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Crutch walking, non-weight bearing on affected leg . May use walker if needed. Keep hip dry for 48 hours. May remove dressing and leave wound open to air in 48 hours. May shower and get hip wet after 48 hours. Do not submerge hip for 2 weeks – no bath, hot tub or pool for 2 weeks.
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- Percocet 5mg: 1-2 pills every 4 hours as needed for pain.
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The North Korea's export rate of iron has increased toward China despite of the UN sanctions against North Korea, reported Radio Free Asia(RFA) on 14th March.
A source from North Hamkyeong province estimated that the amount of the iron exported in Musan mine rates around 1ton per day, increasing its export rate recently.
Before, it has encountered the stagnation since the international mineral price had declined.
However, now the piles of smelt iron from North Korea can be seen in Nampyeong of Jilin province where its mil is situated, a source added.
Moreover, It has cast doubts on whether China would join the sanctions by UN since the nation has declared "to stand against any odds that could be caused by the UN sanctions to protect our people from losing jobs and the factories expected suspensions".
Then why China has turned passively?
Last 23th Feb, the contract of US-South Korea joint working group to deploy THAAD missiles defense assets has been abruptly postponed only an hour before the meeting, on which the media speculated the uncovered deal made between US and China.
It is suspected that China could have agreed to the sanctions and adjured US to suspend the discussion of the deployment of THAAD in return.
Consequently, UN came to pass the bill 2270 to sanction North Korea from international trading such as iron, coal, gold, rare earth resources and titanium, minerals related to the livelihood of the people and Weapons of Mass Destruction(WMD) though some are excluded from the sanction list, things not related to the those purposes above.
However, US has inaugurated US-South Korea joint working group to discuss on the deployment of THAAD missiles a day right after the resolution had been made, which means 'Invalidation of the promise' for China to sanction North Korea since the agreement has been broken.
On the other hand, the recent actions from Russia are quite disquieting as well.
According to a news from Dongailbo on 12th March, Russia has utterly shut down Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights(OHCHR) on its ground.
By the beginning of the year, crashes on the repatriation issue of the North Korean detractors were quite an hot potatoes between Russia government and OHCHR.
And the shutting down of OHCHR seems to be the result of the finalization of the agreement of the repatriation of illegal immigrants or aliens with North Korea on 2nd February.
Marzuki Darusman, a special reporter on North Korea Human Right from UN has refuted the action, which later has been turned down at once by Russia Diplomatic Service.
As a result, some cast doubts on whether UN sanctions or the Human Right Issue on North Korea will be valid on North Korea in this current situation.
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Power of the Jedi Basic Figures Collection 2
Item No.: Asst. 84455 No. 84363
Number: n/a
Manufacturer: Hasbro
Includes: Dejarik table, Force File
Action Feature: n/a
Retail: $6.99
Availability: Summer 2000
Appearances: Star Wars
Bio: The mighty Chewbacca, a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk, is the friend and copilot to Han Solo. Known for his great strength, bravery and loyalty, Chewbacca often serves as Solo's conscience in their smuggling endeavors. (Taken from the figure's Force File.)
Image: Adam's desk.
Commentary: "Let the Wookiee win" is a phrase oft-quoted in fan circles lo these many years, and this Chewbacca figure really captured the moment nicely. His Dejarik table plugs right in to the 1995 version of the Millennium Falcon, and it has all these nifty monster pieces on it. The figure can sit right at the table, and was designed specifically for this purpose. If he's standing-- like in the picture-- he looks silly. A number of my friends pointed out that he looks like he's ready to give or receive some form of table dance, but the figure is essentially true to the scene from the original film. He's meant to sit down, hands behind his head, savoring the compliment/threat implied by the fact he might tear R2-D2 to pieces. As far as personality goes, this figure's pose captures it quite well. His face is a little too goofy given how dark his eyes looked in that sequence, but hey, nobody's perfect. As Chewbaccas that can sit go, this is arguably the best of them in recent memory because his pouch or waist fur doesn't get in the way of things.
Our favorite Wookiee has eight points of articulation, with his knees being the notable addition. The main reason to pick this figure up is for the pose or the table, although his smaller size may not be ideal for any displays you make with more recent action figures. Still, the sculpt is good, and I more or less dig this release despite it being a little out of date. Grab it if you can!
Collector's Notes: This figure was around for a while in 2000 and was pretty popular. Until early 2001, when Hasbro made the first "tall" Chewbacca with all the height you have since come to expect out of Hasbro. Dejarik Chewie was the last "short" version of the Wookiee hero.
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The Fastest and Easiest Event Check-in
The struggle to win over your guests starts with check-in. Make them wait in line, and their excitement about your event will plummet. Use cutting edge technology to speed up the check-in process, on the other hand, and you can ensure that attendees enter the event in the best possible mindset.
Zenus, a Houston-based startup, is bringing its powerful face recognition technology to the events industry. Event planners across the world have started piloting this fresh concept and the results are impressive!
Case Study
Event: The International Corporate Event (ICE) Awards was among the early adopters. Specifically, the ICE Awards 2017 took place at the Saatchi Gallery in London, honoring senior in-house events professionals across 15 industry sectors. The event attracted 250 experienced event professionals, 70% of which were in-house event organizers representing 60 companies.
Challenge: This year, Anita Howard, the founder and producer of the ICE Awards was looking for something new to impress attendees. However, the venue entrance was narrow and the check-in requirements limited their options.
Specifically, the organizing team wanted to print badges for the attendees and also do a brief security check to ensure that only invited guests were allowed in. These requirements, in combination with the narrow entrance, were expected to create long lines. Face recognition technology was a perfect match, and Anita was excited about the concept.
Solution: Zenus' solution can be integrated into existing registration platforms, making the experience smooth for both the event planner and the attendees. Specifically, the ICE Awards used the Ya-Ya Regie online event registration platform which has already deployed Zenus' face recognition solution.
Before the event, the attendees were invited to upload their profile picture and opt-in for face recognition. Behind the scenes, the registration platform (in this case Ya-Ya Regie) automatically stripped the images of any personally identifiable information before uploading encrypted copies of them to the Zenus cloud-based service.
The ICE Awards organizers were planning to have two interactive giant tablets for face recognition check-in. However, the hardware supplier missed the two-hour set up window due to an unexpected traffic jam in the heart of London. Nevertheless, the organizers quickly set up the system on their personal MacBook and used this as the check-in station.
Results: When the guests arrived at the venue they could check-in either with their faces, or with the traditional barcode scanners. Each attendee who opted for face recognition simply needed to stand in front of the laptop for a moment. The system recognized them immediately, their badge was automatically printed, and they were ready to go!
Since the kiosks were next to each other, it was easy to notice differences between the two methods. Guests checking-in using face recognition were impressed and excited about the technology. Many of them were event planners who unsuccessfully tried to confuse the system by making funny faces. Some of the attendees took out their phones to record the process, while others remarked about the process with the people standing next to them. In addition to making a great impression and increasing engagement, check-in using face recognition was four to five times faster than the traditional barcode scanning.
After the event, a record number of inquiries to try face recognition for events was received by Ya-Ya Regie.
Face recognition has many benefits for both the event planner and the attendees. It lives on the cloud enabling it to run on any device, so no special check-in devices needed. It is fast, easy, secure, and affordable. Like most new services, some people might be reluctant to try. However, we have found that people quickly gain confidence in this fresh concept. Social media and online payments are similar technologies where a modest critical mass paved the way for much larger future growth.
To increase the opt-in rate, communicate clearly to your attendees that the data is being treated in a safe manner (all images are anonymized, encrypted, and also deleted after the event). Moreover, keep in mind that face recognition can work in parallel with traditional check-in methods to satisfy everyone. Even if only a fraction of attendees opt-in, it will be enough to have a significant effect on reducing waiting time in lines.
It is always good to have backup devices in case something goes wrong. Even though the internet requirements are relatively low, make sure to secure a private network for the face recognition system.
The ICE Awards case study demonstrated the benefits of face recognition for check-in. We are expecting to see more and more events implementing this fast and cost-effective option to process large number of attendees. We are also looking forward to more case studies about different use cases such as tracking attendance for multiple sessions and leads retrieval.
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A Walk Along Victoria Harbour
The other day when we went and looked at the puppies, we went and walked along Victoria Harbour, which was really lovely. It was a really cold day and I normally get super cold hands even when the weather is fine. Sooo on this day, my hands had gone completely white and I could barely […]Read More


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Elvis 1956
Written by Alfred Wertheimer, Contribution by Amy Henderson and E. Warren Perry, Jr., Introduction by Chris Murray
- Publish Date: November 10, 2009
- Format: Hardcover
- Category: Music - Genres & Styles - Rock
- Publisher: Welcome Books
- Trim Size: 8-1/4 x 10-1/2
- Pages: 128
- US Price: $29.95
- CDN Price: $29.95
"Elvis 1956 offers black and white photos by Alfred Wertheimer taken during the year Elvis turned 21, and offer a fine visual record of a defining time for rock and roll. It was the year Elvis released his first record, made his first TV appearance, and more - and it offers a definitive visual portrait unavailable elsewhere. Any music library strong in rock and roll history needs this, which pairs Alfred Wertheimer's photo with essays by E. Warren Perry, Jr. and Amy Henderson."
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"This book features a beautiful collection of 72 tri-tone shots that expertly capture Presley's dramatic and electrifying journey to stardom."
Foreword Magazine
"Elvis 1956 vividly captures the year Elvis meteorically rose from obscurity to superstardom featuring Alfred Wertheimer's iconic photographs of Elvis - some never-before published or rarely seen - and his recollections...For a new generation of Elvis fans, the book provides an inexpensive edition of Wertheimer's memorable photos with spectacular tritone printing of the king's sensational impact in 1956 on the emerging popularity of rock and roll."
"...In many way the most exciting and intimate portrait of the legendary entertainer...You don't have to be an Elvis fanatic to recognize the importance of this book. It sheds significant light on the early days of one of the true legends of show business."
- Cinema Metro
"Remarkable...The times, they were a-changing, and changing quickly. Elvis and his music were both part of and a cause of that change. Collectively, Wetheimer's photos capture that time as if the photographer and his subject knuew that the moment would not last. Elvis 1956 will appeal to a broad segment of reader, including those who still carry a torch for Elvis, those interested in photography, and those with an interest in 1950s America."
-John Michael Senger, Foreword Reviews
"Wertheimer's photographs show Elvis in every aspect of his life — in performance, with his fans, in the recording studio, and at home with his family. The book is lavishly illustrated with 72 tri-tone photographs, and features an introduction by curator Chris Murray, along with essays by E. Warren Perry, Jr. and National Portrait Gallery historian Amy Henderson."
-THE Magazine
"Elvis 1956 is truly The King before he was The King, and the images are both insightful and stunning. Recollections by Wertheimer regarding time, place, and circumstances of each photograph offer further revelation into the daily events that paved the way for this true American idol."
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It is the little things that matter, sometimes. In the last year of the third century since the fall of Hadenheim lords, one wealthy Travian farmer chose to work all day and all night instead of taking a break, and was able to produce an extra day's worth of wheat. This wheat allowed the granaries of Malvior to have a week's worth of flour, which came to use six months later to make bread for the defenders when the city was under siege by the Lysandrians. This, at first glance small fact, permitted the city to withstand the siege for one additional week, giving enough time for the reserve forces of Ser Valentine The Brave to come in from the north to interfere, causing the siege to fail, and saving Malvior, continuing its reputation as impregnable.
The little things. Few people nowadays know what little thing caused the continent of Hadenheim to collapse and be swallowed by the ocean, and few remember those days. But the history does not forget. The Gods keep a careful tally.
Behold the times of today and now! The races inhabiting The Four Islands are at a tense political stalemate. The human nations in the north east, the dwarven clans of the north west, and the elves of the south, all build plans of influence and conquest to decide the fate of The Big Island. Some subtle, others openly militant, regardless of approach, all of them, Hemarians, Darkonians, and Highborne, will have to face the controlling might of the orc Horde, which rules the heart of the island. Perhaps this situation will benefit the oppressed silve?Tweets by Eiradir


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Right now I'm being highly influenced by all the colours around me. It's Autumn here and that means some glorious yellows, oranges, and reds. The persimmon tree in our yard is in full colour - soon the branches will be bare, but right now it's endless variations of firey hues are glowing in the sunshine. The eucalypt trees are dropping red leaves simply everywhere.
Somehow, with all this intense bright colour, I am finding myself drawn to the deeper tones of indigo, mid-night blue.....
1) the indigo and blue hues of this quilt by Folk Fibers. Also - I love that she is growing her own indigo plants for natural dyeing. One day, perhaps I may have an indigo or woad patch....
2) These pages of indigo colour swatches from Tinctory's journal.
3) These eggs. Oh these eggs. Just imagine, if you will, visiting your hen house and finding this beautiful, marvelous, spectacular collection of blues and greens nestled warmly amongst the fresh straw. Oh yes. We are still planning our chook house, but Ameraucana chooks are on the list
4) This inkblot top from Rachel Rose. Like a watercolour of deliciousness.....
5) This wall is perfect combined with these red beads. I love this colour combination best of all!
6) Oh, anything, simply everything from Elephant Ceramics.
7) And this vibrant collection of colour swatches. Don't you just want to see that on your wall every day! From French Marie Claire Idees via stephmodo.
8) These indigo shibori pieces from Australian company Shibori. (Many years ago my mum dyed some beautiful indigo shibori fabric; we had giant floor cushions around our house....)
9) Some silk yarn that I dyed using red cabbage. It's faded to a beautiful variegated purple. Makes for lovely crochet stones!
10) My own screen printed lacework:leafwork design in the deepest of smoked teal colour. Still wet from the printing ink.
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Suzie Gaiser linked sleep training to taming a wild stallion. But pediatric sleep consultant, Katie Kovaleski, is a baby whisperer. She says don't wait until your child falls asleep then tip-toe out of the room. You want them to learn to fall asleep on their own. To do that, focus on these elements.
First, a consistent bed-time routine. Also, make their environment comfortable. The bedroom should be a dark room with white noise at 73-degrees or cooler. Consider stopping nighttime feedings when they are four months or older. Above all, find the right sleep training method for you. Gaiser chose the "check and console" method, which encourages parents not to check every time the child cries.
It wasn't easy, but by day four Suzie's son, Greyson, was sleeping like, well, a baby. But Kovaleski Says whether your method is more attachment parenting, or co-sleeping, you have to be consistent every single day to make it come together.
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The increasing trend of late pregnancies has forced researchers to analyze the relationship between age and pregnancy. While there is no hard and fast rule concerning the right age to have a baby, the late 20s and early 30s are considered the best periods to have a baby. What about an older woman trying to conceive? Should women delay childbearing ... Read More »
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Anika Gives Hint to Shivaay He Solved Murder Mystery Ishqbaaaz U me Tv 5th June Video Written Update
Segment Start from Oberoi Mansion Outside where RJ Rishab is Receiving Something from Someone and Rudra is Watching this from Corner and When Rishab Turns Around He Hides Again.
Shivaay tells In his Interview That Before Rakesh's Death He and His Brother came to our House and Rakesh asked My Help to Save Him from His brother after that he Died and After that, I have Doubt over his death.
On Screen, Shivaay Is watching Pictures in His tab which is connected to Projector and He is Confused Just then Anika comes with Tea and Scolds him that Why he is Stressing on this Please Give Rest to Your Eyes.
Shivaay tells Everything is Clear Except one Disco is Going Inside or coming from Inside. Anika tells You are Everything and After someone time you will tell that Disco(Dog) Murdered Rakesh By telling Him That She leaves and Scolds Him to Drink Tea.
Unknowingly Anika Gives him Hint and He comes and Sits On Couch and Listen to one Radio Program where Anchor is informing About What Dogs Can Do? Like Dog can Open Gates, They are Very Intelligent and Now His All Doubt come to Disco the Dog.
Shivaay's Interview: He tells that My Family Knows that I have Superpower and Something Like this Only I observed.
When Reporter Ask About Anika Gave Him Hint He Replies that Yes She gave me Hint and I Observed Quickly.
He Continues that He is So Thrilled to Do Scene Like this and Our Audience Know How Ishqbaaaz Deal with Spying and Other Things.
We are Doing Tracks on Socail Issue and This Time with Dog Its Hard But we are Trying our Hard.
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Did you all spring your clocks forward an hour??
It's that time of year where the days are finally longer!!! This makes me super happy. I love/need lots of sun to make me happy and productive. I also need warmth…. hence why California is calling my name 🙂
This past week ended in a bit of an upset. I lost my job on Friday, rather unexpectedly, so I now find myself scrambling to find a new job. But me being the organized person that I am, I have put together a list of places to apply this week, so that makes me feel a bit put together. As one of my co-workers said to me on Friday after work, "when one door closes, another opens…. you're going to be just fine Erin, I just know it."
So moving on to what makes me happy, and that would be cooking and sharing with you all lovely readers what I whip up, I shall share with you what I made this weekend. I made two things this weekend, though the second amazing thing I did not take pictures of 😦 I was too mesmerized by its unbelievable deliciousness, even my roommate was in awe of how amazing it was!! Perhaps I'll have to remake it just to be able to photograph it! Lol
Moving onward….
Celery Root Black Bean Apple Slaw
1 small/medium sized Celery Root (peeled)
2 small granny smith apples
1 Tbsp organic stone ground mustard
1/4 cup Nayonaise – Flax Oil Mayonaise (vegan)
1/4 tsp ground ginger
Juice from 1/4th of a lemon
1 can organic no salt added black beans – rinsed
Himalayan Sea Salt to taste
Black Pepper to taste
* Cut in quarters the apples and celery root
* Attach shredder attachment to food processor and shred both celery root and apples
* Transfer to bowl and add remaining ingredients, fold into shredded mix with rubber spatula
Enjoy with a nice cup of green tea! (and make sure your cat does not eat it before you do!)
I am on a mission to find the most excellent recipe for Irish Soda Bread in honor of St. Paddy's day coming up. Anyone know of any??


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Bruce Banner gets Hank Pym to transport him back to the Microverse, and along the way we get a one-issue detour against Shaper of Worlds, who is literally a world-shaper. He made a microscopic version of Earth ruled by Nazis. Hulk fights a super-Nazi. Then he continues on to Jarella's world.When he finds her, he has time for just one adventure and then Pym's serum wears off, so he starts to grow, quickly, and has to say goodbye. As he jumps away, he inadvertently damages her world.
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Mladen Jergovic obtained his masters and doctoral degrees at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. In 2015, he joined the Nikolich-Zugich lab as a postdoctoral researcher, where he is currently investigating the molecular mechanisms behind age-dependent vulnerability to infection with intracellular pathogens. Mladen is a postdoc with two small children, so he has no free time or hobbies.


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Nez Perce artist, Headdress, ca. 1885, ermine, felt, and feathers, The Elizabeth Cole Butler Collection, no known copyright restrictions, 85.113.8
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ermine, felt, and feathers
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
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- Collection Area
Native American Art
- Category
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- Object Type
- Cultural Group
Interior Salish
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Nez Perce
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The Elizabeth Cole Butler Collection
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Mass hysteria "mystery illness"
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Dr. Samra interviewed on CKNW about mass hysteria.
Where's Dr. House when you need him? Last fall, after a group of teens at New York's LeRoy Junior-Senior High School began simultaneously exhibiting Tourette syndrome – like tics and verbal outbursts – experts were at a loss to explain why. Air quality tests and mold spore counts seemed to rule out environmental causes, and medical exams and neurological workups eliminated infection or disease. Now doctors have come up with a surprising diagnosis: mass hysteria, a phenomenon in which various people in a common group (such as students within a school) experience a spontaneous outbreak of physical symptoms caused by psychological stress. What is mass hysteria?


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Hamid Khan says a string of armed robberies at his 29th Street convenience store convinced him to cut his losses and leave Saskatoon.
Robberies, vandalism shatter immigrant store owner's dream
Hamid Khan says he just wants to go home.
After leaving his job at an engineering company in Lahore, Pakistan to come to Canada last summer, Khan bought Westmount Foods on 29th Street West in early January. Owning a business in Saskatoon was "my dream," he said.
Now that dream is in tatters.
Westmount Foods has been robbed at least three times since late December, when Khan was learning how to run the store from its previous owner. One employee said he was robbed twice in three days.
Khan said vandals have broken the store's plate glass windows and thieves have on two occasions stolen lottery tickets from behind the counter.
The latest incident, an armed robbery on Monday night, convinced him to cut his losses. He plans to liquidate the store's inventory, sell it and move back to Pakistan.
"I spent $200,000 and what am I getting? Fear? My blood pressure high?" Khan said Tuesday as customers lined up to buy snacks and cigarettes and offered words of support for the store and its owner.
"Someday, I will get a heart attack because of this," he added.
Footage captured on the store's security camera shows four suspects entering the store shortly after 7 p.m. on Monday.
One of them points what appears to be a semi-automatic pistol at the clerk while two others take money from the register and cigarettes from behind the counter.
In a news release, police confirmed that three men and one woman used a firearm to rob the business, ordering the lone employee to lie on the floor in the process.
There were no injuries, no arrests have been made and the investigation is ongoing, police said Monday.
Khan said the man working on Monday night is "doing okay," and that Saskatoon police "need to do something" to prevent brazen daylight robberies.
In the first two months of this year, 44 armed robberies were reported in Saskatoon, an increase of 120 per cent compared to the 20 armed robberies recorded in January and February 2015, according to city police.
In 2015, 183 armed robberies were reported in the city, down 13.6 per cent from the 213 reported the previous year, police data shows.
Khalid Kahn, who studied engineering with his friend Hamid in Lahore and also owns a grocery story on Saskatoon's west side, dropped by Westmount Foods Tuesday afternoon.
"Something needs to be done," he said, gesturing at the sheet of plywood covering the store's broken front window.
Hamid Khan said he's tired of having his business robbed, his employees endangered and his livelihood jeopardized. It's like "mental torture" every time the door opens, he added.
"After like six months (in Saskatoon) I consider myself the most stupid person," Khan said. "Now I am telling my friends in Dubai and Pakistan, 'Withdraw your (immigration) application, man. I am coming back.' "


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Five House Democrats unveiled a bill April 1 that would allow veterans to divert a portion of their retirement benefits to set up a fund for their special needs children.
"As a father of a special needs child, I know how important it is for parents to be able to provide them the best possible care," Moran said in an article in the Hill. "When healthcare costs for disabled kids can top $100,000 a year, the military needs to give parents the opportunity to plan for their special needs children's future."
Federal regulations currently allow anyone to create a special needs trust, but this option is currently not allowed if the money is coming from military retirement funds.
For children with disabilities of deceased veterans, the bill, known as the Disabled Military Child Protection act, would allow these children to continue to receives federal benefits even if they are also receive funds through their special needs trusts.
Along with Moran, the bill's other sponsors are Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.), a veteran of the Korean War. Other cosponsors are Reps. Lois Capps (D-Calif.), Jared Polis (D-Colo.), Steve Rothman (D-N.J.).


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Sameer looked at his mobile phone to figure out what the time was. It was 3:00 AM, cursing his lost sleep he got out of his bed and walked into his kitchen for a glass of water. After quenching his thirst, he tried to get back to sleep. But sleep was hard to come; he kept tossing around in bed.
Finally deciding to check if he could find something interesting to read, he switched on his laptop. As the laptop was powering on he felt the pain for the first time that night. It was like an agonising pinch in his chest close to where biologically his heart should be. He drank some more water hoping that it would help.
The pain slowly started spreading across his left chest and he could feel it spreading through his back. He started to get a bit petrified about what was happening. He tried searching for a pain relief balm in his shelf. He found one and started vigorously rubbing it across his chest as his left hand felt heavy and he slumped into his chair.
Sameer was a lonely soul and stayed alone in the city of dreams, Mumbai. Having moved to Mumbai like many others in the hope that someday he would too make a place for himself amongst the many who immigrate to this city, few for better jobs and few for much famed bollywood. Sameer was not here to become a movie star. He too was having his own silly aspirations and passions. He was busy trying to prove his worth in this world. His passion was writing and he spent all his free time when not at office blogging away to glory hoping someday some unknown yet powerful person would recognize his talent. Much like the characters in the fictions he penned.
Sameer screamed out a loud cry as he felt the pain now becoming uncontrollable. He was perplexed and shaken. He knew very few people in this city baring a handful of friends who stayed far off; he had no one else he could call out for help. His hands searched for his mobile phone in desperation for help. The first person he thought off was his mom, his parent lived in Bangalore a 1000 KM away. The instincts call them psychological, biological or whatsoever made him remember of no one else but his mother. It was now almost 4:00 AM almost an hour since the agony had began.
As soon as he heard a feminine voice on the other end, all he could manage to say was, "Amma I'm in pain!" He spoke to her for a while trying tell her about his suffering. She started to cry midway through their conversation as she tried to console him. He then cursed himself for troubling his mom at this hour but he had no clue about whom to call. She said she will call up one of their far off relatives who also stayed in the same vicinity as him. She told him to try calling one of his old friends Arjun, who also happened to be in Mumbai.
Arjun was Sameer's classmate in college. They used be great friends during their younger days in college. But with time they had grown apart. Arjun was now well settled software engineer, married, had a house of his own and led a much stable life. Unlike Sameer who was still struggling and chasing his wild dreams which had not materialised. He would soon be 30 and was yet to find his place in this world. Marriage was not in question as he had resigned himself to singleton after he failed miserably in love, not once but twice.
He hadn't spoken to Arjun for a long time. Sameer felt it wouldn't look nice if he was to hang out too much with Arjun, as he might be seen as someone taking undue advantage of his friend, who pretty well off now. But at this precise moment he couldn't think of all those inequalities and his brains were hardly working. He struggled to find Arjun's number in the contact list and clicked on the green button,
Arjun's number appeared on the calling screen. It was 4:10 AM, as soon as his call was picked all he could manage to say was, "Please help me, I need to go to a hospital. I'm having a chest pain." Arjun quickly asked for the precise address of the place where Sameer resided. The voices around where getting feeble for Sameer to hear. He did hear Arjun saying "Hang on dude, I will be there soon, just hang on!"
It was 7:45 AM Sameer regained his conscious. Through hazy eyes he saw couple of men and women in white over coats hovering around his bed. A quick look around, it was a scene out of many a Robin Cook's medical fictions he had read. He was lying on a hospital bed, a few wires attached to his body connected to a monitor which kept beeping with every breath he took. He felt a sudden pinch on his arms; it was the poke of the injection which the nurse had just administered. He heard one of the doctors saying, guess the patient is now gaining conscious. Sameer tried to get up and the doctor next to him said, "Please lie down, don't strain yourself." And then he heard the doctor saying, "You are lucky, you got here on time." All that Sameer could manage to mutter was, "I'm lucky to have found a true friend in my silly life...." He could see Arjun standing by the door winking at him with a smile.
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Why You Self-Sabotage
"Self sabotage is when we say we want something and we go about making sure it doesn't happen" ~Alyce P. Cornyn-Selby
You know what it is that you deeply want. You have it on a vision board or maybe you've written it down.
Regardless of the way in which you've formulated your vision, you have a good idea of what you yearn to manifest in your life.
Then why, do you sometimes take two steps forward and one (maybe two, three or twenty!) steps back just when you're beginning to feel great, make progress and see results?
Self sabotage could be at play.
When you find yourself taking steps forward towards your vision and then suddenly, or gradually, find yourself stopping, or backing off considerably – give thought and consideration to there may be a fear of you having what you truly want.
Huh? How can this be? You know what you want, you've written it down, you've prayed about it, you've told your friends and family about it…how could you ever not want what you say you want?
How this can manifest is through a much deeper commitment – the commitment to not losing love and connection with those we care about. In other words, the fear of losing love could be an unconscious driving force.
If you value connection, intimacy and love — AND you have a belief that if you evolve into a bigger, more powerful, more worth-filled version of yourself, that you'll lose that love – then no doubt, the fear will win out and you'll take some serious steps back.
These types of holdbacks can be confusing to be sure, but totally solvable if you commit to weeding through the falseness and replacing it with Truth.
To help you do some digging on your own, check-out the Worth Work below where we delve into you claiming your worth without having to sacrifice anything, especially love and connection with the people who are meant to be in your life.
To help you embrace your personal power and continue to become your True Self, the first step is to have look at your own relationship to Power and being PowerFULL in the world. Here are some questions to help you uncover your view:
The KEY realization and insight you want to gain with answering these questions is – How comfortable are YOU are with your own Personal Power?
Because, the world is our mirror – and the people in our life reflect back to us what we believe. And, if you're fearful of your own Power, other people – even those closest to you – will be too.
The last question to contemplate is: Do you believe that you'll lose something or someone by manifesting your vision – or do you believe you have full support from others and life itself?
Some good questions to ponder this week. Continue to dream, visualize and believe – and remember, as always, when you Claim Your Worth!®, you give other people in your life the same permission.
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PCEP Neonatal Care, 2nd Edition (Book III)
New 2nd edition features step-by-step skill instruction, and practice-focused exercises. Developed by a distinguished editorial board, the Perinatal Continuing Education Program (PCEP) is a comprehensive, self-paced education program in four volumes.
The PCEP workbooks have been significantly revised and brought up-to-date with leading-edge procedures and techniques. The revised volumes are filled with clear explanations, step-by-step skill instruction, and practice-focused exercises. They offer time- saving, low-cost solutions for self-paced learning or as adjuncts to instructor-led skills training.
New 2nd edition features 10 units covering information and skills for assessment and initial management of frequently encountered neonatal illnesses, plus the comprehensive unit Review: Is the Baby Sick?, which ties all neonatal therapies and skills together for management of sick and at-risk newborns. In addition, Preparation for Neonatal Transport presents care for the newborn and for the baby's family.
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I used the puzzle pieces from the kit and misted them, leaving the negative space to simulate debris being tossed around in a tornado. (Used Ali Edwards "Love in Action" brushes).
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New information has come to light that Karina Carter who is a Partington councillor does not live in Trafford, and many residents have not been told.
We have spoken to many people about this in the Bucklow St Martins ward in which Karina Carter currently is a councillor, and no one knew about it.
It is very relevant and although the rules state she is allowed to continue with her job, we ask is she going to be giving it her all, will she have the motivation to do a good job for the residents, all these things come into question.
Their have been in the past, cover ups like the suspension of all the Trafford Labour party in Partington, and that was when James Wright was campaigning to take over Ian Platt, we ask if any of you would have voted for Labour had you known?
No one knew anything, and that for us is unacceptable, they must tell the residents what is going on, and by being up front and honest gives them much-needed credibility.
As an insult the Trafford Labour leader Andrew Western has blocked Karina Carter and James Wright from talking to people who live outside of the ward, yet she herself does not even live in Trafford, this is high level hypocricy.
We are told Trafford Labour will be in selection mode for ward coiuncillors in September for next years local elections, although nothing has been confirmed the talk is that a a Partington resident is being fine tuned at the present to take the place of Karina, who we feel should stand down now! it is also thought that Serena Carr will stand again in Brooklands of which we will fully support her campaign if the speculation is true.
Karina though in her time has been a fantastic councillor she has done amazing things for the area and for the residents that their is no doubt, and with this new information coming to light, she should show Partington some respect and stand down before next years local elections.
As a result of this article which is only to inform, Trafford Labour leader has decided not to lead but to run! the respect he once had has been damaged, for it was himself who spilled the beans, which we are very grateful.
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Following Sumter County Council's 5-2 vote on Tuesday to deny a 5.48-millage increase for Sumter School District, equal to about $1,057,121, council members stated their reasons for voting the way they did.
The school district intended to use the …
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The school district intended to use the funds to create five new teaching positions with benefits, valued at $400,000; hire a grant writer/development coordinator, valued at $80,000; hire a technology project manager, valued at $75,000; and add the remaining $502,121 to the district's fund balance to build toward one month's operating expenses, according to Interim Superintendent Debbie Hamm.
She said the district's 2019 budget, which will receive third and final reading today, is balanced at $131.8 million without the millage increase.
Chairman Jim McCain: Voted in favor
The school district, and Hamm, has made strides to improve the academics in Sumter County, he said.
McCain said he thinks the school district made progress during the last school year in implementing positive changes and Tuesday's vote was the time to support the district though he was not in favor of a portion of the mill increase going toward the district's fund balance.
And though the result of the vote was not what he wanted, McCain said he was not surprised after speaking with other members of council multiple times prior to the meeting. Majority rules, he said, but there is no animosity.McCain said he supports Hamm's interest in creating STEM schools in the district and still has high hopes for Sumter's education system to one day become a STEM district.
That's going to take time and its going to take funding, he said.
Vice chairman Jimmy Byrd: Voted in opposition
Byrd said he thinks the district is on the right path but did not vote in favor of the request because many of his constituents did not back the millage increase.
"I don't think the time is right this year to do that," he said.
Councilman Chris Sumpter: Voted in opposition
"This subject is near and dear to my heart," he said.
Sumpter said he realizes the importance of a good quality education but thinks the district should find ways to be more practical with its money.
It takes funding to make things happen but more money is not always the best solution, he said.
Be practical with the revenue that's already there, he said.
Councilman Artie Baker: Voted in opposition
Many constituents could not understand what was going on regarding the lack of teachers in the last school year and the money that would go toward paying those salaries, he said.
Baker said he usually supports education but could not vote in favor of the request when his constituents were not in favor of it.
Many people, including small business owners, are not in support of the increase right now, he said.
And some of those business owners are the same ones who were in favor of a mill increase for the school district a few years ago, he said.
A few constituents said they would be more comfortable with a millage increase for the district if it had a permanent superintendent, Baker said. And they would be fine if it were Hamm, he added.
Councilman Gene Baten: Voted in opposition
Baten said his main reason for voting against the millage increase is to send a message to the local delegation that it should work to give the school district fiscal autonomy so it can increase its millage without another body's vote.
"Now that [the school district's board of trustees has] nine members [it] should not come before this body where four people can vote them down," he said.
The delegation should finish the job it started - after appointing two more members to the district's board of trustees - by giving the district fiscal autonomy, he said.
Baten said the other reason he voted against the request is because it would be unfair to approve an increase for the school district though council did not approve an increase for the county despite receiving fewer funds from the state than stipulated based on the state's formula for the local government fund.
Councilwoman Vivian Fleming-McGhaney: Voted in favor
"For me to not approve it would be, in my opinion, hypocrisy because I'm an advocate for public education," she said prior to council's vote on Tuesday.
"My district is one that has been hit hard," Fleming-McGhaney, who represents District 5, said about the closing of multiple rural schools.
She said two elementary schools in her district, St. John Elementary School and Mayesville Elementary School, closed years ago and now the middle school students in her district will have to go to another school now that Mayewood Middle School, in District 7, is closing.
"It grieves me a lot, though, because we've sacrificed a lot," she said.
Those rural kids deserve what other kids have, she said.
Councilman Charles Edens: Voted in opposition
There were questions since the first presentation, Edens said, about increases in the school district's funding, including but not limited to, the money saved because of the teacher shortage last year and the increased value of the mill.
The district had a teacher shortage and saved money on the salaries and benefits, and still has not filled those positions, he said. And the school district included the predicted increase in the value ofthe mill, predicted to equal more than $800,000, in its budget for the upcoming year, he said. Edens said he knows the county's budget is not as large as the school district's but the county has stayed within its budget, without a millage increase, in part because of the increase of the mill value.
And not many business owners supported the millage increase, he said.Though Edens said he supports local education, he said the school district "needs to tighten the belt a little" and reevaluate its budget to spend its money in better ways.
Interim Superintendent Debbie Hamm
Hamm said she was hopeful the district would receive support from county council, especially because the millage increase would have gone toward creating new positions, including five teaching jobs, that would have benefited students.
"We think it was targeting important things for the success of the school district," she said.
Though the millage increase was denied, Hamm said the district is still building momentum for great things to happen, such as a 1 percent increase for non-certified staff, which has not happened for a long time.
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PTI requests ECP to allow MPs in polls campaign
Central leader Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Friday met with the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Justice Sardar Muhammad Raza and requested him to allow parliamentarians to participate in campaign of bye election NA-120, Lahore-III.
According to ECP, Chief Election Commission (CEC) Justice Sardar Muhammad Raza has sent the request of PTI leader to ECP four members for legal opinion. CEC will make any decision on the matter in the light of legal opinion of ECP members, it added.
Meanwhile, Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Friday asked the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) to immediately provide required data for use of biometric voting machine (BVM) on trial basis in bye elections in NA-120, Lahore-III and PP-4, Gujar Khan.According to ECP, the commission has formally written a letter to the Chairman NADRA asking him to provide the required data of voters list, thumb impression and pictures by August 17 for use of BVM machines in bye elections.
It added, the ECP has also dispatched the copies of this letter to the Minister for Interior, Secretary Interior and Secretary National Assembly. Secretary National Assembly has been requested to take this matter with the Parliamentary Reforms Committee. It said that under article 220, officials of all the federal and provincial organizations are bound to assist the ECP. Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) Friday established a central monitoring cell at ECP Secretariat Islamabad to monitor the bye elections in NA-120, Lahore-III and PP-4, Gujar Khan. According to ECP, the commission has also constituted monitoring teams to fully monitor the code of conduct and other directives of ECP for bye elections in NA-120, Lahore-III and PP-4 Gujar Khan.—APP


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Even the door knobs tell creation stories.
During lunch time, I wandered back to the library with its spiral stair case to a hidden loft overlooking the woods. I snicked two volumes of poetry (you are allowed to take the books back to your rooms). I am going to consume them for dinner: Here is Where We Disembark by Clea Roberts and The persistence of Memory by Mary Fell. Fell's title got me thinking about the Art of Analysis project I experimented with this spring. The project has some problems I want to work out and the poetry volume got me thinking about them (more on that later).
|This is the poetry collection!
The light, the windows, the woods, the clean lines, the crisp corners and smooth, thick glass, cement, wood and steel. The very spaces breathed beauty into me today.
I am going to blog to catalog days' activities and process as best I can as I go through the week.
We did two writing activities after today's tours. The first was a community builder. We folded a blank piece of paper into quadrants and then drew a writing memory in each quadrant. In the top left quadrant we drew how we learned to write, in the bottom left a memorable writing moment from when we were students, in the top right a memorable moment as a teacher candidate (or I did a teacher learner) and in the bottom right quadrant the most memorable moment you have with writing as a teacher. Here is what I drew:
For the second thinking and writing activity we were told to think about problems of practice and to think about what we might say to policy makers about such problems. Then we went out into the gallery space and examined art installations: students' desks with altered surfaces, a long net of cut up paper draped down a wall, a black sculpture seemingly imprinted with a giant's finger print, a photograph of a man balancing on three different skateboards. One of the artist's skateboards, sans trucks and wheels balanced against the wall beneath the photograph. Here's a quick sketch of the skater's impossible balancing act:
We gathered ideas and wrote. We went back to the conference table to share and listen to one another's ideas. My writing centered on holes or gaps--gaps in instruction, in curriculum, in skills and how to build bridges between the gaps . A specific gap I've been turning over in my mind since year's end concerns grammar instruction--how to better prepare students to use and analyze syntax--but I don't know that that's what I want to work on while I'm here. Tonight's assignment is to choose a problem of practice on which to focus over the next ten days. I'm toying with two big ones:
1. how to use visual arts to inform close reading and analytical writing (essentially work through the Art of Analysis project--examples here-- and see if I can make connections to art movement and analytical writing clearer).
2. how to improve my integration of the study of grammar, usage, mechanics and spelling (GUMs) into reading and writing workshop. I wonder how I could use art to teach grammatical concepts?
Number one has my heart. I imagine I'll find an answer in one of those poetry volumes I snicked to read for dinner.


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Join us for Christmas festivities which include:
Saturday 26 November and 4 December
Christmas collection for the Trussell Trust at club sessions.
Thursday 8 December, 7pm
Mikey Harris (former Salisbury City FC manager and current Portsmouth FC Youth Coach) talks about player ownership and encouraging creativity. Then join us for a Christmas Drink at the Market Inn.
Saturday 10 December
Player conference (last session of the year). Cakes, discussion, fun!
Sunday 18 December, 10am
Christmas collection at Tesco (Southampton road).
Sunday 18 December, 5pm-7pm
Christmas party at Hampton Park Pavilion!!
We were delighted to welcome the Director of Coaching at Matt le Tissier's Natural Coaching Company, Jody Rivers, to our launch. It was a pleasure to see the kids join in as Jody led our club's very first football session. Jody is Salisbury born and bred and he did the launch free of charge. His commitment and support meant a great deal to us in getting our club off the ground.
We must also thank our fantastic coaches Keano and Jack for letting the kids enjoy their kickabout!
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HALLANDALE, Fla. -- Julie Krone, out of action since Jan. 13 with a broken left pinkie, returned yesterday to ride two horses at Gulfstream Park.
Neither horse was expected to run well, and neither did. Aftefinishing eighth in a nine-horse field in the seventh race aboard the 11-1 shot In Her Glory, Krone dismounted and said: "I feel super. My muscles aren't sore at all."


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Axis and XFire are competing Java web service frameworks; Axis is an Apache project and XFire is a Codehaus project.
It is difficult to compare the Axis and XFire web services frameworks for the purpose of deciding which one to adopt. Both web services frameworks have some significant challenges associated with using them, and there are good reasons to choose either one or the other. It all depends on where the emphasis is being placed when comparing them: stability, performance, or ease of use.
2 Branches Of Axis
Before comparing Axis to anything else, however, it is important to make note of the fact that there are two separate Axis frameworks: Axis 1 and Axis2. The Axis development team has shifted to Axis2 and has made it clear that while Axis1 bugs may be fixed, all enhancement and feature work is going to take place on Axis2, which is a ground-up reimplementation of the framework using a very different model.
Axis1 is a stable platform—stable to the point of ossification. It does have outstanding bugs, but there seems to be little effort on the part of the developers to correct them, or even evaluate patches contributed by non-Axis developers. Recent months have seen a drop-off even in responses to Axis1 question on the axis-users mailing list.
For this reason, it is reasonable to continue to use Axis1 for legacy applications that are already working and do not require major changes, as its very stability is an advantage there. However, in developing new applications it is probably advisable to look to Axis2, since it is under active development and it has a large, active community associated with it. Therefore it makes more sense to compare Axis2 and XFire for purposes of selecting a platform for new applications, or porting an existing legacy application to one of the current frameworks.
Comparing Axis2 and XFire
With this in mind, then, what differentiates Axis2 and XFire? Perhaps before highlighting differences we should look at the ways in which they are the same:
* Both have active user and developer communities
* As of February 12, 2007, both have an almost identical number of open bugs
* As of February 12, 2007, both have an almost identical quantity and distribution of Blocker, Critical, Major, Minor and Trivial bugs in their JIRAs (Axis2 JIRA, XFire JIRA)
So from this we can conclude that in terms of the number of reported bugs the two projects are pretty similar. How are they different?
* Has more active committers
* Has both Java and C/C++ implementations
* Has a sponsoring company (WSO2)
* Is perhaps more widely known
* Has completed a major codebase change and is moving towards stability (but is not as stable as Axis1 yet)
* Performance is comparable to XFire
* Is thought to be easier to use
* Has more clearly-written documentation
* Is currently fairly stable
* Performance is much better than Axis1 and equivalent to Axis2 in most cases
However, there is one major issue that makes Axis2 preferable over XFire at this time: On July 22, 2006, the XFire team announced that in XFire 2 they would be merging codebases with the Celtix framework and joining the Apache Software Foundation as CeltiXfire. One of the stated non-goals for this migration stated by the team is backwards compatibility with the current XFire code base—meaning that developers who write new applications using the XFire 1.x framework are going to be facing a situation similar to the one faced by Axis developers when that team dropped Axis1 and began Axis2. Since Axis2 has already completed this transition it makes sense not to adopt XFire for new projects at this time.
NOTE from XFire author: XFire services will be deployable inside CXF with little/no modification for most people. Your XML deployment descriptors and/or your usage of the XFire APIs wlil need to change though. Hoewver, the APIs in CXF are very similar to the XFire APIs. It is not a major departure for the most part!
Once the CeltiXfire migration is complete, however, and the new version of the software has had the chance to mature, this comparison needs to be revisited.
See also
External Links
* codehaus xfire soap stack comparison
Also see sample implementation of Axis 2 and Xfire in the following articles.....
Axis 2- http://wso2.org/library/95
Sunday, January 6, 2008
Axis vs XFire- Better Web Services Framework
Axis and XFire are competing Java web service frameworks; Axis is an Apache project and XFire is a Codehaus project.
Posted by Yaseen Khan at 8:03:00 PM
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Broadband Adoption in U.S. Homes Continues to Increase
Broadband Adoption in U.S. Homes Continues to Increase From SearchEngineWatch: "According to Nielsen//NetRatings the number of Americans with broadband access at home reached 42 percent of the U.S. population in August, increasing 16 percent since the beginning of this year.
In January 2005, 103.8 million Americans had broadband access; by August, that figure had grown to 120.8 million. These figures were compiled from the Nielsen//NetRatings panel and report the connection speeds of those with Internet access at home."


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1. Début février, la Federal Trade Commission (FTC) a publié le rapport Mobile Privacy Disclosures: Building Trust Through Transparency et le guide Mobile App Developers: Start with Security.
2. Le rapport fait suite à des études (billet) et autres rapports de la FTC (notamment Mobile Apps for Kids (billet) ou encore Protecting Consumer Privacy in an Era of Rapid Change (billet)). Il s'adresse aux principaux acteurs du milieu des applications mobiles: plateformes mobiles, développeurs d'applications, réseaux publicitaires et autres associations.
Pour chacun de ces acteurs, la FTC fait des recommandations présentées comme étant "sufficiently flexible to accommodate further innovation and change" (Source: FTC, p. 13) et qui se lisent comme suit:
Platforms- "before allowing apps to access sensitive content through APIs (Application Programming Interface), susch as geolocalisation information, platforms should provide a just-in-time disclosure of that fact and obtain affirmative express consent from consumers" (p. 15)- "a "dashboard" approach - similar to one used by several existing platforms - may be promising. A dashboard provides an easy way for consumers to determine which apps have access to which data and to revisit the choices they initially made about the apps" (p. 16)- "platforms could explore the use of icans. Icons, if appropriately designed and implemented, offer the ability to communicate keys terms and concepts in clear and easily digestible manner" (p. 17)- "platforms should consider imposing privacy requirements on apps" (p. 19)- "platforms could educate app developpers on privacy and make available to them important information about consumer privacy considerations as they craft their apps" (p.19)- "to alleviate any potential consumer confusion, platforms should consider providing consumers with clear disclosures about the extent of review platform undertake prior to making apps available for download in the app stores, as well as any compliance checks or review they undertake after the apps have been placed in the app stores" (p. 20)- "a DNT (do-not-track) setting placed at the platform level could give consumers who are concerned about this practice a way to control the transmission of information to third parties as consumers are using apps on their mobile devices. The platforms are in a position to better control the distribution of user data for users who have elected not to be tracked by third parties" (p. 21)App Developers
- "apps should have a privacy policy and make that policy available through the platform's app store" (p. 22)Il conviendra de suivre la mise en œuvre de ces recommandations par les principaux acteurs du milieu des applications mobiles.
- "app developpers should provide just-in-time disclosures and obtain affirmative express consent when collecting sensitive information outside the platfor's API, such as financial, health, or children's data, or sharing sensitive data with third parties" (p. 23)
- "app developers should improve coordination with ad networks and other third parties that provide services for apps so that the apps can provide truthful disclosures to consumers" (p. 24)
- "app developers should consider participating in self-regulatory programs, trade associations, and industry organizations, which can provide industry-wide guidance on how to make uniform, short-form privacy disclosures" (p. 24)
Advertising Networks and Other Third Parties
- "advertising networks and other third parties that provides services for apps should improve coordination and communication with app developers so that the app developers can in turn make truthful and complete disclosures to consumers" (p. 24)
- "advertising networks should work with platforms to ensure implementation of an effective DNT system for mobile" (p. 25)
App Trade Associations
- "app trade associations could develop standardized icons to depict app privacy practices" (p. 23)
- "app developer trade associations could continue work on developing "badges" or other similar short, standardized disclosures that could appear within apps or within advertisements for apps" (p. 26)
- "app developer trade associations could develop ways to have more standardization within app privacy policies" (p. 27)
3. Par ailleurs, le guide publié par la FTC destiné aux développeurs d'applications mobiles met l'emphase sur la sécurité. Il insiste notamment sur l'importance de nommer un responsable de la sécurité, de recourir à des mots de passe ou encore à la cryptographie, de ne collecter que les renseignements nécessaires au fonctionnement de l'application.
Pour aller plus loin:
- Mobile Privacy Disclosures: Building Trust Through Transparency, February 2013
- "FTC Staff Report Recommends Ways to Improve Mobile Privacy Disclosure - Recommendations Would Help Build Trust in the Mobile Marketplace, Agency Says", News Release, February 1, 2013.
- Mobile App Developers: Stard with Security, February 2013.


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The village must have been recently built in the 1880s, likely developing around the new distillery, as maps from the National Library for the mid 1800s only record a Lodge House, kennels and a smithy near the shore on the south side of the Bruichladdich River. The distillery was built on the north side of the river in 1881, one of the last on Islay with Bunnahabhain also opening that year. It was built, owned and managed by three brothers from the Harvey family who we have met before as owners of Yoker and Dundashill Distilleries in Glasgow. There were some disagreements and changes in ownership between the brothers but the family company remained in charge until 1937.
|Bruichladdich late 19th Century
|Distillery front facing the shore today
My own arrival at the distillery was on route from Bridgend and having emailed the week before I was welcomed by Mary McGregor who 'recognised' me from my email. A warm start to the tour then and we had a merry international group of seven visitors to follow the absorbing distillery story that Mary was to engage us with. My project was made known and Barnard was given a place on the tour as well.
|Old barley loft and hoist
|Belt driven Boby mill from 1913
|Grist loft and transfer from mill room
|Mash tun with lauter rakes
|Original coppers for mashing water
|Wash Still from 1881
There were originally two stills and although Barnard doesn't provide the sizes one of them still remains here as Wash Still No.1, capacity 17,300 litres. The original stills were coal fired and were stoked from outside which helped keep the still room clean. There are now four stills, heated by steam coil, two wash stills around 17,300 litres each and two spirit stills around 12,270. The two newest stills were installed in 1975 to double capacity. The tall, slender necks of the stills, particularly the spirit stills, produce a light, pure and fruity spirit that contrasts with the heavier, oilier spirit from the stockier pear and onion shaped stills I had seen at other Islay distilleries.
|Spirit stills from 1970s
|Ugly Betty 'Lomond' still
Production when Barnard visited was 94,000 gallons (434,000 litres) but is now around double that. All Bruichladdich's spirit is matured on Islay in twelve warehouses, double the number that Barnard saw, with both dunnage and racking warehouses dotted around the site and further storage at Port Charlotte. Barnard described the warehouses as all having good head room and that certainly applies to the tall racking warehouses today.
|Plenty of headroom, and cask room, in a racking warehouse
I'm not going to dwell on the pallet arrangements but there is an interesting discussion on different warehouse types on the Whisky Magazine forum here if you are curious. Our next stop was at the bottling hall, something I don't think Barnard would have seen at any distillery with most whisky in his time being sold to blenders and bottlers in the major cities, or sold by the cask to stand in the cellar of a bar or licensed grocery store. The water used to bring the whisky down to bottling strength is from the Octomore spring mentioned on my Lochindaal post.
|Bottle your own whisky at Bruichladdich
The current venture began in December 2001 after a seven year gap. The distillery was bought for £7.5m, including £5m for stock and the old name of Bruichladdich Distillery Company, once the Harvey's family company name from 1886, was resurrected and the distillery reborn, privately owned for the first time since 1937. Jim McEwan, after nearly 40 years at Bowmore, was brought in as production manager and Duncan MacGillivray who first worked at Bruichladdich as Stillman from 1974 returned now as Manager.
The new team describe themselves as "progressive Hebridean Distillers, proudly non-conformist, fiercely independent". Mavericks maybe, but also custodians of heritage. Despite many changes in ownership over 120 years the main buildings, layout and operations have remained much as Barnard found them just a few years after the distillery was built. The Coppers, an old mash tun, the original wash still, traditional craft and experience rather than computers used in the production process - so much of the history is still in place and preserved here.
|No computers needed in the still room
Yet I wondered how he would view the current fixation with wine finishes, or Additional Cask Enhancement (ACE) that Bruichladdich experiment with. They also produce an Organic whisky, a distinction unthinkable in his time when 'scientific' farming was still developing. Their Octomore whisky has been peated to 152ppm for the 2010 release, the peatiest whisky we know, probably more so than when peat was the standard fuel across Scotland in Barnard's time. The webcams around the plant that you can log onto to see the different stages of production from your desktop would seem like witchcraft in 1885, akin to the second sight that people once feared in the island communities.
Questions to ponder over a dram or two and we were treated by Mary to a wonderfully varied tasting back at the visitor centre where my inferior pallet, sorry palate could be tested. The standard Bruichladdich spirit is very lightly peated at only around 3ppm and their whisky mostly matured in ex bourbon casks. The 'Rocks' whisky has been ACEd in Grenach casks that I thought provided a hint of kiwi fruit to the gentle peat notes. A 21yo matured solely in Oloroso casks gave me a wonderful mouth full of sweet honey and banana flavours. And then there was that Octomore. Wow, only more so! A big hit of peat that slowly mellows from flame to embers, but with a sweetness just there under the surface, peach and treacle drifting in the smoke.
|Bruichladdich visitor centre and tasting room
Jim views a Still room as like a kitchen - a good chef can create wonderful things from quality ingredients and the same can apply in a distillery given time and imagination. A still house can be an evocative place, late at night the "silence of the stills" as he put it can perhaps inspire thoughts and dreams. I began to consider whisky as being as culturally ingrained as raising a family, or cooking, woven into our lives and developing alongside us, providing moments to cherish. Jim finds some of those moments when he is alone in a warehouse with a glass, a valinch and a torch, finding that one cask that stands out as special in its time.
|R>L Mill house, grist loft, tun room and still house / kitchen
In the meantime I will be looking out for the next Hebridean progression from cask to bottle and the first brick to be laid at the new distillery in Port Charlotte. I will finish with my thanks to Mary for her warm welcome and infectious spirit and to Jim for his wisdom and inspiration, all four qualities to be found infused in the fabric of life on Islay, and if you can't get to Islay then let Islay come to your glass and find them in a well crafted and cared for whisky. Bruichladdich have quite a few to chose from.


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Running in the Tatra mountains (part 3)
I left you on the Tatra mountains, roughly halfway between Zakopane and the Slovakia border. I was soaking wet, and running on some very water-logged trails, and having loads of fun. The flat, wide and dry touristy trails turned into waterlogged impromptu rivers, and these finally turned into firm earthy single-track trails.
While I ran through the forest, I could smell a wonderful wet and earthy decay. That wonderful smell of nature composting dead branches and leaves back into earth from which new trees will grow. It was misty weather, so everything had a slightly mystical nature. I felt like I was running in one of the many fantasy novels that I have read.
The view from the top was spectacular. I had finally run above the forest, so I could look down at the trees. I couldn't see much besides the tops of the trees just in front of me, but it felt liberating to stand there, having run all the way to the top.
When I say "to the top", I was only about 1/2 way to Slovakia; I had already climbed over 500m in about 7km, and that was the easy part of the trail. I very much doubt you would be able to run the second half to Slovakia. It would be a very tough hike.
Here is the route I took if you want to see it. https://www.strava.com/activities/702351830
Some quick notes on safety.
- I had the Tatra mountain rescue number in my phone. For reference it is +48 601 100 300
- I pre-loaded my route into my GPS watch, and my wife had a copy of my route
- I took water & some food with me
- I took a space blanket, first aid kit, compass, mountain maps, windbreaker & gloves with me
- I make sure Lois know my expected arrival time, and gave her a suggested window before she worry
- My phone was fully charged
Running in the Tatra mountains (part 2)
In my previous post I was telling you how good the trails in Zakopane were to start with. Well as soon as I got off the flat touristy trails it got wet…very wet…By now I was very much alone, and very much wet!
There was so much water running off the mountain that the trails turned into rivers. This is part of the trail that I ran up. Yes, this is a trail – not a river.
Two rivers joining an even bigger river.
And more of the trail. At first I tried to stick to the edges and keep my feet dry, but soon I revised that it was hopeless, so I embraced the water and ran straight through the water. My feet got soaking wet. But I was having so much fun. I hadn't felt so alive in ages!
To be continued…
Running in the Tatra mountains (part 1)
One of the things I wanted to do in Zakopane was to go running in the mountains, so I make sure to pack my basic trail running kit (hydration pack, first aid kit, space blanket, compass etc). It was pouring with rain for the entire day before my run, so I knew that the trails would be wet, but it was far more wet than I expected.
It started very civilized. The trails were wide, flat and well-maintained, and on the route I encountered groups of tourists & families going for morning walks. It reminded me of a very wet Newlands forest.
The beginning of the trail. There are loads of trails on the Tatra mountains (you can even cross the border into Slovakia if you go all the way), so I just picked a random route up beforehand and started running. By the way the trail maps are excellent, so it was easy to figure out a rough route and avoid getting lost.
Everybody was hiking in their winter clothes – jeans, thick jerseys and sturdy hiking boots. I was running in my usual running gear. A technical short and lycra shorts.
The rivers were flowing fast, and there were plenty of sturdy bridges crossing these small gorges
To be continued…
Grape run
The Constant winelands
Last Sunday was one of my favorite races in Cape Town. The Grape Run is a half-marathon (21.1k) race through the vineyards of the Constantia wine farms. The scenery is spectacular, and for a total elevation of over 420m, for a half marathon it's a pretty tough run. Note I say run and not race. While of course you can race it, this is an opportunity to enjoy the route, take a few photos, and of course stop for the mid-race wine-tasting. Yes you heard correctly. There is a 10k wine table, serving Klein Constantia wines.
While you almost never get wine on a race, this particular wine-tasting is a Grape Run tradition, it wouldn't be quite the same without it!
Running around one of the farm dams
At least the farm dams still have water, so if we run out of water in Cape Town we can still drink Constantia wine
Mid-race fuel
Because its on the farm roads, there are almost no supporters, except for the occasional overprotective cow and calf.
Running in the forest
My in-law's house in Krakow is on the border of the Ojcow national forest. It is a small yet beautiful forest, full of trails, steams and wildlife. So of course I spent as much time as possible exploring the trails in the forest.
Running along the trail
One of the many rivers; I found many otter dams on this river, and lots of trees that the otters had cut down (yes the otters quite literally cut down the trees to use as dam-building material)
A most-covered tree; when you get deep in the forest it gets very earthy and wet. You can smell the earthy smell of the decomposing plants on the forest floor
I even found an old castle in the middle of the forest
Running uphill – the forest was suprisingly hilly – they were plenty of good climbs
Finally, here is the route I ran – about 14k. If you're ever in the area I highly recommend a run through the forest.


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Air entrainment in concrete railroad ties is typically included to prevent freeze-thaw damage. Uniformly-distributed microscopic air voids in concrete ties helps to resist against freeze-thaw. The air entrainment system stability with time after mixing is dependent on a number of factors which include chemical, environmental, and construction related parameters. These resulting differences in the air void system can in turn lead to different performances of concrete under freeze-thaw loading. Vibration is mainly used to consolidate concrete but can also alter the air structure of concrete. This study investigates the effect of different chemical admixtures and rheological properties on the stability of the air system inside vibrated concrete. Form vibration of 75 Hz frequency and 3 g or 10 g peak acceleration was applied to the tested concrete after the lapse of several time durations. This was done to investigate the stability of the air system of concrete as time passes on under different vibration conditions. The testing included slump, unit weight, temperature, rheology and fresh air content before vibration and after vibration for each elapsed time duration. Fresh air content tests showed that the air loss increases linearly with time for almost all mixtures. Concrete rheological properties immediately after mixing were not a good indicator of the concrete air system stability after delayed placement. Tall oil based air entraining agents (AEA) was found to produce slightly lower air instability; however, the differences between AEA were small. The results showed that for precast concrete railroad ties, any instability with time of entrained air should not be a significant problem for precast concrete railroad tie plants if the concrete is placed and consolidated within 30 minutes from mixing at room temperatures.
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Lots of stimulation in this John Horgan interview with Eliezer Yudkowsky (via). Among the gems:
Horgan: I've described the Singularity as an "escapist, pseudoscientific" fantasy that distracts us from climate change, war, inequality and other serious problems. Why am I wrong?
Yudkowsky: Because you're trying to forecast empirical facts by psychoanalyzing people. This never works.
(Note on 'Singularity' FWIW by EY here: "I think that the "Singularity" has become a suitcase word with too many mutually incompatible meanings and details packed into it, and I've stopped using it.")
One more EY snippet: "… human axons transmit information at around a millionth of the speed of light, even when it comes to heat dissipation each synaptic operation in the brain consumes around a million times the minimum heat dissipation for an irreversible binary operation at 300 Kelvin, and so on. Why think the brain's software is closer to optimal than the hardware? Human intelligence is privileged mainly by being the least possible level of intelligence that suffices to construct a computer; if it were possible to construct a computer with less intelligence, we'd be having this conversation at that level of intelligence instead."