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In the broadest sense of the word, energy is a substance's capacity to do work or produce an effect, such as burning coal to create heat. Canada is home to vast quantities of both renewable (e.g. wind) and non-renewable energy sources (e.g. oil). This collection gathers all of The Canadian Encyclopedia's articles relating to energy, from various types to the means by which they are sourced.
The Canadarm was a remote-controlled mechanical arm, also known as the Shuttle Remote Manipulator System (SRMS). During its 30-year career with NASA's Space Shuttle Program, the robotic arm deployed, captured and repaired satellites, positioned astronauts, maintained equipment, and moved cargo.1
Pipelines are systems of connected pipes used to transport liquids and gases — namely oil and natural gas — across long distances from source to market. More than 840,000 km of pipelines criss-cross the country, part of a larger oil and gas sector that employs between 100,000 and 200,000 Canadians. According to Natural Resources Canada, the sector earns the government an average of $19 billion in royalties, fees and taxes each year. It also contributes nearly 8 per cent of Canada's gross domestic product. Yet pipelines have also been controversial in Canada over fears that the fossil fuel use they facilitate could be significantly contributing to climate change. In recent years, Indigenous groups, environmentalists, municipalities, mayors and labour unions have opposed numerous pipeline projects they believe could contaminate local waterways through spills and leaks.
In 1970, the Canadian government introduced guidelines for the development of a pipeline corridor south from the Mackenzie River delta to Alberta and the United States. Energy companies have since proposed three separate projects to transport natural gas by pipeline along this route — the Arctic Gas Pipeline, the Foothills Pipeline and the Mackenzie Gas Project — with an oil pipeline likely to follow in the first two cases. However, due to high costs, engineering challenges, environmental concerns, Indigenous land claims and changing markets, none of these pipelines has been built.
SchoolNet was an educational project launched in 1993 by federal, provincial and territorial governments, educational organizations and industry partners. Their goals were to link Canadian schools and libraries (particularly those in remote areas) via the Internet and to foster the creation of a Canadian educational website in English and French.
Floods are primarily caused by naturally occurring changes in the height of rivers, lakes and oceans. According to Public Safety Canada, floods are the most common natural hazard in the country and among the costliest. Historic floods have occurred across Canada, with many of the worst happening on major river systems that pass through populated areas. Scientists predict that flooding linked to the impacts of climate change will increase as the 21st century progresses, particularly in coastal areas of the country.


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Zeev Braude joined GreenRoad as the CEO in 2013 and has led the company's strategy, operations and vision. Zeev brings over 20 years of enterprise software experience in leading technology businesses delivering highly engineered products across multiple markets, industries and geographies.
Prior to joining GreenRoad, Zeev founded and served as CEO of Ryz Media, a mobile based platform enabling the convergence of broadcasted content, advertising and social media. Previously, Zeev began his career in 1993 as founding member of MIND CTI, delivering customer-care focused products for large service providers and helped to launch the company's IPO efforts on NASDAQ. Following MIND CTI, Zeev led sales and marketing for Xeround, a developer of distributed cloud database solutions for SQL based applications.
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This book does not include working instructions for each design, as it is designed for the more experienced worker who can tell at a glance how to work out the designs from the illustration included. Nevertheless, the book shows in figures 1 to 10 the various steps in tatting and gives a description of the different steps to follow.
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I kinda wanted to save this post for the Queens Diamond Jubilee on the 5th of June, but I wear this all the time, and figured I really needed to show you at some point! Plus, I wore it on Saturday at my boyfriends whilst we chilled playing crash bandicoot and eating crap all day. I love slouchy days like that! We only ventured out once to nip to tesco for more food, and on the way took these snaps, his house has SUCH beautiful scenery compared to mine!
Union Jack British Flag Oversized Jumper, c/o sheinside (SIMILAR HERE ON EBAY!)
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Faux zara tan leather shopper tote, ebay - £18
He lives in a gorgeous litle Cul De Sac, hardly any cars parked on the road (they all have garages unlike my road haha) and a park right next to it. Taken a mental note to take more photos around there, especially as I'm usually in my nice clothes when I'm at his anyway, unlike sweats when I'm at mine!
The jumper is SO cosy and soft! Literally it came in the post and everyone who hugged me commented on how snuggly it was! It's the most oversized top and I haven't seen anything else like it anywhere! It's actually from one of my lovely sponsors advertised on my sidebar 'sheinside' and you'll probably see a few more pieces from them as I'm in love! They have given me a cheeky 20% off discount for you guys aswell if you want it! just use Kavita20 until May the 15th! You'll also see another sponsor of mine pop up recently, Eclectic Eccentricity, and I have so many gorgeous thing from them to show you too! So keep posted, I'm becoming a jewellery junkie!
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Founded 20 years ago by executive director, Linda Davis, Equamor Foundation is probably the West Coast's oldest organization devoted to horse rescue. According to Equamor volunteer, Colleen DuMont, every horse has a story. On March 26 at Sams Valley Elementary School, she addressed scores of area residents at a fundraiser presented by Rainey's Market.
"True, some equines suffer extreme neglect and abandonment through callous human indifference," DuMont continued. "These might come to us via Sheriff's confiscations. We received one animal seized in a meth raid. He'd been living in a dog cage for two years, and near starvation."
"Others may have owners who love horses, but simply have no ability to care for them. People unexpectedly fall on financial hard times, or severe health problems of their own."
She then spoke of the Oregon Hay Bank. This non-profit entity, has worked with Humane Society rescuers to furnish hay that aids eligible horse owners through rough times. "We sorely lack money to buy this feed. $12 provides the equivalent of 100 lbs. "
DuMont showed "before and after" photos indicating it took 45 hay bales to bring a stallion from near starvation to good health over a six month period."
Among a team of volunteers present, Gene, Debra Ziesmer, and business partner, John Tepper donated eleven tons of hay upon learning about the Ashland based Equamor Foundation. One of the March 26 event's co-sponsoring companies, Tepper Innovations, produces custom made halters plus other livestock and pet items sold at Rainey's.
Chloe Ellis, Rainey's manager, introduced Purina Company Representative, Stash Easton, who addressed elder horse nutrition. He also praised Ellis and Rainey's as "Top Notch" in the local community.
Equamor's veterinarian, Dan Cochran, D.V.M., answered the question of how much a 1,000 lb. horse should eat. "Since the rule of thumb is 1.8 to 2 % of body weight, that means 18 to 20 lbs. per day. When it comes to supplements, keep it simple. Some supplements are worthless."
The headliner for the evening, "Leapin' Louie" David Lichtenstein provided non-stop entertainment in an act that included wry humor, original rope tricks, unicycling, juggling, whip cracking, chair balancing, accordion playing, and magic illusion. The Portland resident occasionally jumped off the stage onto the gym floor to recruit "assistants." One adorable blonde child, Jade West, followed his deliberately inane impromptu choreography instruction so well, audience members believed she was part of the show's cast.
"This is my first appearance in Sams Valley, Oregon," announced Lichtenstein, a certified elementary school teacher. In a private interview after the show, he said that in 2008 he toured with Clowns Without Borders to nine foreign countries and nine U.S. states. He recently returned from Haiti, where he'd stayed in a "high-class, 4-star canvas tent."
He urged the spectators to support Equamor's horse rescues with tax-deductible donations. Please visit www.equamore.org, Also to donate to the Oregon Hay Bank, please view www.oregonhaybank.org.
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Black Ops 2 Getting Ranked Dedicated Servers On PC Plus Pre-Order Bonuses For Steam
Call of Duty PC players are a loyal bunch, over the years they have stayed with the award-winning shooter even if they hard feelings about the past. Well, this year will be different for those keyboard wielding soldiers, as Black Ops 2 will receive dedicated servers and some pre-order bonuses off Steam just for good measure.
The announcement was made by Treyarch's director of technology, Cesar Stastny (@PCdev), on his Twitter account and simply read, "Confirmed: Ranked Dedicated Servers for Black Ops 2." Last years entry Modern Warfare 3 also ran dedicated servers for PC players, but only unranked servers, with Black Ops running both un-ranked and ranked. Gamers will have to pay out of their pockets to rent a server, nothing new in that aspect.
Treyarch's Cesar Stastny also stated on Twitter that those who pre-order the upcoming shooter from Steam, will receive pre-order bonuses, he said, "I can confirm that there will be a bonus for all Steam pre-orders but it is not announced yet." So no word on what the bonuses will be, you never know with Call of Duty, you could end up with a machine gun wielding monkey delivered to your house.
Stastny also said that in-game mouse sensitivity for Black Ops 2 is been tweaked, Modern Warfare 3 players complained about mouse slowness. Treyarch is definitely on top of things for PC users, all gamers have to hope for now is some Mod Tools to play with, Black Ops had them, so fingers crossed. Black Ops 2 will be hitting stores on November 13th for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC.
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I wish to make it clear, however, that I hold no particular brief for the Army, its theology, and its methods. I recognize fully, as I know it does, the splendid work that is being done in the religious and social fields by other Organizations of the same class, especially by Dr. Barnardo's Homes, by the Waifs and Strays Society, by the Church Army, and, above all, perhaps, by another Society, with which I have had the honour to be connected in a humble capacity for many years, that for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Still it remains true that the Salvation Army is unique, if only on account of the colossal scale of its operations. Its fertilizing stream flows on steadily from land to land, till it bids fair to irrigate the whole earth. What I have written about is but one little segment of a work which flourishes everywhere, and even lifts its head in Roman Catholic countries, although in these, as yet, it makes no very great progress.
How potent then, and how generally suited to the needs of stained and suffering mankind, must be that religion which appeals both to the West and to the East, which is as much at home in Java and Korea as it is in Copenhagen or Glasgow. For it should be borne in mind that the basis of the Salvation Army is religious, that it aims, above everything, at the conversion of men to an active and lively faith in the plain, uncomplicated tenets of Christianity to the benefit of their souls in some future state of existence and, incidentally, to the Reformation of their characters while on earth.
The social work of which I have been treating is a mere by-product or consequence of its main idea. Experience has shown, that it is of little use to talk about his soul to a man with an empty stomach. First, he must be fed and cleansed and given some other habitation than the street. Also the Army has learned that Christ still walks the earth in the shape of Charity; and that religion, after all, is best preached by putting its maxims into practice; that the poor are always with us; and that the first duty of the Christian is to bind their wounds and soothe their sorrows. Afterwards, he may hope to cure them of their sins, for he knows that unless such a cure is effected, temporal assistance avails but little. Except in cases of pure misfortune which stand upon another, and, so far as the Army work is concerned, upon an outside footing, the causes of the fall must be removed, or that fall will be repeated. The man or woman must be born again, must be regenerated. Such, as I understand it, is at once the belief of the Salvation Army and the object of all its efforts. Therefore, I give to this book its title of 'Regeneration.'
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You've spent years developing your business, building its value, enhancing its reputation. Now you're ready to move on. You place a "Business for Sale" advertisement in the Internet classifieds, and the next day an eager – overly eager – buyer approaches you with a deal that seems too good to be true. The buyer offers full price and wants to structure the deal as a stock sale. A stock sale means the buyer will get the entire business, including all its assets (cash, checking accounts, receivables, inventory, and so on) at closing. The buyer doesn't ask tough questions about the firm and seems in a hurry to close the sale. He or she offers a 10% down payment and says the full balance will be paid off within a year. [Read more…]
IRS expands innocent spouse relief
If you file a joint income tax return with your spouse, you are considered "jointly and severally" liable for the payment of all taxes owed. The IRS can come after either you or your spouse for the entire amount of tax due, plus any penalties and interest due.
The law has "innocent spouse" rules that may limit an individual's responsibility for unpaid taxes resulting from filing a joint return. If the "innocent spouse" can establish that he or she did not know, or have reason to know, that there was an understatement of tax when signing the joint return, relief can be requested. [Read more…]
Last-minute 2011 deal reached on payroll tax cut
On December 23, 2011, Congress finally approved a two-month extension of the payroll tax cut for American workers. The agreement was reached after weeks of partisan bickering. Though both Democrats and Republicans wanted a one-year extension of the tax cut, they could not agree on how to pay for a year-long extension and settled on a paid-for two-month extension.
The new law extends the 4.2% social security tax on wages through February 29, 2012. Without this extension, the tax rate would have gone to 6.2% on the first $110,100 of wages earned in 2012. [Read more…]
It's tax time again
It's time to file various tax returns once again. If any of the following tax deadlines will apply to you, circle the dates on your 2012 calendar.
- January 17 – Due date for the fourth quarterly installment of 2011 estimated taxes for individuals unless you file your tax return and pay any taxes due by January 31.
- January 31 – Employers must furnish 2011 W-2 statements to employees. Payers must furnish payees with Form 1099s for various payments made. The deadline for providing Form 1099-B and consolidated statements to customers is February 15. [Read more…]
Face the alternative minimum tax (AMT) head-on
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Overview: The AMT is a separate tax system that runs parallel to the regular income tax system. This complex calculation includes additions for "tax preference items" and reductions for personal exemptions and certain tax deductions. There are five basic steps to computing the AMT.
- Determine your taxable income for regular income tax purposes.
- Make the technical AMT adjustments required by law. [Read more…]
Tax tips for year-end charitable giving
As the year draws to a close, you may decide to donate cash or property to one or more worthy causes. Besides the satisfaction of helping others, there's another reward for your benevolence: a tax deduction on your 2011 return. But keep the following points in mind:
- For starters, you may only deduct contributions made to a legitimate tax-exempt charitable organization. Note that a qualified charity cannot be established to benefit a specific individual or family.
- Generally, your deduction is limited to 50% of adjusted gross income (AGI) for the year (30% of AGI for contributions to certain charities and private foundations). Any excess may be carried over for up to five years. The deduction for gifts of property have other AGI limits. [Read more…]
New worker classification program offered by the IRS
Companies that have had worker classification issues are being offered a settlement program by the IRS. The program, labeled the "Voluntary Worker Classification Settlement Program," will let employers who previously misclassified employees as independent contractors make a minimal payment to settle the tax dispute. The program will give eligible employers substantial relief from federal payroll taxes they may have owed for past periods. Employers must agree to pay just over 1% of wages paid to reclassified workers for the past year and to treat these workers as employees going forward.
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The law creates the "Returning Heroes Tax Credit" and the "Wounded Warriors Tax Credit." Employers may qualify for a credit of up to $5,600 for hiring a veteran who has been looking for employment for more than six months. A credit of up to $2,400 applies for veterans who have been unemployed for more than four weeks but less than six months. [Read more…]
Grantor's power to substitute insurance policy won't cause inclusion in estate
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Facebook may be involved in 20% of all divorces
Facebook is playing a role in as many as a fifth of all divorces in the U.S., according to a study by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.
Facebook can come up in a divorce case in several ways. One is that marriages sometimes end because people have affairs with people they met – or re-connected with – over the social networking site.
One of the most common uses of Facebook is getting in touch with old friends. But if a marriage is in some trouble already, and a spouse gets back in touch with an old friend (or an old flame) who is emotionally available, a simple "hello" could turn into something much more complicated. [Read more…]
Husband's credit card debt was his problem, not his ex-wife's
Generally, whatever assets and debts a couple accumulate during a marriage can be split between them at divorce.
But what if a husband racks up an enormous amount of credit card debt without his wife knowing about it? Should she still be responsible for half the bill?
In one recent case, the Kentucky Supreme Court said "no."
The couple in that case divorced after being married for 42 years. Late in their marriage, the husband ran up $65,000 in credit card debt trying to help their adult son recover from financial setbacks. [Read more…]
Wife shares in husband's future partnership profits
A husband's interest in a business partnership that produced a consistent stream of profits "counted" as marital property, and his wife can receive a share of his interest at divorce, the highest court in Massachusetts recently ruled.
The husband was a partner in an investment advisory firm. Under the terms of the partnership, he received annual cash payments in the form of salary, incentives, return on capital and merit pay.
The wife claimed a share of the value of his partnership interest. The husband objected, arguing that his partnership interest wasn't "property" since he had no right to the annual payments, which were merely an "expectancy" of future income. (State law says that a divorcing spouse has no right to share in a mere "expectancy" of a benefit.) [Read more…]
Divorced mother couldn't demand home schooling
When a divorced couple have different religious beliefs, and when children are involved, it can sometimes lead to court.
That's what happened recently in New Hampshire, where a mother wanted to home-school her daughter according to her religious beliefs, but her ex-husband wanted the child to go to public school.
A judge ruled that it was in the daughter's best interest to attend public school. The mother appealed to the New Hampshire Supreme Court, arguing that requiring the daughter to go to public school violated her parenting and religious rights under the Constitution. [Read more…]
Father's child support is reduced by SSDI benefits
A father's child support obligations could be reduced by the amount of his Social Security Disability Insurance payments that went directly to his children, the Vermont Supreme Court recently decided.
The father had been ordered to pay $326 a month in child support when he and his wife divorced. Soon afterward, he went to prison for five years.
When he got out of prison, he applied for SSDI benefits. He received a retroactive payment that included more than $14,000 that went directly to his ex-wife on his children's behalf.
The father argued that his child support obligations should be reduced by the amount of this payment to his children. [Read more…]
Military promotion might not increase ex-wife's pension share
The ex-wife of an Air Force officer might not be able to share in an increase in the officer's pension benefits that resulted from a promotion he received after the couple divorced, according to a New Jersey appeals court.
The couple divorced when the husband was a captain. The divorce settlement gave the wife 50 percent of his military pension, which was based on his 11 years of service to that point.
By the time the husband retired, he'd reached the rank of major. His promotion entitled him to a larger pension benefit.
But the court said the wife couldn't automatically share in the increase. Rather, it ordered a hearing to determine how much of the husband's promotion was due to the couple's joint efforts while married, and how much was due to the husband's individual efforts after the divorce.
Thinking about divorce? Redo your estate plan, too
Divorce is stressful, and if you're considering a marital split, the last thing you're probably focusing on is your estate planning documents. But if you're thinking of getting divorced, it's usually wise to revise your estate plans now rather than later.
For example:
- You might have signed a power of attorney document that allows your current spouse to make gifts, sign contracts, and make financial decisions for you.
- You might have a life insurance policy that names your spouse as the beneficiary.
- You might have a lot of your money in joint accounts to which your spouse has unlimited access.
- You might have a health care proxy that allows your spouse to make medical decisions for you if you become incapacitated. [Read more…]
Employers may need to tell workers they can form a union
The National Labor Relations Board recently proposed a rule that would require employers to post a notice in the workplace informing employees of their right to form a union.
The rule hasn't been adopted yet, but if it is, employers who fail to comply could be fined or sued for unfair labor practices.
Such a notice could conceivably have an effect in smaller workplaces – such as those with 10 or 15 workers – where a union could form quickly if a majority of employees agree to organize.
Company's 'one strike' drug-testing policy is okay
An employer can have a "one-strike" drug-testing policy that permanently disqualifies applicants who have previously flunked a drug test, according to a federal appeals court in California.
In this case, an employer rejected an applicant for a longshoreman job when he failed a pre-employment drug screening.
Some time afterward, the man allegedly stopped using drugs, but when he reapplied, the employer rejected him again under its one-strike rule.
He sued, claiming that the one-strike policy violated the Americans with Disabilities Act. That law prohibits employers from discriminating against rehabilitated drug users. [Read more…]
New mothers might be exempt from physical ability tests
A woman who had recently had a baby and who was denied a job as a security guard after failing a physical-fitness test could sue the company for pregnancy discrimination, a federal judge in Alabama recently ruled.
The test required job applicants to perform 29 sit-ups in two minutes.
The woman claimed she was unable to complete enough sit-ups because her stomach muscles were weak from childbirth several months earlier. She sued the employer under the federal Pregnancy Discrimination Act. [Read more…]
Employer could require a doctor's note after sick leave
A city didn't violate its employees' right to medical confidentiality by making them provide a doctor's note when coming back from sick leave, a federal appeals court ruled recently.
The city of Columbus, Ohio had adopted a policy demanding that police department employees who took sick leave give supervisors a physician's note stating the "nature of the illness" and whether the worker could return to regular duty.
Several employees sued, arguing that the policy violated patient confidentiality rules under the Americans with Disabilities Act. [Read more…]
Company sued for 'pressuring' employee on medical leave
A company can be sued if it "pressures" an employee who is on medical leave by repeatedly calling to find out when the employee plans to return to work.
That's the message of a new case from a federal court in Arkansas.
In that case, a woman took leave from her housekeeping job at a hospital to recover from back surgery. She claimed that while she was out, her immediate supervisor called her every week to ask when she was coming back. In one conversation, she asked if her job was in jeopardy, and the supervisor responded by telling her that she should return as soon as she could. [Read more…]
Medical marijuana law doesn't preempt workplace drug policy
Many states have passed laws in recent years allowing people to use marijuana for medical reasons.
But while these laws may protect users against the police, they won't necessarily protect them against their employers.
For example, a Wal-Mart employee in Michigan recently sued the company for firing him under its drug-use policy when he tested positive for marijuana. The employee claimed he was wrongfully fired because he used marijuana after work for medical reasons. [Read more…]
Workers can sue for 'cat's paw' discrimination
In an old French fable, a sneaky monkey talks an unwary cat into grabbing roasting chestnuts from a fire. The cat burns its paw and drops the chestnuts, and the monkey walks off with them.
From this fable comes the phrase "cat's paw," meaning an innocent person who's used as a tool for someone else's dirty work.
In the employment world, a "cat's paw" situation is one where a supervisor is prejudiced against a worker, but rather than firing the worker for an illegal reason, he or she persuades a higher-up manager to fire the worker for some trumped-up but legitimate-sounding reason. [Read more…]
Supreme Court helps workers who are fired for complaining
Once again, the U.S. Supreme Court has made it easier for workers to go to court and claim that they were fired in retaliation for asserting their rights.
In recent years, the Court has decided a number of cases that made it easier for workers to sue if they were fired for complaining about discrimination.
But what if a worker was fired for complaining about something else? What if a worker was fired (or otherwise punished) after making a comment about the way the employer allocates tips? Or about unsafe equipment? Or overtime practices? [Read more…]
'Secrets' of maintaining your credit score revealed
The Fair Isaac Corporation, creator of the FICO credit score, usually doesn't reveal many details about how missing a mortgage payment will affect people's scores. But the company recently issued a commentary to lenders that contained some unusually specific information.
FICO scores range from 300 to 850. Scores of 750 or higher generally qualify for the best credit terms.
Here are some of the newly released details:
- Being 30 days late on a mortgage payment – even if it was an accident – can lower a 780 score by 100 points. That's a huge drop. [Read more…]
What to do if the government wants your land by 'eminent domain'
If a government entity wants to take all or part of your property by eminent domain, it's required to pay you the land's fair market value. Typically the government will send you a notice telling you what it thinks the land is worth, and offering to pay that amount. Its valuation will usually be based on an appraisal that it has commissioned.
Some property owners who get an eminent domain notice rush out and get their own appraisal, but this is often a mistake. It's almost always better to talk with an attorney first before hiring an appraiser. [Read more…]
Can landlords limit the number of people in an apartment?
Do landlords have a right to limit the number of people who can occupy an apartment?
The answer, as often happens in the law, is, "It depends."
In general, landlords own the property and they can decide how many people can live there. However, a landlord is not allowed to discriminate against tenants based on their "familial status." (This rule was added to the federal Fair Housing Act back in 1988.)
What does "familial status" mean? It means that a landlord can't refuse to rent to a family with children. So if a family with seven children wants to rent an apartment, the landlord can't say "no" based on that fact alone. [Read more…]
Cash is now king in real estate sales
Cash is playing a more significant role in residential real estate sales right now than at any time in recent memory.
Consider the following:
- The median down payment on houses was 22% last year.
That's according to a study by Zillow.com of sales involving conventional mortgages in nine major U.S. cities. It's the highest figure ever since the data started being kept back in 1997.
By comparison, just three years ago the figure was 11%. And back in late 2006, it was only 4%.
The main reason for the change: Banks are tightening their standards and demanding larger down payments to qualify for mortgages. Banks are figuring that borrowers who can afford a larger down payment are less likely to default, and less likely to end up in a situation where they are "underwater" – meaning the value of their house falls to the point where they owe more than the house is worth. [Read more…]


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Evelyn Jackson felt abandoned by her South Side Methodist church when her 26-year-old son was dying of AIDS.
"My son was ill and dying, and I was not able to go talk to my own pastor because of the discrimination against AIDS," recalled Jackson, a 60-something South Side resident who no longer attends that church. "There was such a stigma."


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It's late on a hot afternoon in August, and the producers of the new comedy "Modern Family" (8 p.m. Wednesday, ABC) are debating panties.
The crew is shooting a scene on a Century City, Calif., soundstage with Ty Burrell, who plays Phil, a suburban dad who can't stop embarrassing himself. At the end of a complicated spat, Phil winds up covered in women's underwear as his wife walks in.


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This tenure track position focuses in the area of thermal systems and sustainable buildings; teaches; advises students; performs research; contributes to scholarly publications; serves on Department, College and University committees; participates in professional organizations.
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Business Development Manager
24 Seven is growing! We're the leading creative staffing and recruiting firm working with today's most sought after employers and we're looking for dedicated professionals, like you, to join our team. We are the go-to talent source supporting the world's top teams in Digital Marketing, Creative Services, Technology, eCommerce, Fashion, and Beauty.
24 Seven is seeking an ambitious and laser-focused Business Development Manager to be an integral part of our rockstar Atlanta team. With a fun and inspiring company culture, bright and stylish offices, a generous compensation package, and perks and incentives including excellent health benefits, generous vacation package and career development opportunities, 24 Seven is the perfect place to let your entrepreneurial spirit flourish in a Business Development role.
Here's a snapshot of what you'll do as a Business Development Manager:
• Establish and build successful and meaningful relationships with clients in the Digital Marketing, Creative Services and Technology communities, cross-selling our valuable service offerings
• Relentlessly pursue business opportunities within new companies and markets while collaborating with your Account Management partners to strategically expand and upsell existing relationships
• Proactively generate business opportunities through continual communication with prospects and clients via cold calls, warm calls, strategic emails, networking events and social media
• Strategically collaborate with internal Business Development and Account Management teams to leverage strengths, expertise and account/market knowledge to develop and execute action plans that expertly anticipate and exceed client expectations
• Smartly parlay relationships with existing client and industry contacts to secure new business referrals
• Play an integral role in helping our creative talent find jobs!
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• You have a Bachelor's Degree
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Qualities of a Leader
How often have you heard the comment, He or she is a born leader? There are certain characteristics found in some people that seem to naturally put them in a position where theyre looked up to as a leader.Read More
Travel expenses are the ordinary and necessary expenses of traveling away from home for your business, profession, or job. Generally, employees deduct these expenses using Form 2106 (PDF) or Form 2106-EZ (PDF) and on Schedule A, Form 1040 (PDF). You cannot deduct expenses that are lavish or extravagant or that are for personal purposes.
You are traveling away from home if your duties require you to be away from the general area of your tax home for a period substantially longer than an ordinary day's work, and you need to get sleep or rest to meet the demands of your work while away.
Generally, your tax home is the entire city or general area where your main place of business or work is located, regardless of where you maintain your family home. For example, you live with your family in Sacramento but work in San Francisco where you stay in a hotel and eat in restaurants. You return to Sacramento every weekend. You may not deduct any of your travel, meals, or lodging in San Francisco because that is your tax home. Your travel on weekends to your family home in Sacramento is not for your work, so these expenses are also not deductible. If you regularly work in more than one place, your tax home is the general area where your main place of business or work is located.
In determining which is your main place of business, take into account the length of time you are normally required to spend at each location for business purposes, the degree of business activity in each area, and the relative significance of the financial return from each area. However, the most important consideration is the length of time spent at each location.
Travel expenses paid or incurred in connection with a temporary work assignment away from home are deductible. However, travel expenses paid in connection with an indefinite work assignment are not deductible. Any work assignment in excess of one year is considered indefinite. Also, you may not deduct travel expenses at a work location if it is realistically expected that you will work there for more than one year, whether or not you actually work there that long. If you realistically expect to work at a temporary location for less than one year, and the expectation changes so that at some point you realistically expect to work there for more than one year, travel expenses become nondeductible when your expectation changes.
You may deduct travel expenses, including meals and lodging, you had in looking for a new job in your present trade or business. You may not deduct these expenses if you had them while looking for work in a new trade or business or while looking for work for the first time. If you are unemployed and there is a substantial break between the time of your past work and your looking for new work, you may not deduct these expenses, even if the new work is in the same trade or business as your previous work.
Travel expenses for conventions are deductible if you can show that your attendance benefits your trade or business. Special rules apply to conventions held outside the North American area.
Deductible travel expenses while away from home include, but are not limited to, the costs of:
The deduction for business meals is generally limited to 50% of the unreimbursed cost.
If you are an employee, your allowable travel expenses are figured on Form 2106 or 2106–EZ. Your allowable unreimbursed expenses are carried from Form 2106 or 2106–EZ to Schedule A, Form l040, and are subject to a limit based on 2% of adjusted gross income. If you do not itemize your deductions, you cannot deduct these expenses. If you are self–employed, travel expenses are deductible on Schedule C, C–EZ, or, if you are a farmer, Schedule F, Form 1040 (PDF).
For more information on travel expenses, refer to Publication 463, Travel, Entertainment, Gift and Car Expenses. If you are a member of the National Guard or military reserve you may be able to claim a deduction from income rather than an itemized deduction on Schedule A, Form 1040, for unreimbursed travel expense. To qualify the travel must be overnight, more than 100 miles from your home, and for drill or meeting. Expenses must be ordinary and necessary. This deduction is limited to the regular federal per diem rate (for lodging, meals, and incidental expenses) and the standard mileage rate (for car expenses) plus any parking fees, ferry fees, and tolls. These expenses are claimed on Form 2106/2106EZ and carried to line 24 of Form 1040. Expenses in excess of the limit can be claimed only as an itemized deduction on Schedule A.
How often have you heard the comment, He or she is a born leader? There are certain characteristics found in some people that seem to naturally put them in a position where theyre looked up to as a leader.Read More


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Ask a Car Question, Get an Answer ASAP!
So I cleared the stored codes on the car and drove it until it malfunctioned then checked the codes.
it gave me a 1574 which I believe is a vehicle speed sensor. My speedo is functioning properly though.
Here is a link to the video I made of the light flashing after I followed the procedure in the ESM . Pretty sure it clearly shows a 1574.
Also I am in Mexico so maybe we do not have the same OBD codes here? I noticed in the ESM is says "EURO-OBD"
Hi Dave ,Yes P1574 and not P1573 as you first said ,good .Yes this is a speed sensor failure , if the speedometer is working you are going to need a scan tool with live data to diagnose this issue as this could be a ECM failure. Possible causes :
This will cause you the problem you are having .
Check the wiring connections first on the sensor and meter ,but this could be a ECM ot TCM issue if the speedometer is working ..
Please get back to me if you need further assistance with this issue But please get back to me with the reply button, and not the poor or bad service, this way i can get back to you or suggest another expert if needed.Kind regards Greg
OK, do you have a location for the sensor? Is it on the trans or the engine? there is a sensor located on the trans in the front right corner not sure if that is the one.
The issue seems to come up more if we have had heavy rains and drive through puddles. If I can find the sensor I can clean the connections and apply some electric grease
That picture above is not a great representation of my engine Trans combo is that supposed to be the Trans that the vss is depicted on?
I took the airbox off yesterday and pulled the sensor. It is in a very exposed location for the elements but the inside of the connector looked ok. I decided to run an experiment and replaced the sensor but left it unplugged.
Car runs and drives like normal, the only difference so far is that when you first start the car the first time it shifts into second it revs a little higher than it normally would but every shift after that is ok.
We have gone as many as 3 days without the car acting up so I am not convinced that it is ok yet. Interesting result though.
No CEL. The OD light blinks 16 times on startup to indicate a problem with the sensor.
What is the PCM? And how does it going into backup mode with set parameters help?


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They're a trusty companion for tomato soup and tummy aches. But these squares can be wilder than that. Crush them up and they're (better than) bread crumbs. Cover them in chocolate and almonds and you've got a salty-sweet, nearly criminal dessert.
Dark Chocolate Bark
Line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper. Add a single layer of saltines (about 48). Boil 1 cup each butter and brown sugar for 3 minutes over medium, whisking constantly. Pour over the saltines. Bake at 350°F for 8 minutes. Sprinkle with 12 ounces dark chocolate chips, let melt, then spread. Top with 1 cup chopped, toasted almonds; chill. Break into pieces.
Spicy Parmesan Crackers
Combine ¼ cup olive oil, 2 tablespoons grated Parmesan, ¾ teaspoon paprika, and ¼ teaspoon cayenne. Toss with 36 saltines until well coated. Bake on a parchment paper-lined rimmed baking sheet at 300°F for 10 minutes.
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Quick Meatballs
Combine 1 pound ground beef, 2 lightly beaten eggs, ½ cup crushed saltines, ¼ cup grated onion, 2 teaspoons chopped garlic, and 1 teaspoon salt. Shape into 24 2-inch balls. Heat 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil in a large skillet over medium. Cook the meatballs, turning often, until cooked through.


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INT: George Clooney
Every now and again, my willpower will be tested at one of these press junkets. This was one of those times! I think many women would agree that having a hunky piece of manmeat like George Clooney so close in proximity is as cruel as waving a piece of candy in front of a child. Aside from the fact that he has regained the title of Sexiest Man Alive, he is a multiple award winning, multi-talented actor partnering again with Soderbergh in his upcoming film, THE GOOD GERMAN.
made a transition from television to an A-list Hollywood actor,
producer, executive producer and director, some of Clooneys
previous credits include OCEAN'S ELEVEN and TWELVE, SYRIANA, GOOD
NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK and OUT OF SIGHT.
In THE GOOD GERMAN, he plays a
I had the great pleasure of meeting the super hot Clooney last week when he sat down to talk about making a different kind of film, the Oceans franchise, the evolution of his career and on working with Soderbergh. Check out what the charismatic star of THE GOOD GERMAN had to say.
Your back is hurt, is it the same thing that happened before?
Yeah, same thing as before. It gets better and it gets worse. Its not so bad. With a brace its fine. Drink a little, a little Limoncello. (Laughs.) Unbelievable.
Do you feel pain every day?
Its been bad for a couple of days, but it gets better.
Any more surgery?
No, no, no with surgery. Done with surgery. No more of that. Stop that.
Are you always this excited about with Steven?
We love working together. This is one we developed. We optioned the book and developed the script and there is that awful moment where we have to sit Alan Horn and Jeff Robinov down at Warner Bros. and tell them its black and white. They are really thrilled about that as you can imagine. But, no, every time I get a chance to work with him Im happy. Ive never had a bad experience with him.
you have gotten to live out the golden age of
in a way you do. Heres the good news or the fun news for me
was that for the past few years, weve been able to push and do
what we wanted to do. And you know as well as I do that that
doesnt last forever, so you try and do things that no one is
encouraging you to do. There is nobody at the studio going,
Please make a black and white film about the
How would you say your relationship has changed over the past few movies?
I wouldnt say that it really has. I was a fan and stole ideas from him on Out of Sight. And Im a fan and I steal ideas from him now. Over the years weve become very good friends as well and thats an important part of it, that weve been able to spend a lot of time together and that we like each other a lot. But, I dont get that its really changed. I just get the sense that I think the most of him as a director. Ive been lucky between he and the Coen brothers. Ive got a couple of people that I really enjoy working with who I also think play at the top of the game.
Do you have a particular affinity for the era of the 40s and 50s?
Maybe. I mean, my favorite time, in American cinema especially, is the mid 60s to the mid 70s. I just think thats if you look at the films that came out of that generation or that period of time. All those nuts. Its just some amazing films. But, there is an awfully good era I mean, we were looking at you know Steven sent us films to look at for this film. Just to talk about things. Some of them I had seen before. Mildred Pierce I had seen. I liked John Garfield and the idea of John Garfield. I thought that was sort of an interesting guy to think about. And there was a Mitchum film called Out Of The Past, which I had never seen which was phenomenal. Im really a fan of that kind of stuff.
off in TV and then to the big
Well, you hope youre pushing things and growing. Usually, cause you know I write and direct and produce. And as a writer or director or producer I can look at things a little more objectively then you can as an actor. So I can look at things that I wouldnt cast myself in and go, Ah, there are guys who could do that better than me. So, I think one of the secrets as an actor is understanding your limitations and then trying to push things every time and do things differently. And trying to grow, but not trying to think there is something wrong with it.
Are there days when you dont take acting as seriously anymore?
No, not yet. But, youre right, itll happen. If I get a chance to act with Steven or Joel or Ethan I did this film with Tony Gilroy coming out who did a wonderful job. If youre given a good script, there is nothing more about it, to be an actor in that. Thats exciting. Working with Cate. There isnt a moment thats boring. On this film, this is as hard as anything Ive ever done as an actor because its a completely different style and you have to commit to it. You just cant stand outside and wink. You have to sort of lay in and be overly dramatic and painfully direct and not penalize things. Thats really hard to do. To try and find a level that makes it believable. So, no, not yet, but Im also working with directors I really love. If I get to that point, Ill much rather direct. I like directing better.
How was winning an Oscar affected your career?
Its changed everything. Im much taller. (Laughs.) You know its a funny thing. Its one of those interesting things, because its a nice thing and it always makes you feel you know but it makes absolutely no difference. Its nice. You sit down with the studio and you tell them you want to make a film. Even if you carried it and set it down on the table. It just doesnt matter. They really dont care. Theyre happy for you, Thats great. Great George. But it doesnt really make a difference in my day-to-day life of getting things done. My friends will come over and pick it up and go, Man, thats heavy. Its a nice thing.
How often do you need to mix the commercial movies in with the independent projects to make it all work?
We have to do them. You know Clints the god. He sort of understood exactly how to do it. We have an office exactly right next-door, literally right next-door and Ive seen him for ten years. Seen him every day. He gave a great pattern on how to do it and a smart way of doing it, which is you make one that does well commercially and it buys you two smaller ones along the way. And that seems to be what weve been able to continually do it with Warner Brothers.
So, you wouldnt do another Oceans movie to get smaller movies made?
No, well, this one happened because we felt like we could do it better than Twelve. We didnt want to go out getting socked in the chin on that one. We were both like, We know how to do this. And we found a really good reason to do it, which is revenge. Which is always better than just money. That made sense to us and we went, Thats a good reason and thats the only reason to come back. I think, listen, Rocky 17? Who knows? Maybe ten years from now Ill need a job and Ill think about it. But right now, we dont plan on it.
Do DVDs help you make money on those small ones now?
I think most of the time you lose money because it costs so much in the prints and ads. You know Good Night And Good Luck is the best example. We paid less than any other film that was in our category in terms of prints and ads out there. It cost $7 million to make the film and it was probably $25 million in ads. Which is a lot of money. So, suddenly, you have a $32 million for a $7 million film and we were the low point of those guys. Ultimately they did make their money back. We made $35 million or something here and probably about that overseas, so basically youre breaking even and then they make money on DVD, but that doesnt happen very often. Its a very interesting business. The DVD is where the money is.
Are you more forgiving when working with a first time director like Tony?
I didnt have to be forgiving with Tony. He really, really, really knew what he was doing. Sometimes you get with a director who is basically a first time director and they need a lot of handholding. I had one last year where there was a lot of work to be done. Tony is a grown-up. He knew what he wanted to shoot, he had plans. The biggest thing with a first time director is do they shoot with a point of view? Steven shoots with a point of view. Joel and Ethan shoot with a point of view. Thats the secret. You dont want to just collect footage and get in an editing room and make a film, thats the difference.
difficult was it shooting Michael Clayton in
always trickier shooting in
You came out with a great plan to fake-out the tabloids by dating a different star every night.
Well, I was just kidding on the Vanity Fair article. I saw Leonardo DiCaprio yesterday, and I said, Sorry, I made a joke.
I was wondering why we didnt see you with a different person every day?
Look, because I was actually joking, and I actually do have to work, you know? I have a job and Im busy, so I didnt really mean it. I just thought it would be a funny thing, cause eventually, theyd keep running the story until they believed nothing. But I dont really have the time to do that.
What led to the decision to shut down Section 8?
We decided that when we started it. Steven and I had a conversation about it two years before we shut it down. We decided it. We had seen all the other companies do this, which is about five years in, you stop being filmmakers and you start being administrators and businessmen, and we didnt want to do that. Exactly what we thought would happen was happening. Wed start to have more meetings on ad campaigns and posters and trailers then actually making the film, and that was no fun for us. We were very clear about it. We tried not to screw with anyone along the way, so we said, two years from today were done and we did it and were very pleased with how that worked.
And now you have a new production company?
Mm-hm. We started over, reset and start over and try again.
Whats going to be the difference?
Well, Grant [Heslov] and I have the same theories, which is you try to protect filmmakers; you try to get screenplays made that people didnt want to make. All the same things. Were having some luck. We just got the Grisham book and were having a really interesting time with some really interesting projects.
Talk about the shifting point of view of the film. Do you think your character is elemental?
I really love the idea of changing the point of view, literally changing the lens, cause I thought the minute you started seeing the narrative change, you were like Oh, this is really quite a way of telling a story. I was really excited by the idea of it. Also because in general, a 40s film like this is told by the male in it, and I really liked watching and it really throws you because you think its about Tobey Maguire and then, it aint. I remember the first time I saw Alien, when I went to the movie theatre in 1979, and you thought Tom Skerritt was going to be the star, because theres always been the guy sort of surviving, and he was the handsome guy. And he bites it first and all of a sudden, you realize its Sigourney Weaver, and youre really taken by the idea that point of view gets shifted a little bit, and I think that thats really interesting storytelling.
Is there something different that you are interested in exploring on film that you havent yet?
There are a few things. Theres a screenplay Im working on now that I want to explore. The movie Im directing right now is a football film from 1925 thats been about 10-12 years of us trying to get this thing made. I finally figured the key to it out this summer and finished writing it. Were going to start shooting it in about a month, so that was one that I just wanted to get done, it was making me crazy. Also because I didnt want to do a political film next cause after Syriana and Good Night and Good Luck, I got offered thirty different political all of a sudden, everybody wants to do a political film and I didnt really want to do that. I didnt want to become that guy. But then I have an interesting idea about elections that I might want to do after that.
Do you think you are taking some risks making the third Oceans?
Yeah, its a very different version of that. Its back to 11 in terms of spending more time with the guys, but its about revenge, which I think is just such a good motivator after youve had these guys make a lot of money. What are you going to do? Lets make some more money? So this one is about just getting someone who wasnt one of our guys, and I just love films like that.
I got psyched to hear that youre doing White Jazz with Joe Carnahan.
Its such a good screenplay.
What was it that drew you to the screenplay?
I hadnt read the book. Joes brother Matt wrote a version of the screenplay that was just and its dirty, nasty, mean. Theres nothing nice about it, and Joes a great director and should be doing it more, because I worry about really good directors not directing enough. Its like I want Quentin [Tarantino] to direct more. I know he has to take time off to do his thing. I want to see him, you know? I feel that way about Joe. I want to see him do more films and this is a really good screenplay.
Dont you see Good German as a political film?
to screw up an occupation? (laughs) But I dont know if
theres a comparison between now and the idea of sort of forgiving
war crimes because thats not really what were doing
particularly right now in
So which is better, the Oscars or Sexiest Man Alive?
I have to say Sexiest is big. I got to say, its a big one, I use it. Brad is upset, but theres still a time for him, hes a couple years younger, so he still has a shot. I think Matt was the most hurt. It hurt Matt. We did campaign for him but he just didnt


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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: MADERIA HALL HOTEL
List entry Number: 1075788
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District: Isle of Wight
District Type: Unitary Authority
Parish: Ventnor
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Grade: II*
Date first listed: 15-Jul-1976
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TRINITY ROAD, Madeira Hall Hotel
Early Bonchurch marine residence. Circa 1800-1820, possibly enlargement of old cottage. Gothicised, two storeys roughly dressed stone. Half H plan, the shallow wings gabled with large kneelers. The right hand wing contains 2-storey shallow canted stone bay with crenellated parapet - 2 lights to front, one each side, marginal glazing intersecting to 4-centred heads of sashes, panelled apron 1st floor. Left hand wing has 3-light stone mullioned windows to both floors with drip moulds. The centre, with coved string and parapet, has a 2-storey, canted stone mullioned bay window with coved cornice to left. Small central ground floor casement with drip mould. Glazing bar sash window with drip mould over doorway to right. This has 3-centred arch with panelled spandrels and crenellated cornice capping. East elevation has wooden rectangular bay window to 1st floor with glazing bar sash lights and 2 glazing bar sashes with drip moulds. The house was inhabited in the C19 by a Miss Dick, apparently the model for Miss Faversham in Dickens' "Great Expectations". Macaulay was in residence here in 1848. Madeira Hall is a picturesque building set in spacious grounds, now used as hotel.
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Compliance - A user's guide
The law around messaging is changing
Ill-served by inefficient, out-dated communication systems based on landlines and bleepers, up to 89% of UK doctors now use consumer messaging services like WhatsApp, Messenger, Skype, Snapchat or Telegram to supplement communication. These services might be encrypted but they are not compliant with NHS Information Governance rules or new healthcare data protection legislation such as the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). As a result, using them to send patient identifiable information can automatically qualify as a data breach.
What's GDPR?
If you're running a GP practice, a private health practice or a health trust then by law from 25th May 2018 you must publicly report any data breaches that occur within your business - and you can be fined up to 4% of your annual turnover for each one! It will not take many such breaches to destroy your finances... and this is why we've created Hospify.
Don't take our word for it. Read more about it here and here. The General Data Protection Regulation is going to have an enormous effect on British and European businesses, Brexit notwithstanding (the GDPR's tenets are already part of UK law). It's worth reading Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham's recent keynote speech on the subject, which outlines the impact the new legislation will have.
"GDPR brings a more 21st century approach," notes Denham. "The right of consumers to data portability is new, as is mandatory data breach reporting, higher standards of consent, and significantly larger fines for when companies get things wrong." This is the tough new regulatory environment that Hospify has been built for - an environment in which the consequences of hospital staff using non-compliant comms like WhatsApp, Viber, Facebook Messenger, Snapchat, Slack, Skype and Telegram are going to be very severe.
What's wrong with normal chat apps?
These everyday chat apps might be encrypted but that alone is not enough to make them align with UK and EU health data laws. Have you ever received a picture on WhatsApp? Have a look in your phone's main photo gallery. The picture will most likely appear there, as well as in WhatsApp itself. This is because nearly everyone's devices automatically backup such pictures to cloud services that are likely to be geographically-located outside of Europe. Even if you switch the feature off, gaffs by Apple and others can mean it gets switched back on without your knowledge. And of course these apps send messages via non-European cloud services as a matter of course and, worse, store them there beyond the easy access of subject data access requests.
These are just some of the many ways in which standard consumer apps fall foul of the law when it comes to patient-identifiable health data. But Hospify is different. Hospify is specifically designed, not just to deliver messages securely, but to keep them confined to your device instead of floating around in a server cloud that could be located anywhere on the planet (the new legislation insists that all EU health data is only transmitted by servers that are physically situated in Europe).
How do I comply?
Given that these new rules are coming - and in some cases are already here - what can you do to comply with them before you get fined? Firstly tell your healthcare colleagues, staff and patients to stop using WhatsApp and other apps like it when they're at work, and to install and use Hospify instead. On the surface, they won't notice a great deal of difference; Hospify looks and feels much like any other messaging app. But underneath, there's all the difference in the world.
Secondly, to be fully compliant, health professionals who make the wise decision to switch over to Hospify need to tell their patients they're doing it. Don't worry - you don't have to tell them one by one! All you have to do is put a sentence or two in the privacy policy on your Trust's or practice's website. Something along these lines should do it:
"In order to protect patient confidentiality and abide with European health data protection guidelines, all staff in this Trust/medical practice use Hospify when they communicate using their mobile devices in the course of their work. Hospify securely encrypts messages, passes them from handset to handset, holds no information about its users communications on its servers, and keeps all communications within the European Economic Area, so abiding by UK data protection and the terms of the European General Data Protection Regulation. For more information please visit www.hospify.com."
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About halfway through "Chicken Little" a subversive thought came to mind, and try as I might, I could not quell it. It took the form of a single word.
And that word was . . . "Popeyes."
But that's my chicken problem. I like to eat 'em, I don't like to go to movies about 'em. There haven't been too many great chicken movies. And I think they look better in a sizzling vat of grease turning crusty-crispy than pecking noisily in the dirt for pieces of feed. Ugh. They're kind of dirty and that red floppy stuff around their heads? What exactly is that?
Anyhow, "Chicken Little," the movie, avoids the ugly-dirty-squawky-stinking chicken issue by portraying the creatures as tidy bourgeois small-towners, about as scabby and dirty as, say, your average Iowa Republican. These chickens are so peppy, cheery, clean and industrious, they probably could get into the Rotary and the Kiwanis with no questions asked. In fact, they look like the people who sell meaty fryers to Popeyes.
That adds up to a movie that will be beloved by most chicken lovers, including chickens themselves, Wade Boggs, children, dogs and cats, mice and crickets and so forth. Many big beings, including adults and cows and the odd anthropomorphic SUV will also enjoy it. (Note: The film is showing in 3-D at Loews Georgetown, Regal Countryside Sterling and Lee Highway Cinemas Merrifield.)
Based on the old tale, and the image of ardent, mythological stupidity -- the chicken who thought the sky was falling when an acorn fell on its head -- this computer-animated geewhizzer takes the story one more crank toward the literal. When the thing hits Chicken Little, it turns out, guess what, it is a piece of the sky, the sky is falling. It's like saying: McCarthy was right! Sheesh, revisionist history: It's everywhere!
The movie then wittily finds a way to morph into a fabulous parody of "War of the Worlds," possibly a bit intense in parts for the smallest of beings, and for just a moment another subversive idea came to mind, more potent than the dream of spice-saturated white meat frying up in nodules of brown crispy grit and smoking with heat and heartburn. Could the Walt Disney Co. have actually unleashed on the unsuspecting public a movie, in the form of a G-rated cartoon, in which . . . heh, heh . . . the world as we know it ends and the few of us who survive are turned into slaves!
But no: The film backs away from this interesting proposition and chooses sound family values -- the lessons of love, loyalty and brotherhood, tolerance and peace -- over sheer nihilism. Drat! I hate when that happens.
Set in the lush small town of Oakey Oaks, the world's acorn capital and the only town in the United States populated by poultry and fish, Chicken Little, here represented as an earnest '50s teenager, is one day at play under the big oak tree in the square when whacko, he's blasted in the skull by an actual piece of sky. No dummy -- even for a chicken -- he repairs to the town hall bell tower and begins proclaiming, a la the old story, the imminent fall of the sky! After much movie spectacle -- in the panic the town water tower topples, spilling a caldron of water that rolls through the streets and smashes through a movie screen that is showing "Raiders of the Lost Ark," just at the moment when the rolling rock is about to squash Indy! -- it's revealed that his interpretation was off, and he becomes the town joke.
Thus the movie's first half is a little domestic drama of self-actualization in which Chicken Little -- the voice is Zach Braff ("Garden State" and TV's "Scrubs") -- tries to find a way to regain the town's regard and the respect of his goofy, ever-decent but deeply disappointed dad (Garry Marshall, a little New Yorky for the wholesome surroundings). The method he chooses is baseball.
Ever see chickens play baseball? No? Then you haven't lived. They play baseball better than they play tick-tack-toe and even the littlest chicken manages to get wood on the ball at a key moment in the game and become a hero. But, really, we are just marking time until the Disney animators feel enough minutes have passed so that the actual sky-is-falling motif can be transmogrified into a full-scale alien invasion, with killer-being whirley birds hunting children in the cornfields along with adults and vehicles, to say nothing of civilization its own self being vaporized by an army of creatures from the imagination of Steven Spielberg (the "War of the Worlds" Steven Spielberg, not the "E.T." Steven Spielberg). It's full-out interplanetary species war!
Or at least for a while. The animators are -- you almost no longer have to say this -- fabulous and full of mischief, weaving enough ironic amusements into the story for the longer of tooth. There's a gimmick where the world is ending but the big fat pig can't get a vending machine to accept a wrinkled dollar. As a man whose dollars are always wrinkled, I especially enjoyed this witty little aside, which maybe nine people will even notice. But it means that somebody is paying attention.
Chicken Little (77 minutes, at area theaters) is rated G, though rather intense for small or easily frightened children.


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Opening our Temple basketball season at the Charleston Classic allowed our program the opportunity to play three games in three days. That is great in one sense and hard in another. It gives our team an early sense of what a tournament will be like, with three quick games. The players have to make adjustments, which will help them later on in the season. It is a great learning experience. No coach really likes playing three games in three days. As a coach, you would like to space the games out a little more. For example, we had an injury Sergio Olmos. We ended up losing him for three games due to the setting, where, in a normal three-game stretch, he misses just one game.
Overall, though, I think the Charleston trip was a positive experience for us. I think we played fairly well to start the season. We will look at the Clemson tape and learn much about ourselves that will help our program grow. We just didn't finish some of the plays that we should have finished in two specific stretches of the game; otherwise we would have come out with a victory. But overall I think Charleston is a terrific city, it's always nice to be involved in an ESPN-sponsored tournament, and it was a positive experience for us.
The biggest benefit we got out of it as a team was that we now know that we can count on a guy like Ramone Moore coming off the bench and providing some scoring punch, much like Ryan Brooks and Chris Clark did for us last year. We also got some valuable minutes from Mike Eric. He needs to play. That's the biggest thing for him right now. Craig Williams actually did some good things against East Tennessee State, and also a couple things not so good against Charleston. Both players are learning. Also, T J DiLeo saw time against Clemson and Scootie Randall got a run against East Tennessee State. We need to get these kids in the game and see what they can do in pressure situations.
Go Owls


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Oh hello, nostalgia — 20th Century Fox is here to see you. The Hollywood Reporter writes that Fox is developing a movie based on the Choose Your Own Adventure book series. How exactly this will play out is hard to say, as it's unclear how you'd have an audience completely determine the plot of a movie while it's playing. The studio is hoping for a "crossplatform four-quadrant action-adventure franchise," so the Internet will be involved somewhere. Or maybe 50 percent of the audience will just be free to choose to watch a movie that ends after fifteen minutes because they picked an option in which the galaxy explodes.