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Smartwatches can have some pretty useful functionality, but maybe you don't want to broadcast to the world that you're wearing one, or maybe you just prefer good old-fashioned analog. The Citizen Eco-Drive Proximity was made with you in mind.
The Proximity, while appearing to be a somewhat regular watch, actually has some small words written around its rim, words like "Mail" and "Call." Whenever your phone goes off, the second hand discretely jumps over to point at the relevant word, without affecting the time-keeping of the piece at large.
It's a neat idea, but there are a few downsides. It's only for iPhone, and iPhone 4S or newer at that and it's not particularly cheap either at $550. Granted it's also just a nice watch, so that's what you're really paying for. After all, it's a smartwatch that can't even tell you who is calling, but that's your trade-off for stealth, I suppose. It'll be going on sale later this fall. [A Blog To Read via Engadget]


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By Bernice Uresti
Anyone looking to recharge their hope for the future should attend the San Antonio Area Foundation's annual Scholarship Awards Celebration.
This event takes time to acknowledge students receiving higher education scholarships from funds established with the Area Foundation. It also recognizes the donors who make the scholarships possible with the funds they establish. The $1.3 million in new scholarship awards for the 2012-13 academic year went to 200 students.
This year's celebration, held June 20 at the University of the Incarnate Word, offered a preview of tomorrow's leaders. But many of them also are leaders today by becoming the first in their families to attend college, leading their younger siblings and possibly their neighbors, by example.
Another 193 students received money for renewals of scholarships awarded in previous years.
Since its first scholarship award in 1969, the Area Foundation has awarded 8,560 scholarships totaling $15.5 million. Some scholarship recipients have come back to establish scholarship funds to help the next generation of students. They include Brian Morris, who received scholarships from two funds at the Area Foundation in 1998, established a successful career after earning his degree and last year established the Brian Morris College Gateway Scholarship Fund. Brian attended the celebration in June and met the first student to receive a scholarship from his new fund.
Another success story is Lissa Martinez, who received a scholarship through the Area Foundation in the early 1970s, later served on the Area Foundation board and has been a consistent contributor to the scholarship fund that helped her. Lissa also attended this year's celebration and had an opportunity to see students who benefited from her generosity.
This year, students were asked to comment on their scholarship awards on the Area Foundation's Facebook wall, including San Antonio ISD graduate Julius Lorenzi, who commented "… I didn't just receive money, but also many friends at the awards dinner. Thank you to all the donors and sponsors for making this possible…"
Marie Nunez commented: "Thank you San Antonio Area Foundation for the scholarship. When I thought I'd never be able to afford a higher education, you helped me see a brighter opportunity. With your help, I can now pursue a brighter future, a future I know I can make great…"
It is a great pleasure to be involved with these students and their families, as well as with the generous donors who really do make it all possible.
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From my youngest childhood, I have been fascinated with pregnancy. When I became a mother myself, that fascination grew and expanded until I found the role of a doula. Having attended many births in hospitals, birth centers, and at home, I knew that I had found my passion: helping women through one of the greatest experiences of their lives. Years later I enrolled in midwifery school and started on my path to midwifery.
I recognize birth as a natural process of the female body, one that doesn't require routine interventions.
I started Birthing Your Way after the birth of my second son. I took my doula training through ALACE (Association of Labor Assistants and Childbirth Educators) and DONA (Doulas of North America), and my childbirth education through ALACE, Lamaze and CAPPA, and postpartum training through CAPPA (Childbirth and Postpartum Professionals Association).
I am now a Certified Professional Midwife with NARM (North American Registry of Midwives) and a licensed in the state of Utah. I received an Associates Degree from Midwives College of Utah. I have four beautiful children and a very understanding husband (husbands of midwives need to have a lot of understanding, as we keep odd hours). Through the years I expanded my knowledge of not only birth, but also of breastfeeding and the postpartum care of new mothers and babies.
We have become such a busy society that new mothers and babies are often left on their own without the help of a mentor (this used to be the grandmother's role) to teach and guide them through the learning processes of parents. This deficit of care can cause a difficult recovery and be a lonely time for the new mother.
I hope to help women through not just childbirth, but also through as much of the childbearing years as I can.
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Philippine Airlines (PAL) began life with a noble mission: to serve as a partner in nation-building. With this in mind, PAL took to the skies on 15 March 1941, using a Beech Model 18 aircraft amid the specter of a global war. It became Asia's first airline.
To protect the true credit card owner, Philippine Airline require presentation of the credit card used in tickets online booking at the ticket collection point or upon check-in.
If the credit card owner is not part of the travelling party and is unable to present the credit card, CLEAR photocopies of the front of the credit card and the valid PHOTO ID of the credit card owner shall be required from the passengers at the ticket collection point or at check-in.
It shall be the responsibility of the credit card owner to ensure that the passenger(s) comply with this requirement otherwise the passenger(s) shall be denied boarding.


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Basic Life Support (BLS) is the foundation for saving lives after cardiac arrest. This course teaches both single-rescuer and team basic life support skills for application in both in-facility and prehospital settings. This course is designed for healthcare professionals and other personnel who need to know how to perform CPR and other basic cardiovascular life support skills.
In addition, BLS training can be appropriate for first responders, such as police officers and firefighters, as well as for laypeople whose work brings them into contact with members of the public, such as school, fitness center, or hotel and restaurant employees.
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A lot of people would like to know was Jesus a Kamitic initiate. Well, it is not known for sure if he was or wasn't. I wondered about this when I was growing up, which is part of the reason why I embarked upon this journey so many years ago. You see, I remember being told when I was younger that the Egyptians were a horrible idol worshipping people that enslaved the "Chosen People" of God. But, I couldn't for the like of me understand that if the Kamitic people were so evil, why the Daniel, the kid that had the coat of many colors, serve as a vizier? Why did the Joseph flee with Mary and Jesus to Kemet or Kamit, and stay for so long if they were enemies of God?
Then when I got older and continued my research, I wondered why was Moses according to Acts 7:20-22 educated in the ways of the Kamitic people, if the Kamitic people were so evil? It would take years for me to discover that it is because God never cursed or considered the Kamitic people to be evil. This was a gross assumption that someone made and they ran with it. It was another way of trying to promote the twisted theory that the descendants of Ham or Kam were a cursed and wicked people. People swallowed it hook and bait because the bible was interpreted literally and has been used as a world history book.
When it is understood that the bible is all about the genealogical seed of Adam and it is interpreted from that perspective of how anyone can achieve great things. It becomes easy to see why our ancestors in the Americas, kin in Caribbean (Rastafarians) and martyrs like Nat Turner, Harriet Tubman, Marcus Garvey, Elijah Muhammad, Haile Selassie, Malcolm X, and Civil Rights leaders like Martin L. King Jr. and others were able to use the bible as a tool against racism and slavery. They understood the ancient African science of conjuring.
When you understand the power of the Spirit in relation to the Soul, Kamit metaphorically and metaphysically speaking becomes a port of entry. We enter Kamit every time we close our eyes, but only a few of the biblical characters actually were initiated into it. Does it make sense now, why Moses and Jesus went to Kamit?
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MAA AANKH: Finding God the Afro-American Way, by Honoring the Ancestors and Guardian Spirits.


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Academics and netizens have accused CTi News and ETTV of abandoning journalistic professionalism after the two news channels on Friday showed a live four-hour broadcast of a Chinese singing competition under the auspices of news reporting.
A group of seven veteran singers, including four from Taiwan — Terry Lin (林志炫), Aska Yang (楊宗緯), Julia Peng (彭佳慧) and Winnie Hsin (辛曉琪) ─ competed on Friday during the season finale of a closely watched Chinese TV show, titled I Am A Singer (我是歌手), produced by China's Hunan TV.
Several Taiwanese TV stations, including CTi News and ETTV, carried live broadcasts of the show on Friday by having TV anchors providing lead-ins for partial segments of the show, in an apparent effort to circumvent laws that Chinese programs must first be reviewed by the Ministry of Culture and the Mainland Affairs Council before they can be aired in Taiwan.
CTi News even went so far as to announce that it was live-streaming the show, with ETTV canceling its flagship talk show, This Is It (關鍵時刻) — which is aired on weekdays between 10pm and midnight — on Friday for what it said was a special report on the singing competition.
The stations did not resume normal programming until at about 12:22am on Saturday, triggering harsh criticism from academics that their handling of the singing competition had profoundly undermined journalistic professionalism in the nation.
Kuang Chung-hsiang (管中祥), an associate professor in National Chung Cheng University's department of communication, said the TV channels' live broadcast of the show not only squeezed out news coverage of major events, but also showed disrespect to their reporters.
"These TV stations hire journalists to report on news events, and yet they choose to take the easy route … In the long run, what they are doing could damage their professionalism and credibility," Kuang said.
Association of Taiwan Journalists chairwoman Chen Hsiao-yi (陳曉宜) said that while media content regulation was left entirely self-regulated, media outlets that provided extensive coverage of a specific event tended to neglect issues that were of higher news value and were thus more likely to damage their professionalism and irritate the public.
"By doing so media outlets expose their short-sightedness, because they are supposed to promote local programs rather than blindly hyping a foreign show," Chen said.
Meanwhile, netizens also lambasted the TV stations for buttering up China and abandoning their journalistic integrity.
"The next time CTi News and ETTV try to renew their satellite TV licenses, the National Communications Commission [NCC] may as well rename them to the Channel One and Channel Two of Hunan TV," a netizen wrote.
Another netizen lashed out at ETTV for canceling This Is It for a Chinese show, saying that the station had willingly turned itself into a "China ass-kisser" and an entertainment channel.
As the TV stations chose the live broadcast of the show over not only their own programs, but also over news coverage of major events that night — such as luggage containing explosives being found on a high-speed rail train and the conclusion of an investigation into a double homicide in New Taipei City's (新北市) Bali District (八里) — a Chinese netizen questioned whether the two stations had been bought off by the Chinese government.


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Not as rare — or as old — as you might think
Friday morning marks August's second full moon, a blue moon. While the term blue moon dates back hundreds of years, its meaning of the second full moon in a single month was crafted in the 20th century. Its early usage you might hear in the phrase I'll believe that when the moon is blue.
In 1937, the Maine Farmer's Almanac refered to a blue moon as the third of four full moons in any three-month season. For the Almanac, the blue moon was a placeholder in the colloquial names of the year's full moons. For instance, August's full moon is the Corn Moon and September's the Harvest Moon. Without the Blue Moon, Friday's full moon would be the Harvest Moon, throwing the off the whole system.
Then in 1946, an article on the moon in Sky and Telescope cited the Almanac's usage of the blue moon phrase but simplified its meaning to be the second full moon in any given month. By either definition, this Friday is our blue moon, with a full moon already on July 1 and August 1 and another on September 29.
Blue moons are uncommon, but they are not rare. A blue moon is a result of the disconnect between our solar calendar and the moon's 291⁄2-day orbit around the earth. Every 32 months or so, a 30- or 31-day month hosts two full moons, working out to a cycle of seven blue moons every 19 years. Our next blue moon comes July 31, 2015, so you won't have to puzzle over it again any time soon.
As the night sky darkens, the bright light directly overhead is Vega, one of the three stars in the Summer Triangle. Look for Deneb to its east and Altair to its south.
Mercury hovers above the east-northeast horizon with the approach of sunrise. Brilliant Venus is 45 degrees higher, and Jupiter almost that much higher again. In the evening, Mars and Saturn appear in the west-southwest as the sky darkens.


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I can't even begin to imagine how hard going through infertility must be. It took me about six months to get pregnant with Noah. I watched all my friends get pregnant when their husbands so much as looked at them with sexy eyes. Those 6 months felt like an eternity. In the grand scheme of things, 6 months is nothing at all. I really can't fathom the emotions and the strain that years of infertility must cause. In the eyes of most people, adoption is still considered something you do when you can't get pregnant- it is your "Plan B". But more and more, that is not the case. I can't speak for how it is to go into an adoption from an infertility standpoint. I don't know how it feels so I won't even try to go there. I hate nothing more than for someone to try to talk about something they've never been through, especially when it is something as intensely personal as infertility and adoption.
More and more, adoption is becoming people's "Plan A". Meaning, as far as you know, you could conceive children but are choosing to adopt instead. We are plan A adopters. I think that in America this is still a really hard concept for people to understand. Some people just can't wrap their heads around why in the world you would want to parent "some one else's child" when you could have your "own".
So many people send me emails asking me how we explained to people about why we were adopting when we could have more biological children and what you do when people are less than supportive. Or what do you do when you want to adopt but your spouse is not on board. 100% of the people I have met who are plan A adopters have a really strong reason for wanting to adopt. It is not just something you decide to do one day. You don't just wake up, say, "Hey, I think I'll spend my life savings and adopt a baby today." Uh- uh. Not gonna happen. It is a thought out, and calculated move. So how in the world do you explain that to people? More specifically, how do you explain that to the people that you love, whose support and understanding is the most important?
Let's start at the beginning. I know that it is not this way for all people, but within my circle of adoption friends, the idea to adopt always started with the woman. I don't know why this is, maybe it is just the way we are wired. A lot of times, the woman felt so strongly about this, but just couldn't get her husband on board. This was the case in our house, too. Let me re-phrase that. Kamron did not rule out that we would adopt. He just made it very clear that my time table and his time table for pulling the trigger on the adoption were VERY different. When I decided that my heart was 100% behind wanting to adopt, I wanted to do it right then. I knew that my baby was out there and I wanted that baby right then. Waiting for "the right time" seemed ridiculous to me. Just like with biological children, there is never a "right time." There will always be something going on with work. There will never be enough money in your bank account. You can wait for x,y, and z to fall into place. But as soon as they do, there will always be another x,y, and z. Having children or adopting children is just one of those things you do, despite the timing. (In my very unscientific opinion)
It took almost one full year from the time I told my husband I was feeling called to adopt until we actually made the call and filed the first papers. That year was very hard for me. I'll be very honest here. I love my husband. He is the yin to my yang. We are the perfect compliment to one another. We are peas and carrots, yada, yada, yada. But the thought honestly crossed my mind, "If I have to divorce this guy in order to sign those papers as a single parent, I'll do it!" I felt that strongly about wanting to adopt. I am super ashamed to admit that, but it's true. I did not get how he wouldn't want to adopt right at the minute I wanted to. I though he must be a heartless, selfish jerk to be able to look at those pictures of those starving children in Congo and NOT want to bring one home immediately.
Ladies, (and my five male readers) let me tell you. I was mad. I was depressed. I was not a good wife. I made the strain in our house palpable. I did not want to wait. Finally, I just had to realize that for my husband the experience was very different. For him (and maybe for a lot of men) they plan out things differently. They think about the finances of it. It is a hefty price tag. They think of the practical issues: the space in the house, the need for a mini-van, the jump from however many kids you have or don't have to what you will have if you add another one. And they may even need to grieve a little bit for the child that they won't be passing their genetics onto. It is just a different ballgame for them. It doesn't mean that they are heartless. It doesn't mean that they don't care about the starving children. It doesn't mean you need to divorce! It's just different.
And now- having been through an adoption, I can see that you need both sides of that equation. It does absolutely suck, though, while you are going through it and your not on the same page. Sometimes I felt like we weren't even reading the same book. I am a feeling person. I feel personally responsible for each and every one of those orphans. I lay awake at night thinking of ways to bring more orphans home. I think with my heart. Which is not a bad thing. But the flip side of that is that in a situation as enormous as adoption, you need someone to be the one to think with their brain and say, "Okay, if this is going to happen, then how are we going to pay for it, and where is that baby going to sleep and how can we work a minivan into our budget?" You need someone to say, "It may take x number of months for us to be able to work this out and here are the steps we need to take to get there." As opposed to my child-like demand that we must do this NOW!
You have to remember- adoption is not the "norm". When you approach a spouse or partner with it, you have to consider that you may have just changed their vision of how a family is built, how a family looks and how they've maybe always thought of family. Just because adoption is on your radar, does not mean that it is on your loved one's radar. It takes time to change that vision and create a new vision together. And the timetable for every couple is different. Give it time. If you are the religious type, give it prayer. The way to handle this is not to get mad (like I did) and not think of ways to manipulate or strong arm your spouse (like I also did). In the end, the results in my house were the same, but I wish that I would have approached the situation more lovingly and more reasonably. You don't get a do-over in a marriage, so take the time and try to understand where your spouse is coming from if they are dragging their feet. Chances are, it's not because they are heartless. Talk about it. Explain your side, but be willing to accept that your spouses concerns/fears/expectations are valid. Understanding and working through that is essential to creating a home that is a loving environment for your child. In retrospect, I am okay that we waited a while. I know that my husband needed that time and that time helped him be an amazing father to Miles. I knew that it would work out, but he needed that extra time to make adoption his dream, too.
Just like it is not on every spouse's radar, adoption is not on the general public's radar. Don't be discouraged if your big adoption announcement gets more "Oh my God's" than "Yippee's!" People fear what they don't understand. If they haven't seen you struggle with infertility, the notion of adoption may seem like it came completely out of left field. Be able to explain your "why" to people. Be armed with information and answers. But also don't get too disappointed when people just don't get it. They need time to internalize it. Once again, you've changed their vision.
With lots of our family we started small. Once we decided to adopt and knew it was a for sure thing, we still took baby steps in announcing it. We especially took it slow with the oldest generations in our family, since we anticipated that the reaction would not be positive. We told them that adoption was something we were thinking about. We took their concerns to heart. Then a month or so later, we told them this was absolutely something that we were going to do and were prepared to address their concerns since we already knew what they were. Then about a month later, we told people that our son was going to come from Africa and that we were going to be a transracial family. Letting the news out in small increments like that seemed to work pretty well for us. That way we weren't shocking the hell out of anyone and we were able to give them small bits of information so they didn't have to internalize the whole thing all at once.
We didn't approach it that way with everyone. With our immediate family members we just flat-out told them and most of them were overjoyed. They still had lots of questions, but were overall really open to it once we explained why we wanted to adopt and about the need for adoptive parents. I get that it is not that way with everyone's family. People have told me that their parents and grandparents were adamantly opposed and even have gone so far as to say that they weren't sure they could love their adopted grandchildren as much as their biological grandchildren. I think a lot of times, just having the child home and with their family changes people's perspectives. Being able to hold those grandchildren may make them feel differently. Something about actually seeing the child is often enough to soften hearts. Not always. We do have some members of our family who still have yet to meet Miles for various reasons. And while it hurts, in the end, you just have to do what is right for your family. If you know in your heart that adoption is the right thing for your family, you have to follow that path and not worry about the people that you can't control. I think Dr. Seuss said it best when he said, "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." Follow your bliss.
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By Marlena De Lacroix
I can't stand watching General Hospital because of the din of Crazy Carly's constant yelling about Jax's relationship with Kate (when Carly secretly screwed Sonny). I could hardly bear watching last year's incoherently plotted GH: Night Shift because in the end it was sound and fury signifying nothing.
So the last thing I expected the premiere of this year's season of Night Shift to be was deadly boring. Did anyone make it through the entire hour?
The premiere of any show is at least supposed to be exciting, vamping you for the entire season. I think it was supposed to be exciting when the car crashed through the hospital's wall into the nurse's station. But, not only was it cheese-ily produced, but we soap fans have seen the car-crash-through-the-wall shtick twice before: on Another World, when Wallingford and Lily hilariously [Read more…]


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INTRODUCTION In her fifteen novels, Jodi Picoult delves deep into the most troubling contemporary social issues, writing fiction that theNew York Daily Newscalls "intelligent, often moving, and always ripe for book club discussion." InChange of Heart,she examines a convicted killer on death row, Shay Bourne, who has taken the lives of Officer Kurt Nealon and his young stepdaughter, Elizabeth. When Shay discovers that his victim's living daughter, Claire, is desperately in need of a heart transplant, he sees his only chance for salvation. Standing in his way, however, is the law and a mother filled with anger and revenge. On his side are some unexpected allies -- a Catholic priest who had a hand in Shay's sentencing; an ambitious attorney who, despite her deep convictions against capital punishment is determined to see Shay die on his own terms; and a community who sees something in Shay that gives them hope. Picoult expertly intersects matters of the state and matters of the spirit to probe questions about the meaning of salvation and who has the power to determine the fate of the soul. GROUP DISCUSSION 1. The author uses several famous quotations from some of the greatest thinkers in history, including Lewis Carroll, Voltaire, Woody Allen, Mother Teresa, Mark Twain, the Dalai Lama, Bono, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Albert Einstein. What effect do these philosophical tidbits have on the telling of this story? Which one resonated most with you? 2. Discuss the theme of belief in this novel. What does Shay believe, and who believes in him? Apply this same question to Maggie, Michael, and June. Did this story call any of their beliefs into question? Which ones? 3. When Shay is moved to the I-tier, some very strange things start happening -- water turns to wine, Calloway's pet robin is brought back to life, a tiny piece of gum becomes enough for all to share. Some call these miracles while others call them hijinks. What do you make of these incidents? Were you convinced that Shay had divine powers, and if so, at what point did you make that conclusion? 4. Michael tells Maggie that "there's a big difference between mercy and salvation" (142). What is that difference? Which characters are pursuing mercy and which are pursuing salvation? Which, do you think, is granted in the end for each of the main characters? 5. Having lost a daughter and two husbands, June's life is fraught with grief. How do you see that grief shaping her character and informing the choices that she makes? Do you think she makes choices in order to reconcile the past or in hopes of a better future? 6. How do the three religions referenced in this book (Judaism, Christianity, Gnosticism) imagine the presence or reappearance of the divine? Compare Michael's vision on p. 71 with Rabbi Bloom's explanation of the Jewish Midrash on p. 96 and Shay's depiction of heaven on p.106. 7. Consider the passage on p.165 where Maggie thinks "the penitentiary [Shay] was referring to was his own body." In what ways are some of the other characters in this book (Claire, Maggie, Lucius) imprisoned by their bodies? 8. Discuss June's questions on p. 184: "Would you give up your vengeance against someone you hate if it meant saving someone you love? Would you want your dreams to come true if it meant granting your enemy's dying wish?" How do the characters answer this question? 9. June thinks that if Claire accepted a heart transplant from Shay Bourne and had to absorb the emotional pain of her father's and sister's murders, it would be "better to have no heart at all" (238). This statement eerily echoes Shay's own statement to June that her first daughter, Elizabeth, "was better off dead." How do you feel about the adults in this novel making such grave choices over the life of a child? Do you feel like they are being protective or presumptuous? 10. Why do you think Shay never puts up a real fight for his innocence? Do you believe he isPicoult, Jodi is the author of 'Change of Heart', published 2008 under ISBN 9780743496742 and ISBN 0743496744.[read more]
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In the majority of production situations it is desirable to have a level of failover between the underlying datastores used for persistence. You have at least 2 options available to you here. These are shown below
Sequoia is a transparent middleware solution offering clustering, load balancing and failover services for any database. Sequoia is the continuation of the C-JDBC project. The database is distributed and replicated among several nodes and Sequoia balances the queries among these nodes. Sequoia handles node and network failures with transparent failover. It also provides support for hot recovery, online maintenance operations and online upgrades.
Sequoia can be used with DataNucleus by just providing the Sequoia datastore URLs as input to DataNucleus. There is a problem outstanding in Sequoia itself in that its JDBC driver doesnt provide DataNucleus with the correct major/minor versions of the underlying datastore. Until Sequoia fix this issue, use of Sequoia will be unreliable
DataNucleus has the capability to switch to between DataSources upon failure of one while obtaining a datastore connection. The failover mechanism is useful for applications with multiple database nodes when the data is actually replicated/synchronized by the underlying database. There are 2 things to be aware of before utilising this functionality.
Several failover algorithm are allowed to be used, one at time, as for example round-robin , ordered list or random . The default algorithm, ordered list, is described below and is provided by DataNucleus. You can also implement and plug your own algorithm. See Connection Provider.
To use failover, each datastore connection must be provided through DataSources. The datanucleus.ConnectionFactoryName property must be declared with a list of JNDI names pointing to DataSources, in the form of <JNDINAME> [,<JNDINAME>] . See the example:
At least one least one JNDI name must be declared.
The Ordered List Algorithm (default) allows you to switch to slave DataSources upon failure of a master DataSource while obtaining a datastore connection. This is shown below.
Each time DataNucleus needs to obtain a connection to the datastore, it takes the first DataSource, the Master, and tries, on failure to obtain the connection goes to the next on the list until it obtains a connection to the datastore or the end of the list is reached.
The first JNDI name in the datanucleus.ConnectionFactoryName property is the Master DataSource and the following JNDI names are the Slave DataSources.


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Ballhawking Prankology 101: The Plant
In case anyone who reads this blog hasn't seen this yet, I thought I would share the guest column I wrote recently for myGameBalls.com. Enjoy:
Here are a couple bonus pictures. First, Tim with one of the FeMeBe baseballs:
Here is a photo by Avi Miller of Jeremy Guthrie standing in LF with the FeMeBe baseball in his glove pre-toss-up:
Here is a group shot from the myGameBalls.com "Ballhawkfest 2011" featuring the FeMeBe baseball:
Finally, Avi and I did not tell Zack about the prank or the article. We wanted him to find out about it through normal channels…just however the news would reach him. I'm still not sure how the news got to him, but a few hours after the article was posted this message from Zack showed up on Twitter:
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Jailer arrested, accused of smuggling contraband in chip bags
Pot, cigarettes found
A Hinds County Detention Center guard has been arrested and is accused of smuggling contraband to a prisoner.
Lacardio Ward was arrested at 10:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sheriff Tyrone Lewis said. Ward reported for duty on Tuesday and was checked for contraband, as is the policy for everyone who enters the Raymond facility, Lewis said. The check revealed one ounce of marijuana and 70 cigarettes/cigars and other paraphernalia, Lewis said.
Ward is accused of opening the chip bags, putting the contraband inside and then gluing the bags closed, Lewis said.
The marijuana was intended for an inmate, who Lewis said is cooperating with the Hinds County Sheriff's Department. Lewis wouldn't say if the inmate is facing charges, but said there could be more arrests.
Ward was being held Wednesday at the Detention Center.
"He's in jail with the rest of his friends," Lewis said.


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New hire to help Phils better utilize advanced stats
Club hopes to gain understanding of how other teams use analytics to evaluate players
PHILADELPHIA -- One thing that intrigued Phillies general manager Ruben Amaro Jr. about incorporating some level of analytics into player evaluation is that it could help the organization better understand how other teams evaluate talent.
That knowledge could help the Phillies when they talk to those teams about potential trades.
The Phils' front office believes it took a step in the right direction recently when it accepted Scott Freedman as a consultant from Major League Baseball's Labor Relations Department, where he has worked on salary arbitration cases, provided financial guidance to teams and gained a deep knowledge of advanced metrics. Freedman is not a Phillies employee. MLB is paying his salary as part of a partnership with the Phils, although the team has the opportunity to hire him permanently once his externship concludes before the beginning of the regular season.
"He's going to help us explore more thoroughly what the options are for using these metrics," assistant general manager Scott Proefrock said Tuesday. "We're looking at them to compliment the opinions of our scouts."
"I don't know if it's going to change the way we do business, necessarily," Amaro said recently. "We still plan to be a scouting and player development organization, but I think it's important to get all the information and analyze not just what we're doing, but how other clubs are evaluating players."
Freedman first appeared on Philadelphia's radar this summer. MLB regularly trains people like Freedman, then helps place them in front offices across baseball.
The Phillies were particularly interested in Freedman's ability to expand their data analysis capabilities. His experience in preparation for salary arbitration cases got him involved with advanced metrics. And Freedman's work with MLB gives him an idea of how other teams use analytics.
"It seemed like it was too good of an opportunity to pass up," Proefrock said. "He's got a wealth of experience at the global Major League Baseball level. It's simply a matter of educating ourselves to how some of our competitors value players. We may find something we are intrigued by, and we may find something we're not intrigued by. But we need to do more investigation and more research internally before we come to some conclusion about what may be right for us, in conjunction and certainly not to supercede what our scouts do."
It remains to be seen how much the Phils will use advanced metrics, but Freedman's arrival means they will have the stats at their disposal, in addition to a better understanding of what they mean and how they can be used to the club's advantage.


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Treatment of hypospadias using surgical correction of urethral channel (program ID: 300920)
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Jürgen ZumbéSpecialized in: urology, pediatric urology
Department of Urology and Pediatric Urology
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- Initial presentation in the clinic
- clinical history taking
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- physical examination
- urological examination
- laboratory tests:
- complete blood count
- general urine analysis
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- inflammation indicators (CRP, ESR)
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The Department of Urology and Pediatric Urology at the Leverkusen Clinic under the direction of Priv.-Doz. Dr. Jürgen Zumbé provides not only conservative, but also surgical treatment of all diseases of the kidneys, adrenal gland, ureter, bladder, prostate and male reproductive organs, including pediatric urology. The service range is completed by the treatment of potency disorders and urinary incontinence.
The Department under the direction of Priv.-Doz. Dr. Jürgen Zumbé is especially focused on the treatment of patients with prostate cancer. The Department has at its command various biopsy techniques, which use ultrasound to detect abnormal tissue structures. Therefore, it is possible to take the tiniest samples to detect pathologies. This method is not only the most accurate, but, above all, it is sparing for the patient. To ensure a successful treatment of cancers, it is important to collaborate with different departments. The Leverkusen Clinic has integrated various medical disciplines in the centers to develop joint treatment programs. The Prostate Cancer Center under the direction of Priv.-Doz. Dr. Jürgen Zumbé carries out regular cancer consultations. In most cases, the treatment includes three elements. Apart from chemotherapy, the Department uses innovative radiation methods and the so-called brachytherapy. According to the Focus magazine rating of 2017, the Department of Urology and Pediatric Urology at the Leverkusen Clinic ranks among the top German departments specializing in prostate cancer treatment!
If possible, there is used the so-called keyhole surgery. The Department of Urology under the direction of Priv.-Doz. Dr. Jürgen Zumbé uses this technique even for the cases that previously required major open surgery, e.g. in prostate cancer. Minimally invasive techniques prevail in almost all focuses of the Leverkusen Clinic. These also include modern laser techniques, such as GreenLight laser therapy, as well as other focus of urology – removal of stones. The treatment of urinary incontinence and prolapse in women and men is also of great importance here. These fields are primarily focused on the interdisciplinary cooperation within the Pelvic Floor Center.
Pediatric urology makes up one of the most important focuses of the Leverkusen Clinic. Pediatric urology includes the treatment of diseases and malformations of the child's genitourinary tract. The range of services covers congenital malformations of the ureteral orifice. Common diagnoses for young patients are also functional disorders, such as enuresis. In addition, there are treated congenital malformations of the urethra (hypospadias, epispadias) or stenosis. Phimosis is the most common disease in the field of pediatric urology.
The treatment focuses of the Department of Urology and Pediatric Urology at the Leverkusen Clinic are:
- Treatment of benign prostatic diseases (endoscopic resections, Greenlight laser, transurethral needle ablation (TUNA))
- Expanded diagnosis in suspicion of prostatic malignancies by HistoScanningTM
- Endoscopic (keyhole technique) and robotic (da VinciTM prostatectomy), open surgical treatment of prostatic malignancies or implantation of radioactive elements (brachytherapy)
- Optimal holistic treatment and postoperative care within the certified Prostate Cancer Center (in cooperation with oncologists, radiologists, pathologists and urologists in private practice
- Regular interdisciplinary consultations (including "the second opinion" in cancer)
- Minimally invasive treatment of the urethra by means of modern lithotripters (ESWL) and endoscopic treatments
- Treatment of bladder malignant tumors: photodynamic diagnosis and all modern surgical techniques, including artificial bladder formation
- Pediatric urology and postoperative care of children in the Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine
- Microsurgical reconstruction, e.g. restoration of patency of the vas deferens
- Diagnosis and treatment of urinary incontinence in women and men, including implantation of artificial sphincters within the Interdisciplinary Pelvic Floor Center
- Outpatient treatment
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- 1981 Doctor of Medicine, University of Cologne
- 1983 Doctor of Medicine, University Essen
- 1982 – 1986 Assistant Physician, Department of Urology, Leverkusen Clinic
- 1987 – 1993 Senior Physician, Department of Urology
- 1994 – 1997 University of Cologne
- 1997 – 2001 Head Physician, Department of Urology, Marienhospital, Gelsenkirchen
- Since 2001, Head of the Department of Urology and Pediatric Urology, Leverkusen Clinic
- European Association of Genital Microsurgery, German Section Urological Microsurgery
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Trade deficit in January widened more than expected as fuel oil exports slumped and crude oil imports rose, a government report showed on Thursday.
The monthly trade gap totaled $44.4 billion, higher than a consensus estimate of $42.6 billion from analysts surveyed before the Commerce Department report.
The department also lowered its estimate of the December trade gap to $38.1 billion, from $38.5 billion previously.
The $6.3 billion month-to-month rise in the deficit was the largest since March. Exports fell 1.2 percent to $184.5 billion and imports rose 1.8 percent to $228.9 billion.
The drop in exports was led by industrial supplies and materials. Fuel oil exports tumbled by a third and non-monetary gold exports tumbled about 14 percent.
Meanwhile, exports of cars, capital goods, consumer goods, and food, feeds and beverages showed slight gains.
Imports of crude oil and other petroleum products shot higher as the average price for imported oil fell to $94.08 per barrel, the lowest since July, from $95.16 in December.
Increased volume pushed the total petroleum import bill to $31.7 billion, up more than $4 billion.
Imports of drilling equipment, telecommunications equipment and other capital goods grew in January, while imports of consumer goods and cars fell.
The U.S. trade deficit with China widened to $27.8 billion in January, potentially signaling another record annual deficit in 2013 after hitting $315 billion in 2012.
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The band have been talking to the LA Times about Ordinary Love, Nelson Mandela ... and that new record.
On Ordinary Love: "We thought it should be a love song, a very human song. Not epic, not earnest in dealing with world-changing political shifts but personal in two people trying to hold on to one another in the face of dreadful mistreatment and heartbreak." (Edge)
On Nelson Mandela: "He would always turn on the humor, mock you a little and then mock himself. Mostly himself." (Bono).
On the new record: "From the few tracks of the new album heard that night," writes Steven Zeitchik, "It has traces of the Clash and Sex Pistols and Kraftwerk — "stuff we were really listening to when we were younger," Bono said. But it also comes laden with soul and old-school R&B, genres Bono said he and friends were listening to in the 1970s "but once punk came along, no one admitted it."
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26 December, 2013
u2 ever the best bandwe love this boys u2 are simply the best band we wait years for the boys the life,,real love,,next year the u2 bomb,,always the best band ever,,love from portugal
26 December, 2013
girl drummerEdge, in his trademark knit hat and biker-esque facial hair, volleyed back, "I told you we should have had a girl drummer." Not a bad idea...as a guest onstage of course. Girls ROCK!
21 December, 2013
U2 come to Idaho. Home of Hemmingway...What a mellifluous cacophony! Can these guys get any better? They are just AMAZING!
19 December, 2013
What?!Krfatwerk and the Clash?! I hope that is the case!
19 December, 2013
Penguins?I want to watch!
19 December, 2013
YesLooking good our rock god's
19 December, 2013
Techno Punk! Yeah Baby!Hints of The Clash, Sex Pistols and Kraftwerk - hmmm, sounds like the U2 I remember! Interesting times, looking forward to the new year.
19 December, 2013
Extra-Ordinary LoveMy musical Gods are never Ordinary...as usual looking forward to what they are cooking. I do love their first three albums, so, if there are things from the past, be my guests!!!! You are you, period!
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Too much vitamin D may be just as bad as too little, a recent study suggests.
Vitamin D supplements reduce blood levels of C-reactive protein, or CRP, an indicator of inflammation that is linked to cardiovascular disease. But supplements help only up to a point.
In a study of more than 15,000 adults ages 18 to 85, researchers at Johns Hopkins University found that after blood levels exceeded 21 nanograms per milliliter — the lower end of what is usually considered normal — any additional vitamin D led to an increase in CRP.
The association held after the researchers accounted for the effects of factors like obesity, smoking, cholesterol and high blood pressure. There was also a dose-response relationship: Above 21 units, each 10-unit increase in vitamin D was accompanied by an increase of 0.06 milligrams per deciliter in CRP.
"Vitamin D is good to a certain level," said the lead author, Dr. Muhammad Amer, an assistant professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins. "But don't just keep on taking it. Have your blood drawn and your levels checked."
Previous studies of vitamin D supplementation have produced inconsistent results, with some trials showing a decrease in inflammatory markers and others showing no effect. The finding that the benefit is apparent only at lower levels of vitamin D, the authors write, may help explain these conflicting findings.
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alexh wrote:Looks interesting. How does the device stack up against Kryoflux? I'm interested to see one being used.
I am modifying the prototype (should be ready today) so it can read SuperCard Pro raw csp format.
DrCoolZic wrote:Fuzzy (aka weak) bits requires a least 2 rev
JimDrew wrote:DrCoolZic wrote:Fuzzy (aka weak) bits requires a least 2 rev
No... that's a myth. If that were the case, then the image file I sent you would not create a working disk, and it certainly does. There are ways to determine where weak bits are located without having to read the disk multiple times. Also keep in mind that reading and writing of weakbits is *extremely* drive dependent. Some drives will not read (or write) weakbits at all.
Most all disk dumps with SuperCard Pro only need a single revolution, weakbits or not. The ONLY time you need a multi-rev dump is when the track does not start/stop on the index pulse. In these cases, we need 2 revolutions. The writing portion is then responsible for determining where the write splice is located (somewhere in the 2nd revolution) and writing out the disk as one full revolution + a partial revolution so that the data overlaps perfectly and shuts off the writing. There is no need to look at disk structures, decode anything, etc. The only thing you have to figure out is exactly where the writing was turned off on the original. Numerous write splices can occur on a disk and I see this quite often (especially with ST disks apparently). As long as you are not shutting off the write in the middle of a sector or some other valid data, you can shut it off anywhere. I locate a valid write splice and make the copy as accurate as the drive speed variation allows.
Thanks for the disk image file format info!! I figured that .ST files were just straight sectors.
DrCoolZic wrote:Detecting fuzzy bits (as described in patent 4849836) requires 2 or more revolutions by definition (see below)
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Charlie Sheen has a new court date over domestic violence allegations involving his wife, as settlement talks continue.
Sheen has pleaded not guilty to menacing, criminal mischief and assault charges stemming from an argument with his wife, Brooke Mueller, on Christmas Day at an Aspen home where they were on vacation.
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FYI: 雲 kumo = cloud in Japanese.
Really? Another cloud? Talk about single minded.
Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer is expected to outline on Wednesday what's in store for a re-branded version of his company's laggard search service, Live Search. Ballmer will take the stage at Microsoft's regular Valued Professional (MVP) summit, to discuss search, according to MVPs attending the summit. The news …
Kumon Microsoft i still can't find what i was searching for!!!
Why don't they fix it first and then rebrand? Ahh, who am i taking about? Rebranding without fixing IS the MS strategy. I love searching for things at MS's corporate site. Don't like the result? Run the same search from a different page until you do.
Just give up for Christ sakes and leave it to Yahoo and Google. They at least know what they are doing.
One of the problems with the rebranding of everything '.NET' is that '.NET' is actually a pretty piss-poor brand. .NET was launced at around the time when Sun Microsystems were busy trying to get everyone to forget that they'd every claimed to be the 'dot in .com', and '.NET' just came across as a bit of me-too marketing (of what was actually a rather cool set of ideas) under a rather crappy umbrella title - one which employed a punctuation mark as it's first character.
The fact that everyone involved in cmmentating on it, at the time, received a ten page document from Microsoft marketing, outlining exactly when (and under what circustances) there should be a space in front of the dot in '.NET' (when it's a 'product' as opposed to a 'technology', if I recall correctly, whatever that means) also detered people from taking it all too seriously, too. When it's more important to know how to write something's name, than to know what to do with it, most technologists tend to be wary of it.
Some of this wariness was justified, too. Many mediocre managers, from failing departments in Redmond, jockeyed to get their marginal (and often failing,) products rebranded as a '.NET'product - dluting what could have been a strong set of offerings with 'lots of "Wireless Server .NET" duds. This has been the continuing trend with all of Microsoft's 'Live' branding efforts. Live has been regarded as a rather-less-sinking ship, in a whole floatilla of leaky tubs, around the edges of Microsoft's core businss... and every rat with a half-baked product, who is seeking to justify his or her budget for the next six months has tended to leap aboard it.
What they should really do, is announce some dorky new product range, let the fail-specialists jump aboard, and then cut the boat loose and watch it sink, taking a good quarter of the deadwood in the company, with it. That'll never happen, however, because fartoo many of those specialists are among the Senior Partners, who are lining hemselves up for this years Executive Officer Incentives Plan bonanza.
EOIP is the technology - damn - I mean product - No, I mean... 'pig trough' formerly branded as 'SPSA' (it's a new, improved SPSA, that is precompiled in advance, so that the rest of the employees cannot look at the details and work out how it works, however).
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Last night at Nationals Park, the racing presidents honored the Olympics by running that most difficult of track events — the walk race. After it was announced that walk race rules were in effect, the racing presidents took off — slowly — in a painful demonstration of speed-walking while wearing a 10-foot costume.
Perhaps Teddy Roosevelt was sympathetic to the umpires' desire to start the 5th inning, but before the pack had even reached the right field corner, he decided to take things into his own hands.
The Nationals Park crowd roared with approval as Teddy cut the outfield corner and broke into a sprint for the finish line. Of course, that buzzkill Screech was there to issue an immediate disqualification, and Thomas Jefferson was granted the victory.
Where is Screech to throw the flag when Abe cheats?
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text: Railroad Line Forums Username: Password: Save Password Register Forgot Password? Home Forums Events Calendar Sponsors Support the RRLine Guestbook FAQ Register Active Topics | Active Polls | Resources | Members | Online Users | Live Chat | Avatar Legend | Search | Statistics Photo Album | File Lister | File Library [ Active Members: 1 | Anonymous Members: 0 | Guests: 279 ] [ Total: 280 ] [ Newest Member: DanielR ] All Forums General Forums The Crew Lounge Your favorite songs Note: You must be registered in order to post a reply.To register, click here. Registration is FREE! 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Church - Lyle Lovett http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZI0zO2TS1Y Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g2IlaDLVLo Paint It Black - Rolling Stones http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsD8oyRIdrc Janine - David Bowie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W5IH33nWpU&feature=related Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters - Elton John http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmTcnpwcPtw I Wish I Was Your Mother - Mott The Hoople http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9IOKo6UPBg&feature=related [/quote] - HTML is OFF | Forum Code is ON Insert a File Check here to include your profile signature. Check here to subscribe to this topic. T O P I C R E V I E W Rick Posted - 11/08/2011 : 7:28:52 PM I'm starting this thread to both share with everyone my favorite music and to also experience music I'm not familiar with.Since we all have our favorites my hope is that everyone will participate.Please, lets have some fun.My plan is to post links to videos of my favorite songs and for all of you to do the same.Being a child of the 70s, my favorite music is classic rock, but I also enjoy classical, pop, country and more.My favorite band by far is The Who, followed by Pink Floyd and Pearl Jam.I'll start this thread with my all time favorite song.It's by The Who and it's their biggest hit, "Won't Get Fooled Again". Because of Pete's famous line in this song "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss" I felt it was most appropriate to post this song on election day.That line isn't referring to the latest politician elected, as is the most common interpretation, but is instead Pete telling us that we the people are the boss and always have been the boss.I hope all of you went out today and voted and exercised your power to be the boss.I'm going to post two versions of this song.The first is of the master, Pete Townshend (a modern day Mozart), playing the song solo on acoustic guitar and a more traditional version of The Who playing the song live.Pete Townshend playing "Won't Get Fooled Again" : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5yymadwxj8&feature=relatedThe Who's version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp6-wG5LLqE 15 L A T E S T R E P L I E S (Newest First) mwbpequod Posted - 02/11/2020 : 11:07:58 AM Ultravox! -- The Wild, The Beautiful and The Damnedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=savx6aY0nEw mwbpequod Posted - 02/10/2020 : 4:40:35 PM Golden Earring - "Are You Receiving Me"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRy1XMdsP9Y jaynjay Posted - 02/10/2020 : 12:12:17 PM For some strange reason, I like this version. 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Perhaps my favourite song ever??? Listen to the lyrics.The Waterboys - the return of Jimi Hendrix.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhm47BkSq6cCheers, Mark. Railroad Line Forums © 2000-2020 Railroad Line Co. Steam was generated in 0.22 seconds. Powered By: Snitz Forums 2000


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When Sen. John McCain visits Santa Barbara, Calif., next week, Charles Eckberg will be there to protest the Republican presidential candidate's calls to lift the federal ban on US offshore drilling.
Mr. Eckberg, a grass-roots activist, remembers the 1969 spill off the coast of Santa Barbara that galvanized the state and the nation to halt fresh drilling. The ocean was so laden with oil that the waves crashed ashore silently, he says.
Now, Eckberg is concerned that "people are going to say, 'Let's do this because of the gas prices.' "
Voter frustration with dependence on foreign oil and $4-a-gallon gas have primed political pumps for more domestic drilling. Despite the national support for drilling, the politically blue coasts hold a virtual veto in Congress. But experts say all the attention on the issue could push some of the more conservative coastal states to lift their own moratoriums.
"There's a good chance we'll see some of the moratoriums lifted in the next few years," says Eric Smith, an environmental politics professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara. "Because of [Bush and McCain's] leadership, offshore oil drilling has appeared as a major environmental issue, and we'll be debating it for a while."
State moratoriums cover the first few miles off the shores, and federal moratoriums extend those to 200 miles out. Offshore drilling is allowed in parts of the Gulf of Mexico, Alaska, and some grandfathered pockets off California.
President Bush echoed Senator McCain Wednesday, urging Congress to lift the federal moratorium.
California is unlikely to budge on its ban, but more conservative Southern states including Florida might, says Dr. Smith. Californians, by a 52-to-41 margin, oppose drilling off their coast, according to a July 2007 Public Policy Institute of California poll taken before gas prices started increasing.
Republican governors of the two states have taken opposite tacks: California's Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger opposes lifting the moratoriums, while Florida's Gov. Charlie Crist now supports it.
Governor Crist's position is a stark reversal for the governor, who is seen as a possible vice presidential pick. The decision puts him at odds with Floridians who derive the bulk of their livelihoods from the beaches.
"This would break ranks with all previous governors as long as I can remember," said Eric Draper, policy director for Audubon Florida. "He is squandering his green credentials on this issue."
New drilling in Florida would add jobs and infuse the state economy with oil leasing money, says David Mica, director of the Florida Petroleum Council. He expects high gas prices and a desire for energy independence to help change minds.
"I've seen a sea of change that actually began in 2004 when there were supply disruptions to Florida," he said.
Public attitudes do shift with the price of gas. Support among Californians for offshore oil has closely tracked along with gas prices, says Smith.
With gas price momentum at his back, Mr. Bush said he would remove a presidential moratorium by decree if Congress lifts its own. A new Rasmussen poll, prior to the Bush and McCain proposals, found 67 percent of voters supportive of more offshore drilling.
Congress has its own inertia, however.
"Where Democrats in particular are entrenched – coastal areas, California, and the Eastern Seaboard – I don't know how much they or the voters in their districts are going to be moved off this issue," says Chris Bosso, a political science professor at Northeastern University.
The Senate filibuster option makes such strong regional interests difficult to overcome. Even at the height of Bush's popularity, with Republican control of Congress, and concerns about the Middle East front-and-center, the president failed to open drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), points out Dr. Bosso.
"When gasoline went over $3 a gallon, a lot of people said that this is it, this is the price point when ANWR will be opened. But it didn't, and part of that is the structure of the Senate," he says.
The political impact of $4-a-gallon gas on this debate may depend on whether voters see drilling as symbolic, or something that would reduce pump prices soon, he adds.
The Department of Interior's Mineral Management Services (MMS) estimates there are 18 billion barrels of oil offshore under federal moratorium and another 10 billion to 12 billion in ANWR.
Richard Carter, with the Defenders of Wildlife, argues that any new drilling would take at least 10 years to pump, and then only knock a couple cents off pump prices. There's no need to lift moratoriums when the oil industry is sitting on 33 billion acres of offshore leases they haven't developed, he adds.
A lot of undeveloped leases may not have a lot of resources, counters H. Sterling Burnett, senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis in Washington. He argues that expanding drilling in US waters would add to the pool of oil from stable, reliable sources – helping curb speculation. He says opponents of drilling overestimate the time frame for new development, and some projects have turned around in 18 months.
As for environmental impact, each year 47 million gallons of oil seep out naturally into US ocean waters. That far exceeds the 870,000 gallons of petroleum leaked in offshore exploration and drilling, according to the National Academies of Sciences.
Natural leakage is less damaging to wildlife, says Mr. Carter, and spills still occur with frequency.


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First comes
marriage baby, then comes baby engagements, then comes college rehab, then comes messy breakups, then comes "just friends" diamond rings. Jenelle Evans! What are we going to do with you?
Jenelle's whirlwind romance with Courtland Rogers began around October 6. Jenelle made it Twitter official, when she tweeted @Courtland, "You will always be my boo!" The love birds moved in together after only two weeks, but they broke up before Jenelle finished unpacking her Uggs. Seconds later, Jenelle had a change of heart, remembering that Courtland is her boo!
Since then, Jenelle has been too busy promoting Teen Mom 2 and sharing kiss-y face and new house twitpics to create too much drama. UNTIL TODAY.


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by Ari and Shira Sorko-Ram
The soldiers stand for hours listening to the settlers cry, scream, plead. The soldiers enter the synagogues and pray together with the weeping settlers, who pray for the last time in their Gazan synagogues. The soldiers and Orthodox settlers dance and sing together in grief across the length of the Gaza Strip. Then the soldiers evicted them from the settlements that are doomed to obliteration, to be eradicated off the face of the earth. The camera catches a soldier sitting on the ground sobbing in grief as her commander tries to comfort her.
The dead will follow the living as the graves of Jews are exhumed and the bones removed to new resting places. Many of the dead are family members of settlers who died in order that the coming generations of Israelis could live on the Biblical land of Gaza.
In 1976, the first Israelis moved to Gaza and created a small village. Soon more pioneers, especially farmers, found empty land in Gaza where, according to public information, no one had ever lived before. Neither had anyone ever planted crops there, as the sandy land was considered unfit for cultivation. Within 20-30 years, today's 8500 Israelis had built, by the sweat of their brow, 21 magnificent communities a paradise on earth.
For a nation with such a microscopic land mass, Israelis cannot often build a home on their own piece of land. A small plot with a few feet around a house may cost anywhere from half a million to a million dollars in populated areas, and only a bit cheaper in places like Galilee. With their own hands the settlers in Gaza built dream homes, beautiful, manicured lawns and superb educational and religious facilities. They erected 1000 acres of hothouses, exporting spices, flowers, and vegetables, and contributing many millions of dollars to the Israeli economy each year. Moreover, these settlers employed 4000 Gazan Arabs in the hothouses. All this, under constant, withering bombardment and terrorist attacks.
The number of Israeli terrorist victims killed just since September 2000 is 1073, with another 7,371 injured. This, in a nation of 5,021,000 Jews and 1,255,000 Arabs.
Can you fathom this? The total number of terrorist attacks in Israel proper, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip during this time has been 22,406. Of those bombings, shootings, rocket launching and suicide attacks, 12,776 were targeted against the 8,500 Gazan Jews and soldiers stationed in Gaza. That is, 57% of all attacks were in Gaza.
In their hearts of hearts, the vast majority of Israelis are not "for" disengagement. However, if peace were a real possibility, then Israelis would willingly cut this arm from its body. But there is hardly a public figure, a journalist or reporter anywhere here that believes peace is on its way. If Israelis do advocate disengagement, it is because they see absolutely no other alternative.
Journalist Elliot Jager writes: "What part of me would give to be orange [anti-disengagement] right now…I'd be able to turn around probably no more than 14 days after the last Israeli had been pulled out of Gaza and northern Samaria and scream: "I told you so! I told you this would not bring peace; that the Palestinians would interpret Israel's withdrawal as a victory for terrorism; that far from buying us diplomatic breathing space, [instead] pressure from the EU and the U.S. to make further, even riskier, concessions would promptly materialize."
"And yet, with a heavy heart," Jager concludes, "I embrace Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's argument that the Jewish state must not rule over Gaza's 1 million hostile Palestinian Arabs in perpetuity; that Gush Katif is no longer a military asset; and that to salvage as much of Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem as possible, precious communities must be uprooted." (Jerusalem Post, 1 Aug 04)
Jager is saying what we hear all around us.
The Jewish settlers found virgin sand dunes where no one had ever lived or grown crops. In 20-30 years they established paradise communities and state-of-the-art greenhouses, producing millions of dollars of crops and employing 4000 Arabs from Gaza.
1. Israel cannot morally continue to prevent over a million Arabs in Gaza from attaining the basic rights of citizenship, with all that entails.
2. Israel does not have the military manpower nor the finances to spread itself so thinly among several million hostile Muslims in Gaza and the West Bank. Today, over one-third of Israel's children are living below the poverty line, and Israel's taxes as a result of military expenses have created a nation of harried, in-debt or bankrupt and overworked (for those who can find a job) inhabitants.
3. Israel is bracing itself against the whole world to somehow hold on to Jerusalem and most of her settlements in the West Bank. Therefore, she has chosen to consolidate her forces to better protect the rest of the land.
The Arabs in Israel and surrounding countries are multiplying as few other peoples on the globe. Today there are 1.1 million Gazan Arabs by the most scientific (non-Arab) count. They live in squalor; they have a UN organization that allows them the luxury to remain helpless, hopeless, desperately poor refugees who get their daily dole of food and necessities. This never-before "nation" has been created by Muslim hatred for one express purpose to destroy Israel as a Jewish nation and raise the banner of Allah over the Holy Land.
The Palestinians will never make peace with Israel, because, for them, Israel and "peace" are a contradiction in terms. Judea Pearl, the father of the journalist, Daniel Pearl, who was beheaded by Muslim extremists in Pakistan, told of a friendly conversation he had with one of the aides of Palestinian Authority minister Mohammad Dahlan, a strong "supporter" of the Road Map, who confessed that "we Palestinians do not believe in a two-state solution, for we can't agree to the notion of a 'Jewish state'. Palestine is too small for two states."
Pearl pondered, "Road Map to what? To a Middle East without Israel?" After telling this story to an Egyptian scholar renowned as a champion of liberalism in the Arab world, the Egyptian replied, "There is no place for a Jewish state in Palestine... The Jews were driven out 2,000 years ago, and that should be final…."
Pearl laments, "I still cannot name a single Muslim leader (or journalist, or an intellectual) who has publicly acknowledged the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a dispute between two legitimate national movements."
"The problem with Muslim elites," concludes Pearl, "could be seen again, even at the University of California at Irvine, where the Muslim Student Union organized a meeting entitled "A World Without Israel." (Ibid., 17 June 05)
Soldiers weep as they evict the settlers of gaza from their homes and villages.
And now we have arrived at what this government views as the greatest danger of all, that Israel would not be able to sustain itself as a viable nation because the whole world has decided she's not worth saving.
For those who understand the spiritual implications, all is quite clear. And in every country there is a greater or lesser number of praying Christians who understand. Nevertheless, the world - and especially Europeans who once had a Christian culture - neither believe in God nor in the Bible, and so are literally in the dark.
"The main reason Europeans are blind to Israel's security needs and national interests," says columnist Barry Rubin, "is because they simply want a 'solution' to the Middle East conflict so they can get on with their own perceived interests as soon as possible. They include: large-scale trade with Arab states, a calmer situation in the Arab world to reduce the inflow of Muslim immigrants to their lands, scoring points against the U.S., and posing as humanitarian champions of the underdog. (Ibid., 28 June 05)
Thus there is growing consternation across Israel that her very existence is in the balance. This is really the heart-stopping, dreaded reason that Sharon has become so desperate as to uproot his own people.
What Europe, Russia, China and other nations want is quiet. A small tribe of some 13,000,000 Hebrew souls world wide, means little or nothing to them. Whether Israel lives or dies is not a particularly pressing issue. The Arab nations know this, and their strategy is to keep the pot boiling around Israel, and make sure the Arabs presently living in the ancient land of Israel maintain their determination to "take back their land."
A newer tactic is for Palestinian leaders to proclaim they are advocates of democracy and therefore want their "lawful rights" for a single democratic "bi-national" state in place of Israel. One citizen, one vote. Translation: The end of the Jewish state, the establishment of one more Muslim state.
The UN, of which around one-third are nations of the Islamic religion, is a perfect vehicle to continually tighten the screws on the Zionist Jews. Did you know, for example, that Israel is the only country in the world that has not been given a permanent placement in one of the UN's geographical subdivisions? It is from these subdivisions that states are nominated, among other considerations, to sit on committees and councils, including the ten rotational Security Council seats. Israel is never on any of these important committees, because she doesn't "exist" in the geographic divisions.
Now - and here comes the existential danger again - a growing number of European and American organizations, especially universities and liberal churches, are calling for economic and commercial sanctions against Israel. If such sanctions became wide-spread, they would utterly destroy Israel's fragile economy, and thus her capacity to defend herself.
Journalist Jager hopes what the majority of Israelis are hoping: "Whatever its many pitfalls, disengagement just might buy Israel some diplomatic breathing space. The orange camp [anti-disengagement] seems oblivious to just how close we are to being tarred as the Rhodesia of the 21st century. Google "boycott Israel" and you'll see what I mean…Like it or not we need Washington and Brussels more than they need us." (Ibid., 1Aug.05)
Amnon Rubinstein, a liberal Knesset member for many years, adds, "Also of utmost concern is the specter of a nuclear-armed Iran Israel's most vocal enemy openly threatening Israel's population centers. "The battle," says Rubenstein, "is not waged for this or that hill, but concerns our very existence."
Rubinstein concludes that Israel must aggressively seek a defense pact with the U.S or within NATO, as a means of deterring missile attacks against Israel, and therefore she cannot afford to remain on land that the whole world, including the U.S., perceives as belonging to the Muslims. (Ibid., 3 Aug. 05)
Now think about this! Israel has no defense pact with anybody!! If she is attacked, no one is contractually committed to come to her rescue!
So, where do we personally stand? We have consistently stated that there is NO political answer to Israel's problems. But we would like to elaborate on our thoughts, starting with the words of Jeremiah, who is known as the weeping prophet. As he saw destruction coming on his people, he cried out:
My soul, my soul! I am in anguish! Oh, my heart! My heart is pounding in me; I cannot be silent, Because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war... for the whole land is devastated. Jer. 4:19-20
None other than Moses laid out the consequences of turning against God's Way:
You shall build a house, but you shall not live in it; you shall plant a vineyard, but you shall not use its fruit…A people whom you do not know shall eat up the produce of your ground and all your labors, and you shall never be anything but oppressed and crushed continually…and you shall be driven mad by the sight of what you see…
So all these curses shall come on you and pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you would not obey the Lord your God by keeping His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you... and you shall be torn from the land where you are entering to possess it. Sections of Deut 28:3-63
What can we learn from Moses and Jeremiah? God's total purpose, plan and destiny is to give Israel everything He has promised her including all of her land from the River of Egypt to the Euphrates River, and to be the nation from which the Messiah will rule the world. These promises Jeremiah and the prophets prophesied over and over again.
I will faithfully plant them in this land with all My heart and with all My soul. Jer. 32:41 Houses and fields and vineyards shall again be bought in this land. Jer. 32:15 And the coast will be for the remnant of the house of Judah. Zeph. 2: 7 If the heavens above can be measured…then I will also cast off all the offspring of Israel…Jer. 31:37 And on and on.
Nevertheless, Jeremiah, at the risk of his own safety, also prophesied that due to the sins of the nation, calamity and sorrow would be visited on his people until they turned back to Him.
Because of God's great mercy and everlasting love for the children of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, He is at this moment fulfilling prophecy by planting over 5,000,000 Jews in the ancient Promised Land. But these hundreds upon hundreds of promises to Israel cannot be fulfilled in their entirety until Israel enters into a New Covenant relationship with God (Jer. 31:31) and receives spiritual healing:
And you shall be My people, and I will be your God. The fierce anger of the Lord will not turn back, until He has performed, and carried out the purposes of His heart; In the last days you will clearly understand this. At that time, declares the Lord, I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be My people. Jer. 30:24-31:1 (Also see Jer. 23:20-22)
Who does not know we are in the Last Days? For this reason, God guarantees that He is going to be involved in such a way that He will bring this whole nation back to Him. Israel will not be totally destroyed by the curses found in the Law of Moses.
The message Israel does not yet know, of course, is the Good News - that Yeshua, the Sacrifical Lamb has paid the price of sin and thus the curses of the Mosaic law are lifted off the sinner so that he can now receive all the blessings of the Law.
The Messiah redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us... Gal. 3:13
And thus all Israel will be saved, just as it is written, the Deliverer will come from Zion, He will remove ungodliness from Jacob. And this is My covenant with them, when I take away their sins. Rom. 11:26, 27
But the writer of Romans, in the middle of his discourse on Israel, emphasizes the absolute necessity of sending preachers, evangelists, intercessors and workers to Israel to help in the spiritual birth of this nation:
How then shall they [Israel] call upon Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach unless they are sent? Rom. 10:14-15
And that is the question that we believe God has put before us all. We know that God's desire is for our people to occupy their God-given land. These are the last days when God's purpose is to
bring Israel into her fullness, spiritually and materially.
August 17. The pain is wrenching. The scenes are shattering. The heart of Israel is broken as soldiers weep along side of wailing settlers who beg not to be expelled from their homes. The heart must be in the stomach, because the ache is deep, sad and hopeless in the collective being of the nation.
The Jewish settlers pray their last prayers in their beloved synagogue before they are ejected from Neveh Dekalim. On the other side of the fence, Palestinian forces and a crowd of Gazans wait to take over the abandoned land.
Were we against disengagement? Yes.
Did we believe the disengagement was the best possible solution under Israel's present circumstances? With a heavy heart, we say yes.
Do we want to see Israel return to her inheritance in Gaza? Absolutely, because this is God's express will.
Do we believe that nations that pressure or force Israel to give up any of of her land will one day be punished? Yes. (Joel 3:2)
Will you be a part of God's solution for the restoration of His people? Will you be part of the answer to bring our people back to their land, by sowing and investing into the spiritual awakening of the Israeli people? In this issue of the MaozIsrael Report, you will find several ways to do so. Weep with us. Sow and reap with us.
September 2005
Dear Partner,
In the midst of our nation's trauma we continue to take practical steps to get the message of salvation through Yeshua the Messiah to our people.
Creating a library of books for spiritual growth in Hebrew is most definitely a pioneer work that will give multitudes of Israelis the opportunity to understand the Gospel, and then to put deep roots down in their faith.
(The need is apparent in that there are only two other believing publishing companies in Israel, and we are the only one publishing books by both evangelical and charismatic authors.)
The head of our publishing division, Gil Paz, has now put together one full Israeli team for publishing including translator, editor, proof reader, typesetter graphic designer and workers with our digital printing equipment. And Gil is working on a second team. This is a great answer to many prayers.
To keep these teams working, we must continue to publish a steady flow of Gospel books which is precisely our prayer and aim. So, we need partners to invest in this heavenly business!
In Israel a book of 200 pages now costs about $10,000 to produce and print the first edition. (Over 50% of the cost goes for various taxes, and compulsory benefits)
As you well know, books yield new believers and nurture growing believers. Their rich truths written by experienced and mature men and women of God, deepen the spiritual lives of leaders-in-training exactly what we need in Israel!
Invest now, and one day you will be full of joy as you see the harvest your gifts have brought forth.
Our nation is facing the most difficult time since its establishment in 1948. Nothing else will save Israel but the spreading of the Gospel of Peace through the Prince of Peace, Yeshua the Messiah. There is absolutely no other answer.
We now have 16 contracts with publishers waiting to be published.
Will you bless Israel with the knowledge of the Word of God by joining our Hebrew Book of the Month Club with a gift of $25, $50 or $100 per month for 12 months, and by giving generously whenever you can, special offerings towards the publishing of these books?
May the peace of God rest on you,
Ari & Shira Sorko-Ram
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Amid all the dog-bites-man type health IT news, here are some not-so-positive EMR/EHR stories that have been reported:
– An EMR in Lifespan hospital group gave incorrect prescriptions to some 2000 patients. The article in the Providence Journal says that
The hospitals have placed calls to nearly all the affected patients, although not all have called back, Cooper said. Most patients reached had already obtained the correct medication because the error was noticed by someone at the hospital, or a pharmacist or doctor outside, she said. So far, Cooper said, there is no evidence that any- one was harmed.
Thank goodness for that.
– Incorrectly calculated MU thresholds (GE Centricity). I'm not going to rehash the story, but you can check out Neil Versel's article in InformationWeek, the spirited discussion on my previous EMR and EHR blog post and John's EMR and HIPAA blog post.
It might be just be my skewed viewpoint, but GE Centricity related issues are nowhere on par with people being prescribed the wrong prescription. In one case, a few practices may not be able to demonstrate Meaningful Use. Wrong medication could actually be life-threatening to you. So if I had to rank my problems, I'd rather be short by 44K than worry about my EMR inadvertently killing my patients off.
What we need is a governing body, similar to the National Transportation Safety Board, to police EMRs, says Paul Cerrato in a recent InformationWeek Healthcare article.
Cerrato writes:
"An NTSB-like organization for EHRs would at the very least provide a reporting mechanism to keep track of incidents and life-threatening consequences of misusing e-records. More importantly, it could police vendors and healthcare providers who repeatedly ignore these dangers."
Cerrato goes on to say there are only 120 EHR-specific problems reported to the FDA over the last 18 years. That figure, if correct, to me shows:
- EMR users don't know how/where they can report EMR related errors or don't expect any action to be taken – this certainly is credible, because from all quarters, it seems as if the focus is just to get the healthcare field into electronic data capture, not on whether the experience delivers any tangible and useful benefits
- Maybe they're willing to give EMRs a pass assuming the healthcare IT to be in infancy
- They're too overwhelmed with the EMRs' capabilities/inabilities to really see what's going on
For a national database of EMR problems to be truly relevant, here's the information I would look for, on problems I'm facing:
- How critical was the error? How many people did it affect, and in what ways – medically, financially?
- How was it handled?
- How common is it – are there others who've faced similar problems?
- If the problem was not sorted, what raps on the fingers did the vendors face?
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Please join us for a special music and poetry event to show we stand with Manchester & London and the families who suffered such a tragic loss. Date: Thursday June 15th 2017. Venue: Hirsch Hall, Ansche Chesed Synagogue. 251 West 100th Street, NYC. (Between Broadway & West End Avenue.) Time: 730pm until 1030pm Free Admission. An Event for the whole family. Creative Direction by Jason Grant Shela The New York Musicians Alliance will perform original songs and classic favorites from The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Animals, Dusty Springfield, Oasis, The Verve, Adele, Lulu, The Troggs, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix & Many More! Featured Musicians: Robert Ross, Gina Healy, Angello Olivieri, Don Castagno, Don Puglisi, Mordechai Freedman, Savannah Leroy, Kenn Rowell & The … [Read more...]
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