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Having watched and thought about the debate for awhile I have a few quick points I want to make.
1) Full disclosure. I really really like Sarah, I signed the draft Sarah Palin for VP petition in the spring and continue to like her (though I must admit some recent interviews scared me). I also really like Biden, hes been one of my favorite dems. I like that he is willing to put out crazy plans and stick by them, like the unilaterally split up Iraq and get the hell out plan. In retrospect it would have been bad, but at the time it looked just crazy enough to work. I think we need creativity in Washington and that sometimes means being wrong, and I respect that Joe is willing to be wrong. I said in the spring (after the implosion of Richardson..gaah what a disappointment) that if we had to have a dem Prez I would want Biden.
2) Sarah vs. Joe, I think she came off much more normal and while obviously not as knowledgeable as him about Washington trivia, she cleared the bar on knows what shes talking about. After watching this debate I yearned for a Governor or some other non-Washington person at the top of the ticket. There is a very good reason Senators are so rarely elected. All you had to do was compare one of Biden's long rambling answers where he name drops people who have been out of office for a decade (Did he seriously brag about being biparisan with Jesse Helms? Is he even alive anymore?) or trying to re-argue long irrelevant fights (How many times did he say Bosnia?) to one of Sarah's more direct and yes simple responses "Ahmanejadad called Israel a stinking corpse", "Doggone it (we need to be more responsible, we need reform, insert whatever). She was just way more effective in communicating to people. Perhaps not to the MSM and us policy wonk types but I think to normal people, she came across as understandable, likable and knowledgeable enough (if you don't believe me Exhibit A Bush is a 2 term President).
3. Favorite line of the night: Sarah to Biden: There you go again looking backwards, everything you say starts with Bush this or that. (paraphrased)
A very true and funny line. I realize the entire Obama campaign is based on inaccuratley tying Bush to McCain but man am I getting tired of that line, was very happy to see Sarah bite back on it. It is a very backward looking focus.
4. The dem's primary talking point now seems to be "Sure she did ok, but it wont help McCain". I think thats true. She has however made herself not a liability however, solidified the Conservative base's love of her and cemented herself as a serious person on the national stage. If McCain loses (which seems likely at this point) I think you can expect her to run in 2012 or 2016. She is already a figure on the national stage, shes tested, she will have fundraising power from the base and by then she will be a 2 or 3 term (does Alaska have term limits?) governor, further if she wants it she will have time to carefully establish her policy cred ala Hillary after Bill left the White House, She could well be our next, next President. Im tempted to leave my liberal friends on this thought but…
5. I don't really want to get into every minor point, but um has Biden ever met a war he didn't like? By my count he was for 1) early intervention in Bosnia 2) war in Kosovo 3) war in Iraq 4) war in Afghanistan 5) More troops for Afganistan 6) Wanted us to put troops into Lebanon to fight Hezbollah and 7) Wants to invade Sudan over Darfur.
Leaving aside how mindbogglingly crazy it would be to intervene in Lebanon and Sudan to begin with given how peripheral they are to our interests, occupying two more Muslim countries while we are in Iraq and Afghanistan already is…I truly dont have the words to properly convey how irresponsibly provocative that would be. Seriously that has to be the craziest thing ive heard in the campaign so far, which is saying a hell of a lot.
Given how he will by all indications be one of Obama's chief foreign policy advisors, I wonder if anti-war types really know what they are buying.

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I wrote four editorials on topics ranging from the environment to health care to the Press-Register and never received so much as an acknowledgement from the paper that they received them.
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I respect the right of the Press-Register to publish what they wish and told them so. None of my editorials were published, but you would think that they would have the common courtesy to say, "thank you for your letter."
I agree with your article that Alabama's major newspapers have lost touch with the diversity of topics and opinions that the people of this state have. I have read editorials that proclaimed "bullets hurt," and another about how this state is a bunch of hypocrites without one example to support their argument.
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One of the child's kidneys was transplanted into a 19-year-old man admitted at Saifee Hospital, while the other kidney was transplanted into a 13-year-old boy admitted at Jupiter Hospital, who has been waiting for a transplant for the past three years.mumbai Updated: Jan 16, 2016 01:12 IST
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The donation from one of the youngest donors saved the life of a 54-year-old woman who developed acute liver failure on Thursday. Doctors at Global Hospital said the patient would have not survived without the timely donation.
One of the child's kidneys was transplanted into a 19-year-old man admitted at Saifee Hospital, while the other kidney was transplanted into a 13-year-old boy admitted at Jupiter Hospital, who has been waiting for a transplant for the past three years.
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"The child's condition was critical when brought to the hospital," said Dr Shabina, senior manager, medical administration at Saifee Hospital.
The next day, she slipped into brain death — a condition where a patient's other organs can be donated. Social workers at the hospital approached the family for organ donation.
"While the family was initially hesitant, they later consented to donate all her organs. Her heart was not fit to be transplanted, but her other organs have been retrieved successfully," said Dr Shabina.
Just as the city reported the second cadaver donation in 2016, an Aurangabad hospital facilitated the first-ever cadaver donation since the inception of the programme. The family of Ram Magar, 24, who sustained a brain injury following an accident, donated his organs which saved three lives.
"We could not get an aircraft to transport the heart from Aurangabad to a recipient waiting in Chennai. They [chartered flight operators] demanded Rs22 lakh for transporting the heart to Chennai," said Dr Sudhir Kulkarni, head of nephrology, MGM Medical College, Aurangabad, adding the government needs to institute a dedicated aircraft service to perform such intra-state and intra-city transplants.
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Drawing without instruction always seems like a good idea initially. You feel inspired, you've got all your pencils sharpened and your erasers clean and at the read. Perfect. Usually you have an idea in your head of what you want the final result to look like. Maybe you have your drawing subject put in front of you. Either way, without instruction and without a clearly defined process, you will fall short of your expectations. If you don't then I will just admit that I do. Usually.
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There was a pleasing turnout of young table tennis players at a tournament recently held at Stamford School. Players coached at Peterborough, Tallington and Northborough joined boys from the Endowed Schools in two divisions of competition. For a number it was the first experience of competition and there was a healthy balance of challenge and enjoyment for the players whose ages ranged between 10 and 18.
The 'B' Division contained the less experienced players, and was won by the pairing of Jamie Anderson and Uday Khunti. Here there was the biggest age difference as Jamie is a Y5 pupil at SJS, while Uday is in Y13 at the boys' school. Runners-up were Max Mullins and his younger brother Ollie, who recovered well after losing their first match.
Tournament organiser Richard Henry was pleased with the sportsmanship displayed by the youngsters: "Although some players were clearly more experienced than others, every game was played keenly and in good spirit. The scorecards were always closely scrutinised by the teams at the end of each match."


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Technology ' social media information for the future
In 20 years, ALL schools issue ALL students a laptop or tablet. - ... - ...
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Preparing students for jobs that aren't created yet.
Global Competition
Avaiable Career ' Work Environmnet+more flexible ' marketable workforce
+No need for outdated textbooks+Update information quicky+More access ' equity--Limit communication to "Netspeak"--Focus is on video game appearance vs content--No universal Internet access (rural ' inner city); infrastructure investment
Living Conditions ' Healthcare+Lessen the urban/rural split+Increase universal access+Distance has less of an impact on avaiable services--Other pressures still exist--Laptop isn't a universal fixer
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AUSTIN, TX – To shoot and tell? That's the question at the Texas state Capitol. No, we're not talking guns. We're talking vaccinations. Lawmakers in Austin heard the issue of privacy and transparency when it comes to student vaccinations; basically your right to know who in your kid's class has opted out of a school vaccination.
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Libertarian Wave?• dailybell.com
Midterm elections 2010: Prepare for a new American revolution Popular rage against the elite could change the nature of US politics, says Janet Daley. ... More than three centuries ago, the residents of America staged a rebellion against an oppressive ruler who taxed them unjustly, ignored their discontents and treated their longing for freedom with contempt. They are about to revisit that tradition this week, when their anger and exasperation sweep through Congress like avenging angels. This time the hated oppressor isn't a foreign colonial government, but their own professional political class. In New York last week I was struck by the startling shift of mood since my last visit, during Barack Obama's (left) first year in office. This phenomenon took varying forms, of course, depending on the political orientation of my interlocutor, but the underlying theme of despair and disgust was almost universal. – UK Telegraph
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Is this person on drugs? Who writes this crap? What "Sweep through Congress"? 90% of the incumbents were reelected. If people are so angry why did they reelect all the assholes that got us to this point? The statist, status quo, won the election which guarantees a continuation of the same bullshit as we race to the New World Order.


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I came across this Memorial Cemetery (for people who served in the US military) and decided to stop and pay my respects. Looking at the headstones at a certain angle I could see that they were arranged in military like formations. I also thought the clouds complemented this perspective. This is what I tried to capture in my picture.
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In a city that wants to be greener and has plenty of residents in need of good jobs, workforce specialists are wondering if the "green collar" job sector can grow fast enough to address both pressing environmental needs and pressing economic ones.
They see a neat justice in the possibility that lower-income New Yorkers, whose communities are some of the city's most environmentally degraded, could be employed on projects to improve those areas – as well as to initiate environmentally sustainable approaches in a variety of other neighborhoods and fields. That's especially because today, a green-collar job is defined as more than merely a job in an environmental field. It also provides a family-sustaining wage, safe working conditions and chances for career advancement.
"These are cutting-edge jobs. These are the jobs of the future," said Naomi Fatt, managing director at Urban Agenda, a local environmental research and advocacy organization. "Sustainability is going to be a real engine for prosperity."
Although green-collar jobs are not new, with groups like the Bronx-based Green Worker Cooperatives promoting them for more than four years now, the concept is gathering steam. A conference arranged by Urban Agenda on June 24 brought together 130 leaders from 83 organizations involved in labor, workforce development, education, community-based development and environmental justice organizations to create a coordinated, citywide workforce development plan by spring 2009. This taskforce would help ensure that New Yorkers capture the jobs created by increased environmental sustainability. The conference illustrated that there's plenty of interest in green-collar jobs and there has been a real head start in terms of policy, but there was a lack of information about the implementation of these policies.
Green-collar jobs signify an important category of workforce opportunity because they have low barriers to entry and provide workers with chances for advancement in sectors that are bound for growth – such as building retrofits, energy efficient buildings, recycling, renewable energy, urban forestry and brownfield remediation.
Most green-collar jobs are middle-skill level, requiring more education than high school, but less than a four-year degree. But jobs such as building cleaners, porters, maintenance workers, window cleaners, superintendents and stationary engineers are well within reach for lower-skilled and low-income workers – and people with other barriers to employment, such as a prison record – because they don't require a high school diploma, as long as there is access to training programs and appropriate supports.
If those sound a lot like traditional jobs, that's because most green-collar jobs are retrofitted regular jobs, says Jim Brown, a senior policy analyst in the state Department of Labor. There is no official number of green jobs in the NYC job market; it's more of a concept than a specific designation. "Most of the jobs that would be created or are currently involved in 'green' are traditional jobs that already exist," Brown said. "There are some environmental-specific jobs, but most of that technology is incorporated in already existing occupations."
The New York City Economic Development Corporation (EDC) is commissioning a green sector study to shed light on the size and growth rates of the sector. The mayor's PlaNYC 2030 blueprint for sustainable growth has created a push for green job development.
"The City is very aware of the emerging Green Collar jobs and the need for training in 'green skills,'" EDC spokeswoman Janel Paterson wrote in an e-mail. "There are many training programs under way right now. It is encouraging to see how many efforts are under way." Paterson said EDC has compiled a list of different programs that are available in the city, but did not provide the list. She said that because green-collar job skills are and will be in high demand, a worker who possesses expertise in a green area may be able to negotiate a better income than another applicant who would have to learn on the job.
The construction industry, for example, has seen an increase in demand for workers with "green skills." According to Rebecca Lurie, who attended the conference and is a director at the Consortium for Worker Education, "We have a job training program that we do for the construction industry. Our experience gives a good sense to see where the skill shortages are, and this has helped us see what we can do for retrofitting, basically green-collar jobs."
The Consortium's training center provides services to a range of clients, such as union members, high school graduates and residents of public housing. Lurie runs two courses through the Sustainable, Mechanical and Retrofitting Technologies (SMART) curriculum, which has incorporated some green-collar training. "We are trying to get people ready with the skills they need to get jobs at these retrofitting greener companies," said Lurie.
Environmental justice is becoming more a part of the green-collar mix, as well. Low-income communities and communities of color have borne a disproportionate share of the city's pollution for decades. "If you look at where there is greater pollution, if you look at where there are landfills, if you look at sewage treatment programs – many of those are in low income communities to begin with," said Fatt. But now advocates think they can take advantage of the growing market of green-collar jobs to undo years of pollution and offer economic opportunities instead.
"If we are going to create new jobs that can improve environmental conditions, those jobs should go first and foremost to the communities that have been bearing the brunt of pollution for so long," said Omar Freilla, who founded the Green Worker Cooperatives, an incubator for eco-friendly worker co-ops. "It would be a just match, to address past wrongs by creating job opportunities that can make things better."
The South Bronx, where Freilla grew up, is a magnet for polluting industries like power plants and waste transfer stations. Through the Green Worker Cooperatives he opened a recycling center called ReBuilders Source. It's a retail store that sells kitchen sinks, doors, cabinetry, flooring, tiles and lighting fixtures – things in good condition that would normally get trashed whenever people are doing renovations or clearing out their inventory. This is one example where green-collar jobs are creating a neighborhood that is healthier both environmentally and economically.
Despite the high-energy, capacity crowd at the conference last month, advocates for the sector's expansion still have a long way to go. "The policy may be ahead of the program. We're moving ahead on policy, but who's going to do the work [at these green-collar jobs]?" said Fatt. "Let's get a handle on what's out there now and on what more needs to be done. Otherwise you can end up training somebody for a job that doesn't exist."
It is not clear how, or whether, green-collar jobs will become a pathway out of poverty. "I would want to warn that green-collar jobs are no panacea out of poverty. I'm passionate about cleaning up our environment and making sure there is a workforce who can do it, but by itself it's not a solution to poverty," said Lurie. "People still need work-ready skills and more mechanical and technical skills than our failing education system gave them."
Though there are fair concerns about the potential of green-collar jobs, their allure gives the city's low-income job seekers new motivation to try to climb on board. "The challenges are not on the part of people trying to get a job. The challenge is in creating the jobs themselves," said Freilla.


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Bedtime for Democracy: The Power Elite as Sovereign Aristocracy in Neoliberal Amerika
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Leftist political theory in Amerika has struggled to understand the two most important issues facing us today: sovereignty and neoliberalism. In their efforts to understand neoliberalism, most scholars rely on either neo-Marxist or poststructuralist (Foucault) approaches, and in their efforts to understand sovereignty, scholars commonly turn to Carl Schmitt's legalistic notion of sovereignty. Unfortunately, these approaches cannot produce a sufficiently descriptive account of sovereignty in neoliberal Amerika, which is why I turn to the sociological political theory of C. Wright Mills, articulating a power elite theory of neoliberalism that provides a ground for identifying the aristocratic structure of sovereignty in our historical period. First, I provide an empirically-supported account of the development of the Amerikan power elite from the 1950s to today. Rather than consisting of three directorates as Mills observed in the 1950s – political, economic, and military – the power elite today rules from only two directorates: the Corporate-Juridical Directorate and the Military-Juridical Directorate. Second, I turn to early modern political theory to identify two modes of sovereignty: legislative sovereignty and executive sovereignty, the latter of which consists of two principles, executive enforcement (of law) and executive prerogative. Third, I argue that, in neoliberal Amerika, the Corporate-Juridical Directorate wields legislative sovereignty and the Military-Juridical Directorate wields executive sovereignty. Ultimately, the Left should abandon its reliance on pluralistic and legalistic notions in order to understand the aristocratic sovereignty of the power elite.
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Carl Schmitt
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Anderson, Patrick D (2016). Bedtime for Democracy: The Power Elite as Sovereign Aristocracy in Neoliberal Amerika. Master's thesis, Texas A & M University. Available electronically from http : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /157817.


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Refinancing Precautions
There are several reasons for an individual to consider refinancing a loan, many of which are discussed below. You should, however, take precaution and consider the pros and cons involved in every circumstance so that you stay well informed. Educating yourself in this way can save you from possible financial missteps and ultimately save you money.
- Converting an adjustable rate mortgage (ARM) to a fixed-rate mortgage or vice-versa
Rising interest rates can be a determining factor for switching from an ARM to a fixed-rate loan. If you initially settled on an ARM, but you begin to see a steady incline in interest rates it may benefit you to convert to a fixed-rate loan, particularly if you intend to live in your home for several more years.
On the other hand, if you initially began with a fixed-rate mortgage and plan to move within a couple of years, you may be able to find a lender who is willing to offer you a dramatic interest rate savings with an ARM, keeping in mind that the interest rate can change after a set interval of time (usually set at a year).
In either case, it is important to consider what the closing costs would be, which lenders offer the best interest rates available, and whether the savings in interest rates outweigh the closing costs.
- Paying off high-interest loans
Being stuck paying a mortgage on a high-interest loan can really bring on a sense of hopelessness. So little of your monthly payment, initially, goes toward the principle that it seems impossible to build equity in your property. This is when it behooves you to look closely and take advantage of a buyer's market. A lender who will pay off that high-interest loan and offer you a significantly lower rate of interest will be exactly what you need to shop for. It is important to consider the difference between current interest rates and the rate of your original loan. Does the amount of time it will take to recoup the costs of refinancing make refinancing worth it? Evaluate your response… especially if you want to sell your home in the near future.
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Sometimes, through unforeseen circumstances, the motivation for refinancing is to reduce monthly payments on a loan. Although it is not a move that is often encouraged, it is sometimes necessary. If you find yourself in this situation, make sure you are asking several lenders for their best offers on interest rates… the lower, the better. Lowering your monthly payments may mean that you also need to make your loan for 30 years instead of what may have originally been a 15 year mortgage. This can be helpful in reducing your monthly payments, but will eventually cost more for you by the end of your mortgage period. Again, check with each lender to work out the least expensive closing costs on your new loan.
- Raising cash for family expenses (i.e. College tuition, or home improvements)
If you've built enough equity, you can refinance in order to take cash out of the property. Perhaps you need money to pay off your credit cards, add a new bathroom, or cover the costs of braces for a child. Despite the reason, lenders will typically allow you to borrow against the equity you've built in your house, plus appreciation (often up to 75 percent of the current appraised value). These types of loans are also called home equity loans.
Be cautious, however, of lenders offering 100 percent or 125 percent home equity loans. Their rates are often markedly higher than traditional lenders. In addition, any amount you borrow that is above the market value of the house is NOT tax deductible.
Do your homework before deciding to refinance.
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A rule of thumb, as to whether it is a good time to refinance, is if interest rates fall more than two percent below that of your existing loan. That's because refinancing usually involves most of the same closing costs (loan origination fee, prepaid interest, etc.) as the original loan. For anything less than two percent, the savings on your monthly mortgage payment may not be sufficient to make up those closing costs.
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For some homeowners, though, the two percent rule is not as important as the time needed to break even on the refinancing. Suppose it costs $3,000 to refinance a house, and the monthly mortgage payment is lowered by $90, it would take almost 3 years for the savings to cover the costs of refinancing. This is acceptable if your intention is to stay in that home for at least three years, but if not, it would be no benefit to you.
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If all the information (survey, title search, etc.) for your old loan is still current, however, the lender may be willing to waive many of the closing fees. In addition, you may be able to roll the closing costs of a refinance loan into the new note. In other words, you don't avoid the closing costs, but instead pay them back over time along with the rest of the loan. If you consider this option, be sure to calculate the potential savings against the expense of paying off a higher principal balance.
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Keep in mind that refinancing usually lengthens the time it takes to pay off your house. If you are 3 years into a 30-year mortgage and then refinance with a new 30-year loan, you'll end up making payments on the house for 33 years. Nevertheless, if the monthly savings are substantial enough, you still could end up paying much less over the long haul with the new loan.
- Regarding home equity
Refinancing with a new loan doesn't mean you have to give up all the money you've paid toward your old mortgage. With each payment, you build up a certain amount of equity (the amount you have paid on the principal balance of the loan). For example, if you have a $100,000 loan at 8 percent, you would build about $2,800 worth of equity in the first 3 years. Thus, if you refinanced, the new loan would only amount to $97,200.
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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-4998?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12794216#action_12794216 ] Eli Collins commented on HADOOP-4998: ------------------------------------- Thanks for taking a look Todd, will incorporate your feedback. The code isn't polished (eg I just copied executeShellCommand and toString from UnixUserGroupInformation, the naming eg getUsername vs getUserName needs to be improved, haven't tested the C code on multiple platforms, etc), just want to get feedback on the overall approach first, the patch is just to show what a Platform class would look like and how it could be implemented. Think the patches should be staged in phases, eg first move the existing code that uses Shell over to the new API (w/o changing any functionality) and then add new native implementations individually. bq. Less specific: thoughts on making this into an interface, with an implementation for JniPlatformCall and ShellPlatformCall? This may be handy if someone wants to come along and implement WindowsPlatformCall or SolarisShellPlatformCall, etc. JNI supports multiple platforms so we should be able to have Posix and Windows implementations of libnativecall (PlatformCall.c). Perhaps though we make Platform an interface with JNI and Shell implementations. > Implement a native OS runtime for Hadoop > ---------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-4998 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-4998 > Project: Hadoop Common > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: native > Reporter: Arun C Murthy > Assignee: Arun C Murthy > Fix For: 0.21.0 > > Attachments: hadoop-4998-1.patch > > > It would be useful to implement a JNI-based runtime for Hadoop to get access to the native OS runtime. This would allow us to stop relying on exec'ing bash to get access to information such as user-groups, process limits etc. and for features such as chown/chgrp (org.apache.hadoop.util.Shell). -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.
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Seriously, I think there's an amazing trashy book in here somewhere. Sort of a Modigliani Scandal or a Chasing Cezanne for the Chateau Latour set.
I bet Peter Mayle's working on it right now.


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Mrs.Magpie Cafe | Kolkata | Review18:47
If someone asks me to chose between chain cafes' and quaint , local cafes , I would always and I mean always pick the local cafes because I personally, am not a very big fan of the same taste of coffee plus I like to see what each of these places have to offer!
One such special cafes of Kolkata are the Mrs. Magpie café! And they specialize in beautiful cupcakes.
They have "bite size" cupcakes and normal sized cupcakes, but the bite size cupcakes are too cute to resist and they have so many flavors that everyone would have something of their choice.
I love the earl grey tea there and I love the bird shaped chocolate cookie they serve with it. Or should I say used to serve? Because I went there after a year and found that they gave a simple cookie with my tea and coffee. The taste of their coffee caramel custard has also changed, I used to love it, and this time I didn't like it at all!
I was happy that the taste and quality of the cupcakes didn't change at all! The cupcakes have filling in them, depending upon the flavor. I love marshmallow the most and nutty praline is awesome.
I have tasted every flavor of cupcake they have and all are great, but this one flavor called Sweet N' Salty is not something I really like. They have really awesome marzipan cupcakes as well but not a big fan of only Marzipan on my cupcake, so I usually stick to the normal frosting cupcakes.
They have sandwiches and other savory food items and out of those I love the chicken pot pie the most.
The décor is fabulous, the service is fabulous and the food is really great but a wee bit expensive. But then compared to the chain cafes, its perfect!
I would really recommend you to visit this place if you ever find yourself in the southern part of Kolkata! The cuteness, the ambiance and the taste are the three things for which I could squeeze in a little time to visit this place during my last trip home! :D
Have you visited this café?? Is there a cute café like this in Bangalore?? Let us know in the comments below!
We'd love to hear what you have to say! :D


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Cigna Behavioral Health Inc. engaged in "sham" audits and other questionable cost-cutting tactics to reduce payments to medical providers, according to a new lawsuit by a drug and alcohol treatment facility ( Sunrise Detox III, LLC v. Cigna Behavioral Health, Inc. , S.D. Fla., No. 0:17-cv-60170-BB, complaint filed 1/23/17 ).
The lawsuit, filed Jan. 23 by two Sunrise Detox entities, alleges that Cigna launched an improper "cost-savings initiative" against substance abuse treatment centers. Under the initiative, Cigna ramped up unannounced inspections, audits and patient interviews—described in the complaint as "fishing expeditions devoid of due process"—with an eye toward recouping extra money and limiting patient access to medical treatment, the lawsuit claims.
The lawsuit cites both the nationwide opioid and heroin epidemic and the 2008 passage of federal mental health parity laws as drivers for Cigna's alleged cost-cutting initiative. Cigna adopted these strategies to maintain its financial position in the face of "increased utilization" of substance abuse treatment services, according to the lawsuit.
In addition to conducting more frequent audits through its Special Investigations Unit, Cigna also systematically delayed reimbursement payments without explanation and subjected in-network medical facilities to audit procedures reserved for out-of-network providers, the lawsuit claims.
A spokesman for Cigna declined to comment on the allegations.
The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida by Ver Ploeg & Lumpkin P.A. It raises eight state law claims, including breach of contract, professional negligence and fraudulent misrepresentation and concealment.
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I know, I know…
The end of February does not mean that winter is over yet, but it means that we are so close to warmer weather and I can't help but get excited! I truly don't mind the winter, but February is just the worst. Here in Rochester, we seem to get the worst mix of cold, windy, snowy, wet days that just seem so gloomy! It's the shortest month of the year, but it seems to drag on and on and on…..
But now March is here and I'm so glad! I am so looking forward to getting outside more with my kids. We were able to set aside some money to make some changes to our yard this year and I can't wait until it is warm enough to get started. For those of you who have been to our house, you know that our yard is very tiny…but it's a yard and we own it so Yay! We are going to put in a new walkway, a small patio, a fence, some new grass and a sandbox! I can't wait to look out the kitchen window and see the girls playing out there this year….Spring, please hurry up!!
Today, we got Scarlet's blood test results in the mail, and to be honest I was a little nervous to open it. I mentioned in my last post that we had to take her for blood work because the doctors are worried about her size. She eats a lot, but isn't gaining much weight and her height measurements have been all funny (she literally measured shorter at one visit than she had at a previous visit, but that was probably just human error). While I didn't think that I was THAT worried, I seemed to get more anxious as time went on. We have been praying that all of the results would come back completely normal and I really believed that they would. However, after a few days I started to wonder what if something was wrong. It's a little nerve wracking when you are not sure if there is something wrong with your child. To be honest, we were not 100% sure what they were testing for, though we did know that they were worried that her thyroid wasn't functioning properly. I like to think of myself as a woman who can trust in the Lord with anything, but I have a really hard time letting go of control when it comes to my children, even to the Lord. Though I knew deep down that the results were in His hands, my nerves got the best of me and the last couple of days I had started creating scenarios in my mind, wondering what we would do if this or that was wrong. Ahh!! Once you give in to those negative thoughts and fears, its just a downhill slope. When things begin to get out of our control, it seems to sometimes be easier to look inward and dwell on what we are worrying about, than it is to keep our eyes fixed on the Lord and His plan. Well, this morning I picked up my copy of Jesus Calling, which I have been reading sporadically. For some reason (perhaps due to lack of sleep) it took me until about noon to realize it was the 28th today, so early this morning I opened up to the reading for the 27th and this is what it said…
"Keep your eyes on me! Waves of adversity are washing over you, and you feel tempted to give up. As your circumstances consume more and more of your attention, you are losing sight of Me. Yet I am with you always, holding you by your right hand. I am fully aware of your situation, and I will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able to bear…"
Whoa! Did I need to hear that….Ok Lord, I get it, You are in control and I don't need to be worrying about if and when the results come back or what they will say, I need to focus on You and on today…and I did. Today was a fantastic day, full of stories and games, laughter, cooking and cleaning. I LOVED today…
And then the mail came, and the letter came and we opened it and EVERYTHING IS FINE! All of the results came back COMPLETELY normal. We just have a small kid. In fact, all three of my girls are small when it comes to weight, and I am sure they won't be complaining about it in 20 years…
I am so grateful to everyone who knew about the blood tests and who have been praying for us, I appreciate you all so much. But mostly, I am thankful for a God who loves my kids more than I do and who is proving to me over and over again that I can trust Him with them…..
23 Yet I am always with you;
you hold me by my right hand.
24 You guide me with your counsel,
and afterward you will take me into glory.
25 Whom have I in heaven but you?
And earth has nothing I desire besides you.
26 My flesh and my heart may fail,
but God is the strength of my heart
and my portion forever
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"For all the sentient beings of the present & future eras, if they are close to death & have the chance to hear the name of one Buddha, Bodhisattva, or Pacceka Buddha; they will be able to achieve liberation whether they are with or without sin."
It also says:
"Even if the sentient beings of the present & future eras can recite the name of only one Buddha, they will gain immeasurable merits; how much more so if they are able to recite the names of many Buddhas!"
My uncle died last Thursday (12.4.2006) of liver failure in the hospital, and a funeral wake was held for him till Monday (16.4), after which he was cremated. Before he was about to die and even throughout the wake, there were people chanting Amitabha to help him on his way; but he did not do any practice or cultivation at all when he was still healthy and alive.
The strange thing is his mom reported seeing a black bird flying into her house 2 days after he died. No matter how they tried to scare it, the bird refused to go away. It even allowed my uncle's mom to touch and stroke its body. Suspecting the bird to be his son, the old lady told it, "If you are my son *his name*, be at peace and move on." The strangest part is that the bird seemed to understand that and immediately flew away! Although she was a Christian, she could not help but believe that there is such a thing as rebirth. We were quite amazed to hear the story at the wake on the 3rd day.
But the question is, can a person who just died for less than 2 days be reborn as a bird without first going through Bardo (intermediate state between death and rebirth)? As far as I know, only beings with powerful good or evil karma don't pass through Bardo. If he is still in the first stage of Bardo, can the spirit appear as a bird to visit his relatives? From my readings of the Book of Bardo, only when the spirit has reached the last stage of Bardo will it gain certain temporary supernormal powers like being able to go anywhere it wants and ability to transform.
I posed these questions to friends in the E-sangha and obtained 2 views. The first view is that the bird was not my uncle's reincarnation, but the emanation of a Dakini (a kind of dancing female deity) or a wrathful protector deity who manifests mostly as birds. They guide the dead to the pure realms as well as comfort the living relatives. The second view is my uncle had been reborn in a heaven realm as a Deva through the merit of hearing Amitabha Buddha's name and other Mahayana Sutras at his death bed. Thus he has the supernormal power to transform himself into a bird the next day. He appeared as a bird before his grieving mother so as to comfort as well as inspire her. Though these 2 views are both possible, my own feelings tell me that the latter one is much more likely. If my uncle is a Deva now, I hope he is well and happy. May he continue to watch over his family and may he start to follow the Dhamma in that heaven realm, sadhu.


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Gosport Borough Council hopes to make changes to the town's BMX track by the autumn of next year
FUNDING from Sport England has been given to Gosport Borough Council for the upgrade of the town's BMX track in order to help make it a national centre for the sport.
The council is planning to match the donation of £150,000 as part of the overall Alver Valley eastern gateway project.
This includes a new car park, upgraded cycle routes and the construction of a BMX pump track to support the training of new riders.
The £300,000 upgrade will involve the extension and reshaping of the track, a larger starting hill and the addition of an electronic starting gate.
The car park construction has already begun – it started at the end of May – and work is under way on the tendering process for the track-building project.
The council's plan is to undertake the BMX track works next spring so that the new track is available for the second half of the 2017 season.
If the project goes according to plan, the whole thing will be completed by autumn next year.
Gosport BMX Club chairman Stuart Catford said: 'We'd like to thank the council for their unwavering support. We're overwhelmed and delighted to have secured this investment.
'It will allow the club to deliver a unique facility to the local community and the south of England that meets the highest national and European standards.
'It will be a facility that matches the quality of our riders while encouraging more people to take part in this fast, exciting and family-oriented sport.'
Councillor Graham Burgess, the chairman of the council's community board, said: 'BMX cycling at the Olympics drew huge audiences which has driven many more children into taking up the sport.
'It's important we provide the right facilities to enable them to develop their skills further and may be even become future Olympians themselves.'


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The recent decision by the Cleveland Heights City Council to slap a curfew on its Cedar-Lee and Coventry Village neighborhoods was the right course of action regardless of complaints by some civil rights groups.
The city acted last week after several episodes of so called "flash-gangs" swarmed into the neighborhoods. The flash-gangs are created by groups of young punks who text each other to organize a mob.
The worst of these Cleveland Heights incidents took place June 26th when thousands of youths showed up at the Coventry Street Fair fighting and harassing fair-goers and local businesses.
The curfew essentially bans anyone younger than 18 in those two commercial areas from the hours of 6pm to 6am. The curfew was modified somewhat this week to accommodate kids with a legitimate reason to be in those neighborhoods, but it remains strict enough to shut down any further "flash mobs".
Well, we commend the Cleveland Heights City Council for ignoring the protests of the ACLU and other apologists for these gangs and by acting decisively to protect its citizens.
Write and let me know what you think. I'm Bill Applegate.
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First Row: Patrick Ensor, Maariko Williams, Regan Ragsdale, Nic Thomas, Robyn Batsell, Drew Lockhart, Ben Ebbesmeyer, Tanner Anderson, Brandon Hendren, Nik Bailey. Second Row: Lizzy Vitt, Mary Stahlschmidt, Britany Williams, Aly Francis, Brett Miller, Allison Miller, Delaney Miller, Danielle Anderson, Brie Ensor, Abbie Hendren, Emily Havens. Third Row: Adviser Mrs. Moreland, Andrea Unterbrink, Bobbie Wisdom, Makayla Fox, Allison Moore, Matthew Unterbrink, Amber Chapman, Katie Pugh, Zack Ensor, Robert Perkins.
2016-2017 Roster
Nik Bailey Robyn Batsell Regan Ragsdale Makayla Fox Aly Francis Brandon Hendren Robert Perkins Katie Pugh Amber Chapman Bailey Woodrow Ben Ebbesmeyer Andrea Unterbrink Delaney Miller Allison Moore Nic Thomas Britany Williams Sarah Stahlschmidt Drew Lockhart Matthew Unterbrink Tanner Anderson Maariko Williams Lizzy Vitt Abbie Hendren Katie Pugh Patrick Ensor Allison Miller Jennifer Baumann Zack Ensor Bobbie Wisdom Jessie Hoffman
President Ben Ebbesmeyer
1st Vice President Robyn Batsell
2nd Vice President Tanner Anderson
Secretary Drew Lockhart
Treasurer Regan Ragsdale
Parlimentarian Maariko Williams
Reporter Nic Thomas
Student Council Rep. Nik Bailey & Brandon Hendron
Adviser Mrs. Moreland
"The FBLA is a great organization, but it is the members of the Paris FBLA that makes ours so wonderful. The members and officers of the Paris FBLA are a group of motivated leaders who are great to work with. I have thoroughly enjoyed being their advisor this year and am looking forward to see what we accomplish next year."


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Advanced Application Development
Disruptive Innovations & Population Health Technologies Laboratory
This laboratory targets care delivery solutions which address the failures and inefficiencies of existing fragmented systems of care. These solutions enable successful healthcare teams to more efficiently allocate time and resources for improved patient care and lower costs. The laboratory develops, implements and evaluates products that automate care processes, enhance the productivity of individual clinicians, and support team-based population healthcare delivery.
- Scheduling Guidelines Application is designed to configure specialty scheduling rules into easy-to-navigate decision trees to increase the capacity of primary care offices and scheduling service departments to correctly schedule patients into specialty care.
- Virtual Cohort Manager Application enables specialty physicians to monitor patient cohorts that they do not see in their offices through ongoing identification of high risk patients with acute needs.
- SuperNote is an application that creates a pre-visit working document for providers to facilitate data stewardship (e.g., problem list reconciliation) while generating documentation for the patient's office visit.
- Real-Time Care Gaps & Flow Application for hospitalized patients is an application designed to enable providers and nurses to prioritize their work based on the needs of all of the patients under their care in light of key dependencies and bottlenecks.
Learning Healthcare System Technologies Laboratory
This laboratory develops applications, methodologies and infrastructure to support widespread learning initiatives across healthcare institutions.
- Patient self-reported measures. This initiative applies quantitative and qualitative methods of inquiry and evaluation to discover how patients perceive, value, and understand their experiences.
- Advanced EHR-based quality and value metrics. This initiative creates value-based performance measures using advanced methods of data capture and analytics.
- Engaging patients and providers as partners in learning. This initiative redesigns care processes around the needs and experiences of providers, patients and their families.
Patient and Family Engagement Laboratory
Patient care is always delivered in a broader context, both across patient-centered domains (e.g., motivations, preferences, habits) and the domains of family, community and environment. This laboratory focuses on expanding patient and family engagement through health information technology.
- OpenNotes for Caregivers is a patient engagement application which permits physician progress notes to be shared with patients through a secure patient portal. With the support of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant, we are evaluating the costs and benefits of extending OpenNotes to adult patient proxies who are caregivers with formal access to a patient's MyGeisinger account.
- Informal Caregivers Initiative. In this initiative, family involvement in patient healthcare is identified to improve family members' participation in healthcare processes and to evaluate the effects of interventions that address the patient-family caregiver dyad.
- Advanced Care Planning. To improve care for patients at the end of their lives, the laboratory has launched a series of interventions and learning initiatives across the spectrum of care delivery. For example, we are investigating the feasibility of engaging patients through online and touch screen mechanisms to address Advanced Care Planning.
- Predictive Risks and Shared Decision Making. The explosion of clinical data generated by electronic health records offers opportunities to share basic clinical information such as progress notes and laboratory results with families. Already, the availability of data has led to the development of predictive risk models for a variety of clinical scenarios, including the development of breast cancer, pediatric obesity, and 30 days mortality. The laboratory is investigating ways to translate these predictive risk models into better care, including a process of patient-centered and family-centered shared decision making.
- Pediatric Obesity. Initiatives include Early Healthy Living, an evaluation of clinic solutions for in children age 0-2 years, and PREVENT, which addresses obesity solutions for children age 2-9 years.