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Today's podcast will be on the topic of "Getting Started in Root Cause Analysis". This is a topic that many people are interested in, and another one of the ways you can do "more with less" in software testing and QA.
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A woman I'll call 'Sandra' came in for an appointment after a hiatus of over a decade. Originally, she had been successfully treated for some menstrual issues as well as skin rashes, but I lost touch with her after she moved away. With the prospect of moving back into the area plus the advent of Skype (which is a wonderful tool to do consultations at a distance), she decided to get back in touch regarding some more recent health concerns.
It seems that in the interim, Sandra had experienced some difficult times, and had gone on a psychoactive drug for a number of years. At a certain point, she decided it was time to be in the world without the assistance of this pharmaceutical and began to wean herself from it. It was a slow process, but she was in fact able to withdraw completely from the medication.
Having done that, she felt quite 'moody', swinging between various emotions without much rhyme or reason. She 'didn't feel herself' – this was certainly not the way she felt while on the medication, nor was it similar to the way she felt before being medicated.
At our first consultation after having re-established contact, I spent several hours with Sandra updating her history and discussing her condition in great detail. This, in and of itself, was not unusual. It had been a long time and to reacquaint myself with her it was necessarily to pretty much start from scratch again. But what was unusual was the fact that her case wasn't very coherent from a homeopathic perspective.
The process of a homeopathic consultation – and the reason that it can take several hours (or more) – is generally designed to culminate in a fairly comprehensive, integrated understanding of the patients state, physically, mentally and emotionally. The remedy is then chosen to reflect this state of the entire person.
Naturally, it isn't always possible to arrive at this goal in one sitting. But as a rule, an experienced homeopath will get a somewhat coherent picture of the patient. Unfortunately, in Sandra's case, that picture seemed quite muddled and inconsistent.
After we finished, I gave quite a bit of thought to Sandra's case – reviewing my notes, organizing and reorganizing the information, and consulting reference material. This, too, is not an unusual process for a conscientious homeopath. Sometimes the remedy selection for a particular patient is quite straightforward and requires little time beyond the consultation itself, but there are always cases where the selection of an appropriate remedy is a more involved, even arduous, process.
Despite these efforts, my investigation into Sandra's case provided little direction from a traditional or classical homeopathic perspective. But I did have a hunch as to why this so, and rather than consult once more with Sandra herself to try to further my understanding, I decided to act on my hunch.
I sent her a homeopathic prescription of Venlafaxine (Venlafaxine Hydrochloride, to be more exact). While this might not ring any bells in the mind of most people, its more common appellation 'Effexor' might.
Venlafaxine HCL has been around for about 20 years, and is an antidepressant – one of the most commonly prescribed antidepressants in the country – belonging to a class of drugs known as 'serotonin norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors'. (Cymbalata is another well-known member of this group.) It is used for 'major depressive disorder' often combined with anxiety.
Now, just to be absolutely clear, what I gave Sandra was not Effexor itself, but a homeopathic dilution of the drug. That is, through the homeopathic dilution process, the material aspect of the drug – the molecules represented by the formula C17H27NO2 – where removed and what remained was an energetic pattern or vibrating memory of the substance.
The use of a homeopathically diluted substance or potency to remove the toxic effects of the actual physical substance is not a new or unusual concept. Casual users of homeopathic remedies know that one of the treatments for a bee sting is Apis mellifica – or the potentized form of honeybee, and that rhus toxicodendron, the homeopathic dilution of poison ivy, can be effective for poison ivy rash.
Strictly speaking, this is not a classical homeopathic approach, but a related form of treatment known as 'tautopathy'. 'Tauto' is a Greek word meaning 'the same', and tautopathy is a method using a substance in diluted or potentized form to alleviate or remove the residues and toxicity the actual crude substance has caused.
Venlafaxine can cause a host of side effects – increased risk of suicide, sexual dysfunction, amnesia, sleepiness or sleeplessness, nausea, dizziness, weakness, dry mouth, constipation and nervousness to name only the most common. It can also cause a potentially fatal reaction called 'serotonin syndrome.' In addition, there can be long-term consequences after terminating the drug, a phenomena known as 'discontinuation syndrome.'
In the short term, the symptoms associated with discontinuation include disorientation, fatigue, headache, poor coordination and nausea. More insidious, are the long-term effects. Drugs like Venlafaxine alter the way the brain works – and the effect remains after the drug itself is withdrawn. Thus a person no longer 'feels theirself' – just as Sandra verbalized.
Fortunately for Sandra, at our follow-up visit about a month after taking the homeopathic dilution of Venlafaxine, she was feeling much better. The mood swings had leveled out and a sense of wellbeing was beginning to return.
One of the most powerful incentives that motivated Samuel Hahnemann to create the medical science of homeopathy over two centuries ago was to help those suffering from mental illness. He personally witnessed the horrors of contemporary treatment – the asylums where patients were straight jacketed or brutalized in various other ways and forced to live in the most primitive conditions, usually for their entire lives.
Having successfully treated epidemic diseases and the most serious medical conditions that afflicted people in that era, Hahnemann was certain that the same principles and medicines that had made homeopathy so effective in handling physical ailments would also apply to mental ones. In fact, he was one of the first medical authorities to insist that mental illness was akin to physical illness, but just had its seat in the mind instead of another bodily organ. Today, this might sound obvious, but in 1792, it was quite an insight.
Since that time, Hahnemann, his followers and subsequent generations of homeopathic practitioners have in fact been able to help countless persons with mental illness. Our books are replete with remarkable case histories as well as detailed descriptions of many hundreds of medicines useful in this sphere of treatment.
Contemporary practitioners, though, face a new challenge in the treatment of mental and emotional disorders. Since the 1950's dramatic changes have swept across the mental health landscape both in terms of popularized notions of what causes mental illness and the way in which it is to be treated. In a sense, it is really the story of the evolution of the profession of psychiatry into a partner with the pharmaceutical industry with a shared common goal to promote prescription medication as the most effective means to treat mental illness.
The details of this story are told in an extraordinary book entitled "Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America", written by a medical journalist named Robert Whitaker and published in 2010. What is remarkable about it is the fact that Whitaker has not written a diatribe against psychiatry, but a steady handed review of research studies and case histories to reveal how a destructive combination of flawed assumptions, misplaced hopes and profit motive have created the contemporary 'epidemic' of mental illness in America.
Whitaker's meticulous scrutiny of the facts leads to an array of significant conclusions about the interface of mental illness and conventional pharmaceutical treatment. Amongst them are the following:
One of the major incentives to establish prescription drugs as the predominant treatment modality for mental illness was a desire to legitimize the inclusion of psychiatry within the modern medical establishment. Psychoanalysis and other forms of 'talk therapy' were less 'scientific', and, in addition, could be performed by professionals who were not medical doctors. The use of pharmaceuticals was both a way to avoid being marginalized by elevating the status of the profession as well as a way to gain an advantage over the competition by offering treatment that was unavailable from non-MD therapy.
Many psychiatric drugs, especially the first generation discovered in the 1950s, were not developed to treat mental illness at all, but instead to treat some other type of physical disease. It then became apparent that as a side effect, these drugs also seemed to sedate the nervous system or otherwise modify the behavior of patients.
Thus, the treatment was not in fact addressing the cause of the problem nor rectifying the 'chemical imbalance', but just distorting brain function to make the patient less prone to certain forms of unacceptable behaviors. This also holds true for subsequent generations of psychoactive medications. People don't get better per se, they get 'different' – and often stay 'different'. My own clinical experience is that even after withdrawing from these drugs, many people will stay 'different'.
In spite of this, there has been an aggressive marketing campaign to promote these medications. Various theories were put forth to promote these drugs as curative, when in fact they were not. For instance, perhaps the most well known one is the notion that serotonin deficiency is a cause of depression or other related illness. There is little to no evidence to back the claim. It is basically a myth propagated to encourage the use of SSRIs (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors), which are amongst the most popular and profitable drugs in the industry.
In the mid-1950's, when the first wave of psychoactive drugs were introduced, about 350,000 persons were hospitalized in psychiatric institutions of one sort or another in the United States. One of the chief goals of prescribing these medications was to reduce this number – freeing both the individuals from incarceration and the nation of the burden of caring for them.
But the results show just the opposite effect. Over the next 30 years, the number of persons diagnosed as mentally disabled tripled. Again from the late 80's, when the second generation of psychiatric drugs – led by Prozac - was introduced, the numbers increased again. Most startling is the fact that in this period of time the number of young Americans on mental disability has grown 35 fold.
The basic question that Whitaker seeks to answer is why these numbers have increased so dramatically. His conclusion becomes obvious as one reads through his analysis: psychiatric medications worsen mental illness over the long run. This runs the gamut of drugs – from the stimulants used to control children in school to powerful anti-psychotics. They may adequately control short-term behaviors, but over longer periods of time they create unhealthy distortions in brain function as well as produce systemic side effects.
This is the challenge that Hahnemann's homeopathic descendants face today. It is no longer adequate to treat the underlying issues that psychiatric patients present. Often before a practitioner can even address those, it is necessary to deal with the disturbances caused by pharmaceutical interventions.
This can be an extremely complicated undertaking, depending on what medications – or combinations of medications – have been taken for how long, the willingness or capacity of the patient to wean off of them, as well as the cooperation of family and prescribing medical personnel. Despite these possible complications, it can be a successful and rewarding endeavour.
1. Whitaker, Robert. "Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America". 2010 Crown Publishing, New York


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Google just had its ribbon cutting ceremony for its new data center in Lenoir, NC. Data Center Knowledge reports on how tight security was.
Google held a ceremony yesterday to mark the official opening of its $600 million data center project in Lenoir, North Carolina. The band played Ted Nugent's "Cat Scratch Fever" and curious local residents dined on barbecue, beans, hushpuppies and cole slaw. North Carolina Governor Mike Easley joined local officials and Google managers for a ribbon cutting.
But there was no tour of the facility, as Google continued its practice of tight information control about its data center facilities. The Charlotte Observer reported that guests attending the event had to pass through seven separate security guard checks.
Clint Boulton of eWeek's Google Watch blog, who was apparently the only reporter from a technology publication invited to attend, also noted the tight security. "On the drive in, I was stopped, in this order, by: 1) a Google security guard 2) a state trooper 3) another Google security guard 4) yet another Google security guard and 5) if you guess it, you get the prize," Clint writes.
And, on the same day. TechNet Edge posts another interview with Mike Manos on Microosft's Chicago Data Center using containers, showing an animated inside tour.
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Alex was excited about music at a young age but was reluctant to take formal lessons for several years because many of his close friends took piano lessons and hated it. At age ten, his parents convinced him to give piano lessons a try and he loved it. His family moved when he was fifteen and he decided to continue studying piano and music on his own. At this point his drive to practice and learn exploded. He started practicing several hours a day and building a notable sheet music library. He learned music theory from studying scores from the classical greats to modern pop, rock, and metal bands and artists. When he got to college and took music theory classes, he was pleasantly surprised to learn that there were actually names for everything he had already learned on his own.
Alex's composition started near the end of high school when he started arranging hymns for church meetings and seminary. His first original work was a piano duet written during his senior year of high school. He started college as a piano performance major, and then switched to choral education after working as an assistant choir director for two years, but then switched again to composition in 2010.
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Excel Dashboards and Reports For Dummies, 2nd Edition
Table of Contents
Author Information
About This Book 2
Foolish Assumptions 3
Icons Used In This Book 3
Beyond the Book 4
Where to Go from Here 5
Part I: Getting Started with Excel Dashboards and Reports 7
Chapter 1: Getting in the Dashboard State of Mind 9
Defining Dashboards and Reports 9
Defining reports 10
Defining dashboards 11
Preparing for Greatness 12
Establish the audience and purpose for the dashboard 12
Delineate the measures for the dashboard 13
Catalog the required data sources 14
Define the dimensions and filters for the dashboard 15
Determine the need for drill-down features 15
Establish the refresh schedule 16
A Quick Look at Dashboard Design Principles 16
Rule number 1: Keep it simple 17
Use layout and placement to draw focus 18
Format numbers effectively 19
Use titles and labels effectively 20
Chapter 2: Building a Super Model 21
Data Modeling Best Practices 22
Separating data, analysis, and presentation 22
Starting with appropriately structured data 25
Avoiding turning your data model into a database 28
Using tabs to document and organize your data model 29
Testing your data model before building reporting components on top of it 31
Excel Functions That Really Deliver 32
The VLOOKUP function 32
The HLookup function 36
The Sumproduct function 37
The Choose function 41
Using Smart Tables That Expand with Data 43
Converting a range to an Excel table 44
Converting an Excel table back to a range 46
Part II: Building Basic Dashboard Components 47
Chapter 3: Dressing Up Your Data Tables 49
Table Design Principles 49
Use colors sparingly 50
De-emphasize borders 52
Use effective number formatting 54
Subdue your labels and headers 55
Getting Fancy with Custom Number Formatting 57
Number formatting basics 57
Formatting numbers in thousands and millions 59
Hiding and suppressing zeroes 62
Applying custom format colors 62
Formatting dates and times 63
Chapter 4: Sparking Inspiration with Sparklines 65
Introducing Sparklines 65
Understanding Sparklines 67
Creating sparklines 68
Understanding sparkline groups 70
Customizing Sparklines 71
Sizing and merging sparkline cells 71
Handling hidden or missing data 72
Changing the sparkline type 73
Changing sparkline colors and line width 73
Using color to emphasize key data points 73
Adjusting sparkline axis scaling 74
Faking a reference line 75
Specifying a date axis 77
Autoupdating sparkline ranges 78
Chapter 5: Formatting Your Way to Visualizations 79
Enhancing Reports with Conditional Formatting 79
Applying basic conditional formatting 80
Adding your own formatting rules manually 88
Show only one icon 91
Show Data Bars and icons outside of cells 94
Representing trends with Icon Sets 96
Using Symbols to Enhance Reporting 98
The Magical Camera Tool 102
Finding the Camera tool 102
Using the Camera tool 103
Enhancing a dashboard with the Camera tool 105
Chapter 6: The Pivotal Pivot Table 107
An Introduction to the Pivot Table 107
The Four Areas of a Pivot Table 108
Values area 108
Row area 109
Column area 109
Filter area 110
Creating Your First Pivot Table 111
Changing and rearranging your pivot table 114
Adding a report filter 115
Keeping your pivot table fresh 116
Customizing Your Pivot Table Reports 119
Changing the pivot table layout 119
Customizing field names 120
Applying numeric formats to data fields 122
Changing summary calculations 122
Suppressing subtotals 124
Showing and hiding data items 127
Hiding or showing items without data 128
Sorting your pivot table 132
Creating Useful Pivot-Driven Views 133
Producing top and bottom views 133
Creating views by month, quarter, and year 137
Creating a percent distribution view 139
Creating a YTD totals view 141
Creating a month-over-month variance view 142
Part III: Building Advanced Dashboard Components 145
Chapter 7: Charts That Show Trending 147
Trending Dos and Don'ts 147
Using chart types appropriate for trending 148
Starting the vertical scale at zero 150
Leveraging Excel's logarithmic scale 151
Applying creative label management 153
Comparative Trending 156
Creating side-by-side time comparisons 156
Creating stacked time comparisons 158
Trending with a secondary axis 160
Emphasizing Periods of Time 163
Formatting specific periods 163
Using dividers to mark significant events 165
Representing forecasts in your trending components 166
Other Trending Techniques 167
Avoiding overload with directional trending 167
Smoothing data 168
Chapter 8: Grouping and Bucketing Data 173
Creating Top and Bottom Displays 173
Incorporating top and bottom displays into dashboards 174
Using pivot tables to get top and bottom views 175
Using Histograms to Track Relationships and Frequency 178
Adding formulas to group data 179
Adding a cumulative percent 183
Using a pivot table to create a histogram 185
Emphasizing Top Values in Charts 187
Chapter 9: Displaying Performance against a Target 191
Showing Performance with Variances 191
Showing Performance against Organizational Trends 193
Using a Thermometer-Style Chart 194
Using a Bullet Graph 195
Creating a bullet graph 196
Adding data to your bullet graph 200
Final thoughts on formatting bullet graphs 200
Showing Performance against a Target Range 203
Part IV: Advanced Reporting Techniques 207
Chapter 10: Macro-Charged Dashboarding 209
Why Use a Macro? 209
Recording Your First Macro 210
Running Your Macros 214
Enabling and Trusting Macros 217
Macro-enabled file extensions 217
Enabling macro content 217
Setting up trusted locations 218
Excel Macro Examples 219
Building navigation buttons 219
Dynamically rearranging pivot table data 220
Offering one-touch reporting options 221
Chapter 11: Giving Users an Interactive Interface 223
Getting Started with Form Controls 223
Finding Form controls 224
Adding a control to a worksheet 226
Using the Button Control 227
Using the Check Box Control 228
Check box example: Toggling a chart series on and off 229
Using the Option Button Control 232
Option Button Example: Showing Many Views through One Chart 233
Using the Combo Box Control 236
Combo Box Example: Changing Chart Data with a Drop-Down Selector 237
Using the List Box Control 239
List Box Example: Controlling Multiple Charts with One Selector 241
Chapter 12: Adding Interactivity with Pivot Slicers 245
Understanding Slicers 245
Creating a Standard Slicer 247
Formatting Slicers 250
Size and placement 250
Data item columns 250
Slicer color and style 251
Other slicer settings 252
Controlling Multiple Pivot Tables with One Slicer 253
Creating a Timeline Slicer 254
Using Slicers as Form Controls 256
Part V: Working with the Outside World 261
Chapter 13: Using External Data for Your Dashboards and Reports 263
Importing Data from Microsoft Access 263
The drag-and-drop method 264
The Microsoft Access Export wizard 265
The Get External Data icon 266
Importing Data from SQL Server 271
Chapter 14: Sharing Your Workbook with the Outside World 275
Protecting Your Dashboards and Reports 275
Securing access to the entire workbook 275
Limiting access to specific worksheet ranges 279
Protecting the workbook structure 283
Linking Your Excel Dashboards to PowerPoint 284
Creating a link between Excel and PowerPoint 284
Manually updating links to capture updates 286
Automatically updating links 288
Distributing Your Dashboards via a PDF 289
Distributing Your Dashboards to SkyDrive 291
Limitations when Publishing to the Web 294
Part VI: The Part of Tens 295
Chapter 15: Ten Chart Design Principles 297
Avoid Fancy Formatting 297
Skip the Unnecessary Chart Junk 299
Format Large Numbers Where Possible 301
Use Data Tables instead of Data Labels 302
Make Effective Use of Chart Titles 304
Sort Your Data before Charting 304
Limit the Use of Pie Charts 305
Don't Be Afraid to Parse Data into Separate Charts 306
Maintain Appropriate Aspect Ratios 307
Don't Be Afraid to Use Something Other Than a Chart 308
Chapter 16: Ten Questions to Ask Before Distributing Your Dashboard 309
Does My Dashboard Present the Right Information? 309
Does Everything on My Dashboard Have a Purpose? 309
Does My Dashboard Prominently Display the Key Message? 310
Can I Maintain This Dashboard? 310
Does My Dashboard Clearly Display Its Scope and Shelf Life? 311
Is My Dashboard Well Documented? 311
Is My Dashboard Overwhelmed with Formatting and Graphics? 312
Does My Dashboard Overuse Charts When Tables Will Do? 312
Is My Dashboard User-Friendly? 313
Is My Dashboard Accurate? 314
Index 315


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Scottsdale, AZ – Yet another Missouri Circuit Court judge has upheld the constitutionality of a Missouri cities red-light safety camera ordinance authorizing the use of automated traffic enforcement systems to detect red-light running violations. This latest challenge to the City of Ellisville's program marks the fifth class action lawsuit dismissed this year.
In her ruling from County of St. Louis Circuit Court on Oct. 30, Judge Thea A. Sherry wrote: "A motion to dismiss for failure to state a cause of action is solely a test of the adequacy of the plaintiff's petition. … The court has carefully read through and reviewed the arguments before it and concluded that the arguments of the defendants are more persuasive."
"This decision marks the fifth class action lawsuit challenging cities' red-light camera ordinances to fail this year," said ATS General Counsel George Hittner. "At some point the attorneys bringing these frivolous lawsuits are going to realize that there is no pot of gold at the end of this rainbow. Red-light safety cameras in Missouri and throughout the country are legal and constitutional. Running red lights on the other hand, is not."
The class action lawsuit against the city and American Traffic Solutions sought monetary and legal relief for Missouri citizens who have received a red-light running ticket in the city. The lawsuit, filed by Molly Edwards and six other named defendants, claimed the ordinance infringed upon citizens' right to due process and their protection against self-incrimination as provided for in the state constitution.
Other challenges involved the cities of Creve Coeur, Kansas City, Florissant and Arnold. In 2009, a federal judge found the city of Arnold's red-light safety camera ordinance to be both legal and constitutional.
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ATS is proud to be the market leader in road safety camera installations in North America. ATS has more than 3,000 installed red-light and speed safety cameras serving more than 30 million people. ATS has contracts in nearly 300 communities in 21 states and Washington, D.C., including: St. Louis, Kansas City and more than two dozen other Missouri cities. For more information, please visit: atsol.com or www.PlatePass.com. To view video that serves as a chilling reminder of the dangers that red-light runners present to our family and children; visit ATS on YouTube here: http://www.youtube.com/user/ATSRoadSafety.


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International Garden Party
Our International Garden Party is an annual celebration of the cultural diversity within our school. Students, parents and staff work together to showcase and share various aspects of their cultures, transforming the school into a real treat for the senses.
Colours, sounds, aromas and flavours from all over the world blend together giving visitors the opportunity to experience a range of continents, countries and regions as they wander through the school playground.
Over the years, our International Garden Party has become a Da Vinci tradition and we always look forward to new countries joining this celebration.


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Specializing in federal technology services, Liberty IT Solutions, LLC (Liberty) is a mission-centric SDVOSB that supports multiple government agencies across a diverse portfolio of Health IT projects. As a leading company under the Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology Next Generation (T4NG) contract vehicle, Liberty has architected solutions supporting all aspects of VA's mission. As a SPARC prime, Liberty is prepared to support CMS with innovative IT solutions through its combined experience in key technology areas, a portfolio of qualified personnel and extensive facilities. Liberty supports federal clients with the adoption of transformational, high-impact technologies, practices and disciplines around agility, scalability, user experience, system and cybersecurity, analytics, mobility and cloud transition. As a highly responsive organization, Liberty understands how to enhance the user experience through effective use of Lean, Agile, and DEVOPS development and operational methodologies. Through emerging development technologies, trends, and tools Liberty enhances IT automation to enable federal clients in improving quality, efficiency, user engagement while lowering IT costs.
Liberty provides consulting and service delivery on complex IT operations models in the cloud that involve highly dynamic assets and fast-changing environments. We also provide adaptive ways to deploy security that include both static policies and threat-aware cyber security support. In addition, Liberty more easily and effectively supports our clients' use of data, information and analytics.
Initiation, Concept, and Planning (ICP) Services
Liberty supports the ICP activities sought by CMS in its IT modernization (application and infrastructure), standards, and system evolutions to satisfy current and future business needs (e.g., ACA, Market Place, and Medicaid/Chip). Our team works with clients to solve the problems presented by unique IT challenges, including strategy and planning, analyzing requirements, establishing baselines, elaborating goals, analyzing gaps, developing technical approaches and prioritizing modernization efforts. Through our combined efforts, Liberty can create a tailored Project Management Plan (PMP), specific to a system/application development project. We provide the following successful projects as examples:
- On our VA Billing and Patient Accounting Data (BPAD) Study project, we integrated technical, business, and data architectures in the context of assessing design and integration efforts, ensuring the alignment of projects to the IT strategy, and supporting Architecture Reviews (AR), Investment Selection Reviews (ISR), and Project Baseline Reviews (PBR).
- On the Consolidated Patient Account Centers (CPAC) Management Consulting, we helped VA's Revenue Operations navigate multiple Revenue Transformation efforts as they modernized their entire operations and adjust for Community Care Legislation and President Trump's transition team.
Requirements Services
Liberty's portfolio managers and solution architects are keenly aware of the vast world of standards and requirements. Refined requirements and backlog management along with rapid prototyping ensure consistent stakeholder alignment. Our team has worked closely with product owners and other stakeholders to develop and refine project requirements and to complete Requirements Packages that includes all Epics, stakeholder needs, visualizations, stories, and other sources of requirements information for functional and non-functional requirements. In addition to typical backlog grooming activities (prioritizing, resolving ambiguity, duplication and overlaps), Liberty also applies complexity estimates and identifies dependencies in the backlog. Complexity estimates for user stories and epics can be compared to actuals later and serve as a basis for resource projections for future work output. We provide the following examples of our approach towards requirements services:
- In HPS Tier 3 Sustainment Support: Clinical, Liberty managed requirements (including backlog items and adaptive maintenance tasks) under Rational DOORS Next Generation (DOORS) and other tools to categorize and keep track of requirements.
- In VETSNET Development, Liberty also used DOORS to capture epics and user stories. We also developed a Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) using DOORS (with Rational Team Concert and Rational Quality Manager) in addition to using attribute tagging, filtering, and different link types to configure the RTM to support a wide variety of views to meet the specific needs of a tester, security analyst, or stakeholder.
Development & Design Services
Liberty's technical team has been instrumental in delivering development services, ranging from custom application Agile development to Salesforce and Microsoft Dynamics development in the cloud. Under T4NG, Liberty has matured its Agile process through the execution of numerous projects at its Agile Center of Excellence (ACE), a 40,000-ft. Software Development Center in Melbourne, FL. Key prime development contracts include Beneficiary Travel Self-Service System Software Development (BTSSS) and VA Integrated Enterprise Workflow Solution (VIEWS) Salesforce Development. Our teams use continuous integration, deep functional expertise and scrum team collaboration to detect deficiencies early in the development lifecycle and to amplify the effectiveness of delivery operations. We provide the following table that provides some of our key development technologies and skills:
|Rational Toolset
|Atlassian Tools
|Rally Toolset
|Microsoft Tools
|Requirements Elaboration
|Test-Driven Development
|Pyramid Analytics
|Unix / Linux
At the ACE, Liberty engineers and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) have developed solutions that are compliant to VA's multiple design requirements, from 508 compliance to client-specific needs. This experience will be translated to meet the needs of CMS customers and clients. Our team will be able to design system and software components, database and data governance structures, and system integration or API gateways. To note, Liberty has incorporated design services in both our development and maintenance tasks. Under Agile, design is concurrently conducted with these tasks and with the solutions we provide. Examples of our design services can be found in our work at VA:
- In BTSSS, Team Liberty configured the Microsoft Dynamics CRM platform to meet VA's key functionalities and capabilities. As part of this Task Order, we developed 508-compliant user forms and configured CRM portals, to be accessible on desktop, kiosk, and mobile interfaces.
- In BISL, Team Liberty designed and supported analytics tools OLAP cubes, that are used for various types of reporting solutions. There are 85 different OLAP cubes to be managed under this Task Order, which were developed and designed to meet enterprise-wide needs at VA.
Test Services
As part of our development services, Liberty also conducts Test Driven Development, testing units of code during an Agile sprint to provide clients with expedited access to quality applications. TDD allows code to be developed with confidence, assuring an outcome that is guaranteed to match the requirement. TDD also streamlines the codebase, limiting code development just to what is required, and test scripts written only to defined use-cases, thus reducing development time and increasing velocity. Our test engineers have developed automated testing capabilities to aid this process. In addition to using TDD as a framework for our development services, we also conduct standard testing, which include Section 508 compliance testing, integration testing, and security testing. As part of our security testing portfolio, we have conducted HP Fortify scans and have tested for vulnerability and infiltration scans with tools, such as Nessus or WASA. We provide the following table of testing services that we have conducted for VA:
|Unit Testing
|Functional Testing
|Application / Integration Testing
|Section 508 Testing
|System Regression
|Performance & Stress Testing
|End-to-End Testing
|Acceptance Testing
|Implementation Testing
|Compatibility Testing
|Fortify Scans
|Vulnerability / Infiltration Scans
|Unit Testing
|Functional Testing
|Application / Integration Testing
|Section 508 Testing
|System Regression
|Performance & Stress Testing
|End-to-End Testing
|Acceptance Testing
|Implementation Testing
|Compatibility Testing
|Fortify Scans
|Vulnerability / Infiltration Scans
Security Control Assessment Services
Liberty's security services portfolio provides a deep understanding of many different aspects of IT security, including but not limited to Security Control Assessments and related services. As a former U.S. GAO Senior IT Security Auditor who has assessed security programs at multiple Federal agencies and government-wide security efforts, our Chief Information Security Officer previously managed VA's data center IT Security Program after starting the data center Information Assurance program. At the time he joined Liberty, the IA staff had grown to over 50 covering well over one hundred major applications. With decades of federal security experience in just the security leadership team alone, Liberty provides CMS with significant security capabilities. With this understanding and expertise, Liberty has managed and led VA security Task Orders, such as our current Security Architecture Advisory & Support Services and has provided other security support such as Audit Defense and Enterprise Cloud Service Security Support. Our security expertise is also exemplified in our approach towards Security Control Assessment Services, where we have provided in our current projects at VA as well as our internal security investments:
- In the Security Architecture Advisory Services Task Order, Liberty has provided a project-level PMP and have produced test plans, including testing and evaluation procedures and techniques necessary to evaluate the controls implemented to protect the system. In addition, we have produced security reports using security assessment templates for authorization to operate (ATO).
- In addition, at the ACE, Liberty has developed a knowledgebase for security artifacts, such as ATO procedures, as well as staffing security analysts at other VA projects, who have conducted security testing and have aided in the production of security deliverables, including the test plan, report, and tested controls/findings.
Maintenance Service
Liberty is dedicated to maintaining and optimizing projects, and our maintenance team has expertise in supporting business intelligence and sustaining enterprise-wide projects. One of the greatest challenges in a sustainment effort is the ability to manage an existing backlog or recurring maintenance while critical work items present themselves intermittently. A purely development oriented methodology such as Scrum cannot solve this alone. To support any combination of work item types, Liberty implements Scrumban within an Agile Maintenance Framework (AMF). Scrumban is an established sustainment strategy that includes the notion of Scrum and Kanban. Kanban allows for Just-in-Time backlog adjustments and moving work items across a task board from "Work in Progress" to "Done". Scrumban also offers the flexibility to implement Sprint cycles for larger releases or single ticket patch releases as needed. Interdisciplinary Scrum Teams are also an important component as staff can be aligned to the needs of each unique backlog composition. Our expertise in maintenance is exemplified in the following projects at VA:
- On the Business Intelligence Service Line (BISL) support Task Order, Liberty initially conducted an analysis of the project; through this analysis, developed plans to document the maintenance development, processes, and procedures for BISL. Liberty currently supports and maintains the following services: CDW, maintaining its server and resolving complex network/server latency issues; SQL Server Integration Services, debugging and scripting packages while maintaining its ability to be plugged into the ETL framework; Pyramid Analytics, providing day-to-day administration and improving data services for the BISL environment; and other task areas associated with this Task Order.
- On the $223MM HPS Tier 3 Sustainment Support: Clinical Task Order, Liberty categorizes the scope of the latter task's sustainment efforts into two primary categories: Periodic/Known backlog items that can be planned for (e.g. adaptive maintenance or the existing defect backlog) and Intermittent items that can be difficult to predict (e.g. tickets or deficiencies found in regular code scans).
SPARC Support Services
By way of our CMS HiTech Business Operations Support Contractor project, we bring firsthand understanding of CMS' vision for Support Services partnering on the effort to partition user support services, including user documentation and training requirements, from the other Services supporting the unique needs of maintaining continuity and coordination and management of CMS products and managing dependencies between sections of the XLC Services Model. At VA, we have effectively maintained user documentation in accordance with our CMMI ML3 processes, providing specific provisions for peer review, quality review, and configuration control associated with releases or other updates. Our CPAC training experience includes certified instructors, who delivered training using multiple media formats through a disciplined systems-based approach. CPAC also included instructor-led training at local/user sites, and web-based training - ensuring Section 508 compliance. Our VA Surgical Quality Workflow Manager (SQWM) project included a number of business operations support services, including monitoring schedules, supporting audits, problem resolution and analysis, root cause analysis for recurring issues and defects, reporting, daily coordination, and interfacing with Governance Boards. On both CPAC and SQWM, we analyzed changing legislation and strategic issues impacting the product management and provided our client with revised implementation strategies and stakeholder communications.
Data Request Services
Our engineers and architects are intimately familiar with data request services, having done work for BISL and HPS Tier 3 Sustainment. Additionally at CMS, our HBOSC and ER&R experiences have taught us the importance of strong Data Request fulfillment in response to inquiries from CMS' large internal and external customer/stakeholder community. The number of data requests received and the fact that the unplanned workload is unpredictable in terms of frequency, complexity and urgency, presents a unique challenge for CMS. This combined VA and CMS experience will be applied to CMS' own data request services, whether data is stored at a warehouse or at a database. Our VA CPAC experience provides lessons learned for minimizing the administrative burden associated with similar data requests through dashboards. We use a four-step process for data request support including:
- Log and track the request to completion in data request tracking database;
- Identify system(s) holding data needed to fulfill request;
- Facilitate the propagation of the subject data from an operation environment to an appropriate location for due diligence and discovery; and
- Analyze the data and formulate summary request and backup data package for each request.


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Two Bottles of Effen / $300
Get two bottles of Effen Vodka (your choice of flavor) for only $300. This package must be pre-booked and is only good for this Friday night. Included in the price of this package deal is
- Free Cover for your whole party
- Express Entry into the club
- Table and seating for the whole party
- A personal host or hostess
- Juice, soda, ice and glasses for making drinks
- A spot in front of all the action
To reserve a table fill out the form on the left and we will contact you. There is a one bottle minimum per four guests. Additional bottles start at $205. If you would like cans of Red Bull they are available at an additional cost. The dress code is still enforced for all tables and parties.


text: Confederates Crossing the Potomac Small 320×213 Medium 640×426 Large 1024×682 Download TIFF Original 2400×1598 | (3.8 MB) Description This sketch depicts the Confederates crossing the Potomac during the Maryland Campaign or the Antietam Campaign (September 4-20, 1862). The Maryland Campaign is considered one of the major turning points of the Civil War. Keywords Antietam Campaign, Civil War, Confederates crossing the Potomac, Maryland Campaign, Potomac Galleries Maryland, Miscellaneous Civil War Illustrations Source: Charles Carleton Coffin Drum-Beat of the Nation (New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, 1915)


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Tag: Cliff Archibald
Homers By Marte, Rodriguez, Cunningham, And Rojas
Catching up with the action for the Pirates' lower minor league affiliates for Thursday.... several home runs
Trenton Thunder 8 , Altoona Curve 6
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A 3-run homer by CF Starling Marte and a solo blast by SS Josh Rodriguez were not enough to get past the Thunder.
The Curve got the game started with a run in the top of the 1st on singles by RF Andrew Lambo and C Tony Sanchez, plus a fielding error by the Trenton center fielder, allowing Lambo to score. Trenton came back with 4 runs in the bottom of the inning, on a walk, two singles, and two doubles, for a 4-1 lead. The Curve took the lead back in the top of the 2nd, when 1B Matt Curry and 3B Greg Picart both singled, and Marte drove them in with his 5th home run of the season. That tied the game, but the tie did not last long. Five singles in the bottom of the 2nd brought in 3 runs for the Thunder, who were back on top, 7-4.
Starter Aaron Pribanic gave up a single in the 3rd, then gave up an unearned run in the 4th on a fielding error by Picart, a single, scoring on a double play. That made Pribanic responsible for 8 runs (7 earned) on 11 hits and a walk in his 5 innings of work. Matt McSwain took over to begin the 6th. He gave up a single in the 6th, but erased that runner with a double play, and then gave up a double and a walk in the 7th, but left those runners on base. Anthony Claggett pitched a scoreless 9th, allowing a single. That runner moved up to second base on a throwing error by Rodriguez, but was out in a fielder's choice run-down between second and third.
Rodriguez led off the Curve part of the 6th with his solo homer. LF Quincy Latimore followed the homer with a walk, and Curry singled, moving Latimore to third. Curry was thrown out trying to steal second base, but Picart's single drove in Latimore to give the Curve their final run.
Allie's Pro Debut; Miller's 5th Win; GLC Pirates Begin
The Altoona Curve have a scheduled day off today (Monday), and the West Virginia Power are off for the first day of their All-Star Break. The All-Star Game will be played in Delmarva on Tuesday, with Brandon Cumpton, Jameson Taillon, and Dan Grovatt representing the Power.
Auburn Doubledays 7 , State College Spikes 6
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Pirates' 2nd round draft pick from 2010, Stetson Allie, made his professional debut tonight, as the starting pitcher for the State College Spikes, though he did not factor into the decision. Allie struck out the first batter he faced, then gave up a single, struck out the next batter, and gave up an RBI double. A line out ended the inning. The second inning went better, as Allie retired three Auburn batters in order, including another strikeout.
The third inning was another tough one for Allie. A single and a walk opened the inning. After a fly out, both runners stole the next base, and a walk loaded the bases. Allie also walked the next batter, forcing in a run. That signaled the end of his evening. Cliff Archibald relieved Allie, but Archibald also walked in a run (charged to Allie), before getting the inning-ending double play. Allie was responsible for 3 runs on 3 hits and 3 walks, with 3 strikeouts, in 2.1 innings.
State College got onto the scoreboard with a run in the 3rd. SS Kirk Singer led off with a double, then DH Carlos Mesa singled, moving Singer to third. C Samuel Gonzalez's RBI single brought in Singer, to cut the Auburn lead to 3-1. The Spikes tied the game in the 4th. 1B Walker Gourley led off with a single and moved to second base on a wild pitch, then to third on a ground out. Singer walked, then CF Taylor Lewis' sacrifice fly scored Gourley. Singer stole second base, then scored on RF Justin Benscko's RBI single.
Archibald went on to pitch the 4th and 5th innings, allowing a walk and a single, but keeping Auburn scoreless. Emmanuel De Leon relieved Archibald to begin the 6th inning, and gave up only a double in that inning. With two outs in the 7th, De Leon gave up a double and a 2-run homer. The Spikes got one of the runs back in the bottom of the inning, with a single by Benscko, a stolen base and a missed catch error to put Benscko onto third, and a sacrifice fly by Gonzalez.
De Leon started the top of the 8th by giving up a walk and a stolen base. After two outs, a single, a throwing error by Singer, and a double gave Auburn 2 more runs, for a 7-4 lead. Jesus Brito relieved De Leon and ended the 8th inning with a fly out. Singer tried to make up for his error with an RBI double after a single by 3B Brian Sharp, bringing the score to 7-5. Brito pitched a scoreless top of the 9th. The Spikes tried for another rally in the bottom of the 9th. With one out, Benscko singled, then advanced to second on a wild pitch, and to third on a second wild pitch. After a walk to Mesa, Gonzalez brought in Benscko with a sacrifice fly. But a strikeout ended the inning and the game without the Spikes being able to catch up.


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While users continue to struggle with establishing 4G connections on Reliance Jio's network, the telecom operator has extended its alliance with Samsung for bringing 5G bands to India. The announcement took place at the biggest mobile trade show, MWC held in Barcelona, Spain. Furthermore, the Korean giant has launched a new initiative, "I&G (Infill & Growth) Project" which will assist the telco for improving both network's capacity, and coverage throughout the nation.
The project is expected to stretch Jio's accessibility to various rural regions by employing spectrums in the 850, 1800 and 2300MHz bands, and enable hassle-free indoor as well as outdoor connectivity in populated urban areas. Apart from these, Samsung will be introducing a slew of 5G-compatible commercial products in the coming weeks, and also, showcased a few of those at the event itself including home routers, 5G radio base station and modem chipsets. They're planned to launch in India sometime in the future.
Incidentally, Samsung and Jio were already partners in India and signed an agreement in 2012 for covering the network's entire scope ranging from equipment to establishment and maintenance services.
Paul Kyungwhoon Cheun, executive vice president at Samsung Electronics, during the launch, stated, "Samsung has been focused on 5G R&D for nearly half a decade, and this portfolio launch represents the culmination of a lot of hard work and industry engagement. With the pre-commercial deployment of our 5G products already underway in the US, we're starting to see some of the earliest evidence of the potential for new and compelling 5G-driven services – it will be exciting to see it evolve as we move forward on our roadmap."
Similar to the I&G project, the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) will be also announcing a venture along with the state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) and Nokia. The partnership is expected to go official tomorrow at the Mobile World Congress.


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Design Bootcamp: The Fundamentals of Innovation
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Join us at the birthplace of design thinking as we explore the principles and processes at the heart of breakthrough innovation. Hosted by Stanford's Design Impact Program, this half-day Bootcamp will help unlock your creativity and teach you the tools and mindsets that are driving today's most creative organizations.
Participants will break into small groups, each facilitated by coaches with real-world experience. Our coaches are from top corporations like Google, Boeing, and McKinsey who are now studying in the Design Impact Program. This is not a lecture – it is problem-based learning to give you confidence in your creative abilities.
We will follow proven curriculum developed by noted d.school faculty David Kelley and Bill Burnett. It has been used by leading thinkers and organizations across industries – and is now presented to you by the Design Impact Program. From building empathy and defining problems, to brainstorming ideas to test and prototype, you will learn repeatable processes to unlock breakthrough innovation.
All materials and light breakfast included.
Location: The Birthplace of Design Thinking
The Stanford d.School
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Sports and Outdoors Pastor – Post Falls Campus
My Family: I have a wife, two boys and a daughter.
My Story: I was born and raised in Seattle Washington and moved to North Idaho in August 1994 to wrestle for North Idaho College. Helping out with wrestling camps over the summers is where I got to know Jim Putman. God changed my life in two weeks when I came to RLM in June 1999 at the Post Falls theaters. I met Lindsay, who later became my wife, and invited her to church. She started attending with me and I accepted Jesus into my heart later that summer.
A friend of mine took me under his wing and connected me to serving opportunities and involved me in his home group. I was able to join the youth ministry serving in various roles and was asked to come on staff in August 2005 to pastor in the youth department. Since that point I have been on various teams serving in the community pastor role, high school pastor, young adult pastor and now on the church training and development team.
Favorite Verse: "I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing." John 15:5 and "Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger." James 1:19.
Food: Eggs Benedict, sushi and hot hot wings.
Quote: "What we do in Life echoes in Eternity."
Hobby: Cooking, collecting vinyl LP's and collecting sports jerseys.
Exercise: I love to ride my road bike, swim and begrudgingly run 3-5 times a week.


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Life lessons with yours truly…
This headline is not invented by me, nor would I claim so, but it was swirling around in my head in recent years. Over and over again. Not to credit someone wrongly, but I think the first time I heard something to that degree was when I felt really uncomfortable.
I was lying on my back and a dude twice as old as me, a police man as it later turns out, both of us sweaty, he also twice my weight at least, sat on top of me. I wonder what goes through your head, but we were dressed, it was a hot summer in Munich and maybe twenty people did the same. We were 'rolling' (and your thoughts probably still run wild) or sparring on the ground how they called it some Martial Arts.
So not only was I uncomfortable there, I also felt for the first half year after finishing my studies that maybe working in recruiting and being expected to work long hours in a new city that was there to be explored and having no time for it at all was, not great. So this was in the back of my head too, but not at that moment.
That moment was physically uncomfortable, there was a lot of weight on me, it was hard to breathe, I tried to bridge out, but with weight on my midsection and belly that didn't help. My legs were flailing trying to sweep his legs, but they were comfortably tugged in and then I heard the trainer say: 'you gotta become comfortable in uncomfortable positions or make your way out of it' or something to that degree.
It didn't dawn on me right away, it took hours, it took repetitions, it took finding meaning for that phrase and what I make out of it weeks, months, maybe years. Now that is a bit of a mantra, it is a part of me.
Sometimes I call people weak (jokingly). I don't mean that they are weak, I mean they are usually complaining about something that can't be changed at that point in time and with their might. Instead they should just try to become comfortable.
Of course I don't always do that and I am not a preacher nor am I always correct in that regard, but it works really well for me.
You are on your way to a place and it starts to rain, there is no umbrella, there is no way of getting one in time and you get just as wet running to the next shelter from the rain as if you were walking to your destination? Walk! Smile, walk, look up into the sky and continue, you get wet one way or the other and you get to were you want to go. Be comfortable. Don't be weak. Be a Samurai or do you think they would run from the rain?
Your water boiler/-heater doesn't work and the repairman comes tomorrow? Take a cold shower. Enjoy it, you probably can't fix it and that stuff is insanely good for you. Read it here. Also note that the headline made it's way into this article and I sound like a smart ass typing this in here, using it, but I swear this showed up on my newsfeed and it couldn't fit better in this post, that I was planning since Friday.
It's annoying to wait for the elevator from the 19th floor down? Take the stairs. It's fun, you can think, you get steps in and it's more comfortable to me than waiting three elevators and getting angry about your own politeness. That might just be me though!
Maybe you are having a tough day at work. You might as well get comfortable and I don't mean lazy or slacking off, changing it and work your way out of it. Working your way out of it like you would when being pinned down by a stronger/heavier opponent and get stronger/wiser/more knowledgeable. Maybe just by learning a thing or two.
I still remember how the situation in Munich turned around. I moved, I planned to get back to Shanghai, I was super uncomfortable but I was in a position to change that. Soon after I got a job offer, a visa and booked a ticket back to China. I had not much, but I felt great. It was not a cozy situation sharing a room (yes, a room – in a bunkbed) and having plan C when the account balance drops to a one-way-ticket-back-to-Germany was the spikes on the bottom of the pit that I choose to climb. It went only up from there in the grand theme of things.
So here is an article with just one link. An article that I write with 'Explosions in the Sky' in the background (that is a post-rock band), after a cold shower, mid-movember in an apartment that my girlfriend and I made comfortable, because we can. One article with something that means a lot to me.
Today I could probably get out from under this dude, maybe because I am heavier, maybe because I am fitter, maybe because I got a little bit more comfortable with being uncomfortable.


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If you are starting a home rental or bed and breakfast business, here are some guidelines and resources to help you start off on the right foot.
What you need to do if you are starting to rent a room or house :
- Register for a Vermont Business Tax Account and License y submitting VT form BR-400 Application for business tax account you can find this form at: http://www.state.vt.us/tax/pdf.word.excel/forms/business/BR-400.pdf. (Registration is free)
- Display your license for customers as authorization to collect tax on behalf of the State of Vermont.
- Keep clear and accurate records of all your rental income including dates of rental, names of tenants, the dollar amount charged for the rental, and tax charged and collected.
- Remit your taxes to the state - your filing frequency is based on the amount of your tax obligation and will be either monthly or quarterly as set by the state.
If you are currently renting a room or house or have in the past, you may be liable for unpaid rooms and meals taxes. Getting current with your state and local taxes will not only clear you of possible future fines but will also help the state fund the infrastructures that keep our state beautiful and our roads and facilities functioning smoothly for residents and our visiting guests.
Vermont State Law requires hosts to pay meals and rooms tax of 9% to the state if:
- You rent a house, cabin, cottage, or room for 15 or more days in any calendar year. Cleaning fees are also part of the taxable income. *Please note: If you rent your room or other type of lodging to the same person for 30 or more consecutive days, the person is then considered to be a permanent resident, and different rules apply.
- If you are providing meals for those guests and billing them separately those meals are also subject to tax.
You can find helpful state fact sheets at: http://www.state.vt.us/tax/pdf.word.excel/factsheets/Roomwithaview_Rev2015.pdf and http://www.state.vt.us/tax/pdf.word.excel/factsheets/LocalOptionTax-FS_Rev2015.pdf


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Only one yellow jersey in the pantheon of legends bears comparison with the emperor's clothes Bradley Wiggins should model in Paris tomorrow.
Gordon Banks wore a yellow No.1 goalkeeper's top when England won the World Cup in 1966, the default reference for any search party trying to pinpoint a nation's finest sporting hour.
It is no exaggeration to say that Wiggins will rival the boys of '66, Lennox Lewis, Steve Redgrave and Ian Botham as one of the Greatest Living Englishmen if he wins the Tour de France .
Until now, the Brits could not have made a more negligible impression on the Tour de France if they had pedalled up the forbidding Col d'Aubisque on a Raleigh Chopper.
So Wiggins isn't just on the cusp of winning a bike race – he is blowing away 109 years of history.
Across the Channel, they are already calling the traditional procession into Paris 'La Promenade des Anglais' – march of the English – as a tribute to Wiggins' durability and his Team Sky sprint lieutenant Mark Cavendish, whose crowning glory could be a week today on The Mall at the London 2012 Olympic road race. Sir Chris Hoy, Britain's triple gold medallist on the track in Beijing, has already measured the scale of Wiggins' imminent achievement.
He said: "I have to pinch myself when I switch on the TV and see Brad in the yellow jersey. If he makes the finish line in Paris, it will be one of the greatest achievements of all time by a British sportsman, it's phenomenal.
"It inspires me and it's an amazing story for the sport. I might be biased because he is an old team-mate and he is a great guy, but if he gets to that line in yellow it will be as good as anything a British athlete has ever done."
By any yardstick, Wiggins has survived an epic journey which leaves riders emaciated, broken shells by the time the circus rolls into Paris after 2,173 miles. Never mind the peloton, here come the skeletons.
Since the caravan left Liege three weeks ago, Allez Wiggo has become an established soundbite in cycling parlance.
He has survived nutters with flares on Friday the 13th and saboteurs scattering carpet tacks across the road. He has had to deflect conjecture about the claims of team-mate Chris Froome, well-placed to complete an unprecedented British one-two, to lead the Sky train.
And with Alberto Contador serving a ban, Frank Schleck kicked out of this year's Tour and seven-times champion Lance Armstrong facing the US judiciary, he has been forced to bat away repeated questions about doping.
Cycling has brought most of the whispering campaign about drug abuse on itself, although the introduction of haematology 'passports' – which profile the consistency of riders' blood – has reduced the scope for doping.
But Wiggins, who chucked his former Cofidis kit in a bin at Pau airport in 2007, when the team was expelled from the Tour, following a police raid and Cristian Moreni tested positive, deserves more than cynicism from the puritan brigade. In a compelling defence of his 'clean' ethos last week, he raged: "The question that needs to be asked is not why wouldn't I take drugs, but why would I?
"If I doped, I would stand to lose everything – my reputation, my livelihood, my marriage, my family, my house, everything I've achieved so far, my Olympic medals, world titles, the CBE I was given.
"I would have to take my children to the school gates in a small village in Lancashire with everyone looking at me, knowing I had cheated. I have my own sportif where people come and pay £40 each to ride – if all that was built on sand, I would be deceiving those people.
"My father-in-law works at British Cycling and would never be able to show his face there again. If I doped, I would jeopardise Team Sky, who sponsor the entire sport in the UK, and David Brailsford and all he has done.
"I'm not willing to risk all those things I've got in my life. I do this because I love the sport, I don't do it for a power trip. If I felt I had to take drugs, I would rather work in Tesco, stacking shelves."
A year after he crashed out with a broken collarbone, the Sky's the limit for Wiggins now.
And make no mistake, the yellow jersey awaiting him on the Champs-Elysees podium this weekend will become as revered as Banks' No.1 shirt in 1966.


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Senator Collins Applauded for Support of Tax Incentives to Create Forest-Based Jobs and Fight Climate Change
A bipartisan effort to attract investment in climate-friendly, biobased manufacturing jobs, The Renewable Chemicals Act of 2017, was introduced late yesterday in the U.S. Senate, sponsored by Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and co-sponsored by Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine) and others.
The legislation, if it passes, will create a production tax credit or an investment tax credit for the manufacture of biobased chemicals using renewable resources from the forest, farm or sea as raw materials rather than climate-changing oil or gas. Such biobased chemicals can be used as ingredients for textiles, plastics, adhesives, paints and coatings, sealants, building materials, and numerous consumer products.
Mike Belliveau, Executive Director of the Environmental Health Strategy Center, which has promoted biobased manufacturing in Maine as a sustainable economic development strategy, issued the following statement:
"We thank Senator Collins for her policy leadership to attract investment in Maine to create new jobs and revitalize our forest-based economy. New technologies are coming online to convert low-grade forest resources into high-value biobased chemicals, bioplastics and advanced biomaterials. Global demand for renewable chemicals is rapidly rising because their production displaces fossil petroleum carbon and reduced greenhouse gas emissions across the product lifecycle.
Maine has a huge opportunity to create good biobased manufacturing jobs that leverage the state's assets: abundant sustainably harvested forest resources, ample industrial infrastructure, world-class research at the University of Maine, and a hardworking but underemployed workforce.
The Renewable Chemicals Act of 2017 is exactly the kind of public policy that can help the emerging biobased industry compete successfully against heavily subsidized petrochemicals. We urge Congress to enact this legislation to help Maine overcome the twin threats of good job loss and a changing climate."
The Environmental Health Strategy Center is working closely with the Biobased Maine trade association and the University of Maine to advance biobased manufacturing in Maine.
We know the biobased opportunity for Maine is real, because the former Old Town Fuel & Fiber mill demonstrated that if could make high quality industrial sugars, nature's chemical building blocks, from wood chips. Here's another example of the commercial potential for biobased chemical production in Maine: A company called Biofine was recently successful in continuously producing a biobased chemical called levulinic acid from the cellulose in corrugated cardboard at its pilot plant in Old Town, Maine. With the right financial incentives, Biofine could invest in a commercial scale plant to make this building block chemical from Maine wood chips, as a next step. Such technologies could be commercialized in Maine more readily with the financial assistance provided by the Renewable Chemicals Act of 2017.
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The Environmental Health Strategy Center works for a world where all people are healthy and thriving in a fair and healthy economy. We protect public health by fighting for safe food and drinking water, toxic-free products, and good green manufacturing jobs.


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The Problem of Evil on the Margin
The Problem of Evil was never a problem for me.
I could easily believe that a world with a mixture of good and bad was better than no world at all. I could even believe that God had to allow evil in order to make his glorious plan of redemption meaningful. Perhaps wars must be fought so heroism can have a forum.
Wars, corruption, man's general inhumanity to man … all this evil on a large scale … I can accept all that.
Rather, it is the small things — what I'll call evil on the margin.
The Bible says that God "works all things according to the counsel of his will." In colloquial terms, "It's all part of God's plan." God may work in mysterious ways, but he is at work in every circumstance.
If God is perfect, his plan is perfect. It cannot be improved one iota. Any…
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Web Exclusive: Terri Trespicio reports on The Women & Courage Conference at Omega Institute.
When I showed up in September at the famed Omega Institute for Holistic Studies in Rhinebeck, New York, to attend the Women & Courage Conference, I'll admit, I was feeling a bit cowardly. Especially when I saw people unloading camping gear in the parking lot ("Did they say bring your own tent in the brochure?").
But beyond that, I was also a little worried about what a conference on women and courage might be like. A lot of feminist rabble-rousing and man-hating? Mournful state-of-the-nation talks on the mess we're in? I conjured cringeworthy images of drum circles and candlelight vigils and talk of the dawning of global consciousnessness.
My fears were promptly assuaged: I was given a key to my cabin (it's "camping optional," thank God); the staff was incredibly accommodating and friendly; the food, delicious and wholesome. And instead of a feminist call-to-arms, the conference was more like a summit of intelligent, inspiring, and peace-loving women looking to create powerful, positive solutions, not rattle old chains.
The traditional archetype of courage, as conference coordinator Carla Goldstein said in her opening talk, is no longer relevant. The real challenge for us in the 21st century is to go "beyond the mythic stereotype of the warrior who destroys to include the bridge builder who heals," and in so doing, "inspire women to step more fully into their own power."
Cue the drum. (Expertly played, by the way, by poet, artist, and teacher Ubaka Hill.)
All-Star Lineup
Presenters at the conference included women's wellness expert Christiane Northrup, M.D., Omega co-founder Elizabeth Lesser (above left),best-selling memoirist Luong Ung, holistic healer Queen Afua, clinical psychologist and Buddhist expert Tara Brach, Ph.D., and a conversation with beloved novelist and activist Isabel Allende -- each of whom had something fresh and moving to say about what it means to have courage.
In the interest of time, I'll just give you a peek at some of the highlights:
Renowned physician Christiane Northrup, M.D., best-selling author of "Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom," kicked off the weekend with an energizing keynote about the discipline of pleasure. "Joy is a challenge, she said, "and we don't trust it." She shared a ten-step plan for choosing joy and pleasure as a path to healing, including "joyous movement" -- which she demonstrated with her two grown daughters on stage, all of whom commenced to wriggle and writhe about to Beyonce's "Naughty Girl." (And then, of course, urged us to do the same. "Wake up that second chakra, ladies!") Talk about unexpected.
Omega co-founder Elizabeth Lesser spoke eloquently about the need for a new myth, one to replace the tale of conquest that has dominated human history for the past 12,000 years. While conquest has its plusses (protection and discovery among them), it leaves a trail of wreckage in its path. "Women are the tenders of the human garden," she said, "creating sacred, nurturing spaces in which others can grow. This is the kind of leadership, the only kind, that can work right now." Instead of machismo, she says, we need to embrace mamisma, the power of feminine energy. (Read an excerpt from an interview with Lesser.)
Loung Ung, an activist working for the elimination of land mines, is perhaps most widely known as the best-selling author of four memoirs, including "First They Killed My Father", having survived the Cambodian killing fields as a child. I expected a moving tale of separation, displacement, loss -- what I didn't expect was to laugh. Ung, a bright burst of energy and flame, proceeded to wow and move attendees, in one moment, able to share her own deep sense of loss, then in the next, switch gears and remark on the flawless shape of her husband's rear end.
Other keynote presenters included clinical psychologist and Buddhist expert Tara Brach, Ph.D., who talked about how to shake the "trance of unworthiness" and use meditation to come home to yourself. (Brach will be presenting with Jack Kornfield at an Omega event on October 10-11, 2008 in New York City.) Another speaker was holistic healer Queen Afua, founder of the Wellness Institute and author of "Sacred Woman", who spoke about the courage of healing yourself through fortifying rituals.
Isabel Allende brought this powerful, moving weekend to a close in a way that only she could. Allende was joined on stage by Lesser, who talked with the best-selling novelist about her life, her work, and her dreams for the future. We learned, among other things, that Allende was partially swayed to write the legend of Zorro it occurred to her that, if "Zorro" were made into a movie, she might get to meet Antonio Banderas (which she did). We discovered that Sophia Loren gave her a valuable bit of advice for looking eternally young and gorgeous ("Sit up straight and don't make old people noises'). And we learned that, out of superstition, and now sheer habit, Allende always starts a novel on the same day: January 8.
She found her own courage, she says, by tapping into the strength she didn't know she had, right when she needed it (particularly in coping with the loss of her daughter Paula Frias); from choosing not to stay angry (at the hospital where Paula slipped into a coma and died); and most importantly, making it a point to channel her negative emotions into positive action.
A New Kind of Courage
If there was one thread that tied the entire weekend together, one overriding lesson that echoed throughout, it's this: Courage is not a solo effort or conquest. The greatest courage any of us can muster comes not from going out into the world alone so much as coming home, returning to our true nature, and finding strength and purpose in the context of other people. This is where the strongest and most enduring positive changes, it seems, can and must be made.
Allende's parting words that last afternoon pretty underscored this when she urged attendees to "be connected." After which she promptly added, "Stop worrying that everyone is looking at you. No one is. I've tinted my hair all the colors of the rainbow and no one has noticed. Not even my husband."
Read an interview with Omega co-founder Elizabeth Lesser on what it means to live with courage.
By Terri Trespicio


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Mischka Aoki for Poster Child MagazineTuesday, December 15, 2015
My good friend, and talented hair stylist, Aleetha called to see if I'd be interested in joining the crew for this wonderful shoot at fashion photographer Lindsay Adler's studio. We were working with five beautiful pieces from the designer Mischka Aoki. I wanted to mimic the texture and color of the luxe dresses, so I painted gray, silver, and gold metallic shades on the models' eyelids. Aleetha and her assistant painstakingly crimped all of the hair, creating beautiful halos.
Art Director: Iris Tan
Makeup: Susan Donoghue with Next Artists
Hair: Aleetha Clanton with Cloutier Remix
Styling: Iris Tan
#formal girl's dresses #crimped hair # glowing makeup #feathers #sequins #kids fashion #holiday fashion


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Nothing helps get you through a long church conference like knowing there's a baptism to follow. I had the privilege of helping Pastor Mike yesterday in a 58 degree pool. Two teens got baptized. It's always an awesome sight to see. Better yet, it was at our house(well, the house of the people we are renting space from) so I could just walk to my door afterwards.
1. I am digging "God of this City" by Chris Tomlin. What an amazing song!
2. We leave Wednesday for a weekend interview in North Carolina. Then we'll spend Memorial Day in South Carolina. The next few weeks are going to be very hectic because we are trying to line up a job and move in the span of about 3 weeks. Of course, God could change all of this. I just know that I'll be at NC East Sr. high Camp on June 22nd as the speaker. Now, I'm trying to figure out if I'll be there for Middle School camp on the 15th as a youth pastor. That means I would be in a cabin with the kids for the first time since 1997, but it also means that I will have my first opportunity to win a camp bucket! I tell you, that's a great invention that other camps should steal like I did.
3. Speaking of speaking at Senior High camp, pray for me. God is challenging me to speak on a deeper level than camp normally goes. I believe He is calling me to open a can of worms that has been overlooked and neglected so that true healing can occur. I am pumped! It's going to be incredible. I just want to get out of the way!
4. Saw Prince Caspian Friday night. I was entertained, but this is NOT a children's movie. Pretty violent. It's Braveheart without the blood and gore. A lot of the violence is insinuated, but it's still there. I like both movies about the same. Def worth a look.
5. Indiana Jones opens this week! Now I've just got to figure out when I'm going to see it. Gotta see it before Friday. It depends on when we leave. So far, it's gotten good reviews.
I have a lot of work to get to today. Be well my friends.


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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221516.post5370139607741846452..comments2018-09-26T17:46:05.085-04:00Comments on Awful Announcing: NFL And NBC Agree To Move Kickoff Of Opener Up In Response To Republican Convention ConflictDeROKhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221516.post-34022499527341868212008-03-27T01:46:00.000-04:002008-03-27T01:46:00.000-04:00Starting lineups graphic -- oh man i can't miss th...Starting lineups graphic -- oh man i can't miss that.
 i love when they say their HS or when they get a Hollywood weenie to say the starterzzzzzzzzzzzzzz and think i'm going to go see their movie because of that.
 disney/abc snyergy - gotta laugh at the network execs who think it works.
 hey! when's the rock going to be on again? it's been 9 months since he's had a firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221516.post-56627234431419311002008-03-26T21:34:00.000-04:002008-03-26T21:34:00.000-04:00Redskins Insider on washingtonpost.com is saying o...Redskins Insider on washingtonpost.com is saying opener will be Washington / firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221516.post-261922533944682792008-03-26T20:21:00.000-04:002008-03-26T20:21:00.000-04:00if the games start too late for you, move to hawai...if the games start too late for you, move to hawaii

-firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221516.post-45981385264730062232008-03-26T18:21:00.000-04:002008-03-26T18:21:00.000-04:00Better Idea IMHO?First, move this Kickoff game to ...Better Idea IMHO?

First, move this Kickoff game to ESPN. Second, ask them (at least for 2008) to drop the Monday Night First Week twinbill to allow ESPN to do the Giants game. Third, in compinsation for allowing ESPN to get the Giants kickoff, give NBC a Christmas night contest in lieu of losing the Kickoff Game at East Rutherford, New Jersey.JamesCravenhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221516.post-26886196536110240592008-03-26T17:51:00.000-04:002008-03-26T17:51:00.000-04:00Why should games run past midnight in the East? We...Why should games run past midnight in the East? We're all asleep and the networks do lose a ton of viewers. There are far more sports fans (and media markets) in the East.

Not to mention the ending of a game is always more vital to watch than the beginning. So you miss the "starting lineups" graphic, so what.Danielhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221516.post-42055836499550037472008-03-26T17:08:00.000-04:002008-03-26T17:08:00.000-04:00Why should they start games at 4pm on the West Coa...Why should they start games at 4pm on the West Coast? We're all at work and the networks would lose a ton of viewers. There are sports fans out on the West Coast, ya know.SportsFanatichttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221516.post-58784033460092567172008-03-26T16:07:00.000-04:002008-03-26T16:07:00.000-04:00Football is more important than the government.Football is more important than the government.GMoneyhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221516.post-32645517802654854542008-03-26T16:02:00.000-04:002008-03-26T16:02:00.000-04:00AA, aren't you just fed up with ESPN's highlight r...AA, aren't you just fed up with ESPN's highlight reel of Bob Knight? And then at the end it says when he'll be back.. I'm sick of firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221516.post-76819906260338949032008-03-26T15:54:00.000-04:002008-03-26T15:54:00.000-04:00Com'on lets admit it. We all know the game will be...Com'on lets admit it. We all know the game will be Cowboys at email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221516.post-178768484813545692008-03-26T15:23:00.000-04:002008-03-26T15:23:00.000-04:00DNC convention is in Denver.DNC convention is in firstname.lastname@example.com