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Friday, May 12, 2017
Check in begins at 8:30 AM. CLE from 9:00 AM until 3:30 PM (Lunch is provided)
Hyatt Place Kansas City/Lenexa City Center
8741 Ryckert Street
Lenexa, Kansas 66219
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Approved for 6.0 hours of CLE, including 2.0 hours of ethics and professionalism in Kansas and Missouri.
Course Schedule 8:30 a.m. • Check-in & Continental Breakfast
9:00 a.m. • HIPAA Update: Enforcement, Security, Audits, & More
Brooke Bennett Aziere, Foulston Siefkin, LLP, Wichita
Amanda Wilwert, Foulston Siefkin, LLP, Topeka
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) continues to focus on increasing enforcement actions against covered entities and business associates. In so doing, OCR uses a number of investigation and enforcement mechanisms, including the issuance of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) and other guidance, security professionals, and its audit program. This session will provide an update on recent enforcement actions, FAQs and other guidance, as well as the Phase 2 audits. We will highlight current risk areas and those that may be emerging in light of OCR's Phase 2 audits. 9:50 a.m. • 2017 Health Law Legislative Update
KJ Wall, Forbes Law Group, LLC, Overland Park
This session will focus on legislative developments and newly enacted laws of interest to heath care facilities, payors, providers and legal practitioners alike emerging from the 2017 Legislative Session. 10:15 a.m. • Case Law Update for 2017
Jerry Hawkins, Hite Fanning & Honeyman, LLP, Wichita
This presentation will review recent case law in the health care field. 10:40 a.m. • Break 10:55 a.m. • You Can't Always Get What You Want: Nonparty Subpoenas issued to the Kansas State Board of Healing Arts
Kelli Stevens, Kansas Board of Healing Arts, Topeka
This presentation will explore how the State's medical licensing and regulatory agency responds to discovery subpoenas for outside peer review records in its possession, agency internal peer review, and other privileged and confidential information obtained or created by the agency. 11:45 a.m. • Lunch (provided) 12:45 p.m. • Medicare Reimbursement Appeal Procedures
Richelle Marting, Forbes Law Group LLC, Overland Park
Medicare contractors have been denying providers' claims for reimbursement at alarming rates, and initiating retroactive audits of payments. Where providers are facing increasing scrutiny into the accuracy of their claims, healthcare attorneys may also see a rise in requests to represent providers during the appeal process. Appeals of these audits and denials create unique challenges in applying substantive and procedural rules under Medicare's administrative regulations and guidelines. This session will describe the Medicare appeals process with practical insight into obstacles often encountered at various levels of appeal. 1:35 p.m. • Break 1:50 p.m. • The Course of an Ethics Compliant: What Every Lawyer Needs to Know (100 Minutes)
Deborah Hughes, Office of the Disciplinary Administrator, Topeka
This program provides an inside and in-depth view of the attorney discipline process. The presentation covers the progress of a disciplinary complaint from intake through Kansas Supreme Court decision. Video clips of disciplinary cases argued before the Kansas Supreme Court are included. The program provides tips for lawyers who may find themselves the subject of a complaint and interesting statistics on the number of complaints the office handles and on disposition of those complaints. 3:30 p.m. • Adjourn
Registration Fee: KBA Health Law Section Member: $210
KBA Member: $240
Non-member: $300
Paralegal: $180
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DotImage's ImageSource classes are incredibly useful tools for dealing with multipage files in a memory-conscious way.
One of the most important uses of ImageSource classes is to completely replace/eliminate any instances of ImageCollection objects in your solution.
However, as one digs in to our offerings a bit, one may realize that our PdfImageSource takes a stream, but FileSystemImageSource needs physical files on disk... There are times when a FileSystemImageSource would be the correct choice if only it could take a Stream instead of needing files on disk.
There is no general use ImageSource that takes a stream or byte[] in DotImage.
Fear not: we can easily create a StreamImageSource by deriving from the RandomAccessImageSource abstract class
In order to use the example presented at the end of this article, you'll need to grab the StreamImageSource.cs file attached to this case and add it to your project using Add Existing...
The implementation of StreamImageSource makes it incredibly easy to use it with a byte[] instead
Just pass it a byte[] of a supported image file type instead of a stream - that's it ... nothing extra for you to do and now you can easily work with byte[] or Stream as you see fit.
You may have noticed that the StreamImageSource does not have an option to take multiple streams or byte[]'s.
Do not be tempted to try modifying the StreamImageSource to accomplish this. Although this is possible, it makes the StreamImageSource somewhat more fragile/complex than it needs to be.
The solution: use a MergedImageSource to combine/handle multiple StreamImageSources - it just takes a tiny bit of extra work:
The same technique for multiple streams could be converted quite simply for multiple byte[] objects. However, do keep in mind that when dealing with a large number of images / streams etc... that FileStream objects are significantly more memory-friendly than MemoryStreams or byte[]s - so please use with care. Running into a System.OutOfMemoryException because you're unexpectedly holding multiple GiB worth of files as byte[]s would be a clear indication that a FileStream or file based approach is a better option.
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On Saturday morning five-year-old Nerlo came limping through the hospital gate in Cayes holding the hand of his Aunt Ketline. I was glad to see Nerlo but did not expect to see him with blood and tears dripping down his face.
I first examined Nerlo two and one-half years ago when he was three years old and brought to me by the administrator of Cite Lumiere Hospital in Cayes. At that time he was accompanied by his father and his paternal grandmother.
Nerlo's history was as follows:
His mother had left the family after he was born and he was living with his grandmother in St. Louis-du-Sud which is located on Haiti's southern coast about 45 minutes east of Cayes. Grandma told me that Nerlo liked to play with other kids but he needed to rest often.
When I examined Nerlo that day he looked good but had low oxygen in his blood when I measured it with my pulse oximeter. And he had a fairly loud heart murmur that radiated to his back.
An echocardiogram confirmed that he had Tetralogy of Fallot which is the most common congenital heart disease causing kids to be blue. He should have been operated by the time I saw him, but he lives in Haiti. Without surgery the majority of kids with Tetralogy do not make it out of their teen age years.
So what has happened during the last couple of years? To make a very long story short, we lost communication with Nerlo and his family for MANY MANY reasons. But I have kept a picture of Nerlo and his grandmother scotched taped to the inside cover of my Week-at-a-Glance notebook so I would not forget him. I felt guilty each time I looked at this pathetic picture of Nerlo holding a little white baseball sitting next to his grandma wearing her blue hat.
Last week in Cayes we called a phone number of the pastor of a church in St. Louis-du-Sud who has had contact with Nerlo's family over the last several years. I wanted to know if Nerlo was still alive. Did he survive his heart disease and Hurricane Matthew that destroyed much of southern Haiti several weeks ago?
The pastor told us he would contact Nerlo's Aunt Ketline to see if Nerlo was still alive. He called back shortly and said that Nerlo was indeed alive but now living in rural Chantal which is an hour south and west of Cayes. And he gave us Aunt Ketline's phone number.
We called Aunt Ketline and told her that I needed to examine Nerlo again and she assured us that he would be at Cite Lumiere on Saturday morning.
Nerlo and an uncle left Chantal early on Saturday morning on foot because the roads were flooded. They were ready for the three-hour trip to the hospital. They walked a "good distance" according to Ketline and then took a motorcycle. However, while crossing slippery Solomon's Bridge in the rain, they crashed.
The exact details of the accident were not known for sure by Ketline, but she said that Nerlo was thrown from the motorcycle and landed on the left side of his face and was knocked out. A passerby grabbed him and shook him until he regained consciousness. A person was killed in the accident but Ketline could not give any more details since she was not there. However, she was called and went to the bridge. Nerlo's uncle and the motorcycle chauffeur were hurt but it did not sound like they had life threatening injuries.
At the scene, Aunt Ketline simply hired another motorcycle chauffeur, loaded up Nerlo, and came as quickly as they could the rest of the way to Cite Lumiere.
My exam of Nerlo revealed a sad appearing little boy with fresh tears and blood around abrasions and a laceration on the left side of his face. He had no signs of head trauma other than his face. He was alert and enjoyed eating a cracker. And his neck did not seem like it hurt him as he turned his head repeatedly keeping an eye on all of us. He had no evidence of trauma elsewhere besides a small abrasion on his left arm.
Nerlo's heart exam and oxygen level had not changed since his initial exam two years ago. And his lungs were clear.
As I gently cleaned his facial abrasions and laceration with soap and water, Nerlo would whimper. I didn't want him to cry and drop his oxygen level and so I closed his laceration with tape rather than suturing it.
I also chatted with Aunt Ketline. She told me that Nerlo and his Grandmother had moved from St. Louis-du -Sud to Chantal sometime during the past two years. Nerlo's mother was still missing-in-action and his father worked construction in Port-au- Prince and did not come South very often.
Aunt Ketline told me that Nerlo and his grandmother live with four paternal uncles in Chantal and that she lives in Cayes. Like hundreds of thousands of other Haitians in the South, as Hurricane Matthew bore down on them in early October, they ran to a neighbor's concrete house and hid from the storm. When they came out, grandma's house was gone and the wind had "swept away" her chickens and killed one of their six goats. Her garden was destroyed also.
Now all six of them are living in the dirt under a corrugated metal roof. They recently sold one of their female goats for 400 dollars Haitian (30 US dollars) so they could purchase food.
All six of them continue to obtain their water from a pipe from a well filled by a spring. When I asked if they put Clorox in the water, Aunt Ketline said no because there is no cholera in Chantal now. But she did say that there is cholera in the Haitian mountains and cited a village called LaCotte that had cholera which recently killed five family members living in one house.
While we were talking I made the decision to send Nerlo home with Ketline. If I admitted Nerlo to the hospital and he did have a neurologic event, what were we to do? There is no CAT scan and no neurosurgeon. I guess I could have tried to activate a a medical ambulance to come and pick him but where would they take him for definitive surgical care? Neursurgeons are not on every street corner in Port. I decided against this plan and simply asked Ketline to call me in six hours to report his condition.
I also told Aunt Ketline that Haiti Cardiac Alliance was running a morning pediatric cardiology clinic for only one day in Gressier on Monday. Gressier is a city about three hours east of Cayes and I asked her if she could have Nerlo back at the hospital at 5 AM on Monday morning. She assured me that she could.
Well, Aunt Ketline proved to be a great aunt over the next few days. She did call on Saturday night and reported that Nerlo was doing ok and eating a little. And at 5 AM on Monday morning she had him back at the hospital via yet another motorcycle. We all loaded into a jeep, traveled into downtown Cayes, and got on a bus for Gressier.
At 11 AM on Monday morning an expert US pediatric cardiologist working for Haiti Cardiac Alliance in Gressier performed another echocardiogram on Nerlo and concluded that he is a good surgical candidate for repair of his Tetralogy of Fallot. And the repair could be done in the Cayman Islands.
Now Nerlo needs a passport to leave Haiti. No passport means no surgery. This doesn't sound like much, but in Haiti, this step can be very hard to accomplish. Almost as hard as hiding from hurricanes.
In the meantime, I will keep Nerlo's picture in my little notebook to keep my guilt where it needs to be until we definitively help this little boy.
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The Pope Visits Mile HighAugust 29, 2008
Rising from the floor of Mile High Stadium, perched on a perfectly symmetric series of ascending circular platforms, stood Barack Obama. This was no blue-collar man, maybe not even a presidential candidate. The Pope was in town, and he knew exactly what the assembled worshipers wanted to hear. He blamed American's economic woes on Satan himself, Mr. Bush, and promised redemption.
Middle-class wages have stagnated over the last few years. This has little or nothing to do with the current President's policies. They have stagnated because technology has allowed businesses to move not only unskilled but skilled labor around the world, to find the skilled but meagerly paid to perform work. There is no President, no Congress, that will stem this tide. People who have marketable skills will be paid, people without marketable stills will struggle. Without adopting North-Korean-like strategies, governments can do little to reverse history's march towards the boundriless movement of ideas and resources.
The problem with the above argument is that it doesn't make good TV. And good TV is what everything is going to be about until at least early November.
This single biggest thing that government could do to raise the economic prospects off all citizens is to increase the educational opportunities for children born into disadvantaged circumstances. Such programs benefit the less fortunate directly, and the more fortunate by increasing the pace of our economic engine and ultimately returns to capital. The Democrats have rightly criticized Republicans for advocating some policies that favor the wealthy, but in this most critical area the tables are turned. Mr. Obama, following Democratic orthodoxy and at the behest of the teachers' unions, has proposed nothing creative or different in any substantial way to help students trapped in poor schools. The status quo, where wealthy families send their children to private schools, those of middling means move to the suburbs where the public schools are better, and low and lower-middle income families are left with the educational scraps will not be changed under his policies.
Allowing school choice for parents, as favored by many Republicans, is currently the only policy on the table that has any realisitc chance of dramatically changing the educational playing field for disadvantaged students. And dramatic change is what we desperately need.
Despite Mr. Obama's rhetorical flourishes about how often Mr. McCain votes with the President, Mr. Obama has shown less willingness than Mr. McCain to break with party orthodoxy when necessary for good policy. Mr. Obama will not be able to tax, and wealth-transfer, his way out of the global movement of labor resources. To protect the earning power, and what little savings we have, of Americans he will need to break with the Democratic Party's belief that only wealthier families should have a choice as to where they send their children to school.
Here's hoping that a hugely effective Pope knows how to become an effective President.
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I haven't read his book yet, but David Maister's new book on strategy seems to be right on target.
I recently read an article that he wrote by the same name in Consulting Magazine that shared some of the book's ideas. The title? – Strategy and the Fat Smoker.
He makes the point that fat smokers know what they need to do to lose weight, and to ward off a heart attack and cancer. However, knowing what they need to do is just not enough. Instead, the
real question is whether or not they can do what it takes to sacrifice present discomfort for future gain.
Companies have habits, just like people, and changing habits takes diligence, discipline and perseverance, plus a tolerance for multiple failures.
On the smallest of micro-levels, it takes waking up each morning and starting the day on a different foot, determined to take actions that push the envelope on new-habit creation, or old-habit deletion. This is where the strategy gets implemented — on a person by person basis, in the quiet moments when they have a choice to act differently, and move out of their comfort zones in order to make it happen an inch at a time.
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Here's what folks had to say about last years inaugural CRASHfest!
Not to toot our own horns . . . but read this too!"Was CRASHfest Boston's best music event ever or was that just my imagination?""This Boston event was fantastic, a veritable three-ring circus of cultural artistry, good food, and at the House of Blues an awesome venue. I eagerly anticipate its next iteration.""Tell me you're going to make this an annual event!! I've already told all my friends what a fabulous array of musicians you had and they plan on coming next year. The House of Blues was the perfect venue. Bhangra funk and belly dancers, Ganesh and Guan Yin illuminated by candlelight, surrounded by walls smothered in a patchwork of exotic tapestry. Is this for real? Pinch me. Best of all, tell me where else we could hear a line-up of completely unfamiliar, diverse artists and fall in love with every act? Good on you, CRASHarts. You do justice to the music of the world."
2016 was a stellar year for World Music/CRASHarts! We held the inaugural CRASHfest, our indoor music festival at the House of Blues (and we can't wait to do it again 1/28/17!), and we presented over 50 other concerts that included nearly 10 Boston debut performances and featured artists from over 20 different countries. I rounded up our staff favorites of the year . . .
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text: A while back I bought a couple of small gessoed panels. Normally I use canvas, but panels seem to be convenient and easy to store. So the other day I decided to try them out. I also wanted to experiment with colors and glazes and such. It was a real struggle at first. I was totally unprepared for the slickness of the panel. Add in my other experimentation and I almost tossed it. Now I'm glad I stuck with it. Once you get the first couple of coats of paint down, it gets much easier. This is an old, oddly-shaped building in town. I've always wondered about its history. I've still got a lot of work to do on it but it's coming along.


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I have been a vegetarian for fifteen years, but for my daughter, this is all new. She is still in high school and it's been interesting to see this life choice through her fresh eyes. Last week she told me, "I've been happier since I went vegetarian." My first thought was, "Of course you are. You have always been an animal lover and caretaker. Now your diet aligns with your morals." But the more I thought about it, the more I wondered if there could be more to it. Can a vegetarian diet make you happier? It turns out there have been some recent studies done on vegetarianism and mental health, and it looks like it can.
In 2010 the Nutrition Journal published a study on how a vegetarian diet affects mood. The goal of the study was to reach beyond the wealth of information already available regarding how a vegetarian diet affects physical health and learn more about how a vegetarian diet affects mental health. The study focused on 138 healthy men and women from the 7th Day Adventist community. About 1/3 of 7th Day Adventists adhere to a vegetarian diet.
Nutrition Journal also published another smaller study in which participants were instructed to eat either a vegetarian based diet, meat based diet or meat and fish based diet. After only two weeks, standardized mood and stress tests showed the participants eating a vegetarian diet had significantly less stress and depression.
More research still needs to be done to truly understand the effects of a vegetarian diet on mental health, but with all the information we already know about how a vegetarian diet can improve physical health, this looks like a win-win.


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|On our way back from Aihole (North Karnataka)
|On our way back to Chennai from Kurnool. We saw some 9 herds like this one!
Reminded me of the Kannada movie, 'Thithi'!
|On our way back from Aihole (North Karnataka)
|On our way back to Chennai from Kurnool. We saw some 9 herds like this one!
Excellent click.
SG: Thank you, SG!
Nice pics
Looks like the road is for the herds and vehicles are supposed to go on the sidelanes :D
Destination Infinity
Thats what makes these journeys colorful :)
ONKAR: Thank you, Onkar!
DESTINATION INFINITY: Hahahaaa...We saw them nearly for a km or two....one group after another...we should have got out from the car and taken pictures! Some cute little ones were there. My husband and son knew my intention and asked me to just SIT and watch:) We drove very slowly! One picture is there with the shepherd grinning at the camera...he was happy that we were taking photo of HIM:) The picture is shaky, though!
ASHOK: Yes, you are very right, Ashok! Everything is beautiful for us...we realised! 'oru kaakka ponalum ungamma aannu paarppa', my husband says often...I have got many posts about the menial Kaakka and a couple of them about pigs too!
Nice capture onn the herd of sheep! I come across few herd of goats on Sunday during my visit to Nagalapuram area.
JEEVAN: They are entertainers for us, city dwellers, aren't they?
beautiful photos
sm: Thank you, sm!


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Monthly Archives: November 2014
The reason why Business Rental Providers Seem sensible
You need to perform correct because of your organization all the time. If you have a sizable group who've to visit through Stage The in order to Stage W, exactly how will you have them presently there? Business rental providers is usually the very best solution. Unsure you need to place everybody on the coach? It seems sensible with regard to a number of factors. The earlier a person discover the reason why, the earlier you'll be arranging the rental coach.
A person need to ensure everybody reaches the required location promptly as well as collectively. For those who have several individuals fooling within due to visitors, obtaining on the highway past due, or even other things, it will impact efficiency. It is also likely to annoyed the ones that do appear promptly. Whenever you make the most of business rental providers, it doesn't need to occur. You merely possess the coach get to the organization workplace or even another conference stage for everybody to obtain upon.
It is possible to make use of business rental providers with regard to a number of occasions, such as:
Team development actions
Business picnics
Meetings as well as workshops
Xmas as well as vacation events
R&D area outings
No matter the reason why you've got a big group which want to get towards the exact same area, you need to be wary of the way you intend to obtain everybody presently there. The actual logistics could possibly be the distinction in between delivering individuals and never delivering individuals. It will likely be pricey to cover leasing vehicles for everybody. It is also likely to cost a lot in order to pay usage for everybody. As well as for those who have everybody getting their very own vehicle, can there be likely to be sufficient car parking in the location?
Whenever you consider business rental providers, you'll find an appropriate rental coach to support everybody, regardless of what size or even little your own team is actually. Don't believe "bus" whenever you take a look at rental providers as it might help remind a person from the large lemon coach that you simply utilized to return in order to college upon. Rather, think about a good air-conditioned automobile that may chair 40+ individuals. Padded chairs, lots of space with regard to baggage as well as freight and several additional functions are simply using the rental coach, making certain all your workers get to design.
Nobody really wants to access it the coach. Nevertheless, should you existing the thought of the coach because business rental providers, they'll re-think the concept — and become much more prepared to take this like a practical setting associated with transport in order to encourage them to exactly where they have to proceed. It is also likely to end up being the most affordable choice for you personally as well as your organization — that is eventually exactly what you need to take a look at.
Therefore, next time you've some thing happening exactly where there is a lot of a person, you need to choose why is feeling. Leasing vehicles as well as spending usage isn't practical, particularly in the current economic climate. Guide the rental coach watching just how much it seems sensible.
Ideas to Locating the Greatest Maldives Lodging
The actual Maldives may be the desire destination for anybody buying 7 days aside with an unique isle, encircled through whitened exotic shorelines as well as superior turquoise seas.
This particular region is composed through numerous barrier reefs as well as island destinations, although just one 100 as well as eighty-five of those little island destinations tend to be lived on. This can be a extremely popular visitor location and also the isle encouraged an incredible number of people to their own shoreline with an yearly foundation, whether or not they appear through atmosphere or even drinking water.
There's some thing regarding these types of island destinations, perhaps it is the exotic environment or even the actual relaxing environment, that makes it this type of well-liked option with regard to honeymooners as well as partners wanting to get from the actual hubbub associated with everyday life.
You will find close to a hundred hotels that offer Maldives lodging in order to site visitors which appear right here. They provide a number associated with choices through fundamental bungalows in order to villas using their personal personal seaside.
Regardless of whether you are going with limited funds or even you are considering which unique room in order to spend time along with the one you love, there are several elements you might want to consider.
The initial step would be to perform a few investigating online as well as become familiar with picking a island destinations providing high quality lodging. Observe exactly what every isle provides when it comes to actions, activities, websites, dining places as well as nightlife. This assists a person thin lower your own research and provide a person a few sign upon exactly where you need to remain whenever reserving your own Maldives lodging.
Before you begin taking a look at Maldives lodging costs, it is recommended to create your self the plan for your own a vacation in these types of unique island destinations. Make sure you consist of your own lodging, meals as well as spending cash. Together with your spending budget in your mind you can begin searching with the different alternatives when it comes to the actual hotels obtainable.
Every vacation resort will offer you an array of Maldives lodging choices, that allows you to find the correct complement depending on your individual choice as well as spending budget. Regardless of whether you select the relaxing bungalow along with magnificent ocean sights or perhaps a rental property along with it is personal personal patio as well as immediate seaside entry, you have to make sure this fulfills your financial allowance and it is on your selected times.
In some instances, becoming somewhat versatile along with times, may allow you to make the most of reduced costs. Maximum months, for example college vacation occasions, usually have a heightened cost, because perform weekends. If you're able to consider a couple of days away throughout the 7 days, you are able to slow up the cost, helping you to remain in a far more magnificent space in the cost you'd purchase a fundamental space in the exact same vacation resort.
An additional suggestion whenever reserving Maldives lodging is actually try to guide ahead of time, the majority of resorts as well as hotels provide reduced costs with regard to earlier reservations. Whenever you do that make sure you go through the actual conditions and terms as well as become familiar with the actual cancellation plan. Whenever reserving per month or even more ahead of time, you might have in order to cancel as well as understanding how a lot, in the event that all of your down payment you will get back again as well as exactly how quickly you've the best in order to cancel could be extremely advantageous.
Once you have discovered your own desire Maldives lodging affordable, guide this. Do not wait around. Frequently should you wait around, through the period a person return to this, another person has grabbed in the offer. A few hotels will require the down payment immediately, while some may keep your own greeting card info as well as expenses a person upon appearance or even leaving.
Together with your Maldives lodging verified, you can begin reserving your own plane tickets. Keep in mind plane tickets act like resorts, the sooner a person guide the low the cost could be. Make sure you possess your own resort verification inside your hands before you decide to guide any kind of plane tickets, to lessen the danger associated with problems afterwards.
Luxurious Loved ones Vacations in the united kingdom: Taking advantage of summer time Celebrations
Seeking to make a move a little various together with your loved ones vacation this season? If you are thinking about an extravagance loved ones vacation in the united kingdom, as well as wish to encounter some thing brand new, why don't you attempt one of the numerous celebrations which appear within the summertime? Along with lots of things you can do for that children, as well as brand new encounters in order to be a part of, there is public to maintain everybody amused.
The actual Cotswolds hosts a huge variety or even celebrations, through songs in order to technology. As well as following a complete day time having a good time, there is lots of luxurious lodging for you personally just about all in order to return in order to as well as unwind. Here is a choose associated with the best with regard to households:
The actual Cornbury Event
This particular happens in the fourth towards the sixth associated with This summer within the Excellent Tew Recreation area within Oxfordshire. It is basically the songs event along with functions such as Jools The netherlands, Easy Thoughts, Imprisoned Improvement as well as Searching for females in addition lots much more. Additionally, there is humor through the kind of Ing Murray, along with a amazing children area along with show abilities, dancing as well as music theater training courses, encounter piece of art, miracle as well as puppet exhibits, disciplines as well as projects to pay for some.
The actual Backwoods Event
Occurring this season through Thurs the actual seventh in order to Weekend the actual tenth associated with July. Along with songs through Birmingham Sentence structure, Burt Bacharach, Metronomy, Jessie Ware as well as Mike Cruz, additionally, there is theater, discussing, horseback riding, crazy floating around, living room creating, the kid's tale center, the lakeside health spa, to mention just some of the actual encounters obtainable. As well as if you wish to celebration to the evening, there is a babysitting support.
Cheltenham Technology Event
Happening between your third as well as eighth associated with 06 2014, there are several things to complete with regard to children through small children in order to teenagers along with free of charge actions happening all through, as well as an opportunity to fulfill guide as well as TELEVISION figures. Additionally, there is lots of on the job actions as well as training courses, such as Lego Mindstorms exactly where children can make as well as program their very own automatic robot, Activities Within Room with regard to pre-schoolers is really a reside interactive display, as well as there is The actual Technology associated with Desserts for just about any newer Charlie Buckets available, in addition lots much more.
Treefest occur about the 23rd towards the 25th July from Westonbirt, The actual Nationwide Aboretum, Close to Tetbury. Filled with loved ones actions such as woodcraft as well as forest abilities. Additionally, there is falconry exhibits, storytelling, puppet theater, sapling hiking, as well as protection creating. You will find a good amount of stalls along with meals, disciplines, projects, home add-ons. As well as reside songs through nearby designers, providing upward spirit, nation as well as people.
As well as at the conclusion from the day time, why don't you go back to a few luxurious lodging? The actual Cotswolds offers everything; idyllic cottages, shop resorts, or even what about a good Eco-home on the vacation resort using its personal health spa, pools as well as ponds with regard to drinking water actions? Ideal for an extravagance loved ones vacation in the united kingdom.
Enjoy the actual Fantastic Food associated with Peru
Like a nation famous because of its scrumptious food, when you are hiking within Peru it is possible to find out simply the reason why it's therefore cherished as well as famous. Whilst there's a good limitless listing of special treats to test, the actual recommendations here are the additional unique types in order to look out with regard to.
Peru established fact because of its sea food, which meal is among the most well-known. Comprising uncooked seafood cut upward as well as marinated within citrus fruit liquid, it's offered together with red onion as well as peppers in addition to fairly sweet spud — developing a easy however really delicious meal.
Aji de Gallina
Aji spice up is actually popular within the nation's food, as well as when you are hiking within Peru you need to most surely look for this particular well-liked, delicious poultry stew. It's created utilizing compacted whole milk, breads as well as parmesan cheese and it has the wealthy yellow-colored color. It's very hot, and it is extremely popular within the winter season — particularly amongst trekkers buying fast power increase.
Causa is really a nearby meal produced from mashed spud as well as many other elements, for example avocados, poultry as well as tuna. It's consumed chilly and frequently together with boiled ova as well as olives.
Papa Rellena
This particular includes mashed spud patties full of floor meat. The actual mince is actually toast upward along with garlic clove, onions, paprika as well as tomato plants prior to becoming put to the mashed spud. It is very hot as well as olives as well as boiled ova are occasionally put into the actual blend too.
Pollo the los angeles Brasa
This particular easy beef roasts poultry meal is located from coast to coast. The key towards the scrumptious flavor is within the actual soy marinade blend how the poultry is actually marinated within prior to becoming prepared, financing this the smoky, hot flavor. It is consumed along with nearby yucca.
This particular meal includes marinated beef barbequed upon skewers just like a kebab, and you'll think it is in several guises in a area a person proceed hiking within Peru. The actual beef is usually offered inside a garlic clove marinade, and also the the majority of conventional variance associated with beef utilized is actually cow's center.
Tacu Tacu
Africa slaves created this particular meal throughout the colonial amount of the nation. It's a easy meal comprising grain, sausage, coffee beans, spices or herbs as well as onions, that is created in to a type of pancake. It may be offered by itself or even together with toast banana.
Alpaca is actually consumed broadly in the united kingdom, particularly within the Andean highlands, using the pet getting used because of its made of woll in addition to it's beef. The actual beef is extremely slim which is consumed within a variety of foods, occasionally offered upward like a meat as well as potato chips!
Whenever you attempt a good experience hiking within Peru, be sure you attempt just as much from the scrumptious nearby food as possible. This particular magnificent nation offers a lot of points opting for this, and also the incredible meals is certainly one of the illustrates.
The actual Danube — The Emphasize associated with Strolling within Luxembourg
The actual Danube is actually biggest water within European countries and also the second-largest water within the whole region following the Volga. It's pure beauty as well as great visage, nevertheless, tend to be exactly what allow it to be genuinely amazing — specifically for vacationers strolling within Luxembourg. There are lots of places as well as seems to become skilled whilst strolling together or even close to the Danube, using the subsequent becoming a few of the much more outstanding good examples.
Hofburg Structure
The actual Hofburg Structure is actually among Vienna's the majority of impressive attractions and when located the actual rulers from the previous Austrio-Hungarian Empire — the actual Hapsburg empire. Enthusiasts associated with background as well as art work ought to go to this particular great aged structure whilst on the vacation strolling within Luxembourg. The different wings from the structure tend to be embellished based on specific visual as well as practical reasons. The actual Switzerland Side, the actual Imperial Steady (Stallburg), the actual Amalienburg, and also the Imperial Chancellory Side just about all possess their own tales to inform towards the observant customer.
Schönbrunn Structure
Schönbrunn within Viennese indicates "beautiful spring", that is a good likely explanation with this great relationship associated with verdant landscapes, elaborate statues as well as uplifting structures. The actual France Backyard, the actual Gloriette Backyard and also the Roman damages, every using their personal unique personas, just about all increase the majesty from the Schönbrunn Structure. The actual Neptune Water feature, positioned in the actual Gloriette, is among the the majority of especially impressive bits of just about all — using the historic Roman lord encircled through nymphs, goddesses as well as human winners. These types of along with other numerous sights within the substance tend to be must-sees.
The actual Belvedere Structure
The actual Belvedere is actually an additional regal framework that is the foundation associated with Austrian lifestyle, using its spectacular Baroque structures mixing great as well as capturing feelings within people who go to. Among the main illustrates from the Belvedere, nevertheless, is actually it's art gallery. The actual Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, also known as the actual Austrian Gallery associated with Belvedere, homes an assortment through numerous substantial designers. A few of the much more well-known items consist of Gustav Klimt's "The Hug, inch Claude Monet's "Gartenweg, inch Hans Makart's "Dame 'm Spinett, inch as well as Egon Schiele's "The Accept. inch
Vienna Phase Safari
Although on the vacation strolling within Luxembourg, ensure that you go to among the nation's the majority of much loved centers associated with creative phrase as well as new question. It's also house towards the Vienna Philharmonic, that regularly rates among the planet's best orchestras. The actual Safari Home by itself was created along with Neo-Renaissance sensibilities in your mind, which means lots of amazing staircases, freestanding buttresses as well as moving outlines associated with style. It had been initially broken through United states bombers approaching the finish associated with Globe Battle II, however it had been rebuilt just as it had been — protecting it's elegance with regard to long term hundreds of years.
If you wish to move away from the actual hubbub from the town as well as going for walks within Luxembourg via it's attractive scenery, the actual wonderful town associated with Grinzing is a superb option. Not just may be the region wealthy along with forested side rails as well as cresting hillsides you are able to spend some time walking via, however Grinzing can also be well-known because of its wines as well as grape fruit juices. Knowing how you can value the cup associated with good wines, you actually should help to make time for you to unwind and revel in the actual peaceful scenery associated with Grinzing having a cup associated with wines at hand.
Maintain each one of these points of interest in your mind and you'll discover your own encounter more potent, much more satisfying and many memorable.


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Thank You From The Family
身為母親的我已經竭盡全力,身為女兒的她已經全力以赴,身為朋友的你已共度一段難忘的歲 月。大家的心都在震動,感歎生命的脆弱無常。雖然家宜在紅塵裡的出現與離開是如斯的短暫,她的精神,勇氣,鬥志卻永遠紮根於我們腦海之中!我們實應以她為榮。
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MEMORIAL SERVICE detail
Order of Service
May 6, 2009 (Wednesday) 5:00pm to 8:00pm
Richmond Funeral Home
8420 Cambie Road, Richmond, BC, Canada V6X 1K1
Tel: +1 (604) 273-3748
Memorial Service
May 7, 2009 (Thursday) 10:00am
Richmond Funeral Home
8420 Cambie Road, Richmond, BC, Canada V6X 1K1
Tel: +1 (604) 273-3748
May 7, 2009 (Thursday) 11:45am
Vancouver Memorial Crematorium
5505 Fraser Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada V5W 2Z3
Tel: +1 (604) 325-8251
Lunch Reception
May 7, 2009 (Thursday) 1:00pm
Kirin Restaurant
200 Three West Centre, 7900 Westminster Highway, Richmond, BC, Canada V6X 1A5
Tel: +1 (604) 303-8833
*It is Carolyn's wish to minimize black clothing at the service. White is preferred.
Donating to the Leukemia Cause
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada
This is the charity that Carolyn did her marathon for back in 2007. She raised C$15,000 for them.
Please click here to donate online, and remember to specify "In the Memory of Carolyn Tam".
Or you can send a check payable to "The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada" to 310-1682 West 7th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6J 4S6, with return address, and remember to write "In Memory of Carolyn Tam" on the back. A receipt will be sent to you in return.
Hong Kong
The Hong Kong Bone Marrow Donor Registry
Please send your donation check made payable to "Hong Kong Red Cross" with marking of "In the memory of Carolyn Tam (#555599)" at the back of the check, to "Hong Kong Red Cross Headquarters, 33 Harcourt Road, Hong Kong". If donation receipt is needed, please also mark your mailing address at the back of the check.
Sending Carolyn Flowers
Fannie's Florist Limited
Pre-arrangement with this florist in Vancouver has been made so that you can place your order by phone or email and have the flowers delivered to the funeral home.
It can be reached at +1.888.303.3927 or by email at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Please provide the following information:
a) This order is for Carolyn Tam
b) Budget (C$100 and up)
c) Credit card info
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Carolyn is now in peace.
1970 – 2009
At 3pm on April 23, 2009, Carolyn was set free from the suffering of this world, with her Mother & brother, Uncle & Aunt by her side.
The past two and a half year has been such a physical and emotional roller coaster for Carolyn, her family, her friends, and everyone who became part of her life during this time.
Miracles happened when there were seemingly no hopes. Dreams were dashed when they were the only chance you've got. Friends were made. Lives were saved.
Its over now. And Carolyn is now at a better place.
Funeral will take place in Vancouver, Canada on May 7th. If you would like to attend, please RSVP by clicking here for funeral detail, or visit www.SaveCarolyn.com in the coming week.
For most of you who will not be able to attend, please do this for Carolyn one last time by forwarding the following link to five close friends, and making sure everyone of them become a bone marrow donor.
Family of Carolyn Tam
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text: JackBurley Posted October 29, 2006 Ahem, MrsL. Flower Drum Song is by Rodgers and Hammerstein (no wonder you like it!). And there are plenty of wonderful, struggling composers out there; wishing they could find a good producer and an audience... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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As a supporting member, we're happy to be participating in our 7th meeting on February 18-21. M3AAWG meetings are an exceptional opportunity to discuss the latest in messaging security with other professionals in a focused environment of working sessions and educational panels.
We would be delighted if you joined the transport encryption session that I'm speaking at, on Wednesday. Also, if you want to meet up, just get in touch! We're all around; product, sales and engineering.
We celebrate the new year with news on the upcoming release, which bundles many exciting features.
First and foremost, the new RESTful API with an OpenAPI specification makes integration into various development and deployment toolchains much more enjoyable. Since most of our customers already integrate Halon into their directories and control panels by making REST queries from Halon, it makes perfect sense that Halon can be provisioned in the same way.
$ curl https://halon1/api/1.0.0/email/queue
-d '{"filter": "ip=192.0.2.1", "fields": {"transport": "srv2"}}'
-u username:password
"affected": 10
Secondly, we're introducing a new end-of-DATA script that's executed once per message, as opposed to the per-recipient DATA script. Whereas the per-recipient version is convenient when you want to treat each recipient individually and let the Halon software take care of queueing and consolidating the respective actions into an SMTP response, the per-message version gives you maximum flexibility and control over execution. The
$transaction variable is populated gradually during the SMTP conversation with sender information, and an array with recipients accepted by each RCPT TO command. To then relay a message to its recipients, you call
Queue() for each
$transaction["recipients"] and then
Accept(). Making per-recipient message modifications using the
MIME() class is now easier thanks to the new
snapshot() and
restore() methods.
The code editor's built-in CSV editor now supports custom form controls, defined like a "schema" on a per-file basis using a JSON format. You can use checkboxes for booleans, select controllers for enumerated types, and input fields with validation for things like dates, email addresses or any regular expression you like. It makes it much more convenient and safe to create and edit lists and settings that you want to have in your Halon configuration file.
There's a new
LDAP() class that replaces the previous
ldap_ functions and LDAP settings in the configuration. It provides greater flexibility, and an improved usage pattern using an iterable LDAP result object.
Finally, there are massive under-the-hood improvements. There's a new on-disk YAML configurations with JSON schemas and Protobuf control sockets, which is used by the componentised Linux package's new Visual Studio Code plugin and command line tools. The integrated package is built on FreeBSD 12, which ships with OpenSSL 1.1 and thus TLS 1.3 support. It was published as a standard by IETF in August last year, and is much anticipated as it contains many security improvements over previous TLS versions. The queue database is now using the latest and greatest PostgreSQL version 11.1, and the queue is automatically migrated on boot as usual.
We have that you'll like this new release as much as we do! Check out the full changelog on GitHub for more information, and familiarise yourself with the important changes outlined in the release notes document before upgrading.
Halon are going to Smau 2018 in Milan on October 23-25, with our new distributor AnswerVAD. We have had the fortune to be introduced to this big Italian event through Massimo, the CEO of AnswerVAD. This is an innovation event, and a great place to be for announcing our presence in the region. We will be in a booth together with AnswerVAD. If you are interested of going there but don't have a ticket, don't hesitate to contact us and we will sign you up for free. Hope to se you in Milan!
Halon 4.0 introduced a feature we call "live staging" where you can deploy multiple running configurations at the same time, with per-connection conditions. It allows you to reliably rollout changes or new features to a production system for only a few testing IPs, or a select percentage of the traffic. With Halon 4.7, we proudly present "live debugging" using which you can add logpoints to your scripts. It enables you to inspect the full context of SMTP transactions in real-time, using the live staging conditions as connection selector.
Those points are added directly to the Monaco-based IDE, and results are inspected on a per-connection basis. You can create multiple points, triggered by multiple messages, and jump back and forth between them.
We've also added a HELO/EHLO phase script, support for ARC in DKIMSign() and a full implementation of draft 18 on Github, EdDSA (ed25519) and a native boolean type with corresponding strict comparison operator. The standard library have many new functions such as rsa_sign() and verify, idna_encode() and decode, aes_encrypt() and decrypt.
We hope that the live debugging will come handy! Please see the changelog on Github for a full list of improvements and changes, or get in touch with us if you want more detailed information.
Authenticated Received Chain (ARC) is a proposed standard that have been developed to help address issues with DMARC and certain forwarders, such as mailing lists. It defines a standard for how to pass authentication results from one intermediary to another, making this information available to the recipient system. It works even in the case of multiple intermediaries, a.k.a. a chain
DMARC verifies the sender authenticity, as specified by the RFC5322.From header domain name, using SPF and DKIM. Certain indirect email flows such as mailing lists break this by altering the message, while maintaining the original From header. It causes issues for both senders that publish a DMARC policy, and receivers that verify DMARC. The two large mailbox providers AOL and Yahoo published a p=reject DMARC policy for their domains in 2014, causing some disruption for senders on those domains. It occurred when emailing recipients on mailbox services that verifies DMARC via for example mailing lists. This was, and still is, remedied by ad-hoc solutions.
ARC in itself isn't a reputation system. The specification doesn't define how the reputation of intermediates should be tracked, nor how public lists should be operated. In other words, as a recipient mailbox provider you still have to operate such systems in order to make use of the information that ARC provides. DMARC.org announced ARC at a M3AAWG meeting in Atlanta, 2015, where it's been a frequent topic ever since.
include "authentication.header";
include "authentication.arc";
$chain = ARC::chainValidate();
if ($chain["status"] == "pass" or $chain["status"] == "none")
"201805", "example.com", "pki:arc",
->SPF(["smtp.client-ip" => $senderip])
->addMethod("arc", $chain["status"], ["header.oldest-pass" => $chain["oldestpass"] ?? "0"])
We have just released an implementation for ARC (draft 14) on Github, which supports both verification and (re)sealing. It's written in Halon script, and we're using it on our own domain to start with. If you're interested in taking it for a spin, just let us know.
The very successful TES security roundtable meetings are continuing. This time it brings us to London, UK on May 24th.
The meeting will revolve around DMARC, DANE, email encryption techniques, password protection and SMTP transport protection. Vittorio Bertola, Head of Policy and Innovation at Open-Xchange has assemblied a great line-up. The meeting is an exclusive invite-only event for people working with email infrastructure issues.
M3AAWG meetings are an exceptional opportunity to discuss the latest in messaging security with other professionals in a focused environment of working sessions and educational panels. This time we meet in Munich, Germany. Leading industry experts, researchers and public policy officials address such diverse topics as bot mitigation practices, social networking abuse, mobile abuse and pending legislation.
As an official supporter member, we will of course participate in the Munich meeting on June 4th-7th. If you want to meet up, just get in touch!
You probably know from before that Halon's scriptable SMTP server enable email providers to avoid blacklisting and increase deliverability. The 4.6 release, "curry", contains Cyren's outbound anti-spam (OAS). In combination with our cluster-synchronised rate limit function, it provides incredibly effective and accurate abuse prevention. Just like their Cyren's inbound anti-spam, OAS uses a hash-sharing technology called recurrent pattern detection (RPD) that identifies outbreak patterns. It's designed to detect spam from internal sources rather than external, and doesn't report/contribute any signatures since it could blacklist your own infrastructure.
With the flexibility of scripting you can determine customer/sender identities accurately even in mixed traffic. This is used as identifier for rate limits based on classifiers such as Cyren's OAS, delivery failure rate, queue size, etc. By using IP source hashing and alternative IPs for suspicious traffic, deferring obvious abuse and controlling connection concurrency, you can achieve high deliverability with minimal administration.
The 4.6 release comes with many additional features and improvements. It adds SNI support to the TLS functions. The Monaco-based code editor now have additional code completion, built-in documentation, tabs, and a mini-map.
For more information on the release, see the full changelog on GitHub. If you want to try Cyren's outbound anti-spam, contact our sales team.
In the beginning, everything was ASCII and English. Since then, we've seen Unicode (international character sets) and IDN (international domains names) become widely adopted. Last year we implemented SMTPUTF8 that enables international mailboxes.
So why not support other languages in text-based protocols? We give to you "The SMTP Service Extension for Protocol Internationalization" RFC draft, introducing the EHLO keyword LANG. It will be the first SMTP software to support our to-be submitted RFC draft. Initially it will support Swedish, Spanish and Australian, and will default to Swedish when talking to supported systems.
EHLO example.com 250-LANG SE ES AU LANG SE 250 Ok BREV FRÅN:<> 250 Tack BREV TILL:<hå[email protected]än.se> 250 Tack INNEHÅLL Subject: asdf Hej! . 250 Togs emot HEJDÅ 250 Vi ses!
If you made it this far, April fool! We will publish information on the upcoming 4.6 release some time after the 1st of April.
Happy easter!
April 28th marks the date for Halon's 10th anniversary and I would like to share with you the story about Halon's scripting language, HSL. In order to understand why we created our own scripting language you have to look back at what it was intended to do, and the landscape of embeddable languages in 2007.
The Halon scripting language started out as an idea of having a dynamic configuration. We wanted people to easily be able to weight the results of different anti-spam engines (Cyren's RPD and SpamAssassin). Hence, we came up with the idea of having a simple language with functions, ScanRPD returning the spam score from the Cyren engine, and ScanSA returning the result of SpamAssassin. The configuration could look like:
if (ScanSA() > 5 and ScanRPD() > 0) Reject();
if (ScanSA() > 3 and ScanRPD() >= 50) Reject();
In order to facilitate this, we needed a simple scripting language. At the time, the intent was not to allow any general purpose programming features. We didn't even want loops, in order to prevent runaway programs.
If you're not into programming languages, I should explain that creating a simple domain-specific scripting language is easy. There are tons of guides and it doesn't take more than a few lines until you get simple arithmetic to work (5 + 6). The hardest and most important part of creating a language is the design, also called the syntax. You want to make it as easy as possible to read and write.
Domain-specific languages are no a new phenomena, as they have existed in a lot of different applications. I believe that custom application scripting DSLs are getting less common today, as a few selected embeddable scripting language engines are getting more traction. A few years ago you would probably pick Lua to be the embedded language of choice, while nowadays JavaScript (v8) is the language everyone knows.
Over the years, people have asked me why we developed our own language and not used e.g. Sieve, Lua or JavaScript. Here' why:
Today we try to make HSL as familiar and easy to learn as possible, which is really important when you have a custom language. Everything we add or change is by the principle of least surprise. The language has copied a lot of syntax and good ideas from different languages. It may look a lot like PHP, it may even be mistaken for PHP, while other major concepts are from JavaScript and Python. Development of new language features are in many cases intentionally slow, as they needs to be well thought through. From a language designer perspective I would say that there isn't much syntax in HSL that I don't like. However we continuously add modern features. In the recent year or two, a lot of time has been put in to the language and it has gained features such as closures, classes and modules. They allow our language to be easily extendable so that you can build reusable modules on top of it. Our entire examples collection on GitHub can be imported as modules and a lot of them are written as classes.
One of the most innovating features of HSL is the cache statement as it allows you to cache the result of any function call based on the input arguments. Sure, the same functionality can be built in other ways, but having such a powerful tool so easy at hand in HSL makes it stand out. It gets really neat when you do network lookup queries, such as API lookups using http() or ldap_search().
cache [] http("http://api.example.com/v1/?param=$1", [], ["foo"]);
I personally really like the concept of custom languages, I think it's important to try to evolve and challenge the concept of established languages, and by doing so we progress and learn from each other. I think every new language brings something new to the table; it can be a specific feature or the entire concept of why it was created in the first place.


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The home at 162 Pointe Oakwood Way makes good use of it Craftsman styling to offer an open floor plan with uncluttered lines, neutral decor and a surprising amount of storage space.
"It was built in 2012 by M/M Construction," said the owner. "I really like the Craftsman character of the home. It looks like an old home, but it is really new. They've put a lot of detail in the house."
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Indeed, the detail in the trim and styling combines its Craftsman features such as oak trim and balances it with plenty of white millwork to increase light reflection from large window arrangements.
With more than 2,600 square feet of living space, this former Homearama home is listed for $400,000 by Pam Cook of Keller Williams Advantage Real Estate.
Facing Far Hills Avenue, the front of the home features a wide front porch with Craftsman style railings, wide-based columns and a bead-board ceiling. Similar styling importance is used for the second entrance at the end of the driveway with a smaller porch, wide-based columns and a Craftsman-style door with wide wood trim.
Both entrances lead into wide entry halls with special features. The walls of the front entry are dressed with extra-tall wainscoting while the second entry has built-in millwork around tall spaces with coat hooks and cubbies for storing hats and shoes.
The open gathering area combines the living room, an open kitchen and central dining space. Upper square windows flank the paneled wood facing rising above the fireplace to upper moldings at the ceiling. A triple-window grouping faces the back porch.
The kitchen incorporates oversized oak cabinets with a traditional Craftsman stain. A matching cover customizes the hood and vent, then balances dark with light in a center island supported by white millwork and complementary granite counters. The wide U-shaped work space has multiple storage drawers and cabinets that vary in size including a tall pantry at the end.
Three large windows above the main counter add plenty of natural light. Stainless-steel appliances include the dishwasher, a smooth-surface range and a built-in microwave oven. Mosaic miniature tile in octagonal shapes adorn the backsplash areas. A designer light fixture with triple hanging lights accents the center island, which offers bar seating on one side.
In the main floor bedroom suite, neutral carpet cushions the floor. Off the adjacent bath a pocket door encloses a large walk-in closet with built-in drawers and upper and lower hanging spaces. A double vanity has twin rectangular vessel bowls atop a granite counter.
Ceramic tile surrounding the step-in shower is accented with a decorative small-tile design, while complementary large tile covers the bathroom floor.
Off the front entry hall is an extra room with neutral décor that is currently used as an office.
The loft area at the top of the stairs is arranged as a recreation/media room. Under the vaulted ceiling a uniquely designed cornice across the triple window hides a remotely controlled, retractable movie screen. Ceiling speakers connect to the sound system.
Two bedrooms on this level share the two-room hall bath with a pocket door enclosing the tub and shower in the second room and a raised vanity in the anteroom. One of these bedrooms has two double-door closets. Custom-made drapes hang from cafe rods over sheer curtains to shade the windows. The other bedroom has a partially vaulted ceiling and a walk-in closet.
Additional features of this home include a main-floor guest bath, large linen and deep storage closets, a laundry room with a deep sink and the attached, two-car garage, which has finished walls and epoxy flooring. The home is wired as a smart home and has a security system.
Cook mentioned three more attributes: "This is a home that doesn't require a lot of maintenance. It is near Oakwood and downtown Dayton, and you can move in at closing."
Price: $400,000
Open house: Feb. 25, 2-4 p.m.
Directions: Far Hills Avenue, west on Old River Trail, south on Pointe Oakwood Way
Highlights: About 2,620 sq. ft., 3 bedrooms, 2 full and 1 half baths, 2-story, built in 2012, main floor bedroom suite, loft recreation/media area, porch, security system, wired for sound and smart home features, attached 2-car garage
For more information:
Keller Williams Advantage Real Estate
Pam Cook
(937) 371-5979
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Blizzard seems a little concerned about the ways that gamers are using the map creation feature in Starcraft 2.
The idea that you can create your own map is fine, but some users appear to be a little testicular about the types of maps they are drawing. Blizzard has created a mechanism to flag and remove maps that are "deemed inappropriate" for various reasons. According to Blizzard community manager Lylirra on the game's official message board players are encouraged to share the maps they create through Battle.net, published maps are subject to review to ensure that they promote a fun and safe environment for all players.
If a map is found to contain inappropriate content, it will be removed from Battle.net and the map maker will be contacted via email. Apparently Blizzard is not just having problems with maps shaped like willies. Some people insist on naming planets and places things that will sail up the noses of others. Like you would expect from the US most of the names are racially bigoted, but equally there are some which are homophobic, sexist and just nasty.
More here.
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Blizzard cracks down on penis shaped universes
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How To Disable USB Ports To Prevent Malware Infection
A Reader writes in:
"My PC is being shared by my roomies – they mainly use it for watching films – virus threats from USB is paramount. I have no issue with CD drives. But USB's are a no-no. So its really important that I do this (block or lockdown USB ports)."
There are plenty of ways to disable usb ports and you don't need any special software.
Disable USB Ports By Disabling Autorun
Most of the malware that spreads through USB devices spreads because of the Autorun feature which automatically executes a said file mentioned in the autorun.inf file located at the root of the USB device folder tree. Something as unsuspicious as "Open folder to view files" to the untrained eye can be easily made to run any desired file on the drive and can thus infect your computer. So disabling autorun is always one of the better options. To do so:
- First, the key combination Win + R and type Gpedit.msc
- Navigate to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components, then click Autoplay Policies. (XP users should try Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System
- In the Details pane, double-click Turn off Autoplay.
- Click Enabled, select All drives in the Turn off Autoplay box to disable Autorun on all drives.
Microsoft Help and Support has more details and methods
Option 1. Disable users from connecting USB devices
You can prevent selected user accounts from connecting USB devices to your computer. So if you share your laptop/computer with a friend, you should create a separate user account and deny his/her account the ability to connect USB devices. Microsoft Help and Support provides steps to obtain such fine grain control.
Or you can simply navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\UsbStor and set the value of Start to 4. To enable access again change the value back to 3
Although the site mentions that this applies to Windows XP, 2000 and 2003 it worked just fine on Windows Vista and Windows 7 as well.
Option 2. Change BIOS, disable USB ports, password protect BIOS
Enter your system's BIOS, just when you press the Power On button. Look for anything that allows you to disable USB ports, disable them and make sure you add a BIOS password.
Option 3. User Device Manager to disable USB
- Go to Device Manager (Right click My Computer, choose Manage, choose Device Manager in left pane)
- Now look for USB Devices in the right pane, right click on the device and choose disable.
Of course you would like to make it a little easier to enable/disable the USB ports. For that you need to create a reg file that modifies the appropriate registry key. Here is an example (make sure to spell everything correctly):
Now double clicking on this file will enable access, similarly you can change 00000003 to 00000004 to create a reg file for disabling access.
None of these are fool proof, there is always someone smart enough to find a way around. If you really want to go all the way you can fill the ports with some epoxy or a similar substance! This is of course not a recommended solution for your personal computer but might come in handy for large organizations trying to prevent employees from using USB devices.
All in all the options are good enough to stop accidental, non intentional spread of malware/compromise of your computer as mostly happens when a USB device is plugged into different computers. However don't bet your life on these if some one is really determined to use a USB device on your computer for whatever reason.
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Diodorus Siculus and the World of the Late Roman Republic is part of the wave of scholarship which since the 1980s and '90s has attempted to rehabilitate Diodorus as a thinker and/or as a historian. It accomplishes this purpose more successfully than many other publications of the same persuasion: Muntz applies careful and critical scholarship both to Diodorus' own text and to control texts that were (probably) based on the same sources, and he reaches balanced and nuanced conclusions. His main goal throughout is to show that, although Diodorus undeniably based his work closely on written sources and took over ideas from other writers and—primarily—from current trends in his time, he moulded his material to reflect on the current issues of the Late Roman Republic even when writing about mythological times or far-away places. Overall, Muntz's analysis and argument are convincing, and it is good to see such care and attention being paid to Diodorus' text and its historical context rather than to preconceived ideas about its sources.It is good to see Diodorus receiving so much attention lately. For past PaleoJudaica posts on Diodorus and the importance of his work for the history of Second Temple Judaism, start here and follow the links.
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You know I like to collage. In my last class, I learned about collage's opposite: Décollage. As I understand it:
- To collage — is to build up layers, artfully letting the various layers show through, for effect.
- To décollage — is to strip away layers, artfully leaving bits of each layer showing, for effect. Originally, decollage was a "happy accident" — like the beauty of layers of torn posters on a city wall. Later, it was pursued as an art form of its own.
In our collage class, we experimented with purposeful décollage — we would add layers, then sand away. It is so satisfying to sand away! I loved this effect in our little works of art — and I love the effect, large scale, on the wall of Andre's living room, above. Andre's didn't just strip wallpaper to achieve this life-after-the-apocalypse beauty — he painted, then stripped. Again: Purposeful décollage.
Andre, who featured this story on his blog A Beautiful Revolution, gave me permission to show his process here:
I discovered Andre's walls, because Andre draws "doodles" for my friend Margaret's blog, A Way to Garden. He has written several books. He now also has a shop on etsy.com, his rugs are gorgeous. What an interesting person. I asked him why he did his living room wall this way. He said:
We are very interested in creating what we refer to as a 'bohemian decay' look. We sell many rugs that are worn – i think the trend is now to have a rug that looks like it has been walked on for a hundred years and i think that same line on thinking applies to the original wallpaper – it tells a story, lots of stories about those who were here before us.
This blog — Retro Renovation — is about the "retro". But there are no prescriptions about how to do it. Can Décollage… Detritus… Decay… make for… Decorating? Sure. In fact, Andre's Bohemian Decay does not seem too far from Shabby Chic or plain old junk yard style on the Decorating Continuum. I totally understand the aesthetic — raw patina is interesting and can be very beautiful, once you get your head around the idea.
And you know I like vintage wallpaper. 'Most any way it's served up.
Thank you for sharing, Andre!
Thank you all for your kind words
dIane in co – there is no label in the chair, but when we searched for a similar look Norman Bel Geddes name came up. The reason we bought and kept this chair was because at some point it was in a professors – teachers office and whoever sat in it, wrote 'naughty words' on the arm and so we knew it was the chair for us.
Thanks for checking the chair; mine is clearly labelled on the support. Here is a webpage that if you scroll down a bit, has 2 chairs sitting in the grass – that's the chair I have only in different colors. I LOVE this pair!
Well, it's an interesting concept but it reads too true to life to me – both parents grew up in the depression. This just strikes me as down at the heels and contrary to post-war mid century idealism.
I don't think this project has a bit to do with Mid-century Modernism; rather Pam was offering it as an example of "decollage" — and in fact, Shabby Chic which she mentions is not particularly "retro" and certainly not mid-century either. Kind of a late '80's thing ('nuf said).
The vintage wallpaper is what makes this a loosely-defined "retro renovation" – at least that's my take.
This is interesting and beautiful, and I am attracted to it in the same ways that I am attracted to photos of Detroit decay (http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/08/21/arts/design/08212011_DETROIT_SS.html?ref=design)
and Cuban decay (http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/cubas-recycled-149705)
Yet. As a deliberate "finish" treatment to the walls of an otherwise affluent person, it makes me a little uncomfortable. It seems to have somehow co-opted authentic poverty. But… I also think it's lovely!
This is so provocative a project and there are such thoughtful comments and interesting discussion about it — art should incite such ponderings.
I love this wall the more I look at the photos. Remember the wallpaper mural in the dining room of yesterday's Storybook Ranch? Well, for me this is doing the same sort of accent wall – but is a treatment with more layers of meaning, more richness, more beauty, is more expressive of the owner and certainly more interesting.
The decollage is more organically "the wall" not something just stuck on the wall. 🙂
I think it has a beauty due to the layer below the new paint being exposed. In that way it tells more of a story than if someone ordered 3 different wallpaper patterns and created a "story"
After growing up in a 1896 house that for years had walls being repaired and similar appearance I can say "not for me". Somethings you live with you don't want to revisit.
Oh yes, that's exactly what my mom says; she despises shabby chic and distressed goods in shops. And don't get her started on people's love of outhouses.
your mom sounds just like mine. " I don't need to reminisce about outdoor bathrooms". No chamber pot/pitcher and bowl sets for my mom.
I think that is why so many early bathrooms had shiny ceramic tile. They are nothing like rough pine boards in a unheated outhouse.
Someone once commented to my grandmother that, with ten kids, it must have been quite the chore to clean the bathroom. She replied that she'd have gladly cleaned the bathroom, if they'd had one.
I'm glad to see I share something with such a creative mind. While ripping off paneling on my 100 year-old home, I came upon various wallpaper. I'd stop in mid-discovery. Once when I did reach the plaster, I found in pencil a man's name. Was he the plasterer or the wallpaper hanger?
Thank you for placing this article below a current post. I'm new here and love your sensibility!