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The Property Record Cards are now available on our web portal.
The 2023 Assessment Notices are projected to be certified and mailed at the end of September/beginning of October.
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Supervisor of Assessments: Deborah Ritke
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The Supervisor of Assessments is responsible for overseeing the valuation of all real property within their jurisdiction for the purpose of real estate taxation. The assessment process plays an important role in local government. Equitable assessments assure property owners that they are paying their fair share of the costs of operating schools, providing police and fire protection, road construction and maintenance, and other basic public services.
The Supervisor of Assessments is concerned with value and does not collect taxes, calculate taxes or determine the tax rate. Taxing jurisdictions such as schools, cities, and townships, adopt budgets which determine the tax levy. The actual dollar amount of your tax bill is determined by how much money these local agencies need to operate. Every dollar of property tax remains in the local area to fund local government.
The Supervisor of Assessments is the Clerk of the Board of Review and is present at all the hearings. The Board of Review hears complaints from taxpayers concerning real estate assessments, and renders decisions regarding values of property. The Supervisor of Assessments also prepares and maintains up-to-date tax maps, lists of property owners' names and addresses, property record cards, and administers all homestead and non-homestead exemptions.
Components of the Property Tax
Property taxes have two components:
- the value placed on the land and its improvements (assessment)
- the amount of money requested by the taxing bodies (levies)
The assessment process begins with a value placed on the property by the township assessor, continues with the county Supervisor of Assessments, and appeals to the Board of Review and then the State Property Tax Appeal Board, and finally administrative review in the courts. The other factor in the equation begins with local taxing bodies determining the amounts they need to levy, and filing those with the County Clerk. The County Clerk computes the amount of tax due from each parcel (a process called extension) and the County Treasurer sends out the tax bills, then collects and distributes the taxes to the taxing bodies. Both the County Clerk and Treasurer have responsibilities in conducting the sale of delinquent taxes subsequent redemptions.
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Olivia Mary de Havilland (born July 1, 1916) is a British American film and stage actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1946 and 1949. She is the elder sister of actress Joan Fontaine. The sisters are among the last surviving leading ladies from Hollywood of the 1930s.
Olivia de Havilland was born in Tokyo, Japan, to English parents. Her mother, Lilian Augusta Ruse (June 11, 1886 – February 20, 1975), was an actress known professionally as Lillian Fontaine, and her father, Walter Augustus de Havilland (August 31, 1872 – May 20, 1968), was a patent attorney with a practice in Japan. Her parents married in 1914 and divorced in 1925. She was raised as a Roman Catholic. Her younger sister is the actress Joan Fontaine (born 1917), from whom she has been estranged for many decades, not speaking at all since 1975.
The de Havilland family moved away from Tokyo when she was two years old, settling in Saratoga, California, due to her sister's poor health, which improved after the family emigrated. Both sisters attended Los Gatos High School and de Havilland also attended the Notre Dame High School, Belmont. An acting award at Los Gatos is named after her. Her paternal cousin is Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, an aircraft designer, notably of the de Havilland Mosquito, and founder of the aircraft company which bears his name.

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The Deportation Dilemma: Reconciling Tough and Humane Enforcement
The United States has deported a record number of unauthorized immigrants and other removable noncitizens in recent years. More than 4.5 million noncitizens have been removed since Congress passed sweeping legislation in 1996 to toughen the nation's immigration enforcement system. The pace of formal removals has quickened tremendously, rising from about 70,000 in 1996 to 419,000 in 2012.
This report analyzes the current pipelines for removal and key trends in border and interior apprehensions, deportations and criminal prosecutions. With the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in the midst of a review of its deportation policies to see if they can be conducted "more humanely," the report also examines the policy levers the Obama administration has to influence deportation policies, practices and results.
Using Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Naturalization Service data, the authors identify striking trends in the deportation system since 1996:
- A fundamental shift from a deportation system focused on informal returns (voluntary return and departure) to one focused on formal removals, which have more severe consequences for those who are repatriated.
- Major expansion in the use of nonjudicial removal procedures such as expedited removal and reinstatement of removal, in which immigration enforcement officers rather than immigration judges make deportation decisions.
- Escalating criminalization, with a rising proportion of those apprehended at the Southwest border charged with immigration-related criminal offenses.
The report explains that three factors have been the key drivers of major changes in deportation outcomes during the last two decades: new laws that expand the grounds for removal and speed the removals process; sizeable and sustained increases in immigration enforcement personnel, infrastructure, and technology; and operational and policy decisions by three successive administrations to shape enforcement outcomes. The report describes the actual state of U.S. immigration enforcement: Who is being deported and where and how are they being apprehended? It also explores how the current administration is carrying out its enforcement mandates.
The Obama administration inherited—and expanded upon—unprecedented capacity to identify, apprehend, and deport unauthorized immigrants. Nearly as many people were formally deported during the first five years of the current administration (over 1.9 million) as during the entire eight years of the prior administration (2.0 million).
What is new is that the Obama administration also has implemented prosecutorial discretion policies to focus enforcement efforts, even as the overall scope of enforcement has grown. These policies provide guidelines for exercising discretion not to deport certain people in cases that are outside established priority categories.
Overall, enforcement at the border and within the United States show sharply different pictures. At the border, there is a near zero-tolerance system, where unauthorized immigrants are increasingly subject to formal removal and criminal charges. Within the country, there is greater flexibility, with priorities and resources focused on a smaller share of the population subject to removal. Such differences are consistent with the different goals and circumstances confronting border and interior enforcement. But the impacts of these differing systems have begun to converge, raising increasingly complex questions and choices for policymakers and the public.
The research presented here highlights the deportation dilemma: that more humane enforcement is fundamentally in tension with stricter immigration control; and that a more robust enforcement system inevitably inflicts damage on established families and communities.
I. Introduction
II. Deportation Drivers: IIRIRA and Pipelines for Removal
A. The Judicial Removal Process
B. Nonjudicial Forms of Removal
C. Informal Returns
D. Immigration-Related Criminal Charges
III. Deportation Drivers: Congressional Appropriations
IV. Deportation Drivers: Executive-Branch Implementation and Key Enforcement Trends
A. Rising Removals as Apprehensions Decline
B. The Expansion of Nonjudicial Removal Pipelines
C. The Intersection of Immigration Enforcement with the Federal Criminal Justice System
D. Continuity and Change: Enforcement Priorities and Prosecutorial Discretion
E. The Effects of Enforcement Priorities and Prosecutorial Discretion on the Deportation System
F. DHS Enforcement Priorities and Prosecutorial Discretion: How Have They Worked?
G. The Impact of Deportation Policies on Immigrant Communities
V. Policy Levers to Influence the Deportation System
A. Reforms to U.S. Immigration Law
B. Changes to Immigration Enforcement Appropriations
C. Executive Actions
VI. Conclusion


text: A critical vulnerability in the Windows GDI (graphics device interface) that Microsoft patched in its latest round of security updates was exploited by a sophisticated attack group to escape browser-based sandboxes and remotely execute malicious code, according to Kaspersky Lab.Windows GDI is an API that helps applications work with graphics and formatted text on video displays and printers. The remote code execution flaw stemmed from how GDI handled objects in memory (CVE-2016-3393), and the issue has been addressed in critical bulletin (MS16-120), Microsoft said. The vulnerability affected all supported versions of Windows operating system, Microsoft Office 2007 and Office 2010, Skype for Business 2016, Silverlight, .Net Framework, Microsoft Lync 2013, and Microsoft Lync 2010.An attacker could exploit the vulnerability by tricking a user into visiting a malicious website and clicking on the booby-trapped link, opening a maliciously crafted document sent as an email attachment, or executing a specially rigged file, Microsoft said.Anton Ivanov, the Kaspersky Lab researcher who reported the flaw to Microsoft in September, found that known advanced persistent threat (APT) group FruityArmor was using this vulnerability as part of a browser-based exploit chain to gain elevated privileges and escape the browser sandbox. FruityArmor relies on Windows Management Instrumentation storage to maintain persistence on infected machines, and on PowerShell to carry out its attacks."Since many modern browsers are built around sandboxes, a single exploit is generally not sufficient to allow full access to a targeted machine," Ivanov wrote in a summary on Kaspersky Lab's Securelist.FruityArmor tricked victims into visiting a malicious page containing a browser-based exploit. The main goal of this module is to load a specially crafted TTF font file containing the exploit to trigger the Windows GDI flaw. With a successful compromise, a second-stage payload uses elevated privileges to execute PowerShell with a meterpreter-style script in order to connect to a command-and-control server and receive additional instructions and executables.Both the primary malware implant and commands sent by the C&C operators are written in PowerShell, Ivanov said. The implant and the malicious TTF font reside and execute in memory, making them difficult to detect. Many attackers are shifting to fileless malware, where the malicious code executes entirely in memory, to evade detection.The attacker can cause an integer overflow condition in the cjComputeGLYPHSET_MSFT_GENERAL function from the Win32k.sys system module, where the vulnerability exists. By making a specific segment range in the font file, the attacker can then access "interesting memory," Ivanov said. Though font processing in Windows 10 requires a special user mode process with restricted privileges, the flaw in TTF processing causes fontdrvhost.exe to crash.While every organization has different patching requirements, IT departments should prioritize patching critical updates. When the vulnerabilities are exploited in the wild, as this remote code execution flaw in Windows GDI is, it should definitely be a priority. Attackers continue to see a lot of success targeting vulnerabilities that already have patches available because not all systems get updated in a timely manner. This was why Ivanov refrained from discussing the vulnerability in depth."Please keep in mind that we will not be publishing all the details about this vulnerability because of the risk that other threat actors may use them in their attack," Ivanov wrote.


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(TheBlaze/AP) -- Let's see LeBron James do this.
Ashlee Arnau, a cheerleader at William Carey University in Hattiesburg, Miss., made an incredible front-flip half-court shot Thursday night at halftime of the school's men's basketball game that became an instant Internet sensation.
The ball was placed on the floor at midcourt. Arnau approached it with a running start, did a front-flip, grabbing the ball while she was upside down, and then launching it toward the basket while her legs swung forward.
"I really don't practice at all," Arnau told the AP in a phone interview.
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The 21-year-old junior also plays soccer and runs track for William Carey, which competes in NAIA. She said the front-flip shot was a takeoff on the front-flip throw-in that soccer players do.
She said she has been trying the shot during halftime of home basketball games all season, but this was the first time she made it on her home floor. She said she once made the shot while attending a junior college tournament game, but that one bounced in.
"I didn't count it because I wanted it to go nothing-but-net," she said. "Tonight, I was really blessed it happened."
She said she usually tries it about four or five times during the halftime show. She nailed it on her fifth attempt Thursday night -- during the last home game of the season.
"Everyone was going crazy," said Arnau, a junior from Hattiesburg who said she is studying to be a nurse. "They were cheering my name."


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One of my favourite commentators on the Network Marketing industry is Len Clements of MarketWave Inc. Len has been very much at the forefront of defending the industry against anti-mlm zealots like Robert FitzPatrick and Jon Taylor. He unfortunately has had a tendency to repeat some of the unfair generalizations about Amway that are based on the behaviours of some Amway affiliated groups, but his work in promoting a professional view of Network Marketing and debunking myths is in my opinion without peer.
This week Len has launched a podcast, an online radio show, where you can hear Len talk about various industry issues. In this first episode he talks about some controversies surrounding NWM companies Zrii and YTB Travel and the "bias" against NWM that companies like Verizon, PayPal, and eBay have in their terms of service. His segment on the challenges currently being faced by YTB Travel is an excellent coverage of the legal status of multi-level marketing and what makes something a potential pyramid or not. Len is of the the opinion that YTB Travel setup may cross the line, and I'm afraid I have to agree with him.
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For the first time in nearly a quarter-century, the Boston Pops won't be performing on the Fourth of July. Credit for that goes to Hurricane Arthur, whose impending arrival turned the traditional July 3 dry run into the concert proper. But even with a program being adjusted on the fly right up until the end, Thursday night's performance at the Hatch Shell was just as festive as if it had happened on the correct date.
With Boston Idol winner Jilly Martin serving as a Kacey Musgraves-flavored appetizer, the concert began in earnest with John Williams's hopeful "Liberty Fanfare" (written, appropriately enough, for the rededication of the Statue Of Liberty on the last Pops-less Fourth). Governor Deval Patrick narrated the origins of the "The Star-Spangled Banner" (and the specific flag that inspired it) as the music underscoring him used the song as a base while twisting off into subtle variations.
Patrick was joined by the Boston Children's Chorus, which also sang the inescapable "Let It Go." It may have been the platonic ideal of how the "Frozen" song is meant to be performed: a chorus of children atop a shivering orchestral plunge. A selection of flapper-era favorites, meanwhile, suggested that the 1920s might be the ideal era for the Pops' repertoire.
The Beach Boys (down to Mike Love, Bruce Johnston and a solidly effective group of hired hands) preferred the '60s, trying to wash away the looming storm with sun-and-surf classics such as "Fun, Fun, Fun" and a deceptively dreamy "California Girls." First, though, came Broadway star Megan Hilty, whose effortless voice seemed to reach all the way to the back of the Esplanade grounds, amplification or no amplification. She let loose her own vocal fireworks on "Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend" and the brassy and frustrated but achingly powerful "They Just Keep Moving The Line."
That song proved prophetic, as the fireworks were spontaneously bumped up before the area was evacuated. The "1812 Overture" was dropped as a result, an announcement lustily booed by the audience. But howitzers, it seems, are no match for a hurricane. Even if it is tradition.
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• Storms cut short Fourth of July show
• Rain, lightning sweep Boston
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Billy Crystal will pay tribute to Robin Williams, his longtime friend and fellow comedian, at next week's Emmy Awards.
Crystal will honor Williams as part of the traditional "in memoriam" segment for industry members who died during the past year, Emmy executive producer Don Mischer said in a statement Wednesday.
Mischer said the memorial segment during Monday's ceremony will include a performance from Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles.
Williams was found dead in his Northern California home on Aug. 11.
At last year's Emmys, Williams honored his friend and mentor Jonathan Winters during the tribute segment.
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Vitamin D Loss Attributed to Obesity
As weight rises, 'sunshine vitamin' declines, study says
TUESDAY, Feb. 5 (HealthDay News) — Obesity can lead to vitamin D deficiency, a new study indicates.
British researchers looked at data from about 165,000 people, and found that a 10 percent rise in body-mass index (BMI) was linked with a 4 percent drop in concentrations of vitamin D in the body. BMI is a measurement of body fat based on height and weight.
The link between BMI and vitamin D levels was found in men and women, as well as in younger and older people, the investigators noted.
The findings suggest that a higher BMI leads to lower levels of vitamin D circulating in the body, while a lack of vitamin D has only a small effect on BMI, according to the authors of the study, published Feb. 5 in the journal PLoS Medicine.
Efforts to tackle obesity may also help reduce levels of vitamin D deficiency, said lead investigator Dr. Elina Hypponen, of University College London's Institute of Child Health.
Previous studies have linked vitamin D deficiency with obesity, but it wasn't clear whether a lack of vitamin D triggered weight gain or whether obesity led to vitamin D deficiency, the study authors noted in a university news release.
Vitamin D, which is essential for healthy bones and other functions, is produced by the skin when exposed to sunlight. It can also be obtained through foods and supplements.
"Vitamin D deficiency is an active health concern around the world. While many health messages have focused on a lack of sun exposure or excessive use of suncreams, we should not forget that vitamin D deficiency is also caused by obesity," Hypponen said.
"Our study highlights the importance of monitoring and treating vitamin D deficiency in people who are overweight or obese, in order to alleviate adverse health effects caused by a lack of vitamin D," she added.
Although the study reported that higher BMI leads to lower levels of vitamin D circulating in the body, it did not prove a cause-and-effect relationship.
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CYPRESS, Calif. and SAINT PAUL, Minn., Oct. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Focus Diagnostics, a business of Quest Diagnostics (NYSE: DGX), the world's leading provider of diagnostic testing, information and services, and 3M, a global diversified technology company (NYSE: MMM), today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has provided 510(k) clearance and CLIA moderate-complexity categorization to the Simplexa Flu A/B & RSV Direct test on the 3M™ Integrated Cycler.
The new test aids in the qualitative detection and differentiation of RNA of influenza A and B viruses and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), common causes of respiratory illness. Focus Diagnostics, maker of the Simplexa™ brand of molecular test kits, and 3M™, maker of the 3M Integrated Cycler technology, developed the test through an exclusive global collaboration. The collaboration, formed in 2009, has produced several Simplexa molecular tests, including the first FDA-cleared commercial test for the influenza A H1N1 (2009) virus.
The Simplexa Flu A/B & RSV Direct molecular test is the first moderate-complexity molecular test from the Focus Diagnostics' Simplexa product line, significantly broadening potential clinical access to the Simplexa/3M technology. Moderate complexity laboratories, defined by the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA), include certain types of physician's offices, community hospitals, health clinics and integrated delivery networks. These facilities typically lack the personnel and technology to perform high-complexity molecular diagnostic tests. Since the test can be performed in these moderate complexity labs, patient results may be obtained readily to help speed therapeutic decisions.
"The future of influenza and all respiratory virus testing is molecular diagnostics, given its potential for high sensitivity and fast reporting of test results, which are essential for patient management," said Jay M. Lieberman, M.D., medical director, infectious diseases, for Quest Diagnostics and Focus Diagnostics. "The clearance and moderate complexity categorization of the Simplexa test on the 3M Integrated Cycler signifies an important step forward in expanding access to near-patient molecular testing, potentially helping clinicians to make better decisions for their patients."
The new Simplexa test was developed with funding from The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), within the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It supports the development of new technologies with potential to be effective medical countermeasure products for public health emergency threats. BARDA awarded a $5.9 million contract for the test's development.
"We are pleased to be part of this development that brings near-patient quality molecular testing to localized healthcare settings, and see it as evidence that public-private collaborations can produce important medical technologies," said Tom Cole, global marketing manager for 3M Infection Prevention Division. "The availability of this test to a broad swath of healthcare professionals in the U.S. will no doubt advance the diagnosis and management of many patients this coming Flu/RSV season."
Influenza and RSV are contagious respiratory illnesses caused by viral infections. While influenza and RSV produce relatively mild disease in most healthy individuals, they may cause severe respiratory disease or death in certain populations, including young children and older adults.
Simplexa Flu A/B & RSV Direct test on the 3M™ Integrated CyclerThe Simplexa Flu A/B & RSV test kit is intended for use on the 3M Cycler for the in vitro qualitative detection and differentiation of RNA of influenza A and B viruses and the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in nasopharyngeal swabs. The test does not require the time-consuming nucleic extraction process required by many molecular tests, and can be performed and produce results within an hour.
The Simplexa Flu A/B & RSV Direct is now available in the United States. It was CE marked for distribution in Europe in 2011.
About Focus Diagnostics and Simplexa™Focus Diagnostics, a business of Quest Diagnostics, develops and manufactures the Simplexa line of molecular test products operating on the 3M™ Integrated Cycler, a compact, portable testing platform, as part of an exclusive global collaboration with 3M (MMM). Simplexa was the first test kit to be FDA cleared for aiding in the detection and differentiation of the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus, in May 2010. Additional Simplexa tests aid in the detection and differentiation of Clostridium difficile, Bordetella pertussis and parapertussis, Cytomegalovirus, Epstein Barr virus and BK virus. The Simplexa/3M technology has won two several industry awards for medical innovation, including prestigious Medical Design Excellence Awards (MDEA) in 2012 and 2011.
In addition to Simplexa, Focus Diagnostics' products sold worldwide include HerpeSelect® type-specific HSV serology and West Nile Virus DxSelect™.
To learn more about or order Simplexa and other Focus Diagnostics tests, please contact Focus Diagnostics at 800-445-0185 (U.S.) or +49-6026-9499540 (Europe), or visit www.Focusdx.com.
About 3M3M captures the spark of new ideas and transforms them into thousands of ingenious products. Our culture of creative collaboration inspires a never-ending stream of powerful technologies that make life better. 3M is the innovation company that never stops inventing. With $30 billion in sales, 3M employs 84,000 people worldwide and has operations in more than 65 countries. For more information, visit www.3M.com or follow @3MNews on Twitter.
The Simplexa Flu A/B & RSV Direct test on the 3M™ Integrated Cycler project has been funded in whole or in part with Federal funds from Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, Department of Health and Human Services, under Contract No. HHSO100201000049C.
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Celebrity News January 30, 2014
Austin Mahone Responds to Rumors He's Dating Selena Gomez
"Extra's" AJ Calloway caught up with pop sensation Austin Mahone at the NYC H&M store in Times Square on Wednesday and asked the singer about the rumors he and Selena Gomez are an item.
Mahone set the record straight, saying, "No, we're just friends."
Austin told Calloway he is single. He is looking for a girl who is cool, gets him and his schedule, has good hair and a nice smile.
Mahone is performing in Bryant Park, where Pepsico has built #PEPCITY to celebrate Super Bowl XLVIII.
Austin also shared some of his craziest fan moments with AJ and took time to take photos with all of his fans who were waiting for him.


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After the bus drops her off from school, London Branch, 5, runs to her Little Free Library box to look for a new book."It is almost like a treasure box, you never know what you are going to discover," said Fernando Branch, London's father.Rewind to spring break 2016. Fernando, a principal at Noel Community Art School, decided to spend his weeklong break to complete a project with his daughters that would benefit the community.Despite the cold weather and 1-year-old daughter Lauren's persistence in stealing the wood glue, Fernando and his family built their Little Free Library and put it up in front of their home on South Madison Circle in Centennial in mid-January.Building the box is a memory he will always have with his daughters, Fernando said. London adores keeping track of what is new. For both of his daughters, their favorite book found in their library, so far, has been "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle."She runs over there to see if someone has put something in there that she wants," Fernando said. "I love to see that it started an enthusiasm for reading in her."Fernando also is excited about the response from his neighbors."While I was out there with the girls measuring, people would stop and ask what we were doing," Fernando said. "It started so many conversations."Conversations at the box go beyond a friendly "hello." He finds the Little Free Library to be a way for people to learn about the diversities found in his own neighborhood. He believes it brings people together with similarities."When we engage in these projects with our families, it encourages the American values that we share," Fernando said. "The core of reading is education. As a society, we are really quick to point out the differences of us all. But if we focus on the love of the things we share in common, like the love to read and educate ourselves — that is a unifier."The Little Free Library is, at its core, a small-scale neighborhood book exchange. A structure sheltering between 20 to 60 books is built or purchased by a community member and planted in the community.Whoever comes across a Little Free Library is welcome to either take a book or leave a book. Margret Aldrich, media and programming director at the Little Free Library nonprofit organization, based in Hudson, Wisconsin, said the library becomes self-sustaining.All family-friendly reading materials are welcome in the exchange. Self-help, Westerns, science fiction, picture books and many more genres are encouraged to circulate through the libraries.The first Little Free Library was built in Hudson, Wisconsin, in 2009 by Tod Bol in tribute to his book-loving mother. The Little Free Library became a nonprofit in 2012.The little library trend has grown to 50,000 set-ups in 50 states and in 70 countries. Colorado is home to more than 600 Little Free Libraries. According to Aldrich, the libraries become community hubs.There is no style guide dictating the appearance of a Little Free Library. Though the usual structure resembles a birdhouse or a dollhouse, people are encouraged to be creative. There are Little Free Libraries that are brightly painted or shaped like robots, police-call boxes, whales, log cabins and rowboats.A $40 registration fee puts the library on the website's official community map and database. The company sends an official "Little Free Library" sign and an information and resource packet.The trend also helps the homeless, who may not have access to books at conventional libraries because they have no address, Aldrich said.Love at first sightFive years ago, Todd Walsh, his wife and their two daughters spent a vacation visiting friends. During a walk, they discovered a Little Free Library. The family instantly fell in love with the idea.Three summers later, Walsh was hammering the nails into his own Little Free Library for his home on West Applewood Knolls Drive in Lakewood."Where we live in Lakewood, our house is right on the corner and it is a popular route to a park," Walsh said. "We have a lot of foot traffic."The Slater Elementary School teacher only had time to work on the project while his daughters Maya, 6, and Nora, 4, were napping.While working on the project, Walsh's neighbor walked across the street to see what was going on. The two discussed the Little Free Library and decided that their neighborhood needed not one, but two of the book hubs. Walsh completed both projects after a month of work. One is dedicated solely to housing children's books while the other, directly across the street, holds books for teen and adult readers."It has been amazing and we have loved it," Walsh said. "It has been a great way for us to meet people. It is a great conversation starter. We watch from the windows and love seeing families on bike rides stop and take books."Walsh did not stop building at two little libraries. The Slater Elementary sixth-graders, as a tradition, leave a contribution to their school before advancing to middle school. They commissioned Walsh in 2016 to make a Little Free Library for the school.To this day, passersby knock on Walsh's door and ask him about the little library outside his home. Many people ask him to make a little library for their neighborhoods miles away."It really is a conversation starter," Walsh said. "Normally someone might say 'hello,' but now we have gotten to know so many of our neighbors because we have something to talk about."
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Applying a Tracing Image and Adding Layers in Dreamweaver
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IN TRADITIONAL LAYOUT programs, such as Adobe PageMaker and QuarkXPress, most people take it for granted that they can move blocks of text and images around almost anywhere on the screen. Unfortunately, standard HTML doesn't have any tags to easily position elements. This has caused considerable frustration among Web-page designers. There is good news—Dreamweaver has built-in functions that give you the freedom of absolute positioning while still conforming to strict HTML guidelines!
The following two exercises cover Dreamweaver's key features that allow you to position elements anywhere on your Web page—Tracing Images and Layers. The rest of the chapter in the book shows you how to convert Layers to Tables.
Tracing Images, Layers, and Tables
What is a Tracing Image? Let's say that you have been in Photoshop, Fireworks, Illustrator, or any drawing or painting program of your choice, and you've mocked up a wonderful Web page. Don't you just wish you could take that mock-up and put it up on the Web? Dreamweaver's Tracing Image option allows you to place any GIF, JPEG, or PNG into a Tracing Layer on your page, which can then be used as an alignment reference for your HTML elements.
So far, if you've been following along in the book, you have been putting artwork and text directly on your page. With that method, you can right-, left-, or center-align elements, and that's the end of the story. This frustrates most people because it would be a lot nicer if you could stick that artwork or text anywhere you wanted on the page and have it stay there. Layers are your saviors, as they can be positioned freely on your page! Rather than simply placing artwork and text on a page, as you have been doing so far, you can put your content into Layers and move it anywhere you want.
If Layers are so flexible and let you move your images and text around so easily, why doesn't everyone use them? There's a little problem: They are not backward compatible with older browsers. If you're targeting an audience who uses a 3.0 browser or earlier, or an AOL browser, Layers aren't going to work for you. But there's more good news: Once you've designed a freeform layout using Layers, Dreamweaver allows you to then convert your Layers to HTML Tables so that the Web page is compatible with older versions of Netscape and Explorer.
Tables were originally developed to insert data into HTML pages; however, many people use them for layout by turning off the borders and making them invisible. This trick allows you to use Tables as you would a grid in page layout. You can put images and text into an invisible Table, and the rows and columns and cells hold the objects in place. The bummer about Tables is that they're not intuitive to work with, and the code for creating them can get quite complex. Besides, when you are designing, it's best to be able to change your mind and nudge something up, down, left, or right at your whim. You can do that easily with Layers.
Dreamweaver again offers a great solution. You can go back and forth freely between converting Layers to Tables and Tables to Layers so that you can really fine-tune your layout without worrying about writing complex code. With Dreamweaver, you can finally focus more of your energy on design, and less on HTML workarounds for layout. Life is good!


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What can be more fun than drunken Russian boxers? Russian people love to fight in front of bears with balalaikas! In fact, any Russian turns into a boxer when the Vodka kicks in. Feel like a drunk Russian boxer in this fun game. Fight alone against a drunken AI, or fight with a friend on the same keyboard!


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Since 1904, superior cuisine, attentive service and proud ambiance of stylish comfort have been the emblems which have marked The Park Club as Kalamazoo's most distinctive dining experience.
Located in the heart of downtown Kalamazoo, The Park Club has been a landmark since the turn of the century. Housed in a gorgeous Victorian mansion, The Park Club has continued to serve as a charming social center for the community.


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Designer contains fourteen builders to help you build working policies and drivers, seven editors to assist in you in editing projects, and wizards to help you build drivers. Below is a brief explanation of what builders, editors and wizards do, along with some examples of their functionality.
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Gregg Rosenthal wrote Sunday that Ravens tight end Dennis Pitta was a likely candidate to be slapped with Baltimore's franchise tag.
That's a strong bet after The Baltimore Sun's Aaron Wilson reported Monday that Pitta and the team are "far apart" on numbers, according to sources. Unless the sides can strike an agreement before the March 3 franchise-tag deadline, the fifth-year pass-catcher is the organization's top candidate for the tag, Wilson was told.
The front office also attempted to lower the $16 million salary cap hit of Pro Bowl nose tackle Haloti Ngata, per the report. No luck there, but the Ravens did shave more than $4 million off the books after signing pass rusher Terrell Suggs to a four-year extension Monday.
What's next for Baltimore? NFL Media Insider Ian Rapoport said on Monday's edition of NFL Network's "NFL Total Access" that he expects contract talks with Eugene Monroe, seen as the team's left tackle of the future, to begin at this week's NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis. Look for Baltimore to also continue talks with Pitta's people in Indy, per Rapoport.
If the Ravens ultimately wind up tagging Pitta at the one-year, $6.8 million assigned to tight ends, Wilson was told Pitta might file a grievance through the NFL Players Association to be tagged as a wide receiver -- at $11.6 million -- after lining up in the slot on 79.7 percent of his routes this past season.
That's not a narrow gap to bridge, and we're looking for Pitta to be tagged before it's all said and done.


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MI Abaga – Viper (Vector Reply) veteran hip-hop rapper, MI Abaga has responded to Vector on a new track titled "Viper", produced by Focus Ramon.
According to MI Abaga on his Instagram;
The Viper has hated me for years as is its inevitable nature. The serpent has been thus since the beginning of time. Would always smile in my face but I could smell the envy and bitterness. Whatever he may use as his excuse for his career long actions it is simply jealousy beneath it all. This is why his career has never quite taken off and he has never lived up to his obvious potential. Search my tweets, or interviews you will see me praising him over the years, how come he has never said one good thing about me.. ever. Instead of responding in hate I have chosen to give the snake the secret to my success.. 'help people'. You are the only rapper that has done nothing to bring anyone else up.. from your first producer LayLow to your former manager Michael (who now works for CC btw) to AQ your friend that year.. all you do is use people..
Olamide has given so many a platform, Ice Prince the same, Falz just an all round angel, Reminisce bringing up young legends.. don't even compare yourself to me.. I am a fucking industry on my own!! see this is why you have always been a tier beneath the rap aristocracy! Because you are a jealous and envious person. Your fans are great sha.. because despite it they love you so much.. I pray you open your heart and let the message from God through me in.. it is time for you to live up to your full potential.. to enlarge your coast my son..enlarge your heart ♥your music brand and career will blossom.. The VIPER available on my Youtube page – MI Abaga.
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Read the full story here Web Link posted Wednesday, May 30, 2012, 1:02 PM
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Suspected burglar nabbed near Stanford Dish
Original post made on May 30, 2012
Read the full story here Web Link posted Wednesday, May 30, 2012, 1:02 PM
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a resident of Midtown
on May 30, 2012 at 1:20 pm
Nayeli is a registered user.
Another one bites the dust? Well done, Stanford PD!
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on May 30, 2012 at 2:50 pm
A lot of missing information here ..
For folks who have never been up to the Stanford Dish, or hiked the trail .. how many homes are there in the so-called "preserve"? Is this Stanford land? Which police agency becomes the lead agency? Which agency will be involved with processing this fellow? And how is it that his presence became known? Have there been burglaries in the Stanford Campus residence section like there have been here in Palo Alto?
Not to mention all of the other missing details that a good paper would want to relay to its readers.
a resident of another community
on May 30, 2012 at 3:28 pm
"nimbly" climbed the fence and approached the shed with one hand on his holstered weapon? Is this author writing a suspense novel. Where is the "it was a dark and stormy night" ?
digital editor of Palo Alto Online
on May 30, 2012 at 4:12 pm
Tyler Hanley is a registered user.
We have been awaiting comment from the Stanford Department of Public Safety PIO (public information officer) and will update the story as soon as possible.
a resident of Adobe-Meadow
on May 30, 2012 at 4:19 pm
How about some real information like name, address, and mug shot of the perp?
I do not care about the exact wording of the unnamed cop's conversation. Where did you even get that from? Don't real journalists always include citations with quotes?
a resident of another community
on May 30, 2012 at 4:37 pm
gsheyner is a registered user.
Good question, Mug.
I was at the Dish when this happened. I didn't include citations because I personally observed the arrest and the lead-up to the arrest. That's also why this story includes more on-the-scene details than you care for.
We are still waiting for the police to provide us the information you seek.
a resident of Stanford
on May 30, 2012 at 6:31 pm
"Have there been burglaries in the Stanford Campus residence section like there have been here in Palo Alto?"
Yes, at least two.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on May 30, 2012 at 10:41 pm
Wow, and here I just assumed that Gennady swallowed too many drama pills with lunch.
a resident of another community
on May 31, 2012 at 8:07 am
The story writer could have left out (tipped off by a man working at an adjacent home that the stranger was hiding inside the shed next door). The suspect may get out on parole(may have seen person who identified their hiding place), have a partner or friend who will act on their behalf, etc, who could or may go back for revenge or intimidate witness. I don't think its good practice to give too many details in cases like this. Suspect may be looking at a third strike offense which could mean prison for 25 years to life. People should step forward as this witness did but reporters need to be more responsible and possibly leave out who or location of witness who tipped off police to where suspect was hiding.
a resident of Charleston Meadows
on May 31, 2012 at 12:07 pm
///and there you have it. Not enough info/too much info. The real crux of the story is the capture of a burglary suspect but the funner safer part is to critique the paper and reporter (drama pills - really?)
a resident of Downtown North
on May 31, 2012 at 2:18 pm
The question is, how do we really know the cop "nimbly' hopped the fence? especially if he had one hand on the holster probably a bullet proof vest on, and just ran up a hill, I tend to believe there was some struggle.
a resident of Midtown
on May 31, 2012 at 3:31 pm
These commenters who criticize the reporting of the story would find something to complain about if they won the lottery.
A likely suspect in Stanford burglaries was captured, and some of the stolen items were found in the suspect's car.
To me this is a good result, and I liked reading about it.
I notice that the criticizers always come up with some "funny" name to post under instead of their real one.
a resident of Stanford
on May 31, 2012 at 9:38 pm
Anyone who can hop a fence is indeed nimble, in my book! Congratulations and thank you to the Stanford and Palo Alto police.
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British Swimming have announced that Harlequins director of rugby and RTÉ rugby analyst Conor O'Shea has been appointed to the four-man review into the poor performance by British swimmers at London 2012.
With success at world and European level in recent years, hopes had been high entering the Olympics but the British swimming programme finished with just one silver by Michael Jamieson and two bronze medals from Rebecca Adlington.
While there were 23 finalists, three medals represents a poor conversion rate with three fourth places.
They came courtesy of Lizzie Simmonds in the 200 metres backstroke, Keri-anne Payne in the open water and the men's 4x100m medley relay as well as seventh fifth places.
National performance director Michael Scott was clearly devastated when he announced the inquest a little over a fortnight ago.
The Australian described himself as "gutted" and his hands shook as he read a prepared statement before announcing: "My style is not to quit, my style is not to walk away, and I won't be walking away."
Instead, Scott announced he would be heading the review along with British Swimming board member Craig Hunter, the chef de mission at the Paralympics as well as the Commonwealth Games in Delhi, plus two then unnamed figures.
While there was a lot of speculation that cycling chief Dave Brailsford may be one, this was refuted at the time, although Scott was open about the fact he meets with other performance leaders a number of times a year.
A statement from British Swimming read: "Conor O'Shea, the former national director of the English Institute of Sport and current director of rugby at Harlequins, is appointed with a strong expertise and understanding of coaching as well as sport science and sport medicine.
"Thomas Lurz, a two-time Olympic marathon swimming medallist for Germany in 2008 and 2012, is also appointed and will use his vast experience to contribute to analysis of open water performance.
"The panel will be chaired by independent member of the British Swimming management board Craig Hunter, with a vast experience of international and Olympic competition, and is completed by British Swimming national performance director Michael Scott.
"The aim of the debrief is to consider the performance results at the London 2012 Olympics, to determine the reasons for below-medal target performance and identify key areas for improvement for inclusion in British Swimming's strategy for Rio and beyond.
"It is anticipated to conclude the London 2012 performance debrief by the end of October 2012."
Following the review, the position of head coach will also be filled.
Dennis Pursley was the previous incumbent but left without any word to the press after the Games to take up a post at the University of Alabama.
Adlington's coach Bill Furniss and Swimming Canada chief executive Pierre Lafontaine are among those linked with the role.


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In this volume, attorney Robert M. Lichtman provides a comprehensive history of the U.S. Supreme Court's decisions in "Communist" cases during the McCarthy era. Lichtman shows the Court's vulnerability to public criticism and attacks by the elected branches during periods of political repression. The book describes every Communist-related decision of the era (none is omitted), placing them in the context of political events and revealing the range and intrusiveness of McCarthy-era repression.
In Fred Vinson's term as chief justice (1946–53), the Court largely rubber-stamped government action against accused Communists and "subversives." After Earl Warren replaced Vinson as chief justice in 1953, however, the Court began to rule against the government in "Communist" cases, choosing the narrowest of grounds but nonetheless outraging public opinion and provoking fierce attacks from the press and Congress. Legislation to curb the Court flooded Congress and seemed certain to be enacted. The Court's situation was aggravated by its 1954 school-desegregation decision, Brown v. Board of Education, which led to an anti-Court alliance between southern Democrats and anti-Communists in both parties. Although Lyndon Johnson's remarkable talents as Senate majority leader saved the Court from highly punitive legislation, the attacks caused the Court to retreat, with Felix Frankfurter leading a five-justice majority that decided major constitutional issues for the government and effectively nullified earlier decisions. Only after August 1962, when Frankfurter retired and was replaced by Arthur Goldberg, did the Court again begin to vindicate individual rights in "Communist" cases--its McCarthy era was over.
Demonstrating keen insight into the Supreme Court's inner workings and making extensive use of the justices' papers, Lichtman examines the dynamics of the Court's changes in direction and the relationships and rivalries among its justices, including such towering figures as Hugo Black, Felix Frankfurter, Earl Warren, William O. Douglas, and William J. Brennan, Jr. The Supreme Court and McCarthy-Era Repression: One Hundred Decisions tells the entire story of the Supreme Court during this unfortunate period of twentieth-century American history.
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Lichtman on the Supreme Court in the McCarthy Era
New from the University of Illinois Press is The Supreme Court and McCarthy-Era Repression: One Hundred Decisions, by the Washington, D.C., lawyer Robert M. Lichtman. The Press calls it "a meticulous history of McCarthyism and the Supreme Court" and explains:


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Serving Meals (Food)
Providing nutritious food and promoting good eating habits are important parts of any child care program. Meal times offer children the opportunity to socialize, try new food, and build on many learning skills. Incorporating ideas and themes from your curriculum into meal times is a great way to involve children, and makes for a fun time all around. Here are some things to think about when serving meals and snacks:
- Always have children wash hands before and after snacks and meals.
- Observe safe food preparation and handling practices.
- Include items from the four major food groups: vegetables and fruits, cereals and breads, milk products and milk equivalents, and meat and meat substitutes.
- Allow enough time for snacks and meals so that children don't feel rushed.
- Serve snacks and meals at regularly scheduled times.
- Serve a variety of textures, colors, and temperatures of food.
- Have the children take part in food preparation, which builds skills in many areas such as math, science, language, and social studies.
- Let children take part in serving the food (e.g., passing around a basket of crackers, or carrying a tray of fruit to a table).
- Serve food from a diversity of cultures, especially those of children in the program.
- Serve small portions, particularly if it's a new or unfamiliar food.
- For infants, talk to parents about daily feeding schedules, formula or breast milk preparation, and when and how to introduce solid food.
- Talk to parents about any allergies or special diets their children may have. It's helpful to keep a list posted in the eating area for staff reference. Some allergic reactions can be very severe, so attentiveness is important.
- To prevent choking, do not serve popcorn, nuts, raisins, grapes, raw carrots, or hot dogs (unless cut up into half-inch pieces) to children under the age of five.
- Do not use an excess of sugar or salt when preparing any food.
- Post your snack and meal menus on your program's main bulletin board and website.
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A podcast that engages faith, on the margins. Faith that has been labeled, profane, non-conformist, and/ or "out there." We'll be exploring the intersections of the sacred, secular, and profane to find God. Profane Faith is a Dauntless Media Collective podcast. Visit dauntless.fm for more content.
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MaxQuant is a proteomics software package designed for analyzing large mass-spectrometric data sets. It is specifically aimed at high-resolution MS data. Several labeling techniques as well as label-free quantification are supported. MaxQuant is freely available and can be downloaded from this site. The download includes the search engine andromeda, which is integrated into MaxQuant as well as the viewer application for inspection of raw data and identification and quantification results. For statistical analysis of MaxQuant output, we offer the Perseus framework.
This documentation is organized as a wiki, so if you find anything that is wrong or hard to understand, in most cases you can fix it yourself. The wiki can be browsed by using the links below or by searching with the box in the upper right. Anyone is allowed to read the wiki, but to make changes you will have to register and login using the button in the upper right. If you are an internal user at the MPI of Biochemistry, you can get access to some restricted pages; contact the Cox group after you have registered.
For additional training, consider attending the annual MaxQuant Summer School. Also watching some MaxQuant videos provides more insight.
Cox, J. and Mann, M. MaxQuant enables high peptide identification rates, individualized p.p.b.-range mass accuracies and proteome-wide protein quantification. Nat Biotechnol, 2008, 26, pp 1367-72.
Note that the paper has a large supplement containing in-depth descriptions of algorithms.
Cox, J., Michalski, A., and Mann, M., Software Lock Mass by Two-Dimensional Minimization of Peptide Mass Errors. J Am Soc Mass Spectrom., 2011, 22, pp 1373–1380.
Schaab C., Geiger T., Stoehr G., Cox J., and Mann M. Analysis of High Accuracy, Quantitative Proteomics Data in the MaxQB Database. Mol Cell Proteomics, 2012, 11, M111.014068.
Cox J., Hein M. Y., Luber C. A., Paron I., Nagaraj N., and Mann M., Accurate Proteome-wide Label-free Quantification by Delayed Normalization and Maximal Peptide Ratio Extraction, Termed MaxLFQ. Mol Cell Proteomics, 2014, 13, pp 2513–2526.
Tyanova, S., Temu, T., Carlson, A., Sinitcyn, P., Mann, M. and Cox, J., Visualization of LC-MS/MS proteomics data in MaxQuant, Proteomics, 2015, 15, pp 1453–1456
Tyanova, S., Temu, T., and Cox, J., The MaxQuant computational platform for mass spectrometry-based shotgun proteomics, Nat Protocols, 2016, 11, pp 2301–2319
Note that this paper explains how to run MaxQuant in detail.


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Dealing With Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Many endurance athletes are forced to deal with irritable bowel syndrome and must find ways to minimize its effects during racing.
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Many endurance athletes are forced to deal with irritable bowel syndrome and must find ways to minimize its effects during racing and training. In this article, Molly Hurford explains why it seems to affect so many and how to deal with it.
It was an almost perfect start to my first triathlon when those three little words made my heart sink into my already churning stomach: no toilet paper. For a nervous triathlete, hearing that is akin to the end of the world. For a nervous triathlete with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), it's a death sentence. Since then, I've learned my lesson: Always bring a spare roll.
Endurance athletes can hardly afford to have undiagnosed gastrointestinal problems. Athletes and IBS patients are scarily similar in their profiles: According to a study published in Gut, IBS patients were less likely to rest in the face of their illness and exhibited all-or-nothing behavior by continuing their activities despite their symptoms. Sound familiar?
While up to 60 percent of runners may suffer stomach problems, only a small handful actually suffer from IBS. It's a chronic disorder characterized by abdominal pain, changes in bowel habits and bloating, stemming from an overactive colon. According to the National Health Institute, it's one of the most commonly diagnosed disorders, though no definitive cause for it has been found.
Athletes find this condition especially challenging, since the pain can interfere with training; changes in bowel habits leave us perfecting our 100-meter dash for a bathroom on runs, and bloating can make even the toughest athlete shrink away from being seen in a trisuit. Perhaps the worst news for athletes is that IBS is commonly brought on by stress, like right before a race starts.
Diagnosing IBS can be difficult, since it is characterized by lack of evidence of other stomach problems. It's diagnosed only when all procedures used to find other problems show up negative.
Athletes, especially those with pre-existing stomach pains, are at risk for developing IBS. In a study published in the American Journal of Gastroenterology, a survey showed 71 percent of runners and 65 percent of cyclists suffered from either lower or upper GI problems.
While there is no cure for IBS, it is possible to treat the symptoms holistically and medically, though the most effective treatments vary by individual. Studies have shown that exercise can help with IBS by improving mood and relieving stress, and it can help to speed up what could otherwise be painful bowel movements.
Some can point to trigger foods and avoid them to prevent pain, but for most people, there's no specific food that triggers pain. Of course, people with IBS should pay careful attention to nutrition, as a recent study has shown that subjects in IBS remission ran a higher risk for malnutrition. Clinical nutritionist Michelle Moder says that eating too much high-protein and high-fat food (such as bacon and eggs) shortly before exercise can cause GI problems. Instead, she suggests eating low-fat, carbohydrate-rich favorites as part of a daily training diet. Examples of GI friendly pre-workout foods are: low-fiber cereal and milk, a bagel with low-fat cream cheese, oatmeal and a banana, and yogurt. Moder's most important nutrition tip is to ignore strict nutrition advice: Try different foods and see what works for you. Hydration is also key, especially during workouts.
Your doctor can also prescribe medications including laxatives, antispasmodics and anti-depressants for those in extreme pain. Perhaps the best advice for an athlete with IBS is to develop a routine, including a sense of when major bowel movements occur, a basic diet plan and a training schedule.
Triathletes with IBS have a lot to be nervous about on race day. While the swim and bike legs of the course have relatively low impact on the digestive tract and bowels, the sport drinks and energy gels consumed on the bike may come back to haunt racers during the run, when movement of the bowels may cause an emergency that sends a racer sprinting to the nearest Porta-Potty. So how can a triathlete properly fuel during a race without succumbing to stomach upset?
First, don't focus on the hours before the race. Rather, look at the days preceding before the race as well. Since large meals have been known to worsen symptoms, avoid carb loading the day before the race. Instead, increase your carb intake throughout race week in the form of frequent, smaller meals. Moder suggests trying different combinations before race morning to see what works, listing bagels, toast, cereal, milk and bananas as good race-day breakfasts.
Terri Schneider, a triathlete and triathlon coach, says that psychology can play a huge part in improving an IBS athlete's race. "It comes down to getting in the zone," she says. "You want to be excited but not over the edge." Schneider also emphasizes a nutrition plan for any race longer than Olympic distance; since calories must be consumed, it's important for IBS athletes to have a strict plan.
Of course, the situation is not without humor: Tim Phelan, author of Romance, Riches, and Restrooms, a memoir about his IBS struggles, is quick to open up about his experience as a struggling triathlete learning to cope with IBS.
Triathlon was exactly what he needed. "In Masters swim, I was always 25 meters from a bathroom," he says, and when running and biking, "the Rockies are the biggest open-air bathrooms in the world." Phelan learned the best ways to cope, saying, "It's a regimented, pre-planned existence."
Athletes experiencing frequent gastrointestinal distress should ask their doctors about IBS. There's no single medication, diet tip or holistic remedy that's a surefire cure for IBS, but you can learn how to control it. After all, when you train this hard, shouldn't you be able to fully enjoy the rush of competing instead of waiting on the sidelines for a Porta-Potty to open up?
On the bright side, triathlons are possibly the best competitions for people with IBS. After all, as Tim Phelan reminded me, just look to Julie Moss, the original Ironman legend. He asks, "What other job can you have where you finish second, crap your pants and people love you?"


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MINNEAPOLIS—Yogurt manufacturer Yoplait unveiled its new line of Texas-style yogurt Tuesday, which they say is designed to satisfy even the hungriest man's voracious craving for acidified milk product.
"Open wide, boys, there's a new yogurt in town," the company's press release read in part. "After a long day of driving steers and drilling for oil, we know the only thing capable of satisfying your hunger is a whole mess of creamy yogurt with all the fixin's."
"Whether you're a tough guy, a badass, or a stone-cold sonofabitch, this is the yogurt for you," it continued.
Yoplait representatives said that each 64-ounce container will feature the meanest, grittiest, and heartiest fruits, including rough-and-tumble hunks of peaches, strawberries, and bananas. In addition, every serving will reportedly contain enough rich and velvety vanilla flavor to kill a full-grown buffalo.
"This ain't like those sissy yogurts you find out there today," Yoplait president and CEO Gerry J. Doutre told reporters while spitting out a mouthful of half-chewed Cactus Crème Caramel into a brass spittoon. "A feller's got to eat six or seven of them just to break a sweat, and even then he's still got the hunger chawin' at his insides."
"A real man needs a real yogurt, and now he done got one," Doutre added. "Yeeeeeeeeeeeeee-haaaaaw! Now available in white-chocolate raspberry!"
In a break from the company's traditional pink- and peach-colored flowers and gentle, sweeping fonts, the new Texas-style packaging design features a red-hot letter-Y cattle brand, various shades of brown, and images of longhorn skulls, rattlesnakes, and lassos.
A nationwide marketing campaign of television commercials, print ads, and billboards is scheduled to debut this week. One 30-second commercial shows a rugged cowboy on horseback driving cattle and ripping the lid off a yogurt container to the resounding crack of a bullwhip. As he tries to spoon out the yogurt, his utensil snaps, causing him to stare despondently into the cup until a gruff older cowboy rides up and hands him a ladle from his saddlebag. Another ad depicts a Texas Ranger in a high-speed chase with a man in a stolen car, whom he runs off the road, catches on foot, wrestles to the ground, and arrests. A fellow Ranger arrives moments later and tosses him a cup of Musky Blueberry Blast, which he guzzles before wiping his brow and throwing the suspect in the back of his patrol car.
According to Yoplait brand manager Cynthia Langley, all 12 of the hootin' hollerin' varieties in the new line are intended for good ol' boys, and not for city slickers who "can't hold their yogurt."
"Our new Healthy Choices Texas-Style Low-Fat Yogurt is so thick it takes a 200-pound coal miner five whole minutes to mix it all up," said Langley, adding that 65 percent of men are not even man enough to remove the leather lid. "If you don't want your muscles to ache and your hands to get all mussed up with pure organic apricot, you might as well settle for some sorry New York City excuse for a custard-like snack."
Langley stressed that, besides being incredibly masculine and reminding men of wandering free on an open plain, the Texas-style yogurt also contains a heaping helping of health benefits, including 300 percent of the recommended annual value of phosphorus, twice the needed antioxidants, and enough vitamin A to throw a man 30 feet through the air.
Early response from buckaroos, ranch hands, renegades, and tycoons has been favorable.
"When I eat yogurt, I want a meal," said Clint Baker, an El Paso, TX ranch owner. "But I need something soothing—my gut ain't so tolerant of lactose."
Yoplait's latest offering has already reportedly prompted competitors to develop their own similar products. The yogurt industry swirled with rumors last week that Dannon was planning to roll out a new two-fisted version of their Light And Fit brand, while Stonyfield Farm was said to be close to completing testing on its new Yogurt For Welders.


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Yet again we found that novel usage patterns, new technologies and regional idiosyncrasies are conspiring to make life increasingly difficult for mobile operators trying to meet evolving customer expectations. The ability to conduct detailed analysis such as this is critical in giving operators a rich source of intelligence to help boost network performance and enrich user experience, said study author and Arieso CTO, Dr. Michael Flanagan.
Tablets, phablets and smartphones
For the first time, smartphone users are consistently consuming more mobile data than tablet users. Out of the top ten most voracious devices (excluding dongles) six were smartphones, three tablets and one a phablet. Tablet users placed 4th, 8th and 9th.
This is pretty counterintuitive, but it seems the capabilities of the newest smartphones not tablets – are unleashing even greater user demand. Once you move away from raw consumption statistics, the most remarkable finding is the way in which people use smartphones and tablets, continued Flanagan. Regardless of device type and operating system, there is very little variation in the usage signature between smartphone users and between tablet users. From this we discover that voice-capable phablets like the Samsung Galaxy Note II – are currently being used like smartphones, not tablets. If you can use it to make a phone call, the phablet wont be much like a tablet at all.
The is still have it: but for how long?
From the 125 devices studied, users of the latest iPhone again proved the most voracious data consumers. But for the first time in three years, this dominance is being challenged.
Users of the iPhone 5 demand four times as much data as iPhone 3G users and 50% more than iPhone 4S users (the most demanding in the 2012 study). However, Samsung Galaxy S III users generate (upload rather than download photos, videos etc.) nearly four times the amount of data than iPhone 3G users, beating iPhone 5 users into third place on uplink data usage behind the Samsung Galaxy Note II. And in the rapidly growing tablet market, Samsung Tab 2 10.1 users have asserted their dominance – demanding 20% more data than iPad users.
Dongles dash for LTE
Last year, the study revealed that 1% of users consume 50% of the downlink data on 3G/UMTS networks. This year, the hungriest 1% consume 40% (the hungriest 0.1% consume almost 20%, the hungriest 10% consume 80% of the downlink data) as LTE starts to make an impact.
The region we studied this year has recently launched LTE, and were already seeing extreme users especially those with dongles starting to flock to 4G, said Flanagan. In many respects, this is great news LTE networks are doing their job. But the consumption levels and patterns of LTE use are very different to what operators could expect from 3G. Its a complex, fluid and increasingly high stakes situation for operators to deal with. Having performance engineering solutions that can reveal the customer experience across multiple technologies is going to be vital to understanding this going forward.
Network operator response: LTE, SON and small cells
LTE introduces much-needed bandwidth and relieves pressure on UMTS networks. However, operators cannot relax their focus on network planning, optimisation and performance – LTE holds a sting in its tail.
For three years now weve seen how greater technical capabilities lead to greater data consumption by consumers. From our own experience helping operators around the world prepare their networks for evolving user demands, we hypothesise that LTE alone wont solve the data problem it will exacerbate it, warned Flanagan.
Arieso is finding that to effectively meet the needs and expectations of LTE customers and extreme users, a different approach to network design is required. Small cells will be important, but the placing and management of these assets must be undertaken with even greater surgical precision.
Way back in history (relatively speaking) the NGMN defined a number of use cases for Self-Organising Networks. The very first was for the placement of base stations. With the right location intelligence pervading the network identifying where, for example, extreme LTE users congregate operators will immediately know where to place small cell assets, said Flanagan. SON for small cells will also help operators attack some of the other challenges with hetnets including interference management, inter-radio access technology handover and coverage and capacity optimization.
Regional differences
The study data originates from a tier-one European operator but is relevant to operators around the world because relative consumption between device users remains constant between geographies. The regional differences, therefore, relate to the operating conditions in each market:
Latin America: Network operators in the region are experiencing a perfect storm. Numerous reports predict substantial growth rates for mobile data consumption in Latin America, but most networks have only been designed and optimized for voice. The characteristics of mobile data mean that any substantial increase in use will dramatically shrink coverage and quality of service on voice-optimized networks. Meanwhile, in-building performance will also suffer. The impact has manifested quickly with national regulators intervening with aggressive sanctions in Brazil. The study findings confirm the reasons that Latin American operators are using Ariesos technology to be quicker to plan, roll-out and optimize their networks to be ready for the surge in data usage that the newest smartphones unleash amongst consumers.
Asia Pacific: Network operators in developed Asia Pacific specifically South East Asia are expected to experience similar data growth rates as in Latin America, but start from a much higher base. At the same time many operators in this region are much more familiar with the demands of mobile data consumers and LTE networks. However, even with the new bandwidth and spectral efficiency provided by LTE, operators cannot sustain long term data growth projections. Accelerating effective small cell strategies including the use of SON for small cells – will be critical if Asia Pacific operators are to avoid spectral exhaustion and the attention of regulators, as experienced recently in Singapore.
Other regions are addressed in the full report.
Wherever they are in the world, operators have to deal with similar challenges created by extreme data use, concluded Flanagan. Every year, the situation gets tougher and more complicated. But it is worth remembering two salient points. One, that these challenges only result from our industrys incredible success in creating devices, services and networks that billions of people want to use every hour of every day. Two, that these puzzles are surmountable through careful attention to the needs of subscribers where they demand services from the network.


text: A few years back, when Leslie Fiering began talking to IT executives about the potential benefits of employee-owned notebooks in the enterprise, the idea caused "fear, loathing and extreme distress in the hearts of CIOs," she recalls.\nBut over the past two years, Fiering, a research vice president for Gartner, has seen the idea pick up steam as an increased number of IT organizations test out employee-provisioned and owned hardware programs, "sometimes by choice, but often by necessity."\n\n\n"Employee-owned notebook programs are gaining popularity and are already run by more than 10 percent of organizations," says Brian Gammage, Gartner vice president and fellow.\n\nIt's the next logical step in the consumerization of IT, say analysts. When people see the new notebook they really want become affordable\u2014and the company has put off that system refresh yet another year\u2014they're going to get it and find a way to bring it into work. "We get calls from CIOs all the time saying, Help, one of my executives got a MacBook Air. What am I going to do?'"\n\nA program for employee provisioning is one way to gain some control over these issues. It can lead to greater user satisfaction and reduce total ownership costs anywhere from 9 percent to 44 percent, says Gartner. But figuring out the right parameters for a successful employee-owned laptop program can be tricky.\n\nTesting the Waters\n\nAt Sunoco, IT leaders were eager "to evaluate the risks and benefits of consumerization in the laptop computer arena," says Mark Quarles, manager of infrastructure services for the $36 billion energy company: "Specifically, what are the total cost of ownership and manageability impacts of this potential paradigm shift?" Although the company didn't expect material savings on the hardware, the hope was that ongoing support costs could be reduced.\n\nThe infrastructure services group had always provisioned and supported all hardware for the company's 14,000 employees. So its IT leaders had real concerns about its impacts or risks on the reliability and security in moving to an employee-owned model. But in May, Sunoco took some baby steps toward examining the pros and cons of putting that purchasing power in the hands of its users.\n\nSunoco's proof of concept for an employee-provisioning program involved six workers over three months. The infrastructure group told them they could purchase any laptop they liked with a company stipend of $1,400. \n\nA reasonable stipend is a critical aspect of any employee-provisioning program, says Fiering, because it is the only way to ensure that the user will provide a notebook that meets the enterprise performance and security requirements. And Sunoco had more than a few. It issued minimum workstation guidelines, including requirements for Microsoft Vista Business, OSX or Linux distribution, video and USB ports, 100GB hard drive, 2GB of RAM, and LAN connectivity. The program also required that laptops be configured for antivirus software, Microsoft Office 2007 (excluding the Linux laptops), Citrix ICA Client, Windows Update and VPN.\n\nThe Sunoco pilot made it the users' responsibility to acquire, configure and maintain their laptop without IS staff support. Participants documented the processes they followed to configure their laptop as well as the specific applications and access modes (connected to the corporate network or not) they used to do their work, and the end result of their experience with this test.\n\nResults were mixed. "Some participants\u2014around two-thirds\u2014decided they were spending too much time managing their own desktop," says Quarles. Some were unable to resolve certain issues, like the lack of a full Microsoft Exchange client for Linux systems. Others were completely satisfied.\n\nThe employee-owned laptop model increased complexity for users but didn't reduce total cost of ownership for Sunoco, Quarles says. Ultimately, the infrastructure services group determined there was not a business case for the employee-ownership model, at least not as Sunoco initially envisioned it.\n\n"It was clear that we would be unable to eliminate the entire desktop-support environment," Quarles says. "Even if you had a complete transition to this model, staff will, at the end of the day, expect that they can turn to internal resources to resolve their [IT] issues."\n\nLeaders at Sunoco remain open to employee provisioning in the future. "As technologies change the potential issues change or disappear," says Quarles. "If, over time, the majority of applications can present themselves through a standard Web browser, then you have eliminated the need to install any software on the end-user platform, which should greatly reduce the need for support."\n\nA Quiet Revolution\n\nFiering notes that numerous unsanctioned, employee-owned notebooks and desktop PCs are accessing enterprise networks. Recent published surveys have shown the number is considerably higher than anyone, let alone IT, ever imagined. A Gartner user survey found that 30 percent of workers brought unsanctioned devices to the office. So CIOs should at least explore official bring-your-own laptop programs.\n\nIT leaders are reluctant to publicize these efforts. "A lot of them are unsure about it and unsure of the backlash they may face from auditors and others," says Fiering. Some of the uncertainty is unfounded; IT organizations have dealt with similar issues in giving nonenterprise devices from contractors or partners secure access to their networks. One IT leader at a Fortune 500 company says he cannot talk openly about his forays into employee-provisioned hardware but notes that "when it comes to buying a commodity item, a motivated consumer will invariably get a better deal than an enterprise."\n\n"It's still early days," says Fiering. Self-provisioning tends to work well in small-company environments.\n\nKearns & West is a public relations and dispute resolution consulting firm with 35 employees and a principal who also oversees information technology. It started a buy-your-own hardware program five years ago, although leaders admit it took a leap of faith to move away from the company-owned model. "We decide to get rid of our depressing laptop graveyard," says Sharif Ebrahim, a Kearns & West principal. "The program is a success because it lets everyone pick the packages and bundles that best suit their work. The road warriors go with the light laptops, the graphic designers go with the Macs."\n\nInstead of one IT director making decisions, "50 percent of which are likely to be wrong," says Ebrahim, the firm's employees now have newer hardware and software than they would receive by waiting for the next refresh. Kearns & West maintains a few corporate-owned laptops that employees can check out as necessary.\n\nUltimately, the trend will continue to pick up steam, says Fiering, but it won't happen overnight. "There are tools for PC virtualization that will allow companies to reach out to noncompany-owned devices with full security. That market is still maturing," she says. "And frankly, IT organizations need to do more work on the back end with their own networks, policies and decisions about what kinds of users to involve, what kind of equipment they need to buy." And that will take time.\n\nThe Future of Provisioning\n\nStill, employee provisioning of laptops is not for every company. "It can open up large companies to a whole host of issues that keep CIOs up at night," says Fiering. "I don't think it will ever be universal. You're going to have high-security or military-type situations where it just doesn't make sense."\n\nEmployee provisioning isn't likely to go away. In fact, cell phones are already the latest IT-sanctioned bring-your-own program. User-owned smartphones and PDAs are often tolerated because they are small and easier to turn a blind eye to, say Fiering and Gammage. But employees use them to access and store company data, so CIOs should consider putting policies in place around such mobile devices.\n\nMotorola says it has deployed a successful mobile self-provisioning process used globally. Employees have provisioned more than 14,000 smartphones in 33 countries, saving the company an estimated $400,000 in annual support costs and eliminating long wait times for employees eager to sync their new device with corporate e-mail.


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What's yer fauvrit Scots saying?
Is your favourite Scots saying one you've kent since you were a bairn, or one you've just discovered and love? Whatever is the case, the Scots Sayings collection has plenty to choose from.
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Usage: something yer da screams at the telly when the fitba is on.
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Secure Distributed Work
Boost Productivity
For nearly a decade, Accenture and Citrix have worked together to help organizations in virtually all industries be more productive. Leveraging its Avanade joint venture with Microsoft, Accenture helps companies to create dynamic infrastructures that are efficient, scalable and flexible.
Working with Citrix DaaS technologies, Accenture and Avanade maintain deep technical expertise to develop and deliver optimized virtual desktop strategies. Based on user segmentation and application rationalization leveraging Citrix DaaS, the solutions provide insight and visibility into your app portfolio – an important element in the transformation of your mobile workspace.
Accenture leverages Citrix technology offerings such as Citrix secure access solution to deliver large-scale, complex mobility solutions that support BYOD, drive productivity and increase user satisfaction.
We are excited to have Citrix as a strategic partner. Avanade is one of the largest Microsoft-only services companies in the world and, together with Citrix, we are focused on creating dynamic infrastructures. Citrix plays a key role in our strategy of Modernizing the Workplace, which helps customers re-imagine how work gets done and how they collaborate, while placing a strong emphasis on mobility and flexibility.
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Andes Hostel is located in Barrio Bellas Artes, one of the trendiest, most beautiful, and best located neighborhoods in downtown Santiago! The neighborhoods architecture, which combines both classic and modern styles, the designer cafes located in each corner, the Bellas Artes Museum, the Parque Forestal, and the youthful environment, make it a really fun place, where you will be entertained 24 hours a day, 7 days a week! All of these features are reflected in Andes Hostels design, which combines a modern trendy style with the classic structure of a beautiful 1940s building.
Our young and friendly staff will help you with everything you need, making your stay a pleasant and unforgettable experience. They are very knowledgeable of the neighborhood and of Santiago, and they have all the information you may ever need, including useful information on tours, maps, pubs, and restaurants.
Because our hostel is brand new, you will find that our facilities are in mint condition, specially designed for your comfort and convenience. During your stay you will have the chance to enjoy our shared areas, relaxing in the living room while listening to music or watching TV, checking your emails, playing a game of pool, or staying at the bar to meet people while enjoying one of our famous pisco sours. In our roof terrace you can have a sun bath or enjoy a Chilean barbeque, with a lovely view of the city. If you want to have more fun, take a part in our weekly activities, which include bbqs, tours, and parties. You can also easily visit any place in Santiago, since we are located only a few steps away from the Bellas Artes subway station!
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EMPC is a client for MPD written using EFL.
Its focus is speed-of-use and minimalism.
It does not support other media playing backends.
For most delicious taste, set MPD_HOST environment variable to the path of
mpd's local socket. Also ensure your user has access to this socket.
Build Dependencies:
Elementary >= 1.12
libmpdclient >= 2.9
maelstrom-azy (dist only)
Optional Module Dependencies:
glyr_gmpc: esskyuehl
glyr: glyr
id3_loader: id3tag
elyr: maelstrom-azy
The UI of EMPC is based on mouse movements and event areas.
Moving the mouse to an area of the application window
will trigger a change in the view state. Unless the current view
has been mouse-hold toggled or keyboard toggled using a global
hotkey, it will automatically hide after HIDE_TIMEOUT seconds.
Hints for available navigation appear when the view changes:
* blue indicates a new view is available in a direction
* red indicates the previous view is available in a direction
Mouse bindings for the player view and event area sizes can
be changed using the defines at the top of empc.edc.
Global hotkeys:
F1 -> Toggle playlist view
F2 -> Toggle filesystem view
Ctrl+Q -> Quit
Player view:
Right -> playlist view
Right for LOCK_TIMEOUT seconds -> toggle playlist view on
Bottom -> controls panel
Left click -> play/pause toggle
Double left click -> background selector view
Right click -> fetch+show lyrics
Wheel down -> next track
Ctrl+Wheel down -> next album
Wheel up -> previous track
Ctrl+Wheel up -> previous album
Ctrl+v -> paste image url/data to use as background
Delete -> delete currently playing song from queue
Ctrl+Delete -> delete currently playing album from queue
Enter/Return -> activate (play) first selected item in playlist
Spacebar -> Toggle play/pause
Playlist view:
Left -> player view
Left for LOCK_TIMEOUT seconds -> toggle playlist view off
Up -> filesystem view
Bottom -> controls panel
Ctrl+Wheel up -> scroll up to previous album header
Ctrl+Wheel down -> scroll down to next album header
Right click -> playlist menu
Ctrl+a -> select all
Ctrl+c -> copy current selection of songs
Ctrl+v -> paste current selection of songs
Ctrl+Enter -> playlist menu
Filesystem view:
Bottom -> playlist view
Typing on the keyboard in this view will actively search
available filesystem entities.
Double click/Return/Enter -> select current entity
Arrows -> change selection
Right click -> filesystem menu
Ctrl+a -> select all
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