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Erion checked his Play of 14, he rolled 19.
Its an early spring afternoon and the sun is hanging high over the forest. Birds flutter through the trees. darting here and there. A pure white rouncy is tethered and grazing nearby and the handsome figure of Sir Erion de Woodford sits on a fallen log an elegant wooden harp in his lap. Every now and then light filters into the clearing from the trees shining down on him. A soft breeze blows a cool wind as the knight clad in traveling clothes of his normal blue and grey colors plays a song that he cannot seem to get quite right. He toys with discordant notes and finally lets out a soft sigh his fingers giving the harp a break as he stares out into the treeline now.
Eibhlin was out looking for forest sprites! More like looking for her sister who was rumored to have disappeared into the surrounding woods. She had feared that Vesper might be taken by a fae, as she slept, and so being a good sister, she is but of course going to check on her. The breeze ruffles her hair and she closes her eyes, the basket of goodies in her fingers is clasped as she walks further along the road, looking for any sign that a person might be about. It was clear she did not intend on seeing Erion this day but the vision he provides was not unwelcomed. She stood a moment just watching him sit there as he played and though his playing was not quite right she was still vaguly entranced.
Eibhlin checked her dex of 12, she rolled 11.
Erion slowly lifts his head and spots Eibhlin. He tilts his head to the side and offers her a dazzling smile just as the sun peeks through the trees once again. It bathes him in light and the effect is rather striking. "Lady Eibhlin?" He calls out to her rising to his feet harp held carefully in hand. "What brings you out here? Hopefully my lackluster performance just then did not bother you too much? I'm afraid my talents are failing me today." He studies her a moment his expression gentle and his smile warm.
Eibhlin gestures to her picnic basket "I was on my way to feed a friend who found herself without home recently but it can wait.. She would not wish me getting lost in the woods trying to find her after all." she comments as she smiles to him. "perhaps all you need is a nice accumpment if my voice is willing to answer the challenge." she teases as she moves a little closer to a nearby tree, she admires him. How could she not, her eyes softly bask over him as if she had never seen anyone quite like him before.
Eibhlin checked her flirting of 5, she rolled 11.
Erion checked his Flirting of 14, he rolled 6.
Erion nods at the reply a small and gentle smile playing on his lips once more now. "Perhaps you are right My lady." He lets his gaze roam over her a moment lingering before it locks with her own eyes. "Beauty such as yours is often used as inspiration this is true. Maybe thats all I need to perform better. We shall have to see yes?" He notes her lingering gaze with a charming grin and retakes his seat on the log. "Sing for me Lady Eibhlin?" He implores of her with a beseeching look. "Sing for me and I shall try to make a song worthy of your beauty and inspiration." The harp is lifted again and positioned in anticipation.
Eibhlin checked her singing of 15, she rolled 14.
Eibhlin shakes her head, meekly, "my sister is more lovely then I…" she says to Erion. She blushes as he asks her to sing, and so she will try. Her voice is on target tonight starting a bit soft and shakenly, she was a shy timid woman. Her eyes close and her voice gains confidence and passion as she sings a nice soft Christian tune of Amazing Grace. It was a simple pious tune, one would know from attending Mass afterall.
Erion checked his Play of 14, he rolled 12.
Erion watches as she begins to sing, his eyes widen in delight. His fingers begin to play the strings of his harp to create the tune that matches the song. He plays well, not quite as well as she sings but the tune matches her voice nicely and he manages to achive a harmony of sorts. He still doesn't look away though, he studies her as she sings letting his fingers dance across the strings until the songs end where it tapers off until only the final note is ringing out into the forest.
Eibhlin kept her eyes closed, so she did not see him looking at her. A way to cope with her shyness perhaps, her voice ringing out gently and over the the trees - echoing through the wind. She sighs then smiles when she is done "why … could I had not done that good when it was my turn to compete.." she asks herself before bitting her lips tightly and drawing a little blood. Her eyes open and she looks to Erion as she suckles upon her bleeding lip thoughtfully quiet.
Erion rises as the song finishes. The harp is shifted into one hand and he approches Eibhlin coming to stand before her just as she opens her eyes. He smiles gently. "As I said at out last meeting, my luck is much the same. However I would not trade the chance to enjoy such a lovely soung with you for the honor of winning a dozen performances." He watches her as she suckles on her bleeding lip and the sudden impulse to steal a kiss seems to arise within him. His eyes lift locking with hers for a moment now as he wars for control of himself.
Erion checked his Chaste of 16, he rolled 12.
Eibhlin tilts her head a little and she licks her lips lightly, "you honor me by thinking so." she says softly. Unaware of the emotions he was struggling with the Newton lady smiles softly at him. "Would you…like some of this food?" she asks "I best be sharing it with someone before it goes bad." she says quietly to him.
"The honor is mine, that you would grace me with your presence to begin with." After a moment Erion smiles gently and takes a slow step back. "I would be delighted to, but only if you will eat it with me. I don't think I can eat it all myself anyway, besides it is much better to share yes?" He chuckles softly and turns going to carefully return his harp to the saddle bag of his horse before turning to face Eibhlin once again.
Eibhlin nods her head "indeed, it is simple wine and cheese and bread, things my brother would not miss being in the pantry." she says and she opens up the basket. He might note that the basket had small soaps and first aid material within it as well, but she leaves them be as she gets the food out to share.
Erion nods and he does note the medical supplies and soaps but he makes no comment. He retakes his seat on the log and accepts his portion of the food with a grateful smile and softly spoken words. "Thank you my Lady, you are very kind to me. It is most appreciated." He takes a nibble of cheese and a bite of bread relaxing as he watches his surroundings but his eyes still keep coming back to her.
Eibhlin smiles a little "well I am sure you get well fed at home." she laughs "and I am sure I will find my friend another day, to give her more food and neccities." she says to him. "What are you doing out here alone with your harp anyway?" she asks as she takes a bite of her cheese and she smiles to him, the bleeding on her lips has stopped now.
Eibhlin checked her chaste of 16, she rolled 3
Erion laughs once he finishes his mouthful of food. "True enough. Though I don't like spending any more time at home than I have to of late." He sighs softly and offers her a smile. "I hope you find your friend soon and that she is well." The question has him tilting his head and then he smiles once more. "I was coming back from seeing a friend of mine. That and trying to stay as far from Woodford as I can until I get my mind straight again."
Eibhlin looks to him "Why is that?" she wonders "has your family been as difficult as My own?" she wonders her eyes move down the path she came, and she looks in the way he came from "Fratinizing with the Pagans?" she teases him - her voice gentle. "my cousin just married into a Pagon house Idmision I believe."
"I'm not certain if its my family or me that is being difficult to be honest." Erion replies with a soft smile and a thoughtful look. "My uncle is serving as the current head of house while my brother and twin sister are away. I am the heir until further notice and it makes me uneasy. My brother has been gone awhile and I've heard no word…I worry." He looks troubled despite how he tries to conceal it. The jest lightens his mood however and he offers back in a light hearted tone. "Fratinizing? You make it sound so…sordid my lady. I assure you it was nothing of the sort." He chuckles and then turns a bit more serious. "If you wish someone to listen to whatever troubles you face, I will do so gladly and without judgment."
Eibhlin shakes her head, "we lost our older brother…" she says softly "the next oldest like yourself was not completely ready to become heir, he has married and starts a family of his own soon, my older sister, she is in these woods somewhere. Disowned for flirting overly with the stablehands.." she whispers "please tell no one that you caught me running her supplies, my brother would not understand." she says softly worried.
Erion listens calmly and with a look of understanding. He nods. "I will not tell anyone Lady Eibhlin, you have my word. In fact if there is anything I could do to help you or you sister, please ask and I will do my best to aid you. I cannot help thinking and worrying for my own sister…my twin sister. I know how trying it is to be seperated from family." He smiles a gentle smiles of reassurance.
Eibhlin nods her head "Thank you Ser." she finishes her cheese and stands "I should go, before they realize I have been gone for so long. She reaches out to touch his cheek lightly "do not run so far away, you never know how long Christ has in store for them. Forgive and renew your bonds with your family my friend, I know it is hard.
Erion finishes his own food and smiles grateful to her for her words. The soft touch to his cheek is a pleasant surprise and he bows his head. "Thank you for the food and for the company My Lady. Take care and I hope things get better for you as well my Lady Eibhlin." He lifts his gaze and rises bowing respectfully to her as she goes to leave.
Eibhlin looks to him with a smile, and she withdraws her fingers, she turns then taking her basket and moving back along the path to the Newton lands


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by Arlene Massiminoé
The March 3 meeting of the La Cañada Flintridge Orthopaedic Guild (LCFOG) was held at the home of Linda Labrie, guild sustainer. MaryLou Morrison, sustainer, was in attendance also. Luncheon was provided by Labrie and longtime member Elinor Bunn who also acted a co-hostess.
Bunn joined LCFOG in 1966 and served as president in 1978. She has held several positions while in the guild and continues to be a very active member. She has volunteered more than 4,000 hours at Orthopaedic Hospital now Orthopaedic Institute for Children (OIC) where more than 60,000 children are treated every year in their various clinics. For her gracious devotion to LCFOG over the past 50 years, she was presented with red roses as a small token of appreciation by past president, Marie Baker. Maria Gero was also officially recognized as a full member having completed her provisional period and was presented with a plant by Marie Gilhooly.
OIC's Annual Volunteer Recognition Ceremony will be held April 25 in conjunction with the ribbon cutting ceremony for the Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) on OIC's downtown campus. Joan Cleven, president, will present the guild's check for $21,000 to OIC at that ceremony. Members of LCFOG will be recognized for their service on that day also. The first surgery at ASC, currently the only stand-alone outpatient surgery center in Los Angeles County dedicated exclusively to pediatric orthopaedic care, is scheduled for May 9 and will be performed by Dr. Mauricio Silva, the medical director.
Mary Beth Perrine, senior director, community outreach and liaison to LCFOG reported the gala, "Stand for Kids," will be held on 20th Century Fox Studios' lot on June 18 to top off OIC's fund-raising efforts for the ASC. America Ferrara has been signed as Mistress of Ceremonies. More information will be available to LCFOG members as the date approaches.
Perrine told of a young man who sustained a basketball injury to his knee and being in severe pain was taken to a doctor who sent him to a local facility for treatment. The knee was stabilized but not treated secondary to the fact that the patient was under-insured. Fortunately the family learned of OIC and the child was seen by Dr. Anthony Scaduto who diagnosed a knee fracture and compartment syndrome, a limb- and life-threatening situation. Surgery was performed at the OIC–UCLA center in Santa Monica. After an overnight stay in the hospital, the patient's only complaint was "You shaved my leg". We call that a success story.
Women who are interested in LCFOG and their work with OIC and perhaps other "patient stories" are asked to contact Marie Gilhooly at (818) 249-5262 for further information. Come to a few meetings and meet some dedicated women who enjoy being a part of other success stories.

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- The Dubai Blockchain Strategy lays out how Dubai will use blockchain to improve government efficiency
- Blockchain promises to mean no more forlorn trips between government buildings to get the necessary paperwork in order
DUBAI: Blockchain is a technology that is both feared and revered, its potential to rip up the old order — from currencies to law — making it both a threat and an opportunity to long-established industries and institutions.
For Dubai, blockchain offers the promise to become a truly global tech leader, as Dr. Aisha Bin Bishr, director general of the Smart Dubai initiative, explained to Arab News.
The Dubai Blockchain Strategy, launched in 2016, lays out how Dubai will use blockchain to improve government efficiency, create an entire new industry based on distributed ledger technology and help other cities make similar advances.
Gulf bureaucracy has historically been a source of anguish for citizens and expats alike, the frustrations of obtaining the documentation required to gain access to state-sanctioned services and a local driving license becoming a right-of-passage among the recently arrived.
Such stereotypes are increasingly obsolete, however, as governments turn to technology to streamline processes. Having introduced numerous smart services, Dubai now aims by 2020 to become the first city where all government-related processes run on blockchain. Should Dubai succeed, 100 million documents annually will be transacted digitally, cutting carbon dioxide emissions by 114 metric tons and saving 5.5 billion dirhams ($1.5 billion) in administrative costs each year.
Feverish speculation in cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin brought blockchain into the public eye last year, but what exactly is it and why is it engendering such global excitement? According to Hyperledger, blockchain is cryptography-enabled distributed database with no central authority and no point of trust. "With blockchains, people can establish who they are and then trade items like money, stocks and bonds, intellectual property, deeds, votes, loyalty points, and anything else that has value," a Hyperledger report said.
Blockchain promises to mean no more forlorn trips between government buildings to get the necessary paperwork in order, freeing up 25.1 million hours annually that could be put to better use.
"We want to give people back their time, which is the most valuable thing in life," said Bishr. "With the realization of the Dubai Blockchain Strategy we will move the role of government to providing happiness to people."
As Dubai's economy grew and diversified, the amount of paperwork required to regulate industry mushroomed.
"Simple processes were getting ever more complicated. It was becoming clear there needed to be a giant solution to streamline growth from government processes," said Bishr. "Governments believed for centuries they were achieving their objectives by fulfilling these transactional roles, which were done through a heavy reliance on manual processes and unnecessary labor and paperwork."
Government-run Smart Dubai is leading the emirate's blockchain strategy. Last year, it identified over 20 government use cases for blockchain that have advanced to the proof-of-concept phase.
"Once these are successful, we will roll them out across the city. These cases include daily life experiences, such as leasing or renting property, registering a student in school, obtaining a medical license, and more," said Bishr.
Smart Dubai believes blockchain can create thousands of private-sector business opportunities in myriad sectors including real estate, health care, transport, energy, retail and financial services. Globally, the blockchain technologies market will be worth $20 billion in 2024, up from $315 million in 2015, according to Transparency Market Research.
Dubai wants to create a homegrown blockchain industry, with this year's second Smart Dubai Global Blockchain Challenge attracting more than 200 applications from around 85 cities that showcased their best blockchain solutions that can support Dubai in implementing its strategy.
The top 17 entrants were flown to Dubai to present their proposals at the Future Blockchain Summit. In all, this year's applications covered 53 industries.
"The idea behind this challenge is to stimulate ideas and to support startups to implement their ideas, putting them on a platform where they meet other government entities who want to use blockchain," said Bishr.
"Several startups who came here last year for the summit have now established their company here and are working with government entities to implement their blockchain solutions."
Dubai is working with open-source blockchain platform Hyperledger, plus Consensys, which builds programs on the Ethereum blockchain for public and private sector organizations. Consensys, whose clients include GlaxoSmithKline, has opened its Middle East and North Africa headquarters in Dubai.
"We don't want to be plugged into only one type of blockchain, so we don't miss any important benefits of the others," said Bishr. "We need to be an open city with an open standard that accepts any type of technology that will fulfil our needs."
In May, IBM teamed up with three Dubai government institutions to launch the Dubai Blockchain Business Registry Project, which promises to simplify the process of setting up and operating a business, while Smart Dubai is in talks with IBM and Consensys about building a "plant farm" in the UAE that will host all Dubai's blockchain applications, said Bishr.
Dubai Future Foundation, chaired by Crown Prince Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, launched the Global Blockchain Council in 2016. Today this has around nearly 50 members including du, Microsoft, Cisco, SAP and IBM.
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The 2013 SFFC Annual General Meeting is quickly approaching on Tuesday May 28th, 2013, 7pm at the Tyndall Clubhouse. Several Board of Directors vacancies will need to be filled at this year's AGM through a general election. Any club member in good standing may put their own name forward, or may nominate another member for inclusion on the ballot. The Board of Directors positions are volunteer positions, with the SFFC Board of Directors meeting monthly (generally on first Monday evening of each month). Interested individuals are asked to provide a maximum 1/2 page biography of relevant skills, experience and soccer background for posting to the SFFC website. Please note that nominations for Board of Directors are also accepted from the floor at the AGM.
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ESI Steel is where the Terminator rapped in Terminator vs Robocop. It is also where the ED-209s made their cameo appearances.
Information on the location
ESI Steel is the setting for the final scene in Terminator 2: Judgment Day where the Terminator faces T-1000 until both are destroyed in melted steel. It is a steel mill and manufacturing factory wherein steel is made through combining its various ores at temperatures of over 538 degrees Celsius (1000 degrees Fahrenheit).
Appearance in the rap battle
This is the location where the Terminator rapped. At the end of the Terminator's final verse, two ED-209s walk in behind him.
- The large drum of melted steel seen pouring was created by pouring a cup of liquid soap.
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City of Trenton, Ohio
City of Trenton, Ohio
Board of Zoning and
Subdivision Appeals
Meetings are held on the 4th Monday of each month as needed. Meetings start at 7:00 PM and are held in the Council Chambers in the City Building.
Board Members
Reppointed: January 1, 2016
Term Expires: December 31, 2019
Appointed: January 1, 2014
Term Expires: December 31, 2017
Board Member
Appointed: January 1, 2016
Term Expires: December 31, 2019
Board Member
Appointed: August 8, 2014
Term Expires: December 31, 2019
Board Member
Appointed: January 1, 2014
Term Expires: December 31, 2017
Secretary to the Board
Zoning Administrator
for the City of Trenton
Area of Responsibility
To hear and decide all appeals referring to any decision, variation, or exception to the Subdivision Regulations and Zoning Regulations.
Term: 4 Years
Appointed by: City Council
Legal Basis: City Charter, Article VI, Section 6.08
Ordinance: PART TWO, TITLE EIGHT, CHAPTER 268
There shall be a Board of Zoning Appeals consisting of 5 electors of the City appointed by Council to serve for a term of 4 years. Of those first appointed under this chapter, 2 shall serve 2 years and 3 shall serve 4 years. The Board shall establish its own rules of procedure and keep a record of its proceedings in all matters coming before the Board. No resolution overruling an action under the Zoning Ordinance by any administrative officer of the City shall be adopted except by the affirmative vote of 4 members of this Board. Council shall fill all vacancies by appointment for the unexpired term.
The Board shall have the power to hear and determine appeals on refusal of building permits and to permit exceptions to and variations from the zoning regulations in individual cases, and may be required to afford justice and avoid unreasonable hardship to property owners. The standards in all instances to be applied by the Board shall be established by ordinance of Council.
City staff shall provide advice and technical support for the Board of Zoning Appeals, but do not work for the Board. Staff is to be treated with respect and human dignity. Any breach or abuse of this may result in dismissal by the City Council.
The City Council shall have the right to remove, for misfeasance, malfeasance or nonfeasance, by a two-thirds vote of Council, any appointed member of the Board of Zoning Appeals. Members are expected to be present at all meetings, if possible. If the member is unexcused for two consecutive meetings, they may be removed from the Board with a two-thirds vote of Council.


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Why are our cheeses so expensive?
Most of our cheeses are produced in small batches in labour intensive artisan dairies; there is little use of production line methods and therefore every thing that happens throughout the process is done by hand. No matter how small or large the cheeses are they all have to be individually hand poured into their moulds, dry wrapped and then stored in their maturation rooms at very specific temperatures and levels of humidity for anything up to 24 months. The attention to detail of conditions and details is what makes these cheeses so special.
Can cheeses be frozen?
In our opinion cheeses can be frozen, even the soft ones. The freezing process does have an impact on the cheese so it is not ideal but is far preferable to wastage; the cheeses will remain at the state of maturation that they were when frozen. Most cheeses will come out slightly drier and with a greater tendency to crumble; blue cheeses will not develop further as the moulds will be killed by the freezing and soft cheeses will not mature further but all will be perfectly edible.
Can you eat the rind on cheese?
Many of our customers eat the rind of the cheeses, and it is down to personal taste, most blue and all the mould ripened and washed rind cheeses have edible rinds, of the hard cheeses the only one we would avoid trying is Mimolette which is a hard Dutch style cheese still made in northern France which has an extremely hard rind which tends to be full of cheese mites and is consequently very dry, dusty and pretty unpleasant.
What's the difference between use by and best before dates for cheese?
The use by date is put on a product susceptible to degradation or bacterial growth after a period of time in which the biological processes within the cheese have run their time. It is necessary to be aware of this date especially if the cheese has not been stored in ideal conditions. The best before date is an indication from the maker of the period of time that the cheese is at its peak, although it will be perfectly edible after this date but may start to dry or mature into a stronger version. This is an inexact science and therefore some cheeses especially if kept in very cold fridges come to their peak at the end of their best before dates.
What is vegetarian cheese?
During the cheese making process in order to get milk proteins to fall out of the whey an acid is added, which is usually rennet, an animal digestive acid but in some cases a vegetable acid can be added and therefore the cheese can be eaten by vegetarians. Please ask a member of our team to be certain.


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Erasing the stigma of dementia
by Carol Bradley Bursack, Editor-in-Chief
My dad came totally demented out of surgery meant to correct the effects of a World War II brain injury. The shock to the family is indescribable. This brilliant, gentle man suddenly had a voice in his head and was so paranoid he thought the hospital nurse was trying to kill him in the shower. Dad lived in his own dementia hell for a full decade. I learned a lot during that time, and often write here on ElderCarelink.com about these issues.
Dad's dementia wasn't the only dementia I coped with. My uncle developed vascular dementia after a stroke. My mother-in-law likely had Alzheimer's, though less was known about the disease at that time, so she was never diagnosed. My mother had "organic brain disease" of unknown origin. Not all dementia present the same symptoms, however many symptoms overlap and people can have more than one type. A common thread, however, is that dementia tends to carry the same stigma as any mental illness.
Dementia: how times have changed, or not
Decades back, if Grandpa was a little dotty in his thinking the family was told he had senile dementia. It was just old age. The family often tried to keep him at home as much as possible so that they needn't be embarrassed by his behavior. This treatment wasn't much different than when they kept a mentally disabled child locked in a room when company came. Disturbing as it is, this treatment was often more from lack of education than lack of love.
Today, when tell-all books, TV shows, and blogs are rampant, one would think that dementia would hardly be something that would embarrass an elder's family and friends. But I found out the hard way that the stigma of mental illness, dementia included, hasn't gone away.
Dealing with my parents' dementia
As an elder care columnist for a newspaper which is published in the city where I grew up, and my parents were well known, I was taken to task by more than one old friend of my folks' for writing publicly about their dementia. I know people read my column because I am "one of them." I am not a doctor. I am not a social worker. I am a person who cared for seven elders over the span of two decades. I am a caregiver. So, how can I help other caregivers if I don't write about my own experiences with caregiving?
Well, my parents' friends thought it was fine if I wrote about Mom's arthritis. I could even write about Dad's dental issues. But their dementia? That was too demeaning.
How dare I write about this man, once in the public eye, wanting me to bring an elephant to Fargo? How dare I write about my mother's repeated phone calls because she forgot she called two minutes before? How dare I write about my dignified uncle, a retired military officer, calling his razor a magazine because of his aphasia caused by vascular dementia?
These things were viewed as demeaning by some of their elderly friends. I do believe some of it was their own fear of having their aging revealed in such a way. However, some of it is the attitude that I was "airing dirty laundry" in a public place. But why should my parents' dementia be considered "dirty laundry"?
Is it betrayal to publicize the dementia of a loved one?
I was helped along the road to writing my book, Minding Our Elders: Caregivers Share Their Personal Stories, by my dad's remark to me during one of his lucid moments after surgery. Dad looked me in the eye and said with perfect clarity, "Do they know what happened to me?" He was referring to the outside world with hand gestures. He wanted people to know. After I wrote my book, which features Dad on the cover, I was able to say in the book's epilogue, "Yes, Dad. Now they do."
That knowledge gave me the courage to write about my loved ones in my newspaper column, and also in many online articles, without feeling I was betraying them. I knew they were educators at heart. I feel strongly that only by making public the fact that educated, intelligent people do get dementia and that it is not a shameful thing to have, can we bring mental illness and the many kinds of dementia out of the proverbial closet.
My loved ones are contributing, even after their deaths, to the welfare of others. Their stories live on to give support to caregivers and shine the light on dementia. Many other brave souls are coming forward with their own or a loved one's story. We are not ashamed.
Dementia is an illness which is hard enough to endure with full support. Trying to handle the caregiving of someone with dementia all alone often leads to isolation for the caregiver and the care receiver.
Resources like ElderCarelink.com continue to educate and support those who need it, no matter what kind of disease the aging process brings. Support is available in the form of practical advice as well as emotions shared by those who have been in your shoes. You can find that here, at least, there is no shame or betrayal associated with dementia.
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At the beginning of this week, the Department of Justice sent out an edict to all of its US attorneys across the country, 'Hand in your resignations.' Ring of Fire's Sam Seder is joined by Heather 'Digby' Parton to talk about Donald Trump firing all of Obama's judge appointments.
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Sam: Heather, so let's move from the more broader discussion that we've been having about Paul Ryan and the Republicans and everything that has been exposed by their disastrous, I guess Ryan-care, Trump-care, I call them Tryan-care, Republican care bill.
At the beginning of this week, the Department of Justice sent out an edict to all of its US attorneys across the country, 'Hand in your resignations.' Now, this is not unprecedented, although it was gone about in a rather unprecedented way, in so far as they don't seem to have any replacements lined up, A, and that's somewhat consistent with some other dynamics that they have been engaging in with government agencies. These are US attorneys. They handle stuff that even Republicans think are important. It's not just about protecting people's health and safety. It's about putting people in jail, which I think Republicans rather enjoy on some level.
They also sent one to Preet Bharara, one of the basically New York US attorney from the southern district of Manhattan whom had gotten a promise from Donald Trump that he would not be removed. What's behind this?
Heather: Well, you know, nobody knows. It's all very strange. I mean, it is true that it's not unthinkable or unprecedented that they would ask for the resignations of US attorneys. Janet Reno did it when she came in. It was like after 12 years, Regan and Bush, so the US attorneys were all Republicans. She didn't say, 'Clean out your desk and be out by Friday night.' They were allowed to continue if they had certain cases that were important that they were following, and they were allowed to wait until their replacements were available. It wasn't this abrupt, out of nowhere thing, and she didn't just fire the Republicans. It was an across the board thing. This was, they just went in with the Obama appointees, all of them. This is coming from, I think, their belief that, and this is being ginned up by the right wing media, that the government is burrowing. That it's burrowed with a bunch of Obama people who are sabotaging Donald Trump, and they've got to do a massive purge.
In fact, the timing was very interesting because Sean Hannity, who is basically Trump's little mouthpiece on Fox News … He basically is working for the White House … Gave a long, long monologue about how they had to get rid of all the US attorneys who were sabotaging Donald Trump's presidency, and had to go in and do it. He sort of demanded that they do it. Weirdly, the next day, they did it.
Bharara is very interesting because he had just been asked by a bunch of interest groups and various legal groups had asked him to look into certain emoluments issues with Trump, and he was the US attorney who covered Trump Tower, which means the Trump Organization. Nobody knows whether or not he had anything going there, but he did give a very evocative Tweet on the day that he was fired, and he said he was fired. He refused to resign.
He says, 'Now I know what it was like to be on the Moreland Commission.' The Moreland Commission was a commission that had been instituted by Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York, to look into corruption in New York State government. They did it for about a year. They found a couple of things, and Cuomo shut the whole thing down. Bharara went in and opened it up again, and of course, found an absolute viper's nest of corruption. A lot of people were caught in that web.
His reference to that wasn't Cuomo. The reference was to the idea that Cuomo was Trump. In other words, shutting down an investigation that was ongoing because it was getting too close. At least that's my interpretation of it, and I think most people saw it that way.
Sam: It's a bit of a two-fer though, isn't it?
Heather: Pardon me?
Sam: It's a bit of a two-fer because Andrew Cuomo is up for re-election in 2018, and I can tell you that I would be pretty excited to see Andrew Cuomo lose a re-election because he still, in my estimation, has not been damaged enough in his estimation as a potential Democratic nominee for President.
Heather: No, he's running.
Sam: Yeah, I think he's going to run. I don't think he's a terribly attractive candidate, both from a policy perspective or just in terms of a charisma perspective. He's does not project anything that you would really want as a President.


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Ephesians 4:32 is the 2nd of 26 Bible Verses to help your child learn one bible verse for each letter of the alphabet. For each verse in the ABC Bible Verse series, there is a free printable and YouTube video to help you and your child learn 26 bible verses!
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How did your kids do memorizing our first Bible verse for the letter "A"?
Hopefully, it went well – 25 more to go! I recommend taking a video of them once they have it fully memorized. When they are young, they especially enjoy watching themselves and usually want you to send the video to Grandma.
We will have a series on this until we have gone through the whole alphabet, one letter per week. The whole index of verses that will be updated as we go can be found here.
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On to our "B" verse. Ephesians 4:32 states "Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other just as Christ forgave you."
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IBM on Saturday slipped out news of a nasty bug in its VIOS, its Virtual I/O Server that offers virtualisation services on Power Systems under AIX.
Issue IV91339 strikes when moving virtual machines and means "there is a very small timing window where the VIOS may report to the client LPAR that some I/Os have completed before they actually do."
IBM advises that "This could cause applications running on the client [logical partition] LPAR to read the wrong data from the virtual device. It's also possible that data written by the client LPAR to the virtual device may be written incorrectly."
Hence the issue's title: "possible data corruption after LPM failure."
Of course data corruption is precisely what Power Systems and AIX are supposed not to do. The platforms are promoted as exceptionally stable and resilient, just the ticket for mission critical applications that can't afford many maintenance windows, never mind unplanned ones.
So IBM's guidance guidance that "Installation of the ifix requires a reboot" will not go down well with users.
There's some upside in the fact that the problem only affects VIOS 2.2.3.x through 2.2.5.x, and even then has a couple of other caveats.
But the bottom line here is that Power and VIOS users have an interesting resilience vs. convenience choice to make.
If you're one of those users, El Reg wishes you good luck! ®
UPDATE: IBM's now released a fix and updated its advice on this issue.
Big Blue now also says "The risk of hitting this exposure outside of the IBM test lab has had extensive evaluation and is considered extremely small. The controlled test environment where this problem was observed makes use of a high-precision test injection tool that was able to inject a specific error within a tiny window."
"The chances of hitting this window outside of the IBM test lab are highly unlikely and there is no known occurrence of this issue outside of the IBM test lab."
The Reg is nonetheless aware that IBM has recommended users implement the patch.


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Most everyone seems to be strongly opined as to whether or not gift cards are a good idea. I recently read an article coined "Gift Cards are the Worst Possible Present to Buy Someone This Christmas". Evidently that person thinks buying someone a gift card for a present is nothing short of Satan worship.
Tsk, tsk.
It's fine to purchase a gift card for someone - within reason, of course.
Take, for example, my sister. She's the sort of person who buys people really creative gifts...BUT not always useful gifts :) Instead of "settling" for a gift card to a place she knows I shop, she'll go above and beyond to find a gift that's really neat - but I don't want/use/need.
On the other hand, a year or so back, she gave me a "gift" of sorts - she cleaned out her closet -and presented me with a sweatshirt I'd given to HER for Christmas one year when I was in college. So, what, now my college isn't good enough to wear on a sweatshirt? Her excuse: "Well, it's so BIG on me, and it's just not in style anymore." What? It's a sweatshirt!
Once, when I was younger (she's 5 years my senior; I think I was 13-ish) I gave her an abstract pencil drawing of a horse. The next day, when I saw it on her desk, it had been altered. Shocked, I asked her WHY she'd change my drawing - "you didn't get this part right" was her reply.
Guess what dear sister gets for gifts these days - GIFT CARDS. If she wants to buy something at Target and then give it to me a year later, great :)
Or, another example would be my father. He's a very hard person to buy gifts for - someone who likes really obscure things I'd have a hard time deciphering from the scant occasions we actually have a chat. So, the first year I got him a $100 gift card to Fleet Farm and he actually gasped, his eyes widened, and he blurted out, "THANK YOU!" I thought, we have a winner. I haven't gotten that reaction since, but of course it's because he gets one every year now. He can then do what he LOVES to do - go browse the "Man's Mall" for odd little knick-knacks.
Now, that being said, there are certainly times when a gift card is a cop-out gift. There are times when someone is purely lazy and doesn't want to take the time to pick something out, or leaves the gift purchase to the last minute and has "no choice" but to settle for the little plastic card.
Hey, at least when I buy gift cards, I make sure I know the person will like the store. Sister and Dad, for example, have their favorite haunts and it's quite simple to know they're just waiting for an excuse to walk in and catch sight of all the goodies lining the shelves (and have an excuse to purchase said items - "well, I have this gift card!").
So, this Christmas (or whichever holiday season you celebrate), keep in mind that there IS a time for gift cards...
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With these considerations in mind, you would be correct in assuming that I was looking forward to seeing this film, especially given that Edgerton, Dunst, and Driver have recently been involved in critically successful projects, and I personally loved "Take Shelter". Sadly, my excitement turned to disappointment, then to frustration, and then to anger, as I watched a dull film which completely lacked in purpose.
The film itself is about Alton (Jaeden Lieberher), an eight-year-old boy who possesses the power to make his eyes go all shiny. Of course, I'm being slightly demeaning about the nature of the child's powers, but they really aren't very interesting. The nature of his ability evolves over the course of the movie at various times simply to serve the plot, so what begins as a weird blue light emitting from his eyes ends up as an arbitrary set of skills which allows him to survive any set of circumstances. He can bring down satellites, predict the future, and even speak other languages, all because he isn't from this world. It's basically bullshit, but far be it for me to judge.
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In general, a moving average over period T1..T2 is the average of all the values between T1 and T2. Sounds easy, so why do I feel the need to write a post about it? Because in stock fixings, as in sales and many many other scenarios, the moving average cannot be computed that easily. If the period is – say – 10 days, then it can contain one or more holidays inside. during holidays, there is no data and this does not mean that the value during holidays does not exists, it means that holidays should not be used to compute the average. Moreover, different periods contain a different number of vacation days, making things a little bit more complicated.
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Thus, we want to use PowerPivot to produce a chart like the following one, which represents the last three years of the Microsoft stock. When the red line crosses the green one going down, it is time to sell, when it crosses going up it is time to buy. If you use this rule to trade… don't blame me for any loss, I only tried to explain why moving averages are pretty useful in the stocks market.
Now, let us get back to business: how do we compute the moving average? In a previous post, I spoke about how to compute the difference in working days between two dates. This scenario is very similar since the moving average over 50 days is, in fact, the average of the last 50 "working" days of the trading market, i.e. the dates where the value of the stock exists in our table. Thus, the problem is now shifted to "how do I compute the date that is 50 working days before the current one?".
The answer is pretty easy: first of all we need to assign to each date in the tale an incremental number, counting the number of dates before the current one. Clearly, since we have many different stocks in the table, we must count only the dates where the price of the current stock exists. Let us add a calculated column to the Fixing table with this formula:
DayNumber=COUNTROWS (
Fixing[Date] <= EARLIER (Fixing[Date])
&& Fixing[Stock] = EARLIER (Fixing[Stock])
Now each row in the Fixing table has a number that uniquely identifies each date for a stock. Let us add a new calculated column to hold the date that represents "50 working days before now":
FirstDateOfRange50=CALCULATE (
VALUES (Fixing[Date]),
Fixing[DayNumber] = EARLIER (Fixing[DayNumber]) - 50
&& Fixing[Stock] = EARLIER (Fixing[Stock])
Basically, we use CALCULATE to get VALUES of the Date column in a filter context that shows the only one row that has a DayNumber equals to the current day number less 50. Now that we have the value of the first date of the range, knowing that the last date of the range is always the current date, we can compute the moving average over 50 days using this formula:
=CALCULATE ( AVERAGE (Fixing[Close]), FILTER( Fixing, Fixing[Date] >= EARLIER(Fixing[FirstDateOfRange50]) && Fixing[Date] <= EARLIER (Fixing[Date]) && Fixing[Stock] = EARLIER (Fixing[Stock]) ))
Et voilà, the hard part of the work is done. The remaining work is just to add a PivotChart as in the following figure. where we have selected Apple instead of Microsoft:
As you can see from the figure, I added the Calendar table to the data model with the necessary relationship to be able to add the year to the chart but, this time, I did not use the Calendar table to perform working days computation since the addition of the stock name makes the model a bit more complex (a date might be "working" for a stock but not for another one) and the DAX formulas need to be more complex too.
This is just another example of what PowerPivot can do for your reporting needs. If you want to touch the real Karma of PowerPivot, don't miss the opportunity to follow one of the workshops I and Marco Russo are bringing all over Europe in the next few months.
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In a previous post , I have used a stock exchange scenario to speak about how to compute moving averages
Hi Alberto
I have a question regarding the filter function. I tried to replicate this post by using the values of several indices. I tried to calculate the daynumber as described above. However i did receive an error stating that the operation was canceled because of shortages of memory.
I tried to optimize the querry. I was able to solve this memory issue by switching the filters in the querry:
DayNumber=COUNTROWS (
Fixing[Stock] = EARLIER (Fixing[Stock])
&& Fixing[Date] <= EARLIER (Fixing[Date])
Is it true that order of the filters can have an influence on the performance of the filter function?
Can you send me the workbook by e-mail? I would really love to investigate this a bit more, you probably tested it on a lot more data and... well, it soundes really interesting. :)
I am seeing a circular reference on the FirstDateOfRange50 (in my sample file). Any idea what may be going on? I have virtually the same fields in my file. The only difference I see, my PowerPivot is based off an Excel linked table vs a database.
Yep, take a look here:
In SQL 2012 the circular dependency algorithm has been modified. The example I wrote works in PowerPivot 1.0, in 2012 you will need to add a key column to the table or use ALLEXCEPT to avoid circular dependencies.
Thanks, Alberto. My "table" is actually a linked Excel table, so I don't see Row Identifier (or any other) table property. I guess that means my only option is using ALLEXCEPT?
You only need to add a unique column to your table (a RowId, just an increasing number), then go to the PowerPivot window, advanced tab, table properties and mark it as the row identifier.
This will set that column as the primary key of the table, and let you avoid circular dependencies.
Alberto, I don't see the Advanced tab :-( I only see Home, Design, and then Linked Table under Table Tools.
Never mind. I went to Advanced Mode and I see it. Thanks! :-)
Did either of you determine if there was a benefit with switching the order of the filter clauses using EARLIER? I am running into similar memory issues during processing and am trying to determine if there is a DAX related solution before I request more RAM in the server.
We cannot solve it adding a row count: how about the future updates? Let´s say we need to remove a symbol or a date, or add new ones..
Any other way to solve this? Also, can you update the formulas for the 2013 version? I can´t find how to do it properly.
Alberto, thank you very much for your sites and book.
I´m learning a ton from you.
I have a question about this formula:
Fixing[Date] <= EARLIER (Fixing[Date])
&& Fixing[Stock] = EARLIER (Fixing[Stock])
Let´s say that we want to run it in a table that have tens of millions of rows. The filter function wouldn´t work well with such amount. Is there any way around this?
Thanks in advance.
If you have lots of rows, then it would be much better to move this kind of calcuations in the ETL phase, avoiding calculated columns in SSAS (or Power Pivot).
As you noticed, there might be a performance problem when computing these expressions over large datasets.
Calculated column are not to be considered as a full replacement for ETL, they might help in several cases and they are a powerful modeling tool, but ETL is still useful :)
Thanks for your response. I´m new to this, and am fascinated.
Can you recommend a good (and free if possible) ETL tool to perform these tasks? (I just want to run the data on my machine, currently using Access for the big table (500mb)).


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Margaret Thatcher's Defense of Liberty
New Film Reminds Us We Could Use a Dose of Margaret Thatcher Today
By Bernie Reeves
Take pride in being British, the Iron Lady said with vehemence. What a tonic it would be for Americans to believe that today about ourselves. But we are led by a febrile hologram, not a person of character like Margaret Thatcher, who prevented the once-mighty British from sliding into third-world status by ascending to 10 Downing Street in 1979. She served until 1990 — becoming the longest-serving prime minister since the office was created 300 years ago.
As if a cosmic strand of DNA entwined Helen Mirren to replicate Elizabeth II in the convincing and informative film The Queen, Meryl Streep — though American — slides into the fiery persona of Maggie Thatcher in the film The Iron Lady as if she had been predestined to play the role. The movie has some annoying aspects. Scenes are arranged in the present day that include the ghost of husband Dennis, who died in 2003. But in the flashbacks, Baroness Thatcher's indomitable personality shines through the muddle in some quite good enactments of her career.
Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, with a little help from Mikhail Gorbachev, actually saved the world by applying qualities both cultures once admired — and appeared to have forgotten after the cultural chaos of the 1960s and the ensuing disintegration of the values that made both nations great. The two leaders resurrected the word "principle," manifested in action by doing what is "right" when confronted with wrong.
Reagan said "tear down this Wall," and Thatcher was his key ally in the successful strategy that ended the existence of the USSR in 1991, causing the Soviet press to name her the Iron Lady. What is sadly not known is the role of KGB Colonel Oleg Gordeivsky, who began working as a double-agent on behalf of Britain in 1968. No one knew then that Gordeivsky was supplying Thatcher — who shared the data with Reagan — information on Soviet weakness and internal strife that pushed Gorbachev to close down the communist regime in Russia. (For reference, read KGB: The Inside Story by Gordeivsky and Cambridge intelligence scholar Christopher Andrew.)
But it was a much smaller global confrontation that saved Thatcher's position and elevated her to superstar status: the attack by Argentina to capture the miniscule Falkland Islands in 1982. When asked by the decadent and defeatist press how the U.K., diminished since the loss of empire and sinking into socialist atrophy, could dare to stand up to the Argentines, Thatcher replied that "it is a matter of honor." She called the aggressors a "fascist gang" who stole what belonged to Britain. "I want them back," she added in her best schoolmarm majesty.
As the only columnist and editor in the U.S. who backed Britain and Thatcher in their determination to fight ("a matter of principle," said Thatcher), it amazes me today that the U.S. did not support its greatest ally in this moment of need. Even U.S. Senator Jesse Helms,Thatcher's great friend and fellow conservative, publicly backed the Argentine junta, motivated by his role as chairman of the subcommittee on Latin America of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
The film leaves out this insult by America, but there is a scene depicting an emergency meeting with Thatcher and U.S. Secretary of State Alexander Haig, who flew to London to attempt to bring Maggie to her senses. He failed when she calmly stared him down and said, "Hawaii was thousands of miles from the U.S. when it was attacked by the Japanese, and yet you declared war. So have I."
Another side story, one of the dozens omitted from the film, involves the actions of Reagan's Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, who used back-channel methods to supply Britain with Sidewinder missiles to attach to their Harrier jump-jets that were proving ineffective against Argentine French-made Mirage jets armed with Exocets. Weinberger was later honored with a knighthood for his crucial contributions to the British victory. (Read Weinberger's Fighting For Peace for more.)
The Falklands win saved Thatcher's job, endangered during her first three years by overpowering opposition, especially the particularly virulent British Trades Unions. The arrogant labor leaders called for strike after strike to counter Thatcher's philosophy of small business virtues and the need for workers to stand on their own initiative rather than rely on organized labor's insistence on higher wages for less work.
The Labor Party in U.K. was exactly that back then, a trades union affair that lost influence at the polls by insisting on Article 4 of the Party constitution that called for the ownership of goods and services to be placed in their hands — what we call communism, or at least the "syndicalist" variety. (Tony Blair was able to have Clause 4 deleted, creating the New Labor Party that won a majority in Parliament in 1997 by defeating Thatcher's successor, John Major.)
But in the early 1980s, the unions held the U.K. hostage with a series of violent strikes. Trash bins lined the streets, coal miners tried to freeze out homes, and businesses and public transportation were regularly closed down. Thatcher refused to budge in her insistence that inflated wages must come to ground as a key dimension in her policy to place a tourniquet on public spending.
Labor governments — back as far as 1945, at war's end, when Winston Churchill was replaced with the socialist Clement Atlee — created the welfare state, the National Health Service, and devastating policies allowing immigrants from former British colonies and dominions to enter the country. Government deficits swelled, and capitalist initiative was nearly terminated by high taxes and government regulation. Before Thatcher, the "Great" was fading from the term Great Britain — as Maggie so well put it.
Compounding the battles with unions, during the 1979 election, Lord Mountbatten — a member of the royal family, a revered naval hero, and the last Viceroy of India before partition in 1947 — was killed with five others (including 14-year-old twin boys of the family and a 15-year-old local boy) by the Irish Republican Army in a bomb-attack on his cabin cruiser, the Shadow 5, running off the West coast of the Republic of Ireland. Thatcher's close associate and MP Airy Neave was the victim of an IRA car bomb in London later in the year. The carnage by the IRA was intended to take down the Thatcher government. In 1984, Thatcher herself and her husband Dennis nearly died when an IRA bomb was set off at the Conservative Party conference in Brighton.
The IRA and its various mutant terrorist cadres ceased their violent bombing campaigns only in 2005, in reaction to the 9-11 attacks on the U.S. News reports said they saw themselves in the mirror when gazing at Muslim terrorism. In 2010, the book Defend The Realm was published, drawing on access to all the secret files of MI5, the British security service (again, written by Christopher Andrew) revealing that the IRA had been financed from the 1960s by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Moammar Gaddafi, and Irish-Americans.
Thatcher, the grocer's daughter, grasped her iconic pocketbook and stood up to the unions and the IRA. And with the Falklands wind at her back, she led Great Britain into a new era of self-confidence and economic health. She also had the foresight to keep distance from European Union monetary policy, a decision that should be receiving praise today in Britain. But praise for Thatcher came rarely. The medicine she made the country swallow was hard to take, even if it cured the maladies and revived the patient.
Even during her time as PM, she was continually the victim of backbiting and condescending innuendo by the press, the opposition benches, and members of her own party and cabinet. The gravest insult came from Oxford, her own university, which refused her an honorary degree — the first time a prime minister had been denied the accolade.
She called her enemies within her own party the "wets," announcing at a Cabinet meeting that if they didn't agree with her spending and tax cuts, they could move across the Channel to Calais and pay the French government 85% of their earnings. When asked by the press what she did when her close advisers thwarted her policies, she answered simply: "I withdraw my love."
And today, at age 86 — styled Baroness Thatcher and a member of the House of Lords — controversy has arisen over plans to provide the Iron Lady with a state funeral. As if to regenerate the controversy she caused within her own party, the Conservative Daily Telegraph newspaper objects to the honor. The paper states that only royal family members (above politics, you know), military heroes, and a scant four PMs have been so elevated, including Churchill as leader during World War 2. But did not Thatcher play a key role in winning the Cold War? Did she not defeat the Argentines in the Falklands? Save Britain from certain economic decline? Restore national pride?
Ah, say her detractors, she was divisive and irritated union thugs and Tory toffs and so should not receive a state funeral. But she is more deserving than anyone since Churchill because she did what she thought was right for Britain — and succeeded, no matter if people disagreed with her decisions.
But the Baroness realizes that people "spend too much time feeling and not thinking." And as for political leaders, too many "want to be something rather than do something." She thought hard about how to save her nation — and she did it.
Bernie Reeves is editor & publisher, Raleigh Metro Magazine, and founder, Raleigh Spy Conference.
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Many youth football organizations are having a difficult time equipping their players suitably, according to Twan Russell, director of youth and community Programs for the Miami Dolphins. Russell stated that, "Having the proper equipment, in many cases, is the difference in making the game of football safe and fun." Equipment expenses often exceed the funds generated by player fees. According to USA Football, the total estimated cost of starting a youth football team is approximately $2,928, as of mid 2015.
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Football pants with slotted pockets to hold thigh and knee pads, with snap in hip pads, are available in black and white and cost around $19.99 as of mid 2015. However, this price varies slightly depending on the brand. Most pants include built-in belt and hip, spine, thigh and knee pads
Jerseys range in price from around $15 for a basic numbered jersey. If you wish to customize a jersey to include a team name, the price increase to about $21.99 as of mid 2015. Practice jerseys may also be a consideration and are available starting at $6.99.
Organizations such as USA Football partner with NFL teams to provide equipment grants for youth football programs throughout the United States. More than $3 million worth of equipment has been purchased through the program since 2006. Selected youth leagues receive a variety of football and uniform options.
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