you think of it?
: I was at the TAXI Road Rally in 2004. It was truly one of the most emotional experiences of my musical life. To be with some 2,000 kindred souls was great enough, but to perform before them with a "standing O" was validation that maybe somewhere within me there is some talent. Everyone was kind and supportive of each other. I will be back!
Have you negotiated any deals through TAXI yet?
: No deals as of yet. Many of the advertised listings are for composers/performers. While I can certainly perform, I am not seeking success as a performer, only as a composer. If Tony Bennett chose to sing my songsthat would be the success I seek.
Can you tell us what you've been up to lately?
: I am presently working on a musical that incorporates tunes already written with new music to fit the story. As well as having talent in the music arena, I am also blessed with ability in the literary field.
Well, if this isn't inspirational, what is? Seventy-six years old, still writing new music, and still getting his music out there through TAXI. I guess this proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that TAXI IS for everyoneyoung or old! I mean young or older! Keep rockin' John!
"I just want a shot, and I feel that TAXI has given that to me."
Roger Yeardley,
TAXI Member
"Getting all these critques in the mail is encouraging and instructive as well. Thanks for your help!"
Lisa Knouse,
TAXI Member
"One of my tunes, "Rumba Azul," was licensed to a TV show, and I'm expecting a check very soon."
Wayne Wesley Johnson,
TAXI Member
"We appreciate all that you do and try to do to help us struggling songwriters!"
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What A Brush with Kindness is
- A Brush with Kindness (ABWK) is Habitat for Humanity of Greater Centre County's exterior home repair program.
- A Brush with Kindness is a nationwide effort to serve low-income homeowners who struggle to maintain the exterior of their homes. This program is designed to help these homeowners reclaim their homes with pride and dignity.
- This program will focus on exterior repair services such as painting, minor exterior repairs, landscaping, and exterior clean-up.
- A Brush with Kindness uses volunteers, donated materials and no-interest loans to make repairs affordable, helping low-income homeowners continue to live independently and securely in their homes.
What A Brush with Kindness is not
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(Wed - 03/1/17) In week 8 of our series "Identifying The Giants". The same power, the same anointing that was on Jesus Christ is also on every believer to do "God's Plan" for your life. That power and anointing is not your plan, but His Plan and that is go make disciples where ever God tells you to go. All of us have missed God's Plan at a certain point in our lives, we became fearful, prideful, distracted or what ever reason you went with in order not to do what was right. But, once you repent, once you say, "God I will do your will" you immediately walk back into God's Perfect Plan for your life. That doesn't mean going back to the old plan, it means moving forward in His Plan for where you are at right now. Don't walk out of His anointing - follow God's Plan.
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Give your iphone an explosive makeover with Match 'n' Burst – the cracker of a game that takes the word 'fireworks' to a dazzling new level!
Have a blast as you mix and match Roman candles, rockets and sparklers to create your own eye-popping visual extravaganza.
An integral part of festivities in the Asian subcontinent, stunning illuminations dot the skies during the Indian Festival of Lights (Diwali), New Year, Independence Day and Christmas. Firecrackers also add that extra bang to auspicious occasions such as marriage festivities!
Now, enjoy the same spectacular show on the go –
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• Get the fireworks experience with each move you make
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|Newsline No. 40-07
May 8, 2007
The California Division of Workers' Compensation files final medical treatment guideline regulations with the Office of Administrative Law
The Division of Workers' Compensation (DWC) has filed its final regulations for the medical treatment utilization schedule (MTUS) with the Office of Administrative Law (OAL). The DWC has requested an effective date upon filing by the OAL with the secretary of state. The OAL will have 30 working days to review the proposed regulations before filing them with the secretary of state.
The proposed MTUS regulations, commonly referred to as medical treatment guidelines, are authorized by Labor Code section 5307.27, which requires the DWC administrative director to adopt a medical treatment utilization schedule. The proposed MTUS regulations define key terms used in the regulations, adopt the MTUS, adopt and incorporate by reference the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine's Occupational Medicine Practice Guidelines (ACOEM Practice Guidelines) into the MTUS, adopt acupuncture medical treatment guidelines into the MTUS, set forth the presumption of correctness of the MTUS, the burden of proof, and the strength of evidence rating methodology to evaluate specific medical treatment or diagnostic services, and create a medical evidence evaluation advisory committee which will advise the DWC medical director on matters concerning the MTUS for purposes of revising, updating and supplementing the MTUS as necessary.
A draft of the proposed MTUS regulations was initially published in the California Notice Register on Jul. 7, 2006. A public hearing took place on Aug. 23, 2006, at the state building in Oakland. The DWC revised the regulations several times based on comments. The last comment period closed Apr. 16, 2007.
The final proposed regulations and the final statement of reasons, as submitted to the OAL, are posted on the DWC Web site at http://www.dir.ca.gov/dwc/DWCPropRegs/MedicalTreatmentUtilizationSchedule/MTUS_regulations.htm.


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The Postal Service's failure to deliver needed reforms
THE POSTAL CRISIS accelerates. On Nov. 12, the U.S. Postal Service announced a loss of $8.5 billion for fiscal 2010, on top of a total loss of $6.1 billion for the two previous years. USPS owes $12 billion, just $3 billion below its legal debt ceiling. That's a problem, since it has projected a loss again next year yet must make $6.7 billion in retiree health and worker compensation payments by October. Only structural reform to employee wages and benefits - currently 80 percent of the operating budget - can stave off disaster. But current negotiations between USPS and two unions representing more than half of its workers have so far produced no resolution.
The postal mess is especially poignant and depressing, because it epitomizes America's broader economic and political gridlock. To be sure, the Postal Service is the victim of society's technological success: In a world of text messaging and videoconferences, a "snail mail" business model is bound to wither. USPS has adapted, but not quickly enough. Postal rates remain under the control of inflexible regulators; Congress insists on six-day delivery and unprofitable local post offices in every district; federal law gives unions the edge in collective bargaining with postal management. The president's commission on deficit reduction recently endorsed reforms that would give USPS management flexibility to deal with such issues. But until now, no one has had sufficient incentive to make the tough decisions that could keep the Postal Service's debts from being the next multibillion-dollar commitment passed on to the federal taxpayer.
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First off, unlike most heimer builds out there i focus on rockets over grenades, I do this because:
- Grenades stun lasts the same from level 1-5
- While the blinds duration does increase, i personally prefer the additional damage from rockets
- Unless against a noob, you won't hit with your grenade from range
- Rockets are good for harassing your opponent and after it hits level 2 you begin to take significant chunks of there hp each hit.
- At low level - with no ap - grenading a tower is a waste of mana, and with the recent debuffs your better off not bothering until late game.
Also, I leave my ultimate until last. I do this for three reasons:
- It heals turrets for 100% at all levels
- I Don't use the slow often enough for it to be worth increasing early on, plus it only
goes up by 5% a level.
- While the CD reduction is good, by the time i could get rank 2 ulti i usually have golem buff whenever it appears so the difference is minimal.
Teleport/Clarity combo allows you to maintain a permanent presence in your lane, and as an added bonus turrets are immune to damage if you use teleport on them.
They are also a great help later on in the game for pushing, clarity to allow you to continue a push, or to give enough mana to get golem buff, or teleport to tele to minions that have reached a tower.
Flash - Escape/catch up ability.
Ghost - Same as above
Exhaust - Grenade has the same effect, however if your aim sucks can help
Heal - Mainly for ranked games i'd say, if you manage to get him and you see the other team pick someone that'll be able to damage you, this will help you maintain your lane presence.
Instead of following the typical mage type rune build i choice to replace CD runes for additional AP, Mainly because end game your ulti + golem buff gets you the maximum CD reduction.
The game:
Try to mid unless the other team has a good counter for you. My list of these counters in my experience are:
Anivia - Her ulti drops your turrets with ease and her combo deals massive amounts to you.
Morgana - Manageable at low level, lvl 9+ drops turrets with one tormented soil
Tristana - Out ranges turrets
Sivir - Her multi-hits quickly drop your turrets and minions simultaneously while hitting you as well.
Annie - Tibbers drops your turrets instantly, her q takes them down in 1-2 hits as well
Fiddle - Drain life can take your turrets down if you don't grenade him fast.
Heim - In my experience Heim v heim is hell. As soon as one gets an upper hand its very hard to make a come back without a gank.
Kennen - Can take your turrets down from out of range, and his rush is good for gettin past turrets and killing you.
kog'mar - Ulti drops turrets fast as well as you. Also has 2 other skills that our range turrets
Karthus - Lay waste drops turrets easily, and there a pain to constantly dodge.
Katarina - Bouncing blade can drop turrets if shes AD, if she manages to shunpo you after level 6 you'll be lucky to get away unless shes a ******
If your against any of these solo and there a decent player, they can ruin the whole game for you. Thankfully from what i've seen - this is rare :) With the exception of anivia, never been able to beat her mid.
While some may argue that they are a better mid than you - EG. karth, kata, ashe.. - don't forget that whoever you lane with will be lucky to get 1 minion kill per wave once you have 3 turrets set up. So while mid will have a better game , you and whoever you lane with will be alot weaker until end game. ( You'll be weaker as it'll take you longer to level )
Sapphire Crystal + Health Potionx2 - Probably won't need the hp pot but better safe than sorry.
Archangel's Staff - Great mana and ap increase. Plus the %MP into AP stacks - Win!
Sorcerer's Shoes - Basic 2 speed, +20 MP for more damage
Zhonya's Ring - A must have for heim. Your turrets continue to attack while your untouchable.
Depending on how the games going I take one of two paths.
1)If i'm not being targeted I get another 3 Archangel's Staff. If I manage to complete this i have over 1000ap, this causes my rockets and grenade to deal around 700 damage(Not including MR or MP) each.
2) If i'm being targeted i invest in Warmog's Armor and Rylai's Crystal Scepter, This gives me a huge hp increase - to about 3.5k - and the slow from the scepter makes escape alot easier.
Early game
Place your turret behind the melee minions and try to last hit every minion. If your opponent trys to target your turret, target them. As soon as you get 580g recall asap to upgrade your Sapphire Crystal to a Tear of the Goddess, you need the mana. You then want to stay in your lane until you can afford shoes. If your doing well it's wise to also invest in buying some Sight Wards and placing them in the side bushes, don't want any early deaths from people not saying miss.
Mid game
Against most people mid you can drop the tower within 10-15 mins easily. Once you hit level 9 you will begin to push hard. 3 level 5 turrets will decimate a minion wave in seconds. I recommend going for the golem buff as soon as you can, and as often as you can. It's amazing the different it makes in the speed you can push and the rate you can spam your abilities with it. Once the first tower is down you can either push the second - I find this drops alot faster than the first, can sometimes go straight to it and drop it if I've forced them to recall, or go and help another lane. Also you can easily solo the dragon from level 9 - Place 2/3 turrets right outside the gate, and pull the dragon towards them with your rockets. Be careful not to draw it too far out or it will withdraw and heal.
End game
In team fights you want to stay on "the outskirts" running in and throwing your grenade and rockets when you can and placing a turret to boost your teams damage. I find heimer to be great at killing escaping enemies, with your ultis slow, your grenades long range stun - takes some practice to learn where to throw it to stun a moving target - and your rockets epicly large range. The main problem with heim is that should minions wander past your fight, turrets and rockets can be wasted on them.
Don't forget however your main function is to push. Wait for towers to start attacking the minions before placing your turret to attack the tower with you. End game you can drop towers with just one wave solo. When pushing with your team i find the best turret layout to be a line across the lane - this goes for all stages of the game, including early game farming. This allows for good offence against minions, and good defense against the enemy pushing. If a turret is taken down replace it, if several are hit use your ultimate when needed.
As they say patients is a virtue and with your turrets you can basically set up 4v1 gank in a bush. Simply set up your turrets in a bush, lure the enemy in, grenade them in range of your turrets - easy kill. However this can sometimes backfire in certain locations with you ending up traped in the middle of several enemies.


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Sajid Javid: grant-making powers return to Tower Hamlets
Plans for a 'phased return' of powers to Tower Hamlets council announced.
Communities Secretary Sajid Javid today (2 December 2016) announced plans for a 'phased return' of powers to Tower Hamlets council, so they can now make the final decision on grants awarded to not-for-profit organisations in the local community.
But Mr Javid warned that the government-appointed commissioners who found a 'breakdown of democratic accountability' in 2014, would continue to oversee these decisions to ensure taxpayer's money was put to best use.
The commissioners' latest report to the Communities Secretary shows that, over the past 2 years, improvements have been made. In response, Mr Javid is minded to return these powers to the directly elected mayor as well as plans to end the commissioners' oversight of procurement – but said he would halt the process if further concerns were raised.
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In the past we had a situation in Tower Hamlets where the former mayor was handing out grants against the advice of its own officers, which an election court later found amounted to the corrupt practice of bribery. There was also no monitoring of what hard-earned taxpayers' money was being spent on.
Since commissioners have been in place, root and branch reforms mean I am now minded to start a phased return of grant-making responsibility back to the mayor, so these key local decisions can return to those who have been directly elected by local residents.
This is a positive first step – but I won't restore full powers until I can be sure residents' money is in safe hands and will halt the process if commissioners raise any concerns.
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In 2014, an independent inspection of Tower Hamlets council ordered by the government and conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers warned of a breakdown in democratic accountability and a significant risk of misuse of public funds.
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The commissioners' latest report to the Communities Secretary highlights continued progress at the council, with some areas demonstrating good practice, but warns that there is still "much more to be done".
In particular, all decisions relating to grants are now taken during specially convened public meetings – a step which has increased transparency and has been well received by local residents.
On that basis, the commissioners have made a clear recommendation that grant-making powers be returned through a phased approach, and that the commissioners' oversight of the council's procurement processes and practices now ends.
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I've added these links to the Net Neutrality Page today.
Net Neutrality = A Financial Services Industry Free-Ride?
When it comes to the issue of Net neutralityââ¬âor what my PFF colleagues more appropriately call ââ¬ÅNet neuteringââ¬Åââ¬âit seems like a lot of people are forgetting the old lesson that there is no such thing as a free lunch in this world. The latest example of this is summarized in this Reuterââ¬â¢s article discussing the possibility of the financial sector potentially gearing up to jump into the ââ¬ÅCapitol Hill fight over the future of the Internet [to] stop an effort it says could add billions in costs just to maintain current offerings.ââ¬?
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Named for their resemblance to the nut of an oak tree, acorn squash have a tough, inedible skin and dense, fibrous flesh with a distinct, slightly-sweet flavor. A member of the family of winter squashes that includes butternut, pumpkin and spaghetti squash, the vegetable is frequently halved, stuffed with a savory dressing and baked. The vegetable's character stands up well to both sweet and savory seasonings, and grilling them adds a layer of roasted flavor.
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My take is that with the events that happen when jane is brought from earth Odin holds her responsible for the invasion of asgard and in his traumatic loss.
Refusing help and forbiding Thor to make an attempt at rescue of jane Thor is forced to disobey Odin and free loki which leads to the final battle,Thor dealing with Kurse and Loki fighting Malekith...My take on the trailer scene with Thor, Jane and Loki is after the battle Loki is clearly hurt in his encounter with Malekith and Thor is holding Jane as they head back to asgard..Thor will have to deal with Odin and make a choice between asgard or earth.....
That sounds interesting actually. Especially the part that Thor sneakes to Loki's cell and will aks for help. Cause I doubt this was officially ordered by Odin. This has been in the comics numerous times... That Thor has to decide for one world. I can picture that beeing part of the story.
But why do you think Odin will make Jane responsible for the invasion of Asgard?
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By Rick Bentley
The Fresno Bee
PASADENA, Calif.
The 10 celebrities looking to belly-flop their way to a win on the new ABC reality competition show "Splash" (8 tonight) bring little or no diving experience to the pool.
They won't have to take a long walk off a 10-meter stand on their own. They get to pick the brain of one of the most notable divers in American swim history: Multiple Olympic medal winner Greg Louganis is their mentor.
"The call me the 'Dive Master.' It's a very Yoda, Zen position," says Louganis at an ABC party. "It'll be my job to guide them through all of their performances."
The celebrities counting on Louganis are: NBA great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar; extreme skier Rory Bushfield; comedian Louie Anderson; actor Drake Bell, of "Drake & Josh"; actress Keshia Knight Pulliam; NFL star Ndamukong Suh; model Katherine Webb; TV personality Kendra Wilkinson; and actress Nicole Eggert.
TV personality Chuy Bravo, of "Chelsea Lately," was supposed to compete but an injury has sidelined him.
Each of their dives will be judged by London Olympic U.S. Gold medalist David Boudia and Australian Olympic athlete and USA Dive Team director Steve Foley.
Louganis isn't kidding when he talks about the Zen nature of his role.
"It's almost like diving becomes a metaphor for facing your fears, facing your challenges. It's more about the journey. It's not so much about the technique," Louganis says. "It's a matter of getting them to face their fears and push beyond what they think they can do."
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Prestolite Electric Incorporated & Leece-Neville (http://www.prestolite.com) (Prestolite Electric), an ISO 9001/TS-16949:2009 and ISO 14001:2004-certified global manufacturer of heavy-duty alternators and starter motors, today announced that Travis Atkinson was appointed as its new National Accounts/Fleet Sales Director, effective January 1, 2014.
In this newly created role, Mr. Atkinson is responsible for all North American sales, marketing and business development activities for Leece-Neville vehicle alternators and starter motors. He also leads a team of highly trained and experienced direct sales personnel, each of whom is fully and exclusively dedicated to fleet customer needs.
Mr. Atkinson has been a well-respected sales executive within the alternator and starter motor marketplace for nearly 30 years. This notably included nine years in key accounts management at the original Prestolite Electric. Prior to his initial tenure with Prestolite, Mr. Atkinson served for 17 years as a technical product development and training specialist for commercial bus manufacturer Blue Bird Corporation. Here, he actively collaborated with sales personnel in more than 47 countries. He then went on to serve as the technical service director and key accounts manager for one of the world's largest distributors of heavy-duty rotating electrics.
Mr. Atkinson remains an active member and participant of both the Technical Maintenance Council North America – Asia Pacific and the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE). In addition, he is recognized with two design patents and six design registrations.
Notes Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Jim Beirne, "We are pleased to welcome Travis Atkinson back to the Prestolite Electric/Leece-Neville team. Particularly, during such an exciting year for our company. We are confident that our customers will greatly benefit from his extensive wealth of technical product, application and market knowledge, and particularly, his unique in-depth understanding of the fleet marketplace. With this newly dedicated sales channel, we look forward to continuing our commitment to product quality, reliability, and fleet customer support."
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National Rental Affordability Scheme
What is the National Rental Affordability Scheme?
The National Rental Affordability Scheme (NRAS) is a partnership between the Australian, state and territory governments to invest in affordable rental housing for low and moderate income earners.
The properties are owned and managed privately by non-government organisations, like private developers. They are not government property.
The properties are rented to people who are eligible and registered for the scheme.
Am I eligible to rent an NRAS property?
To be eligible you:
- Need to give written evidence of your gross income. You need to do this when you first apply and then every year after to the tenancy manager
- Must not exceed the income limits for your 'household composition'
You can find the income limits in 'Information for Tenants' factsheet on the Commonwealth Department of Social Services' NRAS information for tenants page.
Some properties may have extra eligibility requirements – check directly with the NRAS tenancy manager you want to register with.
Where can I live?
There are properties in most metropolitan areas and some regional towns in Victoria.
To find a tenancy manager with properties where you want to live, see the Commonwealth Department of Social Services' list of NRAS tenancy managers.
How do I register for the NRAS?
Contact the tenancy manager directly to register your interest – we can't take applications:
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SOURCE: Horace Mann Educators Corp
May 25, 2016 16:15 ET
SPRINGFIELD, IL--(Marketwired - May 25, 2016) - Horace Mann Educators Corporation (NYSE: HMN) Board of Directors today announced a quarterly dividend of 26.5 cents per share payable on June 30, 2016 to shareholders of record as of June 13, 2016.
Horace Mann -- the largest national multiline insurance company focusing on educators' financial needs -- provides auto, homeowners and life insurance, retirement products and other financial solutions. Founded by Educators for Educators® in 1945, the company is headquartered in Springfield, Ill. For more information, visit www.horacemann.com.
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Credit Stress Testing Manager
- Competitive
- Londres, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni Londres Angleterre GB
- CDI, Plein-temps
- 18 août 18 2018-08-18
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The Business
Join us in Birmingham or London as a Credit Stress Testing Manager
- This is a technically focused role in an area which is rapidly increasing in importance as a tool for risk management and commercial decision making
- Joining our Stress Testing & Risk Capital team, you'll have the opportunity to build our capability from the ground up
- You'll work on credit risk stress testing projections, giving you a chance to gain exposure to the bank's strategy
- This role offers fantastic career prospects and opportunities to enhance your technical skills
What you'll do
Your role will have several components, offering technical and intellectual challenge and giving you a voice in an area of the bank which is shaping strategic thinking and conversation.
Day-to-day, you'll be:
- Using SAS to deliver stress testing projections by implementing scenarios and methodologies
- Contributing to the definition of the methodologies used for loan impairment charges and risk-weighted asset projections
- Preparing dedicated analysis and reports for both internal and external audiences
- Making sure that stress testing meets regulatory requirements
The skills you'll need
We'll look for you to have relevant work experience in a major bank, rating agency or consultancy firm focusing on one of two areas: either loan impairment charges and risk-weighted asset stress testing projections, or portfolio credit risk modelling or the estimation of risk parameters, including PD, EAD and LGD.
Technical skills are the key to success in this role. You'll ideally have:
- A solid academic background in a quantitative, technical or economic field, preferably with a PhD or other postgraduate qualifications
- Good knowledge of the retail or wholesale credit business and products
- Strong programming skills including SAS, SQL and VBA or other languages such as C++, plus familiarity with numerical analysis
- An understanding of relevant capital requirements regulation (Basel II/III) and impairment assessment approaches (IAS39/IFRS9)
We'll also be looking for you to demonstrate:
- An organised approach with the ability to work effectively to deadlines
- Strong communication skills, both verbally and in writing
- The ability to intellectually challenge data using a good understanding of how the bank operates, and to be challenged in return
How we'll reward you
In return, we offer a competitive salary plus 30% cash and benefit funding programme that can be tailored to suit your individual needs. In addition, we provide a wide selection of exclusive lifestyle offers, development and learning programmes, services and support designed to help you manage and balance your work/life priorities.
Visit our reward and benefits page for more information on the benefit packages we offer.
At RBS, we want everyone to feel welcome, regardless of your background or needs. If you need adjustments making to your working environment, we'll do everything we can to support you. As part of this commitment, we offer flexible working options for some of our roles - find out more .
As a Financial Services organisation we comply with and support the requirements set by our Regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), which are designed to protect our customers. This role falls under Conduct Rules of the Individual Accountability Regime (IAR) and is subject to pre-employment screening. This means if your application is successful, you'll need to satisfy some important background checks before you can start working with us. These will include a full credit check, a criminal record check, residency and right to work checks.


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Detection systems guard against network intrusion
Prevention is better than cure
How do the different types of intrusion prevention system (IPS) work?
Inline systems sit on the network like layer-two bridges, passing traffic along as they receive it. Host-based systems sit on the server, watching the traffic that it sends and receives.
Both check packets for any suspicious activity, often using the most basic method of detection: signatures, or rules. If traffic passing through the network intrusion detection system matches a certain pattern, it can be blocked; traffic already identified as malicious doesn't make it through.
Legible signatures
That traffic could fit a predefined suspicious pattern, such as aggressive port scanning, operating system fingerprinting, server message block probes, or even simple operations such as trying to login to telnet as root.
And, of course, emails with particular characteristics or strings can also be rolled into signature lists.
The biggest problem with signatures is that they are generally retroactive. They stop attacks that have already been documented, and are not so good at spotting those that have not yet appeared in the wild.
Statistical anomaly-based detection works differently. It begins by learning what normal behaviour on a network looks like, then uses it as a baseline to spot irregular activity.
This method has several advantages over signature-based detection. The first is that the system improves over time. The more traffic it is able to sample, the more knowledgeable it becomes about what constitutes acceptable activity.
The statistical anomaly method also does a better job of detecting zero-day attacks. Even though no signatures exist for these, the system often picks them up because they push traffic patterns outside what is considered "normal".
Breaking and entering
On the downside, however, a statistical system doesn't understand the traffic it is analysing, and cannot make judgement calls about whether it is malicious or not. It simply looks for patterns outside those that regularly occur.
A wily attacker could introduce just enough of an attack pattern into the network to make the intrusion prevention system consider it normal. For example, small, non-aggressive port scans could be used to raise the system's tolerance.
There is a third method for detecting and preventing malicious traffic: stateful protocol analysis (aka deep packet inspection), which combines the best of both the other methods. It can be used to identify anomalies, so it has a better chance of detecting attacks without a particular signature.
Suspicious movements
It also understands the traffic it is analysing and can make more intelligent decisions about whether a pattern is suspicious, rather than simply detecting an anomaly and handing the whole tangled mess to an administrator to analyse.
These systems work by understanding what is expected during a particular application-layer session. For example, the system might know what response to expect back from a server during a particular authentication session. If that response does not arise (or a different one does) then it might raise an alert.
This approach can look for unexpected command sequences (such as a command issued to a server without a specific preceding command). It can also look for malformed protocols that might otherwise crash a system or cause a buffer overflow error.
The downside to this kind of analytical detection is that it often requires bigger computing resource.
Administrators need to tune devices to make them more effective
So, what kind of system should you buy? Ideally, you should have one that uses several approaches. The term "defence in depth" is more suited to the IPS product category than to anything else.
But however good it is, it won't make your network watertight. NSS Labs, an organisation which tests security equipment without vendor funding, ran a group test of IPS products late last year. It found that out of the box, security effectiveness averaged about 62 per cent (with the lowest product scoring just 31 per cent). Performance decreased overall compared with a year previously.
Perhaps the most revealing result was that administrators need to tune the devices to make them more effective. When configured to an administrator's own preferences, average security efficiency rose to 83 per cent.
The moral? Don't expect these things to protect you entirely straight out of the box. Come to that, don't expect them to shield your backside even when you spend time helping them to understand your network better. A few nasties, it seems, will always get through. ®