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EBT cards are modern-day food stamps, except they're electronic. In essence, they are government-issued debit cards that allow recipients to spend taxpayer money for their own groceries. But EBT cards aren't merely good on food staples like beans and rice, they can be spent on processed junk food that promotes diabetes and obesity. That's the "dirty little secret" of the EBT scheme: It encourages low-income Americans to become high-profit customers of the pharmaceutical industry by eating their way to obesity, diabetes, cancer and heart disease.
"That's why the food industry loves EBT cards, too: Most EBT users are low-education consumers who understand virtually nothing about nutrition. They tend to buy the most nutritionally-depleted processed foods available, and that equates to high-profit foods for the processed food industry. (The highest-profit foods are the ones with the least nutrition, it turns out.)"
The purchase of vitamins is specifically prohibited by the EBT program. This is done as a way to keep EBT recipients sick and diseased while suffering from nutritional deficiencies, which is precisely what the federal government wants.
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Staring at pictures of Duggar and Duggar-adjacent food is one of my favorite hobbies.
And today we see a new step forward for the Duggars: a buffet of soup in styrofoam bowls to be carried around a giant wedding shower for Jessa and her sad, sad fiance Ben Seewald. Potato soup is definitely a perfect, non-messy wedding shower food.


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Blood on the windows and blood on the walls,
Blood on the ceiling and down in the halls,
And the papers keep downing on everything I burned,
And the people getting restless but they'll never learn.
John Cale - Gun
John Cale - Gun
A while back - in February when I was in the middle of moving house - I received an email from someone whom I admire very much indeed: Boris Bally. In it, he invited me to be part of a show in which we would all be sent a deactivated weapon and would have to make a piece of work from that weapon, the IMAGINE PEACE NOW! show.
Subsequently the gun arrived and a slight panic set in.
Firstly, I had a strange reaction to the weapon: I knew that it had come from Pittsburgh Police and I knew that it had been seized as part of their normal business of preventing crime and I couldn't quite bring myself to handle something which had potentially terrorised and had maybe even killed someone. Now, I am not 'pussy' about guns: I used to shoot game and legally owned a small 18th C. Spanish-made shotgun, but there is a big difference between the controlled and legal shooting of an animal for food and the misery or death of a human being.
Secondly, I was very, very uncomfortable about the idea of what might happen if someone saw me with this and reported it to the police here... would I find myself in the workshop, surrounded by armed officers? As the government increasingly sows fear of terrorists - which, frankly, I view as a control measure for the population, not a threat of anything like the magnitude we are being told - this was a very real concern.
Paul Evans, our head technician at the School of Jewellery was brilliant with all of this and helped me to write up a very sensible Health and Safety Risk Assessment aimed at minimising the risk. The local police in the Jewellery Quarter police station were also fantastic and inspected the weapon and paperwork to ensure it was all in order.
Next up was deciding what to do with it and I decided to revisit an idea from some time ago which will require me to work with the parts of the gun, slicing up the barrel and chambers, for which I had hoped to use the water-jet cutter in the University workshops, however, this would mean losing 0.8mm of material with every pass and a conversation with Kevin Gray at last week's opening of the Circulus show pointed the way forward: behind his workshop is a tiny engineering works with a spark-erosion wire-cutter.
|The gun in pieces.
I love finding these little places tucked away in the back lanes of the Jewellery Quarter.
These last sheets of steel have been cut with the wire-cutter. It will have no problem with my gun!
I finished a pendant for my colleaugue, Rachael Colley. She brought me the nail and I did the rest:
This was also my first time working with Argentium silver, which is not without its issues for those of us who are more used to working with sterling. I did, however, get it to fuse directly to some steel...
The students are all preparing for the end of term - is that really a full academic year I've been at the School of Jewellery?! - and the graduate shows, which I am looking forward to enormously.
|Preparing the exhibition space.
The week ended rather nicely with a concert in the soon-to-be-demolished Adrian Boult Hall at the Birmingham Conservatoire. The excellent Birmingham Contemporary Music Group were performing a programme which included the quite lovely "Rothko Chapel" by Morton Feldman for choir, percussion, viola and celeste.
The programme was mixed with a lot of music by one of the professors of composition at the Conservatoire, Howard Skempton - the music of whom I can take or leave - and one remarkable piece by Charlotte Bray for piano and 'cello, based on the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Perseus constellation.
I will leave you with the calming loveliness of the Feldman.


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This newly published book belongs close at hand for every engineer in advanced wireless. Marzetta invented it at Bell Labs, so I expected a fine book. Marzetta and co-authors Larsson, Yang, and Ngo did an extraordinary job. The book is admirably clear, short, and definitive. They answer the key questions: what it is, why it works, and how to design the systems. The last chapter reviews the problems still to be solved. It's only 160 pages (and 50 more in appendices) but all the main topics are addressed. For depth on a particular topic, the authors point you to the original research. The book is written for engineers; some parts are hard going for a layman.
The Resources list at the end references the seminal works by Paulraj, Foschini, Alamouti, Goldsmith, and the authors, as well as the 150 other works that have defined the field.
It is a virtual history of MIMO from its invention by Paulraj in 1994 to the present. I have the abstracts for several of the articles and will post more.
Massive MIMO and millimeter wave are the primary technologies for 5G wireless. Millimeter wave has short reach in cities but brings enormous capacity. Massive MIMO has broader coverage and works with standard mobile phones. Neither is best everywhere so both will play essential roles.
Ted Rappaport's book on mmWave is a natural complement. [[ASIN:0132172283 Millimeter Wave Wireless Communications]]


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There's an article in this past Sunday's Buffalo News about how area ex-pats can get access to their favorite team, the Sabres. It alludes to how the Internet has built community.
The Internet is great, but except in those very rare cases – like the Sabres during a winning season – it is unclear to me how it builds community, at least in the sense of local community. I claim that it actually helps undermine it by providing yet one more excuse not to socialize, not to be part of the local community. It helps make community dysfunctional. It dehumanizes us.
Sooner or later (looks like sooner) our concept of community is going to change dramatically as we withdraw further into our living rooms and physically isolate ourselves from our neighborhoods. Aren't we social beings? Don't we need to be face-to-face with people? Sitting behind a monitor and "socializing" with someone from who-knows-where is a poor substitute for walking down the street and taking part in a conversation. I think the lack of exposure to others is warping our sense of humanism, and of self.
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1. When viewing a Salesforce record in Ebsta Chrome (whether it's a Lead, Contact or Account), click Activities History in the accordion to open the view.
2. This will enable you to view a list of all Activities History related to this Salesforce record.
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Local Police Union Official Calls Out Mike Huckabee on Maurice Clemmons Clemency Decision - Video 11/30/09
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Here is video of the Lakewood Police Union President - Brian Wurts - speaking on the Rusty Humphries radio show where he pointedly called out Mike Huckabee for his commutation of the 95-year sentence of Maurice Clemmons, the man who killed four Washington police officers on Sunday. They play a portion of Huckabee's explanation to Bill O'Reilly as to why he commuted the sentence. Wurts said Huckabee should just admit his mistake, apologize, and try to move on. He believes Huckabee should be more "up front" about this.
You can go here to watch Huckabee's full explanation to O'Reilly.
The suspected killer, Maurice Clemmons, is now dead, shot and killed by Seattle police overnight.


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06 June 2007
Church Growth Italian Style
Okay, I'll be honest, I didn't react or respond very graciously to this. The truth of the matter is that I get impatient and short-tempered, and I am too often cranky and irritable. I'm in one of those funks right now, which makes it all the harder for me to be charitable and easy-going. No, I'm not justifying myself; I'm confessing my sin. Likewise, I know it is true that I am selfish and lazy, and I don't do everything I ought to be doing. There are people who ought to be hearing and receiving the Gospel from me, who don't always. So, I stand convicted by the Law, and my egotistical old Adam coils and rears and prepares to strike back. Thanks be to God the Holy Spirit, that He does not leave me in my sin but brings me to repentance and faith in the free and full forgiveness of Christ Jesus, my Savior. I haven't done enough, I know, but He always does.
Notwithstanding my sin, for which I must daily be called to repentance (there are no excuses), the Gospel is not served by compromise. The Office of the Ministry has been instituted by God, not to get in the way of the Gospel, but for the sake of the Gospel. The Divine Call to that Office is not a matter of legalism, nor of personal prerogative and power, but the authority of Christ to forgive sins, and the way in which He has given that special authority to His Church on earth. The means of grace are not impediments to evangelism, nor simply tokens that we have to "throw in there" in order to maintain our credentials. They are the Word and works of Jesus, whereby He established, builds, sustains and preserves His Church against sin, death, the devil and hell. No amount of creativity and ingenuity on our part will improve upon or supplement these divine ways and means by which Christ Jesus does His thing. Of course, He also bestows First Article gifts of intelligence, knowledge and wisdom, understanding and rhetoric, which all ought to serve and support the preaching and teaching and administration of the Gospel. But let all of these be handmaidens of the Gospel, and not streetcorner sirens seducing the men of God.
People were going to hell in the days of the Prophets and Apostles. Congregations were declining. The Word of God was preached, and as often as not it was rejected, the preacher sometimes stoned to death, sawn asunder, thrown into a pit, or otherwise disposed of. The very Word-made-Flesh was crucified, dead and buried, and those who are called and sent to preach His Word are persecuted for it; they bear in their own bodies and lives the Cross and Passion of the Christ. His power is made perfect in weakness.
I don't want to make excuses for not doing all that I am given to do. I need to be called to repentance, and not simply to feel badly about where I've fallen short, but to do better. No, not "better," but simply to do it. But what I am given to do is laid upon me by the Lord's Call, in my ordination to His Office of the Ministry. It's not something that I pick and choose and decide for myself. I'm called to preach the Law and the Gospel, to teach the Word of God, to catechize and baptize, to hear confessions of sin and to speak the absolution of sin in the name and stead of Christ, and to administer His Body and His Blood for His Christians to eat and to drink. These are the works that I am given to do, within my finite capacities, in all sorts of circumstances, in this place where the Lord has put me, among the people He has entrusted to my care. I know that I will never serve as faithfully and well as I ought to serve. But I trust the Good Shepherd, who loves His sheep, to serve and provide for them with His means of grace, even through me.
I have my own theory as to why the churches have been declining for the past several decades. Well, one of the reasons, anyway, but I believe it is a big one. It's been within the last couple of generations that "birth control" and "family planning" have become commonplace, and not only accepted but expected. Christian husbands and wives are having fewer children by design. This is not rocket science. Some of the earliest sects and heretical groups despised marriage and procreation, and, not surprisingly, those groups tended to die out over time. Go figure.
Of course, the Lord in His wisdom does not call every Christian to the vocation of marriage; nor does He grant children to every Christian marriage. Those disciples of Jesus without spouse or child are less encumbered by the demands of family, and are thus able to serve the Church and the world in other vocations and stations in life. What is more, with or without family, Christians ought to be speaking the Gospel to their friends and neighbors and co-workers, and to anyone else they encounter in the course of their days, whenever and wherever the opportunity arises.
But in the case of Christian spouses, the frontier of the mission field is in the home with their own children. Bringing their children to Holy Baptism, catechizing them in the home, that is to say, by teaching them the Word of God, training them in the Catechism and praying with them, and faithfully taking them to church, parents serve the so-called "Great Commission" far more pointedly and effectively (if one may ever use such a term) than by just about anything else a lay person might do. Not to be crass or irreverent, but maybe Christian husbands and wives should be encouraged to spend less time knocking on doors, and more time behind closed doors. Where the Lord does not bestow the blessing of children, there other opportunities present themselves, as also when the childrearing years have passed. But if Christian couples would typically have four children (on average), and would simply rear them in the Christian faith and life, I suggest that the Church on earth would be growing steadily instead of declining.
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- Karin said...
Charley and I met a sweet old Italian lady in Italy and when she found out in our broken communication that we had four children (at the time) she was ecstatic. Cute old Italian lady prattling on in Italian about how special it was that we loved our children and bragged about numbers. I am not sure that has anything to do with your post but it did remind me of the incident. We are doing the best we can in the post topic Pastor......
- June 6, 2007 at 12:52 PM
- Rev. Rick Stuckwisch said...
Cute story ;-) Thanks, Karin.
Another pastor you know has noted that "Church Growth Italian Style" is more fun than convassing. I remember canvassing a few times as a youth, and I would have to agree.
It occurs to me that the same God who said, "Go and make disciples," also said, "Be fruitful and multiply." I suspect that there is a closer connection between these two passages than we might normally suppose.
I am sensitive to the fact that not everyone is given to have children. I'm also sympathetic to the weaknesses of our fallen nature. So, the last thing that I want to do is place a different sort of legalistic burden upon anyone. God forbid that I should discourage those who are unable to have the family they would gladly receive from Him.
But as a general rule, which also applies in this case, we should all simply stick to doing what we are given to do within our vocations. That is where and how God works, not only to provide for each of us and our families, but also for our neighbors in the world, and for His Church on earth.
God bless you and Charley in the very productive Church Growth program He has equipped you for.
- June 6, 2007 at 1:40 PM
- Anita said...
Thanks for a little adult humor today Pastor and Karin :)
I can see the logic in your theory, yet I wonder how do we know if it's God's will for one to have a large family. I'll admit part of me LOVES the idea of having a full home while another part of me questions if that is my calling. Maybe that's just a lack of faith...((shrug))
- June 6, 2007 at 2:20 PM
- Rev. Rick Stuckwisch said...
Thanks for your comments, Anita. I understand your mixed feelings and the questions you ponder. I don't presume to have any easy answers, as I find this to be an ongoing struggle, for myself and for lots of other folks, too.
The Lord has mercy upon us in our weakness. Our faith is not what it should be, and neither is our life in this world. I know that the Lord will feed and clothe and shelter and protect His children, but I have to confess that I'm not always able to take this to heart. The crosses that we bear, of one sort and another, for all sorts of reasons, are hard to bear.
I'm always concerned to avoid any kind of legalism, whether it's one to mandate a certain number of children, or another to limit the number of children one should have. Every child is created by God for life with Himself forever.
My biggest concern with our modern society is the assumption that determining the number of children to have is a human decision to make. The connection of "choice" with childbearing has become increasingly perverse. There is a difference, of course, between abortion and avoiding conception. But the motivations are often the same, and sin proceeds from out of the heart before it bears fruit in our actions.
Because God is faithful and consistent in His providence, and He has created an orderly world, it is generally possible to avoid or increase the likelihood of pregnancy. I'm not inclined to say that it is always wrong to do so. But I push the point, because it has become so taken for granted in our world that men and women not only can, but should, make such choices for themselves.
Christians proceed in repentance and faith, and live by grace alone. In the many freedoms with which the Lord has blessed us, we make the best decisions we can, but our confidence and sufficiency are in Christ and His Gospel, not in our wisdom or best efforts.
As a rule of thumb, I would mainly suggest that a Christian husband and wife will always be open to the possibility of another child, even if they take steps to avoid that likelihood. If a child is conceived, then, whatever fears and trepidations and hardships may be involved, they will continue to confess their sins, to live by faith in the Gospel, and trust that God will provide what is needed, for Jesus' sake.
I know that there are many sorts of painful difficulties involved in these aspects of our lives. Many dear friends along the way have been sorely tried and tested, and my heart goes out to them. Yet, for all of us, our faith is firmly rooted in the Word of God, whose wisdom is wiser than ours.
- June 6, 2007 at 3:24 PM
- Anita said...
very true. I suppose that's why for the most part I try to take things as they come and not think too far ahead of myself;)
- June 6, 2007 at 5:30 PM


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On October 22, the Idaho Technology Council (ITC) hosted its first Capital Connect Conference that focused on our state's past, present and future business environment. From the beginning of the conference to the final remarks, the ITC and its entire staff were focused one-hundred percent on companies like ours, Farb Guidance Systems, who are continuing to realize that Idaho, is business friendly, growth focused and committed to its quest to be the nation's number location for advancement in technology, agriculture, agriscience and innovation. According to the ITC's website, the formal mission of the Idaho Technology Council is to "help technology companies in Idaho start, grow, and thrive". Throughout the entire Capital Connect Conference, the ITC not only nailed their mission, they spread goodwill far and wide. More states should take note. If you truly want a sustainable state, with a healthy business environment, you need consensus from the top down….
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Investments that pay a dividend every month aren't a hard sell. After all, who doesn't want a little extra monthly income to help tackle the monthly bills?[ad#Google Adsense 336×280-IA]Sadly, that's where too many investors believe the benefits end.
Indeed, many still think that buying a security paying $0.10 per share in dividends a dozen times a year gives them the same long-term payoff as buying one that pays $1.20 in dividends annually.
That idea couldn't be more short-sided.
Beyond the convenient payouts that monthly dividend stocks and funds provide, these frequent dividend payers offer much more than most people realize when it comes to building wealth.
Here are few excellent reasons to love monthly dividend payers:
1. Higher Frequency Leads To Faster Growth
If you choose to wisely reinvest your dividends (assuming you don't need to live on them right away), you will ultimately make more money and build your wealth faster with a monthly dividend payer than with an annual dividend payer.
Let's say I invest $100,000 in two securities that each paid a 7% annual dividend yield. One pays dividends monthly and the other pays once annually. For simplicity, let's also say these investments don't change in value over time (i.e. no capital gains or losses) and that I reinvest my dividends as soon as they're paid out.
After one year, the annual payer would be worth $107,000 (my original $100,000 investment plus $7,000 in dividends) at the end of the year. By comparison, the monthly payer would grow to $107,229 as long as I reinvested my dividends every month and let them compound. That's $229 more growth than the annual payer in just one year.
As I continue to reinvest my dividends and let them compound over time, the rewards of the monthly payer only get better. After 10 years, the monthly payer in this example would be worth $4,251 more than the annual payer.
The key here is that the more often you reinvest your dividends, the more time they have to compound and grow.
2. Less Market Risk
When you buy an annual payer, you only have one day a year to buy additional shares through a dividend reinvestment program. But what if the stock hits an all-time high price on that day? You could get unlucky and reinvest in shares at a high price — and get stuck with a low dividend yield.
A monthly payer on the other hand lets you reinvest your dividends to buy shares 12 times a year, spreading out your market risk in letting you buy a few shares at a time. This gives you a greater possibility of buying shares when they're cheaper, too, for higher potential returns if the security gains in value.
3. Peace Of Mind
When I buy dividend-paying stocks, I prefer to hold them for the long haul. But sometimes the unexpected happens. Maybe market conditions get too risky for a specific asset class. Maybe a company runs into trouble. Or maybe I suddenly need the cash for a personal emergency.
I face difficult and expensive choices if a stock I own pays dividends annually and I have an unexpected situation. For example, I'd hate to hold on to a stock for 11 months, only to have to sell it right before its payoff date and miss out on the dividend income. I'd also hate to hold on to a problem stock just for its dividend – who'd want their stock shares to fall $2 in price just to collect $1 in dividends?
In contrast, a monthly dividend payer gives me easier decisions and greater peace of mind. I don't need to wait around as long for my dividend if I ever need to quickly get out of the investment. And I don't have to worry about payoff dates or "missing out" on dividends as much.
4. Convenience
While I'm still using dividend reinvestment as the growth engine toward building my retirement fund, I'll eventually need to start living off the income from my portfolio.
When I reach that point, my monthly dividend payers will give me a convenient way to pay my bills every month. I might use monthly dividends to pay the final mortgage bills to pay off my home. I also might use them to pay my monthly electric bill, my monthly cable bill, and my monthly phone bill.
How To Choose A Monthly Dividend Payer
There are hundreds of monthly dividend-paying securities on the market, with more launching every day. Unfortunately, the vast majority of monthly dividend payers are fixed-income securities (i.e. bond funds), which are interest-rate sensitive and can lose value if interest rates go up.
Stocks and ETFs that pay a monthly dividend are less common, but may be the better choice as they are less exposed to interest-rate risk than bond funds.
The Takeaway
I'm fond of monthly dividend payers as they help me grow my retirement fund faster while also helping me sleep better at night. And when I'm ready to stop reinvesting my dividends and start living off the income, they'll be handy toward paying the bills every month.
— Genia Turanova
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PREVIEW: Global Lessons on Guns – A Fareed Zakaria Special
Global Lessons on Guns – A Fareed Zakaria GPS Special debuts TONIGHT Sunday, Dec. 8, at 7:00pm ET
Tonight, CNN's Fareed Zakaria takes viewers to Colombia, Switzerland, Japan, Israel, and Australia for policy lessons from other mass gun murders, and suicide prevention – which may work in the U.S..
Here in a video preview to the special, Gen. (ret.) Peter Chiarelli discusses the U.S. Army's efforts to reduce suicides by firearms. Gen. Chiarelli cautions:
"I would be very, very careful in not underestimating the impact of 13 years of war, on an all-volunteer force. I think we were seeing, in those [high] suicide numbers, some of the effect of high stress and trauma," Gen. Chiarelli says in the documentary, recalling his service as the number two ranking officer assigned to suicide prevention. "This is an area that we, in fact, have to attack."


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The goal of the Webinar Series is to fulfill an important element of the Society's Mission Statement: The Southern California Genealogical Society exists to foster interest in family history and genealogy, preserve genealogical materials, and provide instruction in accepted and effective research techniques.
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The live webcasts are open to the public free of charge. Please tell your cousins, fellow genealogical society members and others about our program. We'd love to have them join us.
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SCGS webinars are held the first Saturday and third Wednesday of each month. They are held at hours that most people are not working: Saturday 10am Pacific time and Wednesday 6pm Pacific time.
I'm sold. How do I sign up?
It's really easy. Go to the SCGS website page with the Extension Series information. http://tinyurl.com/2015-SCGS-
You'll see a list with all of the upcoming webinars and links to register. Click on the links to register for the live webcasts you want to attend. Fill out the registration information and you're all set. You'll get a confirmation email and will also get reminders before the webinar, as well as a link to a handout for every presentation.
On the day of the program, click the link that you received in those emails and you'll be taken to GoToWebinar for your session. You can watch the webinars on your laptop or desktop, on your tablet or even your smartphone. If you don't have an internet connection, you can even dial in by phone and listen to the presentation.
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As a benefit of membership, SCGS members may view any of the 125 or so archived sessions any time, day or night, on the SCGS website. Webinars are posted online about two weeks after the webcast. A list of the archived sessions can be found on the SCGS website. To learn more about the valuable membership benefits available for SCGS members, visit our membership webpage.
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UF Student Health Care Center takes flu vaccination "on the road," offering free flu shots
Raquelle Newman, a junior from Fort Lauderdale who was passing by, rolled up her sleeves for a shot administered by nurse Lily Hummer, R.N. Ever since a severe case of the flu landed the health education and behavior major in bed for four days during her freshman year, she hasn't hesitated to get an annual flu shot.
"I'm trusting in its ability to protect me, and I'm not going to be as worried come flu season that I will get the flu again," Newman said. "I had to learn the hard way, I suppose."
Newman scored an orange and blue "Flu Shots, Shots, Shots, Everybody!" T-shirt for being among the first to be vaccinated.
The event was just one of the Student Health Care Center's many flu vaccination outreach events across campus for students, faculty and staff being held between now and November. Some students registered online in advance, and many more, like Newman, simply dropped by to get their shots.
"I think it was a huge success, and we were able to vaccinate a large number of people in a relatively short period," said Phillip Barkley, M.D., director of the UF Student Health Care Center.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that everyone 6 months and older receive a flu shot each year. Not only does the shot protect people from becoming sick, it prevents them from infecting others.
"If you think about a college campus, with people in classrooms and residence halls — that just compounds the transmission issue further," Barkley said.
Health care workers who are vaccinated protect their patients as well.
"The benefits to the campus and society are just huge, and we're working hard to help protect the UF campus and our UF family," Barkley said.
Some people who have had sniffles and aches recently might feel that they've had the flu and so can forego vaccination.
But not so fast, Barkley said.
"Sometimes what we think is the flu, if not confirmed by culture, can be other things," Barkley said. "Right now we're so early in the flu season that it's very unlikely for people to have already had the flu — there would be almost no reason, even if you think you got the flu, to not get the flu shot this year."
Vaccination outreach efforts continue across campus for the next several weeks, at the Founders Gallery, the Shands at UF Atrium and the Reitz Union. Free flu shots will also be offered to all UF employees Oct. 23 at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium during the UF Employee Benefits Fair.
For more details on where and when you can get a free flu shot, visit the UF Student Health Care Center website. Then simply show up with your ID and roll up your sleeves.
"It's such a quick and simple measure to not only protect yourself and your family but to protect your community," Barkley said. "It's safe, it's effective and it's the right thing to do."


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Last month, Jessie Fire sat with a salesman from Elite Home Fitness LLC, which had posted a flier in her Cambridge building offering personal training in the in-house gym.
Fire handed over $5,000, the first installment on a one-year contract costing $14,400.
Pricey, perhaps, but not otherwise an unusual transaction, except for the fact that Jessie is mentally challenged due to a neurological condition she's had since birth.
The next morning, Jessie's mother, Cathy, said she "almost fainted" when her daughter told her she had spent practically all her money with one swipe of her debit card.
Jessie, 31, lives on her own, holds down a full-time job at a day care center, and manages her affairs pretty well, Cathy said.
"But there are areas where I have to protect her," she said. "She has trouble with reasoning and logic and doesn't have a good concept of money."
So Cathy called the Elite office in Boston immediately to explain Jessie's cognitive problems.
About 1 million people nationwide are afflicted with hydrocephalus. Reduced "executive function" and trouble making judgments are common. The only treatment is surgery; Jessie was barely a week old when she had her first surgery, and she's had a dozen more since.
"I thought they would say, 'Oh, sorry, we didn't know,' " Cathy said. "And that would be the end of it."
Instead, an Elite representative told her it was too late to void the contract because it had already been "processed" in the company's corporate offices in Providence, Cathy said.
Cathy remembers being repeatedly told "there's nothing we can do."
Cathy said she told the representative that Jessie would not be able to pay the remaining $9,400 balance on her salary as a teacher's aide at a day-care center.
"We'll refer it to a collection agency, if we have to," Cathy says she was told.
Cathy persisted in vain for days, imploring various Elite representatives "to do the right thing."
It wasn't only about the money; the family is fortunate to have financial resources.
But when Jessie realized she had acted recklessly in forking over her entire savings without so much as a word with her mother, she fell apart.
"When I finally made Jessie understand what she had done, she became hysterical," Cathy wrote in her e-mail asking for my help. "Now she is crying, calling herself names, saying she wishes she was dead."
Jessie told me when we met that she wants to lose weight. And when the management of her building invited Elite to make sale pitches to tenants, she jumped at the chance. There were lots of choices — join for three, six, or 12 months; two, three, or four sessions a week. There were discounts based on how much was paid upfront.
Jessie said the salesman patiently went over all the options. There was no bullying. Still, she described the sales pitch as "a lot of mumbo-jumbo," that she didn't quite understand.
"It's actually something I regret," she said of signing the contract, before breaking down in tears.
I don't fault the salesman (nor do Jessie or Cathy). But I have a big problem with what Elite did, and didn't do, after Jessie signed the contract.
I described what happened to two experts at the Hydrocephalus Association, a research organization. Both said they would cut the salesman some slack but thought the contract should have been quickly ripped up once Jessie's condition was disclosed.
I visited the Elite office near South Station. After a short conversation with Luis Mendonca, the salesman, he began making calls in my presence recommending that the contract be voided, which it was.
Cathy told me that she had repeatedly explained Jessie's medical condition to Elite personnel, including manager David Bird. But Bird told me he doesn't remember Cathy mentioning a medical condition, which seems odd since that was the reason Cathy was demanding cancellation.
The whole episode should have been avoided, based on the automatic right to cancel in state law: "Every contract for health care club services shall provide clearly and conspicuously in writing that such contract may be cancelled within three business days."
A lawyer for Elite cited what I consider a silly technicality in evading the three-day rule: Elite doesn't operate a physical health club; it goes to where its customers are. And the law, passed almost 35 years ago, applies to "each [health club] facility or location."
Still, it's clear to me that lawmakers, reacting to a spate of consumer complaints about committing to long-term contracts they almost instantly regretted, intended to protect the likes of Jessie Fire. Maybe a legislative fix is in order.
Sean Murphy can be reached at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @spmurphyboston.


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Now I know that I am luckier than a lot of people, in that I have the freedom to work only when my finances dictate. And given that I have no dependents and, when I do work I am paid well, they don't dictate as often as they might. I am fully aware that we are living in desperate times and a lot of people are suffering dire financial hardship after losing their jobs, whilst yet more can't even get onto the first rung of training for a job. It seems to me then that it's even more imperative that I don't squander my choices, when I am so fortunate to have them.
When I was fifteen, my friend and I in the spirit of being punks, although in reality we were more wannabes than the real deal, allowed her brother to tattoo our arms. Like all things punk, it was a bit of a botch job and we both ended up with a permanent reminder of her crazy brother, who last I heard was either in the army or prison, nobody ever seemed all that sure on which one.
The tattoo was irrelevant, a few years later I had it covered up by a very nice tattoo artist in LA who, whilst horrified at his predecessor's handiwork, applauded the sentiment behind it. You see, at fifteen years old, my friend and I had no idea what we wanted to do with our lives but we knew exactly what we didn't want. Looking around at the lives of our mothers and other female role models, the worst thing our simple adolescent brains could come up with was ending up as bank manager's wives and so we tattooed our arms, in a sort of ritualistic promise that we would always be true to ourselves and not settle for less than we hoped for.
Fast track a few years and I found myself in a twenty year career, as conventional as any other but, all the while, I felt like a stranger in a strange land and could never quite shake off the feeling that I was wasting my life. It took seeing someone die, someone who desperately wanted to live and still had so much that they wanted to do, for me to realise that I couldn't afford to waste another day.
And so I walked away and have spent the last few years drifting through life but happy doing so. However, with the recession nipping at my heels, I began to feel increasingly nervous, thinking small and wanting to play it safe. I wondered if maybe I was being foolish, leaving so much to chance, when all around me so many people are desperate to find jobs. I was all set to knuckle down and take a permanent contract when fate stepped in and slapped me in the face.
You see my week from hell made me see sense. The world may be a precarious place at the moment but that doesn't mean that my life has to be defined by that uncertainty. I don't know what the future holds and maybe in a years time I will be financially destitute, moaning about having to sell my house and move into my mum's back bedroom. All the that I do know for sure is that my choices aren't going to be determined by a fear of the unknown or even economic ruin.


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In order to explain how Portland became a place we call home we have to go back in time to explain where our adventure started. In 2010 I was offered a job in Reno, Nevada and we were living in Sunnyvale, California. What? How did we get from Sunnyvale to Reno to Portland? I am getting to that I promise! Let's go back to 2010 when we lived in Sunnyvale. (more…)


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I posted a quick tutorial yesterday showing how to use a simple CSS3 technique to spin some icons on hover. I've posted CSS3 tutorials before but all of a sudden this latest one has already received a few negative comments complaining that they can't use CSS3 yet. Of course you can! Get over the way you used to do things, move with the times and embrace the new hotness right now. Today.
Here are two of the most negative comments:
Demonstrations of CSS3 are lame. What, 10% of the internet uses a browser capable of showing this stuff. What a waste of time.
That's a pretty slick trick! I just wish I could use it now and not have to wait 3 years for the general public to catch up with their browser updates…
I work on corporate websites in my full time job and I use CSS3 all the time. In fact I'm using that spinning icon technique in a site redesign I'm working on at the moment and their usage stats show IE at 67.1% for the last month. However, that number is trending down and usage stats for other browsers are increasing including Chrome, Safari and Firefox. This is not unique to this one site. Every corporate site I've checked is showing same characteristics with their users. Chances are, if this is happening in the corporate world, the stats will look even better in other industries.
It's true, visitors with current versions of IE won't see the example used in my tutorial but with good use of CSS3 you can enhance interaction for users of newer browsers and people who are upgrading. Browser usage is trending towards newer browsers if you look at the stats. For example, a year from now people who had older browsers and have upgraded their browser (or been upgraded by someone else) will start to notice these enhancements possibly giving them a sense of discovery. They may even notice them more than someone who hasn't upgraded because they saw it IE first (still fully accessible of course) and then saw it in a modern browser. Certainly not a bad thing.
However, the average visitor who still uses older browsers will still see a fully accessible version of your site and they won't check sites in multiple browsers to see what the differences are. That just doesn't happen outside of the web design and development community. In the case of the tutorial in question, everything looks the same initially, so everyone is still getting the same access to content, just the interaction has been enhanced for more recent browsers. That's the key. As long as everything is still accessible, start embracing CSS3 or you'll get left behind.


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This is a box set of the three novels in the Perilous Times Series.The Falling Away - Doctor Neal Kirkland becomes a Christian after one of his patients lead him to the Lord. Meanwhile, a virus spreads across the globe, with the powers-that-be blaming Christians for all of it. Does Doctor Kirkland put a stop to it?The Great Deception - The novel is about the first three and a half years of the Tribulation. The new leader of the world reorganizes the world into ten provinces and fixes the failing economy. Meanwhile, the seven trumpet judgments occur, the two witnesses appear in Jerusalem, and nothing will ever be the same again.The Great Tribulation - The novel goes through the last three and a half years of the seven-year Tribulation Period. The world leader "returns" from the dead and becomes "The Beast." The seven bowls of wrath occur and the world goes speeding towards Armageddon.
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While playing through Super Mario Odyssey players will never be confronted with a Game Over Screen, regardless of how many times they fail.
Eurogamer has translated a tweet from the Japanese Super Mario Odyssey Twitter page to reveal that the new 3D Mario title won't be punishing players with a finite Game Over screen.
マリオの体力が0になったり、奈落に落ちると、持っているコインが10枚減ってしまいます。ただし…!いくらミスしてもGAME OVERはありません。 pic.twitter.com/6oEia6LcVr— スーパーマリオ オデッセイ (@mario_odysseyJP) July 4, 2017
The tweet explains that when a player's health bar falls to zero, the game will simply remove ten coins from Mario's treasury. This was followed up with a subsequent tweet stating that even players who fail with less than ten coins won't find themselves faced with a 'Game Over'.
This sudden switch from the usual Mario formula is implemented in the hopes of encouraging exploration throughout the vast open world, which we featured in our hands-on preview of Super Mario Odyssey.
Coins are a more major part of Odyssey than in previous games - instead of offering extra lives, they're now used to purchase new clothing items that can benefit Mario in the wider world.
For more insight into Mario and the worlds he occupies, we asked the creator Shigeru Miyamoto about the legacy behind one of gaming's most recognisable characters.
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Warning: spoilers ahead for Episode 14 of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 5, called "Principia." If you haven't caught the episode yet, you may want to check out some of our spoiler-free articles until you get the chance to watch.
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. delivered a shocker at the end of the arc that took the characters to outer space (and the future) with the reveal that Phil Coulson is dying, and the 100th episode explained exactly why he's circling the drain. When Coulson was possessed by Ghost Rider at the end of Season 4, the Spirit of Vengeance exhausted the supply of Kree science in Coulson's body that had led to his reanimation with the T.A.H.I.T.I. project, and he's wasting away. That said, it's difficult to imagine S.H.I.E.L.D. killing off its lead character (and connection to the larger MCU), and "Principia" may have just established how the agents will go about saving his life.
The return of Mike to lend a hand (and attend a wedding) in the 100th episode was apparently more significant than just bringing a character back from the pilot to celebrate a milestone. His reappearance reminded the agents (and the audience) about Project Deathlok, which turned Mike into a cyborg against his will. The project was created way back in 1990, and the experimentation led to John Garrett becoming the first ever Deathlok soldier. He also ultimately became a supervillain who did a lot of damage to innocent lives and S.H.I.E.L.D., and he was the big bad of Season 1. His significance in Season 5 has everything to do with how he was able to live as long as he did.
In "Principia," the agents realized that Project Deathlok could be the way to save Coulson's life. While trying to track down gravitonium, they came across some folks familiar with Project Deathlok and the processes that saved the life of John Garrett and allowed Mike Peterson to survive. Coulson immediately shot down the idea of Deathlok tech extending his life, explicitly mentioning Garrett and declaring that he didn't want to follow in Garrett's footsteps. Daisy and May weren't so easily dissuaded, however, and they decided to continue pursuing a way to save Coulson's life via Deathlok tech.
On the one hand, Coulson deserves to have his wishes respected, and he decided that he's had enough of sketchy tech prolonging his life. On the other hand, it would be a bit rich of him to flip out at Daisy and May for taking actions against his will to save him. Admittedly, he might have a point about May, but Coulson literally shot Daisy with an ICER and dragged her back to Earth from the future despite her determination to stay at the Lighthouse and prevent herself from ever destroying the Earth in the past. If Coulson was allowed to save Daisy whether she liked it or not, I'd say Daisy deserves the same chance.
Of course, if they do find a way to use Deathlok tech on Coulson, they'll still probably need him to cooperate. On top of that, Coulson's flesh is actively necrotizing, and the agents may need to move quickly if they want to save much of Coulson's body. He may be fine with having the fancy prosthetic arm, but something tells me he's vehemently against going full cyborg like Mike. That said, perhaps seeing Yo-Yo adjust to having two of her limbs replaced with technology will get Coulson to realize that there are worse things in the world than relying on technology to stay up and about.
We'll have to wait and see. New episodes of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. air on Fridays at 9 p.m. ET on ABC. For more viewing options, be sure to take a look at our midseason TV premiere guide and our 2018 Netflix premiere guide. For the shows that need to be saved from cancellation (including S.H.I.E.L.D.), check out our list of the most likely candidates.


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A Very Short History Of Data Science. The story of how data scientists became sexy is mostly the story of the coupling of the mature discipline of statistics with a very young one–computer science.
The term "Data Science" has emerged only recently to specifically designate a new profession that is expected to make sense of the vast stores of big data. But making sense of data has a long history and has been discussed by scientists, statisticians, librarians, computer scientists and others for years. The following timeline traces the evolution of the term "Data Science" and its use, attempts to define it, and related terms. 1962 John W. Tukey writes in "The Future of Data Analysis": "For a long time I thought I was a statistician, interested in inferences from the particular to the general. 1974 Peter Naur publishes Concise Survey of Computer Methods in Sweden and the United States. 1977 The International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC) is established as a Section of the ISI. 2001 William S.
May 2005 Thomas H. The data science ecosystem – Medium. Today this ecosystem exists only in a small number of large multinational IT companies and in some data-intensive sciences with large experimental projects.
In scientific domains with smaller experiments and in smaller companies with a primary focus other than data, challenges related to developing and managing the data science ecosystem come in all shapes and sizes. That said, we can identify and describe some of the typical challenges, generalizable across multiple domains. Manpower To a large extent, the major bottleneck is the lack of manpower.
We have arguably enough domain scientists and software engineers, but there is a major mismatch between supply and demand in any of the remaining four roles related to data. Incentives Most data scientists, as other scientists, are trained and incentivized to do research on highly specialized domains. Finally, none of the researchers have interest in taking on the crucial data trainer role. Access Tools.
A Tour of Machine Learning Algorithms. In this post, we take a tour of the most popular machine learning algorithms.
It is useful to tour the main algorithms in the field to get a feeling of what methods are available. It is useful to tour the main algorithms in the field to get a feeling of what methods are available. There are so many algorithms available and it can feel overwhelming when algorithm names are thrown around and you are expected to just know what they are and where they fit. I want to give you two ways to think about and categorize the algorithms you may come across in the field. Conditional probability explained visually. A Visual explanation by Victor Powell for Setosa A conditional probability is the probability of an event, given some other event has already occurred.
In the below example, there are two possible events that can occur. A ball falling could either hit the red shelf (we'll call this event A) or hit the blue shelf (we'll call this event B) or both. Markov Chains explained visually. Explained Visually By Victor Powell with text by Lewis Lehe Markov chains, named after Andrey Markov, are mathematical systems that hop from one "state" (a situation or set of values) to another.
For example, if you made a Markov chain model of a baby's behavior, you might include "playing," "eating", "sleeping," and "crying" as states, which together with other behaviors could form a 'state space': a list of all possible states. In addition, on top of the state space, a Markov chain tells you the probabilitiy of hopping, or "transitioning," from one state to any other state---e.g., the chance that a baby currently playing will fall asleep in the next five minutes without crying first.
A simple, two-state Markov chain is shown below. With two states (A and B) in our state space, there are 4 possible transitions (not 2, because a state can transition back into itself). Of course, real modelers don't always draw out Markov chain diagrams. A 'Brief' History of Neural Nets and Deep Learning, Part 4 – Andrey Kurenkov's Web World.
This is the fourth part in 'A Brief History of Neural Nets and Deep Learning'.
Parts 1-3 here, here, and here. In this part, we will get to the end of our story and see how deep learning emerged from the slump neural nets found themselves in by the late 90s, and the amazing state of the art results it has achieved since. "Ask anyone in machine learning what kept neural network research alive and they will probably mention one or all of these three names: Geoffrey Hinton, fellow Canadian Yoshua Bengio and Yann LeCun, of Facebook and New York University." When you want a revolution, start with a conspiracy. With the ascent of Support Vector Machines and the failure of backpropagation, the early 2000s were a dark time for neural net research.
"But in 2004, Hinton asked to lead a new program on neural computation. "It was the worst possible time," says Bengio, a professor at the Université de Montréal and co-director of the CIFAR program since it was renewed last year. . . . In 2012. .


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Stop worrying about what HE's thinking.
It's funny I've talked about this so many times in the past, and I'll probably talk about it another thousand times this year.
The human race is so stuck in its head nowadays, particularly when it comes to love, and women are just as bad as men for this. The other day I went for dinner with a friend, and we saw a woman look at us from a distance.
We could literally see her brain ticking over. We could almost hear her saying, "Don't look at them again. Don't let them see you look at them again. I'm going to walk past them and turn my head. I'm not going to engage them at all."
I call it the "I haven't noticed you" game. It's when someone looks at you from a distance and then shoots their head around the other way when you catch their eye. When women do it, I call it the "I don't want to know him" game.
They're desperate to talk and connect with you, but because they're so stuck in their heads they can't let it happen. I some of you might be thinking, "Maybe some people are just shy."
I've been studying the human race since I was a kid. The moment this woman caught our eye I saw her disappear into her thoughts. It was like she was suddenly terrified we might reach out and connect with her.
After a while, I couldn't stand it anymore and went over to talk to her. Over the course of the night, we spoke maybe three different times.
She was actually a very sweet, friendly, and attractive woman. When we spoke she was inspiring and look genuinely excited to be having a conversation. She seemed excited to connect with someone, because no matter how afraid of it we are, humans need connection.
The truth is that we just need to get out of our heads. We need to stop thinking and worrying about what other people think of us. "Does he like me? Is he attracted to me? How do I look? Do I smell good?"
We spend too much time freaking out about what we ASSUME people think, and that is a very important word.
Because all of our anxieties come from what we assume people think, rather than what they ACTUALLY think.
We have no idea what others think of us, so what's the point in making up negative things in our head about what they might think? It's nuts. We overthink everything, we overanalyze everything, and we look for a reason in things there aren't reasons for.
When we're looking for love, we look for situations that don't exist. We look at every text, every Facebook status, and every photo for some sort of hidden meaning. We're constantly attaching assumptions to everything we do.
It's time to get out your head and start living (and loving) through your heart. That's what life is about. When you start living through your heart, you actually start experiencing life rather than thinking about it.
Life is all around you, but if you're concentrating on your own made up thoughts, you're missing it.
Who knows what else you're missing while the mad monkeys are chattering in your head. Could you have walked right past the man of your dreams? Think about it and consider making the small change that will make a huge difference.
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Hey there, fellow moms. Have you ever put your kids in a time out when either their behavior or attitude wasn't matching up to your expectations? Or what you knew they were capable of?
How about yourself? Have you ever felt the tensions rising, temper shortening in your own heart? Have you ever put yourself in a time out?
Join me at The Better Mom today as I talk about what we can do When MOM Needs A Time Out.
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On June 13, 1953, she married Elmer A. Weyend in Rose Pine, La. He preceded her in death. Survivors include: three daughters, Marilyn Lubbers, Leavenworth, Geraldine Epp, Newton, and Shirley Esau, Walton; brother, Calvin Willems, McPherson; sister, Phillies Stern; seven grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.
Funeral will be 10 a.m. Tuesday at Broadway Colonial Funeral Home, Newton. Visitation will be from 1 to 9 p.m. Monday, with the family present from 6 to 8 p.m. at the funeral home. Memorials to the Newton EMS in care of the funeral home.


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"What Needless Pain We Bear"
"Blessed is the Lord who daily carries our load" (Psalm 68:19).
The expression is literally, "Blessed is the Lord who daily loads-up for us our burden" (viz. provisions loaded on a beast of burden.) Our Lord stoops to take up our burdens and load them upon Himself. He does so "day|day," as the text puts it—day, after day, after day, after day...
What burden is laid on me today? Well, it's the cumbrance of living in a worn-out body and doing so with contentment and joy—"to lark and leap on shanks grown dry as sticks!" (Godric).
What burden rests on you today? A fretful child, an aging parent, a frustrating sin, a pain-filled marriage, a lingering illness? Lay it down. Your Lord, who has always loved you, will pick it up and carry it all through the day. He will do so, "because He cares for you!" (1 Peter 5:7).
And tomorrow? Well, you and I will need to do it all over again.
What Thou shalt today provide,
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What tomorrow may betide,
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'Tis enough that Thou wilt care,
Why should I the burden bear?
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Counterfeit currency is increasingly becoming a problem for small businesses and law enforcement agencies, and money counters can provide better protection against this risk. This is especially important because illegitimate bills only need to change hands once for the holder of the bill to lose the value of it.
A large amount of fake cash has been cropping up at garage sales in Kansas City, Missouri, according to local ABC affiliate KSPR. The article cited the example of one woman who runs a successful garage sale business in the city and is concerned about the increased counterfeiting because she only accepts cash payments. She never worried about lower denomination bills before, but Kansas City police have recovered $20 and $100 bills.
Some of these counterfeit bills can be detected with the naked eye, but some are more sophisticated, and business owners may not know they accepted fake money until they try to deposit it at the bank.
One of the methods of producing counterfeit currency is by washing the design and ink off smaller denomination bills and then re-printing it as a $50 or $100 bill, the article stated.
Money counters improve counterfeit detection
There are several different ways to detect illegitimate money. The Kansas City Police Department's Forgery unit advised business owners and people hosting garage sales to look for serial numbers, NBC affiliate KSHB reported. If a customer attempts to pay with two bills that have the same serial number, they are likely fake. Additionally, texture can be a giveaway because many amateur counterfeiters print fake bills on regular paper rather than the cloth-based kind used for legitimate bills.
In addition, the Kansas City police have advised individuals to purchase counterfeit detecting markers, which do not leave a mark when applied to to real money. The marker leaves discoloration when used on wood-based paper.
However, these tools only work to successfully detect counterfeit bills 40 to 50 percent of the time, which leaves business owners at risk. This is especially true when counterfeiters wash bills and reprint higher denominations on the same paper. Cash counters offer stronger protection against fake currency because they use industry-leading technology to read and record the serial numbers on bills at a rate of 1,200 bills per minute. This technology is becoming increasingly important as counterfeiting reports continue to pop up around the country.
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A 16-year-old Virginia girl who had been missing since Saturday night has returned home safe.
The Loudoun County Sheriff's Office asked for the public's help finding Jasmine P. Dunn, who is from the Ashburn area.
Dunn was last seen on Carson Court about 8:20 p.m. Saturday. She left of her own accord, authorities said.
Police thanked the public for sharing information on her disappearance.
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paulflexes saidMicrosoft will never compete with Apple till apps are just as plentiful and work just as well...which will probably never happen.But that's the thing.. There are two versions of Windows 8.. one that runs smartphone type of apps, and one that runs full desktop software that you already use on your computer.
SoloXCRacer saidI don't think M$ is looking to dethrone the iPad, but they certainly want a piece of the pie, like everyone else.
On the business side of things, I see this having potential for in-house LOB apps. Right now you have a cost associated with the development of an in-house app running on a desktop. If a company wants to make their app "mobile" on tablet devices, there's another cost there for that development, whether they choose Android or iOS. Writing that app for WinRT, you write the app once, and it will run on both Windows 8 RT tablet devices and Windows 8 desktops. Same code, same binaries, zero modification. You eliminate the cost associated with developing for multiple platforms. My company has already been writing proof of concept apps for clients in the banking, manufacturing, and oil & gas industries. Love them or hate them, there's good potential on the business side. On the consumer side.......that have some stiff competition.


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How and Why to Advertise Within Your Online Ordering System
Earning a profit from a restaurant takes a lot of hard work. Trends and statistics tell us that having a website is vital, especially a mobile-friendly one, so you create a website and enable online ordering. You've followed the advice of marketing experts and set up social media profiles, and maybe you even have a blog and post regularly on it. However, the one place you're hesitant to dive in is advertising. Maybe you don't have the budget, or maybe you're unsure where to start.
A marketing strategy doesn't have to cost a lot of money. In fact, if you already have a website set up, you can use your restaurant's site to keep your costs down. As your restaurant's digital storefront, your website is often the first interaction your potential customers have with your restaurant and menu offerings, so it's a great place to introduce items, promote new items, and build your email and phone database for future marketing efforts.
By utilizing your online ordering system, your restaurant can increase revenue even if the in-house seats are full. Advertising within your online ordering system can help you experience a lucrative income stream.
Try Something New
A big challenge of adding a new item to your restaurant's menu is getting people to try it. No matter how delicious it is, patrons often fear straying from what is familiar to them. Include mouth-watering photos of new menu items on your online ordering system to create a demand for them. Or, tease new items with a photo and an enticing description. You could hold a taste test with loyal patrons and get their reviews for new items, then include the rave reviews on your online ordering system to increase interest in the items. By enticing customers and creating interest and demand, you can promote new menu items without offering a discount.
Show Them What They Like
By using retargeting marketing, you can advertise food items that a customer has previously looked at or ordered. Show them something you know they like to entice them to order it. Or, show them something that goes great with what they are currently ordering as an upsell. For example, a side of fries for a sandwich, or a dessert for their dinner entree. Retargeting marketing does typically require code, so you may need someone to help you with this option.
Get Their Email
Don't let someone order on your restaurant's website without getting their email address. You can pose it as an exclusive email list that will give them first notice of specials, events, new menu items, and deals. Tips and tricks from your chef would make great email content, too. Make sure that when a customer gives you their email address, you give them something valuable in return, and this will help build customer loyalty.
In a survey conducted by the National Restaurant Association, 87% of consumers would order from a restaurant's website if they were given a savings offer. Email is one of the best and most cost effective ways to deliver special offers to your customers.
Get Their Phone Number
Text messages have high open rates, and over 90% of people read their messages within three minutes. Nearly 98% of smartphone users utilize their phones for texting. Based on these statistics, SMS marketing could be beneficial to your restaurant. Some ways to use SMS marketing are:
- Send coupons or special offers
- Promote special events
- Create a loyalty program
In order to take advantage of this type of marketing, though, you need your customer's phone numbers. Additionally, you need to have clear permission from your customers before using text messaging. Include text messaging sign ups in your online ordering system so customers have a chance to be on the list as they place their food order. You could include a check box during the checkout process that signifies they'd like to be on the list using the contact information they input for their order. Or, give them an incentive to sign up like a free drink with their order, or a discount on their next order.
While your in-house restaurant gets the foot traffic, and you may have a loyal customer base that revisits, your restaurant's website and online ordering system is an excellent place to market to customers. Use your online ordering system to offer specials, promote new menu items, and sign up customers for your email and phone number lists. You should also include links to your social media platforms on your website.
By offering online ordering, you are already helping your restaurant. You can benefit your restaurant even more by including advertising within your online ordering system.


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The first full week of the National Cutting Horse Association (NCHA) Summer Spectacular just wrapped up, but the competition is still in full swing. The Classic/Challenge Non-Pro brought 23 horse and rider combinations to the show pen, and only one came out with the Championship.
As the third draw, Stuart Bozeman and Dale Stallkamp-bred Checkers Live Oak (Im Countin Checks x Cats Live Oak x High Brow Cat) marked a 221, which ultimately earned them the Championship and $17,199.
"She [Checkers Live Oak] has gotten better and better since I've showed her, and I couldn't ask for more," Bozeman said.
Cody Hedlund and homebred stallion Meteles Cat (Metallic Cat x Teles Lies x Lenas Telesis) claimed the Reserve Championship and $15,736 after marking a 218.5 from the second set.
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'Nice Guys' is outrageous, raucous comedy
"The Sleazy Guys" should be the name of this funny, risqué romp instead of "The Nice Guys."
This R-rated film certainly deserves its rating in spades. There is nudity and language and lots of laughs. From the trailers, I was not looking forward to this movie at all. When I saw how disgustingly sleazy the two leads looked, I thought, "Oh, no, I want to go home." But almost immediately I got sucked into the action and fun.
Two slimy guys — one a private eye, Holland March (Academy Award-nominee Ryan Gosling) and an enforcer-for- hire, Jackson Healy (Academy Award-winner Russell Crowe) — investigate the death of a porn star, Misty Mountains (Murielle Telio) in 1970s Los Angeles with the help of March's daughter, Holly (Angourie Rice).
The chemistry between the lead actors is great and adds to the fun. Gosling's character smokes and drinks incessantly and Crowe has gained so much weight he looks unhealthy. Most importantly, the clothing style of the 1970s is bothersome at best. What were we thinking?
Matt Bomer is very good as villain John Boy. He was really creepy and reminded me of a Ted Bundy. In fact, I kept wondering who that guy was, then finally I realized who he was. The handsome Bomer usually plays the lead male, a good guy. Yaya DaCosta is Tally. Margaret Qualley plays Amelia Kuttner and Kim Basinger is Amelia's mother, Judith Kuttner.
I loved Rice. She is a fine young actress. This is her sixth movie and she is only 15. I see a great future for this young lady.
"The Nice Guys" was directed by Shane Black. The film was written by Black and Anthony Bagarozzi. Black is the father of the action movie. He wrote "Lethal Weapon" and "Lethal Weapon 2," although on LW2 he is credited only with the story because he wanted character Martin Riggs to die, and left the project when the studio said "no" because they wanted to continue the serial. For Marvel fans, Black also wrote and directed "Iron Man 3."
Although there is some rough language, it isn't constant. There is some total nudity. It is handled with humor, so not as offensive as it could be, but the movie is R-rated for a reason to warn those who might be offended.
"The Nice Guys" opens Friday at AMC Showplace Edwardsville 12.
The Telegraph's contributing movie/theater critic Mary Cox lives in Wood River, who also reviews local productions such as theater and movies by local filmmakers. Cox studied film at the University of California, Los Angeles, and worked in L.A. with various directors and industry professionals. She can be reached at email@example.com. Visit Mary's website at www.mlcwriter.com.


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US , UK , Australia & Canada Refuse To Sign UN's Communications Treaty
" The US, Canada, Australia and UK have refused to sign an international communications treaty at an conference in Dubai.
The countries had objected to calls for all states to have equal rights to the governance of the internet.
But the breaking point was the addition of text relating to "human rights".
It marks a setback for the UN's International Telecommunication Union (ITU) which had said it was sure it could deliver consensus.
"It's with a heavy heart and a sense of missed opportunities that the US must communicate that it's not able to sign the agreement in the current form," said Terry Kramer the US ambassador to the World Conference on International Telecommunications (Wcit).
"The internet has given the world unimaginable economic and social benefit during these past 24 years."
Negotiators from Denmark, Italy, the Czech Republic, Sweden, Greece, Portugal, Finland, Chile, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Costa Rica and Kenya have said they would need to consult with their national governments about how to proceed and would also not be able to sign the treaty as planned on Friday."
Related articles
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- U.S., U.K. And Canada Refuse To Sign U.N. Internet Treaty In Dubai (fastcompany.com)
- Internet remains unregulated after UN treaty blocked (guardian.co.uk)
- U.N. summit implodes as U.S., others spurn Internet treaty (news.cnet.com)
- US and Most Western Countries Refuse to Sign ITU Treaty over Internet Control Issues (news.softpedia.com)
- US walks on democratic WCIT treaty (go.theregister.com)


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Heather Choate Davis is a new virtual friend of mine. We "met" last summer when I was considering taking on a medical writing project for a new client: writing a packet of information for parents of children with brain tumors. It felt daunting and sobering. Years ago I had read the classic memoir by John Gunther, Death Be Not Proud, about his son's illness and death, but I needed more insight into the parental experience. I went to Amazon and put in some combination of the search terms: memoir child brain tumor. I narrowed the results to what was available on Kindle, because I needed it fast and was going away for the Fourth of July weekend. Up popped Heather Choate Davis's memoir, Baptism by Fire, about her experience of her daughter's brain tumor. It's also a story of coming to faith. I loaded it onto my Kindle and went out of town, reading it in the car, lakeside, and amidst holiday sparklers and barbecuing. I had a hard time putting it down.
After finishing the book, I looked up Heather online and from her website saw that we had some things in common, such as the Glen Workshop experience, and so I sent her an email telling her I loved her book and was happy to find her work. She wrote back, and we found each other to be kindred spirits.
Heather's latest book is happy are those: ancient wisdom for modern life. I had the privilege of reading an advance copy of the manuscript and loved it. It's a meditation on the first psalm, the one that starts with "happy are those who…." I've read that psalm more times than I can count, but this was an experience of hearing it new. The book is small and a pleasure to hold - it really is no longer than a pen. Its layout and structure moves you forward bit by bit almost without you realizing how broad and deep an understanding of wisdom it's building from the first page to the last. So much wisdom! I love its gentle and peaceful tone.
Awhile back I wrote a blog post about a young woman who came to see me and told me that it seemed like there were no adults around and life was so chaotic, inside and out. Reading Heather's manuscript brought that blog post to mind and made me think: this book is like having a grown-up present; this book can speak calm hope and order into lives that often feel confusing and chaotic.
I asked Heather a few questions about happy are those, and here's what she had to say.
I wanted happy are those to feel really fresh and light and unintimidating—something you could put in your purse or backpack or even back pocket. And just in the first weeks of the release I've seen this to be true. People love the color and the cover, which really draws them in. And then when they pick it up they get sort of a child-on-Christmas-morning look as they thumb through it and see how short it is and how much white space there is, and they think, "this is a book I could actually read!"
I think it also helps that the psalms are sung prayer-poems, an idea which resonates with many in the new creative economy. They are also part of world's trove of "wisdom literature," which is a more compelling, less fraught source than other parts of Scripture. The fact that the first psalm is also known as The Two Ways of Living speaks to clarity and simplicity of message, as well.
Ultimately, I hope they walk away from the book knowing that they do not have to live with this incessant pressure to perform, compete, and self-actualize. To know that who they were meant to be is already more than they could ever dream of. And happy are those who are willing to receive the gift of knowing just that.


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On Monday February 25th, John Quinlan and Norm Stockwell hosted a show celebrating the life of US Presidential nominee George McGovern and his lifelong friendship with Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson. They spoke to Bill Kristofferson, author of "The Man from Clear Lake: Earth Day Founder Senator Gaylord Nelson" as well as Nelson's daughter Tia Nelson.
According to the New York Times piece written shortly after McGovern's death, "George McGovern Dies at 90, a Liberal Trounced but Never Silenced:"
"To the liberal Democratic faithful, Mr. McGovern remained a standard-bearer well into his old age, writing and lecturing even as his name was routinely invoked by conservatives as synonymous with what they considered the failures of liberal politics.
He never retreated from those ideals, however, insisting on a strong, "progressive" federal government to protect the vulnerable and expand economic opportunity, while asserting that history would prove him correct in his opposing not only what he called 'the tragically mistaken American war in Vietnam' but also the American invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan…
Mr. McGovern remained a voice in public affairs, notably in 2008, when, in an op-ed article in The Washington Post, he called for the impeachment of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for their prosecution of the war in Iraq.
He published books regularly, on history, the environment and other subjects. In "Out of Iraq" (2006), written with William R. Polk, he argued for a phased withdrawal from Iraq, to end in 2007. In his final book, "What It Means to Be a Democrat," released last November, he despairs of an "insidious" political atmosphere in Washington while trying to rally Democrats against "extremism" in the Republican ranks."
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Have you ever wondered which types of contracts must be in writing to make sure you get the benefit of your bargain? All of the U.S. states have some form of what is known as the "Statute of Frauds." Under this law, or laws, some contracts must be in writing to be enforceable.
The Statute of Frauds originated in England in the 1600s. As its name suggests, the law was designed to prevent people from defrauding each other by claiming the benefit of nonexistent contracts. From this standpoint, the Statute of Frauds serves a very important public purpose.
The vast majority of contracts can be made orally, with no written component. There are certain types of contracts, however, which must be in writing to be enforceable. Common examples of contracts that must be written are land contracts, contracts for goods valued at $500 or more, and contracts to be responsible for the debt of another person.
Land Contracts
One of the most common examples of a contract that must be in writing is a contract relating to the sale of an interest in land. This includes contracts to sell or buy land or mineral rights in land, as well as mortgage contracts and options to purchase real estate. Most states, however, have an exception for leases that are shorter than one year.
Goods in Excess of $500
The Uniform Commercial Code has been adopted by most states in some form, which provides that contracts or sales of goods in the amount of $500 or more must be in writing. There are only a few exceptions to this rule, which usually involve goods that have already been accepted by the buyer, goods for which a partial payment has been made, and contracts to manufacture specialty goods.
Contracts to Be Responsible for Someone Else's Debt
When a person promises a creditor that he or she will be responsible for someone else's debt, this is known as a suretyship. Suretyships are a third example of contracts that must be in writing to be enforceable. However, if the person makes the promise to the debtor rather than the creditor, the Statute of Frauds does not apply. Also, if the person takes primary responsibility to repay the debt, the Statute of Frauds does not apply.
What type of writing is required? The statute of frauds usually does not require the contract to be highly technical or formal. Instead, any writing will do if it includes the names of the parties, the contract's subject matter, and the basic conditions of the agreement. Also, keep in mind, a person cannot be held responsible for a written contract if he or she did not sign it.
From vendor agreements to purchase agreements, from leases to independent contractor agreements, contracts are a part of everyday business life. It is important to make sure your contracts are valid, enforceable, and protecting you like they should.
Because the Statute of Frauds varies from state to state, you should obtain advice about your contracts from an experienced lawyer licensed in the state in which you do business. One of the services we provide is a comprehensive contract review, and this review can help you get paid more often, more easily and bring in more money for your business.


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Ten undergraduates from the Tierra Seca Club participated in the Undergraduate Range Management Exam (URME) at the 66th Annual Society for Range Management Meeting in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on February 4, 2013. The University of Arizona's URME Team placed 4th overall among 24 competing schools from across North America. Ms. Kelsey Hawkes was the top finisher from the University of Arizona placing 5th individually among 219 URME contestants. The URME Team is coached by Dr. Larry Howery and team members are Keith Arnold, Erin Boyd, Beth Freniere, Kelsey Hawkes, Megan Hurrell, J. C. McDonald, Andrew Ramirez, Alanna Riggs, Stephen Tham, and Eric Wagner (see photo). Scoring in the top 10% of all URME students automatically qualifies URME contestants to apply for Certified Professional of Range Management (CPRM) status. Hawkes (top 2%) and Riggs (top 6%) both met this stringent criterion. The purpose of the SRM-sanctioned CPRM program is "To certify individuals who have the professional credentials required to plan and implement sound management of rangelands as a means of improving the standards of professional expertise used in managing public and private rangelands."
Tierra Seca is the University of Arizona Student Chapter of the International Society for Range Management (SRM). Dr. Mitch McClaran serves as Tierra Seca student advisor. Students raised funds for their travel through contracted data entry and fieldwork for the Pima National Resource Conservation District, through t-shirt sales, processing and scanning samples on a mule deer diet quality study at the V Bar V Ranch, and by assisting the AZ Section of the SRM with their Summer 2012 meeting. They also received donations from the School of Natural Resources and the Environment (SNRE), the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) Alumni Association, and from the Phil Ogden Endowment. Additionally, the students received donations at the Research Insights for Semiarid Ecosystems (RISE) Symposium in 2012, as well as from a variety of private individuals.
Congratulations to these folks for their hard work and dedication to SRM and for the many contributions of Tierra Seca to SRM and SNRE.
Photo: (L-R) – Andrew Ramirez, Kelsey Hawkes, Erin Boyd, Gary Frasier (SRM President), Eric Wagner, Stephen Tham, Keith Arnold, J. C. McDonald, Megan Hurrell, Alanna Riggs, and Beth Freniere. Hawkes, Boyd, Arnold, Riggs, and Freniere are returning members from the 2012 URME Team which also received team and individual awards in Spokane, WA.


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The Community Placement Program is part of the Foundations of Clinical Practice (FCP) unit for first-year medical students.
The Foundations of Clinical Practice unit provides a holistic view of health, particularly for vulnerable populations, for example:
This unit also focuses on:
The aim of the Community Placement Program is to supplement classroom learning with opportunities to observe the way health professionals communicate and provide care for their clients/patients in a community setting.
Because first-year medical students, clinical knowledge and skills are limited, the focus of the Community Placement Program is on observing the work of health professionals.
This may be in a range of settings, such as community clinics, schools, clients' homes, outpatient or agency-based programs.
It may also include health education and health promotion activities delivered in a one-to-one or group setting.
Students are placed with a health agency for a total of 12 to 15 hours, usually over a two-day period during the first semester.
During this time, students observe the work of health professionals in the work environment.
Following placement, students complete a community placement report based on their experiences and observation.
Students also give an oral presentation to their tutorial group and complete a short evaluation survey.