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Norwegian Cruise Line Twitter Cruiseby Paul Motter | 08.10.11
Norwegian Cruise Line tests the tumultuous waters of a Twitter social media cruise.
|Twitter followers waiting for the next tidbit of information.
"Norwegian" just put out a press release with the headline "Norwegian Cruise Line Hosts First Ever Tweetup Cruise On Board Norwegian Sky." This convoluted sentence refers to a cruise for Twitter enthusiasts aboard the NCL Sky this coming November.
The implication of that headline is that tweeting from a cruise ship is a brand-new idea and NCL will be the first to do it. The local Miami weekly entertainment newspaper New Times fell for the ruse. They offered the headline, "First Twitter Cruise to Set Sail from Miami in November." The article says "This November, Norwegian Cruise Lines will set sail with what it's claiming is the world's first Twitter-themed cruise." In fact, the Miami New Times got it wrong and that is not what NCL is claiming. In the text of the press release NCL says it is the line's first Twitter cruise, not the first one ever. I am sure NCL knows that Princess Cruise Line did a twitter cruise in November of 2009 called #followmeatsea. In fact, many people in the cruise industry know about that cruise because it was widely regarded as a public relations disaster. That cruise led to a hailstorm of debate about fluffy articles from free-loading travel journalists enjoying free perks on a cruise ship. To NCL's credit, this is NOT a free cruise for the media – so if there is any fluff to be tweeted it will be at the cruiser's expense. The problem is that the outcome could still be largely the same – just because the medium is still Twitter.
If you do a Google search on this you will see the reporters onboard the Princess 2009 cruise had been invited to participate with a free cruise and several included amenities such as free internet access - which on a cruise ship can cost as much as $.75 per minute. According to one an article called the "Seven Deadly Sins of Social Media: lessons from #followmeatsea," this was the first mistake.
The reporter from the site "BlogHer" wrote: "What was meant to be a fun adventure, an opportunity for the host to use social media to promote their services, turned into an object lesson into how not to use Twitter. The issue at hand - a totally valid one - was the environmental and social impact of cruising. Vocal critics of the industry used the hashtag to promote an anti-cruising agenda. So far, so good, but the discussion quickly turned to personal attacks, defensiveness, and an absurd one-upping around who's a "better" traveler.
The onboard Tweeters were soon overwhelmed by onshore Twits who who had decided to wait in hiding for the Twitter cruise to start just so they could disrupt it. They soon started a heated debate about environmental issues, crimes at sea, and other embarrassing questions the reporters couldn't answer and the cruise line chose to shy away from.
Now, I am sure NCL knows about this previous Twitter debacle because NCL has been very conscientious about its social media strategy for public relations. At one time SVP Andy Stuart announced he had agreed to spend at least 30 minutes on Twitter every day, at the request of one of his public relations team members.
That was in March 2009 – before the "#Followmeatsea" disaster. Now, @nclandy (Andy Stuarts' Twitter name) spends more like 30 minutes a week, or maybe a month on Twitter.
However, the NCL Twitter cruise will be different from the Princess one. There will be no freeloading reporters or even free Internet access – everything is full fare. I am sure they also hope that enough time has elapsed since the Princess #followmeatsea kerfuffle that the current Twitter cruise antagonists have forgotten all about it.
But I wouldn't count on it – not with regular anti-cruise line tweeters like attorney Jim Walker; a Miami lawyer who specializes in suits against cruise lines, posting to Twitter several times every day for the last two years. Walker wrote extensively about the Princess #followmeatsea cruise on his blog, a site where he regularly bashes the cruise industry. There are other cruise antagonists posting almost daily on Twitter as well.
I Wish Them Luck
I really don't understand the attraction of reading tweets by people just because they are in a "special place." After all, I am not in their special place, and even if they are, they are still just tweeting, which they could do from almost anywhere. But I do hope this goes well for NCL. Sadly, my expectations are that it will not. Too many people in cyberspace would rather create bedlam than celebrate the finer things in life.
The only thing I can say to NCL is this – look up the many articles that were written about the #followmeatsea cruise and take heed to avoid all of the things that went wrong. Be ready for challenging questions, and don't lose your cool.
For cruise-loving tweeters, or the other way around, here is the information on the Norwegian "SeaTweetup," the "first ever Norwegian Cruise Line Tweetup at sea." The cruise sails from Miami on Friday, November 18, 2011. It is a three-day weekend getaway to the Bahamas returning Monday morning.
The cruise fare starts at $271 per person and the cruise will offer exclusive events like social media marketing panels and discussions. Participants will have access to the ship's Wi-Fi network, and invitations to exclusive in-port events to post, tweet, and blog throughout the weekend.
The "one-of-a-kind cruise" (NCL's words) allows Twitter users to "share their experiences with followers, as they build and strengthen relationships and create new ones." For more information on the first SeaTweeup cruise on board Norwegian Sky, follow @SeaTweetup and Norwegian @NCLFreestyle on Twitter and include hashtag #SeaTweetup. To reserve your spot on the sailing, visit the website at www.cruisedeals.com/groups/tweetupatsea.


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Apartment Im Rägeboge
up to 4 guests
3 rooms
2 bedrooms
1 Bathroom(s)
Pets allowed
Balcony / Terrace
Non smoking
Accommodation alert
Chalet with 3 apartments and beautiful view of the mountains. Nearby the busstop. 3-room apartment on the 1st floor (73m2). The apartment is decorated aesthetically. 2 bedrooms with 2 beds. Bathroom/toilet, large balcony, parking. Pets are allowed. Cleaning, Laundry, Wi-Fi are included. Parking is available, breadth of the car max. 180 cm. Dog per week CHF 20.- (Please advise the owner if you arrive with a dog)
Prior to your departure, you will receive the key collection information for your stay, along with your travel documents.
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1'353 - 1'974 m a.s.l. >>Well-known, idyllic, family-friendly holiday resort with 3'615 inhabitants, in the south-western part of the region, in a valley, situated at the foot of a mountain, on a slope, in an idyllic position with beautiful view, 15 km from Frutigen, 39 km from Thun. All shops, restaurants etc. in the resort. Indoor aquatic centre, fitness centre, solarium, massage. Besides: pharmacy, doctor. Access: motorway 6/8 Bern - Wimmis/Interlaken, exit number 19 "Adelboden/Frutigen". Public parking. Access by train Bern - Spiez - Frutigen. Bus connection. Bern 50 km. Kandersteg 12 km. Interlaken 26 km.Summer
Heated outdoor swimming pool. Tennis (4 outdoor courts), golf course 18 hole in Engstligenalp. Minigolf. Riding in Frutigen 15 km. Fitness course. Fishing (permit required). Paragliding, beach volleybally court, summer tobbogan run in Kandersteg 28 km total 8 mountain lifts and cableways. 300 km hiking paths, mountain hikes, mountain tours, climbing. 85 km mountain bike routes, bicycles and mountain bikes for hire. Children's playground, leisure park. Special activities: Trottiland and Höi-Turm.Winter
Ski-region Adelboden-Lenk, total of 54 lifts. 108 ski runs, total length 185 km (40 % easy, 40 % intermediate, 20 % difficult), snow park. Ski school (downhill, cross country), snowboard school, children's ski school from 5 years old, ski kindergarten from 2 years old. 21 km cross country ski tracks in the region (2 km illuminated), 8 km high altidude pistes, winter walking paths 40 km. 6 toboggan runs, partially floodlit. Sports centre. Ice rink, artificial ice rink, curling, indoor curling, curling, winter golf course. Ski bus.
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By Alistair Barr
Nov 16 (Reuters) - Retailers are targeting "post-pie"
commerce, the jump in shopping created by the boom in
smartphones and tablet computers which Thanksgiving diners grab
as they collapse onto the couch after eating turkey and pumpkin
While people relax with family and friends or watch football
on TV, they are increasingly shopping online with these mobile
gadgets, creating a surge in traffic and purchases that
retailers are beginning to target for the first time this year.
"This is a new shoppable moment," said Steve Yankovich, who
heads the mobile business of eBay Inc, operator of the
largest online marketplace.
Before the rise of smartphones and tablets, it was socially
unacceptable to pull out a laptop after Thanksgiving dinner, or
head to a home office to fire up a desktop computer, Yankovich
"With a tablet or smartphone you don't get that reaction,"
he added.
EBay recently surveyed more than 1,000 shoppers in the
United States about their holiday shopping plans. Almost two
thirds said holiday sales should begin after Thanksgiving dinner
and respondents said their meals would end, on average, at 5:23
p.m. EST (2223 GMT).
Based on that feedback, eBay plans to launch 20 mobile-only
deals through its eBay Mobile application at 5:23 p.m. EST this
Thanksgiving. The company plans 20 more at 5:23 p.m. PST for
West Coast shoppers.
Other retailers including Toys "R" Us, HSN Inc
, Rue La La and ideeli are also targeting mobile
shoppers this Thanksgiving in the evening.
"The iPad holiday sales season starts at the point of
indigestion while you're sitting on the couch after Thanksgiving
dinner," said Ben Fischman, chief executive of Rue La La, which
specializes in online limited-time fashion sales events known as
flash sales.
Post-pie commerce is the latest example of how mobile
devices, in particular Apple Inc's iPad and iPhone, are
changing consumer behavior and forcing retailers to adapt
The holiday shopping season traditionally kicks off with
Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving when shoppers use a day
off from work to head to stores.
The following Monday became a big online shopping day known
as Cyber Monday because people returned to the office and
shopped using their office computers.
Now Thanksgiving is emerging as a big new shopping day
online. The value of e-commerce transactions on Turkey Day has
surged 128 percent to $479 million over the past five years,
outpacing the growth of Black Friday, Cyber Monday and other big
holiday shopping days, according to comScore Inc.
That's a far cry from the $1.25 billion spent online on
Cyber Monday last year, but the growth has caught retailers'
"It's still a smaller day, but it is growing much faster,"
said Andrew Lipsman of comScore. "We're seeing a lot more talk
about Thanksgiving becoming a more important shopping day."
Several big retailers, including Target Corp, are
opening physical stores on Thanksgiving to make sure they don't
lose sales to online rivals.
"Consumers that would rather shop than watch 12 hours of
football on Thanksgiving Day should be given the chance to
shop," Marshal Cohen of The NPD Group wrote in a blog on
Thursday. "If online is open, why should brick-and-mortar close
just to give away those precious shopping hours to the
Thanksgiving evening is where the action is online. By 3
p.m. EST last year online sales were up about 20 percent
compared to the same period in 2010, according to IBM Software
Group, a unit of International Business Machines Corp.
But by midnight PST on Thanksgiving 2011, online sales were
up 39 percent versus the same period the previous year, IBM data
show. Overall, November 2011 online sales rose 15.6 percent
compared to the year-earlier period.
"Post-pie shopping this year will be fueled mostly by tablet
shoppers, especially iPad users," said Jay Henderson, global
strategy director for IBM's enterprise marketing management
In September and October, the iPad accounted for at least
7.5 percent of all traffic to retailers' websites, beating out
the iPhone with about 6 percent and Android devices at just over
4 percent, IBM data show.
"This is the first time the iPad has shown sustained
leadership over all other mobile devices," Henderson said.
Last Thanksgiving, retailers were surprised by the surge in
tablet traffic in the evening. They also did not expect the
devices would be used to complete so many purchases, instead
expecting them to be browsing devices mostly, according to Steve
Tack, chief technology officer for APM Solutions, a unit
of Compuware Corp.
"Tablet users are not waiting for Black Friday or Cyber
Monday to purchase, they are doing it on Thursday night on the
couch in front of the game," he said. "This is a significant new
shopping event."
This year, retailers are more prepared, he added.
Rue La La will launch an online boutique called "The Holiday
Dash" at 8 p.m. EST on Thanksgiving, "specifically to go after
the shopper who will be sitting at home after dinner on the
couch," CEO Fischman said.
More than half of Rue La La's sales over Thanksgiving, Black
Friday and the following weekend will come from mobile devices.
Half of those mobile purchases will be on an iPad, he said.
Fischman said the conversion rate on an iPad is close to
double the conversion rate on a smart phone, meaning shoppers
are more than twice as likely to purchase using the tablet
"The tablet offers the luxury of a larger screen with the
convenience and portability of the phone," Fischman said. "It's
the killer e-commerce device."
Ideeli, a rival to Rue La La, plans a "Think Fast" online
sales event at 6 p.m. EST on Thanksgiving to target tablet
shoppers. Ideeli usually runs sales at noon every day.
Toys "R" Us, the largest toy retailer, launched a
new tablet-optimized website on Tuesday and the company plans to
make all its Black Friday deals available online at 8 p.m. EST
on Thanksgiving.
HSN, which runs the Home Shopping Network and has
traditionally focused on TV sales, on Tuesday unveiled an online
holiday gift guide designed for tablet shoppers.
The company plans to send discounted deals to mobile
shoppers on Thanksgiving.
"When people are done with the holiday meal and go back into
the screen world, we will have great products on sale," said
Jill Braff, executive vice president of Digital Commerce at HSN.


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NOAA's National Weather Service has discovered that 64 percent of lightning deaths since 2006 occurred while people were participating in leisure activities, with fishing topping the list at 26 deaths.
John Jensenius, a lightning safety specialist with the National Weather Service, conducted the study by examining information on 238 deaths attributed to lightning over the last seven years. NOAA released these findings on the first day of National Lightning Safety Awareness Week to call attention to the danger of outdoor activities during a thunderstorm.
Of the 152 deaths associated with leisure activities, fishing is followed by camping, 15 deaths; boating, 14 deaths; soccer, 12 deaths and golf, eight deaths. The remaining 77 people were struck by lightning while participating in other leisure activities such as enjoying the beach, swimming, walking and running, riding recreational vehicles, and picnicking or relaxing in their yard.
Between 2006 and 2012, 82 percent of people killed by lightning were male.
"When people think of lightning deaths, they usually think of golf," Jensenius said. "While every outdoor activity is dangerous when a thunderstorm is in the area, outdoor activities other than golf lead to more lightning deaths. NOAA has made a concerted effort to raise lightning awareness in the golf community since we began the campaign in 2001, and we believe our outreach has made a huge difference since lightning-related deaths on golf courses have decreased by 75 percent."
Jensenius said the large number of fishing, camping and boating lightning deaths may occur because these activities require extra time to get to a safe place. "People often wait far too long to head to safety when a storm is approaching, and that puts them in a dangerous and potentially deadly situation," he said.
Prior to the lightning safety campaign, lightning killed an average of 73 people each year in the United States. Since the National Weather Service launched the campaign, the average has dropped to 37. Seven people have died from lightning strikes so far this year.
The best way for people to protect themselves against lightning injury or death is to monitor the weather and postpone or cancel outdoor activities when thunderstorms are in the forecast. Lightning can strike from 10 miles away, so if people can hear thunder, they are in danger of being struck by lightning.
The only safe places to be during a thunderstorm are in a building with four walls and a roof or in a car. A hut, cabana, tent, or other rain shelter will not protect a person from being struck by lightning.


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The Azure Code Samples are currently available in English
How to use Python components in an Apache Storm topology on HDInsight
This topology uses the Flux framework to define a Storm topology using YAML. The components (spout and bolts) that process the data are written in Python.
This example has been tested with HDInsight 3.6 (Storm 1.1.0).
Python 2.7 or higher
Java JDK 1.8 or higher
(Optional) A local Storm development environment. This is only needed if you want to run the topology locally. For more information, see Setting up a development environment.
How it works
/resources/topology.yaml- defines what components are in the topology and how data flows between them.
/multilang/resources- contains the Python components.
/pom.xml- dependencies and how to build the project.
Build the project
From the root of the project, use the following command:
mvn clean compile package
This command creates a
target/WordCount-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar file.
Run the topology locally
To run the topology locally, use the following command:
storm jar WordCount-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar org.apache.storm.flux.Flux -l -R /topology.yaml
Once the topology starts, it emits information to the local console similar to the following text:
24302 [Thread-25-sentence-spout-executor[4 4]] INFO o.a.s.s.ShellSpout - ShellLog pid:2436, name:sentence-spout Emiting the cow jumped over the moon
24302 [Thread-30] INFO o.a.s.t.ShellBolt - ShellLog pid:2438, name:splitter-bolt Emitting the
24302 [Thread-28] INFO o.a.s.t.ShellBolt - ShellLog pid:2437, name:counter-bolt Emitting years:160
24302 [Thread-17-log-executor[3 3]] INFO o.a.s.f.w.b.LogInfoBolt - {word=the, count=599}
24303 [Thread-17-log-executor[3 3]] INFO o.a.s.f.w.b.LogInfoBolt - {word=seven, count=302}
24303 [Thread-17-log-executor[3 3]] INFO o.a.s.f.w.b.LogInfoBolt - {word=dwarfs, count=143}
24303 [Thread-25-sentence-spout-executor[4 4]] INFO o.a.s.s.ShellSpout - ShellLog pid:2436, name:sentence-spout Emiting the cow jumped over the moon
24303 [Thread-30] INFO o.a.s.t.ShellBolt - ShellLog pid:2438, name:splitter-bolt Emitting cow
^C24303 [Thread-17-log-executor[3 3]] INFO o.a.s.f.w.b.LogInfoBolt - {word=four, count=160}
Use Ctrl+c to stop the topology.
Run the topology on HDInsight
Use the following command to copy the
WordCount-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jarfile to your Storm on HDInsight cluster:
scp target\WordCount-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar firstname.lastname@example.com
sshuserwith the SSH user for your cluster. Replace
myclusterwith the cluster name.
Once the file has been uploaded, connect to the cluster using SSH and use the following command to start the topology on the cluster:
storm jar WordCount-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar org.apache.storm.flux.Flux -r -R /topology.yaml
You can use the Storm UI to view the topology on the cluster. The Storm UI is located at https://mycluster.azurehdinsight.net/stormui. Replace
myclusterwith your cluster name.
Once started, a Storm topology runs until stopped (killed.) To stop the topology, use either the
storm kill TOPOLOGYNAME command from the command-line (SSH session to a Linux cluster,) or by using the Storm UI, select the topology, and then select the Kill button.
Project code of conduct
This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact firstname.lastname@example.com with any additional questions or comments.


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1 Compared to the revised more stringent MB 228.61 limit, as measured in the MB OM 646 LA Engine Test.
2 Over a 100,00 km oil drain interval, compared with a typical 10W-40 oil
3 Dependant on vehicle type and application
4 Unique low-ash additive system designed to perform with diesel particulate filters (DPF).
5 Compared to the ACEA E7-12 Limit as measured in the Cummins ISM Engine Test
6 Compared to the ACEA E7-12 Limit as measured in the Mak T12 EGR Test
7 Compared with conventional 15W-40 engine oils, Shell Rimula Ultra has improved cold flow properties
8 Proven to deliver 150,000-km oil-drain intervals based on Daimler specification MB 228.5 or 228.51


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The other day I began "El verano de español". My youngest son said, "We're starting el día de español already?"
I corrected him, "Verano, not día. Día is only a day. We're doing it the whole summer. Verano means summer."
"Oh, Mommy!" he said, "The whole summer?!"
Within minutes he was acting more enthusiastic though, opening the freezer and telling me, "Te quiero una popsicle." ("I love you, a popsicle" … he meant "Quiero una paleta" = I want a popsicle.)
But it isn't just the kids who need work. Old habits die hard. When I was in Miami surrounded by the "tiki tiki" of Latinas, I fell into the rhythm, but here at home, it's different. I think it's natural for a mother to want to communicate with her children in her native tongue and making demands of them in Spanish strips me of some authority. Not only do I sound less certain of my words, but the kids, while they manage to extract the meaning of what I've said, they don't react to it with the same sense of urgency.
If I tell the kids to "behave" in English, there is an unspoken but known threat in the nuance of it. "Portanse bien" feels fluffy in my mouth – a flashing lighthouse in the fog warning of sharp rocks, instead of a bold red stop sign. My motherly threats in Spanish don't give fair notice of the discipline to come if my words are not heeded. Perhaps in time they'll learn, and I will too.
I'm reading a book right now and some of the text jumped off the page at me because I related so much to it. Here one of the characters, a native Spanish speaker, talks about how her words lose meaning in English. (Of course, for me, it's vice versa.)
"No," I said, and again, the English words failed me. In Spanish, I could make a man tremble, force a woman to bite her tongue. But not in English…The words didn't sound angry like they would have in Spanish, didn't poke through the air with the same fire or conviction…"
-The Madonnas of Echo Park by Brando Skyhorse
The first day of "El verano de español" was the hardest for me. When the kids misbehaved, I stood there like a stuttering idiot, the words danced past my tongue, almost within grasp, before disappearing, like playful dolphins breaking the surface, smiling teasingly and sinking back into the depths of the ocean. That night, as if my brain short circuited, I dreamed the entire night in Spanish, which is rare. I typically have occasional dreams in Spanish, but not an entire night's worth.
The next day at the grocery store, as I shucked corn with the boys, I chatted with them in Spanish, (though they replied to me in 90% English.) At one point in the conversation, my oldest son couldn't understand what I was saying and became frustrated. Throwing down a corn cob he said, (loud enough for nearby families to hear), "Stop speaking Spanish! I can't understand you! Can't you just speak English!?"
¡Qué vergüenza! My cheeks reddened to match the color of the nearby apples. Full of embarrassment and anger, this time, my Spanish did not fail me.
"Inglés? Tú quieres inglés?… Mira, voy a darte inglés cuando regresamos a la casa y estoy dandote un chancletazo! ¿Cómo crees que vas a hablar con tu mamá así en frente de todo el mundo? Nunca me hables así, me entiendes?"
Believe me, he understood that.


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The work that 20-year-old Jordi Rivera Prince does gets mixed reviews from friends and colleagues.
�I'm a pretty normal person, especially on first impressions, so everyone is surprised when they hear what I study,� the Zeeland East High School graduate said. �Not only because the subject is unique but because they don't peg me as a person who would sit in a basement with dead people every day.�
Rivera Prince, who�s entering her junior year at the University of Pennsylvania, is an assistant to the curator of physical anthropology at the Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
She spends time studying the museum�s collection of Native American skulls with Janet Monge, the museum�s keeper of physical anthropology.
Because of the provisions of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, museums across the country are required to return human remains to the tribes from which they were taken. The Penn Museum has already given back more than 200 artifacts to the Cherokee Indians and the Seminole Indians of Florida.
Though the actual bones must be returned, Penn Museum workers are collecting as much data about the specimens as possible so that research can continue after the remains are gone.
In addition to standard measurements and dental information, researchers have been taking CT scans of all the museum�s bones. Scans capture intricate details about the skull�s form and can reveal details of the internal structure of the bone. But the CTs aren�t perfect replicas.
That�s where Rivera Prince comes in. Her project aims to pinpoint how much CT scans miss.�This summer she is evaluating the skulls' epigenetic traits, which are features that can�t be measured metrically.
Certain muscle markers on a skull, for example, can confirm whether the person held their head with a tilt to the right or left. And while certain people have a notch on the infraorbital bone, above the eye socket, others have an opening called�a foramen.
�Epigenetic traits are so interesting because they allow for a little more perspective on the individuality of the person you are studying,� Rivera Prince said.
Though some of these traits are unique to an individual, many are heritable and can be used to group populations. Her findings could�change the way the department and other forensic anthropologists collect data, and help ensure that researchers are correctly evaluating tribal identity when repatriating remains.
�What I really enjoy about this work is that in skeletal analysis, I get to be the voice for someone who doesn't have one. The individuals who I study are not just sitting around neglected, they're being used to answer questions about who we are as humans, and I think that's really awesome.�
Rivera Prince plans to pursue a PhD after graduation and work at the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command as a forensic anthropologist. JPAC goes overseas and works to identify the remains of American soldiers who died.
� Follow this reporter on Twitter @SentinelLisa.
Zee East alumna researches collection of Native American skulls during undergrad
The work that 20-year-old Jordi Rivera Prince does gets mixed reviews from friends and colleagues.


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A hunter saves an Indian chief being chased by a grizzly bear in the woods. The chief invites the hunter back to his camp to celebrate and reward the hunter for saving his life.
At the celebration, the Indian chief says to the hunter, "I have a special surprise for you: 500 of my prettiest Indian maidens. You look at all of them and choose one. She will be your wife."
The chief clapped his hands and 500 young, beautiful Indian maidens appeared, topless, before them. With closer inspection, the hunter notices that none of them have nipples on their breasts.
"Why don't these maidens have nipples on their breasts?" he asks the chief.
The chief turns to the hunter with surprise:"What -- you've never heard of the Indian Nipple-less 500?"


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Warrior Woman
9 years ago
I read a book recently about how, when the phonograph was first created, people thought they could use it to communicate with the dead (Jonathan Sterne's "The Audible Past"). That gave me the idea for this project. My sister Kelly died in 2000 from brain cancer. I have tons of pictures of her, but I can't really remember what her voice sounded like. I interviewed my parents about my sister (I've attached them to this message). I eventually hope to take the audio from old videotapes of my sister and mix it in with these interviews. (Kelly in Gaelic means "warrior woman.")
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Great job Becca!! Kelly was by Gabyf3
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A Technical Assistance project about empowering local and regional actors to work more effectively with rural communities in order to revitalise these areas.
Projects & Practice
The future-proof peat meadow polder 'Lange Weide', is unique bottom-up initiative and the largest submerged drainage project in the Netherlands.
Adjustments to water management and remedial measures help to preserve protected areas and conserve the landscape of the Western Langstraat.
A farm employing people with special needs set up a process line and an experimental kitchen, where non-commercial agricultural produce can be turned into new products.
The project made an Ekso Bionics Exoskeleton available to patients in rural areas. This enables community rehabilitation of patients recovering from spinal injuries, strokes and brain injuries.
Ensuring the preservation and restoration of species and habitats in Saxony, by offering free advice and relevant qualifications to land users.
A dedicated communications campaign to promote the launch of the Rural Development Programme (RDP) in Finland.
An investment project that allowed a company to fill the gap in the local supply chain for wood chips in the north-west of Ireland.
An example of an initiative promoting energy efficiency that addresses climate change through targeted actions at grassroots level.
A leading manufacturer of conserves and jams used RDP support to increase its winter water storage capacity for use during the summer dry months.


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Shopping, International Gift Shop! Electronics, Computers, Games, Camera's, Travel and Reservations, DSLR Camera's, Souvenirs, Children's Toys, Clothing
This Domain Name is For Sale by Owner!
First Time Offer to Sale in 21 Years!
High Demand, High Profile, Millions of Hits!
Excellent Opportunity!
Plus, Accepting Best Offer!
All Site Inquiries: firstname.lastname@example.com
Posted: Saturday, September 21, 2019
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EARICLES 1st Annual Los Angeles Microtia Atresia Conference (LAMAC) in 2013 was a great success, but sold out quickly.
Pertanto, we are excited to announce FOUR Microtia Atresia Conferences in 2014 with the hopes of providing more families the opportunity to attend. All 2014 conferences will have patients/parents who have already had ear surgery answering audience questions in a patient/parent forum.
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✓ LAMAC, our flagship conference in Los Angeles, is 2 day comprehensive event with Microtia and Atresia Surgeons Dr. Sheryl Lewin, Dr. Arturo Bonilla and Dr. Bradley Kesser (along with several other surgeons and speakers) presenting over two mornings with Individual Patient Appointments with surgeons in the afternoons. There are many LAMAC sponsored activities and events, including a patient/parent forum, throughout the weekend.
✓ miniMAC Chicago is a one day abbreviated conference that will have the same LAMAC surgeons (Dr. Lewin, Dr. Bonilla and Dr. Kesser) lecture in the morning with Individual Patient Appointments in the afternoon. Essential information about all treatment options for Microtia and Atresia will be covered.
✓ COLMAC, our international conference in Bogota, Colombia, e ECMAC, our international conference in Quito, Ecuador, will focus on the Medpor technique of ear reconstruction.
Please read the 2013 LAMAC comments and results from our survey see what all the excitement is about:
"This has been the most humbling experience of my entire life. These surgeons, families, and patients are some of the most amazing, kind hearted, and understanding people that I have ever met. We were finally able to meet many of the people that have guided us along the way! Words cannot even touch the emotions that we are feeling."
"I can't say enough good things about this event. This was our first vacation as a family and it exceeded our expectations. Even though we came to the event knowing what route we are taking surgically, it was so nice meeting the other families and hearing their stories and seeing their ears. Making sure we are able to attend next year's event is a priority. THANK YOU!!!"
"I was very impressed with the presentations by the surgeons. We came to gather information and found the conference to be very informational."
97% would recommend attending LAMAC to other Microtia/Atresia families
94% recommend holding LAMAC at Terranea again
100% recommended the Meet and Greet
100% found the parent/patient forum valuable
>95% felt lectures from the 3 key speakers exceeded their expectations
"My son being able to see he's not alone"
"Meeting families from across the globe who came to the event"
"Enjoying the beautiful location and having a one stop shop of information."
"The opportunity to provide support, hope, and love to families that are dealing with Microtia/Atresia. Wonderful, humble, gifted, and talented doctors.Loved seeing all the little ears and BAHA's!! The kids all had such a great time."
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Medicine & Healthcare in Tanzania by Al Macfarlane
Before arriving in Tanzania, I was given two pieces of advice to make my trip more worthwhile: 1 - the more you put in; the more you get out, and 2 - learn as much Swahili as possible. In all honesty, I couldn't quite decipher what the first instruction really meant, but I picked it up pretty quickly. The second one was more straightforward to follow, so as soon as I landed in Dar es Salaam at 4am in late July, I got started.
From the outset, I began to pick up basic Swahili, including the numbers and greetings. After getting the hang of the basics, I started working in the hospital, where the language barrier was one of the biggest obstacles to helping patients. Soon enough, I began to learn commands to help individuals know what I was doing or what the problem was, for example when measuring blood pressure. I also worked in the labour ward for a few weeks, which was by far the most rewarding experience, but also presented some of the most challenges.
During the last stage of labour and into delivery, keeping patients calm is very important in reducing the risk of complications, and being able to communicate with them in their own language is invaluable in achieving that. Two of the most important commands I learnt in Swahili were 'push' and 'breathe'! Towards the end of my placement, I became more familiar with the tenses in Swahili, as well as expanding my general vocabulary, and spent longer periods of time talking to my host family (who were fluent in English) in Swahili.
Medicine in Tanzania
It is very difficult to sum up the myriad emotions I experienced during the four weeks of hospital work in Dar es Salaam. Early on, it became apparent that this was not going to be like any normal medical experience in the West: both from others' stories and from the structure of medicine in Tanzania.
Superficially, Tanzanian healthcare looks reasonably well structured. It boasts both governmental and private healthcare systems, and provides compulsory training to all medical practitioners. However, the healthcare system is chronically under-resourced, practitioners work long hours for low pay, and there are very few trained specialists.
The problems were compounded by the astounding lack of equipment in the hospitals: there were no MRI scanners, no ECGs (or indeed any equipment for cardiac surgery), air-conditioning was non-existent outside of theatre and small essentials such as sterile gloves and anti-bacterial handwash ran out almost every day. Furthermore, the training and experience that all of the staff had were not always put to full use, and there were very few protocols in place to standardise routine procedures. This contrasted with the situation in the UK, and most other high income countries, where almost every procedure has a recommended, evidence based set of steps associated with it and is expected to be performed consistently.
In four weeks of working at Mwananyamala Local Hospital, I experienced a wide variety of different scenarios. I spent time in major theatre, the outpatient department, neonatal ward, surgical ward, paediatric ward, the laboratory and the mortuary. This gave me the opportunity to follow up patients and see the longer term impact of their medical care. I began to help in any way that I could, which included measuring vital signs and using the medical workshops that Projects Abroad provided.
My original aim for this placement was to see if I still wanted to pursue a career in medicine after experiencing it firsthand. The four weeks I spent in Mwananyamala Hospital confirmed my decision, and also gave me some real insights into what can happen when practising medicine in an under-resourced setting. I experienced this most dramatically in the several night shifts I volunteered to do, which by far offered the most intense and interesting clinical situations. Furthermore, I became more accustomed to dealing with those events, which can be fraught with panic and uncertainty, in a more professional manner.
Leisure time
With such an intense and unpredictable environment as the hospital to work in, many days ended with the volunteers meeting for a much needed beer. Many 'mzungu' ('white person') pubs were available, but we quickly found that local bars were much more exciting, cheaper, and better for practising Swahili. In fact, most of the Swahili I learnt in Tanzania came from chatting to locals in bars. Wednesday night karaoke at a place called 'coco beach' became a tradition, and it didn't take long for me to discover that I have no real shot as a celebrity singer.
Other events that took place in Dar were outings such as group volleyball, African cooking lessons and dance lessons. These all helped us to immerse ourselves in the local culture even more. At the weekends, there were opportunities to travel round Tanzania. With other volunteers, I travelled to the picturesque island of Zanzibar, and went on safari to Mikumi National Park, visiting a local Masai tribe on the return journey. Although these were quite touristy, they provided a necessary few days to relax before starting another hectic week at the hospital.
When my placement was finished, I travelled to northern Tanzania with three other volunteers to climb Mount Kilimanjaro. I experienced severe altitude sickness, having summitted in 5 days, with frequent hallucinations, splitting headaches and vomiting, but I was determined to finish. It was a very worthwhile experience and I would recommend anyone travelling to Tanzania to give it a go!
Al Macfarlane
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Mark Salling is all dressed up while filming scenes for his hit show Glee on Friday (January 18) in Los Angeles.
The 30-year-old actor was joined on set by his co-stars Corey Monteith, Heather Morris, and Jane Lynch.
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Most Singaporeans I know are about crazy about food, and KianLam Kho is no exception. His blog Red Cook may be just 1 year old, but it has already drawn a number of devotees who hunger for great insight into Chinese home cooking. It's hard not to be seduced by his posts, like this meticulously documented Moon Festival banquet. From stock techniques to a recipe for mouth-watering red-cooked pork, Kian is a pro at "sharing the joy and frustration of cooking Chinese food at home."
What is your earliest memory of Chinese food?
I grew up in Singapore and was exposed early on to many different types of food, including Indonesian, Malay, Indian, Nonya (a local cuisine influenced by Chinese and Malay cooking) and many types of regional Chinese cooking. However, the food served at home was mostly Chinese and heavily influenced by my family's roots in Fujian province. Fujian cooking is generally non-spicy and dominated by seafood. I remember growing up with Fujian-style mustard green rice with dried oyster, red cooked pork (also known as kong bak in Fujian dialect), steamed fish and egg-drop seaweed soup. I also remember our servant making pork floss by slow cooking lean pork in soy sauce and spices over the entire afternoon until the meat disintegrates and dehydrates. We didn't eat Cantonese food at home but would go out to a Cantonese restaurant.
When I was growing up in Singapore the Chinese food available there was mostly confined to the immigrants' regional cuisines. Namely Canton, Fujian, Hainan, Hakka and ChiuChow cooking. When I first arrived in the U.S. in the mid 1970's Chinese food in America was predominantly Cantonese cooking. So I thought then the choice of cuisine was rather limited. The variety was further restricted by the scarcity of authentic ingredients, which made it very difficult to create authentic food. I would go to Cantonese restaurants in Chinatown for simple noodles and dim sum dishes because those were the ones that could be reproduced quite faithfully. Today there is still a wide gap between ingredients available in New York City and those in Singapore. Althoug sometime I can find very rare ingredients in New York they are often only available in specialty shops and sporadically. On the other hand Singapore has expanded the import of ingredients and culinary talent from China over that last decades, making it one of the most vibrant cities to sample Chinese food.
I consider a steaming bowl of noodle soup or porridge as my comfort food; especially porridge. Porridge is to me what chicken soup is to most Americans. I still make a hot steaming bowl of porridge whenever I'm sick. I like the Fujian-style porridge rather than the Cantonese-style. Fujian style retains whole grains of rice whereas Cantonese style is cooked until the rice becomes mush. We would eat the porridge with pickles, pork floss, and salted eggs. That is what I'd call comfort food, and best made at home.
My most creative recipes usually result from experimentation in my kitchen inspired by my dining experiences when traveling. I also get ideas from reading cookbooks and doing online research. In addition I often consult my culinary professional friends. Online research has also become an increasingly important part of my recipe development. There is much excellent cooking information available out there in English and Chinese on blogs and cooking Web sites. For blog posts I draw inspirations from my childhood memories, travels, and current events.
Three favorite cookbooks?
The James Beard Cookbook - This book introduced me to American cooking and taught me how to make apple pie and Yankee Pot Roast. I love his incidental explanations of ingredients and cooking variations in addition to the simple instructions. His recipes always remind me that delicious food can be produced without a complex cooking process.
The Complete Chinese Cookbook, edited by Ye RongHua (中國名菜大全, 葉榮華) - This is a Chinese language cookbook published in Hong Kong in the early 1970's. There is a second volume devoted entirely to dim sum cookery. It is from this book that I learned proper Chinese cooking techniques. I was also exposed to many regional Chinese dishes even before I had the opportunity to sample them.
Garlic, garlic and garlic. Ok, maybe rosemary and soy sauce as well. I adore garlic and since I mostly make Chinese, Italian and Mediterranean cooking, garlic is always a required ingredient.
You know $10,000 can't really buy a grand culinary tour anymore. If I didn't have to worry about expenses I think I'd go to Guangzhou and Chengdu to seek out undiscovered provincial as well as formal cooking of Guangdong and Sichuan. I'd travel through small villages to sample local dishes and enjoy the unique indigenous flavors. These two cuisines are diametrically opposed in flavors and taste yet similar in cooking techniques, which fascinates me. I'd end my travel in Hong Kong where Guangdong cuisine reaches its height of sophistication.


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This cubic timer is pretty cute, but given its fun design quirk (it counts down from whatever number is on top), it's limited to only four different lengths of time. This is why timers don't usually look like dice.
It's pretty simple: Just flip the cube so the length of time you want counted down is the number on top. If you outfit your kitchen with items from the MoMA catalog, this'll fit right in. Just hope that every recipe you make calls for either 3, 10, 30 or 60 minute increments, or wait until the Dungeons and Dragons 20-sided timer comes out. It's available in three colors for $34 each. [OhGizmo]


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Activity 1: What Makes a Hero?
Next, ask students to make a list of four or five present-day heroes who possess the characteristics the students have defined. Finally, hold a full class discussion to determine if there is general agreement as to appropriate answers to the questions among the class. What similarities and differences are there between Decatur and the contemporary heroes they identified? Have students use their U.S. history textbooks to determine other heroes of the 19th century and compare the deeds of those persons with Decatur's.
You might wish to expand the activity by having students conduct research on heroes in their own communities. What kinds of deeds made him or her a hero? Are there any places still standing in the community today that are associated with him or her? Have they been commemorated or memorialized in the community in some other way? How?
Activity 2: Conflict Resolution
Have students use Readings 2 and 3 to review the conflict and the events that led up to the fateful duel between Stephen Decatur and James Barron. Then divide the class into two groups to hold a debate, with one side defending the actions of Decatur and the other side defending the actions of Barron. After the students are in groups, read them the following assignment:
Considering your knowledge of the Decatur/Barron feud, set up an oral argument based on statements from Reading 2 and Reading 3 that would defend your individual's position. Using your understanding of life in the 19th century, defend your individual's right to duel his opponent even though dueling was illegal and they were both well known and influential citizens.
Have students discuss their opinions and then choose a spokesperson to represent their group. Give each spokesperson five minutes to present their group's arguments to the class. Then allow 10 minutes for each spokesperson to consult with his group before presenting a rebuttal. The rebuttals should take three minutes and be given in the same order as the original presentations. Spokespersons should also be allowed two minutes for closing statements. If you hold a vote on who won the debate, be certain students consider the quality of preparation and presentation rather than their opinion on which man held "correct" views. Following the debate, have a full class discussion on the following issues:
Activity 3: Access to Power
Ask students to choose a current issue or proposal that they would like to express an opinion about to the governor of their state. As an alternative, have them pretend that their governor is considering a budget that would dramatically reduce funding for local schools. Ask students to list various means of expressing support or disapproval of the issue or proposal, and of influencing the ultimate decision (petition, letter, fax, E-mail, telephone, the news media). Have students choose one of these means and either carry it out or write a description of why that particular means would be helpful in getting their opinion across to their legislator and the governor.
Next, have students consider whether a personal visit with the governor might be more effective. How would they go about getting an appointment with him or her? How would they present their concern in a typical 15-minute visit? What homework would they have to do to make sure they presented a good argument for their cause? Then have them suggest reasons why being located right next to the Governor's mansion might help them get the governor's attention. Discuss responses.
Ask students to name some political positions at the local level such as the school board chairman, mayor, or county supervisor. Would it be easier to arrange a personal visit with such individuals? Why? Do students think that their individual support or disapproval, or that of their parents, is likely to have more of an impact at the local or state level? Why?


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1. Overview -------------------------------
As I wrote in my project outline (http://www.honeynet.org/gsoc/project1) . I should have done some basic enhancement and experiments on python-spidermonkey for a more fine-granted tracing on spidermonkey. So till now what I have done on it includes:
a. Implemented the get_globj method in the Context class, which enables one to 'pull' all the properties of the global object inside spidermonkey ( namely the global variables, because all the global variables are properties of the global object ) into python context.
b. Implemented the hook_setname method in the Runtime class. 'setname' is an opcode in the spidermonkey js bytecodes. In most cases an assignment to a global variable will be compiled into a series of bytecodes and the last one is a setname 'instruction'(or opcode) to set the value of a given name. I have traced the spidermonkey vm and make it print the argument of the setname opcode whenever the setname opcode is executed.
c. Seeking a way to hook the creation of each atom in spidermonkey. As all strings and other immutable things are stored as an atom in spidermonkey, I'm trying to hook this event using js_TraceAtomState.
Here is some details about the implementation and experiment results:
2.Details -------------------------------
A. get_globj Method.
As we know, python-spidermonkey didn't provide any API to get all the global vaiables at a time by now. But the approach is simple, for the reason that all the global vaiables are actually the properties (attributes) of the global object. So all we should do is to convert the global object in js into a dict in python, and it's keys are the global variables' names and the values are the values of those global variables accordingly. So I just added another method in Context called get_globj, which simply invokes 'Py_from_JS' and translate the global object into python context.
NOTE: I haven't figured it out if the strings stored in python context will stay exactly the same as in javascript. So I don't know if the shellcodes in js strings are still valid in the python context.
B hook_setname and js_intterupt_handler.
The hook_setname method in 'Runtime' simply calls the spidermonkey C API 'JS_SetInterrupt(self.rt,js_intterupt_handler,NULL)' to make the jsvm(javascript virtual machine) step-traced and register the 'js_intterupt_handler' as the callback function at each step. Thus we can examine each bytecode in the runtime.
The js_intterupt_handler function first checks if the bytecode is setname. If so, print it's arguments, otherwise continue. We can call the libemu detection API at this point to check the arguments in the furture.
More details about the spidermonkey opcodes can be found in jsopcode.tbl of the mozilla spidermonkey source code version 1.80. To know what those opcodes can do, you should refer to jsinterp.c. In the furture, more opcodes should be hooked to audit all the assignments (such as assignments to local variables by setvar, and also some stuff like setarg, setprop, etc.)
NOTE: I have used some APIs and structs neither declared in jsapi.h nor jsdbgapi.h. I know it's dirty but, emmm.., I can't find any alternatives :p.
C. Censoring Atom Creations.
As far as I know, all the shellcodes are stored in the atoms in Spidermonkey. So I'm thinking that if we can interrupt on the creation of each atom and let libemu to detect shellcodes in it. But I haven't know how to use the related API 'js_TraceAtomState', because there are no documents about these APIs including most of them in section B. I have to read the spidermonkey's source myself. And I think I should fully implement features mentioned in Section B first, which I think is enough for shellcode detection.
3. Solutions -------------------------------
So I currently have two approaches on the shellcode detection:
3.1 Steptrace the jsvm, and perform the shellcode detection only on the argument of the assignment opcodes. And all these works are implemented in C, or at least in Pyrex (but Pyrex does not support C macros as far as I know, which may be a problem in the furture.)
The shellcode or other vaiables to be examined will travel through: JS Context->C Context in spidermonkey->C Context in libemu, which is efficient.
3.2 Wrap the opcode tracing APIs into python as methods provided by spidermonkey module. And also wrap libemu into a python module.
The shellcode then will be pass through: JS Context->C Context in spidermonkey->Python Context->C Context in libemu.
4. Problems -----------------------------------
Solution 3.1 and solution 3.2 both have advantages and disadvantages. Approach 3.2 is cleaner and more flexable. I mean both the hooked spidermonkey module and pylibemu module can be used in other ways or even other applications. But it is more difficult for me because I currently have no idea about how to expose APIs into python and make the two module cooperate well in python context. What's more, there is a big overhead on
the shellcode transforming and invoking python method at each step of the jsvm.
In contrast, solution 3.1 is more efficient, and easier to implement, because both spidermonkey and libemu are written in C originally. What's more, actually all my ideas in GSoC about the shellcode detection are inside spidermonkey, and almost have nothing to do with other parts of phoneyc such as the HTML parser, so I think I'd better wrap spidermonkey and libemu inside one module (I call it honeyjs). The honeyjs module will inherit all the methods and classes in python-spidermonkey so honeyclient.py can use this module the same way as spidermonkey, all the shellcode detection stuff are inside honeyjs. So in my opinion, solution 3.1 is preferable. But I haven't decided how to expose those shellcode detection and emulation and also URL extraction APIs, either.
PS:All the codes along with this post is avaliable in my svn branch of phoneyc(http://code.google.com/p/phoneyc/source/browse/phoneyc#phoneyc/branches/phoneyc-joyan-branch).
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The PCM has detected an abnormal voltage reading (high or low) from the diesel particulate filter pressure sensor circuit. Diesel particulate filter pressure is monitored exclusively in vehicles equipped with diesel engines. "Sensor A" indicates a particular sensor. Consult the manufacturer's service manual (or equivalent) for the location of this particular sensor.
Diesel particulate filter pressure is monitored by the diesel particulate filter pressure sensor. The 5-volt (maximum) variable resistance circuit supplies input voltage to the PCM. The PCM calculates the desired diesel particulate filter pressure using input data from the throttle position sensor, mass air flow sensor, tachometer, etc. Actual diesel particulate filter pressure is then compared with desired diesel particulate filter pressure. Variations that exceed the manufacturer's recommended diesel particulate filter pressure will result in a stored trouble code and an illuminated service engine soon lamp. If the diesel particulate filter sensor circuit voltage falls below .022 psi at idle (consult the manufacturer's service manual for the specs on your particular application) a code will be stored and a service engine soon lamp will be illuminated. If the diesel particulate filter pressure sensor signal value at part load is less than a minimum value (or greater than a maximum value) when the engine is running a code will be stored and a service engine soon lamp will be illuminated. Minimum and maximum reference values are based on overall exhaust volume.
If this code is stored in the PCM, the malfunction indicator lamp should be illuminated. Chances are that there will be no other symptoms associated with this type of code other than the possibility of other related trouble codes.
In most cases, this code is caused by a clogged diesel particulate filter or defective diesel particulate filter pressure sensor. However, technicians also report that damaged and burnt electrical wiring and connectors are a possibility. Other causes may include a cracked, loose, or disconnected hose to the diesel particulate filter pressure sensor. The PCM could also be faulty but this is highly unlikely.
The diesel particulate pressure sensor is frequently replaced in error when a clogged or restricted filter is the culprit.


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The CIBMTR provides these data to the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration as part of the Stem Cell Therapeutic Outcomes Database contract. (This contract is authorized by the Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Act of 2005, Public Law 109-129, and the Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Reauthorization Act of 2010, Public Law 111-264.)
U.S. transplant centers are required by Federal laws to report data to the CIBMTR for all patients receiving an allogeneic transplant (cells from a related or unrelated donor). However, reporting data for patients receiving an autologous transplant (cells from the patient) is not required.
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STELLA � Community members of all ages came out Saturday to celebrate the start of construction for a new home that will give back to a veteran severely injured in service to his country.
STELLA � Community members of all ages came out Saturday to celebrate the start of construction for a new home that will give back to a veteran severely injured in service to his country.
Homes for Our Troops held a groundbreaking ceremony in the Stella community of Carteret County, marking the start of a project that will provide Army Sgt. Anthony Verra with a specially-adapted home to improve his accessibility and mobility within his home and to allow him to be an active member of his family.
The Student Leadership Team at Swansboro Elementary School wanted to do their part to help and came out to the event with Principal Lisa Peele to make a donation of $500 to the project.
�Our leadership team selected Homes for Our Troops as our project because we wanted injured troops to have a good home so they could be active in the daily lives of their families,� said fifth grader Riley Barger.
The students learned about the organization from a project that is nearly complete in nearby Forest Ridge subdivision and wanted to contribute. The team held a Winter Bash school dance to raise the funds.
Homes for Our Troops is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to building specially adapted homes for service members who have been severely injured in combat operations since Sept. 11, 2001.
Verra was on his second deployment when he lost both of his legs after stepping on an IED in Arghandab, Afghanistan in September 2010.
According to his biography, he had been called in to take pictures documenting the situation at a compound that had just been cleared of five IEDs. He stepped on an IED that had not been identified.
After nearly 60 surgeries, he continues treatments in Bethesda, Md. at the recently renamed Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
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For the Verra family, it was also a time for them to express their gratitude.
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