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Aulani, a Disney Resort & Spa, Ko Olina, Hawai'i, will begin accepting reservations for hotel rooms and vacation packages Aug. 2, 2010, through the Walt Disney Travel Company.
Aulani is scheduled to welcome its first guests on Aug. 29, 2011.
"Aulani will represent a new way for every member of the family to enjoy a vacation in Hawaii," said Djuan Rivers, vice president of Aulani. "It is designed so that parents, children and guests of any age can find their own kind of fun and relaxation. Families will experience the island in ways they might never have discovered before."
With age-specific programming planned for ages 3-10, tweens, teens, adults and the entire family, there will be something for everybody. From pool parties with Disney characters to excursions into the rainforest and surf to learning how to prepare Hawaiian cuisine with local chefs, days and nights will be filled with the magic of Disney in the beautiful setting of Hawaii.
Introductory room rates start as low as $399 per night. Guests may choose from a variety of room options, including ocean or garden views.
The resort, built adjacent to a crystal-blue lagoon and a white-sand beach, features 359 hotel rooms and 481 two-bedroom equivalent Disney Vacation Club villas. Rooms are housed in two 15-story towers with commanding views of the ocean, mountains and magnificent grounds. On-site are two restaurants, a wedding lawn and a conference center, and extensive water activities, including a feature pool, 900-foot tube-floating watercourse, wading pool, body slides, sunset-facing hot tubs, a quiet adult pool, a snorkel lagoon and a conservation pool. Aulani will also include a signature kids' club – Aunty's Beach House – where kids can explore Hawaiian culture through fun and games (including interactive touch table games) and arts and crafts. They can also enjoy the enchanted fireplace, "make it rain" in order to start movie time, and enjoy many other experiences created just for them.
Aulani is located on the western side of Oahu, upon 21 acres of oceanfront property in the Ko Olina Resort & Marina development. The resort is located 17 miles from Honolulu International Airport and features convenient access to a 330-slip marina and a Ted Robinson-designed 18-hole championship golf course.
To make a reservation at Aulani or to learn more about the resort, guests may visit www.disneyaulani.com or call 866/44-DISNEY.For more Disney News follow us on Instagram @chipandco on Twitter @chipandcompany and on Facebook or Watch our latest Youtube Videos here.


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Shelley Janze and her mother, Josephine. This year, Shelley is Co-Chair, Sponsorship and Recruitment, of the Vancouver Walk of Hope.
I could give several valid reasons for volunteering – giving back to community, gets me off the couch, raises awareness about the signs and symptoms of ovarian cancer, meeting amazing people etc. My volunteerism is about all of this. But as I go deeper for my primary reason, quite simply put, volunteering for the Vancouver Walk of Hope is my cure for cancer.
My mother was a vibrant, wonderful woman, blindsided by the diagnosis of stage 3 ovarian cancer in 2004, at the age of 66. At that time, my parents were hard pressed to even find a brochure about this disease. And they certainly were unaware of the signs and symptoms. When a close family member is diagnosed with cancer, all you can do is support them. You just want to spend as much time with them as possible, and there is little room for anything else.
In 2007, during my mother's remission, we participated as a team, Josephine's Gems, in the Walk in Vancouver. It was so heartwarming, and wonderful, to see so many people come together to support this cause. My mother was comforted knowing that so many people supported her, and that people were beginning to finally hear about ovarian cancer. She was always really mad about the fact that hardly anyone knew about this disease.
We participated in the Walk in Penticton in 2010, and, once again, she was surrounded by people supporting the cause. Sadly, my mother passed away one month later.
In the 3 years since, I have been giving Knowledge is Power presentations to women and organizations about the signs and symptoms about ovarian cancer, and I have been to many trade shows handing out the many brochures now available. My goal is to put this disease on women's radar – so they don't dismiss changes in their bodies as a normal part of aging. Detected early enough, the five year survival rates increase.
It is time for me to give back to the community, to give families dealing with ovarian cancer a place and time to come together – to show them that people care, and that the medical community is becoming better informed, and that researchers are working hard to find an early detection test, and a cure.
In the meantime, the Ovarian Cancer Canada Walk of Hope 2013 is my cure for cancer.
Donate to the Ovarian Cancer Canada Walk of Hope, to be held in Vancouver on Sunday, September 8, 2013 at Queen Elizabeth Park.

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Yes, I'm finally posting about Christmas. And since it has been over a month, I'm kinda over it so here's a brief Christmas history and a slew of pictures.
The weekend before christmas we went to my parents house. We spent one day with all of my siblings (at least, those who could come) and exchanged gifts with my parents. Then on Christmas eve we went to the baptist church for the Christmas eve service (where I spent most of the time in a separate room holding a screaming 2 year old) and then home to exchange presents between my sisters and the kids.
That night we headed home where we got the boys to bed and Adam and I stayed up until 1am playing Santa and baking for the next day. After unwrapping presents at our house, we went over to the littles for some presents and Christmas dinner. I got a nice nap and then we played some card games.
Aiden got pickles from my parents, we was so excited, he loves pickles.
My daddy and Jordan
Baby Hunter
the boys and their presents
we got dad his own legos, he's never played with them before
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A 13-foot albino Burmese python was found in the backyard shed of a Hialeah, Fla., homeowner on Sunday night.
Authorities said that the homeowner was cleaning out his shed when he found the 100-pound snake --probably somebody's lost pet.
"It was very nicely holed up in a shed, it's been there a while," Lt. Lisa Wood, of the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Venom Unit, said of the reptile.
The man who found the python said it was munching on a cat's skull when he spotted it.
"Speaking with the neighbors, apparently there's a couple of rabbits and a cat missing from the neighborhood recently so the snake may be to blame for that," Wood added.
Though native to southeast Asia, burmese pythons were brought to Florida as pets and have since become an invasive species.


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Tales of Arrissia
A downloadable game
Welcome to Arrissia...
A faraway world at war with itself for as long as anyone knows. Civilisation is fractured across its hostile lands. Under the rule of the Protectorate, its people now enjoy modest safety from Arrissia's many dangerous beasts.
Your story in this world is that of an unenviable orphan - kept away from, the outside world your whole life . Now 18, you've been released from Protectorate care to fend for yourself. Without work, you are barred from what little security civilisation offers. No trading, no owning land, no contracts of any kind. But without any training, finding work will be hard.
And so you find yourself unceremoniously dumped outside the gates of your old village. Left to your own devices. Most likely a quick death - but who knows? Maybe you're attentive and careful enough to outlast the dangers Arrissia has in store for you... but probably not.
Check out the demo over at https://jonathanwiddowson.itch.io/tales-of-arrissia-demo
The Game in Short:
- 10-15 hour campaign
- 22 game levels
- ~36k words of story, lore, dialogue
- 40 character levels, 4 abilities with 10 levels each
- 50 unique items
- Full-blown stats and mechanics section
- Manual included!
Alright. So What's This Game About, Then?
- Figuring stuff out: You might get lost. You might get confused. But your trusty journal and crafty mind make the perfect team.
- Developing your character: Get better at surviving thanks to items, statistics, abilities, and levels.
- Depending on yourself: Blind luck and carefully engineered compulsion loops are fine-and-dandy, but here you get to beat the game by yourself, for yourself.
- Exploring with freedom: Do whatever you want whenever you want (although you might die!) Explore nooks and crannies and be rewarded with amusing* snippets of lore and jokes.
- Surviving: No, really. Arrissia looks all hugs-and-cuddles, but it's not. You'll get swarmed, trapped, and beaten down. Engage carefully and pick your targets well.
* In the developer's humble opinion!
Now, Dear Adventurer
Prepare to play, instead of getting played. Let your own curiosity drive things forward. By paying attention to details, keeping your wits about you, and exploring areas thoroughly, you'll stand a chance of surviving what Arrissia has to throw at you. That random flower pot there is actually pretty interesting. Oh, and so is that book. And so is that one window over there. Oh, and there's a super-good magic ring over there, by that pile of papers. Gee-whizz, gotta keep one's eyes open, eh?
So sit back, relax, and get ready to explore Arrissia. Take your time, dear hero, and enjoy yourself.
By NeetFreek. Check it out over at https://www.neetfreek.net
PS. Tales of Arrissia is released soon. If you're interested in knowing when it hits, send me an email at firstname.lastname@example.com and I'll let you know.
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MOMpreneur: n. defined as a female business owner who is actively balancing the role of mom and the role of entrepreneur.
Welcome to our latest installment of MOMpreneur Monday, highlighting businesses and brands that were founded by female entrepreneurs and fellow Mommas!
Today's featured Modern Boca MOMpreneur is Sarah Kiedis, Founder & Creator of Lily Among Thistles hand lettering!
Tell us a little about your background and what inspired you to start your business…
Believe it or not, I'm married to the boy I have liked since the 9th grade. I'm also currently a stay-at-home mom to three little ladies and one little boy, ages, 2, 4, 6 and 8.
My family is my world and calligraphy is my side hustle. I find that I am called to create and sincerely love the feel of the calligraphy pen in my hand. I enjoy creating something that will bring joy to others. It also makes me feel like I am part of the world outside of diapers and hide and go seek! The nature of my "hustle" allows me to balance family and work. I can work during naptime and still bring my kids to school and do play dates.
Four years ago, I launched my calligraphy business: Lily Among Thistles.
I fell in love with hand lettering by scrolling through beautiful writing on Pinterest. After taking two online classes, I was hooked. I honed my new skill and passion and launched my etsy shop, Lily Among Thistles. I love working with clients to see their vision come to life through my writing!
Through my business, I do calligraphy for weddings, bar/bat mitzvah, and birthday parties. I also do signage, gift tags, menus– pretty much anything that requires elegant lettering.
What is truly unique about your service?
My business has the ability to make people feel special. I love the effect a handwritten address or name tag has on the people my customers love. Whether it be their wedding guests or party guests! Think about getting mail. Mail with a handwritten address is always the one you look at first and get most excited about. The personal detail is what makes something feel special and individualized. Hand lettering takes time, and creates beauty – it tells the recipient they are worthy and treasured.
Why should Modern Boca Mom readers become your customers?
Hand-lettered addresses can set the tone for any event. Handwritten items add a unique and special touch in this technological world. Adding the hand-lettered touch to an event makes it feel exclusive and unique. Personally, I am professional, punctual, and readily available. I love what I do and it shows in my dedication and work quality.
What exciting things are coming up for your business?
Lily Among Thistles has an exciting new avenue! I just started putting lettering on ladies' and kids' shirts. I created motivational shirts that say "be brave" and shirts that are great for your girlfriends or little girls that say "my tribe" and "mermaid mafia."
These t shirts were created because I needed the reminder to be brave and that I have a tribe of women around to support and encourage me. Motherhood is a tall task and adulting is not easy. All of us can use a dose of encouragement!
What do you love about living and working in South Florida?
I have lived in South Florida all my life! Being from here, I have an awesome support group between my friends and family. My kids love that they have cousins who are close by to play with. I also love the weather, outdoor sports, and being so close to the beach!
Connect with Lily Among Thistles:
ETSY: Etsy Store
INSTAGRAM: @lily_among_thistles
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We have been collecting beautiful items for the tree. The tree is full of love, gorgeous art and all reminders of Lila.
Quinn's mom made us a sweet little quilt.
An Artisan made us these beautiful glass stars that will hang from the arbor
Kelli's sister in law Julie offered to make us a doll out of Lila's clothes for the festival, I couldn't bare the thought of letting it go so she made me two! Look at these little girls, I see my two ladies, both wore these dresses. so precious.
my uncle Steven made me this glass star
Another artist made us this iron tree topper
Another these felt garlands
Another gave us an amazing deal on these hand made paper flowers
My friend Michelle's husband threw together this planter box for the tulips to sit in


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Mulas, Francesco Gesuino (2005) The Exploration of human experience in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey. Annali della Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature Straniere dell'Università di Sassari, Vol. 3 (2003 pubbl. 2005), p. 113-122. ISSN 1828-5384. Article.
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Jane Austen's purpose in Northanger Abbey, both in her aesthetic principles and moral intents, is to explore the human experience in its fullest sense. How do people perceive and understand themselves and each other? What are they like and how can they learn and grow? If moral problems are a question of thought rather than of action, as a consequence to ask what characters are like is also to ask what an author's conception of them should be.
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See how obesity can impact your life and your job in this infographic from the CDC.
We've been tracking the statistics for the health of long-haul truck drivers for a while. A 2009 study of drivers found that obesity, one of the biggest contributors to other health issues like heart disease and diabetes, was much higher in truck drivers than in the general population: 50% to 35% respectively. The bad news is, it's only gotten worse.
According to the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), 7 out of 10 long-haul truck drivers are obese; that's twice the numbers for U.S. adult workers. The infographic below is alarming…and it should be. But this is a health issue over which you can gain control, as the infographic also shows.
What are you doing to create a healthy lifestyle while on the road? Let us know.


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A speaker from the bookshop has been invited.
Wednesday 11 November at 8 p.m.
at The Postman's Office, the North London Community House.
Its address is 22 Moorefield Road, London N17. The venue is just around the corner from Bruce Grove British Rail Station, where Bruce Grove meets the High Road in Tottenham.
We are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the opening of Housman's, at 5 Caledonian Road, N1. The bookshop has its origins in the pacifist movement and takes its name from Laurence Housman, a long-serving officer of the War Resisters International, an organisation which grew from a small committee in 1921 to a body with over 90 groups in 43 countries, plus other networks. The anti-war movement comprises several strands - mainline pacificism, anarchism, socialists, a section of the labour movement, various religious groups - but a crisis developed in the mid 30s over how to deal with the menace of Nazism. Many broke with the pacifist movement believing that a defensive war against invasion and mass executions was justified, including president Fenner Brockway.
On the other hand, the movement for peace - reacting to atrocities in Spain and war in Abyssinia, etc. - grew proportionally. A large mass movement, the Peace Pledge Union, was set up and played a significant role over the next 70 years. Subsequently, the PPU published its new journal Peace News and in 1945 opened its bookshop in Shaftesbury Avenue. This later moved to Finsbury Park. An unexpected donation gave organiser Harry Mister a chance to suggest the purchase of a House/shop for both organisations and 5 Caledonian Road, Peace House, was opened in 1959.
These were dramatic years for those resisting the post war scene. Opposition to nuclear weapons gained ground rapidly both in the conventional CND and more militant Committee of 100. Subsequently the building was used by the Campaign Against the Arms Trade, numerous defence bodies in political trials over Official Secrets and suchlike; the Gay Liberation Front, McLibel Two, London Greenpeace, and many others
too numerous to mention. More recently No Sweat, and the Campaign Against Climate Change are based here, and PN and WRI continue still. It has been central to many dissenting groups .
The bookshop itself has survived while virtually all others, both commercial and political, have closed. As a centre of radical publishing/selling for miscellaneous small-run and minority publications, the shop has an unrivalled stock and reputation. It carries a large number of newspapers, magazines, journals, posters, quarterlies and miscellaneous small goods. No bookshop can carry enough books to satisfy everyone but there exists a wide choice of publication ranging from children's books, items from most of the left and progressive movements, to specialist subjects like music, the environment, and London. The main sections are of course on the peace movement and various socialist and libertarian themes. Customers can expect a rapid service for their orders. A new venture, On Line Books, hopes to establish a base in this growing field of new technology. Every year the Peace Diary, with a world peace directory, appears and sells successfully in this country and overseas.
Geoffrey Ostergaard, Resisting the National State: the pacifist and anarchist traditions. [1982, 34 pp.]
Devi Prasad, War is a Crime Against Humanity: the story of the War Resisters International [2005, 560 pp].
Peace News, annually: Diary, with World Peace Directory.


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Great satisfaction in Naples and Castellammare di Stabia , hometown of Marco Di Costanzo and John Abagnale . The two , joined by sporting only a month , conquered the bronze medal at the Rio Olympics for the category two without senior
Marco Di Costanzo and Giovanni Abagnale, Neapolitan the first and stabiese the second, led on the third step of the podium the Italian flag for rowing category two without senior.
Giovanni Abagnale, whose last name with a b in more reminiscent of the most successful family of Italian rowing, competes for the Italian Navy, while Marco Di Costanzo is registered Fiamme Oro. The two rowers found themselves together to meet the Rio 2016 Olympic Games just a month ago, but the results achieved clearly expresses their being "out of class."
Reaching the final was a real dream and instead, the two athletes have won a memorable achievement in the history of Italian rowing, marveling all the experts. The competition could even end with a silver, in fact, its Italian mid-stroke was in second place, but a few meters from the end has been the recovery of South Africa and finished the race with an unexpected third place. Having touched the silver medal and then win the bronze, it was definitely an amazing feat for the two young athletes who have made a whole nation, entering for merit in Olympic history.
«We surprised ourselves» says Abagnale in La Gazzetta dello Sport, while Di Costanzo adds: «It was not easy , but we have proven to be a champion . I thank all those who have written to us from Naples and from all over Italy to get us their affection and support».


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Univ. of Wyoming Officials Propose $407M Annual Budget
LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — University of Wyoming President Laurie Nichols has proposed a $407 million budget that seeks to hire more faculty and staff and raise salaries.
The proposed 2019 budget is being presented this week to the UW Board of Trustees, who have the final say on the spending request.
The proposal seeks $4.2 million for the hiring of 32 new faculty members. Some of the new hires would replace those lost through the faculty separation incentives offered during UW's fiscal crisis in 2016 and 2017. It also seeks to hire 10 new custodians.
The budget plan follows on the heels of two fiscal years in which the university was forced to slash its budget by a total of about $42 million.


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Anastasia's Poems
My precious bride, Anastasia Ioannidou Burr, was born and raised in the rural community of New Mylotopos in northern Greece. She attended Greek elementary and secondary schools where she studied general academics including four years of Latin, six years of ancient Greek, French and elementary Turkish. Anastasia experienced her "second…View Details
Praying Your Prodigal Home
This gripping book of hope and encouragement provides sound biblical principles on how to pray effectively for your lost friend or loved one. As one who has both lived as a prodigal and experienced the pain of loving and pursuing a prodigal, Richard A. Burr has gathered much wisdom on…View Details
Developing Your Secret Closet of Prayer
Jesus obviously knew the importance of the private prayer life, for He commanded us, "But when you pray, go into your room, close the door, and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you." Thus, He gave this most significant…View Details


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May 1, 2019
- DWDI Keynote: The Art of Change While Infusing Equity into A System That Was Designed to Be Equal
- Time: 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
- Location: Morgan 109
- Description: 26th Annual Dealing with Difference Institute 2019: Confronting Bias for Equity and Peace
Keynote: The Art of Change While Infusing Equity into A System That Was Designed to Be Equal
Bill de la Cruz, Equity Leader and Workshop Facilitator
Implicit and explicit biases are impacting our relationships with self and others every minute of every day. Bills keynote will introduce historical context, bias concepts and what it means to normalize bias as well as present the origination point is the place of healing and understanding.
Refreshments and light hors-d'oeuvres reception to follow as we open the institute.
Bill de la Cruz is an inspiring leader who has been guiding individuals and groups through the process of personal transformation as a mediator and workshop leader for 30 years. He developed his programs and workshops to help individuals and groups build self-awareness, enhance relationships and to help foster positive, sustainable personal growth. Bill has been on his own personal growth journey for more than 40 years which inspired him to develop specific practices designed to help create positive, lasting change. http://delacruzsolutions.com/
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Then, he saw it, the small piles of snow that signaled a break in the banks and the opening of a drive way. The driver carefully made a sharp left hand turn, flicked off his strobe light (so as to not annoy the family members) and pulled up to the side door of his first passenger's home. The young girl climbed on board and found her seat. The dogs and cats stayed out of sight. He followed his regular routine and first put the bus into gear , (g) released the park brake, (e) checked all mirrors, (m) and slowly pulled away. Get it? GEMS. Gear. Emergency. Mirrors. Signals or Start slowly.
He spun the bus around and headed back to the highway. So far, so good.
But, before getting back on the main highway he had greeted his first passenger with a hearty "Hello" and waited for her reply.
If it came, he didn't hear it. Maybe she spoke, maybe she didn't. But that was fine with the driver. The girl was bundled up from head to toe in toque, scarf, mitts, boots, and a snow suit and was carrying a back pack. With the scarf wrapped around her tiny face, muffling any possible sounds, how could he have heard anything?
He chuckled to himself as the big yellow school bus reached the end of the drive and turned left. At least no grain bins or tractors had jumped out of the dark to smack him. The day was off to a good start, but caution was always the word of the day.
A light snow had fallen overnight, the sky was still dark, and the prairie as empty as a Sunday morning church.
Heading north toward his next turn, he kept his eyes moving, as school bus drivers, and all good drivers, are taught to do. He looked ahead, into his future. Any strange shapes up there? Anything out of place? He looked to the sides, to the rear. Always checking mirrors, always paying attention, always alert and wary.
Wildlife on the roadways was a part of daily existence in these parts. One day, the driver had looked into his future and snatched a glimpse of some strange forms at the side of the road about 20 seconds ahead of him. Horses? A broken vehicle? Some trash that had fallen from a truck? No. The closer he got the more clearly he could see. Yes, he could see them. Not horses, but moose. A mummy moose and two kids, or kits, or calves, or whatever young moose are called. He slowed and watched as they looked at him, then, surprisingly, quickly hopped a fence and sprinted to the safety of a bunch of trees to the left. Moose can run fast? Who knew?
Back to the present. No moose on the road today, but the journey had just begun.
(to be continued)
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As seen on Junebug weddings.
Atva & Samir said yes in front of their dear friends and family: 'yes' to each other ánd to new adventures together. And they did at the most amazing place to do so: Kasbah Bab Ourika in Morocco. Imagine driving just 30 minutes from the magical but busy city of Marrakech and arriving at a beautiful, tranquil place like this, surrounded by the Atlas mountains. My heart fills with butterflies just thinking about it.
A beautiful couple, inside and out, that love each other deeply – I'll never forget photographing their wedding. If you're looking for a magical location in Ourika to celebrate your wedding – be sure to pay Kasbah Bab Ourika a visit, you won't regret it. And enjoy the story of Atva & Samir below :).
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The U.S. Army was about ready to give in and acknowledge one of the big bonehead plays of World War II. There was no longer any blinking the fact; the Canol oil project in the northern wastes of Canada was a resounding flop.
Designed to furnish oil to U.S. troops in Alaska, it had never achieved much stature except in Lieut. General Brehon Somervell's Army Service Forces. The Truman Committee had called the $134,000,000 collection of oil wells, refinery and pipeline "inexcusable": long before it was completed, Petroleum Boss Harold Ickes had said it should be junked.
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For most citizens who do not work in the healthcare field, choosing a hospital can be quite difficult. Most have the ability to shop around and decide which hospital they want to go to for non-emergency situations. Despite that, according to the Atlantic, few patients are able or willing to invest the time and effort that would be required to find the best hospital. Even if they did, which healthcare parameters should they track? The factors used in decisions vary from patient to patient, and they can consider factors ranging from procedure success rates to hospital food. Even with research, some of these questions are not so straightforward.
In the case of a specific procedure, for example, patients may be tempted to pick the hospital with the 99 percent success rate over the hospital with the 95 percent success rate, due to a perceived better quality of care. The 95 percent hospital, however, might perform the procedure on the sickest patients in most dire need of the surgery, while the 99 percent hospital may only perform the procedure on relatively young and healthy patients, many of whom do not need it as much.
Patient satisfaction is another factor patients may look at when choosing a hospital. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the National Committee on Quality Assurance require participating organizations to publicly report their patient satisfaction data, so rates are easily obtained. This data can also be misleading though, as patients may rate a hospital experience poorly because they had to wait, when in all reality they received excellent care. Alternatively, patients may rate their hospital experience highly because there was ample parking, even though their care was sub-par. These factors may not be the best to determine where to undergo a procedure.
At the end of the day, the Atlantic suggests two key questions in choosing a hospital. First, do the people who work at the hospital, particularly nurses and physicians, seem generally happy and proud of the work they do? Secondly, if health professionals were going to be hospitalized, which institution would they choose? These questions are good ones to keep in mind for both patients and hospital staff.


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'I will bomb your f*cking location': Muslims face violent threats as Trump urges ban on mosques
Republican frontrunner Donald Trump helped fan the flames of anti-Muslim sentiment in the wake of last week's deadly terrorist attacks in Paris.
Trump renewed his call Monday morning to shut down mosques or at least place them under surveillance.
"You're going to have to watch and study the mosques, because a lot of talk is going on at the mosques," Trump said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," less than a month after telling Fox Business that "absolutely" shut down U.S. mosques to defeat Islamic State militants.
"From what I heard in the old days, meaning a while ago, we had great surveillance going on in and around mosques in New York City, and I understand our mayor totally cut that out, he totally cut it out," Trump added, apparently referring to New York's controversial racial and religious profiling investigation — which was discontinued after it resulted in zero arrests or leads.
Police are investigating several threats made over the weekend against Muslim houses of worship.
A caller left a threatening voice mail message that referred to the massacre about 7 p.m. Friday at the Islamic Society of St. Petersburg, Florida — which canceled Sunday school over safety concerns.
"This act in France is the last straw," the caller warned. "You're going to f*cking die."
"I personally have a militia that's going to come down to your Islamic Society of Pinellas County and firebomb you, shoot whoever's there on sight in the head," the caller added. "I don't care if they're f*cking 2 years old or 100."
The state's chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations reported that a similar threat was made against another mosque by a caller who threatened to "bomb your f*king location" and "shoot people at will."
A small group of protesters wearing T-shirts and carrying signs with anti-Muslim slogans stood outside a Portland, Oregon, mosque Sunday afternoon — which reminded worshipers arriving for prayer services of the days after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
"When you see that, I just kind of (thought), 'Oh, here we go, you know, with this,' and I was just hoping that it didn't get out of hand," said Abdul Rahim Hubbf, of the Portland Rizwan Mosque.
Hubbf said he was horrified by the deadly attacks in Paris, but he admitted he also feared for his own community.
"We start to wonder, what's the backlash going to be because of what these lunatics and terrorists have done," Hubbf said.
Arsonists in Canada deliberately targeted a mosque Saturday night, investigators said.
The fire caused about $80,000 in damage to the only mosque in Peterborough, Ontario, about half an hour after around 70 members were inside celebrating a birth.
"Mothers with little kids were there," said Kenzu Abdella, president of the Kawartha Muslim Religious Association.
No injuries were reported in the fire, which remains under investigation, and classes and prayer services at the mosque have been canceled until the damage is repaired.


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JEFFERSON CITY � High in the state Capitol dome, 180 feet from the ground floor, the name �Pulitzer� is enshrined in stained glass along with the names of 11 other famous Missourians.
There�s also a small exhibit in the Capitol�s museum dedicated to the journalistic prowess of Joseph Pulitzer, who is best known today for the most coveted prizes in journalism and letters that are awarded in his name each year. But before Pulitzer (pronounced Pull It Sir) became a publishing baron who revolutionized mass-circulation newspapers, he was a zealous, party-switching Missouri politician.
Although underage, Pulitzer served as a Republican member of the Missouri House and once shot and wounded a lobbyist in a Jefferson City hotel lobby. Convicted for that crime, Pulitzer still managed to become a member of the St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners. He was an elected delegate who helped rewrite Missouri�s Constitution in 1875 and later served as a Democrat in Congress.
Although his ownership of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the New York World made him fabulously wealthy, Pulitzer relished even more the political power the newspapers gave him.
�I hate the idea of passing away known only as the proprietor of the paper,� Pulitzer wrote shortly before he died. �Not property but politics was my passion, and not politics even in a general, selfish sense, but politics in the sense of liberty and freedom and ideals of justice.�
James McGrath Morris, who early in his career worked as a broadcast reporter in Jefferson City, has thoroughly documented Pulitzer�s stormy political career in a new and compelling biography, �Pulitzer, A Life in Politics, Print, and Power,� published this month by Harper Collins. Since his death in 1911, four serious biographies of Joseph Pulitzer have been published, with W.A. Swanberg�s �Pulitzer� in 1967 perhaps the most notable.
But Morris has enlarged upon the remarkable story of the impoverished Hungarian immigrant who came to America in 1864 and within a few years was amassing political power as well as enormous wealth. Morris took about five years to research and write the new biography and in the process was able to gain access to previously undisclosed documents.
They include the unpublished manuscript of a memoir written by Pulitzer�s younger brother Albert, who established a newspaper of his own in New York. Albert Pulitzer�s newspaper, the Journal, later fell under the ownership of William Randolph Hearst, whose rivalry with Joseph Pulitzer�s New York World introduced the term �yellow journalism� to the American lexicon.
The discovery of Albert Pulitzer�s memoir in the possession of a descendant in Paris �was the closest thing to an Indiana Jones discovery in my business,� Morris said in a recent telephone interview. �It allowed me to bring up a perspective that hadn�t been shown before, the tragedy of his childhood.�
Childhood diseases had ravaged the Pulitzer family in Hungary. Joseph and Albert were the only survivors of nine children born to their parents.
In stark contrast to the state of the industry today, in Pulitzer�s time newspapers had muscle. Under Pulitzer, the New York World raised the money to build the Statue of Liberty pedestal, had the resources to investigate the corruption of Wall Streets tycoons and even challenged a popular president, Theodore Roosevelt. Pulitzer refused to back down when Roosevelt attempted to use the U.S. Department of Justice to bring criminal libel charges against the publisher for reports of a Panama Canal scandal.
Morris said he could think of only one or two newspapers today that had the capacity to mount a similar investigation.
And as the Internet has undermined the value of news, Morris said a question he frequently asks himself is what Pulitzer would have done if confronted by a Web-like competitor.
�The first thing he�d focus on is the message being more important than the medium,� Morris said. �When he was in a circulation war, he never lost sight of the fact that they had to have income to make journalism. Newspapers have made a fatal mistake in giving away what they do, and now they have to persuade readers to pay for it.�
Morris believes Pulitzer would not object to the consideration of an entry from the National Enquirer for the journalism prize that bears his name. But he also suspects Pulitzer would not value journalistically the story of John Edwards and his sexual affair with a campaign staff member.
�He had this extraordinary Victorian discomfort with things that relate to sex,� Morris said.
Still, Morris� Pulitzer biography contains some of it. Assembling clues from archival file folders, Morris uncovered a love affair that apparently took place between Pulitzer�s wife, Kate, and Arthur Brisbane, an editor at the World before leaving to work for Hearst.
Steve Weinberg, a University of Missouri journalism professor, author and book critic, has sometimes panned writers for not explaining why another biography of a famous person�s life was necessary.
�I thought he did a really good job of explaining why he undertook the task and what he found that was new and different,� Weinberg said. �I thought he handled it very clearly and responsibly.�
After a stint with MissouriNet, a statewide radio network, Morris worked as a news stringer in Washington, D.C., and as a newspaper reporter in upstate New York. He taught high school for 10 years and wrote a biography, �The Rose Man of Sing Sing: a true tale of life, murder and redemption,� which was selected as a Washington Post Best Book of the Year for 2004.
Morris applied a journalist�s investigative skills to his Pulitzer research. In the transcripts of the debate over the Missouri Constitution, he found Pulitzer believed newspapers of the time had sufficient protections against libel suits. It was an interesting position for a future publisher who would keep lawyers busy defending his papers from lawsuits.
The Pulitzer that emerges from Morris� work is a brilliant and energetic entrepreneur who becomes tormented and irascible when detached retinas in both eyes cast him into blindness. Pulitzer is never happy with his wife or children and frequently second-guesses his newspaper staff.
Early in his career, Pulitzer used his newspapers as instruments of reform. He believed the influence of the wealthy in government decisions would undermine democracy.
But later comforted by vast riches and limited by blindness, Pulitzer lost his bearings. For example, when he learned that his newspaper�s editorial page had sided with striking steelworkers in Pennsylvania, he was furious.
Morris writes: �The Pulitzer who had built up the Post-Dispatch and the World as voices for the disinherited was gone. The bitter darkness into which he had fallen and the cocoon of wealth that surrounded him had destroyed Pulitzer�s empathy. When it came to supporting reform and political and social change, property was now the trump card in Pulitzer�s deck.�
As if to redeem himself near the end of his life, Pulitzer in 1903 revealed a plan for using his wealth to create a school to train journalists. Years before, Morris informs us, while running the Post-Dispatch, Pulitzer had poked fun at Missouri publishers meeting in Columbia for wanting to create a professorship of journalism.
Later, he changed his mind.
�Better trained journalists would make for better newspaper that would better serve the public good,� Pulitzer said. �Our republic and its press will rise or fall together.�
He endowed Columbia University in New York with money to finance prizes for good journalism and to create a school to train journalists. The money became available after Pulitzer�s death in 1911, three years after Walter Williams started the world�s first school of journalism at the University of Missouri.


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A new report has recommended protection of the forests of the Strathbogie Ranges in new conservation reserves. The report has been funded by local communities in north-east Victoria frustrated at the lack of action by the Andrews government.
Local trucking company owner and spokesperson for Save Our Strathbogie Forest, Shirley Saywell, said 'the Strathbogie Forest is being wrecked by logging and local communities and businesses have had enough. The Andrews government is not listening to regional communities, and we fear the loss of forests and threatened species which support local tourism and visitors to our region'
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● That the Andrews Government enable the formal protection of the Strathbogie Forest under the National Parks Act, encompassing all of the existing State Forest and other associated public land, as part of its election commitments in 2018.
● The statewide significance of these forests for meeting National Reserve System targets, Victorian Government protection commitments and for the future survival of the nationally endangered Greater Glider possum population requires their urgent protection in a conservation reserve.
● Formal protection of these forests for nature conservation also helps demonstrate the commitment of the Andrews Government to land settlement agreements being negotiated with the Taungerong Clans.
'The Andrews government has the worst record of any Victorian Government over the past sixty years in declaring new national parks', she said. The Government has been in a forests policy vacuum for 4 years, in the meantime allowing known habitat for threatened animals to continue to be trashed by its state-owned forestry business. It's time to protect the Strathbogie Forest as part of a comprehensive policy to protect wildlife, forests and valuable tourism economies in our region.
A decision to protect the Strathbogie Forest by the Coalition or Labor, as part of a forests and conservation policy, prior to the November election would receive strong support from communities across our region. It will demonstrate furthermore that regional communities' forest concerns are being listened to. It will also provide opportunities for new jobs and economic growth in regional Victoria.
Important facts:
● The Victorian Coalition committed to a Victorian Environmental Assessment Council investigation into Strathbogie forests before the 2014 election.
● 74% of native forest in the Strathbogie Ranges has been cleared, with less than 2% of the Strathbogie Ranges permanently protected in formal conservation reserves.
● At 24,000 ha, it is the largest block of Public Land in the Strathbogies.
● The Strathbogie Forest is of statewide significance for the Greater Glider possum, listed as a threatened species under the federal Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act and the Victorian Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act. The forest has one of the healthiest Greater Glider populations known in all Victoria.
For comment Shirley Saywell 0427 246 900, Bertram Lobert 0409 433 276
Members of the Save Our Strathbogie Forest campaign get their first look at the new report.
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What is memtest86+, what do I use it for?
UPDATE: We have posted a new bootable USB flash drive tool in our How To section. This tool has 2 default options; 1 for Memtest and 1 for a DOS prompt.
Taken from X86-Seret.com, and modified by Ram Guy
What is memtest86+, what do I use it for?
Memtest86+ is a utility designed to test whether your memory is in working order. It repeatedly writes an enormous amount of different patterns to all memory locations and reads them back again and verifies whether the result of the read is the same as what was written to memory.
There can be a multitude of reasons for running memtest, but foremost of all is of course to test whether your memory modules might be bad. Whenever you suspect your modules to be bad because of system crashes, lockups or reboots it would be nice to know whether the modules are in working order. Memtest86+ is a utility which tries to answer that question for you.
Another common use exists in the over clocking scene. When over clocking a system you are essentially pushing your system to the limits and at some point it will simply give way and break. Unfortunately there isn't a clear cut way of deciding whether a system is still working correctly. Because of the complexity of a computer a system which is pushed to the limits doesn't just break completely when it starts to fail, instead little errors start showing up in many different places in the system growing more frequent and widespread the more the system is pushed. Each one of these little errors can lead to a rash of your system but can also go unnoticed for days or weeks in a running system. The art so to speak of over clocking is thus to push the system as far as it can go without introducing any such errors. As memory is usually one of the first places these, such errors start coming up, a memory test is very useful.
- How do I get it to run?
There are several ways to use memtest, which are described below:
+ For Linux, please go to www.x86-secret.com
+ For USB Flash drive, please go to www.x86-secret.com
To make a bootable Floppy from with in Windows
First you would download the memtest utility to a directory on your HDD (Hard Drive), you would make a directory called memtest and download it to C:\memtest\ on your HDD (Hard drive), then using {Http://www.winzip.com} extract it to the same directory. Please then get a floppy and do a fresh full format on it, and if there are any bad sectors just throw it away and get a new one. Then click on the install.bat file in the directory where you downloaded and extracted the files and follow the on screen prompts to make the memtest boo disk. Then you would simply re-boot the system or put the Floppy in the system you want to test and set the bios to boot from floppy first or before the HDD.
To make a Bootable CD from with in Windows
You would download the ISO image that has a .zip extension. .tar files would be for UNIX/Linux. Memtest.ISO Then use Http://www.winzip.com to extract the ISO image to the same directory that you downloaded it to. Then using CD-R software you will burn the image to CD.
Note: Do not copy the image; there is usually an option under file or burner to burn image. Then you would simply re-boot the system or put the CD in the system you want to test and set the bios to boot from CD first or before the HDD.
+ Run from CD/Floppy
Your machine should now boot from the disk (CD/Floppy), display the word Loading followed by a series of periods and then show a screen much like the screenshots on the memtest86+ web page. The test is automatically started.
If your machine simply boots back into Windows/Linux you will most likely have to configure your BIOS to attempt to boot from floppy disk on startup, refer to your computer's/main board's manual how to do this.
When you are done testing simply remove the floppy and reset your computer, if ever you want to execute the test again simply reinsert the disk and reboot/start your computer.
If your machine simply boots back into Windows/Linux you will most likely have to configure your BIOS to attempt to boot from CD-ROM drive on startup, refer to your computer's/main board's manual how to do this. When you are done testing simply remove the CD/floppy and reset your computer, if ever you want to execute the test again simply reinsert the CD/Floppy and reboot/start your computer.
- How long does memtest run? How do I stop it?
Memtest runs indefinitely unless you stop it. It does however repeat the same tests over and over again. Memtest86+ contains a number of different tests which each take different approaches in trying to expose any errors in our memory. In the top right of your screen you can see the progress of each test in the lower of the two progress bars. The topmost progress bar shows the progress of a pass, each pass consists of all the tests in the memtest suite. Thus all tests are executed in one pass, so does that mean that no errors will show after the first pass if that pass didn't reveal any errors? Well no, there are several reasons why errors might only show up after a number of passes. Firstly as of this writing, the latest version of memtest also includes a test which uses random test patterns, each pass these patterns will of course be different. Secondly some types of errors simply don't show up until the system has been running for a while or are very critical on a certain timing condition, or other such conditions.
To conclude, one successful pass of memtest will give you a pretty good idea that your memory is ok, only in rare cases will there be errors showing after the first pass. To be sure though simply have the test run overnight or even for a couple of days depending on the level of importance of the system.
- How many errors are acceptable?
No errors are acceptable. Even if there is just one error, something is amiss which can cause your system to crash. Of course what the cause of the errors is you will still have to determine.
- What do I do when I get errors?
Firstly, don't start drawing any conclusions. You only know that memtest86+
is giving your errors, not what the cause is. Unfortunately it is not a straightforward exercise to decisively test the memory in an actual system. This is because a computer is not just built up of some memory, but also includes many other elements such as a memory controller, cache, a cache controller, algorithmic and logic units, etc, all of which contribute to the machine. If there are faults in any of these other parts of the computer you will likely also see errors showing up in memtest.
So what to do?
First verify that the BIOS settings of your machine are correctly configured. Look up the memory timing settings applicable to the brand and type of memory modules you have and check they match your BIOS settings, correct them if they don't and run memtest again Ok, you have all the settings correctly set and you're still getting errors. Well of course very likely causes are the memory modules and the logical course of action is to look into them further.
If you are well stocked, have a few other machines at your disposal, or just want to spend the cash for some new modules the best way to test if the cause are your memory modules is just to replace them and test again. If you are less fortunate though there is still something you can do.
If you have more then one module in your system, test them one by one, if one is consistently giving errors and another is consistently showing no errors it's a pretty good bet that the module giving the errors is simply defective. To exclude the possibility that a defective slot is throwing your results, use the same slot to test each different module.
If each module by itself shows no errors, but when you place two or more modules into the machine at the same time you do get errors, you are most likely stuck with a compatibility issue and unfortunately there isn't a whole lot you can do about it. Be sure to check your computer/motherboard manual to see if the setup you are trying is allowed, some boards require special restrictions in the sizes of modules, the order of modules, the placement of double sided and single sides modules and more of such things. If you have only one module in your system, or all modules are giving errors, there are only very few options left. The only thing you can do really is to try the module(s) in another slot. Finally simply try out different orders of the memory modules, although your manual might not mention anything on the matter sometimes there simply exist timing or other issues which can be resolved by changing the order of your modules. And of course test each slot by putting a single module into that slot and running memtest on it.
In the end if you still have not been able to localize the problem you will have to find a replacement module to establish whether the problem lies in your modules. See if you can borrow a module from someone else. When you have replaced the memory by new memory and the errors still persist, first check if you can rule out any compatibility issues or timing issues. If you are sure the memory should work in the system the cause of the errors must obviously lie someplace else in the system. The only way to find out where; is by trial and error really. Simply start replacing and/or removing parts of your computer one by one, running memtest each time you changed anything, until the errors are resolved.
- I'm getting errors in test #x, what does that mean?
Interpreting memtest results is as scientific an endeavor as testing whether a person is a witch by the methods used in Monty Python's Holy Grail. In short, don't even start; it's not going to get you anywhere. Just interpret any error as you should any other and use the methods described in the previous question to determine the cause.
- I'm getting errors in test #5 and/or #8 and have read a lot about it.
Yes there are just about enough discussions on the topic to fill a book, but it all boils down to the answer given above. The only thing that can be said is that many times, when memory latencies are incorrectly set in the BIOS you will experience errors in test #5 and #8. (Though #8 does not exist anymore as of version 1.40 and might be reinstated as a different test in a later version.) This does however NOT mean that errors in these tests are always the cause of incorrect settings; your memory might just as well be defective. However, if you have a failing module they will usually fail in test 4 no matter what frequency you run them at or at any given clock setting. And failures in test 5 or 8 usually would suggest that either one of a few things:
A. The settings are too tight or to aggressive for your system, IE not every MB can run with Cass timings of Cass 2-2-2-5 at DDR400 like with our XMS3200XL modules, and maybe relaxing the timings to check for this would be prudent to test. Try Cass 2-3-2-5 with the Rass to Cass set to "3" for example
B. You may have an un-stable power supply for your system configuration. Make sure that you have the correct type of PSU (Power Supply Unit) and that it has enough power for your system configuration.
C. You may want to look your specific modules part# up in XMS Qualifications and Testing (http://www.asktheramguy.com/forums/s...ad.php?t=52351) to see if there are any voltage and/or MB requirements. Like adding extra cooling.
D. One of your modules may be failing, but that would or should become apparent when testing then individually.
- I'm getting errors in memtest on one machine, but not when I put the same memory in another, what does that mean?
It can mean one of two things:
- The machine that is giving the errors is defective. Errors don't just originate from the memory module itself, but can also be caused by defects in the CPU, chipset, motherboard, PSU and even by timing issues introduced by any other component in the machine.
- The machine giving the errors is imposing stricter timing than the other which the memory module simply can't cope with. If the module should work with the machine according to its specifications then it most likely is defective.
- Which memory is tested?
As much as possible of the system memory is tested. Unfortunately memtest86+ can usually not test all of the memory. The reason for this is that today's processors have become so complex that they require a small amount of memory to keep accounting data of the processor state. If memtest were to write over these areas the state of the processor becomes invalid and it's behavior unpredictable. Alas it is also impossible to relocate these areas in the memory.
This means that a small area of your memory can not be tested by memtest. If this part of the memory is defective you will know soon enough though as the processor, or parts of the processor simply won't work correctly if this part of your memory is defective. Do realize though that in very rare cases memtest will show no errors even though the module is defective, not because memtest can't detect the error, but because memtest can't test the area the error is located in.
- When I select BIOS-ALL I get many errors / my machine crashes.
This is normal. With today's computers this option should never be selected. See the previous question about the reason for the errors.
- Memtest freezes or my system reboots when running memtest.
Check that you have USB legacy support disabled in your BIOS setup. Some BIOS's had a bug in them which causes memtest to write over the memory area used by the USB legacy support resulting in freezes or reboots.
- If memtest86+ shows no errors does that mean my memory is not defective?
Of course no answers are definitive, no matter how good memtest86+ will eventually become there is always the possibility that a particular type of error will go unnoticed. As long as you are having no problems with the system it will be pretty safe to say that the modules are good. If you are having problems with the system however you will just have to check by trial and error, IE; swapping the modules for new ones and/or testing with modules of a different brand/type.
- When I run install.bat it doesn't write anything to floppy.
You most likely have unpacked the memtest+-2.xx.floppy.zip file into a folder with a long pathname and/or containing + and - signs. It seems rawrite doesn't like that. Just move the files you unpacked to a directory like c:\memtest and execute it from there.
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I was told recently that my style was very 'cute' and, though I don't have a problem with that as such, I wanted to try something different for this weeks IF something that was far from cute! Besides, when I saw the topic of 'Kernel' for Illustration Friday this week nothing immediately leapt to mind so I decided it would be a good time to let my imagination show me the way…
The design of the creature actually came to me as I was staring at the irregular, blotchy pattern on a piece of linoleum – some people see faces, I see hideous mutant plant monsters from outer space, I guess thems the breaks! When I started creating the beasty, first as a pencil sketch and then in Photoshop, I actually had no idea about the story surrounding it or if it would tie in to the theme. However, as the little critter took shape he started to tell me his story and I discovered that this extra terrestrial piece of sentient flora was no pot plant!!
Now the art is done and posted I'm going to pen a story to go with him and perhaps see about posting that here too.
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Videogames and Wellbeing
This talk will discuss early results from a number of projects exploring when and how videogames have a positive influence on wellbeing.
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Much has been made in the media of the extensive negative impacts of videogames. While researchers continue to debate whether and when videogames are harmful, recent research has suggested a number of positive impacts associated with videogame play. This talk will discuss early results from a number of projects exploring when and how videogames have a positive influence on wellbeing. Specifically; the predictors of hours spent playing video games the genres, modes of play and experiences during play that influence wellbeing; the predictors of obsessive and harmonious passion for play; the influence of video game on mood; and the differences in brain activity associated with playing with humans versus AI controlled teammates.
Dr. Daniel Johnson is the director of the Games Research and Interaction Design Lab at QUT. He has completed Bachelors and Honours degrees in Psychology, a Graduate Certificate in Higher Education and a doctorate on the psychology of human-computer interactions and videogames. Daniel Johnson has also worked in the games industry for companies such as NextGenVideos and The Binary Mill. He recently completed a year as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Cambridge Well-being Institute. His research interests are motivations for videogame play and the impact of videogames on wellbeing.
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In overall, link building is one of the most effective ways to make sure that your site is successful. You should incorporate it when you are building your site. Making sure you have quality links will increase your listing in search engines and PR. It will increase the chances of getting more traffic to your site. There are some people who are saying that link building is coming to an end. However, through using link building, one is able to increase traffic. At the same time, they are able to get a higher PR and therefore get more traffic from search engines. This means that link building still works and it is not yet extinct.
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The main reason articles are written is to provide some form of marketing for the owners' website. When the articles are placed on other websites, one will find that there are people who will get information regarding products of certain sites. This information is normally incorporated with a link to the owner's website. This way, a person who looks at the website will be able to get more information and products from the link that is provided. As long as the articles have been written well, they will provide a possibility of having an increase in traffic to the owner's website.
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Traditional article marketing is the use of magazines, newspapers and any print media to advertise the article. This has been something that has been going on for a long time. In the general sense of it, traditional article marketing is still in style and it still generates results to offline businesses. However, this is changing rapidly due to the impact that online article marketing has on certain businesses.
The process that traditional article marketing follows is very simple. What happens is that a business owner will go to a print media business of their choice. They can choose to use a newspaper, magazine or even a brochure. When they have chosen the print media they will use, the next step would be to discuss the terms of the article that will be printed. In most cases the business person will write an article of certain specifications that will be given by the print media they have chosen.
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I've finally gotten round to writing this post after promising to write it back in October…I'm a bit slow on the uptake I know, but it's finally here. How to cope and what it's like when you have to change psychologists.
This is a really scary prospect that can be very difficult to go through especially if you've gained a good relationship with your past psychologist and you're finding it hard to move on. What if they're not the same? What if they don't understand me? These are all extremely common questions that you might be thinking. I have experienced all of these as well. Truth is, your new psychologist will be expecting you to have all these questions and thoughts. They'll know how hard it is to change from one psychologist to another, so they'll be expecting you to have had all these thoughts.
The thing is, you will miss certain things about your previous psychologist that you wish your new one had, but at the same time there will be qualities that your new psychologist has that you wish your previous one had! It's the same with any new relationship you have, so it's really common to feel like that.
It can also feel really strange when you go see them for the first time, especially if it's in the same place as went for your last one. It's like normally I'm here for such and such, but now a new person's going to be here…it's just not right!
When you do find out that your need to transfer psychologists whether that be by choice or not, you may feel daunted be the fact that you'll have to rebuild that relationship again which might have taken so long to form with your last one. From my experiences it does take time, but it is very much possible. It may be hard to open up to them at first which is completely normal, but you have to give it a chance. If you try and resist this new therapeutic relationship that is being built then it'll never get back to where you want it to be.
Normally your first appointment with your new psychologist is pretty similar to what it was like when you first went to therapy all together. You'll get to know your psychologist and they'll get to know you. You may feel a little weird especially if it's at the same place that you saw your previous psychologist and possibly even a bit emotional because it brings back memory's of the last time you saw your last psychologist. They should have all your information already, so don't think that they'll come in with absolutely no knowledge about you. Most likely they'll have spoken to your last psychologist and got to know you a bit through them. Now I'm not saying that you'll not have to repeat things that you've already told your last psychologist because you will, but that's okay because you'll be able to gain someone else's perspective on the situation.
Also it's okay to still miss your previous psychologist even once you've started up with your new one. Don't feel bad about it because it's completely normal. I definitely felt like that, I mean I still do at times and it's been over 4 months…I tend to get quite attached to people, so it was extremely difficult. : (
Things to remember
- It may seem daunting, but it will be alright
- You will regain that relationship you once had with your last psychologist
- You'll gain new perspectives
- It will get better!
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text: Hallo, Ken Restivo hat gesagt: // Ken Restivo wrote: > I'm trying to create a PD application that'll be sync'ed to jack > transport as a sort of master clock. > > I found the jack_transport object, loaded it, and it runs. If I bang > it regularly with a metro, I can see the current sample in jack > transport. So far so good. > > My question is about what'd be the most efficient/effective way to > sync up a tabplay~ or tabread4~ object to the sample clock in jack > transport. So far I've considered the following approaches: > > 1) Bang jack_transport with the output of a sig~ or phasor~ object, > getting the clock from jack, and use that to hit tabread4~ (I don't > know how I'd do this with tabplay~ though, and performance is an > issue so if tabplay~ is cheaper I want to use it). If you want to play samples with a different samplerate than the one Pd and jack are using you have to to use tabread4~. tabplay~ doesn't do any interpolation or transposition. I normally never use tabplay~ except for some quick prototyping. > 2) Bang jack_transport with the output of a metro every n > milliseconds, and calculate what sample I'm supposed to be at in the > tabread4~ or tabplay~ object, and just "re-sync" periodically if > they drift. If they aren't ever going to drift (i.e. if PD's > internal sample clock is sync'ed to JACK), then perhaps this > "resyncing" will only happen at the start of playing, or perhaps I > only need to do it then. I've never used jack_transport, but the samplerates of Jack and Pd should never get out of sync unless something really bad happens (xruns etc), and then you have other problems. However what can get out of sync is the notion of: "What time is it?" Pd itself doesn't have a timeline built in, so how to deal with a global clock very much depends on what your patch looks like. Example: Jack transport can do a "rewind to the beginning of a piece". A Pd patch however may not have a beginning, it might just run a process which gets modified. What should such a patch do with a "rewind" order? Assuming you have a Pd patch which has a beginning and which at the beginning plays a sample of 2 seconds length with tabread4~ and vline~. Now jack_transport moves the system to a time 1 second after the start of the piece. Then you either can ignore this and not play the sample at all, or you restart the sample, but with the vline~ at the position it would have 1 second after the beginning. This of course requires a slighty different patching style than if you would just ignore it - as you'd have to patch your sample player in a way that it can always start playing samples at every possible time. Ciao -- Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__