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Visualisation of Data with Power BI
Power BI is an amazing business analytics service that enables anyone to visualise and analyse data.
In this tutorial were going to complete the following
Create an online dashboard on the Power BI service.
Populate the PowerBI dashboard with visualizations
Share the dashboard with colleagues.
Step 1. Install the Power PI Desktop Tool
Go to http://app.powerbi.com If prompted, sign in with your MSA account.
From the top-right menu, click on the downward arrow icon.
Click Power BI Desktop.
Click Run in the pop-up to install the application.
Follow the steps in the installation wizard.
When the installation is complete make sure Launch Microsoft Power BI Desktop is checked.
Click Finish.
Power BI Desktop will automatically launch.
Step 2. Getting Started with PowerBI Dashboard
A large yellow and black "Getting Started" window with links to videos and other resources to help you learn all of the rich features of Power BI Desktop may appear.
If this black and yellow window appears, click X in its top right corner to close it
You can explore this information on your own later.
We should be at the blank canvas of the Power BI Desktop application.
Step 3. Adding Data to PowerBI
In the main ribbon menu, click the Get Data button icon (not the arrow pointing downward.)
In the dialog window that appears, select Excel, and click the Connect button.
Navigate to the Excel File
Click Open.
Note: you can important data into PowerBI from various data sources for this tutorial were looking at Excel dataset
After Power BI Desktop opens the Excel file, the Navigator window should appear, showing the tables and objects available in the file.
Now we will select the data we want to import from the Excel file.
Check Sheet to indicate we want to import that data.
Click the Load button to load the data in Power BI Desktop.
Power BI Desktop loads the data, and shows the imported object, our table, in the right navigation menu, under Fields.
•Click Excel Sheet to expand the field list. NOTE Fields are the table columns
Step 4. Create a visualisation.
Drag the field which you want to visualised in your PowerBI report for this example I will be using the Budget (the one with the small Σ symbol on its left) you simply drop it in the empty area of the canvas.
A bar chart appears with the overall amount of the budget.
To visualize the budget by project.
I simply drag the field Project and drop it on the existing bar chart.
Note: handles can be used on the bar chart visualization edges to resize it for better viewing.
We have successfully imported data and created a report with a visualization.
Let's save the report.
Use the save button in the top-left to save the Power BI Desktop file (.pbix)
Step 5. Publishing the PowerBI Report
Let's publish the report and its associated dataset in the Power BI service (http://app.powerbi.com):
In the ribbon menu Home, click the Publish button.
When the publishing is complete click the link in the pop-up window Open .pbix in Power BI to view the report you just published
In the left menu you will see your list of dashboards, reports and datasets. If there is a large list we can quickly find a specific item by using the Filter
Type the name of your report in the text box with a small magnifying lens to filter out the other items.
Note: The report and dataset we created are named using the filename we chose are now listed under the appropriate section, on the left menu.
Step 6. Combing Multiple Data Sources and creating Data Visualisation
We now want to add data from another sources in our case we will be using another Excel file.
Start the Power BI Desktop application.
Open the Power BI Desktop file:
Open the File menu.
Click Open.
Navigate to the folder and select the .pbix file we saved.
Click the Open button.
In Power BI Desktop, in the main ribbon menu, click the Get Data button icon
(not the arrow pointing downward.)
In the dialog that appears, select Excel.
Navigate to the Excel file
Select the Excel file.
Click Open.
After Power BI Desktop opens the Excel file, the Navigator window should appear, showing the available tables and objects in the file.
Now select the data to be loaded from your data source.
Click Excel file to indicate you want this data to be loaded.
Click Load to load the data in Power BI Desktop.
Power BI Desktop loads the data, and attempts to detect existing relationships between the existing data and the data being imported.
In my case the two files contain one field with the same name, Project ID. Power BI Desktop will automatically detect the field and join the data.
When the Load is completed the imported object, is visible in the right navigation menu, under Fields
To Add Visualisation which use the combined data sets
Click the Data icon on the left pane of the canvas to model your data.
Select the field to model:
Select Excel Table in the Field right menu.
Select the column Actuals in the table.
Verify that Default Summarization is set to Sum:
If the drop-down menu says Default Summarization: Do Not Summarize:
Click the menu, and select Sum.
Repeat the steps above to verify also the field Budget of the other table has Default Summarization: Sum.
Now that we have the data in the tool model the way we want, we can create new visualizations in a few clicks
Click the Chart icon in the left pane of the canvas to return to the report visuals.
Click on the first Excel Table Name to expand the field list.
Click any part of the blank canvas until you do not see a box around your chart and no fields in the field list are selected.
Click the checkbox besides Actuals, and a column chart with the sum of all actuals will appear.
Use handles on the bar chart visualization edges to resize it so that it fits on the canvas.
Drag the new a field and drop it on the visualization with the Actuals bar chart to show a updated dashboard
Since Power BI automatically detected the relationship between the Excel files, the two different files are correctly associated with each other.
The data imported from both the Excel files is really joined together.
To test this, click on any bar of the visualizations.
The visualizations are interactive and update basing on your selection.
Let's save, publish in the Power BI service
Use the save button in the top-left to save the Power BI Desktop file (.pbix).
In the ribbon menu Home, click the Publish icon.
In the dialog that appears, click Replace.
Note: If we had saved the Power BI Desktop file with another name, a new report and dataset would have been created in the Power BI online service instead of updating the existing ones
When the publishing is complete click the link in the pop-up window Open PBI Training Report.pbix in Power BI to view the report you just published
Ok so we have created a PowerBI dashboard but now we want to be able to share this.
Step 7. Sharing a Dashboard with colleagues
We are going to create a dashboard in which we will add the visualizations we like from our report.
Go to the Power BI Service: http://app.powerbi.com. If prompted, sign in with your MSA account.
Click on the + symbol on the right of the section named Dashboards.
Type a name for our new dashboard
Click the Enter key on your keyboard to confirm.
A new dashboard is created, with a blank canvas that can be populated.
Filter the objects in the service:
Type the name of the previous reports the box next to the magnifying lens to filter the reports and data sets to our content
Click the pin to pin the visual to the dashboard.
In the pop-up window select the Dashboard as location where to pin the visual
Click the Pin button. A confirmation balloon that the visual was successfully pinned appears
Repeat the above steps for the other visual in your report.
As we have now pinned new visualizations to the dashboard, let's see how it looks. In the left menu, under the section Dashboards, click the Dashboard name to see the updated dashboard.
Step 8. Arranging the charts and data on the Dashboard
Drag the right tile and drop it under the left one.
Resize the lower tile by hovering the mouse pointer over the corner of the visualization until the mouse cursor turns into a two headed arrow and drag the visual to the size you want.
Note: the tile will snap to predefined sizes, drag the tile until you see it snap to a size
Click a dashboard visualization to drill to the underlying report.
The dashboard is now ready. Let's share it.
Step 9. Sharing the Dashboard
If you drilled into the report in the previous step you need to navigate back to the dashboard.
Click Share Dashboard in the main window next to the name of the dashboard
Enter the complete e-mail address of one or more colleagues.
Click Share to send an invitation e-mail to your colleagues. you can also Copy & Paste the URL of the dashboard from the browser, and send it directly to our colleague(s), or include in a personalized e-mail
Note: shared dashboards are read-only. If you want to allow others to edit, you can explore advanced features such as O365 Groups and Content Packs
In this tutorial you have:
•Created an online dashboard on the Power BI service.
•Populated the dashboard with visualizations form a Data Set.
•Combined data sets for visualisation
•Populated the dashboard with visualizations from your previously created report.
•Shared the dashboard with colleagues.
For more details on PowerBI see https://powerbi.microsoft.com
Watch some great training videos at https://www.youtube.com/user/mspowerbi
See more details on Power BI at http://channel9.msdn.com
Complete online training courses on PowerBI at Microsoft Virtual Academy http://mva.microsoft.com


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Recently I was speaking with a character called Ben Metz about organisational psychology. (He's one to follow, he's organising a festival called Marmalade which is happening in April 2016, get involved!)
He got me reading The Unconscious at Work by Anton Obholzer and Vega Zagier Roberts. Here's my notes from a chapter on open systems theory.
The distinction is made between what people are meant to be doing, the meaning they put on what they are doing, and what they are actually doing through their behaviour. Big differences between these can lead to miscommunication and dysfunction in the system.
Here are the questions that organisational design consultants can ask to help a system improve.
Often the aim of an organisation is too unclear, so the primary task that people ought to be doing is unclear and therefore can lead to dissatisfactory results. Defining what the aim is of an organisation can help define what activities staff ought to be carrying out.
It's sort of obvious stuff, but it's great to have terms to help articulate the subtleties of what's going on. Having the right language can often make all the difference to be able to have a serious conversation about implementing change.

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Brown Bag Lunch Program: Fall Gardening in the South
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Feed your body and mind at BPL's Brown Bag Lunch Programs. You bring the lunch and we'll bring the drinks. Wednesdays at noon in the Arrington Auditorium located on the 3rd floor of the Linn-Henley Research Library, 2100 Park Place.
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Before we begin let's start by saying this guide will work better if you have duals and use golds. During the start teutons need to be super active and if you can't spare the time, I suggest you go gaul. This guide is written for speed servers but can be applied to slower servers but keep in mind everything will take longer in turn.
Day 1
The server just started... Everyone has 1 day of bp. That's one day to prepare yourself for alot of raiding to come. Many many outgoing, and maybe even a few incoming. There is alot of debate about whether or not to do the quests. I personally prefer to do the quests because if I have a run of bad luck and lose some mace they aren't as hard to replace. Follow all the quests until you reach the point where you must choose between military and economy. Since your using gold, you'll need the ability to NPC, so go economy. If you rushed mace the only one you might be able to attack is the MultiHunter if he's forgotten to ban himself and if others are hitting him too, there's a chance you might not steal much anyway. So go ahead and get that market. After that you'll want work on a level 1 barracks. Start queing mace and don't waste resources on finishing the fields to level 2 just yet. You'll have plenty of time to watch all the players in your 7x7 and determine who you want to raid first. Note any 2 pop players as Bp gets ready to end. Those are free safe resources and you'll want to send your maces there first to steal as much as possible.
First 12 hours out of BP (The most important 12 hours of the game)
So you're ready to raid. You've got a minimum of 20 macers or as many as upwards of 60. You've cleaned out the 2-8 pop players in your 13x13 and you've used the resources to build... more mace. NPCing wheat and iron before they overflow of course. Now it's time to start cleaning out the Romans in your area. You'll run into small batches of legos here and there but for the most part, you should have profitted. If not immediately, then from the next raid or two you sent at them. Romans are getting dry now eh?
Now we're going to examine targets before we hit them. Start with other teutons. Check the players offensive stats to see if they are raiding. Check his defensive points to see if anyone is raiding them and maybe see if they've possibly lost all their troops making for a safe farm. If they have off points, they have mace and it might be worth it to wait just a little while before hitting them. Of course if you've gathered enough mace to feel cocky, test the teuton with a small raid. Keeping the romans dry, raiding some teutons, (maybe not all just yet) and starting to get the itch for a gaul or two? Not a problem.
Everyone else seems to be afraid to hit gauls, Don't be. Hit the 9-41 pop gauls first and be sure to use larger parties of 20-40 mace (more if you're unsure about the target) and make sure to attack rather than raid. Check their stats to see if they're raiding too, (although it would take alot of phalanx to kill darn near anything at a profit) and of course check their def to see if someone's already cleared them for you. Awfully nice of them. Either way you should have at least 100 mace by now, and maybe even 150. You've done nothing but mace, wheat fields, and maybe even a granary or warehouse upgrade to help store your plunder.
Ok, so we've covered raiding, maybe you have an incoming raid. Well we already have everything we need to make this a wasted trip on the raiders part. First check to see what tribe it is. If it's a gaul, check their offensive stats. Low or non-existant points? Defend with your mace, it's most likely phalanx and they will die easily against your mace. He won't do that again. Is it from a roman? Might be better to dodge and follow him home with your macers. Time your attack to land the same second their legos get home. This is a little hard to do but practice makes perfect. Is it from a teuton? Just dodge and you could attempt a follow home here as well, but it's not likely since your mace move the same speed as his and he'd almost always have 4 or 5 seconds to dodge his mace with under the best of circumstances. When dodging, send your troops on a run timed to get home 1 sec after the attack is over. What about hiding resources? NPC your resources into more mace at the last couple of min. Since you made all mace, all the resources are under cranny, even for another teuton.
Raid Raid Raid and you should near the 200 mace mark. Now it's time to concentrate on your next troops. Scouts? No, skip them. Go straight for Paladins. As soon as you get the first paladin out, make a hero's mansion and a paladin hero. Try to get up 20 paladins as fast as possible. Now you can safely hit the other teutons and even follow them home with your paladins. Their mace are no threat to your pallies and will crumble from the mere sight of them. Don't defend with your paladins just yet. Right now, they are for killng mace. Once you have 20 paladins backtrack and make scouts. 10 should be plenty for the first day. Now you can take a peek at threats and even check some farms to see if they are worth a raid or not. now just stay on the mace and pallies for a while. Congrats.
Next few days.
Over the next few days you want to constantly raid. When things get boring start checking around the map for a 100%-150% 15c not too far from smaller players. It doesn't matter if it's not close to your starter. You'll cluster villages around your capital later and it'll feel like more of a home than your starter ever could have been in most cases. Found one already?!? Great. Now lets go get it. Don't have the cps? Don't worry, be happy. PARTY! Get that main to 10, get the academy to 10 and throw yourself a party! Once you've got that first party started, make sure the town hall is always working throwing parties. The more cps the better. But while the first party is going, raid raid raid and get your residence (NOT PALACE!) up to 10 and make 3 settlers. The moment the party stops, send your settlers on their way to that great 15c you spotted and relax.
You've also been making more mace right? Good. Hopefully you've got a few thousand by now. maybe you've even got 100 or 200 paladins. As for your 15c, is it far from home? If it is, guess what... it's time to rinse and repeat. Yes, make mace here too. Raid from both. start upping fields at the cropper and npcing wheat into wheat fields and mace. after you've built it up a bit, make a 2nd town hall. Now you're running 2 parties at all times. You better be raiding night and day, but you're way ahead of most of the server surely.
Get a 3rd village out as soon as possible. You'll want this to be a hammerville so preferably choose a 5clay or 5wood very near your cropper. Your raiding all the time for resources and and hopefully building up a few fields here and there. Slowly start switching your 3rd village over to making mace for raiding. If by now you need def, use your capital to make that. If your cap has level 8 fields or better and you have plenty of troops in your 3rd villag for raiding, go ahead and crash those troops from the cap into an... OASIS! Yes, you're npcing that wheat and building it up, why not get a lvl 10 hero's mansion and grab yourself an oasis! All is well, the only thing missing is a 3rd town hall. So throw one up and start throwing 3 parties all the time.
You're 4th village should take long at all and once you have it and have built it up a bit, i'd think it's safe to say you have maxed the fields at your starter. You have? What's next there huh? Start upping the warehouse and granary. Once you can store plenty, start working on a town hall to lvl 10. Once you've got that take care of, throw a Big Party. You only have to pay for another every 28 hours and theres no faster way to get the cps. It's worth the price and besides, you should be stealing all these goods anyway. send the extra resources out to your real cluster and just keep your starter for throwing Big Parties and feeding your cluster. Keep growing, keep raiding, keep making mace. You should have complete domination over your cluster and life should be getting fairly easier as you get bigger and bigger. No matter what, at this point, you hammer should be making troops non stop. Troops there come before anything else. Congrats and where you go from here is up to you.


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What about contact lenses?
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Thursday, January 7th, 2010
Amazing Audio Sampling in JavaScript with Firefox
Above shows the work of some awesome developers. Alistair MacDonald, David Humphrey, Thomas Saunders and Corban Brook have collectively done some great forward looking work with audio sampling and JavaScript. You have to use a custom build of Firefox to make it work right now, but listen to the story of how this came about. Amazing what can happen when projects are open:
- First Thomas Saunders got the ball rolling by posting an audio bug with Mozilla and created a neat demonstration of what could be possible if JavaScript could tap into the audio stream. Thomas's blog is really interesting, if you get a few minutes in the morning over coffee it is well worth a read.
- Then David Humprey, a teacher at Open Seneca began hacking away at Firefox to see if he could expose the audio stream to the terminal. The results did not mean much to Dave, but they looked familiar to me. Dave's results can be seen here: http://vocamus.net/dave/?p=914
- It was then my turn. I created a test-tone in Audacity, from which I grabbed a screen shot. This let us see what the wave form should look like. I passed the ".ogg" test-tone to Thomas who posted back his console values as a tidy JavaScript array. I rebuilt these with JavaScript in the Canvas. The images were identical, proving that Dave was right on track with his code. My results can be seen here:
Reading the Audio Stream from Firefox 3.7
- Dave kept things intense, with regular posts on his progress. On new year's eve -eve, Dave sacrificed punctuality to help me test out his latest code. This was the first time I saw raw audio data streaming directly into JavaScript, a very exciting moment!! Audio Part III, Audio Part IV, Audio Part V.
- Corban Brook, stepped onto the scene and threw some FFT magic into the mix. Corban created a simple spectrum analyser, completely JavaScript based. You can just stare at the beautiful video capture here: Firefox JavaScript <Audio> FFT.
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Winter 2006/2007
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Decommissioned Army Ammunition Plant Modeled with GIS
Defining Soil Remediation Scope and Budget
By Jeffery M. Laird, GIS Manager, Badger Army Ammunition Plant
The Badger Army Ammunition Plant (AAP) in Baraboo, Wisconsin, was built in 1941 and produced ammunition, ordnance, gunpowder, and propellant for the United States Army until 1975. In the late 1990s, the government decided to decommission Badger AAP and transfer the land to other government agencies. Subsequent surveys detected various hazardous compounds in the site's structures, soil, and groundwater, which must be remediated according to Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) and federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) guidelines. This remediation process is ongoing.
Historical Limitations
Resources for the environmental remediation of contaminated soils are historically limited. Therefore, excavation should be focused only on those areas where it is necessary, minimizing the removal of surrounding collateral uncontaminated soil. Environmental managers and geologists use GIS software to build 3D models for decision making and presentation tasks inherent in defining a project with an accurate scope and budget. Project managers use GIS to create baseline maps for evaluating contractor bids. GIS can document processes and provide spatially accurate models for projecting the cubic yards of earth and concrete that need to be removed in remediation efforts. GIS technology has proved to be a mission-critical element of remediation activities.
A GIS project was established at Badger AAP in 1999 to support scientists and engineers involved in site remediation. GIS also supported army and contractor staff in communicating spatial information to management, command personnel, and concerned citizens groups and to provide sophisticated spatial modeling and analysis tools, decision-making tools, and mapping products for the user community.
The current Badger GIS consists of ArcInfo, ArcIMS, ArcGIS 3D Analyst, and ArcPad software. The entire GIS operation is outsourced to Grand Terre GIS of Frankfort, Kentucky, an Esri Business Partner.
One nine-acre remediation area has been demolished to its concrete foundations with the exception of a few remaining buildings. Although soil contamination is relatively shallow, it is located near hard-to-access locations of concrete slabs, support columns, and footings.
It is most cost-effective for the army to have only the contaminated soils removed. Where concrete foundations exist within the contaminated areas, the concrete must also be removed, which is more expensive than soil removal. Some concrete foundations were as much as eight feet deep, which complicated the process of ascertaining an approximate cost for excavation.
A Three-Dimensional View
Managers needed to see a three-dimensional view of both contamination and concrete. Contamination data was overlaid onto the concrete foundations data and volume information so that the amount of concrete and soil to be removed could be calculated. Then costs and level of effort for the project were projected.
To determine the extent of contamination, geologists needed to see where the contaminated area boundaries were and how the concentrations were distributed. They performed multiple borings and took soil samples at several depths. The positions of the borings were recorded using ArcPad on a Thales MMCE GPS with submeter accuracy. These points were supplied to the GIS manager who plotted them against a basemap of the site.
GIS was used to create a triangulated irregular network (TIN) of the site area. Then a surface of contamination was created using the depths of the samples with contaminant "hits." Next, a nearest-neighbor algorithm within ArcGIS 3D Analyst was used to determine the contaminated area based on the boreholes and their resultant values. The results were projected onto the contaminant surface TIN and assigned a thematically colored legend based on concentration value. Values below the WDNR threshold for remediation were discarded, and the final result was a spatially accurate three-dimensional model of the extent of contamination. As a last step, geologists decided that because no contamination results were deeper than two feet, and that two feet was the maximum depth that an excavation would go, it was not necessary to project onto a contaminant surface TIN. It was easier to assign the contaminant model a uniform offset of negative two feet off the site surface TIN.
A model for concrete data also had to be created, and data needed to be digitized so that it could be used in the GIS. When the site structures were built from 1941 to 1942, each structure was documented with an as-built engineering drawing done by civilian draftsmen working for the army at the time. These drawings still exist on paper and microfiche, but both sources are in very poor condition and, in some cases, illegible. These were the source maps for modeling the concrete. Foundation structures were categorized into three basic categories: slabs (including on-slab structures, such as motor pads), support columns, and footings. Shapefiles were created for each category. Working from the as-built sources on a building-by-building basis, the two-dimensional geometries (length and width) were digitized using the precision entry tools of ArcInfo. The length, width, and height values were then entered into the attribute records of each separate structure, along with depth offset values. Other descriptive data about the building was also included in the model for future use. Digitizing data for the 16 buildings and 32 tanks in the project area took approximately 90 hours.
When feature digitizing and attribution were finished, the three shapefiles were attached to ArcGIS 3D Analyst extension's ArcScene application along with some road, building, and tank information that was clipped from the main feature classes residing in the Badger AAP geodatabase. The site TIN derived from contour and spot height elevations was added. The footings, columns, and slabs were then assigned base heights of the TIN and the individual features extruded according to their height values, beginning from their offset value in relation to the TIN's base height. Slabs were extruded in a positive direction, and footings and columns were extruded in a negative direction, placing them below the surface.
In areas where the source maps were in condition too poor to derive dimensions, surrogate data was used based on the geologist's knowledge of foundation construction. Where surrogate data was used, the subsurface features were assigned orange and red coloration.
The result of all this data input was a fully rotatable three-dimensional model of the subsurface foundations, spatially accurate and precisely to scale in ground units. Because each feature had length, width, and height attributes, the field calculator could be used to easily determine and populate a volume field. If features were circular or hexagonal, the relevant solid's geometry formula was used to derive volume.
The contaminant extents model was added to ArcGIS 3D Analyst to create maps that show where the contamination intercepted the concrete. These concrete features were then selected by location, and the sum of their volumes was added to the volume of contaminated earth to be removed. At this point, environmental management had the information it needed to compile a budget and a project description for the army to consider. They also were able to spatially illustrate concepts, such as contaminant locations in relation to concrete subsurface features and slabs, and provide views into the model from any angle at any scale.
About the Author
Jeffrey M. Laird is the GIS manager at Badger AAP and president of Grand Terre GIS. Mr. Laird is an American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) Certified Mapping Scientist, a GIS Certification Institute-certified GIS professional; and a member of ASPRS, the National Association of Environmental Professionals, and URISA.
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For more information, contact Jeffrey M. Laird (tel.: 502-695-5676, e-mail: email@example.com, Web: www.grandterregis.com).


text: "Alright, I guess you're done for the day, well actually for the rest of your college career." I grab my coat off the back of the door, swing it over my shoulders and slid my arms through the sleeves. I start my walk to the elevators. As I'm walking a realization hits me, I will never return to this hospital as a student nurse, I will never again have to wear blue and gold strips on my sleeves, and the next time I walk into a hospital it will be for an interview (hopefully). I don't walk at the usual quick pace that I am accustomed to; I want to take it all in. I hear the banter and laughter of the nursing assistances at the nurse's station, I can hear the beeping of an IV pump indicating the fluids are almost out, I can hear the unmistakable sound of a call light going off; all of these things that I won't hear again until I have a job. Once I get to the elevators I hit the down button and wait for the ding of an arriving elevator. I spin around slowly and whisper a soft goodbye to the floor where I learned to venture out on my own; I transitioned from being a nursing student to a nurse. I learned when to call for Rapid Response, when to question what a doctor orders, how to handle lots of needy patients and how to be the nurse I want to be. There is no one around during all this contemplation and when the elevator arrives there is no one in there either. The hospital seems oddly at peace, but I'm sure that some where commotion is going on. I hit the 1st floor button and ride to the bottom, picking no one up along the way. I walk again slowly through the atrium, remembering all the times that I have walked through here heading to a new and exciting floor. I particularly remember my first ride to the 6th floor on my very first day of clinicals in the hospital. Thankfully I met up with a few of my fellow class mate in the parking lot and we all walked nervously into the hospital, when we passed through the atrium we were all so nervous and excited. We had no idea what to expect. If I could I would love to relive it all over again, or at least watch it and see how much I've grown over the last 4 years. I pass by the hostess stand where so many times I had to stop and ask for directions. I turn right and head straight winding through the halls that I have walked through so many times before. It seems bitter sweet, but perfect too because I am experiencing my last moments in the hospital by myself, knowing that in this hospital I learned how to be independent. I turn left out to the Spring Street Exit and the hostess sitting at the door says "Goodbye, Have a great day!" I turn and smile back, because I know I will. I am celebrating 4 years in the making I'm going to be a Registered Nurse, Woo Hoo!!!!!


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It's your weekly Photo Gallery! Come on in, take a look at what people have been up to over the past week and share some of your own photos.
They don't need to be taken with a fancy camera or works of art. Share any SFW photos you've taken with even the poorest of potatoes. Of course we love to see that arty stuff too.
Actually accomplished a task this week. Successfully replaced the water pump on my truck. Gus was supervising.
That didn't leave me much time for any exploring, but I did manage to get out for a short hike one morning. It was too nice out not to.
The nights have been beautiful as well. Some mostly clear skies during the new moon.
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What is Transitional Kindergarten?
According to the California Education Code, transitional Kindergarten is defined as "the first year of a two-year kindergarten program that uses a modified kindergarten curriculum that is age and developmentally appropriate." Traditional kindergarten, in contrast, is a one-year program with grade-specific curriculum.
In some states, Transitional Kindergarten gives children an opportunity to begin Kindergarten, even if they are not yet old enough for Traditional kindergarten. These students are usually five years old, but their birthdays fall before the age entry cut-off.
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Robotic assisted surgical platforms that are currently in use for resections of colorectal cancer and liver metastasis, sphincter-preservation in rectal cancer, surgery of endometrial cancer, and for head and neck cancer resections were discussed at the ESMO Asia 2017 in Singapore, an Annual Congress organised by the European Society for Medical Oncology. Investigators reported improved short and long-term patient outcomes following robot assisted surgical platforms in comparison with conventional surgical approaches.
Robotic surgery may be an option in simultaneous resection of colorectal cancer and liver metastases
Jianmin Xu, Department of General Surgery, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China discussed whether robotic surgery could be used in simultaneous resection of colorectal cancer and liver metastases, which has been found to be safe and effective in patients with colorectal cancer patients and liver metastases (CRCLM). Dr. Xu and colleagues conducted a study (NCT02642978) to compare a robot-assisted procedure with open surgery, and to identify the patients with CRCLM most likely to benefit from each method. Patients with confirmed CRCLM were randomised equally into a robotic arm or an open arm of 60 patients each. The primary endpoint was disease-free survival (DFS) at 3 years and the secondary endpoints were short-term surgical outcomes, complications, and safety.
Of the 60 patients undergoing robotic surgery, one patient converted to open surgery due to a drop of blood pressure induced by oppressing inferior vena cava during hepatectomy. The remaining patients in the robotic arm demonstrated more favourable short-term outcomes and fewer complications than patients in the open surgery arm. Although operating times were longer in the robotic arm these patients experienced significantly less blood loss of 99.3 ml compared to 205.1 ml in patients receiving open surgery (p < 0.001). Patients in the robotic arm also had a shorter time to pass first flatus of mean (standard deviation) 63.0 (±28.2) hours compared to 93.6 (±35.5) hours in the open surgery arm (p < 0.001), and were able to return to a fluid diet sooner, at 83.2 (±34.1) hours versus 113.2 (±64.5) hours, respectively (p = 0.002). Patients in the robotic arm had shorter hospital stays of 8.1 (±2.1) days compared to 10.6 (±4.9) days with open surgery. Urinary function was improved and faster recovery of stress response, as indicated by lower C-reactive protein levels and better liver function, indicated by lower ALT/AST levels were observed. Dindo grade III/IV complication was decreased with robotic surgery to 6.7% compared to 20.0% with open surgery (p = 0.032).
Meta-analysis shows comparable to improved outcomes with robotic over laparoscopic intersphincteric resection for rectal cancer
S.W. Lim, Colorectal Surgery, Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, Anyang, Korea, Republic of Korea and colleagues conducted a meta-analysis of 5 studies contained in the Pubmed, MEDLINE, Embase, and the Cochrane library databases comparing robotic to laparoscopic intersphincteric resection (ISR) in low rectal cancer. The analysis consisted of data from 273 patients that underwent robotic ISR and 237 patients that had conventional laparoscopic ISR.
This analysis also pointed out that surgery time was longer with robotic ISR than with laparoscopic ISR (mean difference [MD] 41.25, 95% confidence interval [CI] 15.62, 66.89 (p = 0.002), blood loss was lower (MD -23.30, 95% CI -41.96, -4.64; p = 0.01), and the postoperative hospital stay was shorter, respectively, (MD 0.37, 95% CI -2.57, 3.31; p < 0.0001). However, with robotic ISR fewer lymph nodes could be harvested than with laparoscopic ISR (MD-2.01, 95% CI -3.86, -0.16; p = 0.03).
The analysis found no significant differences between the robotic and laparoscopic ISR for time to diet (p = 0.61), postoperative morbidity (p = 0.20), morbidity of Dindo-Klavien classification> 3 (p = 0.42), anastomotic leakage (p = 0.89), distal resection margin (p = 0.83) and in circumferential resection margin (p = 0.34).
Sentinel lymph node mapping associated with improved nodal metastasis detection following robotic assisted techniques in endometrial cancer
Sentinel lymph node (SLN) mapping strategies can improve the detection of nodal metastasis following robotic-assisted surgical staging for early stage endometrial cancer, according to Dr Tien Le of the Division of Gynaecologic Oncology, The Ottawa Hospital Regional Cancer Centre, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Dr Le reported local SLN mapping experience using blue dye compared to full lymphadenectomy under the robotic DaVinci platform. This retrospective analysis reviewed data from all clinical stage I endometrial carcinoma patients from November 2011 to May 2016. Robotic assisted staging was done in 469 patients. Staging full lymphadenectomy was done in 409 patients, with SLN mapping performed in 60 patients. No significant association was apparent between the use of SLN mapping and tumour grade, depth of invasion, lymph-vascular space invasion (LVSI), or cervical stromal invasion. Grade 1 tumour was documented in preoperative biopsy for 372 (79%) patients with 290 (78%) patients had confirmed grade 1 based on the hysterectomy pathology.
Nodal metastasis was detected in 5 (1.2%) patients treated with full lymphadenectomy versus 5 (8.3%) of the 60 patients underwent SLN mapping (p < 0.001). A logistic regression model including: grade (1 versus 2/3), histology (endometroids versus non endometroids), cervix stromal involvement (yes versus no), myometrial invasion (none versus less than 50% versus > 50%), and SLN mapping application showed only two significant predicting factors of nodal metastasis being: final non-endometroids histology, OR 5.02; 95% CI 1.26, 19.96 (p = 0.02) and the use of SLN mapping, OR 7.80; 95% CI 2.06, 29.58 (p = 0.002). In patients with endometroids histology and negative SLN, application of SLN mapping protocol did not result in a significant increased risk for recurrence.
Prospective trial shows high survival rates following intensification of treatment by transoral robotic surgery in HPV-negative stage IV oropharyngeal cancer
K. Gupta, Department of Head-Neck and Thoracic Surgical Oncology, Fortis Memorial Research Institute, Gurgaon, India reported patient outcome following treatment intensification using transoral robotic surgery (TORS) in addition to adjuvant radiotherapy/chemoradiotherapy in 86 patients with stage IV (cT1-3N2) HPV-negative oropharyngeal carcinoma. TORS and neck dissection was performed using daVinci® surgical system and patients received adjuvant radiation (60-64 Gy) or chemoradiation at the same dose with weekly cisplatin following this procedure. The TORS cohort included 69 males and 17 females who were evaluated for disease-free survival (DFS) and overall survival (OS). The patients' mean age at presentation was 57.4 years (range, 32 to 83 years).
DFS was 76.7% and OS was 88.4% in the overall cohort of 86 patients with stage IVa oropharyngeal carcinoma after escalation of treatment with TORS followed by adjuvant radiotherapy or chemoradiotherapy at a mean follow-up of 34 months (range, 21 to 51 months).
Patient outcome according to disease stage was as follows: All patients underwent TORS. Of 12 patients with T1-3N2a disease, 7 patients received subsequent radiotherapy and 5 patients received chemoradiotherapy. At an average follow-up of 29 months, all patients were alive; 10 remained disease free and two patients developed nodal recurrence and received salvage surgery. Of 56 T1-3N2b stage patients, radiotherapy was subsequently administered in 16 patients and chemoradiotherapy in 40 patients. Of the overall population, 46 (82.1%) patients are living and disease free, 4 patients died due to metastasis, and 6 patients developed loco-regional recurrence, with 4 patients receiving salvage surgery and remaining disease free. Of the 18 patients with 3N2c status receiving TORS, 5 received subsequent radiotherapy and 13 received adjuvant chemoradiotherapy; all but 3 patients who died due to disease progression are living. Ten (55.6%) patients remained disease free and 7 patients developed locoregional recurrence, with 4 patients remaining disease free after salvage surgery.
The research team headed by Dr. Xu identified patients with CRCLM and fewer than 3 liver metastases, with a lesion maximal size of less than 5 cm as the patients most likely to benefit from robot-assisted surgery, which was found to offer improved short-term post surgical outcomes in these patients. The meta-analysis done by Lim and colleagues confirmed most of these results and found that robotic ISR provided comparable perioperative outcomes with a laparoscopic approach plus less blood loss and shorter postoperative hospital stays, despite longer operation time. They recommend further investigation of the potential oncologic and functional benefits of robotic ISR in larger, randomised trials.
Le et al. commented that SLN mapping can improve the sensitivity of detection of nodal metastasis with no increased risk for recurrence in patients with low risk endometrial cancer.
The Gupta's team recommended transoral robotic surgery (TORS) as a good option for cure in relatively radio-resistant HPV-negative resectable oropharyngeal malignancies. They noted that TORS was successfully used to intensify treatment of stage IV oropharyngeal carcinoma to achieve better oncological outcome, while avoiding early and late toxicities due to higher doses of radiotherapy or chemoradiotherapy.
None of these studies reported external funding.
143O – Xu J, et al. Robot-assisted Procedure versus Open Surgery for Simultaneous Resection of Colorectal Cancer with Liver Metastases: Short-term Outcomes of a Randomized Controlled Study.
168P - Lim SW, et al. Robotic Versus Laparoscopic Intersphincteric Resection for Low Rectal Cancer: systemic review and meta-analysis.
290O – Le T, et al. Effect of sentinel node mapping strategy in robotic surgical treatment of endometrial cancers.
338O – Gupta K, et al. Oncological outcome following intensification of treatment by Transoral robotic surgery (TORS) for HPV negative Stage IV Oropharyngeal cancer: A prospective trial.


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Doctors spend more time with the computer than with the patient as do the nurses in modern medicine. What is wrong with this picture? I might add, these doctors adapt to the computer being the patient for the rest of their carrers, and the patient learns quickly that the computer has becoem the doctor.
Is it any surprise that outcomes and costs of care have not improved? This is merely another reason for the bottom line.


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Happy New Year!
2015 brought lots of changes my way. We moved (again), Little One started pre-school, I went back to work part-time…
We love our new house and have settled in nicely. After 3 moves in 5 years we're going to stay put – for a long time!
Little One has been doing well at pre-school for the past 4 months. Instead of crying when I drop her off, she now runs into her classroom and can't wait to see her friends. Thankfully, she only had one breath-holding spell back when she first started school, and I was there to make sure she was ok. I don't want to jinx it, but the breath-holding episodes have been fewer and fewer lately.
At the end of September I started working part-time, 3 days a week, at a small law office. This has been great for me to "do my own thing" a few hours per weeks without the pressure of trying to balance full-time work and childcare.
Oh! I've also been crazy enough to take some classes online. Since I now have a few things going on, I won't be renewing the blog next month. I do have a Pinterest page https://www.pinterest.com/mrsjason21/ and an Instagram @gracefullyjason if you'd like to follow!
Wishing you a happy, healthy 2016 and many thanks for following along in 2015!


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Amcor Yet to Impress Merrills
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's approval of Amcor's 238 million Australian dollar (US$246.9 million) acquisition of flexible packaging group Aperio has failed to impress Bank of America Merrill Lynch analysts.
The combined group has become the largest player in the Australian flexibles market, with a 30% share, and also has a 95% share of the personal care, baby care and frozen food sectors.
"We believe the company's synergy success in Alcan Packaging and Ball Plastic Packaging Americas points to success in achieving the synergy targets but given the price [paid for Aperio], on our estimates, the acquisition is not materially value accretive and we maintain our Neutral rating," Merrill Lynch analyst Ben Chan said in a note.


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VIZ Media is teaming up with Frederator to debut an out-of-this-world cookbook inspired by the hit animated web series that has delighted millions of fans, Bee and PuppyCat!
The adorable hardcover EASY EATS: A BEE AND PUPPYCAT COOKBOOK will debut this summer, and features new and fan-favorite illustrations from series creator Natasha Allegri, along with easy crowd pleasing recipes to inspire and delight!
EASY EATS: A BEE AND PUPPYCAT COOKBOOK is a hardcover edition set to debut this summer through VIZ Media's Perfect Square imprint. EASY EATS will feature new and fan-favorite illustrations from series creator, Natasha Allegri. Recipes included in the cookbook stem from the imaginations of Bee and PuppyCat staff along with fans of the series, and are tested by esteemed chefs to ensure each dish is a crowd pleaser. EASY EATS: A BEE AND PUPPYCAT COOKBOOK makes a perfect kitchen complement and will carry an MSRP of $16.95 U.S. / $19.95 CAN.
Created by American cartoonist and writer Natasha Allegri, Bee and PuppyCat depicts the intergalactic, temp-job escapades of twenty-something, chronically-unemployed Bee and her supernatural companion, PuppyCat. The series was produced by Federator Studios and is widely seen on the Federator Network's Cartoon Hangover web channel.
Food! Bee and PuppyCat from the popular YouTube series love to eat, well, almost everything. Their never-ending quest for their next meal or snack leads them on intergalactic adventures through space and time. With EASY EATS: A BEE AND PUPPYCAT COOKBOOK, fans and home chefs can create dishes inspired by the show and learn how to make food magical. This beautifully illustrated book has delectable recipes, cooking tips and tricks, and a pinch of inspiration for beginner and experienced cooks, including…
- Main dishes: For breakfast, lunch, dinner or anytime you're really hungry
- Snacks: To share with friends or nibble with your favorite pet
- Sweets: Pastries, pies and ice cream sundae smiles
- And much more!
"With this new cookbook, fans can tap their inner chefs to create dozens of dishes inspired by the show that are both tasty and easy to prepare," says Beth Kawasaki, Senior Editorial Director for Perfect Square. "The Bee and PuppyCat animated series has delighted millions of fans of all ages, and we look forward to giving them a whole new way to join this dynamic pair for delicious adventures in the kitchen."
For more information on BEE AND PUPPYCAT or other titles published and distributed by VIZ Media and the Perfect Square imprint, please visit www.VIZ.com.
Frederator operates Frederator Studios and Frederator Networks. Frederator Studios makes cartoons for television, movies, and the Internet. It was founded by serial media entrepreneur and former Hanna-Barbera president Fred Seibert in 1998 as a unique incubator for big animation ideas by producing original cartoons. More than 200 short films have resulted in 16 hit series for television and the Internet, including Butch Hartman's The Fairly OddParents on Nickelodeon and Pendleton Ward's Adventure Time on Cartoon Network. Frederator is in partnership with Sony Pictures Animation to develop and produce animated feature films, and with YouTube to create television-quality cartoons on the Internet.
Frederator Networks programs the online channels Channel Frederator and Cartoon Hangover as well as manages the Channel Frederator Network, a YouTube based animation and entertainment multi-channel network. Launched in late 2012, Frederator's Cartoon Hangover channel includes the hit series Bravest Warriors created by Pendleton Ward, Natasha Allegri's Bee and PuppyCat, as well as many new shorts from the world's future animation superstars. Frederator has offices in Burbank, CA, and New York, NY.
About VIZ Media, LLC
Headquartered in San Francisco, California, VIZ Media distributes, markets and licenses the best anime and manga titles direct from Japan. Owned by three of Japan's largest manga and animation companies, Shueisha Inc., Shogakukan Inc., and Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions, Co., Ltd., VIZ Media has the most extensive library of anime and manga for English speaking audiences in North America, the United Kingdom, Ireland and South Africa. With its popular digital manga anthology WEEKLY SHONEN JUMP and blockbuster properties like NARUTO, BLEACH and ONE PIECE, VIZ Media offers cutting-edge action, romance and family friendly properties for anime, manga, science fiction and fantasy fans of all ages. VIZ Media properties are available as graphic novels, DVDs, animated television series, feature films, downloadable and streaming video and a variety of consumer products. Learn more about VIZ Media, anime and manga at www.VIZ.com.


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The Alan Hardy v UKIP saga finally comes to an end! See: LINK
And all because UKIP thought they could ignore their own membership rules. And all because Nigel Farage's ego wouldn't allow him to admit that UKIP was in the wrong!
We will be publishing the full court judgement shortly.
From Gazette Live:
A CLASH of personalities at a Teesside branch of a national political party has cost more than £16,000 in legal fees, its North-east organiser has claimed.
The UK Independence Party (UKIP) must carry the can after a row at its Stockton branch triggered a string of court appearances described by one judge as a "storm in a teacup".
The "unfortunate and regrettable" falling out between Alan Hardy - the branch's former press officer - and its then chairman Gordon Parkin sparked a legal marathon, London's Appeal Court heard.
Mr Hardy, who joined UKIP in 2007, two years after he quit the British National Party, "did not get on" with Mr Parkin and, within months, resigned as press officer, telling Mr Parkin that he would not serve in any post on a branch which had him as chairman.
But Mr Hardy continued as a member of the branch and the atmosphere became so poisonous that a meeting in February 2009 had to be abandoned when the caretaker of the hall where it was held asked everyone to leave "on account of the noise from the raised voices".
Appeal Court judge Sir Mark Potter said the row "escalated to national level" when, in February last year, UKIP's head office rejected Mr Hardy's bid to renew his membership, setting the scene for a legal row which culminated in the Appeal Court's ruling yesterday.
At Middlesbrough County Court last November, Judge Peter Fox QC ruled Mr Hardy had been "wrongfully excluded from membership of UKIP in breach of contract".
He was awarded £750 damages and UKIP was told to take him back as a member on payment of a £10 subscription.
Yesterday, Sir Mark Potter, sitting with Lord Justice Ward and Lord Justice Tomlinson, said Judge Fox had been right to rule that Mr Hardy's membership of UKIP had never been lawfully terminated and to award him damages "in respect of the interference with his membership rights".
The appeal judge said neither the Stockton branch, nor Mr Parkin personally, should have been joined as parties to the case, so Mr Hardy's case against them failed. However the national party is now facing up to heavy legal costs after its appeal against Judge Fox's decision was dismissed.
Speaking after the hearing, Gordon Parkin, 59, now UKIP North-east's regional organiser, told the Gazette:
"Since all of this, the Stockton branch has been dissolved. Mr Hardy, like all the other members of that branch, are welcome to attend meetings in Middlesbrough and Hartlepool."
Mr Parkin confirmed the whole process had been costly for the party.
He added: "I'm obviously happy that I wasn't found to be at fault - but the whole thing, as far as I'm aware, came to about £16,500 in costs."
At a preliminary hearing earlier this year, Lord Justice Ward described the dispute as "a storm in a teacup" after hearing Mr Hardy was by then back in the party.
The Gazette was not able to contact Mr Hardy for a comment.
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ASU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This collection includes most of the ASU Theses and Dissertations from 2011 to present. ASU Theses and Dissertations are available in downloadable PDF format; however, a small percentage of items are under embargo. Information about the dissertations/theses includes degree information, committee members, an abstract, supporting data or media.
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"Smart" materials are used for a broad range of application including electronics, bio-medical devices, and smart clothing. This work focuses on development of smart self-sealing and breathable protective gear for soldiers against Chemical Weapon Agents (CWA). Specifically, the response of chemo-mechanical swelling polymer modified meshes to contact with stimuli droplets was studied. Theoretical discussion of the mechanism of smart materials is followed by development and experimental analysis of different modified mesh designs. A multi-physics model is proposed based on experimental data and the prototype of the fabric is tested in aerosol impingement conditions to confirm the barrier formed by rapid-self-sealing …
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Do you believe the FBI has the political courage to recommend Hillary Clinton be brought up on criminal charges for her exposure of classified information and the use of her political office for financial gain via the Clinton Foundation? Remember such a charge would seriously harm the Democratic Party's pursuit of the Presidency. Bringing charges against Hillary when it is only months away from the election would probably make it impossible for the Democratic Party to mount an effective campaign. Each passing day is critical to their campaign. I think the FBI may have the courage to recommend a Grand Jury but the Justice Department will not act to pursue the FBI's recommendation. They will find someway to bury or nullify the charges. Remember the Justice Department is the Presidents. Attorney Generals do not indict Presidents or their primary advisors. Did President Nixon's Justice Department seriously investigate the Watergate affair? No, it was the media and the Congress.
So who would head up the Democratic Party's campaign for the Presidency if Hillary has to drop out, Bernie Sanders? That would be great. A real choice between Socialism and Capitalism. Trump against Sanders. America needs to have this political battle. The creeping socialism of the last few decades is more dangerous than giving people the clear choice between Capitalism and Socialism. Our entire educational system leans hard to the side of Socialism. Just ask the Teachers Union a series of questions about their treatment of free enterprise and big government in the class room. Almost everyone under 30 years of age believes in the beautiful words socialists use to describe redistribution of wealth, a fair shot for everyone, and very high taxes on the wealthy and corporations. They haven't lived long enough or read enough history to see that the promises of Socialism lead to the ugly repression of elite government where all of life's important choices are made for all people, except the elites. They may love Bernie but they won't like where he is leading them. But Trump also has a problem.
While Hillary is threatened by a criminal indictment, Donald Trump is being attacked by people who should be supporting him. The Republican establishment composed of career politicians and self-appointed keepers of the purity of conservatism has failed to keep faith with the people who sent them to Washington. They are far more interested in perpetuating their own positions than in solving the nation's problems. Just look at how they have taken care of themselves. Incredible life-long pensions for very short periods of service, ability to vote themselves raises, exemption from the onerous provisions of the laws they pass but that don't apply to members of Congress. Now these pampered members of the political class are doing all they can to end Donald Trump's journey to winning the Republican Party's nomination. They are frightened because they know his success will endanger their elite existence. They will not be able to control him and he owes nothing to the lobbyists who fund so many members of the Republican and Democratic career politicians. So far he has been doing a very strange thing. He has been listening to the American People and they have not. Only a very small handful of Senators or Representatives have been doing the work of the people. None of them are in positions of power, including the Speaker and the Senate Majority leader. They claim to be dedicated to the traditional principles of the conservative movement. Maybe, but I don't believe it. They are champions of the go alone, get along group that have aided President Obama's socialist transformation of America policies. Just look at the last budget Speaker Ryan put forward. Exciting times! Stay tuned. Stay informed.


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Is it possible to lie and deceive someone we love?
One of the blogs I read on occasion (http://relationshipremedy.com/2015/01/28/sex-lies-and-the-truth/) asked a question similar to that asked above.
And the short answer is: No, of course not.
And the longer answer is —
It's not possible to lie and deceive someone we love because love isn't a feeling or it isn't something we say or talk about, love is a verb. Our love is proven and made known to the person we claim to love through our behaviors. In other words, "love is as love does," as Peck wrote in "The Road Less Traveled."
This question — "Is it possible to lie and deceive someone we love?" — only comes up if we are trying to define love not through behaviors but through emotions and feelings. If we define love in anyway primarily as a feeling or emotion, then all sorts of unloving behaviors can be rationalized and excusified.
Love, when defined as a feeling, is actually not love, because the feeling of love, though it arises because of the other person, is not actually about the other person once the feeling arises.
Let me clarify that.
When love is defined or viewed as an emotion or feeling — i.e., romantic love, which is an intoxicating emotional cocktail of infatuation, deep acceptance, euphoria, aliveness, butterflies in the stomach, having one's breath taken away, walking on air, et cetera — the experience and the relationship become less and less about the other person as an end in him- or herself and more and more about the other person as a means or a vehicle for continuing to deliver these exhilarating and intoxicating euphoric feelings.
In other words, the relationship becomes less (and less and less!) about the other person and more (and more and more!!) about OURSELVES and our own feelings — maintaining the euphoria and intoxication.
So the original question really is more accurately rendered as: Is it possible to lie and deceive someone who once made us feel all lusty and infatuated and giddy but no longer really does, in order to feel those feelings once again somewhere else with someone new?
And the answer to *that* question is: Of course it is! People do it all the time.
And thus the rationalization that follows almost inevitably: I love him but I'm not *in love* with him. Or: I love her but I'm not *in love* with her.
Which means: at one time feelings of romantic fervor and infatuation and lust and connectedness were felt in regards to this person, and we made a pact / entered into a contract with each other on the basis of those feelings in the hopes that said contract / pact would serve to establish a bond that would serve to establish once and forevermore those intense feelings, and we could let our guard down, get comfortable with each other, think we had security with each other, no longer continue to put our best foot forward and continually try to win / seduce the other, and backslide to who we actually are (a much lesser version of ourselves than the person we first showed up to the relationship as). But in doing all of this –getting too comfortable, taking the other for granted, focusing on how we felt and focusing on our feelings, focusing more and more on what we were (or were not) getting instead of what we were (or were not) giving — the feelings of love have died in relation to this person, and now a new person has come along, is giving me oodles of attention, makes me feel wonderful, listens to me, seems very interested in me (even though he or she hasn't yet had sex with me 1000 times — newsflash, it's human nature to prefer fantasy than reality, it's human nature to crave a new move-in ready relationship that requires no real work [what Rilke terms "day labor," or what can also be called "grunt work"] or maintenance and where everything is new and exciting than to desire a real person with real ups and downs and who has sometimes slighted you or disappointed you, and with whom there is an actual real world [instead of perfect fantasy world] history with), and is making me feel all tingly and alive inside, and I want to jump this person's bones and feel euphoric.
This is how many an extramarital affair develops. Sometimes the original partner (husband or wife or person one has promised him- or herself to) has backslid to a person who if that version of the person had been the one who had originally shown up, there was a much less likelihood of ever getting involved with the person. After all, this is how most long-term relationships start — two strangers meet and don't show up as who they really are, but instead show themselves as much better and much more together and psychologically healthy version of themselves than they actually are. And then these two people start sleeping with each other, connecting with each other, cathecting to each other, becoming more and more intertwined with each other emotionally, psychologically, physically, and then after about 18 months to 3 years of this, they start regressing, stop acting so wonderful, start taking the other and the relationship for granted, start getting very comfortable, start becoming again who they really are. But by that time the couple may already be married, have a child or children, et cetera. And the backsliding isn't always dramatic and sudden, often, usually, it's slow and haphazard..
And so what's a person or two people to do who find themselves (after five or ten years together) more and more in this situation — with a person who takes more than he or she gives, is more interested in what he or she is getting instead of what he or she is giving, and is more interested in becoming someone different than the person he or she led you to believe he or she was going to be (but was only doing all of that because he or she needed acceptance, approval, sex, security, to borrow functioning, et cetera)?
So is it possible for one person in such a situation to lie to the other person in this equation? Of course it is. What's one more act of unkindness or what Schnarch calls "normal marital sadism" heaped onto a relationship that is steeped in neglect, unkindness, self-righteousness, resentment, pettiness, indifference?
The only difference is that adultery is a bit more clearly out of bounds (or a more clear cut violation of the marital vows).
How many people take vows that are realistic? That instead of containing grand and broad generalizations — I promise to love, honor, cherish, and remain faithful, in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health, in poverty and in near crippling affluence — contain somewhat more specific and actionable promises such as:
I promise treat you as I want to be treated, I promise to do unto you as I would want done unto me if the situation were reversed.
I promise to really try to be nice and patient and kind to you, even when you are pissing me off or not giving me what I want.
I promise to become more and more aware of myself and how I am acting towards you and how I am showing up to the relationship.
When arguing and disagreeing, I promise to seek first to understand instead of seeking first to be heard and understood and validated and appreciated.
I promise to try to lose at least some of the arguments and not always have to have my way or to be "right." I promise to not be a complete control freak, but instead to work towards compromise and to be willing to talk, listen, negotiate, consider and explore our differences of opinions (in other words I promise to be a fully human human being, a creature who uses both head and heart, and not just the heart or the head).
I promise not to take your choices away but to be a team player.
I promise not to act like an emotional child in an adult body in our relationship but to actively struggle to grow up, become more responsible, more self-aware, more patient, understanding, kind, compassionate.
In such a relationship where such promises have been made and are actively being kept and fulfilled and lived up to, the question of "Is it possible to lie and deceive someone we love?" is one that is much less likely to need asking and answering.


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As long as I have been acquainting myself with both Window PE building and forensics LiveCD's I keep stumbling over references to something known as Windows FE (aka. Win FE and WinFE) .
Now, I'm sure if I was a professional forensics investigator I would already have realms of info with this tool.
I'm not and I don't so I will only speak to what I have discovered so any other curious Win PE builders who come across this reference will have some more detailed information.
Windows FE
From all indications, Windows FE (forensic environment) is a Windows PE based custom build that is offered by Microsoft to forensic examiners and law enforcement officers. It is not publically available.
The official information regarding it seems to suggest that it (and supporting tools) can be obtained from Microsoft only through their "LE Portal"
- FAQ: Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor (COFEE) – Microsoft Government page
It provides a Windows PE LiveCD boot environment that allows Windows software to run, along with specific command-line tools that will assist and benefit the forensic examiner.
From all I have read, one of the "special" features is the ability to safely mount media to receive the captured image from a system as well as safe mounting of the host disk to prevent write-back that could harm the integrity of the recovered disk as evidence.
After much work, I finally was able to dig out a link that seems to describe exactly how the Windows FE base disk is built.
The Smoking Gun
- Windows FE – Twine
You might want to download it now just in case it is removed in the future.
That Word doc file is very interesting (to Win PE builders like me) and specifically outlines what makes WinFE (or Win FE) so special: it's a registry mod (two actually) that prevents modification of any of the media on the booted system.
5. In regedit, go to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\winfesystem\ControlSet001\Services\MountMgr key, and if the NoAutoMount dword does not exist, create a dword named "NoAutoMount" with a setting of 1. If the key already exists, change the setting to 1 if it is any other value.
6. Next, go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\winfesystem\ControlSet001\Services\partmgr\Parameters and change the SanPolicy setting to 3. (If the Parameters key does not exist, create it.) At this point, the registry in the mounted .wim file is set to boot and operate without mounting volumes or modifying media.
The rest of the document pretty much is just standard Win PE building stuff you have already read here at GSD blog or other sources.
There was also a link in it to this:
- Forensic Acquisition Utilities – George M Garner Jr.
Last updated September 2008, it contains a collection of tools for Windows-based forensics work.
I haven't picked through them, but according to the "what's included" there are at least nine modules that might be worth looking into for forensics students as well as sysadmins (like me) who seek to leverage the tools and techniques of the forensics pros for dealing with system issues, imaging, and malware incidence response events.
Win FE in the Field
Win FE has come up in the Windows Incident Response blog and the comments from time to time.
I also saw mention of it at this post Windows Forensic Environment by Hogfly over at his Forensic Incident Response blog.
I swear I also saw on another forensics-blog and had previously bookmarked/blogged a reference to a third-party sponsored Win FE inspired package that might even have been USB based. However I have been unsuccessful at re-locating it.
However, while hunting this info down, I found a great forensics blog from the UK that made multiple "live-fire" references to using Win FE: Forensics from the sausage factory
- Windows FE – Forensics from the sausage factory blog
- Windows FE saves the day with a Dell Inspiron 530 – Forensics from the sausage factory blog
I know Win FE is being used and touted in the forensics community. It showed up as a topic at the PFIC 2008 conference. Troy Larson is (still ?) a senior forensics investigator in Microsoft's IT Security group. I'm sure he's a cool and knowledgeable guy and his association with Microsoft makes perfect sense from the Win PE foundation angle.
My educated guess is that the "troyla" noted in the Word document I found and Troy Larson are one and the same. Cool!
I only wish he would release more gems on Win FE as they might be great for us Win PE builders. I understand the need to keep most of it under wraps for the "LE" (law enforcement) professionals but I bet there is some good stuff in there for system administrators who use Win PE builds in their daily applications.
I also suspect Windows 7 and the enhanced Win PE 3.0 environment will only bring more power and flexibility to this Win FE technique.
New Forensic Blog Finds
And here are some more interesting forensics-related blogs I found (or re-discovered) in the search-process:
- int for(ensic){blog;}
- Push the Red Button
- 8 bits
- Computer Forensics, Malware Analysis & Digital Investigations
- MySecured.com Blog
- Matthieu Suiche's blog
Hope this helps clarify (and expand) the base knowledge about Win FE.
As a Win PE / VistaPE building nut, this is great info to know!
Hope I got the fact right for the Win FE pros.
--Claus V.


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Prince Wants Cover Songs Outlawed: What's the Best Cover Song of All Time?
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White Christmas? Pfft, that's so northern hemisphere! It's about time us southern hemisphere folk show those winter wonderlanders how much more fun the holidays are with 'glistening bros', thongs and 'barbies alight'.
Thankfully the Air New Zealand team took it upon themselves to strip away those sleigh bells, bluebirds and snowmen by adding a whole lot of jandals (lol I need to know if anyone under the age of 60 actually wears them), sunburn stings and bubbles for nan.
In case you didn't pick up on it, the carrier has re-written a Christmas classic, 'Winder Wonderland', to accommodate and appeal to us 'glistening' Oceania peeps who are sweating it up in bikinis and shorts in a 'Summer Wonderland'.
Teaming up singer, Ronan Keating, and rising acting star, Julian Dennison, the pair hilariously work together to record a unique version of the Winter Wonderland classic to celebrate the magic of a Southern Hemisphere Christmas.
Lines like, "in the lane, snow is glistening", "gone away is the bluebird", "he sings a love song, as we go along" and "walking in a winter wonderland" are creatively replaced with "sunburn sting, ice blocks glistening", "serve the pav [pavlova] up at lunchtime", "bubbles for nan, pineapples on ham" and "strolling through a summer wonderland".
While instead of building a snowman in the meadow, we Down Under are grabbing wickets in the arvo and our backyards are "full of distant rellies".
Air New Zealand's General Manager Global Brand and Content Marketing Jodi Williams says the homegrown lyrics will remind local audiences of the moments that make a Kiwi (and Aussie, c'mon Jodi) Christmas, while the song also sends an enticing message to prospective visitors around the world.
"The idea of sleigh bells and snow doesn't really resonate for us in the Southern Hemisphere so we wanted to have fun with the concept of 'carol equality' and come up with a song we Kiwis and Aussies can relate to."
Jodi Williams, Air New Zealand's General Manager Global Brand and Content Marketing
"We hope the video will not only spread festive cheer but will also stand out against more traditional Christmas advertising, inspiring travellers to come down and see you don't need winter to enjoy our wonderland."
Ronan Keating says that while he and Julian Dennison are an unlikely duo, they had plenty of laughs recording the antipodean remix.
"I'm a big fan of New Zealand, both the country and the people and also of Air New Zealand. I love their humorous on board safety videos and of course, the great inflight experience."
Ronan Keating
"Working with Julian was a breeze – he's an absolute legend, incredibly professional, and to top it off, he can definitely sing."
Teenager Julian Dennison plays the part of Ronan Keating's producer in the video and says even though he was in awe of the music legend, their jam session was one of his career highlights.
"My job in the video is to sell Ronan on the idea of a sunny outdoor Christmas – the kind of day I'm looking forward to sharing with my family, jamming on the guitar or ukulele and chillaxing," he explained.
"For me Christmas is about getting people together and in the groove, so what better way to celebrate than to cut a track on why a Kiwiana Christmas is epic."
Check out the full video below:


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Great start, Patti. I'm going to need to have pen and paper ready when I read your posts because I'm sure there are some good quotes I'll want to remember!
Good morning blogger's and Happy Easter…Another year, another challenge. My theme for this year's challenge is, "Quotes and the Movies that made them famous." Should be fun. I may use more than one quote from the movie, but I'm pretty sure I'll just do one movie at a time. Good Luck to all..
Alice in Wonderland
"Alice: How long is forever? White Rabbit: Sometimes, just one second."
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
"have i gone mad?
im afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usualy are."
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
"If you don't know where you are going any road can take you there"
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
"Off with their heads!"
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
"Curiouser and curiouser!"
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll.[1] It tells of a girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as with children.[2] It is considered to be one of the best examples of the literary nonsense genre.[2][3] Its narrative course and structure, charactersand imagery have been enormously influential[3] in both popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasygenre.
I thought I'll just give you a short description, facts of the movie. A little education can never hurt anyone. This should be fun and I know I'll learn a thing or two. Good Luck to all the blogger's. Getting ready for "B"
And we can't forget the song that came along after the movie, "Go Ask Alice."
Fun theme! I'll check back again. Love a great quote!
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