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Very difficult mixed route. In some seasons a direct first pitch comes into condition, but this is extremely rare.
To reach Conway start from either Portland or Boston, two or three hours by car. Alternatively, Montreal lies 4 hours away by car.
From the center of Conway drive west down the River Road for circa 1.5km to reach the West Side Road which leads to the base of Cathedral ledge. The drip is reached in just a couple of minutes on foot from the car park and is located immediately to the right of Repentence.
P1: 30 rock grade 5.8/M7+.
P2: 35m hanging curtain, some 90° sections.
P3: 30m 90/95° final drip to reach ice gully, usually very difficult and precarious.
Abseil down the route
Full ice climbing rack. Camalot up to #2
Period: January, February
Hotel: MOTEL CLARENDON
3537 White Mt Hwy - North Conway, NH 03860
Telephone: 603-356-3551 - 800-433-3551
Mailing Address: P O Box 241 Intervale, NH 03845
With small kitchen.
An Ice climber's Guide to Northern New England, third edition, 2002, by S. Peter Lewis & Rick Wilcox
NEice is a local ice climbing site for New England, New Hampshire and Vermont. This contains interesting information about first ascents and the current conditions. http://neice.com
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Easier collaboration drives need for scalable document management strategy
Collaboration, audit and compliance are among the business drivers of scalable document management initiatives even as it becomes easier to engage with content being amassed in growing repositories.
Corporate documents aren't just static pieces of paper requiring scanning anymore; they have evolved into dynamic, metadata-laden receptacles of information that can be created, updated and shared electronically. Multiple workers can collaborate on a single document from anywhere in the world -- no longer do physical copies have to be printed, disseminated, returned and combined. And no longer do documents become effectively invisible with the passage of time -- instead, they enjoy a new persistence that can be enormously helpful in attaining business goals.
But while business users are finding it easier than ever to work with documents, expanding business, technology and regulatory demands are posing challenges for organizations looking to build a scalable document management strategy. For example, continuing advances in Web connectivity and mobile technology are adding new pressures to find better ways of managing documents on an enterprise level. And because new data-delivery channels are likely to continue being developed to go beyond flash drives, cell phone screens and tablet PCs, it's increasingly important to figure out how to scale document management strategies to keep pace.
Business drivers of scalable document management
In addition, electronic documents frequently contain embedded audio and video components as well as text, images and charts. With the meaning of the word "document" broadening and the number of documents that organizations are creating, capturing and storing in their systems continuing to grow, new tools have been developed to help control and wrangle what otherwise would be a teeming mass of ungoverned material. These document management technologies apply intelligence to documents so information workers can quickly and efficiently create, file, track and work on them again.
Here are some of the most common business drivers for adopting these latest document management systems:
Collaboration. The ability to track and coordinate people's involvement with documents as they are created and used is critical to ensuring the smooth exchange and integration of ideas and guaranteeing that documents contain the most current information.
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Version control. Functionally, the ability to check a document out, work on it and then check it back in for review is especially important to ensure that different people don't make changes at the same time. Similarly, version control has a central place at the table because of its ability to monitor and untangle changes as they are made. It works hand in glove with rollback functionality, which can be used to "activate" a previous version of a document if a newer one was released prematurely or is found to contain errors.
Auditing. A document rollback is sometimes the result of an audit, which is a review of how a document was created, who was involved in working on it, where it went within the organization and when various things happened to it. Document audits are especially prevalent in financial organizations, where for many years verification and accountability have been the subjects of legislation as well as standard business practice, and in legal contexts, where the ability to track and verify the course a document follows during its lifetime can be key to pursuing litigation or defending against it.
Compliance. Speaking to the ability of companies to "follow the rules," compliance initiatives can be the result of regulatory, industry or corporate mandates, any one of which can require that organizations approach the management of their documents in a particular way. Dodd-Frank and HIPAA are highly visible examples of regulations that must be complied with in the financial services and health care arenas, respectively, while GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles) is a set of private-sector accounting standards. Internally, many organizations have their own standards, which also represent compliance requirements that document management systems must meet.
These drivers are present in different ways in almost every setting, but they are especially pressing in companies with bigger headcounts and geographic footprints because their grander scale makes it more difficult to establish, monitor and reinforce standard business practices. From a technology standpoint, it means that any document management system an organization is considering must be designed in a way that accommodates whatever the anticipated coverage might be -- today and in the future.
For example, when just a few people working in the same location are involved, it is relatively straightforward to use a system that lets them simultaneously eyeball and make changes to documents. Doing the same thing in larger workgroups that might be scattered across different time zones or even continents likely will require not only the same functionality, but more network capacity, security protections and processing power.
As a result, choosing the right tool to make sure it can support scalable document management processes in your organization requires more than simply reviewing a checklist of functions. It also takes a deeper understanding of the organization's needs and of individual business drivers.
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Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes About HeartQuotes about: Heart
Scott-there's nothing in the world I want but you-and your precious love. All the material things are nothing. I'd just hate to live in a sordid, colorless existence-because you'd soon love less-and less-and I'd do anything-anything-to keep your heart for my own-I don't want to live-I want to love first and live incidentally.
The Flapper awoke from her lethargy of sub-deb-ism, bobbed her hair, put on her choicest pair of earrings and a great deal of audacity and rouge and went into the battle. She flirted because it was fun to flirt and wore a one-piece bathing suit because she had a good figure she was conscious that the things she did were the things she had always wanted to do. Mothers disapproved of their sons taking the Flapper to dances, to teas, to swim and most of all to heart.
I'm just not the same. Half of me is out there looking for you and the other half is wishing i didn't have to." I don't want to live - I want to love first, And live incidentally. Don't-don't ever think of the things you can't give me-You've trusted me with the dearest heart of all-and it's so damn much more than anybody else in all the world has ever had.
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Julia Roberts: Heal the Bay Fundraiser!
Julia Roberts shows off her beautiful smile at Heal The Bay's Bring Back The Beach fundraiser held at The Jonathan Beach Club on Thursday (May 17) in Santa Monica, Calif.
At the event, the 44-year-old actress met up with Amy Smart. Julia was joined for the evening by her hubby Danny Moder.
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POTTSVILLE — An 80-year-old Pottsville man died in a multi-vehicle crash Thursday on South Claude A. Lord Boulevard, Route 61, according to city Police Chief Richard F. Wojciechowsky.
The man's name was withheld pending notification of the family, the chief said.
At least three vehicles were involved in the incident that occurred at 8:14 p.m. near the intersection of East Union Street, according to a supervisor at Schuylkill County Communications Center.
Those vehicles included a black two-door Mustang and a red Kia Rio sedan. Both vehicles sustained severe front-end damage. A gray Pontiac Grand Prix sedan also sustained moderate front-end damage.
Two of the vehicle operators, both men, were transported from the scene with serious injuries.
One was taken by a helicopter, MedEvac 7, to Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest, Allentown, according to the communications supervisor.
"One of them didn't make it," Schuylkill County Coroner Dr. David J. Moylan III said Thursday night.
His office received the call "around 9:05 or 9:10 p.m.," he said.
The man was pronounced dead by Schuylkill County Deputy Coroner Albert Barnes at the helipad on Lawton's Hill, Moylan said.
Responders included the Pottsville Fire Department and Schuylkill EMS. State police at Schuylkill Haven were there to assist with the accident reconstruction, according to the communications supervisor and the police chief.
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Get your anniversary thinkpieces ready because this summer marks the 30th anniversary of Prince's film and album Purple Rain. But that's not the only good news for fans—today, Warner Bros. Records announced a new agreement with Prince which will result in the release of previously unheard music, as well as a new album.
He will also be releasing a digitally re-mastered, deluxe version of Purple Rain, and has confirmed that Warner Bros. has now agreed to a global licensing partnership which will cover all of his albums from 1978 into the '90s.
"Everyone at Warner Bros Records is delighted to be working with Prince once again: he is one of the world's biggest stars and a truly unique talent" Cameron Strang, Chairman & CEO of Warner Bros Records said in a press release. "We are also very excited about the release of new and re-mastered music from one of his greatest masterpieces."
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21 North Rio Grande
Montrose, CO 81401
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There will be learning stations for all ages on how the Pioneers lived, washing clothes, gold panning and a one room house. Also there will be short talks on how the Ute Indians lived in our area, and what to do if you find an artifact. There will be a station for digging a arch. site and a film on a current site within the area.
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by Brittany Paris – Angie's List
Nearly 50 percent of Angie's List members answering our online poll plan to include green building elements in their home this year, but want to learn more first.
For several years, Ann Edminster agonized over the energy costs of her 1940s pre-fabricated kit home. Other concerns, like a consistent cough and irritated throat, prompted her to action in 2006, when she spent $120,000 renovating and adding 190 square feet to her living room using green design techniques. "The focus was on energy retrofitting," she says.
Edminster's no stranger to green remodeling. An architect and environmental design consultant who's worked on more than 100 home remodeling projects, she's also a past co-chair of the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED for Homes Committee and one of the principal authors of its certification program.
"The same passion that drove me into the green building field also drove me to do this remodel," she says.
David Johnston, founder of What's Working Inc., a green building consultant group in Boulder, Colo., became involved with the industry studying alternative energy in the early 1970s. He discusses why he wrote a how-to book on green remodeling practices.
Edminster started by replacing her forced-air unit with a new radiant heating system, eliminating blowing dust particles that were polluting her home. She also installed Mitsubishi solar panels on her roof, but knew the extra energy they supplied would be wasted through leaky doors and uninsulated walls if she didn't upgrade the interior.
So, she replaced old, single-paned aluminum windows with high-performance, steel-clad ones made of wood, sprayed top-performing insulation in the walls of the entire downstairs and air-sealed the space. She replaced her outdated washer, dryer, dishwasher and refrigerator with Energy Star appliances and the furnace and water heater with a multi-zoned hydronic heating system and a high-efficiency boiler.
To improve water conservation, she put in dual-flush, EPA WaterSense Toto toilets. Edminster also wanted to improve her home's comfort and aesthetics. The added southern exposure in her new living room provides plenty of sunlight and a majestic view of the outdoors that had been sorely lacking. She also found a way to reconnect with nature by including a green roof over the addition full of herbs and native, drought-tolerant plants.
Selecting the proper finishes for her home was an added priority. The sloping portions of the roof are covered in highly durable steel; all interior wall finishes are low-VOC paints and earth plasters; and her deck's made of Forest Stewardship Council-certified tropical wood.
Easy ways to go green
Greening your home to make it healthier, more energy-efficient and better for the environment doesn't have to be a difficult process.
• Start with a home energy audit, sometimes offered for free by your local energy company or for a fee by a private firm, to see where your home's performing the worst.
• Switch to compact fluorescent light bulbs. Replacing just five incandescent bulbs with CFLs can save you $100 per year on electricity bills.
• Plug air leaks around doors, windows and other spots with weather-stripping and caulk•
• Use a programmable thermostat to keep the temperature at 78 degrees in summer and 62 degrees in winter when no one is home or everyone is sleeping.
• Buy Energy Star appliances.
• Reduce water waste by adding inexpensive aerators to your sink faucets, changing to low-flow showerheads and dual-flush or no-flush toilets. • Use no- or low-Volatile Organic Compound paints and cleaning products. VOCs can cause many short- and long-term adverse health effects.
• Use wood alternatives or sustainable wood products, such as rapidly renewable bamboo flooring or wood cabinets certified by the Forest Stewardship Council.
• Plant trees to provide shade and wind protection for your home, which will reduce heating and cooling costs, and pick native plants that need less water, fertilizer and pesticides.
• Make sure your HVAC system is running efficiently. Change filters monthly during peak usage periods.
• Switch to clean and renewable energy sources, such as solar panels, geothermal heating units or even wind turbines. If that isn't feasible, you can also sign up for green power through your local utility to help expand the development of these technologies.
Although she had to take out a second mortgage to afford the renovation, Edminster knows she'll recoup some of the cost over time. The $14,000 solar panel system should pay for itself in 14 years at current utility rates. Already, her electric bill has dropped from as high as $100 a month down to $5, and her gas payments have decreased by 30 percent. Perhaps best of all, she no longer wakes up coughing every morning from the dust blown around by an old heating system.
"Energy improvements offer a return on investment higher than most conventional investments," Edminster says. "So if you have any money at all to invest, your home's a great place to start."
Existing homes like Edminster's account for 94 percent of buildings in the United States. They're 30 years old on average. Their doors and windows are drafty. Their walls, attics and crawl spaces are poorly insulated. And they're responsible for 21 percent of the country's carbon emissions.
"We have the ability to effect major change through existing homes," says Rick Fedrizzi, CEO and founding chair of the USGBC.
However, remodeling is typically an ongoing process and encompasses such a wide range of projects, from painting a few walls to completely renovating several rooms, that the USGBC concluded a uniform rating system comparable to LEED would not work. Only "gut" rehabs, which entail stripping walls down to the framing, are eligible to participate in the LEED for Homes program.
The National Association of Home Builders disagrees that older homes cannot be certified. It plans to roll out the first and only national ratings standard for remodeled homes this spring.
"The NAHB's National Green Building Standard addresses the question of scale and existing conditions," says Calli Schmidt, NAHB director of environmental communications.
Each section of its rating system lists specific criteria or point modifications applicable to additions and renovations. For instance, new homes must have sealed air ducts throughout. A renovated home earns one point if duct leakage is reduced by 25 percent and four points if 100 percent of the leaks are eliminated.
Green building expert David Johnston sides with the USGBC, calling the NAHB's plan a pipe dream.
"A remodeler's job is much more complex than a homebuilder's because they inherit whatever is behind the walls," Johnston says. "There are a lot of factors to consider."
He explains that the component systems of a home are interrelated, so changing one part without consideration of the others can create a domino effect with negative outcomes. For example, making a building airtight without also improving ventilation can lead to poor air quality.
In lieu of a points system, the USGBC partnered with The American Society of Interior Designers Foundation and dozens of building experts to create the first nationwide green residential remodeling manual for existing homes called REGREEN, which can be accessed online at regreenprogram.org.
The REGREEN guidelines and NAHB certification program follow many of the same principles recommended for new construction, but they also had to tackle some very new challenges, such as always factoring the homeowner into the equation and addressing different kinds of products that affect air quality like furniture, mattresses and drapes.
"It's an entirely different audience," says Linda Sorrento, USGBC director of education and research partnerships and ASID member. "LEED for Homes doesn't involve a person already living in a space. It's a great way for us to communicate the impact that homes have on a family."
Sorrento says the USGBC and ASID felt it was time to address green remodeling: "Both organizations were faced with tons of questions and pressure from consumers." Remodeling is a $230 billion business, according to the NAHB, and research shows homeowners hunger for more information on sustainable renovations.
Nearly 50 of Angie's List members polled say they plan to remodel green this year but want to learn more first.
Cincinnati residents Patrick McKelvey and Marjorie McKelvey Isaacs wish they could have gotten more guidance when they began fixing up their 1950s tract house to make it more energy efficient. "It was hard to find professionals to assist me," Patrick says. "I was talking to my HVAC repairman this morning, and I have the distinct feeling I'm being humored about my green interests. He probably thought I was off my medications."
REGREEN, NAHB and other programs hope to change that by educating not only the consumer, but also building professionals. The NAHB began certifying builders and remodelers in February, a designation called the Certified Green Professional that requires two years of building experience, completion of an educational course and ongoing training; and the ASID and USGBC will soon launch educational programs for interior designers, contractors and product manufacturers to support the use of their manual, plus additional resources for professionals and consumers.
Homeowners, for example, can find renovation tips at the USGBC's website GreenHomeGuide.org.
"The more resources we have to support people in their efforts to employ green practices, the better," Edminster says. "While there is no substitute for having experienced green building professionals to help you, don't be deterred if you don't find them — a willingness to learn is almost as good."
Virginia-based Green Advantage launched the first national certification program in 2003. GA officials have certified 1,800 building professionals and hope to double that number in 2008. So far, 31 states have GA programs. Peter Brown, president of Artista Builders in Reston, Va., passed the exam to become GA certified in November. "While I've been doing this type of building and renovation for years, Green Advantage allows me to further my education and demonstrate my commitment to green practices," he says.
The National Association of the Remodeling Industry developed a green remodeling education program in February 2007 and launched its Green Certified Professional Program six months later. NARI requires five years remodeling experience — three of those years must involve green projects to become certified. As of press time, only two contractors have achieved certification, while hundreds have taken the 12-week training course.
"The challenge for remodelers is that most are very new to the green market," says Dan Taddei, NARI director of education. "We teach them how and then they have to go out and implement those green components before getting certified." Johnston, who helped create the NARI program, says that although these various initiatives are a step in the right direction, they have a long way to go.
"All of these organizations are still just limping into the marketplace, although with good intentions," he says. As contractors begin to catch up with consumer demand, green remodeling is sure to explode. With that growth will come many changes.
McKelvey hopes so. He still has green goals he'd like to achieve, such as a no-mow, low-water lawn — that's if he can find the right resources and contractors to make it happen. The architects of REGREEN also sees many changes on the horizon. "This is only the beginning," Sorrento says. "We have a lot more to learn."
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Address: 1 River Rd, Juniata Cty, Mifflintown, PA 17059
Establishment No.: p1015
USDA Inspection Report: 6 Sep 2011
Code: 01C02
Violation: 416.13(b), 416.3(a), 416.4(a), 416.4(d)
Citation: At approximately 0305 hours, while walking around in the establishment , I observed the following noncompliances on the Meyn Line: 1) The Meyn Line shackles were greasy. 2) The gizzard machine had previous days' production residue on it. It was too numerous to count and the sizes varied. 3) The conveyor belt to the gizzard machine had previous days' production residue on it. 4) the turn wheels to the inspectors' kick outs had a black grease like substance on them. It covered the entire wheel and there were approximately nine of them. 5) The guide rails at the back up a hole cutter had previous days' production residue on them. A U.S. Rejected Tag #B37853049 was applied to the line. No product was involved. Mr. (First Processing Superintendent), Mr. (New First Processing Superintendent), and (Maintenace Worker) was notified of the noncompliance. The three gentlemen mentioned above cleaned the line and the other items listed above, because the sanitation foreman could not be found. This is the direct violation of 9 CFR 416.4(a) & (d), 416.3(a), 416.15(a),
416.13(b) Each official establishment shall conduct all other procedures in the Sanitation SOP's at the frequencies specified.
416.3(a) Equipment and utensils used for processing or otherwise handling edible product or ingredients must be of such material and construction to facilitate thorough cleaning and to ensure that their use will not cause the adulteration of product during processing, handling, or storage. Equipment and utensils must be maintained in sanitary condition so as not to adulterate product.
416.4(a) All food-contact surfaces, including food-contact surfaces of utensils and equipment, must be cleaned and sanitized as frequently as necessary to prevent the creation of insanitary conditions and the adulteration of product.
416.4(d) Product must be protected from adulteration during processing, handling, storage, loading, and unloading at and during transportation from official establishments.
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RALEIGH, North Carolina (WTVD) --Will North Carolina be the big winner?
The NCAA on Tuesday will announce host cities and universities for tournaments through 2022, with North Carolina bids back in the running after the state rolled back a law that limited protections for LGBT people.
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"You may be pleasantly surprised or you may be really disappointed," CEO of Triangle Sports Commission, Hill Carrow, said. "You're kind of anxiously awaiting to see what happens."
Carrow is a key member of the North Carolina Sports Association which, along with the Raleigh Convention and Visitors Bureau, worked closely with state lawmakers and NCAA officials on the efforts to repeal HB2.
In total, North Carolina cities and universities submitted 133 bids to host NCAA events, with an estimated economic impact of $250 million.
"It brings visitor traffic from all over the country for the championships," Carrow explained. "They generate the same dollars person to person that any other championship does."
Backyard Bistro next to PNC Arena made big bucks when the venue hosted NCAA men's basketball tournament games in 2016.
"It was crazy. It's always crazy here when there's a game in the city let alone right across the street," said assistant manager Rianne Bauerlein.
A surge in out-of-town customers meant the cash was flowing.
"We have a lot of fans that travel very, very well. A lot of the schools travel well, so we get not just our local fans from our local schools, but we get an inundation of the other schools, and it's fantastic," Bauerlein said.
The NCAA, the governing body of collegiate sports, announced earlier this month that its Board of Governors had reviewed moves to repeal the "bathroom bill" and replace it with a compromise law. The NCAA offered a lukewarm endorsement, saying the new law "meets the minimal NCAA requirements" while expressing concerns about its provisions.
The NCAA statement said a majority of the board "reluctantly voted" to allow for consideration of bids from North Carolina during current deliberations for sites running through 2022. Events for the 2017-18 season that have already been awarded to the state, such as opening-weekend men's basketball tournament games in Charlotte will remain in place.
"We are actively determining site selections, and this new law has minimally achieved a situation where we believe NCAA championships may be conducted in a nondiscriminatory environment," the statement said. "If we find that our expectations of a discrimination-free environment are not met, we will not hesitate to take necessary action at any time."
The NCAA pulled seven events from the state for the 2016-17 season, including men's basketball tournament games from Greensboro in March, in response to the law. Those games were moved to Greenville, South Carolina, which had been banned from hosting events for years before that was lifted following the removal of a Confederate flag from state capitol grounds in 2015.
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A student has developed a tiny digital fish-eye camera smaller than the average thumb.
Aberystwyth University PhD student Greg Dash's Lofi Fish-Eye camera is little over 4cms long and 2cms high, has only one button and no LCD screen.
But the £65 camera's 12 megapixels and its ability to shoot expensive looking photographs has proved popular with photography lovers.
Dash said he only began taking pre-orders last month, but has already had 290 of the tiny gadgets snapped up - almost wiping out his seven-year student debts in a matter of just four weeks.
And its 25-year-old creator, who is billing the device as the world's first-ever digital fish-eye lens, added he only came up with the invention because he could not afford to buy new equipment for his current camera.
"I've always been a fan of photography from a young age, but only ever used film cameras," he said.
"A friend bought me an SLR camera a few years ago, and I wanted to get a fish eye lens for it.
"However, as they cost hundreds of pounds and me being a student I had virtually given up on the idea.
"But then I thought instead to make my own one using old camera parts."
And the results soon impressed the student, who originally hails from Mountain Ash, south Wales.
Taking cues from lomography - the growing analogue camera movement - the device has no viewfinder or screen to view photos.
But it still manages to shoot high-quality images, HD video and has a built-in lithium battery can via a USB port.
"One of the things I first loved about it is that it doesn't have an LCD screen to preview images - so you have that element of surprise when you come to look at the photos you have taken for the first time," Dash added.
"That's something I love about using film cameras, but being a hard-up student I couldn't always afford to develop rolls.
"So that's where the idea about making it digital came in."
And when friends saw the results of his labour - and the photographs they produced - Greg soon found his invention in demand.
In February he launched the project via fundraising website Indiegogo, limiting production to a run of just 500.
Dash, who got undergraduate and post-graduate degrees in Swansea and Cardiff before deciding to study for a doctorate, added: "Since taking pre-orders a month ago, 290 people have put their money down for the Lofi Fish-Eye.
"I've even taken one order of a batch of 50 from Taiwan - which is amazing considering the camera has only been promoted via word of mouth.
"I've also had a lot of interest from airplane enthusiasts and extreme sports fans, who are looking for a cost effective way of capturing their adventures."
And if the camera takes off, Dash said he has a few other ideas up his sleeve - though is remaining coy, at least for now.
"I'm hoping the camera will be just the start of things," he added.
"But for now, my main focus is getting more orders processed, begin manufacturing and ultimately it's then about getting the product out there."


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DENVER -- The committee trying to bring the 2016 Olympics to Chicago has invited President Barack Obama to be in Copenhagen for its final presentation but doesn't yet have a firm commitment.
Pat Ryan, chairman of the Chicago 2016 bid, said today that Obama planned to attend the meeting in October barring an emergency. Later, however, he said he wasn't positive about the president's schedule but was hoping Obama would be there.The White House did not immediately have comment.
Heads of state have been present at meetings more frequently in the past few years. A few years ago, when London overcame favorite Paris to land the 2012 Games, a strong, in-person push by British Prime Minister Tony Blair was viewed as one of the reasons.


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The Ohio Center or Entrepreneurship has student organizations that are a great way to learn and practice entrepreneurship. We want to highlight one of them in our spotlight series. Reach out to Consulting Fellows and ask questions. Taking part in this organization is a great way to get on the path to success.
Consulting Fellows:
Have you ever wanted to gain practical and applicable experience in consulting? Work with real world clients, outside of the classroom? Or feel that sense of fulfillment from completing and delivering a solution to a project? Ohio University Consulting Fellows (OUCF) is a student organization which helps develop students in their professional, interpersonal, and leadership skills through consulting. The fellows work on real consulting projects which vary on a wide range of topics and industries. In the past, OUCF has worked with companies operating in the food industry, the consumer goods industry, the non-profit industry, and the educational industry, amongst others.
Ohio University Consulting Fellows interacts with multiple clients and engages in multiple projects each semester. Each project is separated into teams, and the teams are assigned a client. The projects usually last close to one semester in length; however, are extended as necessary. The final deliverable is presented to the client, and, on most occasions, the client implements the recommendations delivered by the Ohio University Consulting Fellows.
Since there is no current consulting track within the College of Business the projects allow students to gain practical and applicable experience to prepare them for the consulting industry. This experience is directly translatable on a résumé to applicable years of experience. Many other schools do not offer this type of experience, with the exception of Ivy League and private institutions. There is no better place on campus to earn consulting experience and prepare you for a job in consulting. This experience blows away recruiters and employers. If you are even considering a job in consulting, this is an organization you should consider joining.
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Canadian paper currency was first printed in 1935 after the establishment of the Bank of Canada in 1934, but the Dominion of Canada had been using paper money printed by the British from 1858 on. From the Canadian confederation in 1867 to the foundation of the Bank of Canada, banknotes were endorsed by the government of Great Britain. Several different Canadian banknote series were printed in 1935, 1937, 1954, 1969 and 1986. In 2011, Canada switched to polymer banknotes.Continue Reading
After the Bank of Canada's founding in 1935, it was given the power to print legal tender by an Act of Parliament. The portraits on its first four series of notes celebrated past Canadian prime ministers and figures in the British monarchy and were printed on reinforced paper. The 1986 series, often called the Birds of Canada series, featured added security measures including a metallic patch, raised ink and distinctive green dots.
From 2001 to 2006, the Bank of Canada printed a series of banknotes known as the Canadian Journey Series. This series represented Canadian culture, history and achievements, and included new security features such as a metallic stripe and an advanced UV identification system. In 2011, the Bank of Canada began printing its currency on a polymer surface, to improve the lifespan of individual bills and discourage counterfeiting. As of 2015, bills from several of these series are still in circulation in Canada.Learn more about Currency & Conversions


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In the wake of last week's storm, there was a lot more talk than normal from people commenting on the neighbor-helping-neighbor attitudes they had seen on display in the days after the storm.
I expect such things happen every time there is a storm of significant proportions, but, for whatever reason, people I spoke to over the weekend and later in the week seemed to come back to that.
One person I spoke to suggested that, perhaps, social media had something to do with it. With cell phones capable of doing all they can do these days, even power outages that last a few days can't stop the free flow of communications. In some of the social media groups I belong to, I saw the same thing. People offering friends and neighbors a chance to come to their house and shower or get a meal or a hot cup of coffee.
Last weekend's storm wasn't historic by any means, though any storm that causes widespread power outages does catch your attention more than the average snowfall. Duke Energy had thousands of people fanned out across the state trying to restore power as quickly as they could.
Like many others, we got word that our power could be off until as late as Monday night. That thought paralyzed me a bit because I knew the NFL playoff games were set for Sunday. Mercifully, the power was restored to our home by mid-afternoon on Saturday and our football viewing was never seriously threatened.
For many of us who lived in the Triangle in 2005, however, we can happily report that this most recent storm wasn't the worst thing we've ever seen. That year, a thin layer of ice coated roads, making travel nearly impossible, stranding children and teachers at schools overnight and forcing some people to seek shelter in the unlikeliest of places. One of my favorite stories from that storm – and remember our neighbor-helping-neighbor theme – came from a lady whose car ran out of gas on Capital Boulevard in front of the Golden Nugget, a bar that matches perfectly the definition of a honky-tonk.
The folks who run the place waived the "membership fee" and welcomed the woman and her baby in. One of the patrons at the bar walked to the convenience store next door and bought some baby formula and the whole crowd - bartenders, drinkers, mom and baby, spent the night in the bar. The only bad part of that story is that the baby was too young to remember the experience, though I'm sure his parents will recall that story for years to come.
Thankfully, there were no stories of people getting stranded in out of the way places – unless you count airport travelers – because of this storm. But people in our neck of the woods did what they ought to do in times of trouble. They helped each other. They made sure people had their basic needs met. The suits in Raleigh can talk all they want to about how good roads and good schools make this region a hotbed of growth. They can point to the job engine that is the Research Triangle Park.
But I would suggest that even if those things first draw people to our region, the thing that keeps people here for the long term is our friendly, gregarious nature. Sure, we all have busy lives. We all look out for ourselves first. But when the going gets tough, it's nice to know that someone in our neighborhood, our church or our workplace will stop what they are doing and check on us.
You can't put a price on that and I suspect economic development types rarely hype that characteristic. But they would only have to spend a few minutes talking to real people to find out that's what makes living here a big deal.


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Black Scoter - Tarrant Co., February 6, 2014. Same bird as below.
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Black Scoter - Black Scoters are seldom recorded in North Central Texas--in fact, there are fewer than a dozen records. They have been recorded from October through May, though most records are in winter. This female was photographed at Lake Tawakoni (Rains County) on December 28, 1999 where it remained until March 2000.
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[Originally presented at the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit 2018, "Security In A DevOps World" examines the challenges and benefits of integrating security technology and thinking into the development process at the early stages. The slides are designed to assist in the presentation of the material but they also might come in handy as a…Read More
If you're moving your computing needs to Azure, security is probably one of your top concerns. I've written about this before, so I'll assume you've already read it. If not, it's worth taking a few minutes to get a grounding. Operations Once you've got a solid understanding of the security model in place on Azure,…Read More
My last few posts have looked at the impact you can expect hybrid and full cloud environments to have on your security practice. I've called out incident response, monitoring, and forensics as areas that can benefit from the flexibility provided by cloud environments. But what about the big picture? How do these areas come together…Read More
I've written about how monitoring and incident response change in hybrid and full cloud environments as part of this series on operations. This post is going to touch on the changes facing forensics in cloud environments. Define:Forensics Before we dive in, I wanted to highlight that there are two definitions of "forensics" in use today….Read More
Lately, I've been looking at our approach to updating security operations to deal with the realities of hybrid and full cloud environments. If you've missed the series so far, I'd recommend reading the first and second posts now. This post is going to highlight a few of the challenges that your network security monitoring practice…Read More
Over the past four years, many things have changed in our Cloud Security Blog has been online – largely because of the evolution of the industry. No longer are we encountering "cloud confusion," as a couple of our earlier blog posts on cloud-based security and threats from the cloud discussed. The "Cloud" and security within…Read More
If you still believe that your systems management consoles should be running on servers in your data center, you're definitely from the pre-cloud era. Even if you believe your systems management and security consoles should be running on infrastructure as a service instances you control, you're also out of date. The evidence is in, and…Read More
As a Product Marketing Manager for Trend Micro™ Worry-Free™ Business Security Services, I hear a lot of objections about the product, and in particular, a lot of cloud-related fears. Some examples of things I hear from customers and partners are: "I wouldn't be secure if my Internet connection went down." "I don't want to put…Read More
So far in this series, Justin and I have provided tips for securing the foundations of your AWS deployment. Taken together, these tips work to reduce the overall attack surface—the area exposed to the outside world—of your application. Now it's time to add the next layer of controls to you application, starting with a host-based…Read More
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SLA Lancs - Welcome to the Lancashire branch of the SLA
Welcome to SLA Lancashire, a regional branch of the School Library Association, where you can find out about who we are and what we do.
We currently have approx. 60 members spread throughout the county and membership to our branch provides an opportunity to network and share best practice and celebrate the very best of everything we do.
Our calendar of events includes training days in March and November at which we are enlightened by guest speakers from various aspects of our profession.
In July we host our very own Pupil Librarians' Day, an action packed event full of fun games and activities to reward our amazing 'little helpers'. And in July, we have our social event, the nature of which varies from year to year.
We are always ready to welcome new members, you are welcome at all our events and if you have any enquiries please feel free to contact me or our Branch Secretary, Valerie.
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Mitch Albom Quotes About CarsQuotes about: Cars
Try to imagine a life without timekeeping. You probably can't. You know the month, the year, the day of the week. There is a clock on your wall or the dashboard of your car. You have a schedule, a calendar, a time for dinner or a movie. Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check its watch. Deer do not fret over passing birthdays. an alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.
Everyone is in such a hurry. People haven't found meaning in their lives, so they're running all the time looking for it. They think the next car, the next house, the next job. Then they find those things are empty, too, and they keep running. Once you start running, it's hard to slow yourself down.
There's a big confusion in this country over what we want versus what we need," Morrie said. "You need food, you want a chocolate sundae. You have to be honest with yourself. You don't need the latest sports car, you don't need the biggest house. The truth is, you don't get satisfaction from those things. You know what really gives you satisfaction?...Offering others what you have to give...I don't mean money, Mitch. I mean your time. Your concern. Your storytelling. It's not so hard.
We're so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks—we're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going. So we don't get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, Is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?
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The New Orleans Police Department ordered the temporary closure of an anarchist bookstore and community collective in the Marigny after a complaint that it lacked the proper permits.
Operators of the ARK -- a three-story brick warehouse in the 500 block of Marigny Street that houses the Iron Rail library and bookstore, as well as a bicycle collective and an arts center -- were told Wednesday by police that they had to close the business.
The reason was so the city's Revenue Department could determine the status of the licenses for the groups operating out of the building, according to an NOPD news release.
"There were no citations issued as a result of the closure, however, the officers issued a verbal warning," the NOPD's statement reads.
The action was prompted by a "complaint through the office of a City Council member."
The news release did not state what permits are required or what permits the groups lack.
The NOPD has not responded to a series of questions posed early Thursday by The Times-Picayune. A City Hall spokesman referred inquiries to the NOPD.
The police action has prompted protests from those involved in, and familiar with, the groups operating out of the building.
Several people have linked the police warning to the Sunday night clash between police and marchers, many of them bohemians and artists. That incident occurred just blocks from the building.
Several hundred marchers in an unpermitted Krewe of Eris parade were involved in a scuffle with officers, resulting in a dozen arrests and a handful of injuries to police officers.
The ARK building remained closed Thursday afternoon. A sign on the door noted that the Iron Rail was closed at "this location." Members of the group did not respond to an e-mailed request for comment.
A posting on the Iron Rail website said that the ARK -- "a crucial piece of this city's creative fabric" -- had been shut down. The posting likened the closure to the city's recent crackdown on a costume sale at a bar on Frenchmen Street, the arrests last year of brass band members for playing their horns at night, and the police clash with marchers just days ago.
Other groups apparently affected by the closure include Plan B Bicyles, a nonprofit group that serves as a workspace for repairing and building bicycles, and Hasbin Willbys, a group whose work centers on art and recycling.
Victor Pizarro, spokesman for Plan B, said he is confused by the NOPD's actions. He noted that his group is a non-profit that has operated for 11 years. He is now trying to research what licenses, if any, are required to operate out of the Marigny warehouse.
"I think it's really unfortunate that an all-volunteer, not-for-profit organization is being forced to close its doors because of occurrences that have nothing to do with us," he said.


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Managing Your Electronic Records: Shared Drives & Email
11:00am - Wednesday, May 4, 2016
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Does it take ages to find a file in your shared drive? Are you running out of room in your email box? Save yourself and your office time and money by learning to manage your electronic records. In this workshop, we'll help you manage your email and electronic records efficiently and effectively by giving you guidelines for:
- Naming and organizing your files for fast and easy access
- Developing a file plan for your office shared drive
- Determining which emails you should keep, and how to store them
- Learning how to keep your digital records in compliance with Harvard's records management policies
Workshops are about an hour long. Attendance is free and open to all members of the HMS/HSDM community. Familiarity with the General Records Schedule (GRS) is helpful but not required. Registration is encouraged to insure sufficient space for all participants. To register, email us at email@example.com.


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New American Horror Story: Hotel Details Reveal Character Descriptions, a Love Triangle, and a 'Drillbit Dildo'
Expect lots of blood, sex, and bloody sex.
While details of the upcoming American Horror Story season, Hotel, have been ambiguous thus far, the most recent issue of Entertainment Weekly excavates some new information on the characters and the hotel. Expect plenty of blood and sex, often at the same time.
The titular building of this season, the Hotel Cortez, was built in 1930 by the psychotic James March (Evan Peters), who imbued the Art Deco edifice with unrepentant evil. The warren building is rife with labyrinthine corridors, trapdoors, secret rooms, mine shafts, death, and all kinds of decadent, depraved fun. Lady Gaga plays a countess who maintains her youthful vigor and beauty with a healthy diet of blood. But she's not a vampire, Ryan Murphy says: "I prefer the term 'ancient blood virus.' It's really a form of hemophilia, in a way." She acquires the Cortez in the present-day and engenders a macabre love triangle between Matt Bomer's similarly bloodlusting Donovan and Finn Wittrock's male model. Angela Bassett portrays one of the countess's former lovers, meaning this love triangle could acquire new corners and become a considerably less-sexy-sounding love square.
The Cortez's other visitors include Kathy Bates's Iris, Donovan's mother and the front-desk clerk; Denis O'Hare's cross-dresser; Sarah Paulson's Sally, a "junkie friend of the Countess"; Wes Bentley's detective; and something called the Addiction Demon, which kills people with "a nasty, conical drillbit dildo." So far, Hotel sounds like a commingling of Tony Scott's The Hunger, the Hyperion Hotel from Angel season two, and Brian De Palma's entire filmography.


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Dogs can get lice. However, dogs do not get the same kind of lice that humans get. Dogs can spread lice to other dogs but rarely spread lice to humans or other animals.Continue Reading
There are two types of lice that can infest dogs: biting or chewing lice, and blood-sucking lice. The biting or chewing lice feed on skin debris and secretions. The blood-sucking lice feed on the blood of the dog.
Treatment options include washes, sprays, dips or dust that kill lice. Any dead or live lice that fall off of the dog should be placed in a zip-close plastic bag and disposed of in the garbage bin to prevent reinfestation.Learn more about Veterinary Health


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The Equality Law Clinic (ELC), based at the Perelman Centre for Legal Philosophy and the European Law Centre of ULB offers to a selected group of graduate students (MA 2 level) the opportunity to enhance their legal knowledge and practical skills by working on specific transnational issues in equality and non-discrimination law. In order to combine theoretical and practical work, the ELC offers a transdisciplinary training which embeds legal knowledge in the socio-economic context. The mission of the clinic is both to provide a valuable educational experience and to produce a meaningful practical contribution that promotes equality and justice. The working languages of the ELC are French and English.
Students follow a general and a focused module, which include clinical courses as well as seminars and conferences with the participation of scholars and professionals engaged in the human rights field. At the end of the programme students are expected to have made a contribution that can assist affected individuals and/or partner organisations working in the field. Outcomes may include third party interventions, guides for practitioners, codes of conduct, policy or country reports, as well as analyses of best practices on a specific topic related to equality and non-discrimination law. These will be worked out in collaboration with related partner organisations.
More particularly, this year the clinic focuses on research and advocacy on following issues:
• Immigration and Asylum Law
• Reproductive Justice and Abortion Rights
• Transgender rights
• Disability rights
The ELC was created in 2014 within the framework of the inter-university attraction pole (IAP) project "The Global Challenge of Human Rights Integration: Towards a Users' Perspective", which studies human rights law as an integrated whole from a users' perspective. The ELC also profits from a collaboration with the Berkeley Comparative Anti-Discrimination Law Study Group.


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10 Fabulous Fro Moments On The Red Carpet
Nothing makes our hearts smile more than seeing a Black beauty embrace her natural kinks, curls, and coils on the red carpet as the ultimate statement she won't be confined to or defined by European beauty standards. Over the years, more and more actresses and singers have hung up the weave and flat-irons in favor of letting their natural hair texture reign supreme. Out, loud, and wild, here are 10 fabulous fro moments.


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Happy spring! It is spring, right? It was 36 when I woke up this morning, which is much cooler than normal here. But today I finally tore myself away from the flannel sheets and gave our bed a little spring update with new bedding sent to us from Bedding Style.
They have so many options; it was a tough choice. I took over a week to decide and finally settled on Marimekko's Muru sheet set, which has a tiny taupe polka dot design. At first I wanted Marimekko's Ajo Pink sheet set, but someone wasn't so keen on hot pink sheets. To satisfy my hot pink craving, Bedding Style also sent me Tommy Hilfiger's hot pink Preppy Ikat pillow. Little M says "wow!"
You guys, these sheets are amazing! I'm in love. I've always had good sheets, I hate scratchy, but these ones are so soft they feel like silk. The pockets are super deep so the fitted sheet fits over our deep mattress and feather bed with no problem. I couldn't resist taking a nap when Little M was asleep today. I'm not missing the flannel at all. I don't think I'm ever going to take these sheets off our bed. If I didn't have a toddler, I wouldn't be getting out of bed tomorrow morning. I'm so in love with these sheets.
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Spacious common room with estate view available for professional lady in prime district 10.
The spacious room is fully furnished and has a little patio too. Great for watching the sunset and listen to birds get busy calling it a day. Rare for a common room.
The circle line (Yellow), Botanic Garden station within the beautiful garden is just 6 mins walk, it is also right next to Cold Storage and eateries of all kinds and budget dotted along the way. Perfect location for NUS (Bt Timah Campus) student/lecturer!
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Greatest Comic of All Time | Daredevil #220
The greatest comics of all time don't appear on bestseller charts or canon lists or big-box bookstore shelves. They are the property of the back issue bins and thrift store crates and convention hawkers of America, living like the medium itself in the unseen crags and pockets of publishing history…
Daredevil #220, composed and drawn by David Mazzucchelli, colored by Christie Scheele, scripted by Denny O'Neil, with unspecified assistance by Frank Miller. Cover-dated July 1985. Published by Marvel Comics Group.
How acquired: In a back-issue sale at the worst/best comic book shop in the Los Angeles area. You know the type of place: dust everywhere, smell of Indian food, way too hot, full boxes of X-Force #1 from the early '90s blocking the shelves in the back. The type of place where when they have a half-off bin blowout you can grab all the David Mazzucchelli Daredevil issues for a flat fee, and get them to let the ones that aren't in the bins (like this one) go for half price too, provided you're willing to sell them your heavily dented copy of Absolute Watchmen.
Best single drawing:
No holding lines, no problem. Christie Scheele's two-tone coloring is also aces. But what's most exciting is seeing this much care and virtuosic skill lavished on a panel of a superhero comic that doesn't feature any superheroes, or even any main characters at all. Attention to detail's a real benefit when it looks more like this and less like crosshatching every last hair of stubble on the hero's jawline.
The history lesson: In 1985 superhero comics were standing around in an ever-burgeoning state of excitement as the first frothy waves of a sea change nipped around the genre's ankles. All the prime movers of the mid-late 1980s hero renaissance had come onto the scene, and the comics only got better and more audacious: from Frank Miller's early run on Daredevil to Alan Moore's barnstorming Swamp Thing to Howard Chaykin's masterpiece American Flagg! to Peter Milligan and Brendan McCarthy's visionary Paradax! (the vogue was clearly for titles that featured exclamation points). Things eventually came to a dizzying, still-unequaled climax with the one-two punch of Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen and Miller's Dark Knight Returns, but it's important to note how the superheroes got to those landmark titles from the lesser-known hints at them mentioned above. All the early '80s' fascinating stabs at a more mature superhero-comics acme had one thing in common: they retained some sense of the whimsy and fantasia of the high Silver Age work that had inspired their creators as children. What made Dark Knight and Watchmen such fascinating departures was their total rejection of innocence and light for a highly pessimistic realism.
Those two books, though, were only tapping into a wider zeitgeist. Regardless of the genre's two great masterpieces' sensitivity to the times, bad vibes were coming to superhero comics no matter what. Daredevil #220, seemingly just another issue of one of Marvel Comics' more accomplished titles, was the first chink in the armor, courtesy of veteran writer Denny O'Neil (himself a survivor of the genre's lightest days) and immensely talented young artist David Mazzucchelli (who would go on to create probably the third and fourth best comics to come out of the dark-wave superhero '80s in collaboration with Miller — Batman Year One and Daredevil Born Again — before leaving superheroes altogether for the greener pastures of alternative comics). The presence of Miller himself in the book's credits is a bit of a question mark: what exactly he did is unclear, but the issue's plot developments clear the table for Born Again, and the issue betrays both Miller's heavy Will Eisner influence and the more downbeat tone he more than anyone else was responsible for introducing to hero comics. This is where the superheroes went dark. This is where the modern era of America's favorite pulp storytelling genre well and truly begins.
Why it's the greatest comic of all time: Historical importance aside, this is just a fantastically put-together comic book, a great example of how work done in the assembly line process of work-for-hire comics can occasionally become more than the sum of its parts. The big draw is Mazzucchelli's art, about which the editor of a major superhero website remarked "I can't believe this is in a Marvel comic" when I showed it to him. Indeed. What makes the best of Mazzucchelli's pre-alt-comics work so special is how convincingly he was able to pull off the meat and potatoes of superhero action without ever resorting to the lexicon of stock poses, angles, and compositions laid down by Jack Kirby and company in the mid-20th century. Instead, Mazzucchelli's best pre-Born Again work looks something like action comics by an artist who combines the best of Bernard Krigstein, Raymond Pettibon and Edward Hopper. The slashing, immensely bold brushwork gives straightforward shots of hands and faces the visual might of a great punching panel, and when the punches do start flying his emphasis on figure drawing and realist gesture sells the bones they jar and the blood they draw much better than the kind of amplified blocking this comic makes a point of avoiding would. The approach to violence on display in this issue's panels is almost a matter-of-fact one, far removed indeed from the balletic fury most comics about fighting strive for. Mazzucchelli saves the high drama for ink-splattered panels of ran falling, buildings jutting into clouded skies, fog turning a city into a collection of grainy gray rectangles.
It's an atmospheric, deeply dramatic approach to comics art, and yet one that never sacrifices its sense of realism for a big moment. In this, Mazzucchelli is perfectly simpatico with O'Neil and Miller's story, which is one of the most unremittingly downbeat things superhero comics — even now, but especially in 1985 — have played host to. Had an artist other than Mazzuchelli drawn this comic it wouldn't be the tour de force it is, but the content would still shock. The basic purpose Daredevil #220 serves for the book's pre-Born Again master plot is getting rid of the hero's wealthy, unstable ex-girlfriend Heather Glenn, who it's obvious neither O'Neil nor Miller have much patience for. Rather than create a long-running romantic saga, this issue goes quick and clean: a page and five panels of Heather drunk and dissolute, followed a bit later by her suicide. In itself this isn't so shocking (though judging from the letters pages of subsequent issues, it was at the time of publication) — but seeing it depicted in Mazzucchelli's completely unsentimental old-school comic book style is still highly unnerving.
Over the issue's second half, it appears that O'Neil and Miller have hedged their bets, with Daredevil swinging around town convinced that his former flame was the victim of foul play rather than her own depression. It's easy to be fooled: this is still a superhero comic, after all, and the hero bringing his girl's killers to justice is always going to play better, to be more narratively satisfying in that context than anything else. We get what we came for by the closing pages — the gangster who burgled Heather's apartment on the night of her death in police custody, the mystery of the stray cigarette butts beneath her hanging corpse solved. And yet it all feels a little hollow, the catharsis of seeing a white-suited and mustachioed mafiosi beaten and humiliated unable to match the impact of Mazzucchelli's knife-in-the-gut reveal of the damsel in distress's lifeless body. Then, as the villain confesses, the reversal: she was already dead when the robbers got there. Which makes the basic point of this comic that it isn't always capital-E Evil's fault. Sometimes desperate drunks just give up and hang themselves. Whether that's a point that a superhero comic should be making is still very much open to question — as it will be until the genre musters up something that surpasses the aesthetic mastery of its cold and bitter '80s magnum opuses. But when it's delivered in a comic this artistically brilliant and certain of itself, it'll always be worth reading.
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New Report from Children's Minnesota Shows Importance of Starting Early in Fight Against Childhood Obesity – Children's Minnesota
Study finds early childhood, birth to age 5, is the most critical opportunity to prevent obesity, but it is often the most overlooked
MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL, July 16, 2012 – As the prevalence of childhood obesity in children rapidly increases across the United States, and the nation continues to grapple with the life-threatening consequences of this epidemic, a new report released today from Children's Minnesota examines how this public health threat is impacting children and families across Minnesota – and what can be done to address it.
In the report, "Starting Early to Prevent Childhood Obesity," Children's physicians and researchers examine the latest childhood obesity research, data and clinical trends to better understand how Minnesota stacks up against national trends and what resources and evidence-based solutions exist that can have a long-term, positive impact on the prevention of childhood obesity.
"Nearly one in four Minnesota children is overweight or obese. As a result, we've seen a disturbing growth in obesity-related diseases among our kids," said Alan L. Goldbloom, MD, president and CEO of Children's of Minnesota. "This increase includes conditions like Type 2 diabetes, heart disease, liver disease, asthma, and joint problems – some of which were previously uncommon in children. This is an epidemic communities must join together to fight at our kitchen tables, in our schools and across our health care system."
Like the rest of the country, childhood obesity rates have continued to increase in Minnesota in recent years. On a national scale, one in six children between the ages of two and 19 is now obese, a rate three times higher than it was in 1980.1 In Minnesota, nearly one in four children (23.1 percent) has weight problems and among the state's adolescents (ages 10-17), more than one in 10 (11.1 percent) are obese.2
The report also reveals a variety of trends that could be contributing to more Minnesota children having weight problems, including:
- Lack of healthy eating and activity habits in the home. Fewer than one in five Minnesota kids eat the recommended five fruits and vegetables per day. Furthermore, regular family meals are shown to promote good eating habits, but more than one in three Minnesota kids (34.4 percent) do not eat meals with their families – worse than the national average. In addition, less than half of Minnesota children meet physical activity guidelines, many spend too much time in front of the TV, and on average, Minnesota children get 30 to 60 minutes less sleep than they did 20 years ago, especially among children less than three-years-old.3
- Childhood obesity has hit Minnesota's poor and minority children the hardest. In Minnesota, obesity is a greater problem among poor and minority children than it is nationally. Black, Hispanic and Native American children in Minnesota tend to get less exercise, have poorer diets, eat together less as families and engage in more screen time than Caucasian children. In addition to socioeconomic issues, including food deserts and lack of safe play areas, there may also be cultural factors at play in creating these disparities.
- The national increase in Type 2 diabetes among children has also hit Minnesota. Today, nearly one in six kids ages 12-19 has diabetes (Types 1 or 2) or pre-diabetes.
- Early childhood is critical for obesity prevention, but is often overlooked. While there are numerous initiatives to help fight obesity among school-aged children and teenagers, there is a troubling gap in obesity prevention focused specifically on Minnesota's youngest kids, from birth to age 5.
"When it comes to preventing obesity, the earlier we get started with children, the better the chance of success. Investing in early intervention is critical," said Julie Boman, pediatrician and hospitalist at Children's.
While it is likely to take years to reverse the trend of childhood obesity in Minnesota, Children's outlined several recommendations in the report to help get Minnesota back on track. Those recommendations include the need for public and private health care and community organizations across the state to continue developing collaborative research and partnerships aimed at obesity prevention in children, especially among the most vulnerable communities.
Children's report on obesity is the third study in the Children's Check-Ups initiative, which is a series of in-depth reports designed to help Minnesota families and health care leaders better understand how Minnesota is doing on a number of key indicators of children's health.


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I just googled the phrase "parallel foreclosure" (with the quotes around the two words) and was shocked to see that there were only 1,270 total hits. On the first page of google, every hit was directly related to my posting about it either on my blogs or mentioning it on someone else's blog.
Considering that in 2009, 10,000 homes were foreclosed on every day in the United States, it makes sense to learn what parallel foreclosure is. Is it not scary that there are only 1,270 total google links for the phrase "parallel foreclosure"? If not for Sarah Buduson of KPHO-TV (CBS 5) Phoenix AZ, and google, I would not have learned about Parallel Foreclosures, either.
My goal is to see the practice of Parallel Foreclosures covered by 60 minutes, and sooner rather than later. I find it very disconcerting that public icons such as Oprah Winfrey and news outlets like 60 minutes seem afraid to take on the issue of parallel foreclosures.
To briefly recap what a parallel foreclosure is... The moment a homeowner either falls behind on their monthly payment or asks for a home loan modification, a separate division within that same bank might immediately start a foreclosure process on the home.
The problem is the bank may be working with the homeowner trying to do the home loan modification even as a separate division within the bank is processing the paperwork to foreclose on the home.
The person at the bank that is dealing with the home owner may not even know anybody from the parallel foreclosure banking division. This allows the banker in the bank to look the customer the eye and truly believe they are trying to help the customer even though the parallel foreclosure division located elsewhere may already be processing foreclosure paperwork on the home.
I am not saying this happens on each and every home, but it could be happening as fast as the banks can make it happen. This basically gives the banks the option to do whatever they feel like. They may modify the home mortgage loan, or they may foreclose, the choice is theirs unless the homeowner can catch up on the payments and all the penalties that usually have been tacked on.
In defense of the banks, there are homeowners out there that will try and milk what they know to be a hopeless situation as long as possible. The banks may have just decided to treat everybody the same. What is unfortunate is that the banks apparently don't notify the customer that a parallel foreclosure process is underway.


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Thank you to Pong for sending me a complimentary Pong iPad Case for the purpose of this review. I was not paid for this review. All opinions are my own.
Pong iPad Case Review
What makes one iPad case rise above the rest? How about a case that can actually strengthen your outbound signal and protect you from harmful radiation? Pong is a company that creates cases for our most popular phones and tablets. These are no ordinary cases. The Pong case was created to protect us from wireless radiation. We have all heard the rumors that we know are laced with truth about harmful cellphone radiation. After reading the facts I am all in for taking a proactive stance to reduce wireless radiation exposure.
Now let's hear some facts. Your devices emit radio frequency (RF) wireless energy. A device emits RF even when it is in standby mode. Your head and body can absorb over 50% of your smartphone's transmitted signal during normal use (talking,pocket). The health effects of RF wireless energy on our bodies are uncertain, the FCC has recently ordered a review of its safety standards.
With all the toxins we are exposed to it does not surprise me that concern over the RF exposure from cell phones is not much talked about. Well, Pong is talking and created the Pong case to take on this matter. A Pong case actually redirects wireless energy away from your head and body, using a micro-thin gold-plated antenna embedded inside the device. Pong is the only case proven to reduce exposure to wireless energy while also increasing outbound signal strength.
Your Pong experience starts with nice packaging and the Pong iPad case itself is very attractive. The case is made out of nice leather and the interior is a soft suede. This case is made with top quality materials. It is thin and light yet completely protects your iPad device. I really like the sharp clean look of the case.
Did you know that Pong is the only iPad case that does not cover its proximity sensor. A proximity sensor on an iPad detects if the iPad is close to the users body. When that sensor is activated it will reduce the iPad's cellular radio output by up to 85%. This sensor does not recognize the difference between a body and other objects. So if you are not using a patented Pong case it is limiting your iPad's antenna transmit power. Pong claims to be the only case that allows the iPads to function optimally.
The iPad fit with ease into the case and each corner snapped on to keep it secure. The case itself can be folded into four different positions. You can choose a position for typing, browsing or watching videos. The magnets in the front cover will hold the cover in different folded positions. When I first tried to fold the cover into a stand I was a little confused. Once you realize how to fold it, it becomes second nature.
The case is finely tuned for the iPad. The back of the case has a cutout for the antenna on my 4G iPad. The volume and mute switch are both accessible. There is also a cutout for the dock connector so you can charge your iPad. I think they thought of everything.
Features I Liked
- When you open and close the case it automatically turns the iPad on and off.
- The inside of the case has nice inside padding to protect the iPad screen.
- Fully covers the ipad device . All the edges are protected by the case with heavy plastic on the side.
- Self-standing
Pong makes cases for iPhones, iPads, Samsung phones, iPad mini, Android phones and the Blackberry. Browse around the Pong website and get the best quality and technology available with your next phone/tablet case purchase. Pong's iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus cases are now available for purchase at www.pongcase.com. Pong cases come in a rainbow of fashionable colors and styles, and may be purchased at pongcase.com and Amazon.com..
For more information, visit www.pongcase.com, like us at Facebook.com/PongCase, or follow us on Twitter @pongcase.
The Details
- Protects you and your tablet by redirecting radiation away from you.
- Improves performance over any other case – Sensor-friendly design allows up to 4.9x transmitted power over all other cases
- Increases speed – 2.6x faster cellular uploads over any other case
- Built-in Antenna Technology – A patented, wafer-thin antenna inside the case pairs automatically with the antenna inside your iPad when you snap it on.
- Pong cases are tested and proven in the same labs that test the devices for government certification. These independent labs are certified to U.S. (FCC), European (CE), Canadian (IC) and Australian (ACA) government standards.
- 60 day money-back guarantee
- Soft micro-liner interior cushions your iPad
- Origami cover folds into multiple configurations: choose the ideal position for typing, browsing or watching videos
- Supports automatic sleep-wake functionality on opening and closing of cover
- Reduces your exposure to Wi-Fi radiation by up to 52%
- Delivers better Wi-Fi reception and range.
- Also fits iPad 2nd and 3rd generation


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Any centralized state is the main distinguishing feature - a strong central authority.Otherwise it would be impossible to control all territories within the country.Earth in a united state law and economically unified space.
for a centralized state power is a characteristic type of monarchy At centralization, that is gathering around the center of the land, it has an absolute character.Centralized state, as a large unit is a part of smaller parts, namely -district, region, county, etc.However, they do not have independence.
It is said that for the emergence of a centralized state any necessary assumptions.In particular, a powerful unifying factor is national unity.It is a mistake to think that the state complied with t
he interests of only one dominant nationality.By law, none of the nations living in the country should not be infringed upon in the interests and rights.
Signs of a centralized state
There are a number of features that can be determined that the state is centralized.
First, it is created in the uniform state public authorities.The task of the center to provide all citizens of public services in a single mode.
Secondly, a characteristic feature of the centralized state is the possibility of migration of the inhabitants of the country.
Third, the process of centralization in such a state go hand in hand with the economic development of the country.
Fourth, in a state with a single center preserved the equality of all its inhabitants, even if it is the millions.
Fifth, centralized state is not the autonomy of local authorities.Thus, the central government enforces the authoritarian regime of control by sending his henchmen to the field.Provinces can not legislate and make laws within its territory.
In turn, the central authority in such State shall assume all sorts of obligations to ensure residents of the need for good acts as a guarantor of their freedom and independence, takes the commitment to the fight against crime.
It is said that in the modern world like state in its pure form is almost non-existent, since it does not in compliance with all the principles of centralization.It can exist only in a military-political regime.In another called unitary centralized state.Examples of such states are France, Uzbekistan, Asia.


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The standard configuration for phone services on Emmanuel's campus is supported by Cisco VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol). VoIP technology provides a number of advanced features including integration with Cisco Unity Visual Voicemail services.
Visual Voicemail is an alternative to audio voicemail where the screen is used to work with messages, rather than audio prompts. Click here for a full guide to using visual voicemail on campus.
Available To:
Staff and Faculty
What does it do?
VoIP phones plug directly into a network ports instead of a dedicated analog phone ports and enable flexibility when moving between office areas.
Additional extensions to dedicated department lines may be added to Staff/Faculty phones upon request.
Local and limited long distance calling are available as basic telephone features.
All phones feature a dedicated extension that is assigned a voicemail box to receive and store messages for individual users as well as departments.
Password resets are available upon request as well as remote access to voicemail from off-campus.
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For an overview on using basic calling functions, accessing Cisco Unity Voicemail or how to setup your voicemail box for the first time, please use the tutorial below:
For an overview of the physical IP phone hardware and button features, please use the guide below:
Providing legacy connections for fax machines and credit card readers.
Legacy hardware that utilizes analog telephone line connections are supported on a case-by-case basis. For more information, please contact the Helpdesk.
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To Transfer Your Wii U Network ID To A New System, You Have To Send It Back To Nintendo
Here is an important factoid for you to know in the sad but possible situation that your brand new Wii U clonks out on you shortly after you get your hands on it. If your Wii U dies, many gamers wanted to know if there was a way to retain your Wii U Network ID and we are happy to report that there is. With that said, there are some limitations, there is no currently a mechanism for users to transfer their Network ID themselves but as we said all is not lost. If you want to retain your Network ID as the process stands today, you'll have to send your console to Nintendo.
"Nintendo of America's repair process includes the transferring of the Nintendo Network ID to a new Wii U console if a replacement system is needed."
With that said, this means that if your Wii U does in fact die on you, do NOT return your defective unit to the retailer, not unless you don't want your Network ID. Instead, you should send the unit back to Nintendo because they require physical access to the hardware that your ID was registered on in order to recover your account.
In another item of note, remember that you can't yet sign into another physical console with your Wii U Network ID in the same way you can do with PS3 and Xbox 360, though Nintendo promises the capability at some point in the future.
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In the picture (left to right): Dr. Acosta-Michlik, Director Nina M. Cadiz and Dr. Damasa M. Macandog. Dr. Michlik will be with IBS until February, 2014.
Dr. Lilibeth Acosta-Michlik is a senior scientist in the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. She received her degrees from the University of the Philippines (BSc), University of Cambridge in England (MPhil), and University of Bonn in Germany (PhD). She has worked in renowned research institutions in Germany, Belgium, United Kingdom and Japan. She has received scholarship and fellowship awards from various international institutions (i.e. IRRI, British Council, Cambridge Overseas Trust, German Academic Exchange Service, and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) for her studies and research.
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Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
Form the pizza dough into two 12-to-14-inch rounds, 1/4 inch thick. Bake, preferably on a pizza stone or pizza pan, for 4 to 6 minutes, or until just beginning to brown. Leave the oven at 400 degrees F.
While the pizza crust is baking, toast the almonds in a medium dry skillet over medium-high heat. Transfer the almonds to a plate to cool.
Melt the butter in the skillet. Add the graham cracker crumbs, chili powder, cayenne and salt. Cook for 2 to 3 minutes, until the crumbs are well coated. Remove from the heat and set aside.
For each pizza, top the crust with half of the marshmallows and scatter half of the chocolate over the marshmallows. Return to the oven for 3 to 5 minutes, until the marshmallows are puffed and lightly browned. Sprinkle the pizza with half of the graham cracker mixture and top with half of the almonds. Let rest 3 to 4 minutes, slice and serve. Repeat to make the second pizza.
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Michael Joyce's poems and translations have been published in Beloit Poetry Journal, FOLLY, Gastronomica, The Iowa Review, Metamorphoses, New Letters, nor/, Notre Dame Review, Parthenon West, Spoon River Review, New Review, Or (Otis Review), The Common, and THE SHOp (Cork). His book-length sequence of poems, Paris Views, was published by BlazeVOX in 2012. (updated 4/2012)
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