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Lokpal bill on its appropriate mechanism is hard nut crack and the public debate at jantar mantar on dated 11 Dec with presence of party leaders from BJP,CPI,BJD,SP, the matter remains still debatable and the Team Anna's manager Arvind kejriwal spoke for the system in the system and for the added system of lokpal if gets totally corrupt he talks of administrative will.With novice taking the rostrum as masters of all knowledge stops the rocess of contemplation for building better tommorrow. Thus Opposition political leaders also snapped at Arvind Kejriwal after he pressed them to make public their opinion on some of the key issues pertaining to Lokpal Bill during Anna Hazare's day-long agitation and asked him to leave the matter to Parliament for a decision
@NksagarNksagar December 11, 2011
Leaders finished their speeches, the activist's day-long dharna at Jantar Mantar, Kejriwal requested them to give their opinios on specific issues relating to Lokpal like composition of selection committee, appointment of CBI director and grievance redressal mechanism for complaints against group C employees.CPI leader D Raja took a lead rebutted asking him to leave the detailed discussions on the Lokpal Bill to Parliament.BJP leader Arun Jaitley said all the leaders have already discussed the fundamental issues and agreed to most of the key demands of Team Anna.
"We have already discussed the fundamental issues pertaining to Lokpal. We gave our opinion on most of the sticking issues. We all agreed that there should be a strong and effective Lokpal and we will do our best to make it happen. But details on specific issues should be left to Parliament for discussion," said Jaitley.
A visibly upset BJD leader Pinaki Misra said the draft Bill prepared by the Parliamentary Standing Committee was not cast in stone and that it can be changed by Parliament when comes for discussion."The whole system cannot go backward. It will only go forward. The details can be discussed in Parliment," he said.
CPM leader Brindra Karat, showed poltical acumen assured to do everything possible for a strong Lokpal, said the issues raised by Kejriwal can be discussed in details by lawmakers in Parliament.


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- Many online sources are void of gatekeepers who "turf out trash and publish only the worthwhile."
- Average HS students lack the ability to sort the good stuff from the garbage. Not only that, but they are overconfident in their inability! They equate their technological saavy with information literacy....Big mistake.
- Students will NOT just pick up information literacy skills while they surf, on their own. The "information literacy by osmosis" myth has been debunked with reams of formal research (Badke p. 55)
- Badke suggests an acronym for evaulation: CARS -- Credibility, Accuracy, Reasonableness, & Support. Originally coined by Robert Harris.
The article is well worth reading, but for we Cybrarians-- he's preaching to the choir. However, remember, this was published in ASCD's magazine which is read by your administrators. Thank you William Badke!

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SkinnyMs. takes on a traditional Mexican dish with this savory chicken enchiladas recipe! Although many enchilada recipes call for heavy cream-based sauces and fattening meats, this recipe maintains a nutritious profile you can feel good about eating.
Yummy whole-grain tortillas are stuffed with chicken and cheddar cheese, then seasoned with savory spices. Afterward, they are infused with a rich, zesty sauce that spotlights green chilies. Greek yogurt subs in for sour cream, slashing a boatload of calories while hooking you up with a healthy dose of protein and lending a creamy consistency to the mixture.
Don't forget to account for the spiciness from the chilies and adjust based on your tolerance and preference. Easy to assemble, these melt-in-your-mouth enchiladas will be a surefire hit at your next family gathering or dinner party!
Yields: 12 servings | Calories: 240 | Total Fat: 14g | Saturated Fat: 6g | Trans Fat: 0g | Cholesterol: 47mg | Sodium: 313mg | Carbohydrates: 15g | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 2g | Protein: 15g | SmartPoints (Freestyle): 8
- 2 chicken breasts on the bone
- 2 cup water
- 12 (8-inch) whole grain tortillas
- 1 3/4 cups shredded cheddar cheese
- 1 1/2 teaspoon chili powder
- 1 teaspoon cumin
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher or sea salt
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- 3 tablespoons pure butter
- 2 tablespoons flour
- 2 cups chicken broth (retain from baked chicken)
- 1 cup full fat Greek yogurt (optional, sour cream)
- 1 (4-ounce) can diced green chiles
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- In a covered casserole pan, add chicken and water. Roast in oven for 1 hour, or until chicken reaches an internal temperature of 165. Retain broth for enchiladas.
- Cool chicken slightly, discard skin, remove chicken from bone, and shred with a fork. Combine shredded chicken, 3/4 cup cheese, chili powder, cumin, salt, and pepper.
- Add chicken mixture to tortillas, roll tightly, and place in a 9 x 13-inch casserole pan, seam side down.
- In a small pot, melt butter over medium-low heat. Add flour and whisk until smooth. Slowly pour in broth, raise to medium heat, and whisk until thickened to a gravy consistency. Turn off heat and add yogurt and green chiles. Pour mixture over tortillas and top with the remaining 1 cup cheese.
- Cover with foil and bake 20 minutes. Remove foil and bake an additional 5-10 minutes, or until cheese is melted and casserole is heated through.
- Garnish if desired with any of these toppings: chopped cilantro, sour cream, diced tomatoes, green onions, or olives.
- Enjoy!
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by Iain Gray, vice president, global services, Red Hat
Today is an exciting day for Red Hat as we announce our new Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Infrastructure-as-a-Service and expanded training in support of Red Hat's OpenStack technology.
We launched Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform at the Red Hat Summit in June as a core part of our open hybrid cloud strategy. There is a huge amount of excitement about OpenStack both at Red Hat and from our customers. In terms of company focus, it truly is "the next Linux." Our goal is to bring our enterprise experience to the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) market and provide an OpenStack platform that our customers can trust.
We are committed to providing services that help our customers use OpenStack to get their products to market faster. We recently launched a range of IaaS-focused offerings. From cloud migration strategy consulting, to Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform product-pilot implementation services, through complete IaaS-based solution development, we can support our customers through every stage in their cloud journey. Red Hat OpenStack Administration (CL210), a course we introduced earlier this year, helps customers build their teams' readiness to adopt and use this new technology.
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We have applied these same principles to the Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Infrastructure-as-a-Service. Organizations are seeking capable professionals to help bring OpenStack into their IT environments. As with Linux, we expect to set the benchmark for a technology that is rapidly proving to be a game changer in the industry.
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* SEC convenes roundtable following Knight error
* Executives broadly support concept of kill switches
By Sarah N. Lynch
WASHINGTON, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Brokerage and exchange technology gurus generally endorsed the concept of deploying "kill switches" to stop computer errors before they can unleash havoc on the market, but they warned regulators on Tuesday to ensure they are not set off too easily.
Speaking at a roundtable hosted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, experts said they recognized the need for more safeguards after a series of scary software glitches.
"I think kill switches are important, but we need to ensure that we don't think of them as the big red easy button," said Anna Ewing, an executive vice president and chief information officer at Nasdaq OMX. "It is layered. It is complex."
The SEC convened the roundtable following a major glitch at Knight Capital on Aug. 1 that led to a $440 million trading loss that nearly bankrupted the firm.
The error was the third high-profile technology problem experienced by major market players this year. The first hit BATS Global Markets during its attempt at an initial public offering, and the second major glitch plagued Nasdaq during Facebook's market debut.
Those incidents have prompted an industry-wide discussion into whether broker-dealers, exchanges, or both, should all be required to have mechanisms that can shut down trading if things go haywire.
The SEC has also launched a broad review into technology issues at major brokerage firms. The agency's examinations staff has sent out two batches of questionnaires to a sampling of brokerages asking for detailed information surrounding their automated systems for order-taking and order processing.
"Our concern is not whether a single firm might fail, but whether it causes collateral damage to investors and their confidence in the integrity and stability of our markets," SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro said.
Some executives on Tuesday warned against designing a kill switch that might too easily shut down trading, saying automatic pre-set triggers might not be the solution in every instance.
Lou Steinberg, the chief technology officer at TD Ameritrade , said it makes sense for market makers and exchanges in some cases to maintain a "human discussion" when they identify unusual trading rather than letting a kill switch automatically step in.
"We wouldn't want them to activate an automated kill switch and shut us off because that would in fact destabilize an environment that we're trying to add stability into," he said.
Some of the back-and forth on Tuesday saw Schapiro interject at times, such as to a comment that it is a "commercial" decision by each firm to stop processing orders.
"I disagree with that," she said. "I don't think it is just a commercial decision. I think it's a broader market integrity and confidence in the markets decision."
The recent string of events raised concerns among policymakers about the collateral damage that one technology error can unleash on the markets, particularly in an automated world dominated by lightening-fast trading.
The SEC is trying to get a better handle on high-frequency trading and its impact on average investors.
It recently launched a new Office of Analytics and Research.
Housed within the SEC's Trading and Markets Division, the office is hiring math whizzes and subscribing to the same proprietary data feeds that high-frequency traders use themselves to examine trading patterns in orders and cancellations.
The SEC is still a ways from any new policies to address issues posed by high-speed trading, especially because the new research office still needs time to do its analysis.


text: I'm posting my list of all the plug-ins posted in the forums (as of today of course) which I've found helpful and hope others will, too. I kinda-sorta have it divided into groups; the first is all what is included in the bookmarking plug-in pack. Then "anti-spam", "social", "widgets", etc. Obviously some fit in more than one category, so it's worth digging through. STANDARD PLUG-IN PACK 1. Bookmarking http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthread.php?809-Bookmarking-0.5 This plugin is the base of a social bookmarking website, providing the "list" and "post" templates to display news summaries and individual news articles. You are able to set the default post type and also default filter for results to be shown on the list page, allowing you to extend beyond just bookmarking news items. 2. Categories http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthread.php?71-Categories-1.9 Add categories to posts, urls and a drop-down, horizontal menu. Uses the Bookmarking, Submit and Widgets plugins. 3. Category Manager http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthread.php?72-Category-Manager-1.0 Total solution for creating and editing categories. 4. Comment Manager http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthread.php?187-Comment-Manager-0.6 View, approve, edit and delete comments all from one place. 5. Comments http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthread.php?93-Comments-2.6 Enable your registered users to comment on each post. Supports avatars (e.g. Gravatar plugin), replies, unlimited nesting, editing, HTML tags (chosen by the Admin) and comment subscription. Note: You can't vote on comments yet, maybe in a later version or through a separate plugin. 6. Cron http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthread.php?581-Cron-0.4 This plugin emulates server side cron jobs by triggering HTTP requests when users view pages at selected intervals. 7. Gravatar http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthread.php?83-Gravatar-1.0 Enable user avatars with Gravatar, a "global" avatar which has become especially popular since Wordpress adopted it for their avatars. 8. jQuery Test http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthread.php?424-jQuery-Test-0.1 Tests to see if jQuery is included and working by displaying an animation in Admin ->jQuery Test and if DEBUG mode is enabled, an animation is also displayed in your theme's footer. 9. Post Manager http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthread.php?177-Post-Manager-1.0 View, sort, search, filter, edit and delete posts from Admin. 10. Posts Widget http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthread.php?75-Posts-Widget-1.6 Displays lists of posts in widgets: Top, New, Upcoming, Top 7 Days, Top 30 Days, Top 365 Days and All-Time Best. 11. reCaptcha http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthread.php?564-reCaptcha-0.6 The web's most popular anti-spam captcha system. By itself, it doesn't do anything, but other plugins can utilize it. 12. Search http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthread.php?97-Search-1.3 Give your users the ability to search your site. Site search is by relevancy* and RSS feeds of search results are by most recent. The search box is a widget. * For languages that don't use the roman alphabet, results are by most recent. 13. Stop Spam http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthread.php?231-Stop-Spam-0.4 This plugin the StopForumSpam.com blacklist (http://www.stopforumspam.com/) to keep spam users out of your site. 14. Submit http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthread.php?54-Submit-3.2 Post and view stories, automatically fetch the title, preview and modify your submission, edit posts, enable which components to show (e.g. description, author, date), filter posts to selected users and if the plugins are activated, tags and categories, too. Option to disable the submit form without disabling the plugin. Includes submission moderation options with email notification for moderators. Recent additions include post archiving and editorials, i.e. posts without a link. 15. Tags http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthread.php?76-Tags-1.8 With this plugin you can add tags, see them on posts, filter posts by tag, and view an RSS feed for each tag. 16. User Manager http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthread.php?178-User-Manager-1.4 The main page enables you to view, sort, search, filter, edit and delete users. Two additional pages let you edit the default user permissions and settings for new users or existing usergroups. 17. User Signin http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthread.php?334-User-Signin-0.7 Provides user login and registration. Includes anti-spam features such as ReCaptcha and email validation. 18. Users http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthread.php?77-Users-2.2 Provides user account, profile, settings, permission pages, and other user features. For registration and login, you will need the User Signin plugin. 19. Vote http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthread.php?78-Vote-2.3 Let users vote for posts. 20. Widgets http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthread.php?74-Widgets-1.0 Give your site widget functionality. Reorder widgets and enable multiple widget blocks. ANTI-SPAM / USER CONTROL 21. TOS AntiSpam http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthread.php?471-TOS-AntiSpam-0.4 This plugin adds a checkbox to the registration form with the text "I agree to the Terms of Service". It also adds a customizable anti-spam question with a drop-down list of answers to choose from. Alternatively, you can have users type in the answer. These options can be added to Submit step 2 and limited to a user's first X posts. 22. Akismet http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthread.php?188-Akismet-0.4 Akismet is an anti-spam service that automatically sends spam comments into the moderation queue. It works for both comments and posts and trains the Akismet server by sending back false-positives. 23. Walled Garden http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthread.php?630-Walled-Garden-0.1 A simple plugin to prevent non-registered users accessing your site. If they try to, they are redirected to the login page. They can, of course, access the registration page. 24. High Walls http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthread.php?631-High-Walls-0.2 High Walls prevents access to your website. Unlike the Walled Garden plugin, High Walls does NOT allow open registration. The only way to to add users is through Admin -> Plugin Settings -> User Manager -> Add New User. Attempting to access the site will redirect you to a custom login page. 25. Ego Squasher http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthread.php?619-Ego-Squasher-0.2 A simple plugin to prevent users from submitting back-to-back posts from the same domain, unless their last one made the front page. This plugin was inspired by bloggers selfishly submitting all their own posts to my site, regardless of whether they were any good or not. On Submit step 1, the message "Sorry, your last post was from that domain, too." is displayed and the user can't proceed to step 2. You can change the message by copying the language file to your own /languages folder in your theme and editing it there. 26. Comment First http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthread.php?627-Comment-First-0.1 A simple plugin to prevent post submission unless you have an approved comment first. SOCIAL 27. Tweet This http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthread.php?271-Tweet-This-0.5 This plugin adds a "Tweet This!" link below a post description, which when clicked, redirects you to your Twitter page with your status prefilled in with the post title and shortened url, pointing back to the post on your Hotaru site. Admins can choose from three different url shortening services: is.gd (default), TinyUrl, and bit.ly (requires login and API key). 28. Twitter Widget http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthread.php?465-Twitter-Widget-0.3 Twitter Widget is a sidebar widget that shows your sites Twitter follower count and friends (people you follow) tweets 29. Invite Friends http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthread.php?1276-Invite-Friends This plug-in allows the users to invite their friends to the website.This plug-in is a integration of open inviter. 30. Facebook Share http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthread.php?391-Facebook-Share-0.3 This plugin adds a Facebook Share button in the extra field of each post. 31. StumbleUpon http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthread.php?756-StumbleUpon-0.2 Submit and stumble posts to StumbleUpon 32. Follow http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthread.php?729-Follow-0.5 Basic Follower/Following plugin works with core $h class for Friends 33. Facebook Open Graph http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthread.php?850-Facebook-Open-Graph-0.5 This plugin enables Facebook Open Graph integration with hotaru. Currently the plugin allows for users to like posts and write comments via facebook on bookmarking post pages. 34. Buzz This (share post on Google Buzz) http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthread.php?436-Buzz-This-0.3 This plugin adds a "Buzz This!" link below a post description, which when clicked, redirects you to your Google Reader account with the post's title & body in the body of the Buzz. 35. RPX http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthread.php?262-RPX-0.6 This plugin allows your users to register and login via third party providers such as Twitter, Facebook, Google and Yahoo. COMMENT EXTENSIONS 36. Disqus http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthread.php?87-Disqus-0.8 A very basic plugin to enable comments with Disqus. It doesn't support importing comments and there's no integration between Hotaru users and Disqus users. 37. Intense Debate http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthread.php?1290-Intense-Debate-0.1 A very basic plugin to enable comments with Intense Debate. It doesn't support importing comments and there's no integration between Hotaru users and Intense Debate users. 38. Comment Voting http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthread.php?388-Comment-Voting-0.2 Let users vote on comments. Both up and down votes are displayed together. This is the first version of the plugin, so it's not yet possible to bury comments with the thumbs down button. That feature will come soon, though. POST CANDY Post Images http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthread.php?559-Post-Images-1.1 Add thumb images to your posts. Retrieves a choice of thumbnails from a given URL. 39. Post Views http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthread.php?847-Post-Views-0.2 Counts the number of times a post has been viewed and stores that counter in the db posts table. Allows you to show the number of views in the extras field area along with comment counts, tags and share buttons. 40. Smilies http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthread.php?170-Smilies-0.3 Converts text for smiley faces into images 41. Who Voted http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthread.php?814-Who-Voted-0.2 Display who voted on post pages. 42. Image Upload http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthread.php?994-Image-Upload-0.2 This plugin enables the post submitter to upload an image from his or her computer to attach to the post. 43. Add This http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthread.php?412-Add-This-0.2 This plugin adds an Add This button in the extra field of each post. Note: In order to show the buttons inline, each <li> in show_post_extra_fields will have float:left added to them. Should this mess up your theme, you may remove it from the css file. 44. More From http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthread.php?1138-More-From-0.1 This plugin will install a link under the post title to search your site for more posts from that post's root domain. Similar to Digg.com Domain Results http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthread.php?1329-Domain-Results-0.1 Alternative to "More From". Uses a different method of retrieving results from a given domain, and enables filters to browse them. 45. Video Inc http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthread.php?286-Video-Inc-0.3 If a submitted url contains a direct link to a video, this plugin will create a thumbnail image for the list pages and embed the video in the post description on post pages. If the Thickbox plugin is active, clicking the thumbnail will launch the video in a screen overlay. WIDGETS 46. Text Widget http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthread.php?163-Text-Widget-0.6 Add multiple custom widgets to your sidebar. Paste text, HTML, PHP, etc into each widget and use the Widgets plugin to position it in your sidebar or other widget block. 47. Tag Cloud http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthread.php?333-Tag-Cloud-0.3 With this plugin you can view a tag cloud and put a tag cloud widget in your sidebar. 48. Who's Online http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthread.php?359-Who-s-Online-0.2 With this plugin you can view the number of members and guests online and show the names and avatars of online members in a widget. 49. Post Views Widget http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthread.php?1107-Post-Views-Widget-0.1 Displays a list of most viewed posts in a widget. 50. Categories Widget http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthread.php?330-Categories-Widget-0.1 A widget that shows a list of categories. 51. Recent Visitors http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthread.php?352-Recent-Visitors-0.5 A widget that shows the most recent site members to have logged in. Includes a settings page that lets you edit the number of users, whether to display them as a list or inline, whether to use avatars, the avatar size, and user name. All user names and avatars link to user profiles, and the widget HTML is cached until the users table is next updated. 52. Comments Widget http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthread.php?329-Comments-Widget-0.4 Displays latest comments in a widget block. 53. User Rankings http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthread.php?518-User-Rankings-0.2 A Widget and Page that ranks users by activity over the last X days. Comes with a settings page so you can customize the number of points to award for each post, comment or vote, and a cache duration to set how often points are updated. 54. Activity http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthread.php?227-Activity-1.1 The Activity plugin adds an "activity" page and RSS feed which shows all activity from your site (posts, comments and votes). It also adds a user activity feed (and RSS) to the user profile. Lastly, it includes a widget. 55. Journal Widget http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthread.php?857-Journal-Widget-0.3 Displays a list of recent journal entries in a widget.


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As part of Tereora College's mission of developing excellence in citizenship: "Tangata Tiratira Tu", school staff and students were involved in serving the Cook Islands community on Friday last week.
Principal Tania Morgan said the day was students' incentive to invest in the local community and the people who live in it.
"The purpose of this particular day is to give back to our wider community by serving and making a difference," Morgan said.


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As Baby Fix-It has just crossed the 18 month marker, I am struck with a sense of falling behind. It's imaginary, and pointless, and serves little purpose. But I still feel behind. I thought I'd be pregnant by now. I thought we would be further along in so many ways.
For so long, we are all on the same track. You go through school, you advance at a steady pace, you move forward. Then you finish college and everything goes haywire. At least that's how I felt. Get a job, continue with more schooling, find onself while backpacking in Europe, plan a wedding, stay single, move to a new city. Or do none of the above. As friends started to choose a path, I started to evaluate my worth. "She's already engaged?" Crap. "He's a VP?" Seriously.
And yet, when I step back, I can't argue that I have failed to achieve anything I've wanted for myself. But a voice inside keeps saying that I'm falling behind.
They say that people are more preoccupied with themselves than they are with you. That might be true. But when I see a mom with a 3 year old at the playground I wonder if she has a baby at home. Or if she's pregnant. Or if she hopes to be pregnant. Or if she only wants one child. So, while I try to figure out everyone else, I assume people are asking themselves the same things about me. Then I ask myself the million dollar question, "Why do I care?" I could talk about social approval, or fitting in, but really it's about the track. We are not on a track anymore. We are not graduating to the next grade. An A on the English paper doesn't exist. Some of us will get married late in our 30s. Some of us will only have one child. Some of us will have 5 babies. Some of us will be career driven, and others will stay at home. Some of us will go back for a doctorate degree once our children are school age. Some of us will switch our paths over and over.
While I field the sense of falling behind and try to answer, "So when are you having another baby?", I try to ignore the sting. I've mastered the kindly polite, "I'm ready whenever it happens" while saying a silent prayer: please let it happen. I know people aren't trying to be rude. Or judgmental. They're genuinely curious. I suffer from the same affliction. I'm saying I get it.
That sense of falling behind is a tough one though. I'm slowly learning to accept that my track is now my own. It's not perfect, or timed as I'd like. There are bends in the road where I can't see what's coming next. Enjoy when the path is clear and easy. Have hope when all you can do is move forward.


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Read a record of the questions asked of I Ching, read the response, and read the comments of others
On July 3, 2020 at 5:51 AM
How can I transform my body?
and received a response of:
32 Constancy
The Statement of the first hexagram
Constancy is to continue
without fault.
Gain through purity.
Gain by having a place to go.
The changing lines
The second line:
Regrets vanish.
The fifth line:
Constant in virtue.
Like a woman: fortune.
Like a man: misfortune.
31 Feeling
The Statement of the second hexagram
Feeling. Pervasive
with gainful purity.
Taking a spouse brings fortune.
The Image of the first hexagram
Thunder and wind:
The noble one stands
without changing direction.
The Image of the second hexagram
Lake on a mountain:
The noble one
accepts people openly.


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Birmingham Fellowship in Discrete Mathematics (permanent academic position)
The University of Birmingham is currently advertising a faculty position in Discrete Mathematics.
This position is within the Birmingham fellowship scheme. Birmingham fellowships are prestigious permanent faculty positions, with a probationary period of three years. The positions are made especially attractive by the fact that the first 5 years come with (additional) protected time for high-quality research: there will be a significantly reduced teaching load for the first five years with almost no teaching in the first year, gradually going up to the full load. At the end of the five years the fellowship is transferred to a position at the appropriate level (Senior Lecturer/Reader), which would be equivalent to an Associate Professorship within the US system.
Discrete Mathematics is one of the priority areas for the current call.
Applicants would be expected to have at least a year's postdoc or so, but they could also be more senior.
The deadline for applications is 23 November 2013. The starting date is flexible – sometime in 2014.
Information about the fellowship call can be found here:
Information about the Birmingham Combinatorics group (currently comprising of six permanent members of staff) can be found here:
Informal enquiries about applications are very welcome and can be made to:
Daniela Kuhn (firstname.lastname@example.com) and Deryk Osthus (firstname.lastname@example.com).


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Larrabee reports to Lauro Rizzatti, general manager of EVE-USA, and will be responsible for driving EVE's presence at universities worldwide.
"Sandra has a long list of impressive accomplishments that makes her perfectly suited to run EVE's university program and help us to play a key role in training the next-generation engineer," remarks Rizzatti. "Her strong people skills and abilities to build a cohesive team are impressive and the reason why she's known throughout academia as 'The Ambassador.'"
Larrabee has more than 20 years of experience implementing and managing partner programs, including a worldwide university program for Synplicity Inc. (now Synopsys Inc.) that grew from two to more than 450 domestic and international universities. She worked for 10 years at Synplicity in a variety of marketing and distribution roles, in addition to managing the university program. At Marshall Industries and Western Micro Technology, she worked as corporate product manager. Earlier in her career, Larrabee was a product manager at Wyle Laboratories Electronics Marketing Group. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minn.
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Each picture holds a story behind it, even the most insignificant one. I took this six months ago, at an exhibition. There was something spectular in the way those fatboy were hanging from the ceiling. It just caught my eye. That's the story behind this photograph.
Sometimes, the pictures we take can endorse a heavy meaning, especially when you fall on these accidentally after years hidden spent in a closet. My grandfather passed away two years ago, and I didn't feel anything at that time because we didn't see each other quite often when he was alive. We lived in different continents, and he took his distance with our family for the last 4 years of his existence. My mom and my aunts didn't appreciate his new companion, who was way too young for him. When we learned he died, it was a shock for our family, but no one cried. His funeral was quite odd. People didn't react at all during it.
Then, last year, my parents discovered old pictures of us, including my grandpa. There was a photograph of just me and him. I was probably 4 year-old on it. It was weird to look at it again, after so many years. I also realized that I miss him.
When I told this to my friends, one of them realized she was in the same situation with her grandpa but also the rest of her family. Since then, she has managed to reconnect with them, and spent more time with them.
The stories behind pictures can bring back sad memories. This is why some people choose to destroy these. Especially photographs of their ex's.
So, what do you do with your old pictures?


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Test Kitchen tips: Heavy-bottomed pots and pans
Oftentimes, you'll see a recipe call for a "heavy-bottomed" pot or pan. So what does this mean? And why is it important?
Heavy-bottomed pots and pans are thicker at the base, meaning they tend to absorb and distribute heat from a stovetop burner more evenly than a thin pot or pan. Thin pots and pans are more prone to "hot spots" -- areas that heat more quickly than others; hot spots, if not watched carefully, can cause your food to burn. A heavy-bottomed pot or pan will heat and cook your ingredients more evenly.
While I like to use heavy-bottomed pots and pans whenever I can, there are some applications where a good, sturdy pan is all but essential, such as when cooking sugar, heating dairy or cooking delicate sauces or custards. In general, it's a good idea to use a thick, heavy-bottomed piece of equipment when cooking or heating any items that can burn or break easily.
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We recently completed our 25th Annual Retail Theft Survey and the results reflect a much greater problem than many people realize. These thieves (shoplifters and dishonest employees) are stealing profits from retailers thus resulting in higher retail prices for consumers, and even putting some stores out of business. This year's survey reports on 23 major retail companies, representing 18,900 stores, with retail sales of almost $600 billion (2012). The survey participants were all large retail companies (Department Stores, Mass Merchants, Big Box) who practice true loss prevention strategies, yet they still apprehended over 1.1 million shoplifters and dishonest employees in 2012, and recovered more than $189 million from those apprehensions.
Highlights from this highly anticipated annual theft survey include:
Participants: 23 large retail companies with 18,900 stores and over $596 billion in retail sales (2012).
Apprehensions: 1,145,688 shoplifters and dishonest employees were apprehended in 2012, up 7.3% from 2011.
Recovery Dollars: Over $189 million was recovered from apprehended shoplifters and dishonest employees in 2012, up 18.1% from 2011.
Apprehensions: Survey participants apprehended 1,074,593 shoplifters in 2012, an increase of 7.4% from the prior year.
Recovery Dollars: Dollars recovered from shoplifting apprehensions totaled over $138 million in 2012, a substantial 22.7% increase from 2011. This was the 10th increase in shoplifting recovery dollars in the past 11 years.
For the 16th consecutive year, dollars recovered from shoplifters where no apprehension was made (over $46 million) increased. In 2012, this increase was a substantial 25.2%.
Case Value: The average shoplifting case value in 2012 was $129.12, which was an increase of 14.2% from 2011's average case value.
Dishonest Employees
Apprehensions: 71,095 dishonest employees were apprehended in 2012, up 5.5% from 2011.
Recovery Dollars: Over $50 million was recovered from employee apprehensions in 2012, up 7.0% from 2011.
One out of every 40 employees was apprehended for theft from their employer in 2012. (Based on over 2.8 million employees.)
Case Value: The average dishonest employee case value in 2012 was $715.24, which was an increase of 1.4% from 2011's average case value.
On a per case average, dishonest employees steal approximately 5.5 times the amount stolen by shoplifters ($715.24 vs $129.12).
We asked our survey participants what they thought was the cause(s) behind the continued increase in shoplifting apprehensions and recovery dollars in 2012 and they contributed the following to increased shoplifting activity:
- Organized Retail Crime (ORC) activity is growing and getting more complex
- Economic conditions are not getting better
- Reduced staff/payroll restrictions (less associates on sales floor)
- Increased LP/AP staff productivity
- Overburdened Criminal Justice System
- Stronger awareness among store personnel
- Higher demand for store goods and store credit
We also asked are survey participants what they thought was the cause(s) behind the continued increase in employee theft apprehensions and recovery dollars in 2012, and they contributed the following to increased employee theft activity:
- Economic conditions are not getting better
- Additional resources with more focus and priority towards DEs
- Better process controls and exception reporting capabilities
- Increased abuse of Loyalty Programs
- Enhance detection strategies
- More PT employees and less store supervision
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Provide good customer service: Shoplifters want and need privacy; so take it away from them. When they respond "I'm just looking", teach employees to say "Ok great, I'll keep my eye on you in case you need any assistance". Honest customers are ok with this (you are there if they need help), and this is the last thing a shoplifter wants to hear.
Have employees walk the sales floor: Keep visible, and keep displays neat and organized (so missing items can be more easily noticed).
Have good sight lines on the sales floor: Do not block the view of high value and highly popular items, and keep these items near employee work areas.
Limit Items on sales floor: Limit the number of certain items (high value, highly pilferable) placed on the sales floor. This will reduce vulnerability to large losses of these items and make it easier to identify missing items.
Use technology: Such as EAS (electronic article surveillance), merchandise alarms, CCTV, ink/dye tags, product tie-downs, and bulky packaging. Also ensure policies/procedures regarding technology are adhered to.
Know your merchandise: Especially highly popular items, high value items, what's stolen most often and what's easily stolen. Study why items are taken, evaluate their locations and packaging – then make changes.
Effective Pre-Employment Screening Process: The first step to controlling employee theft starts at the point-of-hire; do not hire the "bad apple". A thorough pre-employment screening process including, reference checks, "honesty testing", SSN trace/verification, criminal background checks, and drug testing is most important. Money spent up-front in the screening process to identify 'quality' employees will result in savings from reduced turnover and losses.
POS Exception Monitoring: Use a POS exception based monitoring program to quickly identify possible fraudulent transactions at the point of sale (ie. excessive refunds or voids; refunds or voids before or after store hours; .etc.).
Auditing for Compliance: Ensure consistent compliance to company policies and procedures by conducting loss prevention/shrink audits on a regular basis. By reducing the opportunity, you reduce the chance of theft/loss.
Training & Awareness: Invest in loss prevention training and awareness programs for all employees, and a reward program for employees who report dishonest activities.
"Back to Basics": Ensure "LP basics" are in place and adhered to at all times:
– Door controls (OH doors locked and Exit doors alarmed)
– Trash controls (Monitored, supervised and dumpster locked)
– Package/bag checks (conduct whenever an employee exits the location)
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I am with them for five days of the week. I work with them. I laugh with them. I share with them. I learn with them. I get to know them. I get to teach them.
For five days a week, I am with a group of children whose ages range from 5 to 7. I enjoy their individual personalities as they learn to work independently in a classroom situation. My days are busy and filled with movement. I see children learn to read, write independently, gain self confidence, and thrive in the learning environment that I have created.
The five days a week that I am with the children in my class can be tiring, stressful at times, satisfying … and fun. I walk to work with a bounce in my step and unlock the classroom door with pleasure. I am thankful everyday that my path has led me to to a place which not only allows me to help others, but also gives me much fulfilment.
How do you spend five days of the week?
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I used to make baked Alaska quite often in sheet cake form, but I thought this time it would be more fun if I made this sumptuous ice cream cake in the shape of a couch. It turned out to be even more fun than I imagined.
Why not a couch? After all, it's a place to relax, unwind and maybe watch some TV. There's nothing wrong with having some couch potato time after a long day at the office.
This ice cream couch cake was made from one 9-inch by 13-inch sheet cake. The recipe is exactly the same as my earlier baked Alaska; the only difference was that instead of baking the cake in two round pans, I baked it in a sheet pan. I also used the same strawberry vanilla ice cream recipe, but any flavor ice cream would work. Store bought would be fine too.
I was kind of amused by how it turned out so I just had to make another one.
This baked Alaska ice cream couch cake is slightly larger than the first since I was more generous with the ice cream. The first couch cake was about 10 inches tall while this one was slightly more than 11 inches. Ok, this one looks more like an overstuffed armchair but I'll call it a couch anyway.
Home magazine's special edition features baked Alaska couches and the latest in lamps for the home. It also features a variety of machine washable slipcovers, pet care tips and so much more.
Seriously though, this ice cream couch cake is pretty simple to make.
And better still, it's a really delicious couch cake.
The lightness of the toasted meringue mixed with the chocolate cake, strawberry and vanilla ice cream is simply scrumptious.
Who knew couches could be so delicious?
Bake one 9 x 13-inch cake, any flavor. Split it in half so you get two layers. Place one layer back in the pan or dish that you baked it in (cleaned of course). Line the pan first with waxed paper or foil.
Spread a layer of softened ice cream, any flavor, on the bottom cake layer. Freeze for a few minutes, then spread another flavor of ice cream, if you want. I used strawberry and vanilla ice cream. Freeze the ice cream cake until solid, preferably overnight. Then slice the cake into blocks.
You'll have six ice cream cake blocks to assemble the couch. Some ice cream is needed to glue the blocks together. I found that if I freeze the ice cream in a rectangular dish then slice it into the shape of the block, it was much more efficient in gluing the pieces rather than spreading softened ice cream. Freeze the cake as each piece is added so that the parts are frozen together. Working with ice cream can be a slippery slope. Once the cake is assembled, freeze it again at least overnight so all the parts are fused together. One thing I didn't do, which I probably should have done, was drive a thin wooden skewer through the top of the couch all the way down to the cake board to secure the back of the couch. So if you decide to make an ice cream couch cake, play it safe unless you're a daredevil like I am. If you decide to omit the skewer, just make sure all the pieces are stacked perfectly straight.
Cover the couch cake in a thick layer of meringue. As for caramelizing the meringue, I've always browned baked Alaska cakes in a very hot oven, but for this couch cake, don't even bother. I tried it with the first cake and since it's quite tall, the only part that browned was the topmost part of the back while the rest of the couch was still pale. I had to finish it off with a barbecue lighter which turned out ok. So use a cheap barbecue lighter right from the start.
It's a generous cake that will yield many delicious servings.
Enjoy some delicious Baked Alascouch!
- 1 ¾ cups all-purpose flour (237 g)
- ¾ cup unsweetened cocoa powder (70 g)
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking soda (9 g)
- ¾ teaspoon baking powder (4 g)
- ½ teaspoon salt (3 g)
- 2 ounces unsweetened chocolate (56 g)
- ¾ cup milk (187 g) simmered
- 1 ½ teaspoons instant coffee (2 g) dissolved in ½ cup boiling water (120 g)
- 2 large eggs
- ¾ cup regular mayonnaise (170 g)
- 1 ½ cups granulated sugar (315 g)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 recipe strawberry vanilla ice cream (or make whatever flavor you prefer, or use store bought)
- 8 large egg whites (288 g)
- 1 teaspoon cream of tartar
- 2 cups granulated sugar (398 g)
- ¾ cup water (177 g)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Spray a 9-inch x 13-inch baking pan or dish with non-stick cooking spray. Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Whisk then sift together the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
- Place the unsweetened chocolate in a bowl. Heat the milk in a small saucepan just until simmering. Dissolve the instant coffee in boiling water. Pour the hot milk and coffee on the unsweetened chocolate. Whisk until chocolate is completely melted. Set aside to cool.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer, beat the eggs then add the mayonnaise beating until fully blended. Add the sugar beating until well incorporated, then add the vanilla extract.
- Add the sifted dry ingredients alternating with the chocolate coffee liquid in 3 – 4 additions beating until smooth and well blended.
- Pour the batter into the cake pan and bake for 30 – 35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Remove the pan from the oven. Let the cake cool before turning out. Wrap the cake in plastic wrap and freeze until ready to use.
- Divide the cake horizontally so you have two layers. Line the cleaned baking pan with foil or waxed paper. Place one layer in the baking pan or dish. Spread a layer of softened strawberry ice cream evenly. Freeze for a few minutes for about 15 minutes then spread a layer of vanilla ice cream on top. Top it with the second cake layer. Freeze the ice cream cake until solid preferably overnight. Leave about 1½ cups of ice cream for assembly.
- Slice the ice cream cake into blocks. Starting from the short end, slice two blocks around 4 inches, two blocks around 1.8 inches and one block about 1.25 inches.
- TIP: You can either spread softened ice cream to glue the blocks together or freeze the ice cream first in a rectangular dish, then slice it to fit the shape of the block you are gluing. I found the latter to be a better method where I used rectangular shapes of frozen ice cream in between each block.
- Place one 4-inch block on a cake board or plate. Spread ice cream then stack the second 4-inch block to make the couch seat. Freeze to solidify the ice cream in between the layers.
- Slice the 1.25-inch cake block in half to make the couch arms. Place the arms on either side of the couch seat with a small amount of ice cream underneath to glue the arms. Freeze to solidify the ice cream.
- Trim one 1.8 -inch cake block to fit in between the arms of the couch. Spread a small amount of ice cream underneath to glue it to the couch seat. Freeze again until the ice cream is firm.
- Finally, place the last piece, the second 1.8-inch block on top of the lower back part spreading a small amount of ice cream underneath to glue it to the lower back. Freeze until solid. When firm, to keep the back of the couch secure, drive a thin wooden skewer through the center all the way down to the cake board. I didn't support my couch cake with anything, but that was a risky thing to do which I wouldn't recommend. If you decide to skip the skewer, just make sure all the blocks are stacked perfectly straight.
- Make the Italian meringue: In a stand mixer bowl that has been washed in hot sudsy water, whip the egg whites until frothy then add the cream of tartar. Slow down the mixer speed while making the sugar syrup.
- To make the sugar syrup, place the granulated sugar and water in a small sauce pan. Swirl to dampen the sugar. Turn heat to medium high and let the sugar mixture boil until it reaches 240°F, the sugar has dissolved, the syrup is clear and bubbly. Remove from heat. Turn the mixer to medium. Pour the hot syrup into the egg whites in a very thin and steady stream aiming towards the edge where the meringue meets the bowl and avoiding the wire whip. Turn the speed up to medium high and whip the egg whites until the bowl is cool to the touch and the meringue is thick and glossy with firm peaks. Whip in the vanilla extract towards the end.
- Remove the ice cream couch cake from the freezer. Apply the meringue evenly all over the couch cake.
- Use an inexpensive barbecue lighter, or blow torch if you have one, to caramelize the meringue. (I tried browning the meringue in a hot oven with my first couch cake, but the only part that got toasted was the top edge of the back.)
- Serve the couch cake immediately, or freeze it again. Take it out from the freezer about 15 – 30 minutes before serving if you live in a fairly cool climate, less in a hot climate.
Baked Alaska Ice Cream Couch Cake


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Sketching Out with an End of the World Sketch
Remember when someone said this to you and it was only a figure of speech? Let's hope tomorrow's events turn out the way we're hoping they will and the above remains as a figure of speech. In case the world does end tomorrow, I'm posting this today. In case it's my last, I just want to thank ya'll for reading. If we live to see December 22nd, then ignore what I've just said.


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The historical port city of Alicante is a Mediterranean metropolis offering a wonderful balance of colourful nightlife, fascinating history and glorious views over the stunning Costa Blanca coastline. However, this charming Spanish location is far more than merely an easy access point to the Costas – an evening out chancing your luck in the casino can give you the glamour and thrill that comes with the bravado of trying to make a small fortune.
Alternatively, if the thought of an action-packed evening out at one of Alicante's top casinos isn't your idea of respite, then you can always bring this fun experience to your hotel room by playing online at sites like Roulette17.
If you do decide to venture out, then be sure to check out the casinos below – they are two of Alicante's finest.
Casino Mediterraneo Alicante
When it comes to the perfect spot in Alicante, the sublime location of Casino Mediterraneo Alicante takes some beating. Cased against the city's marina and beneath the grandiose stare of Santa Barbara Castle, this casino is a popular arena for tourists and locals alike.
Since it first opened its doors in 2009, the casino has built an enviable reputation with its vast array of competitions and sizeable cash pots – its most significant being the Casino Mediterraneo Alicante Poker League and Juegging Poker Series.
If playing your hand at poker doesn't give you goosebumps, there are still a wealth of options within the gaming area – namely a selection of video slots, video poker machines, electronic bingo, electronic roulette and live tables for roulette and blackjack. There is also a sports booth positioned within the establishment's floor area of more than 37,674sq/ft, enabling bettors to have a flutter at the sports betting stations.
The casino's generous space means it also features a convention centre, ideal for hosting business meetings, private events and celebrations. There is also a cultural taste to proceedings with the "Art Al Casino" area which has held various art and poetry exhibitions (including one for painter Juan Manuel Amerigo who was born and bred in the city).
Both restaurants can also be found in this specific part of Casino Mediterraneo Alicante. Las ventanas del Casino also known as the Buffet Restaurant does exactly that – serving hot and cold food quickly and efficient. If it is mouth-watering plates and a' la carte menus your appetite craves. then head over to the Azar restaurant.
Open daily from 4:00pm till late, the Casino Mediterraneo Alicante boasts excellent service and fantastic facilities – what's not to love?
Casino Mediterraneo Orihuela-Costa
Casino Mediterraneo Orihuela-Costa can be found at Zenia Boulevard – the largest shopping complex in the province of Alicante. Structured in the shape of a prism, it offers a superb range of poker tournaments and slot machines within its electrifying interior. Football lovers will especially love the room specifically devoted to sports wagers with its exaggerated themed surroundings of the 'beautiful game'.
Inaugurated just over five years ago, it has given the area a new leisure option. Like the Mediterraneo Alicante, there is also an area reserved for art which regularly holds exhibitions.
The casino's considerable, modern space means it is able to offer an abundance of rest areas, amongst them the Juegging Area which consists of betting booths, pay points and TV screens where you can follow the action whilst tucking into a snack or cup of coffee from the café area.
A place of elegance and sophistication, this establishment certainly hits the jackpot when it comes to presentation – why not go and see it for yourself?


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We've been waiting for Jon to take down Fox's increasingly despicable rhetoric (including this morning questioning of we can really call a big black guy an "unarmed teen")? It was worth the wait.
"I guarantee you that every person of color in this country has faced an indignity, from the ridiculous, to the grotesque, to the sometimes fatal, at some point in their … I'm gonna say last couple of hours, because of their skin color," he said, before making his final, sobering statement: "Race is there and it is a constant. You're tired of hearing about it? Imagine how fucking exhausting it is living it."


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Study of socio-demographic determinants of esophageal cancer at a tertiary care teaching hospital of Western Maharashtra, India
Purushottam A Giri1, Kailash K Singh2, Deepak B Phalke1
1 Department of Community Medicine (PSM), Rural Medical College and Pravara Rural Hospital, Loni, Dist. Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, India2 Department of Radiotherapy and Oncology, Rural Medical College and Pravara Rural Hospital, Loni, Dist. Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, India
Correspondence Address:Purushottam A GiriDepartment of Community Medicine (PSM), Rural Medical College and Pravara Rural Hospital, Loni, Dist. Ahmednagar, Maharashtra IndiaSource of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: NoneCheck1DOI: 10.4103/2278-330X.126526
Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
Background: Esophageal cancer has a peculiar geographical distribution and shows marked differences in incidence within a particular geographical region. Presently, as there seems little prospect of early detection of this cancer, an understanding of the etiological factors may suggest opportunities for its primary prevention. Objectives: The present study was carried out to find out the socio-demographic determinants of esophageal cancer in a tertiary care teaching hospital of western Maharashtra, India. Materials and Methods: A retrospective hospital record-based study was carried out for the period of five years (2007-2011) in the department of Radiotherapy of Pravara Rural Hospital, Loni, western Maharashtra, India. A total of 5879 patients were diagnosed with cancer, of them, 207 (3.52%) patients had esophageal cancer. Data was collected on the basis of the patients' record in the hospital and analyzed in the form of percentage and proportions whenever appropriate. Results: Out of total 5879 patients who were diagnosed with cancer during the five studied years, 207 (3.52%) patients had esophageal cancer, of which 121 (58.46%) were males and 86 (41.54%) were females, which show predominance of males over females. Most of the patients (28.50%) belonged to lower class, while only 9.66% were from upper class. Majority of the patients (54.14%) had a history of tobacco chewing, followed by smoking (cigarette, bidi, or both) in 36.94% and alcohol in 21.65%. Conclusion: The present study shows that esophageal cancer constitutes 3.52% of cancer cases. There is a need to screen the high-risk group of people, improve socio-economic status, and efforts must be made to introduce a set of preventive measures that have the potential to significantly reduce the burden of disease and to help bridge the gap between research and public awareness.
Keywords: Esophageal cancer, rural area, socio-demographic determinants, tertiary care teaching hospital


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Kurt Busch, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. have lessons to learn after mistakes at Daytona
Kurt Busch has not won a Sprint Cup points race at a restrictor-plate track, but he came oh so close Sunday at Daytona International Speedway.
He has won in IROC and Nationwide and even a non-points Cup event at Daytona. But not the Daytona 500 nor the Coke Zero 400.
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The 2004 Cup champion says he still has something to learn on restrictor-plate tracks after his third-place finish in the Coke Zero 400.
Busch led a race-high 36 laps Sunday but Aric Almirola was able to win a battle for the lead four laps before the rain came that eventually ended the race with 48 laps remaining in the scheduled 160-lap distance.
"I've got to go to the videotape," Busch said. "I've got to go back and study more. When I'm the leader, I have to advance my game.
"I have to be better at blocking and strategically managing the race as a leader. I've been really good at seconds and thirds, top-fives, just got to break through for that win, and I believe I need to do more work to get better at it."
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If the third-place finish left him a bit unfulfilled, Busch's Stewart-Haas Racing team also faces a possible penalty for a minor infraction.
NASCAR is looking into whether the team violated the rule that limits the separation of the track bar to three inches when measured from one end of the car to the other. The more separation, typically the more downforce.
When Kevin Harvick's car had the same issue following the qualifying races at Daytona in February, NASCAR disallowed his finish — much like disallowing a qualifying time. There were no further penalties.
NASCAR will determine Tuesday if there will be any penalties for Busch and his team.
Best move
Aric Almirola keeping the lead on what would be the final restart of the race. That was the key moment with rain coming. Almirola led 14 laps and was out front when the final caution, and eventually the red flag, was displayed.
Worst move
Ricky Stenhouse Jr., who spun in the middle of a big pack of traffic on Lap 20. Stenhouse got loose at the most inopportune time, igniting a crash that collected several cars. Afterward, he was criticized by friend Tony Stewart for being too aggressive too early in the race. Was the crash avoidable? Maybe, maybe not. But the results were far from good.
What we want to see again
What we didn't get to see because of the rain. Daytona International Speedway had an awesome prerace ceremony plan that included U.S. soldiers and U.S. flags and the drivers. We won't tell you more in case Daytona tries it again next year.
What we don't want to see again
The no-pushing rule in the Nationwide Series. It is too big of a judgment call for NASCAR to manage, especially if the perception of camera angles make fans think NASCAR is playing favorites. NASCAR must regulate tandem drafting with cooling systems and bumpers. It's credibility is important, and this undermines it.
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So to get to the point and put this in a nutshell, both one and two love/like me, im dating one, two dosnt know but jealous anyway, and im not fully on to this relation "ship" i.e not sure weather i like one as much as he thinks i do.
Such a player i know.
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Tufte article in Washington Monthly
The Washington Monthly magazine has a long article about graphics guru Edward Tufte. It mostly covers his work on presenting data, with a few snippets about his powerful friends (he has advised both the Bush and Obama administrations), and his current work on recovery.gov.
I still have no idea whether his name is pronounced "Tuft" or "Tufty" or "Tooft".
A clock utility, via console hackery
A discussion on StackOverflow today shows an interesting use of special characters inside the
cat function.
The most common special characters that you may have come across are the tab and newline characters, represented by
\t and
\n respectively. Try them for yourself.
cat also respects the backspace character,
\b, and the carriage return character,
\r, which means that you can delete things. Usually, this isn't very useful, but it allows us to overwrite text in the console.
cat("ab\bc") #\b removes the previous character cat("abc\rde") #\r removes everything to the start of the line
Here's a simple clock utility, adapted from Mark, Zach and DWin's code in the linked question, that uses this technique.
clock <- function(format = "%H:%M:%S", refresh = 1) { repeat { cat("\r", format(Sys.time(), format), sep = "") flush.console() Sys.sleep(refresh) } } clock() clock("%A %d %B %Y %I:%M:%OS3 %p", 1e-3)
Press escape to exit the clock utility. You can see a complete list of special characters over at asciitable.com.
clock function now with customisable formatting.
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Friday Function: nclass
When you draw a histogram, an important question is "how many bar should I draw?". This should inspire an indignant response. You didn't become a programmer to answer questions, did you? No. The whole point of programming is to let your computer do your thinking for you, giving you more time to watch videos of fluffy kittens.
Fortunately, R contains three functions to automate the answer, namely
nclass.scott and
nclass.FD. (FD is short for Freedman-Diaconis; watch out for the fact that
scott isn't capitalised.)
The differences depend upon length and spread of data. For longer vectors, Scott and Freedman-Diaconis tend to give bigger answers.
short_normal <- rnorm(1e2) nclass.Sturges(short_normal) #8 nclass.scott(short_normal) #8 nclass.FD(short_normal) #12
long_normal <- rnorm(1e5) nclass.Sturges(long_normal) #18 nclass.scott(long_normal) #111 nclass.FD(long_normal) #144
For strongly skewed data, you are best to use some sort of transformation before you draw a histogram, but for the record, Freedman-Diaconis again gives bigger answers for highly skewed (and thus wider) vectors.
short_lognormal <- rlnorm(1e2) nclass.Sturges(short_lognormal) #8 nclass.scott(short_lognormal) #9 nclass.FD(short_lognormal) #20
long_lognormal <- rlnorm(1e5) nclass.Sturges(long_lognormal) #18 nclass.scott(long_lognormal) #443 nclass.FD(long_lognormal) #1134
My feeling is that since each of the three algorithms is rather dumb, it is safest to calculate all three, then pick the middle one.
nclass.all <- function(x, fun = median) { fun(c( nclass.Sturges(x), nclass.scott(x), nclass.FD(x) )) } log_islands hist(log_islands, breaks = nclass.all(log_islands))
I also wrote a MATLAB implementation of this a couple of years ago.
It is worth noting that ggplot2 doesn't accept a number-of-bins argument to
geom_histogram, because
In practice, you will need to use multiple bin widths to
discover all the signal in the data, and having bins with
meaningful widths (rather than some arbitrary fraction of the
range of the data) is more interpretable.
That's fine if you are interactively exploring the data, but if you want a purely automated solution, then you need to make up a number of bins.
calc_bin_width <- function(x, ...) { rangex <- range(x, na.rm = TRUE) (rangex[2] - rangex[1]) / nclass.all(x, ...) } p <- ggplot(movies, aes(x = votes)) + geom_histogram(binwidth = calc_bin_width(log10(movies$votes))) + scale_x_log10() p


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Irony in R.A.K. Mason's Poetry
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The Road to Tyranny: Let Me Count the WaysWritten by Dave Hodges Subject: New World Order
Humanity is under attack from so many directions, it is difficult to count the ways.
We are under attack from the skies and through the poisoning of our air through massive chemical spraying complete with Alzheimer's and dementia causing aluminum sulfate and cancer causing barium. Fukashima radiation, Corexit spraying and the resulting toxic rain from the Gulf oil spill is running rampant over our country and not one ounce of mainstream media coverage is afforded to these dangers. Prevention and remediation from these dangers are not put into place by our present government.
Our water is being systematically removed from the country by Nestle, and our water tables are being systematically compromised by environmental toxins and of course many Americans are consuming water permeated with IQ-lowering rocket fuel (i.e., fluoride).
Our food is being poisoned through the rampant use of cancer-causing MSG products, and the unlabeled, unregulated and cancer-causing Monsanto GMO's.
Under the guise of fighting terrorism, Americans are now facing illegal detention, torture and murder. The Military Commissions Act and the John Warner Defense Authorization Act. The average citizen is now labeled as a terrorist by Homeland Security as their inspired documents, such as the MIAC Report, define domestic terrorism as the mere act of criticizing our governmental leaders, supporting Ron Paul, being a Libertarian, being a member of the Constitution Party, being a Second Amendment supporter and demanding that our leaders follow the Constitution. By virtue of the fact that you have visited this web site, you could now be considered to be a domestic terrorist.
Our national sovereignty and manufacturing base has been destroyed through NAFTA and CAFTA which has resulted in totally open borders culminating in the overwhelming of our infrastructure, hospital emergency rooms and our educational institutions by the human onslaught which will be soon be at unprecedented levels which promise to bring 150 million additional immigrants to our country by 2040.
Obama's administration has openly engaged in human smuggling as well as drug and gun trafficking to criminal cartels, in programs such as "Fast and Furious." Bush and Obama have illegally entered America into the sovereignty snatching SPP through the implementation of the North American Union.
Our property rights and water rights as well as our right to farm in traditional ways are being destroyed through the implementation of the pseudo-environmentalist, Agenda 21 programs at the local level. As a result, massive food shortages and outright famines are right around the corner.
America is being de-industrialized through the global warming scam and the accompanying illegal cap and trade schemes. Meanwhile, as the New York Times reports, Ugandan villages are being burned down and replaced with trees in the name of saving the planet through carbon offset programs. This insane application of carbon trading is now being enforced by American military boots on the ground in Uganda. Next year, you will see roving blackouts and the doubling of utility rates as Obama makes good on his campaign promise of "necessarily skyrocketing utility rates."
Americans will soon be subjected to the death panels of Obama care in which citizens over the age of 70 are officially referred to as "units" and are targeted for comfort care but not given life saving measures. This is an undeniable, unmitigated and naked version of Eugenics cast in the same flavor as that practiced by Margaret Sanger and Adolph Hitler.
In the meantime, our youth are under attack through mercury laden vaccines which also contains the immune system destroying properties of the flu vaccine adjuvants of MF 59, Squaylene and now we find that the active ingredient for Lyme disease is in the patent for the current flu vaccine. One in 58 boys are now autistic courtesy of the pollutants in the vaccines.
America is now witnessing the final stages of the installation of a police state surveillance grid through the creation and installation of video cameras and microphones in the Homeland Security funded Intellistreet light poles. The National Security Administration listens to our every call, their computers read every email and fax, courtesy of Echelon. Americans are being encouraged, by Big Sis, to spy on another as we purchase the Chinese slave labor products at Walmart.
Our homes are being stolen through the use of fraudulent robo signers and illegal repossessions without the mortgage note in order that the six mega banks can double and triple their illegitimate profits off each home they are able to steal and resell again and again.
This week, Americans have discovered that the Federal Reserve (i.e., Goldman Sachs) is giving our money away to their private banking interests, (aka) their subsidiary holdings, in Europe. Additionally, more of our money has been stolen with the complicit participation of ex-Goldman Sachs federal government overseers like Gary Gensler who has failed to deliver even one indictment of his ex-Goldman Sachs partner, John Corzine, and his MF Global theft ring resulting for the "loss" of $3 billion dollars in private accounts. John Corzine and his governmental partner in crime, Gary Gensler, have established the legal precedent of stealing from private American accounts. The net effect is that YOU have no retirement. YOU have no social security. YOU have no bank account. Soon, everything YOU own will all belong to the banksters!
Our "public servants" in Congress (e.g., Nancy Pelosi) self-admittedly, on 60 Minutes, routinely engage in stock market insider trading which they have made legal for themselves, but would send you to prison for doing the same.
Every day, the TSA conducts heinous acts against the American people, such as strip searching and injuring 85 year old ladies, grabbing the genitals of our children and wives and largely engaging in acts which, if performed by you, would land you in jail for five years. Your body and your self-respect belong to the globalists and their minions.
Even with all of these hideous events now hiding in plain sight, I have never called for a revolution against our increasingly illegitimate government, or, should I say against the banksters who have hijacked our Republic, until now. There are so many more heinous acts being committed against the American people that it is difficult to count all the ways that tyranny is being installed in America. Even Ray Charles could see the depth and scope of this all out war which has been declared on all of us.
Our Congress has an all-time low 9% approval rating and as a result, Congress has taken up sides with those who would exterminate most and enslave the remainder of us with the new indefinite detention bill, S. 1867.
Very soon, we will live in an America in which the government can declare peaceful dissent, public criticism, and the failure to comply to globalists' trickle down tyranny as an act of terror in which YOU are subject to secret arrest, torture and even murder. The dead spirits of Mao, Stalin and Hitler are coalescing in the hall of congress and you are their newest target! These congressional criminals have declared war on you and your families. Many of our countrymen have been given a death sentence, but are sadly oblivious to the new place in history that we all occupy. The finishing touches of the establishment of a tyrannical government are being put into play as I write these words.
Many of you, because of your political and moral advocacy, have a bull's eye on your back. As with all patterns of tyranny from Stalin to Hitler to Mao, the chess pieces have been laid into place for your final demise. The police state grid is in place as are the FEMA death camps. WWWIIII will soon be upon us. They will be coming for your guns under the coming martial law which will accompany the coming war. As with all tyrannical governments which confiscate guns, they will be coming for you following the disarming of the American people. Read your history! The playbook of the globalists is located in your former 10th grade World History books. This is the unmistakable pattern of tyranny!!!
While in the Soviet Gulag Alexsandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn and his fellow victims, lamented that they did not mount a resistance when the Secret Police came and dragged people out of their homes and sent them to Siberia. We will soon be faced with the same choice.
Our entire governmental leadership is a self-admitted criminal enterprise system as it lawless; it is devoid of empathy, compassion or has any remaining vestiges of the system of Constitutional fair play which was bequeathed to us by our Founding Fathers.
The 300 or so banksters who have hijacked our government are mentally ill. They are sociopathic serial killers. They (e.g., George Soros, Warren Buffet, David Rockefeller, etc.) destroy economies, ferment violent revolutions and start wars which kill millions. In short, they are the modern day version of the money changers that Jesus chased from the Temple.
To the police and the military that are going to be told to enforce this globalist, tyrannical takeover and subsequent subjugation of America, I ask all of you: Which side of history will you be on? Are you going to mindlessly obey the soon-to-be illegitimate orders emanating from these despots, or, are you going to uphold your sworn oath to protect and defend the Constitution from all enemies, both foreign and domestic? Do you really think that your military retirements and police pensions are going to be waiting for you when your tyrannical deeds are done? Again, Mr. Law enforcement official read your history. What did Hitler do with the very people who helped him gain control over the German government? The simple answer is that Hitler killed all of them without blinking an eye. If you, as a law enforcement official or member of the military obey these banksters and minions, you better hope that this globalist takeover is successful and complete. For if the real terrorists on this planet are not successful in gaining absolute control over America, there will be nowhere that you can hide if you commit despotic acts against our fellow Americans. The vengeance of the people of this country will be carried out against all of those who would dare raise an illegitimate hand against the American people in the servitude of these banksters which will begin with trials which will make the Nuremburg Trials look like a traffic court.
As a result of the passage of Senate bill 1867, Ninety three United States Senators have drawn a line in the sand which will result in the bifurcation of America into two distinct camps. There are those who will serve the satanic globalist regime and then there is everybody else. The fundamental question remains for all military and law enforcement personnel, what side are you on and what are the rest of us going to do about it?
"Tis Time to Part"
Thomas Paine
Dave Hodges is the host of The Common Sense which airs every Sunday evening, from 9-11pm Central, on over 50 stations nationwide and live on the internet at www.republicbroadcasting.org
8 Comments in Response to The Road to Tyranny: Let Me Count the Ways
In the past, multiple hundreds of years, the population of the world never reached the size that it is today. And it wasn't because the various peoples of the world weren't reproducing as fast as rabbits. Rather, it was because people died off almost as fast as rabbits populate. They died off from wars, famines, plagues, pestilence, and similar.
Lately, these negative factors have been reduced among the various peoples. The ground has become more fertile, so to speak. The rains have fallen more timely, and the sun has given its better blessing. So the populations have increased.
When you have a big, room with the floor full of dirt, and you want to clean the room, it's fairly easy to start cleaning. Why? Because there is dirt all over the place, and all you need do is jump in and start cleaning.
But when you get down to picking up that last little bit, after the room has been swept clean, it is very difficult to get every last speck of dirt.
We are dirt in the eyes of those who want to clean us off the earth. And because we are so populous, it will be easy for them at first, once they really get down to their cleaning task. So be afraid! And start to unite against them. And be shrewd, learning their infiltration tactics, so that you can keep them from disrupting your unity. And keep your eyes wide open all the time, watching and understanding everything that goes on around you. After all, they would have done it already if they could have. But it is much easier with such a populous world, for them to go anywhere and start to clean.
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Why no mention of Churchill or Roosevelt in that list of tyrants? Why always the same three names, Hitler probably shouldn't even be on that list considering he tried everything in his power to avoid war with the west. And the National Socialists did not exterminate six million Jews. That is the biggest damn lie of the 20th century and it is responsible for a lot of the worlds current problems. Like another commenter said, Hitler wasn't perfect but he certainly had more honor then the communist FDR and the tyrant Churchill.
Throughout the generations men and women have believed that they lived in the biblical end times. In the times spoke of in the gospels and in revelation.
With our knowledge, advancements and indifference if we are not there we are certainly staring it in the face. No matter what, this is not going to end well.
I am a member of Oath Keepers, if you know of anyone that is law enforcement, firemen, military. TELL THEM! About Oath Keepers! It is dedicated to keeping the oath of office, to defend the constitution.
God help us and our Republic in the days ahead.
Thank you for a concise summary of where the US and the rest of the world is heading. Only divine intervention can save us now as the rot has set in so far it is virtually unstoppable.. Regardless... keep spreading the word. well done ! NB One person who has been forever maligned by the Jewish controlled media is Adolf Hitler. Not a perfect human being for sure but not the evil demon we are constantly reinforced to believe. The truth will out in due time that this man was more a patriot than a devil. BG
well done! ..... beautifully expressed .... shame this isn't on the mainstream news.
'tis the times we live in and just as well that the Divine ( whatever that is ) trumps the woeful plans of the temporary 'powers that be.'
Thank you Dave for this excellent collection of information woven into a cognizant thoughtstream. I appreciate your words.
Thanks be to Ernie, for providing the venue for this discourse.
Big Thanks to Jeff Rense at www.rense.com for linking to this post on his great website.
Biggest Thanks of all goes to the Dear Readers that made it all the way to the comments!


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In animals, the brain, or encephalon, is the control center of the central nervous system.
In most animals, the brain is located in the head, protected by the skull and close to the primary sensory apparatus of vision, hearing, taste and olfaction.
In humans, it is an organ of thought.
While all vertebrates have a brain, invertebrates have either a centralized brain or collections of individual ganglia.
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Many functions are controlled by coordinated activity of the brain and spinal cord.
Moreover, some behaviors such as simple reflexes and basic locomotion, can be executed under spinal cord control alone.


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