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GenGAME writes: "Ocarina of Time is my top game ever, and its 3DS remake, which introduced graphical overhauls, a touch-based menu and inventory selection system, and added gyroscope controls for aiming, is my preferred version. Technically that makes Ocarina of Time 3D my favorite game of all time.
"And yet, having seen and played what the Zelda team has to offer The Wind Waker with The Wind Waker HD, I'm convinced so far that it's actually going to turn out the better remake"
This preview gets me even more pumped up for this game. I hope in the end that they do put in the dungeons that were removed in the original.
It is the same game, Ocarina of time was a remake, this shit is just a remaster in HD with wii U control support. I passed this game on the gamecube. I don't see the point of playing the wii U version of the same game. Nintendo needs to stop being lazy and make a Zelda designed specifically for the Wii U.
Well naturally, you don't have the handicap of 3d holding you back. However both games are great and I can't wait to see this in HD on my tv. This will be a nice time killer until they show Zelda HD for the first time. I know they said their using this game to test gamepad ideas for the new Zelda and I'm fine with that. That's what they did with the port of twilight princess to the wii for skyward sword and that game came out amazing so I'm now worried at all.


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Wednesday, July 16, 2008
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Out of 123 respondents 10% are planning to quit when they can afford it, 14% are quitting now, 45% can not afford to quit, 6% are dropping their hospital privileges, and a whopping 30% appear to be in for the long haul. That makes 70% unhappy providers.
So what? So we are not easily replaced. So, unlike flipping burgers, it is really sometimes a life and death thing when you need a physician or skilled nurse. A bad one can kill you, so it's, well, it's kind of important that we actually like what we do. As to the reasons for these results, please read the rest of the blog.
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Yeah, but happy providers don't read MDOD! They're busy petting kittens and talking colleagues out of drinking binges/suicide/another box of Dove bars.ReplyDelete
I am considering becoming a nuclear medicine technologist. I bugged the crap out of the guy who gave me my radioactive pills because I asked him about a million questions about how everything worked. It completely fascinated me. Would that job suck too?ReplyDelete
My youngest is starting Kindergarten not this school year but next and I would have some time to go back to school. I could start now in the evenings and take one class at a time if I wanted to. I don't want to work hard and then hate the job though. I don't NEED to work, I could stay home forever and mooch off my husband, but I think it would be nice/rewarding to do something I enjoy eventually. What do you think?
do it radgirl. then you would be radgirl radgirl like major major major major in catch-22. i think it's a fine job and you could set your schedule. of course, i think you should go into medicine so this would be my second choice, but, in considering the current climate, go become radgirl radgirl.ReplyDelete
Radgirl: I went back to school when my youngest was in kindergarten too. Great idea! We can both be totally overeducated for our jobs!!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous6:19 PM, July 16, 2008
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I am a cardiology NP who works 3 days a week in nuclear medicine supervising stress tests. If I was contemplating a career change, I would DEFINITELY consider nuc med. Actually if I could work there full time 5 days a week I'd be much happier.
Where I work it is a small department, we all get along fabulously and there is great camraderie. Last year I hosted the nuc med X-mas party at my home; had a pot luck, drank some good wine, played cards and had a blast. There is probably close to a 25 year age range between us all - with me being nearer the top of the range.
I think that if you find a good match with where you work then it is a great career choice. 911 has my personal email (if he did not delete it), feel free to get my email from him and I can give you more scoop re: my experiences in nuc med.
BTW, a few years ago there was a huge demand for technologists, then there apparently was a boon in training programs and now the demand is not quite so high. My guess is that there are regional differences. We have NM students rotating thru where I work. Last year's student got a job at a plush private cardiology office and she was hired on as a NEW GRAD at $75K (this is in the SF bay area in CA) and was promised an increase in salary approaching 100K if she met productivity goals. My jaw dropped when I heard that salary!
- Anonymous7:28 AM, July 17, 2008
I think its a grass looks greener thing. I remember my days as a Gigolo, sure it was nice having 40 yr old MILFs buy me drinks but after a while its just a Job.ReplyDelete
disagree a bit. certainly there is a grass is always greener thing with almost everything in life. that being said, i would really love to be in EM, but am leaving for something that will be boring.
i would say that the grass is greeener pehenomenon is not operative here for a more obvious reason.
i think what we are mostly pissed about is having our salaries tied to the whims of the fed. govt and insurance co's.
other professionals in a true market system... NFL football for instance, are actually treateed like adults though they are often most assuredly not.
they can negotiate contracts based on specific measures of performance and, most of the time, get paid at least what they are worth. that's the market.
on the other side, they are worth this much because they make AT LEAST this much for the team owner.
so yeah, randy moss can be a jerk, and pac-man jones can salt away his millions (which will be gone a year or two after he quits football), but these roided up athletes are appreciated for their skills and i kinda think that football NFL players have skills that are more unique than mine, but not orders of magnitude more unique.
they are treated like kings, i am treated like a cog.
i think we did this difficutl professions for many different reasons but i don't think many in my generation had any idea that we would be relegated to 'cog' status. that would have made my decision easy to go to b school. then i could have been a well rested cog or even a cog director.
It's alarming and I hope things change for the better.ReplyDelete
We need you! :)
Interesting how almost half of the medical workers would presumably want to quit, but can't afford to do so.ReplyDelete
If our system ran like those in other countries where the government paid for medical education, the US would be in a world of hurt for medical providers right now.
As it stands, much healthcare is provided not because professionals want to, but because they have to.
Don't put down burger flipping. Think of how important the job is.ReplyDelete
Which word to stress? Do YOU want fries with that. DO you want fries with that? Do you WANT fries with that? . . . All of that enunciation and preparation defeated by a low tech sound system. Augh!
People don't understand how far from a free market economy we are. We want the government to control quality and availability, algorithms to prevent independent decision making by doctors, lawyers to win the lottery for us, and we want to be cured instantly for free, or a small copay. When you are being regulated by unrealistic morons (as opposed to the realistic morons) it is kind of expected that things will not be ideal.


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Dynamo players Danny Cruz and Mike Chabala added to their celebrity on Monday when they appeared on an episode of MTV's MADE, coaching an aspiring soccer player in Arizona.
For Cruz, the role coaching Michael Schwenke into his high school soccer tryouts hit very close to home when Cruz was approached late in the Dynamo's 2010 season. He agreed to participate and invited Schwenke to meet him at the Dynamo's final home game of the season against the Seattle Sounders. From there, the experience took off.
"I really enjoyed getting along with Michael and learning about his family, and it was a bonus that it was in my home state," Cruz said. "Our families come from similar backgrounds, and I enjoyed it. It was great to help a kid try to achieve a goal that he didn't think he'd be able to do."
Cruz, who went to Ironwood High School in Glendale, returned to the Phoenix area to coach Schwenke all the way through tryouts for the varsity and JV soccer teams at Dobson High School. True to his own roots, he emphasized fitness and hard work in his coaching sessions.
"It was a fun experience for me to try and coach somebody," Cruz said. "It was definitely a difficult experience, trying to be patient and work through a lot of adversity, but it was a good time."
The bond that developed between Schwenke and Cruz was never more evident than when Cruz was called away due to an unforeseen scheduling conflict, bringing in Chabala as a replacement just days before tryouts concluded.
"It was tough, because I tried to emphasize that it was going to be he and me through the end, and we were going to work as hard as we could," Cruz said. "To have to go back on that and say, 'Listen, I'm here for you and we did this together, but work has me leaving,' was very difficult."
Cruz's training stint with Nottingham Forest and Generation adidas – a previously scheduled commitment – left both parties a little emotional.
"I'm an emotional guy, and he got teary-eyed when I was saying our last goodbye, and I started feeling like tears might come down too," Cruz said. "It wasn't easy whatsoever to go every single day and then pick up and leave, but it was a learning experience for both of us."
With Cruz forced to fly overseas, he brought in teammate Mike Chabala for a little assistance to help Schwenke through the final stages of his tryouts.
"I was the closer — they brought in the lefty!" Chabala joked. "It was Danny's show, and obviously he had to take off, so he needed somebody to fill in. Obviously Michael was in a tough situation, trying to go from limited athletic experience to really making a lot of progress. It was a positive experience hopefully for Michael and definitely for both Danny and myself."
Without spoiling the show's ending, both Cruz and Chabala walked away with a new friend and a new appreciation for the finer points of reality TV.
"Everything you see was just me being me and him being him, and that was the best part about it," Cruz said. "That was the most fun: I didn't have to change who I was or anything like that. It was a goal that we wanted to achieve together, and although it was difficult, we did our best."
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Thursday, Feb. 10 2 p.m. CT
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Wednesday was the first day of school at John Brown Francis Elementary. The school, with an enrollment of 271, had a smooth opening in spite of a few teary students. (Warwick Beacon photos by John Howell)
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Today we will test Pioneer's 12x Blu-ray disc writer. The Pioneer BDR-S06XLB is the retail version of the bulk BDR-206 DBK 12X blu-ray disc writer, also available by the company. This internal BD/DVD/CD Writer will write up to 12x on BD-R (25Gbytes) and BD-R DL (50Gbytes) media, it can read BD-ROM and BD-ROM DL, read/write single and dual layer BD-R & BD-RE discs, read DVD-ROM, and read/write most DVD and CD recordable media formats.
This drive offers 12x recording for the select 6x BD-R media, which means that you will be able to burn 25GB of data in less than 12 minutes. Compared to Pioneer's previous series of 12x BD burners (BDR-205) the BDR-S06XLB is compatible with a wider range of BD-R SL and DL discs. As we will see later on in this article, the drive will burn the majority of BD-Rs for 4X and 6X at higher speeds.
Basic features of the BDR-S06XLB drive include 12x burning for single layer BD-R and select BD-R DL, BD-RE are burned at 2x for both DL and SL, single Layer DVD±R discs can be written at 16X, Double Layer DVD±R at 8X and rewritable discs at 8X (+RW) and 6X (-RW) respectively. The drive also writes CD-R at 40X and rewrites CD-RW at 24X.
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Blu-ray movie: 2X
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The retail package includes the ODD, Cyberlink's Media Suite 8 (PowerDVD 9 BD 2ch, Power2Go 7 LE, PowerBackup 2.5 and InstantBurn 5), a SATA cable and an operating instructions leaflet.
Pioneer has also added a black and well-polished front panel to the drive. The eject/close button is silver and a green operation LED is positioned next to it:
The rear panel is typical and has a power and SATA interfaces:
Let's take a look at the drive's internal board. It is recommended not to open the case of your drive since that would void the warranty.
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The drive's electronics is based on the RENESAS R8J32720 FPV chipset, which is also met at the company's BDR-205BK model and LG's BH10 BD burner.


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Tuesday, August 9, 2016
Gradual Loss of Speech After Stroke
My mother in law suffered a mini-stroke approximately 1 year ago. My husband and I immediately noticed her "slurred" speech and urged her to go to the doctor. She was not immediately diagnosed correctly, so any kind of treatment was not started.
Here is where I'm confused: we could understand her speech, but it has gradually got worse and worse, along with her not being able to swallow, she no longer speaks, and her tongue (back of it) is basically paralyzed. She lost 55 pounds and is now getting ready for a feeding tube.
I thought that once a stroke hit, the damage was done - I didn't think symptoms would deteriorate to this point? Am I wrong? Please help!! Thanks!
First of all I commend you and your husband for being such wonderful advocates for your mother-in-law. When one person has a stroke it affects the entire family and it is great to see that you are providing such great support for her during the medical challenges she is going through.
I am a medical speech-language pathologist not a physician. For this reason it would be best for you to check with your mother-in-law's medical doctor regarding the details and the pattern of her medical condition.
However, I would like to make a few comments that I hope are helpful for you.
From the description you provided in your question - long lasting paralysis of the tongue resulting in serious swallowing difficulties- it sounds as though your mother-in-law had a major stroke rather than a transient ischemic attack (also referred to as a TIA or mini stroke).
If in fact she suffered major impairments in muscle function in the mouth area after the episode that she had, then it would be expected that paralysis of the tongue that you describe would result in speech and swallowing difficulties...the severity of which would depend on the amount of damage she experienced as a result of the medical situation.
On the other hand, you also said in your question that your mother-in-law's speech "got worse."
Generally after a stroke is complete, the damage that the stroke has caused is also finished. The person is left with resulting impairments that may remain or may improve over time.
It would be logical that her overall medical situation might deteriorate over time if she is not able to eat as a result of the stroke. If she is trying to eat using her mouth but is receiving a reduced caloric intake as a result of the serious swallowing difficulty (which is why they probably want to tube feed her--so that she can get adequate nutrition and hydration --and so that she does not continue to lose weight)
However the swallowing difficulty and the speech difficulty should not continue to get worse, unless perhaps they are declining as a result of her losing energy and becoming extremely fatigued due to the reduced food intake and resulting poor nutrition.
People with "slurred speech" and swallowing difficulties will continue to deteriorate as fatigue increases. Could this be what you are noticing?
If not, and if you think your mother-in-law is demonstrating a progressive deterioration with drastically worsening difficulties of speech and swallowing then you should ask her doctor to explain to you the testing that was done to rule out a "progressive disorder".
I am sure the medical doctor has done the necessary tests to rule out any medical condition beyond the stroke...but it will be reassuring for you and your husband (and your mother-in-law!) to have the doctor explain how he/she decided that the medial consequences that you see with the speech and swallowing are due to the stroke alone and not any additional medical conditions.I hope that these thoughts are helpful to you, and I hope they help you to formulate questions to ask your mother-in-law's doctor.
Once you ask the right questions and the doctor explains their logic to you I think things will become a little clearer.
I wish you, your husband and mother-in-law the very best.
If you have any additional questions or would like any issues clarified please feel free to post another question to me. If you would like to keep me updated on your mother's situation please do.Take care.
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Big Time Rush Talk Valentine's Day Plans and Taylor Swift's Grammys Performance
Valentine's Day is on Thursday, so Teen caught up with Big Time Rush and they told us all about how they'll be celebrating! We chatted with the guys on the set of their show earlier this week as they shoot the fourth season of their hit Nickelodeon show, and– aside from calling a Teen reader! — it's safe to say they'll all be doing something a little different.
When we asked how they'd be spending the day, Kendall Schmidt and Logan Henderson both hilariously dodged the question by pretending to do a mic check. However, Kendall followed up by saying, "We're working so much that you don't really have time to develop a relationship enough to be like, 'You know what? You, young lady, are going to be my Valentine.'"
And even though James Maslow and Carlos Pena are both in relationships (with How to Rock star Halston Sage and Spy Kids actress Alexa Vega, respectively) they'll each be having a pretty low-key February 14. James told us, "I just started looking for reservations for a restaurant, and on a Monday before Valentine's Day it's actually very difficult to get them. So, I might be, um, looking up some recipes." Carlos also added that his GF was leaving the day before V-Day, but he offered to help James in his cooking venture!
Another topic of discussion? We asked them what they thought of Taylor Swift's Grammys performance, in which she took a little jab at her ex Harry Styles. Logan said that it's "art" and if he was going to date her, that's something to expect. We definitely have to agree with Logan, since she is so open about translating her relationships to song!
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Moore School in Candia takes steps to bolster safetyBy BRENDAN CLOGSTON
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CANDIA - With school districts and safety personnel around the country striving to prevent a horror like the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary from ever finding its way into their own towns and schools, a review of the Henry W. Moore School's emergency management and crisis plan has prompted administrators to make several changes to their daily procedures.
The December shootings prompted a review of the school's policies by the Moore Emergency Management Team, a nine-member group of administrators, front office workers, custodial workers, teachers and support personnel revealed several areas in need of attention.
According to the Moore School's principal, Robert St. Cyr, the Sandy Hook shootings "put everybody on notice that we need to make sure we review what we have in place currently."
The changes put a stronger focus on three areas of school security which St. Cyr says the school needed to "pull together a little bit tighter and keep a little bit closer of an eye on." The include morning drop-off, afternoon dismissal and building access.
"We felt that we needed to tighten things up a little up without turning the place into a fortress. It's a community-based building, and we still want to be inviting and welcome to the community. It's a delicate balance that we have to follow," said St. Cyr. "Also, I don't want to make major changes for the sake of making changes. I want to make changes that ensure the safety of our kids during our procedural pieces of the day."
Under morning drop-off, students cannot exit a vehicle unless a Moore School Staff member is on duty, and they may only exit on the passenger side of the car. The school also requests that parents respect the "no idling" rule and turn their cars off when waiting.
For building access, when a visitor enters the building they will be expected to proceed directly to the main office for check-in after being buzzed in, and cannot visit a classroom or any part of the building before doing so. If the visitor is bringing something for a class or a child, it is to be left with the office for delivery by office staff.
For dismissal, parents can not wait for their children in the lobby.
For early dismissal, students will be called down to the office upon the parent's arrival. Finally, when a parent calls to change a dismissal plan, the school may call them to verify their identity and confirm details.
St. Cyr said that the reception from parents has been positive.
"I've had some thank-you notes. 'Thank you for keeping our children safe and staying on top of that.' Things like that," St. Cyr said. "Pretty much, it's been positive."


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Value Line is regarded as the best independent research available. More than just recommendations, Value Line provides the rationale behind its picks for greater understanding.
Visa Inc. (V - Free Visa Stock Report), a newcomer to the Dow-30 composite, operates the world's largest retail electronic payments network, providing processing services and payment platforms in more than 200 countries. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company offers a suite of payment solutions, including credit, debit, and prepaid cards under the ubiquitous Visa brand name, as well as the Visa Electron and Interlink monikers. In addition, Visa/PLUS offers cash access to its customers through one of the largest global ATM networks, while VisaNet delivers value-added processing, fraud, and risk management services to merchants around the world. Although its roots date back to 1958, Visa has a relatively short history as a publicly traded company, making its debut on The New York Stock Exchange with a successful IPO in March of 2008.
You've Got to Give Them Credit
Firmly entrenched today in the mind of Americans--and to a growing extent, global consumers--Visa started from relatively humble beginnings. The typical American consumer had long maintained several disparate, revolving lines of credit with local merchants to pay for day-to-day items, such as groceries, clothing, or a fill-up at the gas pump. But, in 1956, an internal think tank within Bank of America (BAC), headed by senior vice president Joseph P. Williams, adopted the idea of an all-purpose credit card that would essentially consolidate those bills into one unified payment.
The concept was not a new one, since charge cards of various stripes had been in use for many years. However, charge cards required payment in full at the end of each billing cycle, and were largely issued on a local scale. Too, earlier attempts to create an all-purpose card had failed, since the issuing institutions were small banks that lacked the resources to make the programs successful. Learning from those previous failures, Mr. Williams had an ingenious—though at the time, somewhat radical—idea; rather than requiring customers to settle all debts at the end of each billing cycle, he proposed that Bank of America allow its cardholders to carry a balance from month to month, all the while charging interest on the debt. After meeting some initial resistance, Mr. Williams convinced senior executives at Bank of America to pursue what would become the world's first successful credit card program.
In September of 1958, BofA launched the BankAmericard initiative, the precursor to the Visa-branded cards of today. Fresno, California was selected as the program's test market due to its "Goldilocks" size; a market large enough to provide a good measure of the all-purpose card's feasibility, yet small enough to contain the public relations fallout should the enterprise go awry. Although the BankAmericard would eventually become a runaway success, the program got off to a rocky start. Indeed, the pilot program had a delinquency rate of 22%, far wider than the 4% expected, and quickly became a breeding ground for the nascent crime of credit card fraud. With his brainchild in turmoil, Mr. Williams resigned after BankAmericard racked up substantial losses following the initial launch, officially pegged at $8.8 million.
It's Everywhere You Want to Be
Despite the program's early missteps, top executives at BofA still felt that BankAmericard could be salvaged, though stricter monitoring and financial controls would be required to make the initiative a success. In the coming years, that faith would be handsomely rewarded as the program eventually turned a corner and became a profit center for Bank of America. Indeed, in 1965, BofA created a new stream of high-margined revenue by licensing the BankAmericard name to financial institutions outside its home state of California (like all U.S. banks at the time, BofA was prohibited by federal regulations from expanding outside its home market).
In 1970, Bank of America relinquished control of BankAmericard to the various issuer banks throughout the network. The program then morphed into National BankAmericard Inc. (NBI), an independent non-stock corporation in charge of managing and developing BankAmericard domestically, with licensed banks stretching from coast to coast. However, BofA retained control of licensing the BankAmericard name on the global stage, a vast and still relatively untapped market. In a few short years, licenses were granted to 15 countries around the world, a multinational body was formed to manage BankAmericard internationally, culminating with the program's far-flung offshoots coming back together to fly one flag. In 1978, BankAmericard, in all its various flavors, was rechristened Visa.
Will That Be Cash or Charge?
By the turn of the last millennium, Visa had cemented its place in the wallet or pocketbook of most Americans, a phenomenon that was aided, to no small degree, by the rapid adoption of all things digital. Indeed, the decades-long transition from traditional forms of currency, such as cash and checks, to electronic transactions had been highly beneficial to Visa's operating performance, and the company was among the first to identify and fully capitalize on that trend.
Visa is still poised for ample growth in the years ahead, building on its commanding lead in developed markets, while forming beachheads in emerging countries with fast-growing middle-income populations. However, it bears noting that the breakneck pace of the payment processor's early years is almost certainly a thing of the past, due to the near saturation of Visa's home (and still largest) market, the United States. Too, the company's business is under assault on multiple fronts, most notably from competing networks managed by MasterCard (MA), American Express (AXP- Free AmEx Stock Report), and Discover (DFS), among others. At the same time, Visa, and its well-entrenched brethren, is facing a new threat from electronic payments services that operate outside the traditional banking system, namely Web-based networks run by Internet search giant Google (GOOG), eBay's (EBAY) mobile payments facilitator PayPal, and tech darlings such as Foursquare.
Despite these myriad challenges, we continue to recommend Visa's good-quality shares as a core holding for nearly all investors. Indeed, Visa has built a very sound business model, as evidenced by its stellar operating performance in both good and bad economic times. In a nutshell, the company remains relatively insulated from the effects of a downturn, since it generates substantially all of its revenues from processing payments, while leaving the lion's share of risk to the financial institutions that issue credit and debit cards. This, coupled with Visa's well-regarded brand name, rock solid finances, and best-in-class management, provide a good foundation for long-term, sustainable growth.
At the time of this article's writing, the author did not have positions in any of the companies mentioned.


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WASHINGTON, March 5 (UPI) -- The U.S. Senate rejected President Obama's civil rights nominee Wednesday because of criticism over his involvement in the defense of a convicted cop-killer.
Seven Democratic senators voted with Republicans, rejecting a motion to end debate on the nomination of Debo P. Adegbile as head of the Justice Department's division of civil rights, Roll Call reported.
Adegbile's nomination was controversial because, as head of the National Association of Colored People's Legal Defense Fund he was indirectly involved in representing Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., called Adegbile's nomination a "thumb in the eye of our law enforcement officers," The Hill reported. Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., pointed out that Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, nominated by President George W. Bush and approved by Republicans, had represented a killer of eight people.
Adegbile was the first Obama nominee to fail since Democrats changed the rules on closing debate to require a simple majority. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, Chris Coons of Delaware, Joe Donnelly of Indiana, Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Mark Pryor of Arkansas and John Walsh of Montana all sided with Republicans, giving them a 52-47 majority.
Reid originally voted to close debate but changed his vote to give him the option to reopen the nomination.


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Police arrest three after Manchester motel melee, robbery
September 23. 2013 8:58PM
MANCHESTER — Police arrested three people and are seeking others in a knifepoint robbery early Sunday morning of two guests in their room at a city motel.
Police said a Chester couple was returning to their fourth-floor room at the Manchester Econolodge at about 3:45 a.m. when they were approached by two women, police said.
The women and the guests became involved in an argument, which quickly escalated into a shoving match, police said.
As the women and guests tussled in the hallway, a group of men came down the corridor toward the group and pushed their way into the couple's room. One of the men, described as a heavy-set Hispanic, wielded a knife during the confrontation.
Another intruder grabbed cash off a bathroom counter before the group took off, police said.Responding officers found the two women involved still on the scene. One, Jacquelyn Paul, 18, of Manchester, was arrested on a disorderly conduct charge after police say she became loud and belligerent.
Outside the hotel, two suspects, Reccardo Burton, 20, of Manchester, and a 15-year-old city youth were arrested.
Burton also faces a cocaine charge as the result of a search after his arrest. Police said the youth matched the description of the person who took the money from the hotel room. The suspect who wielded the knife during the robbery remains at large. Police have asked that anyone with information about the incident call Manchester Police at 668-8711 or the Manchester Crimeline at 624-4040.


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Online Voting
Table of contents
- Online Voting
- Introduction
- Appoint Proxy
- Cast your vote
- Verify vote before casting
- Verify your vote after casting
- Helios Voting
Vote cast verification (after casting)
After you cast your ballot, the only means available to check your vote is to use your encrypted vote to validate against your fingerprint; your fingerprint is the base-64-string-encoded SHA256 of the vote data structure serialized as JSON.
Note that your vote is stored in an encrypted form in the database, which means that nobody, not even the administrators can see the content of your vote. Tampering with an encrypted vote will simply invalidate it.
Click on the election url that you received in your email.
- Click on « voters & ballots »
- Click on « view » next to your name and fingerprint
- Click on « details » to see the complete content of your encrypted vote as it is in the helios database. Copy this data structure into a file.
- Download the verification script here
- Run the following command "python helios_vote_verify.py
where is the path of the file you created in Step 3.
The output should be the same as the fingerprint you received by mail when your vote was cast.
- Community
- AFRINIC Events
- Policy development
- Internet Governance
- Email & mailing lists
- Elections
- Working Groups
- IANA Oversight
- IPv4 Exhaustion
- Operational Reports
- AfGWG
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Monday, October 3, 2016
Sickle Cell Anemia
Difference Between Iron Deficiency, Anemia And Thalassemia Trait
Many in my family have the trait and I am anemic as well. My hemaglobin level has never gone over 10.25 and goes as low as 7 after surgery. How much iron should I take each day? I have never been able to find a doctor to tell me why I have been tired my whole life and I am always cold. Just from what I read perhaps it is my levels and that I am possiblly not taking enough iron. By the way, 10.25 is with iron! How much I took doesn`t matter. What should I take? I admit, I do forget a lot. But I really want to end this once and for all. I am 47 now and starting pre-menstrual menopause and my 2-day periods from the past now last up to 2 weeks. I also have suffered depression since I was a child. I didn`t do anything about it until I was an adult. But I was tired all the time during my childhood as well.
It is often difficult to tell the difference between iron deficiency, anemia and thalassemia trait. From the information you have provided, I cannot make a diagnosis either. I recommend that you see your primary care doctor or ask for a referral to see a hematologist to establish a diagnosis and help you out. I wish you well.
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See what was happening in Redwood Falls 50, 25, and 10 years ago this week.
1962—50 years ago • The manager of the new Rainbow Briquet Manufacturing Company in North Redwood said if plans went well, the firm hoped to hire up to 21 workers, and be using 12,000 cords of wood a year to produce up to 8,400,000 pounds of charcoal a year. • Korean War veteran Lt. Robert C. Budik was named the new commander of Redwood Falls National Guard Company C. • At the North Redwood school, sixth grader Allen Larsen and fifth graders Everett Jensen and Gary Simondet held perfect attedance records for the year. • Annie Kristina Olsson of Sweden became the ninth foreign exchange student to visit Redwood Falls High School. She stayed for the year with the Carl Lussenhop family. • Rev. George Koistinen of Breckenridge made his third appearance at the Minnesota Inventor's Congress, explaining that inventing and missionary work went hand and hand for him. Among Koistinen's inventions for 1962 was a garbage can with an automatic lid operated by a foot pedal. 1987—25 years ago • The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency announced it would shut down the Redwood Landfill after the owners missed a voluntary closure deadline. • Ninety-seven seniors received their diplomas from Redwood Falls-Morton High School. • Derrick Johnson and Toni Peterson were named the most valuable athletes of the year at RF-MHS. • The county board threatened to revoke a two-year conditional use licence to Hubbard Broadcasting of the Twin Cities if a 1,200 foot tall tower they installed near Vesta didn't stop interfering with locals' TV reception. • The city agreed to buy a house at the intersection of Gould and 2nd Streets, with the idea it could eventually be torn down to extend Gould St. all the way to Highway 19/71. 2002—10 years ago • Bobblemania hit Redwood Falls when the Minnesota Inventors Congress unveiled its official souvenir for the year — a caveman bobblehead. • The Women of Today named the Redwood Falls Fire Department as the grand marshalls of the community parade. • At age 91, Don Tiffany was the last charter member of the Redwood Falls Rotary Club still active. He helped get the club started in 1947. • Thirty-six homes in North Redwood lost power when a steel grainbin was blown off its foundation and hit a power line. • Monsanto announced it would be moving its soybean conditioning operations to a new facility several miles out of town on Highway 71 South.


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Friday, October 12, 2012
R comme Ruban
More serendipity today.
Fauchon sent me a pink ribboned love note.
What would life be like without champagne, macarons,
And French ribbon/ruban!
Fauchon even swathed a charlotte russe in extra wide pink ribbon.
The French have always been deeply attached to their ribbons, no pun intended.
Ribbons bring a sense of closure especially on chocolate boxes.
The French may even have invented ribbons/les rubans
I plan to go down to Ribbon City, St. Etienne this trip
(Photo c/o le petit coquin)
To see how they are made. Have you been?
French friends put a picture of their adorable newborn on Facebook.
I added the pink ribbon...
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There's a RIBBON CITY in France?! Yes, please, take me there!ReplyDelete
What a cute bébé:)ReplyDelete
Lucky one.. Ribbon City..Would love it as much as The Emerald City I think~The one at the end of the Yellow Brick Road..
My girls wore ribbons until they were old enough to know better and said no more:)
I can't wait to see how it's done!ReplyDelete
Such a gorgeous post. It's wonderful how you pull together the ribbons from different sources. I love how France has things such as ribbon cities. I've been to the town where god makes copper pots.ReplyDeleteReplies
What town is that Louise?Delete
Lovely post and ribbon painting, Carol!ReplyDelete
Can't wait to see Ste-Etienne though your eyes!
As regards to cooper pot towns in France, check out Villedieu-Les-Poëles, Basse-Normandie, France.
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Born with only 1 hand, Va. girl learns to play the violin with her new, 3D-printed hand
FAIRFAX, Va. (ABC7) —
The process of making the attachment started last Fall, and finished in a 3-D printer.
Ten-year-old Isabella Cabrera has waited for the moment to play violin with a new prosthetic for a long time.
And the moment is living up to the expectations.
Isabella, a 5th grader at Island Creek Elementary in Fairfax County, was born without a left hand and only a partial bone from her left elbow to her wrist.
But thanks to five George Mason University bioengineering students Isabella now has a prosthetic attachment that will help make playing the violin much easier.
The process of making the attachment started last Fall, and finished in a 3-D printer.
Yassar Al-Hindi is one of the students that made the device as part of their senior capstone project.
After hundreds of hours of design and testing the final product came out of the printer perfectly, for the students and for Isabella.
"I cannot describe what we feel in terms of improving someone's life. Making an immediate impact on someone's life. It's just a very good feeling."


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Plant Protocols
This page contains the publicly available protocols developed to date with EDEN funding.
Some protocols were developed by EDEN exchange participants (graduate students, postdocs, or faculty). Other protocols were developed by undergraduate students who held EDEN summer internships (indicated with an asterisk *).
Genetic transformation of bunchberry dogwood (Cornus canadensis) using Agrobacterium Suspension. Developed by Chris Trlica (North Carolina State University) during a summer internship in the Xiang lab.*[1]
Spore germination and sex ration determination in moss. Developed by Tatum Norrell (University of Florida) during a summer internship in the McDaniel lab.*[2]
Genetic transformation of moss (Ceratodon purpureus). Developed by Pierre-Francois Perroud of the Quatrano lab during an exchange visit to the McDaniel lab.[3]
Estimating mesophyll conductance using combined gas exchange and chlorophyll fluorescence measurements. Developed by Christopher Muir of the Moyle lab during an exchange visit to the Galmes lab.[4]


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The School of Public Service promotes effective management of nonprofit organizations and government agencies, and fosters the development of sound public policies affecting the delivery of social services. Programs of instruction, research, and community involvement prepare adult learners to pursue administrative careers in a broad range of public service organizations. Following the tradition of St. Vincent de Paul, the School of Public Service devotes special attention to policies and practices that promote social equity through the delivery of affordable, quality services to those in greatest need.
While the knowledge and skills required to manage organizations in the public sector are becoming indistinguishable from the best practices used in the private and nonprofit sectors, the ultimate goals of these organizations provide a sharp distinction. The School of Public Service keeps this distinction firmly in view in its course offerings. Degree and certificate programs are interdisciplinary, drawing primarily upon the knowledge bases of sociology, economics, political science, law and the human-service professions. The curriculum carefully balances theoretical and applied approaches to contemporary challenges of administration and policy analysis.
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What does "food security" mean?
Although there are several different working definitions of food security, all of which have evolved over time, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations currently uses the following description: "Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food which meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life." FA similar definition has also been adopted by the US, though in a more limited form. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)'s definition of food security is, "access by all people at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life." F Food security comprises several different components, including food access, distribution of food, the stability of the food supply, and the use of food. F The opposite of food security - food insecurity - is defined by the USDA as, "a household-level economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food." F
Food insecurity is part of a continuum that includes hunger (food deprivation), malnutrition (deficiencies, imbalances, or excesses of nutrients), and famine. Long-term lack of food security eventually becomes hunger, defined by the USDA as "an individual-level physiological condition that may result from food insecurity." On a population level, extreme lack of food security becomes famine. The United Nations rarely declares famine status, even in cases of long-term food insecurity, since its definition of famine is quite specific – famine is declared only when "at least 20 percent of households in an area face extreme food shortages with a limited ability to cope; acute malnutrition rates exceed 30 percent; and the death rate exceeds two persons per day per 10,000 persons." F Malnutrition can be caused by food insecurity, but can also be caused by poor health, poor care for children, or an unhealthy environment. F
In the US, the term "food desert" is often used to describe a location that has limited access to healthful, nutritious food, especially in low-income neighborhoods. FFor example, individuals in some neighborhoods may have easier access to fast food and junk food than to fruits and vegetables. FHowever, there is some disagreement on what constitutes a food desert (i.e., what is an acceptable distance from a source of healthful food, such as a supermarket), and it is unclear whether true food deserts are as common as postulated by policymakers. F F Others see the term as being not inclusive of other issues related to health and obesity, including: poverty and other socio-demographic factors; ease of access to healthful food, rather than lack of access; increased access to unhealthful food choices; exercise/physical activity; and unhealthful food choices related to cultural or economic factors. F F F
How many people are food-insecure? Who is food insecure?
The USDA reported that 14.5 percent of American households were food insecure at least some time during 2010. FOf the 14.5 percent that were food insecure, 5.4 percent were classified as having very low food security (defined by the USDA as "reports of multiple indications of disrupted eating patterns and reduced food intake"). FHowever, in households with children, the USDA reports that over 20 percent were food insecure in 2010. FGlobally, food insecurity is more difficult to measure. In 1999, the FAO estimated that over 1.2 billion people were chronically food insecure (i.e., undernourished). FAsia, including the Indian sub-continent, was the most food insecure region, with 642 million undernourished people. Over 15 million of the undernourished were in developed countries. F
Certain groups are particularly vulnerable to food insecurity, including women (especially low income pregnant and lactating women), victims of conflict, the ill, migrant workers, low-income urban dwellers, the elderly, and children under five. FAs we can see in the United States, having food security as a nation does not necessarily mean that all individuals living in that nation will be food secure. F
What are the reasons behind lack of food access & food insecurity?
There are many complex reasons an individual becomes food insecure. Poverty is unmistakably the driving factor in the lack of resources to purchase or otherwise procure food, but the root causes of poverty are multifaceted. Poverty, combined with other socioeconomic and political problems, creates the bulk of food insecurity around the globe. F Some of the auxiliary causes of food insecurity are outlined below:
Food Distribution
Although it is commonly thought that world population will outstrip food production capacity, current production of food exceeds global population requirements. Historically, famines and widespread hunger have been caused by problems of food distribution (political or logistical) rather than by insufficient food production. Although the global population is expected to rise in the next several decades, global hunger is predicted to decline. F
Reverend Thomas Malthus, writing in the late 18th Century, warned that global population would exceed the Earth's capacity to grow food. Malthus suggested that population grows exponentially, while food production grows only arithmetically. F F Despite having been largely debunked, this theory has remained prominent in the discourse regarding hunger, the world's population carrying capacity, and the need for increased agricultural technology (e.g., genetically modified organisms). It is also worth noting that in an historical context, Malthus's argument was a warning about population increase amongst the poor. F F Malthus and his cohort described the poor as breeding too rapidly, thus depriving the rest of the population of food; famine was seen as a "natural" defense against overpopulation. FSeveral well-known famines in history, such as the Irish Potato Famine and several Indian famines in the late 19th century, were caused not by lack of food, but by lack of political will to distribute the food to the starving poor. During these famines, Ireland and parts of India were actually exporting food to various other English colonies. F FMalthusian theories were used to support political choices to avoid helping the starving. FFood distribution, rather than total food production, continues to be a global problem in solving food insecurity.
Political-Agricultural Practices
Various political-agricultural practices contribute to food insecurity worldwide. These include substituting commodity crops for food crops (e.g., growing corn instead of vegetables) and heavy exportation of food crops at the expense of food security of the exporting country. F F In addition, the recent demand for biofuels, currently produced primarily from corn and soy, has further decreased the amount of viable arable land being used for food production. F F
The United States overproduces commodity crops (particularly corn, wheat, and soy) in part due to government subsidization; healthful food and sustainable agriculture has not been historically promoted in US food and farming policy. F The FAO's definition of food security includes a provision describing access to "nutritious" food; however, in many low-income areas, it is easier to access cheap, unhealthful food (such as fast food), often produced primarily from commodity crops. FIn addition, the US exports a high proportion of its commodity crops to the rest of the world. For example, in 2010, over 53 percent of all corn exports in the world were from the US. FThe exportation of these commodity crops affects farmers in the rest of the world – especially small farmers with limited resources. A large influx of commodity crops from the US can affect local food security, as small farmers cannot compete with less expensive (subsidized) US-produced agricultural products. F
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Environmental Factors
Globally, natural disasters, such as drought, have been frequently implicated in food insecurity; however, natural disaster-related food insecurity and famines are exacerbated by food distribution problems (see above) and lack of food surpluses due to exportation or other political factors. FIt is predicted that climate change may negatively affect food supply and food access due to loss of farmland, fluctuating food prices, increases in foodborne illnesses, and other food utilization issues. FOther environmental factors, such as soil degradation (including salinization due to heavy irrigation, desertification, erosion, and soil pollution related to industrial agricultural practices) may negatively affect global food security as well. F F
Other Economic and Political Reasons
The global rise in food prices in the last several years has been precipitated by a number of factors, including natural disasters such as drought; increased demand for biofuels; the US dollar's decline; and an increase in the middle and upper class in countries like China (this has created increased demand for meat and dairy, and thus increased demand for grain). FIncreases in food costs generally mean increases in the food insecure. Other factors contributing to food insecurity include loss of farmland or pastureland due to development; conflict and war; water access issues; and disease. F F
What are the results of food insecurity?
On an individual level, food insecurity, especially over time, causes physical, social, and psychological problems in both children and adults. F F In the US, chronic food insecurity has been documented to lead to, paradoxically, obesity, especially in women and girls. FOne theory as to why food insecurity leads to obesity is that episodic periods of food insecurity cause the sufferer to overeat in an attempt by the body to recoup missing calories. F FThe type of food consumed in food insecure households may be another factor: high calorie food made from commodity crops (e.g., fast food and "junk" food) is often cheaper and easier to access than healthful food with high nutritional value. F
In infants and toddlers in the US, food insecurity is correlated with higher hospitalization rates and generally poor health. FIn older US children, food insecurity negatively affects academic performance and social skills, and causes increases in Body Mass Index (BMI), an indicator of overweight and obesity. FGlobally, chronic food insecurity (undernourishment and malnutrition) causes underweight, wasting, and stunted growth in children. F
Food insecurity can also lead to political instability and conflict. In recent years, there has been a number of "food riots" in which the population of a country (sometimes violently) protests its lack of food or, as was the case with the Mexican "tortilla riots" in 2007, rising food costs. F
Are there solutions to food insecurity?
Solutions to food insecurity must include elimination of poverty; however, other aspects of food insecurity may be more immediately solvable. Some solutions proposed to end food insecurity include the following:
Sustainable Agriculture
Although the first Green Revolution (GR) (in the 1960s and 70s) increased global yields, the Revolution came at a price: per capita hunger also increased, as small farmers were forced out of subsistence agriculture and into urban slums, often due to the high cost of GR seeds and the inputs required to grow them (fertilizers, pesticides, and machinery). F The second wave of the Green Revolution focuses on genetically modified organisms (GMOs G) as the central way in to feed the world's growing population; however, this second wave of the GR may be worse for small farmers, as large corporations own the patents to seed. FIn addition, in this second wave of the Green Revolution, the focus is not on sustainable agriculture, as high amounts of inputs (i.e., fertilizers, pesticides, intensive irrigation) are required. Because industrial agricultural inputs and infrastructure are expensive, rely on fossil fuels, and degrade the environment in numerous ways, many experts agree that relying upon unsustainable agriculture will, in the long term, increase global food insecurity. FStudies involving small farms have indicated that sustainable agricultural practices can actually increase yield. F
Improving agricultural biodiversity
Improving agricultural biodiversity G through sustainable agricultural practices may also alleviate food insecurity. FIndustrial agriculture relies upon monocropping, in which one genetic type of crop is planted on large tracts of land, while sustainable farms frequently plant a genetically diverse array of both crop type and species. Monocropping increases crop susceptibility to both pests and diseases; several historical famines and crop decimations were due to a pest or disease devastating monocropped agricultural plantings. FWith monocropping also comes an increased need for chemical fertilizers and pesticides, which can erode soil biodiversity and in turn negatively affect yields over time. F F Enhancing biodiversity through the use of sustainable agricultural practices can protect communities from food insecurity associated with both crop loss and decreased yield.
Policy Changes
In the US, policy change that champions sustainable, locally produced food, including increased incentives for local farmers and for markets where fresh, healthful food is available, can increase community food security. FThis, along with the increasing acceptance of food stamp (SNAP) benefits at local food outlets such as farmers' markets, may improve access to healthful food and increase consumption of fruits and vegetables. F Community gardening, home gardening, and urban farming are other ways in which sustainably grown, local food can be used to improve community food security and to increase participant intake of fruits and vegetables. FSNAP benefits have expanded to allow participants to buy seeds and edible plants, further increasing the potential for urban agriculture and home gardening to help alleviate food insecurity. F
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Food Justice & Food Sovereignty
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881: Probability
Title text: My normal approach is useless here, too.
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As the title text says, my normal approach is useless here (Comic 55: Useless).
Cueball and Megan are sitting on a hospital bed reading a piece of paper, with the statistics for breast cancer survival. It looks like Megan has just been diagnosed with breast cancer. The dotted line represents the survival rate distribution: 81% are alive at 5 years, while 77% survive to 10 years.
Randall posted this blog post two months after posting this strip explaining the cancer strips.
- [A plot of years vs. percent, with a solid and a dashed line. The solid line starts at 100%, and drops constantly. The dashed line starts around 85%, rises to 95% after 5 years, then drops.]
- [A simple table.]
- 5 years 81%
- 10 years 77%
- [Two people are sitting on a bench, next to an IV drip hanging from a rack. One is holding a paper.]
- Cueball: You know, probability used to be my favorite branch of math
- Cueball: Because it had so many real-life applications.
- [They embrace, faces together.]
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I've been through this, even though it was a little over a year ago, this strip brings me back to how I tried to rationalise the probabilities to deal with the news, and the only thing I could think of was "I want a better number, god, noodle-monster, anybody, please, give me a better number".
John 188.8.131.52 00:40, 28 September 2013 (UTC)
Can anyone please provide an update to this page on Randall's fiance's health? Apologies if this is common knowledge. I agree with John's reaction. I wanted a better number for my wife back in the spring of 2008, and got it. She survived 3 years instead of the (then) predicted average of six months for inflammatory breast cancer. We could have been just an outlier on the low probability end of the curve, but I like to think the medical community is continually improving their curves, and I am very grateful for the extra time. She passed away four days after this strip was posted - which explains why I haven't seen this strip until now.
188.8.131.52 21:26, 28 November 2013 (UTC)Grant
So, how is this incomplete? Can we remove the incompleteness mark? --220.127.116.11 13:02, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
I think the linking to the blog post is more sensitive than explaining it here. Remove tag? --18.104.22.168 14:19, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
What is the dashed line? It kind of looks like it might be the derivative of the solid line.22.214.171.124 00:39, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
I think I explained the dashed line, it's a hazard function or at least it would be a plausible hazard function for that kind of survival function. Feel free to improve the formatting or remove the incomplete tag. --Artod (talk) 07:06, 20 January 2014 (UTC)


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There has been commentary in the blogosphere about the larger meaning of Forrester's acquisition of JupiterResearch. Typically this commentary has focused on points like the analyst industry is consolidating and that major firms are losing relevance and influence in the age of blogs and other social media. It is our opinion that this commentary is wrong and that the acquisition of Jupiter by Forrester does not portend some deep consolidation of the analyst industry due to the rise of the blogosphere, rather it is business as usual.
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Analyst firms have long used acquisitions to fill gaps in coverage and geography or pick up client bases. For example, in the last 15 years since Gartner went public for the second time, it has made over 70 acquisitions to pick up expertise in specialized coverage, get into new markets (e.g., learning software), and to broaden its footprint in Continue reading
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Ample parking. Lot is shared with Metro's Red Line. Covered walkway on 4th level takes you to the theater. I suggest parking on 2nd. or 3rd. level & use the elevator. The lower the floor, the shorter the exit time.
Parking is NOT free for shows at the Levine School of Music, but is free for the Strathmore. Confusing and disappointing.
Leave home early, even if you live close. At this time of year and time of evening, Rockville Pike and other roads are usually bumper-to-bumper, plus the line to get into the parking lot (from Rockville Pike onto Tuckerman Lane, (vs. where you enter for the Mansion, despite the posted road sign), is one lane, also bumper to bumper. Parking is free but another challenge still lies ahead with long waits for elevators in the parking garage, transversing the long, elevated corrider between the parking lot and the venue, and additional elevators with long lines inside the venue, which take you to the level of your assigned seats (there is an elevator operator checking tickets and telling individuals if they're on the correct elevator, etc.). If you're not familiar with this whole scenario, best to leave a trail of breadcrumbs from your parking space to your seat, assuming there are no birds in sight. : \
There's a cafe right in the music center. They also serve wine and beer. A bit pricey but the food is good and it's very convenient to be able to eat right there and then attend desired performance.
Take your time leaving, after the performance. You'll have less of a (long) wait to get out of the parking garage.
Metro is easy to use to get there, although there aren't a lot of signs.
Nice cafeteria in the theater open before the show.
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I wanted to ask a question about ScummVM. long ago that I use it on my N95 and it is a great program.
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Boot faster than the F10 Features/30SecondStartup. Make Fedora boot and shut down faster. The goal is to be at the login screen in 20 seconds and be as fast as possible after the login (gnome-session).
- Name: HaraldHoyer <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora 11
- Last updated: (Dec 17 2008)
- Percentage of completion: 0%
Detailed Description
Identify bloated tasks in the boot process and make them faster and use less disk I/O.
See: Fedora 10 top 5 disk usage tasks http://www.harald-hoyer.de/personal/blog/fedora-10-disk-io
See, if sreadahead can be used (needs kernel patch), and if upstart can start core service in parallel.
Benefit to Fedora
A faster boot makes for happy users.
Possibly involves all packages that are involved in the boot sequence, udev, module-init-tools, kernel, nash, upstart, readahead, setroubleshoot, gdm.
Test Plan
- install bootchart
- modify /sbin/bootchartd to exit on "firefox" not "gdm kdm" etc. and sleep 10-20 seconds after that
- reboot, login, start firefox, close firefox
- measure time until closing of firefox
User Experience
Turn on computer, wait 20 seconds, select user on login screen.
- maybe kernel for sreadahead
- module-init-tools
- setroubleshoot-server
- gdm login infrastrucure
- rpcbind
- no regression in other parts of the system
Contingency Plan
This is an incremental feature. If we don't quite get down to 20 seconds, too bad, we can just take whatever improvements we have.
- Fedora 10 top 5 disk usage tasks
- http://www.harald-hoyer.de/personal/blog/fedora-10-disk-io
- Fedora 10 - Boot Analysis
- https://www.harald-hoyer.de/personal/blog/fedora-10-boot-analysis
- Upstart
- http://upstart.ubuntu.com/wiki/
- sreadahead
- http://code.google.com/p/sreadahead/
- setroubleshoot
- https://fedorahosted.org/setroubleshoot/
Filed Bugs
- microcontrol_ctl busy polling https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476023
- /usr/bin/fedora-setup-keyboard https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476028
- setroubleshoot lazy import https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476662
- setroubleshoot lazy rpm usage https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476663
Release Notes
Note: all of the following release notes are subject to change.
To reduce boot time, the setroubleshoot and rpcbind daemon were made leaner to not consume too much disk I/O and CPU time. Core services are now started in parallel via upstart. sreadahead is now used to read ahead all disk blocks needed to boot the machine.
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Seen a little label on your face cream lately that says "paraben free"? Parabens are a preservative and antimicrobial agent used in cosmetics and virtually every type of personal care product. But recent studies have found high concentrations of the chemicals in breast cancer tissues. Do parabens cause it? Researchers still aren't sure, but health-savvy companies are being proactive and removing them from their formulas. Avoid products that contain methylparaben, propylparaben, ethylparaben, or butylparaben, and look for paraben-free products in lines like Aubrey, Avalon, Burt's Bees, Dr. Hauschka, MyChelle, and Weleda.
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