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OPD chases vehicle thought to be stolen
Officers chased a vehicle they thought was driven by a carjacker overnight, but found a man wanted on other charges behind the wheel instead.
Orlando Police Department officers said they were alerted of a stolen car by Orange County Sheriff's Office deputies overnight.
Officers thought they spotted the car near the Orange Blossom Trail just after 2:30 a.m. They attempted to pull the vehicle over, but the driver would not comply.
Officers pursued the car through several streets. They deployed stop sticks near John Young Parkway, and the chase came to an end.
When the pursuit ended, officers realized the car they were chasing was not the one that reported in the carjacking.
The driver of the vehicle, however, was a wanted man. Officers say he failed to appear in court recently on drug charges.
A search dog bit the driver. He was treated for the bite.
There was no immediate word on the actual stolen vehicle.


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Parents are confused and want to choose the best school for their children. Our school deeply engages children in learning that is fun and challenging. We need your help to highlight what we do.
I am the President of the Board of Trustees for our K-8 Bay Area Jewish Day School that engages every child in their own learning through provocative problem solving that requires critical thinking, creativity, collaboration and communication. Our students become lifelong learners and leaders in both the broad community and the Jewish community.
Parents who visit our school notice how engaged our students are in their education, how secure they are in the definition of their identity and how confident they are in a community that emphasizes character, kindness and service.
This project should visually entice parents and students to explore the school.
Parents of pre-school and grade school children in the North Peninsula of the San Francisco Bay Area. Most of these parents are Jewish, but not religious. Most of them have good public schools, but they are concerned about the schools not giving their child enough challenges, support or attention. They are worried about the cost of private school and need to know it's dramatically better than what they get for free.
If we can entice them to visit our school, they are highly motivated to apply and attend.
We have a 3 x 24x36 trifold stand that sits on a table top. There is a separate space across the top (will send measurements) for the school's logo and name.
This is a project to design 3 side by side posters that will always be displayed together. They tell the story of the Education, Identity and Community that students experience at Wornick.
We want to use the new trifold by Nov. 5...so it's a quick turn around. We have photos and copy. We also have branding standards - see http://www.wornickjds.org. We'd like to use the swoosh and we want the story to be visually obvious.
The logo colors are: The blue is 100 Cyan, 85 Magenta and the Red is 100 Magenta and 100 Yellow. The gray type is called Constantia. It is 20 Cyan and 85 Black
The swoosh will be uploaded so you can use it in the design. It's under "simple Header".
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Identity poster: Older/Younger, Tzedakah, 8thMasadagirls, Reali Kids
Education poster: Laptops, Small group w/teacher, need two more
Community poster: T'fillah, sophiatorah, drums, sports
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The font for Hebrew is RaananaBold
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Webinar:Leveraging Replication to Optimize MySQL Backup & Disaster RecoveryMonday, July 21st, 2008
Open Storage and Open Source Backup – A Perfect CombinationWednesday, July 9th, 2008
Today Sun announced release of X4540 Open Storage server (a.k.a Thor). We were fortunate to get early access to Thor to certify Amanda Enterprise and Zmanda Recovery Manager (ZRM) for MySQL. Both solutions are optimized for backing up to disk, are already certified with Solaris 10, and leverage capabilities of ZFS. So it made perfect sense to certify them on Thor, effectively creating a high-performance and yet relatively inexpensive backup appliance.
The unit we were using is powered by 8 CPUs operating at 2300 MHz and provides 48 SATA drives with total capacity close to 50TB in 4U enclosure. That is good packing; a typical EMC unit with so much capacity will take the whole rack.
The two boot drives configured as a mirror were running UFS. To get capacity for backups, we easily created Zpool with 12 drives and 2 spares in RAIDZ2 configuration. That gave us 7 TB of capacity for backups with very high level of protection against drive failure:
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zmanda 203K 7.13T 49.0K /zmanda
zmanda/vtapes 49.0K 7.13T 49.0K /var/lib/amanda/vtapes
While installing ZRM and Amanda Enterprise on Thor, we found that a couple of Solaris packages that we require were missing, and our coverage of dependencies in documentation was not perfect. Luckily, that was the only hiccup. After fixing the dependencies, the rest of installation and configuration went smoothly.
This screenshot shows part of a summary report about backup of five Solaris clients to Thor over 1 Gb network. Each client had about 100 MB of data. In that test we forced full backup on each run, with each client pushing data at 60 MB/s. That is not bad at all considering that you can get only 20-25 MB/s for a typical LTO-2 tape drive.
The X4540 Open Storage server is an excellent choice for creating your own backup to disk appliance. It provides high performance and very large capacity. One key feature is how easy it is to manage all that capacity with ZFS.
Special thanks to Sun's Menlo Park and Colorado interoperability teams who helped us to get started and advised on considerations in configuring ZFS for backup to disk.
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I edited the first post to include this quote from Cornered Cat, which I just found and which fits really well:
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iPhone users can now take "vertical pictures" with multiple lenses... in HI-RES!!! Their kids will regret looking at the vertical pics on wide-screen monitors (few really use vertical monitors) after they have passed, but whatever, it's all about holding it wrong...
good quote, Dreaded. hopefully, it gets read.
"The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her own pantyhose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound."-- as seen on a t-shirt
As you can probably tell by my sig line, the 1911 is my favorite platform.
Did I know that 2 years ago when I stepped into the world of gun ownership? Nope.
Did I know that last year when I owned 5 9mm pistols? Sure didn't!
It took time, research, money,and a LOT of trips to the range to generate a process of elimination. Id get banned from this website if I listed every quality handgun I spent money on and discovered for one reason or another they were unsuitable for ownership.
Fellow guys, I understand your desire to want your woman to get kitted up and ready to defend herself, but that's a realization she must make ON HER OWN. Buying a handgun for your lady and expecting her to defend herself with it is like buying her a piano and expecting her to outplay George Gershwin. If she doesn't care about guns, accept it.'Cause I know from experience finding your ideal arm is like a pilgrimage to Mecca-its not a trip someone else can make for you.
The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be.
The more subsidies you have, the less self reliant people will be.
-Lao-Tzu, Tau Te Ching. 479 BCE
The 1911 may have been in wars for 100 years, but Masetro Bartolomeo Beretta was arming the world 400 years before John Browning was ever a wet dream.
The reason for that is simple. 99% of the time, the women don't really want the gun (at least not enough to do the research themselves). I'm always amazed about the amount of effort expended by guys trying to "drag" their women into shooting. If women wanted to shoot - they would. All by themselves. They get to the mall themselves and manage to do all kinds of things themselves. Judging my the number of unescorted women I see at the range (virtually 0), I have to assume that the vast majority of women (about 50% of the total population) just are not that into it.
The number of female gun owners is growing. In a poll it showed 23% of gun owners are female.
I don't know perhaps it's because I'm a female, but thus far I've had good luck at getting my girl friends to be repeat shooters. I've been to the range several times with only girls. Many of my friends tell me because I'm so small they look at me and figure they can do it too. LOL. Hey whatever works.
I would suggest the following-
Getting her to shoot
1. Start her off with something fun and light like a .22. Then ask her if she wants to try something a little bigger and reassure her it'll be okay. Don't bring out a S&W500. Too many times I've seen guys pressuring their woman to shoot something way too big and powerful. Of course she won't like it! Also don't put the target waaaaaay out, to try and show off. She'll just be frustrated her shots aren't hitting paper. Make it fun for her. Also for first timers I typically load all rounds. After loading a few hundred rounds for 4 girls, my thumb is black and sore for the next two days, but they are in such shell shock I let them absorb the shooting fundamentals first.
2. Reassure her at how good she was. Positive reinforcement is always nice.
3. Repeat #1 and this time have her start loading her own rounds. Now she is a little comfortable having been to the range, so you want to start teaching her the mechanics. Most new shooters have no clue how a gun works.
4. Reassure her at how good she was.
5. Try inviting her girl friends. By this time she will have some confidence especially amongst her friends. Rent the same caliber guns as you started her off as with the targets close. She'll feel like it's easy. If you get her girl friends to also like it that's great!
Do a little research and show her a gun she might like. In front of your family/friends brag about how good she is. Show them the gun you are thinking would be good for her. Then ask if she wants to try it out. LOL... I know this sounds kind of sneaky, but I have lots of friends who only knew gucci, burberry, and sephora... I'm slowly transforming their vocab to glock, benelli, and sig. In my opinion, it's not something girls sit around and do, but if they are shown and encouraged it will be different. I always love getting new shooters hooked... I guess I kind of feel like a drug dealer, but I use guns. LOL.
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Last year I invited a friend of mine and his wife to the local range for the 1st time.On the drive down I brief the couple on safety procedures and proper gun handling, so when we hit the line everyone's up to snuff.
Husband shoots my Beretta. Hits the target 2 out of 5 rounds at 7 yards.
Big Smiles.
His wife shoots my Beretta.All of her 5 rounds hit the target, admirable considering the weapon barely fit her hand.
Big Smiles.
I take my turn, crank out the target to 10 yards like I customarily do on my range visits, and without hesitation shoot a 3" group with the M9 like I usually do. I turn around and see my guests as I explain that its my usual drill when practicin-
Big Frowns.
Oh crap.I spent the rest of the session explaining that I went to the range monthly, and as such I never shot that well the first time out. I doubt it helped much.
To someone who's starting out, what we consider "average" performance looks like Rob Leatham to us.Next time I take someone shooting im not even going to take the line.The entire point of the exercise is to make shooting fun, not embarrassing.
The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be.
The more subsidies you have, the less self reliant people will be.
-Lao-Tzu, Tau Te Ching. 479 BCE
The 1911 may have been in wars for 100 years, but Masetro Bartolomeo Beretta was arming the world 400 years before John Browning was ever a wet dream.
"The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her own pantyhose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound."-- as seen on a t-shirt
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- Aqua tower Chicago Jeanne GangSituated along Chicago's The Loop, the Aqua is a distinct construction that sits amongst a slew of standard glass boxes. The building takes a form inspired by Lake Michigan and the Chicago River, which is manifested on its facade of rippling balconies on its surface. The ripples however are not random and were a carefully calculated addition that found many challenges with their integration. Each floor plate in Aqua is unique, ultimately making the construction of the building quite complicated. The inconsistent floor plates also created variations in unit sizes - while some people may have a balcony up to 12 feet wide, others find just inches extending from their feet.2
- Aqua tower Chicago Jeanne GangThe balcony overhangs do however serve a an environmental purpose. They not only shade apartments from the hot summer sun, but also protect the building from the force of wind - one of the most challenging aspects of skyscraper engineering. The undulating facade effectively mitigates the heavy Chicago winds, breaking them down to such a degree that thet building doesn't require a tuned mass damper to stabilize it against wind vibrations and sway. And even if small for some units, every floor up to the 82nd can make claim to a balcony - something that usually cannot be done above sixty floors given heavy winds.3
- Aqua tower Chicago Jeanne GangThe tower was actually first designed as a hotel, but ailing economic factors required the building to be turned into a apartment complex. As such, the building hosts expansive views of the city, Millennium Park, and it's inspiration, sparkling Lake Michigan. The building also maintains a swimming pool, sky gardens, running tracks, open-air hot tubs, a library and a billiard room. The tower's garden roof is actually one of Chicago's most extensive. Gang's love for avian also found its way into the design. The architect paid close attention to how birds navigate in urban environments and react in the face of different materials. The complex facade design helps birds pick up on irregularities in their path, signaling for them to avoid the building.4
- Aqua tower Chicago Jeanne GangIt was in 2006 that Gang was invited by fellow architect and developer James R Loewenberg to submit a preliminary design for his Aqua Tower. Given that skyscraper design, which was then, and still is, a branch of the architecture dominated by men, Gang jumped at the chance. However, Gang is no diva. Speaking to the Guardian back in 2009 about her design method and the tower, "Our working method is very collaborative. Having said that, at least half, maybe more, of the staff here are women. I just think it's natural. I've always wanted to build. I was encouraged to make and repair things by my parents. But OK, I can't hide the fact that it's great to have done a skyscraper, even if I never do one again."5


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My 16 year old daughter is getting hit from all sides for admitting to being an atheist. My daughter doesn't drink, doesn't do drugs, and hasn't had sex yet..... but she is going to hell according to all of her friends who just happen to do ALL OF THE ABOVE!
She is a very smart kid and usually just laughs it off and occasionally tells her "friends" that she isn't really an atheist, she just believes in Odin and bases that on of the lack of Ice Giants still roaming the earth. That Odin at least kept THAT promise, a far better record than the christian god. Blank stares usually follow.
What are some short and sweet retorts she can use? And bare in mind that, quite obviously she is dealing with kids that have sub room temperature IQs.
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jerod ,
Are you under the impression that my daughter is initiating these discussions? When they tell her she has no morals (while smelling like weed or alcohol) and that SHE is going to hell, she should accept that? She has no desire to convert or deconvert anyone..... I think she just wants to defend herself.
and yeah, I am demonizing and "idiotizing" them. They are verbal abusing my daughter.
No, I am fully aware that she isn't the one initiating. And I'm not saying she shouldn't defend herself. Just that when she does, she doesn't act like a bully herself, but a friend. And that isn't going to happen if all she sees in these people are the negative things that you are building up so shamelessly with your demonization. If this continues, then they will likely grow up to be anti-atheists who won't want to listen to anything any atheist has to say ever, and she will grow up to be an anti-theist who mirrors that attitude. There is nothing productive about this tension between extremes. Verbal slander and abuse is stupid and yes it SHOULD be met with humility as a contrast, so that the bully will finally be aware that there IS something else besides what they have always known.
Jerod - I fully agree with this principle - "be the change you want to see", as Gandhi said, but you need to have some fun with them as well, otherwise they think they've got away with being a bully.
@ Jerod
I see you turning around and acting like you can solve the issue by encouraging her to antagonize them back. I mean no disrespect, but shouldn't you encourage her to do the opposite of what they are doing?
It sounds to me like you are saying she should just shut up and not express her views for the sake of making friends. Are you saying she should turn the other cheek? Oh the irony! It seems like his daughter is being bullied, well, verbally at least. The biggest mistake is to ignore a bully. In such a case, it essentially amounts to saying "you're fine, continue on with your bullying. I can take it, I will ignore you". This is dangerous. Bullies needs to be met head on because when you are pushed, you push back.
This is the ONLY type of bullying that anyone at her school will attempt toward her. A year ago a well known bully pushed her from behind. My daughter (the cute little cheerleader and member of the track and softball teams) turned around and warned her not to do it again. In response, the bully hit her. My daughter defended herself well that day and the girl that started it ended up getting her two front teeth knocked out. She will not tolerate bullying, nor will I.
Her friends, for the most part are just busting her chops. I mean, without a doubt, they are not REALLY religious. If they were, I doubt they would be drinking, doing drugs and having as much sex as they were. They are only "religious" because that is all they've known, because all of their divorced and cheating parents are "religious". (I know these stories, because my wife is friends with many of the moms, and I get to hear what these fine, upstanding, church-goers are up to. It would SHOCK you, I say, SHOCK you!). I think they just see my daughter as an oddity.... a young woman who can think for herself. WEIRD!
All (well, MOST!) of these responses were exactly what I was looking for; smart, funny and obvious to anyone with an above room temperature IQ!
OK, you got there before me. I'm glad she knows how to stand up for herself.
Actually, I agree with this too. Bullies are very difficult to deal with, especially when there are a lot of them. I think it's essential to show them you're not intimidated by them, no matter how much noise they make. Allies are necessary, people who have their heads screwed on. Bullies are stupid ignorant cowards who can't face their own inadequacies and take it out on other people, and when they get together they can be like a pack of dogs. They want you to feel as bad as they feel. Sometimes an area has a bad culture - bad people move in, and nice people move out.
I think it's also about status. Putting someone down automatically moves you a notch up the status ladder, thereby giving you a little cheap shot of much-needed self-esteem.
Good stuff, Simon!
Well, if she's as nice as her dad, she's a good girl. She should join Think Atheist (not that you have to be "good" or otherwise). Half the people here seem to be refugees from religion. It's a bit like the Wild West, but none the worse for that. You get the occasional saloon fight, but nothing that can't be settled over a few shots of whiskey.
Or Vodka and Mountain Dew, right Unseen?
I absolutely do not recommend ignorance, but what I mean to say is that there are two different types of confrontation.
1. Confronting the demonic evil stupid bully
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"Kony does not represent them, but until the legitimate grievances and feeling of marginalization of northern Uganda's communities are genuinely addressed, LRA fighters remain a possible vehicle for the expression of northerners' frustrations."
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KAMPALA, 15 December 2008----Peace activists in northern Uganda have criticized a weekend air and ground assault by the armed forces of Uganda, Southern Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) against several Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) camps in north-eastern DRC.
The activists warned the operation could derail a two-year peace process that had brought "some normalcy" to northern Uganda. "It is unfortunate; life will be lost and that is not of any benefit to humanity," Bishop John Baptist Osama, the Catholic Archbishop of Guru, said.
"The state we had reached was merely to agree and iron out the ICC [International Criminal Court] indictments. We thought that they will wait and then we find a better way forward."
Norbert Mao, Guru district council chairman and also spearheading attempts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict, expressed shock at the operation and said leaders in northern Uganda felt betrayed. "We feel betrayed because we expected them to wait for the UN envoy, Joachim Chicano, to make his report to the UN Security Council and any actions thereafter should have been done under a bigger umbrella organization that has been supporting the peace process," Mao said.
He added: "It [is] the height of hypocrisy because [Ugandan] President Museveni and Ruhakana Rugunda [Uganda's chief government negotiator in the talks with the LRA] have been saying that they will stick to the peace process. It is a reckless decision that is likely to provoke the LRA into northern Uganda and wreak havoc again."
Ugandan army spokesman Paddy Ankunda told IRIN that several LRA camps in the Garamba forest area had been overrun during the joint assault. He said one of the aims of the operation was to effect arrest warrants issued by the ICC against Kony and other LRA leaders.
"The operations were also prompted by the LRA's failure to sign the peace deal," Ankunda said, referring to a final peace agreement Kony had again been slated to sign in November, following several last-minute no-shows resulting from Kony's demand that he be dealt with by Uganda's courts, rather than the ICC.
"[For] those who still think that they can make sense out of the peace process, the door is still open, but as far as we are concerned, the peace was suspended by the mediator as of 1 December," said Ankunda.
Although five protocols were signed during two years of talks between the Ugandan government and the LRA, a great deal more needs to be discussed to conclude the peace process, according to a new report by the International Crisis Group. www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=5804&l=1 "Grievances over marginalization and victimization by the [Ugandan] government, genuine processes of reconciliation based on accountability for all crimes, including those committed by the army and leading to fair reparations, and a credible disarmament incentive for Kony and his men have not been resolved," warned ICG.
"Kony does not represent them, but until the legitimate grievances and feeling of marginalization of northern Uganda's communities are genuinely addressed, LRA fighters remain a possible vehicle for the expression of northerners' frustrations."
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I decided to break this off of a discussion in the "new engine" forum, as it was getting off-topic there.
To summarize, I've been putting my mind to the problem of how to make a guitar amp simulator. The traditional methods are very difficult, and aren't really producing results that I would call first-rate, though some do, like the Waves GTR and Softube Amp Room, the latter of which I consider the top of the bunch. This all leaves me wondering if a more behavioral approach might be called for.
There are two ways to model a system. One is the black-box approach, where you feed known inputs into a system, get known outputs from that system, and then create a best-fit algorithm of your own to go in-between. The problem with this approach is that it is not parametizable; you can't change an input and get the same result as you would on the original system, and it also does not model interactions between the components of the original system. However, for your one curve-fitted instance, this method is likely to provide really good results.
The other method is via physical or component modeling, where the system components are known, and models of each component are combined in a system where they can interact with each other. This has the advantage of being parameterizable in the same way as the original system, complete with interactions of components. However, these systems are extremely complicated to put together, and don't always guarantee good sounding results across a range of parameters.
I'm wondering if we can't take a hybrid approach, though I don't know exactly how to put it into words.
One of the ways that the "tube" sound is often simulated is with a simple waveshaper using the tanh (hyperbolic tangent) function. You can tweak the sound by applying different bias to the input signal to emphasize one class of harmonics over another. It's not an actual model of a tube, though it does get some of the behavior right: it has a fairly linear range until you push it hard, then the overtones kick in.
Looking at the graphs of various tube datasheets, I can't help but wonder if a more complex waveshaper couldn't be made which matches the curves on the datasheets. It's not true modeling, but combining several of these waveshapers together with other modeled components (EQ and filter networks, DC filtering, etc.) in order to create a complex interacting system that is predictable, like a real guitar amp. Basically, it would be black-box modeling the tube, and component modeling everything else and creating the matrix from that (it remains to be decided how an output transformer would be handled, but I imagine a filter plus a transfer function would work there). As for the cabinet and speakers, I'm wondering if physical waveguide modeling wouldn't be a good way to go there.
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- 5.0
Great value for midsize SUV
By Mcb345 on Tuesday, January 02, 2018Its not quite a BMW, Mercedes, Audi, etc in terms of driving dynamics or interior finishing, but then again its not quite Honda Pilot, Toyota Highlander, Volkswagen Atlas, etc. What it does is straddle the difference between these cars and it does it for a great value. Tech Package AWD is the best bang for your buck although with the 2017 and 2018 including all the safety features standard along with Car Play (2018), a 46k AWD base model is a fantastic value! For 50k you get AWD Tech with most of the bells and whistles. Compared to similarly equipped luxury suvs its WAY cheaper. Drives very well, not too sporty but good enough for a kid hauling / semi sporty SUV. You wont be driving this like a Porches Cayenne so dont be confused, its not that kind of SUV but to take a corner a little faster than usual or flooring it on the on-ramp it puts a little smile on your face. Again, the value is key with this car. Interior quality is very good, the car looks pretty nice on the outside too. Finishes are nice looking, not Audi A7 nice but again, much much cheaper with equipped with similar options. 9 speed transmission is slow and cumbersome and somewhat encourages mundane driving but hit the sport button and all that changes. I wish the 7 speed dual clutch in the Hybrid was available in the non-hybrid model for more fun driving but beggers cant be choosers! For a safe, kid hauling / comfortable semi-sporty SUV, this hits the nail on the head. Yeah Id rather be driving a fully equipped Audi A7, but for 70k+, no thanks.
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2016 MDX - Pros/Cons
By Road Chalk on Friday, September 06, 2019I love how the power of this engine can effortlessly kick in and move you away and out of potentially dangerous situations when driving. One of the quietest transmissions I have ever owned. Switches gears and doesn't labor at doing it. Braking is sometimes a bit grabby. I don't know if this has to do with the type of ride that you can select on the IDS button. Comfort of the leather seats is good and the heated seats can get warm in a hurry! Air conditioning blows as cold any brand out there. Map and display are not user friendly and not intuitive to use. Takes way too long to input your destination and map isn't the best at charting your course. Wish I could upgrade or change out to where it could use Apple maps or similar application from my cell phone. Comfort when driving is pretty good. Lumbar support could be a bit more assertive.
- 5.0
Fun to drive SUV mimics sports sedan handling and
By Frank on Thursday, August 22, 2019This is my 3rd MDX and my experience is compared to other cars we own. They include 2019 MB E350 SUV, 2011 MB E350 cabriolet, 1988 Jeep Cherokee, 1981 Porch 911 SC. I use it as my commuting car to work and my drive is 14 miles on wonderful, curvy country road. Things I like most in comparison to the 2019 MB is the fun of driving it. Feels rock solid in the turns and has equal or better acceleration. My wife prefers the MB in regard to its comfort over irregular road surfaces. We both like the way the MDX "electronics- GPS " stuff works without as much need to take eyes off the road to find the switch or button that needs to be operated. Both cars are equipped with lane keeping steering control and adaptive cruise control. The MB does a smoother job when using the adaptive cruise control and has a better control algorithm that more smoothly adjusts the speed to suit the traffic speed of the vehicle you are following. However the MB requires the simultaneous use of lane keeping and cruise control and the two features can not be called up separately as can be done with the MDX. Automatic headlight dimming on the MB works at much lower speeds than on the MDX which I find very useful driving slowly at night on curvy roads. The biggest frustration we have with the two cars is that various functions performed, lights, shifting, windshield wipers have their actuators or stalks on opposite sides of the steering wheel which adds to lots of confusion when first starting out for a drive.


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Once Pakistan's strongman, Pervez Musharraf holed up at farm in test of country's democracy
From October 1999 to February 2008, Pervez Musharraf held unequaled power in Pakistan as the country's dictatorial president and a key ally in the United States' war on terror. President George W. Bush was considered a close personal friend.
On Thursday, however, Musharraf was holed up at his farmhouse in Islamabad's Chak Shahzad suburb after a high court denied him a bail extension and ordered his arrest in one of a plethora of cases outstanding against him.
Several hundred police, backed by federal paramilitary troops and anti-terrorist squads, sealed off the area around the residence for much of the day before withdrawing, apparently after Musharraf was declared under house arrest and his house made a temporary jail under the administration of officials from the Adiala prison in adjacent Rawalpindi.
As Musharraf sweated it out at the farmhouse, Pakistan's caretaker government contemplated whether to bring Musharraf to trial. The country's Supreme Court has ordered it to do so – or the court will take action on its own.
Thursday's developments were the latest in a series of body blows to Musharraf, who returned from exile in March in an effort – many thought misguided – to regain some sort of status in Pakistan's political system. Instead, he found that over the five years since he'd been forced to step down as president, Pakistan had become a vibrant democracy in which no one institution, including the army, can call the shots.
On Tuesday, Musharraf was disqualified from running for office in next month's general elections. He'd already been barred from leaving Pakistan because of serious charges initiated while he lived in exile from 2009.
Musharraf's lawyers had not expected the court to deny him a bail extension – the initial bail had been granted to allow his return – and the stunned former president had to be hustled away by bodyguards to avoid arrest on the premises. A cavalcade of armored cars effected the former president's high-speed getaway to his farmhouse.
The court later issued an order demanding that the police explain why he wasn't seized before he left the courthouse and that action be taken "against those police officials who remained napping instead of performing their duty."
Since Musharraf returned to Pakistan in late March, Pakistan's caretaker government has been under mounting media pressure to launch prosecutions against him for cases ranging from treason to murder. However, it has balked at the prospect of taking on the former dictator, largely because Pakistan's powerful military would be severely embarrassed.
The military has ruled Pakistan for half its 65-year existence, with Musharraf leading the fourth junta. The current army chief, Gen. Ashfaq Kayani, still exercises a virtual veto on foreign and defense policy, but in principle he supports the current 5-year-old democratic process and is watching a second consecutive election campaign from the sidelines.
The scene was a far cry from Musharraf's heyday after he overthrow the country's elected government in 1999. By the summer of 2006, he seemed on the verge of cutting a peace deal with India, with which Pakistan had fought three wars since the two countries attained independence from British colonial rule in 1947.
Then he started making mistakes that turned Pakistani public opinion against him. In 2006, army units killed Akbar Bugti, a veteran politician leading a low-intensity insurgency in the vast but sparsely populated province of Balochistan, which borders southern Afghanistan and Iran.
Musharraf now faces murder charges for the killing, in which he denies involvement.
His next error was to fire Pakistan's chief justice, Iftikhar Chaudhry, and other defiant Supreme Court judges in 2007 and have them placed under house arrest. In doing so, he gave Pakistan's political opposition a rallying cause.
A once sympathetic media turned hostile after Musharraf restrained it from covering the mounting judiciary-led opposition and closed non-compliant cable news channels, including Geo News, the market leader.
Musharraf's gravest political error, however, was to risk all by returning to Pakistan, a decision that baffled the country's political commentators and apparently was taken against the advice of army chief Kayani. When ignored, Kayani was instrumental, with the assistance of the influential governments of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, in persuading the mainstream political party leaders not to push for his prosecution.
But by the time he returned, Chaudhry had been back on the bench for years. It was Musharraf's imprisonment of the Supreme Court justices that sparked the charges being heard in the Islamabad high court on Thursday.
Musharraf now faces the daunting prospect of a treason trial, for his illegal 1999 overthrow of an elected government led by Nawaz Sharif, then the prime minister, who was first imprisoned and then forced into exile in Saudi Arabia. Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League party is expected to win the most seats in the May 11 election and form the next government.
But Musharraf's fate may rest in the hands of the Supreme Court judges he sacked in 2007. Ominously, the court on Wednesday ruled that if the caretaker government did not exercise its executive authority to set up a special tribunal to hear treason charges against Musharraf by Monday, then the court would.
Musharraf's lawyer, Ahmad Kasuri, has sought to exploit the awkward position of the military, saying any prosecution would necessitate charges of aiding and abetting against many army generals for endorsing the 1999 coup and other unconstitutional acts. But whether that will be enough for Kayani to interfere in the events now playing out remains to be seen.


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by Sideboard Staff
Team Draften Und Speilen (Drafting and Playing) is (obviously) a German team. Its members are Stephan Valkyser, Christian Luhrs, and Patrick Mello. Christian Luhrs and Patrick Mello are from Munich, whereas Stephen is from Aachen. The team formed in April for the first Pro-Tour New York, and although they have not been able to practice together because of the distance between Munich and Aachen, they decided to keep the team together. Stephen Valkyser won Grand Prix Antwerp, Christian Luhrs made the Top 8 in Chicago last year, and Patrick Mello is famous for his Dojo article.
The team cracked open their packs. The cards were not particularly encouraging; there were almost no bombs, and there was remarkably little removal, even in the colors that are normally known for them, like red and black. Among the highlights:
The team arranged the cards by color and by casting cost. The team was not particularly happy with their cards, and they spent a long time debating about how to divide up them up. After a long time discussing the matter, they tentatively decide to divide up the cards into a red/green deck, a blue/black deck, and a red/white deck.
The team continued to debate about which cards to include their decks; for example, they decided to pull a Soul Strings for a second Gush.
Eventually, they settled on their decks. Patrick Mello got the red/white deck, which had an OK rebel chain, including a Thermal Glider, a Volcanic Winds, and two Cho Manno's blessing. Interestingly, Mello decided not to play with the Story Circle, as he said that the deck was aggressive, and that Story Circle doesn't fit in it.
Stephen Valkyser played the blue/black deck with an Avatar of Will, Sever Soul, Stinging Barrier, and Waterfront Bouncer. Valkyser was playing with two Skulking Fugitive, which normally is a questionable card to play, but Valkyser defends his choice by pointing out two facts. First, he is in the "C" spot, and he expects to play a lot of opponents using black; against black, the Fugitive is a very good card. Second, he also has two Cateran Kidnappers, and the Fugitive can be summoned for free with the Kidnappers.
Finally, Christian Luhrs is played the red/green deck. Although it has a lot of good green fat, it has virtually no removal (the red removal got put in Valkyser's deck).
Overall, the Germans felt that these were the weakest cards that they have gotten all day. They didn't really get many bombs, and their cards aren't consistent either. "We hope to go 2-0, like always, but we expect to go 1-1."
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A Visit to the Chocolate Festival
in the Stutson Bridge Plaza on Pattonwood Drive.
Ben (my 6 year old) and I just returned from a fun outing to Irondequoit's Encore Chocolates
in the Stutson Bridge Plaza on Pattonwood Drive. I already love
patronizing this store. Number one, it's a local business. Number two, their chocolates simply are second to none. Did I mention the outstanding customer service?
held their third annual Chocolate Festival today. What a treat (literally and figuratively).
We turned in our tickets and then went over to the chocolate counters to choose our warm dipping chocolates. I chose dark and ganache, while Ben chose milk and dark. We went outside to the tables full of friendly ladies and had the joy of choosing among the fresh fruits, mini Oreos and Rice Krispies treats, pizzelle cookies, and more.
Ben was partial to dipping marshmallows into milk chocolate. My favorite was the fresh sliced peaches and raspberries dipped in ganache. We were also served a decadent drinking chocolate, which is more like a dessert than a standard hot cocoa.
The Encore Chocolates team had a great set up going and it was really engaging. For example, my son and the other children there had the chance to be chocolate artisans by dipping and decorating their own pretzels. What a great way for the entire family to be involved.
What an impressive event!
Supporting local businesses is of great importance to me. It's important to our town and to the economy as well. Encore Chocolates is a really special place. They've been in business since 1987 and have really established themselves as one of the best around--with good reason. They are my go to source for gifts for friends and family and treats for myself, too. Check out Encore Chocolates at 147 Pattonwood Drive today!


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The changing face of Learning!
For years, the teachers were given the role of collector of information and disseminating that information through a sage-on-a-stage classroom. However, with the rapid increase in the reach of Internet, information is now freely and easily accessible. The classroom is no longer the single source of information, thought it remains a very important one.
Voice of the Student:
Students are clearly telling us educators, that the time in class should not be spent providing them information that they can easily get elsewhere. The class hours could be more effectively used by helping them in resolving the doubts that they encountered while consuming information elsewhere (typically online), evaluate and analyze alternate views that they have encountered and finally help them connect the dots of information in creating a better understanding of a concept (information to knowledge) – addressing loosely the analysis, evaluation, creation phases of Continue reading…


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We've also added an exciting new resource: Under #This tab, there is now a growing and searchable database of Street of the Day photos and locations from around the world. #StreetoftheDay helps provoke conversation about the essential ingredients of street designs that captivate our imaginations, boost property value, and embody civic life. Explore today to find useful precedents, and pan around in 360° Street View.


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Investors Get Early Jump on Cancer Treatment
HEALTHCARE: Kite raises $20 million in private placement of shares.
A Westwood company has made significant progress on a treatment designed to restore the body's immune system to fight off cancer.
Kite Pharma Inc., an early stage drug developer, last month raised $20 million in a private placement of preferred stock that included a new investor and several existing backers. Kite also converted $15 million in promissory notes to shares of the same Series A preferred stock.
The new funding follows a partnership that Kite struck in the fall with the National Cancer Institute to commercialize genetically engineered T cells to treat advanced cancer. T cells are a type of white blood cell used by the immune system. The treatment is designed to restore the ability of a patient's immune system to recognize and kill cancer cells in the bloodstream and in solid tumors.
Kite, which raised $15 million in a first financing round last year, hopes to have some of its drug candidates ready for midstage human clinical trials next year.
"These events are really a validation of our platform technology," said Chief Executive Aya Jakobovits.
In 2007, Jakobovits was chief scientific officer at Santa Monica cancer drug developer Agensys Inc. when it was acquired by Astellas Pharma Inc. in a deal valued at the time at more than a half-billion dollars. The Tokyo company kept Agensys here and expanded local operations.
Dr. Arie Belldegrun is Agensys' former chairman and current Kite chairman. He participated in the latest Kite funding. He is director of the Institute of Urologic Oncology at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine as well as partner and chairman of Two River Group, a New York venture capital firm and merchant bank focused on biotechs.
Another Agensys veteran on the Kite team is board member Roy Doumani, a professor of molecular and medical pharmacology at the Geffen school. He is an authority in nanotechnology and the international financing of biomedical ventures.
"Agensys and Kite are great examples of the type of biotech we want to succeed in Los Angeles and stay here," said Ahmed Enany, chief executive of the Southern California Biomedical Council.
A new Kite investor is Alta Partners, a San Francisco private equity firm. Other participating investors included Israeli venture capital firm Pontifax Ltd., Commercial Street Capital, and billionaire investors Michael Milken and David Bonderman.
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Another Westwood biomedical company with UCLA ties is NeuroSigma Inc., which is commercializing a device to treat neurological conditions ranging from epilepsy to post-traumatic stress disorder.
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62% & 15% Ethanol in Emollient Gel as Topical Male Microbicides
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00469547
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : May 4, 2007
Last Update Posted : April 30, 2009
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|Condition or disease
|Sexually Transmitted Infections
|Other: 62% ethanol in emollient gel Drug: Placebo Other: 15% ethanol in emollient gel
|Phase 1
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Estimated Enrollment :
|30 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Crossover Assignment
|Quadruple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Safety & Acceptance of 62% & 15% Ethanol in Emollient Gel as Topical Male Microbicides
|Study Start Date :
|November 2007
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|December 2008
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|December 2008
Experimental: 1
62% ethanol in emollient gel
Other: 62% ethanol in emollient gel
62% ethanol in emollient gel used as a topical male microbicide
Other Name: Topical male microbicide
Placebo Comparator: 2
15% ethanol in emollient gel
Drug: Placebo
15% ethanol in emollient gel used as a topical male microbicide
Other Name: Topical male microbicide
Other: 15% ethanol in emollient gel
15% ethanol in emollient gel used as a topical male microbicide
Other Name: Topical male microbicide
- Self-reported urethral pain, urethral burning, penile itching, penile rash, penile blisters, penile ulceration or penile discharge. [ Time Frame: At follow-up clinic visits on days 7, 14, 28, 35, 42 or 56. ]
- Adverse events other than those listed as primary endpoints judged related to product use. [ Time Frame: Varies ]
- Reported positive attributes or negative attributes of the study products, willingness to use and recommend the products, adherence with use of condoms and of the topical microbicide. [ Time Frame: Varies ]
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Male
- 18 years or older
- Working in the fishing industry for at least 3 months and living and working along the shores of Lake Victoria within a 70km radius of Kisumu, Kenya
- Uncircumcised
- Sexually active (have had sex in the last 2 weeks)
- Commercial or transactional sex during the past month
- Inconsistent condom use (less than 25% of all sex acts)
- Ability & willing to attend the clinic for a eight week period
Exclusion Criteria:
- STI diagnosis on clinical examination
- History of or evidence of dermatological inflammation (e.g. balanitis, phimosis, swelling of prepuce, warts on penis) upon clinical examination
- History of genital ulcer disease, penile trauma, dyspareunia (pain during sex), foreskin tears
- Congenital abnormalities: hypospadias, epispadias
- HIV, HSV-2 and syphilis-seropositive
- LE positive
- History of allergic reaction to alcohol products.
- Preference for oral sex
- Participating in HIV/HSV-2 or participated male circumcision studies based in Kisumu
- Investigator discretion
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00469547
|Kenya Medical Research Institute
|Kisumu, Kenya
|Principal Investigator:
|King K Holmes, MD, PhD
|University of Washington
|Study Director:
|Elizabeth Bukusi, MBChB, MPH, PhD
|Kenya Medical Research Institute/University of Washington
|Responsible Party:
|King Holmes, MD, PhD, University of Washington
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00469547 History of Changes
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|First Posted:
|May 4, 2007 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|April 30, 2009
|Last Verified:
|April 2009
ethanol, microbicide, sexually transmitted, Kenya, males
HIV Seronegativity
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Genital Diseases, Male
Genital Diseases, Female
Anti-Infective Agents
Anti-Infective Agents, Local
Central Nervous System Depressants
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X-ray-emitting jet is discovered in distant quasar
Research collaboration offers insights into the universe 12.4 billion years agoOur understanding of the early universe has taken a small step forward thanks to the discovery of a new, record-setting, X-ray emitting jet. The research was a collaboration of astronomers led by Teddy Cheung Ph.D. '04, and included Professor of Astrophysics John Wardle, Doug Gobeille Ph.D. '10 and four other scientists. It was detected with the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, and observed with the Hubble Space Telescope and with the radio antennas of the Very Large Array in New Mexico.
The jet is produced by a supermassive black hole at the center of a quasar known as GB 1428+4217 (or GB1428 for short), located 12.4 billion light years from Earth, and is the most distant X-ray jet discovered to date.
Since the age of the universe is known to be 13.7 billion years, the light and X-rays we see today left GB1428 when the universe was only 1.3 billion years old. These images therefore give astronomers new information about the physics of jets and the formation of galaxies and supermassive black holes in the very young universe.
|Professor John Wardle
"Quasars are galaxies with brilliant and energetic nuclei centered on massive black holes," says Wardle. "The centers of these galaxies are so bright that they outshine the rest of the host galaxy, so photographic images appear star-like. In fact, the word quasar is a contraction of quasi-star."
Giant black holes pull material toward them at ever increasing speed. Some of the energy of the in-falling matter generates intense radiation and often twin jets of very high-energy particles that shoot away from the black hole in opposite directions at close to the speed of light. This is called the quasar phenomenon.
Wardle says we now believe that just about every galaxy has a massive black hole right in the center, which is responsible for the energetic phenomena we see.
"Our own Milky Way Galaxy has a relatively modest black hole at its center with a mass of four million suns," says Wardle. "The black holes at the centers of the most luminous quasars have masses of a billion suns or more."
Research for GB1428 began when Cheung, then at Stanford, compiled a list of the most distant quasars in a large region of sky. The team set about systematically making radio images of them using the Very Large Array of 27 radio telescopes in New Mexico. The radio imaging was the Ph.D. project of Gobeille.
Cheung, who is now at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., said his team is excited about this result not just because it's a record-holder, but because very few X-ray jets are known in the early universe.
Co-author Lukasz Stawarz, from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency in Kanagawa, Japan, said since the brightness of the jet in X-rays depends, among other things, on how fast the jet plasma is moving away from the black hole, discoveries like the jet in GB 1428 tell us something about the environment around supermassive black holes and their host galaxies not long after the Big Bang.
It is believed that the X-rays are produced when the fast electrons in the jet collide with photons (particles of light) of the cosmic background radiation, which is the glow of the Big Bang. The electrons lose energy and the photons get boosted to X-ray energies.
Because the quasar is seen when the universe was at an age of 1.3 billion years, the cosmic background radiation was about a thousand times more intense than it is now. This makes the jet much brighter, partly compensating for the dimming due to distance.
Aneta Siemiginowska of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and another co-author in the paper, said we're lucky that the universe gives us this natural amplifier and lets us detect this object with relatively short exposures, because otherwise we might miss important physical processes happening at very large distances from Earth and as far away as GB1428.
Wardle says that through the images, scientists work to understand the physics behind the X-ray jets and how they interact with the gas and light around them. GB1428 also presents the severe problem of understanding how a galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its center has already formed within the 1.3 billion years that has elapsed since the Big Bang.
Additional co-authors of the paper include Dan Harris and Dan Schwartz from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
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In 1917 a young Pedro Pavone-Voglino left his homeland in Italy's Piamonte wine region and embarked upon the long journey to the New World. His pioneering spirit led him to Chile and allowed him to come to know the beauty and benefits of the Maipo Valley. Pavone Family Captivated by the area's landscape and its particular qualities for wine production, he decided to settle there ... Read more
In 1917 a young Pedro Pavone-Voglino left his homeland in Italy's Piamonte wine region and embarked upon the long journey to the New World. His pioneering spirit led him to Chile and allowed him to come to know the beauty and benefits of the Maipo Valley. Pavone Family Captivated by the area's landscape and its particular qualities for wine production, he decided to settle there and acquired the land that is now Viña Santa Ema in 1931. He began producing grapes for vinification, which, due to their quality were sold to well-known Chilean wineries. He married Marta Arbea Perrot in the small town of Isla de Maipo, where their children and descendents still live today. In 1956, 'Don' Pedro and his oldest son, Félix Pavone-Arbea, began making and marketing bottled wines that soon earned recognition by the industry and consumers alike. Félix Pavone continued the work of his father, married Catalina Moreno, settled into the family home in Isla de Maipo and had four children: María Cecilia, Félix, Rossana, and Pilar, who have all actively worked in the winery since their youth. In the late 1960s the winery purchased a significant amount of land in the Peumo sector of the Cachapoal Valley. This area is particularly known for its high quality red varietals, such as Carignan, Carignan, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Syrah, and, of course, Carmenère. The company's first exports began in 1986 with shipments to Brazil. Today Santa Ema wines are exported to more than 30 countries in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. The primary market is the United States, where Santa Ema is consistently among the top 10 Chilean wineries in terms of sales. In Chile, Santa Ema has earned a solid position by becoming one of the highest-selling Chilean wineries in restaurants, hotels, and wine shops. El Peral In 2003 the company inaugurated its modern new El Peral vinification facility in Isla de Maipo, surrounded by 50 hectares of estate vineyards. The 3.2 million-liter winery is equipped with the highest technology available for fine wine production and is widely recognized as a local landmark. Over the years, Santa Ema has been recognized by the most important national and international organizations and has earned numerous medals in competitions such as the Concours Mundial de Bruxelles and distinctions in prestigious international trade magazines. It was recently named to the Wine Spectator's list of Top 20 World's Finest Value Brands, Wine Advocate rated four Santa Ema wines above 90 points, and Wine & Spirits named it Value Winery of the Year. But for Santa Ema, the most important distinction of all is the preference of its consumers around the world to appreciate the work of three generations dedicated to the production of consistently high quality wines. Read less
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G2507, Reviewed November 2018
Disease control is only one facet of a successful management program. Treatment of disease is not as effective or as economical as prevention. Many outbreaks of disease in swine herds can be avoided by using management practices that include strict sanitation and immunization programs.
Biosecurity is a herd management strategy designed to minimize the potential for introducing disease-causing organisms onto the farm or its buildings. People, pigs or wildlife may transport diseases from outside the herd. Trucks that have visited other operations may also carry disease organisms. All equipment and tools should be cleaned thoroughly after each use.
From a health standpoint, the herd should be located at least two miles from other pigs. If this is not possible, attention should be given to the location of the nearest swine herds, prevailing winds and the likelihood of accidental exposure to other pigs or wildlife. Domestic pets that have been exposed to other pigs are also a concern.
A perimeter chain link fence will discourage people and stray animals from entering the grounds. Bird screens on all curtain-sided buildings reduce the potential for disease transmission by birds.
Strict visitor policies should be enforced, with only necessary personnel allowed access to pig areas. Visitors may be required to shower and to change into clothes provided by the swine unit. Ideally, visitors should not have been present on other swine farms in the previous 24 hours.
Feed delivery and animal load-out should take place at the perimeter areas so that transportation personnel do not enter the unit. Feed bins should be located adjacent to perimeter fencing. A load-out area should be available from the last finishing building near the perimeter fence, or pigs should be transported to the road using farm equipment, so that livestock trucks do not enter the compound.
Pigs should be moved as a group during each stage of production in an all-in/all-out manner. When a group is moved from any production facility, that area should be cleaned thoroughly by power washing and then disinfected. Disinfection should be attempted only after thorough cleaning. Cold temperatures and organic material reduce the effectiveness of most disinfectants. The chemical agents commonly used require several minutes in contact with disease-producing agents to be effective.
Disinfection procedures should include:
Newborn pigs, weanlings, feeders and breeding animals should be kept separate. Some diseases that may cause few or no clinical signs in one group may be highly pathogenic to another group.
In general, the benefits of changing from continuous flow production to all in/all out production are:
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Common disinfectants, their characteristics and uses
All incoming breeding stock should be quarantined in isolation for 30 to 60 days at a minimum of 200 yards from the primary herd. Thirty days is the minimum period for adequate isolation and observation. Longer periods offer even more security.
Because of the prevalence and impact of specific diseases, a vaccination program should be followed. Caution and routine surveillance are the primary health procedures suggested. Pig management procedures may be performed during the first three days of life. These include iron injections, tail docking, removal of needle teeth, and ear notching for identification.
Vaccination program
A combination Leptospirosis/Parvovirus/Erysipelas vaccine should be given twice, at least two weeks apart, to all incoming breeding animals. It should also be given to all sows when the pigs are weaned and to boars twice a year. Pigs should receive Erysipelas vaccine at the time of weaning. The need for other vaccines should be determined with the aid of a practicing veterinarian.
Internal and external parasite control. All incoming replacements should receive two treatments, two weeks apart, with external and internal parasiticides. Fecal samples should be monitored from each production area on a quarterly basis to determine the presence of internal parasites. Further refinement of the deworming program is based on the results of these examinations.
Animals in all phases of production should be observed at regular intervals for clinical signs of external parasites. Hog lice (Demodex phylloides) burrow in the skin or live in hair follicles, resulting in skin irritation that can occur with or without itching.
Baby pigs are very susceptible to lice and mites, but are sensitive to the treatment compounds. Therefore, control measures should be directed at the sows. Skin scrapings should be conducted on at least six breeding animals every six months to monitor for external parasites. Consulting with your veterinarian to select the proper control measures for your operation will reduce the risk of infestation by these parasites.
Slaughter checks
Slaughter checks should be conducted quarterly to examine for evidence of ascarid (worm) migration in the liver, pneumonia in the lungs, and atrophic rhinitis in the nasal turbinates. The skin, joints and intestinal and reproductive systems can also be observed during the slaughter checks. The findings of these checks can be used to refine health management procedures.
Blood samples should be obtained annually from breeding animals and examined for antibody titers for Pseudorabies and Brucellosis. Serologic tests should also be done for diseases that are common within the area in which the herd is located.
Feed samples should be checked at least every six months for proper mixing, particle size and the presence of the major nutrients in the amounts calculated in the ration formulations. Samples may be held back and saved from each major shipment of grain for mycotoxin testing in the event that disease signs suggest possible exposure.
Monitoring for other infectious agents may be done at regular intervals. These include serology for TGE, nasal swabs and cultures for Bordetalla bronchiseptica.
Feed additives
Feed-additive, growth-promotant antibiotics may be used in the early phases of growth. It may be advantageous to run "on-farm" trials in the finishing phase to determine the economic return on using antibiotics during this time. In general, the return is much smaller as the pigs increase in size. Each feed additive should be evaluated for its effect on growth and disease organisms to determine which will be the most cost-effective for a given operation.
This publication does not introduce any new concepts, but is designed to reemphasize the importance of strict management practices that minimize the exposure of susceptible animals, breeding or finishing, to potential diseases.
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Broadway Hotel n Hostel
The Broadway Hotel and Hostel is located on Broadway in the Upper West Side of New York. We are a short walk away from Central Park, Columbia University, St. John The Divine Cathedral and the Red Line subway. The subway leaves you in Times Square in just a few minutes. Bus stations are just one block away. We are also within walking distance from a variety of restaurants, clubs, pubs and lounges.
We offer many services and facilities to our guests and make sure they enjoy they stay with us. Our friendly multi-lingual staff is happy to help you at any time with any queries and also we have 24 hour security. There is no curfew or lockout at The Broadway Hotel and Hostel.
Entertainment at the Broadway Hotel and Hostel includes the Club Tour, where you experience the New York City nightlife, skipping the lines and receiving discounts on drinks. The Walking Tour, a tour that takes you around the historical and exciting sites and attractions in New York and the Pub Crawls, visiting a number of interesting bars, pubs and lounges offering cheap drinks and meeting new people.
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• Club Tour - Experience nightlife the way it should be in New York City. No waiting on line, discounted drinks and lots of dancing fun!
• Walking Tour - Come join us as we tour around exciting New York City. Visit historical and exciting places.
• Pub Crawls - Visit various cool bars and lounges where cheap drinks are always available.
***New York's 1st Boutique Hostel***
Experience A Truly Unique, Chic And Exciting Boutique Hostel In NYC's Most Trendy Neighborhood
Our Hostel Features:
• Spacious and comfortable 2 Bed Dormitory setting. No Crowding in rooms
• Newly renovated Private Ensuite and Semi-Private rooms
• Chic And Plush Guest Lounge With Multiple Seating
• Elegant Library With Intimate Fireplace
• State Of The Art Cinema Showing All Of The Latest Movies Daily
• Free Wi-Fi In Our Guest Lounge And Lobby Areas
• The Nintendo Wii System Featured On Our Game Days
• Kitchen Facility Equipped With Refrigerator, Microwaves, Sink & Storage Cabinets With Condiments
• Newly Upgraded Private Ensuite Rooms Featuring Flatscreen Television With Cable, Coffee Maker, Comfortable Beds And Plush Pillows
• No Curfew & No Lockouts
• Bellmen Services Provided To Assist Guests With Luggage And Information
• Secure Luggage Storage Facilities As Well As Lockers
• 24 Hour Security For The Safety Of Our Guests
• Computer Kiosks With Internet Access And Printer In Guest Lounge.
• Complimentary Daily Linen Changes Provided As Well As Towels And Pillows
Please Note:
• Payment can only be made in cash or travelers' check; however, reservation must be made by credit card. Private rooms require a valid ID and credit card at check-in
• Total payment must be made at check-in and rates do not include taxes. Sales tax is 14.75% and occupancy tax is $3.50 per room per day
• 24 hour cancellation is required. Please notify us directly if there is any change to your arrival and reservations past midnight cannot be guaranteed unless you have arranged it with us.
• Maximum stay is 14 days
• NY State residents are not permitted
• Promotions: discounted rates are subject to availability. Please contact us directly if you require 10 beds or more. Group rates will be applicable.
• Airport shuttle is available on request at an additional cost
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- 24 Hour Reception
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- Adaptors
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- Breakfast Not Included
- Cable TV
- Ceiling Fan
- Common Room
- Cots available
- Telephone/Fax Facilities
- Free City Maps
- Free Internet Access
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- Fridge/Freezer
- Hair Dryers
- Hair Dryers For Hire
- Hot Showers
- House Keeping
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- Late check-out
- Linen Included
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- Meals Available
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- Tea & Coffee Making Facilities
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Cancellation PolicyThis property has a 3 day cancellation policy. Failure to cancel within this time will result in a cancellation charge equal to the first night of your stay.
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Reservations are guaranteed until 12am (midnight) on day of arrival. Anyone arriving late must call and confirm for late arrival.Please note that prices do not include taxes. An additional 14.75% New York City hotel tax and a $3.50/room/night occupancy fee will be added to your balance to be paid on arrival. We accept cash, travellers� cheques and credit cards - visa, mastercard, american express. A valid, government-issued ID is required upon check-in. We do not accept New York State residents.
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The local subway line is the #1 train (red line). Take # 1 train to West 103rd Street and walk two blocks south to West 101st Street & Broadway. Entrance is on West 101st Street.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 22 diseños de 9 diseñadores freelance.
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This book is written to bring attention to the issues currently facing Haiti and what needs to be done to find solutions. Its main focus is to raise awareness and captivate the attention of the international community and Haitian-American leaders and thinkers in particular.
The title of the book is: Haiti, Wyclef Jean & The Scavengers.
Authors: Jacques Guillaume and Jean Jocelyn.
The size of the book cover is 5 X 8 inches.
The cover should be quite controversial and an attention-grabber!
The cover should depict some vultures devouring the country of Haiti with a picture of Hip Hop artist Wyclef Jean shown in the mix.
We want a cover that is very controversial which would capture the attention of the Haitian Community as well as Wyclef Jean.
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The Old Trainer: High-tech app helps fetch lost dogs
D ear Old Trainer: A neighbor said she heard of a phone app that somehow tracks lost dogs. Our 2-year-old dachshund, Mimi, is part of our family and we want to take every precaution to keep her safe. If it exists we want to get it.
Dear David: A phone app for lost dogs does indeed exist, David, and it's one of the cleverest uses of technology you'll ever see. It's called Finding Rover and you can't argue with the price – it's free to all.
You just take a picture of Mimi with your phone – they make it easy by including a recorded bark at the press of key so she looks right at the phone – then upload it to the website along with your name and phone number.
Meanwhile, anyone who finds a lost dog takes a picture and posts it to the website with the date and location where they found it.
If Mitzi gets lost, you notify the website and it uses facial recognition technology to match her face against every dog in the system.
If someone has posted a picture of Mitzi, the app gives you the information on where to find her.
If someone finds Mitzi they take a picture and post it and the site immediately gives them your name and number.
I recommend it to everyone who has a dog and everyone who loves dogs. Millions of dogs are lost every year, and if everyone has this app most of them will be returned to their home. Here is where you download it: www.findingrover.com.
Dear Old Trainer: Congratulations. I know how hard you work to change the focus of dog shows, so I loved watching mixed breeds compete in the Westminster Kennel Club dog show for the first time in history. Will we see more of this?
– Kathy
Boulder, Colo.
Dear Kathy: Thank you, Kathy, but it was the voice of thousands of dog owners like you who persuaded Westminster to include mixed breeds.
I take my hat off to the officials at Westminster. They are the biggest and best-known dog show and it took courage to tell the world they were putting dogs first from now on.
It was long overdue and will have a positive effect on all dogs and all dog shows.
For those who missed it, Westminster allowed mixed breeds – under the classification of American mutts – to compete in the agility contests during the event, and the mutts stole the show.
Dog shows once had a noble purpose, but over the years they lost their way.
Judging – unqualified people making capricious interpretations of arbitrary standards – made them a laughingstock, and they became a marketing arm for greedy breeders.
The result is the 7 million dogs euthanized every year in the United States, many of them purebreds sold by those same breeders.
Westminster opened the door and the American mutts did the rest. They showed the world what everyone who ever had a mutt already knew – they are smart, loyal and full of love.
They reminded everyone that unconditional love and a big heart are why dogs are special, not what their coat looks like.
Good job, Westminster, good job mutts.


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The Filibuster
Lot of surprises so far this season. Should anyone be panicking yet?
Schaumburg, IL
After the Rays and Red Sox picked up their first wins of the season on Friday night, I'm sure that both managers heaved a big sigh of relief. Of course when the Rays followed that up with news that Manny was retiring, I'm sure Joe Maddon dug right back into that Costco sized tub of Rolaids he must have been hitting the past ten days. So, I'm guessing that the Rays might be starting to panic.
But if there's one guy who should truly be panicking at this point, it's not Joe Maddon or anyone else on the Rays. It's not Manny, it's not Big Papi and it's not any once, present or future Red Sox. No, if there's one guy who should be panicking, it's Laurent Gbagbo.
For those of you who aren't quite sure who Mr. Gbagbo happens to be, let me give you a quick background. Mr. Gbagbo is a former Ivoirien freedom fighter who then went and got himself elected president of the Ivory Coast. However, he found Jesus while in office and after losing last year's election, decided that Jesus wanted him to be the winner anyway. Since then he's been trying to help Jesus out by killing people who voted against him. That hasn't worked out too well, though, and now Mr. Gbagbo finds himself holed up in a bunker underneath his former residence while troops loyal to the president-elect slowly draw closer.
Understandably, Mr. Gbagbo should be panicking. Funny enough, though, he doesn't seem to be sweating it at all.
Most likely there are a few reasons for that. Number one is that Ivory Coast is a basket case and rules don't really seem to apply. Number two is that Mr. Gbagbo apparently has four months of supplies in his bunker and the troops protecting him have weaponry superior to that of the troops closing in. Number three is US Senator Jim Inhofe.
Uh, wait a minute. Jim Inhofe? That doesn't make any sense. Why would he care about what happens in the Ivory Coast? Well, if you ask Mr. Inhofe, he'll tell you it's about Jesus.
See, the president-elect, Mr. Ouattara, comes from the northern part of the country, an area that is nominally Muslim, as is Mr. Ouattara. Mr. Gbagbo is from the southern, mainly Christian, part of the country and loves him some Jesus. Apparently where Mr. Inhofe comes from, this means that the election results shouldn't matter and the US should recognize only the candidate who loves Jesus more.
Actually Marc, I think I'm going to change my answer at this point. Sure, maybe the Rays and Red Sox should be panicking a little. And maybe Gbagbo should as well. But the people who should really be panicking are all of us Americans. With leaders like Mr. Inhofe supporting despots like Mr. Gbagbo, we're all screwed.
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The state of Connecticut is suing a Bridgeport grocery and convenience store owner accused of using hundreds of food stamp accounts to buy hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of energy drinks, candy bars, beef jerky and other products that he sold at his store.
Saaid Cherkaoui, who runs Slim's Deli Market, is accused of obtaining EBT cards from authorized recipients and using them at BJ's Wholesale Club, where he bought products at a discount.
State officials said the scheme began as early as March 1, 2011 and continued until Oct. 6, 2012 He'd swipe card after card at the self-checkout to pay for the products, then resell the items at his store, according to the complaint the state filed against Cherkaoui.
"The alleged misuse of these benefit cards diverts taxpayer nutrition assistance funds from those who need it most – especially children -- and is an abuse of public trust," Attorney General Jepsen said in a statement. "The state also has an interest in assuring an honest marketplace, in which economic activity is conducted without fraud or deception."
The program, called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP, is a federally funded food sustenance program that provides assistance to low-income individuals and families at risk of undernourishment.
Benefits are distributed through an Electronic Benefits Transfer, which can be used like a debit card to buy groceries, but not cigarettes or alcohol.
At times, people who receive the federal benefits have sold the cards for cash, drugs or alcohol, according to state officials.
The state is seeking civil penalties of $5,000 for every violation of the Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act and disgorgement of all revenues, profits and gains Cherkaoui might have realized from the alleged scheme.
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May is National Barbecue Month—time to get your grill on. Whether you're a rookie or a veteran who just needs a refresher course, consider these grilling guidelines when you fire up this season. They may keep you from getting raked over the coals (badum chh).
Keep it hot. Preheat your grill, otherwise your food will stick. The Cook's Illustrated Guide to Grilling and Barbecue says that when your grill is ready, you will be able to hold your hand five inches above the grate for two seconds if the fire is "hot" and three to four seconds if the fire is "medium-hot." (A little oil on your grates will help prevent sticking as well.)
Apply barbecue sauce later.If you brush on sauces at the beginning of cooking, they may burn by the time the food is done. Wait until the last few minutes to apply them and you'll get a nice glaze instead of a black, charred mess. If you marinate your meat, be sure you keep it refrigerated the whole time. The longer it marinates, the more flavor the meat will retain.
Test for doneness. The best way to tell if your meat is done is to cut it—just be sure to cut into the thickest part of the meat. Depending on how much it bleeds, you can determine your preference of doneness. If you don't want to serve a steak with a big slash in it, serve that side plate down.
The drawback of cutting is that you risk loosing precious juices, so if you prefer, you can also use a digital probe thermometer. The digital thermometer gives provides an accurate measure, plus you can set it beep at you when the meat has reached your desired temperature.
With poultry, always be sure it's cooked through—"rare" chicken or turkey is never healthy. Save $1.00 on Butterball frozen turkey burgers now.
And while chicken, burgers and steaks are often the center of attention, adding some veggies to the menu could infuse an element of "healthy" into your backyard barbecue menu. Here are a few tips for grilling veggies.
Prepare your grill. Veggies don't behave the same way on the grill as meat—they don't have the same natural juices and fat. Be sure to prepare your grill to prevent them from sticking to the grates.
Choose the right veggies. Some of the vegetables that cook best on a grill include asparagus, onions, mushrooms, bell peppers, corn on the cob (either with or without the husk) and mushrooms, especially portobello.
Add flavor. Sprinkle grilled vegetables with fresh herbs. Small vegetables like cherry tomatoes or sliced veggies work best threaded through kabobs. You can also wrap vegetables in heavy-duty foil, though cooking in foil cuts back on that appealing smoky flavor.