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Medical Records Summarization
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Medical Records Summarization
Medical record summarization has proved to be a boon to the healthcare industry. This is a process where tedious medical record data is analysed, categorized based on the data and service providers and then a review is presented which is medico-legally authenticated. This a simplified medical data from complicated medical record pages, which enables litigation services, claim services and other healthcare services to process their services at a much faster rate.
Using technology, the healthcare professionals, pharmacists, and doctors review, rearrange and interpret the data, which is easy to access and provides date wise detailed view of the patient's treatment.
Why Medical Record Summarization..?
A well-prepared medical record summary service saves time by organizing medical records in a concise chronological manner facilitating easy assimilation.
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- Better patient care.
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- Less man-hours and cost effective
Customization in Medical Summarization
This is a prime service provided which includes sorting and rearrangement of the medical records chronologically, assimilation of the patient's information in the given records and systematic presentation of that information, which is easy to review.
This is a customized service provided, which includes analysis, rearrangement of media records in ascending or descending chronology.
This service facilitates easy navigation through the records and helps to find a particular record for a specific date or from a particular location. The hyperlinking is provided to the source document and the summary page. Graphical analysis is presented for the type of visits, location and visit analysis and location and billing analysis.
This is a special services given for handling medical bills and expenses. In this service we provide sorting and reorganization of medical records, summary based on the date and billing items. We also provide graphical analysis of billing amounts from different providers and expenses pattern during the given time frame
This service provides a special feature by which it is very easy to search a specific required term/disease from the given bunch of records. It is specifically mentioned in the summary and the source page and summary have hyperlinking for more reference.
This service separates the medical records from a given bunch based on the location of the records. This gives an overview of visits and treatment provided in a particular location.
When there are multiple locations where the patient was treatment during a particular time, this services facilitates reviews to be arranged in date chronology for all the locations together.
This facility provides a list of additional locations/providers noted during the summary, their address to help in gathering more information or missing records from given location
Benefits for MDS Process
- Easy data access.
- Easy navigation through records
- Eco-friendly approach involving less paperwork.
- Hassel-free data storage.
- Better patient care with instant query resolution.
- Expiated litigation process and fast claim settlement.
- Increase in productivity.
- More focus can be given for business development.
- Customization and various summary options makes the summary compatible with given work approach of respective firms.
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Data Security:
ITCube is an ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 27001:2013 certified company. ITCube follows HIPAA compliance by adhering to all the physical, technical and administrative safeguards.
ITCube provides assurance of protected health information privacy and security while processing extensive medical health data. We understand the importance of integrity and security of the PHI. We practice HIPAA compliance by adhering to physical, technical and administrative safeguard guidelines.
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For technical safeguard, we have:
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- HIPAA overview training for employees.
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- Information access management tools in place.
- Security incidence procedures in place.
- Data contingency plan in place including data backup policies and disaster management plans.
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TRIGGER WARNING: This is a post about suicide.
If you are not in the right state of mind or unprepared to read about this subject,
please stop now.
For those of you still with me, here it goes.
I just finished 13 Reasons Why. At first, I rolled my eyes a lot with all the over-the-top high school drama and unrealistic dialogue, but there was a dark undertone that kept me going. I thought maybe the main character Hannah was murdered instead of the alleged suicide. Either way, I was prepared to unearth the mystery of her death. I love a good think piece. Maybe I would even guess the ending before the final episode. It turns out I had no idea what I was in for. Even with the trigger warnings prior to episodes 12 and 13, I carried on, thinking: Can't be any worse than what I've already experienced.
My college career was clouded and occupied by suicide. The winter of 2007-08 was my own personal hell. (Sounds like a great first line for a cliche story, right? Read on. The cliches get better.) Suicide is never just one person's hell though. My three college girlfriends and I went came out on the other side together. I don't know how any one of us could have done it alone. It felt as though God wanted to take someone important from each of us. And we each had to wait our turn. One right after the other.
It felt like it would never stop. Like those roller coaster rides at Six Flags Great America, where that first drop gives you butterflies until suddenly the smile wipes off your face and it turns to screaming, because there's no possible way you could still be dropping — it's too far down. Any farther and you'd swear you're heading toward the Earth's core. Then suddenly you're horizontal again, but still trembling, wondering when the next drop is coming. Before you have time to wrap you head around it, you feel your body being pulled back into your seat as you head toward the sky and know– you just fucking know–something terrible is coming. Another drop? Sure enough. You scream again, so loud you're sure your fearful energy has reverberated onto everyone in the theme park. The carney must stop the ride at any moment now. But then you reach the bottom, and you're still alive and the ride is still going. Horizontal movement again, like a plateau. The world doesn't stop because you're afraid. You think you've caught your breath, but you're still trembling, you feel dizzy, unsure you can survive another great drop. Until you have no choice. Your body is pulled backward into your seat again, heading for the sky. One more rush — you've been here, done that, so you think it couldn't possibly affect you the way the first two had. But suddenly it's here and you remember everything. (No more. Not again. I just can't do this again.) All the pain and fear and screaming. So much screaming and crying and–. Each drop, no matter the depth, was just as scary.
This is what living through a loved one's suicide (or attempted suicide) is like.
"Death comes in threes," they say. Who started that, any way? I'd like to slap whoever first discovered this and pointed it out to the rest of us. That phrase can send you reeling. One person passes away and you walk on egg shells, terrified to wake up the next morning to find out someone else you know was next. As soon as you hear about three deaths in a row, you tell yourself, "OK, it's time to relax again. The hell, the waiting, is over. The rest of my loved ones should be safe. Until next round … ta-ta!"
The ripple effects of suicide begin to control your every move, every thought. Each of us began to struggle in our own ways. Psychology is a powerful tool to understand the changes in one's behavior after a traumatic event. In a semi-stressful situation, most people can keep their cool and logically work through it, but others with deeper scars are left in the middle of a grocery store having a meltdown because they can't choose which brand of ketchup to go with because they're terrified of making the wrong choice and losing another person they love. If I go with Hunts but the right answer was Heinz, game over. Who's it gonna be this time, huh?
After the first suicide, the inner screaming started. I know this might sound absolutely insane for anyone who has never experienced it, but it happens. And it happens at the most unfortunate times. The first memory I have of this inner screaming was at my newspaper job in college. My co-workers started talking about the full moon. For some reason my brain instantly went to a scene from Practical Magic that talks about the "blood moon," which meant there was a hazy, red ring around the moon. When there was a blood moon, it meant that someone was in trouble or possibly dead. When I turned around to see my co-workers running toward the one accessible window, I suddenly felt anxious. I felt like something bad was happening, even though I knew they were just looking out the window to see the moon. The large room suddenly began to shrink to the size of a cardboard box. I could feel my heart quicken and I instantly got dizzy. All while this overwhelming fearful screaming rose from my stomach, into my chest and up my esophagus. I realized I could let it out, or I could swallow it down and pretend it wasn't there. I thankfully chose the latter. I lept out of my chair and ran toward the window to occupy my mind. I figured if I just looked at the moon and saw that it was full and there was no red ring around it, the inner screaming would stop. But it didn't. So I put my hands on the sides of my head and just touched my skin and hair to realize I was still alive and I was OK — one piece. I began to babble about something my dad told me about full moons and continued to deny the panic attack that seemed to reach the brim. Ignoring it long enough worked that night. But it didn't always.
Over the years, each one of us hit rock bottom. We were ticking timebombs. Some of us hit rock bottom a few months later, while others let a few years pass. I was the latter. Us late grievers struggle through our mental breakdown in a gradual manner, to the point that our loved one hardly notice you've changed until it's almost too late. It felt as though a part of the past was always lurking around every corner, nibbling at my ankles like a pack of mosquitoes in the deep forest. Thirsty for my blood, begging for me to give in to their instincts and just let it be. Let what will be, be. But sometimes we can't, so we start to run in hopes we can convince them to give in to something more stationary. Eventually you run out of energy and have to stop, and the mosquitoes will find you and start the process all over again.
I accepted my fate in the most lonely city in the world. Madison, Wisconsin. It was one of the busiest places I'd ever lived, but I had never felt so alone. I started to worry suicide was like AIDS: Something that lays dormant inside of you until it decides to show its hideous face. The memories of those who took their lives or tried to mixed with the loneliness of the city and denial of the past, throwing me into a quarter life crisis.
Sounds silly, right? Try telling that to a veteran suffering from PTSD after years fighting a bullshit war. We have young men and women willingly joining the military at 18 years old to be broken down, brainwashed and built back up into a machine that protects the country and each other. They are sent overseas to fight an unwinnable war, watching their friends, their brothers and sisters, dying before their eyes, while we watch from our television sets and drink our alcohol and celebrate our freedom, thanking those who have fought for us to live our silly, little lives. Yet many of them come home in their mid-to-late twenties, their service forgotten over time. They sit at home alone in their thoughts, too, just as I was tonight watching the show — both of us survivors of hell, triggered by some distant memory we feel will never stop surfacing. And we go into our defense mode. Our desperate mode. Our freedom mode. Our survival mode.
PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) is not just a term for veterans. Regular people — civilians — who have witnessed their own personal hell can also struggle with it, too.
My stomach churns when I look back and think about how my group of friends used to say the phrase, "Shoot me now!" at anything that made us roll our eyes or stressed us out. Homework. Boys. Math. School. You know, meaningless shit. Or "I'd kill myself if that happened to me." How about the good ol' signal of putting your gun-shaped hand to your temple and pretend to pull the trigger? These are all triggers, my friends. They will send any one of us who have lived through this hell to spiral out of control. Just don't do it. Period.
The thirteenth episode of 13 Reasons Why shared a suicide trigger warning. I braced myself, but I had to watch it. For some reason, I thought I could handle whatever it was they were going to throw at me. After all, I'd come a long way from those horrific episodes, interrupting memories, what ifs and fuck yous. I was safe at home, comfortable with my cat on my lap. Just another Monday night. Then I watched the scene and all my years of therapy and meditation went right out the fucking window.
Hannah graphically slits both of her wrists and slowly dies as she bleeds heavily in the overflowing bath tub. Her mom knocks on the door asking Hannah what is going on with the wet carpet and bursts in the door to find Hannah floating lifeless in the family bathroom. And she says,
Hannah, Hannah, honey. It's OK. It's OK. You're OK. Come here, baby. You're OK.
She then erupts into screams for her husband who instantly weeps and cries out for his daughter.
It hovers on that scene for a moment while Hannah's one friend Clay finishes retelling the story to her guidance counselor that failed to help her.
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I cannot even begin to describe the hysteria that arose inside me. Once again, it started in my stomach (flip-flop – this isn't real) to my chest (oh, god, it can't be real) to my esophagus (oh, god, no, no, no, not again, not again). I felt bile creeping up my esophagus with my uncontrollable grief and was sure that between the drooling and shaking, I was going to vomit. But I guess adrenaline and hysteria can keep those refluxes at bay. It took me a few moments to realize I wasn't reliving the memories of another person's hell. This was television. Even though it was someone else's story, flashbacks of all the sights, sounds, locations came back full force as though I was there all over again, watching weeping parents who had just come from the dead body. The things those parents blurted out–things a person should never ever have to hear about their friend. And while you are trying to calmly and rationally comfort everyone around you, you yourself are on the brink of insanity.
Some of us live with this fear every single day of our lives. It's enough to make a person go mad. If you can survive that first breakdown, you'll keep surviving, even if you find yourself back in the middle of a PTSD trip. Do everything you can to find your way back out. That's where this blog post came in. One o'clock in the morning hysterical and alone in my apartment, I had no choice but to get it all out. I've decided to share it with you in hopes it continues to bring light to something so horrific. Keep your eyes, your minds and your hearts open.
Choose life, my dear, sweet friends. You've only got one.

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Greg Weisman's storied career spans television, comics, novels and beyond. We geek out with Greg about his many fan favorite shows including Young Justice, Gargoyles and The Spectacular Spider-Man. He also talks about the experience of writing comics such as Star Wars Kanan–and provides insight into Kickstarter and his Rain of the Ghosts novels and audioplay. Can one show contain this much excitement?


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The U.S.-Mexico Foundation, in partnership with the Grupo de Estudios Migratorios (CIDE-MIG) of the División de Estudios Internacionales (DEI) of the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, A.C. (CIDE), and Programa Interdisciplinario de Políticas y Prácticas Educativas (PIPE), with the support from the Regional Center for Learning on Evaluation and Results (CLEAR), hosted the seminar Returned diasporas: reinsertion of returned migrants and dreamers to the Mexican Public Education System.
The event gathered migration experts, public officials, returned Dreamers, and civil society organizations to learn, share experiences and discuss public policy solutions concerning the contexts of returned diasporas to Mexico and their reinsertion into Mexican public schools. Watch the video here. This event tool place on October 15, 2014 as part of Global Diaspora Week. For more information, please contact email@example.com


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Sarah Raine joined GMF's Berlin office in November 2011 as a non-resident transatlantic fellow in the Asia Program. Her research focuses on the interplay between the rise of Asia and the future of the Transatlantic Alliance, with a particular focus on the responses of European powers. She is also concurrently a consulting research fellow for Chinese foreign and security policy with the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS).
Prior to moving to Berlin, Raine worked for three years at IISS's Asia office in Singapore. Her research there looked at key issues in Chinese foreign policy and included authoring an Adelphi Book on China's African Challenges as well as publishing on China's evolving approaches to sovereignty claims in the South China Sea. She has previously worked as a director of Barchester, a U.K.-based strategic and corporate financial advisory company, looking after their Asian interests. She also worked for eight years as a diplomat in the U.K.'s Foreign and Commonwealth Office, including a posting to the British Embassy in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
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The day after bottling my first batch of beer, I cooked up another. This time, I decided to make a chocolate maple porter from the Brooklyn Brew Shop Beer Making Book. While you can buy the mixes from the Brooklyn Brew Shop directly, I visited my local brewing supply shop, Brewcraft, to get the ingredients.
I walked in with my list, told the man what I needed. He measured everything for me, and then milled the grains.
"What percentage of alcohol are you shooting for?" he asked.
"6.5% I think," I said.
"How much beer are you making?"
"One gallon."
A look of confusion. Then understanding. "I guess that makes sense. Typically people make five gallons. And with what you've got here, you'd end up with a 1% beer."
One thing he recommended with the amount of grains I had was to use a cheesecloth. As this would eliminate the need to separate the grains from the wert, I decided to give it a shot.
The cheesecloth worked just fine. The only issue was squeezing the 150 degree wert from the ball.
Overall, it did make things a bit easier, and I was left with a beautifully colored wert. But I felt somewhat unsatisfied with the cheesecloth compared to a full pot of unadulterated mash. So I might forego it next time.
Other than the cheesecloth, the process was the same as my first batch, with a couple changes to supplies. First, I bought a larger measuring cup and larger funnel. Second, I bought One Step to replace the C Brite that comes with the Brooklyn Brew Shop kit. I felt a lot more comfortable with the One Step, as it didn't have all the warning that C Brite comes with, and it was no rinse. Also, the Brewcraft clerk assured me it was fine to stick my hands in it.
After four hours of brewing, I had another batch. My porter will hang out in a cabinet till it's ready for bottling in two weeks.
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The DeLonghi ECAM44660W White Eleltta Superautomatic Coffee and Espresso machine brings a variety of barista quality drinks at the touch of a button. The Eletta's outstanding convenience makes morning and nighttime drinks a pleasure, especially for those who prefer both convenience and quality.
The Eletta simplifies the process of making specialty coffee drinks such as:
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How to save valuable time and gain confidence in your role as minute taker.
Minute taking serves a vitally important and necessary task. This process helps to ensure legal protection, provide structure, drive action, and also state ownership and accountability. It is a hugely beneficial aid to any meeting, but only when done right.
This one day training course will take you through a step-by-step approach to producing effective minutes – giving templates to help you produce structured agendas and take notes effectively. You will learn how to capture key points, how to prepare effectively and will show you key points to writing, editing, preparing agendas, as well as how to properly structure what you have written. We will have practical exercises on the day to help you be more confident of your abilities in a real situation.
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Preparation – Key tips
Working effectively with the chair and colleagues when preparing the agenda, meeting papers and minutes
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NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has pounded into a Red Planet rock with its drill for the first time, bringing the 1-ton robot a big step closer to initiating its first full-bore drilling operations.
The Curiosity rover hammered the rock using the arm-mounted drill's percussive action over the weekend, completing another test along the path toward spinning the bit and biting into rock for the first time.
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Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: "Astronaut Abby" is at the controls of a social-media machine that is launching the 15-year-old from Minnesota to Kazakhstan this month for the liftoff of the International Space Station's next crew.
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"We tapped this rock on Mars with our drill. Keep it classy everyone," Curiosity flight director Bobak Ferdowsi — who gained fame as "Mohawk Guy" during the rover's nail-biting landing on the night of Aug. 5, 2012 — wrote in a Twitter post Sunday, sharing a photo of the pounded rock.
Curiosity's drill can bore 1 inch (2.5 centimeters) into Martian rock, deeper than any rover has been able to go before. Using the drill and its associated systems is a complex operation, so the mission team has been building up slowly to the first drilling activity on the Red Planet.
Last week, Curiosity performed some "pre-load" tests, pressing down on a rock with its drill in several different places to see if the amount of force applied matches predictions.
The six-wheeled robot has also been carefully evaluating its target rock, which is part of an outcrop the mission team has named "John Klein," after a former Curiosity deputy project manager who died in 2011.
Curiosity's main goal is to determine if its Gale Crater landing site could ever have supported microbial life. Along with the rover's 10 science instruments and 17 cameras, the drill is viewed as key in this quest, as it allows Curiosity to dig deep into Martian rocks for potential signs of past habitability.
The mission team wants to test the drill out on a target with scientific value, and John Klein seems to qualify. The outcrop shows many signs of past exposure to liquid water, including light-colored mineral veins that were apparently deposited by flowing water long ago.
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Saturday, October 07, 2006
Security Is Not Refrigeration
Consider the refrigerated train car at left. Refrigeration is definitely a "business enabler." Without refrigeration, food producers on the west coast couldn't sell their goods to consumers on the east coast. Refrigeration opened new markets and keeps them open.
However, refrigeration is not the business. Refrigeration is a means to an end -- namely selling food to hungry people. Refrigeration does not generate value; growing and selling food does. (Refrigeration is only the business for those that sell refrigerated train cars and supporting devices.)
You might think "security" is like refrigeration. Like refrigeration, security could be said to "enable" business. Like refrigeration, security does not generate value; selling a product or service through a "secure" channel does.
So why is "security" really not refrigeration? The enemy of refrigeration is heat. Heat is an aspect of nature. Heat is not intelligent. Heat does not adapt to overcome the refrigeration technology deployed against it. Heat does not choose its targets. One cannot deter or jail or kill heat.
The enemy of "security" is the intruder. The intruder is a threat, meaning a party with the capabilities and intentions to exploit a vulnerability in an asset. Threats are intelligent, they adapt, they persist, they choose, and they react to their environment. In fact, an environment which on Monday seems perfectly "secure" can be absolutely compromised on Wednesday by the release of an exploit in response to Tuesday's Microsoft vulnerability announcements.
Returning to the idea of "enablement" -- honestly, who cares? I'll name some other functions that enable business -- lawyers, human resources, facility staff. The bottom line is that "virtual trust" is an attempt to "align" (great CISO term) security with "business objectives," just as IT is trying to "align" with business objectives. The reason "IT alignment" has a chance to succeed in creating real business value is that IT is becoming, in itself, a vendor of goods and services. Unless a business is actually selling security -- like a MSSP -- security does not generate value.
Why is anyone even bothering to debate this? The answer is money. If your work is viewed as a "cost center," the ultimate goal is to remove your budget and fire you. If you're seen as an "enabler," you're at least seen as being relevant. If you can spin "enablement" into "revenue generation," that's even better! Spend $X on security and get $Y in return on investment! Unfortunately that is not possible.
Finally, I don't think anyone would consider me "anti-security." I'm not arguing that security is irrelevant. In fact, without security a business can be absolutely destroyed. However, you won't find me saying that security makes anyone money. Some argue that spending money on security prevents greater loss down the line, perhaps by containing an intrusion before it avalanches into an immense compromise. That's still loss prevention. Of course security "enables" business, but enablement doesn't generate revenue; it supports a revenue-generating product or service.
This is probably my last word on this in a while. I need to turn back to my own business!
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- Paul Schmehl said...
Glad to see you addressing this, Richard. I confess, my thoughts are quite similar to yours. As I pointed out in the discussion on the full disclosure list, any PHB smart enough to be in a leadership position in a company isn't going to be fooled by the "business enabler" argument any more than you were.
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- LonerVamp said...
You can tackle the concept of business enablement as well. I hate to pick on analogies, and hopefully I am not taking it too far (take any analogy far enough and it breaks down...), but refrigeration is necessary for the business to expand to those markets. Without it, the ice cream will melt before it can get to the customer.
Security, on the other hand, is not always necessary. A business can still choose to do something like, say, run an online store, without bothering too much with security. Granted, regulations are slowly changing that, but still...things CAN be DONE without security.
Maybe security is more like a sleep enabler? It enables more people to sleep at night. Then again, that is not much unlike insurance and loss prevention...
- Carlos Ribeiro said...
Talking about analogies... I'm a lifelong IT professional who by chance happened to run a food business for a couple years. Although I agree with you in the general sense, I would like to point another analogies that can be useful here.
Although important, refrigeration is only one tool for food safety. There's a huge knowledge base, a good part of it encoded under the HACCP umbrella. HACCP means Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point, and -- much like security was supposed to be -- is a framework for food safety. HACCP starts from the principle that the food chain (with its associated processes) is inherently unsafe. From this starting point, HACCP starts to define limits to manage the security level. There's no such thing as "pure" and "safe" food. There is, on the other hand, food that is safe for consumption under a given set of conditions, including temperature, time, and other environmental variables.
Looking at IT security from the same perspective the food industry achieved with HACCP would be really great. HACCP is a requirement, by power of regulation, in several places. Nobody in the food industry can sanely call it a enabler, but this does not mean, in any sense, that it is less necessary than anything else in the production chain. Things that are mandatory have to be done, regardless of being costs or profits. Talking about security in this sense only weakens the argument.
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Lieutenant Governor works to put a face on aging
In an attempt to put a face on aging in South Carolina, Lt. Gov. Glenn McConnell has been touring nursing homes, assisted living facilities and senior centers throughout the state since September and listening to the needs of elderly.
The tour stopped in Myrtle Beach on Tuesday with visits to senior centers and homes of those who receive meals from the state. McConnell said the Office on Aging has seen its budget cut by 48 percent in recent years and hopes to be able to receive $5 million more in state funding in the coming year. He was able to secure an additional $2 million this year, bringing the budget to $6.5 million.
"I want to come up with stories, faces and facts to take back to the General Assembly and create a grassroots movement," McConnell said. "I know there are lobbyists at the front door competing for the money."
McConnell delivered meals with Horry County Council on Aging employees Tuesday for a chance to speak directly to seniors in their homes. Dorothy Mitchell said the meals help supplement the food she's able to purchase.
"I can still cook some, but not every day," Mitchell said, who uses a walker to move around. "They fill you up and they're healthy."
Keeping seniors healthy is something that McConnell said is a very important goal of the Office on Aging.
"If we can keep folks healthy, we can keep them in their homes and out of the skilled nursing beds," he said.
He said that it costs about $1,200 per person to provide services such as meals and homemaker services for the 26,000 seniors through the Office on Aging. McConnell said that when seniors aren't healthy they end up in nursing homes and, unless they have a lot of money saved up, can quickly end up on Medicaid. It costs $54,000 a year to provide services to someone in a skilled nursing bed, he said.
"They end up going through their assets and end up on Medicaid and being a burden on the taxpayer," he said.
McConnell said he also hopes to gather best practices from the places he visits to develop a short-term plan and then a 15-year strategic plan for the Office on Aging. Things he said he'd like to look at include working to get Medicaid transportation back from private contractors and expanding on the best practices he's seen in senior centers such as health centers, stimulating games and socialization.
What does Mitchell ask of the Office on Aging?
"Just keep checking on us," she said.
Acknowledging he won't serve as lieutenant governor for the next 15 years, McConnell said he plans to work to raise awareness about the needs of the Office on Aging so it becomes an important issue to all elected officials.
"I want to increase the awareness so, in the long term, the politicians cant ignore [seniors]," he said.
McConnell said he hadn't thought about running for reelection in two years, but hasn't ruled it out.
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Psyched about soccer? Plenty of energy, but no where to use it? The University of Arizona Department of German Studies and its student club, the Deutscher Studenten Club, have created the perfect opportunity for you: a Soccer Tournament on the UA Mall, open to any team from on or off campus. Teams made up of local professionals, university faculty, staff, students and alumni will play against one another in world cup style modus at this fun event. The tournament is a fundraiser for a study abroad scholarship in the club's name and all proceeds go directly to a study abroad scholarship.
Read what the press had to say about our very first tournament.
Tournament "Go-o-o-a-l": Raise money to fund scholarships for study abroad in German-speaking countries.
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Cost: $100 per student team / $150 every other team (8 players) - Yes! That's only 12.50 per student or 18.75 for faculty/staff/external players (Student IDs will be checked!) - And you are supporting a really good cause! This year's payment due date tba.
Rules: Rules and Regulations can be read here.
Games: All games will be 6 on 6 (2 additional substitutes allowed) with a playing time of 15min+ in a world cup style tournament.
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Irish Colcannon Soup
The Irish really know how to blend potatoes and cabbage to make a wonderful, mild flavored, comfort-food soup. The cabbage is a member of the cruciferous vegetable family which has some major cancer fighting nutrients.
Serves 4
- 1 tablespoon canola oil
- 1 large onion, diced
- 3 large potatoes, peeled and cubed
- 1/2 teaspoon ground thyme
- 1/2 teaspoon white pepper
- 1 teaspoon dill weed
- 6 cups fat-free chicken broth, divided
- 5 cups coarsely shredded cabbage
- 1/2 cup fat-free milk
- salt and pepper to taste
- In a large soup pot, heat oil. Add onions and cook until translucent. Add potatoes and cook an additional 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add thyme, white pepper, dill weed, and 4 cups of chicken broth. Bring to a boil. Cover pan and continue to boil gently for 30 minutes or until potatoes are very tender. Using a hand held immersion blender, puree soup. Add cabbage. Cover pan and boil gently for 15 - 25 minutes or until cabbage is tender. Add milk. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
- If soup is too thick, add additional chicken broth to desired consistency.
Nutrition Facts
Calories: 310
Total fat: 4g
Saturated fat: 1g
Cholesterol: 1mg
Sodium: 619mg
Carbohydrates: 58 g
Fiber: 6g
Sugar: 6g
Protein: 12g


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Marriage is as One Long Conversation
The old philosopher said, "Marriage is as one long conversation. When marrying you should ask yourself this question: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman into your old age? Everything else in a marriage is transitory, but most of the time you're together will be devoted to conversation." The old philosopher was right, but as with all bits of rightness, it ought to be understood in its place.
I have always known marriage was not an easy conversation. I am of Scotch-Irish descent; men in my family love their beer and asserting opinions, and as for the women, there's a demure outside but on the inside it's all fire and spit. Most conversations were spent seeing who could talk the loudest the longest without throwing the first punch—even if the punch was merely metaphorical.
When I began to grow outside the incubator of family alone, I saw the long conversation of marriage through a different lens. These marriages were built on the scaffolding of details: who is supposed to be where and when and how, who needs to be picked up, what's for dinner, what should we do about this child or that one. There was an ordinariness to the conversations of marriage, unaccompanied by emotive, defensive jabs at the other. It seemed simplistic. I know now it's because I was not in the middle of those marriages as I was in the middle of the marriages in my family, and when we are in the middle of something all our own, we see all its inconsistencies and broken-places.
As I stepped into adulthood and was able to see my skewed perspective of childhood and adolescence both, I began to see marriage was a long conversation, but the tone of voice could change it from a pleasant one to a violent one. Armed with this newfound knowledge of tone, intention, nuance, and even love, I began to assume all the long conversations of marriage could be blissful. A constant sharing of ideas and delights and hurts and confusions, a true partnership. Whenever I thought of being married it was the long conversation I looked forward to most.
Marriage has been that for me and Nate. The cusp of our friendship was on deep conversation, leading to dates full of long, easy talks, quiet pauses, intentional listening, and slow responses. This was the long conversation of marriage I wanted, I could see that clearly from our first date.
The long conversations become subject to the tyranny of the urgent, though, as most things can. A few weeks ago there were twelve decisions that needed to be made and seven of them required quick conversations but the other five required depth, time, focus, and charity. We were short on all of that, though, and so if the conversations were going to be had, they were going to be had on the surface, quickly, while we multi-tasked, and were short with one another. As with most conversations built on bedrocks like that, we needed to repent later to one another.
The urgent doesn't let up, though, does it? There is always someone who needs an answer or thinks they need an answer, or wants one. There is always something that must be signed up for or paid or responded to or agreed upon. There is always something left unfinished, unsaid, unsealed. I have learned to say to others, "I want to talk to Nate about that first," but the when of talking sometimes comes slowly or is mingled among the other conversations, never finished.
Nate and I practice (and by practice, I mean we are very unproficient at this and must practice) the discipline of saying "No," to ourselves, our minds, our friends, and the tyranny of the urgent. If, in saying no, we find ourselves disappointed or others disappointed by our lack of a quick answer—this is the discipline of the practice. This is the sacrifice, the hurt, the pain. This is where we admit to ourselves and to others that we are not God, as much as we sometimes think we would like to be.
I think about Jesus in John 16. He says to his disciples and friends, "I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you." I think about how often we fill conversation simply because we do not want to feel the lack of the incarnate Christ and we do not want to wait for the Holy Spirit to do what only he can do. We are uncomfortable with the long silences, afraid the Spirit will not do what He does: move.
Yesterday morning, in the early hours of our day of rest, Nate mentioned some conversations we've left unfinished this week, answers others expect. And then he said this: I want to pray about these things, ask the Holy Spirit to give us wisdom, humility, and a direction, even more than we simply talk about them. And then, for the rest of the day, we didn't talk about things we could not solve on that day. We left space for the Spirit to enter in, give peace or withhold it.
Marriage is one long conversation, but it is not, primarily, a conversation between two, but three. If we find the conversation to be focused on just two, it may go the brawling way of my family, or it may go the stoic way of my checklisting friends. But, I think, if we move ourselves away from one another for a moment, stop talking and begin listening, not primarily to one another but to the Holy Spirit, we may find that conversation more robust, full, and gentle than we could have imagined before. We may leave more things unfinished, more things unsaid, more events unattended, and more lists unchecked, but I do not think we will leave less full.
If you're married today, what might it look like to still the conversation—even about the rudimentary things or the things that seem pressing and necessary—and begin to recognize the presence of the Holy Spirit in this longest conversation of your life?
If you're not married today, what might it look like to trust the Spirit is still at work in all the seeming silences of your life? In the lonely places where you long for conversation, how can you exercise listening to the Helper, learning from him, and obeying him as he perhaps prepares you for the long conversation of earthly marriage and definitely prepares you for the long conversation of eternity?


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MLB, MTV Come To Bat With 'Off The Bat' What's Hot Series With David Ortiz, Fat Joe
Special to NYSportsJournalism.com
March 24, 2014: Now that the 2014 MLB season has officially begun — the Los Angeles Dodgers have a two game lead on the rest of the baseball world thanks to a pair of wins over the Arizona Diamondbacks in Australia — marketers, fans and MLB executives are eyeballing Opening Days, when the other 28 teams begin to play for real.
Among the plethora of events that are scheduled to take place March 30-April 1, MTV and MLB will premiere Off the Bat from the MLB Fan Cave, described as a show where MLB players "will share their love for pop culture and entertainment, while fans will gain behind-the-scenes access to the biggest stars in the game."
Thirty episodes of the 30-minute Off the Bat from the MLB Fan Cave are scheduled to air this season. The series is the first event as part of a multi-year, cross-platform programming partnership between MLB and MTV.
David Ortiz of the Boston Red Sox and MVP of the 2013 World Series is an executive producer of the series throughout the season. Segment executive producers include Robinson Cano (Seattle Mariners), Adam Jones (Baltimore Orioles), Craig Kimbrel (Atlanta Braves), Jose Fernandez (Miami Marlins) and Wil Myers (Tampa Bay Rays).
Hosts include hosted by Sway, Fat Joe, Chris Distefano and Melanie Iglesias.
Each episode of Off the Bat from the MLB Fan Cave will include on-location segments in which MLB players share with viewers their off-the-field interests, such as tours of their favorite restaurants or a look at their sneaker collection.
MTV and MLB said they would host an Opening Day Block Party at the MLB Fan Cave in New York (4th St. between Broadway and Lafayette) on March 30. The free party will feature special celebrity guests, the hosts of Off the Bat from the MLB Fan Cave, food, games and raffles. (Details here.)
The series is scheduled to premiere on MTV2 on April 1 (11 PM ET/PT) and then air every Tuesday night in that time slot throughout the 2014 season.
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It's been nearly ten years since Layer Cake, the film that arguably directly led to Daniel Craig being cast as James Bond. Though a sequel is belatedly in the works it will no longer be Craig playing the unnamed gangster. Instead we will get Jason Statham.
Statham, along with producing partner Steve Chasman, has bought the rights to Viva La Madness, the follow-up novel by Layer Cake author J.J. Connolly. Connolly will write the screenplay, as he did for Layer Cake.
There will be a bit of mild tinkering required to tie the two films together, since the novel and film of Layer Cake ended in slightly different ways. In the film – spoiler – the narrator, a drug dealer trying to make his way out of the crime world, was shot and his fate left uncertain. In the book he was shot and went into a coma, but then relocated to Venezuela. Viva La Madness has the narrator living in the Caribbean but with an old associate trying to tempt him back to the world of crime.
Sequel enthusiast Statham recently completed filming on The Expendables 3 and is currently working on Fast & Furious 7.


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122 Dorchester Place, Moosomin
Located in Lumsden, just a short commute to Regina is ideal for country living but close to the city. Welcome to this beautiful custom built home built by Element construction. Built in 2015, home still has the remaining builders warranty. As you walk into this home, pride of ownership is evident as you are greeted with a large entrance. Home is approximately 1473 sq.ft. Kitchen is very spacious with lots of cupboard space, built in pantry and built in stove. A fair sized dining area with garden doors leading to the back yard . You will notice how open this floor plan is with the spacious living room. Master bedroom is beautiful with a large walk-in closet, huge en suite with two sinks, 1 tub and shower. An additional two bedrooms, bathroom, main floor laundry and direct entry to double garage summarizes the main floor. The basement is as impressive as the upstairs with a huge rec room ,two additional bedrooms (one has extra insulation for sound proofing for a possible musician in the family) and another bathroom. Lots of storage in the basement with two closets and storage under the stairs. A few added features for this home includes built 16 inch on center, triple pane low E Argon windows, main surge protector for the added protection of home. Both schools, elementary and high school are steps away. Owner states daycare is available at the elementary school. Lumsden has most amenities and is a beautiful town.
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Shake Your Money Maker
You never know where you'll find a lead singer. Kia Warren, a former club kid from Baldwin, was working as a manager at the Surf Lodge in Montauk three years ago, tidying up one afternoon when a wave of Mississippi blues crashed over her from a duo's sound check across the way.
"What is that?" she thought to herself, in the retelling swiveling her head to look over her shoulder. "It was almost like a double take."
It was good, it was loud, it was muscular and metallic. Sign her up.
The resulting union could be heard at the Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett recently, when Revel in Dimes — with Warren fronting Eric Simons on guitar and Washington Duke on drums (the two from the sound check), plus Chris Waller on bass — rang in the summer season as Memorial Day weekend broke across the land.
"How'd everybody do over the winter?" Warren asked the crowd, the mumbled response revealing how bleak it can get out here. From the young and well-to-do enjoying their good fortune over aluminum bottles of Bud Light to the ruddy-faced windblown sailor fresh from delivering a boat from Newport, his unsteadiness increasing by the minute, those gathered were resolutely focused on the warmer months to come.
"We just got back from overseas" — specifically Holland, she would explain later, where the welcome at music festivals and clubs for this diverse band striking out into new, hybrid territory was so warm, the experience so positive, she said it changed her life.
"I'm feeling a little shy," Warren told the audience in her hot pants and form-fitting halter top. "There's a whole lotta space between us" — this by way of urging the beery celebrants closer to the stage. Dance, why don't you. And they did.
Revel is one of several local bands gaining a profile, playing regularly here and in the city and at private gigs, with a record on iTunes, Spotify, and other online music sites. Its sound is pure American, a little Mississippi blues crossed with a little Chicago blues, pushed by driving bass and drums.
Revel are regulars at the Talkhouse this summer. If you haven't been there in a while, the place, an institution, really, soldiers on, though maybe, like society itself, a little cleaner, a little brighter, a little less smoky. The Talkhouse has offered a steady diet of blues and bluesy rock over the years, to the point that if on a given night a mid-'60s song from the Who gets spun between sets it's as if someone had opened the front and back doors to let a fresh breeze blow through.
But not this night. Simons appeared in a floppy newsboy cap, but before long was mopping his face and neck with a white towel à la James Brown as he worked wonders on his electric guitar, warming up with some slow funk and working it into a frenzied wall of sound, transitioning from hard rock to the hyperkinetic tempo of punk.
The dude with the Hendrix hair on bass — that would be Waller, they call him Premo — was happy to break out a harmonica when it suited him, while Warren, when she wasn't pogo-sticking like some ska-head or smacking a tambourine, could've passed herself off as Patti LaBelle's niece with her blend of bluesy and raspy vocals.
Backing it all up, Washington Duke authoritatively kept the beat, at one point unleashing a long, thundering drum solo that shook the shirt fabric of anyone in proximity.
The morning after, he called the solo a bit sloppy. (Loose, someone else might've said.) He was speaking over a paper cup of Jack's Stir Brew coffee at Amagansett Square. Warren nursed a ginger-lemon health drink.
They're all New Yorkers. Kia Warren called Montauk home for seven years but recently made the move to Brooklyn. Premo lives in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Simons in Bushwick. When they're playing out here the band crashes at Duke's, the only one for whom this is home. One of the sons of Tony Duke, the late Boys Harbor founder, Duke spent a decade living and working in Brooklyn, where he met Simons, and they worked together as sidemen in various bands. Duke has since returned, to Springs, where he lives with his wife and two young boys.
Both drummer and singer were still recovering from giving the Talkhouse crowd its money's worth — roughly a two-hour performance, whereas on the recent tour in Holland they might have done single 50 or 60-minute sets straight through.
"We really have to pull stuff out of our back pocket for these long gigs," Duke said. "We need to double the amount of music, which is tough because we don't want to play covers."
"Our songs are written as a collaborative effort," he said. "Kia will add some lyrics and a melody. Actually, Premo is a good songwriter."
"He's like an onion," Warren interjected. "One day he surprised us, just sat down and started playing the piano."
"Or the harmonica," Duke added. "We asked him out of the blue if he could play, and he tore it up."
Waller, a.k.a. Premo, is the newest member of the band, the final piece of the puzzle, and they found him the old-fashioned way: They advertised.
The band's name, by the way, came about by accident, as in, "Hey, you wanna share a cab ride?"
"Yeah, I'm rubbin' dimes" (that is, broke, tapped out).
"What did you say? You revel in dimes?" And, just like that. . . The band's got an eight-song album, their second, coming out later this summer. "Today it's like, 'What's the single?' " Duke said. "But I feel like the whole album is a single. It tells a story."
"It sounds raw," Warren said, "and is super-conceptual."
Serendipitous, too. They recorded to tape — you can rent and reuse old ones — and, as they ran it through the machine, in between the tracks "these phantom sounds from a previous recording came through," he said, "like abstract classical," she added. "These violins were in the same key we were in," he said, "and it was just the effect we were looking for, a ghost, these haunting strings there just by accident."
They did more than take a pass on going digital, its antiseptic nature not suiting the Dimes' scruffy sound: Warren sang live on the album, no overdubs.
"For us, you know, it's rock 'n' roll, it needs to be not too constructed," Duke said. "Also, we're not that kind of a band," Warren said. "We're a live band. It's better to be honest." Catch 'em while you can.


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Country: Canada
Joe Nesci
After running a business in Toronto for most of his life; Joe Nesci retired a few years ago. He is now dedicated to using his gifts and passion for evangelism in a growing ministry to Spanish migrant workers in the Greater Toronto area. He also takes teams to Mexico to help with the construction of a new church.


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POETRY SLAM: Check out the semi-finals of the Louder Than a Bomb poetry slam competition. The competition is sponsored by the Young Chicago Authors and winners will move on to the finals at the Vic next week. 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. Steppenwolf Theatre Co., 1650 N Halsted $5
TOASTING HARRY: Nobody will fault you for needing a stiff drink if you're hanging out at Navy Pier for the day. There'll be one more option on the plate today when Harry Caray's officially opens its new location. The first round of events goes down between 5 a.m. to 10 a.m., including a Spring Training rally, a mascot toast and appearances by every from Dutchie Caray to Ronnie Woo Woo and that guy from "Desperate Housewives" who always seems to be losing his shirt. At 7:40 p.m. it's the 12th Annual Worldwide Toast to Harry Caray on what would have been his 96th birthday with celeb toasters such as Ernie Banks, Bobby Hull and Ron Kittle.
LIVE SHOW: If you're looking for some NPR-style entertainment, then the live taping of "You, Me, Them, Everybody" is right up your alley. Every Monday night you can attend this live podcast taping at the Hungry Brain, with live music and comedy. The Singleman Affair and Jeff Harms perform. 8pm, 2319 W Belmont. 21+, no cover


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As of 2014, the highest vertical jump that's been officially recorded is 60 inches. The record is held by Frenchman Kadour Ziani, who is a professional dunker with the professional dunking exhibition team Slam Nation.
The vertical leap must be distinguished from the high jump. The vertical leap is done from a standing still position, and is frequently used in professional sports to test an athlete's jumping ability. On the other hand, the high jump is a sanctioned track and field event in which an athlete is allowed a running start and must leap over a bar. The current high jump record is slightly over 8 feet and was set in 1993 by Javier Sotomayor


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Angry, fired up and anxious. This is how some voters feel about voting in this year's midterm elections. They took to Twitter, comparing how they cast their ballot in 2016 during the presidential election to how they're doing it in 2018.
One post compared a shirtless Leonardo DiCaprio gleefully holding a water gun to the actor portraying fur trapper Hugh Glass in "The Revenant," trying to survive in the wilderness after he was mauled by a bear.
Another post compared a little dog enjoying the breeze from an open car to a wolf baring its teeth and ready to pounce.
The "Me Voting in 2016 vs. Met voting in 2018" memes began trending on Twitter a day before Americans were to vote in the first nationwide elections since Donald Trump became president. The tweets show renewed energy and commitment around the civic duty after two years of intensely partisan politics.
A record 36 million people voted early in the 2018 midterm elections and it's a trend that is expected to extend into Election Day.
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[SPOILERS for Stranger Things 2 ahead.]
It turns out that Bob's (Sean Astin) death on Stranger Things 2 was originally going to be much darker and more shocking. Stranger Things is without a doubt one of the most popular Netflix original shows the streaming service has ever produced. With its second season, viewers were brought back into the strange world of Hawkins, Indiana and caught up with the adventures of their favorite characters all over again, with some new faces thrown into the mix across nine compelling episodes. One of those episodes broke the hearts of the millions watching however, when fans saw one particular character killed off in gruesome fashion.
Though Bob was always intended to die, Sean Astin's performance in the role resulted in his character being kept around for much longer during season 2 than was originally planned. Serving as the love interest for Joyce Byers (Winona Ryder), he quickly worked his way into the hearts of everybody who met him in Hawkins, as well as those watching the show at home. Unfortunately, after serving as a hero for characters who ended up stuck in Hawkins Lab, he would become the next meal for the forever-hungry Demo-Dogs that had found their way out of the Upside Down and invaded the town.
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In an interview with Collider, Stranger Things executive producer and director Shawn Levy revealed how Bob was originally going to die. While his death on the series was a violent one, it could have been much, much darker:
"[Killing a main character] was never on the table. We had talked about the death of some major characters, that may or may not happen in the future near or far. But that was never part of the discussion for Season 2. The death of Bob was initially much earlier. In fact, in an early outline, Evil Will [killed] him in like Episode 3."
Exactly how Will would have gotten rid of his mother's love interest wasn't revealed, but Levy went on to reveal that "Will just straight-up murders Bob in that car," when Bob is dishing out advice on how to deal with nightmares.
Though he was always going to die, it's clear that Astin's performance as Bob is something that not only earned him more time on the series, but allowed the viewing public to really invest in his character and become attached. We're also not sure how Will murdering Bob in episode 3 would have worked in the grand scheme of things, as the Smoke Monster aka. the Mind Flayer hadn't yet 'fused' with Will by that point in the show (at least, the version that ended up onscreen).
Whilst it certainly would have been interesting to see 'Evil Will' unveiled so early on in Stranger Things 2, and to see how his family and friends would have dealt with the ramifications of that, the slow burn on just how nasty he could become after his possession seems to have been the best direction for the show to take. When Will lured a bunch of scientists at Hawkins Lab to their graves, it was a moment that viewers were allowed to work out and discover along with the characters; an effective group of scenes that wouldn't have felt the same with an 'Evil Will' reveal in episode 3.
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Calling the print Method/
Why is it tradition that when you learn a new language, you have to say "hello world"? For some reason computer scientists have this fascination with "hello world". Every book that tries to teach you a new programming language has one example: print hello world to the screen. I'm going to continue this proud tradition by looking at how SquirrelFish actually executes "hello world".
One of the most interesting things I've learned about VMs is that printing hello world to the screen means you actually have gotten quite a few things working. It's quite an endeavor to successfully implement "hello world" and is a joyous occasion when such an event occurs. Let's take a look at the bytecode for print("hello world"):
The moves are actual x86 move instructions. Within the JITed code, resolve_func and call are x86 calls to C methods that do the actual work of the bytecode. Thus, the really interesting bytecodes to look at are resolve_func and call. Let's first take a look at the bytecode resolve_func which calls the C method cti_op_resolve_func:
[ 0] enter
[ 1] mov r3, r0
[ 4] resolve_func r4, r3, print(@id0)
[ 8] mov r5, r1
[ 11] call r3, r3, 2, 14
[ 16] end r3
The variable iter starts at the beginning of the scope chain and ends at the end of the current scope chain. Thus we're looking for a property through the scope chain as described in the Ecmascript spec. This case is the simplest since only the global scope exists. However, where does the global scope initially define the property print? Where is print defined? Let's checkout the Global Object:
do {
base = *iter;
if (base->getPropertySlot(callFrame, ident, slot)) {
JSObject* thisObj = base->toThisObject(callFrame);
// Returns the function pointer to "print" method
JSValuePtr result = slot.getValue(callFrame, ident);
RETURN_PAIR(thisObj, JSValuePtr::encode(result));
} while (iter != end);
Any references to the property "print" actually refer to the C function "functionPrint. Thus resolve_func returns a point to "functionPrint". Then within the compiled context threaded code, there is a test to see if the resolved method is a JavaScript defined function or a native function. Since this is a "native" function, or one implemented in C, the bytecode call invokes cti_op_call_NotJSFunction. Let's take a look at this function:
GlobalObject::GlobalObject(const Vector<UString>& arguments)
: JSGlobalObject()
putDirectFunction(... "debug"), functionDebug));
putDirectFunction(... "print"), functionPrint));
putDirectFunction(... "quit"), functionQuit));
putDirectFunction(... "gc"), functionGC));
putDirectFunction(... "version"), functionVersion));
putDirectFunction(... "run"), functionRun));
putDirectFunction(... "load"), functionLoad));
putDirectFunction(... "readline"), functionReadline));
*... are parameters passed. Shortened for clarity.
cti_op_call_NotJSFunction finally calls functionPrint. Whew! There is the long road to hello world in a virtual machine.
JSValueEncodedAsPointer* Interpreter::cti_op_call_NotJSFunction(STUB_ARGS)
// Setup call frame
returnValue = callData.native.function(callFrame, asObject(funcVal), thisValue, argList); // Points to functionPrint
return JSValuePtr::encode(returnValue);
JSValuePtr functionPrint(ExecState* exec, JSObject*, JSValuePtr, const ArgList& args)
printf("%s", args.at(exec, i).toString(exec).UTF8String().c_str());
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One day in my future, all at once like a bolt of maturity lightning, I will be able to drink alcohol and not immediately fiend for snacks.
My confidence in this is high; I am related to people, work with people, and generally have bore witness to people who don't factor a bodega stop into their booze-fueled outings.
Whatever that next level of adulthood is—the one with three beers and then NO Sriracha-flavored kettle chips—it's out there, and any minute now I'll float on up to join them. One day. Some day. My love for late night party mix will wane and disappear, never to rear its tipsy, salt-craving head again.
Or, instead, I could just totally move to Spain.
The year I lived in Madrid following graduation felt like Finding My People (at least in this respect). Spain understood, better than any place I'd ever been, the necessity of a bar snack, and I found that it was standard practice to provide one, everywhere, all the time, at greasy corner joints and white-gloved waiter places alike. I couldn't believe my luck; by pure chance I had stumbled upon a culture that not only endorsed a questionable habit of mine, but elevated it to some degree of class.
It felt like unearthing a truth that I'd been pussyfooting around my entire life by drinking and then snacking: Drinking while snacking is really the gold standard. Alcohol of any sort can only be improved by having a little mound of something in a bowl at your disposal, to put away slowly between sips. And as long as you sit there—and in Spain, at least, it isn't unheard of to be there all night—they will bring you bowl after bowl.
Sometimes it's not olives: a bunch of maiz frito (golden brown corn nuts, on which you are liable to crack a molar) or a spiced mix of peanuts and roasted chickpeas. At a bar across the street from a movie theater, I was brought a dish of gummy candies with my beer and was so ecstatic that I tried to hug the bartender.
One night a bowl of popcorn and a vase of heart-shaped strawberry lollipops materialized with my glass of wine, which made the tabletop look like a small, circular, self-contained slumber party. All of these were good, and all of them made my tinto de verano or gin tonica or Mahou taste that much better.
But holy lord, nothing could compare to the olives.
I don't know how to talk about Spanish bar olives without sounding like a fool in love. In my journal from the time, in a particularly weird bout of metaphor-making, I went for pages about how leaving Madrid would widow me, removing these olives, my truest love, from my life forever.
Somehow equally perfect with sangria as with a rum and coke. Somehow ideally just shy of the too-salty line. Somehow classily adding to your buzz, somehow making you feel like you can totally, definitely speak Spanish. There was something extra in those olives, and the bartenders I asked either didn't know the recipe or smiled and told me it was a secret.
Maybe that should've scared me, but it never did.
There was citrus, definitely, and lots of garlic; sometimes, in the ladling out of your first serving into a bowl, a clove or two that had been part of the marinade made it into the mix, and it was fun to not warn an unobservant drinking partner of this fact, letting them casually chomp into Definitely Not An Olive. Rosemary, too, is it? I would wonder, popping another into my mouth. Chili pepper?
I am the olive widow now, just as I'd predicted, back to satiating my drinking-driven snack habit with drug store Haribo and 99-cent trail mix packs. The closest I can get to a night out in Madrid is, ironically, a night in, in my kitchen, with a bottle of wine and a jar of my best attempt at homemade marinated olives.
If you want to come over, I'll share them with you; it's an ideal way to spend an evening with a friend, adding pit after pit to the graveyard bowl, sucking the hard centers clean and adding them to the heap. While you talk I will definitely listen to you; I promise that I'm listening, even if my eyes are on that dish between us. I am trying to time out my next reach so as not to appear like I'm gobbling them all with abandon. I'm trying to make it look like I'm sharing.
But if we get to the last one and we both lean forward, I swear I'll box you out.
Garlic-Orange-Rosemary Marinated Olives
Makes about 1 pint of olives
1 1/2 cups olive oil4 cloves garlic, halvedPeel of 1 large orange, shaved with a potato peeler or paring knife, in about 1 inch-wide strips4 to 6 sprigs fresh rosemary1 teaspoon red pepper flakes2 tablespoons fresh orange juice15 ounces plain olives (I used a mix of jarred green Castelvetranos and Kalamatas; use "dry weight" measurements from the labels), drained and rinsed
See the full recipe (and save and print it) here.
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Astrology and theology
The religious feasts are the main contents of the Calendars of Psalters or Books of Hours. Its illustration shows the typical activities of the seasons of the year in the labours of the month and the passing of astronomical time in the Signs of the Zodiac.
Ever since man recognized some kind of regularity in the movement of stars and planets, he has believed that the celestial bodies influenced earthly events. Ideas, ultimately dating back to Babylonian times, persisted in the Middle Ages, and even today horoscopes continue to be drawn. In some regions of the world hardly a marriage is concluded without a serious look at the constellations.
Christian theologians were of course most familiar with the astrological ideas of the Graeco-Roman world. These presented a challenge to their own ideas about the omnipotence of God, and they wrote many pages to reject what was unacceptable in their eyes.
Calendars and other texts
Most of the images of the Zodiac in the database are from Calendars. But the Koninklijke Bibliotheek also preserves two copies of Lambert of Saint Omer's Liber Floridus and of Jacob van Maerlant's Der naturen Bloeme. Both of these show something of the medieval interpretation of the constellations.
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This patch was an secluded area in the Hogwarts grounds, in a arboreal area close to the Gargoyle Gate, in which a poffle of Puffskeins was kept. The patch spanned a very long area and had warmers, on which the Puffskeins liked to sit.[1]
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- ↑ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game) - PS1 version
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Laurie Wilson. London. Thames & Hudson. 2016. First edition Hardback, dust jacket. 506 pages. With 98 illustrations in colour and b&w. 245 x 175mm (9¾ x 7"). 1.1kg. 9780500094013. English. Fine; as new.'Louise Nevelson (18991988) was, with Calder, Noguchi and David Smith, one of the great American sculptors of the 20th century. She created extraordinary work, from room-size installations composed of boxes to gnarled and majestic steel structures.Her life story is no less interesting.She was born in Tsarist Russia, but her family emigrated to the States and she grew up in Maine. Nevelson endured a repressive marriage to a New York millionaire, whom she escaped to pursue the life of an artist. She gained recognition as an abstract sculptor at the age of 59, and spent the next 30 years taking the art world by storm, becoming a colourful New York personality and minor celebrity.Laurie Wilson, who knew Nevelson personally, draws extensively on her own research in this crisp new biography. She conducted interviews not just with Nevelson but with her siblings, son, and gallery owner Arne Glimcher. Wilson has also had complete access to Glimchers archives, Nevelsons personal assistant, Diana MacKown, and Lippincott studios, where much of Nevelsons work was cast, among others.' (from the publisher's description).