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A dream character said this to me: Are dreams just a dream within a dream?
This riddle has fascinated me since I heard it, but I have no idea what it could mean.
Any serious or funny ideas on what my dream character was talking about?
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Are dreams just a dream within a dream? -Dream Character
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It means life is a dream: That way your dreams are dreams inside a dream
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knife said what I was going to say. That's how I'd interpute it anyway.
The only thing to fear is the fear itself
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Its the most obvious answer
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Reading this really gives me goose bumps. Then again so does most of the things i read here. I tried to wrap my head around this and i just get more goosebumps.
~Too many Lucid Dreams to count~
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Haha, try to think about it while lucid dreaming, maybe it helps. Or ask dream characters?
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I'm sure we all ask at one point whether life is just one big dream of someones. But if that is the case, who is the dreamer? Are we all just dream characters?
Do a reality check
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Who knows?
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Tony Humes has been announced as the new Colchester United manager.
He takes over at the Weston Homes Community Stadium after the departure of Joe Dunne earlier today.
Humes was unveiled as the new manager at a press conference this afternoon and Richard Hall will work as his assistant after both stepped up from the club's youth setup.
Humes has been Head of Youth at Colchester for five years and has played an influential part in the development of younger players at the club as well as working alongside chairman Robbie Cowling in the club's successful accreditation for Category Two this season.
Under his guidance, the under-18s sealed a first ever league and cup double last season.
Hall will be joining Humes as part of the club's new first team management set-up after previously working with the club's under-21s.
The duo's first game in charge will be for this weekend's game against Walsall.
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Missouri lawmakers to review catfish regulation
Changes aimed at boosting numbers of large blue catfish in Missouri's lakes will be considered by a state Legislature committee.
Conservation officials endorsed a new regulation that would allow anglers to keep more blue catfish but require mid-sized fish to be returned to the water. A House appropriations committee focused on agriculture and natural resources has scheduled a hearing Tuesday at the Capitol.
The catfish regulation was approved by the Conservation Commission in March and submitted to the secretary of state's office in the fall. It is scheduled to take effect this upcoming March.
Department of Conservation spokesman Joe Jerek said the rule would "improve the fishery and ultimately offer better fishing for the many, many anglers who love fishing for blue cats in these waters."
Under the regulation, the daily limit for blue catfish on Truman Lake and the Lake of the Ozarks and its tributaries would increase from five fish to 10. Anglers would be permitted two longer than 34 inches and would need to return to the water all blue catfish between 26 inches and 34 inches.
Blue catfish are the largest catfish found in Missouri and can live for 30 years. The current state record-holder was caught in 2010 and weighed 130 pounds. At the Lake of the Ozarks, it can take the fish 15 years to reach 31 inches and about 12 pounds.
Conservation officials say they began to hear concerns in the early 1990s about declining numbers of large blue catfish at Truman Lake. There have been similar concerns more recently at the Lake of the Ozarks.
A three-year baseline population study completed in 2012 found the average blue catfish was 22.8 inches long at Truman and 21.4 inches long at the Lake of the Ozarks. More than 80 percent in both lakes were less than 26 inches and 2 percent were bigger than 34 inches.
Open houses were held last year in Camdenton, Clinton and Warsaw. Conservation officials said many of the submitted comments supported the proposal, though others opposed changes and questioned whether the number of large blue catfish has declined.


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Several nights ago I dreamed I met heavyweight boxing champ and cultural icon, Muhammad Ali.
He turned 70 last week.
Though I've been a fan for decades, I confess I've never dreamed of him before.
The setting was a surreal, red carpet-like environment, and I was positioned behind a roped-off area with hundreds of other fans.
He stood before us, unsmiling, distinguished, regal. He must have been 10 feet tall.
Impetuously, I ducked beneath the restraining rope and sprinted over to where he was, catching the security guard's unawares. As I stood before him he took a suspicious side step, as if to avoid me.
"No, Mr. Ali, you don't understand. I'm not a whacko fan," I said. "You and I are simpatico. We both have Parkinson's disease."
With my blunt declamation he stepped forward, put a large muscular arm across my shoulders, gave me a smile and escorted me away from the crowd so that we could chat.
So ended my dream.
Parkinson's is a degenerative brain disorder that causes nerve cells to die or become impaired. Patients exhibit such symptoms as tremors or shaking, slowness of movement, rigidity or stiffness, and balance difficulties. Other signs include a shuffling gate, cognitive problems or muffled speech.
My first memory of Ali is as a cheeky light heavyweight gold medalist at the 1960 Rome Olympics. His name then was Cassius Clay.
In Miami on the evening of Feb. 25, 1964, he fought heavily favored Sonny Liston for the world heavyweight title.
I'd been a U.S. Army private for exactly 11 days, and was pulling KP duty that night in my basic training company at Fort Ord. The mess sergeant graciously allowed us to sit at a mess hall dining table and listen to the bout on the radio. As I recall, it was a chilly and damp Monterey evening.
As we awaited the opening bell we were convinced that Liston would thrash the young braggart to a bloody and penitent pulp.
Clay audaciously predicted at the pre-fight weigh-in that he'd relentlessly pursue the powerful and plodding Liston, and would "float like a butterfly and sting like a bee." What nerve!
Float and sting he did.
Clay shocked the world. He was ahead on points by the third round. In the fifth, he landed flurries of combinations to take control of the fight, and then dominated the sixth. Liston failed to answer the bell for the seventh.
To the shock and chagrin of the KP workers in Ord's Headquarters Company, 3rd Brigade, 1st Battalion, Clay was the new world champion. Shortly thereafter, he boldly labeled himself "the greatest!"
I remained unconvinced. When he beat my hero, Floyd Patterson, by a TKO in November 1965, I revised my opinion.
The three-time heavyweight champ logged a 56-5 career record, with 37 knockouts. He had victories over Leon Spinks, Ken Norton, Joe Frazier, Jerry Quarry and George Foreman. He also lost to Frazier, Norton and Spinks.
His final fight, on Dec. 11, 1981, was a loss to Trevor Berbick by a decision.
He was diagnosed with Parkinson's three years after his last fight, 28 years ago. My diagnosis came 22 years later. Never did I imagine we'd be linked by such a condition.
Ali's symptoms manifest themselves in slurred and difficult speech, tremors, stiffness of extremities and an expressionless facial "mask." Ali once estimated that he took 29,000 shots to the head during his fight career, which spanned two decades. That could easily have accelerated his approaching neurological calamity.
His family says Ali now battles the late stages of Parkinson's and is susceptible to pneumonia, infections, falls and swallowing problems.
But the champ doesn't feel sorry for himself. He stoically accepts his fate.
"These are the cards I was dealt," he once told his family. "Don't be sad."
Muhammad Ali amazed me when I listened to his fight on the radio in an Army mess hall in 1964. He continues to amaze me today.
I'm a huge fan.
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1,000 sign up to address committee.
AUSTIN — Republicans and anti-abortion activists Tuesday tried to regain control of the contentious debate in the Legislature as a House panel heard passionate testimony late into the night on a sweeping package designed to limit the procedure.
Just one day after an estimated 6,000 pro-abortion-rights activists turned the Legislature into a sea of orange, supporters of the anti-abortion legislation sported blue gear and turned out by the hundreds to pack the lower level of the Capitol.
That's where the House State Affairs Committee met Tuesday and by 10 p.m. had signed up about 1,000 to testify on House Bill 2, the catch-all proposal that critics say would effectively shutter the majority of the state's abortion clinics. The proposal also would ban abortions after 20 weeks.
The committee planned to cut off testimony at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday, easily leaving hundreds without the opportunity to speak. It was uncertain at press time whether Republicans would vote on the bill once the hearing wrapped up.
"What we're going to do right now is get through the testimony," Rep. Byron Cook, who chairs the panel, said when asked about the timing of a vote.
The Republican-led panel was expected to pass the bill out of committee so long as a quorum was maintained come midnight.
If passed Tuesday or early Wednesday, it would tee up the proposal for debate in the House on July 9, which is when the lower chamber returns to work.
Republicans in the Legislature are looking to move swiftly with the measure in the second attempt at passage.
Gov. Rick Perry summoned lawmakers back to work after Republicans failed to pass an identical anti-abortion bill during the first special session. Passage this time around is likely, as Republicans have the votes and plenty of time.
During Tuesday's hearing, dozens of women shared personal stories with lawmakers about their experiences with abortion.
Amy Cornwell of San Antonio told the panel she felt like abortion was the only available route to pursue when she found out she was pregnant at 19 and dropped out of college. As a result, she planned on aborting her pregnancy until she had a change of heart.
"It would have been the easy thing to do to slide under the radar and have an abortion," Cornwell, 26 and teary eyed, said in front of the committee. "I feel fortunate to live in a state that stands with life."
On the other end of the debate was Carolyn Conner, a 63-year-old Austin resident who had an abortion 30 years ago and said she didn't regret it. Already a single mother at the time, Conner said the procedure was "the right thing for me."
"I would have been stuck with a baby (and nobody but me was) going to take care of her," she said.
Although substantially fewer activists hit the Capitol on Tuesday, security stayed fortified with a presence of Department of Public Safety troopers. No arrests were reported as of 10 p.m.
The theatrics also kept a steady pace. In a courtyard not far from where the House panel was debating, activists on both sides of the issue gathered to scream and chant for hours.
Anti-abortion activists squeezed into a cramped hallway hours before a 3:30 start time for the hearing. Only a small batch — less than 100 — actually made it inside for the start of the hearing and witnesses were constantly rotated in and out of the room throughout the night. The rest were funneled into overflow rooms, which filled within minutes of opening.
The crowd for the hearing waited hours, growing tired and tense early in the day. The Capitol hallway was hot, sweaty and stale.
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At the beginning of the hearing, Rep. Jodie Laubenberg, R-Parker, faced tough questions from Democrats.
Rep. Sylvester Turner, D-Houston, pressed Laubenberg to accept changes to her bill to require the state to fund changes to clinics that conduct abortions so they can meet the higher standards set forth in her legislation.
"What happens if 37 clinics close?" Turner asked.
"We're talking hypotheticals," Laubenberg responded, saying she doesn't believe her bill will cause clinics to shutter.
Laubenberg later added: "My intent for this bill is for the health and safety of women."


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The Wall Street Journal has a good editorial ("As contractions go," — behind its subscription paywall but available via Google News) on yesterday's announced fourth quarter contraction in the economy. Does anyone think that more of the same monetary policy will deliver us from Obama's slow growth/no-growth economy? The Journal comments: "Bad economy=more Fed cowbell=higher stock prices. Risk on, baby."
The Journal concludes the editorial with comments on the Fed's current QE-Infinity, near zero percent interest rate policy:
Meanwhile, and right on cue for Wall Street, the Fed announced Wednesday after its two-day meeting that it will stick with its bond-buying spectacular. This means buying $40 billion in mortgage-backed securities a month and another $45 billion in longer-term Treasurys. The Fed is on pace to expand its balance sheet by another $1 trillion or so through the end of this year—its fifth in a row of near-zero interest rates and some form of "quantitative easing."
These have been heady days at the Eccles Building, or at least they were before the GDP report. Stock and housing prices have been rising, and investors are walking further out on the risk curve, just as Chairman Ben Bernanke hopes. The Fed has also led a parade of easing around the world, as other central bankers follow to prevent their currencies from rising too much. Even Japan has finally succumbed, raising its inflation target.
Yet the economic paradox of our time is slow growth and lousy job creation despite these monetary exertions. This continues to be the 2% recovery, the slowest in the modern era. The Keynesian explanation is that we're still recovering from the financial panic, though it's worth recalling that in January 2010 the Fed predicted that growth in 2012 would be 3.5% to 4.5%, not 2.2%.
Stanford economist John Taylor offered a different explanation this week, saying on these pages that the Fed's excessive ease may actually be hampering growth thanks to unintended consequences. These include the misallocation of capital as investors chase yield above all, a subsidy for excessive federal spending by disguising the real cost of repaying debt, and the uncertainty of when the Fed will finally have to stop the party.
This debate won't be settled for years, and in any case Mr. Bernanke doesn't listen to Mr. Taylor or us. By now the world knows he'll keep doing what he's been doing until faster growth returns or the markets force him to stop. Risk on, baby.
As of the first of this year, as I understand it, the Fed's purchases of Treasury obligations become pure exercises in money creation (i.e., are "unsterilized" by the simultaneous selling of assets to cover the purchases). The interesting chart below tracks the expansion of the Fed's balance sheet, with more coming soon. See also "A look inside the Fed's balance sheet."
Might Fed policy itself have a hand in the perpetuation of Obama's slow growth/no growth economy? That is the question addressed by Stanford economist John Taylor, cited in the editorial above, in his column "Fed policy is a drag on the economy." We seem to be approaching the time contemplated by Irwin Stelzer in his recent Weekly Standard post, articulating the unspoken train of thought underlying the current situation:
As for the deficit, worry not. We can afford existing entitlement programs that protect children and the elderly without running the risk of over-borrowing and defaulting on our mounting debts. Which is certainly true, since if investors decide that they are no longer willing to lend us $40 for every $100 we spend, we can run the presses, and pay off our debts with a depreciated currency, something that troubles our Chinese creditors. That would continue the massive wealth transfer now underway from creditors—savers and investors, victims of the zero-interest policy being pursued by the monetary policy gurus at the Federal Reserve Board—to debtors who will be able to repay their creditors with cheap money.
Haven't we reached the moment when we are running the presses to borrow $40 for every dollar we spend? Or am I missing something?


text: Jim Lux wrote: ... > There are probably applications where a dedicated card can blow the > doors off a collection of PCs. At some point, the interprocessor > communication latency inherent in any sort of cabling between processors > would start to dominate. As usual it depends on the applications. Vector computations are not universal, even if frequent in technical problems. In the favorable cases it is not rare to have say over 10% serial code that does not benefit from the card. In the end the card, despite its 192 procs, may just accelerate typical applications by a factor a few. >> If Clearspeed would consider mass production with a cost like >> $100.-$500.- >> per card the market would be huge, because the card would be competing >> with >> multi-core processors like the IBM-Sony Cell. > > You need "really big" volumes to get there. Yes, but it does not seem to me unreasonable to put such a card in millions of PC's if the average applications run a bit faster and the cost increase stays below the PC cost. After all the 8087 math coprocessor of the i386 era did just that. .... > > I would say that there is more potential for a clever soul to reprogram > the guts of Matlab, etc., to transparently share the work across > multiple machines. I think that's in the back of the mind of MS, as > they move toward a services environment and .NET Lots of people have thought about that for a long time, including Cleve Moeller. The potential clever soul should be well above average, and considering MS products, well above MS average programmer. An intriguing way to parallelize C with threads on multicore processors is provided by Cilk (http://supertech.lcs.mit.edu/cilk/). Cilk consists of a couple of simple extensions to the C language. If anyone has experience with Cilk it would be nice to share. Dan


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Angry Black Lady Chronicles has the story. Here is a clip from it, go read the whole thing, it's really good…
Adam Green is desperate for your money. So desperate that he is willing to lie, cheat, and steal to get it.
You see, a couple weeks ago, Adam Green (PCCC's Treasurer and Grifter-in-Chief) registered the domain name "ColberSuperPAC" in an attempt to bleed donations and membership from Colbert's Super PAC, Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow (which can be found at tSuperPac.com>):
"Progressive Change Campaign Committee Treasurer Adam Green purchased the URL ColberSuperPAC.com, omitting the t in Stephen Colbert's name, and then redirected that URL to his own PAC web site in an apparent attempt to steal critical membership and donations away from Colbert's PAC, Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow. Colbert announced Friday night on his show, The Colbert Report, more than 100,000 previous ABTT members need to sign up a second time because the organization is now a super-PAC."


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Mammoth Mountain is proud to announce that it will be releasing a full-length video featuring the incredibly talented Unbound Team. The video, titled "Hot Laps", will premiere on the opening weekend of the 2009/10 winter season in a free outdoor showing to be followed by a party. Mammoth has teamed up with Snowboarder Magazine to distribute 100,000+ copies of "Hot Laps" for free to the public with the Superpark Issue of Snowboarder Magazine to be released in the January 2010 Issue.
"Not only does Mammoth have the best parks in the world, but it has some ridiculous big mountain in-bounds terrain as well, and there is so much insane backcountry around here," says Mammoth Team Rider Gabe Taylor. "Nowhere else even comes close to this kind of variety!"
"Hot Laps" will take a step away from the traditional video format by featuring only terrain at or near Mammoth Mountain, including the world-famous Unbound Terrain Parks. Two full-time videographers were brought on by Mammoth to capture video footage of the Unbound Team for an entire season for the movie.
The rider lineup, which will feature the Mammoth Unbound Team and friends, reads more like a dream team than a typical video lineup. Featured riders include Olympians Danny Kass, Mason Aguirre and Mercedes Nicoll. Other standouts include Greg Bretz, Eddie Wall, Gabe Taylor, Tyler Flanagan, Sketchy-D, Tara Dakides, Lonnie Kauk, Trevor Jacob, Molly Aguirre, Matt Hammer, Jared Dawoud, Alex Dawoud, Cody Rosenthal, Shane Pospisil, Eric Jackson, Peter Benchetler and friends. Mammoth Unbound Team skiers Chris Benchetler and Pep Fujas will even be included in the action
A new website has been launched to provide all the latest details about the movie including movie snippets and trailers, photos, rider bios and blog entries. Check out all the goods at www.PlayBigProductions.com.


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Geocaching Caption Contest 10 – Win a Barely Coveted Prize
This is the tenth installment of our Geocaching Caption Contest. This picture was posted to Geocaching.com's Facebook page by a German geocacher. It was too good not to share here on the Latitude 47 blog.
What caption would you write? "Additional logging requirements (always optional), Sing Soprano." You can do better.


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Last Friday at New Hope Community Church in Clackamas, a crowd gathered to mourn local businessman Roy Keller, who died Sunday, July 9, at age 90. Seated before a stage laden with elaborate flower arrangements were just under a hundred white-haired seniors, tattooed young women and generations of family.
Not every bar owner attains the level of regional celebrity that Roy Keller had, but then few could be credited with the birth of a local industry. Because Keller, who formerly worked as a foreman in a Portland shipyard, hadn't bought just any bar back in 1954—he'd bought Mary's Club, the downtown joint then known for its popularity with sailors. A year later, he made the risky decision to introduce pasties-clad topless dancers and sparked a sex-industry boom that brought P-Town a reputation as a Sin City.
On Friday, many of Mary's small, tight-knit group of dancers sat in folding chairs at the megachurch, dressed in conservative slacks and button-down shirts. It's notoriously difficult to get a job at Mary's—loyal dancers tend to stay on for years, making it tough to find room for new hires. Gathered around a table for coffee at the post-funeral reception, the women shed light on why the bar at 129 SW Broadway is a preferred place of employment. While digging through a purse to find snacks for her toddler, a former dancer named Nicole (she declined to give a last name) remembers: "I've gone to Thanksgiving at [the owners'] house.... They care about us, about our families." That could be because Mary's is one of a few small, family-run businesses in the red-light world, an industry dominated by huge, impersonal "gentlemen's clubs."
Keller is survived by three children, 11 grandkids, 22 great-grandkids and eight great-great-grandkids. Three of the clan still show up for shifts every night at Mary's. Roy's daughter Vicki Keller is at the helm, having run her dad's business for the past 25 years. After the funeral, Vicki moved about the room greeting guests much as she does at Mary's: offering hugs, directions to the bathroom and stories of the famous bar where she still slings cocktails alongside her daughters Virginia and Traci.
Dark-haired Virginia stands patiently in the buffet line, red-rimmed eyes telling of the emotion and exhaustion of the past week, and recalls her mom "covering my eyes and running me through the club to the office," as a child. "It's not your typical family to grow up in," she admits, "but it's second nature to me."
Her mother, who grew up in a more conservative era, had to bear the brunt of the family reputation. "When I was young, one of my girlfriends' parents wouldn't let her hang out with me because my father was in the bar business—and this is before [Mary's] went topless!" Vicki says. Now, she says, "my grandchildren all brag that their grandma runs Mary's Club." Brag away: Having featured both a teenage Courtney Love and, according to Vicki, sex-change-pioneer Christine Jorgensen on its tiny stage, the bar has cemented its place in history far beyond the city limits. That, and the naked ladies, is what has kept customers coming back for decades.
Roy Keller wouldn't have had it any other way. "When my mom died, I closed the bar for her funeral, and Dad said, 'Don't do that for me when I go,'" Vicki says while scheduling dancers' shifts at Mary's the day after the funeral. The three Keller women miraculously kept the bar running all that week, even heading to work straight from the funeral. It was hard for Vicki that night, she says, and the sadness in her voice speaks louder than the pumping bar music as she sighs, "It's in our blood. Business as usual."


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Brandeis University (Waltham, MA)
Located in the suburbs of Boston, Brandeis is a small (3300 students) research university that offers a unique niche between the small liberal arts college and the larger research university. It is a young institution, founded in 1948 to provide a top-notch universe for minority groups that were suffering from the quota system in place at Ivy League and other universities. A number of prominent Jewish figures were associated with its founding, including Albert Einstein, and Jewish students made up a majority of the students for many years. While that influence is still felt, Brandeis is today a diverse institution that attracts students from around the country and around the world (15% international from 86 countries). What these students usually share is Brandeis' mission of social justice, an idealistic mindset and support for volunteerism. Majors range from traditional liberal arts disciplines to unique programs like investigative journalism (one of only three in the country) and film/television/media analysis. 55% of students study abroad and Brandeis leads the nation in sending students outside of Western Europe. Most students live on campus, including in one of the dorms that is a real-life castle (see pictures). Students don't miss a Greek system, since there are 260 clubs on campus, including skydiving and quidditch, and Boston is only a short commuter train ride away. Waltham itself is a restaurant center of the Boston suburbs. Students considering small-medium sized universities like Vanderbilt or Emory should definitely take a peek at Brandeis. KRead More


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PCR test for Helicobacter pylori
What is this test?
This test detects a bacteria Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) using a special technique called polymerase chain reaction (PCR). PCR detects gene sequences in bacterial DNA[1]. This test is used when an infection with H. pylori is suspected[2][3][1]. A sample of saliva[3], stool[4], or stomach lining cells through gastric endoscopy[1] may be collected for this test. If you are having a gastric endoscopy, this test may be performed during your endoscopy. However, an endoscopy is generally not performed just to collect a sample for this test.
Why do I need this test?
Laboratory tests may be done for many reasons. Tests are performed for routine health screenings or if a disease or toxicity is suspected. Lab tests may be used to determine if a medical condition is improving or worsening. Lab tests may also be used to measure the success or failure of a medication or treatment plan. Lab tests may be ordered for professional or legal reasons. The following is a possible reason why this test may be done:
- Helicobacter pylori gastrointestinal tract infection
When and how often should I have this test?
When and how often laboratory tests are done may depend on many factors. The timing of laboratory tests may rely on the results or completion of other tests, procedures, or treatments. Lab tests may be performed immediately in an emergency, or tests may be delayed as a condition is treated or monitored. A test may be suggested or become necessary when certain signs or symptoms appear.
Due to changes in the way your body naturally functions through the course of a day, lab tests may need to be performed at a certain time of day. If you have prepared for a test by changing your food or fluid intake, lab tests may be timed in accordance with those changes. Timing of tests may be based on increased and decreased levels of medications, drugs or other substances in the body.
The age or gender of the person being tested may affect when and how often a lab test is required. Chronic or progressive conditions may need ongoing monitoring through the use of lab tests. Conditions that worsen and improve may also need frequent monitoring. Certain tests may be repeated to obtain a series of results, or tests may need to be repeated to confirm or disprove results. Timing and frequency of lab tests may vary if they are performed for professional or legal reasons.
How should I get ready for the test?
There is no preparation needed for this test.
Before giving a stool sample, tell the healthcare worker if you have diarrhea or are using antibiotics, barium, bismuth, oil, iron, magnesium, or medication to stop diarrhea.
Stomach lining cells:
An endoscopy is a procedure that requires your written consent. Review the consent form with the healthcare worker and ask any questions that you have before signing the consent form. Tell the healthcare worker if you have a history of nosebleeds, throat infections, chest pain, heart conditions, or a recent heart attack. Inform the healthcare worker if you have a medical condition or are using a medication or supplement that causes excessive bleeding. You should also report if you have a history of allergic or other reactions to local anesthetics.
To prepare for an endoscopy, you may be offered a mild sedative prior to the procedure to help you relax. To decrease pain, you will also receive a local anesthetic.
How is the test done?
A sample of saliva, stool, or stomach lining cells through gastric endoscopy may be collected for this test.
Saliva samples may be collected by having you spit into a plastic tube several times or by using a swab. For the swab method you will need to open your mouth wide. The person doing the test will use a long, sterile cotton swab to wipe the inside of your cheeks. The swab may be rubbed several times to collect the sample. Do not close your mouth when the sample is being collected. After the sample has been collected, the swab will be taken out and tested.
For a stool sample, you will be asked to have a bowel movement into a special container. Avoid adding urine, water, tissues, or toilet paper to the stool sample.
Stomach lining cells:
An endoscope is done with conscious sedation through an IV catheter. A local anesthesia will be sprayed into your mouth to prevent you from gagging or coughing when the endoscope is inserted. The endoscope, a flexible fiberoptic instrument that carries a tiny camera, is passed through your mouth. A device called a bite block may be used to protect your teeth. The endoscope then passes through your throat, esophagus (food tube), stomach, and duodenum. Air will be introduced through the endoscope to view the lining of the organs. Samples of cells or tissues may be collected through the endoscope. These samples are then sent to laboratory for testing.
How will the test feel?
The amount of discomfort you feel will depend on many factors, including your sensitivity to pain. Communicate how you are feeling with the person doing the test. Inform the person doing the test if you feel that you cannot continue with the test.
This test usually causes no discomfort.
This test usually causes no discomfort.
Stomach lining cells:
Before the endoscopy, a local anesthesia is sprayed into your mouth. You may feel mild discomfort at the back of your throat. This will make your swallowing difficult. You will also receive medicine called conscious sedation, which puts you in a dream-like state where you should not feel pain or remember the procedure. However, you are still awake enough to move and respond to directions. During the procedure, you may feel mild discomfort when the endoscope enters your mouth. You may also feel the movement of the scope in your abdomen. After the procedure, you may have a sore throat or cough for several days.
What should I do after the test?
There are no special instructions to follow after this test.
After giving a stool sample in a healthcare facility, close the container if it has a lid, and place the container where the healthcare worker instructed. Clean your hands with soap and water. If you have been asked to collect the stool sample while at home, follow the directions provided.
Stomach lining cells:
Following an endoscopy and collection of a sample of cells or tissue, you will need to rest until healthcare workers say that you are able to leave the facility. Your throat may feel sore or dry for a short time. Contact your healthcare worker if you cough up significant amounts of bright red or dark-colored blood, have a high fever, have difficulty swallowing, or have black stools.
What are the risks?
Saliva: Ask the healthcare worker to explain the risks of this test to you before it is performed.
Stool: Giving a stool sample is generally considered safe. Talk to your healthcare worker if you have questions or concerns about this test.
Stomach lining cells: A sample of the stomach lining is collected by a procedure called gastric endoscopy and biopsy. As the endoscope passes through your mouth, there is a risk of damage to your teeth, mouth, and throat. There is also a risk of perforation (hole) in the stomach or bleeding at the biopsy site. If you have a medical condition, or are using a medication or supplement that causes excessive bleeding, you are at a higher risk of bleeding during or after this procedure.
What are normal results for this test?
Laboratory test results may vary depending on your age, gender, health history, the method used for the test, and many other factors. If your results are different from the results suggested below, this may not mean that you have a disease. Contact your healthcare worker if you have any questions. The following is considered to be a normal result for this test:
- Negative
What follow up should I do after this test?
Ask your healthcare worker how you will be informed of the test results. You may be asked to call for results, schedule an appointment to discuss results, or notified of results by mail. Follow up care varies depending on many factors related to your test. Sometimes there is no follow up after you have been notified of test results. At other times follow up may be suggested or necessary. Some examples of follow up care include changes to medication or treatment plans, referral to a specialist, more or less frequent monitoring, and additional tests or procedures. Talk with your healthcare worker about any concerns or questions you have regarding follow up care or instructions.
Where can I get more information?
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- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) - http://www.cdc.gov/
- American Academy of Family Physicians - http://www.aafp.org
- National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse (NDDIC) - www.digestive.niddk.nih.gov
[1] Lage AP, Godfroid E, Fauconnier A, et al: Diagnosis of Helicobacter pylori infection by PCR: comparison with other invasive techniques and detection of cagA gene in gastric biopsy specimens. J Clin Microbiol 1995; 33:2752-2756. Available from URL: http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=docline&pubmedid=8567918. As accessed February 11, 2005.
[2] Makristathis A, Pasching E, Schutze K, et al: Detection of helicobacter pylori in stool specimens by PCR and antigen enzyme immunoassay. J Clin Microbiol 1998; 36:2772-2774.
[3] Dunn BE, Cohen H, & Blaser MJ: Helicobacter pylori. Clin Microbiol Rev 1997; 10:720-741. Available from URL: http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=docline&pubmedid=9336670. As accessed February 11, 2005.
[4] Bujanover Y, Reif S, & Yahav J: Helicobacter pylori and peptic disease in the pediatric patient. Pediatr Clin North Am 1996; 43(1):213-234.
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Gunnedah Eisteddfod Society has donated $3000 to 10 local schools ahead of this year's eisteddfod.
Society members met with representatives from Gunnedah Public School, Carinya Christian School, St Xavier's Primary School, Gunnedah South Public School, GS Kidd Memorial School, Carroll Public School, Curlewis Public School, Sacred Heart School Boggabri, St Mary's College and Gunnedah High School on Monday
A clean up effort is under way after a truck crash closed the Newell Highway near Pilliga on Friday afternoon.
Fire crews were called to the scene 40km south of Narrabri at 2.45pm after reports a truck had crashed and lost its load.
A Fire and Rescue NSW spokesman said crews arrived to find about 200 litres of petrol had been spilled as a result of the accident.
"A group of hazardous materials firefighters from Narrabri are on the scene at the moment and they are laying a blanket of foam to help absorb the spill," the spokesman said.
"A 300m exclusion zone has been set up around the crash site to allow the firefighters to clean up the spill.
"At this stage, motorists are advised to avoid the area if possible."
Burren Junction Public School students have been named the best year five coders in a state-wide coding and robotics competition.
More than 100 budding robotics engineers and coders took part in the 2018 ANSTO Top Coder Competition, with the grand final held at ANSTO's Lucas Heights' campus.
Burren Junction Public School students, Jenna Hattingh and Emma Slack-Smith, took out 2018 Top Coder in the Year 5 Division of the Robotics Competition, where their robot successfully navigated an obstacle course filled with tracks and tasks.
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Royal commission counsel also says officials tried to lean on CSIRO to reduce water recovered for the environment
The Murray-Darling Basin Authority has been accused of maladministration, deliberately ignoring the best science on the river, leaning on the CSIRO to alter reports on the adequacy of the basin plan and ignoring the impact of climate change in its future planning.
In a scathing assessment of the authority, counsel assisting the South Australian Murray-Darling royal commission, Richard Beasley SC, has painted a picture of an organisation cowed by its political masters and too afraid to present its own scientific data to the greater scientific community.
Farmers are angry and perplexed by former Nationals federal leader Barnaby Joyce's obsession with promoting coal-fired power stations and a deep seated reluctance by some politicians to acknowledge Australia's carbon emissions must be curtailed.
As increasing climate variability threatens to cut our agricultural productivity 10 per cent in the next 20 years, farmers generally feel cheated and fed up with the political manoeuvring and denials of the need for practical policies on energy, climate change and drought says fast-growing national lobby group, Farmers for Climate Action (FCA).
RURAL communities have been short-changed half of their owed state government infrastructure funding, an auditor-general report reveals.
Nationals allegedly infiltrated by people with links to neo-Nazis and white supremacists
Senior members of the NSW Nationals have held a special meeting to discuss how their party has been infiltrated by people with alleged links to the far right, neo-Nazis and white supremacist groups, with plans to purge the party of any extremists.
Michael McCormack, the federal leader of the Nationals, says his party will not tolerate the "politics of hate".
The issue came to light earlier this month when the ABC's Background Briefing reported it had uncovered a plot by Australia's alt-right movement to join major political parties.
WE ALL know the tradition.
Kids who aren't even tall enough to see over the wheel are thrown the keys to the "paddock basher" or a quad bike and their driving career begins.
I'm a mum and I also manage the Crash Investigation Unit for the NSW Police Force.
Lately we have been called to so many cases of young children losing their lives in cars or on motorcycles or quad bikes being driven or ridden on private property.
The most recent of these has been the death of a 14-year-old boy who died after a single car crash at Yerong Creek near Wagga Wagga on October 11.
The driver, also a 14-year-old boy, was charged with dangerous driving occasioning death – drive manner dangerous.
CAMPDRAFTING: Capella rider Steve Comiskey has won a runoff to win the Pryde's EasiFeed Gold Cup at the Warwick Showgrounds.
At the end of the final, Comiskey had 268 on Broomfield Stylish Diamond, the same score as Wee Waa rider Sam Knight on O'Lara.
In the runoff, Knight was first in camp but his beast proved troublesome on course and he only finished with a cutout score.
Comiskey could have been tempted to take it easy in his run as he only had to record a score on the course to win.
He did more than that, recording 91, a score as good as any in the competition.
Tamworth rider Hugh Miles was third on Reys Ya Garter.
Kimberley Sammon (Beaudesert) riding Possum Sue and Cal Gibson (Bungarra, NSW) were equal fourth.
A TWENTY-seven year old man has died following a fatal car crash in the North West.
Just before 1am on Sunday morning emergency services were called to Yarrie Lake Road, Wee Waa, following reports of a single-vehicle crash.
Emergency services attended and commenced CPR on the driver – a 27-year-old man – however, he died at the scene.
Two male passengers – aged 25 and 37 – were treated for minor injuries by paramedics.
A crime scene was established, and an investigation has been launched into the incident by officers from Oxley Police District and the Crash Investigation Unit.
Up to $5 billion will be stashed away for non-rainy days as part of a new fund to help farmers when future droughts scorch paddocks across Australia.
The Future Drought Fund was the key announcement made by Prime Minister Scott Morrison at Friday's national drought summit in Canberra.
From 2020, about $100 million per year will be available, with payments starting from July that year.
The fund will be underpinned by an initial $3.9 billion injection before growing to $5 billion in 2028.
The Nationals' federal treasurer and candidate for the Victorian seat of Shepparton, Peter Schwarz, is accused of gouging much of the $850,000 he was paid by Australia's largest drought-proofing project.
Mr Schwarz is also accused of then calling in favours when pressed to account for the taxpayer cash.
As Prime Minister Scott Morrison launches his drought summit, leaked government files reveal that Mr Schwarz banked the taxpayer subsidies in November 2011 and then spent years resisting efforts from water officials to get him to either return the money or use it for its intended purpose - saving water.
The impact of the drought on wild animals offers a chance to try to get on top of pest numbers, a land service officer has said.
The widespread nature of the drought is affecting more than just livestock and wildlife, with feral animals also struggling to find food and water.
This is bringing them closer to areas where humans are present as they compete with livestock for resources.
Central Tablelands Local Land Service senior officer, Paul Gibb, said the congregation of pest animals around water sources offered opportunities for landholders.
A motion to create a federal anti-corruption commission could test the Coalition's control of Federal Parliament as it prepares for minority government.
Greens senator Larissa Waters believes there is now majority support for a national body, with the Liberal Party likely to lose the historically safe seat of Wentworth to independent Kerryn Phelps.
All six crossbench MPs have indicated they would support a national commission and Federal Labor has already pledged to establish one if elected at the next election.
To test the numbers, the Greens will introduce a Senate motion calling on the Coalition to "establish a national anti-corruption commission".
Senator Waters expects that motion — which would require an immediate debate in the Lower House — would pass with the support of Labor.
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Senator Waters expects the motion would pass with the support of Labor
Kerryn Phelps says she sees the creation of such a body "as something that is very achievable"
Christian Porter has previously said there was no persuasive evidence for a national integrity commission
Helping farmers prepare for future droughts will be the focus of a new multi-billion-dollar fund that Prime Minister Scott Morrison will unveil today.
The $5-billion Future Drought Fund will be announced at a national drought summit, which brings together state and federal governments, weather experts, farm lobbyists and charities, in Canberra.
Key points:
The Federal Government will commit an initial $3.9 billion to the fund, with $100 million to be available each year from 2020
Money will be provided for community services, research, technology and infrastructure
Legislation to create the fund will need to pass Parliament
The Federal Government will initially commit $3.9 billion to the fund, which will reach $5 billion by 2028.
But only $100 million will be available each year from 2020, with that money being allocated by a board of guardians.
THE Mullaley Drought Taskforce is hoping to put forward a range of suggestions via a submission to this Friday's federal government drought summit in Canberra.
Interest rate subsides, post drought recovery and protecting stock breeding herds are some of what the group of locals will bring to the government's attention.
NSW Farmers, after months of protracted negotiations with the Australian Rail Track Corporation, has laid the $10 billion Inland Rail project's shortcomings squarely at the feet of the Coalition Government.
It says the decision to cut a new route across the Pilliga, slicing through farming properties, was ill-conceived and not even properly assessed.
Welcome to our new Community Funding Opportunities and Awards Program Newsletter where you will find details of selected grant submissions from around the region for Community Projects and Award Programs.
Due to the number of grants that are available, we now send two funding opportunities newsletters a month; one for Business and Infrastructure and another for Community Projects and Award Programs, rather than the one combined newsletter.
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NSW Primary Industries Minister Niall Blair fears Friday's drought summit in Canberra will be a talkfest with 150 people expected to attend the meeting at Old Parliament House. "That will give them about two minutes each to speak," he says.
Instead Mr Blair is taking two firm tax-related proposals to Canberra he will will put on the table that he believes will ease financial stress for farmers.
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text: You don't need permissions/credentials/whatever for Samba. You can open that sucker up as wide as you want so anyone can come in. I generally use Samba (although I do put at least password credentials on it...) There's also sshfs. Darcy. On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 9:10 AM, unsolicited <unsolicited at swiz.ca> wrote: > I want to be able to do in Linux what I can do in windows, easily copy > files machine to machine. > > e.g. cp {from-blah} {to-blah} > > Including copy file.txt \\{machine}\c$ > > i.e. It checks my account credentials there, gives me / (root) access, and > just lets me get on with my day. (Access as in can type '//{machine}/{dir}' > - let permissions there determine whether I can write anything or not.) > > I get that Samba and NFS are out there, but IIRC each requires a separate > list of accounts / passwords / permissions. It is ludicrous to scp things > everywhere - no point encrypting over my local network, which I entirely > control. [rcp is frowned upon due to open-text passwords, and I can accept > that, but it seems it is encrypt everything (scp) or nothing (rcp) - just > encrypt the password only and get on with it.] > > None of this mount this or that, just let me get on with it. How? > {not -everything- understands / accepts smb://...} > > - granted, I'm taking advantage of a 'feature' of windows, if you have the > same userid / password on two non-domain machines, there is no prompt for > authentication. I'm OK if on Linux I have to do the same, and make sure the > uid's are the same. > > - don't really want to go through the rigamarole of PAM, just use the > local passwd files, already - even if I do figure out how to mutually > replicate PAM between two machines. (Tips welcome.) Even if I had PAM, it's > not clear to me what syntax to use (everywhere) for //machine/dir-hierarchy/ > **filename > > I get Windows natively understands smb and Linux doesn't (only some things > understand smb://) - what does Linux natively understand that uses the > local passwd file? (From past threads, some just gave up on trying to use > NFS and just use Samba.) > > Suggestions, links? > > > ______________________________**_________________ > kwlug-disc mailing list > kwlug-disc at kwlug.org > http://kwlug.org/mailman/**listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org<http://kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://kwlug.org/pipermail/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org/attachments/20130805/bc5685c6/attachment-0003.html>


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Elida (Ohio, USA)
Elida, Ohio, is a town (1950 pop. 550, 2005 pop. 1900) seven miles (11 km) northwest of Lima in Allen County. The first Mennonite church in the vicinity was organized in 1841. There were three Mennonite Church (MC) congregations in this area in the early 1950s, with a combined membership of approximately 450. The Central church is located in Elida, the Salem church three miles (five km) northeast of Elida, and the Pike church three miles (five km) west of Elida.
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Smith, J. B. "Elida (Ohio, USA)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1956. Web. 22 Apr 2019. http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Elida_(Ohio,_USA)&oldid=113340.
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Jon Stewart's Rally for Sanity yesterday featured Yusuf Islam aka Cat Stevens singing "Peace Train". Islam/Stevens previously showed his commitment to peace and sanity by saying that death was the appropriate punishment for Salman Rushdie's "blasphemy".
He has tried to wiggle out of it and issued all kinds of denials.
But here is what he said to Geoffrey Robertson QC in 1989. (Video here.)
Robertson: You don't think that this man deserves to die?
Y. Islam: Who, Salman Rushdie?
Robertson: Yes.
Y. Islam: Yes, yes.
Robertson: And do you have a duty to be his executioner?
Y. Islam: Uh, no, not necessarily, unless we were in an Islamic state and I was ordered by a judge or by the authority to carry out such an act - perhaps, yes.
[Some minutes later, Robertson on the subject of a protest where an effigy of the author is to be burned]
Robertson: Would you be part of that protest, Yusuf Islam, would you go to a demonstration where you knew that an effigy was going to be burned?
Y. Islam: I would have hoped that it'd be the real thing.
And here is what Rushdie said about him
However much Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam may wish to rewrite his past, he was neither misunderstood nor misquoted over his views on the Khomeini fatwa against The Satanic Verses (Seven, April 29). In an article in The New York Times on May 22, 1989, Craig R Whitney reported Stevens/Islam saying on a British television programme "that rather than go to a demonstration to burn an effigy of the author Salman Rushdie, 'I would have hoped that it'd be the real thing'.''
He added that "if Mr Rushdie turned up at his doorstep looking for help, 'I might ring somebody who might do more damage to him than he would like. I'd try to phone the Ayatollah Khomeini and tell him exactly where this man is'.''
In a subsequent interview with The New York Times, Mr Whitney added, Stevens/Islam, who had seen a preview of the programme, said that he "stood by his comments".
Let's have no more rubbish about how "green" and innocent this man was.Salman Rushdie, New York
What "Cat" ought to have done was apologise to Rushdie and commit himself to the right to criticise power in whatever form it takes, but he has not and American leftists have yet to learn that they cannot be a little bit liberal. They can't denounce the idiocy of Fox and ignore the idiocies of religion. Maybe they will never learn.
I'm close to giving up.
PS Just had this message from Rushdie: "I've always liked Stewart and Colbert but what on earth was Cat Yusuf Stevens Islam doing on that stage? If he's a "good Muslim" like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar then I'm the Great Pumpkin. Happy Halloween."
PPS: Just had this from my marvellous Observer colleague Andrew Anthony: "He told me in 1997, eight years after saying on TV that Rushdie should be lynched, that he was in favour of stoning women to death for adultery. He also reconfirmed his position on Rushdie. He set up the Islamia school in Brent, which is currently undergoing council-backed expansion. Its mission statement three years ago explicitly stated that its aim was to bring about the submission of the individual, the community and the world at large to Islam. For this aim it now receives state funding. Its an incubator of the most bonkers religious extremism and segregation, and is particularly strong on the public erasure of women. Why do people go to such lengths to ignore these aspects of Yusuf Islam's character and philosophy?
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Roland S. Martin says few have understood how much power is wielded by Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett.
(CNN) -- Five days after the 2008 presidential election, Steve Kroft of "60 Minutes" did a profile on "Obama's brain trust," four political veterans that he reported were the president-elect's most important team members: David Plouffe, Robert Gibbs, David Axelrod and Anita Dunn.
When the report aired, I immediately asked myself, "Where's Valerie?" -- as in Valerie Jarrett, clearly the most important adviser to the president.
After calling around, I discovered that Jarrett didn't even know about the sit-down interview. As Arsenio Hall used to say on his show, "Things that make you go, 'Hmmm.' "
But after reading the New York Times Magazine cover story on the 52-year-old Jarrett, a longtime Chicago, Illinois, business executive, it's safe to say that that mistake will never happen again.
Washington is all about power and the approximation to power. Who is in and who is out is the favorite parlor game among the elites, and the wide assumption by many was that when it came to whom the president relied on the most for advice and counsel, it would have been chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, senior adviser Axelrod and press secretary Robert Gibbs.
Yet I'll be willing to bet you a few bucks that after the Times piece hit the streets, Washington power players were picking up the phone and trying desperately to get on Jarrett's calendar. And for those who mistook her as nothing more than a Chicago hack benefiting from a great friendship, they are trying to figure out how to get in her good graces.
In the course of 8,100 words, writer Robert Draper made it clear that by her long association with President Obama and his wife, Michelle, no one in the White House knows them better than Jarrett, and that their longtime confidant and mentor is unmistakably the one voice, other than his wife, that the president relies on.
"Over time, I think our relationship evolved to the point where she's like a sibling to me. ... I trust her completely," he told Draper.
Yet what was also interesting about Draper's article was the jealous nature of the men around the president. Now, I'm sure they will be quick to say that Draper focused on the negative aspect of their comments and not their effusive praise of Jarrett, but a read of the article makes it plain that there is friction there, which is nothing new in the White House.
Axelrod came off as dismissive of Jarrett's contributions by asserting that she has best served on dealing with "family issues." In fact, there has been lingering resentment among some in the campaign going back to when Axelrod told a reporter with The Wall Street Journal that Jarrett was helpful to the campaign, namely with handling black media. I recall several officials inside and outside the campaign ticked off at the statement.
Draper writes that Emanuel was none too happy when discovering that Jarrett discussed office space with Bush's chief of staff, Joshua Bolten, and actually confronted her. Emanuel called it a "misunderstanding," but again, in Washington, power is often seen based on office size and proximity to the president, and it must drive the chief of staff nuts to know that his voice isn't the last one the president relies on.
Plouffe, who ran the president's campaign, clearly is shown as not caring for Jarrett, telling Draper "she wasn't terribly involved in strategic issues." That's pretty funny considering she was knee-deep in the direction of the campaign. But she wasn't at all greeted warmly by the officials at the top of the campaign. If anyone says the two got along well in the campaign, trust me, they are lying.
I'm sure the three of these gents are now asking themselves, "What does the president think about the article?" The last thing they want to do is to have the boss sense their dismissal of his most trusted adviser.
Frankly, it's smart for Obama -- or any politician -- to have someone as close as Jarrett by your side. All too often in life, and especially politics, influential people have a group of "yes men and women" who aren't willing to challenge them to make the best decisions.
As the article illustrates -- and I know of other instances -- where the candidate wanted to go one way, those close to him, unwilling to risk the wrath of Obama, capitulated. But on those occasions, Jarrett saw things differently, and because of her total and complete understanding of the candidate, he agreed to follow her instruction.
Finally, it's worth noting that Jarrett's gender and race is also important to this equation. Her presence means that it's no longer about "All the President's Men" being a group of smart white guys. She brings her experiences as a woman, an African-American woman, a businesswoman, to the table, and she doesn't see the world through the prism of a white male.
Our ethnicity and gender play a role in how we make decisions, whether we want to admit it or not. And it's high time that we have greater diversity among the upper echelon of a president's advisers.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Roland S. Martin.
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COLUMBIA - A change in state law that could result in pulling light, electric golf carts off roadways and replacing them with conventional automobiles has hit a temporary hurdle.
On Tuesday, House lawmakers postponed a vote on whether to give local governments the power to outlaw golf carts on streets and roads. The proposal, H. 3631, failed to advance Wednesday, after some lawmakers questioned its ramifications.
"This affects everyone statewide," said an activist identified only as SC Golf Cart, who sent a widely circulated email this week aimed at killing the proposal. "It doesn't matter if you are in Pawleys Island, Hilton Head, Fountain Inn, Columbia, Newberry, Clemson, Florence, or Aiken."
The Municipal Association of South Carolina, meanwhile, supports the pending change.
"We believe this is in the best interest of safety for those who use golf carts and those who share the roads with them every day," said Warren Harley, government affairs liaison for the association, on Wednesday morning.
"I've had conversation with several cities that like the legislation because they want to be able to allow their residents to use golf carts where appropriate," he said. "So I believe this could be a win for everyone."
The bill wouldn't change the legal requirements for golf cart drivers, such as a $5 registration, insurance and drivers license. The proposal, which originally sought only to impose penalties to violators of the current law, was amended last week. Among the additions was the content of a bill by Rep. Bill Herbkersman, R-Bluffton, to legalize nighttime driving if a cart has lights.
A separate amendment has more than 100 people riled up. It would give a town or municipality's governing body the power to "prohibit the operation of golf carts on any street or highway within the political subdivision if its governing body determines that the prohibition is necessary in the interest of safety."
On Tuesday, the lawmaker who introduced the controversial amendment, Rep. Stephen Goldfinch, R-Murrels Inlet, acknowledged the objections and said he was trying to find a compromise.
If enacted as is, more than 6,200 golf cart permit holders in Beaufort and Jasper counties - including more than 4,000 in Sun City - could be affected. That's if the local government leaders deemed golf carts to be unsafe for some or all of the roadways where they are currently permitted.
Bills must clear their original chamber and be sent to the opposite one by May 1, the Crossover Day deadline, or face tough odds of becoming law this year.


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OAKLAND – And so now we know his calendar is injured, too.
Eleven days after the Warriors said David Lee was done for the season because of a torn muscle in his right hip, even if they made it to the Finals in June, the All-Star power forward said after his shocking return in the series-clinching win against the Nuggets that he may play again when Golden State faces the Spurs in the Western Conference semifinal that begins Monday in San Antonio.
Lee is still contemplating surgery to repair the tear suffered in the fourth quarter of Game 1 in Denver and he said his 87-second stint late in the first period with one rebound and one missed jumper Thursday night at Oracle Arena was a struggle – "No stability. When I went to backpedal, I couldn't even really feel my right leg. It's not so much pain, but I definitely have limitations. I knew that and coach knew that and our doctors knew that going into (the) game. But it's sometimes hard to tell me no when I get something in my head, so I tried to go out there and do something." But he also would not rule himself out for the season, as if anyone would believe the claim anyway.
If the second round started Saturday, with a two-day turnaround that could have happened, Lee said he would not be able to play. Given the opening in the schedule before the Spurs series begins Monday, though, he may play for the second time since it was announced he would not play at all.
"I'm going to do my best," he said late Thursday night, after the Warriors had eliminated the Nuggets 4-2. "We'll just have to see what this break brings. If I'm feeling the same way I am tonight, it's going to be difficult to expect much. But it's already come so far in a few days, I think it can be even better by the time we play San Antonio.
"We're going to hopefully have this make some improvement. The reason why I kind of thought of tonight was because it's a home game. You saw the crowd's reaction. It wasn't necessarily what I was going to do on the court to help the team. It was more to boost the morale and to get the crowd somehow even more into the game than they already were. It accomplished that tonight. I'll just have to take it day by day and we'll see. But it would be limited minutes if it were possible."
Lee said doctors told him he could not to additional damage to the existing injury, but that there is a possibility that overcompensating for the torn muscle could create new problems. That made playing Thursday a risky move and any more games a greater risk, although he said he tried not to think about the negatives.
But, he said, there is no danger of being healthy at the start of next season in exchange of a couple cameo appearances with no real tangible impact late in this one.
"I'm crazy, I'm not stupid," Lee insisted Thursday. "I remember sitting at halftime tonight just thinking, 'What was I thinking, thinking I could go play a playoff-intensity game with one leg?' But it was worth it. And I wouldn't have done it if would have jeopardized anything for next season."


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Beech-Nut And Motts Co-Brand Baby Food
Amsterdam, N.Y.– based Beech-Nut,a subsidiary of Hero AG of Lenzburg, Switzerland, introduces a line of great-tasting and nutritious baby foods featuring Beech-Nut purees co-branded with Mott's applesauce. The seven SKU line (divided into stages) is made with natural ingredients and has a taste that babies will love and moms can trust. Mott's, a brand of Dr Pepper Snapple Group, is the nation's leading producer of branded applesauce and apple juice.
"Since 1842, Mott's has proudly created delicious and healthy products for adults and children," says Allison Methvin, director of marketing for Mott's. "We are thrilled to partner with Beech-Nut to offer moms another convenient and nutritious option for their families."
Beech-Nut is the No.2 ranked baby food brand in the U.S. and introduced the first vacuum-sealed glass jar of baby food in 1931. Eighty years later, Beech-Nut purees are still made with natural ingredients, contain no artificial colors, flavors or preservatives, and are exclusively produced in traditional glass jars to naturally lock in essential nutrients and good taste.
- Stage 1 (for beginners--2.5-oz.) is applesauce
- Stage 2 (from about 6 months--4-oz.) are applesauce; apples, mango & kiwi; apples, pears & bananas; and apples & cherries
- Stage 3 (from about 8 months—6-oz) are peach-apple-banana and rolled oats with apple.
"We're proud to have selected varieties of Beech-Nut purees to feature the Mott's brand," says Evan Eckman, chief marketing officer for Hero North America. "Mott's shares our lasting commitment to childhood nutrition, superior quality standards, and delicious-tasting foods."
Beech-Nut has been a real team player this year, pairing up recently with Green Giant for vegetables and Disney's Winnie the Pooh characters.
Suggested retail price is 50 cents for Stage 1 products, 55 cents for Stage 2 and 75 cents for Stage 3.


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SplitMail is a jailbreak tweak for iPad that adds access to your mailbox list in portrait mode. Sometimes you just don't want to use landscape mode and since stock iOS limits Mail in portrait mode, this is a great fix.
By default stock iOS hides the mail list when you're in portrait until you've either tapped the All Inboxes button or rotated to landscape mode. Even then your messages don't appear in their entirety off to the right and the minute you tap somewhere else your mailbox list is gone. I am frequently jumping from folder to folder when organizing and sorting messages so portrait mode on an iPad has always been an annoyance to me.
SplitMail for iPad solves this problem in an instant since there's nothing to configure. Just install the tweak, restart your Springboard (you'll be prompted to do so), and then pop into your Mail app. You'll now notice that your mailbox list will stay static on the left of the screen instead of disappearing each time you go into a message or tap outside of it.
It will give you less screen real estate to work with when viewing messages in portrait mode but it's a compromise many will probably be willing to make for a consistent experience. And if you need more room to read or browse an e-mail you can always rotate your iPad into landscape mode.
I've found this feature to be quite useful when my iPad is docked and I don't want to have to pull it off just to sort through e-mails. It's free so what are you waiting for? Give it a try!


text: Rgb wrote: > > I understand inductive surge when powering up, I understand in detail > browning out a primary power transformer, but I think those are > different issues and irrelevant here. Inductive surge -> magnetizing current in large iron core inductors (depends on where you are in line frequency cycle at "switch on") Sag from overload -> impedance (both R and L) in transformer and wires from transformer to load. 2% voltage drop is the NEC guideline for "in premises wires".. From panel to load. The voltage at the utility entrance could probably be +/- 5% at any given time. > > So far, using my trusty Kill-a-Watt on real world nodes, I haven't seen > more than a 30% differential draw loaded to unloaded. Large parts of > the CPU require power at all times to function. Memory, for example, > both on and offboard. Nearly everything inside a computer has a > nontrivial idle draw, plus (sure) peak draw when it or one of its > subsystems are in use. Very much true. DRAM needs refresh, for instance. > > Exceptions are modern laptops -- with variable speed clocks, they draw > much less idling than they do at speed, in part because power (idle or > otherwise) IS very nearly proportional to CPU clock in at least parts of > the system. And I don't really know how the latest designs do in this > > Multicores, of course, may function like hybrid cars, and somehow run > more nearly idle when they are idle. But I'd have to hear from someone > who slapped a KaW on an actual system and clocked it from idle (solidly > post-boot, running the OS, at idle "equilibrium") to loaded (running > flat out on e.g. a benchmark suite that loads all cores and/or the > memory etc.). Has anyone actually done this and observed (say) a 2 or 3 > to 1 increase in power draw loaded to idle? 50W idle to 200W loaded in > 1 second? 150W idle to 200W loaded is more like what I've seen... Don't forget that the power supply efficiency drops dramatically when DC load drops, too. They don't spend a penny more on sophisticated design than required to get that "energy star" rating, and that has more to do with having a good "low power hibernate" mode than good efficiency at 25% load. > >> In normal practice I doubt that this is an issue but synchronization in the >> extreme is interesting in its details and side effects. > > I completely agree with this, both parts. Although if one IS bumping > from 50->200W "instantly" on not even an entire cluster but just all the > nodes on a single circuit, that's popping over a KW on a 20A line -- > ballpark where one MIGHT see something inductive (although as I said, > probably nothing that the power supply capacitor(s) cannot buffer, > although I'm too tired to compute the number of joules (watt-seconds) > one can probably deliver and what RC probably is, etc). Popping > multiple (as in 10+) KW in less than a 60 Hz cycle would very likely be > hard on the primary, no doubt about it. If one considers that a single wire is about 1 uH/meter (typical electrical wiring will be much less, because it's a pair, with currents flowing opposite directions), the series L might be a few tens of uH. At, say, 20 A, there's just not much energy stored there.


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Team Maggie Day 100 Prayers Needed ASAP
Today marks Day 100 for Maggie Rudnicki, but PRAYERS ARE NEEDED ASAP!!!!
Maggie broke her central line, and right now the family is rushing to Boston, so that it can be surgically repaired. Please spend a moment and offer up a prayer, or a good feeling for this family that have been through so much! We will keep you posted as we hear how the procedure went!
This was Lauren's (Maggie's Mom) post earlier this morning reflecting on Day 100
Today is a major milestone for our family as we happily welcome day +100! 100 days ago from right now I was waiting for Lucas to be taken into the operating room..scared out of my mind and wondering if we had done the right thing. The past 100 days haven't been easy but we have come so far and Maggie has proven what a fighter she is time and time again. I am so thankful to be sitting here cuddling with my little girl who has red blood cells, unbelievable energy, and pretty pink lips. Lucas will never fully understand the gift he has given us! Happy day 100!!!


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