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Video: Max's First Year
Since Max turned one last week, I made a poignant video of poignancy showing him growing up over the past year.
Since Max turned one last week, I made a poignant video of poignancy showing him growing up over the past year.
I used to eat food. I still do, but I used to, too.
You have probably heard of Soylent, the liquid meal replacement where you can conveniently get all your balanced nutrients by just drinking liquid Silicon Valley. I mean, you've already outsourced all your other chores to my fellow startups–don't you want to save another two hours per day and eliminate all superfluities?
No? Yes? Well, it's not for everyone, but I sure would like more time for my important stuff, and I've already eaten food tons of times. Plus, if I can have my default meal be a healthy one, I'll sacrifice extra tastiness (which is why I don't eat dessert). I'm in. Forget eating! Yet...
I like Soylent, but it takes a lot of trust in nutrition science to say, "Let's just combine a bunch of individual micronutrients that match the recommended daily allowances, since those are exactly what all humans need, right?" Never mind that some of the RDAs were established by a handful of weak studies–you still have to believe that not only did we get the nutrient levels right, but that those nutrients are all you need, and that they work in isolation, in the specific forms that are included in your Science Drink (which may not be bioavailable or bioequivalent).
Baby Max is four months old today. I posted when he was one month, talking about what a difficult little demon he was, but after eight weeks he magically changed overnight into the sweetest baby ever! We were so surprised the first time he slept 7.5 hours straight instead of waking up every 3 hours, we kept waking up anyway just to go stare at him. "Maybe there's something wrong with him!" But he kept doing it, and now he sleeps from around 8pm to 4:30am every night, wakes up to feed, then goes back to sleep until around 7:30am. It is amazing. And where before he cried a lot, always seemed unhappy, and didn't even know how to smile, now he generally loves everything and will smile his head off if you just look at him.
Here are some more surprises from the first four months of Max.
1. He loves "reading" books.
I had thought that before he could read or understand words, or even be able to visually recognize cartoons of things, he would get bored when I read to him. But even from the beginning, books held his attention and excited him. Thanks for all the books, everyone (but especially Mom)!
When Chloe and I were trying to come up with baby names, every conversation would go something like this:
Chloe: "New baby name idea: Katana."
Nick: "How do you spell that?"
Chloe: "Like a katana, duh!"
Nick: "People don't know how to spell that."
We have reproduced! Max is one month old now. Here's his birth announcement photo, where he looks adorable:
Apart from when he's asleep, this is what he looks like most of the time, though:
I am proud to have spawned a baby infant:
I always love it when people share revenue data for their apps / games / books / works, and it's been two years since The Motivation Hacker came out, so here's another updated graph of ebook sales by platform including the second year. (See also First Year Book Sales, Aftermath: The Motivation Hacker, and Fourth Year Book Sales)
Sales again have fallen off more slowly than I expected, although it's finally getting quiet now, down to about two sales a day in March. In total, it's up to 4102 copies, or around 60x how many I was expecting. Cool!
Total reviews climbed from 124 to 275, and sentiment ebbed from 4.5 stars on Amazon to 4.4, and from 3.90 to 3.85 on Goodreads.
At $2.99, I've kept the book as cheap as possible while still in Amazon's 70% royalty split bucket, and I did similarly with the new CreateSpace paperback ($7.99). The total royalties are around $9065.42, bringing my effective hourly rate up to $43.31.
When I was a kid, I didn't work. I got a tiny allowance ($5 per week, or maybe per month), and every now and then I'd age or undergo a holiday, so friendly relatives would send me money. But the only things I wanted to buy were desktop computer parts and video games, and I easily saved enough money for those. Parents took care of everything else–thanks parents!
Later, I was a college student. Sometimes I wanted to buy Chinese food, but that's about it; I still had roughly no spending. (Apart from how expensive school was, but again, I mooched from parents and scholarships–thanks parents!). Still, I felt like I should earn money, so first I worked as a dishwasher for around $8 an hour, and then as an inept ResEd student web developer for maybe $9.50 an hour. Suddenly the savings I had slowly built from that $5 per week allowance seemed meaningless.
Still feeling like I should be doing something career-related, I nepotised into a co-op preprofessional software engineer summer job at IBM. (Thanks Dad!) That was $20 an hour, full-time, with overtime even! After a few months of that, I came back to that student web developer job and realized I didn't care about it at all–I'd written more than my share of abominable Perl forms, and with $13,000 in my bank account, why would I want to get paid $9.50 an hour to write more of them when I had better things to do? I helped them hire a younger minion and lounged around on my coins. The money I had made from the web developer job also never mattered.
After college, George, Scott, and I started Skritter, and apart from rent ($300/mo) and food ($6/day), I had a few other small expenses (lasers, bowie knives, whips, etc.), but really, life was cheap. Skritter survived at first off of the entrepreneurship grant our school gave us (more mooching). I was finally glad I had made some money at IBM, because those savings kept me out of debt until Skritter could slowly become profitable. I could also calculate utility and buy a few things, like a sick office chair and some large computer monitors–they were like like three cents per hour of use!
Across several years of working on Skritter and moves to Costa Rica, Pittsburgh, and Sunnyvale, revenues grew, but my spending habits didn't change–I was still living like a kid who occasionally needed to eat something or upgrade his computer. If I had to buy something, I'd buy the cheap thing—I mean, you gotta save money, right?
It's that time again where I become a better person. Help me out, would ya? Follow this link to give me anonymous admonishments:
Tell me what I suck at, or if I treated you poorly, or if noticed me not being awesome when I could have been. But don't include personally identifying details, so I don't know it's you! (Well, you can if you really want–I promise I will appreciate instead of resenting anything you tell me.)
Even if you don't have any admonishments because of my stunning perfection, you can still troll me; that'd be fun, right?
Here are some of the posts I want to write: experiential sampling tools, the butter eating competition story, experiments with Chinese reading rates, cognitive testing to measure aging, infant taste hacking, hiring a fashion consultant, algorithmically ranking baby names, that time my goblin killed an elder blue dragon, writing audience stats, and why pigs with dogs for feet are the greatest animals.
But instead of writing those, I'm just working really hard (alongside Scott, George, Matt, Michael, our artists and designers, and our open source contributors) on CodeCombat, which is getting really good as we get close to December's Hour of Code and the completion of our new beginner learn-to-code offering and iPad app. This is fun, but it doesn't leave much time for cool, effortful blog posts. So here's a quick one saying what's up, since a friend mentioned that it is hard to tell what I'm doing when I don't say what I'm doing.
Besides hacking, Chloe and I (and CodeCombat) moved into a sweet new apartment/office which is actually big enough for both purposes instead of too small for either. It's still in San Francisco, in SoMa, right next to the ball park. It was surreal and amusing to watch the riots going on outside our window when the local baseball team won the global baseball tournament.
Skritter is continuing to do well in the hands of its team, whereas George, Scott, and I are happily obsolete. The guys released an Android app last month.
I'm eating a lot of MealSquares, and they are still great, saving me a ton of time. Try a box.
There's a thought experiment people use when they think about possible future technologies like teleportation and cryonics and brain uploading, about going into a teleportation machine that copies you and deletes the original. Is it still you? What if the original isn't deleted–are both you? Or if you get your brain reconstructed in two hundreds years after you die–still you? Or if you transition your brain from decaying organic matter to a machine that reproduces it exactly?
Turns out that yes, duh, it's still you (except maybe in that last case; creepy story!). Even if there is a time delay in the teleportation, or even if the copy isn't deleted. Which one is the original? They both are.
So sure, use the teleporter or become a computer, whatever. What I actually want to write about is what you would do if you could actually make a copy of yourself, right now. In this hypothetical scenario, no one else can do it, and it doesn't cost anything, just five minutes. I'll call them clones, but they're not babies–they have all of your experiences up until the moment of copying. And I'll call you the original, but you might as well think of it as becoming the copy yourself, because there is no original/copy–there are just two of you now (and let's say the cloning machine spins, so you can't even tell which one "was" the original). You can make as many as you want, and your clones can make clones.
Would you do it, and if so, how would you deal with becoming multiple?


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On Nov. 6, 2018, the City of LaPorte will launch its first-ever Quick Response Team (QRT). The QRT program will be deployed throughout the city in response to a high volume of drug overdose 9-1-1 calls.
The QRT is an outreach team comprised of a LaPorte police officer, a medic from the LaPorte Fire Department, and treatment counselors from Frontline Foundations. Within 72 hours of an overdose, this team will visit the individual struggling and connect them with the resources they need. Frontline's treatment counselors will work one-on-one to help these individuals connect with treatment programs.
"Our team is comprised of some of our city's finest first responders and expert treatment counselors who can reach out to our friends and neighbors in crisis and help them take the first step in getting help. We have found that most people in these situations don't even know where to begin. In this case, we can go to them, listen, and help them take the first step," said Christine Michiaels, Frontline's Quick Response Team coordinator.
Amber Hensell, executive director of Frontline Foundations, added, "That 72-hour window is a critical time and can be the difference between life and death. We cannot sit and wait for people to come to us. We want to go to these people and help pull them from the despair they might feel trapped in. We want them to know that addiction doesn't have to be a life sentence. There is hope."
The goal of piloting the QRT team in LaPorte is to reduce overdoses, increase the number of people getting the treatment they need, and to make sure that these individuals and their families understand that someone out there knows and cares. Additionally, this is a system that has been proven effective. In Summit County, Ohio, where the QRT program was previously piloted, they experienced an 80% success rate in getting individuals into treatment and a 30% reduction in opioid-related overdoses.
"It is important for people to understand what the QRT is. We don't want anyone to fear the Quick Response Team. We are not there to make arrests. We are there to help. We are the first responders who respond to these tragic overdose situations, and a lot of times, we don't even know what happens to these individuals. We are honored to have the opportunity to be a part of the QRT so that we can go back and say, 'You aren't alone. We can help you now, so we don't have to see you again with a tragic outcome,'" said LaPorte Police Chief Tom Owens.
Mayor Mark Krentz also shared his hopes for the impact QRT could have in LaPorte. "I am extremely hopeful that our Quick Response Team will make a real impact on the drug epidemic in our community. I hope this new approach helps reinforce the message that we care about our community and that we are always looking for ways to support those who are struggling."
Frontline Foundations is a nonprofit that serves as a source of hope to men and women suffering from drug and alcohol abuse by providing an effective treatment and recovery support system. For more information, visit FrontlineFoundations.com.

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Interesting post by Dan Farber on the first 10 years of blogging and the wonderful and equally frustrating impact it has had. In April, Dave Winer will celebrate 10 years of blogging, which was the impetus for the article. Dave was the first blogger I ever read and I actually launched Leave It Behind officially on April 1, 2004 because I thought my blog should share a birth date with the site that inspired me.
Blogging is a democratizing force on a large scale; the tools of production for personal expression are in the hands of the masses.
Farber estimates "about 70 million blogs have been created–tens of thousands per day sprout up." More and more, I'm coming across people who are starting blogs or moving their blog in a new direction after reading The Blogging Church. It's an honor to play a small part in new people joining the conversation. Doug Dale wrote:
Reading Brian Bailey's book The Blogging Church was my inspiration. It helped me with some of the "how" of blogging, but more importantly it helped me with the "why". If I can keep the "why" in mind, I think my blogging experience can be more of what I had hoped for.
Check out the book, particularly if you are involved in church leadership, and learn how blogging can be one more tool to communicate with people both inside and outside your church.
Stop by Doug's site and say hello. Here are a few other links to recent reviews and comments:
Evan Erwin - "The book covers pretty much every major blogging issue that there is to talk about." Evan also writes about something he felt wasn't emphasized enough in the book and what to do about it (disclaimer: Evan is in the book).
Thomas Duff - "This is an extremely well-written book, with far-reaching implications to your ministry. For anyone who is serious about using every available means to extend your outreach, this is a must-read book."
Lori Boucher - Includes the three points she found most helpful.


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A Cup a day the Buena Vista Way
Waking up to the smell of fresh coffee is the only way for me to start my day. When we found out about El Cafetal, an organic coffee farm and in the lowlands of where you can stay, drink coffee and relax overlooking the Amboro National Park, we had to go and see for ourselves. … Continue reading
Organic Farming in San Juan – Part II
For every six days on the farm, you're entitled to a day off. Since we hadn't been to the big city yet, we decided to spend ours in San Juan. San Juan is the capital of the Province bearing the same name and with a population of approximately 120,000 people it's not exactly the most … Continue reading
Organic Farming in the Desert of San Juan – Part I
They say the second time's a charm, and it rings true for our Argentinean farming experience. From our first experience at the farm in Tunuyán, we were almost ready to pack up, head south and then leave Argentina, a month before planned. Then we met two French girls in Mendoza who had told us about … Continue reading
Farmhouse Fun
A few weeks in a traditional-looking stone farmhouse set among rows and rows of apple trees with a backdrop of snowy mountains sounds like a great way to spend some time working and learning about the way of life for many Argentine farmers. At least that is what we had thought. We had signed up … Continue reading


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His Excellency Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabbah
President of the Republic of Sierra Leone
State House
Freetown, Sierra Leone
November 4, 2005
Dear Mr. President:
Almost a year ago, I issued a statement concerning the case between you as National Leader of the Republic of Sierra Leone and Paul Kamara, Journalist and Human rights activist in Sierra Leone. The statement I issued was an appeal to you to use your good offices to have Paul Kamara released from prison where he has languished for over a year now for ?libeling' you.
Mr. President, I know you personally to being a leader with the capacity of executing righteous judgment. I do understand, however, that as a national leader, sometimes it becomes necessary to surround yourself with "advisers" who may claim to be your eyes and ears. In the case with Paul Kamara, Mr. President, I strongly believe that who ever advised you to take Kamara to court, created for you one of the most politically compromising positions of your leadership.
Here is my reason: As a sitting president of this Republic, you should have had a second thought at your decision or the advice of any of your advisers to take your own citizen to court for libel, as long as the action of that citizen was not treasonable. Today, you are the father of this nation; the big brother we all should run to for protection. You have become an elderly Statesman.
In Africa, it is said often that the big ones in a family are considered the dumpsters in which every one throws his trash. All that means in Africa, Mr. President, is that once one obtains the status of elderliness, the attribute of tolerance comes to play.
Imagine, Mr. President, if all of us five million Sierra Leoneans levied the same accusation on you as Kamara did. Would you sue every one of us?
You see, Mr. President, some us in politics today have had to learn from elders like you that some of the greatest attributes of national leadership are, tolerance, patience, forgiveness and forbearance.
An American clergy named William Swan Plumer (1802-1880) once said, "A leader that defies temptation to act impulsively may live to bear the everyday trials and annoyances of life quietly and calmly, and then, when calamity comes, his strength will not forsake him."
Mr. President, you might have been hurt by what Paul Kamara wrote about you in his newspaper.
Nevertheless, you are already The President, and you are Paul Kamara's President. No matter what rights you have Mr. President, it may not go down well in history for you, as a sitting president, to take your own citizen to court for writing something about you that may not be true.
You worked hard to bring peace to our nation. You lobbied the international community to come to the aid of Sierra Leone after the war. These are legacies you must guard with passion, Mr. President. Do not allow these so-called advisers to be misguiding you to take actions against your own people – the people that you took the oath to protect and defend. You may have many of these advisers around you. However, Mr. President, remember that it is not the quantity of advisers around you that matter. It is the quality of their advice that makes the difference.
Once again, Mr. president, I take this public position to beg that you consider the significance of your office and invoke the leadership qualities of tolerance, patience, forgiveness and forbearance and have Paul Kamara unconditionally released from prison before Christmas this year. You will make his day, and the day of all those that have lobbied you for his release.
Until then, Mr. President, Ramadan Mubarak.
Mohamed Yahya Sillah
Leader and National Chairman
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Scam Signature Message: BBC News – Everyone do check what she did on cam
Scam Type: Survey Scam, Rogue Application, Photo-Tagging Exploit
Trending: April 2011
Why it's a Scam:
This is another BBC scam taking advantage of Facebook's photo-tagging exploit.
Clicking the goo.gl link takes you to the following Facebook application installation screen:
If you agree to install the "newsb" application you must agree to give the application developer full access to your basic information, the right to post to your wall, the right to access your data at any time and access to your photos and videos. Allowing this access gives them permission to spam your wall and tag your friends with their scam message. You should never give a third party application this much access unless you are 100% sure of their intentions and authenticity.
This scam is using multiple bit.ly and goo.gl links and multiple Facebook application names.
Once you click on the "Allow", you are taken to the following page:
Here we see the end game of a typical Facebook Survey Scam. Each time someone completes a survey, the scam creator gets a commission. The scam creator will possibly have your personal information to do you harm. (depending on the information you submitted in the survey) If you downloaded any games or other files then your computer could be infecting with a virus, trojan or other malware. Never download files from scams like this!
How to Deal with the Scam:
If you did make the mistake of installing the application and passing the link onto your friends, you should clean-up your newsfeed and profile to remove references to the application (click the "x" in the top right hand corner of the post).You also need to access your privacy settings and remove the application from your list of approved Facebook applications. (Account/ Privacy Settings/ Applications and Websites.)
If you made the mistake of submitting your cell phone number for any of the surveys, then you should contact your carrier immediately to keep any bogus charges from appearing.
If you or your Facebook friends are falling for tricks like this, it's time to get yourself informed of the latest threats. Be sure to join the Facecrooks page on Facebook to be kept informed of the latest security issues. Also check out:
Your Ultimate Guide to Facebook Scams and How to Deal with Them
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Regd No:35356/1999 Under Act XXI of 1680 The Society for unity of people.
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
"No Clinical Trials of 157 NCEs till further order & 5 NCEs after proper mechanisms put in place" - Supreme Court
October 21st, New Delhi : 8th hearing of the writ petition filed by Swasthya Adhikar Manch took place today before the bench of the Supreme Court consisting of Justice R.M Lodha and Justice S.K. Singh. The case was filed in February, 2012 and the last hearing was held on 30th September, 2013.
The Hon'ble Supreme Court raised serious concerns over 162 clinical trials of Global Clinical Trial (GCT) including New Chemical Entities (NCEs) / New Molecule Entities (NMEs) out of which 157 were approved before 31st December 2012 and 5 between January to August 2013. In the Court it was admitted by Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MOHFW) and representative of Drug controller General of India (DCGI) that 157 clinical trials were approved by DCGI on recommendations of New Drug Advisory Committee (NDAC) and without the approval of Apex and Technical Committee formed after order of Court dated 3rd January 2013. The Hon'ble Supreme Court have ordered GoI to reexamine 157 GCT including NCEs by Apex and Technical Committees. Therefore, now Apex and technical committee will have to evaluate these 157 clinical trials particularly in terms of - assessment of risk vs. benefits for patients, innovations to existing therapeutic options and benefits to medical needs of the country. It is only after the assessment of apex and technical committee that the question of commencement of 157 approval will be considered. In case of remaining 5 clinical trials which have been approved in 2013, the Hon'ble Supreme Court ordered MOHFW to conduct it only after ensuring proper mechanism & procedure to ensure safety of the patients along with audio-visual recording of participants maintaining principle of confidentially and preservation of documentation. The Hon'ble Supreme Court also raised its concern that there is no checks and balance in the frame work where investigators are paid by sponsors and ethics committees are part of hospital with absence of proper mechanism to ensure patients safety.
Mr. Sanjay Parikh Senior Counsel for Swasthya Adhikar Manch argued and highlighted the facts in relation to NCEs/NMEs and asked the government to come out with a position paper on how these NCEs/NMEs will be in public and national interest. The Hon'ble Supreme Court also then inquired that out of 162 trials, how many molecules are patented outside country and benefiting MNCs instead of development of new drug for which learned Additional Solicitor General was unable to respond. Mr. Parikh also pointed out contradictions in data given in affidavit filed by MOHFW dated 26th July 2013 wherein it was stated that only 26 GCT were approved while in current affidavit of 18th October 2013, it is stated that only 5 trials are approved after 3rd January 2013 by the apex and the technical committee.
The petitioner asked the MOHFW to provide details of 162 approved clinical trials- Name of molecule, indication, name of sponsor, protocol, sites, number of subjects, name of investigators and minutes of NDAC, apex and technical committee meetings. The petitioner also raised serious concerns about Ranjit Roy Chaudhry Expert Committee report on issues like conflict of interest etc. The Ranjit Roy Committee also was not able to explain benefits to India by allowing NCEs/NMEs testing within the country.
The petitioners have been raising the issue of how NCEs/NMEs are benefiting MNCs at the cost of human life in India. The next hearing is scheduled on 16th December 2013.
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50th Hero Indian Open at Delhi Golf Club
· Golden Jubilee edition to be played from November 7-10
· PGA Tour winner Michael Thompson and European Tour winner Robert Rock confirm participation
· Atwal, Randhawa and four other previous Indian winners lead Indian challenge
New Delhi, October 21: A star-studded field will tee off at the Delhi Golf Club to mark the Golden Jubilee of the historic Hero Indian Open on November 7. The event, which will be preceded by a Pro-Am on November 6, will carry a purse of US $ 1.25 million.
Returning to the place of its birth in 1964, the Hero Indian Open will once again see a plethora of champions and international stars line up for what will be a momentous occasion in Indian golf.
Though there is still more than two weeks for the tournament to happen, the list of early entries and confirmations indicate a very strong line-up including the likes of PGA Tour winner, American Michael Thompson, who achieved a breakthrough win at the Palm Beach event in Florida. Then there is multiple European Tour winner, Robert Rock, whose resume includes a stunning win over a field featuring Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy at the 2012 Abu Dhabi Classic.
As is only befitting the 50th edition of the tournament will see a very strong Indian challenge, which blends youth with experience. Former Indian Open winners like Arjun Atwal, also the only Indian player to taste victory on the famed PGA Tour, returns to his National Open, as does Jyoti Randhawa, one of the only two players to win the Indian Open three times in their career – the other one is five-time British Open champion Peter Thomson, who also played a big role in helping establish the Indian Open in 1960s.
Four other Indian winners, C Muniyappa (2009), Vijay Kumar (2002), Feroze Ali (1998) and Ali Sher (1991 and 1993) will add to the charm of the historic staging.
Mr. Pawan Munjal, Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Hero MotoCorp Ltd., said, "Hero has been associated with golf since the time the game was at a nascent stage in the country. It is, therefore, a matter of immense delight to see this event celebrating its Golden Jubilee this year. Hero has been a partner in this glorious journey of golf and like always, we remain committed to the promotion of the game in India. I am looking forward to some memorable golf at this landmark edition of Hero Indian Open."
Only seven Indians have won the National Open, of which the first PG Billoo Sethi (winner in 1965) passed away in 1982. The remaining six will be seen in action at the DGC this year.
While the past champions savour and relive their finest moments, the youth brigade led by four-time Asian Tour winner, Gaganjeet Bhullar, three-time Asian Tour winner, Anirban Lahiri and other winners like SSP Chowrasia, Shiv Kapur, Himmat Rai and Digvijay Singh will also fancy their chances at the legendary and challenging layout at the Delhi Golf Club.
Adding to their confidence will be the fact that Chowrasia, Lahiri and Digvijay have tasted international success at the DGC.
"The Asian Tour is proud to be associated with the 50th edition of the Hero Indian Open. The Asian Tour is also celebrating its 10th season in 2013 and on behalf of our talented players, I would like to congratulate the Hero Indian Open on its milestone," said Asian Tour CEO Mike Kerr.
He further added, "The Hero Indian Open has been one of the longest running tournaments on our Schedule and the event has attracted many top golfers in India as well as from across the world. I'm confident the 2013 Hero Indian Open will be celebrated by the presence of the Asian Tour's stellar stars including defending champion Thaworn."
Gen. Bikram Singh, President, Indian Golf Union said, "It is a momentous occasion for the Indian Open Golf Championship that started it's journey in the year 1964 at this very venue, to be back again on the same course having traversed fifty long years in the company of some of the most illustrious golfers of their time. The pace was set by the likes of Peter Thomson who not only won the event three times here but later went on to win the Open Championship five times. I am sure that winning the Indian Open will remain an ambition with many golfers, especially in India, it being one of the most prestigious events on the Asian Tour. We are extremely grateful to all our stake holders who have ensured the successful conduct of the tournament over the years and especially
to the present title sponsors, Hero Moto Corp Ltd, for ensuring the grandeur of this year's event against the historic setting of the Delhi Golf Club."
Basking in his glory amidst the celebrations will be Ali Sher, who recalled, "I have great memories of that day, when I won the Indian Open at this very club. That changed my life and career. It's is indeed a historic occasion to be playing in the 50th edition of the Hero Indian Open."
Mr. Sunil Manocha, Chief Operating Officer of Nimbus Sport, added, "The Hero Indian Open is very close to the hearts of every Indian golfer and fans of the sport. As promoters of this historic event, we are extremely pleased with the line-up of star golfers from India and around the world who have confirmed participation for the fiftieth edition of the Hero Indian Open. I am confident of this edition of the tournament being nothing less than a jubilant celebration of golf in India."
In another piece of great news for golf fans in the country, Ten Sports Network, will telecast live all the action straight from the fairways of the Delhi Golf Club on all four days.
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I played a lengthly session the other day with some potential new band mates. I used the Lead channel a lot, we probably played for 3 hours.
I played the Sig yesterday (last time played was Saturday), and after about maybe 10 minutes the amp kind of lost power and I got no signal. After looking at the manual, I saw that it suggested checking the DC fuse if you get no sound. I did, and sure enough the fuse was blown.
I went to Radioshack and got some 1Amp 250V Fast-Acting fuses. Put one in, amp worked and I was back to playing and then after 5-10 minutes, the same thing happened; blown fuse.
After thing the manual mentioned was to check the tubes for any failures. I noticed that when in Low Power mode, there was a little bit of humming. I took the tube out and examined it - I don't have a tester, but I got a used but tested good 5u4g from my amp tech.
I took the chassis out, popped in the new tube, biased the amp and played it for about 15 minutes or so and then the fuse blew again.
Any thoughts? I contacted tech support but no response thus far.
I already had to send my Sig down to Fryette not too long ago and I really don't want to have to do that again.


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California Examines 'Never Events' At Hospitals; La. Seeks Funding For Primary Care Clinics; Texas Trims Children's Health Program
San Francisco Chronicle: "Drill bits, screws, sponges, clamps, needles, catheters, electrodes. These are some of the things accidentally left inside patients after surgery at California hospitals. These instances are referred to as 'never' events, meaning they are never supposed to happen. But even though they are reported in a small percentage of surgeries, they occur with alarming regularity." Surgical equipment left inside patients after procedures represents the second-most-common preventable adverse, following bed sores. "In the latest fiscal year, California hospitals reported 197 cases of 'retained foreign objects' for a total of 350 incidents over the past two years. ... In 29 of the cases involving a retained foreign object, the state deemed the problems serious enough to issue fines, according to public health officials" (Colliver, 6/2).
The New Orleans Times-Picayune: "Seeking a long-term financing stream for the New Orleans-area network of primary care clinics that blossomed after Hurricane Katrina, state health officials are asking federal Medicaid authorities to let the state redirect money that now goes to help cover uninsured patients' hospital care. In exchange, the state is proposing to require all participating clinics -- there are now more than 90 sites run by 25 organizations, from universities to Daughters of Charity and other not-for-profits -- to meet best-practice standards for primary care 'medical homes,' while the network would track patient data to assess the system's financial efficiency and health outcomes. The approach would build on a $100 million federal dispersal that has given the clinics more than $30 million annually since 2007, with the purpose obvious in its name: Primary Care Access and Stabilization Grant. That money runs out in September" (Barrow, 6/2).
Monroe (La.) News Star: The state legislature's "session ends June 21 but the last several days are set aside for conference committees to iron out differences in House and Senate versions of bills. Health care funding is an area of concern to Sen. Sherri Cheek, R-Keithville. And Lydia Jackson, D-Shreveport."Alan Levine, secretary of the state Department of Health and Hospitals, "said the new federal health care system is going to greatly increase the number of people who are Medicaid eligible, which causes major funding problems for the state to meet its necessary match and for health care providers. Dr. Fred Cerise, head of the LSU system, said LSU's hospitals were in serious trouble and he expected to have to close six of the 10 facilities until [Gov. Bobby] Jindal administration altered the proposed budget to allocate funds to them. But the House committee took half of the money, he said, so now he's looking at closing the four least-utilized of the state's charity hospitals" (Hasten, 6/2).
The Austin American-Statesman: "Facing a $15 billion to $18 billion budget shortfall in 2012-13, state leaders ordered a round of budget cuts this year that trimmed $3.5 million from" Children with Special Health Care Needs, a state program that "serves children with a variety of health problems as well as people of any age who have cystic fibrosis" and has 950 kids on the waiting list. "Advocates for children and low-income Texans worry that such cuts foreshadow additional painful trims to health and human services programs" (MacLaggan and Alexander, 6/1).
The New York Times: "To save $3.1 million, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has proposed eliminating nursing positions, which are provided by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, at schools with an enrollment of 300 students or fewer. ... According to preliminary estimates by the mayor, the move would affect 146 schools, though that number may be adjusted downward if schools get exemptions for specific children's health needs. No unionized nurses would be laid off. But the president of the United Federation of Nurses and Epidemiologists says the cuts will affect 182 schools, including 132 private schools and 50 public schools. And Henry Fortier, associate superintendent for public policy and government programs for the New York Archdiocese, says the number is greater still, contending that the proposal threatens nursing positions at 177 Catholic schools alone" (Anderson, 6/1).This is part of the KHN Morning Briefing, a summary of health policy coverage from major news organizations. Sign up for an email subscription.


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It's been six months since the offensive on IS in Mosul and it's believed up to 400 hundred thousand people remain trapped in the city with limited access to essentials such as food, water and medicines.
For those who manage to get out, refugee camps set up near the besieged city are also struggling to cope with the influx of those fleeing.
The AMAR Foundation is one of many charities working on the ground.
Robert Cole from AMAR spoke with Peggy Giakoumelos.
Click here to hear the interview.
(Source: SBS)


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There's a saying in Redemption that Type 2 is not for the faint of heart (particularly Type 2 multi). While playing a game of Type 2 can prove to be daunting for some, Type 2 offers players a chance to be creative with ideas and playstyles beyond that of Type 1. I believe that opportunity is the biggest plus of playing Type 2 and it will be the focus of this series—the diversity of Type 2.
Just about any idea, theme, or playstyle can be incorporated into an effective Type 2 deck (with perhaps a few exceptions such as Heroless or Herolite, but I could be wrong). In this series Justin and I will try to introduce some various deck strategies within Type 2 and some ideas to consider using within those strategies. Playstyles differ for everyone so any ideas we might give should not be considered mandatory or auto-includes for a deck, but rather should be viewed as ideas to explore for yourself. To start things off I figured we would start at the beginning, the very beginning in fact, as the focus of this article is the Creation of the World Genesis deck.


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Senior Developer @ Locally.com. Married to my Best Friend, a Papa, dabbling Game Developer, turn-based strategy/RPG gaming nerd. https://tim.hithlonde.com
If you are in a photo that has been uploaded to Flickr, IBM may have used your face to train facial recognition technology that could eventually be used to surveil you.
Nearly a million photos were scraped from Flickr to do so.
I am finally writing on my site again. Latest! "Using your .gitignore as your rsync filter"
The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet: https://blog.haschek.at/2018/the-curious-case-of-the-RasPi-in-our-network.html
Alright folks, @timotheus and I want to send A/V messages like they do in Star Trek/The Expanse/folks that have holography tech.
Which tech does this, or is close to this, and is free software, on Earth, today? Note, we don't want it in real time. We want to record and send. ^_^
I use talkgroup.xyz for a lot of weird things, but the original idea was to have a cool email/web forum interface for conversations with my peeps. So we all don't need to host comments on our blogs, really. In my tribe we often don't know where to post stuff. Like, this isn't a status update, and might only apply to some folks... that is what talkgroup can do.
And you are all invited. Things are chill, and everything is CC0, and changes get discussed in meta (https://talkgroup.xyz/c/meta).
@timotheus @maiki i can't turn this off
dear #lazyweb is there a OSX app that will let me drag and drop any file into it, and it'll use my server + domain to upload to, and give me sharable link? Bonus points if it can set expiring.
I know I can do it via FTP, but I want less clicks to success.
I was emailed by them. What my email says that this article doesn't, is that the 327 million customers did have their credit card info taken, and they can't discern if they took the data too for unencrypting.
Unauthorized access for 4 years. Good grief. I'm glad I have credit freezes on all 4 #credit check places.
The #myspace cert has expired, and this makes me sad for some reason. :(
Short note to #boost:
We need #N95 masks in #Oakland! Please send me some and I will distribute them:
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> Trading in PG&E Corp. was briefly halted Monday after shares plummeted more than 37 percent. The stock has fallen as much as 48 percent in two days of trading since the Camp Fire broke out north of San Francisco last week.
@maiki I came across this today and thought of you. https://music.gamechops.com/album/zelda-chill
Did an ancient martian factory just fire up or what?
@timotheus is documenting a #RPi hosting project at https://talkgroup.xyz/tags/raspberry-pi-hosting-project!
Quick reminder, you can add .rss to end of URLs in Discourse, and magic might happen. For instance... https://talkgroup.xyz/tags/raspberry-pi-hosting-project.rss ^_^
Senior Developer @ Locally.com. Married to my Best Friend, a Papa, dabbling Game Developer, turn-based strategy/RPG gaming nerd. https://tim.hithlonde.com
"I appreciate SDF but it's a general-purpose server and the name doesn't make it obvious that it's about art." - Eugen Rochko


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Request For Proposals
The Women's Philanthropy Council seeks to fund critical needs, new ventures, and innovative solutions to social problems. In particular, the Council hopes to award grants that will advance its belief that all members of the Indiana University community should have access to quality educational opportunities, excellent health care, a clean and safe environment, cultural enrichment through the arts, and educational programs and services that allow them to pursue their academic careers. Applications that propose to give back and provide unique opportunities to the university community are especially welcome.
The WPC expects to award up to $100,000 in grants during this academic year's granting cycle. Awards may range from $2,500 to $100,000.
All Indiana University community members on all campuses — students, faculty, and staff — with the vision and capacity to manage and effectively utilize a grant are encouraged to apply.
The deadline for applications is December 15, 2011.


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Every dentist visit starts with a dental exam. The only way to ensure optimal dental health is by having a thorough exam done to locate any problem areas, check the level of care, and plan for treatments to guarantee healthy teeth.
A comprehensive dental exam will be performed by your dentist at your initial dental visit. At regular check-up exams, your dentist and hygienist will include the following:
- Examination of diagnostic x-rays (radiographs): Essential for detection of decay, tumors, cysts, and bone loss. X-rays also help determine tooth and root positions.
- Oral cancer screening: Check the face, neck, lips, tongue, throat, tissues, and gums for any signs of oral cancer.
- Gum disease evaluation: Check the gums and bone around the teeth for any signs of periodontal disease.
- Examination of tooth decay: All tooth surfaces will be checked for decay with special dental instruments.
- Examination of existing restorations: Check current fillings, crowns, etc.


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The history of chaplaincy is an ancient one which goes back to the earliest periods of church history. The word "chaplain" is derived from the Latin word 'capella" which described a soldier's cloak, (capa, capella) that gave them comfort and warmth in action, hence the chaplain providing pastoral care of comfort. The military has a long history and tradition of chaplains providing spiritual guidance and support to its members in peacetime as well as wartime.
While chaplains are people of a faith community, their principal role then, as is today, is to provide spiritual guidance and support in times of crisis and need. Most chaplains have extensive professional counseling backgrounds and regardless of their religious background, they are trained to work with and counsel people of all faiths, as well as those with faith.


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June 2013
Volume 28 Number 6
Editor's Note - Unbridled Expectations
By Michael Desmond | June 2013
Comedian Louis C.K., well known for his deeply cynical and at times wildly off-color rants, has an extended riff on how crazy it is for people to be disappointed with wonderful things like air travel and cell phones. I ran across an interview Louis C.K. did on the Conan O'Brien show describing his observations, and realized that what he's talking about poses a real challenge for software developers.
"Everything is amazing and nobody is happy," he told O'Brien, describing how he grew up with rotary phones that made you dread calling people with zeroes in their number, because it took so long to dial. Today, a smartphone UI will pause for a moment, and the immediate reaction is to get angry at a thing that, just a decade or so ago, would've seemed miraculous.
"Flying is the worst one," Louis C.K. continued, scoffing at people who describe airline flights as horror stories, as if sitting on the tarmac for 40 minutes before takeoff is a calamity. "Oh really? What happened next? Did you fly through the air incredibly like a bird? Did you partake in the miracle of human flight, you non-contributing zero? You're flying! It's amazing."
Louis C.K. then described a flight he was on with in-flight Wi-Fi service and Internet access. When the Wi-Fi suddenly went out, a man behind him started swearing in frustration. "Like, how quickly does the world owe him something that he knew about only 10 seconds ago?" he asked.
I was thinking about this because I've been frustrated with the Netflix app on my old Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Android tablet. The app had been rock-solid for months, particularly after I learned to take the time to use the Back button to invoke a dialog box that completely shuts down the app. About a week ago the behavior changed, and the Back button now just ushers the app off to a suspended state sans dialog box. But launching Netflix from a suspended state causes the app to hang on my tablet. Every. Single. Time.
This makes me angry. And given Louis C.K.'s observations, perhaps unreasonably so. I mean, work an extra 20 seconds to kill the Netflix app in the background and then relaunch it, so I can get at the next episode of "Arrested Development"? Bah!
But this reflects a real challenge for modern application development. When code on the Web or in the cloud or in a Windows Store app changes, it often changes the UX—and in ways your users might not be expecting. It used to be that upgrading an application or OS was a big deal that implied the somber shuffling of floppy discs or CDs, or at least a lengthy file download. There was a ceremony to the process, and it helped ensure that end users were fully vested and informed.
Today, not so much. Windows Store app updates are a quick click away, and Web apps are prone to sudden change or even retirement (I'm looking at you, Google Reader). But when a putative upgrade removes a beloved feature or familiar control, or creates a break in functionality, suddenly you've got Louis C.K.'s irate consumer problem, in all its self-centered glory. So, how quickly do you owe your users something that they knew about only 10 seconds ago? It's a worthwhile question.
Michael Desmond is the Editor-in-Chief of MSDN Magazine.


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Background: The Cleveland Heights Police Department has launched a Citizens Police Academy for members of the community who are interested in learning more about how the police department operates. The first course runs 6-9 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday evenings, for seven weeks beginning Aug. 11 and ending Sept. 30, 2014. This blog post is one of a series about my experience in the program. Click here for the full series.
It's easy to forget that police officers have the same range of reactions as the rest of us to crime, poverty, drugs, violence, squalor, hopelessness.
For many people, just the highlights that make the news provide all the evidence needed to conclude the world is coming to an end.
Police officers see a lot more than the highlights.
When responding to a domestic violence call, the officer's priorities are to stabilize the situation, calm down the parties, separate them if possible and investigate whether an arrest is necessary. The dispassion this requires doesn't mean they're blind to the trauma that someone has experienced at the hands of a loved one.
When an under-supervised kid with a dysfunctional home gets nabbed for theft, fighting or buying drugs, the police are required to make an arrest. But it doesn't mean they're unaware a young life may be circling the drain.
When the news brings me down, I exercise my the ability to tune it out. Police officers don't have that luxury.
With more than 20 years on the force, CHPD Inv. Falisa Berry thinks about this a lot. She's working on a Ph.D. in psychology, and her thesis is on "vicarious trauma" in police officers – how the suffering of other people affects them.
To hear Berry discuss her own frequent encounters with domestic violence over the years is to understand she didn't pull this thesis topic out of thin air.
But Berry is also head of the city's Juvenile Diversion Program, which means she's doing something most police officers can't; she's getting involved with people before the worst happens.
The Juvenile Diversion Program only began this January. It identifies first-time, non-violent offenders, 17 or younger, and tries to help them turn around before they get into more serious trouble.
The program runs in cooperation with Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court, which identifies candidates and essentially turns them over to the care of their home town.
Officially, the kids' cases move back to the Cleveland Heights court system, where sanctions include a mentoring program that Berry has developed. It involves group sessions, counseling, supervision and community service.
"These are good kids who made bad choices," Berry said. Because kids in the program are minors, parental permission is required for participation; parental involvement is not. "I try not to focus on the parents; they've had their chance."
When Berry spoke to us at the Citizens Police Academy, she brought D., who had agreed to talk about her experience in the program. D. talks and dresses like any other high school girl; she has a bright smile and a soft voice.
She was arrested after joining a fight at the public library.
"Most people think of it like a punishment, but it's not," D. said of the Juvenile Diversion Program. "Mostly we talk about communication and long-term goals and how to deal with other people and solve problem." Looking at Berry, D. added: "She talks straight to us. She tells it like it is."
"Has it affected how you're doing in school?" someone asked.
D. hesitated. "Well… I wasn't doing that bad before…"
"Yes you were," Berry interrupted. D. smiled and went silent, acknowledging the sudden example of straight talk. "But she's getting straight A's right now," Berry said.
Currently the program is full, with 40 kids actively involved, another 15 waiting for a spot to open and no shortage of prospects in the pipeline. Berry acknowledged that "not everyone is going to make it. Some of these kids are really damaged. Most of them don't have positive role models. Maybe I can reach some of them. I hope I can."
As we all know, Cleveland Heights has plenty of kids who need more supervision, more direction, more people to invest in them. This is a symptom of poverty, and with more than half the students in the Cleveland Hts.-University Hts. City School District qualifying for the federal free lunch program, we have more than our share of poverty here.
Is it the job of the police department to do social work? Perhaps not. But if it doesn't go after kids before they get ruined, it'll be chasing them down later. More trauma.
I don't know much about the people who have been charged in the homicide of Arrion Smiley earlier this month or Jim Brennan this summer. But I don't think I'm on thin ice to declare them lost causes who just need to be put away.
But not very long ago, they were kids too. Maybe funny kids, with a sense of humor and a warm smile. At one point, there was still hope for each of them.


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Woman's Hour – To The End / Our Love Has No Rhythm (single) (Parlour Records)
London-via-Kendal four piece Woman's Hour are set to release their debut single 'To The End / Our Love Has No Rhythm' through Parlour Records on 8th April.
Already embraced by 6 Music, XFM and Radio 1, Woman's Hour seamlessly blends post-punk aesthetics with R&B sensuality. Though far from derivative, upon first listen Woman's Hour immediately call to mind The xx (melodically more so than sonically). More accurately, Woman's Hour blends The xx with Jessie Ware, with perhaps a hint of Sade.
Deeply atmospheric, the synths are suitably analogue coating the songs deep with an 80's aura. Sprawling (both tracks clock in around 4:30 each), moody and dreamy as the music may be, the soft and sensual vocal hooks create a luscious and surprisingly catchy brand of synth pop.
It's a rare feat that both the A-side and the B-side are as strong as another but the debut single from the London four piece is an absolute peach. Both tracks demonstrate the band's pop crafting ability without being formulaic.
"To The End / Our Love Has No Rhythm" is an entrancing and alluring debut. Expect massive things for this exciting new band.


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For the world's top-selling pharmaceutical company, sustainability can be a challenging target to meet. But for anyone who has ever wondered about Pfizer and the environment, the company is highlighting its considerable progress on four environmental goals: cutting emissions, reducing its carbon footprint, reducing its ozone depletion potential and obtaining more of its electricity from clean energy sources.
Pfizer's commitment to environmental sustainability pledges not only to protect the environment and the safety of its workers, but also to make a positive difference in communities around the world. This focus has taken the company on a journey that began with assessing its own impact on the planet, and continues with efforts to mitigate climate change, lead product stewardship efforts and promote access to clean water.
Greener Operations
Human health is Pfizer's business, so naturally the company is concerned about the harmful impact of climate change around the globe.
The company exceeded its goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 35 percent between 2000 and 2007 by an additional 8 percent through the use of renewable energy, equipment retrofits and combined heat and power systems. Pfizer also revealed in its 2009 corporate responsibility report that its largest manufacturing facility is its most energy-efficient, cutting energy bills by 10 percent in spite of rising energy costs.
Pfizer's progress on two other goals is even more impressive: volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions to water and air were reduced by 43 percent between 2002 and 2006, meeting Pfizer's target of a 40 percent reduction two years early, and an additional 35 percent was eliminated between 2007 and 2008. Emissions from ozone-depleting compounds were wiped out completely by 2008.
The company fell short of its 35 percent target for electricity from clean energy sources by 2010, but it did reach 21 percent and continues to aggressively develop and implement clean energy technology whenever possible.
Considering the Product Life-Cycle
Product stewardship is one of the most important facets of Pfizer's environmental initiative.
Considering the potentially damaging effects that pharmaceuticals and their byproducts can have on the environment, Pfizer pays close attention to the life cycle of its products. Pharmaceuticals in the environment – known as PIE – is a complex issue, and the company has three strategies for dealing with it.
Understanding is the first step. Pfizer collaborates with the scientific community, policy makers, regulatory agencies, patient groups and non-governmental organizations to constantly build and update the body of knowledge related to PIE.
In addition, the company is studying ways to prevent pharmaceuticals from polluting the environment. Partnering with other pharmaceutical companies and government agencies, Pfizer is exploring new methods of disposing unused medications and participating in take-back programs.
Finally, Pfizer is working to manage and minimize the environmental impact of active pharmaceutical ingredients contained in wastewater from its manufacturing operations.
Sustainable Water Management
Use of water in Pfizer's operations is already relatively low compared to many other industries, but the company has made responsible water management one of its top priorities. Aware of the growing threat from decreasing availability of clean potable water, Pfizer requires its facilities to account for all water use, conserve as much as possible and work with their respective communities during drought conditions.
Among the water conservation projects already in place at many Pfizer facilities are programs that identify and repair leaks, reuse treated wastewater in cooling towers and use recirculating water for the scrubbers the company uses for air pollution control.
A great example is Pfizer's La Jolla, Calif. facility – located in a very arid region plagued by ongoing droughts that have posed a big challenge for local businesses and residents. When a Level 2 Drought Alert was declared by the City of San Diego in June 2009, Pfizer complied with strict conservation practices by switching to 100 percent recycled water use for all irrigation and installing low-flow water fixtures in several areas, cutting campus reliance on potable water by 25 percent.
Pfizer provides details on its environmental sustainability commitment and all of its efforts to reach these goals on its website. Further information can be found in the 2009 Corporate Responsibility Report.


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Middlesbrough Council has approved plans for a new Student Life Building designed by FaulknerBrowns Architects for Teesside University. The proposals will consolidate all student-facing support, wellbeing and information services within a central location at the heart of the Middlesbrough campus to improve accessibility and the overall student experience. The project forms part of Teesside University's ten year masterplan and estates strategy, developed in conjunction with FaulknerBrowns.
The building, to be constructed by Willmott Dixon, will house a range of student-centred and student-led spaces, providing information and services to inspire and empower success in learning and life. The building will be a technology-enabled environment, supporting a variety of learning styles, activities and attendance patterns. It will offer a range of flexible spaces, enabling social and collaborative learning, as well as an information zone, consulting rooms, syndicate rooms, accommodation for student welfare, disability services and a café.
The proposed site occupies a pivotal location within the university – facing onto the campus heart adjacent to the existing student centre which has been recently refurbished by FaulknerBrowns to provide the new home for the university's business school.
The building positions the university's commitment to student experience and wellbeing right at the centre of its estate, with strong connections to other key facilities such as the library, students' union and 'The Curve' teaching building. The northern boundary will also define the edge of the 'Knowledge Square', a new piece of public realm proposed within the masterplan. The prominence of the site gives the building visibility from the key movement routes through the campus enabling the university to showcase the facilities and services provided.
The architectural concept articulates two distinct elements of the building. The predominantly open plan student-focused spaces are accommodated within a simple 'glass box' that wraps around the west side of the building, creating a strong visual connection between the building and the campus heart. The more private spaces are contained within a solid element to the east side of the building.
This conceptual diagram for the overall organisation of the building is overlaid with a layered approach to privacy, which focuses the active spaces to the ground floor of the building and locates the more sensitive areas on the levels above. This ensures that all facilities and services within the building are both visible and easily accessible whilst retaining appropriate levels of privacy.
The student-focused area is articulated by a number of double height spaces created by a series of alternating floorplates and voids between the meeting rooms on the levels above. This helps to break up the scale of the ground floor space and supports visual connectivity between levels. The meeting pods have been designed to allow for future flexibility, doors and windows carefully positioned to provide the required levels of privacy and daylight, whilst being coordinated with the internal partitions when subdivided.
Paul Crowther, Project Leader at FaulknerBrowns, said:
"The scheme offers a unique opportunity to help the university realise the aspirations of their strategic estates masterplan, whilst delivering a student-focused space that puts wellbeing and support at the heart of the both the campus and the student experience."


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Android Configurations
This How-To goes over the configuration settings in the Android application.
Server Address – The server address you sync to [should not be modified]
URL – The URL in the server you sync to [should not be modified]
Automatic syncing – Enables\Disables auto syncing of results\surveys
Survey Syncing – Enables\Disables auto syncing of surveys
Result Syncing – Enables\Disables auto syncing of results
Version Syncing – Enables\Disables auto syncing of app versions
Sync interval – select the sync interval
Results in batch – defines the number of results sent in a single batch to the server
[should not be modified]
Override HTTPS – Server – if you have HTTPS configured for your account, here you can set it particularly for this device, although it would be 'on' by defaults if you have HTTPS configured.
Use HTTPS – Enable\Disables use of HTTPS for this device.
Regarding syncing results, there are 2 ways in which you enable results syncing to the servers:
- You set the device to auto-sync results. This is done via Settings->Options and setting the Result Syncing check box. This will ensure that every time results are created (Completed) by a surveyor and connection exists the results on the device will be uploaded to the server. Please note that only results that were created by that logged in user will be synced.
Manually selecting (after logging in to SurveyToGo on the device) Settings->Sync Results. Please note that only results that were created by that logged in user will be synced.
The device auto-syncs a batch of results every 30 minutes (default), the interval and the amount of results in a batch can be changed. Please consult Dooblo support before changing the number of results in a batch.
Questionnaire form
Reduce image size – Reduces the image data size with compression.
Maximum image size – Defines the maximum size of a captured image in KB.
Do auto save – Enable\Disable result auto-saving.
Auto save Frequency – Interval in minutes for auto saving results
Location Services
Testing the GPS in the app's options:
If the GPS is available & capturing you would see the following:
If not, it would write that it is not available.
The GPS Options
Enable\Disable GPS Capturing.
Enables usage of only the hardware GPS, preventing other GPS apps to interfere. Location information can be obtained not only using a GPS but also from cellular and Wi-Fi networks to determine your approximate location. To ensure your location is always determined in the same manner and in the most accurate way make sure this option is checked.
Will make the GPS sample constantly – important for Geo-Fencing.
Capture interviewer's position in the GPS data.
Lets you determine the sampling frequency.
Disables usage of old GPS capturing in case of lack in functionality in the GPS.
Set the 'lifetime' of old GPS data, in case that your result haven't collected GPS data due to a problem with the GPS it would turn to an old GPS reading, this would decide how long would old GPS readings last.
Cheking GPS functionality within the survey
You can check the following function, wherever you want in your survey:
GetGPSLocation().Latitude != ""
If it returns 'true' it means there is a Latitude, which means GPS is working.
If this returns 'false' it means that the Latitude returned is empty, which means GPS is not working.
Barcode Scanner
Use front light – Enables the light for scanning.
Reversed camera image – enables front camera if device supports it.
Advanced Connection Settings
Use Proxy – configures a proxy server if used
Proxy Server URL
Proxy Port
Set EditText text direction when RTL – please contact support if experiencing visual issues with RTL Languages
Set widget text direction when RTL – please contact support if experiencing visual issues with RTL
Set widget button direction when RTL – please contact support if experiencing visual issues with RTL Languages.
SUPPORT – DO NOT CHECK – for support use only.
Do not use network compression – for support use only.
Test Connection – Test's the connection and prompts the message.
GPS status – Test's the GPS status and shows the current readings.
Admin – opends the admin panel.
Send to support – Sends the system log to the support team.
Test external storage –
Fix Empty Surveyors – for support use only.
Copy DB to SDCard – copies the Database to the SD card.
Restore DB – restores a copied Database from the SD card.
That's it!
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Riding Into The Sunset or a Brick Wall?
By Peter Schiff
Tuesday, 9 October 2012
A month ago, I presented the case for why Fed Chairman Bernanke would have strong motivation to launch another round of quantitative easing (QE) before the election. In short, it would save him his job. Now, I didn't predict with certainty that he would do so – only the few men at the FOMC knew that for sure – but it seemed likely. Shortly thereafter, Bernanke not only announced more stimulus, but promised to keep it flowing to the tune of an additional $40 billion a month until conditions improve. As I had written, this is essentially the election platform of the Obama-Bernanke ticket: we will keep the party going indefinitely.
Unfortunately, though these are two powerful men, they are not above the law of economics. While critics have dubbed this program "QEternity" or "QE-Infinity", it will end much before that. We are witnessing a massive bubble in US government debt, and we've reached the point where no one in charge believes it will ever end – an excellent contra-indicator.
Rather than going on for eternity, this third round of QE is only hastening the day when there is a flight of confidence from the dollar and US Treasuries. This will cause a sharp rise in market interest rates and surging consumer prices across America. If you think $4 a gallon gas is bad, wait till you see it going up by 25¢ or more per week.
At this point, the Fed Chairman will have a choice to make: keep printing, which will push the dollar into uncontrollable hyperinflation, or begin tightening, which will bankrupt the US government and banking system.
I have long written about this Sophie's choice confronting the Fed, but so far the printing option has been too easy. With the world only slowly abandoning the dollar as the reserve currency and the euro crisis offering a distraction, the Fed has been able to more than double the money supply without US consumers seeing out-of-control price hikes at the store. Not that there hasn't been inflation – look at housing, gas, or the stock market – but it hasn't reached crisis proportions. When prices start rising fast enough for the average person to figure out he's being screwed, then there will be riots in the streets.
The good news for precious metals investors is that either scenario is bullish for gold and silver.
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Kenmore Mercy Hospital was established in 1951 by the Sisters of Mercy, a Roman Catholic religious order. Located on Elmwood Avenue in Kenmore, New York, the hospital has 184 inpatient beds, and it offers emergency care, orthopedics and cardiology services. Kenmore Mercy Hospital is also one of the six designated stroke centers for Erie and Wyoming Counties. Since the 1950's, Kenmore Mercy has completed several expansions and renovations in order to keep up with increased demand for its services.
Up until the late 1970s and during construction and renovation procedures at Kenmore Mercy Hospital, workers utilized dozens of asbestos-containing materials. Fireproof insulation, pipe covering, insulating cement and block insulation covered pipes, boilers and associated equipment throughout the hospital. Exposure to asbestos can cause mesothelioma, lung cancer or other asbestos related diseases.
Workers applied fireproof insulation to the structural steel throughout the hospital in order to protect it from potential fire damage. Fireproofing material was manufactured as a dry mixture of asbestos, cement and linen, and it was packaged in heavy paper bags. The insulation material was dumped into a machine, mixed with water and sprayed onto the structural steel with a hose. The fireproofing application process produced clouds of asbestos-containing dust and fibers, which workers inhaled. Additionally, tradesmen, such as carpenters, plumbers and electricians, disturbed the fireproofing in order to install framing studs or electrical conduits. Most workers were completely unaware of the dangers of exposure to asbestos dust, and they performed their work without masks or protective gear.
Additionally, Kenmore Mercy Hospital's heating system included steam boilers and an extensive system of pipes and radiators. In order to maintain a steady internal temperature in the heating system, boilers, pipes and valves were insulated with asbestos-containing materials, such as pipe covering, insulating cement and block insulation. During maintenance and repair procedures, asbestos-containing materials were removed in order to make repairs within the heating system. When maintenance or repair procedures were complete, workers applied new asbestos insulation. Removing and applying asbestos-containing insulating materials caused asbestos fibers and dust to become airborne.
Many union and non-union laborers who worked on construction projects for Kenmore Mercy Hospital were employed by various contractors throughout Western New York. If you or a loved one were once employed in connection with the construction of Kenmore Mercy Hospital and have been diagnosed with mesothelioma or lung cancer, please contact us regarding your legal rights.


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JOB TITLE: Authorization Specialist - Associate
LOCATION: Glenmaura Office Building
DEPARTMENT: Finance
WORK SCHEDULE: Days: Monday to Friday, 8:30am - 5:00pm (No Weekends or Holidays)
WORK TYPE: Full Time
Responsible for obtaining precertification/ prior authorization and medical necessity review for each patient in which testing or procedures have been scheduled across GHS including but not limited to High End Radiology testing, infusions/injections, oral medications, chemotherapy and/or radiation treatments, sleep studies, genetic testing,cardiology testing and hospital outpatient testing/procedures. Possesses solid knowledge of insurance verification, payor guidelines, ICD-10 coding and gathering of clinical documentation from Electronic Medical Record prior to initiating precertification. Establish and maintain professional, positive communication with all necessary GHS and outside physicians, clinical and office staff to ensure completion on all peer to peer review and denials. Responsible for uploading authorization numbers, status, time spans/number of procedures and supporting documentation upon verification that procedures are authorized as requested with the patients electronical medical record.Maintains a positive working relationship with the staff of the assigned clinical departments, to ensure clear communication and handeling of all patients and provider needs. Responsible for monitoring authorization request and expiring authorizations for accuracy.
Demonstrates the ability to effectively assist with billing in regards to precertification or coding changes that need to occur for claim resolution.
Demonstrates both oral and written communication skills. Must be able to maintain confidentiality. Must be able to make responsive, sound and accurate decisions.
Demonstrates ability to be professional, resourceful, confident, and maintain a pleasant, receptive manner.
Demonstrates customer service skills and telephone etiquette.
Demonstrates ability to organize/prioritize work, ability to draw from and utilize numerous data sources, be detailed oriented and multi-task.
Demonstrates ability to perform mathematical calculations (percentages, ratios) and basic clerical skills (telephone, computer, photocopier, and fax).
Demonstrates knowledge of federal, state, third party insurances and assistance programs.
Demonstrates basic computer skills including Microsoft office required. Knowledge of automated billing systems (EPIC, IDX, SMS Passport and all other GHS applications) preferred.
Demonstrates the ability to interpret basic healthcare financial information and advise customers.
Demonstrates the ability to spell correct diagnoses, procedures, patient names.
Demonstrates excellent customer service and strong communication skills.
Demonstrates the ability to type/enter data accurately.
Must be highly motivated to improve data quality and financial position of the institution.
Demonstrates the ability to perform as a team player.
Must be able to work autonomously.
Must use critical thinking skills to determine the best financial options for patients.
High school diploma or equivalent required.
Minimum of two years' previous experience in Healthcare environment with focus on Registration or Financial Services required.
Previous experience in medical terminology preferred.
Previous experience with InterQual and Medicare Inpatient criteria preferred.
Previous experience with CPT and ICD-10 Coding preferred.
Previous experience with precertification and insurance verification preferred.
Overall knowledge of the revenue cycle and accounts receivable preferred.
Experience with EPIC Grand Central, Cadence and Patient Financial systems preferred.
Up to six months to learn all aspects of the job, including but not limited to; insurance verification, precertification and the demonstrated ability to effectively communicate with the appropriate providers, clinics, insurance companies and facilities as described in the Revenue Cycle Policies and Procedures.
Work is typically performed in an office environment.
Ability to travel periodically to various locations as work permits.
The specific statements shown in each section of this description are not intended to be all-inclusive. They represent typical elements and criteria considered necessary to successfully perform the job.
Everything we do is about caring for our patients, our members, our students, our Geisinger family and our communities. KINDNESS: We strive to treat everyone as we would hope to be treated ourselves. EXCELLENCE: We treasure colleagues who humbly strive for excellence. LEARNING: We share our knowledge with the best and brightest to better prepare the caregivers for tomorrow. INNOVATION: We constantly seek new and better ways to care for our patients, our members, our community, and the nation.
** Does not qualify for J-1 waiver. We are an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer Women and Minorities are Encouraged to Apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability or their protected veteran status.
*Domestic partner benefits not applicable at Geisinger Holy Spirit.


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The previous time in Cocoa Beach, I had a conflict with a construction worker in a Starbucks parking lot. Without closing off the lot or any specific sections, the workers simply constructed and deconstructed everywhere, and had my van practically permanently blocked in its parallel parking spot. When I walked to my van to leave, there was only one worker present, so I asked for his help guiding me out. Oddly, he begrudgingly helped without saying a word of response, and did so in lackadaisical fashion. When I ran over a cone in front that I could not see, he hollered, "God damnit!" and looked at me like one might look at an idiotic petty criminal. I hollered back, "That's why I asked for your help." I pulled out of the parking lot and was stopped at a red light. He stared at me from the parking lot with a kind of subtle brooding vengeance. Later I ended up parking not far from the Starbucks while I walked to some public picnic tables to practice guitar. When I returned, I noticed someone had used a sharpie to draw a stick figure taking a dump and had written "www.dick.com".
This time as I arrived in Cocoa Beach, I wondered how much gossip construction guys took part in, and how many enemies I might have who can spot my van from a mile away. I went to Open Mike's again. It was not as special as the first time. It was a funk jam night and there was an air of pretentiousness among the musicians in charge. I watched for a little while and left. The island was not blessed with wind and I made plans to attend an open mic that was on the way to Jacksonville. I stopped at an Anytime Fitness, exercised and cleaned up, and then changed my plans and called Michael Phaneuf, a kite friend, to see if we could connect. He invited me to his apartment.
It was great to see Mike.
He was hospitable, as was his girlfriend Amory. Even though they were watching a fun movie, she gave us space to talk and prepared grilled cheese sandwiches and soup for us. It was great to catch up and we really connected over our strategies and mindsets toward building our individual futures. Mike insisted on giving me $20 for the album I gave him. He invited me to stay the night on his comfy couch, but I was antsy to get back on the road. I thanked them, said goodbye, and got on my way to Jacksonville.


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Many Biblical scholars believe Jesus' final journey to Jerusalem began in Luke 9:51. However, in order to maintain this idea, they have to conclude that Luke either uses about nine and one half chapters to show Jesus wandering aimlessly all over the countryside, zigzagging all the way to Jerusalem, and even reversing course to return to Galilee (cf. Luke 17:11), or he places Jesus' movements in a hodgepodge of seemingly unrelated incidents that took place in various parts of Palestine, having no perceived order in them at all. It is astonishing for me to see how far one will go in order to protect a favorite idea from being disproved, or, perhaps it may be better to say, some scholars have embraced the idea for so long that they believe it must be supported in the Scriptures somewhere. Read the rest of this entry »
Tag Archives: Gospel of John
Calling the First Disciples
It is actually John who shows how five men first came into contact with Jesus following his baptism. Andrew and an unnamed disciple left John the Baptist to be with Jesus on the way back to Galilee from the Jordan (John 1:37-39). When they arrived in Galilee, Andrew went to fetch his brother, Peter (John 1:40), and the following day Jesus found Philip, who then told Nathaniel who also came to see Jesus (John 1:43, 45). These are the first five men who came to listen to what Jesus had to say, and it is implied in the Synoptics that some of Jesus' disciples were with him in Capernaum and probably Nazareth, as well (cf. Luke 4:38 and Mark 1:13).[1] Read the rest of this entry »
Prayer in Jesus' Name
Why does God answer some prayers but not other prayers? Why will God answer a prayer to save a cancer patient from death, but won't have an amputee grow another limb? There are a lot of people who seem to know or at least think they know why God heals, but really, why would God heal one person, but not another? Jesus didn't ask for qualifications when he healed anyone; he simply did what needed to be done. There was no hocus pocus, or do you have enough faith for the healing, or would it be God's will for **you** to be healed. Jesus simply healed the person. Read the rest of this entry »
Feeding the 5000
We are told in the Synoptic Gospels that just before Jesus fed the 5000 men, the disciples had returned from their mission to preach in the cities of Galilee. Herod had just executed John the Baptist and thought the rumors about Jesus and the Kingdom meant John had risen from the dead. Many of John's disciples had come to Jesus looking for leadership, but Jesus knew most of the people were merely looking for another miracle. This seemed to be the extent of their attachment to him (John 2:23; 4:43-45, 48; 6:2). Therefore, Jesus took his disciples into a mountain to spend time alone—away from the crowds of people (John 6:3). Read the rest of this entry »
Jesus—the Bread of Life
Jesus claims to be to be the Bread of life that came down from God out of heaven (John 6:32-33, 38), and he went on to say that no one has everlasting life unless he eats Jesus' flesh and drinks his blood (John 6:50-51, 53-54). A great deal of misunderstanding has occurred over the theme of this part of the Gospel of John, including some modern critics saying that this part of the Gospel of John was taken from the pagan religious rites dealing with Mithraism. So what is Jesus saying and can we be sure the understanding is not taken from paganism? Read the rest of this entry »
Jesus—Feeding the Hungry
Even a cursory reading of John 6 will show that Jesus had compassion on those who were hungry (John 6:5). Nevertheless, Jesus didn't dedicate his office as Messiah to satisfy the needs of the poor in the world or even in Palestine (Matthew 4:4; Luke 4:4), but he had compassion upon the needy wherever he saw them. Read the rest of this entry »
When is Enough, Enough?
At one of our annual family reunions my cousin, Michael, asked me about my writing. At that time I was writing a book about Jesus' life and teachings according to the Gospel of Luke. I told him I wished I could retire and devote myself to completing it, but I didn't think I had enough set aside to do so. He asked me: "What is enough?" I thought about his reply for quite awhile afterward, and Thanksgiving week that same year my company offered me an early retirement. I had to decide by the week before Christmas. It was a very intense month for me, but the long-story-short is: I decided I had enough, put my decision in God's hands, and never looked back. Read the rest of this entry »


text: MOVIES Box Office: 'Neighbors' Takes Solid $2.6 Million Thursday Night 7:43 AM PDT 5/9/2014 by Rebecca Ford FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME The Universal comedy starring Seth Rogen, Zac Efron and Rose Byrne will face off against holdover "Amazing Spider-Man 2." Universal's raunchy comedy Neighbors is off to a strong start, taking in $2.56 million on Thursday night. The comedy, starring Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne as a young couple with a baby whose life is turned upside down when a loud fraternity moves in next door, opened in 2,224 theaters on Thursday with shows beginning at 8 p.m. PHOTOS: 35 of 2014's Most Anticipated Movies Also starring Zac Efron as the leader of the frat, Neighbors is directed by Nick Stoller, the filmmaker behind Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Get Him to the Greek and The Five-Year Engagement. Neighbors was produced by This Is the End team Rogen, Evan Goldberg and James Weaver (Rogen and Goldberg also directed the 2013 end-of-the-world comedy). The trio is producing Neighbors alongside Nathan Kahane and Joe Drake's Good Universe banner. PHOTOS: 'Neighbors' Star Zac Efron: Exclusive Portraits of the Actor The R-rated comedy, which was doing strong advanced ticket sales, will face off this Mother's Day weekend against superhero holdover The Amazing Spider-Man 2. The Sony film, starring Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone, earned $91.6 million in North America last weekend and has grossed well north of $400 million globally. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 should benefit from Mother's Day more than Neighbors, according to box-office observers. This weekend's other new films include female Christian comedy Moms' Night Out, starring Patricia Heaton. Industry observers are curious to see whether the comedy gets the same boost that recent faith-based drama titles Heaven Is for Real, God's Not Dead and Son of God have enjoyed. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com Twitter: @Beccamford FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Rebecca Ford email@example.com beccamford