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Saturday, October 12, 2013
Accidental lessons
The sickness of our private healthcare services
"If I keep this oath faithfully, may I enjoy my life and practise my art, respected by all humanity and in all times; but if I swerve from it or violate it, may the reverse be my life."
– The Hippocratic Oath
Mary was entering her mid-thirties when it finally dawned on her that she is reproductively challenged. The thought of her own infertility did play in her mind when she was much younger but her suspicion was only confirmed recently when she was diagnosed for polycystic ovarian syndrome (POS). The strange thing was, the diagnosis did not come from her fertility doctor, who had then been too eager to start her and her husband on the notoriously expensive and invasive in vitro treatment, without first examining their health.
The diagnosis for POS had come up through her own initiative. Once she and her husband decided that they would try to conceive through artificial insemination, Mary thought it would be prudent to go through a full medical check-up, "just to make sure my body is ready for the baby, you know. We've read that in vitro is very stressful and we want to make sure that we've tried everything possible to make sure that the conditions are conducive," she said.
When her blood work came back, her thyroid function tests were elevated. Later, it was her endocrinologist who told her that in addition to hypothyroidism, she might be suffering from POS too. He told her that the sudden and continuous weight gain, increased cholesterol level, development of fatty liver, irregular menstruation, and acne are some of the symptoms of POS.
Mary had initially thought that these symptoms were attributed to her bad eating habits and sedentary lifestyle but it now explains why these unflattering conditions remain unchanged even after her vigorous attempts to eat and exercise better.
"The funny thing is, no one told me about it. The GP (General Practitioner) at the hospital where I did the full medical check-up did not alert me to anything after he examined my test results. All he did was to make me feel bad about my weight and asked me to take another test in three months' time to see whether there are any changes to my thyroid functions. All this while, I had been wondering why I've been battling bad skin and weight gain. If only I had known earlier, I would have been less depressed and feeling hopeless all the time," Mary said.
"You have most of the POS symptoms. Go home and do a search online. Read up and learn as much as possible about POS and then go see a gynaecologist to seek treatment. You need to solve all this hormonal issue first before you even try to get pregnant. There are other options before you start considering in vitro. Let's get you fixed up first, ok?"
That was the most honest and reassuring conversation Mary have had with a doctor so far.
After reading up on hypothyroidism and POS on the Internet, Mary discovered that the chances of having a problematic pregnancy would have been high if she had become pregnant either through natural or artificial means. She confessed that much to her disappointment and great horror, she felt that the renowned fertility specialist she saw at a highly recommended infertility clinic in Kuala Lumpur should have informed her of this vital piece of information.
Mary and her husband initially reasoned that the specialist would have alerted them to her condition if only he had bothered to look at their medical records, which they had brought along with them during their first consultation, having thought pre-emptively that the doctor would have asked for it.
"It was going to cost us about seventeen thousand ringgit for the whole procedure and that doesn't even cover the cost of a second treatment if the first one doesn't work. With hypothyroidism and POS, the chances of having a miscarriage would have been great.
"Can you imagine how devastating it would have been if we hadn't known?" Mary asked and added dejectedly, "The thing is, the doctor didn't even bother looking at our medical records, you know. They just wanted to make money out of us."
Mary said that on hindsight now, she is not even sure whether the doctor would have warned them of the potential complications if he had known of her conditions. Mary insisted that her endocrinologist is the minority.
"There are definitely good doctors out there, but they are extremely rare," she said. She revealed that she no longer trusts the medical service and would turn to her trusted online sites for all her medical diagnosis and query.
"You wonder why we should pay these useless doctors so much when we can find reliable answers online!" She laughed scornfully.
Mary is not alone when it comes to being at the receiving end of bad medical services and not trusting our medical practitioners. It would appear that more and more private hospitals are abandoning the Hippocratic Oath for personal gain.
A medical practitioner revealed that the price of medicine at a private hospital costs a lot more than an external pharmacy. He often advises his patients to buy their medicine from external pharmacies because it makes no sense for them to pay "cut-throat" prices for the same medicine. However, when Kelly tried to do precisely that, the doctor treating her apparently did not take it too well.
"Instead of giving me a prescription for six months as he had recommended, the bastard only prescribed me a month's worth of medication. In other words, he was 'forcing' me to go back to him for a follow-up prescription and that would have meant paying him ninety ringgit for just a bloody piece of paper. Can you imagine that?!"
The Department of Pharmaceutical Services at the Ministry of Health informed that there is currently no law to control the prices of medication at private hospitals. However, it is encouraging when the Head of the Medicine Pricing Unit wrote, "As a patient, you have the right to obtain a prescription from your doctor to buy your medicine from any pharmacy even though it displeases the doctor. I believe that empowered patients can change the current bad habits practised by medical professions so that we can all guarantee affordable medication for the people."
Vikram, another unhappy patient, shared the experience he had with his doctor when he was undergoing treatment for Hepatitis C. He said that he was mortified when the nurse asked about his treatment in front of other patients while he was waiting for his doctor in a clinic. He understood that the nurse probably asked out of customary politeness but he did not appreciate the fact that in the course of her doing so, other people had learned about his medical condition.
He said that patient information management is lacking in many healthcare facilities and was shocked that this clinic is part of a hospital that has received an accreditation from the Malaysian Society for Quality in Health (MSQH), the national accrediting body for healthcare facilities and services.
"On top of that, my doctor failed to inform me of all the side effects of the antiviral medication I was taking. There was no counselling or support for me and my spouse. The repercussions of the medication was so great that I felt as if the treatment had ruined an important part of our lives.
"For each visit, I paid ninety ringgit for a five-minute consultation where the doctor did practically nothing. Thankfully I had a good insurance coverage because the medication cost an arm and a leg. To be honest, I wish I had not undergone this treatment if only I had known of the repercussions. I wasn't informed properly," Vikram said regretfully.
As of June this year, 75 percent of public hospitals have received the MSQH accreditation while only 25 percent of private hospitals have. At the international level, only eight hospitals have received the Joint Commission International (JCI)'s accreditation.
The JCI is created by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organisations, a US government agency, aimed to improve the safety and quality of care in the international community through the provision of education and advisory services, and international accreditation and certification.
The assessment criteria used by the MSQH is quite similar to the one used by the JCI, except the latter provides additional components such as patient and family education, staff qualifications and education, medication management and use, and the assessment and care of patients; elements which seem to be sorely lacking in our own private healthcare services.
Previously, the government has made several attempts to make it mandatory for all public and private hospitals to obtain MSQH accreditation but these attempts have been put on hold thus far. Although having some sort of national or international accreditation by a recognised and credible agency does boost public confidence, alongside minimising and mitigating clinical and safety related risks, these accreditations do not take into account public rating. The application submission for accreditation is done by the hospital in question and the assessment is then carried out by a panel of surveyors appointed by the accreditation agency.
There is no consideration for public opinion on how the hospital has fared.
"As a patient, I would like us to have some sort of a scorecard for all the hospital in Malaysia. Something simple for a start and it can be done by civil society, someone independent and done from the patient's perspectives.
"What we need is someone who will disguise as a patient to test out the hospitals. So you have this person who goes to several hospitals and says he's got liver problem, for instance, and then he assesses how the hospitals handle him based on selected key criteria. The problem has to be the same though, so you can compare apple for apple," Vikram suggested thoughtfully.
Kelly said the hospital's ability to deal with complaints is something left to be desired.
"No point. I've written to a hospital before to express my dissatisfaction over their service. I haven't received any response from them. This was last year. It's like as if the hospital doesn't really care if you're unhappy with them. They have patients lined up anyway. So why should they care?"
Sumitra, who is married to a doctor, revealed that medical practitioners often tend to close an eye when their colleagues commit a medical error. This culture is deeply rooted on the notion of solidarity akin to the "I have your back now so that when I need you, you'll have mine" philosophy.
This makes it virtually impossible to have a doctor testifies against the other, even when a grave error occurs at the expense of a patient's life.
Perhaps what Malaysia needs is a patients association such as the one in the United Kingdom. The UK's Patients Association provides a platform for the people to rate their National Health Service (NHS). The association also runs educational campaigns such as the Speaking Up Complaints Project which encourages patients to speak up against poor medical services and the NHS to improve the way it deals with patients' complaints. The NHS is ranked as one of the top 20 best healthcare services in the world by the World Health Organisation.
Not all is lost. Malaysia seems to be doing remarkably well in the area of medical tourism. A private hospital in Kuala Lumpur is recently recognised by the Medical Travel Quality Alliance as one of the world's top ten best hospitals for medical tourists. By taking advantage of the weaker Malaysian currency, foreigners from the Middle East, Europe and Japan are flocking to Malaysia to enjoy better medical treatment.
It would have cost the local patients an arm and a leg to receive treatment in these hospitals but Mary said, "If the service is compatible with the amount I pay for, why not? The problem with the private hospitals here is that I'm not even getting the value for my money."
While our private hospitals continue to nurse tourists with top notch care, in order to stay competitive alongside South Korea, Thailand and Turkey, have they forgotten our own illnesses along the way?
This article was first published at The Malaysian Insider on 9 October 2013.
Thursday, October 10, 2013
"Don't let your friend come. Don't want her to go through all this."
It seems that a few days before they were to depart to Australia, they were told that their working visas were not ready and they would have to leave on a tourist visa while their agent would continue to work on getting them the correct paperwork.
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
In search of the right one


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The problem is there is very little coverage of what's happening in North Dakota. The area has only one small newspaper, which allocates most of its coverage to sports. Williston's boom has received little in-depth coverage from major media outlets – reporters drop in for a week and collect anecdotes, but quickly return to their regular work thousands of miles away.
We'll be spending the summer there to write a book, take photos, and film a short documentary about these men and their families and find out what's really going on in the area. We'll be uncovering the stories that aren't being reported, and let the voices of the men and women living there be heard.
"The problem is there is very little coverage of what's happening in North Dakota." I just googled "Bakken" and got 18,000,000 hits in 0.26 seconds.This is where you come in. To complete the project, we'll need enough money to cover the basics. Because of the housing shortage, Williston, North Dakota is outrageously expensive, and the average one-bedroom costs $2,000 a month. To live there over the summer will cost $4,000 in rent alone. We'll be blogging and giving daily updates on our progress so supporters can follow along. Let's go to North Dakota together.
They will be here this summer. [Is it just me or have other folks noticed that out-of-staters don't stick around during the winter if they don't have to? LOL. Seriously, if they are only staying for three months, only during the summer, they are missing 90% of the story. Anyone can drill for oil in perfect weather: what impresses me are the roughnecks who do this during some of the worse winter weather imaginable.]
Their site provides details what donors can expect to receive for their monetary donations. The $10,000 funding goal has been met.
Disclaimer: this is not an endorsement. I have no connection with these journalists. This is simply reporting information folks might otherwise miss.

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"Skyline" is not one of those tracks that you immediately understand. It is deep and complex and takes a few listens for you to hear all of the intricacies and decipher what it means to you and how you feel. While the vocals slightly echo, the melody makes them seem larger than life with the distinctly electronic beat and the complex nature of the chords. With a background bass that is hard to hear at times, Karma Fields have crafted a song not for the feint of heart.
It took me a few tries to hear every part of the song and pinpoint when the melody changes and how my mood changed along with it. I love the track because it is complex and even though it might not pump up the crowd, it is emotional and there are plenty of reasons why that might just be the better option. Listen to "Skyline" and enjoy the mind puzzle you are about to experience.


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A survey by a University of Nebraska Medical Center child psychologist has found that 75 percent of respondents reported their children consume caffeine on a daily basis and this may negatively impact the sleep of some children.
The data are reported in the Dec. 16 online issue of The Journal of Pediatrics.
William Warzak, Ph.D., a professor of psychology in UNMC's Munroe-Meyer Institute and the department of pediatrics, was the principal investigator on the study. Parents of more than 200 children between 5 and 12 years old were surveyed during routine clinical visits at a UNMC pediatric clinic. The parents were asked to report the types and amounts of snacks and beverages their child consumed on a daily basis.
"Some children as young as 5 years old were consuming the equivalent of a can of soda a day," Dr. Warzak said. "Many children between the ages of 8 and 12 years consumed an average of about three 12-ounce cans of soda per day."
Surprisingly, researchers found that caffeine was not linked to bedwetting in these children, Dr. Warzak said. "Even though caffeine is a diuretic, we didn't find a statistically significant link between caffeine consumption and bedwetting," he said. "Given the preliminary nature of these data, until they are replicated, I will maintain my recommendation that children who wet the bed should curtail, if not abstain from caffeinated beverages, especially as bedtime approaches."
Dr. Warzak said the key message of the study is that parents should be aware of their child's caffeine consumption. "Parents need to be more careful in monitoring what their children eat and drink," he said. "Children don't need to be drinking caffeine. If a child is having sleep difficulties, it becomes even more important for parents to be aware of caffeine intake."
Dr. Warzak said primary care physicians can play a key role by screening children for caffeine consumption and educating parents about the potentially harmful effects of caffeine.
Assisting Dr. Warzak on the study were: Shelby Evans, Ph.D., who was co-investigator and statistician, now practicing in Wichita, Kan., Margaret Floress, Ph.D., now at Eastern Illinois University; Amy Gross, Ph.D., who is doing her post doctoral work at Johns Hopkins University; and Sharon Stoolman, M.D., assistant professor of pediatrics for UNMC and Children's Hospital and Medical Center.
Through world-class research and patient care, UNMC generates breakthroughs that make life better for people throughout Nebraska and beyond. Its education programs train more health professionals than any other institution in the state. Learn more at unmc.edu.
For more information, please contact :
Tom O'Connor, UNMC Public Relations, (402) 559-4690 (402) 650-7063


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Recent Updates
September 2019 — Program Guides Students to College and Careers
Danville District 118 students will have a better idea about what they would like to do with their life after high school thanks to a newly enhanced Career and Technical Education (CTE) program.
The district is entering the second year of a three-year plan to expand its CTE program at Danville High School and, for the first time, is reaching out to include North Ridge Middle School students. Read more
Danville High School Offers Career Services
Tucked away in a corner of the second floor at Danville High School is an office where students can be paired with a job or an internship at a local business.
"I help connect them with the business world," Kim Kuchenbrod, a Danville District 118 career adviser and a workforce development consultant with Vermilion Advantage, said. Kuchenbrod uses career assessment tools to match students' skill sets and personalities with possible professions, as well as career mentoring and internships to prepare students for college or a career. Read more
March 2018 — Vermilion Advantage has taken steps to strengthening the career advisor process. For the past six years, Kim Kuchenbrod the Workforce Development Consultant at Vermilion Advantage has been providing career advising at Danville High School. Each year the organization learns more and refines the process to serve more students by connecting them to job shadowing, internships and full-time local jobs. This year, Vermilion Advantage began expanding the process to county high schools. An executive for a local manufacturer has been on loan to Vermilion Advantage for two days a week to "advise" at Georgetown and Hoopeston High Schools. In just a short time, this approach has proven fruitful and they are eager to continue to grow the process. Vermilion Advantage is now bringing someone new to phase into Kim's role and to continue to grow out in the county.
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) grant — Danville Area Community College and Vermilion County Works secured a WIOA grant in the amount of $358,665 to create short term training opportunities to prepare individuals for employment in manufacturing. Their vision is to offer a program that is driven by input from local manufacturers with the flexibility to create a unique training environment to meet individual employer needs. They are implementing this employer-led, short term competency-based training to meet the regional demand for qualified, work-ready employees in the manufacturing sector. The Industrial Career Pathways (ICP) program will include 70+ hours of training. Upon successful completion, the individuals will be awarded the ICP Certification from Danville Area Community College which includes the competency based SMT training (40 hours), nationally recognized certificates from ToolingU (20 hours), and OSHA certification (10 hours). Upon completion of the 70 hours, students will complete the ACT National Career Readiness Certificate. The ICP grant targets 75 individuals and will pay for training costs, supportive service costs, on-the-job training for individuals wanting to work in manufacturing as well as incumbent worker funds for skills upgrading of your current workforce.
September 2017 — In Vermilion County, the dual credit Career and Technical Education program known as College Express started on August 21st. To date, 419 high school juniors and seniors have enrolled in 15 different programs and will have the opportunity to take over 60 different courses during their potential 2 years of attendance at Danville Area Community College (DACC). The goal of the program is to have each of these students earn an industry recognized certificate by the end of the year, and have a clearly defined college or career plan. The Vermilion County 60 by 25 Network team hopes to inspire many of these students to continue with their education at DACC where a vast majority of students are first generation. One way the team works to make students comfortable on campus is to have them take part in campus community events like the welcome back kickoff. In the picture below, College Express automotive students are ready to give the minivan a good "whack" as a fundraiser for their program during the campus-wide kickoff. You can learn more about College Express here.
Community/Region of Focus
Vermilion County
· Advanced Manufacturing
· Transportation/Distribution/Logistics (TDL)
· Healthcare
· Information Technology/Tech Services
· Identify the most critical career needs in the region and the appropriate learning pathways and talent pipelines for those jobs.
· Create processes that support the use of a multiple approaches for each targeted sector.
· Continue to support the development of learning exchanges for manufacturing, healthcare, and transportation/distribution/logistics, as well as information technology.
· Develop marketing campaigns that promote targeted manufacturing, healthcare, transportation/distribution/logistics, and information technology careers to job seekers.
· Increase the talent pipeline of qualified workers to meet the personnel needs of our current employers and retain these employers in our region.


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One Community
It's not what we do, but how we do it. All of our Trustees and team members love being part of the Norton Housing & Support community.
Range of Skills
With a varied background, our Trustees bring a wealth of experience in Mental Health care, wellbeing, operations and support.
One Goal
We're all working towards one goal and that is to provide excellent support and living accommodation for people with mental health needs and/or learning disabilities.
Sue Cowling
Meet our Trustees
Manager/CEO of Norton Housing & Support since 2002, Sue Cowling has extensive management experience in the NHS, having worked for over 15 years in a variety of senior management posts within mental health services in Leicestershire. These included both operational management as well as planning and developmental roles.
Immediately prior to joining, Sue worked as Service Manager for Mental Health Services within the Leicestershire Partnership Trust.
Sue is IHSM qualified.
Our Board of Trustees bring a wealth of experience from their respective backgrounds, and use it to hold the organisation to account and ensure that we are operating effectively and achieving our vision to enable people across the Region to live as independently as possible and realise their potential. We are currently looking for new Trustees – see here
Dr. Stephen Fallow
Dr Fallow is a retired Consultant Psychiatrist who formerly worked within the Leicestershire Partnership Trust Treatment and Recovery Service treating those with chronic mental health difficulties, mainly psychotic conditions.
Sarah Johnson
Sarah is a qualified Occupational Therapist who has worked in the field of general and forensic mental health for over 35 years.
During her career she has managed Therapy Services and worked as a Project Manager on major capital development schemes. Sarah retired from the NHS in March 2016.
Jan Moore
Jan Moore is a qualified Social Worker, worked extensively in the field of mental health for over 20 years. Jan has been a Trustee and Director of Norton House for the last eight/twelve years.
Wal Holynski
Wal qualified as a Social Worker in 1978 and has since then, worked across a broad range of providers and services.
During the last eight years of his career he was seconded to the NHS and worked in Leicestershire Primary Care Trusts as a mental health commissioning manager. He retired in 2011.
Pete Frost
Pete Frost is the Managing Director & Founder of one of the fastest growing digital marketing agencies in Leicestershire. He brings his experience in commercial business to the board.
Dr. Heather Dipple
Dr Dipple is a former Consultant Psychiatrist with Leicestershire Partnership Trust.
She has an interest in education of both Doctors and other professionals working in the mental health field and is also an active member of Health Action Leicester for Ethiopia (HALE).
Norton Housing & Support values its staff and is proud of its excellent retention record, our staff are what make our service. We believe that our staff team is our greatest asset and the way they are treated is passed on in the way they treat the Service Users. Each staff member is valued for their input, they are highly skilled, supported, trained and experienced in supporting people with mental health needs and/or learning disabilities.
During our Investors in People accreditation it was noted that everyone (without exception) confirmed it was a great place to work and were proud to be part of the company. From our Chief Executive to the front line staff team, everyone is committed to providing excellence in mental health support and ensuring that all of our Service Users are not just coping, but living!


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Inheritance allows software developers to derive a new class from the existing class. The derived class inherits features of the base class (existing class).
Suppose, both base class and derived class have a member function with same name and arguments (number and type of arguments).
If you create an object of the derived class and call the member function which exists in both classes (base and derived), the member function of the derived class is invoked and the function of the base class is ignored.
This feature in C++ is known as function overriding.
How to access the overridden function in the base class from the derived class?
To access the overridden function of the base class from the derived class, scope resolution operator :: is used. For example,
If you want to access
getData() function of the base class, you can use the following statement in the derived class.


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Q: Is certification required to conduct wetland delineations/determinations in Minnesota?
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On Aug. 19, all Nassau County public high school varsity football programs will begin preparations for the upcoming season, scheduled to open Friday, Sept. 13 with 10 games under the lights.
"We're starting practice on the first day we're allowed," Section VIII football coordinator Matt McLees said. "Last year we started a week later than usual and the decision received mixed reviews."
Teams will now have over a full month to prepare for kickoff. Game scrimmages will take place around Sept. 6-7.
Freeport (Conference I), Garden City (II), Plainedge (III) and Cold Spring Harbor (IV) won county titles in 2018. All four defending champions are seeded No. 1 this season. Freeport, which captured the Rutgers Cup, opens on the road against Port Washington before playing three of its next four at home. A rematch of the past two county championship games takes place in Week 4 against visiting Oceanside. The Red Devils also host rival Baldwin to open the second half of the season.
Garden City, which won the Rutgers Cup in 2016 and '17, opens at home against Long Beach and also hosts Carey in Week 3 in rematch of last year's county final. Plainedge kicks off on the road versus conference newcomer Mineola, and closes out the opening month against Wantagh at home in a rematch of last year's title game. Cold Spring Harbor opens at home against Carle Place.
No relief for lower seeds
Lower-ranked teams will no longer see relief in their schedules and play eight different opponents once during the regular season. Previously, in 14-team conferences, teams seeded at the bottom would face the No. 13 and 12 seeds twice apiece, and play seeds 8 through 11 once apiece. No. 13 also faced No. 11 twice. Now, the No. 14 seed will face seeds 10, 7, 11, 13, 8, 12, 6 and 9, in that order.
"Based on the lopsided score policy we put in place three years ago and the improvement of some programs, we felt it's best served for all the teams to not have relief games built in," McLees explained. "It has always been the goal to have every team play eight different opponents."
Four programs switch conferences
Four programs have switched conferences for the upcoming season, which features a pair of 12-team divisions and a pair of 14-team setups. Valley Stream South, which has bounced around in recent history, moves from Conference III to IV, essentially swapping spots with Mineola. South is seeded No. 6 in the 12-team Conference IV, while Mineola is seeded No. 9 out of 14 teams in III. Longtime Conference I leading contender East Meadow will compete in Conference II and is seeded fourth. Long Beach, another program bouncing back and forth in recent years, also moves to II from I.
JV back to Saturday mornings
The majority of Nassau's JV football games in 2018 kicked off Monday afternoons, but McLees said they're back to the traditional Saturday mornings at the opposite location of that day's varsity game. At least five schools were unable to field JV squads a year ago. Should any freshmen, sophomores or juniors not step on the JV field on a particular Saturday morning, they would be eligible to play in the varsity game. "There's also a mechanism in place where if both schools agree to move the JV game to Monday afternoon, they can do so," McLees said.


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Recently I have learned good way to add column to sql server using database defensive programming technique from my co-worker. All the credit for this blog post goes to him. Thank you sir incase you are reading this blog post. (I have purposefully avoid mentioning name of co-worker due to privacy reason.)
Following example is very simple and self explanatory, Incase if you didn't get anything then pass your comment in comment section.
BEGIN TRANSACTION IF EXISTS(SELECT 1 from information_schema.tables where table_name = 'MyTableName') BEGIN Print('Table Exist'); --Add Column MyColumn IF NOT EXISTS(SELECT 1 from information_schema.columns where table_name = 'MyTableName' and Column_Name='MyColumn') BEGIN ALTER TABLE MyTableName ADD MyColumn varchar(345) NULL; Print('MyColumn Column Added'); END ELSE BEGIN Print('MyColumn Column Already Exist'); END END Else BEGIN Print('Table does not Exist'); END IF @@ERROR <> 0 BEGIN PRINT('Problem in running script, Rolling back'); ROLLBACK TRANSACTION; END ELSE BEGIN PRINT('Script Run Successfully'); COMMIT TRANSACTION; END


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I had the great pleasure and honour of beta-reading The Princess and I a little while back...and now it's finally time for the cover reveal!
Megan is content with her life, despite her parents' death and her brother Malcolm's job that keeps him busy at the King's castle. But when she is offered the position as Princess Christine's lady-in-waiting, Megan is glad of the change in scenery and accepts it with the hope that she can spend more time with her brother. The promise from Malcolm of lessons in swordsmanship only adds to her enthusiasm.
However, helping keep an eye on the emotional and excitable young lady proves to be much harder than becoming her friend. As rumours of war circulate the castle, Megan strives to encourage her new friend even as she tries to settle the doubts and fears in her own heart when her responsibility in protecting the Princess is put to the test. Follow the unwanted adventure which serves to teach her that loyal friendship, true love, and God's amazing grace will always triumph over revenge, greed, and hate.
About the Author:
Rebekah grew up surrounded by family members who appreciated and read good literature. First, she fell in love with the stories her parents read aloud to her from the Bible and books like The Chronicles of Narnia, Great Expectations, The Hobbit, and Anne of Green Gables. After learning to read on her own, she discovered other fantastic books which helped to build her ever growing imagination.
She completed her first written work at the tender age of eight and now uses it to humble herself whenever the need arises. The story did serve to show her that God had given her a desire to write, however, and from that moment on Rebekah has never looked back or regretted picking up her pencil and becoming an author.
This eighteen-year-old homeschool graduate lives in rainy Western Washington and is currently working on receiving her BA in English in order to further her passion for creating worlds on paper.
Ok...you guys ready to see the cover? I could make you scroll down...but I'll be nice ;) (Don't take it for granted though xD)
Ahhh.....isn't it just soooo pretty?? I love it!
The book will be available March 3, 2017. Can't wait! :)
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Improving efficiency of remote control operation through accurate spatial recognition
In order to take the operator, who works in adverse conditions, out of the mining equipment and achieve safe and efficient autonomous operation of the machine, Komatsu MIRAI Construction Equipment Cooperative Research Center aims to create a system to control such machines remotely from offices in urban areas.
"As mining development progresses into barren regions and other remote areas due to expansion of resource development, ensuring safety at work and
costs for improving residential
environment have become challenges to be addressed. Autonomous operation and remote control of construction/mining equipment
will improve safety and increase economic value," says Vice Director Yojiro OHBATAKE.
But, in current control systems, the efficiency of remote control operation drops by 50~60% when compared to manual controls. Dr. Ohbatake says, "Accurate spatial recognition is necessary for operating construction equipment, but visual information available via remote control is limited. So we focused on motion parallax, the optical change of the visual field of an observer. This is caused by a change in the observer's viewing position or the object's position. We've introduced 3D images with accurately reproduced depth to our remote control system to examine work efficiency."
In addition, by superimposing 3D information over the actual image of the terrain on worksites and their surrounding areas, Dr. Ohbatake said, "We developed a system in which users can perceive unevenness of terrain with depth perception even with 2D video. We saw a reduction in longitudinal errors when compared with a system without overlays." Research on the system to improve depth perception is now complete, and the team is moving forward to commercialize the technology.
"Autonomous operation" with minimal pre-loaded information using cameras as a navigational sensor
For autonomous driving, researchers attempt to develop a system to perform "vehicle travel control with a camera" as well as "navigation using minimal pre-loaded information." The position measurement systems provided by the global positioning system (GPS), which is used for the automotive navigation system, may become unusable in harsh environments, so they used a camera as a sensor for outdoor navigation. "We aim to develop a navigation system which provides voice guidance, such as 'Go along this road and turn at the intersection.' It's a human-like system: although it has no detailed built-in map, it thinks about its next actions according to previous experience, so it can run with little information in accordance with environmental changes," said Director Koichi OHSUKA. If this technology is realized, it will become fundamental technology for next-generation autonomous driving.
Duality of corporate and academic aspects produces ideas that will become useful in the future
A unique
initiative will begin from the 2018-19 academic year. Director Ohsuka said, "The Research Alliance Laboratories, has a mix of a corporate sense of striving for practical research and an academic sense of pursuing the unknown out of curiosity. In order to make use of this duality, we need to conduct off-the-wall research in addition to research that will be immediately useful in society . Therein lies the significance of the existence of the Komatsu MIRAI Construction Equipment Cooperative Research Center."
So, in addition to traditional, "ordinary" research, Komatsu MIRAI Construction Equipment Cooperative Research Center takes on "extraordinary" research that others never can
. Currently, research staff, including 4 students at the Division of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Science, School
of Engineering and the Division of Mechanical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, exchange ideas about "extraordinary construction equipment of the future" and talk about them using illustrations. "As far as construction equipment goes, you can come up with anything. There are sure to be some feasible ideas hidden in this type of brainstorming. The long history of joint research between Osaka University
and Komatsu allows us to try this experimental approach. I want people to think, 'They make all kinds of off-the-wall equipment in that lab,'" said Director Ohsuka, beaming with delight.
Research Alliance Laboratories
Research Alliance Laboratories is a system for inviting corporate research groups to Osaka University in order to develop multidimensional university-industry collaborative activities. This system aims to promote application of research results at Osaka University in industry, improve research quality, and nurture specialists by establishing research hubs for academic fields that can contribute to social development through long-term collaboration with the industrial circle.
This is a reprint of the article posted in the Osaka University NewsLetter No. 78 (February 2018).


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I can't believe it's finally here. We take one big vacation each year and it's always been to Colorado. This year, we are spending 14 days hiking, driving, eating, running, and exploring all over the state. However, there is one thing on both of our minds. We have a "bucket list" item we want to cross off. We are hiking our first 14,000 mountain. Pike's Peak. Hopefully, by Friday night, I'll be soaking my feet, drinking something hot, and posting the details of the 13 mile climb to the Summit House. Once we accomplish that, the rest of the trip will be more hiking, fishing, looking for snow (doubtful we find any), and a half-marathon for me on the last day.
I'm a little sad today. First, I had to leave Frankie at the Kitty Spa (aka…vet kennel)for two weeks. Although he did great there last year, it's still sad to leave him. I cried like a good mother does when she leaves her baby in the hands of others. He yowled a little. It broke my heart, but he's in the absolute safest place in case something happens. A couple of years ago, he almost died from a blocked urethra and this was while we were both home. So if dangerous situations happens while at home, I can't leave him with a neighbor to check in on him like we did the first two years. I want him at his vets' kennel where I can call the poor attendant every other morning to see how Frankie is doing.
I know the next two weeks will fly by so fast and then it will be over. The worst days of the year for us are the few weeks after we come back. It's horrendously hot here and we know that we have a whole year to wait before we go back. But I'm asking for trouble even thinking about all that. I've got to pack! And because we are driving, we get to take a whole lot more stuff!
This is a regular sized cooler and I have this thing STUFFED. 1.5 days of driving there and 1.5 days driving back require travel food and we plan to cook or eat in several days. I can't eat out or indulge 14 straight days. I can spend $50 at the grocery store and have several of our meals ready to cook. Half the fun is catching fresh stream trout and grilling on the back deck watching the sun go behind the summits. I'm so ready for that!
- Gatorade
- trail mix
- granola
- grill tools
- cutting board/chef knife
- coffee, filters
- cooking oil
- Cliff bars
- Blender!!
- shaker bottle
- oats
- Amazing Grass
- protein powder
- Gels/honey shots
- Thick Chewy Bars that I just made 🙂
- seasonings/spices
- cocoa powder
- hot chocolate mix
- oil sprayer
- bananas/oranges/apples
- cheese crackers
- cashews/almonds/sunflower seeds
And in the "utilities" basket: washing powder, Ziplocks, paper towels, baby wipes.
And I'm dozing off now. Next post should be from somewhere in Oklahoma.


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Introduction: DIY Printable Slew Bearing
Slew bearings, Slewing bearings, and cross-roller bearings are all the same thing. The unique advantage is that they can take forces in every direction. Some bearings you can pop out the center if you push wrong. Some you can't use like a car wheel. Some you can't put a pencil in the hole and bend. Slew bearings can take a (relatively) large amount of all these forces, and do it in a really low profile (thin design).
I wanted a slew bearing for my robot. One slew bearing can replace about 6 parts in my current design and takes up a lot less room. Online slew bearings cost $120 before $60 shipping. No thank you! I got 100pc 1/8" ball bearings from Aliexpress for $10. This is a job for my 3D printer.
PS: There are four steps to this instructable but only 3 are displayed on the main page. Step 4 has the STL files and more.
Step 1: Design
I searched for "slew bearing cross section" and found http://www.sbibearing.com/userfiles/zp01.JPG
I modified the design to suit my tastes. The inside is two identical pieces. In the picture the inside and outside sit flush. In the photos I didn't plan so well and I had to chase bearings all over the place during assembly.
Based on the design I knew I would need 70 balls. In the end I used 68 to leave a bit more room for movement.
Dear Solidworks: please come out with a $500 edition for hobbyists. Sincerely, everybody.
Step 2: Print
Printing large shapes tend to "curl up" and peel right off the bed.
Lately I've been experimenting with the ABS slurry method to hold my prints down: mix some old ABS and some acetone in a glass jar, seal it tight, give it a swirl, and let it sit overnight. The goo you find in the morning can be applied in a thin coat to the glass of your printer and it makes your prints stick like contact cement.
Looks like garbage on the bed and it fixes the problem.
Time to print my parts was about 40 minutes for the exterior and 15 for each interior. My bed is 86 degrees celcius and my nozzle is 207.
Step 3: Assembly
I put the exterior and one interior on a cookie sheet to prevent bearings from escaping. Then I dumped a whole bunch in the center and scooped them with a spoon, sometimes pressing with a finger. for the final few i used a pair of pliers to pick and place.
I used M3x10 screws to attach the two halves together. No nuts were needed, the teeth of the screw bite into the plastic and hold great.
In the other four interior holes I put M3x25 screws so I could attach the bearing to my robot.
Step 4: Final Thoughts
You may wish to try printing this bearing with gear teeth on either side. GT2 timing belt teeth would be great. A parametric version of this model would be more gooder.
Download the STL files for yourself here: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:321679
I would dearly love to see someone make inexpensive slew bearings. If you know of someone who can make this happen, please contact me.
If you've enjoyed this tutorial, you may enjoy some of my other creations. Check 'em out at http://marginallyclever.com
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As a substitute for Solidworks (because the price is insane for the home user) I have been using Autodesk's Inventor Pro, which if you get a student account with them, (free) you can download the student version (also free). Then you just build and export as an .stl
Also note that FreeCAD can make these kinds of objects also.
Yes! Thank you.
Designspark mechanical is free
Hi nice work.
Would a realitive large double angular contact bearing not also work? I mean load wise? What do you think.
really awesome stufff !!!!
A very nice job, and an intriguing design.
Looking at it, I started to wonder. What keeps the balls from chafing against one another as the race turns? In a normal ball bearing assembly, the balls are kept separated from each other by a keeper. Without that the balls will peel into flakes. I realize that you are turning this at a fairly low speed, but if the balls are touching each other, I expect some of them are sliding instead of rolling.
Trick...when setting balls or rollers, use a waxy grease to hold them in place, if need be, you can always wash out with solvent.
video please!!
Added to step 1.
This is great! I very nearly built something similar, but wound up laser cutting pieces from Delrin since I was concerned about printed races being smooth enough. But seeing this means I'll have to give it a try!
Awesome job using a 3D printer for something other than a bauble.


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I'm pretty sure this is the longest winter ever.
Just when I think it's getting warm again and I can stop wearing jumpers to bed the universe sends me another cold snap. I was gearing up for the change of season to bring me warmer weather, slightly longer days and new season produce to cook with; instead I'm back to being obsessed with soup. Soup is a winter favourite for a reason - nothing is quite as warm and comforting as a big bowl of soup. But because there's only so much pumpkin or sweet potato soup one can eat in a few short months I thought I'd branch out with a flavour combo I've had running around in my head for a little while - cauliflower, pear and parsnip soup. I'll level with you, I wasn't sure it was actually going to taste good but I was pleasantly surprised. Like really pleasantly surprised. Like so pleasantly surprised I downed both bowls once I'd finished photographing them. #sorrynotsorry
Now I know the combination sounds strange, and not necessarily in a good way, but hear me out. The combo of creamy delicate cauliflower, earthy parsnip, barely sweet pear and nutty almond really works. You can taste the pear at the back of your palate but the soup doesn't taste sweet, it just creates a beautiful balance with the earthy, creamy, nutty notes. Celery and fennel seeds are hardly noticeable but add real depth of flavour, and each bite had me going back for more just to see what else I could taste. I know it sounds weird, but trust me - it's good.
I topped the soup with a few easy extras that aren't technically necessary but really create an explosion of flavour and texture. The dill adds freshness, the chilli oil adds heat and the roasted almonds are a bit like crunchy croutons. Whenever I make this soup in the future I'll be serving it with those toppings because they were just so damn good.
The almonds cooked into the soup add creaminess as well as flavour. If you cant be bothered blanching the almonds just to further boil them in the soup you can leave them out and substitute one cup of the stock with a cup of almond milk (or regular dairy milk). The blanched almonds are only a few minutes of extra effort though, and well worth it. Next time you're looking for something a little different to warm up your insides think cauliflower, pear and parsnip soup.
Cauliflower, Pear and Parsnip Soup
Serves 4
1 tbsp olive oil
1 large brown onion, diced
1 celery stalk, diced
1 tsp fennel seeds
1 medium cauliflower, broken into florets
2 parsnips, peeled and chopped
2 pears, peeled and chopped
6 cloves of garlic, peeled
2L vegetable stock
1/2 cup almonds, blanched
Roasted almonds, chilli oil and dill, to serve
1) Heat olive oil in a large saucepan over medium heat.
2) Add onion and celery and cook for 5 minutes or until softened. Add fennel seeds, then stir well and cook for a further minute.
3) Add remaining ingredients. Bring to the boil, then reduce heat and simmer for 30 minutes or until vegetables are very soft.
4) Allow to cool slightly then blend the soup well until completely smooth. Serve the soup topped with almonds, chilli oil and dill.
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Full Frontal with Sam Bee
Here is a story about my first experience of being on American TV.
But first, a disclaimer:
My participation in this show was first and foremost a matter of it being paid work, and then because it was a unique experience. I have no particular political agenda.
I usually try and remain politically neutral, particularly in my music. Of course we will all disagree with some political leaders and their approach, but at the end of the day, we must accept that a democratically elected individual is in office by virtue of due democratic process, and let them prove themselves before jumping to conclusions.
That said, I vehemently disagree with Mr Trump's viewpoint on minority groups and his treatment of women are wholly inappropriate. In the case of Mr Trump's business interests in Scotland, it takes two to tango; the Scottish Government at the time were more than happy to indulge him, so vilifying him as an invading parasite as this clip has done isn't especially fair.
And now the story of how I was on a segment of Full Frontal with Sam Bee titled "The Original Trump Haters".
In case it's not obvious, Full Frontal with Sam Bee is a political satire show, and Mr Trump seems to be especially disliked by the team.
In truth, saying "I was on the show" makes me sound far more involved than I actually was. I appear for around 2 seconds of the 10 minute segment, and it's a blink and you'll miss moment. I'm not exactly giving my scathing political wit.
I was contacted by Julie, one of the producers, a few days before the shoot and was given a brief about the show. It sounded like fun so I agreed. Thinking I would be one of a couple of pipers, I thought this would be a great thing to put on the resume.
A few days later, I found myself roping in some of my friends as extras, as the producers hadn't had much luck in securing others. As another piper seemed elusive, I also roped in my brother, who's not a piper, and he appears as "the other piper" in the shoot, though he's only pretending to play my old pipes.
After 6 million emails, the four of us were on our way early in the morning to the great North Eastern coastal resort of Cruden Bay, to arrive at Slains Castle. Much to my relief, I must add, as the previous suggestion had been actually at Mr Trump's golf course, which I had reservations about!
I had never heard of the place but expected it to be one of the magnificent hotel castles that Scotland is known for. The day before had been sunny and bright, but winter decided to arrive on this Sunday morning as we ventured up north. Upon our arrival we were presented with a big ruinous former castle that lurched ominously over the Cruden Bay cliffs in the howling wind and horizontal rain.
After what felt like an eternity trundling down a country road that had topographical similarities to the the surface of the Moon, we pulled up in the muddy patch of ground near the castle and waited for the production crew to arrive.
Eventually the totally desolate place turned into a hive of activity, and after signing on the line and given souvenir teeshirts, we were soon posing on the cliff edge in front of what felt like a full blown film set.
As we froze alive, we undertook several takes of the same thing; me performing "Cock O' The North" on the pipes, my brother pretending to do the same, and my two recruits and Amy Hoggart lifting their kilts to flash their "junk" at the camera.
I'll not delve into detail about how one of our extras assisted Miss Hoggart in straightening her kilt, but by all accounts it was a memorable experience for him…
My fingers turned into blocks of ice and on one take I produce a sound akin to a birthing cow as they struggled to feel the chanter beneath them.
Soon after, filming had wrapped, I was taken aside by the sound guy and recorded audio only for the production, and we were all back in the car and leaving the place. Aside from some bemused dog walkers and, as it transpired, a vlogger who also happened to come along that day to visit the castle, no one was any the wiser of what had just taken place.
So there you have it, my experience of appearing on Full Frontal with Sam Bee. I now have a second TV credit and could justifiably put my name on IMDB.


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Former Nigerian military chiefs stole as much as $15 billion through fraudulent arms procurement deals.
This is contained in a report tagged; "Weaponising Transparency: Defence
Procurement Reform as a Counterterrorism
Strategy in Nigeria".
It revealed that huge sums equivalent to half of
Nigeria's foreign currency reserves were stolen.
The 19-page report by the Civil Society
Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) and
Transparency International (TI) UK, unveiled
yesterday in Abuja said defence sector
corruption has weakened Nigerian
counterterrorism capacity and strengthened
Boko Haram terrorists.
It was jointly presented by the Executive
Director of CISLAC, Auwal Musa Rafsanjani and
a Senior Legal Researcher at TI, Eva Marie
"Nigeria's corrupt elites have profited from
conflict; with oil prices at a record low, defence
has provided new and lucrative opportunities for the country's corrupt kleptocrats.
"Defence sector corruption in Nigeria has
enabled the political elite to accumulate and
distribute political patronage. Longstanding
military exceptionalism, meanwhile, has justified weak and compromised oversight of security - related spending and excessive secrecy," the report said.
It said most significant corruption opportunities
are those exploited through inflating
procurement contract values and creating
"phantom" defence contracts.
The TI report said security contracts were used
as a vehicle for money laundering and facilitated via weak or corrupted Nigerian banks, with illicit financial flows hidden in property in the UK, United States, South Africa and Dubai.
The report stressed the case a former National
Security Adviser (NSA) Col Sambo Dasuki rtd,
currently standing trial for allegedly
mismanaging funds meant for the weapons
procurement to prosecute the Boko Haram war,
as an example of how the country's defence
sector leaves room for exploitation.
Reacting, the Defence Headquarters (DHQ)
denied allegations of corruption levelled against
the Nigerian Military.
Defence spokesman, Major General John
Enenche, at a press conference in Abuja
yesterday said the damning accusations in the
TI report were false.
He said the present leadership of the Armed
Forces of Nigeria has done a lot to train, boost
troop's morale and procure vital equipment
through due process, for the Northeast
operations against Boko Haram.


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Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai 11th April 2014 Written Episode Update
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The Episode starts with everyone happy that Naksh and Ananya are selected. Mohit jokes with Naitik. Naksh is very happy. Akshara talks to Naitik about Devyaani. She says we can give her happiness by making her hope come true, think being on her position, then you will understand. He says I did not do it for Naman and Devyaani, I did it for humanity. He says I can't help her. It is not Naman's mistake, we don't know everything, we heard only her, not about Naman. Akshara says Naman is not understanding how much Devyaani loves him. Naitik says did you think if Bau ji comes to know about this, what will he go through.
She says you have always supported me. He says what I m saying is right. She says even I m right, I m a mum and can understand her pain. She says I will support Devyaani. Naitik gets annoyed. Shaurya comes home and tells Naksh and Ananya are selected. Varsha asks what did Ananya say. Shaurya praises Naksh and Ananya. Naksh comes home and shares his happiness. Naitik talks to him. Bhabhimaa asks Naksh to go and inform Dadda ji that he is selected.
Bau ji says Naitik come, we will also meet Dadda ji. Devyaani says I m worried about Naman. Akshara talks to her and pacifies her. Devyaani says I m feeling bad, Bau ji asked me to meet the patient, I don't feel good lying to him. She asks did you talk to Naitik, what does he feel. Akshara says he is fine. She asks do you know Naman's address. Devyaani says yes. Ananya and Naksh talk about topics. Naksh calls Ananya and talks to her about practicing.
Akshara comes to meet Naman. Naman is shocked to see her. He asks how did you know I m here. She says you felt we won't know. She sees packed food and moves it. She brings tiffin for him. Naman says why did you come here, I don't want any help. Akshara explains them about her mum. She says I would have not left Anshu like this. She says I m doing this for you as a sister. Devyaani stands outside. She serves him food and asks him to have it. She leaves. Naman looks at the food.
Akshara and Devyaani see him through the window. Naman eats the food and it makes them happy. Naman cries. Akshara comes home and helps Naksh in his practice. She asks him to have milk and go to play. Naitik comes and she tells him I met Naman yesterday. Naitik says alone? She says no, with Devyaani. Naitik says why are you in these things, leave all this. Akshara gets worried seeing Naksh's voice becoming bad. Naksh is tensed.
She says I told you to take rest. Naksh cries. Akshara says you will be fine and hugs him. Rajshri asks Ananya not to be tensed and tell Naksh the same. Ananya says we never get tensed. Naksh cries. Devyaani asks Naksh to be silent and applies an ointment to him. Akshara talks to Devyaani. Devyaani says I know Naitik is not feeling good what we are doing, I don't want you to risk your relations for me. Akshara says don't worry.
Dadi acts as RJ and tells about Lord's love. Everyone hear her patiently and clap. Ananya says enough, now Kaki. Everyone does one by one and are happy. Bhabhimaa asks Naksh to talk to Yash. Dadda ji says put it on loud speaker. Dadda ji talks to Yash on Naksh's behalf. Everyone laugh. Yash asks if you can't talk, how will you give the audition. Naksh gets upset. Yash says I m feeling bad for you.
Naksh cries and tells Naitik what will he do if he can't talk properly. Akshara looks on.
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Yesterday something happened that has never happened before. My son introduced me to a rap song I actually like. The song has some strong language in it, but I think there is a clean version. It is called Thrift Shop. The artist is saying that he buys all of his clothes from the thrift shop and he looks incredible. He also talks about people paying $50.00 for a t shirt and states flat out that someone who pays that much for a t shirt is being tricked by a business. With the exception of the language and the fact that our styles are completely different, I agree with this guy 100%. I will actually go farther than he did. Many of these businesses are raping people. They can only sell a t shirt for $50.00 because someone, actually a lot of someones are willing to pay that much for a shirt.
The fact that this song was on the radio tells me that there is the beginnings of a culture shift. Most people are struggling just to get by. There is a growing group of people that are looking for any way possible to make their money go farther. I applaud this young man for being willing to proclaim the virtues of thrift store shopping.
I love thrift stores. I go into a thrift store at least once or twice a month. I am not just looking for clothing. I always look through their electronics and their kitchen wares. I have bought several drinking glasses, a couple of vases, and other things for the kitchen at a thrift store. We have even bought furniture at the thrift store. If you take your time you can completely outfit a home in the thrift store at just pennies on the dollar of what you would spend to buy new.
One of my New Years resolutions is to keep some cash on me at all times. Any time I see a promising yard sale, I am going to stop and see what I can pick up. I will only buy things that we need or we will truly use. I have a list in my mind of thing that I will consider purchasing.
My sons and I are very hard to buy for at a thrift store or yard sale. Men tend to wear their clothes completely out before we get rid of them. I will never fault someone for that. The boots that I wear everyday are five years old and I plan on getting at least three more years out of them.
My youngest son needed a new pair of shoes. I am not a fan of buying shoes at a thrift store, too much fungus going on out there. I won't buy underwear from a thrift store either.To quote my daughter, "that is just gross". So we went to a clothing store. I will not name the company. We walked to the shoe department and were looking around for him a pair. We did find a pair that he liked and he said were comfortable.
Me being me, I started looking at the clothing in the store. The first thing I look at is where the item was made. The countries that I saw today were Vietnam, China, Egypt, Honduras, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Mexico. The item that was made in Mexico was of US fabric. That was the only time I saw the US mentioned. I am fine with products being made in any of the North American countries as long as some of it was manufactured in the United States. If you wonder why you or your neighbor or someone in your family cannot find a job. I just showed you.
Buy everything you can at thrift stores and yard sales. You will save a lot of money and you will help people out in your community. The money for those items has already been sent overseas, they will not get a cent of your second hand purchase. I personally will not buy anything that I do not absolutely need that is not at least partially made in America. If we can get enough people to do that and to communicate to the corporations that this is why we are spending less money in their stores, they will bring the jobs back, plain and simple.
If you look up the song, please remember that I warned you about the language. Find the clean version and listen to the message that is now being broadcast to our young people and be proud of someone who is telling them that saving money and making smart purchases is cool.
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And enjoy they did.
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But, like all good things, it did not last.
Edmund was beginning to consider actually remonstrating Kevlin, when a frenzied string of blasphemes emerged from the falls. To his utter disappointment, Kevlin realized that Jones had survived.
Once Jones had sufficiently cursed Kevlin and his kith and kin – past, present, and future – he calmed down enough to explain that he had flown through the thick curtain of tumbling water and landed in a secret tunnel.
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It's been too long of a week. Fortunately, tomorrow is Friday. Unfortunately, I have a lot of work to do this weekend. Oh well, c'est la vie.


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But I forgot I hadn't written about this series, which I finished last month. (And it's so hot outside that the basement is a cool, pleasant place to be right now!)
I tend to avoid adult fantasy because it's all the same—please, no, not another inn! YA has been a refuge and a nurse log for original thinkers because it's creating itself as a genre and doesn't have all the weight of Tolkien (May He Live Forever) resting on it. When I discover a truly original adult fantasy I have to jump up and down and shout about it.
Range of Ghosts, Shattered Pillars, and Steles of the Sky are truly original, epic, adult fantasy. (And this trilogy would be fine for YA audiences, as well*.)
The setting is fantastic, in all the meanings of that word. It's based on Asia: not just part of Asia, but the whole thing: deserts, steppes, mountains, jungles and fabulous, colorful empires that sound a little like Mongol, Persian, Chinese, Russian and lots of other cultures I don't even know about, but with new and fascinating magic and gods. So intriguing and interesting and well-developed! Here's Elizabeth Bear talking about how she deliberately set out to write something not Euro-centric:
I wanted these books to focus on the cognates of cultures that epic fantasy so often marginalizes–those mysterious Easterners, usually portrayed as a swarthy, untrustworthy threat on the borders of our heroes' empire.
As a Euro-descended Westerner raised on Celtic and German fairy tales, I found it delightfully refreshing to read a novel that is completely different. And so imaginative! Not just one original magic system, but a different one for every country, with rituals and language and trappings that might be inspired by Buddhist or Hindu or Islamic imagery but are entirely new. World-building rests in the details, and the world of Eternal Sky is full of evocative objects with symbolic potential. Here is Bear talking about all the different kinds of books in her world, including books that blind those who read them. (No spoilers, but oh, that concept creates a plot thread that will wring your emotions and hang them out to dry!)
Rich and varied characters inhabit this wondrous world, and we get to meet them and learn each of their histories and secrets. Temur, heir to the Padaparashna Seat, who stumbles off a battlefield with a remarkable horse, and then has to figure out what he's going to do about having survived. Once-princess Samarkar, the wizard who gave up her fertility to find her magic, and then finds love. Edene, the steppe warrior-girl who starts off needing rescuing and ends up . . . well, I don't want to spoil it, so I won't say, but it's not where you expect her to end up! By the end, I think Smarkar and Edene have taken over as main characters from Temur, and I love their character arcs.
I love all the strong women: Hrahima the warrior tiger-woman who refuses to believe in her god; Yangchen, ambitious second wife of an emperor. Tsering-la, wizard without magic. Bear is obviously trying to upend gender stereotypes, and she does it gloriously. Take note, authors: we want more characters like these ones! (Kudos to Bear for showing nursing mothers going about their business as if having a baby was no hindrance—but I had to laugh at the idea of strapping a baby on your back and riding into battle. Babies would somewhat hinder that business.)
The love stories are brilliant: flawed, confused people cleaving together with the best of intentions and behaving maturely about it even when it gets complicated. Love that focuses more on tenderness than passion--oh, how refreshing!
There are all kinds of subplots that could have been novels in their own right—I did sometimes forget who people were, and I thought some of the subplots were tied up a bit too quickly or not really tied up at all, but it all added to the richness of the world.
Bear's writing is gorgeous, every sentence a pleasure to read, every description vivid and sensual.
This—this was how empires ended. With the flitting of wild dogs in the dark and a caravan of moons going dark one by one.I can't forget to mention the animals, both real and fantastic: wonderfully depicted. Great dragons.
I will be searching out Bear's other writing (I have read the first book of her Jacob's Ladder trilogy, which was brilliant and fascinating and original and I didn't understand it at all. Maybe I should try again . . .) There are two novellas set in The Eternal Sky's world, so going to look for those now. (And apparently there will be more novels—not sequels, but same world.)
The Eternal Sky trilogy is a really good Thai curry: maybe a yellow curry with chicken and potatoes. Sweet with coconut milk, spicy, satisfying, and redolent with cilantro and lemon grass.
*The characters are adults and deal with issues such as childbirth and politics, which YA tends to leave alone, but the sex is off-stage, and the violence is realistic (there's a war going on) but not gory or gratuitous.


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The webpage where the phone was listed has since been taken down since we first clicked on the link, but upon going back to it to grab the link for this post the page states that the items were removed. We were able to procure some photos before than but you can no longer access the reserve listing on the Rogers site. It's a shame, but just like the leaked videos, we didn't expect the site listing to stay up too long before it was pulled down. Especially when you consider the phone is being announced tomorrow, and will be available immediately after the announcement through Verizon, with T-mobile being rumored to follow suit tomorrow at midnight.
As for the specs, before the page went nowhere you could see that they had a complete listing of what the device will have to offer in the hardware department. We'll touch on the camera first, as it stated the phone had an ultrapixel rear camera. with a front facing 5MP camera to boot. It was also listed to have a 5-inch HD super LCD3 display, 32GB of storage and up to 64 expandable through the microSD. Other specs listed were the talk time which was listed as up to 21 hours(which of course varies based on use) and the Android 4.4.2 version of the OS. Pretty much everything was listed, even the price at which the phone was to be sold through Rogers, which was as low as $229.99 on select 2-year contract. The rest of the specs can be seen in the image below, as well as a couple extra shots of the device.


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The Times Online helps to unravel the beginnings of Britain's scare over the Measles-Mumps-Rubella vaccine: "Hidden records show MMR truth."
Child Eleven was one of a dozen children who were enrolled in the programme at the hospital. Its research caused one of the biggest stirs in modern medical history when its results were published in The Lancet medical journal. The five-page paper suggested a potential link between MMR and what the doctors called a "syndrome" of autism and inflammatory bowel disease.
Eleven boys and one girl, aged between 2½ and 9½, were said, for the most part, to have a diagnosis of regressive autism, where children appear to develop quite normally, but then, terrifyingly, lose their language skills. The bowel disease was described as nonspecific colitis, a severe form of inflammation.
The dynamite in The Lancet was the claim that their conditions could be linked to the MMR vaccine, which had been given to all 12 children.
According to the paper, published on February 28, 1998, the parents of eight of the children said their "previously normal" child developed "behavioural symptoms" within days of receiving the jab.
"In these eight children the average interval from exposure to first behavioural symptoms was 6.3 days," said the paper.
At face value, these findings were more than grounds for the panic that took off over MMR."It took a big fight to get the information," said Mr Eleven. "They told me there was no measles virus. I had the tests repeated three times at different labs in the US, and they all came back negative."
This struck a different note from what Wakefield suggested when describing his research to the world.
Eleven years later, the fallout continues around the world. The paper triggered a public health crisis. In Britain, immunisation rates collapsed from 92% before the Lancet paper was published, to 80% at the peak of Britain's alarm. Measles has returned as officially "endemic".
With less than 95% of the population vaccinated, Britain has lost its herd immunity against the disease. In 1998 there were 56 cases reported; last year there were 1,348, according to figures released last week that showed a 36% increase on 2007. Two British children have died from measles, and others put on ventilators, while many parents of autistic children torture themselves for having let a son or daughter receive the injection.
Yet the science remains a problem. No researchers have been able to replicate the results produced by Wakefield's team in the Lancet study.
Some used statistics to see if autism took off in 1988, when MMR was introduced. It did not. Others used virology to see if MMR caused bowel disease, a core suggestion in the paper. It did not. Yet more replicated the exact Wakefield tests. They showed nothing like what he said.
Aspects of the project are now before the General Medical Council (GMC), the doctors' disciplinary body….
In evidence presented to the GMC, however, there has emerged potential explanations of how Wakefield was able to obtain the results he did. This evidence, combined with unprecedented access to medical records, a mass of confidential documents and cooperation from parents during an investigation by this newspaper, has shown the selective reporting and changes to findings that allowed a link between MMR and autism to be asserted….
It was nevertheless striking that their conclusion was that 11 of the children's bowels were in fact diseased when their colleagues had found no abnormalities in at least seven of the cases.
This is just a clear case of the original researcher falsifying data to create a desired outcome. It's scientific fraud. And also,
What parents did not know was that, two years before, Wakefield had been hired by Jabs's lawyer, Richard Barr, a high-street solicitor in King's Lynn, Norfolk. Barr had obtained legal aid to probe MMR for any evidence that could be used against the manufacturers. He is adamant that at all times he acted professionally, and diligently represented his clients.
A string of Sunday Times reports have exposed how Wakefield earned £435,643 through his work with Barr, plus funding to support his research.
There is no suggestion the other doctors knew of Wakefield's involvement with Barr.
What has not been reported is that the nature of the project had been visualised before any of the children were even admitted to the Royal Free.
In June 1996 – the month before Child One's arrival at the hospital – Wakefield and Barr filed a confidential document with the government's Legal Aid Board, appearing already to know of a "new syndrome".
Referring to inflammatory bowel disease, and then bowel problems with autism, Wakefield and Barr wrote to the board, successfully seeking money.
"The objective," they wrote, "is to seek evidence which will be acceptable in a court of law of the causative connection between either the mumps, measles and rubella vaccine or the measles/rubella vaccine and certain conditions which have been reported with considerable frequency by families who are seeking compensation."
Just a reminder: Wakefield was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for testifying against the safety of vaccines in lawsuits brought by parents hoping to reap millions in damages. And he stood to make millions by discrediting a combined shot so that he could sell his own series of single-shot immunizations.
UPDATE: Wakefield has been found guilty of unprofessional conduct and falsifying research. The Lancet has withdrawn the paper, meaning that they consider it to be invalid.


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