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Much better than I'd anticipated. David is loving it and flourishing! We're working on second grade material and have been able to branch out and try new things. One of which I have now just fallen all kinds of in love with. Lapbooking. Such a cool idea! Whoever thought of it, I am so thankful for you! We are studying Easter after the holiday because we took some time off when my brother was in town. But David doesn't mind so I don't mind. Today we created his lapbook for his study on the book, "The Legend of The Easter Egg". He loves it! He cut and pasted all the pieces while I read him the instructions. This week we will go through the book and learn about it piece by piece so that by the end of the week he will have learned science, math, language arts, history, reading, spelling, and art from this one little book! So cool. Anyway, here are some pics from today.
The folded sides of the finished piece.
The inside of the finished product. :)
OH! By the way, if you would like to get your hands on some free lapbook ideas and printouts click here and you will find everything you could imagine! This is where I got the templates and printables for the Easter lapbook.
Cutting out the pieces....
Gluing the pieces onto the book.
Putting it all together.
The front cover.
The folded sides of the finished piece.
The inside of the finished product. :)

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Understanding generations 4
HUMMING IN MY UNIVERSE By Jim Paredes Updated May 03, 2009 12:00 AM
Things follow one after another in a logical sequence. I remember telling this to my kids in our talks about the different stages of relationships that they would likely go through in life. In these discussions, I would point out that kids become adolescents, and grow up to be teenagers before they become adults. They fall in love with someone, have a thing going, get married and have kids, with all of these stages happening in that order. Except maybe falling in love, which can happen many times in one's life, even way into late adulthood.
But that isn't always how things turn out in life, especially these days. From the point of view of many older people, there seems to be a "disorder" in the way things are unfolding, in the way the young people today are living their lives. If this is the new order, it seems like chaos to us older folks. The stages I mentioned above still do happen but not in the sequence we are used to. In truth, it can get quite alarming.
Many will agree that sex is a bit too casual these days, that it happens too early and too often in courtship. If surveys and news reports are to be believed, it often occurs way before kids get to know each other really well and certainly before they are full adults. More and more, babies are conceived and families are made before marriage — that is, if the relationship even gets to marriage.
Ironically, while we of the Baby Boomer generation have sacrificed a lot to give our kids what they did not have, the world we have created has turned out to be so difficult for them to just enjoy being kids. Notice how many are in such a hurry to do so-called "adult" things and put on the superficial trappings of adult entitlement.
Have we Baby Boomer parents screwed up? If we have, it's probably from trying too hard to make life easier for our kids. We worried about their not having the best chances in life, the best clothes and the best education. We worried that they would have a hard time at anything.
We worried about things our parents never worried about like lead poisoning, obesity, drug addiction, seat belts and AIDS. Most of all, we developed an overblown fear of the possibility that they may be suffering from low self-esteem and made sure they got a barrage of reassurances. And so we gave them expensive toys, enrolled them earlier in school and got them reading, writing and counting earlier. We enrolled them in after-school activities, and extras like summer camp and travel so they could feel more confident and "get ahead."
We spared the rod. We were easy on them, making sure we continuously gave them "positive" reinforcement by complimenting and praising them much more than we ever got when we were growing up. We anticipated their needs, often acting before we should have.
While most of these things are actually good, they are not always so, especially when given in extra large doses, or without the kids having earned them, or even before they asked for them. In many ways, the largesse that today's kids enjoy in the name of our love may have actually hurt them. I fear that all this pampering has made them soft, unfocused and too dependent on their parents.
I believe that the biggest temptation many of us parents fall into is trying to be our children's "best friend." This means establishing rapport so they feel free to tell us anything. We do this with the goal of establishing open communication with them which, in our view, can only be for the good.
But by being our kids' best friend, we often end up surrendering the right to be the parent-disciplinarian that our kids need during their formative years. We give up our power to dispense "tough love" when the kids need some scolding and punishing for bad behavior.
On top of that, by being their closest confidante, we may undermine the necessary stage of rebellion and aloneness that children must go through if they are to become their own persons.
I had a lot of self-esteem issues when I was growing up and I know a lot of other people my age did. But we did not even know what to call it then, and neither did our parents. They thought we were just being overly shy, or we were going through the usual lack of confidence associated with youth. So our parents hardly intervened with the process, and we pretty much solved these issues ourselves.
I often swing from the stance of an old–fashioned "my-generation-was-tough" kind of parent to being an open-minded and perhaps too forgiving and accommodating one. This is one of the great contradictions my generation has to live with, since we were raised in a modern world by old-fashioned parents with old values but became parents ourselves in a postmodern one that demands new ways of coping.
Like my mother did, I often wonder how my kids will fare as parents. I would not be surprised if my mom's parents also wondered about how their kids would do. Every generation worries about whether their progeny is made of stronger stuff than they are.
It is probably true that this generation is softer than mine but there are intrinsic weaknesses of youth, such as recklessness and impulsiveness that I believe will redeem them. The writer Pearl Buck observed, "The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible — and achieve it, generation after generation."
Thank God for this, since it is probably what has saved every seemingly impossibly hopeless generation.
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Anna serves Toni and takes care of her belongings and her son while she is away at work. Anna seems aware about what kind of work her mistress does, but she is subtle about it. When Toni returns home from an unspecificed trip, Anna is there to welcome here and take her bags. She insists on referring to Toni as "Milady" as opposed to simply "Toni".
Anna had prepared tea in preparation for Toni's arrival. She informs Toni that "the boss" is down for his nap. When Toni is alerted of a major problem and must go to America, Anna prepares for her a handgun, in case her other gadgets don't work. She is instructed to inform Toni's son that she will be home as soon as she can.
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NEW YORK (WCBS 880) – Fake NFL jerseys, Disney knock-offs, and replicas of an Angry Birds toy are all part of the massive seizure of counterfeit goods announced Thursday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
WCBS 880's Marla Diamond On The Story
"The majority were seized in Queens, Manhattan, and Long Island," said James Hayes, the special agent in charge of Homeland Security's investigation in New York.
Hayes says the items were sold at small stores and flea markets.
"Especially in an economy such as this, parents out there trying to find a good deal often times will find a counterfeit item, and we're trying to send the message out that, often times, these are much more expensive in the long run," said Hayes.
He said some of the toys even contained lead paint and pieces that can break off.
In all, about $80 million worth of goods were seized in what was dubbed Operation Holiday Hoax.
In the New York City-area, special agents with ICE seized 133,077 items with a manufacturer's suggested retail price of $35,245,627. This includes a seizure made December 20, of 70,000 counterfeit toys with an MSRP of $800,000.
Three people are under arrest.
Do you have something to say about this story? Sound off in the comments section below!
Three people are under arrest. One guess, Asian decent?
How about the Seizure of 12 million illegals, thats your job not seizure of goods, that is the customs departments job, DUH guess our wonderfully stupid Gov thinks all americans are dumbed down, not.
the stuff they seized is probably better quality than the so called real sh1t……


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noun, plural: sperms
The male gamete or reproductive cell involved in sexual reproduction. It is produced by a male organism that unites with the egg of a female organism forming a zygote.
A sperm is a cell consisting of a round or cylindrical nucleated cell, a short neck, and a thin motile tail. Its structure is vital to its mobility and function (i.e. sexual reproduction). The compacted nucleus contains half of the genetic information. It fuses with an ovum (the female gamete) to form a zygote. In mammals, the sex is determined by the sperm cell. If it bears Y chromosome, the resulting offspring is a male. If X chromosome, the offspring is a female.
Word origin: Greek, from sperma, spermat-, seed.
Synonyms: spermatozoon, zoosperm.


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The AJKO returns for the fall with the release of the Air Jordan 1 Retro KO High "Blue Quilted." The sneaker features a mix of canvas and quilted fleece on the upper with bronze and white accents and a solid white sole.
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The Australian Labor Party has called for a senate inquiry into the "digital wreckage" left by the federal government's digital transformation efforts, which it claims will see IT spending climb to $10 billion.
Shadow minister for the digital economy Ed Husic today appealed to the finance and public administration committee to look into the series of high-profile "tech wrecks" that have occurred over the last year.
These include the eCensus failure, Centrelink robo-debt program, the abandonment of the single government website gov.au, and repeated ATO website crashes.
"Labor believes the senate finance and public administration committee should examine why so many projects have failed, been cancelled or crashed and what can be done to put the vital work of digital transformation at the centre of government," Husic said in a statement.
It follows the party's similar call for an inquiry in April, which Husic says went unanswered.
"Despite all the digital failures the Turnbull government has remained silent as services crash and projects go off the rails," he said.
"The Australian public deserves to know what went wrong and how it can be fixed."
Husic also wants the government to explain why it wants to boost its IT spend to $10 billion – more than $3 billion more than last year.
Assistant Minister for Digital Transformation Angus Taylor pledged that the Digital Transformation Agency's new investment management office would review the government's biggest tech projects by mid-2017, but is still yet to publicly release its findings.
The DTA identified at least half a billion dollars worth of IT projects across government when it fronted senate estimates in May.
Husic has been a staunch critic of the government's ability to deliver modern digital services since taking on the shadow digital economy portfolio last October.
He cites a 2016 AIIA survey with Galaxy that found only 16 percent of citizens were satisfied with government digital services, down from a 2011 government-run survey that put user satisfaction at 86 percent.
"As governments across the globe embrace the use of digital platforms to deliver efficient online services, Australia can't afford to be left behind. But public trust is lagging because the Turnbull government can't get its act together," Husic said.
"Without proper oversight the Turnbull government will just continue to preside rover more failures and the Australian public's trust in digital transformation will slide further."


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The story of spiritual relationships going bad has been repeating itself in many ways in virtually every religion. We think about the sex abuse scandals in the Catholic church. Violent outbursts in cults like the Branch Davidians. And bitter disillusionment when a spiritual leader we turn to ends up not having our best interest at heart.
Eastern religions in America have not been spared. There have been sex scandals in Yoga centers all over the country, where self proclaimed gurus betrayed the trust of their students and exploited their position for their own personal or financial gain.
Buddhism in America too has had its controversies. This is what my new book Buddha Betrayed wants to explore. Teachers in Zen as well as other Buddhist schools of thought have been accused of sexual misconduct and boundary violations, mostly between male teachers and their female students.
Initially it involved teachers from India, Japan and other Asian countries who came to America, unfamiliar with the social conduct and flat hierarchical structures of this country, who ended up exploiting their students' trust and their position of power. But there were many others who followed in their footsteps, and the psychological damage done can be traumatic.
My book is trying to explore what kind of pitfalls religious seekers must become aware of in their own minds, when they engage in a relationship with a spiritual teacher.
Perhaps the most prevalent and potentially harmful phenomenon is idealization. Often just the uniform of such a person – the robe, the foreign name, the shaved head – instills respect and awe. We want to believe that this teacher, who may have done spiritual work for many decades, has fully overcome all their shortcomings and imperfections and is now a fully mature and transcended being.
We expect them to have their live together. We want them to be kind and understanding at all times, and firm and decisive when needed. We want them to have psychological insight and give us spiritual guidance. In short, we want them to be perfect.
But the truth is that they are not. Spiritual teachers have developed an interest in spirituality because they often come from a place of psychological suffering and have a desire to overcome the petty egotism of everyday human life. Many of them have worked hard to get to a place of serenity and altruism, but that doesn't mean that they don't still struggle with all the conflicts of the human condition.
In order to have a functioning relationship with a spiritual teacher, the students must work to gain insight into their own illusions, and to overcome their tendencies to idealize and to project all power onto the seemingly enlightened teacher. Only when we can see the other person for who they are can we let go of our own tendencies to see ourselves as inferior or lacking, and grown into a mature and well rounded being.


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If you followed my posts on un-deleting files, you now know that when you delete a file, you can often recover it. A reader asked in email
"So can you delete files forever, by formatting?"
No, and let me show you why. I'll "Quick format" & "also "Format" a USB stick, and demonstrate that you can still recover files. Then I'll show you what I do to wipe a disk clean.
"Quick" & Full Formatting
Quick formatting, or even Full formatting,
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I guess I'm a glorified imaginary friend. I sit in AJ's head and talk and talk and talk. And AJ writes some of it down, and others stay up there collecting cobwebs.
I am a fictional character. I don't hide this fact. Though I think sometimes my new followers don't know that. I know I might have given the wrong impression upon the creation of this blog and when I returned. For this I do apologize, my intentions were never to mislead.
I'm very happy to chat with you about things, about me, about you. About anything really. But I'm still fiction, AJ channels me like she would with writing me and I react to you and our conversation. And once and a while it makes AJ think about things we hadn't discussed. It can be enlightening.


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Place of Birth: Dundalk
Nationality: Ireland
Position: Forward
Height: 5' 5"
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Tiarnán was first included in the Dundalk first team squad in 2006 when John Gill included him among the substitutes for the final game of the season against Waterford United in the second leg of the controversial promotion/relegation play-off final at the RSC.
In May 2007 the striker netted all five goals in a 5-1 win for the Dundalk Youths, and shortly after that Tiarnan made his senior debut as a substitute in the 2-0 victory over Athlone Town at Lissywollen. His first senior goal for the club came within seconds of him entering as a second-half substitute against Kilkenny City at Oriel Park on 20 September.
Tiarnan played in 29 of the club's 36 league games on their way to capturing the 2008 First Division crown, scoring six goals along the way, and when Sean Connor replaced Gill for the 2009 season he was one of only three players to survive. He made his Premier Division bow as a late substitute in Dundalk's opening night defeat by Bohemians and scored his first Premier Division goal against Bray Wanderers on 5 June. In January 2010 he signed a new one-year contract but left the club due to a lack of first team football in August of that year.
In January of 2011 Mulvenna signed for Shelbourne but complications arose and he was forced to sit out the first half of the season. When the transfer window opened in June 2011 he signed for Mick Cooke at Drogheda United and scored five goals in 17 league appearances over the latter half of the season. The following year Tiarnan made 22 league appearances but eleven of these came from the bench and he left Drogheda at the end of 2012.
In December 2012 Tiarnan returned to Oriel Park, signing for new boss Stephen Kenny. He scored within two minutes of making his first league appearance of the season, as a sub against UCD on 23 March 2013, and went on to net five times in 21 league appearances as the Lilywhites finished second in the Premier Division table.
In January 2014 Tiarnan signed for Glenavon where he spent seven months before switching to Cliftonville in August 2014. He signed a two year deal with the Belfast club but on 17 January 2015 his contract was cancelled by mutual consent, and five days later he returned to LoI football when he signed for Drogheda United
He went on to make twenty-five league appearances for the club, scoring four goals in the process, as Drogheda United were relegated on the last day of the season. In November 2015, Tiarnan left the club. The following month, he signed for NIFL side Warrenpoint Town.


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Meth Houses | Getting the Word Out About Testing Properties
Australia is one of the world's fastest growing markets for methamphetamine. A 2014 Australian Crime Commission report revealed more than 740 clandestine laboratories used to make methamphetamine were detected around the country, 340 of them in Queensland alone. Ice can affect you, your loved ones, your business, or your clients. No one is immune from its damaging effects.
You only have to read the latest news stories to understand how this drug is causing harm throughout the community.
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With automobile manufacturers embracing the technological shift towards the new ecosystem worldwide, the global electric vehicle market is expected to grow at a CAGR of more than 22% during 2013-2020.
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) affects millions. I have been affected with GAD for over 30 years now, starting when I was a child. Honestly, my first instinct is to fight it. But time and again I've found fighting it compounds the stress.
Remember in Disney's Fantasia, the adaptation of the German poem, The Sorcerer's Apprentice,
when Mickey Mouse splits an uncontrollable broom with an axe and watches in horror as it multiplies?
I challenge myself instead to COPE with it. LIVING with it is much more realistic than RIDDING yourself of it. Easier said than done, right?
My objective with this site is to share my experiences with GAD and the resources that help me cope. I find it therapeutic to look outside myself – to music, movies and things in the world around me that are examples of other people coping.
Because if someone else is talking about it, then I know I'm not alone.


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Reaching out to touch someone, emailwise, has never been easier thanks to free email campaign services like MailChimp and free AIM webinars about how to use free email campaign services like MailChimp. Here is one of those webinars now:
The webinar explains everything. This post will explain some things. Watch the webinar for the full details, and continue reading for a taste of how to put MailChimp to work for you.
First things first, MailChimp is FREE, and you know I mean it since I wrote it in all CAPS. There are paid plans for super sophisticated e-mailing folks, but the free plan lets you add up to 2,000 recipients to your list and send 12,000 e-mails per month. If you need more than that, color me impressed.
First things first, sign up for a MailChimp account. The sign up form is going to ask for some details that not all sign up forms bother asking. This is because MailChimp does a superb job integrating your data into its e-mail templates, which saves you a lot of time and work. And who has time to do more work?
Once you have your MailChimp account activated, you can begin e-mailing. To begin, you'll need an address book full of people. For this, head on over to the AIM website, log in, and click on Downline Report under My Account in the green navigation bar on the Member home page.
This is your online genealogy. We want the offline version, so click on the download link to download your genealogy as a Microsoft Excel file.
Open the Excel file. Copy and paste the rows.
Now head back over to MailChimp and the Lists section. Choose Create List.
Fill out your list details like name (which no one sees but you), default from, and default reply-to, and then click save. On the next screen, choose to import names into your list.
By selecting the Copy and Paste from Excel option, you can do just that – take your copied Excel cells and paste them into the MailChimp importer. When they've been uploaded, MailChimp will ask you to sort the data, and doing so can help you target a certain segment of your list (Texas folks, e.g.).
Whew. When do we start e-mailing, amirite?
Well, good news. The next step is to start your e-mail blast. Click to create a new campaign, and set the basic information for your campaign – who will be receiving it, what the subject will be, whether or not you want to track who reads it (you want to track this).
Picking a template is next, and depending on whether or not you anguish over tiny details and/or get distracted easily (me), this could take some time. Or it could take 30 seconds. It's really up to you and how you feel about the looks of your e-mail.
MailChimp has a lot of great templates to choose from, so you can't really go wrong with anything in their template gallery. Sort and browse using the categories in the left sidebar, and preview the templates by hovering over the one you're interested in and clicking the preview button.
Once you've chosen your template, the end is in sight. Put in your text and pictures and IMPORTANT ONE-TIME ONLY OFFERS, check your work, and send the e-mail away.
Once a little time has passed, you can go back and check out your campaign statistics and see how many people opened your e-mail, how many clicked on a link, and how many stopped browsing LOLCats to read what you wrote (just kidding, although that would be pretty cool).
Congratulations. If you've made it this far, you are an e-mailing pro, and I cannot help you any further. In fact, I may be coming to you for help.


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Cinematographer extraordinaire Robin Whenary got in touch about Jerri Hart's latest short, The Oliver Complex, a dark musical comedy short, about a rare mental disorder whereby the sufferer experiences everyday life as a West End musical.
"The shoot was challenging but fun. The script was great, and Jerri had a clear vision for the film," Robin told D&CFilm.
"We shot in several location around Exeter, including the piazza at the centre of the university campus, where we staged the end of an extended dance sequence, involving quite a few dancers and extras. Tony Hill provided one of his cranes for that day, and helped operate it, so we were able to get some nice overhead shots.
"We also shot in the Blackmore Theatre in Exmouth, the Black Box studio at the Exeter Phoenix Centre, and various locations in Dawlish.
"The inherent theatricality of the subject meant we could play around with lots of hard, colourful theatrical-style lighting for much of it.
"Thomas Sutcliffe, the lead actor, hails from the West End and was great to work with, as was Felicity Butler, who as well as co-starring did the choreography."
The Oliver Complex is currently in post-production, and will premiere at the 2012 Two Short Nights Film Festival at the Exeter Phoenix, in the autumn.
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For the next five weeks, Health Canada is asking for public input into its review of the system that notifies patients, pharmacists and health providers about drug shortages. The B.C. Pharmacy Association and B.C. government confirmed Monday that each will make submissions for improvement.
Canadian manufacturers and importers are expected to post all anticipated and actual drug shortages and discontinuances on the Drug Shortages Database website — drugshortages.ca — promptly when it is known that manufacturing and distribution issues will cause drug supply problems.
The federal government set up the website two years ago so drug companies could post when a drug will be in short supply or unavailable. But it's purely voluntary and not all shortages get posted, which leaves pharmacists and doctors scrambling to find substitutes.
There may be dozens of shortages across the country at any given time, including cancer drugs, branded or generic pain medications, antibiotics and even injectable vitamins like B12.
The B.C. Pharmacy Association wants to hear from health consumers who have been affected so it can submit "real stories of real people," said Derek Desrosiers, director of Pharmacy Practice Support. Patients can send messages about their experiences to this email address: firstname.lastname@example.com
"Drug shortages have been a fact of life for the 32 years I've been a pharmacist but I think it's got worse because of demographics (population growth and aging) and the fact that prescriptions have doubled in the last 10 years, to now 65 million dispensed in B.C. each year," Desrosiers said.
"The importance of the federal list is that when drug companies issue such alerts, pharmacists, hospitals and doctors can prepare for shortages, by rationing supply or preparing alternatives," he said.
In addition to shifting demographics, drug shortages can also be caused by safety issues in manufacturing plants, unexpected surges in demand for certain drugs, natural disasters impinging delivery systems and regulatory controls.
Drug companies have to give only 30 days notice for shortages but some health policy experts have been lobbying for a six-month warning. Desrosiers said the pharmacy association is trying to collect information on the number of times B.C. patients have had to switch brands or types of medications.
Desrosiers said similar problems exist in every province and often shortages are international in scope because of manufacturing problems. If manufacturing facilities in countries like China and India have problems with plant maintenance or access to plants from which drugs are derived, then drug shortages will arise.
Manufacturing facilities can only make one drug at a time because of the need to prevent cross contamination issues, he said.
In her announcement of the federal review last week, health minister Rona Ambrose said the consultation period will last until July 5. The government wants to hear from patients, health care providers and others about how well the Drug Shortages Database is working. The website was launched in 2012 as a go-to source of information about actual and expected shortages of medications.
"Drug shortages affect the whole health system," said Ambrose. "Governments, industry, health care providers and individual patients each have an important role to play in helping to figure out the best solutions. These consultations will allow patients, health care providers and medical practitioners to share their views. Currently, the voluntary system has been successful, but we are always open to improving the system if it will benefit patients."
Sun Health Issues Reporter
13 Commonly Prescribed Medications in Short Supply:
• Sulfamethoxazole — an antibacterial drug
• Oxycodone Hydrochloride — an opioid analgesic for pain relief
• Cephalexin — an antibiotic
• Hydroxyzine — an antihistamine used for anxiety control
• Atenolol — a beta blocker used mainly for heart disorders
• Medroxyprogesterone — female sex hormone
• Calcitriol — Vitamin D
• Valproic Acid — an anticonvulsant
• Ofloxacin — an antibacterial
• Misoprostol — anti-ulcer drug
• Iron Dextran Complex — for red blood cell formation and building up hemoglobin levels
• Doxycycline — an antibiotic
• Vitamins B2 and B12, by injection — necessary for brain, nervous system and metabolism disorders
sources: www.drugshortages.ca and the Canadian Pharmacists Association Guide to Drugs in Canada


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Moshe Semyonov is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology and in the Department of Labor Studies at Tel Aviv University, and holds the Chair in Labor Sociology. He likewise has a tenured position as professor of sociology at the University of Illinois in Chicago. Professor Semyonov has a BA and MA in sociology and anthropology from Tel Aviv University, and an MA and a PhD in sociology from Stony Brook University in New York. In the past Professor Semyonov has served as a lecturer at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, and at the University of Haifa. His research interests include migration, labor markets, mobility, social stratification, and housing.


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As this time of year rolls around it always takes me back to High School and Prom time.........
Just when you think you've seen it all
Prom Day in 'Da Hood' !!
Jar Jar, Lord Fauntleroy and Gunga Din ... take note
of the numerous police vehicles and the ambulance!
Prom dresses sure have changed
since I was in high school !
What is that around her neck?
Why all the 'POleece' in the background?
There is a Buick with missing seat covers somewhere in The Hood .
He stole that hat from Boy George ....
Do these dresses make our asses look fat?
(No, your asses make these dresses look fat!)
What's holding those up?
No comment
Who's Yo Daddy?
The token white guy.
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This look consisted of a lot of layering but to be honest you could easily skip a few steps! I just used some products that I have pretty much ignored since I purchased them. What I used in order
- Dermablend Cover Creme in Caramel Beige all over the lid and under my eye
- MAC Blackground Paint Pot (black with silver micro glitter) as an intital base over my lid and just up to the crease
- NYX Jumbo pencil in Cottage Cheese (off white) around tear duct
- NYX JUmbo Pencil in pots and pans (silver) on inner third of lid
- NYX Jumbo pencil in Slate (gunmetal grey) on middle third of lid
- NYX jumbo pencil in Black Bean (black) on outer third of lid
- MAC Electra (silver) on inner third of lid
- MAC Knight Eyeshadow (Gunmetal grey) on middle third of lid
- MAC Print Eyeshadow (Dark grey matte) on Outer third of lid
- MAC Black Tied eyeshadow (black with silver glitter) to darken outer v and into the crease
- MAC Saddle (reddish brown) to blend out the edges
- Benefit Spakling eye powder in Merengue (a frosty white) applied wet using Fix+ on a brush
- MAC Liquid Last liner in point black to line top lash line
- Rimmel Sexy Curves mascara on top and bottom lashes
- MAC Fascinating eye kohl (White) on water line
- Urban Decay 24/7 Glide on liner in oil slick (a gunmetal grey with silver glitter) along bottom lashline
- Modelista silver glitter liquid liner applied around tear duct and slightly to the centre of the lid.
This look was super glittery seeing as I used a glittery base, some glitter shadow, glitter pencil liner and glitter liquid liner. It's one of those looks that I would only wear to something like New Years, a costume party or out clubbing if I was wearing all black (and I was 8 years younger). I couldn't capture the glitter on camera properly but it's applied all over the white shadow around my tear duct and it completely highlights your eyes. I've got bangs so the glitter peeks through and looks really pretty and it surprised me how much I liked the look.
The look can easily be toned down by taking away the glitter and using more matte or satin finish shadows and by toning down the intensity of the highlight around the tear duct. On the other hand, it can also easily be amped up by adding some long false lashes and applying more black liner along the bottom lashline and along the waterline. I quite like the look with the white liner on the waterline and I think it gives it a bit of a retro feel that you could play up by using false lashes on the bottom lash line and by intensifying the white liner. Hope you guys like the look!


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Sony's new HX850 has good picture quality for its price, performing better than similarly-priced LG and Samsung models in its default and calibrated settings. Apart from some minor issues with detail in dark areas, the HX850 handles both standard and HD video with aplomb. Sony's online features have not evolved in line with competitors, and its interface is beginning to look dated.
The Sony BRAVIA HX850 is the newest model in Sony's 2012 TV line-up, and is the second most expensive TV on offer. It's got a slightly higher price than the comparable Samsung ES7500 and LG LM8600. It has excellent picture quality in both preset and calibrated modes, but the Sony interface is beginning to look dated.
The HX850 is the top new release for Sony this year, but it still sits under the HX925 — a 2011 release that the company is keeping on until 2013.
Like the HX925 the BRAVIA HX850 is a 'Monolithic Design' Sony TV, with no visible bezels or disruptive design cues. We tested the HX850 with its optional stand, which includes more powerful speakers and a six-degree backwards tilt, but the bundled stand is also attractive and fits in with the TV's sleek and futuristic design.
The HX850 isn't nearly as glossy as the earlier HX925, and that's a very good thing. We used the HX850 in a room brightly lit by fluorescent lights and while it is moderately reflective, distractions can be minimised with careful room placement. The optional stand is more likely to reflect ceiling lights due to its rakish cant. We wouldn't use the HX850 in a room where a large light source like a window is directly in front of the TV — a matte screen (like a Sharp or some Panasonics) is a better choice here.
The screen is finished in a single sheet of Gorilla Glass, but the bezel of the Sony BRAVIA HX850 does intrude around an inch from the TV's edge on all sides. When it's switched on, the HX850 doesn't have the same impressive borderless effect that we liked on the LG LM9600. The deep black bezel does make the on-screen image look more contrasty and impressive, though.
The remote control that's bundled with the Sony BRAVIA HX850 is a cut-down version of last year's model, and it's a little confusing. The buttons are small, there are a lot of them and it's not really clear what they all do. We would have preferred a simpler remote bundled with a more comprehensive on-screen interface.
The on-screen menu interface of the Sony BRAVIA HX850 is functionally very similar to the one used in last year's models. We wish text was crisper, larger and higher-resolution, as the smooth white-on-black is hard to read from a distance. Samsung is currently our benchmark for a quality menu interface, while Sharp shows what's possible with a simple interface on a non-Smart TV.
The Sony Entertainment Network brings all the company's video, music and apps into one place on the BRAVIA HX850. Sony has consolidated 2011's BRAVIA Internet Video and Sony Internet TV into the Sony Entertainment Network, adding features like Music Unlimited and Video Unlimited along the way.
The SEN interface relies on large icons and is easy to navigate, but the underlying applications are the same as last year. ABC iView, for example, desperately needs an update: instead of the sleek interface of the Web browser version, the Sony interface is a glut of video icons and little more.
The Entertainment Network interface is split into apps, video and music, with an additional favourites section. The apps are free (although some like Quickflix require in-app payment) and are already loaded onto the TV. Video and music purchases are made through Sony's Music Unlimited and Video Unlimited services — Music Unlimited is subscription-based but videos can only be temporarily rented with no unlimited subscription option.
Heading into the app section shows a description box for each app that's not filled out by the information inside it. The interface generally looks a little slap-dash; we think it could use more work.
The BRAVIA HX850 has a range of analog and digital inputs that is comparable to other 2011 and 2012 LED and plasma TVs.
The TV's four HDMI ports are more than enough for average home use — we don't expect many living rooms to have more than a Blu-ray player in them these days, and maybe a PVR to record shows. The HDMI ports are distributed across the side and bottom panels of the HX850's rear.
An optional break-out connector lets the Sony HX850 receive analog composite and component video. There's also a built-in analog composite video port on the TV's rear facing outwards, along with two of the three total analog audio inputs.
There's an Ethernet port on the bottom panel and two side-mounted USB 2.0 ports for Internet and external media connectivity respectively. NTFS file systems aren't supported over USB, so you'll need to make sure flash drives or hard drives are formatted using FAT. We had no problems playing MKV, AVI, MP4, MP3, WAV, JPG and BMP files on the Sony HX850 through either USB port off an external hard drive.
Wi-Fi is built into the Sony HX850, with 802.11b/g/n supported. The HX850 has Wi-Fi Direct, so content can be directly streamed to the TV from any compatible laptop, smartphone or other mobile device.
Like older Sony BRAVIA TVs, the HX850 supports an optional USB Skype camera which, in conjunction with a Skype app, turns the TV into a big-screen Web video phone.
The Sony BRAVIA KDL-46HX850 is the 46in version of the HX850 Series LED TV. There's also a 55in KDL-55HX850, which comes with a $700 higher pricetag of $3999.
The 46in screen of our test Sony BRAVIA HX850 is, as you'd expect, a Full HD 1080p one with a 16:9 aspect ratio. The HX850 is equipped with Sony's X-Reality Pro picture engine for a range of real-time picture quality enhancements like edge sharpening and dynamic contrast.
The backlight of the BRAVIA HX850 is made up of white LEDs arranged around the bezel of the TV. Being an 'edge-lit' LED TV the HX850 is reasonably thin compared to most plasma and LED back-lit TVs.
Sony rates the HX850 as a 'MotionFlow XR 800' TV. This means it's a 200Hz panel with backlight scanning, which strobes the LED backlight in between video frames to help smooth out motion. This is the approach taken by most LED TV manufacturers. While the 200Hz mode's overly-smooth effect may be too smooth for some viewers, having the option is a good thing for those that want it.
We tested the Sony BRAVIA HX850 with an Apple MacBook Pro playing 1080p, 720p and 480p compressed MKV files over HDMI, a Sony BDP-S580 Blu-ray player playing Full HD 1080p Blu-rays over HDMI, and a TiVo HD PVR playing recorded HD and SD digital TV content over HDMI. We also tested various video file types on the BRAVIA HX850's two USB 2.0 ports.
The Sony BRAVIA HX850 has generally good picture quality in its preset modes. Standard mode is more accurate than we are used to, with good (but bright) colours and only a little over-brightening of white and over-darkening of dark areas on screen. The Cinema 1 profile is a little less vibrant and more accurate, with a warmer colour temperature that is more faithful to the original video source.
After adjusting the BRAVIA HX850's various video settings — generally lowering colour gain and bias for individual colour channels, raising the colour temperature, moderating brightness and sharpness — we found that the TV's picture quality went from good to excellent. We would strongly recommend getting this TV professionally calibrated if you purchase it — some minor adjustments can make its picture quality significantly more impressive than straight out of the box.
Colour performance is very good for an LED TV, with plenty of detail and fine gradation, and little to no crushing of detail in heavily saturated areas. Black levels are quite good — not as deep as a good plasma, though — and we didn't notice any significant clouding or backlight bloom in dark scenes.
The lack of local dimming on the Sony BRAVIA HX850 does mean that it's not able to display the detail in deepest, darkest black on-screen areas if there's something bright on-screen as well. The backlight does dynamically brighten and dim the screen if the majority of content is brighter or darker, so for most non-cinematic viewing it's perfectly acceptable.
Sony's performance with high definition video content is generally very good and the HX850 doesn't disappoint in this area. With our Blu-ray video the BRAVIA HX850 was easily able to display minute on-screen detail without any over-sharpening or fuzziness. This is a TV that will flatter your Blu-ray collection.
Standard definition video also looks pretty good — not the absolute best we've seen, but the HX850 is still able to up-scale DVD content to suit without introducing any artifacting or excessive blurring.
We generally kept the Sony HX850 in its Clear or Clear Plus Motionflow mode, as this kept fast-moving scenes looking generally blur-free. The HX850 handles fast motion well and we didn't notice any unnatural jitter, although detail is not as clear during movement as it is during more relaxed scenes.
3D is largely unchanged from last year's TVs. Sony offers slimmer, lighter, sleeker glasses this year, but the size of the active shutter lenses is largely identical. There is still a small amount of cross-talk visible during fast-motion scenes in 3D movies — the problem is lessened during slower scenes but is still very slightly visible.
Sony's second-best TV for this year has great picture quality. We think it's still edged out slightly by the more versatile HX925, but it's excellent for watching Blu-rays and digital TV alike. The interface aside, the Sony HX850 is a TV we can strongly recommend.
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STEP 1 – VacuumKill fleasYour vacuum cleaner is your number one weapon in the warYour first step is to vacuum vacuum vacuum! Vacuum your entire house paying particular attention to corners, dark crevices, under furniture, under beds, pet beds, rugs and especially around skirting boards! Put the nozzle attachment on your vacuum cleaner and thoroughly vacuum around all baseboards and edges of fixtures!The vibrations from vacuuming also stimulates the fleas to emerge from their cocoons and thus they will be exposed to the insecticide that will be usedThis is what you are vacuuming up even though you cant see them:EGGSFleas that are living on your cat or dog lay eggs! The eggs drop off your pet and land on your carpet or floor!LARVAEThe eggs hatch and become larvae! These little worm like creature have hair like bristles that enable them to move around! They avoid the light and move to crevices, corners, under furniture, in cracks between floor boards and along skirting boards!PUPAEAfter a while the larvae pupate! This means that they spin a cocoon around themselves and begin a change! In the cocoon they are changing into adult fleas! It is just like a caterpillar which spins a cocoon and then emerges as a butterfly!The more of the pupae you vacuum up the better the outcome! The cocoon surrounding the developing flea is water tight and impervious to insecticides!When you have finished vacuuming dispose of the vacuum bag completely if you have disposable bags in your vacuum cleaner! STEP 2 – Spray Insecticide Flea Treatment For your House YardThe products shown here are for illustration purposes onlyWhen choosing an insecticide read the label! Look for the ingredient IGR (Insect Growth Regulator)IGR is the most important part of the whole flea control process Spray all carpets, rugs, floors and places your pet sleeps with a aerosol, flea bomb or fogger that kills flea eggs, larvae and emerging adult fleas! Check the label of sprays for active ingredients! Use one that contains IGR! Make sure you get into every nook and cranny and pay special attention around skirting boards and under rugs and furniture!A pressure sprayer can be usedIt is difficult to suggest flea control products worldwide as insecticide laws vary from country to country! Below are a few suggestions of products that contain IGR!Precor 2000 Plus (US Canada)Hartz 4 in 1 Flea Fogger (US Canada)IG Regulator (US Canada)Buy online or on ebay or check your pet store for availability!Mortein Flea Bomb (Australia) Can be bought in most supermarkets!What is IGR?? IGR is short for Insect Growth Regulator! IGR is Birth Control for Fleas! This protein works on the developing flea eggs and larvae and stops fleas from developing to maturity so they cannot lay eggs!Flea bombs and flea foggers containing IGR are very effective at killing fleas but the insecticide does not always reach under beds, furniture and rugs! Flea bombs and foggers are designed to be let off in the middle of a room! Be sure to move what furniture you can so as to enable the spray to penetrate carpets and flooring beneath!Precor 2000 Plus is a hand held flea fogger! It has both a knockdown agent and a long lasting insect growth regulator! The fog can be directed under furniture and appliances!Follow the instructions that come with the flea spray, flea bomb or fogger and remember to remove all fish, reptiles and other living creatures from the room!After spraying the insecticide try not to vacuum for about a week if possible as the IGR component will have a residual effect!Read This – Very ImportantIt is important to note that while the fleas are in the pupae stage (in their cocoons) they are not affected by insecticides! The cocoons are watertight and protect the developing flea! This is why you may think you have killed all the fleas and larvae in your home but two weeks later a new flea infestation can occur!Dont Forget about your Yard and GardenDo fleas live in the yard??Yes, you must also tackle your yard and garden! There is no need to purchase special yard spray as you can use the same spray that you sprayed your house with! Spray around where the pet sleeps, in crevices, gravel and sandy areas! If you live in a high set house you will need to spray under the house! Spray patios, verandas, kennels and nooks and crannies! The majority of the yard which is in sunlight should be OK as the larvae tend to avoid bright places!You can also let off flea bombs or flea foggers under your house on a windless day!Next wash all of your pets bedding and soft toys! Shake them well and hang them in the sunlight to dryHome Remedy to kill fleas??You may not like using insecticides and chemicals around your house but a home remedy to kill fleas will not work! You will have to use an insecticide and more importantly you should use an insecti
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Like a third wheel on a date night, the Internet now has a front row seat to many people's romantic lives, with more than one-third of social media users giving their account user names and passwords to the person they're dating, according to a Valentine's Day survey of more than 1,000 U.S. adults conducted by online privacy firm Abine.
Despite increasing privacy concerns around social media and the Web, people continue to broadcast the sultry details of their love lives to the world, which presents former couples with an added challenge after the relationship status changes and the digital detritus remains.The survey results also illustrate how intertwined real-life relationships have become with digital lives: After a breakup, most people (63 percent) said they unfriend or block their exes on social media sites, and half of those surveyed said they would untag themselves in photos with their exes.
Facebook is by far the most popular online platform for sharing intimate details about one's relationship. More than 50 percent of respondents post about their love lives on the world's most popular social media platform. In general, 37 percent of respondents said they share details on other social media sites, blogs and online dating sites.
The report found 30 percent have reviewed their partner's browsing history and 18 percent of people have either posted revealing pictures of themselves or details of romantic encounters online. More than one-tenth (12 percent) said they've posted "intimate details" about their relationship online. "We all know love can make us a little crazy, so it's not surprising that people change their behavior and might go outside their typical comfort zones," Sarah Downey, an Abine privacy analyst, said in a statement.
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Of people who post about their love lives online, the most common thing to post is relationship status (80 percent). Roughly 62 percent post the identity of whom they're in a relationship with, 60 percent post pictures with that person and about one-third of people share their sexual orientation.
"A lot of people don't consider the consequences of posting the details of their love lives online until it's too late," Downey said. "Only one in 10 people report being less concerned about the privacy of their love lives today than one year ago. The good news is that there are some basic things people can do to keep those private details private."
The company offered five tips to keep social media sites from being the third wheel in your life on this Valentine's Day, including keeping your password and user name to yourself, finding and removing personal information from data brokers, which have access to a wealth of information such as photos and home addresses, and managing who sees status updates and photos on social media sites.
Albine recommended that social media users revisit their settings on all accounts to make sure the Website hasn't changed the default and exposed private information in the process. Finally, she cautioned against sharing too much personal information.
"Ask yourself if you'd be comfortable seeing the intimate details you're posting about your love life as front page news. If not, rethink posting it," the report advised.


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Your body's pretty good at letting you know it needs a massage—if only it could also tell you what type of massage it would most benefit from. If you're new to massage or have never ventured past your normal Swedish session, it might be confusing to navigate all the different types of massage out there. Luckily, we're here to help you decipher the many different styles and benefits of massage so you can book the one that's best for you.Read More
A massage is a relaxing experience, but trying to make sense of the varieties on offer at day spas and massage centres certainly isn't. Learn your 'hot stone' from your 'deep tissue' with our handy guide to the most common types of massage.Read More


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Dashing through the snow. In a one horse open sleigh. O'er the fields we go. Laughing all the way. Bells on bob tails ring. Making spirits bright. What fun it is to laugh and sing. A sleighing song tonight.
Oh, jingle bells, jingle bells. Jingle all the way. Oh, what fun it is to ride. In a one horse open sleigh.
The Christmas season is already gone, but the snow relentlessly continues to fall on the eastern part of the US. It may have subsided a little bit a few days ago and people cant help but wonder how on Earth did the weather became weird these days. A lot of Americans took samples of the snow as the word gets out that there is indeed something extremely weird about the snow that keeps on falling on their land. This phenomenon is not unique in the US alone but also to a large part of Canada.
By the way, Snowden of course is not responsible for these snow being experienced in North America; instead the snow is brought to you by the courtesy of the Weather Manipulation Activity that is actually being done to the world for several decades. The world does not know that there are group of people who have underground residential communities that controls the world, who owns the banks, mass media and the worlds largest corporations including some of the worlds governments.
The snow that fell in America is of course artificial. It appears as if it's a hybrid synthetic material.
The real MOTIVE of the group of people who perpetrated this weird snow is to make the people of North America to suffer from a massive sicknesses, to somehow reduce the population so that it will be easily controllable and bring out their new pharmaceutical products that can partially heal the new disease/sickness that they have showered on people and earn profits from it.
But the Galactics detected their secret plans and so they neutralize all the chemicals even before the airplanes dump them into the air and create artificial weather precipitating snow through Chemtrails. Which means the intervention by our friends from on HIGH in the sky helped to remove the toxins out of those chemicals. And so by the time it precipitated as snow, the intended problem had been removed. Which is why the snow is harmless but strange in its form. Yes, it's been the favorite hobby and activities of these group of people for so many decades to modify not just the food supply of the world but also the weather of the world. Not just the Russians, Germans, Oriental people who noticed that the weather are being manipulated but also by the South American nations particularly Brazil. Intelligence from South America were able to tap into the secret plan that these secret group of world manipulators who owns the big banks and largest corporations to bring "Destructive Storm" into the land of Brazil several years ago. The storm that hit Brazil was a direct result of weather manipulation. It really was artificial and intentional.
The same group of people are the ones responsible for the Storm or Typhoon that hit Asia particularly the Philippines and China last year. The airplanes are coming from the islands of Guam and Saipan (US Territories) which are very near the Philippines that are releasing the chemtrails into the sky of the Pacific which are custom made mixture of chemicals/toxins to artificially stimulate the atmosphere/sky to force it to produce weather disturbance such as storm and cause diseases. Along with some electronic instruments in the ocean and in the sky are the ingredients they commonly use to accomplish this INHUMANE weather manipulation activities that they have been doing for a long time. In the Pacific ocean they have been doing this activity for decades. As revealed by Father God - Zorra these people are the INCARNATES of the Annunakis. They do not have any remorse into how much trouble and suffering/deaths they will cause to humanity. All they care about is the ultimate control of people everywhere. They can make anywhere on Earth to either rain, snow or experience drought, extreme cold or heat, violent storms, etc.
What should we do with these kinds of people? It is time to be united and do something! We should not allow this to continue forever. You see, these group of people who are situated around the world but their main operation or headquarters are in the US and Europe, they are not invisible we can catch them from the evil games they are playing. These recent snow that fell in North America is the "UNDENIABLE EVIDENCE", that this is no longer a conspiracy theory. Everyone in the eastern part of the US have seen and felt the snow. To get the evidence all they have to do is scoop some of those snow that are everywhere in their surroundings.


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THIS wacky vision of life in 2030 might just change your definiton of "motorhome".
In a little over a decade our cars will be part of our house - if you believe this Renault Symbioz creation.
The concept, revealed at the Frankfurt Motor Show, is a driverless car that doubles up as an extra room in your house - think cosy snug where you can hang out with pals.
And there's even a "French Kiss" seating layout that pushes seats together and positions them at a handy angle for getting a little more "comfortable".
Love Island's Hideaway hasn't got a thing on the Renault Symbioz...
You'll be able to access social media, music and your personal files from the comfort of the Symbioz - and it'll automatically recognise who you are and "log you in".
And the cabin has been designed to feel as much like home as possible with lightweight marble and wood.
The seats are upholstered in sofa fabric and convert into full armchairs when you're not driving.
Ambient noises, fragrances and atmospheric lighting can also be pumped into the cabin to keep you relaxed.
Of course, this car won't work with your standard terrace house so Renault has gone to the trouble of designing your home of the future, too.
Complete with rotating lift platform to take your car up to its rooftop parking space.
The off-the-wall idea features a rooftop terrace for the car to park - and it'll drive itself down in the elevator when it's time to leave.
Sensors and cameras make sure it can make it out without bumping into your newly-fitted kitchen.
Wifi means you can connect with your TV, fridge, alarm and heating wherever you are - and a 360-degree camera allows you to ensure your home is safe and sound.
In fact, it'll be linked to your house so much that the Symbioz will actually share electric power with your home and only charge up when you've got a long-distance journey in the diary.
And if you live in an area susceptible to black-outs you'll be able to temporarily draw power from the car to light your home. Watch out candles your race is run.
Should you be going on holiday, the car will even lock up your home and power down the heating for you on its way out.
On the road, there's an 80cm curved hi-definition dash, retractable steering wheel and pedals, wrist-watch touchscreens on seatbelts to control systems like air con and a mini table.
You can even select a "zero-gravity" seating position where you can pop on a virtual reality headset during a journey to take the pain of your concrete jungle commute away.
The car itself is the size of a BMW 3 Series but looks more conservatory than car with huge glass panels across the doors and roof.
The doors are rear-hinged for maximum access plus the roof panels open up like a butterfly.
And of course, the Symbioz is completely zero emissions with a 500km (310 mile) all-electric range.


text: Business Retiree Health Care Shifts to Unions February 21, 2007 Some manufacturers are shifting health-care responsibility for retirees to unions. Goodyear Tire and Rubber, for example, is giving the United Steelworkers about $1 billion to take over retiree health care. Others ponder similar plans. Retiree Health Care Shifts to Unions Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/7513866/7513867" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript


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United States v. Carter, 591 F.3d 656 (D.C. Cir. 2010)
Procedural History: Appeal by a criminal defendant of a of a 150-month sentence imposed by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia upon entry of his guilty plea to five counts of bank robbery.
Facts: At trial, Defendant plead guilty to charges associated with five robberies committed in the Washington, D.C. area. He was sentenced to 150 months in prison. The sentence was significantly affected by the district court's finding that his criminal history included four theft convictions in Maryland. Carter appealed, challenging the admissibility of the evidence underlying the court's finding.
Nature of the Dispute: At the sentencing hearing, the State produced Maryland state court records of the disputed convictions. These records were in the form of paper printouts of entries from the District Court of Maryland Criminal System Inquiry Charge/Disposition Display database. The entries for each conviction included Carter's name, other identifying characteristics, the charge, the case number, the plea, the disposition, and the sentence. The Maryland court clerk's office certified each printout. Carter objected to the sufficiency of the evidence, arguing that the possibility of data-entry errors rendered the computer records inherently unreliable. He suggested the government needed to produce a copy of the "actual court jacket" for each proceeding to prove the prior convictions. The district court offered to postpone the hearing to give Carter an opportunity to present contrary evidence. Carter declined. The district court then concluded that the printouts were reliable evidence of Defendant's convictions in Maryland.
Issue at Appeal: When seeking a sentence enhancement, the government must prove a prior conviction by a preponderance of the evidence. Carter argued the printouts the government proffered were insufficient to meet this burden because they are unreliable.
Discussion: The court cited sec. 6A1.3 of the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Manual (2008) for the proposition that [e]vidence is competent to support factual findings at sentencing if it bears "sufficient indicia of reliability to support its probable accuracy." The court stated that under the advisory' committee's notes for FRE 803(8), certified records of a state court are considered presumptively reliable. The reliability of public records is "found in the declarant's official duty and the high probability that the duty to make an accurate report has been performed."
In challenging the records' reliability, Carter cited no case holding certified records from a state court's disposition database insufficient to support a finding of a prior conviction by a preponderance of the evidence, and the court continued that it was unaware of any such holding.
Carter argued, however, that the records could not be reliable, because there was no assurance that they conformed to the official case files or signed judgments of conviction. The court acknowledged that there existed a possibility of human error. But this does not warrant the conclusion that these records were inherently unreliable. A defendant must have the opportunity to refute records, an opportunity offered to, and declined by, Carter.
For the first time on appeal, Defendant pointed to a discrepancy between the computer record corresponding to his 1998 theft conviction and the Presentence Investigation Report's description of the same offense. Alleging no other inaccuracies in the records, Carter presented this discrepancy as demonstrative evidence of their general unreliability. The court was not convinced by this argument, reasoning that a single alleged inaccuracy does not introduce clear error into the district court's holding in favor reliability.
The court noted that in this case, the discrepancy, even if it truly existed, would not have changed the result of the calculation upon which the sentence was based. Therefore, even in the event that the discrepancy exists, this single inaccuracy does not introduce clear error into the district court's conclusion, or reversible error into its calculations for sentencing.
Carter attempted to discredit the records, noting that some information they contain were truncated. The records do not cite the statute under which Carter was convicted, and Carter suggested that these omissions render the records inadequate for the purposes for which they were used by the lower court. The court was not persuaded, reasoning that these records contained information sufficient for the district court's need.
Carter also argued that the decision in United States v. Price, 409 F.3d 436, 366 U.S. App. D.C. 166 (D.C. Cir. 2005) precluded the district court's conclusion that the records were reliable. The Price court concluded that this unadorned reference was insufficient to "demonstrate that the description in the [PSR] is based on a sufficiently reliable source to establish [its] accuracy." The court, however, maintained that Carter had interpreted Price too broadly. The Price court did not have before it any specific documentation supporting the alleged convictions, unlike the case here. The court did not describe what information its hypothesized docket listing contained or whether the docket listing was an officially certified court record. Here, the sentencing court had before it certified records with information sufficient to identify the defendant and make the necessary criminal history calculation. It did not rely simply on an unadorned PSR reference to state court records; it had the records themselves.
Because the district court did not err in concluding the certified computer records of the Maryland courts were sufficient to prove his prior convictions, the appellate court affirmed Carter's sentence.


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Religious leaders should play a frontline role in mobilising people to take action against global warming, according to a leading scientist.
Lord May, a former chief scientist to the government, said religious groups could use their influence to motivate believers into reducing the environmental impact of their lives.
The international reach of faith-based organisations and their authoritarian structures give religious groups an almost unrivalled ability to encourage a large proportion of the world's population to go green, he said.
Lord May highlighted the value of religion in uniting communities to tackle environmental challenges ahead of his presidential address to the British Science Association festival at the University of Surrey in Guildford today.
He will use the address to raise what Charles Darwin considered one of the great unsolved problems of his time: the evolution of co-operation. While scientists can explain the emergence of co-operative behaviour in small, related groups of animals, understanding co-operation among distant human societies has been more difficult, he said.
May will argue that the puzzle is as pressing today as it was to Darwin 150 years ago, because of the urgent need for global co-operation to tackle the environmental issues of water shortages, greenhouse gas emissions and unsustainable energy consumption.
The world's population has risen roughly sevenfold since Darwin's day, with a similar increase in the amount of energy each individual uses. That suggests the ecological footprint of humanity upon the planet has increased fiftyfold since Darwin published The Origin of Species in 1859.
"In all of this, probably the biggest difficulty is that globally co-operative actions are required. These difficulties are compounded by the fact that not only must nations co-operate, but – given past history – they must do so in equitable proportions," May will say, according to an advance copy of his address.
Experiments using what scientists call "game theory" show that groups of people can achieve their goals if cheats and those who fail to pull their weight are punished.
Speaking before the address, May said religion had historically played a major role in policing social behaviour through the notion of a supernatural "enforcer", a system that could help unify communities to tackle environmental challenges. "How better it is if the punisher is an all-powerful, all-seeing deity," he said.
According to May, humans are causing enough damage to ecosystems that we may have to resort to dramatic engineering projects to replace the roles they play in sustaining the planet, such as stabilising the climate, purifying water and pollinating crops.
"Maybe we could be clever enough artificially to engineer substitutes for these lost ecosystem services, although I fear this could see us living, at best, in the world of the cult movie, Blade Runner, and more likely Mad Max," his address states.


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Buffalo TeraStation Pro IP address
Buffalo Technology has traditionally been a big player in the entry-level NAS appliance market thanks to its TeraStation products. The TeraStation Pro impressed with its excellent range of features and tempting price tag and now we take a look at the TeraStation Pro II, which aims to improve on the performance of its predecessor.
There's nothing new to see externally as the Pro II uses the same chassis as the Pro model and you also get the same backlit LCD display above the drives. A button alongside enables you to cycle through viewing the status of the network connection and its assigned IP address, the date and time, which disks are in use and the RAID configurations. The network connection is still served by a single Gigabit Ethernet port and the USB port count remains at two. These are used to connect external storage devices but note that USB printers are still not supported.
The door can be locked shut and behind this are four drive bays with the review system equipped with a quartet of 250GB SATA hard disks in removable carriers. Unlike much of the competition, including the Infrant Technologies ReadyNAS NV and Thecus' RouStor N5200 the TeraStations have never supported hot-swap capabilities and so it is with the Pro II. Instead, Buffalo uses a quick swap feature where the drive carriers have a combined SATA/power connector cable which must be unplugged manually from the rear of the drive. Buffalo advised us that if a drives fails the unit must be powered down before it can be replaced. Buffalo offers a next day replacement service and the new drive arrives complete with carrier. It's not as elegant as true hot-swap but the process of replacement won't take too long as it's completely tool-free and once the new drive is in place the appliance will automatically rebuild the array.
The Pro II 1TB on review only costs around £20-£30 more than the previous model but processing power gets a big boost as the 266MHz PowerPC processor has been replaced with a 500MHz Marvell Orion variety. Marvell also takes over SATA and USB controller duties although main memory remains the same at a modest 128MB. The Linux kernel is also still partly implemented on 4MB of flash memory and this arrangement stops you buying the appliance diskless as the kernel is distributed across a protected 100MB partition on each hard disk. The faster processor has enabled Buffalo to improve performance with it claiming a top speed of 35MB/sec for FTP transfers.
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Using Sed to Process a Set of Files
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In Creating a File Set Processing Script with Vim, Vim was used to quickly create a script for processing a set of files. Using Vim to generate the script works well if the operation only needs to done once. However, if you have to perform the whole operation later on another set of file, you would have to repeat the whole process. If you have Sed installed, the process may be simplified so that you can do it all on the command line.


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New car registrations in the UK have hit a 10-year high, according to the latest figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers & Traders (SMMT).
The data showed that 2,476,435 new cars were registered in the UK in 2014, the highest number in a calendar year since 2004. Overall the market grew by 9.3 per cent last year when compared to 2013, a far better performance than the EU average of 5.7 per cent.
This is the latest in a long-line of positive sets of figures from the SMMT, showing sustained growth in Britain's motor trade industry. As individual traders, mechanics, garages and dealerships look to benefit from this upturn in activity – perhaps by taking on more stock, expanding their premises or hiring new staff – it is essential they consider the implication on their road risks insurance or combined motor trade insurance policy, which might need addressing so that it still provides the requisite level of cover.
In December 2014 alone the SMMT revealed that the market grew by 8.7 per cent on the year before, marking the 34th consecutive month of growth in the new car market. There was also huge growth for the plug-in car market, which saw volumes quadruple from 3,586 in 2013 to 14,498 in 2014.
Mike Hawes, SMMT chief executive, commented: "UK new car registrations returned to pre-recession levels in 2014, as pent-up demand from the recession years combined with confidence in the economy saw consumer demand for the latest models grow consistently and strongly.
"The year was particularly strong for alternatively-fuelled vehicles as increased choice, coupled with a growing desire for reduced costs and greater efficiency, resulted in a quadrupling of plug-in car registrations over 2013."