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It was the end of eighth grade — spring 1975, Long River Middle School, Prospect, Ct. — and I was making my stage debut: as the dim-witted comic sidekick to the lead in the school play. I'm spacing on the title, but hey, it sure beat having to prepare for the bullshit school essay contest, like my classmates.
It was the first time I could remember receiving attention for something besides ridicule from the other kids. People were laughing at my lines! And they were applauding me! And I learned at a young age why so many lonely, tortured souls gravitate to the stage: as an escape and, when it's done right, to receive positive reinforcement that you can't get in the real world.
I also learned something else early on. The director — my English teacher, Don Gray, who was once a roommate of Paul Newman at Denison College in Ohio — told me: A stupid person can't play someone smart, but it takes a smart person to play someone stupid very well.
That said, Leslie Nielsen was a genius.
And his passing Sunday of pneumonia in Florida, at 84, also marks an "Airplane!" three-on-a-match this year: Peter Graves, then Barbara Billingsley, and now Nielsen.
After a lengthy career of roles in movies ("Forbidden Planet," "The Poseidon Adventure") and TV — where he exuded maximum gravitas, with a baritone just north of fellow Canadian Lorne Greene — who knew that there was a serious idiot just waiting to break out?
Well, David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker did. And I'm sure most of you wouldn't remember his character's name — Dr. Rumack — but you sure as hell remember Nielsen's lines. But the key was the acting. If it weren't for the Most Serious Tone carried out with the straightest of faces by Nielsen and Peter Graves (as the pilot, Capt. Clarence Oveur), we wouldn't be celebrating "Airplane!" 30 years later as one of the funniest films ever made.
And, of course, that led to some very happy, non-accidental typecasting — as Lt. Frank Drebin in one of the criminally shortest series in TV history, "Police Squad!" — which led to three hilarious "Naked Gun" movies. And I'm sure Nielsen was crying to his local bank over being typecast the rest of his life as the somber bumbler.
So it's the laughter we will remember. Whenever we remember …
Surely you can't be quoting Streisand!
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JPS buying St. Joseph; site may become hospital again
FORT WORTH — The site of the former St. Joseph Hospital on the city's near south side may once again become a hospital.
Tarrant County Commissioners this morning approved buying the property from a New Jersey-based owner that planned for the past three years to redevelop the 12-story structure and surrounding buildings into apartments, offices and shops.
Commissioners bought the property for the county's health system, John Peter Smith Hospital. The county paid $5.1 million to Diversified Capital in Lakewood, N.J. for the property.
But, the county also is also paying an additional $750,000 to Nashville-based HCA, which agreed to remove a covenance on the property's deed that restricted the property's use. HCA owns Plaza Medical Center of Fort Worth. "We went through long and arduous negotiations," said Neal Adams, a lawyer for JPS.
Commissioner Roy Brooks applauded those efforts, saying, "I know it was not an easy thing to do. But, it is in the best interest of the people of Tarrant County."
The property is the site of Tarrant County's first hospital, founded in 1885. It is across Main Street, near Allen Avenue, from John Peter Smith Hospital. A 12-story, redbrick structure was eventually built and called St. Joseph. HCA/Columbia Healthcare Corp. owned the property when the hospital closed, in 1995.
When it sold the property to Heritage Geriatric Housing Development in California it placed restrictions in the deed that the property could not be used as a hospital. Heritage converted the lower floors into an Alzheimer's center, St. Joseph's Garden. It closed in 2000.
Diversified bought the property in 2005 out of foreclosure. Coupled with back taxes it paid, Diversified paid $2.1 million.
Bruce Stern, vice president of business development for Diversified Capital, said their firm had other offers on the building, but they were too low. One offer came from a local oil and gas company.
JPS board members will now decide how to use the property, said JPS interim Chief Executive Robert Earley.
Initial plans are to leave a parking garage, but tear down the 12-story building, he said. An asbestos abatement will need to be done before the building can come down.


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A representative has confirmed that Kanye West is canceling the rest of his Saint Pablo tour, according to Pitchfork.
The decision comes after the rapper ended his set in Sacramento, California, on Saturday early. He performed only three songs and delivered an extended rant about politics, Jay Z, and Beyoncé.
"The Saint Pablo tour is the most relevant thing happening. If your old a-- keeps following old models, your a-- is going to get Hillary Clintoned. You might not like it, but you need to hear it," West said in the meandering rant, in which he also declared he was "on my Trump s--- tonight."
West had told another audience that he would've voted for Trump in the 2016 presidential election if he had voted at all, which sparked a lot of backlash.
"He's just exhausted," a source told TMZ of West's reasoning for canceling his concert dates. "He's been working around the clock on fashion design, both his own line and the Adidas line."
He had 21 more Saint Pablo tour dates scheduled after the Sacramento show. Tickets for the shows will be refunded, according to Pitchfork.


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Ross Larkin scored the only goal as County Armagh closed out the Premier Section of the SuperCupNI week with a 1-0 win over County Tyrone.
The Vase third-place play-off was settled thanks to Larkin's header off a corner-kick before the break.
"The boys had more of the ball overall, although it was pretty even in terms of chances," said County Armagh coach Dean McCullough. "Play was delayed as a County Tyrone player required treatment on rib problems, so we wish him a full recovery.
"It has been a great week, with players from the junior and premier squads also in line for some overall individual prizes."
COUNTY ARMAGH: Conor Larkin (Portadown), Conor Kerr (Armagh City), Shea Geraghty (Dungannon Swifts), Ross Larkin (Armagh City), Eoin Toal (Armagh City), Jackson Holmes (Portadown), Pablo Andrade (Linfield), Oisin Smyth (Dungannon Swifts), Zac Wilson (Portadown), Lorcan Forde (Warrenpoint Town), Cathal McGinty (Cliftonville). SUBS (used): Craig Taylor (Annagh United), Owen McConville (Dungannon Swifts), Craig Robinson (Bangor), Ryan Leeman (Loughgall).


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One of the great things about starting this blog (apart from meeting some uber nice fellow bloggers) is that I have been making more an effort to go out and discover new places and to document all these adventures to share them with you.
Last Tuesday, Alf and I went on an impromptu little trip to Mount Pilatus, near Lucerne, after receiving a text message from our lovely neighbour Heather inviting us to come along on her afternoon trip. Standing at 2132m above sea level, Mount Pilatus supposedly derives its name from the myth that the corpse of Pontius Pilate was flung into a lake on the mountain.
We drove to Lucerne and started our journey at Kriens from where a gondola rises to Fräkmüntegg where you jump on a cable car to the summit. The ticket for the gondola and cable car is expensive but you get your money's worth considering that total travelling time is around 30 minutes and that the views from the top are out of this world.
|Start of the journey at Kriens
|Leaving Lucerne and its lake behind
It is also possible to take a train from Lucerne to Alpnachstad, from where the steepest rack-railway in the world runs at a gradient of almost 50% directly to the top of the mountain. Not for the faint hearted!
Fräkmüntegg is quite a popular destination in the winter where you can borrow sledges and sledge down to the bottom of the mountain. In the summer, there is a tree-climbing type adventure park there as well as a giant toboggan you can slide down. It looked awesome!
|Toboggan tracks, don't tell me you wouldn't be tempted!
We were lucky that some of the clouds had dispersed when we reached the top as we were welcome by this when we got off the cable car into the Klum hotel lobby.
|Isn't this the best hotel view on Earth???
I must admit that I never thought of myself as a mountain-girl before moving to Switzerland (I'd seldom been near one) but the more I visit Switzerland and its mountains, the more I am amazed at how beatiful they are! There are constant reminders at how dangerous they can be tough, as this cross below shows, a testament of someone losing their life on this particular summit.
There were cows grazing in the pastures below and an Alphorn player: the perfect Swiss moment!
From the terrace of the hotel Klum we were on, you can walk up a steep staircase to the highest point of the mountain where you can get a 360 degrees view of the mountains surrounding Mt Pilatus.
By that time, the clouds were closing in so my photos did not turn out as nice as I'd wanted them to. Although impaired by the clouds, the views were still breath-taking!
|Paragliders in action (on the right): not convinced it was the best day for this??!
|Yours truly (green top) on the summit of Mt Pilatus
Out of all my Swiss adventures so far, I think this is the most memorable. Despite the clouds and the obstructed views, the feeling you get on top of Mount Pilatus is not something I can really describe with words. I was literally blown away, the world lying at my feet...
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On Sunday 12:30pm EST/ 9:30am PST LIVE on Ustream from the University of South Carolina, Senator Barack Obama, his wife Michelle and special guest Oprah Winfrey will speak to thousands of Obama campaign supporters at a Democratic political rally.
You can watch the live stream here:
The event, originally scheduled at an 18,000-seat arena, has generated so much buzz that it was moved to the 80,000-seat football stadium on the university campus. By streaming the event live on Ustream, the Obama campaign has the opportunity to reach an even broader audience from all around the country.
One of four political rallies being held this weekend that will feature Democratic White House hopeful Senator Barack Obama, his wife Michelle and special guest Oprah Winfrey. Huge crowds are expected to attend both in-person and live on the Internet as talk show queen Oprah makes her campaign trail debut.
Having Oprah on Ustream live is just another incredible example of amazing events in the world that, without live internet video, would not be seen live by the rest of the country.
Sen. Obama has been a avid Ustreamer, his last stream being his "Open Foreign Policy Discussion".


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IRS opens Free File, will accept returns on Jan. 20; changes due for Affordable Care Act reporting
The early bird can expect both the worm and, from the Internal Revenue Service, a quick refund.
The IRS announced this week that the country's 2015 Free File program, available at IRS.gov, opened Friday, and that the agency will begin accepting and processing all returns on Tuesday, Jan. 20.
Taxpayers will have until Wednesday, April 15 to file their 2014 returns and pay any due taxes.
This year's return includes new questions related to the Affordable Care Act. Most taxpayers will simply be able to check a box to verify that they have had health insurance during the 12 months of 2014.
A minority of taxpayers will be required to do more. For more information concerning the responsibility to report, taxpayers can visit IRS.gov/aca. The site features information and tips related to the premium tax credit, the individual shared responsibility requirement and other matters.
The IRS said in a release that it expects to issue more than 90 percent of refunds within 21 days of receipt.


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In the past seven days two stories have shown how little we know about race in modern Britain. First, the one that dominated the headlines: what Roy Hodgson said to the England team at half-time in their World Cup qualifier, and what he meant by using the word "monkey" to refer to a black player. Everyone, it seemed, had an opinion. Comment columnists and sports writers weighed in. Radio stations ran phone-ins. Arguments raged.
There's no doubt that, given the history of monkey chants at football grounds during the 70s and 80s, Hodgson was at the very least stupid and incredibly insensitive to use such a word in reference to one of his own team. It's right that he apologised. But what concerns me about this story is not whether Hodgson's a racist but the way it skews our understanding of how racism impacts on modern society. Media reporting is now all about what TV and sports personalities say, rather than what ordinary people do out there in the real world. And the discussions are always centred on whether the alleged target was justified in being "offended".
So the stories we hear are: should Carol Thatcher have called a black tennis player a "golliwog"; should England football captain John Terry have called an opponent a "fucking black cunt"; should Ron Atkinson have called a footballer a "fucking lazy thick nigger"? How should they be punished? Should they be sacked? And in too many cases the abusers quickly become martyrs, the new victims of a nation gripped by political correctness – you just can't say anything nowadays, can you?
And liberal commentators have caught on too. When talking about such issues as sexism, or gay rights, or disability, or antisemitism, their regular refrain is: "Imagine if they'd been talking about black people, just think of the fuss that would have been made."
And added to this, controversial comments by black personalities are seized upon as proof that there's an equal and opposite racism coming from the other side: Rio Ferdinand agreeing that Ashley Cole was a "choc-ice" – outrageous; Diane Abbott tweeting that "White people love playing 'divide & rule'" – the woman who campaigns against racism turns out to be just as racist herself.
In the endless coverage of all this, let's not pretend we're actually talking of racism; these are celebrity gaffe stories for the search-engine age. Though the issues are, for black people, irritating and possibly offensive, they are as relevant to racism as a cough is to tuberculosis. The fact you were once upset by a tweet doesn't mean you understand what racism's about.
The second race story last week addressed the real issues. An undercover BBC London investigation into lettings agents showed the massive extent to which black people are being denied homes – without them even knowing it. One reporter posed as a landlord and asked the agents not to show his rental property to African-Caribbean people. The agents – even the Asian ones – readily agreed. To test the agents' willingness, two other reporters, one black, one white, posed as prospective tenants. As the agents had promised, the black hopeful was told the property had gone; the white prospect was invited for a viewing.
Ten agents were found to be discriminating in this way; even more shocking, one of them said on (hidden) camera: "Ninety-nine per cent of my landlords don't want Afro-Caribbeans or any troublesome people." If true, and there's no reason to doubt his claim, it throws open all sorts of questions about how widespread discrimination is in modern Britain. This investigation, after all, took place in a city often held up as being at ease with difference. If it's happening in London, it can happen, and probably does, anywhere in Britain. And to cap it all, the black "rejects" would have no idea they were being discriminated against; they wouldn't have suspected a thing, unless this happened over and over again – in which case they'd risk being labelled paranoid for blaming it on their skin colour.
This is the true story of racism in the UK: how it is still so casual, and how it excludes and disenfranchises thousands. It's a story, though, which attracted minimal media attention. A news article in the Guardian and the Telegraph, but no interest from any other newspaper, and no battalions of columnists giving their opinions.
No celebrities involved; only black people affected. No story. As they say, if a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, does it make a sound? If blatant racism occurs, and no one reports it, does it exist?
How things have changed. In 1988 a similar investigation took place by undercover BBC reporters in the city of Bristol. The documentary Black and White, broadcast over five successive weekdays, exposed discrimination in jobs, housing and the leisure industry and shocked the nation. Stunned viewers asked themselves how this could be happening in a country they believed to be so tolerant, and where discrimination was supposed to be illegal.
The documentary had a massive impact, opening people's minds to the fact that racism wasn't simply about National Front marches, skinhead thugs, abuse and violence. Geoff Small, the black undercover reporter, recalls: "For weeks afterwards, white people would approach me in the street and offer their sympathy and sincere apologies for what I'd gone through." Now, however, we look back on the 70s and 80s with a sneer. We believe we're so much more sophisticated now. Alf Garnett and the Black and White Minstrel show have gone; we've heard all about police racism through Stephen Lawrence; we see black faces presenting TV shows; many minorities have been successful in business; and we've even had black faces in the cabinet. For Christ's sake, even the President of the United States is black!
These steps, important though they are, are mainly about individual achievement; and the problem is that now, in this allegedly postracial era, the rose-tinted glasses of our diversity training are in fact blinding us to the reality for most black people – which has changed little in the intervening years. In case we need reminding, jobless rates are twice as high for black people as for whites, unemployment is a staggering 56% for young black men; black pupils are less likely than their white peers to get five good GCSEs and are routinely marked down by their teachers; they are three times more likely to be permanently excluded than the overall school population; stop and search rates are over five times higher for black people; and black people are five times more likely to be jailed.
But the story Britain likes to tell itself is that discrimination has gone away – that now we're used to black and brown people living among us, the barriers have come down. It was great that we celebrated Jessica Ennis and Mo Farah at London 2012, but the common conclusion, that this proved our nation was at ease with diversity, was pure delusion. As is the dominant view that the rise in interracial relationships and "beautiful" mixed-race babies shows that racism is on the way out.
The fact it persists undiminished is, it seems, too much for our society to take. And to keep the fantasy in place, we look for excuses: if there are more black jobless it's because of their poor attitude to work; if they perform badly at school it's their laziness and culture; if they're overrepresented in the criminal justice system then they're just naturally more aggressive. If black people could only sort out these self-inflicted problems themselves, everything would be OK. After all, doesn't every business say it welcomes job applicants from all backgrounds? The doors are open, why aren't you coming in?
Needless to say, this proves problematic for genuine anti-racists. It's the problem doctors used to have in "proving" that smoking causes cancer. You can't show it in individual cases, but when you track the increase in smoking and compare it to the increase in cancer rates, it becomes obvious. As for inequality, the general statistics show the racial disparities but individual cases are almost impossible to prove, allowing the deniers to claim that no barriers exist.
We certainly need the facts and figures, but what history shows is that most of us only react to this kind of thing when we see it with our own eyes. Would the abuse allegations at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq ever have been believed were it not for the photographic proof? Statistics, unfortunately, can be manipulated and argued over endlessly. But seeing individuals act in a certain way is far more damning. What if, for instance, the BBC team had gone undercover with recruitment agents, or in the teachers' common room, or the judges' golf club? And what about the police? Ten years ago another undercover BBC investigation caused a storm after exposing the raw racism among trainee officers, most of whom used terms of racial abuse on a daily basis.
To investigate all these would, of course, be a significant undertaking; but we need to change the terms of the debate. If we are to achieve genuine equality, which most people say they want, then we need to show how racism can operate, indeed thrive, without a sign telling the world it exists. Without visible proof, we look set for years more discrimination, and years more denial.


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Hello! I hope you're having a fun weekend! We're just finishing up our spring break and I think I'll be glad to get back on a schedule. I think one of my boys had someone spend the night every single night this week. I will happy for earlier bedtimes next week!
I'm loving all the Easter and spring treats that were shared last week! I had a tough time narrowing it down to four, but here they are…Thanks so much for linking up and I hope you have a great week!
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Hong Kong is a city that is alive, colourful, bustling and a place you will most certainly never find yourself being bored in. Too much to see, do and eat.
I visited HK a few years ago with my mom and being back after 5 years did not give me a feeling of been there, got the T-shirt, but it's an ever developing, ever growing city with so much to explore that it will never become old. It's a busy place and crowded, filled with many hidden alleyways, underground restaurants, markets and malls nestled between massive sky scrapers. A lot of malls and markets. From food malls, tech malls, clothing malls, a flower, fish and bird market, sneaker street in Mongkok ….and the list goes on and on. If you want to shop, this is the place to shop, not just for the bargain hunters, but it is also filled with designer boutiques in Kowloon and we literally did not see one jewellery shop which did not have at least 10 people in it.
This city's food culture is so diverse and if you dare, HK is one insane culinary experience. Most streets are lined with restaurants and also food stalls with odd smells as locals prepare weird steamy broths of some sorts, especially in Mongkok. Here you can eat curry fish balls, intestines and smelly tofu. We did try stay clear of most of the meaty foods as you somehow cannot help but wonder what you'll be eating. We did however have some incredible dim sum and buns and were in awe with the selection of items you can eat in HK, from Milk pudding, egg tarts, hot pot, egg waffles, milk tea and then some bizarre food like Pig Lung Soup, Snake Soup, Shark Fin, Sparrows Saliva etc.(Eeeeew). HK comes alive after 6pm and trying to find a restaurant with an open table is also one heck of a challenge.
HK is just incredible with it's awesome view over the city from The Peak on Hong Kong Island, the most spectacular Victoria harbour view at night with all the lights, riding the old tram through Central which gives you that real old time HK feel with it's dried seafood shops, it's very efficient MTR system. It's a city that will leave you in awe.
Writing about HK in only a few paragraphs is actually impossible, so we'll take you through this amazing city through our pictures.


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Mass Deletion! It's about Gmail, not a religious statement ;-)/
The series I did last week on improving productivity in Gmail, prompted a couple questions from y'all! Good. I love answering direct queries that I know will get used.
"How do I quickly empty a folder? For instance, my "Deals" folder has 1000+ emails in it. I want them GONE. Do I have to check each one and then delete?"
You can select all of them quite easily. Walk through the following screenshots with explanations. Also remember that when in a Label (folder, if you insist <grin>) that you can search within that label to pick out just those emails you wish. For instance in the first screenshot below, look at the search box. I can go into that box and add "youtube" after the label name to just find the emails containing youtube in this particular folder. At that point, I can follow these screenshots and delete all the youtube related emails found with this label containing the "youtube"


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My daughter has expressed that she wants to be homeschooled so we will see what hubby has to say. -- we are going to address and talk it over in the next up coming weeks.
In, the mean time summer is here and the kids are home. Our days have been spend playing Catan, riding bikes -- Puggy has really been enjoying the bike rides. Our start to summer didn't start well.
First, we had to give up our dog Onyx. He was a good lovable dog and we miss him, but he had social and other traits we could no longer ignore and didn't have the resources to properly deal with -- so we had to give him back to the shelter. We however got good news, from following the shelters FB page: We learned Onyx was adopted. So his stay at the shelter was very short lived. one week. We hope and pray daily that his new mom and dad were told about the struggles we had with him and will have the resources or skills to deal with it. What he needs is training, social training, that we were not able to provide for him.
Second, our car broke down. It's always something. We have struggled this last 1.5 years with transportation issues. -- I would be thankful once that is all behind us -- and it scary because the boy is months -- scratch that it's already June -- days away from being eligible to get his permit. YACK!!! That just hit me was I was typing this! I don't realize until this very moment we were so close. Wholly Smokes!!!!! That's unreal.
Now that it's summer the river market is open! Yay! Our local town has a river market every Wednesday all summer long. It's in the park adjacent to the river --hence the name. The market is a mix of ready to eat foods: ice cream, coffees, pizza, humburgers, donuts, etc, fresh produce, bake goods, and other goods like home made doggy treats. Besides the vendors there is live music. various local bands play. It's all free (unless you buy food, drinks, goods) and you are welcome to bring your own drinks. We don't always buy things, mostly don't -- but we always go, bring our chairs, water, and enjoy the music. The boy was disappointed because his favorite band from last year is playing the week he's at BSA summer camp.
This last Wednesday was the first market of the year -- We decided even though the car was still broken down, at that point, we were going to go. We were all set to walk the 2 miles to the park, but hubby showed up last minute at home (got off early); so we took his car. We don't like to drive his car, unless it's to work and back. His car is having issues to and we are trying to get by with just him driving it back and forth to work -- no extra driving around.
I have been reading Trim Healthy Mama this week too. I have been curious about it for a long while now. Quietly stalking, lurking, in the various facebook groups, their official facebook page, blog, etc. I decided to go ahead and get the book and see. The book I'm reading is the new book that just recently came out. I guess from what I'm reading they updated the book with newer information and made 2 books. The plan book the explains how it works and the cookbook that just has various recipes. I have not looked at or have seen the cookbook so I have no opinion on it. I don't even have an opinion on THM right now -- but check back later.
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The initial implementation of a highly-available NameNode was completed and merged to Apache Hadoop trunk in February 2012. The design featured an Active NameNode with a hot Standby NameNode.
In this initial implementation, failure of the Active NameNode was not detected automatically, requiring an operator to initiate a failover from Active to Standby. This provided the Hadoop operator the ability to dramatically reduce the frequency of planned HDFS downtime due to configuration changes, software upgrades, hardware maintenance, etc. However, requiring operator intervention is clearly insufficient for preventing unplanned HDFS downtime. Since the initial implementation of HDFS HA, we have developed a system for monitoring the health of the Active NameNode and automatically triggering a failover to the Standby NameNode when the Active is no longer able to provide service.
In order to share pertinent file system state between the Active and Standby NameNodes, the initial implementation of HDFS HA was reliant upon a highly-available NFS filer. While many organizations are willing to purchase and administer such a service, removing this dependency can improve lower the administrative overhead and potentially improve the reliability of operating HDFS.
This session will discuss the design and implementation of these features, as well as give an overview of how to deploy these new features.
Aaron T. Myers is a Software Engineer at Cloudera and an Apache Hadoop Committer. Aaron's work is primarily focused on HDFS. Prior to joining Cloudera, Aaron was a Software Engineer and VP of Engineering at Amie Street, where he worked on all components of the software stack, including operations, infrastructure, and customer-facing feature development. Aaron holds both an Sc.B. and Sc.M. in Computer Science from Brown University.
Todd holds a Sc.B in Computer Science from Brown University, where he completed an honors thesis developing a new collaborative filtering algorithm for the Netflix Prize Competition. Todd interned at Google developing machine learning methods to detect credit card fraud on AdWords and Google Checkout. Currently Todd works at Cloudera, Inc on bringing Map/Reduce technology to enterprises.
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Double Award Nomination is Icing on the Cake
We're delighted to announce that Andrew & Co has been shortlisted for not one but two awards!
The practice is a finalist in the Best Digital Presence category in the LawNet Awards 2016 and one of three businesses shortlisted for the Excellence in Business Award in the Large Enterprise category in the Newark Business Awards 2016.
Andrew & Co has enjoyed a busy 10 months since the start of the year, welcoming new recruits to both the Lincoln and the Newark office which recently moved to larger premises on London Road.
We have also recently undergone a rebrand and launched a new website to better reflect our innovative, client-focused approach.
Chairman Julie Bailey explained: "Although we're a long-established business it is vitally important that we continue to evolve to meet the needs of our clients. We're one of the oldest firms in the East Midlands but we are not complacent and innovation is key.
"I'm delighted that we're up for the national Best Digital Presence award as we've put a lot of hard work into the new website and it's nice to have our efforts recognised in this way. Digital technology is playing an increasingly important role in our business strategy and we want to have as a good a presence online as we do offline.
"Similarly being shortlisted for the Excellence in Business Award is a massive honour and winning would be the icing on the cake after what has been a very exciting and productive year."
The winners of the LawNet Awards 2016 will be announced during the LawNet Annual Conference Dinner on 11th November at Heythrop Park Resort in Oxfordshire. The winners of the Newark Business Awards will be presented with their trophies at a ceremony on Monday 5th December at Kelham Hall.


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Blown away by support for coastal litter pick
Local litter heroes braved the cold wind at Milford on Sea on Saturday (16 June 2018) to take part in New Forest District Council's (NFDC) coastal litter-pick.
Volunteers gathered from 10am until 2pm and, armed with their litter grabber sticks and refuse sacks on loan from us, set about cleaning up a stretch of the Milford-on-Sea shingle beach.
Volunteers, one from as far-afield as London, ventured right up to Barton and all the way down to Milford from the base at Hordle Cliff.
Our Portfolio Holder for Environment and Regulatory Services said (Cllr Alison Hoare), "We have 40 beautiful miles of coastline in our district and I would like to keep it looking beautiful. Events like this not only help clear up any litter we do find, but also raise awareness of the importance of using a litter bin or taking your rubbish home with you.
"On a positive note, we did only have around two black sacks full of litter by the end of the event. And whilst any litter is too much litter this does show that the message to take your litter home is working and that most people are taking more care. Thank you to everyone who came along."
The majority of the litter collected was small items, in particular lots of fishing rope, bottle tops and cigarette butts but there were also a few bottles, cans, crisp packets and random items like flip flops, a BBQ and a tyre.
The coastal litter pick was organised by us as part of our 'Leave Nothing but Footprints' campaign which will see posters and banners around the district, particularly in hot spots along the coast and around the Forest to encourage residents and visitors to 'leave nothing but footprints' and take their litter home.
(Photo L-R: Cllr Alison Hoare (Portfolio Holder), Cllr Melville Kendal (Chairman), Cllr Christine Hopkins (Milford ward Cllr))


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QuickAdvice: Notesy Brings Fast And Easy Notes To Your iPhone
Notesy ($0.99) by David Findlay is an app that gives you fast and easy notes on your iPhone and iPod Touch, with an added bonus of over-the-cloud syncing via Dropbox.
If you're still using the default Notes app on your iPhone or iPod Touch - why? There are plenty of third party apps that can replace it, and now we have a new one to throw into the mix - Notesy.
The first thing you'll want to do when the app launches is to link your Dropbox account. Once that's set up, you're good to go!
If the reason for still using the default Notes is that it's quicker than most other note apps, well that reason dies this instant. Notesy is one of the quickest note taking apps I've seen, and it provides a clean and simplistic interface that is similar to the Notes app. The main screen is a listing of all your current notes on a graphically pleasing textured surface of paper on a cardboard background.
Notes that have been synced via Dropbox will have a green check symbol on them. Any notes that are being uploaded or updated will have a blue 'refresh' symbol to notify the user that it's being sent to the cloud. If you decide to not link to your Dropbox account, then there will be none of these symbols (but why would you not link to Dropbox?).
The app will create a new folder in your Dropbox called 'notesy' and will be accessible from all your devices. The notes you create in Notesy will be saved as .txt files.
When creating a new note, the first thing you'll be prompted to enter is a title. No title? That's ok, it'll just be called 'New Note.' The good thing about this though, is that you can always go back to the note and rename it with the individual note options.
As you're writing, you can also pick from Fixed Width Font or Variable Width Font from the note options (represented by the 'share' icon). You can email the note from here as well, in which it will take your text and paste it into a new email message. What about having a spare copy just in case? Duplicate notes can be made from this menu option as well.
Are you looking for a specific note that you wrote a while back but don't remember where it is? There's a search option that will bring up results as you type so you are sure you won't miss anything. The entire note is searched, not just the title, so you can be sure you don't miss anything.
Changed your mind about a note? Just trash it from the editing screen with the trash icon or swipe to delete on the main listing. Be careful though, there's no way to recover these notes, so use that option sparingly.
There's no additional settings in the app besides the Dropbox account settings, but that's ok. This app is designed to be a replacement for the default Notes app, so it doesn't necessarily need all the bells-and-whistles of other, more fully-featured, note apps.
For a 1.0 product, this app is fairly good. It's fast, simple, and light, while being pleasing to the eye. If you have a buck to spare and need a note taking app to replace Notes, then this is a good use of your cash.


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Not sure if this is the best place to post this, but I have a max v2. I haven't used it for a while, but I got it up and running again and everything seems fine, but the eeprom keeps resetting. I usually print from SD card, and when I went to print today (after I unplugged my computer), The extruder didn't go down to the right z height, so I knew something was wrong. Then I plugged in and connected my computer and it said "printer reset detected - initializing". Any ideas why the printer is resetting? I don't think it happens every time I shut off the printer. Maybe it has something to do with not being plugged into the computer?
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Did you try clearing and uploading the firmware again?
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3-5 Months Babies at "Tummy Time" Stage
When your baby is 3-5 months old, new problems keep coming out. How could I help my infant when he/she is vomiting milk? Why he/she has a bit rash on his/her face? When should I add solid food to my newborn? What kind of food should I give my baby as the first try? These doubts drive your anxiety. However, there is still some good news happened when your newborn is three months old.
At three months, your baby is now smiling! They know who you are! Babies at this age will smile and interact a lot. These behaviours are something that they did not do as a newborn.
Some babies will also be able to have some tummy time. When positioned on a pillow or props, 3-5 months old baby can place their head up and perhaps peak a smile just long enough for that quick capture! The tips for tummy time photo session is here.
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6-8 Months Babies at "Sitting" Stage
Everything is so exciting and attractive for your baby this month. Your baby wants to explore the world with their eyes, hands and mouth! As your infant's vision is as good as an adult's now, they can look at the particular item or even point at it or try to crawl toward it. You will find your baby start to do baby-babbling as well. In a word, every day is a surprise.
About this age, there is another milestone. Your baby will be grabbing for toys, laughing, and even sitting up! Six months old is a great age and one of our favourites to photograph. Again, if your baby is not yet sitting up, wait a few weeks until that is possible.
Little ones may also enjoy some added clothing for this age. As they are more mature than before, adding cute props can be fun and story making. We have a lot of collection of clothing and accessories for them to use and adding different characters to their cherish-able photos. The tips for sitter time photo session is here.
1-Year Babies at "Standing" Stage
One year old is a special milestone during your baby's life. His first birthday is coming, and his first step is coming as well. Most babies can take his first steps alone now. It's a significant development for your baby. Also, the bedtime is getting easier for you to organise. Your baby can feed himself/herself better. Your baby can learn more about language. These are all good news. But, the biggest problem for you is that it's so hard to say 'goodbye' to your little one!
We encourage to photograph your baby every six months after they are 1. Once they are 3, time appears to slow down a bit, and most of my clients intend to shoot once a year, some remain on the 6-month time frame.
As a professional myself, I have the luxury of shooting my kids many times a year. Like most, I offer incentives at different times of the year to encourage more priceless moments for my clients, take advantage of all those opportunities as I have NEVER heard a parent complain that they have too many pictures of their child! The tips for 1-year-old photo session is here.
We also have self-feeding limited sessions offered for One-Year-Old babies. Please contact us to check the calendar and availabilities.
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Article @ Deaf Immigrants Event at Cal Baptist on July 28,2013
Website : Hector Project (A non-profit organization that provides resources for Deaf Immigrants such as ASL classes, job search and referrals)
On Sunday July 28, 2013 I was fortunate to volunteer at the Leaders Empowering Advocacy for the Deaf (LEAD) event created by Immigration Law Offices of Hadley Bajramovic (ILOHB) hosted at Cal Baptist University. This is my second time participating in this event and each time I am blessed with a tremendous experience.
Speaking for myself, I often focus on the "don't haves" in my life instead of the "do-haves". This experience reminded me of the basic needs I have and the over and above indulgences I have compared to those who have less based on the status they have in this country we call so great. Side note: there are people who are citizens of the land of opportunity and their needs are not met, which is sad. That only those who the country deem worthy "elite" to have all the joy and prosperity that it has to offer and the poor, less fortunate, middle class and black sheep of this US must work twice as hard, live without and suffer to partake in a piece of the American Dream which never actually transpires. Back to the topic….LEAD.
As I volunteered as an interpreter, I learned so much about the level of language comprehension and expression in deaf immigrants compared to mainstreamed deaf society. I enjoyed finding creative ways to convey concepts of ASL at individual levels of comprehension. These types of encounters which were not always the case opened my mind to developing my skills and enduring I provided accurate interpretation for the clients served at the event.
At the end of the event a gentleman asked if I could interpret for him with a police officer who was a guest speaker at the event. I cannot share to much of his story but the point that it was all too common of a story about law enforcement and the misconduct and treatment of people who are immigrants, have disabilities or are other ethnicities. His experience was sad but what is worse is the fact that as an interpreter, woman of color and a disability advocate it is difficult to not become desensitized when you hear these experiences. Law enforcement will not change but we have to equip special populations with tools to educate them and protect them against these encounters.
Law enforcement is not the only problem for immigrants. Side note again: Riverside Police Department shared that police officers are no longer able to pull someone over and ask their immigration status (racial profiling) wish they would be the same where they would stop pulling over people of color based on ethnicity..any who…we will see how successful this is. Back to the other concern shared by the officer that immigrants are afraid of being deported or getting into trouble by being here illegally they are often victims of crime in which they do not report the crime because of fear and criminals prey on this population. The department is looking for ways to connect with this community to encourage them to stand up and speak out.
So many lessons in one day. To sum it up attending this event stimulated a desire to serve others, to appreciate the "haves" in my life, and as I grow in my field, life and educating others, I would like to remain connected to a cause that will make a difference for me, the community and the students I work with.


text: Vintage Shelters is one Bangalore's most successful names and a company that has created several homes, fondly cherished by their residents. Vintage Shelters has over 15 years of experience in real estate and a proven track record in land development and property construction. The company has to date successfully completed several reputed housing projects that stand testimony to the company's commitment to aesthetics and quality. Vintage Shelters, attribute their success to sincerity and transparency in all transactions. All the properties are safe and secure as investment options and completely hassle free in terms of legalities. Vintage Shelters realize that an investment today is for the benefit of generations to come and take all care to ensure that it is a prized asset for ever.


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Day of the JLG Condor
In the morning the phone call from Josh was somewhat frantic, Matt's car was stuck in ice and locked between two tightly packed cars, wasn't there an Enterprise Rental by my place? Indeed. It opens at 7:30am. The one Nissan Pathfinder SUV was all they could rent for a thrifty $90 per day We would still have to cross Manhattan via the 59th Street Bridge and pick up Josh and Jeff at 96th and Broadway, and then on to Mt. Vernon, NY to do our boom and scissor lift certification course. Why would you want to be lift certified? Because when Jimmy, Tommy, and Frankie ask you if you're lift certified on the next film you work on, you say, "Yeah, here's the card signed by Sam Blakely, the 170 foot lift guy in Mt. Vernon." Whatever. It's all a racket. Our joke was that because this training course was cheaper than the other JLG certified course, the Union would ask us for the $35 difference as an administration fee. So yeah. We did that, ate Indian food, Josh and I drove to the climbing gym, I got a $115 ticket, the rental car was almost towed. Just another fucking day in the Winter Paradise that is New York City.


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Ash and friends arrive in a town where they find out that one of the last contests before the Grand Festival is going to be held. Since Dawn already has her fifth ribbon, however, she decides not to participate. As they're moving on, a woman comes up to them and asks them to follow, bringing them to a princess by the name of Salvia. Surprisingly, Salvia looks as if she could be Dawn's identical twin, and because of this, the former asks Dawn if she could take her place as princess for one day so that she could participate in the Pokémon Contest. How will Dawn react to this extraordinary request?


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This little conversation piece is ideal for office reception or guest seating area. Gorgeous, rich espresso wood base and top that best fits your style and decor.
- Overall Dimensions: 36"W x 36"D x 18"H
- Weight: 87 lbs
- Assembly: None
- Materials: Wood Base/Metal Top
- Care Instructions: Wipe with damp cloth
- Ships 4-7 business days from order
- The rusted metal top is done by hand. Not 2 are alike, the rust patterns are never identical and create a very unique industrial appearance.


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In Australia, more cars are on the road than ever before and their impact on the environment is well documented. The average car can emit up to 4.7 tons of CO2 and it takes nearly 4 trees to sequester 1 tonne (1000kg) of CO2
While electric vehicles are a cleaner way of transport, we are still a long way off these becoming the norm.
Everyone wants to make reducing emissions a priority, but most people need to rely on their vehicle until newer technologies are rolled out in full.
In the meantime, we can manage our transportation methods in a smarter, conscious way and use businesses that address their impact on the environment.
At Greenamotive, the environment is important to us.
This is why we have partnered with Greenfleet, an environment non-profit and Australia's most trusted source of biodiverse carbon offsets, to reduce our CO2 footprint and impact on the environment.
So far, Greenfleet have planted 9 million native trees through reforestation of more than 475 native forest here in Australia and New Zealand.
Every vehicle that we service contributes offsets of 500kg of CO2 emissions through the planting of 2 native trees. We also plant more for repairs on a job by job basis.
At Greenamotive, we run 95% of our power tools from lithium ion batteries charged on the way to the job site through our vans charging system. All our vehicles CO2 emissions are offset, and other energy requirements are meet through Red Energy 100% green power for our office facilities.
We also offer services for you to offset your vehicle emissions for the entire period between your vehicle service schedule, whether that's 7,500 10,000 or 15,000 with our Enviro option for vehicle servicing.
Over the next 12 months of operation, we will monitor our impact on the environment and assess how we can continue to lower our impact in the future using the National Carbon Offset Standards from the Federal Department of the Environment and Energy.
Our goal is to become an accredited carbon neutral organization in 2019.
We are also working towards a package for the conversion of standard Toyota Prius Hybrid vehicles to Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) to offer customers a more affordable option for lowering their emissions with the use of electric vehicle technology.
As our business grows we will continue to invest in technologies and systems that will lower our energy use and will be committed to running our workshops on renewable energy and reducing our landfill through a comprehensive recycling system.


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Factors affecting the size of your system include the climate in your region, humidity levels, the number of windows in your dwelling, total square footage of your home, the direction your home faces, the number of heat producing appliances in your home, the type of insulation you have and the number of people that live in your residence. A NOW Heating and Air Comfort Specialist can perform the proper calculations to determine the right size heating or cooling unit for your home and lifestyle.
Maintenance and service play a key role in the life cycle of a heating and air conditioning system. If all recommended maintenance and service actions are taken, it is believed that an air conditioner should last 12-15 years and a gas furnace can potentially last up to 20-25 years.
No. Our service and maintenance technicians are at your beck and call. We don't just sell and install new systems. Nor are we limited to the systems we do sell and install. We are able to service, repair and maintain your indoor comfort or refrigeration systems. And, what your plumbing issues? We're qualified to handle and service your plumbing issues too. Make us your go to home environment servicing company. Call NOW at 720.306.8445 / 855.NOW.HVAC
As long as they are running well most of us don't even think about our furnaces or air conditioners, except maybe when it's time to change a filter or two. Then, it seems like all of a sudden the furnace isn't working, or the air conditioner just isn't working as well as it did yesterday. How come? Much of the time your systems will work well on their own, up to a point. Let's see, when was the last time you had your furnace, air conditioner or hot water heater inspected? Or, when was the last time you had someone come in to perform maintenance on your home comfort systems?
When you call us these are just a few of the questions we would ask you. And, we know you'll have several if not many questions you want to ask us. This section is designed to answer as many of your questions as possible. We do realize that not all your questions will be answered here, but we do believe this section will be a good start.


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(map) Middletown is near the junction of Interstate 66 and 81 near the northern entrance of Skyline Drive in north-east Virginia.
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Subject, packet loss.
games showing loss show I performed a quick tracert, getting loss about 3 or 4 hops ahead, ISP tech is coming to make sure its not on "my end", they really ticked me off telling me its fiber when its really dsl going to a fiber backbone and now packet loss?
So am I being stupid for posting this since this is indeed on thier end? I did the trace from windows and live RAM linux disk clean same packet loss. No router too, modem directly to rig


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clouds this winter
and spring rains taken
down now into
the ground.
City starts up
through the fog
lost in mist
down to the ground
through the branches
of the pine always
there cityscape
gray or cut out
of the sky tough
or brilliant glare
wall-eyed monster
staring there.
At sunset blank
roses or golden tints
in stripes of clouds
across the sky
as they looked
in Giotto's time.
And then the purple
blue of night and
Venus clear-eyed
in the west. But those
heaps of rising clouds
this year towering
blue-veined above
the towers of the city
as if it were enchanted
somehow and not
the blazing city of
disaster, posthumous
city, city of ashes
risen again and again
granite and steel and
tumbled stone. Now
the clouds lower and
it rains again. Blind
city. Fragile and lost
so often lost and then
is built again. This
must come to elegy:
to keep in memory
those unknown
roughly buried
beneath the sand
and those known
honored or
dishonored whose
motives just or unjust
have become part of
the language of this
place. Its myth
its name for the saint
who would have
denounced it if
saint he were
May 15-17, 2010
The story carries the burden as if it were a scapegoat driven into the desert and turns again in its wandering returning. The sentence is erased but if it were true it would return again as another and find its way unknown through the town. It hinders one. Its disguise betrays one. Its face stares from the window of a passing car weeping. If the story were true another reads the burden as if it were a mirror and turns again
returning to an unnamed town. Finding one's way in the dark the story deceives one. It leads one in this way to a truth which had seemed to be unspeakable. The truth of the story is hidden and densely wrapped as if it were buried in a rocky tomb. It bears the burden of death and is beaten and driven into the desert and rises and returns again. It is that passing face which changes everything.
January, 2008
Two Poems
Beverly Dahlen


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Nong Kae has an easy access to town or to the beach and all major tourist destination in Hua Hin. It is located in walking distance to the famous Takiab Beach.


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The Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Facility at Penn State is located at the basement of the Chemistry Building. The primary mission of the Facility is to make NMR spectroscopy and Micro-Imaging available to students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty of the University and of the surrounding Central Pennsylvania community for the advancement of their research.
The Facility is equipped with ten superconducting NMR spectrometers of varying purposes and capabilities, operating in both liquids and solids mode. Their fields range from 7 Tesla (300 MHz 1H frequency) to 20 Tesla (850 MHz 1H frequency) and are equipped with diverse liquids, solids, diffusion, and imaging probes.
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A common rallying cry of the American Left is that a higher education is a fundamental right all Americans deserve. I seem to have missed that in the Declaration of Independence (life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness…. and free college?)
Not only is there no basis for any kind of "right" to "free" college – free hardly is free in name only. Here's Kareem Mathias explaining why:
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Enoch Pratt Free Library's New CEO Takes Helm; Replaces Carla HaydenThe Enoch Pratt Free Library's new CEO began this week, replacing longtime leader Carla Hayden who was sworn in as the Librarian of Congress last year.
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I have always felt strong connections with the Earth. A cool breeze on a crisp Autumn evening. The chorus of Spring Peepers by the pond. Even the sounds of dry leaves crunching beneath my feet. Whenever I am outside and surrounded by the natural landscape all current worries seem to evaporate. Its a feeling of simplicity in some ways- free of the usual daily, fast paced functions and demands of society, but also a feeling of complexity- a total sense of respect and awe for the organisms that live day by day in an unpredictable and sometimes unforgiving environment.
Many of my current works are focused on noticing and bringing attention to common occurrences that can be seen and experienced in nature. Unusual points of view and close-ups of smaller organisms are exposed to engage the viewer with these life-forms. It is my hope that one may develop a more observant eye and a sharpened awareness of their other senses to enjoy and peacefully co-exist with other life-forms with which we share this planet.


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2007 Lifetime Achievement Award
Elie Wiesel
The Dayton Literary Peace Prize Committee honored Nobel
Laureate Elie Wiesel with the 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award.
Professor Wiesel, who has written more than forty internationally acclaimed works
of fiction and nonfiction, was present to receive the award in conjunction
with the Dayton Literary Peace Prize ceremonies on Sunday,
October 14, 2007 at The Benjamin and Marion Schuster Center for the
Performing Arts in Dayton, Ohio.
Professor Wiesel's 1958 memoir La Nuit (Night) chronicles his experiences
in European concentration camps during World War II. Night
has been read by millions and is included in school and college curricula
globally. Wiesel was chosen because of his role as a literary
and political spokesperson on behalf of Jews and other groups who
have suffered persecution and death due to their religion, race, or national
origin. He has been honored with the Presidential Medal of
Freedom, the United States of America Congressional Gold Medal,
the French Legion of Honor, and, in 1986, the Nobel Peace Prize.
Since 1976, he has been the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities
at Boston University, where he also holds the title of University
"Professor Wiesel's voice has been heard in the literary community
for nearly fifty years; it is an increasingly important one for us to hear
today," said Sharon Rab at the announcement of the committee's decision.
"His tremendous contribution to the world of letters is recognized
globally. We are delighted and honored that he will be able to
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Studies Raise Doubts About the Benefits of Vertebroplasty
Evidence reveals bone cement injection has no benefit over placebo procedure for spinal compression fractures.
Two studies concluded in 2009 that a common repair for spinal compression fractures in people who have osteoporosis offers no more benefit than a sham injection and may carry serious risks, experts said Wednesday.
The studies, which were published in The New England Journal of Medicine, were the first clinical trials to test a popular and expensive procedure called vertebroplasty against a placebo, and many experts said they were stunned by the results, which showed that patients got equal amounts of modest pain relief whether they got vertebroplasty, where bone cement is pumped into broken vertebrae, or a dummy injection.
David F. Kallmes, MD, an interventional radiologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., who led one of the studies, said he thought something was wrong with the data when he finally learned the results.
"I just really couldn't believe it when they told me," Dr. Kallmes said in an interview. (In double-blinded clinical trials, neither researchers nor patients are allowed to know who is getting the investigational treatment or the placebo.)
Dr. Kallmes said he was relieved to learn that a team of Australian researchers had gotten roughly the same results in a similar study.
"I think both trials show that vertebroplasty is no better than a sham procedure for either improving pain, function or quality of life," said Rachelle Buchbinder, PhD, a rheumatologist and director of the Department of Clinical Epidemiology at Cabrini Hospital in Malverne, Australia.
"I don't think there's any benefit of having a vertebroplasty and there are potential risks, and they haven't really been fully elucidated to date," Dr. Buchbinder added.
In her study, which enrolled 78 patients with spine fractures, one participant who received the cement developed a serious bone infection called osteomyelitis.
And previous research has suggested that bone cement may increase the risk for fractures in adjacent vertebrae because it changes the way the spine is able to absorb shock.
Still, other experts said that while they found the studies to be rigorous and well designed, the results were tough to reconcile with personal experience.
"I have seen patients come into the O.R. in so much pain that they could not walk," says Scott Boden, MD, director of the Emory Spine Center in Atlanta, who was not involved in either study. "They get the cement and two minutes later they are walking out the door. It's that fast."
Such cases have convinced many in the medical community that the procedure works, and Dr. Boden said he believes the procedure may still have benefit for certain kinds of patients, particularly in those who have recent fractures.
During the previous six years, the number of vertebroplasty procedures performed in the United States has doubled, according to Medicare data, from 4.3 to 8.9 procedures for every 1,000 persons, though questions and worries about the risks remained.
And vertebroplasty is expensive. The total cost is usually around $5,000 when the cost of an MRI scan is included.
So in 2002, Dr. Kallmes convinced the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, or NIAMS, part of the National Institutes of Health, to give him money to compare vertebroplasty to a placebo.
Researchers rarely test surgical procedures, even minimally-invasive ones, against a placebo because unlike drug studies, where it's possible to hand out harmless sugar pills, placebo surgeries involve breaking the skin, a move that can be ethically dicey because it opens the door to infections and other kinds of dangerous complications.
Dr. Kallmes also didn't want to leave patients in pain if they got the dummy injection, so he told all study participants that they could get the other intervention if they had not experienced adequate relief after 30 days.
He eventually enrolled 131 patients who were randomly assigned to receive either the bone cement or a dummy injection of short-acting painkillers.
Study investigators took great pains to make patients who got the dummy injection believe they were getting the real thing, including opening a container of the bone cement so the distinctive smell, something like nail polish remover, would waft through the air.
And each month, as he submitted his data, he said he half expected someone would call and tell him to cancel the study, something that happens when results show overwhelming benefit, or danger, early on.
But the call never came.
In the final analysis, patients in both the placebo group and the treatment group reported that on a scale from 1 to 10, their pain dropped by an average of about three points after 30 days, whether they got the bone cement or not.
The Australian study, which was very similar, had almost the same results.
"The placebo effect, I don't think, can be underestimated," said Dr. Buchbinder.
"Especially for an invasive procedure, people have a higher expectation that they will benefit. They put themselves on the line if they have to have an invasive procedure, so they really have to buy into it and I think that really heightens the placebo response."
Dr. Buchbinder said that after the study, she received a visit from a grateful patient who had been flown to the hospital by air ambulance because the fracture in his back was so painful.
He was enrolled in the study, and after the procedure, his pain was so much better than he was able to drive home.
Curious, Dr. Buchbinder looked up his number to see which treatment he'd gotten.
He had gotten the placebo.
Whether his own belief was enough to blunt his pain, or whether the fracture may have healed on its own, as many do, is anyone's guess, Dr. Buchbinder said.
"Unless you do rigorous studies, no matter how amazing it looks in these instances, I don't think you actually can know unless you've done the studies," she said.
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Impact Benefit Agreement (IBA)
Impact Benefit Agreements
In Greenland an Impact Benefit Agreement (IBA) is negotiated on the basis of the Social Impact Assessment Report (SIA Report). In Greenland there are the following three parties to the Impact Benefit Agreement:
- The mineral resource company
- The municipality or municipalities, which according to the SIA Report will be impacted by the mineral resource activities
- Government of Greenland
The negotiations of the IBA will begin by the end of the 8-week-long public consultation of the Draft SIA Report.
The IBA is the document in Greenland which post-permitting regulates the social impacts. The IBA in Greenland is divided into two main parts: a general part and a project-specific part of the IBA (the appendices)
The general part of the IBA
The general part of the IBA document frames the general objectives of the agreement and is as a starting point non-negotiable. The general part of the IBA addresses among others how cooperation between the parties will be organized and which areas will be included.
The project-specific part of the IBA: The appendices
The project-specific part of the IBA consists of set of appendices. The appendices mainly regulate specific impacts and benefits from the specific mineral resource project. Typically, the appendices cover topics such as:
- Mineral resource activities in Greenland (incl. processing of minerals)
- Greenland workers
- Training and educational initiatives
- Greenland Enterprises
- Monitoring and Evaluation Plan
The appendices address the coming year's performance targets of the Parties. The appendices will include targets for use of Greenland Workers, Greenland Enterprises etc. Initially, the targets of the appendices are negotiated on the basis of the targets, which the applicant has set in the SIA Report, which has been approved by the government. In other words it is the commitments agreed upon in the appendices of the IBA, which specify the extent to which the project has to use Greenland Workers, Greenland Enterprises etc.
Based on annually monitoring and evaluation of the project's performance, the commitments in the appendices can be updated from year to year in agreement between the parties to the IBA. The appendices are therefore considered dynamic working documents containing concrete and realistic commitments with regard to use of Greenland workers and Greenland Enterprises, which have to be reached each year by the Licensee and the subcontractors. The procedure of annually monitoring the preformance and possible updating of the commitments in the appendices ensures that the project can evolve in accordance with the latest economic development of Greenland (e.g. labour force, labour market, industry structure etc.)
Further information:
Please see The Guidelines on the process and preparation of the SIA report for mineral projects
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Saturday 15th February @ Village Underground London
Featuring Alexis Taylor (Hot Chip) DJ Set, DJ Falcon, Gildas & Jerry Bouthier, Clancy, Let The Machines Do The Work (Live) + More TBA
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Kitsuné Club Night return to East London with the amorous French Kiss Party taking place at Village Underground on February 15th and promises to be a highly charged, booty-grooving affair.
Once again the celebrated Parisian label, renowned for discovering new talent and trends have curated this phenomenal line up featuring one half of Hot Chip, a legendary 'French Touch' maestro and an eclectic mix of established names and hotly tipped talent to supply the dance floor with an infectious dose of sexy house, electro and nu disco.
Headlining the festivities will be Joe Goddard's partner in crime, Alexis Taylor from everyone's favourite band, Hot Chip espousing his love of hybrid bass driven house and deep electronic goodness.
Joining Alexis on stage will be disco house stalwart DJ FALCON, who will delve into his enormous bag of tricks and deliver sonic goodies that have spanned an illustrious 20-year career. Falcon famed for his collaborations with Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homen-Christo, recently appeared on Daft Punk's new album, 'Random Access Memories'. Expect some disco classics alongside fresh new tracks.
Spearheading the French nu disco house revolution will be Kitsuné's co-founder Gildas & London's very own Frenchman Jerry Bouthier.
London via Manchester's rising house star, CLANCY celebrates the release of his new track 'Overdue' featured on Kitsuné's forthcoming compilation 'New Faces', will showcase his tech house infused deck talents alongside a very special live performance from Brighton's indie-disco 4 piece, Let The Machines Do The Work, who clash analogue and digital equipment with elements of house, techno, soul and disco to craft that elusive human edge often lacking in modern dance music.
With such an array of in form artists providing the soundtrack to the night, this is one Valentine's party not to be missed.
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Dear Timothy James, thank you for reminding me of important things like countdowns when turning on our Christmas lights. Making things exciting has always been one of your greatest gifts. Dear Latest Pregnancy Craving, one word: jalapenos. On everything. Dear Leg Lamp In Our Window, you are reason #753 why I love living at the Harvest House. Here's to drinking our Ovaltine and wishing Santa would bring us a pair of Aunt Clara's bunny pajamas for Christmas. Dear Husband, praise the Great Lion of Judah for flea markets. Your new sweater is nothing short of amazeballs.
Happy Wednesday, brave ones! What's your favorite Holiday movie? A Christmas Story will always be our favorite!


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Carry out routine maintenance, repairing, monitor and ensure all schools systems are operating as per the schools requirements and manufacturers specifications.• To liaise with and supervise external contractors on builder's and repair work arranged by the school and ESF office on site• To carry out minor repairs and maintenance on all school systems, including minor joinery, E&M and builder's works• To be responsible for carrying out daily works orders• To carry out routine checks and upkeep to all school systems e.g. E&M, VRV, electrical• To assist to move furniture, equipment and heavy objects• To help monitor the storage of tools, furniture and site equipment• Performs other duties and assumes accountabilities as apparent or as delegated, including mutually agreed upon objectives負責各項日常木工維修,傢俱裝嵌,學校維修及保養工作。• 與承辦商聯繫和監督維修工程• 進行日常校內設施檢查及安裝。• 搬運大型傢俬雜物。• 協助保養和保管工具,校內傢俬與設備。• 協助學校活動場地佈置或其他被指派工作。• 如情況需要,員工需在非辦公時間於校內工作。
Minimum typical education• Form 5 or above學歷要求中五畢業或以上Minimum typical experience• 3-5 years relevant experience• Good command of English (spoken and written). Fluency in Cantonese or Mandarin is helpful.• Able to work independently as well as collaboratively contribute in a team經驗要求• 三〜五年相關經驗。• 如持造木技術證書,細木工(組裝)中工證明書者優先。Applicants must be a permanent Hong Kong resident or possess a valid visa to work in Hong Kong. 本公司提供完善福利制度,五天工作,包括十五天年假,醫療及牙科福利。申請者必須為永久香港居民或持有效香港工作簽証。
By applying for this position, your application may be considered for other opportunities within ESF.
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Bundt Cake #32: Carrot
When I think Easter, I think of carrot cake, don't you? I just love me a piece of carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. I made my frosting from scratch (which is a cinch!) but of course, you could just spread on a can of store bought frosting instead. Whatever makes you happy :). Nothing says Easter bunny like a piece of carrot cake.
Shopping List
1 box of carrot cake mix
2 small boxes of instant vanilla pudding
1/2 cup of veggie oil
1 1/4 cups water
4 eggs
1 cup pecans, chopped
4 cups powdered sugar
1 (8 oz) package cream cheese, softened
3-4 splashes of milk
1 tablespoon vanilla
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Grease (I use Pam) a 10 inch bundt pan
In mixing bowl, combine cake mix, puddings, oil, water and eggs with electric mixer. Stir in pecan pieces. Pour into prepared pan and bake 40-45 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.
Let cake rest on counter in pan 10 minutes. Then, invert cake onto serving plate to finish cooling.
To make the frosting, beat cream cheese with powdered sugar and a few splashes of milk until creamy. Stir in vanilla. Spread on cooled cake.
Well…in the 8 months that I've had this blog, I've never taken a little break. (I even blogged from Denmark and Russia!) This week, however, between Bundt Cakes numbers 32 and 33, I'm gong to take a few days off and enjoy time with my family. This is a great week to reflect on blessings and give thanks to the Lord for the ultimate sacrifice he made by dying on the cross for our sins and then rising again three days later. Easter is the ultimate holiday because the ultimate price was paid. Have a blessed week. Christ loves you and so do I!
See you Sunday with bundt cake #33!