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UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. - August 20, 2012 - Iconic film and television star Michael J. Fox, a current double Emmy nominee, is making his long-awaited return to series television on NBC, the network where it all began 30 years ago with "Family Ties," it was announced today by Robert Greenblatt, Chairman of NBC Entertainment. This new (untitled) comedy series, from Sony Pictures Television and Olive Bridge Entertainment, was given a 22-episode commitment and is loosely inspired by people and elements in Fox's life.
"To bring Michael J. Fox back to NBC is a supreme honor and we are thrilled that one of the great comedic television stars is coming home again," said Greenblatt. "From the moment we met with Michael to hear his unique point of view about this new show, we were completely captivated and on board. He is utterly relatable, optimistic, and in a class by himself, and I have no doubt that the character he will create - and the vivid family characters surrounding him - will be both instantly recognizable and hilarious. Being in business with him is a supreme pleasure."
"We have all been such huge fans of Michael's and hoped one day he would return to television with his own show," said Jennifer Salke, President of NBC Entertainment. "He had us at hello with his warmth, humor and incredible charisma. The fact that he pitched us a show that was funny, heartwarming and personal was the icing on the cake! We are over the moon and thankful Michael, Will (Gluck) and Sam (Laybourne) will be a cornerstone of our NBC comedy brand."
"I'm extremely pleased to be back at NBC with a great creative team and a great show," said Fox. "Bob Greenblatt and all the folks at the network have given me a warm welcome home, and I'm excited to get to work."
The single-camera series will begin filming this year for a Fall 2013 premiere date. It features Fox as a husband and father of three from New York City dealing with family, career, and challenges -- including Parkinson's -- all loosely drawn from Fox's real life. Further casting will be announced at a later date.
The executive producers and co-creators are Will Gluck ("Easy A," "Friends with Benefits" "The Loop") and Sam Laybourne ("Cougar Town," "Arrested Development"), with Gluck producing through his Sony Television-based Olive Bridge Entertainment. Olive Bridge's Richard Schwartz will co-executive produce. Gluck also will direct the pilot.
Fox, who is currently a two-time Emmy nominee for his guest-starring performances on "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and "The Good Wife," first gained mass attention for his work as Alex Keaton on NBC's popular "Family Ties" and won three Emmys and a Golden Globe Award. Major feature-film successes followed, including "Teen Wolf," "Back to the Future," "Bright Lights, Big City" and "Casualties of War."
Fox later starred in the hit comedy series "Spin City," for which he received another Emmy, three Golden Globes and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. He later appeared in two episodes of "Scrubs" and became a recurring regular on "Boston Legal," earning another Emmy nomination. His other prominent TV appearances include "Rescue Me" (for which he won the Emmy as Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series) and recently in "The Good Wife," which has earned him two Emmy nominations.
His other films include "The Frighteners," "Doc Hollywood," "The American President," "Mars Attacks!" "Back to the Future II" and "Back to the Future III." Fox also provided the voice to the title character in the animated film "Stuart Little" and its sequel.
Fox founded the Michael J. Fox Foundation, which is dedicated to finding a cure for sufferers of Parkinson's disease while ensuring the development of improved therapies and raising public awareness of Parkinson's.
Fox has written three NY Times best-sellers: "Lucky Man: A Memoir," "Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist" and "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future."

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Also a trusted national resource in senior rehabilitation, our second partner, Accelerated Care Plus (ACP), a specialty rehab provider, brings programs built around state-of-the art Physical Agent Modalities – the same medical devices that have been used for 30 years with professional, collegiate and Olympic athletes to facilitate recovery and improve performance.
Their series of onsite evidence-based clinical programs allow us to treat a wider range of prevalent conditions, than we could previously. They focus on achieving the best possible functional gains, improving quality-of-life and extending independence for our residents. The programs include pain management, wound healing, joint replacement, CVA stroke recovery, neuromuscular disease, urinary incontinence, contractures, fall prevention, arthritis, COPD, neuromuscular re-education, and more.
Our third valued partner, COMS Interactive (Clinical Outcomes Management Systems), focuses on improving outcomes in long-term care. The COMS executive team epitomizes the perfect intersection of healthcare, long-term care, and technology. For example, one of its comprehensive suite of products enhances resident quality-of-life and addresses more than 85% of chronic diseases that lead to re-hospitalization. By tracking health, the software can reduce re-hospitalization by 50% and has become the assessment standard for all United Methodist Communities' skilled nursing residents on Medicare and with multiple and complex health conditions.
Holistic head-to-toe assessments instill confidence and trust that nothing will be overlooked — generating 185 points of data. The outcome, a very clear picture of what's happening, catalyzes nurses into action more quickly than would otherwise be possible, helping to avoid a visit to a physician or hospital. It notes any abnormalities and alerts associates of possible interventions that can be added to residents' plans of care. In some cases, it helps to avoid unnecessary intervention, also promoting healing.
Short-term rehabilitation specializes in patients discharged from the hospital, but not yet ready to return home. Following surgery or an illness, it focuses on recuperative care, concentrated rehabilitative therapy, general strengthening and medical treatment. Designed for the patient whose medical needs are not as complex as those in a dedicated sub-acute program, short-term rehab is housed in the skilled nursing residence to facilitate close monitoring. United Methodist Communities offers short-term rehabilitation at Pitman in Pitman, Collingswood in Collingswood, The Shores in Ocean City and Bristol Glen in Newton.


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Canada will be down two forwards for Sunday's game against the U.S. at the world junior hockey championship because of another suspension.
JC Lipon must serve a one-game suspension handed down by the International Ice Hockey Federation on Saturday for his hit on Slovak forward Tomas Mikus on Friday.
Forward Boone Jenner will also serve the third in his three-game suspension imposed on the eve of the tournament for a check on a Swedish player during a pre-tournament game.
Both Canadians will be back in the lineup for the New Year's Eve game against Russia that concludes Pool B play.
The U.S. (1-1) will be a formidable opponent as they were narrowly beaten 2-1 by Russia in the preliminary round. Canada (2-0) will be forced to play a short bench of forwards against them.
"It leaves you hanging a little as a coach, but it's nothing that these kids aren't used to," Canadian head coach Steve Spott said Saturday at Ufa Arena.
"They all play big minutes with their club teams. These are 25-, 30-minute-a-night guys with their teams, so I think they'll like the ice time."
The latter is true. Lipon's reaction provided a window on the internal competition between the Canadian players to get on the ice more.
"Sitting out one game with the calibre of players here, other guys are going to step up and you've got to work your way back to getting ice time," he said.
The Kamloops Blazers forward also spoke of regaining Spott's trust in him as a player who isn't a liability on the ice.
"I've got to start from square one basically being the 13th forward, you've got to work your way back up," Lipon said. "That's what I've got to do."
The undrafted 19-year-old from Regina got his elbow high on Mikus and flattened him behind Slovakia's net in the first period of Canada's 6-3 win Friday.
Mikus lay face down while Lipon was slapped with a five-minute major and ejected from the game. The Slovak forward then scored a power-play goal on his next shift.
"None of us go down like that and embellish stuff," Lipon said. "If that's what you need to do to get a major around here, there's something wrong with that, I think."
The IIHF's disciplinary committee nevertheless chose to review the play and hold a hearing Saturday morning.
"The panel determined that although Lipon did not deliberately attempt to injure Mikus, his elbow to the head of Mikus was careless and dangerous, and the player has to be held accountable," the IIHF said in a statement.
Canada's top line of Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and wingers Mark Scheifele and Jonathan Huberdeau will likely stay intact against the Americans, although Spott says Scheifele may do double-duty centring another line.
Beyond those three, Spott expects to be mixing and matching his forwards versus the U.S. The Canadians aren't adverse to the extra ice time.
"I've said it all tournament and all camp, the depth of our forwards is the best part of our team and it gives a chance for lower-line guys to step up and prove they can take on those minutes," says fourth-line forward Ty Rattie.
Rattie's linemate Anthony Camara was also turfed from Friday's game with a major and a game misconduct for his check on Patrik Luka. The Slovak defenceman was taken off the ice on a stretcher and to hospital with what team officials said was a suspected concussion.
But the IIHF chose not to mete out further discipline for what Spott called a "great hockey hit."
While Canada's coach felt Lipon's transgression would have been a minor penalty in the Canadian Hockey League, Spott insists his players wake up to the fact that international officiating is different.
"We've preached it, we've spoken about it, but the players have to understand there are going to be consequences and a two-minute minor back home may be a suspension over here," he said.
Meanwhile, Jenner has practised and bided his time until his first game of the tournament Monday, which will be Canada's fourth.
The Oshawa General was suspended for a late hit on Swedish defenceman Jesper Pettersson, who suffered a broken wrist and dislocated shoulder.
"I'm going to be ready to go," the Columbus Blue Jackets prospect said. "I've been thinking about it a lot. Can't wait until that day."
The IIHF also suspended Czech forward Matej Beran for one game for high-sticking Finland's Joel Armia on Friday.


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A man claiming to be the father of young Jack Meyer, the "Good Job, Good Effort" kid, left a comment on a post at Midwest Sports Fans. In under two hours, two separate CBS affiliates left their own comments, desperately trying to get in touch with the family.
Right now I'd give the edge to Jeanette at CBS Miami, because Peter at CBS Boston forgot to leave his contact info.


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Davos, Switzerland (CNN) -- Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev has rejected suggestions that BP's new alliance with Rosneft, the Kremlin-controlled oil company, will provide scope for Russian interference in his country.
"Of course we are not concerned," Aliyev told CNN's Richard Quest during an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
BP operates Azerbaijan's Shah Deniz gas project, a giant offshore gas field that reduces Europe's reliance on Russian gas. But the energy giant also recently became a major shareholder in the Russian state oil company.
British newspapers have reported that the BP-Rosneft deal has raised concerns in Azerbaijan that the partnership would allow Russia to exert indirect influence over its southern neighbor.
But Aliyev dismissed the notion, describing BP's relationship with his country as a "partnership."
"BP is a company which is present in Azerbaijan almost since the very beginning of our independence," he said. "It's a history of relationship for almost 20 years, and (a) very friendly relationship ... and also a relationship which will continue for at least 20 years more, because the projects we are now implementing jointly with BP are aimed at the future.
"Therefore I'm not concerned about any other issues with BP."
Aliyev told CNN his country had weathered the global economic crisis well, and was now seeking to diversify its economy.
"Our economy is very stable and we managed to develop even in the years of economic crisis. We managed to triple our GDP in less than 10 years," he said.
"My main objective now is to attract investments into the non-energy sector of Azerbaijan, particularly in high-tech, IT and services."


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The USPTO is today holding a roundtable on the proposed broadcasting treaty being hammered out by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), and a collection of industry and public interest groups will get the chance to air their concerns to the US government.
These groups have issued a joint statement outlining six areas of concern with the current draft of the treaty. The first and most important of these calls the very justification for such a treaty into question. "We remain unconvinced that a treaty is necessary at all," says the statement. "We know with concern that treaty proponents have not clearly identify the particular problems that the treaty would ostensibly solve, and we question whether there are in fact significant problems that are not addressed adequately under existing law."
The statement also raises questions about the scope of the treaty, the possible exceptions and limitations that would be allowed by signatories, the effect on home and personal networking (including the transmission of content across a home network), and the liability that might be faced by intermediaries. It's signed by an impressive and eclectic group that includes the American Library Association, AT&T, the Center for Democracy & Technology, the Consumer Electronics Association, Dell, the EFF, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Sony, TiVo, and Verizon.
While the document represents the areas of agreement between the groups, many of them have more things to say. The EFF, for instance, has issued its own, more detailed statement that calls for Congressional hearings on the treaty because of its potentially enormous impact on US society. The EFF worries that the entire process has taken place without adequate consultation of all those involved.
"While we appreciate the opportunity to comment today," they say in their statement, "we note that roundtable participation was limited to 40 persons and allocated nearly two hours. We remain troubled by the fact that no analysis appears to have been undertaken of the significant changes that the proposed Treaty would entail for US law, the public domain, consumers' rights and the technology sector. Given the significant policy issues raised by the treaty, we strongly support the holding of Congressional hearings to hear from the full range of constituencies that will be impacted by this treaty."
The broadcast treaty (draft text), if ratified by the US, would give broadcasters a new set of legal rights over material that they transmit. The worry is that broadcasters could use these rights to curtail access to public domain material and to limit fair use. While the initial impetus for the treaty discussions was signal theft, it has expanded into discussions of webcasting rights and DRM measures (called "Technological Protection Measures" in the draft) with the potential to limit consumer use even after broadcast (think broadcast flags).
Because the US already has a robust copyright regime and has laws against theft of service, many question the need for any additional broadcasting rights. It's not as though the US broadcasting industry has suffered without these rights for the last century—indeed, they have done so well that US media now dominates the world. The treaty would provide these broadcasters with an additional right to control the retransmission of material that they originally aired, even if such material is in the public domain, or even if the retransmission constitutes fair use.
On the other side
But not all tech companies are lined up on the same side of the ball. Amazon, Apple, AOL, and Microsoft, for instance, are all members of the Digital Media Alliance, a group that argues for the ratification of the WIPO treaty, along with its expansion to explicitly include webcasting.
In support of its position, the group's fact sheet includes the story of iCraveTV, a Canadian service that re-broadcasted US television channels over the Internet—without permission. As DiMA's own writeup indicates, iCraveTV was put out of commission by the US courts soon after, apparently undermining the entire point of the story, which is to argue that new rights are necessary to prevent this sort of thing.
The group's main point is that any new rights should be technology-neutral; that is, they should not apply to traditional broadcasters but not to webcasters. This makes obvious and intuitive sense, but only if you grant the premise that traditional broadcasters should be granted a new type of "broadcast right."


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The first section of this book focuses on learning the techniques, while the second section teaches readers how to incorporate these techniques into beautiful soutache projects. With photos and illustrations taking the reader every step of the way, beginners will start with small earrings and work up to necklaces, cuffs, and pendants, while experienced stitchers can dive right into the new design ideas.
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The publication GEN is running a contest, with $1,500 plus fancy biotechnology equipment as the prize, for the first one who can decode the cryptographic message hidden in this 96-well plate:
Month: November 2009
"ELISA Redux" 96-Well Plate Cryptography Challenge
Battery-powered, Pocket-sized PCR Thermocycler
A few years ago, some bright students at Texas A&M improved upon the most basic tool for manipulating microbiology: a thermocycler. Thermocyclers are typically large tabletop instruments which require a large sample, a lot of electrical power, and a lot of time to heat and cool. Alternatively, the process can be done by hand with a pot of boiling water, a bucket of cold water, a stopwatch, and a lot of free time and patience. The sample itself, for the purpose of "amplifying" the desired material in the sample, runs through many iterations of heat/cool cycling, such as the following:
- Denature: 95°C, 15 mins
- No. of cycles: 39
- Denature: 94°C, 30 secs
- Anneal: 62°C, 30 secs
- Elongate: 68°C, 3.5 mins
- Elongate: 68°C, 20 mins
- Hold: 4°C, until removed from machine
The Texas team created a pocket-sized version, which could run on batteries as well, and most notably, was able to create a new patent. By creating a pocket-sized, battery powered device, the team accomplished several very important features:
- The device can be used easily at the point-of-care, as a field unit;
- The device is much lower engineering cost, and much lower patent royalty cost: from thousands of dollars down to hundreds of dollars;
- The device uses a much smaller sample, and has faster heat/cool times, thus reducing the experimental cost and experimental time.
This new thermocycler has created some excitement in the bio community for some time — however, it still took over a year to finish patent issues. The university owned the patent; they requested royalties, and up-front option fees, and meanwhile, the device itself remained in limbo. The great news is that the manufacturing prototype is announced (see below). The bad news is that such patent hassles are typical, and this was a simple case where a university owned the patent in whole rather than multiple holders owning the patent in part.
From the business angle, the thermocycler market is a billion-dollar market, since it is a fundamental tool for all microbiology or genetic engineering labs.
Some of original papers and articles for the "$5 thermocycler" are:
- Engaget: Mini DNA replicator costs $10 – May, 2007
- New Scientist: Mini DNA replicator could benefit world's poor – May, 2007
- Angewandte Chemie: A Pocket-Sized Convective PCR Thermocycler – April, 2007
From Rob Carlson's synthesis.cc blog:
This week Biodesic shipped an engineering prototype of the LavaAmp PCR thermocycler to Gahaga Biosciences. Joseph Jackson and Guido Nunez-Mujica will be showing it off on a road trip through California this week, starting this weekend at BilPil. The intended initial customers are hobbyists and schools. The price point for new LavaAmps should be well underneath the several thousand dollars charged for educational thermocyclers that use heater blocks powered by peltier chips.
The LavaAmp is based on the convective PCR thermocycler demonstrated by Agrawal et al, which has been licensed from Texas A&M University to Gahaga. Under contract from Gahaga, Biodesic reduced the material costs and power consumption of the device. We started by switching from the aluminum block heaters in the original device (expensive) to thin film heaters printed on plastic. A photo of the engineering prototype is below (inset shows a cell phone for scale). PCR reagents, as in the original demonstration, are contained in a PFTE loop slid over the heater core. Only one loop is shown for demonstration purposes, though clearly the capacity is much larger.
The existing prototype has three independently controllable heating zones that can reach 100C. The device can be powered either by a USB connection or an AC adapter (or batteries, if desired). The USB connection is primarily used for power, but is also used to program the temperature setpoints for each zone. The design is intended to accommodate additional measurement capability such as real-time fluorescence monitoring.
We searched hard for the right materials to form the heaters and thin film conductive inks are a definite win. They heat very quickly and have almost zero thermal mass. The prototype, for example, uses approximately 2W whereas the battery-operated device in the original publication used around 6W.
What we have produced is an engineering prototype to demonstrate materials and controls — the form factor will certainly be different in production. It may look something like a soda can, though I think we could probably fit the whole thing inside a 100ml centrifuge tube.
If I get my hands on one myself, I'll post a review.


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Pizza Ovens on Wheels: The Traveling Wood-Burning Pizza Ovens of Veraci Pizza
OK. I'm beating you over the head with the pizza oven photos here. But it's for a GOOD REASON.
Check this thing out! That's right, ladies and gents. A portable wood-burning pizza oven. A pizza oven ON WHEELS.
Ain't that the darnedest thing ever?
The news: The wandering pizzaoli of Veraci Pizza will be setting up shop in a nonmobile location in Seattle's Ballard neighborhood. 500 NW Market Street, Seattle WA 98107 (map)
Behind the news: The folks behind the operation, Marshall Jett and Errin Bird-Jett have been plying their craft from portable pizza carts for about four years. They'd show up at farmers' markets and cook pizzas with fresh toppings bought right there from the stands. They eventually expanded to three portable ovens, five full-timers on staff, and 20 on-call slice slingers.
The ovens are pretty damn impressive, and Veraci Pizza builds the cookers themselves:
We design and build each oven as a unique work of art using a special refractory clay mixture that withstands temperatures up to 1300 degrees Fahrenheit! If you try to cook a pizza at 1300° F, it will quickly become charred beyond recognition, so we normally cook our pies between 900° and 1100° F. At these extreme temperatures, Veraci pizza is ready in a less than two minutes.
The pizzas coming out of the Veraci ovens, if you look at some of the pictures on the website, look pretty good, too.
Where to Find Veraci
The ovens travel around. Here's the Seattle calendar and the Bend, Oregon, calendar.
How to Build One Yourself
I've been mildly obsessed—well, obsessed off and on—with building my own pizza oven, and a Veraci-like oven (minus the trailer, above) looks somewhat in line with what I could fit in the garden space of my rental apartment. Not sure how my landlady, who lives upstairs, would react, but I figure if I sent up pizzas, that would grease the wheels.
There's some discussion about building a Veraci-like trailer-mounted oven on the Forno Bravo forums, which are an overall great resource for home-oven building.
Kansas City Backyard Pizza Oven
Q&A with Dan Curry, Kansas City Backyard Pizza Oven Builder
My Wood-Burning Pizza Oven [A home-based oven blog]
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Photo credit: Stokke Xplory Summer Kit in Pink Pixel
Stokke strollers have long been synonymous with celebrity moms — and for good reason too. The posh, spaceship-like stroller has a clean design aesthetic that appeals to the modern mom who still wants to rock a little style while chasing after her tot.
The Xplory stroller was designed to give your little one a better view of the world. It sits up higher than traditional strollers so Baby can be closer to you when she's little and have a better people-watching perspective when she's older.
Starting at around $1,000, the Stokke Xplory isn't cheap, but it comes with a few amenities that cause it to make a mom's luxury lust list, including great colors and accessories. (Read our full rundown of the Stokke Xplory.)
To help shade summer babies' delicate skin from harmful sun rays, there's a Stokke Xplory Summer Kit, which retails for $200.
The kit includes a sun sail, parasol and hood made from SPF 50 material to add protection from the sun while allowing breezes to flow through for ventilation. It also includes a soft terry cloth liner to help keep Baby comfortable when she gets sweaty in hot weather.
The summer kit is available in four adorable patterns. In addition to the Pink Pixel pattern shown above, there's a grey-and-yellow look that's new this season.
Take a peek at the options:
Grey lemon stripes
Beige dots
Blue pixel
Tell us, which design is your favorite?
More hot new baby products
aden + anais partners with RED to raise funds for AIDS charity
Baby food storage solutions to help you cut the clutter
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Through cycles of systematic and purposeful iterative engagement with problems they face in specific practice settings, social workers engaging in action research build knowledge that is useful in advancing practice for the purposes of social betterment. This entry situates action research in the development of social-work knowledge and then examines variants of action research formed when degrees of participation and control vary among members of vulnerable populations, particularly within community situations involving coping with a degraded quality of life. The author identifies the importance of methodological pluralism and addresses how sound action research results in knowledge dissemination and utilization for the purposes of social betterment, often through alternative methods of inquiry. The entry concludes with caveats social workers engaged in action research should heed, and the author emphasizes the pivotal role social work can serve in local efforts to engage in knowledge development for social betterment.
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In this week's tentatively materialistic app roundup: Deals, scrutinized! Barcodes, scanned! Movies, thriftily rented! Magazines, digitized! Pac-Man, terrifyingly adapted to the road! The iPhone's camera, made less terrible! Turn-by-turn, discounted! Home screens, organized! And more...
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The Apps
This Weeks' iPhone News on Giz
• A Thanksgiving Message From the iPhone
• Opening Up a Sega Genesis Leads to a Genesis iPhone Dock, Naturally
• This Is How Multitasking Should Work On the iPhone
• iPhone and Android Are Taking Over the (Mobile) Internet
• New Apple Ads Get In on the AT&T vs. Verizon Slapfest
• The Dumb iPhone That Thinks It's a MacBook
• Three-iPhone Ocarina Much More Expensive Than No-iPhone Ocarina
• New Jailbroken iPhone Worm Wants Your Bank Details
This list is in no way definitive. If you've spotted a great app that hit the store this week, give us a heads up or, better yet, your firsthand impressions in the comments. And for even more apps: see our previous weekly roundups here, and check out our Favorite iPhone Apps Directory. Have a great weekend, everybody!


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Minutes of Mega Meeting Sunday 27th November 2005
In attendance: Nick + Magda + Tim + Mat + Daniel + Robin + Pogo + Kasia + Ryan + Mikey + Duncan = Jam
1. Re Blender
2. Fire Warden
3. Computer
5. Piano Permissions
6. Kunst Holidays
7. Mural
8. Candles
9. Tim Holidays
10. Office
11. Kids
12. Car Club
13. Pogo Budget
14. No volunteers
15. Power survey
1. Nothing has been done. Should we bother? See point 2.
2. FW came on Thursday. Fairly happy but no maintained lighting and alarm.
ACTION: Alex and electrician coming next week to sort out lighting.
1. So yes, we should, licence or no. We should schedule a meeting. JANE!
3. Tim fixed the computer, thank you thank you. Should we spend 50 quid to get a new hard disk? For a new internal 250 gig?
ACTION: We agree. Duncan will buy it.
5. Can Pogo come in and play the piano when no one is here? Yes, so long as he comes before closing, and tells the KMs in the day, so they can tell the vols it's okay to give him the
6. K and M going away, back in January. Jo will fill-in in their absence.
7. Richie, an Aussie guy, who cooks well, is going to paint a mural on the white space on the counter on the front. Yes, there is money available.
ACTION: Magda given budget of 20 pounds per mural.
8. We need clarification on what we can use, pillar or tea light.
ACTION: We should solicit the fire dept's opinion and think about broader bases for candles, rather than wine bottles.
9. from December 16th to Jan 14th.
10. On Friday people in the office who should not have been.
ACTION: Be more aware of who's around, especially during major happenings. Otherwise stuff will go walkies again.
11. Kids. Lotta of them hanging out. Underagers. Drinking. They should not be here. Especially not the pig faced girl. And the one who's dumb as nails.
ACTION: Keep an eye on them. Be stricter with people misbehaving. Bar if necessary.
12. Is it working financially? We don't seem to be able to use it for our own needs. Maybe we should move to a subscription/pay by use system. Could be a pay by mile system?
ACTION: Gareth? Andrea? Can you work out some costs?
13. Pogo has sorted out the speakers and PA. He is going to spend
14. We don't have many of them. And some of them play willie in-the-cup. Nights are the problem. KMs could encourage some of the good vols to work nights.
ACTION: We signed up for night shifts.
15. Duncan has meters for sockets that he will install. Don't let randoms unplug them and insert them elsewhere.
Mikey has started setting up a youth music workshop. Do we want to give it to his dial-a-funk workshop? He needs money to print booklets to send to schools, to get funding and participants?
ACTION: we're going to put it on hold for a bit.
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1. When did the tide start to turn on Ron Burgundy? It's a strange thing: Since Will Ferrell introduced his greatest creation in 2004, there has been a relentless drumbeat among the public to bring him back, from cameos on Conan to rampant interview requests to the ultimate point where Ferrell and Paul Rudd and Steve Carell and the rest were basically being asked about Burgundy so often they agreed to make a sequel halfway just to shut people up. Until about a month ago. That's when you started to hear the first grousings. Wow, look, it's Ron Burgundy in yet another commercial. I'm sick of this guy already, and his movie isn't even out yet. The original Anchorman was a cult comedy, but the thing about cult comedies is that they start to feel a lot less cultish when they're used to sell Dodge Durangos. (There is something depressing about such an iconic comedic character being cited in corporate sales reports.) We waited for years for Ron Burgundy to come back, and right around the time he did, we got sick of him.
2. So how much you enjoy Anchorman 2 may depend on how you feel about Ron Burgundy today, right now. If you're starting to think that what you enjoyed so much about the first movie feels dulled now that it has become such a large part of the popular culture, you're probably going to be pretty disappointed by the sequel. But if you still quote Ron Burgundy lines among you and your friends, if you want to see the same jokes as last time, only bigger, you're gonna be just fine. Here's a good rule of thumb: Did you like the second and/or third Austin Powers movies? That's not an exact comparison: This is funnier than those were. But people forget that the first Austin Powers movie was pretty funny, before every idiot you knew started saying "Yeah, baby!" to everybody they ran into. The first Hangover was funny, too, before the second and third movies ruined all the good thoughts you had about that franchise. The second Anchorman movie will remind you how much you liked the first movie. Until, eventually, you forget.
3. The action in Anchorman 2 has been moved to New York City—a common sequel trope—as Ron and his news team join GNN, a new 24-hour cable news channel. They end up working for a boss (Meagan Good) whose character traits are being black and female (allowing the movie to remind us that ironic faux race jokes felt a lot funnier in 2004 than they do in 2013), doing battle with a smug rival anchor (James Marsden) and reinventing the news business. Their method? Deciding that they don't need to cover news, like, news itself, instead following car chases, doing human interest stories on cute puppies and relying on flag-waving hyper patriotism. The joke is clear: Cable news has made everything dumber, and Ron and the gang profit from it. By the end, because the movie needs an arc (I guess), Ron decries empty news and promotes Real Journalism, but the movie makes its point. Some of the jokes end up a little too Wedding Singer-lazy—Brian Fontana says he's gonna go hang out in Los Angeles with OJ Simpson, Phil Spector and Robert Blake in their new pal gang The Ladykillers—but there are enough gags to go around regardless.
4. On the whole, though, the movie just makes sure you get what you're expecting, but more so. Did you like when Ron Burgundy played the jazz flute? Well, now you get that, but also with ice dancing! Brian Fontana's Sex Panther make you laugh? You should see his Famous Condom Shelf! Most of all, you know that Anchor Battle where Brick killed a guy with a trident? Well, there's another one, only much bigger, going on much longer, with even more celebrity cameos, from celebrities even more famous than last time! (It's also plainly obvious that most of the celebrities were never on the set at the same time.) Some of this is funny—a lot of is—but it's also way too long, and ultimately pretty exhausting. The movie's also so slapdash (like the first one, but again, more so) that by the end, you're more dizzy and confused than anything. Why is Ron suddenly blind? Why is there a shark? Wait, he has a kid now? I'm not saying Anchorman 2 needs to have some locked-down tick-tock plot, but at two-plus hours, the movie does start to drag and stumble.
5. There's no need to overthink this: Anchorman 2 has laughs, even if its main character is awfully tired by this point. (It's strange: There really isn't even anything to satirize about Burgundy anymore. We like him too much to want to see his pompousness popped.) For my money, Steve Carell's Brick Tamland character has always gotten the biggest laughs, and he works here again too, particularly as he falls in "love" with an equally, oh, limited woman played by Kristen Wiig. Paul Rudd fares less well; his character has never had much of a hook, and you can seem him straining here. There are still tons of great lines — the key to the Ferrell/Adam McKay aesthetic is that they'll fire jokes in every possible direction; it's inevitable that some will land — but it all just feels a little more labored, a little more straining this time. You might want to still hang out with all these guys for two hours. If so, you'll like it less than you did last time, but you'll be fine. Me, though? I think we've all spent enough time together, thanks.
Grade: C+.
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When a doctor tells you what features they believe need to be in an EMR, it's worth a listen. And when that doctor has personally managed the ongoing development of their own EMR, I find their ideas to be even more interesting.
Such informed recommendations are just what Hayward Zwerling, MD, has to offer. Zwerling is a practicing physician, and also the creator of the ComChart ambulatory EMR, which he launched in 1990 and kept on the market until 2015. Zwerling recently published a list of features which, he argues, should be in virtually every EMR. Below, here's a sampling of his suggestions:
Lab features:
- Provide a button displaying all abnormal lab results, and make the resulting list sortable by test name, test date or any other available parameter.
- Allow the physician to display any subset of the patient's lab results, and offer an option to omit individual results and resort the displayed data. Also, allow doctors to export the data in cvs or Excel format.
- Permit doctors to create lab test charts on the fly, including any combination of tests from the patient's existing lab work. In addition, make it possible to incorporate this chart into a Progress Note approved up to chart for the patient.
- Make it easy for the doctor to create an association between incoming test results and specific medicines. (For example, if a cholesterol test result appears, include the name of any statin the patient currently takes.) And make it possible to create lab charts which include concurrent medication information, with just one click.
- Clearly display who ordered a test and to whom a copy of the test was distributed.
Progress Notes:
- Allow physicians to create test result charts from within the Progress Notes section.
- Permit physicians to add selected free text from the Progress Notes to the problem list, medicine list, allergy list, family history or old problem list by highlighting the data and clicking a single button.
- Create a free text field on the Progress Note layout allowing doctors to enter information that is not an official part of the patient's chart. For example, the clinician might write a note such as "Daughter wants issue of her mother's depression to be discussed at the mother's next visit, and daughter does not want to be identified."
- Allow doctors to search free text Progress Notes for a word or phrase. Also, make it possible to search some or all of the entire EMR's free text Progress Notes in this matter.
Zwerling goes on at much greater length in his post on The Health Care Blog, so much so that his suggestions spill over into a separate blog entry. But this subset of suggestions make the point on their own. He clearly believes — quite reasonably — that doctors should have access to simple, easy-to-understand tools when they use EMRs, and that there should be no need to refer to a manual or attend training classes.
He sums it up thusly: "The feature should be presented to the user in a manner which make it intuitively obvious how to utilize the feature." Really, don't we all agree with him? And if so, why are so few EMRs organized this way?


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Happy Valentine's Day
63. the sincere apology from Camden after a long trying day
64. for a strong cup of good coffee after a sleepless night
65. for the sister who brought that coffee on Sunday
66. for a new book that challenges me in how I parent Rory
67. for good discussion with friends on parenting
68. for finishing my 2010 Project 365 book and all the good things it reminded me of
69. sunshine!
70. late night strategizing about our new church
71. unexpected blessings
72. days that are warm enough to play outside
73. for a solid week of schedule
74. fun birthday parties with friends
75. time to scrap
76. fun Superbowl evening
77. the beauty of an unexpected snowfall
78. fun snowmen
79. another snow day, which means more family time
80. for cold rootbeer in a bottle
81. for several days in a row with no stomach problems
82. for early dismissals
83. for high speed internet
84. for 8 hours of sleep several nights in a row (!!)
85. for sleeping in on snow days
86. for fun new scrapping supplies
87. for really good soup on a cold day
88. for the sound of Camden's laughter as he plays baseball with Daddy
89. for Rory's funny baseball stance
90. for church family
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Three Banks Foreclosing on the Most Homeowners
Despite the slow recovery on the housing market there were still nearly 750,000 homes in foreclosure as of February 2013. MarketWatch's Jim Jelter discusses the three banks foreclosing the most home loans. (Photo: Getty Images)
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I ... the ... two years ago you would ... know in America all swore at some point in the foreclosure process ... the numbers coming to slow ... as of last month it still included seven hundred it ... was all so ... by Jim Jelter MarketWatch ... and whimsical widget which banks were the biggest two-day in the foreclosure process is to find out Wall Street's forty or so ... tickled with it ditto on distressed homes ... according to the numbers for February of twenty ... eight ... and not surprisingly ... the biggest banks are also the biggest ... foreclosed this number three on the list is J P Morgan Chase it has over fifty four thousand homes in foreclosure ... the average property value in this portfolio ... two hundred and eighty thousand dollars ... in about fifty four percent of those homes were under water ... in the Number two spot Wells Fargo nearly eighty five thousand loans currently in the foreclosure process ... it was one of ten home loan providers that participated in an eight point five billion mortgage settlement announced in January stemming from the mortgage crisis ... at the top of the list bank of America ... currently ninety three thousand of Bank of America's homeless or in foreclosure ... added together they represent about twenty three billion dollars in mortgage debt ... sixty percent of them ... are what reality track Kohl's ... seriously underwater which means that the loans are actually bigger ... than the value of the homes they're written ... major reason BankAmerica is ... such a huge name foreclosures ... stems from its purchase of Countrywide financial ... which became the poster child of subprime lending at the height of the mortgage crisis ... in retrospect ... boring Countrywide was terrible ... it ended up causing Bank of America about forty billion dollars it was a tough lesson and it prompted the Bank of America to cut its lending mortgage services operations ... white twenty one percent ones ...


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The Righteousness of God
December 4
"For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him." - 2 Corinthians 5:21
When we place our trust in Jesus and what He died on the cross for us God bestows on us the righteousness of Christ. Our righteousness is based on the merits of another who was sinless and His name is Jesus. We are not righteous in and of ourselves, it is not by what we do, but because God has placed us in Christ Jesus. This has been accomplished because we have been crucified with Christ; we are no longer dead in our trespasses and sins. We do not deserve this it is pure grace; our standing and acceptance is by grace; it is all the grace of God.
God has adopted us and made us sons and daughters and our sins have been taken away by the shed blood of His Son. We have been clothed with His righteousness.
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Dr. Daniel M. Kelly 1936-2012
Daniel Mitchell Kelly, M.D., age 76, died peacefully in Houston, TX on Sunday, Nov. 25, 2012.
Dr. Dan was born May 23, 1936, in Algona. He was the eldest of three children born to Edward Daniel and Margaret (Mitchell) Kelly. Dan spent much of his childhood on Lake Okoboji where he developed his passion for water sports and his sailboat "Herself." He graduated from Emmetsburg High School, attended Notre Dame and later graduated from Creighton Medical School. Dan began his medical career in Emmetsburg and later opened his own practice in Burnet, TX. Dan was still practicing medicine in Houston, TX until weeks before his death.
His family and service to his community were a top priority in his life. He married Karen Leitch in January, 1971 in Fort Dodge. Together they had four children: three amazing daughters and a fourth who was fairly decent. Dan spent many of his later years inspiring people at the Men's Center in Houston, TX.
Dan is pre-deceased by his parents and his brother John Edward Kelly.
He is survived by: his sister, Margaret Ann "Peg" (Kelly) Baehr, her husband Mike Baehr; sister-in-law Betty (Kelly) Spies; four daughters and sons-in-law, Mike and Laura Pope of Chandler, TX, Peter and Meg Anderson of College Station, TX, Chad and Sarah Walsh of Fulshear, TX, Greg and Amy Schielack of College Station, TX; six grandchildren; many treasured nieces and nephews, and his companion Taxi Cat.
Friends are invited to visitation with the family from 6 to 8 p.m., with a Rosary beginning at 7 p.m., on Thursday, Nov. 29, at Earthman Bellaire Funeral Home, 6700 Ferris, Bellaire, TX 77401.
Funeral Mass will be celebrated in his honor at 10 a.m. Friday, Nov. 30, at the All Saints Catholic Church, 215 E. 10th St., Houston, TX 77008, where he was a member.
Graveside Service will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1, at St. John's Catholic Cemetery in Emmetsburg.
The Martin-Mattice Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
In lieu of flowers donations may be made in Dr. Daniel Kelly's honor to The Men's Center, 3809 Main St, Houston, TX 77002.
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Matthew McConaughey Gets Freaky With Cee Lo Green on 'Saturday Night Live' [VIDEO]
What would it be like if Cee Lo Green and Matthew McConaughey got freaky on the beach together (and by "freaky" we mean drinking wheat grass and masculine smoothies, of course)? To answer this question, 'Saturday Night Live' had to give Cee Lo his own talk show and dress Channing Tatum up as the laid-back sex symbol.
The obvious answer is that they'd want to share their freakiness with the world. That's why they brought in the suave Colonel Nasty to help anybody suffering from non-freaky feelings. Hey, if a man who calls himself a pimp clothes-wearing koala can do it, why can't everyone else?


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Ebenezer Scrooge is the main character of the live-action adaptation of Charles Dickens' 1843 novel A Christmas Carol. He is a selfish and miserly old man who works as an Investment Banker and Commodities broker in London. Scrooge has no appreciation for fun and kindness, seeing it as a waste, and is hated by everyone else due to his nature. He has a particular hatred of Christmas (and the holiday season, in general), being the time of kindness and giving that it is. To him, "peace on Earth" and "Good will to all men" is like a knife to his heart (until his reformation at the end of the film).
The character of Scrooge is partially inspired by Ralph Nickleby, a cruel moneylender in an earlier Dickens novel called Nicholas Nickleby. His date of birth is Tuesday, February 7th, 1786, making him 57 years of age in the film.
A Christmas Carol
On Christmas Eve, Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his long-dead business partner, Jacob Marley, who died exactly seven years ago (apparently, on Christmas Eve or Day). Like Scrooge, Marley was a bitter miser in life and, as punishment for his evil ways, is now damned to eternally wander the earth, carrying heavy chains representing his acts of greed. Marley tells Scrooge that if he does not immediately change his ways, he will suffer a similar fate and informs him that he will be visited by three more spirits that night. As of that moment, Scrooge's journey to redemption had begun.
The first of the three spirits is the candle-like Ghost of Christmas Past, who shows Scrooge his own troubled past, including how he became the miserable old man he is and that his selfishness cost him his ex-fiancee, Belle.
Next is the Ghost of Christmas Present: a hairy mini-giant, who shows him things as they currently are, including the joys of the Christmas season and why Scrooge is so hated. In addition, he shows Scrooge the poor living conditions of Scrooge's underpaid and poorly treated employee, the good-natured Bob Cratchit, and his family, who are, nevertheless, thankful for what little they have. Cratchit's son, Tiny Tim, is very ill and will die if Scrooge's behavior does not change. The ghost also warns Scrooge about Want and Ignorance before he dies.
The third and most ghastly spirit, the mute, but Grim Reaper-like Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come, shows Scrooge what will happen if he does not change his ways. This ghost occasionally chases Scrooge around London while riding a ghost-like hearse drawn by two horses (perhaps toying with Scrooge). One scene sees Scrooge shrinking down and escaping through drainpipes. In this future, Scrooge has just died and is completely unmourned by the people; his death is, in fact, celebrated by many. The only "true" happiness anyone has obtained from his death is a poor family who now has more time to pay off their debt. In addition, Tiny Tim has also recently died, leaving the Crachit family in mourning. Scrooge is soon sitting near a grave, only for the ghost to reveal it is his own, and that his death will be on Christmas Morning. Scrooge is horrified and begs the silent spirit for forgiveness, promising to change his ways, when he suddenly wakes up.
It is Christmas morning and Scrooge immediately greets the people of London with his newfound kindness and enthusiasm, giving Bob Cratchit a raise and creating a bright future for Tiny Tim, to whom Scrooge became like a second father.
See also
- Scrooge McDuck - A Disney character inspired by Ebenezer Scrooge, also portrayed the role in Mickey's Christmas Carol.
- Cruella De Vil - Portrayed the role in the 101 Dalmatians: The Series episode "A Christmas Cruella".
- Rabbit - Portrayed the role in Winnie the Pooh: Springtime with Roo.
- Todd Daring - Portrayed the role in The Replacements episode "Dick Daring's All-Star Holiday Stunt Spectacular V".
- London Tipton - Portrayed the role in The Suite Life on Deck episode "A London Carol".
- Captain Hook - Portrayed the role in the Jake and the Never Land Pirates episode "Captain Scrooge".
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Right now you can download The Kindness of Strangers: Penniless Across America for FREE to your Kindle, PC or Smart Phone.
Stuck in a job he no longer found fulfilling, journalist Mike McIntyre felt his life was quickly passing him by. So one day he hit the road to trek from one end of the country to the other with little more than the clothes on his back and without a single penny in his pocket. Through his travels, he found varying degrees of kindness in strangers from all walks of life–and discovered more about people and values and life on the road in America than he'd ever thought possible. The gifts of food and shelter he received along the way were outweighed only by the touching gifts of the heart–the willingness of many he met to welcome a lonely stranger into their homes…and the discovery that sometimes those who give the most are the ones with the least to spare.


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Machine tuning matters
Posted by TheShot on 31 Jul 2006 | Tagged as: CoffeeRatings.com, Home Brew, Machine, Quality Issues
If there's any wonder about the importance of machine service and its impact on the quality of espresso, look no further than the home version of the espresso making game.
Over the past several weeks, my home espresso machine was showing the telltale signs of failing gaskets and seals, which need replacement about once a year with regular use. The water pressure through the group head gradually went from a heavy flow to a trickle and then to a drip. Over time, though almost too subtle to notice, I was pulling my espresso shots differently to adjust to these pressurization changes.
I was taking more and more time to force sufficient water flow in the group head — compensating so I could generate the proper water pressure through the puck of ground coffee that I inserted into the portafilter. Because of this, hot water came into contact with the surface coffee for longer periods of time, changing the extraction of my shots to something much more than desired, and resulting in an uneven shot that contained more water-soluble, bitter elements in the cup.
The answer, of course, was to open up my machine and replace a number of seals and gaskets. This was my project yesterday. While a few gaskets were still in good shape (my machine contains nine different gaskets, six of which are in the group head assembly), the main pair of gaskets around the group head piston showed serious wear.
These seals were worn down from regular use and no longer held the tight pressure seal needed to properly control the water flow. In the photographs below, you can see the difference between the old, smoothed-down pair of rubber gaskets on the piston and what a new pair looks like in their place. The new gaskets "poke out" from the circumference of the piston, gripping the cylindrical piston wall with a much tighter seal.
Breaking out the wrenches, universal retaining ring pliers, and food-safe lubricant, it's enough to make you feel like you're rebuilding a car engine. But the bottom line is that my home machine makes a far better espresso once it has been serviced like this. Even so, such a fix still requires me to greatly adjust my espresso shot pulls to account for the improved pressure control.
So whether your favorite café uses a super-automatic, semi-automatic, or manual lever espresso machine, regular, professional machine service can make a huge difference in the quality of the espresso they produce. And if your home machine is making espresso that's a lot worse off than it was a year ago, it's probably time for a tune-up.
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[…] Last December I came across a pretty nifty coffee accessory worth writing about. Now if I had to choose a "coffee accessory of the year", every year, undoubtedly it would have to be the pair of group head main cylinder gasket seals I regularly replace on my home espresso machine. There is no single accessory more responsible for my espresso enjoyment in any given year. […]
It looks like you have one of he plastic pistons. See if you can talk someone into a brass replacement. They last longer and wear better (or so said Christopher Cara when he sold me mine)
I quite agree about the gasket redo on the Pavoni. Big Big help and pretty quick project too. cool site on Pavoni repair basics:


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The Bhagvat-Geeta, or Dialogues of Kreeshna and Arjoon; in Eighteen Lectures; with Notes. Translated from the Original, in the Sanskreet, or Ancient Language of the Brahmans, by Charles Wilkins, Senior Merchant in the service of the Honorable The East India Company, on their Bengal Establishment (London: C. Nourse, 1785). https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/2369,
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