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Arizona Boarding Schools
Oak Creek Ranch School
CO-ED BOARDING SCHOOL FOR UNDERMOTIVATED TEENS. For 36 years we've been helping undermotivated teens, academic underachievers and students with ADD ADHD reach their full potential. Located in West Sedona, AZ.
St. Paul's Preparatory Academy
Located in Phoenix, AZ. We believe in rigorous education that challenges young men to strive for the best they can achieve.
The Fenster School of Southern Arizona
Located in Tuscon, AZ. Using our structured academic and behavioral systems, our goal is to see our students earn all the core credits necessary to gain acceptance to virtually all of our nation's colleges.
Residential Treatment Centers
Copper Canyon Academy
The staff at Copper Canyon Academy is comprised of seasoned and well trained professionals experienced at working with adolescents. Copper Canyon Academy boarding schools for girls assists families and gives them the reassurance that there is a wonderful future ahead for their child and family.
Mingus Mountain Estate Residential Center
A diagnostic treatment and education center for girls.
Remuda LIFE Program
Since 1990, Remuda Programs for Eating Disorders has treated nearly 9,000 of those suffering from anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. Patients come to Remuda Ranch for 45-60 days because that�s what it takes for effective and lasting change to occur. All treatment is based on a bio-psycho-social-spiritual framework. This means we don�t just treat a disorder, we treat the entire person: mind, body and spirit.
VisionQuest�s Arizona programs accept young people ages 12-18 who typically are placed by Juvenile Court, the Arizona Department of Economic Security (DES), or another child-serving agency. Parent-paid placements are also accepted, though the cost is often a prohibitive factor for families.
Parc Place
Offers a variety of treatment programs for adolescents who are experiencing problems. Specialized Services - Deaf - Juvenile Sex Offender (JSO) Services for the Mentally Retarded/Developmentally Disabled (MR/DD) - Emergency shelters - Autism program for young children
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Implement a strict
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professional counseling
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Residential treatment is an option for teens that need more intensive therapy
Boot Camps, boarding schools, or Wilderness Camps offer a very highly structured environment that focuses primarily on discipline
Hospitalization or Jail is the measure of last resort. Consider using these options if your teen has demonstrated that he is a danger to himself or to others
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There are 3 acredited boarding schools in Arizona that we suggest for troubled teens. St. Paul's Preparatory Academy is a Christian based school located in Phoenix and is a school for young men. Fenster and Oak Creek Ranch are both coed schools for teens with academic and behavior problems. These Schools focus on the development of character and improved behavior of teenagers that may not get the attention they need in a conventional school setting. These boarding schools offer challenged to each student with a wide variety of problems and provide professional and experienced counselors, teachers, trainers who all are dedicated for helping unmotivated teens.
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Underage Drinking in Arizona
Bullying: What Parents and Teachers Should Know
Arizona Anti-Bullying Law
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Arizona Meth Project
Arizona's Drug Situation
Heroin killed Arizona teen athlete
A Mother Loses Her Son to Prescription Drug Abuse
Substance Abuse in Arizona
Welcome to Meth Country
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Self-Advocacy Guides
The Center offers several self-advocacy guides and presentations covering different disability-related legal issues free of charge.
When Your Teen is in Trouble with the Law
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Hotlines, Helplines, Crisis Help
Arizona AIDS Helpline
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602-542-9580 Phoenix
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First Call for Help in Central and Northern Arizona
1-602-263-8856 From anywhere
1-800-352-3792 Within the 520 area code
Information and Referral of Tucson
1-800-362-3474 Outside the Tucson calling area
Legal Counseling for Abuse Victims
National Domestic Violence/Abuse Hotline
National Runaway Switchboard
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Phoenix Crisis Hotline
Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network (RAINN)
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Arizona Baptist Children's Services
928-526-4477 Flagstaff
623-349-2227 Glendale
928-854-8963 Lake Havasu
928-445-8265 Prescott
928-536-4760 Snowflake
520-795-7541 Tucson
928-726-5568 Yuma
Arizona Baptist Children's Services is a faith-based, nonprofit organization dedicated to assisting troubled children and families.
Youth Haven Ranches
Youth Haven is a year-round, 501(c)(3) charitable organization dedicated to meeting the emotional and physical needs of today's disadvantaged children.
Arizona Mentoring Programs
Arizona Project Challenge
Child and Family Resources, Inc.
To improve the well-being of Arizona's children and families through programs that strengthen child care, youth and families.
Christian Family Care Agency
602-234-1935 Phoenix
520-296-8255 Tucson
Community Information and Referral
EMPACT Suicide Prevention Center
480-784-1500 24 Hour
Florence Crittenton Services of Arizona
HomeBase Youth Services
Information and Referral Services
Job Corps
Job Corps is a no-cost education and vocational training program administered by the U.S. Department of Labor that helps young people ages 16 through 24 get a better job
New Song Center for Grieving Children
Phoenix Youth Firesetters Program
Services for Attachment Focused Families and S.A.F.F.E. Environments
S.A.F.F.E. is a talented and knowledgeable team helping parents and professionals who are dedicated to healing children primarily with Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD)
Southern Arizona's Center Against Sexual Assault
520-327-7273 24 Hour
A website to serve as a resource for survivors of sexual violence and their families.
Tumbleweed Center for Youth Development (Phoenix)
Arizona Crisis Centers and Domestic Violence Shelters
Youth On Their Own
YouthBuild Phoenix
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Counseling and Mental Health Services
Arizona Alliance for the Mentally Ill
Counseling and Therapy
Referrals to mental health professionals in your area.
The Crisis Center
24 Hour
Telephone counseling, suicide intervention, immediate and aftercare services for victims of sexual assault, and referrals for helping agencies in central arizona.
Family Services Center
256- 551-1610
Individual, family, and group counseling on a sliding fee scale. Also offers teen substance abuse program (ages 12-19), parenting classes, anger management and conflict resolution programs.
Family Sunshine Center
24 Hour
Individual and group counseling, and advocacy services to family violence victims to aid in their recovery, stabilize their lives, and prevent future abuse.
Mental Health Center of Arizona
The Mental Health Center of Arizona is a public, non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation that provides treatment, education and assistance to people affected by mental health problems.
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Arizona Branch of the International Dyslexia Association
480 941-0308
The Arizona Branch of the International Dyslexia Association is a non-profit organization dedicated to educating the public about the specific learning disability, dyslexia.
Learning Disabilities Association of Arizona
dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for all individuals with learning disabilities and their families.
Parent Information Network
Support for Families Throughout the Special Education Process.
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Getting in sync
After years of living in what seemed like 2 distinct worlds (desktop v. laptop), I finally realized the need and benefits of syncing info across my machines.
Although there are numerous solutions out there, I took advice from one of my more pro-Windows friends (WE) and tried Microsoft's own free app – SyncToy (obviously, Win-only).
A straight-forward and easy to use app, SyncToy allows you to sync selected "pairs" of folders on multiple machines or external drives. Now, before I leave the house in the morning, or after I get back from school in the evening, I can simply run SyncToy and will no longer have to worry about leaving crucial files behind or only having access to earlier versions.
A simple (and all to obvious) solution to keeping my digital life organized! dl: SyncToy

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10 Tips For Taking The Perfect Engagement Photo
1. First up, you need to make sure people know what's going on.
2. Make sure everyone knows how happy you are.
3. These guys, for example, are three times happier than most people.
4. If you want to come across as the kooky couple you are, why not hang upside down.
5. Or maybe sitting on the toilet is more your cup of tea.
6. Just be careful not to come across as too much of a hipster, otherwise, you'll just look silly.
Thankfully these guys avoided that.
7. Think carefully about the clothes you're wearing.
8. Ensure that you and your partner both understand what each other wants.
This is NOT what she expected when he suggested motorboating on the river.
9. If all else fails, fruit.
10. Srsly. Lots of fruit.
Find more ideas about wedding engagement on Ladymarry.com
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Peptide Vaccine: Progress and Challenges
AbstractConventional vaccine strategies have been highly efficacious for several decades in reducing mortality and morbidity due to infectious diseases. The bane of conventional vaccines, such as those that include whole organisms or large proteins, appear to be the inclusion of unnecessary antigenic load that, not only contributes little to the protective immune response, but complicates the situation by inducing allergenic and/or reactogenic responses. Peptide vaccines are an attractive alternative strategy that relies on usage of short peptide fragments to engineer the induction of highly targeted immune responses, consequently avoiding allergenic and/or reactogenic sequences. Conversely, peptide vaccines used in isolation are often weakly immunogenic and require particulate carriers for delivery and adjuvanting. In this article, we discuss the specific advantages and considerations in targeted induction of immune responses by peptide vaccines and progresses in the development of such vaccines against various diseases. Additionally, we also discuss the development of particulate carrier strategies and the inherent challenges with regard to safety when combining such technologies with peptide vaccines. View Full-Text
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Li, W.; Joshi, M.D.; Singhania, S.; Ramsey, K.H.; Murthy, A.K. Peptide Vaccine: Progress and Challenges. Vaccines 2014, 2, 515-536.
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Li, Weidang; Joshi, Medha D.; Singhania, Smita; Ramsey, Kyle H.; Murthy, Ashlesh K. 2014. "Peptide Vaccine: Progress and Challenges." Vaccines 2, no. 3: 515-536.


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Before the summer officially ends, why not squeeze in a long weekend or week-day family trip to visit one (or more) of Nashville's colleges or university campuses?
With all that Music City has to offer, what you can study is as vast a subject as what there is to do when you visit!
Long before Nancy Berk became the Empty Nest Traveling Mom, she was a Ph.D. student at Vanderbilt University. Her recommendations for family fun in Nashville include a walk along music row, a stay at Opryland Hotel in a room that overlooks their famous botanical gardens, and a stop by Tootsie's Orchid Lounge (where so many famous peeps got their feet wet singing) or a trip down the river on the General Jackson Riverboat Cruise at Opryland.
Check out the Attractions section below for other places to explore after your campus visit after visiting one or more of these fine colleges and universities:
Nashville Colleges & Universities (a partial list)
- Aquinas College
- American Baptist College
- Belmont University
- Fisk University
- Free Will Baptist Bible College
- Lipscomb University
- Meharry Medical College
- Tennessee State University
- Trevecca Nazarene University
- Vanderbilt University
- Watkins College of Art & Design
1. Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum – Located downtown, this $37 million, state-of-the-art facility features more than 40,000 square feet of country music artifacts, archives, theater space, a full service restaurant and much more.
2. Hatch Show Print – Celebrating its 125th anniversary, Hatch is one of America's oldest letter-press poster print shops and has printed concert posters for such artists as Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Coldplay and many more.
3. Ryman Auditorium – Regarded as the "Mother Church of Country Music," the Ryman is a National Historic Landmark renown for its exceptional acoustics that has hosted musicians from Chris Isaak and James Brown to Patsy Cline and Bruce Springsteen, as well as current and rising stars of all musical genres.
4. Gruhn Guitar –Where some of music's greatest guitar artists shop for instruments, it is known for its collection of vintage guitars. Be sure to take a peek upstairs in the "invite only" room, where serious shoppers and collectors can indulge.
5. Frist Center for the Visual Arts – A 24,000-square foot visual art exhibition center and educational facility located downtown in Nashville's art-deco, former U.S. Post Office building has an ever-changing schedule of exhibitions from local, regional, national and international sources. College students can immerse themselves in live music and art every Thursday and Friday nights from 5pm to 9pm for free.
6. Hillsboro Village – Known as "The Village," this is one of Nashville's few remaining collections of neighborhood merchants. The Village offers a complete line of neighborhood services, retail stores, and entertainment. Specialty stores, some of the best restaurants in town and the historic Belcourt Theatre make Hillsboro Village a destination point for all Nashvillians.
7. Nashville Farmer's Market – This indoor and outdoor public market, features locally grown produce, ethnic food, restaurants, specialty items and live music ranging from bluegrass to jazz and country.
8. The Parthenon – The world's only full-sized reproduction of the Greek Parthenon that houses Athena, the tallest indoor structure in the Western world, and fine art galleries, including a rotating gallery featuring the museum's collection of American art. The Parthenon can be toured for around $6 per adult, or take a free drive through the 90+ acre park and lake which surrounds the structure. On most summer weekends, free musical concerts are held in Centennial Park, and free crafts shows are held there twice per year.
For additional help touring Nashville and its nearby attractions, Nashville Traveling Mom, Jamie Reeves, recommends a mobile app. She reviewed several useful travel apps in her post: 3 iPhone Apps With A Tennessee Twist. For more tips related to college visits, check out Why You Should Talk to Strangers.


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The earliest symptom for dementia that clearly stands out is memory loss, according to WebMD. As things progress, patients have trouble recalling things that have happened recently and recognizing places and people. Eventually, tasks involving basic personal care fall by the wayside as the condition advances.
The progression of dementia varies widely depending on the underlying cause and the part of the brain affected. Vascular dementia resulting from a progression of minor strokes often takes years to rob the patient of mental capabilities. If a major stroke that results from blockage of a major blood vessel causes dementia, the progression is often much more rapid, notes WebMD.
People with an early diagnosis of dementia often receive medical treatment that staves off progression for a period of time. Some people stay stable for months or even years without medication, while others show a swift decline. A lot of people suffering from dementia are unaware the decline is taking place, and they sometimes blame other people for their problems and deny the issue. Awareness is not always a blessing, as people who realize their own decline lose hope and develop depression, reports WebMD.
After a period of time, the patient's behavior sometimes gets out of control. Anger and agitation are not uncommon, but clingy and childlike behavior also occur. If the patient starts wandering off, keeping him at home becomes increasingly difficult. Over time, people with dementia have shorter life spans than average people, states WebMD.


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Small Medkit
From Play Rust Wiki
|Small Medkit
|Heals 40 health.
|Item Type
|Requirements to Craft
|2 Cloth & 2 Blood
|Time to Craft
|10 Seconds
|Researchable only?
If you use a Medkit then you will stop bleeding and you will regenerate 50 Health over a period of time. It does not heal instantly. If at any point you take additional damage while a medkit is healing you, the heal will abruptly end.
To craft a small medkit you need a Blood Draw Kit and use it, or you can kill bear and get blood bags from him. You will lose 25 Health and Blood will appear in your inventory. You must have researched the small medkit with a Research Kit 1 or Recycle Box before you can turn the Blood into a small medkit. When you have the recipe you simply need 2 Cloth and two Blood to craft it. Medkits can only be used once. You can find the Medkit in the "Medical" tab in your crafting menu.


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Despite causing an historic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last year, BP plans to reduce its tax bill by almost $13 billion by writing off its losses.
The move is legal and above board. But with millions of Americans having just settled up with the IRS for 2010, it's causing consternation among activists who say BP shouldn't be offsetting its losses with federal money -- especially when Washington is in a budget crunch.
"The U.S. taxpayer shouldn't be ... footing the bill for this. That just seems insane to me," said Aaron Viles, deputy director of the Gulf Restoration Network.
How the hell can they say this with a straight face? Worse! How can you swallow this hook, line and sinker? Seriously! How is this federal money? It is BP's money. It belongs to their shareholders. I just do not understand you socialists.
it's causing consternation among activists who say BP shouldn't be offsetting its losses with federal money -- especially when Washington is in a budget crunch.
The tax burden should be much smaller and would be if our government did only what it was supposed to be doing according to the Constitution.
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Just out of curiosity (and believe me, I am a small government guy myself) how do you expect the government to run if there are no taxes?
I don't know how to get you to understand this. Corporations do not pay taxes. They never have, they never will. Taxes get paid by real live people. Thinking that corporations actually pay taxes means that you fall for their illusion. It is a shell game, pure and simple. The government may tell you that they are socking corporations with high taxes, but it is a lie. Corporations just add the "taxes" to the cost of doing business, and add the cost to the price they charge consumers for the product or service. It is a shell game, a back door way of getting more money out of our pockets. Open your eyes and see the truth for what it is. They "collect" taxes from you and me and give that money to the government.
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I am a socialist? Never heard that one before. BP needs to pay the citizen to have the right to use the land the people own. That's called taxes.


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Faisalabad: Sri Lankan Cricket (SLC) stung by the refusal of the Indian cricket authorities to release their players for next month`s Sri Lankan Premier League T20 tournament have started to rope in more Pakistani cricketers for the event.
According to details, SLC is regularly seeking clearance from the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to sign on Pakistani players after the BCCI refused to give permission to 12 of its cricketers to play in the SLPL.
Sources said that the former captains -- Mohammad Yousuf, Younus Khan, Shahid Afridi -- are now among the Pakistani cricketers who have signed contracts with the SLC for the league that starts from July 19.
The other Pakistani players included are allrounder Abdul Razzaq, national team discards Fawad Alam and Shahzaib Hasan, upcoming batsman Asad Shafiq and opener Ahmed Shehzad.
Fast bowler Mohammad Irfan is also been roped in, while Umar Gul is said to have been given a contract as well.
A PCB official said it had no issues allowing its players to go and play in the league as it meant extra earnings for them.
"The system they are following is that the Sri Lankan board is directly signing our players on contracts and then the franchised teams bid and buy the players they want from the Sri Lankan board," he explained.
The official also said that while the players were being paid a fixed amount by the Sri Lankan board they would earn more when franchises sign them up.
"Basically the SL board has signed up a pool of players the franchises can choose from. There is no guarantee that a player who is in the pool will play in the league but he gets paid his contractual amount."
The Sri Lankan Cricket board, meanwhile, has said that the event will go ahead as planned despite the withdrawal of Indian players but admitted that the league will incur a financial loss.
Apart from the Indian players, other international cricketers from the top-cricketing nations including Daniel Vetorri (New Zealand), Herchelle Gibbs (South Africa), Chris Gayle and Kieron Pollard (West Indies) are certain to feature in the tournament.


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Source: Rene Stutzman / Orlando Sentinel
SANFORD — Jurors in the George Zimmerman trial today will hear the prosecution's closing argument, urging them to find the former Neighborhood Watch volunteer guilty of second-degree murder in the shooting death 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.
Zimmerman's defense rested its case Wednesday, after four days spent calling witnesses to support his self-defense claim.
Attorneys for both sides returned to court at 9 a.m. today, to argue about whether jurors should be allowed to consider lesser charges when they deliberate. The state wanted the jury to also be able to weigh convicting on manslaughter and felony third-degree murder. The defense objects to any lesser options.
Circuit Judge Debra Nelson granted the request for jurors to consider manslaughter. Attorneys are still debating the other possible charge.
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Research and Publications
Recent and Current Resident Research, Publications and Presentations
Whitney Black, MD:
"Outcomes and Alliances: The Case for a New Vocabulary in Psychiatry"; The American Journal of Psychiatry, The Residents' Journal, April 2014.
Mini Zhang, MD:"Do Children with mental disorders have higher prevalence of hypovitaminosis D?"; F1000Research, July 2013.
Daniel Bristow, MD:
The psychiatrist as advisor to the media. American Journal of Psychiatry Residents' Journal. Accepted for publication June 22, 2014. In press.
Lucy Lloyd, MD:
"Media Use and Children: A Review of Cyberbullying, Internet Addiction, and Sexting" presented to Oregon Council of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry annual meeting, Feb 4, 2010, Portland, OR.
Daniel Bristow, MD:
Television and the social idealization and disillusionment of medicine, focusing on TV's misrepresentations of the power of medicine and how the public comes to expect unrealistic medical results in their own care.
"The unknown efficiency benefits of EMR on outpatient psychiatry documentation." manuscript was accepted August 22, 2012 for publication in American Journal of Psychiatry Residents' Journal. Currently in press.
Erin McCune, DO:
Presentation: Oregon Children's Mental Health Conference, February 2012, "Cyberbullying, Sexting and Internet Addiction"
Publication: American Journal Of Psychiatry- The Residents' Journal, Feb 2011, article entitled "A Case of Olanzapine Induced Dysphagia"
Research: 1. Diagnostic and Functional Outcomes of Adults Diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder as Children 2. Cyberbullying, Sexting and Internet Addiction Amongst Youth in High Intensity Psychiatric Care
Andrea Moore, MD:
"Bath Salts: Not intended for human consumption... seriously!" This is a review of the new synthetic group of drugs called Bath salts. Presented at Grand rounds in Oct 2011, will be presented at APA in Philadelphia in May 2012.
Andrea Moore, MD and Clara Ruiz, MD:
"Media use in children - Review of Internet Addiction, Cyberbulling and Sexting." Presented at child OPA conference in Feb 2012 and international child conference in Paris , July 2012.
Alisha Moreland, MD:
OPA publication on Treating Autism and Aggression, co-authored with Dr. Wilson in 2009-2010.
Edits for the Resident's American Journal of Psychiatry on treatment resistant psychosis.
CareOregon CSSI Conference, October 11, 2012, Healing Hurt People: A Public Health Approach to Managing the Disease of Violence.
Clara Ruiz, MD and Neisha D'Souza, MD:
Social Media and psychiatry, March 2012 OPA CME Conference.


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- Court considers the impact of the Spanish Insolvency Act on guarantees governed by English law
- Court holds that the liability under the guarantee was not extinguished
The Facts
Ramblas Investments B.V. ("R"), a company incorporated in the Netherlands with its COMI in Spain, entered into a €200m loan agreement with RBS. The defendant ("D") provided RBS with a limited guarantee in respect of R's liability. The guarantee was governed by English law. D also entered into a personal loan with RBS. The claimants ("C") took an assignment of RBS's rights against R and D. R failed to pay sums due under the loan agreement and subsequently R was placed into a Spanish insolvency process and demand was made on D.
D argued that Article 97.2 of the Spanish Insolvency Act meant that any guarantees given to a creditor "specially related to the debtor" were extinguished on insolvency. C argued that the provision did not affect guarantees provided by third parties, as was the case here.
The Decision
The Judge was presented with extensive expert evidence on the scope and impact of Article 97.2 and, taking into account an objective consideration of the wording within the framework of the legislation, held that Article 97.2 did not operate to extinguish guarantees provided by third parties. No credible reason for extending the Article to third party guarantees (the cancellation of which would only benefit the guarantor) had been put forward.
This decision is helpful for creditors of Spanish companies (or those with their COMI in Spain) holding third party guarantees which may otherwise have found themselves without the benefit of recourse against guarantors.


text: Okay. So I currently only make song covers on YouTube. I may not monetize these videos unless I buy full song rights (which costs like $500 per song). Also, I cannot apply for partnership (already tried that), because I only have song covers. Making 1 original song would be enough to get accepted for YouTube partnership, but then I can only monetize that 1 original song. Now I was wondering, what is the difference between being individual partner (on your own), or via a network (like Vexon, Phazer, TGN etc). 1. Are song covers monetizable via Network Partnership? 2. How come I can become partner through a network whilst having only song covers, while I cannot become partner by 'applying myself (individually)? 3. How do you earn more revenue, individual partnership vs Network partnership?


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Many woman aren't bold enough to wear a bright color eyeshadow like yellow. Yellow can be tricky color, especially for blondes. Just like every other color, the most important factor in choosing an eye shadow is the tone of the selected color. I'll make it easy for you and break it down in relation to your hair color.
Those with brown hair and warm undertones in their skin should use yellow tones that lean toward the golds and orange. Those with cool undertones can benefit from yellow eye shadow because the yellow neutralizes unwanted cool/blue tones. Red heads want to stick to yellows that lean toward green. For example, you may want to layer yellow eye shadow to an olive eyeshadow to brighten it. Blondes with warm tones in their skin should aim for golds. Blondes with cool undertones have to make sure to blend in a dark brown or black in the outter corners of the eyes.
Check out this simple yellow eye shadow tutorial and let em know your thoughts.
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What are there consequences of NOT spending the grant money? I mean, besides losing it. Will it affect getting grants in the future?
What are there consequences of NOT spending the grant money? I mean, besides losing it. Will it affect getting grants in the future?
Zoe Girl, if English is his second language - what is his cultural background?
dh has worked with people from a lot of cultures. In some of them yes means I heard you talking just like a lot of Americans will start with ok which doesnt mean what you said is okay. (I can do this. Ok, send me a proposal.) Another commonly used word is so maybe you should treat yes as so. So, send me a proposal. Especially if he is saying yes and because that was one that drove dh nuts. He would have conversations that went like: dh Were ready to have you paint this blue. Respondant Yes, and we can shop for paint. Which meant I am not going to start painting or even buy any paint because I dont agree with blue.
He is from Hondurus and Mexico, we do a lot of cultural work in our department which doesn't solve everything but i thought should help. I have worked hard to be direct and clear, and i have also had my buttons pushed so much by him. I think there is an underlying lack of confidence and an issue with supervising people who don't need as much supervision. I dont think he has ever led a training or a large scale meeting, so he probably doesn't know how many tasks i have done in the last couple weeks to prepare for this, I didn't check in every detail (and yes i did send him information, it is his job to know the grant) with him, there is no time for that. He just cancelled our meeting that was for today and forgot i was arranging to borrow space, so i need to call the place and tell them we are not coming. I dont want us to look flakey and just no show. And that is a big reason to keep the training, could this be a cultural issue?
I just know i am spending time on backtracking the emails and waiting on him to call me rather than putting the final touches on the training to make it great, and encouraging attendance. I am actually pretty nervous and could have used some support, like reading all the information i sent about my plans.
That guy is a lousy manager.
Just heard from a colleague that he lied directly to his boss. She was in a meeting with both of them and overheard when his manager asked directly if he had followed up with everything I needed. He said he had talked to me and we had a check-in planned for later today. Oh no! I have not heard from him since yesterday about 9:30 am. I waited all day and then left him a message this morning. So I had actually been ready to contact her because I had not heard from him, I was emailing her to do a brief check-in and see if he was going to contact me when I got a text from him saying he would talk to me later. I told him that it had to be before 3 based on my schedule for the rest of the day and evening.
There is no guarantee that this will not come back on me, stranger things have happened. But I was very brief and professional and non-emotional.
Edited to add! Thank you so much for letting me keep posting as the situation progresses. It is really helping me stay calm and professional and out of talking more than necessary to others at work.
Better to rant at us than to anyone involved! The things that go on...I just shake my head. And I just lit a candle for you at gratefulness.org it named JAM0706 if you want to meditate while looking at it!
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Sorry, ZG, but if the money is available and must be spent, how can anyone cancel it if the grant monitor approves. It makes no sense. I think that you need to cc someone with the history info today but don't know who unless it is the grant monitor who is independent of your supervisor but perhaps someone higher up. You will take the hit if money allocated is not spent in my view. Stop being the nice guy.
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ACLU: Dept of Ed Admits NECAP Does Not Measure College Readiness
Friday, January 10, 2014
The Department has done so after years of claiming otherwise, said the ACLU, by quietly revising its waiver policies this month to give diplomas to students who do not "pass" the NECAP if they are accepted into a "non-open enrollment, accredited higher education institution" or national community service programs like AmeriCorp or City Year.
ACLU of Rhode Island executive director Steven Brown said today, "For years, RIDE has been saying that students must demonstrate a certain level of proficiency on the NECAP test in order to show they deserve a diploma and are college-ready. Last year, the Department showed it didn't really mean what it said when the policy was revised to allow students to qualify for a diploma if they merely showed a certain level of improvement on their NECAP scores. This latest revision, however, completely undermines any semblance of rationale for use of the NECAP as a high stakes test."
"If the whole point of requiring students to get a certain score on the NECAP was allegedly to determine whether they were college-ready, how can RIDE now say that if you are accepted into college, it doesn't matter what your NECAP score is? The whole point of requiring a high stakes test has now been turned upside down, and can now be seen more clearly as the arbitrary, punitive and ultimately meaningless policy that it has always been."
"For years, civil rights, educational and community groups have been arguing that the NECAP is simply not a useful indicator of a student's qualifications for a diploma. It is now time for RIDE to clearly and formally acknowledge that fact instead of hiding it by coming up with more and more convoluted exceptions to the testing requirement that swallow the rule. It is nothing short of cruel for the Department to perpetuate the anxiety and stress that this irrational mandate has caused thousands of students and parents. Indeed, we fear for any students who decided not to apply to college this past year because of their NECAP scores. This high stakes testing requirement must be promptly repealed. In the meantime, every high school junior and senior should be made immediately aware of this new waiver policy."
Providence Student Union member and high school junior Sam Foer added: "This latest waiver does not solve the fact that high-stakes testing still encourages teaching to the test, less-individualized learning, and narrowed curricula," said Providence Student Union member and high school junior Sam Foer. "If RIDE is going to undermine their graduation requirement with the waiver process, why did Rhode Island spend all this time, effort, and money?"
Two months ago, the Board of Education rejected, on a split vote, a petition signed by seventeen organizations calling for repeal of the high stakes testing mandate.
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38 Studios Defendants Fight Back
In a blistering response to the State of Rhode Island's lawsuit over 38 Studios default on $75 million in state funding, the defendants led by former Red Sox great Curt Schilling, then-Economic Development Corporation Director Keith Stokes, and prominent Providence law firm Adler Pollock & Sheehan denied the charges in October, attacked the State's suit -- and blamed Governor Lincoln Chafee.
Race to the Top Money
In August, GoLocal reported that half of the $19.1 million of funds spent so far for the Race to the Top—the competitive federal grant program meant to spur innovative education reform and boost student achievement—had gone to local school districts in Rhode Island, according to U.S. Department of Education data.
About $9.5 million of the funds had flowed into local districts by June 2012, according to the latest available federal data at the time. The second largest expenditure, according to the breakdown, was $6.8 million for contractors, constituting more than a third of the total.
In October, GoLocal then reported who was getting the most – and the least – Race to the Top money.
More than half of all school districts were seeing between $100,000 and $500,000 of those funds while top recipients are netting several million. Those receiving the most were the state's most urbanized districts, including Woonsocket, Pawtucket, and Providence. In all, about $44 million out of the $75 million had been set aside for local districts and schools at the time of reporting.
Pool Closings – and Providence Reactions
Tensions flared this summer when temperatures in the city rose into the 90s, and kids in the city where pools used to be were wishing they were still there -- both for cooling off, and staying safe.
Shay Rivera, a supervisor at the Davey Lopes Recreation Center, where the pool was closed this summer, told GoLocal, "The teens will roll up in little packs on bikes. They'll find out the pool's not open and they'll take off. We're not stupid, we know what's going on. They're going to do something."
The pool controversies of 2013 landed a spot on GoLocal'shttp://www.golocalprov.com/news/13-biggest-blunders-in-rhode-island-of-2013/" target="_blank"> list of biggest blunders for the year – but was also one of the year's biggest stories, too.
Read one of the original coverage pieces here: Providence Youth Outraged at Pool Closings.
Caprio Running Again
Caprio's announcement that he would be seeking a return to the General Treasurer's post in 2014 was one of 2013's biggest stories.
A GoLocal story on April 19 outlined the performance of Caprio's track record as General Treasurer, including the fact that Rhode Island paid among the lowest pension fund investment management fees in the country in 2010 under Frank Caprio's direction, according to a report issued by the Maryland Public Policy Institute.
Caprio was then Managing Director of the Providence offices of Chatham Capital, an Atlanta-based Venture Capital & Private Equity firm. Caprio served in elected office for 20 years including his term as General Treasurer of State of Rhode Island (2006-2010).
Following the development, political pundits weighed in on Caprio's chances in 2014. Read the story here.
Return of Dean Starkman
In July, GoLocal24, the rapidly growing digital media business delivering local news and information to midsized markets, named Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Dean Starkman as a contributor and editor-at-large.
Starkman helped lead The Providence Journal to the Pulitzer Prize for Investigations in 1994, which was then followed by work at the Wall Street Journal as a reporter and as an editor and writer at Columbia Journalism Review (CJR),
"GoLocal is an exciting addition to the news ecosystem -- an ambitious net plus to journalism resources. It produces stories that otherwise would never be told and adds crucial coverage to important beats, especially the State House, at a time when legacy news organizations, including my longtime former paper, the still much-esteemed ProJo, have suffered from the great digital disruption engulfing all media," Starkman told GoLocal.
And so Starkman returned -- but this time to digital media. Read the big announcement here.
Most and Least Diverse High Schools
What were Rhode Island's most—and least—diverse high schools in 2013? GoLocal's rankings this year had the answer.
Diversity continued to be one of education's most talked-about topics--how well are high school students prepared for a complex, racially and ethnically diverse society? How diverse, really, are the hallways and classrooms of each public and charter high school in the state?
Utilizing data filed by each school with the Institute for Education Science's National Center for Education Statistics, GoLocal researchers assessed each RI public and charter high school's overall racial balance (for more on the methodology, go here.) The more balanced a school's enrollment was across all race categories as named by the NCES, the higher it ranked.
Restaurant Health Code Violations
In case you missed it – although that would be rather hard, given it was one of the best-read GoLocal stories all year – the Rhode Island Department of Health inspected nearly 60 full-service restaurants in the greater Providence area over the last year, and two establishments were found to have exceeded 30 violations in just one inspection each.
Full-service restaurants comprise just one of over 30 categories of establishments the Department of Health inspects, which includes schools, hospitals, assisted living facilities, colleges, pharmacies, and liquor stores, among others.
Here it is – 25 Providence Restaurants with the Highest Number of Health Violations.
New England College Super Rankings
GoLocalProv's 2nd Annual Super Ranking of the Top New England Colleges 2013 not only rendered a fresh and compelling snapshot of the 86 best colleges in the region, but also showed a variety of interesting moves among the schools since the previous year's ranking.
To rank New England's colleges and universities in its super ranking, GoLocal looked to quantify a well-rounded snapshot of each college and university in New England. To do so, GoLocal utilized a combination of rankings derived from national sources, including US News & World Report, the Princeton Review, Forbes Magazine, and Washington Monthly, as well as Inside College, the Daily Beast, and College Prowler.
Researchers captured rankings from the previous two years that were available on each site, noting specific rankings where applicable as well as letter grades on some sites (College Prowler) and yes or no mentions in other venues (Inside College). These rankings, grades and mentions were translated into numerical values based on GoLocal's proprietary formula.
To see how all 86 Top New England Colleges 2013 ranked, go here.
Siedle Pension Report
One of the biggest stories of 2013 was when high profile Forbes columnist Edward Siedle, along with the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) announced they would be unveiling the findings of a months-long investigation into the Rhode Island pension system.
"I think Rhode Island taxpayers will be blown away by these findings, if they understand what's going on, and I think I've put it in language that they can," said Siedle. "This is a shot across the bow of the hedge fund takeover of public pension funds across the country, which has been going on for close to ten years now."
Siedle unveiled a 100 plus page report that called for a federal investigation regarding a number of issues relating the "withholding of material information and misrepresentations regarding state pension costs, as opposed to a lack of knowledge about the exponential growth and magnitude of the fees (tied to Wall Street Hedge Funds)."
Specifically, Siedle says that the SEC should "investigate ERSRI's failure to disclose skyrocketing investment expenses, questions surrounding ERSRI's Point Judith venture investment, and ERSRI investment consultant conflicts (and) payments from money managers."
Rhode Island's Top Hospitals
What are the best hospitals in New England--when it comes to what patients think? Traditionally, hospitals are rated and ranked on a combination of sound technical care, adequate resources, and impressive statistics. But an increasing emphasis is being placed on perhaps one of the more important measures: the patient's perspective.
With that in mind, GoLocal sifted through and analyzed the results from a government-sponsored survey of more than 50,000 patients in 176 hospitals in New England, and emerged with the first-ever patient-based ranking of the region's top hospitals in January. http://www.golocalprov.com/health/new-englands-best-hospitals-rated-by-patients/" target="_blank">To see what those results were, go here.
Of course, U.S. News and World Report offered up their own rankings as well, later in the summer. Here's how RI hospitals fared then.
Clay Pell for Governor
Clay Pell, the grandson of Senator Claiborne Pell, whose legacy includes the Pell Grant, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, Pell IV appears to be following in his grandfather's footsteps in both civil -- and military -- service.
In October, GoLocal broke the development that Pell was seriously considering a run for Governor in Rhode Island in 2014.
"The possibility of Clay Pell entering the Democratic gubernatorial primary raises more questions for me than I have answers for. Certainly the Pell name has a great deal of political cachet in Rhode Island, but the Pell name hasn't been on a ballot since 1990 -- a political generation ago," said Jennifer Duffy with the Cook Political Report.
One of the biggest stories of 2013 will only get bigger in 2014. Read the story here.
Rhode Island's Top High Schools
GoLocalProv's Fourth Annual "Top High Schools in Rhode Island" 2013 ranking crunched thousands of pieces of data from RI's 49 public, charter and technical schools statewide to reveal how our communities' schools provide for their students.
With school quality a cornerstone of real estate values and a crucial element of civic pride, this quantitative analysis of each school provides the only comprehensive view of the secondary school educational landscape in Rhode Island.
One of GoLocal's most popular stories, year in, year out, has been Top High Schools. See who ranked where in 2013 here.
Most Rich and Influential Rhode Islanders
Since GoLocalProv was launched in 2010, we have developed a number of comprehensive annual rankings – Top High Schools, Best Communities, and New England College Super Rankings. This year, we were able to develop a qualitative and quantitative evaluation of wealth and economic influence in Rhode Island.
GoLocalProv teamed with WealthEngine — the leading provider of sophisticated wealth identification and prospect research solutions -- to put together the first-ever list of the rich and powerful in Rhode Island.
In October, GoLocal unveiled its comprehensive ranking of those Rhode Islanders that have the greatest wealth coupled with the greatest influence in our state, and beyond.
If you somehow missed it....here it is: Rhode Island's 50 Richest and Most Influential.
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YJ watched with growing amusement as the man finally sidled up next to them an in a low, urgent voice said, "Excuse me, but does this establishment have a back exit?"
"Why do you want to leave in such a hurry, seeing as you just got here?" YJ offered instead of an answer.
The man smiled nervously. "Well, I guess I need some air, that's all." YJ nodded to where he had just seen the bartender open a side door to place a box of empties in the back alley beside the saloon.
The stranger nodded his thanks to YJ and soldiered on towards the side door. The bartender half-heartedly yelled, "That's for employees only!" as the man slipped out and disappeared down the alley, leaving only the dry desert wind in his wake before the door slid shut.
"Well now," said the Doc. "Do we follow him now, or wait until we finish our drinks first?"
YJ smiled and was just about to answer when the trio heard a pair of gunshots ring out in the back alley. Nobody else in the bar seemed to take notice, except for the bartender, who muttered a quiet prayer for the afflicted before going back to pouring wood alcohol for his patrons.
"Okay then," YJ said. "I guess that settles it. I'll go out the back, you guys go out the front door and circle around."
The Doc cracked open his wallet. "Let's at least pay for our drinks before we go investigating."
YJ moved towards the back exit, ignoring the bartender's protestations before easing the door open. There was a narrow alley between the saloon and the adjacent hotel, lined with crates of empties and drifts of assorted trash. The tall man lay about fifteen feet down the alley, his glasses shattered on the rough stone ground. Two other men, both wearing nondescript grey suits, were going through the tall man's pockets and briefcase. In their free hands both men gripped silenced pistols. The sound of the shots must have come from the dandified piece held in the cold, dead hands of the tall man, a nickel-plated number carried by the sorts of folk who didn't know the first thing about guns.
It didn't take long for one of the mystery men to notice YJ. His eyes narrowed as he sized the pilot up, then he reached into his pocket and flashed a badge and ID.
"Corone Mining Consortium internal business. Move along, dohn ma?" At this, YJ turned and made a big show of retching into a nearby trash container as if overcome by the substandard booze plied by John Savior. The Corone cop muttered something under his breath and went back to frisking the corpse, turning him onto his back and yanking his dress shirt up around his midsection, heedless of the considerable amount of blood pooling about.
At this point, a ground vehicle rolled up and blocked the end of the alley that opened onto Main Street. It was a cross-country outrunner, combining the style and flair of a limo with the sturdy frame of a dune buggy. A spotlight winked on, bathing the alley in antiseptic light, and two more men entered the alley, obviously in cahoots with the men giving the corpse a once-over. Still dry-heaving, YJ edged towards the other end of the alley, trying to lose himself in the shadows.
Walking out the front door of Savior's, Worth and the Doc turned right to see a slick ground vehicle roll up to block the alleyway. There were no exterior markings and since it didn't look like the local cops in Frisco existed at all, let alone field high-end outrunners, it was a good bet its owners were up to no good.
Worth thought he'd try something smart and stumbled over to the car's open passenger door. Expelling his best lungful of alcohol-laced breath, he half fell into the car.
"Yeah," he slurred, "take me to the nearest hotel." He looked up into the snub nose of a Minami-10 submachine gun held by the driver of the outrunner.
"Push off, drunk." The driver said, none too pleasantly.
"What," Worth said, "This isn't a taxicab?"
The Doc rolled his eyes, half for show and half in bemusement as he hauled Worth out of danger, all the while staring down the alley. He could make out at least four heavies standing around a corpse on the ground. One of the aforementioned heavies turned around and said coldly, "Move along if you know what's good for you!"
YJ found a hiding spot just around the corner and clicked on his multiband. "So it looks like the Corone Mining Consortium's finest just shot this guy full of holes."
As he and Worth stepped back inside Savior's, the Doc answered. "Corone cops here? This is an independent mining town. Corone cops are big on strike-breaking and union-busting and protecting corporate property. Frisco's the last place they should be sticking their noses into." Meanwhile Worth had found a free table and sat with his back to the wall.
YJ quieted down and strained his ears. The Corone cops were professionals, but even professionals could get frustrated. "It isn't here!" hissed one of them. "Fine, clean this up and then we'll take a look inside." Another one said. Then YJ heard the zip of a body bag being undone.
YJ radioed the Doc. "Be on your best behaviour, you're going to have company soon."
"Great." The Doc said. He went to the bar to order another round of cheap drinks.
As if on cue, the four men entered the saloon. They stood out from the crowd like a fistful of sore thumbs, given that the locals' dress code seemed to run to grimy coveralls and blue jeans. Two of them wasted no time in approaching the bartender, while the other two began methodically searching the bar, checking the floor, wastebaskets, and disturbingly, spittoons. The Doc played it cool as he grabbed his drinks and turned to leave, the two Corone cops standing next to him and conversing with the bartenders in low tones.
Sitting with his back to the wall, Worth eased both of his overlong pistols out from their holsters underneath the table as he saw the bartender gesture in his general direction. The two Corone cops made their way over to his table, a few steps behind the Doc, who set the round of drinks down.
Then they were standing at the table. The suit on the left asked Worth if he'd spoken to a tall man with round glasses who had blown through the bar a few minutes ago, then asked the pair if they'd seen the man drop anything, or hand anything off to someone else in the bar.
Worth and the Doc played it innocent and cooperative, telling the cops that all they did was point out a back exit to the bespectacled man and the cops left them alone, moving off to harass other patrons of the saloon.
In the alley beside the bar, YJ peeked his head around the corner. The outrunner had vanished from the foot of the alley, and so had the body. All that was left was a pool of fresh blood and the shattered remains of the man's eyeglasses, and a sprinkling of 10mm shell casings. YJ took a closer look, and came up with a blood-spattered ticket stub, a grav-train passenger voucher. Examining it, he saw that the ticket had been purchased in Paradiso three nights previously.
Halfway around the damn world with Corone on his trail, he thought to himself. That must have been a mighty relaxing ride. Pocketing the ticket stub, he made his way down the alley and entered Savior's, taking note of the idling outrunner parked across the street.
Back inside the saloon, the Doc noted that the crowd's temper was growing ever darker the longer the Corone cops sniffed around. One young miner peeled off from the crowd and ducked out the front door, while snatches of muttered grievances floated around. "Damn Corone dogs, what're they sniffing around for?" one grizzled miner complained to no one in particular.
"I ain't looking to hire janitors, flatfoots, so skedaddle!" John Savior shouted at the Corone cops. The four men turned to leave, just as YJ shouldered his way inside.
"You finished heaving your guts up outside?" one of them smirked at the pilot. YJ hiccupped and grinned back at the mine cop. The cops put YJ through the same set of questions they asked Worth and the Doc, and he too cooperated. Then the corporate cops stepped outside, and YJ rejoined his crewmates at their table, thirsty for more wood alcohol.
"Looks like our friend bought a one-way ticket to Frisco from Paradiso," YJ informed Worth and the Doc. The Doc whistled. "That's one long train ride."
YJ leaned in close. "And it looks like the Corone cops were trying to get something back from this guy, and get this: they didn't find it."
"Yeah, we noticed." Worth grunted. "They searched the bar before getting bounced."
The trio went back to their drinks, but didn't have long before they were interrupted again. This time, it wasn't a corporate sec man; it was a short, decrepit bag of bones with ragged hair and scraggly stubble. His clothing was third-hand at best, and he clutched a dirty Blue Sun shopping bag that looked like it contained all his worldly possessions.
"Filthy," the bartender warned. "Don't be hassling customers, not tonight."
"Aw, Savior, you're no f-f-fun!" the man called Filthy said over his shoulder. Then he turned back to the three wary spacers and flashed them a gap-toothed smile. "The n-name's Filmore. F-Filmore West. But call me Filthy and you're not far wrong." He looked at YJ and tried to wink conspiratorially, but he had the shakes pretty bad, and the wink dissolved into a spastic facial tic, much to the Doc's amusement. Once he had himself under control, Filthy said, "I saw ya speakin' to those guys…those g-guys what shot the other guy. Was they lookin' for something? They was, I bet!"
"Go on," said YJ.
"I know what they was lookin' fer, see." Filthy continued. They was looking for a memory stick…and I got it, see! I saw the tall guy toss it in the trash before he got plugged fulla holes. I fished it out when those other guys were out back. No one else saw, just me! Wanna buy it?"
"Take a seat," said YJ.
"How about a drink?" Worth offered, but before he could finish Filthy had grabbed Worth's glass and drained it, smacking his lips.
"So what do you want for this memory stick?" The Doc said, pushing his drink in front of Filthy, who gulped it down appreciatively.
"W-well, ah, that's a good question…" Filthy belched. "How about twenty?"
Worth stared in disbelief for a second, then blurted out, "Sold!" Opening his billfold, he tossed a banknote over to Filthy, who made it disappear in an impressive flourish of close-up magic. The vagrant rummaged about in his Blue Sun bag, then came up with a crumpled pack of Blue Sun brand cigarettes, which he obligingly slid across the rough wooden table.
He then cleared his throat and managed, "pleasure doing business with you," in a rock-steady tenor before staggering to his feet and making his way to the bar.
YJ picked up the pack of smokes, pulling out the single cig left inside, and with his fingernail eased the tiny stick out from where it had been mashed into the tobacco. "Well then," he said. "Let's see what all the fuss is about."
As the trio left Savior's Saloon on their way back to the landing fields, they ran into a full blown riot in progress in the middle of the street. The angry mob would have been holding pitchforks, except this was a mining town, not a farm, so they were wielding pick-axes and other digging-related implements. The point of their contention was the six-wheeled outrunner that was blocking the alley earlier, the one belonging to the mine cops. It was trying to drive out the town's main drag, but the fifty or so townsfolk confronting the vehicle weren't making it easy for them. They could hear the sound of the vehicle's body and exterior fixtures taking one hell of a beating.
The driver of the outrunner didn't seem interested in running people down, so the intruders were forced to take their lumps as they inch towards the city limits. Headlights were smashed, antennae are torn off, and large chunks of rock rained like a meteor shower on the vehicle's hide. One of its windows gave way with a shattering crack, much to the crowd's delight. Then a gloved hand tossed a tear gas canister out of the jagged hole, and the crowd began to disperse ahead of the roiling cloud of gas.
A few coughing miners pulled their sidearms and took aim at the retreating outrunner as it gained speed, scoring a few hits against what sounded like armor plating. The shots didn't slow the vehicle down although one of its six balloon tires loudly deflates, and soon it was nothing but a settling dust trail.
"Damn Corone boys, think they can just walk into town and throw their weight around? Hell no!" One of the miners slurred between gas-induced coughs.
Another chimed in. "This ain't their turf. If it hadda been a local they'd shot and not a tourist, we'd have strung them up on Pat Malloy's porch! Ain't that right?"
YJ, Worth and the Doc made their way back towards Shenmue, where they found Jonah sweeping up the now empty cargo bay.
"Anything interesting happen in town?" Jonah asked.
"No, just a shooting and a riot. Nothing special." YJ said, brushing him off as he headed towards the bridge.
On Shenmue's bridge, Worth slotted the memory stick into the ship's computer and booted it up. The stick's logon/initialization stamp indicated that it had been initialized on a workstation at the Corone Mining Consortium's Paradiso office three nights' previous. Files had been transferred to a sourcebox belonging to an Ivan Severn, where it was downloaded to the memory stick.
The memory stick contained a number of files, including processed ore shipment schedules, security guard rotations, and a comprehensive report on geological surveys along the Grampian Mountain Range. Most interestingly, however, was a memorandum marked "confidential" from an "Operative 124" to the Corone Mining Corporation's Director of Information Services. The memo outlined possible encroachment operations, operational disruptions, and blockading operations against the Hornsilver Mining Corporation that would bleed Frisco dry and put Hornsilver out of business, including a detailed report on the company's biweekly payroll delivery.
It was a gold mine of information, literally, as it pointed out several rich ore veins that Hornsilver had missed in the Grampian mountains that could be seized by Corone and used to hollow out the region, putting an end to the mine's profitability.
"So, Corone's got a mole in town," YJ said. "And the dead guy, this Ivan Severn, found out about it."
Worth got on the cortex and fired off a few queries about Corone's operations on Regina. He discovered that there was indeed a mid-level executive named Ivan Severn stationed in Paradiso, but that according to Corone he had been transferred to St. Alban's three days previously.
YJ pulled out the ticket stub. "Three days ago Ivan Severn boarded a train in Paradiso on a one-way trip to Frisco."
"Why would he do that?" Worth said.
YJ thought for a moment. "Maybe he had a soft spot for Hornsilver and wanted to warn them about what Corone was planning."
"Or maybe he thought Hornsilver would pay top dollar for this intel," replied the Doc.
"Speaking of top dollar, why don't we go after the payroll? According to this memo, there's no police force in Frisco to worry about." Worth said.
"No way," YJ said. "There are plenty of mine guards to worry about, plus I don't want to deal with an angry mob like those Corone cops had to, multiplied by a factor of ten."
"So what do we do?" The Doc asked.
"I think the owner of the mine in town here, this J.W. McClarrin, would find it worth his while to pay for this information." YJ opined. "Finding out there's a CMC mole in town must be worth something."
"The question is, will they pay us in platinum currency, or in lead?" The Doc said.
Jonah spoke up, having snuck up onto the bridge quietly during their conversation. "Well, if it's money you're after you may want to consider seeing if Corone will pay a reward for the return of this information. Their pockets are a hell of a lot deeper than Hornsilver's."
YJ shook his head. "We just got a close-up look at how Corone operates back in town. We walk into a deal with them and we'd never leave alive."
Worth coughed. "Well, I might leave alive."
YJ smiled grimly. "No, we go with Hornsilver. They'll pay well for this memory stick." He considered for a moment. "Or they'll shoot us. But we can always shoot back."
The crew decided to put a call through to the Hornsilver mine office, where they had negotiated their original deal to deliver the machinery.
"We'll probably have to leave a message since business hours are over," YJ said, "but if they're interested, they'll call us back."
To their surprise, someone picked up their call. An aged military-looking fellow with a bushy white beard, who looked for all the world like Santa Claus, that is, if Santa was a border-world baron.
"Hornsilver Mine, Major Mountebank speaking. I'm the Superintendent of the Mine, what is your business?" The superintendent looked tired and harried, as if someone had just roused him from a deep slumber with unpleasant news.
"Uh, yes, we'd like to speak to J. W. McClarrin, please." The Doc said, consulting the operative's memo.
"Is this some kind of joke?" Mountebank sputtered.
YJ broke in on the line. "We have some information that J. W. might find very, very valuable, so we're dead serious, sir."
"Gorram it now, listen-" Mountebank's expression changed suddenly as if someone was whispering to him off-screen. "Yes, well we need to verify your story before we can move forward any further," he said haughtily. "I'm handing you over to our assayer, Dennis Chow."
A handsome, cat-like man took over the screen. He smiled an ingratiating smile. "Thank you for contacting us," he said. "My name is Dennis Chow."
"A pleasure," the Doc said. "But you'll forgive me for not introducing myself."
"Not a problem," the assayer responded. "I am afraid, however, that Mr. McClarrin is currently offworld on company business, and isn't expected to return for some time."
"Is that a fact?" YJ said. "That's a shame, because our business concerns him personally. We've got information to trade, and it could make or break his operation."
"Be that as it may, Mr. McClarrin's business is indeed company business," Chow replied. "The company is of course interested in your offer and can offer some compensation in exchange for the information."
"Now we're getting somewhere," YJ said.
"However, for reasons you may be able to appreciate, we cannot accept delivery at our office."
"Fair enough," replied the Doc.
"You will need to contact my associate, Matthew Cullen, for further directions in this matter." The smiling man rattled off the number of a personal communicator. "We will be in touch," he smiled again.
Calling the number put the crew screen-to-screen with a smarmy looking mustachioed man whose hair-oil glistened even in the low-rez video feed. His eyes glistened too, albeit with a frozen coldness that told them he was the real deal. Cullen twiddled a cigarette holder around his mouth before pulling it out and saying, "so you're the ones got that stick off of Severn. How do I know you didn't kill him for it?"
"You don't." YJ said. "But take our word for it; we had nothing to do with it."
"So what are you after?" Cullen replied.
"What do you think? Compensation for services rendered." YJ said.
"And what service is that?"
"Closing the deal that Severn couldn't." YJ responded.
"You sure you're up to the job? Severn wanted to deal too, and look where that got him," Cullen said sullenly.
The haggling began in earnest. They finally agreed on a sum of four thousand in cashy money, an amount that by the Doc's reckoning could keep their ship in the air for at least three months, and would cover the extensive repairs necessary to get their mule back in working order.
It was clear that Cullen was receiving some off-screen coaching as he concluded the deal. "Right, right, okay, a mutual friend will be waiting for you at Lawrence's Saloon tonight during Happy Hour with the payment. Look for the dragon tattoo, and don't be late." Cullen cut the connection.
"So how do we make the exchange?" The Doc asked.
YJ pushed a pistol across the table at him. "Armed," he smiled.


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How to Help in A Disaster
With all the recent disasters we see and hear about, it's human nature to want to help our neighbors both near and far in need. But it's often not clear what is the best way to really be of assistance. This is why I am reprinting a post on this subject from a federal disaster worker at AllExperts.com.
What would you say are the best things to do after a major disaster? To help someone else, not yourself.
John Doe
John, thanks for asking.
If you are not in a disaster but want to assist people who have been affected by one, there are several things you can do. There are also certain things you should not do.
First, support organizations which are responding to the disaster. Non-profit organizations which respond to disasters are not funded by the government and need financial support. Choose your favorite, the one you think does the most good and donate money to them. You can find a list of National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (NVOAD) here: http://www.nvoad.org/ These are recognized organizations and will not scam you.
Unless specifically requested, do not donate clothing, food or other items. During Hurricane Andrew, tons of donated items had to be disposed of in Florida (fur coats, kitchen utensils, old shoes) because they were not needed and/or there were not enough people available to sort through them. There was no place to store much of the donations and they became wet, moldy and a health hazard.
There are agencies in the NVOAD (above) who do take donations of clothing, food, water and other in-kind donations, so check with them and ask what they need.
Seeing the suffering caused by a disaster makes most people want to help in some way. If you would like to volunteer, go ahead and find an organization which can give you the proper training and credentials so that you can really help. Many NVOAD groups have free classes in disaster response and relief and you can sign up and take them. Other agencies have need for people with special skills (counseling, social work, massage therapy, cooking, building, etc,) and are happy to find new volunteers.
Please don't just go to a disaster area to volunteer. There are several reasons for this, First, disaster areas are usually dangerous with debris and limited emergency services. Police and sheriff's departments are stretched thin, as are fire departments, paramedics and hospitals. Trying to find a place for unattached volunteers to work is just not a priority when disaster survivors need their attention.
During Hurricane Katrina, fire departments from all over the country just took it upon themselves to travel to Louisiana. I was there at the firefighters' staging area. Although their hearts were in the right place, it was sometimes a strain on local responders trying to find them a place to stay and assign them to work teams. You don't really think about it, but when people's homes are destroyed, they are staying in motels and eating at restaurants. If too many workers come into the area, they take up those rooms that the disaster stricken families need. When I first got to Katrina, there was no power and no food shipments coming in. I went to a Burger King drive in one night and the sign said, "We have burgers, no buns." The next night I went through and it said, "We have buns, no burgers."
I know this is a lot, but finally, let me say: be prepared.
-Get your home ready for a disaster, have a disaster go bag, water, medications, a disaster plan, a place to shelter inside the house.
-Designate a family meeting place and someone outside the area to contact in case you and your family get separated. (Sometimes phones don't work locally but connect to other cities and states)
-Make sure you have appropriate insurance (Home owners insurance does not normally cover flood damage).
-Keep your important papers (deeds, car registration copies, insurance papers, utility bills) somewhere that is safe and waterproof
-Take them with you if you have to evacuate.
-Learn first aid and CPR, find out what your community's emergency plans are.
-Vote. Pay attention to which of your representatives supports government disaster response. The money that goes to disaster victims is the money they (and you) have been paying in as taxes. It is your disaster savings account. And if it is ever your turn, you will need the same aid.
That about covers it. I hope you decide to become a disaster volunteer or get a job with a disaster agency or company. There's no better feeling than helping someone who has lost everything. I know, I've been there.
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Driscoll Children's Hospital celebrated World Kidney Day with its Dialysis and Nephrology patients, reminding them how important it is to focus on kidney health issues.
World Kidney Day T-shirts were handed out to staff and patients all week, and the department had a photo booth and cupcakes for the pediatric patients to enjoy.
Founded in 2006, World Kidney Day is a global health awareness campaign focusing on the importance of the kidneys and reducing the frequency and impact of kidney disease and its associated health problems worldwide. Observed annually on the second Thursday in March, the event is a joint initiative of the International Society of Nephrology and the International Federation of Kidney Foundations.


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October 10, 2008 :: Education, State Officials Continue Discussion on Campus Safety
What: Meeting of Gov. Henry's Campus Life and Safety and Security (CLASS) Task Force to study safety at Oklahoma's higher education and career technology campuses
When: 2 p.m., Monday, Oct. 13, 2008
Where: Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education
655 Research Parkway, Suite 200, Oklahoma City
Who: Officials from higher education, career technology education, public safety and health services
Why: To discuss legislative agenda, review the impact of the Higher Education Reauthorization Act's impact on student safety issues, and behavioral threat assessment training and exercises to take place early in 2009
Background: Gov. Brad Henry created CLASS by an Executive Order in April 2007 following the Virginia Tech shootings. On Feb. 12, 2008, at the request of the task force, Gov. Henry extended the activities of the task force for the purpose of implementing the recommendations of its final report and continuing to review and evaluate safety and security at higher education and career technology campuses and make recommendations for modifications as needed.


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So, I sort of lied. I have been blogging in another life. As part of a Math course I recently developed, I set up my own blog to explore many of the concepts in the Algebra course. It's called Maththinker. Initially I set up the blog as an example for students of my course. Many of the course activities are designed around the blog as the goal is to teach teachers the importance of getting students to express their mathematical thinking in writing. Writing out the thought process of math helps reinforce the learning and also helps students develop a solid understanding of what they are learning. Blogs naturally present a great tool for achieving this.
In addition to the blogs, the course will help students practice developing their own electronic visuals for teaching using simple graphics in PowerPoint. I truly believe that developing visuals or even drawing out concepts helps reinforce learning just as writing does. Even though the students of this course are producing something that they can use in their classrooms, they are also using that visual-spatial muscle to think out problems and concepts. The illustrations also allow the students to enhance their reflections and descriptions of concepts in their blogs.
In addition, to encouraging math writing, the course also focusing on helping teachers develop their own 'real life' applications and examples of math concepts and stories. Students share their examples including their own illustrations or diagrams in their blogs. They are encouraged to respond and provide feedback on each other's work in the blog comments.
Here's a screenshot from a quick slide show I developed that demonstrated the effect of changing variables in a quadratic equation. I used an applet available in the National Library of Virtual Manipulatives to create the graphs quickly and painlessly.
Working on this course also gave me the opportunity to re-learn some of my 'rusty' math. Imagine, I now remember what to do with a quadratic equation. In general, I feel like I've developed a greater appreciation of math and it's applications.