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What is your Delivery Area?
Our shop locally serves the following cities and surrounding areas:
- Brooklyn
Can you deliver to a funeral home?
- Piro Funeral Home, Inc.
- Blair-Mazzarella Funeral Home
- Irving Sherman
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If you do not see the funeral home you are looking for, please give us a call at (718) 833-3606, we may be able to accommodate special requests.
Do you deliver to local hospitals?
- University Hopital Of Brooklyn
- Interfaith Medical Ctr
- Lutheran Family Health Centers Family Physician
- Family Health Services
- Boro Park Primary Care Clinic
- Sunset Terrace Family Health Center
- Brooklyn Campus of the VA NY H arbor Healthcare System
- Island Rehabilitative Svc
- Lutheran Family Health Centers Caribbean-American
- Newkirk Medical Center
- New York Methodist Hospital
- Catholic Medical Ctr-Brooklyn
- Kings County Hospital Center
- East New York Diagnostic & Treatment Center
- Center For Healthcare Svc
- Center For Dialysis-Parkside
- Ocean Parkway Pediatrics
- Center For Child Development
- Brooklyn Chinese Family Health
- Brookdale Hospital Med Ctr
- Sister Thea Bowman Family Health
- Brooklyn Hospital Ctr
- Magical Years Early Childhood
- New York City Health & Hosp
- Albany Medical Ctr
- N Y City Health & Hospital
- Brooklyn Family Medical Assoc
- Sheepshead Bay Women's Care
- Jch-Maimonides Health & Wlns
- Charles Drew Clinic
- Long Island Out Patient Clinic
- Long Island College Hospital
- NYU Lutheran
- Park Ridge Family Health Ctr
- Shore Road Family Health Center
- Mmc Hematology-Oncology
- Lutheran Park Slope Family Health Center
- CNR Health Care Network
- Mount Sinai Brooklyn
- Greenpoint Pediatrics
- NYM Medical Associates - Flatbush
- Brooklyn Women's Svc
- New York Methodist Mri Ctr
- One Medical
- Maimonides Medical Ctr
- St Mary's Hospital
- NYM Medical Associates
- Maimonides Children's Svc
- Pierre Toussaint
- St Francis Assisi Family Hlth
- Maimonides Cardiac Rehab
- New York Community Hospital
- Coney Island Hospital
- Brooklyn Jewish Hospital Mntnc
- Maimonides Bay Ridge Primary
- St Mary's Continuing Day
- Maimonides Medical Center
- Cumberland Hospital
- St Martin De Porres Substance
- Maimonides Med Ctr-Physical
- NYM Medical Associates - Canarsie
- Project Reach Wodhull Med Ctr
- Williamsburg Family Health Ctr
- Wyckoff Heights Medical Center
- Brooklyn Hospital Center
- Sunset Park Family Ctr-Wic
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- Bay Ridge Family Health Ctr
- St Vincent's Svc Inc
- Maimonides Women's Health Svc
- Healthy Connection
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- Kingsboro Psychiatric Ctr
- Kings County Hospital
- Staten Island University Hosp
- Staten Island University Hops
- Manhattan Avenue Family Health
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If you do not see the hospital you are looking for, please give us a call at (718) 833-3606, we may be able to accommodate special requests.
Do you deliver to nursing homes?
- Bishop Maguvero Ctr-Geriatric
- Victory Memorial Hospital
- Bikur Cholim Of Sea Gate
- Menorah Home Hosp Aged And Inf
- Menorah Home & Hospital
- Caton Park Nursing Home
- Schulman & Schachne Institute
- Metropolitan Jewish Health
- Catholic Charities Diocese
- Bishop Henry B Hucles Nurs Hm
- Lemberg Home & Geriatric Inst
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- Lifespire
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- Neighborhood Medical Care
- Garden Of Eden Home For Adults
- Mjg Nursing Home Co
- Palm Tree Nursing Home
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- Park Shore Health Care Ctr
- Shore View Nursing Home
- Aishel Avraham Health Facility
- Future Care Consultants
- Sheepshead Nursing Home
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- Shorefront Jewish Geriatric
- Brooklyn Queens Nursing Home
- Haber House Senior Ctr
- Cabs Nursing Home Co
- Buena Vida Nursing Home
- St Joachim & Anne Residences
- New York Congregational Ctr
- Brooklyn Methodist Church Home
- South Beach Park Manor
- Concord Nursing Home Telephone
- Greenpark Care Ctr
- Jnj Home Health Aid Agency
- Prospect Park Nursing Home
- Willoughby Nursing Home
- Sunrise Assisted Living-Mill
- Sunrise Assisted Living
- Holy Family Home
- Nychhc Brooklyn Long Term
- Augustana Lutheran Home
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- River Manor Care Center
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If you do not see the nursing home you are looking for, please give us a call at (718) 833-3606, we may be able to accommodate special requests.
Do you deliver to retirement communities?
- Star Bright Family Residence
- Goodwin Place Operations
- Ateret Avot Senior Living
- Bethany Methodist Home
- South Shore Manor Home-Adults
- Surf Manor
- Brooklyn Adult Care Center
- Harbor View
- St Nicholas Home
- Ridgewood Bushwick Senior Citi
- Park Manor Adult Home
- West End Gardens Hdf Co
- Prospect Park Residence
- Turning Point
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If you do not see the retirement community you are looking for, please give us a call at (718) 833-3606, we may be able to accommodate special requests.
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If you open an account on our site or make a purchase, we need your contact information including your name, e-mail address and mailing address to complete your transaction. When you visit our website, we also collect some basic information that does not identify individual users. We use this information to determine our users demographics and interests, so that we can better understand and serve our users.
Cookies are small files which store certain information about your activity on the website and are stored on your computers hard drive. Our cookies do not contain any personally identifying information. We use cookies to let us know that you are a prior customer, so that you dont have to reenter information you gave us on your prior visits. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but most allow you to instruct your browser to prevent the use of cookies. However, if you disable cookies, you will not be able to use certain features of this website.
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If you send us personal correspondence, such as emails or letters, or if other users or third parties send us correspondence about your activities on our site, we may collect such information. We may use that information and other information that we obtain from your use of our site to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems and enforce our agreement for Terms of Use.
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Asthma is swelling in the airways (tubes) that lead to the lungs. The swelling decreases the amount of air that can be moved in and out of the lungs. It can be minor, with little interference with everyday activity, or it can be severe enough to completely cut off the air supply. Asthma treatments include identifying and avoiding asthma triggers and treating asthma flare-ups or episodes. The goal is to decrease the amount asthma interferes with physical activity and avoid severe episodes that require medical attention. Oral corticosteroids are very effective for treating asthma, but due to their many side effects, they are only used for a short time during severe episodes. Most often, they are prescribed after a medical professional has seen the child and decides that they are appropriate.
Researchers in Australia wanted to examine the benefits of a parent-initiated treatment for acute asthma attacks with prednisolone, a corticosteroid. The study, published in British Medical Journal , found that the parent program decreased asthma symptoms, school absences, and the need for medical care.
About the Study
The randomized trial included 230 children ages 5-12 who had at least four asthma attacks in the last year. The children were randomized to receive parent-initiated prednisolone or placebo treatments when an asthma attack was developing. The parents were given educational information about when to offer the medicine. The treatment was recommended if an attack seemed more severe than usual or if symptoms were lasting more than 6 hours despite other treatment.
During the trial time, there were 308 asthma attacks. Compared to those who received placebo, children who were given prednisolone by their parent had:
- 15% lower daytime asthma symptom scores
- 16% reduction in night time asthma symptom scores
- Reduced use of health resources
- Fewer missed school days
How Does This Affect You?
Randomized trials are considered one of the most reliable types of studies. This study supports the idea that well informed parents may be able to make the decision about when to give their children an oral corticosteroid. However, there are still some questions before this becomes standard practice. High amounts of corticosteroids like prednisolone do have side effects in children, including decreased bone strength and growth. This study did not focus on any of these adverse health effects. For that reason, some may be hesitant to allow non-medical professionals to determine when a corticosteroid should be used. On the other hand, these corticosteroids are most effective when delivered early in an asthma attack. The ability to deliver the medicine at home can help prevent a delay in treatment. As with any chronic disease, it is also financially and practically more reasonable to decrease the need for medical reliance.
The first step for good asthma management is to prevent asthma attacks. Work with your doctor to develop an asthma management plan and continue to discuss what is working and what may need to be changed. Keep your child active in this plan. Learn about triggers like allergens (pet dander, chemicals, pollen, dust), get appropriate vaccinations, and follow an asthma care plan that includes long-term and fast-acting asthma medicine. Not all asthma attacks can be prevented, so make sure you have a plan for an attack. Keep rescue medicine nearby, and seek medical help if symptoms are not relieved by rescue medicines.
- Reviewer: Brian P. Randall, MD


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Frank Hellwig has a 2.1/3.0 parser and address-book page generator. See his site at vcardphp.sf.net.
Kai Blankenhorn has a 2.1 card generator (not a parser). See his work at www.bitfolge.de/?s=phpvcard.
Flaimo has a vCard generator, too, at flaimo.com/php_scripts.php (scroll down past the iCalendar stuff).
HORDE has a vCard data element in their application framework, but I don't quite see how to use it outside that framework. The doc pages for it are at http://dev.horde.org/api/horde/dev-doxygen/html/classData__vcard.html .
Of course, you can always search for more vCard stuff under PHP, too: http://www.google.com/search?q=vcard+php.


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Academic writing comes with its own set of responsibilities. When you write for college classes, there are very specific rules for documenting the sources of your ideas and supporting your own ideas in your work. Work that includes only other people's ideas is not suitable for this level of writing, whether you cite the sources correctly or not. When you are writing for college, your own ideas and conclusions are just as important as the sources you use to support theories and conclusions in your work. Just as a paper full of only someone else's ideas would be unacceptable, a paper with only your own ideas and no supporting evidence would carry no weight in a college setting. Most importantly, you must be aware that the use of ideas, analysis, theories, or studies from sources without proper citation constitutes plagiarism, and this is a very serious offense. Your understanding of the definitions below, therefore, is of utmost importance.
Source: Anything that someone else has created that you have used to gather information for your writing: book, interview, magazine or journal article, movie, newspaper article, song, TV, web page, etc.
Sources include books, journals or magazines, articles, internet sites, newspaper articles, web pages, interviews, television programs, tables, corporate brochures, annual reports, songs, movies, research studies, and surveys. Handbooks that outline when and how to cite such sources in your paper are readily available on campus at the Writing Center, Regina Library, and the Rivier University Book Store.
Documentation: The process of recording where you got your idea or information (in text, footnotes, bibliography, quotation marks, indirect quotes).
Documentation comes from the idea of providing documents to authenticate research. When you are writing a paper, one very important way to show the strength of your ideas is to provide supporting information from other sources and experts in the area you are writing about.
Citation: A reference in your paper that indicates the source of words or ideas you are using as support.
You must provide references for the source of any work quoted or paraphrased in the body of your paper. Types of citation styles include MLA, APA, and Chicago. Each style requires a reference within the paper that provides enough information to link it to the full bibliographic information listed on your Works Cited page (MLA), Reference page (APA), or Bibliography (Chicago). For specific formats of these references, consult a handbook. It is important to remember that noting a source at the end of your paper is not sufficient; you must provide a citation at the point of use within your paper if you quote or paraphrase source material.
You are required to cite a source when you include the following:
You are not required to cite in these instances:
Common Knowledge: Information everyone knows or could find out easily from many sources.
Common knowledge is standard information on a subject that can be found in many different sources as well as common sense observations. Standard information includes major facts about a topic, such as the date of Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo or the names of the generals who fought in the battle. Standard information does not, however, include interpretations of facts, such as a historian's opinion about the effect of Napoleon's relationship with his officers or an author's analysis of the key mistakes Napoleon made. Standard information would include a list of the symptoms of AIDS but not an author's discussion of the societal conditions that have led to a spread of the disease.
Common knowledge also encompasses common sense observations or something that most people know. For example, we can all agree that inflation is most troublesome for people with low and fixed incomes. This type of observation would not need to be cited, but an economist's argument about the effects of inflation on garment workers in New York City would need to be cited.
If you are unsure whether a piece of information you are using is common knowledge, provide a citation for that source as you would for any other borrowed material.
Plagiarism: (from a Latin word for "kidnapper") The presentation of someone's ideas or words as your own, the uncited use of another's work.
Plagiarism can be deliberate:
Plagiarism can be accidental:
Whether deliberate or accidental, plagiarism is an offense with serious consequences. The uncited use of another's work is theft of ideas and can result in many unpleasant consequences from embarrassment to expulsion. Academic integrity is critical for you as well as for your school. If you do your research responsibly and cite your sources, the work you do will benefit you and others. If you don't, you will learn less, be unprepared for future assignments, and may even be prohibited from continuing your education.
Expressing your own ideas and drawing your own conclusions from carefully cited research is a great way to expand your knowledge and become well prepared for life and for work.
Penalties for plagiarism and cheating vary with the degree of the offense and may take the form of the following academic sanctions:
K. Mitchell and L. Van Wagner-December 1999
Here is a piece of original text from Elaine Tyler May's "Myths and Realities of the American Family."
Because women's wages often continue to reflect the fiction that men earn the family wage, single mothers rarely earn enough to support themselves and their children adequately. And because work is still organized around the assumption that mothers stay home with children, even though few mothers can afford to do so, child-care facilities in the United States remain woefully inadequate.
Here are some possible uses of this text. As you read through each version, note the subtle differences.
Version A: Since women's wages often continue to reflect the mistaken notion that men are the main wage earners in the family, single mothers rarely make enough to support themselves and their children very well. Also, because work is still based on the assumption that mothers stay home with children, facilities for child care remain woefully inadequate in the United States.
Plagiarism: In Version A, there is too much direct borrowing in sentence structure and wording. The writer changes some words, drops one phrase, and adds some new language, but the overall text closely resembles May's. Even with a citation, the writer is still plagiarizing because the lack of quotation marks indicates that Version A is a paraphrase, and as such should be in the writer's own language.
Version B: As Elaine Tyler May points out, "women's wages often continue to reflect the fiction that men earn the family wage" (588). Thus, many single mothers cannot support themselves and their children adequately. Furthermore, since work is based on the assumption that mothers stay home with children, facilities for day care in this country are still "woefully inadequate." (May 589)
Plagiarism: The writer now cites May, so we're closer to telling the truth about our text's relationship to the source, but this text continues to borrow too much language in the sections that are not quoted.
Version C: By and large, our economy still operates on the mistaken notion that men are the main breadwinners in the family. Thus, women continue to earn lower wages than men. This means, in effect, that many single mothers cannot earn a decent living. Furthermore, adequate day care is not available in the United States because of the mistaken assumption that mothers remain at home with their children.
Plagiarism: Version C shows good paraphrasing of wording and sentence structure, but May's original ideas are not acknowledged. Some of May's points are common knowledge (women earn less than men, many single mothers live in poverty), but May uses this common knowledge to make a specific and original point, and her original conception of this idea is not acknowledged.
Version D: Women today still earn less than men - so much less that many single mothers and their children live near or below the poverty line. Elaine Tyler May argues that this situation stems in "the fiction that men earn the family wage" (588). May further suggests that the American workplace still operates on the assumption that mothers with children stay home to care for them (589). This assumption, in my opinion, does not have the force it once did. More and more businesses offer in-house daycare facilities...
No Plagiarism: The writer makes use of the common knowledge in May's work, but acknowledges May's original conclusion and does not incorporate it as his or her own. The quotation is properly cited, as is a later paraphrase of another of May's ideas.
[These examples are borrowed from the Center for Academic Development at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts]


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Oracle Secure Enterprise Search is a product integrated with PeopleSoft uses PeopleSoft Search Framework to integrate and communicate with PeopleSoft. PeopleSoft Application Version 9.2 onwards, configuring the PeopleSoft Search Framework and Oracle SES is required as Verity is no longer supported from PeopleSoft application versions 9.2.
Prerequisites - Configure Loopback Adaptor & Disable IPv6:
To check if the Microsoft Loopback Adapter is installed on your computer: Open a command window and enter - ipconfig /all
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 2:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft Loopback Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 02-00-4C-4F-4F-50
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.123.123
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
By default, the IPv6 protocol is enabled on Windows Server 2008. Under some circumstances, this may lead to the failure in starting up the WebLogic Server middle tier. Hence it is suggested to disable certain IPv6 components, except the IPv6 loopback interface, on Windows Server 2008.
SES Installation:
setup.exe in the
folder of the extracted files, and then click Run as
administrator. The Installation Details page appears as below.
Enter a Search Server Name, Password, Port (Default port: 7777), Administrative password (Password needs to be 8 char with 1 letter and 1 number, and no special chars)
The installer will now install Web logic Server as the web server hosting SES and Oracle Database 11g EE to store the search indexes. After the installer finishes you will be presented with the summary screen containing three URL's.
- SES end user search page (the one that looks like Google)
- SES admin console
- Web logic admin console
At the completion of the install you get a window that displays some URL's copy them off to keep.To get URL àIn cmd window, navigate to SES_HOME, give 'searchctl.bat status' command.
Web Logic Administration Console URL: http://AMAZONA-K7L3KNU:7777/console
SES Configuration
Start the SES admin console and login with the password you supplied during SES installation http://AMAZONA-K7L3KNU:7777/search/admin/index.jsp
Username: eqsys (default) Password: < Administrative password>
Choose tab Global Settings and then click on Federation Trusted Entities.
This Entity Name and password are configured for inbound connections to SES and will be configured on the PeopleSoft side.
Enter an Entity name and provide a password. This does not need to be the password you supplied during installation of SES, but note this password; you will need to supply it in PeopleSoft later on.
The Identity Plug-in and Authentication Attribute options are left blank for this configuration.
Click Add and go back on the Global Settings tab, choose the link Identity Management Setup.
Select Plug-in PeopleSoft from the list and click on the Activate button.
The plug-in that you activate is responsible for all authentication and validation activity in Oracle SES.
On the next screen enter the PeopleSoft Integration Broker endpoint and userid and password of the default local node.
The User ID and Password here is a PeopleSoft user that has the 'Search Framework Administrator' role or permissions lists assigned.
Click Finish and go back to the Global Setting tab choose the link Query Configuration.
Change the timeout settings as shown above from the default values.
Add AUTO_CHARSET_DETECTION to $ORACLE_HOME/search/data/config/crawler.dat to enable Character set auto detection. This is important to properly handle Unicode files and pages that may be indexed. So I added the following lines to the end of the crawler.dat file
# enable automatic character set detection
IB setup for Search Framework
- You need to have setup your Integration Gateway and load the connectors
- You should define your Gateway Default App Server and PeopleSoft Nodes in the Gateway Setup properties.
- On the Advanced Properties Page for the Gateway Setup you should define a secureFileKeystorePasswd
- You Local Node should be active and when if you ping it, it should come back with Success
- PUBSUB processes should be running on your application server domain
- Verify that your Service Configuration is correct.
- Navigate to PeopleTools -> Integration Broker -> Configuration -> Service Configuration
- Click Setup Target Locations
- Confirm the Web Services Target Location references the correct URL for your system.
7. Configure Content RI and Portal URI text specified on the portal tab for the default Local Node you are working with.
This is required, and you may get an error building your search index without it.
You should also verify that the Service Operations needed for SES integration exist in your system. ADMINSERVICE and ORACLESEARCHSERVICE should both exist as Services.
Setting up PeopleSoft for Integration with SES
First thing you need to do, is to assign the Search Framework roles (Search Administrator, Search Developer, Search Server) to the user that is assigned to the default locale node.
Verify that required permission lists (PTPT3100, PTPT3200, and PTPT3300) are present on role PeopleSoft User.
Now navigate to Main menu –> PeopleTools –> Search FrameWork –> Administration –> Search Instance and create a Search Instance.
- Enter the SES server and port
- Enter the SES admin password you supplied during installation of SES (eqsys/welcome1)
- Enter the Federation Trusted Entity and the password you created earlier in SES (PS/PS)
- Enter the call back URL (endpoint of Integration Broker) and the userid and password of the default locale node
Verifying PeopleSoft and SES Connectivity
Now navigate to Main menu –> PeopleTools –> Search FrameWork –> Utilities –> Diagnostics
Click Step 1: Ping Test. This should also work if your previous tests worked. Once the Ping Test comes back it should make Step 2: Deploy an active link. You should be able to continue through to Step 4: Search and everything should work.
Create & Deploy Search Indexes
Now you have successfully completed the installation and configuration of the integration between SES and PeopleSoft. You now have to 'create search collections in PeopleSoft 'and 'feed these collections to SES'. PeopleSoft Search Framework uses PSQuery and Connected Query as search collections.
Some search collections have already been supplied with the Feature Pack (Eg: HCM 9.1 FP2). If not you will have to create a Query and create a Search Index with the Query as input and then choose which Query fields should be indexed as keywords.
Search definitions are created and maintained in PeopleSoft. Once the definition is deployed, we run the Application Engine PTSF_GENFEED via the Schedule Search Index page. This AE will create a special SES feed in PeopleSoft and schedule the SES crawler to crawl the feed.
Navigate to Main menu –> PeopleTools –> Search FrameWork –> Administration –> Deploy/Delete Object. Scroll to the bottom of the list of Search Definitions and select PTPORTALREGISTRY and click deploy. Once successfully deployed the Deploy Status column will say Deployed. Next we build the index data (the feed) and tell SES to crawl the data. In order to do this we run the Schedule Search Index job as previously mentioned.
Navigate to PeopleTools –> Search Framework –> Administration –> Schedule Search Index. Create a run control for each search index you want to publish to SES. Select PTPORTALREGISTRY as the search definition and select Full index for the Indexing type. If you use the lookup it will only return deployed search definitions. I left Language Option on Base Language as I only have one language available. Click Run.
You can then schedule this and check process monitor to verify it completed successfully. This is to keep SES and PeopleSoft in sync. Once the job is completed, login to SES and go to the Sources tab of the Home tab. You should see your search source, and then click the schedules tab; you should see that the index build was schedule for a one time run.
In the 9.2 applications certain functions won't work until you've deployed the Search Definition and built the Index. It will throw an error like below screenshot.
Enable Global Search & Keyword Component Search
Now you have seeded SES with PeopleSoft data. You now need to enable the search feature in PeopleSoft. This can be done on two places.
To enable Global Search navigate to Main menu –> PeopleTools –> Portal –> General Settings and check Display global search in header. This will enable the embedded search in the portal banner. Make sure users have search indexes assigned through permission lists; otherwise they will not be able to run searches.
This is a new tab in the Permission lists page in People Tools 8.52.
To enable Keyword search on Component Search pages, open the search index by navigating to PeopleTools –> Search FrameWork –> Designer –> Search Definition and on the last tab select the components where you want to add the Keyword search. This will change your search page with a new tab enabling Keyword Search.I have replicated this post @ http://www.citagus.com/citagus/blog/oracle-ses-installation-configuration/


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Hello, guys!
As you can see even the fact that we're still celebrating Beyond The Red Mirror, I just can't wait to have their 11th album in my hands – the precious and mighty – which is maybe the longest musical project ever (its very possible to be wrong here, but its one of the loooongest for sure…) – Blind Guardian's Orchestral Project!
I decided to make a completely new topic for their upcoming album… and I'll try to give my best to keep it always and absolutely updated !!! I'm feeling really happy to do that, as the fact that I really think that this would be the most defining and probably most significant album in their career, not for us – the people who already know BG – but for everyone out there (probably not even close to the metal scene) who had never heard them…
So, lets see what we've got till now – probably there has to be a lot more things written here as having the fact that we're talking about 21 years old "baby"…but the guys were really quiet all these years…
Lets start from here, cause there are a lot of people who had no idea if this is going to be an album with new songs or just an old ones featuring orchestra…
So, yes, it will be an absolutely new album - it will contain 12 songs (11 completely new compositions and an old 1 with a new set up…!!!)
As far as I remember the story starts with Nighfall In Middle Earth album and the period of creating the music for it. I read somewhere that during this session the guys have been composed some additional stuff that was firstly written for the album, but then they decided to keep it away, cause "they felt there was something special in it, that deserves different kind of treat…" Maybe at that time they really had no idea how to finish it, and they didn't have the sources for a real orchestra, but that's not so important…Anyway, I think it was Andre – or maybe Hansi – who once said that they came with 4 or 6 musical pieces at the begining, which means that the first songs for this project were started to be written in 1997.
The story continues in year 2000, when they decided to send those pieces to Peter Jackson and it's Lord Of The Rings movie, where they we're supposed to be included as soundtracks for it...Anyway, again the things remained unfinished cause if they wanted something like this to become true, they had to finnish them – something that was impossible to happen at that time because of many reasons… So once again…nothing…
I think that after that - in the next years - there was silence for this project and the band confirms my thoughts with a song called And Then There Was Silence(released in 2002)… :/ Just kidding But a very interesting fact is that ATTWS was also firstly written for the orchestral project(maybe it was one of those 4-6 songs, but at the end it just didn't suited to the other ones..maybe beacuse it needs heavy instruments, as the orchestral album - doesn't…). After that, going back to the interviews in the net, I found that they started talking for it again in the period of releasing the A Twist In The Myth album, where Andre said somewhere that "the people will be surprised by Hansi's singing in this album"(the orchestral one)…and they promised that this will be their next studio one…Of course, this didn't come true, so we're jumping to 2009-2010 when they started revealing more things!
Of course, "more things" is a little bit too much to be said, cause during the ATEOT album we just knew that they're working hard on it finally..and they started to record some of the songs for it orchestral wise!!! I think that at that time they said that the album "will contain absolutely no metal elements" – just Hansi and the orchestra. And they were still wondering if this project will be released under the name "Blind Guardian", but that's something we still don't know yet… What we know is that Hansi and Andre are the main "minds" in it Other thing revealed in 2010 was that the songs "will be at least as interesting and complex as Sacred Worlds and Wheel Of Time" – the 2 songs that were finally their step for something like this... Back then I remember a post in facebook in October 2010 where Kursch said that they're once again in Prague for recording the orchestral stuff "and that we'll have to wait just a little more to hear the final result" – something that sounds so funny now - 8 years later …
Oh, almost to forget – Wheel Of Time was also firstly composed for the orchestral project – but the song also never suited to the rest of the songs…
In 2011 it was officially confirmed that Marcus Heitz – a very famous german autor and novelist – will create the concept story for the project and Kursch words were "The journey has just begun…"
At that time again this was supposed to be their next album and finally there was a light in the dark…but in a very "raising hopes" interview at the beginning of 2012 Kursch just said – "the orchestral project might be released in the next 3-4 years"… So, once again, nothing…
In January 2013 Hansi wrote:
"Going to Prague to see how the orchestra songs come alive is a very special and intense moment for us. Thanks to "Sacred Worlds" and "Wheel of Time" I can say that we have learnt a lot about scoring, recording and mixing when it comes to such music. You will notice a great improvement when you listen to the final result of this adventurous trip we have started so long ago. Last week some of us went there again to record "The Ocean"(renamed to At The Edge Of Time(the song) later) , a pure orchestral song called "Misty Mountain" and some more stuff. We once again had to realize how ambitious this whole project is and how time demanding! Luckily, everyone who is involved has understood, that there will be no compromises. We would never accept "second best" or "we fix it in the mix" here. This means that even though we can see the end of the road here, it still is a long and winding one and will demand our full concentration for the next 12 to 18 months. Charlie (Bauerfiend) and I already did some demo recordings for four of the earlier recorded orchestra songs sometime last year. We all consider this session and its result a very promising experience. Now I am ready to start proper album recordings for this one. I will do my best to finish most of the vocals during the year. This seems a very ambitious goal but is not impossible. I say that in the first days of January… Apart from the music and the concept we will also work on some additional surprises. Keep yourself prepared. One thing is for sure there will be nothing comparable to this on the market. It's not a typical soundtrack, a typical musical, nor it is a rock opera. It is typical Blind Guardian – more or less without band. At that point, I would say this is going to stay unique until we will release part 2…"
Once again there was silence in the next 2 years...
So – nowadays – we know 4 things:
- Andre Olbrich: "We're still working very hard on the orchestral album. The songwriting is allmost done and the orchestra recordings are on 70% already, but Hansi still needs to record most of his Vocals. Since we're touring now, we have to wait for the right time (when his voice is recovered from touring) to continue with the recordings. I don't think you have to wait another 4 years but since the touring will take 1 whole year, you should give us two years to finish this album in the best possible way! I'll promise you, that you will get one of the most beautiful BG albums ever for being patient with us! " -2015
- Hansi Kursch:
"So far the songs for that one go into a more classical "Wheel of Time" meets "At the Edge of Time"(the song) direction."
This once again means that the songs will be more classical, theatrical, operatic and epic – and maybe especially the end of At The Edge Of Time(the song) is a great example for it…And that's triumphal I have to say!!!
- The album will have a Nightfallish attitude…,
- And that it will be released in 2016 - 2017 most probably(which is at the same time is the 20th annversary for the orchestral project, I think, and also the 30th anniversary for BG as a group …, but this one – the release date fact – is relative, cause even Chuck Norris have no idea about the release date of this album…
So, hope my topic will be needful if there are still some people who are not familiar to the orchestral project…I know there is still a lot of time and the topic is still a baby…but one thing is for sure – there is probably something out there to be excited for…
P.S. one more interesting fact – there are 16 songs written for it till now(even the fact the album will contain 12) and that's also what Hansi's wrote in 2013:
"The good thing: we already have some material for it and another 15-17 years before it has to be released."
But even as a big fan I would never comment this sentence, cause I don't want to live my next 30 years in constantly expectaions...
February 2015
"We needed the basic classical approach in the music. It was a very obvious solution for us in the beginning," explains Kürsch. He then adds, "It's a hint to the orchestral album we are working on, so that's one of the reasons we did that." (BTRM album)
Blind Guardian are no stranger to epic, classical integrations, but this new orchestral project comes as a surprise. "We started working on it 20 years ago. When we did the songwriting for [1998's] Nightfall in Middle-Earth, there were some songs that just contained orchestral portions and my singing, and we decided it doesn't make sense to have them on the Nightfall album," he explains.
"So we took these songs and put them aside, and ever since, we've been working on orchestral arrangements whenever we thought there was a need. And over the years we have gathered 12 or 13 songs of ours, and they are about to be accomplished. We did some of the recordings when we went to Prague and Budapest, so the classical part has been recorded already and it's more about me recording the vocals."
This new project should be done after the band's year of touring, which will see numerous North American dates in the fall.
"Probably during this year, if not this year, in the beginning of the next year, and this is going to be released," Kürsch confirms. "And this describes what we've been doing the last 20 years aside from these other albums. I would say the writing is typical Blind Guardian, but with an even stronger classical approach. It will surprise people, because even the overtly classical 'Wheel of Time' on At the Edge of Time doesn't even touch what you are supposed to find on this album!"
He also says - but that's from another interview - that the orchestral project may even end as the soundtrack for "Silmarilion" movie (if one day this comes true), but this just doesn't depends on them, even that it would be a very good one.
2017 - June 2018
There will be 11 songs on the album in total + preludes(changed to 12 + preludes, later)
At the time the album will be released(2019 most probably), there will also be a novel by Marcus Heitz. The album will be based on that novel.
"A story between fantasy, history(17th century) and science fiction"
The biggest surprise in the album might be Hansi's singing because there are a lot of bizzare creatures and many different characters this time...
The music will be totally soundtrack like...(with many classical, baroque and oriental melodies)
October 2018
RELEASE DATE - November 8th 2019.


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One of the highlight's of the Call of Duty XP convention was its paintball field recreation of "Scrapyard", one of the multiplayer maps featured in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. I took a few stinging paintballs to the thigh and bicep for your enjoyment, if you couldn't make it to Los Angeles this past weekend.
Armed with one paintball gun, some light protection and a GoPro Hero helmet camera — provided by the fine folks at GoPro, thank you very much — mounted to my chest, I ran the "Scrapyard" course for one game of real-life Domination that lasted about seven minutes. Five minutes of that session allowed for infinite respawns, with the last two minutes "sudden death" for Team Black and Team Khaki.
As you watch the above video, keep a few things in mind: we totally kicked arse; I was shot at least six times, hence my frequent trips to the red "respawn point"; yes, I really should have mounted that GoPro on my head, not directly behind my gun; people lined up for hours to experience this Call of Duty recreation and for good reason — it was a hell of a lot of fun.
Take a look at the pint-sized "Scrapyard" recreated for Call of Duty XP above and pray that Activision has the good sense to do this again next year — only bigger.


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DEMO: Security Shines Among Mobile Apps
This morning at Demo, mobile applications took the spotlight and new entrants ranged in categories from security to application-building to games. While the market is very crowded and the competition is fierce, I'll share with you some apps that I think seem the most promising.
Of the many categories presented, I found security to be the most interesting:
Toopher addresses the mobile security market by showing on your phone when someone is trying to log into a website. You can then authorize or prohibit the log-in and set it to automatically authenticate if you're in a particular location. This looks like a reasonable alternative to the one-time password process some sites have implemented and in the demonstration, the company put a number of token key fobs into a blender. Of course, its success will depend on whether websites implement the technology, it looked good in a quick demo.
TrustGo Mobile showed a new antivirus and security solution. It discussed how some applications track data you don't know and explained that its software looks not only for malicious apps, but also at the permissions that applications ask for. It has a basic security scanner that can analyze the apps on your phone and the company has looked at more than 200 mobile markets and is tracking 6,700 malicious apps. More importantly, 17 percent of all of the apps the company has scanned are "malicious," collecting information you may not want them to. Other features include secure Web browsing, data backup in the cloud, and a system manager. It also has a "safe application finder" that lists which download sites have safe and unsafe versions of particular apps.
A couple of programs were focused on building apps:
UppSite is a quick and easy way to convert a website into an application. It will create both native apps for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone, as well as mobile Web-based apps. The basic service is free, but there is also a paid version. It's interesting that it works across platforms, but it was hard to tell from the demo how it compared with competing solutions.
iGenApps showed a different kind of app builder—one designed to let you create an app directly from your mobile phone. You can create an icon and splash screen by using the camera; choose from multiple menu styles; place your app into multiple categories; integrate Facebook and Twitter; and add contact information. The concept here is to build apps that require no programming, which appears to mean just putting content (text and pictures) into an application. iGen is available for the iOS platform, with Android support coming shortly. It looks about as simple as texting.
Two programs focused on 3D or panoramic models:
Arqball has a visualization tool called Arqball Spin, which allows users to see 3D products. A user can put a product on a rotating turntable and the app takes photos and creates a 3D representation, or "spins." Users can easily label particular parts of the representation and there is currently an iPad application that shows these spins. It looked fun, but would seem to make more sense as a feature rather than a stand-alone app.
TourWrist is a way of capturing and viewing 3D experiences. As near as I can tell, you can capture a 3D panorama from your smartphone or tablet and then move around in the environment as you move the tablet around. It can live on the TourWrist site or can be embedded in other sites, including Facebook. The company offers tools for editing the panoramas. The demonstration said it is like a holodeck or Twitter for experiences, which seems too much of a stretch for me, but it is very neat.
I think the 3D apps like Arqball could make sense for professionals, but I wonder about building consumer markets for these.
In addition, there were a number of general consumer apps:
Tilt World is a fun little iOS app in which a frog named Flip eats dandelion seeds as part of a way to raise money for WeForest, which is hoping to plant real trees in Madagascar. The company pitched the notion of using games as a way to help "build a better world," which is certainly a good concept, but has been hard to make successful.
Edamam offers universal recipe search for iOS and Android, which reduces the time it takes to find a recipe. Type in the kind of food you want and the app pulls in recipes and pictures of food from many online sources. You can also set specific dietary requirements and find things such as nutritional information, so you can compare recipes. It also creates a shopping list that you can use at the grocery store.
Fribi has a social marketplace so people can give away or swap items they aren't using any more. Users can connect their social networks (Facebook now, and Twitter soon) or follow individual users, and share individual items publicly or privately. All the transactions are done within the app and no contact information is exchanged until the user approves an individual transaction. It also has a "perks" section with special discounts. This is in the App Store now and will be out for Android next month. It looks neat and easy to use, but will need critical mass to be really useful and compete with popular sites like Craigslist.
Dabble from Daemonic Labs is a location-based photo journal. Effectively, you can create an electronic postcard and leave it in a location. Later, people who visit the same location can discover the "postcards" and see what you thought about the space. The concept here is that location, not time, should be the major organizing context. Its iPhone app lets you take images, immediately post them to locations, and share them with your friends. It's fun, but I'm unsure I'd really use a separate service for this.


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A Tribute to Earl Weaver
Getting to throw out the first pitch of a Baseball game is a huge honor. Getting to throw out the first pitch of your team's Opening Day game, that is the highest honor. Presidents, celebrities and decorated veterans have all done it. It's something that every Baseball fan dreams of.
The Orioles, however, took a different route. They had nobody throw out the first pitch of their 2013 Home Opener. Instead, they opted to place a Baseball on the mound in honor of their late manager and Hall of Famer, Earl Weaver. This is an incredibly classy move by the Orioles and one that shows the proper respect to a man who displayed nothing but class. The Orioles also showed a video tribute to Weaver and everyone stood at attention.
A class way to honor a legend.


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Thanksgiving 4x4 Snow Run
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Ahtanum State Forest - Photo by Clay Graham / Eastern Washington Adventures
On Saturday November 24th, 2012 Eastern Washington Adventures members met up at the Tampico Church for the annual Eastern Washington Adventures Thanksgiving 4x4 Snow Run.
Around 10 AM we convoyed up the South Fork Ahtanum and found a place to pull off to air down. Next we ran the South Fork Road all the way to the end and onto the Sedge Ridge 4x4 Trail. As we climbed the snow got deeper. The hill just before the Duel Climb stopped us. A few tried but could not make it up. As we watched, the Quad Squad came up behind us. They found the snow was also to powdery for them to get though. We all turned around and headed down to the Ahtanum Winter Rec Trailhead (AKA Sno-park).
Next our group headed up Jackass Road. Just before Ewe Neck we found some of our club members were up having a family day sledding. We stopped to talk with them awhile then headed on. The snow was deep in the Ewe Neck area. We made it up to the log decks to find big drifts. It was getting late for the other trails we wanted to run, so we turned around. We stopped to see sledders as we headed back down the mountain toward Nasty Creek Corrals.
At Nasty Creek Corrals TJ40 and BlindPilot aired up for home. The rest of us headed on up Nasty Creek Road and came out on Cowiche Mill Road. We aired up and headed out. We all stopped at the Highland Quick Stop before heading down to US12.
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The quality of greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories relies on the integrity of the methodologies used, the completeness of reporting, and the procedures for compilation of data. To this end, the Conference of the Parties (COP) has developed standardized requirements for reporting national inventories.
The UNFCCC reporting guidelines on annual inventories for Parties included in Annex I to the Convention (Annex I Parties) require each Annex I Party, by 15 April each year, to provide its annual GHG inventory covering emissions and removals of direct GHGs (carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), perfluorocarbons (PFCs), hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), sulphur hexafluoride (SF6) and nitrogen trifluoride (NF3)) from five sectors (energy; industrial processes and product use; agriculture; land use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF); and waste), and for all years from the base year (or period) to two years before the inventory is due (e.g. the inventories due 15 April 2016 cover emissions and removals for all years from the base year to 2014).
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From Route 8 south: Take Exit 17. Take a left at the end of the exit ramp. Take another left at the lighted intersection (Division Street). Drive approximately ¾ miles. Osbornedale State Park will be on the right across from Derby High School.
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The new settlers cleared the land for farming and took advantage of their location on the Housatonic and Naugatuck Rivers by developing the area into a trading port, which at one time rivalled New Haven harbor. The name of the settlement, originally called "Paugussett" was changed to "Derby" in 1675 after Derbyshire, England, the former home of many colonists.
Though never commercially successful, lands now within the park off Silver Hill Road were mined for silver for a short period after the Revolutionary War. In addition, a spring water bottling business was part of the present park land. In 1956, Osbornedale State Park was willed to the people of Connecticut by Frances Osborne Kellogg, granddaughter of John W. Osborne, one of the Naugatuck Valley's early industrial entrepreneurs.
The prominent Osborne family owned numerous metal working and fabric product factories in the area. At the young age of 31, Frances Osborne, later Mrs. Waldo Kellogg, took over the family business when her father died in 1907. Miss Osborne's decision to take over the family business instead of selling it was contrary to the advice of the executers of her father's estate, and a brave undertaking for a woman in the early part of the century. Despite the prejudices against woman in business at that time, Mrs. Frances Osborne Kellogg was very successful in her many businesses and investments. By adhering to the belief that one should always buy land but never sell it, Mrs. Kellogg gradually acquired the numerous separate farms which now comprise the 350 acre Osbornedale State Park, an unusually large property in the Derby-Ansonia area.
Two very successful farms known as the Osbornedale Farms, were owned and operated by Mr. and Mrs. Kellogg. One farm was a breeding farm for the prize winning Osbornedale Holstien cows. The other farm, acquired from the Basset family, was an excellent milk-producing dairy farm of Jersey cows. Both farms claimed champions in their fields.
Other Nearby State Recreation Areas Include:
Indian Well State Park, SheltonLocation: 2 miles north of Shelton on Route 110Activities: Boating, River Fishing, Hiking, Picnicking, Swimming
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Kettletown State Park, Southbury Location: 5 miles south of Southbury, Exit 15 off I-84 Activities: Camping, Fishing, Hiking, Picnicking
Kellogg Environmental Center, DerbyLocation: From Route 8 or the Merritt Parkway, take Route 34 West. From downtown Derby, continue 1.5 miles along 34 West. At Lakeview Terrace, turn right and take it to the end. Turn left at the stop sign onto Hawthorne Avenue. The entrance for the Kellogg Environmental Center and Osborne Homestead Museum will be 200 yards on the left.Activities: The Kellogg Environmental Center offers workshops, exhibits, nature activities, and lectures for the general public.
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The Claq is a versatile magnetic reflective tab that'll gain you a bit more visibility on the roads. It doesn't work in every application, but it's useful enough to be a worthy addition to your night armoury.
Claqs are sold in pairs and are basically figure-of-eight shaped sections of reflective plastic, a different color on each side. Pink/white and red/white varieties are avaiable along with double-sided yellow ones, which are sold singly at a fiver a pop. Where the two holes of the eight would be there's a powerful magnet, which 'claq' together to grip your jacket, or trousers, or bag, or hair – hence the name.
They're very reflective and work especially well in positions – for example the bottom of your trousers – where they move when you're riding. The magnet are powerful enough to grip most things you'll cycle in, though if you habitually wear a duffel coat or down jacket you'll struggle to keep hold of them. they're not great on thick webbing bag straps either, partly because the straps themselves are thick and partly because the constant movement of a bag tends to make them slip off. Oh, and if you have a steel frame you'll find you transfer the Claqs to your tubing on a fairly regular basis.
Who'll benefit from wearing a couple of Claqs? anyone, really. They weigh next to nothing and they're fit and forget. You can leave one on your jacket, or keep one in your bag to fix to your jeans after dark. My kids love them too, and they're a good bit of extra visibility if you're walking after dark. Any good reasons not to buy one? Only one, really: the Indicator Cliplet, which is a very similar beast (fluorescent orange one side, reflective white the other) but is a fair bit cheaper – I've found them online for as little as £3 for two. They don't come in pink though, they're not reflective both sides either. And they don't look quite as cool...
One last thing to bear in mind, if you have a pacemaker fitted there's a caution note with the Indicator Cliplet about the the effects powerful magnets can have on pacemakers and medical equipment - there isn't one with the Claqs, but they are pretty powerful magnets too.
If you're thinking of buying this product using a cashback deal why not use the road.cc Top Cashback page and get some top cashback while helping to support your favourite independent cycling website
Dave is a founding father of road.cc, having previously worked on Cycling Plus and What Mountain Bike magazines back in the day. He also writes about e-bikes for our sister publication ebiketips. He's won three mountain bike bog snorkelling World Championships, and races at the back of the third cats.


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Top U.S. military brass met Monday in Kabul to grapple with a stubborn spate of attacks by rogue Afghan officers on American troops, a day after another insider shooting killed a U.S. soldier.
The increasing regularity of those insider, or "green-on-blue," attacks on coalition forces has U.S. commanders alarmed, and they already responded last week by announcing new policies intended to curb casualties from such incidents.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey arrived at Bagram Air Field on Monday to meet with Gen. John Allen, the top NATO commander in Afghanistan, as well as chief of U.S. Central Command Marine Gen. James R. Mattis and top Afghan leaders.
A spokesman for international forces confirmed that a priority of the meeting was to mull the recent string of incidents, The Associated Press reported.
In a coalition statement, Allen said they also discussed "how to maintain momentum against the insurgents" and noted that they still supported training and equipping Afghans ahead of the NATO forces' departure at the end of 2014, according to the AP.
Their summit came a day after two Afghan policement turned their weapons on U.S. troops in Kandahar province near the Pakistani border, killing an American service member, officials said. That marked the tenth U.S. troop death from such attacks in two weeks.
Last week the U.S. military unveiled a new policy requiring all personnel in Afghanistan to keep a fully-loaded magazine in their weapons at all times. A senior military official told NBC News of that new policy Friday, after an Afghan policeman — whom NATO forces had just handed a new weapon as a present — opened fire, killing two U.S. Special Forces service members.
The new requirement "could save precious seconds," the official said at the time — but he acknowledged that any rogue armed Afghan officer or soldier "could always get the drop on" allied troops.
The Army also announced a new policy Friday designating one soldier at any gathering of U.S. military and armed Afghan forces a "guardian angel." That soldier would stand in a protected space with his weapon loaded to enable a swift response to any threat.
The New York Times reported, though, that military leaders realize there is a delicate balance to be struck in securing U.S. troops' safety. More barriers between NATO troops and the Afghan officers they are training could protect Americans, but they could also further strain relations and morale — both of which have been blamed in part for the growing number of green-on-blue attacks.
The Times also noted that military scrutiny of the attacks has yielded worrisome observations: Few of the shootings have been clearly a result of Taliban activity, suggesting a deeper disconnect and enmity between Afghan and U.S. forces.
The acceleration of attacks have also raised concerns about the strategy by coalition forces to train Afghan forces to take over the country's security when most foreign troops pull out in 2014.


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A premium touring tyre, Pirelli P7 offers superior wet and dry braking and a very comfortable ride quality. Its unique tread pattern helps in minimizing the road noise and keeps vehicle's cabin quiet. Because of deeper tread grooves, this tyre also has a very long tread life.
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Workshop Proceeding
How Communities Can Use Risk Assessment Results: Making Ends Meet: A Summary of the June 3, 2010 Workshop of the Disasters Roundtable (2011)Disasters Roundtable
During and after a disaster, text messages, tweets, Smartphone apps, and social networks, along with 24-hour cable news and other media, deliver relevant information to emergency responders, decision-makers, and the general public. Participants in the workshop "How Communities Can Use Risk Assessment Results: Making Ends Meet" identified ways to use these technologies to communicate the risk associated with an emergency or disaster event, identify and assess real-time conditions in impacted areas, and inform the efforts of responders. This workshop was one session in the World Bank's conference on "Understanding Risk: Innovation in Disaster Risk Assessment."
Workshop participants emphasized three core messages: (1) the need to integrate bottom-up communications from citizens to keep emergency responders and managers informed of changing conditions; (2) the need to prepare people for disaster and emergency situations, including expected emotional reactions, developing and practicing emergency plans, and improving communications and preparedness; and (3) the importance of virtual and personal social networks in increasing resilience and connecting the technological risk assessments with increased resilience to emergency and disaster events.


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I want to set up a study to determine is panic attacks cause an increased incidence of heart attacks.
So I developed the "Big Important Trial" sponsored by the world's Most Important Drug Company to see if a relationship exists.
So I ask a bunch of older women (especially since this is a major health care problem in just women), are you anxious? And some of them say "yes."
Now of those, I decide to ask them to describe the symptoms they feel when they're anxious, and when they check at least one quarter of my twelve-symptoms list, I will call them a bonafide full-blown, Katie-bar-the-door panic attack.
For the ones that check a few less boxes, heck, we'll call them panic attack "lite."
Then I follow them for five years.
And lo and behold statistically, more of 'em drop dead, or have a heart attack or stroke than the folks who said they weren't anxious.
The drug company thanks me after I publish my results in a medical journal and leaked the results to the Wall Street Journal, so now they can sell more drugs to anxious women and I can go on a speaking circuit for the drug company and make lots of money.
But there's a little issue I'd rather not discuss: did anyone in my Big Important Trial screen for heart disease before they took the questionaire to see if these women might have already had heart disease? I heard that it is well established that the symptoms for heart disease are dramatically different for women than men! Did we screw up?
I'm getting nauseous.
I can't overemphasize the number of women I have treated with supraventricular tachycardia that were originally diagnosed as "anxious" or with "panic attacks" or from "mitral valve prolapse" by their primary care physicians only to discover years later that they had been inappropriately labeled due to sexist practices relying on presumptions about the reduced prevalence of heart disease in women compared to men. What's to say in this trial that these women didn't already have heart disease that was undiagnosed and was manifested as "panic attacks?" In other words, maybe the egg came before the chicken?


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In a movie of uncomfortable moments, one of the most memorable in "Cyrus" is John C. Reilly's drunken party scene where he dances badly and sings worse.
Reilly says the uncomfortable nature of the scene was very real. It was "excruciating" to wreck Human League's 80s classic "Don't You Want Me?" while urging strangers to join him.
"It was humiliating," Reilly said at the press day for the movie. "I remember this flop sweat going down my body underneath my clothes. It was excruciating to do. But very effective for the movie."
To make matters worse, the scene was shot at 4 a.m. and Reilly was napping just before the action. "I was jolted awake and disoriented," he said.
That was perfect for his awkward and drunken character. So it was roll camera time. Further, he really didn't know the extras who played the fellow party-attendees. Their unwillingness to join him in the song was very real. "It took a while," he said "I had to literally pull people off the couch."
"It was all these extras that I had just met."
Finally there was the pride. Reilly is an award winning song-and-dance man. "Having been someone who has tried to perfect the art of singing, it was humiliating. And it's a tough song to sing. It's really high."
"All of these extras were like, 'Wait a minute, he was nominated for an Oscar in 'Chicago' for his singing, what is this crap?'"
Strangely, Reilly found this scene even more difficult to do than the movie's opening scene, which features his friend (Catherine Keener) walking in on him in a compromising solo moment.
Reilly seemed fine with that, even insisting that he didn't need a "butt double."
"It's a great story. And it needs to be humiliating at the beginning of the movie," he said. "And it was."