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Sioux Falls Win Streak Reaches Three
The stats haven't been exactly gaudy night after night, but that's fine with DeAndre Liggins. Winning is all that matters. Sioux Falls was tested, but eventually triumphed over Tulsa twice this weekend with the Saturday night tally being 100-94 in front of 2,870 fans at the Sanford Pentagon.
Liggins has consistently logged the most minutes of any Skyforce player this season with good reason. He does so many things well, Sioux Falls (6-2) needs him to produce when the need arises. Against the 66ers (1-9), the 21 points, 11 rebounds, 7 assists and 3 steals for Liggins set the tone. The wing player from Kentucky has been to the NBA, but knows he has to get better to return to the bigger stage. As it stands, Liggins is among the top 10 prospects deemed ready for a call-up, but says winning comes first. "I'm here to win. I'm not here to get a call-up. I'm here to develop my game and get better and try to win every game we play."
Justin Hamilton seems to be getting better as the year goes on as well. The 7-footer amassed 22 points and collected 12 rebounds. Four of the last five games Hamilton has scored more than 20 and three of those five have included double digit tallies in rebounds. Also former USD Coyote Charlie Westbrook sparkled in his role off the bench with 19 points on 7 of 11 shooting, 4 rebounds and 2 steals.
Tulsa in the losing effort played significantly better than the night before, jumping out to a 17-8 lead fresh out of the gate. Mario Little led the way with 23 points with 5 three-point baskets for the 66ers sharpshooter. Tulsa returns home for a contest with the Reno Bighorns on Thursday while Sioux Falls heads east for a Friday night contest with the Maine Red Claws.

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by Sean Griffin, February 7, 2012
Atlantic City Pool and Spa Expo
Every year innovative products are introduced at the Pool and Spa expo out of Atlantic City New Jersey. The 31st annual meeting of minds and pool professionals was a great success. Although I was unable to attend this year, reviews and excitement over cutting edge pool technology has been amplified within circles of pool professionals and brought to my attention. Several new product releases as well as improvements on existing designs will be making big waves in 2012. Here is a quick recap of products and technology we'll begin to see in action this upcoming swimming pool season.
Ambient lighting has been adding soothing visuals to our backyard pool experiences over the past several years. GLI has been working hard on allowing average homeowners to incorporate additional lighting without the need of complicated installation. With several options, ChillLite Pool & Patio Lighting can turn any backyard into a glowing sanctuary.
For those of us who are looking to add some underwater seating without the expense of a major renovation, Envy Pool Products has introduces submergible yet temporary bar stools that are fitted with remote controlled rechargeable LED's. These fully adjustable stools can come in handy if you trying to take a quick break while they provide hours of lighting. The Pool Stool is a great invention which will soon be accompanied by the Pool Table.
As manufacturers are trying to satisfy all of our human senses, improvements and new products in the field of audio speakers are being released every year. Underwater speakers have come a long way and for surrounding speakers durability and versatility has taken large strides.
Four Wheel drive equates to heavy duty and tuff terrain and that's exactly what helped improve upon the relatively recent release of Polaris' robotic cleaner. The Polaris 9400 Sport 4WD Robotic In-Ground Cleaner is state of the art. Equipped with full suction while moving forward and in reverse it cleans the pool 20% faster than standard robotic cleaners. In recent years Polaris has made headway in the robotic pool cleaner field with the introduction of the 9300 Sport Robotic. The 9300 is also offered as the 9300 XI which has remote cleaning as well as integration options with automated controls.
Another improvement by Zodiac is the new tail sweep that can be used on all the polaris pressure side claeners. The jet stream from the tail sweep, designed to move water, blast small dust, and scrub walls, will no longer be spraying your pool water above the surface. As a pool service tech I have seen a Polaris tail sweep get caught in a ladder and drain down a swimming pool to the point of causing possible equipment damage. Dogs and other pets captivated by the random water stream won't appreciate the new feature as much as pool enthusiasts but the new tail sweep is an ingenious improvement on the already fantastic cleaners.


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As the U.S. heads toward a potential government shutdown or default, the public is more alienated from Washington than at any time since the aftermath of the 2011 downgrade of the nation's credit rating.
President Barack Obama's 47 percent favorability rating and the 34 percent positive reading for Republicans are the worst ever for both in the Bloomberg National Poll, which began in 2009. The 44 percent approval rating of the Democratic Party is at a two-year low.
Obama's 45 percent job-approval rating is the lowest since September 2011, a month after a partisan showdown over lifting the debt ceiling brought the U.S. to the brink of default.
Americans also are pessimistic about the course of the country, with 68 percent saying it's headed in the wrong direction, the most in two years, according to the poll of 1,000 adults conducted Sept. 20-23.
"People are so divided and unwilling to compromise," said poll respondent David Carpenter, a 40-year-old general contractor and political independent in Atlanta. "There's no unity from the administration. He sticks to his ideals and points fingers. I don't think that's the right way to lead."
Americans' negative feelings about Washington contrast with more optimistic views about their own prospects. Thirty-five percent of respondents expect their financial security to improve during the next year, up from 25 percent in December 2012.
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The poll results highlight the vulnerability of both Obama and congressional Republicans to a public backlash in the showdown they are approaching on the federal budget. A grumpy, divided public could turn on either political party — or both — if the economic recovery is thrown into turmoil because of Washington brinkmanship.
The president enters the fight with a "slippery advantage" in popularity over his opponents, said J. Ann Selzer, president of Des Moines, Iowa-based Selzer & Co., which conducted the survey for Bloomberg. "Obama has been damaged, but the Republicans haven't crawled out of their own hole."
House Republicans are demanding the defunding of Obama's health-care law as the price for a temporary measure to keep the government open through Dec. 15. The deadline for action is Sept. 30, when the federal fiscal year ends. Obama has said he won't accept the condition, setting up the possibility of a government shutdown if the issue isn't resolved on time.
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House Republicans also are imposing a series of conditions, including concessions on government spending levels and a revamp of the tax code, to raise the nation's $16.7 trillion debt limit, which U.S. Treasury officials say they expect to exhaust as soon as mid-October.
No side has gained a clear advantage in assigning blame for the slow pace of economic growth, with 32 percent of Americans saying Obama has pursued the wrong policies, 29 percent saying Republicans have stymied growth by blocking Obama's initiatives and 30 percent maintaining the recession was so severe that the government is limited in its ability to influence the rebound.
More than four years into the recovery, the U.S. has regained 6.8 million of the 8.7 million jobs lost since December 2007, which marks the beginning of the worst downturn since the Great Depression. The $51,017 U.S. median household income last year was more than $4,600 below the pre-recession level in 2007 and the lowest since 1995.
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Still, with the benchmark Standard & Poor's 500 U.S. stock index up 19 percent this year, there was no fall-off in support for Obama among investors since the June Bloomberg poll. His job approval remained steady at 46 percent among Americans who own stocks, bonds or mutual funds. Among non-investors, Obama's job rating plunged to 44 percent from 57 percent in June.
Among all Americans, Obama's job approval declined four points since June. For the first time in the Bloomberg poll, more Americans, 49 percent, have an unfavorable view of Obama personally than those who view him favorably, 47 percent.
His decline in job approval during the past three months is most pronounced among his partisan allies, falling to 78 percent among Democrats from 86 percent in June. Among independents, his performance rating dropped to 38 percent from 44 percent. Republican assessments of the president's job performance improved slightly to 14 percent from 11 percent.
Since June, Obama has weathered criticism from civil libertarians over disclosures of National Security Agency surveillance of telephone records and Internet communication.
Fed Opposition
His consideration of former economic adviser Lawrence Summers for Federal Reserve chairman aroused opposition from critics of the financial deregulation that Summers had backed as a member of President Bill Clinton's administration.
Obama's support for military intervention in Syria also generated a backlash from antiwar activists who supported his 2008 candidacy because of his opposition to the Iraq War.
Obama's handling of the situation in Syria is overwhelmingly unpopular, with Americans disapproving by 53 percent versus 31 percent approving. While foreign affairs has been a strength of his presidency, Americans disapprove of his management of the U.S. reputation in the world, 51 percent to 43 percent.
The slip in Obama's job approval crosses a spectrum of issues. Approval of his handling of the economy at 38 percent is the lowest level since September 2011. Support for Obama's handling of the budget has dropped to a new low of 29 percent.
Congress Relations
Just 39 percent of Americans approve of his management of negotiations with congressional Republican leaders, about the same as the 38 percent who said so in June and 37 percent who said so in September 2011.
The controversy over Obama's consideration of a new chairman of the Fed hasn't resonated with the public. While 33 percent approve and 25 percent disapprove of how he's handling the selection process, more have no opinion: 42 percent said they weren't sure of their view.
Summers, a one-time contender, withdrew from his name this month after several Democrats in the Senate announced their opposition to him and support for another candidate, Janet Yellen, the Fed's current vice chairman.
The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.
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text: Duration: 01:15:03 ABOUT THE SPEAKER Ambassador Samantha Power is the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations and a member of President Obama's Cabinet. At the United Nations, Ambassador Power works to advance U.S. interests, promote and defend universal values, and address pressing global challenges to global peace, security, and prosperity. Prior to serving as U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Power served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights on the National Security Staff at the White House. In this role she focused on issues including UN reform; LGBT and women's rights; the promotion of religious freedom and the protection of religious minorities; human trafficking; and democracy and human rights. Before joining the U.S. government, Ambassador Power was the Anna Lindh Professor of the Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, teaching courses on U.S. foreign policy, human rights, and UN reform. She was also the founding executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. Ambassador Power is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide (2002) and Chasing the Flame: Sergio Viera de Mello and the Fight to Save the World (2008), the basis for the award-winning HBO documentary, "Sergio." She is also the recent co-editor of The Unquiet American: Richard Holbrooke in the World (2011). Ambassador Power began her career as a journalist, reporting from places such as Bosnia, East Timor, Kosovo, Rwanda, Sudan, and Zimbabwe, and contributed regularly to The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, the New York Review of Books, and The New Yorker Magazine. Ambassador Power immigrated to the United States from Ireland at the age of nine. She graduated from Lakeside High School in Atlanta, Georgia and received a B.A. from Yale University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. She is married to Cass Sunstein, with whom she has two young children. ABOUT THE DANIEL PEARL MEMORIAL LECTURE SERIES In sponsoring the Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture Series, the Burkle Center for International Relations celebrates the memory of Daniel Pearl as a prominent journalist who dedicated his life to bringing joy and understanding to the world. Past presenters have included David Remnick of The New Yorker, Leon Wieseltier of The New Republic, Christopher Hitchens, CNN's Anderson Cooper, David Brooks and Thomas Friedman of The New York Times, ABC's Ted Koppel, CBS's Jeff Greenfield, Daniel Schorr of NPR, and CNN's Larry King and most recently former Secretary of State Dr. Condoleezza Rice.


text: Show Hide image Culture 15 November 2012 A useful primer on the war in North Africa Destiny in the Desert: the Road to El Alamein – the Battle that Turned the Tide - review. Sign-up Destiny in the Desert: the Road to El Alamein – the Battle that Turned the Tide Jonathan DimblebyProfile Books, 544pp, £25 The bookshelves of Britain creak with what one connoisseur of the genre once described to me as "Nazi porn": endless works, some superb, many not, about the Second World War, its prelude and its aftermath. We may shortly reach the stage where, for a time, there is nothing more to be said. However, as various 70th anniversaries from the conflict occur, the temptation to mark them by felling more trees appears irresistible. Normally, 70th anniversaries do not matter; these do, I suspect, not least because by the time of the 75th hardly anyone will be left who bore witness on active service to the horrors of Hitler's war. The demand for these books operates on two distinct levels. On one are highly scholarly and specialised works by authors such as Michael Burleigh, Ian Kershaw and Andrew Roberts that take particular aspects of the conflict and contribute to our knowledge of events, providing new insights into a war with which we thought we were familiar. On the other is work that relies on secondary sources and is an opportunity for a non-academic author to offer his – and writing about war remains a predominantly masculine fetish – judgements of people and events in whom the public has an abiding interest. This explains the suffocating quantity of books on Winston Churchill, about whom some of us feel, as Clement Attlee once put it in another context, a period of silence would be most welcome. Jonathan Dimbleby's book is in the second category and, provided one is not a Nazi-porn specialist, it is none the worse for that. He patently knows his subject and has good reason to do so. His father, Richard Dimbleby, was in North Africa for the BBC and his son draws on some of the material Dimbleby père accumulated. There is a flavour in this book of what-Ilearned- at-my-father's-knee, which, provided it is part of a variety of evidence (as it is here), is valuable and interesting. Dimbleby has been into a few archives but is heavily reliant on published work. If you know your Nazi porn, you will learn very little from this book. However, that is not the point. The book accompanies a BBC documentary, part of the corporation's laudable mission to remind us that the past did not begin on the morning of Tony Blair's election. Both the documentary and the book are about accessibility. Sadly, there are too many people in this country who reach adulthood, have their intellectual curiosity awakened about the past, yet realise that what passed for their education has hardly prepared them for the task. If books such as this, easily digestible, factually accurate and written with studied liveliness, assist that process – and I suspect they do – then so much the better. This is not, though, just a beginner's guide to El Alamein or the battle for North Africa. Dimbleby gives plenty of context, draws good character sketches and exercises a healthy scepticism about many of our national heroes. He paints Churchill in all his unreasonableness, caprice and occasional idiocy, while reminding his readers that this was total war and we were lucky to have a total bastard leading us in it. He does not spare Field Marshal Montgomery, either, which is just as well. The more one reads about Monty, the more one realises he probably had a medical condition, perhaps Asperger's syndrome, which rendered him oblivious to his own cringe-making self-obsession and aggrandisement and caused him to fail to interact with brother officers (though he was good with the men, which was even more important). Dimbleby more or less answers, satisfactorily, a question he poses at the start of his book: was the North African campaign worth the terrible loss of life that resulted from it? It was. It was the Italians, living up to their national stereotype at the time, who landed Hitler in it. Having gone to North Africa and picked a fight with British and Commonwealth troops in the late summer of 1940, they received a thrashing and Hitler felt he had to intervene. North Africa had strategic importance for the Nazis. It was one of the keys to the Middle East, to the Suez Canal, to the Mediterranean theatre in which the invasion of Italy would eventually be launched and to Britain's supply of oil. After inflicting grievous losses on the Allies, Erwin Rommel finally overreached himself. His supply lines were not equal to his long-term survival and he knew it. When Monty launched his assault at El Alamein in October 1942, Rommel was in a clinic in Austria, burned out with stress. He flew straight back but the situation was hopeless. However, as Dimbleby points out, the job the Royal Navy did in cutting off Rommel's supplies and that the RAF did in bombing the German and Italian positions was every bit as vital to the victory as the dogged and heroic Eighth Army. A North Africa novice will find this comprehensive book the perfect primer for an investigation of the subject. However, it is not well edited – somebody should have reined in Dimbleby's highly adjectival style, which grates after a while and leads him too often into the swamp of cliché. Also, for a book so reliant on secondary sources, the ones he relies on are curious: Martin Gilbert's epic Churchill biography and its apparatus do not appear in the bibliography, while quite a lot of pop history, itself reliant on secondary sources and the efforts of research assistants, does. But then, one of the most successful outcomes of such a book is that it stimulates readers to take a further interest and to find and judge the authoritative works themselves. Simon Heffer writes for the Daily Mail Simon Heffer is a journalist, author and political commentator, who has worked for long stretches at the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail. He has written biographies of Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Enoch Powell, and reviews and writes on politics for the New Statesman. Subscribe £1 per month This article first appeared in the 19 November 2012 issue of the New Statesman, The plot against the BBC SUBSCRIBE More


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Nobel medicine laureate was told cell idea was 'nuts'
James Rothman, one of the three recipients of the Nobel Prize for Medicine, said Monday that when he started research into cells' internal transport systems his colleagues called it "nuts".
"In the earlier years when I started this project at Stanford University everyone told me it was nuts to go and try to reproduce the mysterious complexities that occur in a whole cell," he said in an interview on the Nobel Prize website.
Rothman, a 62-year-old professor and chairman of the department of cell biology at Yale University, won the prize on Monday along with fellow US researcher Randy Schekman and Thomas Suedhof of Germany for their groundbreaking work on how cells produce and export molecules.
Their discoveries have unlocked insights into diseases ranging from diabetes to immune-system disorders, the Nobel Committee said.
Rothman began studying cell transport in mammals' cells in 1980s and 1990s, and eventually discovered proteins that fit together like a zipper, allowing packages of cargo to dock in the right parts of a cell.
He said the call from Sweden woke him in the middle of the night and that it was like an "out of body experience".
Asked whether he looked forward to increased media interest in his work, he said he welcomed "the opportunity to be a spokesman for the field and for medical science", a role he appeared to relish.
His research was "absolutely fascinating", he said.
"One of the major lessons in all of biochemistry, cell biology and molecular medicine is that when proteins operate at the subcellular level, they behave in a certain way as if they're mechanical machinery."
He added that despite the incredulity of colleagues he kept pushing ahead thanks to "the arrogance of youth", freely available US research funding and because he was inspired by the late Nobel Laureate and biochemist, Arthur Kornberg, who won the 1959 medicine prize for his work on how DNA is assembled.
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Pharrell Williams Auctions off Grammys Hat for Charity
Smokey the Bear no more! Pharrell Williams is auctioning off the infamous ten-gallon hat that he wore to the 2014 Grammy Awards. But it's all for a good cause — all of the proceeds will go to Pharrell's charity, From One Hand to Another.
If you're looking to purchase Pharrell's Vivienne Westwood 'Mountain' hat, it's being sold on eBay. But you better have your wallet handy: the hat is already going for $10,500. That's some serious dough.
Of course, all of the profits will benefit Pharrell's charity, "whose mission is to help change the world one kid at a time by giving them the tools and resources to meet their unique potential and empower them to nurture curiosity by learning through new technologies, arts, media and motivation!," reads the description on eBay. The auction closes on Mar 2, 2014 at 9:00PM PST.
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The bearded old year has made his exit and nappied babe is already two weeks old: time to ask our monthly query about your multiple sclerosis.
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Diagnostic: Thyrogen is used to help identify thyroid disease by testing the blood for a hormone called thyroglobulin in the follow up of patients with a certain type of thyroid cancer known as well differentiated thyroid cancer. It is used with or without a radiology test using a form of iodine.
Limitations of Use:
The effect of Thyrogen on long term thyroid cancer outcomes has not been determined.
When Thyrogen is used to help detect thyroid cancer, there is still a chance all or parts of the cancer could be missed.
Ablation: Thyrogen is also used to help patients prepare for treatment with a form of iodine to remove leftover thyroid tissue in patients who have had surgery to take out the entire thyroid gland for patients with well differentiated thyroid cancer who do not have signs of thyroid cancer which has spread to other parts of the body.
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In a study of people being prepared for treatment with a form of iodine after thyroid surgery, results were similar between those who received Thyrogen and those who stopped taking their thyroid hormone. Researchers do not know if results would be similar over a longer period of time.
Learn about the causes of hypothyroidism in patients with thyroid cancer and what you can do to avoid it.
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There have been reports of events that led to death in patients who not had surgery to have their thyroid gland removed, and in patients with thyroid cancer cells that have spread to other parts of the body.
Patients over 65 years old with large amounts of leftover thyroid tissue after surgery, or with a history of heart disease, should discuss with their physicians the risks and benefits of Thyrogen.
Thyrogen can be administered in the hospital for patients at risk for complications from Thyrogen administration.
Since Thyrogen was first approved for use, there have been reports of central nervous system problems such as stroke in young women who have a higher chance of having a stroke, and weakness on one side of the body.
Patients should remain hydrated prior to treatment with Thyrogen.
Leftover thyroid tissue after surgery and cancer cells that have spread to other parts of the body can quickly grow and become painful after Thyrogen administration.
Patients with cancer cells near their windpipe, in their central nervous system, or in their lungs may need treatment with a glucocorticoid (a medication to help prevent an increase in the size of the cancer cells before using Thyrogen.)
In clinical studies, the most common side effects reported were nausea and headache.
Pregnant patients: Thyrogen should be given to a pregnant woman only if the doctor thinks there is a clear need for it.
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OK Remmet (sorry, but that is all I know to call you), your thesis carries with it the supposition that the core of humanity, that which is seen as essential, is culture variant. In other words, what is of primary importance changes from one sub-set culture to the next. My original reason for the post is that, when I go on the boards that discuss great books or great television (oxymoron for most shows) the only barrier is language. LOTR is loved by people who can't speak a lick of English, but love the themes and world created by Tolkien just as much as we do.
So, there must be some core themes that have Japanese girls going nuts for the Twilight universe just as much as us. Universal themes. To use greek philosophy, the perfect ideal that transcends human existence. Can there be such things? The evidence points unequivocally to yes. Sacrifice is a biggie, but what of others?
Why are there international geeks for such stories?
Long post, and very complex, but GOOD discussion.
Love that! By the way, love the specrtospecs too!dandyvampgirl_13 wrote:Well, yeah! Good stories can be a lot like real life, even if they're not "real life" stories. The Diary of Anne Frank makes most everyone cry because its a real life story of an innocent person who suffered a heck of a lot, which everyone (unless your Voldemort; sorreh, re-reading HP7 again) can relate to in some part, so it awakes our emotions. Yet so does Lord of the Rings, which doesn't even take place on Earth and most people aren't human, yet it still has a lot of humanity and their best and worst in it.
The reason for the discussion is not just to find the common theme, but to use it. Once we see what is true, can we ourselves strive for it?
Deeper and deeper we go!!


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Sandra Bullock's longtime friend, George Lopez, told Access Hollywood that he's overjoyed with the actress' adoption news and excited to be a part her three-and-half-month old son's life.
"I'm happy to be an uncle," George told Access at the Third Annual George Lopez Celebrity Golf Classic 2010 in Toluca Lake, Calif., on Monday.
"We're very excited and she's happy and we're happy that she's happy," George, who was accompanied by wife Ann Lopez, continued. "And we love her."
As previously reported on AccessHollywood.com, the 40-year-old actress shocked the world last week when she announced that she had adopted a three-and-half-month old son, Louis, in January and plans on raising him as a single parent.
The actress hinted at her plans of adopting during an appearance on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" in November, when she was asked if her Oscar-winning role in "The Blind Side" had caused her to consider the process.
"I've always felt like just because a child didn't come from inside your body doesn't mean that it's not your child. It just arrived somewhere else," Sandra told Ellen in November – likely at a time when she was going through the adoption process, unbeknownst to the public.
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Raymond has led the district for the last four years, having moved from the east coast.
Raymond implemented several programs including his "Priority Schools" initiative, which targeted the district's seven highest-needs schools.
His tenure was not without controversy. The district closed seven schools despite protests from parents. Four schools originally on a list of possible closures stayed open.
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Kerala State Renewable Energy Research Award for Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetha
Rare Intra-uterine foetal procedure at Amrita saves life of woman and chil
Amrita-ViswaSanthi Health Care Project Launched
Maldives student breathes easy after Amrita doctors perform complex Bronch
Amrita Hospital Received Best Environmental Practice Award 2019
Amrita Among Top 10 Universities in India : NIRF Ranking 2019
Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences Creates History in Robotic Surgery
Four patients undergo very complex surgery to repair tear in largest arter
Amrita Hospital hosts reception for organ donation champion
Reconstructive Surgeons Honoured by National Organ & Tissue Transplant Org
Amrita Surgeons remove 5-kg tumour from 45-year-old man's jaw
India facing multi-faceted burden of disease
Rising antibiotic resistance taking India to pre-antibiotic era, say exper
Mental health problems on the rise among Indian adolescents
Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences conducts Donor-Recipient Meet in pres
Amrita Basic Hand Surgery Course 2018
Diabetes contributing to rising incidence of heart failure
Amrita surgeons remove football-size tumor from tribal boy's jaw
Amrita Hospital Received Kerala State Pollution Control Board's Excellen
World No Tobacco Day Observed at Amrita Hospital
International Conference on Hospital and Healthcare Administration held at
21-year-old student from Yemen, blinded in bomb blast, regains vision in o
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) surgery gives new ray of hope for Parkinson's
Gold nasal stud removed from the lungs using a novel endoscopic technique
Global Challenge PhD Studentship at University of Birmingham
Radiosurgery for Intracranial Indications : Update 2017
33rd Annual Review Meeting of National Cancer Registry Programme held at A
Respiratory Care Week 2017 Observed
RNTCP State Task Force meeting held at Amrita Hospital
Amrita Hospital receives Kerala State Pollution Control Board's Excellen
Seminar on Anaesthesia and Updates in Transplant Care held at Amrita Hospi
Amrita Hospital conducts Asia's first upper-arm double hand-transplant
Amrita Fertility Centre Opened
'SWASTI' Launched at Amrita Hospital
Vacancy in Translational Research at Amrita Centre for Nanosciences and Mo
From India with Love: Ten Children from Uganda undergo free open-heart sur
Achievements in the 6th National Conference of Infusion Nurses Society Ind
Dr. Bhaskaran Pillai honoured by American Association of Physicists in Med
Recurrent Ovarian Cancer treated Successfully with Robotic Surgery
International Pathology Workshop Held at Amrita Hospital
High Precision Radiation Therapy Workshop and CME Conducted at Amrita Hosp
Tribal boy gets his face back as surgeons remove fist-sized ball of brain
Amrita Hospital to Collaborate with BBCI
Amrita Hospital to Provide Advanced Medical Care to Bangladesh Armed Force
Amrita Hospital Conducts Asia's First Robotic Assisted DBS Implantation
Hemato Oncology Fellowship Programme
Kerala CM inaugurates state's first Centre For High-precision Radiation
Dr. Sanjeev K. Singh named one of the "100 Most Impactful Healthcare Lea
Amrita Hospital and Gift of Life offer Free Heart Surgery for Deprived Chi
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Cosmetically Appealing Surgery Boon to Children with Heart Defects
India's Most Comprehensive Lymphoedema Treatment Clinic Opens at Amrita
Amrita Hospital Receives Prestigious British Medical Journal Award 2016
India's First Centre for Aortic Diseases Opens at Amrita Institute of Me
Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences Bags Two Healthcare Excellence Awards
Amrita Hospital Conducts India's First Double Forearm Transplant
2000-Bed Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences to Come up in Faridabad
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Vacancies for the post of Lectures/Clinical Assistant Professors in Anaest
Scroll of Honour for Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences for drafting Ker
5th Amrita Heart Conclave 2019
Fellowship of IACTA (FIACTA)
World Breast Feeding Week 2019
Endoscopic Sinus Surgery Workshop
Fellowship in Gastrointestinal and Liver Pathology (FGIL Path) at Amrita In
National Conference on Promotion of School Mental Health Programme: Current
Fellowship in Fetal Medicine and Fellowship in Advanced Obstetric Ultrasoun
3rd Amrita Annual Pathology Update (AAPUD 2019)
Infection Control Certification Programme for Nurses - 2019
CME & WORKSHOP on COPD
Fellowships in Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
Post Doctoral Certificate Course in Oncopathology and Renal Pathology
Fellowship in High Precision Radiation Therapy (CyberKnife and Tomotherapy)
Vacancy – Project Technician / Lab Attender
Amrita Fracture Course 2018
4th Amrita Heart Conclave 2018
Advances In Dialysis & Extra Corporeal Therapies - A comprehensive refreshe
Amrita Head & Neck Allied Specialities' Meet 2018
World Glaucoma Week 2018
PhonoCon 2018
Epileptology Fellowship at Amrita Advanced Centre for Epilepsy
Fellowship in Paediatric Neurosurgery (FPNS)
Radiosurgery For Intracranial Indications : Update
Fellowship program in Cardiovascular Radiology
Fellowship Program in Breast Imaging
Fellowship in Interventional Radiology
International Conference on "Obesity – A Multifaceted Approach"
3rd AMRITA HEART CONCLAVE 2017- Minimally Invasive CABG Workshop
2nd International Robotic Surgery Workshop & Master Class
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red_avatar wrote:- better PC speaker emulation - I've been playing some PC speaker games lately and the sound really is nowhere near as cool as it sounded on a real PC speaker. Real PC speaker would use the computer case as a kind of hall - the sound would bounce off the insides causing a warmer, more vibrant sound. The emulated PC speaker sounds rather flat and dull compared to it. Even ignoring the effect of the reverberation inside the case, I got a feeling the emulation isn't quite right either?
I'm not sure we're talking about the same thing, but I also encountered a difference between DOSBox and the "real thing" in terms of PC Speaker emulation. Basically, while on a vintage PC you may be able to hear multiple distinct beeps of the same frequency in a row, they're basically fused to a single beep in DOSBox. Even if the frequencies aren't all the same, similar differences can be heard.
This can be spotted in various early Softdisk+Apogee titles, although it's especially clear at times in certain games, like Dangerous Dave, Catacomb, The Catacomb (Catacomb II) and Commander Keen 1-3.
I once had an attempt with a (possibly) surprisingly simple patch to DOSBox, aiming to fix the issue for Keen 1-3, although it does some unintended changes in other games: viewtopic.php?t=29603
About a couple of months later, ripa worked on an unrelated patch improving digitized sound playback, although he also incorporated a similar (and better) fix for the games above (should apply to revision 2 of the patch and later): viewtopic.php?p=244794#p244794


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Carrie Fisher has revealed she had a three month long affair with Harrison Ford while filming the original 'Star Wars' more than 30 years ago.
Fisher, who played heroine Princess Leia, revealed the secret in a book of memoirs called 'The Princess Diarist'.
"It was so intense," Fisher told People. "It was Han and Leia during the week, and Carrie and Harrison during the weekend."
Fisher's character, Princess Leia, and Harrison Ford's character, Han Solo, were romantically involved in the 'Star Wars' film and the duo made a welcome return to the big screen in J.J. Abrams' 'Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens' in 2015.
'The Princess Diarist' will be released later this month.
The latest 'Star Wars' film, 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story' will be released worldwide in December.


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A unique collection of over 2,000 posters form a core part of the Library's collections. Areas of specialism include the Soviet Union, the Spanish Civil War and the anti-apartheid movement. Prints of some of these posters are available to buy in our shop.
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Going Lean? You Need to Motivate the Shop Floor
The benefits generally are lower costs, higher quality and shorter lead times. The term "lean manufacturing" is coined to represent half the human effort in the company, half the manufacturing space, half the investment in tools, and half the engineering hours to develop a new product in half the time.
A Fresh Approach to Company Culture
Becoming a lean, worldclass company requires overcoming organizational inertia. Often overlooked are outdated cultures, ineffective management skills, untrained workers, bureaucratic red tape, and traditional pay-and-reward systems that do not fit. In transitioning to lean manufacturing, factories, systems and organizations must be streamlined. Lines of communications must be opened and barriers between departments dismantled. Manufacturers must put an end to the "we've als done it that " argument.
For the lean transition to be successful, employees must be highly involved in assuming new skills and responsibilities. Consider the following:
• Organization culture is a major factor in success. Culture is to an organization as personality is to an individual. Said simply, it's the " things are done." Experts estimate that 80 percent of becoming a lean enterprise is culture-related. Sustaining changes can be an uphill battle without the right company culture that promotes employee support. For instance, a company with a bureaucratic and controlling management culture likely will have the most difficult time transforming itself to a lean culture or a team-based organization.
Going Lean—Successful Approaches Involve Employees
Get as many employees to participate as heavily as possible in defining how to accomplish work. And get as many employees as possible involved in the implementation phase. This will foster ownership and buy-in.
Approach Lean Comprehensively and Systematically
Use a comprehensive and systematic master plan that addresses all parts of lean-manufacturing implementation.
Provide Adequate Resources
Provide adequate technical and administrative resources to allow employees breathing room. Perform cost/benefit analyses so that you know how much the entire implementation will cost and identify results that will be achieved.
Train, Train, Train
Provide adequate training for employees, including upper and middle management.
• Traditional pay systems are structured through periodic reviews. The criteria for each employee are loosely defined, often generic. Rewards for taking additional responsibilities are not defined, nor for mastery of skills. Employees lack incentive for learning additional skills or for cross-training, a must in lean manufacturing. The challenge: Devise a pay system where contribution and pay for each employee grows parallel over time.
• Traditional performance reward systems are, for the most part, subjective. This exposes the workforce to evaluation by opinions, popularity or politics, creating the foundation for unfairness in judging a worker's performance and individual contribution to achieving the organization's goals. These reward systems frequently work in opposition to lean. Traditional companies measure manufacturing by monthly output (hours) and utilization. There is an old adage in manufacturing: You get what you measure. If a plant manager is measured on output, then that manager will strive to maximize the hours, building products that are not needed. The same holds true for equipment utilization.
• Traditional organization structures are stifling, often impeding open communication and focusing on the job function, rather than the individual and what the individual can contribute to the organization. Organizations should be conducive to velocity and innovation—on the shop floor and in the office. To make this happen, emphasize the tasks that need to be performed and the skills required to perform them.
• Most managers fail to include and lead a change process, leaving subordinates with mixed agendas to carry the banner of transition to lean. Many fail to recognize that any significant change process requires a long-term structured approach that is consistent in direction and leadership. And, many fail to develop, communicate and implement tactical plans to guide and monitor the change to lean manufacturing.
Motivation the Key to Lean
Characteristics of Skill-Based Pay Plans
• Differ from classification ladders;
• Provide incentives for focused technical growth by individual workers;
• Reward individual initiative, knowledge and skill, and high individual performance;
• Reward desired behaviors that foster new culture, norms, values, skills, performance goals and cooperative team efforts;
• Support lean-workforce design by rewarding behavior required to implement work-team designs.
Organizational development applies behavioral-science knowledge and practices to help organizations become more effective, including improving quality of work life and productivity. Included in the realm of organizational development are organization culture, values and norms; employee personality and behavior; motivation, group interactions, performance measurement, education and learning, skills, pay systems, reward systems and change management.
Implementing lean manufacturing without finding a means to motivate workers bogs down the initiative.
But how do you motivate workers to accept and practice the principles of a new manufacturing strategy? Critical to creating that motivation and moving the organization forward at the shop-floor level are six key elements:
| Characteristics of Group-Based Pay Plans
• Differ from merit pay
• Provide incentives for team collaboration toward pre-established goals
• Reward high organizational performance
• Reinforce goal setting by rewarding people for achieving their goals
Specifically, research reveals that the best results are obtained when
• Workers are focused on specific goals
• Bonuses to be achieved are at least $2000 per year per worker
• Goals are achievable as perceived by the workers
• Objective measurement is deployed and visible
2) Lean pay systems;
3) Lean performance reward systems;
4) Lean performance measurement systems;
5) Lean workforce organization; and
6) Lean change-management processes.
1) Lean Organization Cultures
Typical Lean Performance Metrics
• Customer satisfaction
• Output target vs. actual
• Supplier quality defects per million
• Operations quality defects per million
• Days worked safe
• Setup time target vs. actual
• Changeover time target vs. actual
• Total cycle time order-to-ship
• Process cycle time target vs. actual
• Total manufacturing throughput time
• Receiving cycle time
• Replenishment cycle time
• On-time customer deliveries
• Percent value-add time/total throughput time
• Percent warranty cost per sales $
• Percent equipment utilization
• Cost per unit as $ of sales
• Days supply raw inventory
• Days supply work in process inventory
• Days supply finished goods inventory
• Percent value-add floor space to total
• Inventory accuracy
• Shared vision among all the employees;
• Participative leadership style;
• Teamwork;
• Open two- vertical and horizontal communication;
• Collaboration;
• Highly skilled workers;
• Empowered workers; and
• Shared gains.
This type of style includes employees in the decision-making process. Knowledgeable and skillful employees become part of the team and allow a manager to make better decisions.
2) Lean Pay Systems
When transitioning the organization to a lean-manufacturing environment, the workforce requires new skills. Defining those job skills and associated performance standards becomes the starting point for an acceptable pay system. Combining these leads to the foundation for a lean pay system. Knowledge/skills-based pay and group-based performance pay comprise the accepted forms of lean workforce pay.
With knowledge/skill-based pay, if you want employees to learn more skills and become more flexible in the jobs they perform, pay them to do so. Skill-based pay supports teamwork and fosters learning. Individuals progress in pay according to the breadth and depth of their skills. Workers are paid for the skills they are capable of using, not for the job they perform at a point in time.
Employees with a broader view of the production process and organization are better positioned to participate in decision-making and offer constructive suggestions for improving productivity and quality.
3) Lean Performance- Reward Systems
Group and organizational-based pay plans, more than individual pay plans, encourage cooperation among workers. In a manufacturing plant, it is generally to everyone's advantage to work well together because all share in the financial rewards of high performance.
Gain sharing is a form of group-based performance pay. Gain-sharing plans pay bonuses based upon improvements in an organization's operating results. These plans, when designed correctly, can contribute to employee motivation and involvement, and tie worker goals to organization goals. Typical results include enhanced coordination and teamwork, cost savings, acceptance of new methods, reductions in overtime and greater employee satisfaction.
4) Lean Performance-Measurement Systems
Companies should align performance metrics with team-based and individual reward systems. Performance metrics define expectations, and for a team-based performance pay system to work effectively, numerical measurements must be used and visible to everyone on a visual team board. Since the workforce is organized in teams, similar team performance standards should be prepared. Develop performance metrics (see Typical Lean Performance Metrics box) uniformly across all teams, and align them with plant goals. Plot trends over time and involve everyone on the team in the measurement.
The team-performance scorecard should include one very important aspect: the lean transformation task list, and it should be displayed. And the team performance standard should focus on building the team via frequent feedback.
Just as the team-performance scorecard is tied to the operational score card, the individual (team member) scorecard must be tied to the team's scorecard. Important points include defining what is expected from a world-class employee. The performance standard must focus on what the individual can directly affect, must provide that employee with frequent feedback and it must drive accountability.
5) Lean Workforce Organizations
• Create a sense of urgency and communicate it to the whole organization
• Develop and communicate a vision and master plan for the new lean factory and organization that everyone can relate to
• Create a lean steering committee to oversee the lean initiative
• Assign a program director and local champion, with the sole responsibility to implement the lean initiative
• Analyze the company's readiness for change
• Develop and communicate a vision and master plan for the new lean factory that everyone can relate to
• Educate and train managers, staff and workers
• Develop and implement lean performance metrics
• Get everyone highly involved in determining how it can be accomplished to gain authorship, ownership, and buy-in
• Develop a detailed lean-implementation plan
• Provide adequate resources to accomplish the vision
• Align the culture, performance-reward systems, pay system, performance-measurement systems and workforce organization with the lean vision
• Empower action and remove obstacles to success
• Develop a pilot and make it a success
• Celebrate and broadcast the success
• Extend a series of lean successes across the plant until all is accomplished
• Don't back-off
• Be relentless—embed the changes in formal policies, procedures, processes, work standards, job descriptions and skill classifications
Increasing operators' skills by enabling them to perform multiple functions within a group of pieces of equipment (cells) has improved performance and worker satisfaction. This is why teams are one of the basic building blocks of lean manufacturing.
Flexibility adds another dimension to a company's workforce capabilities. Not only can workers perform on different pieces of equipment, but also across departments and plants. This provides resource flexibility to managers, and enables them to manage operations more smoothly.
In a lean-manufacturing culture, decisions previously made by foremen and supervisors are driven down in the organization to the workforce. Workers are held accountable for their own performance, and have the privilege of determining how to make improvements.
Employees feel responsible not just for doing a job, but also for making the whole organization function better. The lean worker is an active problem solver who helps plan how to get things done and then does them. Secondly, teams work together to continually improve performance, achieving higher levels of productivity.
An empowered workplace is one where teams of people work together, collaborating to get the job done. This is quite different from the traditional competitive workplace, where each individual employee is engaged in a race with others to get things done.
6) Lean Change-Management Processes
The most important asset of any company are its human resources. Change does not successfully occur if the people who are to be affected by change are not involved. MF
Information for this article was supplied by Rockford Consulting Group, Rockford, IL. Tel. 815/229-2900; www.rockfordconsulting.com.
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The Contra Costa County Vital Registration Office is able to provide certified copies for births occurring this year and last year in Contra Costa County. Births that occurred prior to that may be obtained from the Clerk-Recorders Office at 925-335-7900 or www.ccclerkrec.us.
Pursuant to California Health and Safety Code Section 103526 only specific individuals are permitted to obtain an authorized certified copy of a birth record.
Birth Certificate is $32.00 per certified copy.
The fee for any search of birth certificates shall be paid in advance by the applicant regardless of whether the certificate is found or not. A certified copy fee must accompany all requests for copies of Vital Registration. Requests received without the appropriate fee will be returned to the sender. Make your personal check, postal or bank money order payable to Vital Registration. Do not send cash. If no record is found, we will issue a Certificate of No Public Record and retain the fee for the search according to State law.
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To order a copy in person for a birth that occurred in Contra Costa County this year and last year, please bring the appropriate fees and valid government issued ID to:
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To order a copy by mail for a birth that occurred in Contra Costa County, please complete the following form.
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Mail completed form with your fees (check or money order) to:
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Nissan Motor Co. said it will offer to replace some poorly performing batteries on its Leaf electric car and improve warranty coverage for the battery systems for its almost 20,000 U.S. owners.
The move comes as the Japanese automaker closes a year marked by disappointing sales and complaints by some U.S. customers about the Leaf's battery capacity.
Nissan will repair or replace lithium-ion batteries that have fallen under a specified capacity as well as expand the warranty on the battery to cover for lost capacity for the first five years or 60,000 miles, Executive Vice President Andy Palmer said in a post on an online owners' forum on Thursday.
"Our actions today are intended to put customer minds at ease regarding the topic of battery capacity loss," Palmer said in his letter.
Nissan's actions will apply globally, and the company will notify owners in the coming months in other markets, he added. The program will be rolled out at U.S. dealers next spring.
Nissan is falling well short of its goal of doubling Leaf sales in the company's current fiscal year, which runs through March 2013. Demand in the United States is particularly weak, with sales through November down 4.5 percent, at 8,330 cars.
Leaf is not the only electric vehicle to struggle in the U.S. General Motors' Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid car has come up short of expectations, previously forcing the U.S. automaker to idle the plant that makes the car. However, Volt sales are 2 -1/2 those of the Leaf this year.
Since the Leaf's debut in December 2010 in Japan and seven U.S. metropolitan areas, Nissan has sold more than 43,000 of the EVs globally. But this fiscal year, Leaf's global sales are up only 25 percent, to 18,226, and Chief Executive Carlos Ghosn has acknowledged that achieving the goal to double sales to about 40,000 would be difficult.
Palmer said Nissan's engineers have worked to ensure the Leaf batteries were operating as specified. However, the company has agreed to buy back about 10 EVs from unsatisfied customers, mostly in Arizona where several owners had voiced dissatisfaction in online forums over the energy storage capacity of the batteries.
Nissan previously said the Arizona drivers were operating their cars beyond company recommendations, using and recharging their batteries at a faster rate than most Leaf drivers and causing the batteries to lose capacity quicker than indicated in the manual.
"We know that some of you have not been satisfied with the pace of our support activities," Palmer said to the owners. "We want to take actions which will further improve our customers' satisfaction with their Nissan Leafs."
The capacity loss coverage for the battery is on top of the car's normal three-year, 36,000-mile warranty, as well as the battery's eight-year, 100,000-mile coverage for defects, he said. It protects against capacity loss in batteries that fall below nine of the 12 bars displayed on the car's battery capacity gauge.
A vehicle whose battery has nine bars remaining is retaining about 70 percent of its original battery capacity.
For those whose batteries have fallen below nine bars during the coverage, Nissan said it will repair or replace the battery with a new or rebuilt battery to restore capacity at or above nine bars, Palmer said.
Nissan said the specifics of the new warranty will be communicated to each owner early next year and will apply to the 2013 model upon its U.S. release in the first quarter, as well as to 2011 and 2012 models. Nissan also said it expects the "great majority" of Leaf owners will not have to use the enhanced warranty.
The Leaf is in its first generation. Nissan has not said when it will introduce the second generation, but the company has improved the 2013 model's driving range by 14 percent and lowered the price tag.
Nissan officials said changes in the remodeled EV, which went on sale in Japan last month, were based on comments from customers who voiced fears of being stranded by a vehicle that ran out of electric charge.
Production of the 2013 Leaf began at the company's Smyrna, Tenn., plant this month, while battery assembly at an adjacent factory started in November. Before this month, the Leaf was built only in Japan.


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Our advice is customized to the specific circumstances and strategic considerations relevant to the client and starts with a thorough examination of the company, including its business model, capital structure and overall financial profile. Our Capital Raising group brings to bear Sandler O'Neill's extensive resources in investment banking, equity research, equity sales and equity trading on behalf of our clients.
Our equity capital solutions include follow-on offerings, IPOs, private placements, at-the-market offerings, rights offerings, block trades, equity-linked securities and buybacks.


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Matava's dedication to Responsible Tourism is the driving force behind our Environmental Policy.
Far from being an abstract ideal for us, Responsible Tourism shapes all our major decisions – from the concept that 'Small Groups Leave Fewer Footprints' to the choice of contractors and suppliers. Here are our guidelines in a nutshell.
Please see below the key principles or code of conduct for operating 'Responsible' Matava adventures:
- Use locally owned infrastructure for accommodation and transport.
- Spread the financial benefits amongst local people and operators.
- Provide employment and leadership opportunities for local people.
- When recruiting our staff and crew, we assess their environmental credentials and then train them to our own standards.
- Respect local customs and culture.
- Provide safe trips for Matava, Mad Fish and Bite Me staff, crew and guests.
- Educate guests and local people about how we travel.
- Limit the negative impacts to daily lifestyles of local people not involved with Matava adventures and expeditions
- Issue our guests with clear guidelines on responsible tourism. These cover a variety of issues from litter and waste disposal in remote areas, to begging and artefacts. We encourage customers to buy local crafts and support local skills, but never to buy products that exploit wildlife or the harm the habitat.
- Limit the physical impact of trips in all destination communities – particularly sensitive natural and cultural environments.
- Provide support to organisations and local communities around Matava and visited by Matava expeditions and adventures.
- Provide fun enjoyable trips to Matava guests.
- Provide opportunities for guests to interact with local people.
- Actively discourage the participation of Matava in activities which exploit animals – wild or domestic.
- Use local operators that adhere to Matava 's Responsible Travel
- Philosophies and provide the best possible service to Matava guests and staff.
- Support and encourage fair employment practices.
- Give our guests the best possible value.
Matava is committed to a style of travel that is environmentally, culturally and socially responsible – the adventure travel industry has called this commitment 'Responsible Travel'. With your participation we aim to operate in a way that conserves the areas we visit and bring positive benefits to local communities.
Our adventure style:
- Grass roots travel using local public transport where possible – minimises demand for special tourist vehicles and fuel.
- We choose locally owned accommodation where available and local restaurants and markets for dining, retaining revenue in local communities.
- Our Directors facilitate communication of our values to guests and local communities, educating them in sustainable tourism practices.
- We employ local crew and guides to aid in guests' understanding of local culture and etiquette.
- Small groups allow guests to experience cultures at first hand, offering greater opportunity for cross- cultural understanding.
We are committed to putting back into the communities and regions we visit by supporting many aid, development and conservation projects in these areas. Much of this support is through The Matava Foundation and guests are invited to contribute.
My job is to monitor our current practices and develop sustainable tourism programmes so that we can all enjoy the Fiji Islands for many years to come.
Our Directors and staff play an important role, implementing our philosophy and coordinating projects in the field.
Matava 's passion for travel goes beyond the yearning for discovery and adventure. Ours is a reasoned, tried and tested approach to the enjoyment of a truly amazing planet.
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Marmol holds off Bucs after Wood's sharp start
Closer allows pair of runs in ninth; lefty delivers six scoreless innings
PITTSBURGH -- Carlos Marmol most likely will keep it interesting in the ninth inning the rest of the season. At least he listened to his pitching coach.
The Pirates had two on and one out in the ninth Thursday, and had closed to within two runs against Marmol, who had been pulled from Monday's game after failing to convert a save. Chicago pitching coach Chris Bosio then went to the mound. The message?
"Strike him out and get a ground ball," Marmol said, "and that's exactly what happened."
Well, not exactly. Marmol gave up an RBI single to Gaby Sanchez, then struck out Pedro Alvarez and finally got Neil Walker to ground into a game-ending double play as the Cubs held on for a 3-2 victory Thursday, taking the first series of the season.
"Their closer has been struggling -- as he's known to when things get a little tough," Pittsburgh's Russell Martin said. "We were one good swing from taking that game away."
Marmol knew that, and pumped his fist to celebrate as the Cubs converted the final outs.
"He gave up hits, but it wasn't like he was throwing the ball all over the place," Cubs manager Dale Sveum said of his closer, who kept his job another day. "For the most part, we know things like that can get interesting with him. ... He got the ground ball when he needed it.
"He was OK," Sveum said. "It didn't seem that way, but it wasn't too bad."
Sveum, who apparently has a high tolerance for stress-related innings, pointed out that Marmol wasn't exactly "pitch efficient" last season, either. It's been a difficult few days for Marmol after Monday's outing when Kyuji Fujikawa finished and picked up the save.
"It's tough, but I'm still fighting," Marmol said. "I'm still fighting. ... The point is, we won. I got out of that jam."
The Cubs didn't exactly solve their offensive struggles Thursday, but were more efficient. Nate Schierholtz hit a two-run home run with two outs in the ninth and Starlin Castro delivered a two-out RBI single in the third to back Travis Wood, who tossed six scoreless innings.
Chicago entered the game 0-for-13 with runners in scoring position in its first two games.
"We haven't had real bad at-bats, but we obviously haven't had the results," Sveum said. "Your approach is to get elevation with men in scoring position, whether it's third or whatever, you get something in the air and don't ground out to the corners. Pitchers are always trying to get you to ground out to the corner. You want to get the ball up, out over the plate."
Castro ended the skid in the third. With two outs and Wood at second after a single and groundout, Castro delivered a RBI single to center off James McDonald (0-1). Schierholtz homered in the ninth off Jared Hughes, and drove in Anthony Rizzo, who had walked and stole second. It was Schierholtz's first home run since Aug. 1, when he connected off current teammate Edwin Jackson, who was pitching for the Nationals.
"I knew it was a big run on second," Schierholtz said. "I was just trying to get something good to hit and put it in play and get that runner home. 'Woody' pitched a great game today and kept us right there the whole game. It's a good win to get."
The Cubs didn't waste their chances, and went 2-for-2 with RISP.
"We're 1.000 today -- we're climbing," Sveum said.
Part of the offensive struggles Wednesday night could be blamed on the cold. Left fielder Alfonso Soriano said he couldn't feel his hands or feet. On Thursday, the game-time temperature was a more tolerant 45 degrees.
Wood (1-0) looked comfortable. A year ago at this time, he was prepping for Triple-A Iowa's season, having missed in a bid for a spot in the Cubs rotation. On Thursday, he walked two and gave up one hit, a double to Clint Barmes with one out in the third.
"I had good fastball command and was able to locate it both sides and keep them off balance," Wood said. "It's great to start off the season up here and get off to a good start and hopefully keep rolling."
The lefty fanned four over six innings, including Andrew McCutchen on three pitches in the fourth.
"We got enough pitches to hit," Pittsburgh manager Clint Hurdle said. "We just couldn't do anything with them."
Pittsburgh's first scoring opportunity came in the seventh when McCutchen reached on a fielding error by third baseman Luis Valbuena, then stole second and third. But he was stranded as James Russell got Alvarez to pop up and Walker was called out on strikes.
With the win, the Cubs claimed their first season-opening series victory since the start of the 2009 season, when they took two of three against the Astros.
"Our goal is to win every game, and win every series," Schierholtz said. "It's a good start."


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Ann Romney: White Empress
By Sikivu Hutchinson
While the mainstream media slobbers over breast cancer survivor Ann Romney's 'just folks' performance at last night's Republican Convention thousands of poor and working class women across the country won't get breast cancer screening due to the GOP's relentless war against Planned Parenthood and the Affordable Care Act. It wasn't surprising that Romney's rich empress trumpeting of love for women, stand by your man true grit and bootstraps Americana went over like gangbusters with the nearly lily white GOP crowd. The fantasy that privileged political dynasty scion and hedge fund offshore account secreting multi-millionaire Mitt "made it on his own" is like crack for a GOP eager to trot out welfare queens at the eleventh hour to shore up its Timothy McVeigh base. But Ann Romney's speech also evoked the contemptible travesty of all the patriarchy-besotted right wing women who are
fighting tooth and nail
to deny working and middle class women the right to control their own bodies, destinies and families through access to basic abortion, birth control, and health care services. With all of their fake soul love of 'just folks' moms who have to live off of tuna in basement apartments Romney and the GOP lynch mob's message to American women who will have to travel one-hundred miles to find a healthcare provider because their local Planned Parenthood office has been gutted: just charter a Gulfstream.
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Posted: Wed 27 Jul 2005, 13:35
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PupWin98.zip with Puppy 1.0.4 now available
PupWin98.zip with Puppy 1.0.4 is now available here:
Puppy Linux for Win98 works with Windows 98 with no need for floppy disk and no need for cd-rom drive.
This is Puppy Linux version 1.0.4 with Mozilla, re-packaged as a zip archive file with a few pieces added to run from your Windows 98 desktop. You'll need an un-zip program like ALZip or WinZip to handle the zip file.
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Thanks! Downloading it now.
BTW - I see you're from SE PA. I'm originally from NE PA. Pretty cool.
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Just installed it on my desktop. I have to say this is one of the coolest things. It's by far the easiest, safest, least intrusive way to get Linux on a hard drive. It's fast, easy, and simple for newbies or those who don't necessarily want to fool around with bootloaders or partitioning and don't want to boot from a CD or floppy all the time.
More people should know about this. I even thought of a name for it: WinPuppy. Sort of goes along with current naming trends (HardPuppy, FlashPuppy, etc.).
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Thanks for the feedback, cygnus. I've been wondering if anyone uses it. Well, I use it daily. Yes, I eat my own dogfood.
Anyway, you got the idea exactly: fast, easy, safe. I hasten to add that I think Barry got it right by focusing on the CD and FLASH approach; and the CDW experiment is very promising (PortaPuppy?).
I don't know about the name, WinPuppy. Too many of us feel uneasy about anything Windows. You got the Puppy spirit right, though. It needs a puppy-ish name. This needs meditation. Um, LazyPuppy?
CoolPuppy? ArcPuppy?
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How about EasyPuppy?
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FAT32-Puppy ?
Actually ... I guess that isn't really that catchy.
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Puplet Winner
Puplet Winalot (Winalot is a dog food)
Puplet Whinper
WinWin Puppy
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I'm thinking these:
Arc Puppy
Cold Puppy
Cool Puppy
Easy Puppy
First Puppy
Icon Puppy
Lazy Puppy
Winks Puppy
WinExit Puppy
Where's a list of all the existing variations of Puppy?
Here be some:
BareBones Puppy
Chubby Puppy
Hard Puppy
Flash Puppy
Live-CD Puppy
NaNoWriMo Puppy
Opera Puppy
Sourcer Puppy
Zip Puppy
Apologies to anyone I missed.
Looks like the makings for a Wiki page.
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The next version of PupWin98 (using Puppy105) will likely use grub.exe instead of tiny.exe thanks to help from BruceB and WiZard. You can modify the current PupWin98.zip installation to use grub.
Replace the use of tiny with grub in PUPPY\PUPLINUX.BAT thus (2 lines):
@rem PUPPY\tiny PUPPY/VMLINUZ PUPPY/IMAGE.GZ root=/dev/ram0 PHOME=hda1 PFILE=pup001-none-262144
PUPPY\GRUB.EXE --config-file=(hd0,0)/Puppy/menu.lst
Build PUPPY\MENU.LST thus (7 lines):
timeout 0
default 0
title Puppy RAM
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
kernel /puppy/vmlinuz root=/dev/ram noapic PFILE=pup001-none-262144 PHOME=hda1
initrd /puppy/image.gz
Put grub.exe into the PUPPY folder. You can get it here:
Change the advanced settings of the Puppy Windows shortcut so that the autoexec.bat is empty and the config.sys contains:
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When I tried to open it, it said it couldn't create or find /usr dir.
And the instructions gave a second file to save:
Verify integrity with MD5:
right-click here and select Save Target As ...
But there are two different files presented here: md5.zip and PupWin98.md5 and no instructions on what to do with this later.
Duh ...
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md5.zip contains md5sum.exe
extract it with winzip.
Then you can check the zip:
type in the dosbox
cd c:\WhereverYouExtractedTo
md5sum pupwin98.zip
then you should be shown the same as in pupwin98.md5 (that is a textfile you can open with notepad).
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I extracted the md5.zip file.
Still won't work. Though what I wrote earlier was incorrect. It has the /usr dir but can't create or find the usr_cram.fs file. Says Puppy should load, but not be able to save, but it doesn't even load.
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I downloaded Puppy Linux for Windows 98 and tried it (unsuccessfully) on
my windows ME, so now, I transferred it over to my old windows 95 PC where I have the Puppy Linux Live CD and a couple other distros that I am
trying to learn to use.
1) The documentation from the download site is vague as to whether it will work on windows 95, so that is my question, huh?
2) The reason for trying to use it, is that I have the winmodem problem and am unable to connect. So my question also, is if this version will work on windows 95, will it default to the winmodem or will I still have to opt for getting an external modem, huh?
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Im just wondering... could i replace the files with other distros like slax and have this work? (Since my floppy is basically dead and computer doesnt boot from CD/USB) But yeah what i would like to do is edit the puppy.bat file to include a third option... so its like "Boot into puppy, Slax, or Windows". Would someone please help me out with this :X
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Despite high feed prices, producers' desire to push milk production remains alive and well. That could quash the effectiveness of the Dairy Security Act's supply management provision.
Now that the holidays are behind us, the market seems to have settled down to usual, for the time being. Cash business is being done without much fanfare, giving the impression buyers and sellers may be comfortable at present price levels.
The much anticipated tightness in the market that was predicted during the summer did not materialize. There were numerous farms that went out of business, sending high numbers of cattle to slaughter. However, younger animals took their place, and balanced rations kept milk production strong. Farmers found ways to reduce feed costs and increase production during a difficult year.
One thing I had anticipated this year was that dairy producers were going to utilize more and different feeds in balancing rations, and that is exactly what many have done. Producers have discovered feed stuffs that actually have lowered costs and improved milk production. The prolonged period of the low milk/feed ratio, which has been unprecedented, forced dairy producers to look for changes. The December ratio was 1.65, the lowest it has been since September, ending the year with an average milk/feed ratio for 2012 of 1.52 -- the lowest in history. This has stimulated greater culling. But the fact that milk production has been growing and feed prices have been slowly declining could keep the desire to push milk production alive and well.
Congress extended the 2008 farm bill, leaving business as usual. A new farm bill, once adopted, may contain the Dairy Security Act. However, the desire of dairy producers to increase milk production when milk price is higher could render the Dairy Security Act (the proposal for managing milk production to keep milk prices supported along with a margin insurance) somewhat useless.
Those who want to have the ability to improve milk production as they see fit are unlikely to utilize this voluntary program. I have yet to talk to a dairy farmer who is interested in taking part in this program if it is included in the farm bill. Rough surveys have been taken which indicate about 40% of the nation's dairy farmers are interested in taking part of this voluntary program if it is included in the farm bill.
I think this percentage may be a bit high. After all, if only a minor percentage of farms take part in this, it may end up like the voluntary CWT Herd Retirement Program, which had little, if any, impact on overall milk prices during the time it was active. In fact, the first five years of the program resulted in U.S. cow numbers increasing despite the Herd Retirement Program. And we all know what happened in 2009 when milk prices fell to 21-year lows. That triggered cow numbers to decline as culling picked up aggressively.
A vicious cycle could result if those who signed up for margin insurance and milk supply management would be required to reduce milk output, because producers who did not sign up for the voluntary program would push milk production to take advantage of the resulting higher milk prices. This could create greater supply and, once again, lower prices, resulting in the repeat of those taking part in the supply management provision to be required to reduce production again, and on and on.
One thing that has not been lacking the past two years is periods of high milk prices. Record high All-Milk prices were established in both 2011 and 2012. The problem is that high feed prices were also taking place, leaving us essentially trading dollars for dollars. Margin insurance could reduce some of this risk, as well as other tools such as futures and option strategies.
One can only hope that world demand for dairy products continues to grow. This growth will be essential for better milk prices. Our purpose is to continue to produce high quality dairy products that domestic consumers and the world will want. If the U.S. cannot compete internationally, then whatever domestic programs are implemented will have limitations as well as only short-term effect on milk prices.
I recommend stepping up and protecting feed prices for the year. The decline of grain prices seen over the past month is the gift we have been waiting for. If you have already purchased call options or call option spreads, roll those options down to a lower strike price. There is significant upside price risk if the weather pattern does not change by this spring.
Upcoming reports:
- World Agricultural Supply and Demand report on Jan. 11
- Annual Crop Production report on Jan. 11
- Quarterly grain stocks report on Jan. 11
- Dairy Export report on Jan. 11
- Global Dairy Trade auction Jan. 16
- Advanced Class I price for February on Jan. 16
- December Cold Storage report on Jan. 22
- December Milk Production report on Jan. 23
Robin Schmahl is a commodity broker and owner of AgDairy LLC, a full-service commodity brokerage firm located in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. He can be reached at 877-256-3253 or through their website at www.agdairy.com.
The thoughts expressed and the data from which they are drawn are believed to be reliable but cannot be guaranteed. Any opinions expressed are subject to change without notice. There is risk of loss in trading and my not be suitable for everyone. Those acting on this information are responsible for their own actions.
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U.S. Population Projections: 2005-2050
If current trends continue, the population of the United States will rise to 438 million in 2050, from 296 million in 2005, and 82% of the increase will be due to immigrants arriving from 2005 to 2050 and their U.S.-born descendants.
Do Blacks and Hispanics Get Along?
While blacks and Hispanics hold broadly favorable views of each other, Hispanics are less likely to say the two groups get along well. At the same time, African Americans are far more likely than Latinos to say blacks are frequently the victims of racial discrimination.
Race, Ethnicity and Campaign '08
Race, ethnicity and politics can sometimes make for a volatile mix, as the presidential field of 2008 has begun to discover. But in the world beyond politics, race relations in this country are on a pretty even keel.


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From the Editor: What to Do about Growth
- From the Editor: What to Do about Growth
- Whither: Economic Growth?: The global optimism at the turn of the century has been replaced by fear of long-term stagnation
- Cost of Aging: As populations in richer nations get older, GDP growth slows, support costs rise, and government budgets feel pressure
- Stuck in a Rut: To revive global productivity, start by addressing the legacies of the financial crisis
- Getting It Right: Well-designed fiscal incentives can help spur innovation and ultimately growth
- Rethinking GDP: It may be time to devise a new measure of economic welfare with fewer flaws
- Can Money Buy: Happiness?: People around the world share their thoughts on what sparks this elusive feeling
- Point-Counterpoint: Secular Stagnation
- Straight Talk: Toward Inclusive Growth: Emerging economies should share the fruits of their growth more equitably
- Picture This: Girl Power
- A Middle Ground: The renminbi is rising, but will not rule
- A Broader Reach: When more people and more firms have access to financial services, the whole society can benefit
- In Equality We Trust: Inequality in the United States and Europe erodes trust among people—and can stifle economic growth
- Forests for Growth: Forests are a key asset for climate stability; Brazil has shown protecting them is compatible with development
- Risky Mix: If financial institutions combine banking and nonbanking business there is potential for danger
- Unburnable Wealth of Nations: Successful action to address climate change would diminish the value of fossil fuel resources in many of the world's poorest countries
- Currency Notes: Fifty Marks the Spot
- People In Economics: Parallel Paths
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Unburnable Wealth of Nations: Successful action to address climate change would diminish the value of fossil fuel resources in many of the world's poorest countries
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text: 1963 saw the beginning of massive civil disobedience actions in San Francisco. Demonstrations at Mel's Drive-In, Lucky Grocery, the Sheraton Palace Hotel and Auto Row focused on discriminatory hiring practices that excluded African Americans from employment equal to white workers. While appearing tame in light of later riots and militancy, these actions shook the city's liberal image of itself at the time, resulted in over 260 employment agreements for minority workers, and forever changed the way we define freedom of speech. Featuring photographs by Phiz Mezey, a San Francisco photojournalist, this collaborative exhibit presents selections from the archives of the San Francisco History Center, SFPL, and the Labor Archives and Research Center, a special collection of the J. Paul Leonard library at San Francisco State University. Curated by Nancy J. Arms Simon.