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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, January 16, 2016 — By the time the world is "flying down to Rio" for the 2016 summer Olympics, baseball pennant races will be reaching their peak, the NFL preseason will be underway and the presidential election will be heading into the home stretch.
The "girl(s) from Ipanema" will be there, along with the gorgeous women from all the other beaches in the land of "three s's": sun, samba and sensuality.
As a destination, Rio de Janeiro, which means "River of January" in Portuguese, will be a tough act to follow when it comes to sheer natural beauty.
With its alluring Sugarloaf Mountain peering down at miles of sun-drenched beaches and seemingly embraced by the outstretched arms of Christ the Redeemer atop Corcovado Mountain, Rio may be the most seductive site ever for the Olympics.
Settled in 1565 by the Portuguese, part of Rio was designated a World Heritage Cultural Landscape in 1912. "Rio de Janeiro Carioca Landscapes between the Mountain and the Sea" could not be a more appropriate title.
Rio's rhythms are infectious. It boasts a world famous Carnival, a riot of color, spectacle and sensuality set to the Latin rhythms of samba and bossa nova. Cariocas—as the inhabitants of Rio are called in Brazil—are known for their warmth and their love of sun, sand and music.
Rio is a city whose beaches beckon; life centers around the sea and sand. Bordered by a symbolic black, white and red mosaic promenade representing the mixture of black, white and Indian cultures, Rio's beaches—Ipanema, Copacabana, Prainha, Barra da Tijuca and Leblon—are world-famous.
Even without the sports of summer, which will be winter in Rio, Brazil is one of the most visited countries in the Southern Hemisphere, and Rio is its most popular city. In addition to its spectacular natural beauty, Rio sports man-made attractions, including Maracana Stadium, one of the world's largest soccer arenas. It's an ideal combination for the global athletic competitions of the Olympic Games.
With an arm span of 92-feet, the giant statue of Christ the Redeemer is impossible to miss. Created by French sculptor Paul Landowski and built by Brazilian engineer Heitor da Silva Costa between 1922 and 1931, Christ the Redeemer has been protecting Rio for nearly eight decades, in the process, earning itself the title of one of the "New Seven Wonders of the World."
Situated atop Corcovado Mountain in the Tijuca (tee-ZHOO-ka) National Forest, the statue has become a symbol of Christianity to the world and a cultural icon of both the city of Rio de Janeiro and the country of Brazil. It is easily reached by taking the Corcovado Rack Railway.
Among the most popular natural wonders of Rio is Pão de Açúcar (pown-gee-a-SOO-car), or Sugarloaf Mountain, which is just one of several granite-quartz monoliths rising from the waters of Guanabara Bay. Overlooking Rio's famous beaches, a panoramic cable car takes visitors between the peaks of Pão de Açúcar and Morro da Urca every 20 minutes.
"Sugarloaf" gets its name from the heyday of the sugar cane industry in Brazil in the 16th century. At that time, blocks of sugar were placed in cone-shaped molds for export to other parts of the world. Sugarloaf Mountain resembled those molds and the rest is history.
Rio wouldn't be Rio without its famed, two-and-a-half mile stretch of crowded sand that nestles beneath luxurious high rise hotels and the natural splendor of its mountains. While bikinis consisting of little more than a few pieces of string add to the sensuality and ambiance that is Rio (in Rio, the ubiquitous thong bikinis are called fio dental, or "dental floss"), the city did not get its first nude beach until 2014. It's a good bet that beach volleyball will be among the most popular events when the 2016 games get underway.
By August, the world-famous Carnival will be months in the past, but never fear, there's a great, and far less crowded, alternative. Though Carnival itself is centuries old, Rio's Schools of Samba have only been around for about 100 years.
Immigrants from the Brazilian state of Bahia brought the Samba to the slums of downtown Rio in the 1920s. In a district called "Little Africa," they established numerous houses devoted to religious ceremonies and dance.
Though the name "Samba Schools" implies the instruction of dance, the schools are actually clubs where various neighborhoods practice for months in preparation for the Carnival parade. Rehearsals are open to the public for a small fee and there you can get the flavor and atmosphere of Carnival without the throngs of humanity.
Vegetarians beware, a trip to Brazil is not complete without visiting a traditional churrascaria. This is a meat lover's paradise, a gaúcho tradition where rotisserie-style chicken, beef, lamb, pork and other meats are served in an endless parade of servings until everyone at the table calls it quits.
Don't forget to wash it all down with Brazil's national cocktail, the caipirinha (kai-pi-REE-nya). This cocktail is made from cachaça (ka-SHA-sa)—a sugarcane-derived distilled spirit—with sugar and lime. It is similar to a Margarita, only about three times more lethal.
If the world doesn't know about Rio yet, it soon will, for this is a place of eternal sun and, considering the absence of cloth in the swim suits, possibly the moon as well.
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About the Author: Bob Taylor is a veteran writer who has traveled throughout the world. Taylor was an award winning television producer/reporter/anchor before focusing on writing about international events, people and cultures around the globe. He is founder of The Magellan Travel Club (www.MagellanTravelClub.com) His goal is to visit 100 countries or more during his lifetime.
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MHA Today is provided as a service to members of the Missouri Hospital Association. Additional information is available online at MHAnet.
In This Issue
DEA Announces No Grace Period For Renewals
CMS Schedules Webinar For HAC Reduction Program, Hospital VBP Program And HRRP
CMS Releases Supplemental Document To OQR Specifications Manual
Regulatory News
the latest actions of agencies monitoring health care
Staff Contact: Sarah Willson
The Drug Enforcement Administration has announced an important change to its registration renewal process. Even though not required, the DEA previously allowed practitioners to have a grace period if they missed the deadline to renew their DEA application. Effective Jan. 1, 2017, the DEA will send only one renewal notification. The notice will be delivered to the registrant's "mail to" address about 65 days before the expiration date. Failure to file a renewal application by midnight of the expiration date will retire the DEA number with no option for reinstatement; therefore, a new application must be filed.
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Staff Contact: Sherry Buschjost
An outreach and education webinar for participants in the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing, Hospital Readmissions Reduction and Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction programs is scheduled at 1 p.m. Friday, Dec. 16. The webinar, titled "Fiscal Year 2017 HAC Reduction Program, Hospital VBP Program, and HRRP: Hospital Compare Data Update," will provide an overview of the publicly reported data and information available for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' inpatient hospital pay-for-performance programs. Registration is required.
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Staff Contact: Sherry Buschjost
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has determined that a supplemental document to the Hospital Outpatient Quality Reporting Program Specifications Manual versions 9.0a and 9.1 is required for encounters beginning Jan. 1, 2016, through Dec. 31, 2016. The supplemental documents provide updated categories and HCPCS for OP-26 — Hospital Outpatient Volume on Selected Outpatient Surgical Procedures — and are available on QualityNet. The updated codes are to be used for the data submission period beginning Jan. 1, 2017, through May 15, 2017.
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Tobacco use causes at least 12 types of cancer, and cigarette smoking causes 3 in 10 of all cancer deaths.
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While many refrain from using shoddy and unreliable dashcams manufactured by Asian companies, Papago manages to break the stereotype and offer sturdy and long-lasting equipment that guarantees your safety wherever you go. Hailing from Taipei, Taiwan, and known to produce stellar car equipment over the past decade, Papago has become one of the leading brands in Taiwan, China, Russia, South East Asia, Japan, Australia, and now foraying onto America soil with its amazing gear.
Right from offering highly affordable dashcams like the Papago GoSafe 388 to the high-end GoSafe S780, Papago caters to an array of clientèle seamlessly. Packed to the brim with features such as the lane departure warning system (LDWS) and front collision warning system (FCWS), Papago also offers dashcams that will warn you when you're approaching an area with known speed cameras. That's downright nifty!
Papago strives to craft equipment that make a difference and brings about a sense of comfort and safety, and it shows. Offering clever and unique solutions such as stop and go alerts, driver fatigue alarms, and a reminder to turn on your lights in low-light conditions, Papago dashcams have drivers covered in any and every stressful situation.


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The inspiration for the art on this week's Indy cover leads us to the Czech Republic. While traveling there many years ago, I came across a brilliant anti-fascist public ad campaign, with large billboards posted inside Prague's underground metro system. As spoofed here by our editorial art director Dustin Glatz, it depicted a woman hanging her laundry on a line held up by the salutes of two white supremacists, with the message: "Be kind to your local Nazi."
Even more humorous and biting: Watch the television commercial spot from the same campaign at bit.ly/2pKbY4W. The ads came to mind while brainstorming around how best to illustrate the cover teaser for our interview this week with Southern Poverty Law Center founder Morris Dees. How could we pay homage to someone who's done so much work to take power away from hate groups?
With our cover image, we hope you find the same humor in stealing a little thunder from those who promote division and prejudice. We're aware there's nothing really funny about a white supremacist or KKK member — well, until you find a utilitarian use for their silly salutes.


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Another Valentine project, this one was fun to make. I printed out the size heart i wanted and then ran them through the emboss folders. Next i used jumbo scallop scissors to create the white backings and edged all this with blank ink. I used my Slim Jim lettering dies for the word LOVE and kindy glitzed then Dimensional magiced them so they pop up. Added wings to one of the hearts and ribbons to hold it all together. Cool Hey!
I had sent my daughter Madaleine and her friend down town with a pocket full of change while i was making this and she comes in saying Mum i got bargin and youll love it ...you know we talked about getting these....and i wondered what on earth she had in the box...well 2 little eyes greeted me and 2 more were in the box. She had bought 2 mice! Gone are the days they come home with a bag of lollies. I couldnt say much but how cute they were...and yes we had talked about getting some with a spare cage and all. thank goodness school holidays are almost over or goodness only knows what she'll come home with next. so you have to see the 2 new additions to the family....they havent got names yet.
Madaleine had to text her big sister staright away to tell her. Beth is still at teen 1 Summer camp singing in the youth band. and Ben is off to teen 2 camp next week to do some serious mountain biking. Weve been doing alot of walking with the kids and our 3 dogs for exercise, its been good.
So heres some closeups of the heart Banner hope they can inspire someone...Valita
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Love Heart Banner
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Saturday, October 29, 2011
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I thought we weren't allowed to violate them.ReplyDelete
I'd use the sheep as ear muffs, paint my myself blue and celebrate Hallowwen as a Surf handing out olives to all the neighbourhood kids.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 29, 2011 at 11:54 AM
Paint numbers 1 and 3 in the sheeps, drop them in a public building. Spend the day looking at the people looking for the number 2 meanwhile you sit eating the olives.ReplyDelete
The winner's idea is sure to amuse. Or disgust. Not sure which yet.ReplyDelete
As someone who calls her followers sheep I am shocked and disgusted that you would even suggest a sheep violation contest.ReplyDelete
I think they suffer enough by having to read the crap I post.
But. I would spray the olives blue, place them under the sheeps rear ends and take pictures which I would post all over the Internet entitled "sheep does blue shit".
lol, awesome contest, very innovative! :PReplyDelete
Pretend that I'm playing Minecraft. Eat the olives to regain health, dye the sheep blue, sheer the sheep for blue wool and then punch the sheep to death to get non-existent lamb.ReplyDelete
Okay I got one. Another one. Look at this.ReplyDelete
First, I'd eat the olives. THE WHOLE THING OF OLIVES, all of it. In like the first 30 seconds. Then, id open up the can of blue paint and I'd throw it at a wall, call it graffiti. Maybe put some finger paint on that, reverse finger paint. This will take another minute so there's 1:30 right there. Now check it. With the last 30 seconds I'd take those sheep right, and I'd pet them. I'm f***ing dirty like that, I'd pet those muhfuggers like they've never been pat before. They'll feel SO violated, I don't know what my karma would do to me, but dammit. Mf. Have their furr all up in my fingers. LIKE A BOSS.
The whole skipping me thing still applies. This is just way too much fun.
AND AN EVEN BETTER IDEA! I'd mount the two sheep and me on a ferris wheel, I'd take with us the blue paint, the olives and a blunt, right. Get to the top, smoke one with my main buddies sheepy one and sheepy two, get to the top again, high and pour the blue paint down. Laugh at everyone because that's how we roll. The olives will be the munchies.ReplyDelete
I'm done now. I'll stop commenting.
>>not you making love to a sheepReplyDelete
count me out.
First off I would sniff the paint...... then sniff some more paint....... and then i would..... um.... uh....... where am I?..... And why are there sheep covered in olives in here?ReplyDelete
Oh no, I think I missed the deadline. Damn time difference. Can't wait to see the winner. This should be....interesting.ReplyDelete
I just can't get something for this no matter how hard I think. I don't know. I'd bring in a friend, we'd paint one sheep with blue stripes and we'd stick some olives and a little helmet onto the other and we'd compete in a race, spots versus stripes. Or I could take the paint and go paint my room blue which is something I've been wanting to do for ages, then during my break I would make a sub sandwich using the delicious olives as one of my fillings! Orrrrr I could paint them both completely blue and then upload a video to Youtube from a distance claiming that I've seen alien sheep then I'd get famous. My ideas suck, and I'm out of them now. Damn, this was tough.ReplyDelete


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A look at the second 10 line of duty deaths in 2011.
From 20 January to 17 February another ten firefighters died in the line of duty as listed by the United States Fire Administration. The average trend is eight deaths a month considering all the deaths to date. Notable among the second ten are:
An 80-year old volunteer captain who died of a heart attack during a response to structure fire [1]. This is the second fatality where the the victim is over the age of 65. Among the second ten is the second of the youngest deaths. A 26-year old volunteer firefighter died of a medical emergency after a fire [2]. This is the second 26-year old victim for 2011.
A 38-year old recruit died of a heart attack during a training evolution [3]. The recruit was participating in a follow the hoseline evolution when he went in cardiac arrest. Paramedics on the scene quickly performed CPR and delivered ALS measures, unfortunately the recruit died.
A career firefighter became ill while on duty, and left for a doctor's appointment. He collapsed while enroute and later died [4].
Outside of the recognition of 'traditional line of duty deaths' a volunteer assistant chief died of heart attack while doing paperwork [5].
Since the USFA and NFFF announced the recognition of Department of Defense line of duty deaths, an airman assigned to Kadena Air Base, Japan was killed. He was backed over by fire apparatus [6]. This is the first military-related line of duty death for 2011 and the only one at this time.
Considering deaths which occurred during a rescue attempt, a volunteer firefighter drowned while attempting water rescue which he responded to [7].
To date, the average age of all victims is 49. The average age of the second 10 is 44.
Department type of the second 10 deaths is six volunteer firefighters and four career firefighters. Command ranks of the victims are:
1 Chief
1 Assistant Chief
1 Battalion Chief
1 Captain
For the year to date, 14 of the total number of victims are listed as 'Firefighter' or another comparable rank. 10 are listed as line or chief officers. For the purpose of these statistics, the death of the fire recruit is counted as 'Firefighter' and in a 'Career' department, as news reports about the fatality indicated.
"The First 10" Backstep, January 2011
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2011 Firefighter Fatality Notices, U.S. Fire Administration
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"I would like to thank Christina Castorena for this great opportunity, and I look forward to working with all of our
coaches and athletic programs. I'm very excited to start the
next chapter of my professional career as the Assistant Athletic Director at
Edmonds Community College. Go Tritons!" said Kelly.
|Assistant Athletic Director, Scott Kelly
Kelly brings 14 years of coaching experience from all levels (high school, NWAC, NAIA, NCAA, summer collegiate leagues), including 7 years in the NWAC both as an assistant and head baseball coach, to the position, which started in 1996 when he was a student-athlete at Green River CC. He later played at Missouri Valley College and was a NAIA All-American pitcher there before being taken by the San Diego Padres in the 25th round of the 2001 MLB Draft. He began his coaching career at the ripe age of 25, and after assisting the Missouri Valley program for one season, took over the reins as head coach in 2005. Kelly later had stops at Green River CC, Saint Martin's University, and Kentlake High School before he landed the Edmonds CC head baseball coaching position in December of 2012.
Kelly has a proven track record of moving players on to four-year schools and the professional ranks from a structured program where student success is at the core. He is deeply committed to Triton Athletics and the college's mission, core themes, vision, and values. "I want to help all students succeed that come through our doors at EdCC," Kelly said.
"Scott is a great choice for this position because of his problem solving skills, his experience and depth of knowledge in two-year athletics, and his leadership abilities. He will strengthen our community here at Edmonds CC and also in the greater South Snohomish County area. He'll play a large role in helping us create the best student-athlete experience in the NWAC, and we will lean on his fundraising background to enhance Triton Athletics. His facility management, game management, and facility rental experience should suit him well in supporting our department into the future," said Edmonds CC Athletic Director Spencer Stark.
The 2018 baseball season will mark his 6th year as head baseball coach at the college. Kelly has guided the Tritons to two North Region championships, five straight playoff appearances, a 3rd place finish in 2015, and a NWAC Championship in 2014. Kelly received his Bachelor's degree from Missouri Valley College in Recreation Administration. His office is located in Seaview Gym 102C.


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Robert Redford and Jane Fonda are turning heads this week in Florence and Cañon City.
Crews for the Netflix movie "Our Souls at Night" filmed a softball game at Florence's Wilcox Field on Monday. According to the Cañon City Daily Record, the region's high school girls' softball teams, the Florence Huskies and the Cañon City Tigers, rehearsed and shot scenes for the movie. The Tigers were transformed into the Holt Indians for the name of the fictitious Colorado town in which the movie is set.
"Filmmakers first approached the Florence-Penrose School District about filming the Florence softball team in September," according to the Tuesday story in the Daily Record. "At the Sept. 12 school board meeting, superintendent Rhonda Roberts said the school district is viewing the whole thing as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and that she was excited that the Florence softball team would be getting the opportunity to be a 'character' in the movie."
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We just finished employee reviews at courier. we have not done these often in the past but one on one check ins just to check in.
We have serviced the front bearings on the cargo bike, and are working on the back, although our white industries rear hub has proved a hundred times better than philwood. its rolling way smooth and doesnt need servicing everythree months (try every two years). White industries awesome.
I am heading to japan in a week. means the courier phone number for your telemarketing needs will have a little delay. when calling or emailing please remember to adjust for Japan time. This is a family thing mostly, but we have (and i will need) to visit a lot of coffee shops. shops that sprudge never mentions in japan. this time we are concerned about Japan closing the tokyo fish market, and the tokyo olympics. we will also be in Okayama for a friend, but a rich coffee culture, which i may be able to describe later ( this will be my second time to okayama).
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Erasing Prejudice and Stigmas
The mission of the Hope House is to provide a safe educational and social environment for youngsters with special needs. It envisions a world where discrimination and prejudice against special needs individuals do not exist. The Hope House brings love and patience to the task of equipping special needs children and adults with the education, training and self-confidence they require to become fully-integrated and contributing members of society, appreciated by all and shunned by none.
Filling a Void
The Hope House was born out of a substantial need for special-care facilities for children and teenagers with different levels of learning disabilities and developmental problems. It has a learning resource center and also provides lodging when needed. Due to the initiative's ongoing growth and development, in recent years new challenges have arisen. The house's boarding facilities required infrastructural improvements and expansion, and as the attendants were growing up, vocational solutions for youth and adults with special needs were also necessary.
Eyal Mesika and Chabad Partner with Hope House
Renovations and improvements demand funding. As with all NGOs, the incredible work of the Hope House would not be possible without the support of individual and corporate donors. Eyal Mesika, founder of EMI Systems Limited, a security firm working in Nigeria and Ghana, has invested considerable personal resources to help the Hope House answer these needs and achieve its mission and objectives. In coordination with Chabad House Nigeria, a Jewish community center for Israeli residents and tourists, Mesika has enabled the organization to improve its lodging facilities and open employment centers that provide experiential training, vocational guidance and actual work opportunities for Hope House graduates. This is a significant step towards healthy social assimilation and community awareness for the special needs population in Nigeria and it was made possible by this touching collaboration between people who may not share the same beliefs but share the same core values of inclusion and tolerance.
The Mesika Brothers Foundation
Mesika's contribution to Nigerian society doesn't end at the Hope House. He has also established the Mesika Brothers Foundation which is empowered by his Company, EMI Systems.
The foundation provides funding and services to two orphanages in Abuja – Rachel's Home for Orphans and VulnerableChildren and Talitha Cumi.
It also supports empowerment programs for youth and young adults. Among these programs are Future Lab, an intense leadership seminar for young adults, and IT Structure, a technology oriented program for teens that provides free tech education during school hours and promotes entrepreneurship through experiential learning.
It's always heartwarming to witness initiatives and projects like these that bring people and organizations together in order to support a society from within. By providing basic facilities, essential tools, and life lessons to different sectors of Nigerian Society these programs are strengthening Nigerian society and contributing to the safety, wellbeing and proliferation of its members.
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Friday, July 27, 2007
MTG Forge History
I've posted this before but people seemed to enjoy it. I'll probably only post 1 or 2 things a week, but thanks everyone for reading my stuff :)
Many times I've downloaded a cool program and I wanted to learn more about it. Most of the time I can't find any information describing why a program exists, it just does. This article will describe the history and motivation behind MTG Forge.
It all started when I found the cool 1996 Magic game by MicroProse called Duels of the Planeswalkers, http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?id=1550. It let you play against the computer, which lessened the humiliation of defeat. It featured about 640 cards from Alpha, Legends, Antiquities, The Dark, and 4th Edition. It was also way ahead of its time by letting you play against other people over the Internet, much like a free Magic Online. It had all the classic power cards and I was in awe when I first saw them in action. Nevinyrral's Disk, Ancestral Recall, Ali from Cairo, Time Vault, Berserk, and Black Lotus are all very broken. I could tell that these cards were overpowered, but also really fun. I played constructed (all the cards) constantly for about a month or two straight.
I was getting bored, but I found an option to play sealed deck. I randomly clicked on it to see how it was, but I wasn't expecting anything too great. I loved it! I got to choose my cards from a random card pool and then face off in a 32 player tournament. It was great. Those early card sets were not designed with sealed in mind so I had to use 2 tournaments packs and 4 boosters in order to construct a viable deck, anything less was unplayable.
The MicroProse game was great. The computer acted intelligent enough and would sometimes surprise me by combining the effects of two different cards. I enjoyed playing land destruction and other nasty decks, without actually annoying another person. Sealed deck was really fun, but I wish I could change the card set that it used. Some cards I just got tired of seeing and I wanted to delete them.
I started programming just to see how far I could get. I started by programming code that represented a card and then phase etc… The project just got bigger and bigger and now it is around 700kb of source code. The source code is about the length of a 300 page novel. I programmed in Java because that is my best language. I am sort of surprised the whole project didn't collapse, and it did a few times. When nothing worked, those were the hardest days. I programmed MTG Forge mainly for myself and I am my own biggest fan. I play it almost every day.
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The title track on this begins with periodically discordant, almost avant-garde instrumentation (from pianist Dan Nimmer and drummer Ali Jackson Jr. especially) and singing (from Jennifer Sanon) and I think Marsalis' first trumpet solo has kind of a Lester Bowie thing going. (He switches to Don Cherry later.) I still hear the blues, New Orleans and Duke Ellington in sections. It is a Wynton Marsalis CD, after all. But it's got hard edges I haven't heard a lot from him since "Black Codes (From the Underground)" or "Live at Blues Alley" or maybe his Jazz Messengers days.
Also reminds me of his Pulitzer-winning opus on slavery, segregation and racism "Blood on the Fields," and the songs with lyrics generally have a political or social message; the disproportionate number of black men in prison, the homeless, the unfulfilling nature of consumerism (in the form of a frenetic Sanon scat on "Doin' (Y)Our Thing"). I think he's going to get some flak for "These Are Those Soulful Days," which takes a poke at the gangster end of hip-hop. But the message is worth considering and the music the message is wrapped around is wonderful. It's followed by "Where Y'all At?," on which Marsalis bends rap, second line style, to his own purposes.
Not every song is overtly message driven. "Find Me" is a pretty, bluesy ballad. "Supercapitalism" had me thinking of children's songs, Freddie Hubbard's '70s stuff and Gershwin. Go figure?
Some nice sax playing by Walter Blanding (tenor and soprano, where I can hear some Coltrane in his playing) as well, both solo and in the ensemble.
Maybe a tad too much singing for my tastes, but very interesting all the way through. Music writer at work loaned me a review copy of this. (Comes out in March.) I will buy it.
My take on books, canoes, running, current events, movies, music (especially jazz and fado), science, technology and life its ownself
Saturday, January 13, 2007
Thursday, January 04, 2007
William Parker Bass Quartet, Requiem, Splasc(H) Records
Over the weekend a strange late-December thunderstorm rolled through and that's what "Requiem" from the William Parker Bass Quartet (Parker, Henry Grimes. Alan Silva and Sirone) makes me think of; the basses are the rumbling thunder, punctuated by cracks (screeches) of lightning, and Charles Gayle's alto saxophone is the howling wind. Moody, but excellent freely improvised jazz and a bass-lover's feast.
Tuesday, January 02, 2007
Thinking about Take Five
Why is this song so infectious? There's Desmond's silk-and-satin saxophone playing, which ranges from strolling on a sunny day to sipping old scotch in a smokey barroom around midnight, and Brubeck's neoclassical piano playing, which essentially morphs into a percussive part of an expanded rhythm section under the soloists in the course of the tune.
But I think the actual "rhythm" section has a whole lot to do with it, especially drummer Joe Morello, whose soling is as front line as Desmond's on the alto.
But I think the actual "rhythm" section has a whole lot to do with it, especially drummer Joe Morello, whose soling is as front line as Desmond's on the alto.
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Experience with our guide team the giant blue ice world of the NIGARDSBREEN Glacier nearby the Sognefjord and learn about the exciting nature of the Jostedalsglacier. The trip is long enough to seek out some of the most impressive areas of the blue ice landscape.
This glacier hike is more demanding than the Short Blue Ice Hike. The route passes through some more challenging and steeper parts of the glacier and as a reward you get a great view of the snow covered Jostedalsbreen and the upper part of Nigardsbreen.
Discover the power of nature and learn how to use crampons and ice axe, experience impressive ice towers and deep blue crevasses. Learn all about the formative power of a glacier. An experience you never will forget!
Click here to see the photo gallery
01.06 - 31.08 at 11:15
01.07 - 25.08 at 09:45
01.09 - 15.09 at 11:45
Departure at 11:45 - 10:15 - 12:15.
Fits withthe schedule of the Glacier Bus.
01.07 - 25.08 at 9:45
Departure at 10:15.
Fits with the schedule of the Glacier Bus.
Nigardsbreen car park at the equipment depot (sign GUIDE) next to the toilets.
Totally 5 - 5,5 hours, on ice about 2,5 hours.
The total time is calculated as follow:
Boat transport: 15 min. x 2 (no waiting for the boat incl.)
Walking to and from the glacier: 1 hour x 2
Equip/roping up and instruction: approx. 15-30 min.
Glacier hike about 2,5 hour
A long hike, partly steep and a bit exposed in some spots. Surefootedness and hiking experience is required.
Age limit: Min. 12 years.
Warm, wind- and watherproof clothing, sunglasses, lunch package and solid shoes (trekking boots or sport shoes). The clothing must cover the whole body (no shorts or skirts without leggings). More advices about equipment
Min. 2 og max. 16 pers. per guide.
NOK 725.- incl. glacier equipment and the exhibition at Breheimsenteret.
As A PRIVAtE hike
1-4 pers. NOK 3990.- totally.
4-16 pers. NOK 995.-/pers.
16+ pers. NOK 895.-/pers.
Age limit: Min. 10 years.
Upon request. At a start time between 09:30-13:00 the transportation with the glacier boat t/r is included in the price. Otherwise you have to walk by foot from the Nigardsbreen glacier and back to the car park. Duration about 1,5 hour (each way).


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JB Hi-Fi is officially closed. You can learn more here .
JB Hi-Fi is the largest entertainment retailer in Australia. Starting with one store in 1974, there are now over 160 stores across the country. The JB Hi-Fi name is synonymous with music in Australia, having supported and sold music in Australia for almost 40 years.
To complement the offering of physical music in their bricks and mortar and online stores, a music streaming service; JB Hi-Fi NOW Music was launched in late 2011. JB Hi-Fi NOW Music is currently the largest Australian owned paid subscription service.
Across the JB Hi-Fi websites, digital marketing, social media, print media and stores, JB Hi-Fi reaches over 5 million Australians each week.
Go Live Time
It takes 3-7 business days for content to go live in JB Hi-Fi.
JB Hi-Fi Territories (Where Music Sells)
Currently Australia, only.
How JB Hi-Fi Sells Your Music
Does JB Hi-Fi sell your music via?:
Pay Rate (How Much JB Hi-Fi Pays You)
Paid Streams:
When a subscriber streams your music, you get paid a proportionate share of JB Hi-Fis's subscription revenue per month calculated on terms set out in TuneCore's blanket agreement with the store (this usually excludes streams during a subscriber's free trial). Payments will fluctuate each month, depending on the amount of subscription revenue generated and how often your music was streamed.
GOOD TO KNOW: We've built our TuneCore Music Publishing Administration to get songwriters (the person or entity that controls the copyright to the lyrics and melody of the composition) all their royalties from sales and use of their compositions around the world. To learn more about the additional separate royalties you earn as a Songwriter, see our Publishing Administration Help section.


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Last week Mr Jones entered the house after a long, hard day at work (I may be dramatising that part!) and announces that he 'needs' a vest. He also wondered just how long it would take me to complete said vest…
Hmmm… After many discussions way back in Autumn about what he'd like me to knit him for winter, nothing was decided upon because, to be honest, Mr Jones is still a little snippy about the lack of socks that emerged when he requested them 5 years ago!
True, he never got his socks, but my excuses are good ones!
First time knitting socks. Tick!
First time using multiple double-pointed needles. Tick!
Starting the project as something to keep me occupied after surgery while in hospital and finding out I could only sleep and whine in pain. Tick!
Project taking too long for my liking in the end. Tick!
And that's where it ended…
Anyhow, he stopped asking and I buried the UFO and promptly forgot about it! Over the years I've knitted many other bits and pieces for him, but the unfinished sock project still burns… Meh heh heh!
So back to the matter at hand; the vest!
Mr Jones wanted a vest fit for work, which to me meant that it had to be a small ply knit and a classic design. So off I went to the vintage pattern collection I've amassed to search for something suitable. I found a great pattern from the Retro Knits book; Men's Vest 1940, which is classic and more importantly for me, one that will knit quickly despite the small needles used and "…uncomplicated, take-along knitting, with enough interest to prevent it from becoming another UFO"; right up my alley!
I'll keep you posted with updates on my progress!
Love Mrs Jones x


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Domestic appliances and machines are available everywhere on the market and when you start looking on them you may not be able to decide which one is better for you and which one is not. In Australia, there is has been a boom in the production of various appliances that have replaced the previous or old appliances people used use before.
You can find handheld vacuum, steam mops, ice cream maker, weber bbq, rice cooker and hot water system in addition to the old blender and nespresso machines.
All these machines have become a necessary part of most of the homes and none can deny the importance of these little yet very important machines. You may have to look for a better quality products and avoid taking any low quality products that may claim to have high quality features but may not have the actual features in them.
Some of the easiest ways to help you find the most desirable and convenient appliances for your home is through the online shops.
Many manufacturers and producers of appliances have opened their own online shops to help their customers purchase their desired products online and they provide high quality and safe delivery of each of their products safely to the customer so that they don't have to bear with damaged objects and products.
The easiest way to find the desired appliances is through such company shops. In case you are not comfortable with that, you can also call the manufacturer to make sure about the products and then you can purchase them. In addition to that there are many reliable third party sites offering high quality delivery services and they offer genuine products with real guaranteed services that you can trust for sure. You can get any of the available appliance right at your doorstep and you will not have to worry about finding a nearby store.


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Yesterday, we learned that legalizing pot would give the state a financial shot in the arm. Today, we're learning that legalization could provide a significant boost to public safety, too.
That's the conclusion of a new study by the RAND Corporation, which examined the potential impacts of Prop 19. Chief among those effects would be "defunding" unregulated black markets like local drug dealers and cartels.
With pot regulated and controlled like alcohol, the market will grow increasingly stable, the study concludes. In addition, a regulated industry will provide safer pot to customers, rather than the mysterious unregulated hodgepodge that millions of Americans currently smoke.
Of course, the Drug Enforcement Administration, which rakes in boatloads of cash to perform risky, ineffective raids, might disagree. But the study makes short work of the DEA's claims, writing that the government's "existing estimates about drug production and consumption are cryptic, inconsistent, and often impossible to verify." In other words, the government's statistics might as well be completely made up, just like the imagined "risks" of smoking pot. "The most significant harm associated with smoking cannabis is being arrested," says one pot expert.
According to the RAND study, should pot be legalized, cartels would find pot prices drop so dramatically -- and quality improve -- that the black market would be more more lucrative than growing carrots. Current estimates suggest that drug cartels could stand to lose as much as $2 billion if Prop 19 passes.
These estimates are far from speculative. The effects of a domestic pot industry are already felt in counties like Mendocino, where black-market drugs have been edged out by locally-produced cannabis.


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This is a guest post from Alistair Mclachlan. Alistair is Head of Support at FiveStars Loyalty, a San Francisco based startup that helps businesses and communities thrive by turning every transaction into a relationship.
To hear "Server Down" is to hear two words which instill fear into the heart of any Support Leader. System outages are unavoidable but while Engineering is scrambling to fix the issue, there are certain things we can do in Customer Support to mitigate the impact on paying customers.
During normal circumstances, FiveStars Support carefully treads the tightrope, balancing call deflection with issue resolution in a way that doesn't negatively impact Customer Experience. But if you have a Support Team staffed to take 20 calls per hour, a sustained increase to ten times that volume is going to sink the ship unless you have effective outage planning.
At FiveStars, we have a three step plan to try and minimize the impact of system wide outages:
Mobilize the troops
Ensure that all agents are on the phone. Accurate case reporting is important, but secondary to helping as many people as you can. We have call recordings and phone logs for auditing cases after the issue is resolved. Everybody needs to be back to back with inbound calls.
Share the load
At FiveStars all members of the Operations team are cross trained to help with support calls and manage support cases. If our software goes down, all available Account Managers and Onboarding Specialists jump onto the phone to help.
Redirect to our status page
The first two steps are important, but are band aids if we are being flooded with calls. Our status page status.fivestars.com allows us to effectively message all of our 10,000 small business customers at once. This provides them with live updates on our service and helps us stay consistent with our mission of having authentic relationships with our merchants.
We recently suffered two outages, both of which saw our daily call volume explode. On both 6/6 and 6/15 there were multiple-hour-long stretches where the FiveStars Support team handled more calls than we would usually receive in a full business day. As the volume on 6/6 grew our phone messaging switched to to a prompt apologizing for high call volumes and redirecting to status.fivestars.com. This was a strategy that we had pre planned in case of a big volume event. The results were remarkable. Our average time to abandon halved. This meant that customers were hearing the prompt and visiting the site, rather than staying on the line getting frustrated then hanging up. Our Service Level performance doubled, meaning we were able to get to 98% of all merchants still on the line, rather than the 48% before the change in phone prompt. Our status site got 2,440 pageviews (it averages 300 per day). On 6/15 the effect was even more profound, with 7,150 visits to the page.
Status.fivestars.com also became a valuable internal tool shared by our sales leaders and giving valuable updates to our remote sales reps. This helped keep our support team focused on helping customers instead of worrying about internal communication. It also allowed Sales to act as customer support, driving merchants to the correct channel and improving customer experience.
The status page has very quickly become an important part of our Support infrastructure, helping us communicate issues to our entire customer base in a fast concise way and alleviating some of the customer frustration that occurs when their software is not functioning.
This post was originally published on the Statuspage blog in 2016.


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I was really excited when I heard about the recent launch of The Temblors, a new group of LA based playwrights, aiming to, as the name suggests, shake things up a bit. I've known T. Tara for ages, ever since Sarah Lawrence College when we studied playwrighting and made theatre. Since then, her work has appeared in Sticky, and I've watched her career, and surprise wedding (wow that looked amazing!), from afar. I had to know more about her latest endeavor, so I asked her about it.
The Temblors offers a supportive network of collaborative artists, and a time frame, for fellow Temblors to produce their work. Why do playwrights, individualists by nature, need or want this kind of framework?
T. Tara
In LA, the theater world is different from NY in that we had the whole 99 seat theater blow up making it a very hard time for both actors and producers to put up plays on the smaller side. Expense wise, mid-size theater here is hard to do so that's why it hadn't been done as much before. In addition, a lot of times mid size theater was done, it was going to NY playwrights (not playwrights living here full time) when there's a fine wealth of talent here in LA. In the footsteps of the Welders or 13P, we wanted to give LA playwrights a platform to get into midsize theater. Instead of the usual sending in of plays or hoping plays get selected, we decided to create that opportunity ourselves. We also don't want it to just be us seven because we certainly aren't the only talented playwrights in LA. We want this to go on to the next seven and hopefully contribute a wealth of local talent to the LA Theater scene on a broader scale and create more conversation.
It's funny what you say about the productions going to NY artists. We often say out here that to get a show up you have to go to LA, get staffed on a show, then come back east. I've been making theater for quite a bit now, and the thing that I found that has been a revelation to me is just how deep the talent pool is. There are so many spectacularly talented writers and artists making work in this field, and those that get famous enough to be well recognized or well compensated are just a few of the insanely spectacular group. What is really important is not just making the work ourselves, but becoming a platform for more work. I love that the Temblors has that foresight, to keep up the project even past your own productions having been achieved. How did the seven of you find each other, and how will you find the next seven?
T. Tara
Well, Kemp and I were in the Cosby Screenwriting Fellowship together. He and John Pollono are members of Rogue Machine Theater company here which does 99 seat theater shows mostly. Vasanti and I were Van Liers at New York Theater Workshop. Oliver has been around the scene for awhile on both coasts and LATC is one of his stomping grounds. Nate and Kemp met I believe by both being nominated locally for their shows last year or so. Meghan is one of the local playwrights who's work we admired and I think she was nominated at LA Ovation as well. It was important we found people who's work we admired and could stand behind. Lots of working playwrights here don't live here so its hard to say they are LA playwrights. I think smaller theaters here are looking at NY writers who aren't just getting staffed on shows over LA playwrights who live here. For the next seven, we are each responsible for finding one. We hope to have a few writers involved in The Temblors by coming to see us, supporting us, etc. so they won't be strangers.
During grad school there was alot of talk about how the 'pipeline' from downtown (NYC, but let's throw in LA, why not) to Broadway (let's call it major market stages, since they are far and wide these days), was broken. Do your Temblors feel this? Is that part of what's driving this?
T. Tara
I'm not sure if it's broken so much as across the board, entertainment businesses are trying to make sure they make money. Are those efforts always successful? Probably not. I think we aim to strengthen the relationship of that pipeline here to include local playwrights and have them considered for the larger scale productions in LA rather than assume that NY or other notable factors will guarantee an audience.
Do you think that money, or a profit motive, should be a deciding force in what work is selected for production? It's interesting because while films depend on ticket sales, television depends on advertising revenue, and theatre depends on grant money. Do you think that money, or a profit motive, should be a deciding force in what work is selected for production? How is The Temblors funded?
T. Tara
Well I hate that is it. The motivation for smaller theaters here is that they hope to get a big NY name to guarantee ticket sales. But that doesn't always work as art isn't a guaranteed business model. Producing in 99 seat theaters here doesn't give you much of a profit even if you sell 99 percent of your seats here. I think Kemp's One Night In Miami for Rogue was an amazing exception but that isn't something guaranteed. We think taking a gamble and trying to go above the 99 seat parameters may surprising change the landscape. We hope so anyway. Lots of LA theaters don't have the resources or the interest to go above that 99 seat clause but with the changing equity rules, we think it's worth a shot to try.
We are doing old fashioned fundraising, grants through LATC and whatever else we can do to make sure we put up quality productions. We hope our group is unique enough and gains enough attention that the usual funding entities want to support us.
Do you know which play of yours you'll be presenting with The Temblors?
T. Tara
I do! I'm working on it now. Tentatively titled "The Mic Catches Everything."
Can you tell us anything about the play? Do you like to talk about your work while you're writing it or do you keep it to yourself?
T. Tara
I am fine with talking about it. Especially since I have my summary up already! My play is about a former journalist (scarred by a past incident) who does a podcast about a crime and what her responsibility is to prove or disprove justice.
You can find out more about The Temblors and what mischief they'll get up to next here, and more about T. Tara Turk here.


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Shortcut Keys for Running unit tests Follow
Does anyone know if there are any shortcuts to running unit tests? I understand that there are shortcuts to get to the two unit test windows, I'd just really like to be able to contextually run tests (within a test method, run that test, within a tet fixture, run those tests).
I've tried to search to find out how, but they are quite loaded terms.
Not that I've been able to find in a quick look-around, and I for one really wish there were shortcuts for things like running the test that the caret is located in, running all tests in the current test session, and perhaps some that are equivalent to right-clicking on various nodes in the Solution Explorer and choosing Run Unit Tests, with one for each of at least the current project and the whole solution available as assignable shortcuts.
There are commands listed in the Tools - Options - Keybaord dialog of VS2008 for resharper unit test runner
Have you tried assigning a keyboard shortcut to these, because I use MSTF and its own test runner, I run all my tests using its shortcut of ctrl r + a, and to run an individual test I either click on the resharper icon (I have Gallio installed) or use test driven.net context menu to run the test.
hope this helps, and have fun
Edited by: Duncan on Sep 15, 2008 4:20 PM
That's it! Thank you, works a charm. Now I know where to look next time I need a shortcut too...
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Lisa García Bedolla
Lisa García Bedolla is the Chancellor's Professor of Education and Political Science at UC Berkeley. She is a member of the Putting Families First: Good Jobs for All Advisory Council.
Articles by this author
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Nation's Most Vulnerable Are Fighting Back Against the 1% Tide
As Americans, we cling to the idea that a rising tide lifting all boats is the means to end the growing gap between the wealthiest and poorest Americans. But the hard truth missing from this image is that not all boats rise equally. History has shown that the ones at the top will rise higher and...
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Bristol Sport Store
The Bristol Sport Store sells a wide range of products and gifts across all of our stable of clubs.
Buy all the latest replica shirts and souvenirs from Bristol City, Bristol Bears, Bristol Flyers, and Bristol City WFC.
All enquiries should be directed to email@example.com.
Merchandise is available to buy on the Bristol Sport Store Online here.
Opening Times:
Monday to Friday, 9am – 5pm *
Saturday 9am – 5pm *
* Matchdays – the Bristol Sport Store is from 10am until 30 minutes after the final whistle of a fixture.


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Camera Size is a free online digital camera comparison tool. This web application was designed to help you
compare one camera's size relative to another camera, and view each camera from different sides. The site is being continuously updated with new camera models, so you can compare the size of older cameras with the latest models.
We introduced and will be introducing a wide variety of features that will help you determined which camera fits you best, both in terms of ergonomics, size and weight. Furthermore, you have the option to read Amazon customer reviews about each camera with one click.
The camera size doesn't represent the real camera size due to many hardware variations, and in some cases, display size restrictions. It's more useful to compare the relative size differences between one camera and another (It's not 100% accurate, but very close to that).
Camera Size comparison web app allows you to view each camera from various sides, including front, rear, left, right and top (on selected models). This can help you better visualize the height, width and depth of the camera when compared to other cameras.
You can visually comprehend how compact and slim the camera is.
Furthermore, you have the option to make the camera overlap another, so you visualize even the smallest differences in size. You have the option to compare the cameras in various placements: side by side, first camera over the second camera and vice versa. The app also provided you with an option to easily change the length measurement units from millimeters to inches.
For many of us, the color of the camera is a significant factor when making a buying decision. Some camera models were made available in a wide variety of exotic rich colors. CameraSize.com allows you to shift between various colors (on selected models) so you can view and compare cameras in your preferred color!
Sometimes, comparing a digital camera image against another doesn't really allow you to understand how small or how large the camera is. 'Camera Size' web app enables you to turn on a draggable overlay image of an average adult's hand (approx. 174 mm). You can drag it around freely and position it below the camera.
That will give you a good observation of the relative size of the camera compared to a human hand. In fact, this is the most practical way to demonstrate how compact or bulky the camera is.
Many camera advertisements utilize this technique when they advertise a compact camera, and want people to know how small it is.
In order to activate this assistant image layer, just click the hand icon on the left sidebar when you are inside the comparison tool's page.
CameraSize.com allows you to share a specific camera comparison with your friends on Twitter and Facebook. Each time you compare various cameras, the URL of the page updated to reflect the change. In short, it means that when you refer people to that specific URL, your friends will see the same two cameras that you've compared yourself, fast and easy!
After each selection of cameras, you'll be presented with a textual explanation about how the two cameras differ. You'll know how wider, larger and heavier the cameras is compared to the second one.


text: These Mii's recently found on Naver.jp, by forum user Lanzz, are Mii's that were created for the 3DS. These Mii's can be used just like a Mii you create on the 3DS or Wii, but instead of going through the whole creation process, you can simply scan the QR codes that are underneath each picture above. You can also transfer these Mii's in image format on an SD card on which the Nintendo 3DS will store various data and games….


text: I have an appointment later this week to have a new oem canvas top installed on my car. The old one had broken strings that resulted in a hole being chafed in the canvas (prior to my ownership). My question to the group, has anyone had this done, and are there any "watch outs" I should make the installer aware of? Thanks for any insights.


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Richelle Colbear, VP Healthcare
491 College St, Suite 300, Toronto, ON M6G 1A5
With 20 years of experience working with Rx brands, OTC brands, healthcare devices, healthcare retail and not‑for‑profit organizations, Richelle's passion for this industry is unmatched. She brings years of best practice and foundational experience as senior leader at Ogilvy Commonhealth, plus exceptional branding and creative excellence as Managing Director at john st. health, positioning her to take on the tough challenges of healthcare advertising today, all in an environment where she is hands‑on with each brand and client, day to day.
"'Ridiculously passionate' is the phrase that comes to mind when I think about Richelle Colbear and her contributions to our business. I've had the pleasure of partnering with Richelle over the last 4 years as we built a distinct consumer awareness program, while driving standout brand differentiation within an environment people often characterize as a sea of sameness. It was in these endeavours where I was particularly impressed with her originality of thought and considerate approach to our business. Richelle did and would provide remarkable counsel and stewardship to the strategic direction of your business, as she did with ours."
Christopher Van Dyk
Country Business Unit Head ‑ Vision Care
Alcon Canada Inc.
A Novartis Company
At A+D Health, a division of Arrivals + Departures, we want to give people the opportunity to live a healthier life. This is why we have embarked on building a healthcare practice to tackle some of the toughest challenges in healthcare advertising today. From creating richer and more meaningful conversations between HCPs, patients and brands, to generating more impact and engagement throughout the OTC shopper journey. We stand to give brands purpose, meaning and heart.
Our team has years of experience across numerous therapeutic categories, as well as expertise in PAAB, ASC and Health Canada negotiations. Some of our past and present clients include:
We have a diverse set of capabilities to serve our healthcare brands.


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8 Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up, grew and produced a crop, multiplying thirty, sixty, or even a hundred times."
Monthly Archives: April 2009
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7 Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants, so that they did not bear grain
Mark 4:5-6
Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. 6 But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root.
Mark 4:4
4 As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up.
Mark 4:1-3
Chapter Blog – Genesis
1 Again Jesus began to teach by the lake. The crowd that gathered around him was so large that he got into a boat and sat in it out on the lake, while all the people were along the shore at the water's edge. 2 He taught them many things by parables, and in his teaching said: 3 "Listen! A farmer went out to sow his seed.
Mark 3:31-35
31 Then Jesus' mother and brothers arrived. Standing outside, they sent someone in to call him. 32 A crowd was sitting around him, and they told him, "Your mother and brothers are outside looking for you." 33 "Who are my mother and my brothers?" he asked. 34 Then he looked at those seated in a circle around him and said, "Here are my mother and my brothers! 35 Whoever does God's will is my brother and sister and mother."
Mark 3:28-30
28 I tell you the truth, all the sins and blasphemies of men will be forgiven them. 29 But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; he is guilty of an eternal sin." 30 He said this because they were saying, "He has an evil spirit."


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SCAN Meeting Hobart
Are you a high school student interested in climate action? Come along to our gathering where we will be learning how to effectively communicate climate change.
For those who don't know, the Student Climate Action Network (AKA SCAN) is a group dedicated to assisting high school students in their climate justice endeavours. Being exclusively for, and run by, high school students, we understand any issues that come about because of school commitments. Which means if you are a student with hesitations of joining an environmental group, hesitate no longer as SCAN will provide you with everything and anything your high school environmentalist heart desires.
So if you are a high school student passionate about fixing the climate crisis, educating yourself on climate change and how to communicate it to your peers, or just looking to connect with other like-minded people, come along to our SCAN Gathering.
Can't wait to see you there!
71 Murray St
Hobart, TAS 7000
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I'm delighted to have Cristina Gangemi, disability consultant, as my guest blogger. Cristina holds a master's degree in this field and is director of The Kairos Forum, which focuses on enabling communities to be places of belonging for people with a disability. She has extensive experience in Special Educational Needs (SEN), offering training across a range of settings including schools and Early Years as well as parental support. Cristina has undertaken innovative and creative research with the University of Aberdeen in collaboration with people with an intellectual disability. Her research 'EveryBody Has a Story' (2010) has produced approaches to SEN that involve and celebrate the whole person, body, mind and spirit. Cristina is a national adviser to the bishops of England and Wales and works closely with Vatican Councils. She has also worked closely with Baroness Sheila Hollins, both on her advisory board and the series 'Books beyond words'. Her work is recognised and valued both nationally and internationally.
Cristina writes:
"As Early Years providers we find ourselves at a unique point in history, where we are invited to make a real difference to the lives of disabled people and their families. This new approach to Special Educational Needs marks a fundamental shift towards parental choice and pupils' rights and takes a holistic approach to a child's life from 0–25 years of age: enabling a person's skills and meeting their needs begins at birth! The fundamental shifts within this new practice has cemented the importance of Early Years provision in the life and educational journey of a SEND child. In the past, assessment, practice and provision have been segmented – divided into age groups that separated providers rather than giving them an opportunity to practise effective transition. However, what does it mean to be a service provider at the very start of a child's life and education? Is our role to teach and reach attainment targets, or to enable a child to grow and flourish within who they were born to be? When we begin to identify children's needs, skills and possibilities how do we provide a service that will truly make a difference?
I feel that the task of the Early Year's provider is not simply to impart information or to enable skills but to be part of the very formation of the human person, equipping him or her to live life to the full. In short, it is also about imparting wisdom and setting them and their family on a road to growth and fulfilment.
With changes in legislation and approaches to SEND the provider of education has become one of the most important professionals in this journey, it really is a make or break position. A young child will spend many hours within our activities and provision. The first signs a child has special needs will probably be observed in their early years and how we respond will have a significant influence on that person's life. What language should we use, therefore, in these moments? Is it correct to speak of 'things being wrong' with this child and their life? Have we ever stopped to reflect upon how the language we use, in such important moments, can set the child and their family on a road that leads, for example, to anxiety or is there a way to approach this time that is both positive and helpful? 'Fostering good relations' is one of the requirements of current codes of practice and this asks us to consider these questions seriously within our practice… but what language should we use and what approach and why is it so important? How can we enable a whole person approach and where do we begin?"
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It's the teachers and only the teachers.
Fox News and CNN recently ran almost simultaneous specials on education in America. Both programs came to the same, and in my eyes simply obvious, conclusion. To borrow from Clinton's catch-phrase: It's the teacher, stupid! As with everything else in life, people make the difference. Process, policies, and technology will always be secondary to a [...]
Why Not Let Students Know Everybody's Score?
Inessa on whether students' scores should be discussed publicly. This column first appeared in The Jewish Advocate:
Face up or face down?
Should a teacher return a marked quiz face down to protect a student's privacy, or face up, where it can be seen by the entire class?
At [...]
Do We Need To Make Algebra II Mandatory?
Yesterday I read an article in the Washington Post discussing the movement in some states toward making Algebra II mandatory. I found the article via Get Schooled blog post at Atlantic Journal-Constitution. Below is my comment on the issue.
America is the country that really believes in numbers. Students are not performing [...]
Looking At American Achievement in International Perspective
A couple of weeks ago an article on The Fordham Institute page positively commented on the results of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). They wrote:
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In raw numbers, the U.S. produces many more high-achieving students than any other OECD nation—more high-achievers than France, Germany, and the UK combined [...]
Which Way Self Confidence?
A couple of weeks ago I gave a test to my math class. Every lesson I give my students a short 20 min accumulative quiz on everything we have learned since the first lesson of the school year. Instead of teaching a topic, testing it, and putting it to rest, we, at Russian School of Mathematics, continue testing on old material along with the new throughout the entire school year. We call this spiral learning.
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I recently interviewed Jamie Shiers, coordinator of the worldwide LHC Computing Grid at CERN, about the STEP'09 postmortem – a review of the large scale STEP test of the wLCG in preparation for the LHC startup. The bulk of what he says is reported in an iSGTW article.
I've also made an audio clip of all the other good stuff Jamie said which there wasn't space for in the article – his views on the importance of grid computing, people, collaboration, and BBQs for the LHC. Have a listen!
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Thoughts from the coordinator of the worldwide LHC Computing Grid
Publié par Seth Bell à l'adresse 5:13 PM
Libellés : CERN, iSGTW, Large Hadron Collider, STEP'09, WLCG
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2 comments:
- Monty said...
While people may have different views still good things should always be appreciated. Yours is a nice blog. Liked it!!!
- August 29, 2009 at 2:18 PM
- Danielle Venton said...
A really nice interview, good job Seth and Jamie!
- September 1, 2009 at 3:40 PM
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New appeal regarding the murder of Abraham Badru
News • Mar 26, 2019 05:00 GMT
Homicide detectives have renewed their appeal for witnesses and information on the first anniversary of the murder of Abraham Badru in Hackney.
Abraham, a 26-year-old personal trainer, died on 25 March 2018 in Ferncliff Road, E8 after being shot as he opened the boot of his car.
A year on, officers need to speak to some specific witnesses who may have information vital to their enquiries. A £20,000 reward remains on offer for anyone with information leading to the arrest and prosecution of those responsible for Abraham's murder.
Detective Chief Inspector Noel McHugh, from the Homicide and Major Crime Command, said: "It's now been an entire year since Abraham was gunned down on the street and while our investigation has made significant progress, we still don't know why he was killed in such a brutal way.
"One line of enquiry is that this may have been a case of mistaken identity and that Abraham was executed in error, although we cannot discount the possibility that the motive may be connected to one of several relationships he'd had.
"It is hard for everyone involved to understand what could have led to this murder, we need someone to tell us why this happened. We have made several appeals over the past year but there remain a number of people who have not come forward.
"Shortly after 11pm that night there was a man and woman in Ferncliff Road. The woman was white and wearing a three-quarter length Puffa-style coat. She was walking along Ferncliff Road in the direction of Foxley Close, really near to where the murder took place.
"The man was also white and wearing shorts. He was seen a short while after the woman, also walking in Ferncliff Road. Everything would suggest that these are local people and we need to speak to you. Despite the passage of time, I am sure they would remember what happened just minutes later.
"I am also really keen to speak to the person who called the police incident room in June 2018. The caller was ringing on behalf of a friend who I believe holds really important information and could have seen something vital at the time of or immediately after Abraham's murder. If you're that person please call us back.
"Abraham's family, as you can imagine, are devastated and desperate to see someone brought to justice and get an answer to their key question: 'Why?'
"I personally feel deeply troubled and frustrated when I speak to Abraham's courageous mother and I have to explain the silence that has descended amongst the community. I do not know why there is a silence. I appreciate that people may be scared by the very nature of the murder within their community. But there are other ways to provide us with information rather than calling police directly - you can speak to the charities Crimestoppers or Fearless completely anonymously. They have amazing track records of helping to remove dangerous people from our streets, a desire we all share.
"I do believe people in the right circles have information and are talking about Abraham's murder - maybe there is a mother or partner out there who has information or even a confession from their son or boyfriend. Maybe that mother or partner is wrestling with their conscience about what is the right thing to do. I know it is a huge step to call, but consider the pain that Abraham's mother is going through; you could remove the pain and you will make Hackney safer for your family and everyone who lives and works there."
In a statement on the anniversary of the murder, Abraham's family said: "There is still no justice for us since his killer is still on the loose. If you have any information that may be related to the case, we implore you to come forward anonymously.
"We ask that you empathise with us in finding justice for a man who put the safety of others before himself. Our family cannot move forward without finding peace in knowing that Abraham's killer has been captured. Time never stops but we continue to speak his name, knowing that justice will be served, no matter how long it takes.
"To mark this date, we pay homage to Abraham's life by honouring the love he shared, the peace he omitted, and the discipline he demonstrated. Most importantly, his integrity and selflessness. Abraham: you will always be loved and forever in our hearts."
Abraham had spent Sunday 25 March 2018 shopping, collecting a takeaway and seeing his father. Between 22:20 and 22:40hrs he visited a woman before travelling home. During the journey home he had a phone call with another woman lasting 44 minutes. At 23:11hrs he was fatally shot while still on the phone.
Police were called to the scene following reports of gunshots heard. Abraham died at the scene from a shotgun wound to the chest.
Moments after the shooting, a black male believed to be wearing a black Puffa-type jacket made off from the scene on foot, before getting on a bicycle. He had a rucksack on his back. The bicycle is described as white and didn't have any lights.
On 22 November 2018, detectives arrested an 18-year-old woman on suspicion of conspiracy to murder. She has been released under investigation.
Anyone with any information is asked to contact the police incident room in the strictest confidence on 020 8785 8099. Alternatively, to remain anonymous call Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 - they will not ask your name or trace your call. You can also visit www.fearless.org to pass on information anonymously.
In addition to witnesses and those with information, detectives also wish to speak with anyone who knew Abraham but has not yet been in contact with police.
If you need help or information to support someone you suspect is involved in knife crime, or you want assistance yourself, then you can visit www.knifefree.co.uk or LondonNeedsYouAlive.


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|- Strengthening safety, focusing on customers, rebuilding the business foundation and realizing stable profits-
Tokyo, February 6, 2007: The JAL Group today announced the medium-term corporate business plan for the four years FY2007 to March 2011, emphasizing the pursuit of safety and the customers' standpoint, rebuilding the group's business foundation, and realizing continuous stable profits.
While securing high levels of safety that are the foundation of the company, JAL will carry out business restructuring through aircraft downsizing and shifting to high profit routes. JAL will strengthen product competitiveness through for example, the introduction of First Class on domestic flights, and Premium Economy Class on international flights. Thereby the airline will make maximum opportunity of the business changes that will result from the internationalization and expansion of Tokyo's Haneda Airport from and after FY2009, and increase of airport slot capacity at Narita. JAL will also implement large scale cost reductions through personnel reductions and other measures and concentrate resources to the core air transport business segment in order to achieve sustainable growth.
The JAL Group will consolidate efforts to maintain flight safety on a daily basis, and provide safety and comfort to customers in order to regain the trust of all stakeholders.
The Medium Term Corporate Plan focuses on the following 5 points
1. Further improvement of safety standards
While continuing to realize the recommendations of the Safety Advisory Group, an external panel of advisors, we will strengthen the safety management system and the measures taken for Human Factor monitoring in order to maintain and improve high quality flight operations and aircraft.
2. Improving profitability through cost reductions
JAL plans a bold review of the work process to increase workforce productivity by 10% and reduce the 53,100 employees on a consolidated basis at the end of FY2006 to 48,800 employees by the end of FY2009, a reduction of 4,300 persons (including reduction of 3,500 employees through increase of productivity by 10%).
While maintaining the 10% reduction of basic salaries introduced in April 2006, the Group will implement a special early retirement program revise retirement benefit-related systems, implement a bold review of allowances and bonuses and take other large scale personnel cost reduction measures.
JAL aims to shrink Group personnel costs from and after FY2007 by 50 billion yen compared with FY2006. (excluding temporary cost reduction effects due to changes in the pension system in FY2006)
3. Downsizing through aircraft renewal and strengthening aircraft competitiveness.
We will proactively introduce highly economical medium and small size aircraft types, and retire old aircraft and by doing so improve revenue and increase aircraft competitiveness.
The ratio of large aircraft in the fleet will decrease from 29% in FY2006 to 21% in FY2010. When only looking at aircraft used for international operations, the reduction will be from 58% in FY2006 to 39% in FY2010.
4. Shift to high profit routes and strengthen overall product competitiveness
JAL will respond to the internationalization and expansion of Tokyo's Haneda Airport and the increase in slots at Narita, and concentrate resources on high-growth high-profit routes. The Group will expand operations of JALways, JAL Express, J-AIR and other subsidiaries, to build a more efficient Group operating system.
JAL will accurately monitor customers' needs and wants, and improve products and services of quality from the customers' standpoint, and strengthen the sales force to increase competitiveness.
- Revenue improvement as a result of shift to high profit routes (FY2007)
International Passenger 7.0 billion yen, Domestic Passenger 6.0 billion yen
- Revenue improvement as a result of product competitiveness improvement measures (annual)
International Premium Economy Class 4.0 billion yen, Domestic First Class 4.0 billion yen
- Scale of operations by JALways, JAL Express, J-AIR
JALways and JAL Express international flight operations: FY2006 24% >> FY2010 37%
JAL Express and J-AIR domestic flight operations: FY2006 15% >> FY2010 26%
5. Concentrate resources to air transport segment
JAL will concentrate associated business resources on air transport business, and will increase the quality and value of affiliated businesses through partnerships with other companies.
Operating Income/ Ordinary Income Targets (Unit:; billion yen)
Operating revenue
Operating income
Ordinary income
Net income
Forecast based on the assumption: Exchange rate: 1 US$ = \120 yen
Fuel per barrel (Singapore kerosene hedge): 75US$ per barrel.
Details of JAL Group Cost Reduction Measures
The business environment of the JAL Group - facing fierce competition and high fuel prices -, is changing by the minute. It is of urgent necessity not only to rely on increased revenue through the introduction of, for example, more competitive products and services, but also to speedily expand cost reduction. We will decisively implement cost reduction, including personnel cost reduction of 50 billion yen annually, and conduct measures to realize a 14% greater efficiency in fuel usage.
When implementing cost reduction, naturally executive directors will also share the burden, and to set an example within the company, we will expand the breadth of pay reduction, including other measures already decided on, such as lowering the retirement age of executive directors.
The new range of executive director pay cuts, effective February 2007, will be in the range of 45% for senior vice presidents up to 60% for the JAL Group CEO and president Haruka Nishimatsu
Details of cost reduction measures are as follows.
1. Personnel cost reduction - reduced by 50 billion yen
JAL Group has implemented various personnel cost reduction measures since the mid-1990's ahead of other airlines, such as a reduction of regular pay increase, revision of various crew allowances, revision of the retirement benefit system, revision of the pension system and outsourcing. But the business environment has become more severe, and therefore, we will decisively implement further personnel cost reduction measures.
We will reduce personnel costs by 50 billion yen each fiscal year through a combination of the following measures.
a. Reduction of Group employees
By increasing human productivity by 10% through a bold review of work content and work process, work form, manpower allocation and restructuring of affiliated businesses, we will reduce the number of employees from 53,100 on a consolidated basis as of the end of FY2006 by about 4,300 to 48,800 by the end of FY2009.
By increasing personnel productivity by 10% we will reduce employees by 3,500 by the end of FY2009 (included in the 4,300 figure).
- Flight Operations/Cabin Attendant Divisions: improve crew operations by 10%
- Airport/Cargo Divisions: increase efficiency by 10% through simplification of work and further introduction of the Toyota Production System
- Reservation/ ticketing sections:increase efficiency by 10% through simplification of systems, system development, and introduction of the Toyota Production System
- Sales sections :increase personnel efficiency by 30% through unified operations within the JAL Group
- Head Office sections:JAL will continue to develop a smaller Head Office (reduce back office jobs by 10%)
b) Implement special early retirement measures and create younger organizations
c) Revise retirement benefit related systems, and reduce retirement benefit costs
d) Implement large reduction of performance-linked bonus standards
e) Continue wage cuts for all employees (10% reduction of base wage) next fiscal year, too. This cut was first introduced in April 2006
2.Measures for Fuel cost reduction - realize 14% greater efficiency (FY2006 vs FY2010)
In addition to introducing fuel efficient aircraft, we will implement the following fuel cost reduction measures and increase efficiency of fuel consumption volume in FY2010 by 14% over FY2006 estimates. On an operating expense basis in the air transport segment, we expect fuel cost reductions of about 18 billion yen in FY2009 and about 8 billion yen in FY2010 over FY2006 estimates.
a) Fuel cost reduction by renewal of fleet (new, more fuel efficient aircraft and more fleet downsizing)
- The ratio of large-size aircraft in the international fleet will go down from 58% by the end of FY2006 to 39% by the end of FY2010) (Ratio for total JAL Group fleet = 29% at end FY2006 to 21% by end of FY2010).
b) Steady measures to curb fuel costs
- increase fuel cost efficiency by reducing the weight of cabin loaded goods and equipment, engine cleaning.
- flexible and proactive hedging policy responding to fuel market price fluctuation.
- long-term procurement agreement with oil development and refinery company (AOC Holdings) through equity investment.
- Fuel Efficiency Working Group activities by flight crew, such as optimum height flight operations to obtain best consumption efficiency.
3. Maintain/expand other cost reductions
We will reduce impact of increased aircraft expenses for new aircraft, increased maintenance costs for flight safety, increased expenses due to increased flight frequency by maintaining and expanding cost restructuring measures implemented so far.
- Review of all contracts made with companies outside the JAL Group
- Review of sales commision rates
- Review of work processes
- Promotion of e-business
For customer & general enquiries, please contact your local JAL office: www.jal.co.jp/en/information/inter/branch/
Journalists with media enquiries, please contact the press office: email@example.com / email@example.com
Tel: 81-3-5460-3109 / Fax: 81-3-5460-3108/ www.jal.com/en/corporate/
|Medium-term Corp Plan FY07 -10.pdf
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On September 19th, a group of nine students from Eastern University's International Development program came to Mt. Airy as a part of their Community Development Class. They spent the afternoon assisting with the Mt. Airy 2025 resident survey. According to their professor, Leah Hood, they had a great time walking through the neighborhood, meeting residents and conducting surveys.
Mt. Airy USA, and the 2025 partners, are extremely thankful to the university students and their professor for taking an afternoon and working in our community. We wanted to highlight one students reflections on the day to give everyone a sense of the feelings students had that day:
When I was growing up my grandparents lived in Germantown, and even though I lived from 1976 to 1999 in University City, I have very little familiarity with Mt. Airy. My loss! My only sadness on the beautiful late summer Saturday afternoon that we spent knocking on doors, asking Mt. Airy residents to participate in the community survey process, was at how few people were at home. On the other hand, the fact that everyone was out and about seems to show a neighborhood vitality.
Our team was quite taken with the beauty and diversity of the neighborhood, particularly with regard to the wide range of architectural styles, the many wide streets, and the huge, old trees. We felt welcomed to the neighborhood not only by the homeowners we spoke with, but also by business owners we met when we needed snacks, and by various pedestrians with whom we shared some narrow sidewalks.
Among survey respondents we met we found interest, enthusiasm, and engagement with the community development process. In these conversations it was clear that many different perspectives are represented, and we're glad to have been able to encourage community members to realize the value and validity of each person's unique viewpoint.
Thank you Kathy Hall Ditchfield, Darrin Chitwood, Victor Habib, Hannah Curry, Darryl Clear, Mike Staub, Tiffany Frank, Jessica Carey, Seth Malone for spending some time in our neighborhood. And a BIG Thank You to their wonderful teacher Leah Hood!
Want to join in on the fun?!
We will be holding one final fall Community Survey Day Saturday November 7th between 11:00-2:00pm
Stay tuned, details will be coming soon!


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Joshua: I want to go to RIT when I grow up for two reasons. One, to be close to you and dad and second, because they have a really long Christmas break.
I smiled and said "Sounds good, buddy!" knowing that RIT changes its breaks all the time. In fact, there is a huge calendar change starting next school year and winter break will be a couple weeks shorter than it was this year.
Grace was surprised that her fingerprint could not unlock my phone. "I thought we would have the same fingers because I came out of your body."
I was feeling nauseous one day, so Grace brought me the "throw up bowl" with a little love note that said:
Mommy, I don't want you to be sick. God bless you. I hope you feel better soon. I still love you the same. I love you even more each day. xoxo Grace
"My heart is breaking!" Kaylee wailed one night before bed. "I want to go sledding but there hasn't been any snow!"
With 38 years of living in Rochester winters, I assured her that we would get more snow. It's a long, long winter, baby….
Grace told a story the other day that went something like this:
What if you liked someone, and then when they looked at you, you were afraid your emotions would spill over, so you ignored them and walked past them. But then! They ran after you and you were surprised! But when you turned around to look at them, they were a CLONE! And then they ate you! At this point, she dissolved into laughter. I love the part where the "Emotions might spill over."


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Posted in Hard Rock Events on December 11th, 2011 by Barry
*Please Read Before Watching* The lyrics to the song are pretty much self-explanatory, but if you haven't heard the song before, it is about a little girl who is abused by a parent, and one night she is killed. I decided to make this video centered around Violet Baudelaire and Count Olaf because of Olaf's cruel and sadistic nature, along with the hopelessness the Baudelaires feel when they encounter him. This video contains suggestions of abuse and death. If such things might offend you, please don't watch the video or leave comments. The song is "Concrete Angel" as sung by Martina McBride, and movie clips are taken from "A Series of Unfortunate Events" and "The Phantom of the Opera." Popular question: "How did you get Violet's name on the grave?" Quite easily, really. I used a screenshot from The Phantom of the Opera, put it into Microsoft Paint, changed the name by hand, and added the image to the video with a 'zoom' effect.


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Detective Bureau
The Investigations Division, better known as the Detective Bureau, is staffed by 10 Detectives and six Classified personnel. In addition, there are up to 10 Detectives from other agencies assigned as task force personnel. The primary role of the Investigations Division is to conduct follow-up investigations of initial crime or incident reports generated by the Patrol Division. In addition, Detectives develop information and intelligence on criminal activity, look for missing persons, assist parole and probation officers, serve arrest and search warrants and act as liaison between the crime victim or witness and the criminal justice system.
Occasionally, Detectives are called upon to assist outside agencies with investigations of crimes or incidents that occurred outside of Palm Springs, but may have local residents involved as victims, witnesses or suspects. Detectives are also asked to make presentations to the community on topics such as domestic violence, crime prevention and drug/narcotics identification.
The following units comprise the Investigations Division:
Headed up by a Sergeant, four Detectives investigate all crimes or incidents such as homicide, robbery, rape, adult and child sex offences, child abuse, unattended death, runaways, threats, obscene phone calls, missing persons, mental cases and elder abuse. The unit also has a Domestic Violence Specialist Detective who handles all cases involving domestic violence, including investigation and acting as an advocate for the victim. The D.V. Detective works closely with a local battered women's shelter and representatives of both Child Protective Services and a victim of domestic violence advocacy group. Another officer is assigned as the Gang Intelligence Detective, who is tasked with keeping track of local gangs and their members, working closely with other local agencies. A Secretary provides clerical and administrative support.
Supervised by a Sergeant, four Detectives investigate residential and commercial burglaries, all types of theft, auto theft, bomb incidents, check crimes, forgery, fiduciary elder abuse, credit card crimes, embezzlements, scams and vandalism. A full-time crime analyst is also assigned to the Crimes Against Property unit, and she has been very successful in identifying criminals, crime trends and predicting future crimes based upon known information. The Department has its own Crime Lab, which is staffed by a Senior Identification Technician who responds to crime scenes, collects and processes evidence and identifies suspects via fingerprints and other types of evidence. All evidence and recovered or found property is maintained and accounted for by the Department's Property Technician.
The Department has two detectives assigned to multi-agency task forces. They combine their efforts with personnel from county, state, and federal agencies to investigation crimes related to drug possession and sales.
More information:
Sgt. Kyle Stjerne
Crimes Against Persons
(760) 323-8144
Sgt. Kelly Fieux
Property Crimes
(760) 778-8406
Lt. Frank Browning
Detective Bureau Commander
(760) 323-8121