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ins_wch, wins_wch, mvins_wch, mvwins_wch - insert a complex character
cc [ flag... ] file... –I /usr/xpg4/include –L /usr/xpg4/lib \ –R /usr/xpg4/lib –lcurses [ library... ] c89 [ flag... ] file... –lcurses [ library... ] #include <curses.h> int ins_wch(const cchar_t *wch);
int mvins_wch(int y, int x, const cchar_t *wch);
int mvwins_wch(WINDOW *win, int y, int x, const cchar_t *wch);
int wins_wch(WINDOW *win, const cchar_t *wch);
Is the complex character to be inserted.
Is the y (row) coordinate of the position of the character.
Is the x (column) coordinate of the position of the character.
Is a pointer to the window in which the character is to be inserted.
The ins_wch() function inserts the complex character wch at the current cursor position of the stdscr window. The wins_wch() function performs the identical action but in window win. The mvins_wch() and mvwins_wch() functions insert the character at the position indicated by the x (column) and y (row) parameters (the former in the stdscr window; the latter in window win). The cursor position does not change.
All characters to the right of the inserted character are moved right one character. The last character on the line is deleted.
Insertions and deletions occur at the character level. The cursor is adjusted to the first column of the character prior to the operation.
On success, these functions return OK. Otherwise, they return ERR.
See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
add_wch(3XCURSES), ins_nwstr(3XCURSES), libcurses(3XCURSES), attributes(7), standards(7)


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Can you identify the Code violation(s) in this photo?
Hint: Conductors blowing in the wind
Find the Answer
How well do you know the Code? Think you can spot violations the original installer either ignored or couldn't identify? Here's your chance to moonlight as an electrical inspector and second-guess someone else's work from the safety of your living room or office. Can you identify the Code violation(s) in this photo?
'Tell Them What They've Won...'
Using the 2011 NEC, correctly identify the Code sections that show violation(s) in this month's photo — in 200 words or less — and you could win something to put in your toolbox. E-mail your response to [email protected], and we'll select three winners (excluding manufacturers and prior winners) at random from the correct submissions. Winners will receive a set of insulated hand tools from Ideal Industries, Inc., valued at more than $125.* The set includes 9.25-in. insulated side-cutting pliers, 10-in. insulated tongue-and-groove pliers, and a 0.25-in. 3 6-in. insulated screwdriver. (* Please allow six to eight weeks for delivery of tools.)
Well, this was a first. No winners for the month of June! It appears this photo didn't allow anyone to really figure out that this was a surface raceway running through the middle of a baseboard heater. We'll try and make sure we're not as cryptic with our future photos.
It's pretty obvious this raceway — and thus the conductors inside of it — would easily be subjected to high temperatures based on its close proximity to the heater. As such, we can reference the temperature limitation requirements outlined in 310.15(A)(3).
"No conductor shall be used in such a manner that its operating temperature exceeds that designated for the type of insulated conductor involved. In no case shall conductors be associated together in such a way, with respect to type of circuit, the wiring method employed, or the number of conductors, that the limiting temperature of any conductor is exceeded."

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Lexus says there's going to be a new F model shown next month at the Detroit Auto Show. All that's been confirmed is that it's going to come in blue, have a blingy wheel and an F badge.
Lexus proudly says it will "bold, gritty, experience synonymous with the famed Lexus F heritage." So maybe it's a Lexus IS F. Or it could be that GS F that we saw recently.
Because when you think of Lexus' fast sedans, "heritage" is the first word you think of.
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District of Columbia
This is an annotated list of databases produced by District of Columbia agencies listed by producing agency.
The District maintains its own list of searchable databases, but more detailed annotations are still welcome here.
If you are a registered user of this wiki, feel free to edit or add databases. Otherwise, please send your suggestions or edits for this page to Susan Paterson (susan DOT paterson AT ubc DOT ca), the documents specialist for this page.
This page was last checked on Dec.23, 2015.
Return to State Agency Databases listing.
- 1 Board of Elections
- 2 Campaign Finance
- 3 Children and Family Services Agency
- 4 City wide calendar
- 5 Consumer and Regulatory Affairs, Department of
- 6 District of Columbia Courts
- 7 Council of the District of Columbia
- 8 Grants
- 9 Health, Department of
- 10 Human Resources, Department of
- 11 Legislative Branch
- 12 Metropolitan Police Department
- 13 Office of Contracts and Procurement
- 14 Office of the City Administrator
- 15 Office of Tax and Revenue
- 16 Permit Parking
- 17 Serve DC. Mayor's Office on Volunteerism
- 18 Tax and Revenue
- 19 Parks, Department of Parks and Recreation
- 20 Public Library Catalogue
- 21 Public Schools, District of Columbia
- 22 Small and Local Business Development, Department of
- 23 Zoning
Board of Elections
- Voter Registration Status You can search the voter registration directory to see if you have registered to vote.
- Polling Place Locator Directory of the District's 143 voting precincts.
Campaign Finance
- Campaign Contributions Search - Find campaign contributions by amount, contributor, date, location, or recipient. The Office of Campaign Finance provides easy access to all contributions and expenditure reported from January 1, 2003 through the current reporting period.he current reporting period. Because the system is updated on a daily basis, you may be able to retrieve data received by OCF after the latest reporting period. However, this data may not be complete.
Children and Family Services Agency
- 211 Answers, Please(Social Services Database) - "Answers, Please! Online offers the public direct access to a network of government and community social service providers via the Internet. By incorporating the latest web technology and the District's mapping system, users may locate programs alphabetically or by program name, topic, keyword, and proximity to an address." To access the database file, click on the link and the database will download as an Excel file.
City wide calendar
- City wide calendar - Search and find events in DC and create a custom calendar.
Consumer and Regulatory Affairs, Department of
- Board of Industrial Trade Licensee Search - Search for electricians, plumbers, refrigerator and air conditioning mechanics, and steam and other operating engineers.
- Building Permit Status Search - Search by permit number or address. "You'll see which disciplines (electrical, structural) have reviewed your plans to date." Appears to include permit/review information for completed projects.
- Business License Verification - "You can use this website to check to see if some types of businesses have valid licenses -- by address, name or entire list. Start by selecting the license type. Then select the Next Page button."
- Corporate Filings Search - Free registration is required to search for registered corporations and corporate names. Site requires the use of Internet Explorer 7 or higher.
- Public License Search - Choose District of Columbia from dropdown menu, then choose profession from second dropdown menu. Choices include Accountancy, Appraiser, Architecture, Funeral Director, Interior Design, Real Estate,and Tour Guide.
District of Columbia Courts
- Court Cases Online - Includes all open Civil Division cases (including civil actions, landlord-tenant and small claims) as well as closed cases dating back to 2000; all Criminal Division cases; certain Probate Division cases (including large estates, small estates, disclaimers of interest, major litigation, wills and foreign estate proceedings); all Tax Division cases.
Council of the District of Columbia
- Legislation Information Management System - The Council's Legislative Information Management System (LIMS) is available for the public to view the status of a Bill or Resolution, Legislation by Council Member, Legislation by Committee, Text of a Bill or Resolution, A Council Member's Voting Record, Contract Summary, Legislation by Co-Sponsor, A List of Legislation, Text of an Act, Legislative Meeting Agendas. You can search for legislation by keyword.
- Grants Information Data System- "Grants Information Data System (GIDS) is a database of current city, federal and foundation grant opportunities available to DC-area nonprofits and community-based organizations. Users may view all grant listings or perform searches based on one of the following: grant title, grantor type, issue area, or grant ID"
Health, Department of
- Food Facility Inspections Online - Search for and view inspection reports for facilities that serve or sell food to the public. Site says, "The majority of the permitted food service establishments in Washington, DC receive two routine unannounced food safety inspections per year." Database contains reports for the last three years. Reports are in PDF format.
- DC Health Search - Search for available health care services in your area. Enter your address and choose a facility type from the dropdown menu. Results will include facility names, addresses, phone numbers, and distance from the address you provided. A clickable map allows you to view all facilities within a specific ward.
- Health Profession License Search - "DOH provides an online professional license search for your convenience. To begin a search select license type or enter key words or criteria in the fields below. As a search tip, use the asterisk (*) at the end of partial information in a search field to encompass a wildcard search. Do not use dashes within social security numbers (SSNs). Search results may take a little time; please be patient."
Human Resources, Department of
Search current job openings - "DC Department of Human Resources (DCHR) helps District agencies meet their staffing requirements by ensuring the highest level of customer service to city residents." This database allows you to search the current job opportunites in the DC area.
Legislative Branch
- Search the District of Columbia Official Code - The contents of these statutes are current through amendments received as of January 25, 2006. For amendments subsequent to that date, use the Update feature. This service is powered by Thomson West.
Metropolitan Police Department
- Locate Police Services Area - Find your police district provides an overview of police service geographies for given locations in the District of Columbia.
- Crime Map - Resource that allows you to see how many crimes are in your neighbourhood. Can select a specific date range as well as the proximity to an address.
Office of Contracts and Procurement
- Online Contracts - "OCP is in the process of posting copies of contracts awarded by the District government." Dropdown menus allow you to search by contract number, vendor or agency.
Office of the City Administrator
- Data Catalog- The data catalog allows you to search datasets by category such as Education, Health Care, Human Services, Infrastructure, Economic Development etc. Popular downloads include crime incidents and public space permits and purchase orders.
Office of Tax and Revenue
- Real Property Assessment Database - You can search for real property assessment records via the database. Your results will be more accurate if you know the Property ID of the property that you are searching.
- Real Property Sales Database - Allows you to search and display real property sales records. You can obtain property value, assessment roll, and other information
Permit Parking
- Residential Permit Parking Block Data Inquiry - "Residential Permit Parking (RPP) is a program initiated by the District to increase access to on-street parking for residents in their neighborhoods. Residents can search for streets designated for permit parking."
Serve DC. Mayor's Office on Volunteerism
- NeighborGood- Searchable database for volunteer opportunities in the DC area.
Tax and Revenue
- Real Property Tax Database Search - From the website, "The Office of Tax and Revenue's (OTR) real property tax database provides online access to real property information that was formerly available only through manual searches and at various DC public libraries. You can obtain property value, assessment roll, and other information for more than 180,000 parcels using the links below." Interesting search by neighborhood gives you a quick sense of property values.
Parks, Department of Parks and Recreation
- Recreation Centers and Pools - Find swimming pools, basketball courts, before- and after-school care programs, and other programs at parks and recreation centers in the District of Columbia. Also can find status of projects improvements and permit facilities.
Public Library Catalogue
- Public Library Catalogue - Find book information and availability through the DC Public Library's online catalog.
Public Schools, District of Columbia
- Public schools database - Provides information about specific schools, school changes and has the ability to compare up to 4 schools at a time. Can narrow search by grade level, type of program (e.g. Montessori, International Baccalaureate, Career Pathways etc.) Listings also include the school type, address, name of principal, and website address.
Small and Local Business Development, Department of
- Local Business Database - "Department of Small and Local Business Development maintains a database of all certified local, small, and disadvantaged business enterprises. The database is updated on a monthly basis, and includes CBE contact information, business description, and NIGP code."
- Zoning Maps Search - Use this form to search through the District's zoning maps. You can enter your keywords, select the appropriate search type (any, all, exact), and click the "Search" button. The Adobe Acrobat interface is used to navigate the document, which you can view by clicking on the link presented in the search results.


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Alien Isolation developers the Creative Assembly are ramping up the nostalgia with the game's bonus missions. These two missions will let players relive scenes from the 1979 film Alien.
Warning: the next two paragraphs contain a few spoilers from the movie.
In Alien, a violent extraterrestrial is hunting and killing the crew of a spaceship on its return voyage. "Crew Expendable" begins just after Brett has been killed by the alien. Players must help the other crew members lure the creature toward the ship's airlock. They can play as three characters: Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), Dallas (Tom Skerritt) or Parker (Yaphet Kotto).
Unfortunately, the crew members' plan doesn't go too well. The mission "Last Survivor" follows Ellen Ripley as she tries to escape the ship. She must activate the self-destruct sequence of the ship and get to the Narcissus shuttle.
Sounds great, right? Well, here's the downside: these missions are only for pre-order customers. "Crew Expendable" is part of the Nostromo Edition, the $60 package available to anyone who reserves a copy. "Last Survivor," meanwhile, is only available through select retailers. Here in the United States, "Survivor" is exclusive to GameStop.
These missions sound like great bonuses for gamers who were dead set on pre-ordering the game to begin with. It's a shame that pre-orders are the only way to unlock them, though. I get that Sega wants to do whatever they can to maximize pre-sales of their game, but still. People unwilling to put down money on a game before reviews are published are missing out on great extras.
The two Ellen Ripley missions will serve as a prologue of sorts to Alien Isolation's campaign. Isolation stars Amanda Ripley, daughter of Ellen. She travels to the space station Sevastopol 15 years after the events of the Alien film to find evidence of her mother's whereabouts. When she arrives, though, she finds that the station is infested by the same kind of xenomorph that her mother tangled with.
Most games set in the Alien universe were inspired by the second film, Aliens. Players killed hordes of xenomorphs with pulse rifles and other high-powered weapons. Alien Isolation, however, tries to replicate the claustrophobic horror of Alien. There's only one xenomorph and the player can't just simply shoot it. They're forced to run and hide from the creature. Our own Katy Goodman got some hands-on time with the game at E3 and found it terrifying.
Alien Isolation will launch on PC, Xbox One, PS4, PS3 and Xbox 360 on October 7th.


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Quote: You are missing the point.
Quote: Yes someone can tell you things straight out. You get nothing but words that way.
Quote: Many people have been trained by the modern world to believe that the world works like a bubble gum machine. You put in a nickel, you get your gum. They want martial arts answers, they think the answer rolls out of the gumball machine.
Quote: Knowledge ... is a product of knowing that there are no coincidences, and looking for the relationships between everything.
Quote: By making you listen to something long winded, they are forcing you to pay attention. They are forcing you to focus for however long they talk for you to get what you want. You are complaining they talk to much, but they are doing you a favor by training you to listen, focus, and have patience.
Quote: Besides. People do not like to be treated as gumball machines. If you ask a person for an answer, they give it to you, and your run off, they feel used. The attitude these days seems to be politeness and courtesy are for girly men.
Quote: Think about yourself for a moment. Someone comes to you and makes a demand. How do you react? Most people instinctively retreat in the face of a demand. If the person keeps demanding, "Give me my answer NOW! Stop talking bullshit!". How would you feel? You would think the person was rude, selfish and uncaring of the feelings of others. Would you help a person like that?
Quote: I do agree that martial arts does hide things more than necessary. I agree with your sentiment that some things can be directly talked about instead of beating around the bush. I wanted to be certain that other people realize there is a legitimate reason for long winded or mysterious explanations.
Quote:Remember my experience comes from 7 years of being a professor of two very different things, Asian Philosophy and Business Law.
Quote: ... people that learn well when you tell them something become excellent brown belts, people who can think and apply in creative ways become excellent.
Quote: In my law practice people that listen and learn sit in a back room and do research and make livings, people who can be flexible and creative and think creatively run everything.
Quote: Creative thinking is more important than anything, I could teach every physical movement of Karate in 6 months, but if I had to teach someone to fight quickly I would only teach them 5 techniques, but focus on what's inside.
Quote: Him who knows it, knows it. Him who feels it, knows it better.
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Perceptions of Burden in Patients With Late-Stage Cancer and Their Caregivers
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00770419
Recruitment Status : Withdrawn (Slow accrual)
First Posted : October 10, 2008
Last Update Posted : May 29, 2015
- Study Details
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- No Results Posted
- Disclaimer
- How to Read a Study Record
RATIONALE: Gathering information over time about patients' sense of being a burden on their caregiver, and caregivers' sense of burden on themselves, may help doctors learn more about the desire to die in patients with late-stage cancer.
PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying perceptions of burden in patients with late-stage cancer and their caregivers.
|Condition or disease
|Brain and Central Nervous System Tumors Chronic Myeloproliferative Disorders Depression Leukemia Lymphoma Multiple Myeloma and Plasma Cell Neoplasm Myelodysplastic Syndromes Myelodysplastic/Myeloproliferative Neoplasms Psychosocial Effects of Cancer and Its Treatment Unspecified Adult Solid Tumor, Protocol Specific
|Other: medical chart review Other: questionnaire administration Procedure: psychosocial assessment and care
- To measure psychosocial correlates of desire for hastened death (DHD) and change in DHD in patients with late-stage cancer by examining the relationship among a patient's perception of being a burden, their caregiver's perceptions of the patient's burdensomeness, and DHD changes over time.
- To identify coping and personality factors in both caregivers and patients that may be related to the patients' DHD and changes in their DHD.
OUTLINE: Patients and caregiver dyads complete questionnaires at baseline, 2 months, and 4 months. The dyads complete demographic questionnaire, the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), the Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS), the Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS), and the Life Orientation Test-Revised (LOT-R). Patients also complete the Schedule of Attitudes Toward Hastened Death (SAHD), the Brief Coping Orientation to Problems Experienced (Brief COPE), the Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale-Short Form (MSAS-SF), and the Caregiver Demands Scale (CDS). Caregivers also complete the Katz Index of Independence in Activities of Daily Living (IADL).
Patients' medical charts are reviewed for stage and node status at primary diagnosis, previous oncology surgeries, previous adjuvant treatments, treatment at time of recurrence, disease free interval, site of metastasis, and response to current treatment.
|Study Type :
|Actual Enrollment :
|0 participants
|Observational Model:
|Time Perspective:
|Official Title:
|Perception of Caregiver Burden
|Study Start Date :
|May 2008
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|January 2010
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|February 2010
- Relationship between patient's sense of being a burden on primary caregiver & increase in patient desire for hastened death (DHD) by Caregiver Demands Scale (CDS) at baseline & Schedule of Attitudes toward Hastened Death (SAHD) at 2 & 4 mo.
- Contribution of the caregiver's sense of caregiver burden, as measured by the caregiver version of the CDS at baseline, on increases in patient DHD over time
- Identification of coping and personality factors in both caregivers and patients that may be related to the patients' DHD and changes in their DHD
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Meets 1 of the following criteria
Patient with a diagnosis of cancer
- Confirmed late-stage disease refractory to standard primary therapy
- Reside with a non-paid primary caregiver
- Receiving care at the Cancer Institute of New Jersey
- Must be at least 18 years old
- Life expectancy ≥ 4 months
- No documented or observable cognitive (e.g., dementia) or psychiatric (e.g., psychosis) problems that would interfere with study participation
- Able to read and write English (patient and caregiver)
- Not specified
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00770419
|Principal Investigator:
|Linda Patrick-Miller, PhD
|Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey
|Responsible Party:
|Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00770419 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
P30CA072720 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|First Posted:
|October 10, 2008 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|May 29, 2015
|Last Verified:
|May 2015
psychosocial effects of cancer and its treatment
unspecified adult solid tumor, protocol specific
acute undifferentiated leukemia
adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia in remission
adult acute myeloid leukemia in remission
adult acute myeloid leukemia with 11q23 (MLL) abnormalities
adult acute myeloid leukemia with inv(16)(p13;q22)
adult acute myeloid leukemia with t(15;17)(q22;q12)
adult acute myeloid leukemia with t(16;16)(p13;q22)
adult acute myeloid leukemia with t(8;21)(q22;q22)
atypical chronic myeloid leukemia, BCR-ABL negative
chronic myelomonocytic leukemia
mast cell leukemia
meningeal chronic myelogenous leukemia
prolymphocytic leukemia
recurrent adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia
recurrent adult acute myeloid leukemia
recurrent adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma
refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia
refractory hairy cell leukemia
relapsing chronic myelogenous leukemia
secondary acute myeloid leukemia
T-cell large granular lymphocyte leukemia
AIDS-related diffuse large cell lymphoma
AIDS-related diffuse mixed cell lymphoma
AIDS-related diffuse small cleaved cell lymphoma
AIDS-related immunoblastic large cell lymphoma
AIDS-related lymphoblastic lymphoma
AIDS-related peripheral/systemic lymphoma
Multiple Myeloma
Neoplasms, Plasma Cell
Nervous System Neoplasms
Central Nervous System Neoplasms
Myelodysplastic Syndromes
Myeloproliferative Disorders
Myelodysplastic-Myeloproliferative Diseases
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Lymphoproliferative Disorders
Lymphatic Diseases
Immunoproliferative Disorders
Immune System Diseases
Pathologic Processes
Behavioral Symptoms
Hemostatic Disorders
Vascular Diseases
Cardiovascular Diseases
Blood Protein Disorders
Hematologic Diseases
Hemorrhagic Disorders
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Annual to bamboo-like; roots generally fibrous
Stem generally round, hollow; nodes swollen, solid
Leaves alternate, 2-ranked, generally linear; sheath generally open; ligule membranous or hairy, at blade base
Inflorescence various (of generally many spikelets)
Spikelet: glumes generally 2; florets (lemma, palea, flower) 1many; lemma generally membranous, sometimes glume-like; palea generally ± transparent, ± enclosed by lemma
Flower generally bisexual, minute; stamens generally 3; stigmas generally 2, generally plumose
Fruit: achene-like grain
Genera in family: 650900 genera; ± 10,000 species: worldwide; greatest economic importance of any family (wheat, rice, maize, millet, sorghum, sugar cane, forage crops, ornamental, weeds; thatching, weaving, building materials)
Reference: [Hitchcock 1951 Manual grasses US, USDA Misc Publ 200; Clayton & Renvoise 1986 Kew Bull Add Series 13]
See Glossary p. 26 for illustrations of general family characteristics. Generally wind-pollinated.
Annual, perennial herb, sometimes from short rhizomes
Stem decumbent to erect, generally abruptly bent at base
Leaf: sheath glabrous or hairy, short-appendaged or not; blade flat or ± rolled
Inflorescence spike-like, dense; axis breaking apart at nodes in fruit; spikelets 2-ranked, strongly overlapping, 3 per node, spikelets of 2 kinds
Central spikelet bisexual, generally sessile; with 1 stalked or sessile floret; glumes awn-like, generally > floret; lemma awned
Lateral spikelets 2, sterile or staminate, generally short-stalked; with 1 sessile floret; glumes awn-like, > floret, lemma generally awned
Species in genus: 32 species: temp worldwide except Australia
Etymology: (Latin: ancient name for Barley)
Reference: [Baum & Bailey 1990 Canad J Bot 68:24332442]
Stem 111 dm, erect, sometimes ± prostrate; nodes glabrous
Leaf: basal sheaths glabrous to ± hairy, appendages 14 mm; blade 25 mm wide, glabrous, scabrous or sparsely long-hairy
Inflorescence 38 cm, 716 mm wide, green to glaucous, sometimes reddish or brown in fruit
Central spikelet: glumes 1125 mm, flattened at base, generally ciliate; floret 814 mm; lemma awn 2040 mm
Lateral spikelets: glumes 1135 cm, base flattened; floret 815 mm; lemma awn 2050 mm
Ecology: Moist, generally disturbed sites
Elevation: generally < 1000 m.
Bioregional distribution: California
Distribution outside California: to British Columbia, e US, n Mexico; native to Europe
Winter annual
Stem 36 dm
Inflorescence green
Central spikelet sessile or subsessile; stalk < 0.5 mm; floret generally = lateral florets; lemma awn slightly < awn of lateral floret
Chromosomes: 2n=28
Ecology: Habitat and range of sp
Bioregional distribution: California


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MDSteve necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 70 diseños de 19 diseñadores freelance.
Lax World Lacrosse Club
The Lax World Lacrosse Club (LWLC) is an up and coming lacrosse program in the Baltimore, MD area - the heart of lacrosse. We have been quick to develop strong, winning high school level teams and are now expanding to middle school ages.
We are supported by a major supplier of lacrosse equipment and apparel, Lax World. You can see their logo at http://www.laxworld.com.
We currently have a club website under our old name Team Lax World Lacrosse at http://www.tlwlax.com.
The audience is our current players and parents, as well as potential players/parents. We also get inquiries for head coaches at the high school and college level.
Need a logo that takes elements from the store's (http://www.laxworld.com) logo and brings forth a logo that our players (high school boys) will find appealing to represent their club.
The logo will be used for various applications - stickers on helmets, cars, etc., stitched onto clothing, hats, etc.
Open to various design concepts.
One idea is circlular version with a globe/earth in the middle. The words LAX WORLD LACROSSE CLUB would be around the globe. "LAX" and "WORLD" can be placed together as one word, as long as they are different colors like the store's logo. We then thought that the lacrosse head could be placed as it is in the store's logo over the "L" and part of the "A" with a pole attached that looks like it is wrapping around the globe and getting larger (persepective) as it comes to the head. Sort of a "journey around the world" motif. The store's outside "swooshes" could be placed around the globe beneath the lettering as an additional tie in.
Colors - See our website at http://www.tlwlax.com and photos of the team at:
With the photos at this site, you can see the various clothing applications along with colors. The full blue jerseys are the ones to focus on and not the black or white pennies.
The design will need full color, white, and black versions.
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text: Still waiting for Sigma to fulfill an order for more batteries. DP2M users have mentioned on other sites that the Ricoh DB-65 ($45) is identical to the Sigma BP-41, so I ordered a couple of those.Keep your Sigma batteries warm. On my DP2M's first use at temps well below freezing, the battery gave up after 7 (yep, only seven) exposures. Since that experience, I've kept the camera under my coat and the battery in my watch pocket (finally found a use for that pocket). Obviously, it isn't a means for quick reactions, but inserting the warm battery added only a few seconds to the whole set-up on a tripod anyhow. The warm camera and battery change raised the number of exposures at 20F/-6C above 30. That whole routine reminded me of using the Kodak 14n in the cold with several large batteries in pockets. At least the Sigma batteries are tiny and much more comfortable to carry -- if only they were available.Regards, Rick


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Justin Bieber concert in Portugal canceled
The second of two shows in Lisbon has been nixed.
After a crazy week in London, the second of two Justin Bieber concerts scheduled for this week in Portugal has been canceled, promoters in Lisbon said Monday.
More: Fans warmly embrace Bieber as he wraps up London run
It was not immediately clear why the show was nixed. No word on if it had anything to do with the pop star's backstage collapse in London last week, which prompted Beiber to take 20-minute break to receive oxygen and then to stay overnight in a hospital.
Bieber is set to play tonight at Pavilhao Atlantico.
"Due to unforeseen circumstances, Justin Bieber was forced to cancel the second performance in Portugal, March 12," a statement said on the promoters' website.
Opinion: 5 bits of advice for Bieber
"The Canadian singer is eager to play for the Portuguese fans on March 11," it added. Ticket holders for the canceled show are entitled to a refund if they claim it within a month.
Bieber has not mentioned the cancellation on Twitter (his latest tweet is: "#sundayfunday"), nor has his manager Scooter Braun, who is at at the SXSW festival in Austin.
Showbiz411 columnist Roger Friedman reports the reason for the cancellation is "poor ticket sales." And The Christian Post cites a Portuguese newspaper as suggesting "that although the first date on Monday had been sold out, the Tuesday concert had an insufficient sale of tickets."


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Kanye West has apparently decided to take the old adage "write what you know" to heart.
West opens up about his latest flame Kim Kardashian's XXX past on his latest track "Clique" — and pretty much admits that the raunchy romp with her former beau Ray J is pretty much responsible for her rise to fame.
On the song — an upcoming single from the collaborative album "Cruel Summer" — West raps, "Eat breakfast at Gucci. My girl a superstar all from a home movie."
Also read: Kim Kardashian: Kanye West Will Appear on "Keeping Up With the Kardashians"
That second sentence is a pretty clear reference to the 2007 celebrity sex tape "Kim Kardashian, Superstar," which launched Kardashian into the spotlight and toward a reality TV empire.
This isn't the first time that Kardashian has served as West's muse; last month, the rapper 'fessed up that his track "Perfect Bitch" is about her.
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"I wrote the song Perfect Bitch about Kim," West admitted in a tweet that has since been removed from his Twitter account.
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A bible-study companion of mine recently sent me Jean-Paul Sartre's "Existentialism is a Humanism". Here's my response:
Thanks for sending that over! I must admit I haven't read much of Sartre, so the lecture you sent helped remedy that.
I have a hard time differentiating existentialism from hedonism, something Sartre seems to acknowledge at least by accident when he talks about how existentialism got an early reputation for exalting man's baser actions.
I suppose if we are to consider existence to come before essence then it logically follows that whatever I experience (ie. my present state of existence) should be considered of greater value than what I know (ie. knowledge of a transcendent essence). And if we are to begin with the subjective then it stands to reason that we can never attain knowledge of the divine. This struggle of where to begin epistemologically was also wrestled with by Plato and Aristotle (succinctly captured in this piece of art which depicts Plato's notion of idealism which is the polar opposite of what Sartre is arguing for) and was also eloquently expressed by Francis Schaeffer (notably in his "Modern Man & Epistemology" lecture).
The third objection, stated by saying, "You take with one hand what you give with the other," means, at bottom, "your values are not serious, since you choose them yourselves." To that I can only say that I am very sorry that it should be so; but if I have excluded God the Father, there must be somebody to invent values.
One of the most instrumental Christian philosophers who paved the way for this kind of thinking, at least in the Church, was Friedrich Schleiermacher who argued that the primary way we know God is through our emotions and not through revelation/reason.
Its interesting how Sartre calls for men to be stewards of the emerging essence of mankind at the same time he claims that there is no ideal essence we are obliged to grow towards. I would agree with his notion that we should act as if all of mankind is defined by our actions, but that only makes sense if there is an objective and external observer whose favor or disapproval mattered. Sartre borrows much from the Christianity he misrepresents (ie. that Christian teaching is determined by the subjective whims of priests) and loathes. In fact, his a priori assumption that moral ideals would remain unchanged if we were to find that God doesn't exist stands in direct opposition to his admission that Dostoevsky's notion that "without God all things are permissible". And he further contradicts himself when he talks about an ideal form of morality whose particulars are subject to change!
I understand why he claims that existentialism is a form of humanism, mostly because it puts man in the center of the universe. But like all other humanistic variants, it suffers from the same frailties that all men do. Namely our lack of omniscience and immortality, both of which it seems Sartre struggles with mightily to no avail.
Thanks again for the paper. Here are some movies on existentialism in case you're interested to see what Hollywood does with this philosophy. There are a lot of big name actors in these movies which leads me to believe that existentialism is held in high esteem by much of Hollywood.
- eXistenZ – The director required the cast to read Sartre and other existential philosophers in preparation for the movie
- I heart Huckabees – Plot centers around a team of existential detectives


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If you have never been to Macau, or Restaurante Litoral, I urge you to get on a plane or ferry this instant.
Macanese food is one of the best little-known cuisines I have come across. It dates back almost 500 years, from when the Portuguese settled on a little peninsula of fishing villages and married into local Chinese families. Over time, the Portuguese-Chinese fusion picked up influences from around Southeast Asia and other colonies in Africa, Goa, and Brazil. One of the best spots in Macau to taste real Macanese cooking is Restaurante Litoral, a beautiful two-storey restaurant on Rua do Almirante Sérgio.
The upstairs dining was enormous (the owners also took over the 2nd floor of the next building), but because of the slideable wooden doors, it still felt intimate. Litoral is a rare restaurant that can be popular with both locals and tourists; my companions were two British expats who have lived in Macau since the early 1980s, and claim this restaurant serves the best Macanese dishes.
Caldo verde (potato and kale soup, in top photo) is similar to the Portuguese original, but instead of kale the locals use the more abundant bok choy. Though like the Portuguese, we doused the tops of our soups with extra olive oil.
Restaurante Litoral also does an amazing tamarind pork. There is a sweet and sour element from the brown sugar and tamarind paste, but the salty shrimp paste and sliced chilies make make it extra pungent and unmistakably Macanese.
Minchi may as well be Macau's official comfort food. It consists of ground beef or pork sautéed with onions, bay leaf, soy sauce, and Worcestershire sauce, and usually paired with crispy potatoes. Litoral adds a runny fried egg on top, giving the meat a delicious oozy sauce.
Another Macanese dish you need to try is curry crab. Usually restaurants will serve a whole crab in curry sauce, but Litoral does all the work of plucking out the crab meat. The bowl also comes with shrimp and quail eggs. The diner only needs to spoon as much as she wants onto her rice, which can be a problem if she loves crab and has little self-control. (Guilty as charged.)
Did I mention Restaurante Litoral, as per Macanese tradition, dishes everything in huge portions?
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Planning my wedding was no great chore—at least for me. Mostly, the wedding preparations fell on my mother's head. Or rather, the job was dumped in her lap by circumstances.
I was in Israel, but the wedding was to be held in the States in my hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I took care of procuring my wedding duds in Israel: had a gown designed, bought a wig, and so forth. But the bulk of the myriad details of my wedding fell to my mother to arrange.
When I finally arrived in Pittsburgh, some two weeks before the big day, my mother had a long (nay endless) checklist for me to peruse. Among the various items on that list was a question from my mother's close friend Betty that awaited an answer from me. Betty knew that I was having an Orthodox wedding and she had never attended one before. She wanted to know if she should cover her hair and if there was anything else she needed to know about appropriate dress for my special day.
I was touched by this expression of caring and respect. Betty was taking great care not to offend me or my guests. Her inquiry showed respect for a way of life different from her own.
I hastened to reassure Betty that it was not necessary for her to cover her hair or dress in a different manner than was usual for her. I told her that she was modest by nature and that however she dressed would be fine with me, my intended, and our guests. I also expressed to her how moved I was by her caring and respectful attitude.
Fast forward 33 years and 2 days later. I am thinking about Betty and her respectful attitude as I contemplate all the to-do over the Women of the Wall controversy. At first glance, the contretemps appears to be about freedom of religion. But is that really the issue here?
Maybe so. The question is: whose freedom of religion is in question here? Is it the freedom of the Women of the Wall to worship in any manner they so please, or is it the freedom of the Haredim to continue to worship as they always have at the Wall, for decades, that is the bone of contention? Because the two are mutually exclusive and this is something that is overlooked by a majority of people: the fact that by granting one group its freedom to worship, you take away that same freedom for the other group.
I am sure the Women of the Wall can point me to myriad points of Jewish law that back their right to wear prayer shawls in rainbow colors (or black and white), read from the Torah, and sing loudly in the presence of men. However, the Haredim can also point me to areas of the law that suggest exactly the opposite. Perhaps both groups are right. After all, as the good book says, there are seventy faces/tongues to the Torah (shivim panim l'Torah).
So both groups can argue Halachic underpinnings for the choices they make in how they worship and perhaps neither will be wrong. But perhaps then, the question is not who is wrong, but who is wronged? Are the Women of the Wall wronged for being asked to worship at Robinson's Arch, which is no less holy a piece of geography than the Wall, which is, after all, only a small section of one of the Temple's retaining walls? Or are the Haredim at the Wall wronged by having to pray next to women who sing loudly, read from a holy scroll, and dress in a manner that offends their norms?
Perhaps even this is not the issue. Perhaps the issue is one of hegemony. Is it right that the Haredim have a monopoly on who may or may not pray at the Wall? Is it fair that they, and not the Women of the Wall, have the prima facie right to decide not only on the manner of prayer but how it is that worshippers at this spot will comport and dress themselves?
Does time enter into this equation—the status quo? Modern expressions of Jewish worship are just that: modern. They came into being during the 20th century. For thousands of years before this time, it was accepted that Jewish men and women observed gender separation during prayer (despite the posed photos of the 19th century non-Jewish photographer, Félix Bonfils, who hired Arabs to dress as Jews and posed them praying side by side at the Western Wall—something that many erroneously point to as evidence that gender separation during prayer is a modern phenomenon).
It was accepted that women would not sing in front of men (despite those who stubbornly insist that Miriam sang with the women in front of the men after the splitting of the Red Sea). It was accepted that women did not wear prayer shawls or phylacteries, with the possible exception of exceptional women, such as the daughters of Rashi, Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki.
Does the status quo of thousands of years make it necessary for modern female worshippers to uphold the status quo regarding worship, dress, and comportment during prayers at the Wall?
I say yes.
When in Rome, do as the Romans do, to choose a poorly chosen reference, considering the primary role the Romans played in the destruction of the Temple.
Just like my mother's friend Betty, these women are the outsiders coming for a visit. They are coming to worship at a place that is de facto, thoroughly immersed in thousands of years of orthodox worship. Because there WAS nothing other than orthodoxy, prior to the previous century.
If they dress and comport themselves in a way that offends the preexisting culture, it is the Haredim who are wronged, and not the Women of the Wall. The latter may not feel they have fully expressed their Jewishness if they are forced to worship as Haredim. They may feel unfulfilled as Jews. But there is a preexisting culture AND they have a choice. If they don't wish to pray within the existing norms, they can pray at Robinson's Arch, away from anyone who might take offense at their culture and their worship.
You can certainly say that the Wall belongs to all Jews and you would be right. But there is an existing culture and it is respectful to respect that culture and refrain from dress and behavior that might offend those who have long belonged to that culture. Just as Betty wished to be respectful of me at my wedding, so many years ago.
Think of it this way: perhaps your neighbor got it into his head that he only feels fully himself when he is exposed from the waist down. You don't want your daughter to see him like this. It is against your culture. But the neighbor insists that by forcing him to wear pants in public, you are infringing on his rights. You are keeping him from expressing himself. You make HIM uncomfortable.
No comparison, you claim? But the comparison is valid. Because it's not about Halacha. It's never been about Halacha, because both sides can find validity in Halacha. It's never been about freedom of worship, because if it had been, the Women of the Wall could certainly pray at Robinson's Arch, even if they have to put money and time into it to make it a nice place to pray. It's not about hegemony, because if a different group was in charge of the Wall, some would still find they could not pray according to their druthers, in their chosen, most necessary environment.
Clearly then, this is a matter of culture alone: a culture clash. And if one group indulges full expression of worship, the other will feel infringed upon.
Perhaps then, it is only fair that the Women of the Wall compromise, since they are the new group to arrive. Perhaps they will stop trying to change the status quo and gracefully go with the flow or pray at Robinson's Arch. For the sake of unity. For the sake of being caring and respectful, as Betty was, when she approached me with her question so many years ago.
Varda Epstein is the mother of 12 children, a pro-Israel activist, and works as a communications writer at Kars4Kids. The views she expresses are her own and not necessarily those of the organization.


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Russia's finance minister says that G-20 leaders have agreed on a plan to take on multinational companies who tuck away their profits in offshore jurisdictions.
Speaking to reporters after Thursday's first Group of 20 session, Anton Siluanov said that leaders of the world's 20 largest economies are indignant over the policies of cross-border giants like Google and Amazon, who "make money in one country" but pay lower taxes elsewhere.
(Read more: Obama, Putin in awkward G-20 handshake moment)
The G-20 leaders agreed on a plan that would prevent these companies from using loopholes and tax havens, Siluanov said. He did not elaborate.
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Jonathan Metz tried to saw off his arm this summer after it got stuck in his furnace and infection set in. Crouched alone for three days in his Connecticut basement, he has returned to his job as a finance manager for an insurance company.
Their stories of survival reveal a heartening truth for the 33 men trapped deep in a Chilean mine: While nobody walks away from catastrophe completely unscathed, neither do most survivors succumb in the aftermath to paralyzing despair, said George Bonanno, a psychology professor at Columbia University's Teachers College.
Rescuers have reinforced the hole drilled to bring the miners to safety and expect to being pulling the men from their subterranean purgatory by midnight Tuesday.
Bonanno, who specializes in resilience during times of trauma, has found a low rate of extreme problems, including post-traumatic stress disorder, in a majority of people coping after disaster.
"We concluded that the ceiling for harmful effects is about 30 percent of those exposed," he said of his review of the science being published in a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. "Most everyone else either recovers quickly or shows great resilience. Some people will be deeply psychologically wounded, but most people will not."
Certainly, recovery can take time. A lawsuit nearly wrecked Nicholas White's life after he spent 41 hours in a New York City elevator in 1999. He's working again after long stretches of unemployment.
Though their circumstances were quite different, the hearts of Knapp, Metz and White go out to the miners in Chile. One promised in a letter sent up through a narrow bore-hole that he'll give up mining if he makes it out alive. "Everything is going to change," he wrote.
That's more true than the miners may know, said Metz.
"The battle is really just beginning," he said. "The second they make the ascent to the surface, that's when the real trial will begin for them."
Change is inevitable, but life need not be heavy with pain, fear or sorrow. Knapp, Metz and White know that in their own ways.
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Knapp was 18 in 1975, living in the eastern Washington town of Walla Walla, when he and two 16-year-old friends decided on a New Year's Eve summit climb of Mount Hood, a trip two of them had made before.
They had down coats, a stove, food for 10 days, climbing gear and a Bible.
All went reasonably well until a blinding storm closed in and they decided to head home, but Knapp had forgotten the map in the car and they guessed wrong on the way down. A snow cave was their only chance. One collapsed. The second was home for 13 nights. They were always cold, passing the time keeping a long tunnel from their shelter clear of snow, and reading Bible stories aloud.
"We were confident in God, but we kind of thought of it initially as a test of our faith," Knapp said. "We trusted God and we talked about what we would learn from it all. We finally got to the place where we never doubted that God would have the ability to see us through and to give us a way out of it."
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By the last week, they were down to spoonfuls of Jell-O pudding powder combined with pancake mix and slush. "There were times when we got on each other's nerves," Knapp said, but faith "molded us together," along with the twice-daily chore of keeping their tunnel exit free of snow.
The weather finally broke and they crawled out of their cave on Jan. 16, 1976, climbing to a ridge where they could see searchers above. They learned later the rescue effort was about to end.
"We never lost confidence in the assurance that we were going to survive," Knapp said. "That's what keeps people alive."
He never considered giving up his outdoor pleasure in the wilderness of the Pacific Northwest. "It's such a thrill for me to be up in the mountains. That's where I meet God in the most intimate ways."
Knapp, 52, is now a writer, carpenter and part-time pastor in Medford, Ore.
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Metz, 31, left behind apartment life in the city for a house in the suburbs so he could have more room to pursue his passion, woodworking.
With a girlfriend in North Carolina, it was just Metz and his beagle mix, Portia, in West Hartford, Conn. This June, during a routine trip to the basement to clean his ancient furnace, he dropped the nozzle to his vacuum deep inside the huge boiler. Metz tried one last push to grab it when his arm lodged above the elbow at an odd angle.
"There was rust on the tubes that cut up my arm pretty badly, and it started to swell within minutes," he said. "It all happened in an instant. Panic, terror, the blood was dripping down into the heating box."
It was a Monday. Nobody was alarmed enough to investigate when he missed work. Portia barked and whimpered above, blocked from the basement by a closed door. Twelve hours passed and he began to smell the stink of infection. Convinced he needed to save his life, thinking what would MacGuiver do, he fashioned a tourniquet with a cord, reached for some loose saw blades and tried to amputate his left arm.
The pain was like lightning. He got close, but he couldn't finish the job.
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Drifting in and out of consciousness, he used a filthy flip-flop to capture sips of dirty boiler water. He listened for his dog, worried she, too, might perish. She had fallen silent, alone without food and water.
"The sense of being alone was very difficult beyond just the physical trauma," Metz said. "The absolute sense of isolation and loneliness added to the despair. As selfish as this might sound, if there had been somebody else trapped down there with me, I think it would have helped."
With a new prosthesis after doctors couldn't save the arm, Metz has a special hook attachment that has him back in his basement workshop making tables and clocks. A company donated a new furnace to replace his.
He's back at work at his job as an insurance finance manager. His fiancee recently moved in and they plan to marry Nov. 13.
Metz offered some specific advice for the miners, who he said likely would be overwhelmed by the flood of attention that will greet them upon rescue.
He cautioned the men to get help corralling media attention, but not to avoid it. For Metz, talking about the ordeal was helpful, especially because the subject was too painful for his family to discuss repeatedly.
"I found it therapeutic to speak about my experience," he said.
At the same time, Metz warned that after the attention wanes, the real struggle will begin. He urged the miners' families and other supporters to watch for mental and emotional crises weeks after the miners return home.
"Suddenly, it's just you," he said. "For these miners, bless their hearts for surviving, but in a month or two months, after things have died down a little bit, that's when whatever weight they're carrying with them will start to come out."
Video tells elevator tale
White's story is best told in time-lapse surveillance video from Rockefeller Center's McGraw-Hill Building that went viral after The New Yorker magazine put it online in 2006.
White was working late one Friday night in 1999 as a production manager for Business Week when he headed downstairs from the 43rd floor for a smoke. On his way back up, waved in by a janitor buffing floors, the elevator car jolted, the lights flashed and he stopped.
"I was like, well, this sucks, this is inconvenient," he said. "How long is this going to take?"
His feeling of calm, imagining Steve McQueen tossing a baseball against his cell wall in "The Great Escape," didn't last. "Eventually I thought I might die in there, and thought what a slow, lame way to go."
The sped-up, grainy video shows White in black and white, initially bewildered as he pushes buttons, trying the intercom and the alarm bell. He eventually pulled the alarm button off completely and said the noise was loud and constant. Hours pass and he paces, pries open the doors to reveal a cinderblock wall scrawled with the number 13. He yelled, smoked the three cigarettes he had, climbed the handrail to find a ceiling hatch locked from the outside.
Auditory hallucinations set in. He had no cell phone or watch.
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White takes everything out of his wallet, reads the fine print on Jets tickets he'd never use that weekend, compares a new $20 bill to an old one, takes his shoes off and tries them as a pillow, places his wallet over his eyes to attempt sleep. He urinates down the elevator shaft.
Around him the video shows the building's other elevators undergoing maintenance. It remains unclear why his car, No. 30, went unnoticed.
He was freed that Sunday afternoon and insisted on an escorted service elevator ride upstairs to retrieve his jacket. There, on his computer screen, he found an angry note left by a co-worker who thought he'd be right back.
White filed a $25 million lawsuit against the building's management and the elevator maintenance company. He was let go from his job after failing to show up for eight weeks, and settled four years later for an undisclosed sum — "hardly six figures," he said.
White ran through the money and went without work for months at a time. He now "sells socks" at a sporting goods store. He said he regrets the lawsuit and the decision not to go back to work.
But the 45-year-old White still lives and works in Manhattan, where he can hardly avoid elevators.
"I never have fear," he said, "but I can't forget what happened."
Msnbc.com's JoNel Aleccia contributed to this report.
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OCC Bulletin 2007-17| May 17, 2007
Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering: Notification of Delay in the Implementation of Revised Suspicious Activity Report by Deposit Institutions (SAR-DI)
Chief Executive Officers and Compliance Officers of All National Banks, Federal Branches and Agencies, Department and Division Heads, and All Examining Personnel
The attached documents, issued on April 27, 2007, by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), announce the delayed implementation of certain revised Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) forms that were scheduled to become effective on June 30, 2007. FinCEN is withdrawing the effective date for the revised SAR forms for depository institutions, casinos and card clubs, insurance companies, and the securities and futures industries. This bulletin also affects the published implementation dates for the Suspicious Activity Report by Depository Institution (SAR-DI) form contained in OCC Bulletin 2007-12, dated March 14, 2007.
FinCEN will establish new effective and mandatory compliance dates for these revised forms in a future notice. This announcement does not affect the BSA filing requirements, and financial institutions should continue filing using the current SAR forms.
For further information, please contact your examiner-in-charge, OCC supervisory office, or the OCC Compliance Policy Department at (202) 649-5470 .
Ann F. Jaedicke
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Most of us have personal Facebook and Twitters – how do we gracefully integrate these into our professional lives, and still maintain our privacy?
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Most of us have personal Facebook and Twitters – how do we gracefully integrate these into our professional lives, and still maintain our privacy?
My parents tell me since day one, I have always loved people, stories and story telling. I love learning from children and elders, in particular I am interested in stories of how people came to understand they required different methodologies for learning, and how they came to be interested in causes or social impact initiatives. CQ (communication Quotient) is a big passion of mine and one day I'll find the time to complete the research. Online allows this reach to spread further and the letters I have received over the years are from countries I have yet to visit. I so appreciate the time you take and I do read and value every single eletter. Whilst I may not get to respond to all, please know it is my intention to do so.
Thank you again for taking the time to connect. Be well. -C
As well as being engaged by organizations all over the world to either help accelerate their companies, or learn best practices of social impact investing, Clare Munn has been invited to speak through a multitude of arenas, such as radio, television and digital media through various events, schools and corporations for over twenty years. Please contact Boxspring Entertainment for more details and scheduling availability.


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Just hope they'll finally visit nepal ..
Quote from: Loken on June 18, 2013, 02:51:24 AMJust hope they'll finally visit nepal ..oh me too!!
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I'm so annoyed with myself, because I study in Trondheim, but went home for the summer two days ago.
VIENNA Loving the Europe route this season!
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Brunettes made it to Leg 6!!
Hoping for a Mozart or Beethoven switchback. Or the champagne glass FF
Quote from: Bwils927 on June 21, 2013, 02:56:04 PMHoping for a Mozart or Beethoven switchback. Or the champagne glass FFMozart switchback would be fun, to quote Don Giovanni: "Ha, ha, ha, ha, ... no."
Aw, I just wish Team Duck Dynasty or the older married couple didn't get eliminated so early. Maybe one of those teams will pop up again, but for now that's what it looks like...
Were either of them identified?
Is Team Duck Dynasty the beards?
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South Korean President Lee Myung Bak expects President Obama to give a written assurance of the continuity of the US nuclear umbrella over northeast Asia when they meet Tuesday at the White House.
South Korean sources say Mr. Lee has been pressing hard for this assurance of protection in the face of escalating North Korean threats – and reported signs of North Korean preparations for a third underground nuclear test.
Lee, arriving in Washington on Monday, is expected to place the need for a guarantee of American nuclear defense of the region at the top of an agenda as he meets with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Defense Secretary Robert Gates before seeing Mr. Obama.
South Korea seeking commitment
US and South Korean officials are reported to have already worked out the wording of what is expected to be a joint statement by the two presidents in which they stress the North Korean threat and US capability of deterring nuclear weapons in a showdown.
The statement will not use the term "nuclear umbrella," according to South Korean sources, but will refer to the need for continued "nuclear deterrence." That term, besides covering US nuclear strength, could also include the capability of US destroyers equipped with Aegis-class countermissile systems to shoot down missiles tipped with weapons of mass destruction, whether nuclear, biological, or chemical.
"We expect President Lee and President Obama will agree on how to fortify the nuclear umbrella," says Kim Tae-woo, vice president and senior researcher at the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses. "They have agreed in principle."
That agreement was reached, he says, when South Korea's foreign minister, Yu Myung Hwan, called on Secretary Clinton at the State Department on June 5. In that conversation, Mr. Yu pressed for the sanctions imposed on North Korea by the United Nations Security Council last Friday and also focused on guarantees of US defense.
"Ordinary South Koreans want a binding document on the US providing a nuclear umbrella," says Mr. Kim, reflecting concerns in Seoul that the US is not ready to defend the South while bogged down in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Talk of 'umbrella' prompts storm from North
A written US commitment to maintain a nuclear umbrella over the region will mark a clear escalation of the rhetoric that has flared up in recent weeks in statements from North and South Korea as well as the US.
The US has guaranteed South Korea's defense ever since the end of World War II when the Korean peninsula was divided between North and South. US troops defended the South in the Korean War after the North Korean invasion of June 1950 and the US still keeps 28,500 troops posted in the country.
South Korean officials have been shaken, however, by US insistence on fulfilling an agreement for transferring operational command of all forces in South Korea to a South Korean commander by 2012 in the event of war. They also have questioned why the US has decreased the number of US troops from the 37,000 stationed there several years ago – and more than 50,000 30 years ago.
The prospect of US affirmation of South Korea's nuclear defense by the US has already drawn an outraged response from North Korea. The Workers' Party newspaper Rodong Sinmun, in language laden with somewhat more vitriol than usual, called such a pledge "an unforgivable act" and warned that South Korea would become "a nuclear powder keg that can explode at any moment."
The newspaper, considered to be North Korea's most authoritative state organ, says the pledge would "drive the peninsula into a US nuclear battlefield by drawing more US nuclear weapons into South Korea."
US officials say they removed their nuclear warheads from South Korea around 1990, before South and North Korea signed an agreement for a "nuclear-free" Korean peninsula. But North Korean rhetoric on the topic is assumed to refer to US nuclear strength in the western Pacific, including warheads on Navy vessels that enter South Korean waters during military exercises, as well as US bases in Japan, Guam, and Hawaii.
Trade on agenda
Although the North Korean issue will dominate the Obama-Lee summit, they also are expected to discuss the Korean-US free-trade agreement, reached two years ago after lengthy negotiations. Obama and Clinton, while senators, both criticized the agreement for failing to guarantee a sharp increase in motor vehicle exports to South Korea while assuring ever more imports of South Korean vehicles into the US.
The agreement is expected to win approval by South Korea's National Assembly but faces tough going in the US Congress.


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It wasn't so long ago that the New York Jets were expected to get rid of Santonio Holmes. After Holmes' teammates essentially booted him off the field for quitting in the 2011 regular-season finale, there was wide speculation that the wide receiver wouldn't be back in New York.
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Holmes and the Jets made up in the offseason, largely because his contract made him too difficult to dump. That's why we'd expect him to remain with the Jets in 2013 despite the serious foot injury that should keep him out for the rest of 2012.
Manish Mehta of the New York Daily News noted that Holmes is due $7.5 million in guaranteed money next year. That's a big cost. Even if the Jets wanted to move on from Holmes after his Lisfranc injury, his contract likely will prevent it from happening.
There's also no chance another team will want to trade for Holmes at that salary while he's coming off an injury. The Jets and Holmes seem stuck together, for better or worse.
The better question here: Will Jets general manager Mike Tannenbaum be around to make the final decision on Holmes next offseason?
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WERE HEARING that most wholesalers will allow mortgage brokers to negotiate their fee with a borrower. They recognize that borrower-paid compensation can be beneficial in certain situations. Insisting that all compensation be capped at the lender-paid rate could unnecessarily block perfectly good loan transactions.
But in this heavily regulated industry where discretionary pricing is frowned upon, it makes no sense to set easy-to-follow guidelines.
As previously reported, Provident Funding told its brokers they can no longer negotiate the amount of their fee with borrowers.
Borrower-paid compensation will no longer be negotiated and the lender-paid level will become a uniform broker compensation level, Provident Funding Associates says in updating its loan officer compensation policy.
Borrowers can still pay the broker directly, but the amount of the compensation must be the same as lender-paid compensation, according to the new policy that went into effect Jan. 1.
A lot of wholesalers are considered initiating a similar policy. But one competitor who did not want to be identified said it won't become a widespread practice. He thinks Provident is just being too conservative.
The competitor's firm allows its brokers to negotiate their fee with the borrower. But the broker can't charge a fee that's higher than the wholesaler's maximum for lender-paid compensation.
If the maximum is 2%, the broker can charge less, but not more. However, that discount might be enough to cover some costs and get the loan to the closing table. But that is up to the brokerage firm to decide. The loan officer is not taking the hit. Under the LO comp rule, the loan officer receives the same compensation whether it is lender-paid or borrower-paid transaction.
Provident could not be reached for comment. But it will be interesting to see how this settles out. Comments on this issue are welcomed.
COMMENT OF THE WEEK: Naturally, this being Jan. 10, the QM is on everyones minds. Brent Calver posted this comment to the item we ran on how some banks (like Bank of the West) are not shying away from interest-only mortgages (definitely NOT always going to be a QM mortgage!). Calver, president of ExpressLoan, also isnt afraid to tout a loan product from the crisis, no doc loans: I am glad that a major bank is stepping up and not running for the hills. As Karen Mayfield pointed out, these are safe loan products for customers (borrowers) that understand what they are getting. I hope it goes one step further and gets back to a point that some lenders will reintroduce No-Income Doc Loans. These loans, too, serve a great purpose for the right segment of the borrowing public. Namely those that are self-employed or rely on the bulk of income from commissions and that have substantial down payments (25% or more), have significant cash reserves after closing and have great credit!
BLOG OF THE WEEK: Garth Graham seems to have come back from a short holiday rest refreshed with a perceptive blog on how the word of the year for the mortgage industry for 2014 is going to be conversion. Hes not talking about converting from private to equity status. He means that a lot is going to turn upside down this year, what with the Jan. 10 regs, rates rising, the Federal Reserve QE being eased, etc. The complexion of the business will turn from refi driven to purchase money driven, a very big change indeed. So, being light on your feet will definitely be an asset for this years new-age mortgage banker. Want to know Garths pick for word of the year in 2013 (and hes not alone)? Selfie.
MOST READ/EMAILED CONTENT: This week, the same item leads both categories. It is Amilda Dymis reporting of research from Accenture that says mortgage lenders that lag on automation are going to lag on business too, as consumers insist on sophisticated execution on their loans. The numbers are pretty big, according to Accenture, with up to 35% of market share going up for grabs because of this in the next few years.
FOLLOW US: Often, the quickest journalistic execution is through Twitter. So, if you want access to the latest in mortgage news, follow us at @natmortgagenews. Of course, the rush to tweet is a curse as well as a blessing. Rumors, innuendo, flameouts all abound on Twitter. Our approach is to flag interesting content for you, often before you receive it in your daily newsletter. Thus, the quickest access! We have 19,600 followers, putting us just behind Lady Gaga, so why not follow us and help us quickly get to an even 20,000? Hope you had a great weekend.
Mark Fogarty is editorial director of the SourceMedia Mortgage Group and has been commenting on the mortgage market since 1984. Brian Collins is the groups senior editor and D.C. bureau chief. He has worked the mortgage beat since 1988.


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Cashiers Trump Self-Checkout Machines at the Grocery Store
Computers seem to be replacing humans across many industries, and we're all getting very nervous.
But if you want some reason for optimism, visit your local supermarket. See that self-checkout machine? It doesn't hold a candle to the humans—and its deficiencies neatly illustrate the limits of computers' abilities to mimic human skills.
The human supermarket checker is superior to the self-checkout machine in almost every way. The human is faster. The human has a more pleasing, less buggy interface. The human doesn't expect me to remember or look up codes for produce, she bags my groceries, and unlike the machine, she isn't on hair-trigger alert for any sign that I might be trying to steal toilet paper. Best of all, the human does all the work while I'm allowed to stand there and stupidly stare at my phone, which is my natural state of being.
There is only one problem with human checkers: They're in short supply. At my neighborhood big-box suburban supermarket, the lines for human checkers are often three or four deep, while the self-checkout queue is usually sparse. Customers who are new to self-checkout might take their short lines to mean that the machines are more efficient than the humans, but that would be a gross misunderstanding.
As far as I can tell, the self-checkout lines are short only because the machines aren't very good.
They work well enough in a pinch—when you want to check out just a handful of items, when you don't have much produce, when you aren't loaded down with coupons. But for any standard order, they're a big pain. Perversely, then, self-checkout machines' shortcomings are their best feature: because they're useless for most orders, their lines are shorter, making the machines seem faster than humans.
In most instances where I'm presented with a machine instead of a human, I rejoice. I prefer an ATM to a flesh-and-blood banker, and I find airport check-in machines more efficient than the unsmiling guy at the desk. But both these tasks—along with more routine computerized skills like robotic assembly lines—share a common feature: They're very narrow, specific, repeatable problems, ones that require little physical labor and not much cognitive flexibility.
Supermarket checkout—a low-wage job that doesn't require much training—sounds like it should be similarly vulnerable to robotic invasion. But it turns out that checking out groceries requires just enough mental-processing skills to be a prohibitive challenge for computers. In that way, supermarket checkout represents a class of jobs that computers can't yet match because, for now, they're just not very good substituting key human abilities.
What's so cognitively demanding about supermarket checkout? I spoke to several former checkout people, and they all pointed to the same skill: Identifying fruits and vegetables. Some supermarket produce is tagged with small stickers carrying product-lookup codes, but a lot of stuff isn't. It's the human checker's job to tell the difference between green leaf lettuce and green bell peppers, and then to remember the proper code.
"It took me about three or four weeks to get to the point where I wouldn't have to look up most items that came by," said Sam Orme, a 30-year-old grad student who worked as a checker when he was a teenager.
Another one-time checker, Ken Haskell, explained that even after months of doing the job, he would often get stumped. "Every once in a while I'd get a papaya or a mango and I'd have to reach for the book," he said.
In a recent research paper called "Dancing With Robots," the economists Frank Levy and Richard Murnane point out that computers replace human workers only when machines meet two key conditions. First, the information necessary to carry out the task must be put in a form that computers can understand, and second, the job must be routine enough that it can be expressed in a series of rules.
Supermarket checkout machines meet the second of these conditions, but they fail on the first. They lack proper information to do the job a human would do. To put it another way: They can't tell shiitakes from Shinola. Instead of identifying your produce, the machine asks you, the customer, to type in a code for every leafy green in your cart. Many times you'll have to look up the code in an on-screen directory. If a human checker asked you to remind him what that bunch of the oblong yellow fruit in your basket was, you'd ask to see his boss.
This deficiency extends far beyond the checkout lane.
"In the '60s people assumed you'd be reading X-rays and CT scans by computers within years," Mr. Levy said. "But it's nowhere near anything like that. You have certain computerized enhancements for simple images, but nothing like a real CT scan can be read by a computer—and the same thing would be true trying to separate arugula from everything else."
You could imagine certain ways to make the identification process easier for supermarket computers. For example, we could tag every produce item with an electronic identification tag. But that would be an enormous infrastructural challenge for a dubious return.
A representative for NCR, the world's largest self-checkout vendor, pointed me to a company-sponsored survey that shows that customers believe self-checkout systems are faster than cashier lanes. But I doubt those perceptions. When you actually watch self-checkout lanes matched up against cashiers, the cashiers come out significantly faster—read this Ph.D. thesis for proof, or go to your local store and marvel at how speedy the humans are.
Can computers beat them? Perhaps one day, but I doubt it will be soon. And that gets to the other issue: Unless the store gives me an explicit price break for scanning my stuff, why, exactly, should I be rejoicing about doing more work?
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