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Dear Friends,
Wow, 2013 is unfolding rapidly and it's already February! Typical of twins, Ana and I have a tendency to bicker about this blog, barking orders like, "It's your turn to write!" This incites the usual rebuttal, "No, it isn't- it's your turn!" Well, I come clean and say I haven't written in a few months.
Well, it has been 4 months since Ana's last blog post. I survived the busiest year of my life, and made a difficult decision to terminate my job early so I could breeatthheee. Now I started a new job- one day a week at a local hospice in bereavement care. I absolutely love my work, and feel like every step in my history has prepared me for this place. I decided it's really too much for me at this point in my life to work five days a week, travel as much as I do, and keep up with my health. Fortunately, I've been so healthy despite little issues like a broken bone. I know I'm extremely lucky.
We survived another holiday season, mainly the melancholy brought on by reminders of those who were not with us. After a lovely stomach bug that sent me into the hospital on Christmas, I went to Los Angeles for New Year's to dedicate a rose for my lung donor Xavier, and placed it on the Donate Life Rose Parade Float. Ana also dedicated a rose for her two lung donors. My in-laws joined me on Jan. 1st, to see the Donate Life float at the Rose Parade and then celebrate Stanford's victory at the Rose Bowl!! This was my second Stanford Rose Bowl, but my first victory, and boy, was it a beautiful sunny day in So. Cal. My mom indulged us all to a wonderful Japanese New Year meal, called osechiryori, which kicked off a great start to 2013.
One week into 2013, Ana and I have hit another milestone… our 41st birthday! We can't believe we have come this far, together. The Forties are Fabulous! After never expecting to live this long, we welcome our wrinkles and aches and pains of aging. Unfortunately I spent my birthday in the hospital with the terrible Influenza A that is going around. Such is life with a transplant: constant vigilance, familiarity with the hospital as a second home, and hope for a fast recovery. Thankfully, with excellent medical care, I bounced back pretty quickly. And I kept away from Ana so she didn't catch it either.
Like a yo-yo, Ana and I seem to take turns working. I finished up my fellowship in bereavement care at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, and now only work one day a week at Sutter Hospice. Ana returned to work at LPCH, after a few months on medical leave. Now, I'm taking on more Power of Two work, relieving Ana, tag-teaming to plan the speaking gigs, make flight reservations, Powerpoint presentations, order books, etc.
Mid-January brought another huge adventure for me: going to Washington D.C., with my husband Andrew, to see the final Inauguration of President Barack Obama. Andrew was very involved in the finance committee, Tech for Obama and Lawyers for Obama; so he had special access to balls and receptions. We had a great time together, spending quality time really together after so much time apart. I am so proud of him, following his passion to support Democratic politics. To tie Dr. Martin Luther King's holiday to this moment in history made it even more memorable. I was so moved by the diverse crowds- we met people from Texas, Arizona, Florida, all with common values of believing in social justice, equality for all, and Democratic potential. I felt so grateful for upcoming Obamacare, which will lift heavy burdens off of many! I also enjoyed getting dressed up, but my feet did not, so I suffered from prograf-prednisone-diabetic foot pain through most of the 5 hours in line and standing for the Inauguration, plus the balls. Fortunately, Andrew's firm provided a lovely reception, and we looked down from the balcony to watch the Presidential motorcade and parade below. Overall, Inauguration weekend was a moment in history I feel so blessed to witness.
Now for our biggest news: Ana got a new puppy! One year after saying goodbye to my soulmate dog Rupie, On our way back from the Rose Bowl, on January 2nd, we stopped by the ARF (Animal Rescue of Fresno) and fell in love with a basset mix named Flower. If it were up to me, Ana and I would have brought four dogs home. The lonely, sad eyes of dogs in concrete cages made my heart sink, reminding me that there is never enough love to go around for our four-legged friends. But alas, our husbands restrained us as the voices of reason. Well, the one lucky Flower-turned-Timon was brought to Ana's home, and has been showered with double love from her mommy and auntie, as well as our reluctant husbands.
Timon the Terrible is certainly a handful. She escaped my yard twice, tore up my screen door, tore up plastic bags and cardboard boxes in the garage, and left a steaming pipe of poop in my car, after tearing up the armrest. Oy vey! I watch the dog when Ana is working, thoroughly confusing her about which twin is her mommy! Yet, it sure is easier to co-mother a puppy!
Timon is another reminder that all good things come from Fresno. Nine years ago on Feb 4, 2004, my donor Xavier was declared brain-dead, near Fresno. My heart weighs heavy at this time, thinking of him and his family. I imagine they still miss him terribly, and their grief remains painful. Nearly a decade after his death, his story remains fully alive. Every time I play my bagpipes, say his name, share my book or film with his photograph, a part of him lives on.
I firmly believe Xavier is connected to my life and the happenings in it. Last week, on Facebook, a woman wrote me saying she saw my name in the list of Donate Life Rose Parade rose dedications, and she also dedicated a rose in honor of her donor, Xavier. She received a pancreas and kidney at UCSF Hospital on February 6, 2004. She read an article online about me, my donor, and her date of transplant matched mine! My "transplant sister", Kathie T., and I met yesterday for lunch and talked for 3 hours. We drank in each other's stories. We compared scars and our respective medical dramas. Kathie seemed oddly familiar. She was wearing red, my favorite color. She giggled often, just like I did. She spoke with energy and enthusiasm. She was a caregiver for her ill family member, like I was. She had a devoted husband, who saved her life on several occasions, just like mine did for me. Kathie is from Minnesota, as is my husband. Like my life with CF, Kathie endured decades of poor health with diabetes and kidney failure. I shared my photographs and letters from Xavier's family. Her family has a brother with the same name as Xavier's older brother. Kathie likes to help the homeless, and Xavier also did the same. These may be minor coincidences, but I believe there is a divine alignment between donor and recipient. I was called for my transplant on Feb. 5, at 5pm, while Kathie was called at 10pm that night. Both of us were in surgery for 9 hours. Both of us woke up with a grateful yet heavy heart for our donor's family and their saying 'yes' to organ donation. Added to the mystery, is that back in 2006, Ana and I heard from our donor families one week apart. Now, we have each met one of our fellow recipients… the pancreas/kidney recipient! Twins certainly do follow a synchronistic path!
And now, last Thursday, Ana and I were invited to be on the Katie Couric Show. The episode is entitled, "Multiple Madness." We had a hectic few days cancelling appointments, getting our hair and nails done, and running around Stanford Shopping Center with low blood sugars looking for 'that perfect outfit.' Today we arrived in New York City, and tomorrow we will be interviewed with Katie at 10am, and the show will air around 3pm nationwide (they say 2.5 million viewers). We don't know why we are so lucky and have so many opportunities. Our extraordinary life just gets more extraordinary! We heard about the tragic loss of a CF friend last week, Joey, (just 18 months post-transplant), which breaks our hearts, knowing that transplant outcomes are sometimes a cast of the dice. What is certain is that each day is precious and there are no guarantees.
Thank you for your ongoing support and interest in our lives. We have so many thrilling experiences, but knowing and loving you is more important than anything.
Take care, stay away from sick people, and hope you avoid the Flu.


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The patchwork perspective: A new view for patient experience
Jason A. Wolf PhD
Accelerating patient experience performance: Collaboration and engagement as drivers for success
Sidney Klajner
Rebalancing the patient experience: 20 years of a pendulum swing
Tiffany Christensen
Personal Narratives
Turning a blind eye: How lack of communication with ER nurses nearly cost a patient permanent vision loss
Kenneth Royal and April Kedrowicz
Perfect ratings with negative comments: Learning from contradictory patient survey responses
Andrew S. Gallan, Marina Girju, and Roxana Girju
Healthcare providers versus patients' understanding of health beliefs and values
Betty M. Kennedy, Matloob Rehman, William D. Johnson, Michelle B. Magee, Robert Leonard, and Peter T. Katzmarzyk
Patient and provider experiences with relationship, information, and management continuity
Jeanette Jackson, Gail MacKean, Tim Cooke, and Markus Lahtinen
Effects of a hospital-wide physician communication skills training workshop on self-efficacy, attitudes and behavior
Minna Saslaw, Dana R. Sirota, Deborah P. Jones, Marcy Rosenbaum, and Steven Kaplan
Patient safety: just ask. Patients as reporters of real-time safety data; a pilot project to improve patient safety in secondary care
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Maintaining public health insurance benefits: How primary care clinics help keep low-income patients insured
Rose L. Harding, Jennifer D. Hall, Jennifer DeVoe, Heather Angier, Rachel Gold, Christine Nelson, Sonja Likumahuwa-Ackman, John Heintzman, Aleksandra Sumic, and Deborah J. Cohen
The impact of provider service networks in Florida Medicaid managed care on enrollees' satisfaction
Sinyoung Park, Jeffrey S. Harman, and Allyson G. Hall
Operationalizing person-centered care practices in long-term care: recommendations from a "Resident for a Day" experience
Jennifer L. Johs-Artisensi
Exploratory pilot testing of the psychometric properties of the person engagement index instrument among older, community-dwelling adults
Ellen Swartwout, Taya Irizarry, Annette DeVito Dabbs, and Scott Barnett
I'm going to tell you a little about myself: Illness centrality, self-image and identity in cystic fibrosis
Susan Horky LCSW, Laura Sherman LICSW, Julie K. Polvinen BA, Medhavi Saxena MD, and Michael Rich MD
Patient experience of taking adjuvant endocrine therapy for breast cancer: a tough pill to swallow
Kuang-Yi Wen, Rita Smith, Aruna Padmanabhan, and Lori Goldstein
Patient experiences in intensive care units: a systematic review
Serpil Topçu, Şule Ecevit Alpar, Bilgi Gülseven, and Ayda Kebapçı
Case Studies
Using appreciative inquiry as a framework to enhance the patient experience
Kerry Moorer MBA; Schawan Kunupakaphun; Elilzabeth Delgado; Matthew Moody; Christina Wolf MSN, RN, CNL; Karen Moore RN, MS, FACHE; and Pracha Eamranond MD, MPH
"We were learning together and it felt good that way." A case study of a participatory group music program for cancer patients
Laurie Sadowski
Patient experience in the behavioral health setting: Key best practices throughout an organizational journey
Mark L. D'Agostino, Tena Vizner, Daniel Wald, Linda Espinosa, and Rick Evans


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A dragon in your soul is something you might not take easy. A human in your soul, when you are a dragon is not easy as well.
FinFarenath is a role-playing character for a fantasy online world, also a character for some science fiction novels. You can find information about that character all around this online lair, so feel free to have fun reading and enjoying the world of fantasy.
Me, myself and I - that most typically describes the "me". It is not simply a human being, a dragon or vice versa. It is more like a symbiosis that formed over some very deep hardships and sad times. It is the dragon that keeps me going and the human that needs the mending and support in me.
- which is me - is the dragon side and aspect of myself. It shows in certain parts of my behavior and attitude towards certain topics. It is the strong part in me that keeps me going and fighting through when I think that there only is darkness to build up around me. It also is the creative side of me that supports the more human creativities that are still left in me. The joyous yet also ponderous way of ambling through life is most of the time based on the way, just dragons see and reflect their world.
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- that is still there somehow - reflects how I used to look at things and mainly is a reflection of distant images on a perturbed waters surface. There surely is a lot left of me in myself but it is mostly a motoric and sensotic level that retained. At times it feels more like a scrooge or a dead stump of a limb to me as really being me. This is when all the bad times surface again and I can not see any lights on the horizon. But there might be hope that someday, when the majority of my chores might ease a little - that I will find my way back to who I used to be again.
Given that symbiosis of those two souls that are not really two, rather then one soul in a whole, there is a third form, that created the conflict and the disbelieve in the understanding of myself. It is a form of both.
- the halfdragon - is what formed a part of my life for some time and has been the compromise before really accepting myself in me. So not to diminish that or to say it was something bad, that I got rid of - it rather reminds me too much of sad times to really want to remember or recall this third face of me, myself and I.
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Update April 2013: Please check out my more recent post about scrap vinegar here with photos of the stages you'll encounter and more tips based on my experience making successive batches of vinegars.
I'll go ahead and just put it out there first thing. This is a project wherein everyone who lives under your roof needs to be enthusiastic, unless you have some sort of out-of-the-way cellar or garage that stays at or around 80 degrees F. You're making vinegar. It's going to smell like vinegar after about a week. Be warned.
There's no specific recipe for this as you can make as small or large a batch as you have scraps.
My first batch of cider vinegar came from scraps that started out as apples simmered in water and then pureed through a food mill. I took a chance on the mealy skins and chunks, hoping that cooked vs raw would provide sufficient apple-ness in my soon-to-be vinegar.
It worked for me, and I'm now working on another batch of cider vinegar, but this time with raw scraps. I'll post an update after a month to let you know how it goes.
This method is based on Sandor Ellix Katz's fruit scrap vinegar recipe from his fablulous book, Wild Fermentation.
Homemade Apple Cider Vinegar Recipe
1. Save those cores and peels from pies and apple preserving projects. Use organic apple scraps, or know your local apple grower's spraying policies. For your first batch I'd recommend using between 5-10 apples' worth of scraps. Use your cooked, apple butter scraps if that's what you have. Freeze your scraps from smaller projects if you'd like and just use frozen scraps as you would with fresh (don't worry about defrosting).
Place your scraps in your widest-base, food-safe container. Avoid aluminum or galvanized steel; the acidity level will rise as your vinegar ferments, you don't want metallic compounds in your salads and marinades. An enameled stone crockpot bowl would be ideal, but stainless steel, food-grade plastic tubs or enameled cast iron/steel are good vessel options. Whatever you use, make sure it's something you won't need for at least one week.
2. The volume of sugar water will depend on how many scraps you have. Dissolve 1/4-cup sugar in 1-quart water. If that doesn't cover your scraps then multiply that ratio by as many quarts as you need to completely submerge your scraps in sugar water. For the batch I started yesterday with scraps from 20lbs of apples, I needed 13 quarts of water with 3-1/4 cups sugar to cover my scraps. (Out with the trusty lobster pot/canner pot, again.)
3. Cover your pot with cheesecloth and let sit for one week. Be sure to swirl the pot or stir the scraps daily or mold will form on the surface. A good fermentation temperature for vinegar is on the warmer end (80 degrees F); if it's cooler in your house expect the process to just take longer.
4. After a week has elapsed, strain out the scraps. Sandor said the liquid would darken, but mine didn't really. I think that's the product of my using mush, post-puree leavings; my liquid was always sort of cloudy. It did bubble over the week, though, a good sign that bacteria and wild yeasts were eating sugars and producing carbon dioxide (yay fermentation!)
The larger batch you do, the more straining prowess and ingenuity you'll need. My juicing/straining tactic for jelly'ing came in handy.
5. Return your strained liquid to a vessel large enough to contain it. Maybe that's what you had the scraps in initially, or maybe you've found an even better vessel to free up your dual purpose lobster pot/canner pot for preserving other things.
Again, more exposed surface area with air will benefit your vinegar fermentation. Cover with cheesecloth (to keep fruit flies out of your vinegar) and let the liquid ferment over the next 2-3 weeks. Peek and give it a swirl every few days to make sure everything's okay in there. It's done when it tastes like cider vinegar. Be brave, give it a little slurp.
6. Bottle your vinegar and use it like you would store-bought, except for in waterbath canning. Don't use homemade vinegar for pickling or preserving food in jars you plan to seal and store at room temp. Acidity levels in homemade vinegars will vary and a simple pH test strip might not give you a reliable reading of the pH of your vinegar. Be safe my friends. (I'd use this vinegar for pickles you make and keep only in the fridge, though.)
I scooped up some of the 'mother' (see below for more info) and put some in each jar. You can strain her out if you're not cool with live bacteria keepin' it real in your jar. Check out Bragg's for further reading on this topic.
Things I learned from my first batch:
1. I didn't have a control group, nor any prior experience to base it on, but my feeling is that there was less sugar in my cooked scraps than had I used raw scraps, which is why it took about two weeks longer for the vinegar to ripen. It could also be because I made quite possibly the largest batch one can manage in a home kitchen with regular home containers. I also cooked out some of the naturally-occurring yeasts & bacteria that helps the fermentation process along. All this is to say, I'd probably just use raw scraps in the future.
2. This is not like making fermented pickles where you want to skim religiously, daily. As mentioned earlier in the post, at one point midway through the post-strain ferment, it got hot in my house (about 80 degrees F) and small clusters of mold formed on the top. As I skimmed those (definitely skim those), I noticed a film forming and thought I needed to skim that, too. Turns out that that's the mother. It eventually sinks and grows. Not gross grows, just becomes more like what you'd see in a Bragg's bottle. I made a mother!
3. I definitely need more vessels and one can never have too much cheesecloth. Floursack towels make great cheesecloth substitutes.
If you give this a try, I'd love to hear how it goes for you.
Good questions from Klynn:
"I had previously read that yeast must be added, but apparently this is not so? Also, What do you do with it when it's done? Can it be stored room temp or should it go into the fridge? And does it need to be processed before storage?"
No added yeast, as we're relying on wild yeasts in the air, which do their job superbly. When it's finished, store it in clean smaller bottles (or in one large one) capped at room temp. The yeasts and Acetobacter have eaten all available sugars and produced a shelf-stable vinegar. Processing it will kill the live microorganisms. Raw vinegar will last indefinitely, but the flavor will evolve over time.


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So as most of the clubs in the National Football League finish off week one of the 2013 pre-season, there are two teams that now have two games under their belts. Dallas defeated the Miami Dolphins in the Hall of Fame game last weekend, then subsequently turned around and lost to the Oakland Raiders in week 2 of what really is week 1…do you follow me? The Dolphins flipped things around by pummeling the new look Jacksonville Jaguars in week 1 or what really is week 2…are you still following me?
It's really hard to take a lot away from the other organizations in the NFL after only perhaps 4:17 of (or there abouts) of real NFL football in the first quarter of the first game in week 1 of the pre-season…or week 2? I forget which? But Dallas and the Dolphins have a bit more on tape for the personnel and coaching staffs to dissect. Michael Burke of TheLandryHat.com pulls out his own evaluative scalpel to peel back the layers of the "Big D" after week 1…err, week 2 of the 2013 pre-season.
Cowboy fans and the rest of America's TEAM followers take notice.
Dallas Cowboys Have 2 Pre-Season Games Behind Them
by Mike Burke
So now the Dallas Cowboys have dispatched the Miami Dolphins in the Hall of Fame game, and lost to the Oakland Raiders in the pre-season debut of many of the starters. The question is, what have we learned so far? Well, one thing we definitely have learned is that Ron Leary wants to start. You have to like the kind of fire it requires when a man plays an entire game and comes back for more just 5 days later. I have to tell you this thrills me, because I have been more worried about the Offensive Line than any other part of this team. He had a false start penalty that irked me, as all penalties do, but other than that I am impressed.
For my money so far, Nate Livings has lost his job. They say you can't lose your job to injury. Tell that to Wally Pipp. Hell, tell that to Drew Bledsoe. No disrespect to Nate Livings is meant, but I would simply settle an injury claim and let him go at this point. It is Marco Rivera all over again. A good guy who just can't stay healthy and on the field.
I was particularly pleased when Brandon Moore's signing was announced. I have that much respect for his game, and that much worry about the spot currently occupied by Mackenzy Bernadeau for the same reason I was worried about Living's spot. Neither one has lived up to their contracts and each one seems to be hurt when we need them to be showing us last year was a fluke. When rumors immediately began that we would be interested in Brian Waters, I was even happier.
Click here to read the rest of this article.
Michael Burke of TheLandryHat.com
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In addition to being an innovative competency-based program, ACE also has a number of unique programmatic features which include: the Habits of Success, Exhibitions, Seminar, and Post Graduate Planning.
For more information about the program, see our Frequently Asked Questions.
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All ACE seniors take a series of Post-Graduate Planning Classes which meet once a week and help guide students through all aspects of the college/career exploration process from learning how to begin career exploration, to writing resumes and applying for jobs, to learning how to find the best match for colleges and/or careers, to getting strategic help in filling out college applications.
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When a student first comes into the ACE program, they take two interdisciplinary seminar courses (one math/science and one English/history) during their first cycle of classes. These courses are designed to gradually introduce and acculturate students to the competency-based system of learning and assessing and the habits of success since these are aspects of ACE that make it uniquely different than mainstream. During this time, students are also given diagnostic assessments in the four content areas to determine their skill and content knowledge levels. This information then informs the roadmap of courses that they will need to take to graduate from ACE.


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The official ICE ROCKS party will take place at Johann Franck bar on Zagreb's main square on Friday, March 11th from 8pm.
Entrance is permitted with exhibitors' & visitors' passes only!
Open bar will serve drinks from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. free of charge. Finger food will be served in the same period. After 1 a.m. drinks will be charged at discounted prices. The party will end not later than 3 a.m.
*IAE shuttle will be available from 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m. on Friday, March 11th. Please keep in mind that shuttle won't be available from party to your hotel:


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Pilates consists of controlled, precise movements with emphasis on strengthening muscles without adding bulk. It will focus on the core and postural muscles, including butt, abs and back, working to align the spine and improve posture.
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Young Asteroid Families Newly Classified by GMOS
Figure 1. Artist's conceptualization of asteriodial collisions in the young solar system. Gemini artwork by Jon Lomberg
Optical spectroscopy from the Gemini telescopes has revealed a relatively uncommon type of asteroid in the main-belt for the first time. The discovery was made by a joint Brazil and US project led by Thais Mothé-Diniz of the Observatório Nacional in Rio de Janeiro and David Nesvorný of the Southwest Research Institute (Boulder, Colorado). The team used both GMOS North and South to obtain optical spectra of asteroids with estimated ages of < 1 Myr which they then compared to laboratory spectra of meteorites that have fallen to Earth. They found that spectra of asteroids in the newly discovered Datura family have a deep absorption feature near 0.8 microns which classifies them as 'Q-type' asteroids. This spectral feature is produced by silicate material, in particular olivine and pyroxene. Most interestingly, the spectra of Q-type objects are well-matched to the most common type of meteorite found on Earth called an ordinary chondrite (OC).
Figure 2: GMOS spectra of the targets. All of the spectra are normalized to unity at 0.55 microns. Particularly important is the presence of the absorption feature that start to appear at approximately 0.75 microns.
This is an important result since we do not know (with a few exceptions) the location of the parent bodies that form the meteorites that we find on Earth. Since we believe that many of the objects we find here come from the main asteroid belt, the lack of any asteroids that have a spectrum similar to OCs has been a long-standing and fundamental problem in planetary science. One theory as to why it has been difficult to find the parent bodies of OCs is that the process of "space weathering" changes the shape and depth of spectral features of asteroids in relatively short timescales.
To circumvent this difficulty, Mothé-Diniz and Nesvorný used numerical methods to determine where they hoped to find some of the youngest asteroids in the main-belt. They then took GMOS spectra of these objects with the hypothesis that the surface of the youngest asteroids will likely not 'weathered' and will therefore show the unaltered shape of the objects spectrum.
Particularly exciting are the spectra of objects in the Datura family (Figure 2). Probably formed by the breakup of a larger body, this newly discovered family of objects is only 450 +- 50 thousand years old. This makes its members some of the youngest asteroids in the main-belt. It is also notable that the sensitivity of the GMOS instruments made it possible to obtain high signal-to-noise spectra of these objects in about one hour per target, even though the targets were only a few kilometers in diameter.
Figure 3: GMOS spectrum (black line) plotted with the laboratory spectrum of an ordinary chondrite (OC) meteoroid named 'Fayetteville'. The close match between the spectra implies that the Datura family of asteroids is young since 'space weathering' has not had enough time to diminish the strength of the absorption feature.
As seen in Figure 3 the spectrum of (1270) Datura is a good match to that of an OC found on Earth (named Fayetteville, presumably as a nod to where it was found). The fact that the spectrum shows a deep and well defined absorption feature near 0.8 microns is what allowed the team to classify this target as type Q (or perhaps type Sk, a classification similar to Q). This result will likely have a broad impact on the study of OCs and young asteroid families since there is now a strong connection between the objects we find here on Earth, and those we observe in the main asteroid belt. The authors note that more observations, especially in the near-IR, would strengthen this result.
Figure 4: Long-exposure image of the Zodiacal Light as seen from the summit area of Mauna Kea. The Zodiacal Light is caused by sunlight being scattered off of small dust particles that orbit in the inner solar system. A large fraction of the dust comes from collisions between asteroids, much like those bodies discussed in this story. All planetary systems initially form out of a disk of gas and dust that surrounds their parent star, the zodiacal light is the last remnant of the disk that formed our Solar system. Note the lights of Waimea behind the twin Keck domes and Waikoloa/Kona to the left. The Zodiacal Light is the pale, wedge-shaped glow near the center of the image and tilted upward toward the left.
For more information please see the paper titled "Visible Spectroscopy of extremely young asteroid families" by T. Mothé-Diniz and D. Nesvorný, A&A, 2008, 486, L9-12


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K&H took the popular Kitty Sill to the next level and created both hooded and bolstered kitty sills. If your kitty wants to cuddle, they can have all the advantages of looking out the window and feeling the sunshine while having the security of a bolster. Product Features Attractive kitty print Zip off bolster Soft


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Elegantees "Chelsea" top, DSTLD denim, JustFab flats, Dagne Dover handbag, SIX scarf
It's here! This project that the girls at Elegantees and I have been working on since July is finally launching today. It's called the Chelsea, and it's happy to meet you.
The process has been a blast since the beginning, and I even got to meet up with the team while I was in New York for fashion week. Over the summer, they sent me sketches and design ideas, and working together, we came up with this pretty piece. Not too fitted, flattering, and longer in the back in the prettiest shade of heather grey I ever did see. It's also available in a lovely plum shade (and black very soon!) on the site. And it's at a great price point (!), so you can get all the girls on your Christmas list shopped for in one fell swoop. I hope you guys love this tee as much as I do! Elegantees is an incredible company that helps to restore women who have been rescued from sex trafficking in both New York and Nepal. I'm so honored to be able to work with them as this cause is very important to me; my best friend lived in Nepal for two years doing missionary work for a very similar organization. It's such a thrill for me to be able to contribute, even in such a small way.
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Wedding Inspiration // One Couple Three Ways: Royal/
This is one part of a three-part shoot. Elaina and Bryce were also styled under the themes of sweet floral and grunge.
"Let's do a shoot that involves cats…and motorcycles!" That was the sentence that began this project. Later we'd add to the list: deer teeth, parachute pants, and a grungy bouquet of flowers with roots still attached.
Those of us in the wedding industry work really hard during a chunk of the year we label busy season. Off-season is when we can catch up on shows in our Netflix queue, visit our friends, take extended trips, and work on the back end of our business. It's during this latter time I often feel the most artistic energy. Once those creative muscles have hibernated, coming back into the world to stretch them is one of the best things I can do for myself to kick off a new busy season.
Back to the shoot. A group of us creatives meet our perfect match: a young couple married two years, who never had their wedding day in the sun. They married at a courthouse before moving abroad to teach English in Korea. There was no first look, no dress shopping, and no being doted upon. Even before we met our couple, we decided to stretch ourselves and what we consider possible by using one couple and one base outfit — but in wildly different aesthetics.
Whether married for two or twenty years, people are always coming up to me and saying, "I wish I would have known you when I got married!" So if you didn't get the wedding photos you dreamed of on the day you said, "I do!", reach out to your wedding community. Because your dream is their dream. And if you're planning your wedding now, don't let the boxes hold you captive — details can take a vision to a whole new level! A few wild florals can transform a super simple room into a greenhouse, and a little moody makeup and a leather jacket can make you some badass bikers!
"I just was doted on all day, and it really inspired me to think about dabbling in my own personal creative endeavors. I like refurbishing stuff and decorating, and I've done a few projects lately inspired by the shoot. I've also started curling my hair more often now that I know it can look so BA." —Elaina, Bride
Collaborating with friends has been one of the best things for my business. In our dream world, we'd work together at every wedding every weekend.
"The shoot allowed us to style cleanly and simply, but still create the dream scenarios we've always wanted to see with wedding days!" —MStyle
"I wanted to be part of the styled shoot because it seemed like something Elaina and I would have a lot of fun doing. I also thought my mom would be thrilled to see us dressed up in wedding clothes…I've learned more about event planning, floral arrangements, photography, hair and makeup in one day than I ever had before. It was just such an unusual day for me that when I think about it, it feels like a breath of fresh air." —Bryce, Groom
Words and photos by Rachel Joy Barehl
Styling: MStyle
Photography: Rachel Joy Barehl
Floral Design: Bear Roots Floral and Eco Flora Design
Makeup: Annamarie Cua
Accessories/Vintage: Of The Wolf Vintage
Dress: Elegant Bride
Suits / Shoes: American Commodore Tuxedo
Headpiece: Beloved Adornments Maui
Rachel Barehl is a photographer in Columbus, Ohio who is known for her abilities to build community and tell stories. She and her partner Adam live with their pup Clooney and several chickens in a little oasis in the middle of the city that they refer to as the Barehl Homestead. If you want to see snapshots of her life, follow her on Instagram @racheljoybarehl


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Ahead of the release on Monday of DC Comics' full solicitations for June 2017, the publisher has provided CBR with an exclusive first look at the text and covers for "Deathstroke" #20, "Titans" #12 and "Teen Titans" #9, which all take place in the aftermath of the "Lazarus Contract" crossover.
Check out the details for the three titles below, and return to CBR on Monday afternoon for DC's full solicitations.
Written by CHRISTOPHER PRIEST • Art by LARRY HAMA and CARLO PAGULAYAN • Cover by LEE WEEKS • Variant covers by SHANE DAVIS
"The Lazarus Contract" epilogue! As Deathstroke picks up the pieces of his life following the traumatic events of last month's "The Lazarus Contract," a threat years in the making boils to the surface when an old friend becomes mortal foe!
On sale JUNE 7 • 32 pg, FC, $3.99 US • RATED T+
Written by DAN ABNETT • Art and cover by KENNETH ROCAFORT • Variant cover by DAN MORA
"Bad Omen"! After the stunning events of "The Lazarus Contract" rocked the Titans to their core and called into question the team's leadership, Omen discovers the shocking truth about their future—that one of their very own is destined to betray them…and it could be anyone!
On sale JUNE 14 • 32 pg, FC, $3.99 US • RATED T
Written by BENJAMIN PERCY • Art by KHOI PHAM and WADE VON GRAWBADGER • Cover by KHOI PHAM • Variant cover by Paolo Pantalena
"Blood of the Manta" part one! Still dealing with the consequences of "The Lazarus Contract," Kid Flash's status with the team is challenged by Damian…and the Teen Titans will never be the same. Meanwhile, Aqualad learns more about his powers and the truth about his lineage is revealed!
On sale JUNE 28 • 32 pg, FC, $3.99 US • RATED T


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Bitten's Laura Vandervoort & Oliver Trevena Split & End Engagment
Laura Vandervoort and Oliver Trevena have called off their engagement.
"They broke up before the holidays," a close source to the 30-year-old actress and the 33-year-old Young Hollywood host shared to Us Weekly.
If you don't remember, Laura and Oliver got engaged in January 2014 after dating in mid-2013.
Though Laura has not publicly commented on the split, she did write on Instagram before the new year, "Don't limit who you are & who you can be….Happy New Year xo."
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As most of you know, as a client you have been accumulating Rewards Points from each of your transactions.
From the 1st of October 2013, the VIP Rewards Club will cease to exist.
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As this is done through our software, if you have failed to redeem your points by 1st October 2013, they will just be removed from your account automatically.
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17: Plastic for all
There's been a lot of talk over the past week about wooden apps — and it hasn't been about skeuomorphic renderings of bookshelves. No, it's been in reference to Rene Ritchie's excellent article on the role of indie developers in today's App Stores — if you haven't read it, definitely take the few minutes to. The main hypothesis is that indie apps are the hand-carved wooden toys of our era: once the best quality available, but now a curiosity or artistic endeavor, not a moneymaker.
I, like Rene, hope that this isn't true, especially since many early iOS indies were major innovators. I don't see the iPhone in 2016 as being the pinnacle of mobile software interaction, with no room for improvement, and I can't imagine that Apple would disagree with me. The market has shifted, and will continue to do so, but as a consumer I just want a marketplace where I can put a certain portion of my budget towards art — the wooden apps — and another portion towards reliable practical goods. But is that the plastic?
If we are witnessing a sea change on par with an "Industrial Revolution of apps", who are the giants of the new industry? Yes, big players can put out free apps that are mere conduits to the "real products", their services. But unless they hold true monopoly sway (or even if they do), those apps need attention too. The Google Docs apps are the current punching bag for poor app maintenance, and the reaction is merited. Google apps are relied upon for serious work; while wood is no good for modern play, flimsy plastic is no good for modern work.
Where then, are the steel, aluminum, or even carbon fiber apps? Premium products featuring the latest technology, that those willing to go above and beyond the basics would readily seek out — you know, a bit like Apple's hardware. It's a question that Apple observers keep asking: can it possibly be the case that of hundreds of millions of Apple platform users, only a vanishingly small slice would pay for sleek software? It seems paradoxical, like the math should make for clear opportunities. Perhaps they're not opportunities for those only armed with a block of wood and a chisel. Hopefully Apple will give guidance and support for a new class of app artisans with new skills and new materials. It can only stand to strengthen their economy — the App Store economy is their creation after all — and improve the quality of the digital lives of their customers.


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REV. HENRY DODRIDGE, D. D. REV. HENRY EDWARD MANNING, D. D.REV. F. LEWIS, of Granada REV. STEPHEN KEENAN REV. BERNARD VAUGHAN, S. J. REV. THOMAS N. BURKE, O. P.
CHAPTER XVlll.
§ I. Of the Slavery of the Wicked. —Should you ask me, Whose slave is he, who is under such confinement ? I answer, he is a slave to the most hideous tyrant we can possibly represent to ourselves ; I mean, to sin. For hell's torments being the most abominable thing, sin must of necessity be yet more abominable, inasmuch as these torments are but the effect of it. It is to this the wicked pay their slavish homage, as appears plainly from the words of our Saviour so lately cited: " Whosoever is guilty of sin is a slave to sin John viii. 34. And can a man possibly be oppressed with a more deplorable slavery than this is?
Nor is he a slave to sin only, but, what is still worse, to those who incite him to it, that is, to the world, the devil, and his own flesh, depraved by sin, and to every disorderly appetite the flesh is the occasion of; for he who is -a slave to the son must be a slave to his parents. Now there is none of us but knows, that these three are the parents of sin, and on this account they are styled "the enemies of the soul," because they are so prejudicial to it, as to take it prisoner, and to put it under the power of such a cruel tyrant as sin is.
But though these three agree in this point, yet there is some kind of a difference in their manner of proceeding; for the two first make use of the third, which is the flesh, like another Eve, for the deceiving of Adam, or like a spur to drive him on to all manner of mischief. For this reason the Apostle calls it sin, as it were by excellence, giving the name of the effect to the cause, because there is no manner of sin whatever, which it does not tempt us to. The divines, on the same account, term it fomes peccati, that is, the bait and the nourishment of sin, because it serves, instead of wood and oil, to keep in and increase the fire of sin. But the name we generally call it by is sensuality, flesh or concupiscence, which, to speak more plainly, is nothing else, but our sensual appetite, the cause of all our passions, as it is spoiled and corrupted by sin, it being the incentive and provocative, nay, and the very source of all manner of vices. This it is, particularly, that makes our other two enemies employ our sensual appetite as their instrument for the carrying on of the war against us. It was this that gave St. Basil occasion to say, " that our own desires are the chief arms with which the devil fights against us; because the immoderate affection we have for whatever we desire, makes us endeavor to possess it right or wrong, and break through all that lies in our way, though forbid by the law of God; and from hence all sins take their rise and origin; " St. Bas. Hom. 23, de non adher. reb. saecularibus.
This appetite is one of the greatest tyrants the wicked are subject to, and by which, the Apostle says, they are made slaves ; and, though he calls them slaves, he does not mean that they have lost that free-will with which they were created; because this never was nor ever will be lost, as to its essence, though man commit ever so many sins; but that *sin, on the one side, has so weakened this free-will, and on the other lent such forces to the appetite, that the stronger, generally speaking, prevails over the weaker.
Besides, what greater subject of grief can we have than to see man, whose soul is created according to God's own image, who is enlightened from heaven, and has an understanding so subtle as to fly above all created beings, and to contemplate God himself; it is, I say, a deplorable thing to consider that this soul should take no notice of all these noble qualities, but let herself be governed by the blind impulse of her beastly appetite, which has been corrupted by sin, and hurried on by the devil? What must a man expect from such a government, and from such directions, but dangers, calamities, and all kinds of unparalleled misfortunes?


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2016 NAIA Women's Cross Country Runner of the Week ? No. 2
By Nikki Sherrill, Communications & Sports Information Intern
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Lyndee Dawson of Biola (Calif.) has been named the NAIA Women's Cross Country Runner of the Week, the national office announced Wednesday. Dawson was selected for her performance on Sept. 10 and was selected out of a pool of Conference/Association of Independent Institutions award winners.
NAIA Women's Cross Country Runner of the Week
Lyndee Dawson, Biola (Calif.)
Sr., Puyallup, Wash.
- Finished fourth overall at the Biola Invitational with a 5-kilometer time of 17:06. Her mark helped the women's team place third out of 15 teams.
- Ran the fastest out of all NAIA runners at the invitational and finished 12 seconds ahead of any other NAIA runner.
- Cut 50 seconds off her time from the NAIA National Championship Meet last season where she ran 17:56 to place 16th.
For the complete runner of the week calendar, click here.
Nominees: Sierra St. Aubyn, Hannibal-LaGrange (Mo.); Alessandra Moss, William Woods (Mo.); Isabel Salinas, Montreat (N.C.); Rebecca Guadiana, Point (Ga.); Jordan Monroe, Oregon Tech; Jessa Perkinson, Southern Oregon; Rachel Roelle, Eastern Oregon; Elizabeth Soper, Olivet Nazarene (Ill.); Ashlee Knott, St. Francis (Ill.); Stephanie Clarkson, Governors State (Ill.); Sarah McBeath, Indiana Wesleyan; Annie Winkler, Mount Vernon Nazarene (Ohio); Alex Berends, Taylor (Ind.); Leah Esposito, Carroll (Mont.); Mackenzie O'Dore, Rocky Mountain (Mont.); Baylee Green, Great Falls (Mont.); Rachel David, Montana State-Northern; Mindy Kaufman, Montana Western; Tiffany Shepherd, Morningside (Iowa); Taylor Price, Xavier (La.); Sasha Newman, Dillard (La.); Lauren Benzing, Benedictine (Kan.); Molly Pruett, Mount Mercy (Iowa); Allyson Ng, Central Methodist (Mo.); Lauren Wankum, McPherson (Kan.); Payden Shapland, Sterling (Kan.); Melissa Olson, Bethany (Kan.); Katelyn Fatten, Bethel (Kan.); Anna Havranek, Shawnee State (Ohio); Amanda Wolff, Dickinson State (N.D.); Marissa Kuik, Waldorf (Iowa); Maureen Rono, Wiley (Texas); Gabrielle Arsiaga, Southwest (N.M.); Ashley Toschlog, Indiana East; Jackline Jemeli, Wayland Baptist (Texas); LaDonna Bonner, Mobile (Ala.); Theresa Lasal, Middle Georgia State; Claire Hobrock, Ave Maria (Fla.); Joyce Caba, Webber International (Fla.); Melissa Winchester, Aquinas (Mich.); Ashley Russo, Siena Heights (Mich.); Shauri Thomas, Lourdes (Ohio).
2016 Women's Cross Country National Runners of the Week:
Week 1: Marissa DeWispelare, Doane (Neb.)
Week 2: Lyndee Dawson, Biola (Calif.)


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The Utrecht district of Zuilen decided to cancel its Sinterklaas arrival party, scheduled for Saturday. The foundation in charge of organizing the party received serious threats because it decided to switch to so-called Chimney Pieten - Piet characters with soot marks on their faces instead of blackface makeup as the character is traditionally portrayed, Miranda Spies of the Gemeenschap Zuilen foundation said to AD.
All 11 members of radical nationalist group Pegida arrested during the national Sinterklaas arrival party in Apeldoorn on Saturday, have been released from custody, the police announced on Sunday. The Pegida demonstrators, dressed as blackface Zwarte Piet, were arrested for refusing to follow police orders. The other Sinterklaas arrival parties throughout the Netherlands happened largely without major incident.
Several people Including the head of radical nationalist group Pegida were arrested in Apeldoorn at the national arrival of Sinterklaas, the winter holiday folklore character who brings gifts to children. Police say that most of those arrested were protestors who refused orders to move to a cordoned off area for demonstrations.
Minister Arie Slob plans to use better-than-expected advertising revenue from Ster to cover the government's contribution to the Eurovision Song Contest, which will be held in Rotterdam next year, sources told De Telegraaf. Ster is the foundation that provides advertising to the Dutch public broadcasting system.
The vast majority of Dutch municipalities are staying out of the discussion around the appearance of Zwarte Piet at the Sinterklaas arrival parties in their cities. Only a small number set conditions regarding the controversial character in the Sinterklaas tradition, NOS reports after speaking to the 120 largest municipalities in the Netherlands, three quarters of which responded to the broadcaster's questions.
Apeldoorn is taking various security measures, ranging from access gates to special rules of conduct, to make sure that Sinterklaas' national arrival party on Saturday is safe and pleasant, Hart van Nederland reports.
In the night from Friday to Saturday, the municipality will place access gates at 14 locations in the city center. Everyone who attends the celebration must pass through one of these gates, where there will be random checks.
The national Sinterklaas arrival party in Apeldoorn can happen without any blackface Zwarte Piet characters, according to the court in Arnhem. The court ruled against a lawsuit demanding that the municipality of Apeldoorn revoke the permit for the party because Sinterklaas will only be accompanied by so-called Chimney Pieten - Piet characters with soot marks on their faces instead of blackface makeup, NOS reports.
With teachers in primary- and secondary education across the Netherlands striking on Wednesday, many a parent will be wondering what to do with their kids on this extra free day. Zoos and amusement parks across the country are there to help, according to a list compiled by newspaper AD.
A number of the larger attractions are opening on Wednesday, even though they're actually already closed or partially closed for the winter. Others are offering discounts.
Daily Show host Trevor Noah will perform on stage in Amsterdam next year during his Loud & Clear Tour. The 36-year-old South African comedian will make his return to the Ziggo Dome just over a year after his last appearance there, the venue said, a sell-out show that earned several glowing reviews.
From next year Eindhoven will follow the line of the Sinterklaasjournaal and drop blackface Zwarte Pieten from its arrival party, the municipality and Stichting Sint-Nicolaas, the foundation responsible for organizing the Sinterklaas arrival party, announced on Monday. But this year there will still be blackface Zwarte Pieten among the crowd of other-color Pieten at the party, Eindhovens Dagblad reports.
Top Dutch DJ Martin Garrix won the MTV Europe Music Award in the Best Electronic category over the weekend, beating out Calvin Harris, The Chainsmokers, DJ Snake, and Marshmello for the prize. Rap musician Snelle took the award for Best Worldwide, a prize he was eligible for after taking home the Best Dutch Act regional award last week.
For Amstelveen-born Garrix, now 23, it is his second time winning Best Electronic. At the 22nd edition of the EMAs he also took Best World Stage.
Leeuwarden won Zoover's award for Best Weekend Trip destination in the Netherlands this year with an average rating of 8.64. "Leeuwarden is particularly praised for its cozy atmosphere, the extensive range of catering establishments, and the beautiful historic city center", the travel site said.
Zoover based its award on reviews travelers left on the site over the past year. Over 15 thousand reviews were included in the calculation.
Action group Kick Out Zwarte Piet is planning to protest in twelve different cities in November against the use of blackface makeup and costuming often adorned by white actors portraying Sinterklaas's helper. The activists consider Zwarte Piet in his traditional form a racist stereotype. On Thursday there were protests in Apeldoorn and Deventer calling for Zwarte Piet to remain in the blackface costume seen mainly over the last hundred years, and which some say is adhering to Dutch tradition.
The slogan for the Eurovision Song Contest in Rotterdam next year is 'Open Up', the organizers announced. "We looked for a theme and slogan that reflect what the Netherlands stands for and which the Dutch can identify with; a country with an open mind to the world, where we speak our mind, with respect for each other", said Sietse Bakker, executive producer of next year's event.
A number of sponsors are withdrawing from the Sinterklaas arrival event in The Hague this year after they received a letter from anti-racism action group Kick Out Zwarte Piet. The sponsors found the letter threatening, EenVandaag reports.
The Sinterklaas party in The Hague this year will include a mixture of Zwarte Pieten in full blackface makeup and so-called Chimney Pieten with soot marks on their face.
A party on the beach of Wijk aan Zee to say goodbye to the United Kingdom when they are scheduled to leave the European Union on October 31st will happen, whether the Brexit actually happens or not, organizer Ron Toekook confirmed to NOS.
Next year's Amsterdam Dance Event will take place from October 21-25, 2020, organizers revealed on Tuesday. A special 25th anniversary program is expected to be announced in the coming weeks, with festival and conference access passes available from December 2.
The 24th edition of ADE wrapped up this week, bringing in over 400,000 attendees, similar to last year's record figures. Event organizers said they visitors arrived from 146 different nations, good for an ADE record.
Aruba and Netherlands are two of the best destinations to visit in 2020, according to travel guide Lonely Planet's annual list of the best countries to visit. In the top 10 countries, Aruba is in fourth place and the Netherlands in seventh.
A group of pickpockets or muggers set off multiple cans of pepper spray at the Martin Garrix performance in the Amsterdam Dance Event during the early hours of Saturday morning. They used the burning eyes and trouble breathing as a distraction to rob party goers of their possessions, the Amsterdam police said in a statement. The police call on victims to come forward.
The fire department advised that the New Year's bonfires on the beaches of Scheveningen and Duindorp can be no larger than 10 meters by 10 meters. And the builders of the bonfires will have to hold to that recommendation, interim The Hague mayor Johan Remkes said at his first council meeting on Thursday. "It's that or nothing", he said, NOS reports.
The city of Amsterdam will not tolerate drugs at the Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE), currently happening int he city. "We have a zero tolerance policy in clubs and during events", the city said in a statement, Het Parool reports.
ADE attendees are not allowed to take any drugs into events. Drugs found will be confiscated, and the person carrying them will not be allowed to attend the event.
Longtime Dutch DJ Armin van Buuren will launch a special edition escape room during Amsterdam Dance Event later this month. Van Buuren teamed up with top-rated escape room firm Sherlocked Mystery Experiences to provide teams with an 80-minute long session at 159 euros per team.
Game players will have to work together to figure out secrets to the Armada Music founder's success. The escape room, dubbed "Balance", is also a promotion for Van Buuren's upcoming album of the same name.
The organization of New Year's bonfires on the beaches in Scheveningen and Duindorp must change fundamentally, because the builders of the bonfires do not comply with agreements made with the municipality of The Hague, the Dutch Safety Board (OVV) said in a report. The OVV investigated the bonfires tradition after the Scheveningen bonfire got out of hand this past New Year's.
Fans of the 1982 sci-fi film Blade Runner will get a new chance to see the movie on the big screen. The film will be re-released in the Netherlands on November 1, including on IMAX screens for the first time ever.
Ticket sales for director Ridley Scott's final version of the film officially began on Wednesday, Warner Bros. said.


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It is with great excitement and pride that I announce our book Mastering QGIS has been published! I co-authored this book with Dr. Richard Smth, Dr. Luigi Pirelli and Dr. John Van Hoesen. It is available as both an eBook and in hard copy from Packt Publishing and Amazon.
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QGIS is the leading alternative to proprietary GIS software. Although QGIS is described as intuitive, it is also, by default, complex. Knowing which tools to use and how to apply them is essential to producing valuable deliverables on time.
Starting with a refresher on QGIS basics, this book will take you all the way through to creating your first custom QGIS plugin. By the end of the book you will understand how to work with all the aspects of QGIS, and will be ready to use it for any type of GIS work.
The introductory section servers as a quick start guide for those with little QGIS experience. It includes directions for installing QGIS on all the major platforms, reviews the layout of QGIS Desktop and Browser, and covers adding data, working with projections, querying tables, creating maps and finding and installing plugins.
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Staggering and Synchronization in Price-Setting: Evidence from Multipro-duct Firms
Saul Lach, Daniel Tsiddon
NBER Working Paper No. 4759
Most of the theoretical literature on price-setting behavior deals with the special case in which only a single price is changed. At the retail-store level, at least, where dozens of products are sold by a single price-setter, price-setting policies are not formulated for individual products. This feature of economic behavior raises a host of questions whose answers carry interesting implications. Are price setters staggered in the timing of price changes? Are price changes of different products synchronized within the store? If so, is this a result of aggregate shocks or of the presence of a store- specific component in the cost of adjusting prices? Can observed small changes in prices be rationalized by a menu cost model? We exploit the multiproduct dimension of the dataset on prices used in Lach and Tsiddon (1992a) to explore several of these and other issues. To the best of our knowledge this is the first empirical work on this subject.
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At the bottom of the well there's a celebration
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Under Trump, changes are in store for older Americans
Under President Donald Trump, some older Americans and those with special needs may be concerned about possible changes to programs like Medicare, Medicaid, taxes, special needs planning and veterans' benefits. These concerns reflect election discussions and Congressional Leadership statements.
The White House and Congress are now both in Republican hands. During the long campaign, there were differences between the major parties, particularly in social and health policy. There is now some uncertainty facing Americans who are older, disabled and medically needy, which is unsettling to some of them.
A group of nationally prominent elder law attorneys established the Trump Policy Analysis Group, partly to analyze changes in government policies that affect older Americans and those with disabilities. This article is based on that group's initial report and was written before Trump's inaugural address.
Social Security and Medicare
Trump has said that the Social Security and Medicare programs will remain intact and solvent, even though both programs face possible bankruptcy. One of the proposals to counter insolvency by Republican leaders is privatization of both programs.
Affordable Care Act (aka 'Obamacare')
The Affordable Care Act took some steps designed to extend the solvency of Medicare. Trump announced that he would keep parts of the Affordable Care Act but has not given details. Congress has already taken the first step toward dismantling the Affordable Care Act, although for the present, there have been no actual legislative changes.
Many worry about the cost of health, especially long-term care. Legislative changes that reduce benefits or restrict or limit access to government programs such as Medicaid will not mitigate such fears. Additional spending on Defense and other programs may limit resources for Medicaid.
Currently, while Medicaid is administered at the federal level, each state has its own Medicaid plan, subject to national guidelines. Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan have indicated support for allocating funds to states using "block grants." In the 1980s, block grants were used for other funds to state and local governments. Block grants for Medicaid, first proposed by former Speaker Newt Gingrich in 1995, suggest that each state would receive a certain financial allotment and would individually decide how to spend their dollars. In some states, little would change. In other states, benefits could significantly change. Planning could also vary from state to state. Americans with special needs and their families also may face concerns about possible reductions in protections and services if block grants are used.
Moreover, plans under discussion may make it more difficult for older Americans to protect their homes and other assets while qualifying for Medicaid, particularly in a long-term care setting. The vast majority of older homeowners will view protection of the residence as a core value, a legacy for future generations. Planning is particularly important for families where the primary wage-earner owns most of the tax deferred assets and elected a "one life" pension, expecting to finance his spouse's life after his death with tax deferred assets, since these may need to be spent on his care in a nursing home, leaving the surviving spouse at home with substantially diminished assets and no private pension.
Tax proposals
Trump has recommended elimination of the gift and estate tax, also under discussion in Congress for some time. Estate tax receipts are a revenue item for the federal government, although only two out of every 1,000 estates, on the average, pay the tax. Perhaps a compromise package will not eliminate the tax but will significantly increase the level of estate and gift tax protection. Note that the threshold for federal gift and estate tax is $5,450,000 per person.
Different capital gains tax proposals have been proffered by Trump, Ryan and others. These include limiting "stepped up basis" for inherited property as well as possibly reducing capital gains taxes in general. This may result in net tax increases. Corporate and individual tax rates for higher earners, in particular, may be substantially reduced.
Americans with special needs
There are no proposals that would directly affect services for persons with special needs. Medicaid block grants could adversely affect services. Changes to resource rules could reduce or even eliminate using special needs trusts to supplement benefits.
Additionally, support for expanded charter schools and school choice, especially with Trump's nomination of Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education, an outspoken advocate for charter schools and the dismantling of publicly funded schools, may affect services for younger persons. Many special education advocates fear that these initiatives could come at a price of diminishing procedural and substantive protections of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
Veterans' benefits
Trump has publicly supported services for veterans. However, there are proposals predating the election that could restrict access to needed programs, such as Aid and Attendance. In addition, new legislative and regulatory restrictions may make it more difficult for veterans and their spouses to obtain benefits.
In times of uncertainty, families will protect themselves
The Trump Policy Analysis Group believes that families will become more focused on what they can control and truly value — their families — and less on public policies that are difficult to influence. A premium will be placed on advance planning. Inevitably, the demand for multigenerational planning — involving children and grandchildren — will expand dramatically.
Learn, watch, be advised and protect yourself and your family. The changes in store will take time to be adopted and implemented.
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I have a LENOVO 7517A2U ThinkCentre M81 with windows 7 preinstalled in it at factory. Want to install windows xp professonal on it also. I suppose that mean's a duel boot, I do not know, so am looking for a complete step through set of instruction's on how to do this. Thank you folk's, Dave
Your Lenovo may not have the drivers for XP, in which case, you couldn't install it. Why go backwards anyhow. if there are some applications you need to run for xp, try installing xp mode virtual machine. You can find it and read about it here.
Getting a valid dual boot up and running is pretty complicated. Typically the people who'd attempt it have been in the industry long enough that they already have a rough idea what to do.
A rough outline of the steps for dual booting a laptop
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2) Add another hard drive to make room for WinXP. (Warning: Might void your warranty.)
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Andrew McCormack is a composer and pianist who is realising the best work of his career, thus far. Since bursting on to the scene in 2007 with his debut album, Telescope, McCormack has been the driving force behind A-list jazz artists Kyle Eastwood, Eric Alexander, Denys Baptiste and Jean Toussaint, as well as a host of home grown talent, including Jamie Cullum and Jason Yarde. He has been performing extensively around the world, and selected the UK as the starting point in support of his critically acclaimed latest album, First Light.
The new trio album, written and recorded in Brooklyn, New York, represents perhaps McCormack's greatest achievement to date in his composition and performing abilities--recognised as such by critics, musicians and the public--placing him comfortably and confidently on a worldwide stage.
Developing and honing a skilfully original approach to writing and performance in the jazz tradition, McCormack has captivated audiences with his emotional and expressive style--combined with a yearning, emotive aesthetic--which might be best described as quintessentially British. His move to New York has added an even greater sense of swing, dynamic group interplay and a mesmeric live sound. The result is a world-class pianist and formidable composer, who has arguably earned a seat at the top of the jazz trio talent roster, anywhere around the globe.


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KDE Switches To Bugzilla
We have recently switched our entire Bug
Re: I leave KDE.
Come on man! Don't be so foolish! It is a good case if GNOME and KDE start working together, instead of only looking inside our own minds. Please remeber that the true power of Linux (and all open-source) is collaboration and sharing of code.
If KDE and GNOME want to develop some stuff (like libarys) together, then we can same time, improve quality, improve intergration and make a stand against fragmention. And by tis I mean an overwelmig amount of all sort of diffent protocools, technologies, standards, toolkits, ect etc. Does this make things better? No! It is better to develop a few but realy good pieces of sotware, that intergrates and works well together.
Please, next time look a bit further and think about the real reason of Linux's power.....Colaboration and working tohether.
By Maarten Rommerts at Fri, 2002/09/20 - 5:00am
Re: I leave KDE.
Ok, I'm not sure any more whether this guy is joking or not. In any case, using as much code as you can from others is A Good Thing. As long as KDE is faster than Gnome, and has better integrated applications, I will use it. Think of it like that: If people not directly working for KDE (e.g. the Gnome Team) produce 75% of KDE's code, the KDE team can concentrate more on the 25% that make the actual user experience of KDE.
By Klaus Mertelz at Mon, 2002/09/30 - 5:00am
Neat Bugzilla features
I'm one of the Bugzilla developers. Here are some neat Bugzilla features that you might want to use:
You can change multiple bugs at once, when logged in with sufficient privileges - see the option at the bottom of the buglist page. Great for mass-reassignments if a coder leaves.
If you change the columns on your buglist (colchange.cgi), Bugzilla remembers which ones you last chose.
If you use Mozilla (perhaps quite unlikely round here), there's a Bugzilla sidebar with a load of neat features. However, it needs a small bit of JS to fire off the installer, which has been removed from the front page. If you want it, ask for it back.
You can save regularly-run queries (see the bottom of query.cgi) and have them appear in your page footer, for one-click access to "Bugs Assigned To Me" or something like that.
You can get bugs as XML:
Individual comments are hyperlinked using anchors, so you can refer to them in emails etc. Bugzilla also autolinkifies comments in several neat ways, so text such as "bug 123, comment 4" or "http://www.google.com" will become a link without you needing to type any nonsense.
Hope those are useful :-)
By Gervase Markham at Fri, 2002/09/20 - 5:00am
Re: Neat Bugzilla features
> http://bugs.kde.org/duplicates.cgi
Thanks, I think we have an even better solution for that which avoids duplicates before they are submitted: our wizard uses the summary's words to search for similar bugs. It uses MySQL full-text search for that, i.e. bugs with most similar summaries will be most relevant and thus be listed on top.
By Daniel Naber at Fri, 2002/09/20 - 5:00am
Re: Neat Bugzilla features
the RDF feature is sweet! now i can watch my bugs scroll across my panel in the newsticker. heh...
By Aaron J. Seigo at Sat, 2002/09/21 - 5:00am
Re: Neat Bugzilla features
How to handle test cases in bugzilla ?
By Bijumon V Gopalan at Mon, 2004/03/01 - 6:00am
Great move. That old bug tracking system was _really_ bad.
By MrFoo at Sat, 2002/09/21 - 5:00am
Re: Finally
... but the old one was simple to use to report bugs. the new one requires login.
By . at Sat, 2002/09/21 - 5:00am
Re: Finally
No more closed bugs with just a (Done), links between duplicates, easier queries to find out if a bug as already been reported, the possibility to follow bug reports by adding yourself to the Cc. I think a simple login requirement is nothing compared to the benefits.
By MrFoo at Sat, 2002/09/21 - 5:00am
Offline editing bugs
- no offline posting of bugreports
- not easy for beginners
- overloaded for small project modules
- no annonymous posting
- gui is crap
By Hakenuk at Sun, 2002/09/29 - 5:00am
Re: Offline editing bugs
> - not easy for beginners
And bug reporting is not supposed to be for beginners. A small amount of GOOD bug reports is better than large amounts of bad reports.
> - overloaded for small project modules
Makes it easier to seperate things.
> - no annonymous posting
Prevents people from posting crap.
> - gui is crap
Unless you're the developer.
By Stof at Wed, 2002/10/02 - 5:00am
Re: Offline editing bugs
> > - no annonymous posting
Not only that, but also gives the developer a hand to get information not in the bug report itself.
And having a mail alias for bugreports doesn't sound bad in my ears.
By Peter at Mon, 2002/10/14 - 5:00am
Re: Offline editing bugs
hay,its me who wants a lesson and theory of off-line editing and on-line editing.could you help me please? becouse i need to be more educated in this field.can you help me?
By Amanuel Zaid at Sat, 2003/08/30 - 5:00am