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Washington, D.C. (March 28, 2011) — Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) Deputy Vice President Karl Uhlendorf issued the following statement:
"AARP again is ignoring the key facts about the marketplace for prescription medicines.
"Growth in spending for prescription medicines has slowed to historic lows. According to IMS Health, prescription drug spending will grow between three percent and five percent this year, and at 3.5 percent annually through 2013.
"The prices for the 'top 25' drugs highlighted in the last AARP report fell by 21 percent from 2006 through 2009, according to researchers at IMS Health and MIT. This reflects the mix of brand and generic drugs used by patients.
"Similarly, the same researchers found that for the top 10 therapy areas in Medicare Part D, average cost per day fell from $1.50 in 2006 to $1.11 in 2009, and is projected to fall to $.54 by 2014.
"What's more, between 2004 and 2009, medicines represented 10 percent of the growth in total health care spending, compared to 90 percent for all other health care services. This is a decline from the prior decade, when medicines accounted for 14-16 percent of health care spending growth.
"Any analysis of prices must take into account the mix of brand and generic medicines that patients actually use. This approach reflects the way the market works and captures the savings that patients experience when an innovator medicine becomes available as a generic.
"AARP acknowledges that many medicines in their analysis have a generic version available, yet their analysis fails to take into account the patient savings that result. But by ignoring these savings, according to IMS Health and MIT researchers, AARP creates 'a distorted and inaccurate portrait' of the prescription drug market.
"Our health care system has been designed to promote both continued medical advances and cost savings. Innovator biopharmaceutical research companies produce medical advances through pioneering scientific work and large-scale investments. The innovators' work and investment leads over time to generic copies that consumers use at low cost for many years.
"Importantly, despite their small share of health costs – relative to other health services – medicines are yielding major health advances. For instance, prescription medicines have played a key role in the dramatic declines in death rates resulting from cancer, heart disease and HIV/AIDSin recent years. Our companies' continued commitment to innovation is the driving force behind such medical progress."
The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) represents the country's leading pharmaceutical research and biotechnology companies, which are devoted to inventing medicines that allow patients to live longer, healthier, and more productive lives. PhRMA companies are leading the way in the search for new cures. PhRMA members alone invested an estimated $49.4 billion in 2010 in discovering and developing new medicines. Industry-wide research and investment reached a record $67.4 billion in 2010.
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BERKELEY HEIGHTS—Attention caregivers, do you feel tired? Are you overwhelmed and stressed? Caring for a loved one can bring on those feelings. You are not alone.
The Caregiver & Alzheimer's Family Support Group at Runnells Specialized Hospital of Union County in Berkeley Heights offers help. It's the only daytime caregiver and Alzheimer's family support group in the area. Get together with others who share your difficulties and receive the reassurance as well as the knowledge that is found in a support group.
The group's meetings, which are open to the public, are held in Room C318 on the third floor at Runnells on the third Thursday of each month from 1 to 2 p.m. The meetings, facilitated by Liz Carabuena, L.S.W., a Runnells Specialized Hospital licensed social worker, are free of charge for all attendees.
Runnells Specialized Hospital of Union County sponsors the meetings in conjunction with the Alzheimer's Association – Greater New Jersey Chapter.
The Caregiver & Alzheimer's Family Support Group at Runnells' schedule for 2010 follows: Feb. 18, March 18, April 15, May 20, June 17, July 15, Aug. 19, Sept. 16, Oct. 21, Nov. 18 and Dec. 16.
Runnells is located at 40 Watchung Way, Berkeley Heights. For further information on this wheelchair accessible program or if you would like to attend, call to 1-908-771-5828.
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Students or TJUH House Staff experiencing a psychiatric emergency should call 911, TJU Department of Security (On Campus: 811 or Off Campus: 215-955-8888), or go directly to the nearest emergency room. Students on campus should go to the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital Emergency Room, located in the Main Hospital Building at 10th and Sansom Streets.
Jefferson faculty and staff who have an urgent concern about a student or TJUH House Staff officer may contact the SPCC Director, Dr. Deanna Nobleza, directly by calling 215-503-2817 and then dialing '1' and then '0'. Alternatively, the SPCC On-Call Pager is (877) 656-7287. Jefferson faculty and staff with non-urgent concerns about a student or TJUH House Staff officer should call 215-503-2817 and leave a confidential voicemail with their name, contact information, and best times to call back. A SPCC counselor will contact you as soon as possible.
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The inaugural IRONMAN Muskoka will take place on Sunday, August 30, 2015. In addition to the announcement of the new full-distance event, IRONMAN 70.3 Muskoka will be moved to July, making it a perfect training opportunity for the new race.
Set in south-central Ontario's premier vacation and cottage country, the Muskoka region has a rich triathlon history. The region hosted the 1992 ITU World Triathlon Championship and for years offered a premier event that was part of the Triathlon Pro Tour. In 1991 Triathlon Magazine declared the Muskoka race one of the ten best triathlon destinations—before the event had even taken place!
The pristine forest getaway offers beautiful and rugged landscape and is dotted with hundreds of clean, clear lakes, rivers and streams, while the rolling forested hills are punctuated with dramatic rock outcroppings.
The region's many friendly and picturesque small communities offer places where visitors can take advantage of the laid-back, relaxed lifestyle. Muskoka also boasts a number of lakefront cottage resorts where guests can relax and regenerate while taking in the area's history and beauty. Outdoor activities of all kinds abound, including the world-famous Algonquin and Arrowhead Provincial Parks.
Huntsville, the site of IRONMAN Muskoka, is a vibrant community with a diverse selection of world-class restaurants, shopping, theatre, events and festivals, parks and museums. Visit a museum, hike a pristine trail, star gaze, relax in front of a bonfire, swim or fish in sparkling waters, sip local wine or beer on a dock, get up close and personal with wildlife, pamper yourself at a spa, or enjoy one of the many events and festivals that reflect Muskoka's charm. The region has something for everyone, both athletes and spectators alike.
IRONMAN Muskoka will lead athletes through a 2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike and 26.2-mile run that takes place in the beautiful Deerhurst Resort and the surrounding scenic areas of Muskoka. The 2.4 -mile, one-loop swim takes place in picturesque Peninsula Lake. The 112-mile bike course circles Lake of Bays, passing through the small communities of Dwight, Dorset, and Baysville. The 26.2 -mile run will take you through Muskoka County and downtown Huntsville—past pink granite rock and cascading waterfalls—before finishing at Deerhurst Resort.
This race offers 50 qualifying slots to the 2016 IRONMAN World Championship in Hawaii.


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"Cheap shot" angers Giants coach Tom Coughlin
(CBS/AP) EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - Instead of a handshake, Tom Coughlin had choice words for Greg Schiano.
The rookie coach had his team play hard when the Giants tried to end their 41-34 win over Tampa Bay with a traditional kneel-down. Coughlin screamed at the former Rutgers coach as they met on the field, and even turned around and yelled again when Schiano said something back to him. He seemed to mouth the word "bush." (Watch the confrontation here).
The nastiness of the scene was reminiscent of the run-in between San Francisco coach Jim Harbaugh and Lions coach Jim Schwartz after a 49ers win in a close game in Detroit last October.
"I don't think you do that," Coughlin said after the game. "You jeopardize the O-line, you jeopardize the quarterback. Thank goodness we didn't get anybody hurt that I know of. A couple of linemen were late coming in."
Eli Manning, who threw for 510 yards and three touchdowns, was knocked on his rear end on the play in which the interior of the Bucs' line bull-rushed up the middle.
Manning wasn't hit by a Bucs player, but the momentum of his line being pushed back sent him down.
"It was a little bit of a cheap shot," Manning said. "We're taking a knee in a friendly way and they're firing off. It's a good way to get someone hurt."
Schiano, who spent the past 11 seasons coach at Rutgers, defended the play. He refused to say what Coughlin and he discussed.
"I don't know if that's something not done in the National Football League," Schiano said. "What I do with our football team is we fight until they tell us `game over.' There's nothing dirty about it. There's not illegal about it. We crowd the ball. It's like a sneak defense and we try to knock it loose.
"If people watched Rutgers, they would know that's what we did at the end of the game. We're not going to quit. That's the way I coach and teach our players."
Bucs players said they do what their coach tells them.
"I've been in the NFL for a while and seen a lot of things," Tampa Bay defensive lineman Michael Bennett said. "Whatever the coach asks us to do, that's our job. It's like someone asks you write a story about something you don't want to write about, you still do it. That's what coach believes in. That's how we play the game."
Veteran safety Ronde Barber said Schiano believes in playing until the ref puts his hands over his head and ends the game.
"That's what we're going to do. That's my job," Barber said. "I don't care about their frustration. It's not my job to care about them."
The Giants weren't so forgiving.
"I was on the sideline and I was kind of confused about it," said receiver Victor Cruz, who had 11 catches for 179 yards, including an 80-yard TD. "It was a little bit of a cheap shot. You don't do that. Once I saw the offensive line get upset, I knew what they had done. You don't do that. As professionals, you understand what this game is. You don't take a cheap shot like that. There's a slim chance of a fumble, but it felt more like a cheap shot."
Giants defensive captain Justin Tuck said there is no protocol for that type of play.
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ST. LOUIS -- EaglePicher Technologies, LLC, which filed for bankruptcy protection in 2005, has settled a retaliation and termination lawsuit with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for over $35,000 through its bankruptcy trustee, the agency announced today.
The suit, filed by the EEOC on behalf of EaglePicher Technologies employee Brenda McCollum, was based on the company's 2004 termination of her. The EEOC alleged the firing was in retaliation for McCollum's complaints of sex discrimination and her participation in a 2003 discrimination lawsuit filed by the EEOC.
McCollum and seven other female employees at EaglePicher's Joplin, Mo.-based facility shared a $200,000 settlement obtained by the EEOC in 2003. According to the EEOC, McCollum continued working at the company after the 2003 suit, but she was subjected to retaliatory treatment by management and ultimately was terminated. McCollum returned to work in 2005 after a union arbitrator determined that her termination violated the union's contract and ordered her reinstatement with backpay. The EEOC alleged that McCollum's termination also violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and that she was entitled to additional backpay and compensatory damages. Title VII prohibits employment discrimination based upon race, color, religion, sex or national origin, as well as retaliation for complaining about such discrimination.
The suit was resolved as part of a case in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Ohio (EaglePicher Holdings, Inc., et al., Case No. 05-12601). The bankruptcy court approved the settlement on Nov. 20, and, after brief waiting period for appeals, the settlement was made final this week. Because of the bankruptcy, McCollum is expected to receive just over $12,000. EaglePicher Technologies is an affiliate of EaglePicher Holdings, Inc.
"Time and again, the EEOC sees cases where retaliation by employers is as bad, or even worse, than the original discrimination," said Regional Attorney Barbara A. Seely of the EEOC's St. Louis District Office. "Employers must understand that the law prohibits not only discrimination, but also retaliation against employees who complain about discrimination, who file discrimination charges with the EEOC, or who participate in discrimination lawsuits. Even if the initial discrimination allegation is found to lack merit, employers are still liable for retaliation."
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on the agency's web site at www.eeoc.gov.


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I have been messing about with the blues for a number of years from the safety of my bedroom. A few weeks ago I bit the bullet and joined a local
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Quick update:
Yesterday the 21st was the first day of kite competition and we did the long distance channel crossing from the Island (Jacque Cousteau) to La Ventana. It is a 11 mile about 17 km of rough choppy water and around 20-22 kts of wind. Kite sizes ranged from 14m to 9m.
Results were as follows for the Pro Men Kite division. (sorry I did not get the other results)
1st Johnny Heineken (raceboard)
2nd Damien Leroy (long distance surfboard style)
3rd Sean Farley ( I think his twin fin raceboard)
4th Alex Aguera (slalom board prototype)
5th Kent Marenkovic (long distance surf board style)
The race took around 22 minutes, one tack to the shoreline and then two buoy downwind to the finish.
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You Say It's Your Birthday: John's Pizza
JOHN'S DOUGH: John's Pizza of Bleecker has an impeccable pizza pedigree; it can trace its lineage to Lombardi's, New York's original pizzeria.
Words By Seltzerboy .::. Photographs By Adam K. .::. Just when you thought pizza parties were restricted to young people and young weblogs, in walks Danny Stiles, surely one of America's oldest deejays. As he has done for the past few years or so, Mr. Stiles will be having his annual anniversary/birthday "surprise" party at John's Pizzeria in Times Square. On December 6, Mr. Stiles will welcome an odd mix of celebrities (Uncle Floyd, Bob Grant, and Kitty Kallen will all be there) and pizza connoisseurs alike from 6 to 11 p.m., marking 81 years since his birth and 57 years since the birth of his radio career.
Mr. Stiles has been known to tout the virtues of John's (and pretty much every other advertiser) every chance he gets. He still reads live commercials, so the line between shtick and substance is never clear. That's where we come in.
Despite Mr. Stiles's claims to the contrary ("the greatest pizza anywhere"), Slice has had some difficulty with John's recently. Several months ago, the Slice Pizza Club congregated at the Bleecker Street location. We left a little disappointed, to say the least.
John's, named after founder John Sasso, comes from an established pizza pedigree. With its coveted oven (see photo, top right), pristine locale, and patriarchal heritage, it's regarded as a must-see in countless tourist guides and self-important foodie tomes. Enticing as it may seem to the naked eye, John's produces pizza that's downright depressing: sauce without spice, cheese without charm, even a coal-fired crust without char. Each pie was so dry, all of us wondered if they had run out of olive oil that night. In fact, a few of us have had several lunchtime deliveries from the Times Square branch that tasted a little better. Greatest pizza anywhere, Mr. Stiles? As Slice devotee Tien Mao noted at the time, "This may not even be the best pizza on the block." Although with the closing of Joe's of Bleecker Street, John's may move to the top of that narrow list by default.
After 75 years in business, John's has not aged nearly as well as Mr. Stiles (left), who still champions the crooners and composers, big-band leaders, and swingers and singers from the first half of the twentieth century"the records every other station forgot about," he often laments. Even more appealing than the music is the personality Mr. Stiles brings to the stage, peppering plays from his vast library of 78s and 45s with flamboyant phrasings, reminiscences, and narishkeit.
Still stamping his sentences with dozens of alliterative phrasings for himself ("the dean of dusty discs," "the vector of the Victrola," and "the guru of the golden Gramophone" are a few favorites that come to mind), Stiles On Your Dials has had 24 radio homes throughout the years, including three today. The clearest signal to reach him is via WNYC-AM on Saturdays. Since this conflicts with other programming, you will probably want to surf around the far reaches of the AM band late at night; he can be heard on a couple of low-bandwidth New Jersey stations, including WNSW, weeknights at 10 p.m.
Turn to Mr. Stiles for some Benny Goodman and bubbe meises. Just tune out his pizza advice.
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The running joke of ABC's new comedy "Don't Trust the B— in Apt. 23," other than the saucy title, is the appearance of James Van Der Beek ("Dawson's Creek") as himself.
The Beek plays a former teen heartthrob who wants to be seen as a serious actor. It's a fun, self-deprecating reference that brings a smile, then wears thin.
Really, the better part of "Don't Trust" is the "B—" herself: Krysten Ritter as Chloe. Chloe, the tall, pale, skinny con artist at the center of the show, is a clever addition to TV's gaggle of "Girls" and "2 Broke Girls" pushing boundaries this season.


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I bought a few years ago nnbackup version 2.28 and I'm very contented about it.
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when I delete a file in the first directory, it's keeps coming back after synchro from the other directory.
I guess nnbackup is not capable of handling such situation untill nnbackup would keep track of the changes in a database ?
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AUSTELL, Ga. - Police say a shoplifter in metro Atlanta had particularly sticky fingers for deodorant sticks, stealing 195 of them from a Target store.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports (http://bit.ly/14KAL6x ) police in Cobb County obtained an arrest warrant that accuses a Marietta man of stealing $877.80 worth of deodorant between January and April. The warrant says the thefts took place at a Target store in Austell, where the man slipped past the checkout stations with the stolen goods.
The warrant says the man will be charged with felony theft by shoplifting once he's arrest.
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So here's what I've got planned for 2010:
Jan: Frozen Sasquatch 50K
March: Catawba and 4 days on the AT from Springer to Fontana Dam
April: Promise Land
May: Run the Big Ditch
June: Old Dominion 100
August: Direct 3rd Annual CMMM 50M
Sept: Superior Sawtooth 100
Oct: Co-direct a new race- WV Trilogy (stay tuned)
Nov: Mountain Masochist 50M
Lots of fun stuff planned for '10. Some will stay on the list, some won't, and probably some will be added. I've learned to be flexible with life and running. I'll probably focus on running the two 100's as goal races and the rest as hard trainers or for "fun". It's good to have race plans and goals. It's what gets me out the door each day to brave the elements during the winter months.
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HARTSVILLE, S.C. – The Coker men's volleyball team will play its final home match in the legendary Timberlake-Lawton Gymnasium on Tuesday (Mar. 25) against the Barton College Bulldogs. First serve is scheduled for 7 p.m. with live coverage available at www.cokercobras.com.
The Cobras are 3-1 in their last four matches and are led offensively by the trio of Luke Hansen, Jared Geizer and Artur Cabral. Hansen has knocked home 206 kills and dug 113 balls for the Navy and Yellow. Geizer has 195 kills to go along with 79 digs and 28 blocks, while Cabral 25 service aces with 190 kills and 32 blocks. Heading the Cobra defense is Leshon Alexander with his team-leading 61 blocks, while Ricardo Ferrer has a team-high 161 digs. Ferrer is also the team leader in assists (863) and service aces (29).
Barton is 9-14 overall this season and a subpar 5-8 on the road. Winners of their last two games, the Bulldogs are led by Zach McCalla and Chad Stanback Jr.'s 328 and 220 kills, respectively. Federico Pagliara sets the offense for Barton with 812 assists, while Michael McMahon leads the defense with 299 digs.
Tickets for Tuesday's match can be purchased at the door for $5 dollars for adults, $3 dollars for students, and are free to all Coker students, faculty, and staff.
Release written by Coker sports information graduate assistant Sharod Williams.


text: Russell Simmons must have been high on veggie juice when he called his pal Courtney Love "a crackhead" for posting nude photos of herself on Twitter. "I think she is a sweet girl . . . It's probably exciting to be a crackhead, I wouldn't say I was a crackhead but I did smoke a lot of crack," he joked at the launch party for his new Oxygen series, "Running Russell Simmons." "I had fun smoking a lot of angel dust . . . Right now I'm a monk. I'm boring, I'm on a green juice fast at this moment so I'm a little high now. I had a double shot of ginger, which makes you a little flighty." Love, who didn't make it to his party at Midtown hot spot Lavo, told us last night: "I'm fairly insulted that he associates me with that drug. What does that mean?" Other guests included Tyson Beckford, Nick Cannon, Petra Nemcova, Gayle King and Rev. Al Sharpton.


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A fresh coat of paint makes everything it touches seem brand new. But such new beginnings cost real money. Professional painters charge around $4,000 for labor and materials to paint
A fresh coat of paint makes everything it touches seem brand new. But such new beginnings cost real money. Professional painters charge around $4,000 for labor and materials to paint the exterior of a 2,500-square-foot, two-story home and roughly $5,500 for the interior. Painters' rates may range from $20 to $60 an hour, but around $40 is typical in urban areas.
With thought and planning, you can keep the cost of painting the exterior or interior of your home to a minimum, whether you are using a professional painter or doing the work yourself.Cost estimates
Here are some estimates of the cost to have a professional paint the exterior and the interior of a home, including labor and materials, according to the Painting and Decorating Contractors of America, a trade organization.Exterior painting costInterior painting cost500 square feet: $1,000-$1,500500 square feet: $750-$1,5001-story 1,000 square feet: $1,000-$3,0001,000 square feet: $1,500-$3,000
2-story 2,500 square feet: $3,000-$5,0002,500 square feet: $3,750-$7,5003-4-story 4,000 square feet: $4,000-$7,0004,000 square feet: $6,000-$12,000
� MORE: See the cost of other home improvement projectsBreaking down the cost to paint a house
House-painting costs vary depending 'on what material you're covering, what product you're using and what part of the country you live in,' according to Steve Skodak, executive director of the PDCA.
Most expenses fall into two main categories:Labor costs
The biggest cost is labor. Most of the painter's time is spent preparing the surface so paint will adhere well and the job will last. Your biggest potential savings come from controlling or reducing how much time a professional painter has to spend on the cleaning, patching, sanding, caulking and painting.
'I'm expensive; the paint is cheap,' points out Brian Bancroft, owner of Bancroft Painting, a 100-year-old family company in the Ann Arbor, Michigan, area.Cost of paint and materials
Paint will be your next-biggest cost, at anywhere from $20 to $70 or more per gallon, depending on the sheen, the grade you've chosen and any special features. Some paints, for instance, are mold resistant. Others suppress smells or require fewer coats. Some have a lifetime warranty. Paints with warranties, however, may not be worth a higher price. In Consumer Reports tests approximating nine years of wear, only a few exterior paints and stains with lifetime warranties held up well. But 'you'll grow tired of the color long before a good-quality paint wears out,' Bancroft says.
Your painter is likely to recommend paints she or he knows and trusts. Bancroft prefers a middle-grade acrylic paint for most uses. It grips the surface, wears well and is reasonably priced, he says. 'If you're painting your garage or sprucing up the basement, you can step down [a grade],' he adds.
Mike Freeman, general manager of Mike's Quality Painting in Albuquerque, New Mexico, uses premium paints. 'We regularly will spend $50 a gallon on exterior paint because I know that the paint can last somebody 10, 12, 15 years, as long as we prepare the surfaces correctly,' he says.
Other materials " including tarps, tape, brushes, rollers and other equipment and supplies " will be included �in a bid but aren't typically broken out individually by cost.Tips �for saving on house-painting costs
With labor your biggest expense, you can save the most by containing how many hours a painter spends on the job. And there are other ways to pare back costs, too. Follow these pro tips for maximizing your savings:1. Get competing bids
Before hiring a painter, get multiple estimates, Freeman says. Find recommended painters from friends, or search at Painting and Decorating Contractors of America for member painters near you who are licensed, where required, and insured.
Ask a painter to specify how many hours will be spent on preparation and on painting, names of products to be used, how many coats will be applied and the cost for any additional coats.2. Use a contract
Now, make sure you get your agreement in writing. Freeman includes time estimates for each aspect of the job. Bancroft favors a simpler contract, like 'This is what we are going to do: We are going to caulk and putty the windows. We're going to put two coats of paint using Pittsburgh Manor Hall eggshell, color to be determined.'3. Do all or some of the work yourself
You can save a bundle by doing the labor yourself. The biggest DIY expense is paint. Other expenses include buying or renting supplies and equipment, like caulk, primer, brushes, rollers, tarps and ladders or scaffolding. Freeman advises applying paint with brushes, not a sprayer. 'If you overspray all the window frames and overspray your shingles and your sidewalks and the brick on the front of the house, you do damage that is not easily fixed,' he says.
If you're hiring a painter, ask if you can reduce the cost of labor by doing some tasks yourself. For example:Trimming shrubsMoving furniture and clearing a perimeter for painters to workRemoving and reinstalling the outlet covers, switch plates and doorknobsPrep work like patching, sanding and scraping, if you have the skills4. Don't wait too long to repaint
Repaint " exteriors especially " before visible signs of wear appear, Bancroft says. Don't wait until you see peeling or flaking paint. 'If I have to spend 40 hours preparing the surface before we can paint, that time is going to result in a lot of extra costs. But if I can spend 10 hours preparing the surfaces to be painted, you're going to save money,' Freeman says.5. Trim the scope of the job
Before signing the contract, look through it for ways to trim aspects of the job that aren't important to you. For example, you might forgo repainting ceilings or closet interiors, to save on paint and labor.6. Think strategically about color
By recoating your existing colors instead of changing colors, you may get away with one coat of paint rather than two, if the surface is in good condition.
Also, avoid very deep colors, or use them on trim or accents, Bancroft says. Bright reds and yellows may require four or five coats to cover well, so if you must use them, choose premium paints to get the job done with fewer coats.
Darker colors look great on exteriors but they fade sooner than lighter colors, so you'll have to repaint more often. 'You can be more daring and bold on the inside than you should be on the outside,' Bancroft says. 'If you want to have a fire-engine-red door, you can paint that every two years and it can be fresh and lively.'
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The French Revolution Digital Archive (FRDA) is a multi-year collaboration of the Stanford University Libraries and the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) to produce a digital version of the key research sources of the French Revolution and make them available to the international scholarly community. The archive is based around two main resources, the Archives parlementaires and a vast corpus of images first brought together in 1989 and known as the Images de la Revolution française.
The Archives parlementaires is a chronologically-ordered edited collection of sources on the French Revolution. It was conceived in the mid 19th century as a project to produce a definitive record of parliamentary deliberations and also includes letters, reports, speeches, and other first-hand accounts from a great variety of published and archival sources. Because of copyright limitations, FRDA contains the AP volumes covering the years 1787-1794. The text of these volumes has been marked up using TEI so that speakers, places, dates, and terms in the published index can be easily found. Users can see both scanned images of the AP pages or just the texts.
The Images are composed of high-resolution digital images of approximately 14 000 individual visual items, primarily prints, but also illustrations, medals, coins, and other objects, which display aspects of the Revolution. These materials were selected, mainly from the collections of the Département des Estampes et de la photographie, but also from other BnF departments, and include thousands of images for the important collections entitled Hennin and De Vinck. Detailed metadata exists for the images, so that researchers can search by artist, subject, genre, and place.


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How to automate Haskell deployments?
Buddy allows you to build, test and deploy Haskell applications on a single push to branch:
- Sign up at https://app.buddy.works/sign-up
Select the repository with your Haskell project:
Add and configure a new pipeline:
- enter the pipeline name
- set the trigger mode to 'On every push'
- select the branch that will trigger the execution
Look up the Haskell action in the Builds section. Here you can:
- change the image version
- install missing apps, libs & tools in the Packages tab
- attach MySQL, Mongo, Selenium and other microservices in the Services tab
- Add and configure the transfer action to your server (eg. SFTP).
TIP: You can use environment variables to store sensitive data.
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I am sure you are all reading and keeping up with Mir's horrific experience with her hosting site for her blogs! We all feel for you Mir!
While technology is fantastic, it can also be fleeting! It is still ultimately 1s and 0s and machine parts – all of which can disappear or break with out notice.
So what can we possibly do about it? Take precautions!
If you are hosting with a vendor and they hold all your content make sure they have all of the items listed below and can answer all of your questions to your satisfaction:
Backups: Mandatory!
- At the very LEAST monthly full backups and weekly differential (changes)
- What other backup methods (hardware/software/brand) are used?
- How often have they had to restore from backups?
- What does it include?
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For example, if you have a blog on Blogger their Terms of Service clearly state that:
"You understand and agree that the Service is provided to you on an AS IS and AS AVAILABLE basis. Google disclaims all responsibility and liability for the availability, timeliness, security or reliability of the Service or any other client software. Google also reserves the right to modify, suspend or discontinue the Service with or without notice at any time and without any liability to you."
Flickr has a similar requirement in their Terms of Service which is an across the board agreement for all Yahoo! products:
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Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) Secretary Robert Barham announced the following closure to recreational and commercial fishing activities in a portion of the the territorial seas, just south of Barataria Bay, from the eastern shore of Chaland Pass to the eastern shore of Barataria Pass and a portion of state inside waters west of Bayou Lafourche effective sunset, today, May 21, 2010. These closures are a result of confirmed reports of oil.
Territorial Seas Closure
The state's territorial seas seaward of the inside-outside shrimp line from the eastern shore of Chaland Pass at 89 degrees 44 minutes 06.3 seconds west longitude to the eastern shore of Barataria Pass at 89 degrees 56 minutes 44 seconds west longitude will close effective sunset May 21, 2010.
Inshore Closure
That portion of inside waters from the western shore of Bayou Lafourche westward to 90 degrees 40 minutes 00 seconds west longitude north of 29 degrees 10 minutes 16 seconds north latitude and south of 29 degrees 14 minutes 00 seconds north latitude will close effective sunset May 21, 2010.
Precautionary closures of recreational and commercial fishing have been implemented based on the best information the Secretary of the department receives from field biologists, staff and trajectory models from NOAA.
Once reports of oil are received, LDWF initiates a field survey and immediate seafood testing in the suspected areas. Closures are subsequently made with the intent to be as safe as possible, while not closing any fishing areas unnecessarily. As test results come back clearing the area, effected waters are then reopened.
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Standardizing a developing country health information system through proprietary software: Ghana's experience
This study aims to understand a developing country's experience with health information system (HIS) based on standard proprietary software compared with that based on free and open source software (FOSS) as documented in the literature. The developing country HIS literature has focused more on experiences with manual systems or FOSS. Less is therefore known about the development and use of HIS based on standard proprietary software. Using qualitative, interpretive case study methodology, this study investigates Ghana's experience with the development and use of proprietary software to standardize HIS across the national, regional, district and hospital levels. The paper highlights the inflexible nature of the standardized proprietary approach to HIS under top-down development in developing countries and the resultant challenges and recommends FOSS based on bottom-up participatory development as a better alternative.
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Inside the World's Largest Collection of Science Fiction & Fantasy - It Came from Riverside (Ep. 1)
Date: 12/2/2013; 7 minutes
Venture inside UC Riverside's Eaton Collection for a peek at some of its science fiction and fantasy treasures – including fanzines, manuscripts, first editions, posters and more -- and an assessment of the collection's significance within popular culture and academia. (#24037)
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Management practices have undergone many innovations. Companies have been down-sized, delayered, and hollowed out. Newly trained and empowered employees have implemented many innovative practices including continuous improvement, reengineering, just-in-time manufacturing, and total quality management. Outsourcing and exclusive supply relationships now allow organizations to focus on core activities.
Many of these innovations have fundamentally changed the relationships between the organization and its employees, customers, suppliers, and other stakeholders. In many instances, arm's-length transactions between independent parties have been replaced by long-term partnerships in which intangibles such as service, innovation, and flexibility are essential to success. Intangible, difficult-to-measure resources are driving the creation of wealth in many companies. Consequently, traditional accounting-based performance measures that rely on transaction prices are not as useful.
Most companies use formal performance measurement systems that are extensions of their financial reporting systems. They justify this practice because the financial reporting system provides measures that:
- Are generally regarded as reliable and consistent, thereby giving a solid foundation for developing reward and accountability structures.
- Mesh with the primary objective of creating profits for owners, thereby giving a performance measurement focus consistent with organizational objectives.
However, criticisms of conventional performance measurement systems have been increasing. Critics charge that financial performance measures lack the requisite variety to give decision makers the range of information they need to manage processes. For example, one study concluded: "There's a growing concern . . . that financial measures are inadequate tools for strategic decision making."1 Another study found that inadequately designed and operated performance measurement systems have contributed to corporate decline in the United States.2
The conclusion is that performance measurement systems based primarily on financial performance measures lack the focus and robustness needed for internal management and control. Financial performance measures are derived from accounting systems that generate and communicate financial information to support the contractual relationships and the capital markets that result from separating owners and managers in the modern corporation. These accounting systems were designed with the priority of consistency and hardness — attributes needed to instantly compare firms and evaluate a firm's behavior over time. These systems were not designed to communicate decision-relevant information to people inside the organization. Some complaints with conventional financial information are that it ignores important issues like customer satisfaction, cannot predict because it is based on historical cost, and provides little or no basis to judge the effectiveness of processes like personnel relations systems.