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Sony UPD898MD Digital A6 B/W Medical Printer
- High Print Quality
- A6 prints in less than two seconds
- Compact, space-saving design
- Enhanced operability
- Hard copy reference of print settings
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High speed, high quality black & white printing of medical images with a compact space-saving footprint The Sony UPD898MD (UPD898MD) Digital A6 B/W Medical Printer is a compact A6 medical grade black and white digital printer. It's designed to be integrated into a wide range of compatible medical imaging environments such as digital ultrasound systems, mobile C-arms or cardiac catheterisation laboratory. The high quality thermal print engine can produce hard copy prints of still images captured by these systems for use in patient records and referrals.
The Sony UPD898MD (UPD898MD) Digital A6 B/W Medical Printer is a successor to the popular Sony UP-897 series of medical printers. Redesigned and upgraded, it offers several operational and ergonomic enhancements while retaining the same space-saving footprint and easy integration into medical carts. Usability is further enhanced by an enlarged LCD display panel and joystick for intuitive menu navigation.
|Sony UPD898MD (UP-D898MD) Digital A6 B/W Medical Printer Specifications
|Printing Method
|Direct thermal printing
|Thermal Head
|325 dp
|325 dp
|154 x 88 x 240 mm (6 1/6 x 3 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches)
|2.5 kg (5 lb 8 oz)
|Printed Picture Size
|320 x 100 mm (12 5/8 x 4 inches)
|Sony UPD898MD (UP-D898MD) Digital A6 B/W Medical Printer Paper Specifications
|Print Speed
|High-speed mode:
Approx. 1.9 seconds/image (960 x 1,280 dots)
Normal speed mode:
Approx. 3.3 seconds/image (960 x 1,280 dots)
|Paper Capacity
|Sony UPD898MD (UP-D898MD) Digital A6 B/W Medical Printer Interface Specifications
|Hi-Speed USB (USB 2.0) (x1)
|Printer Driver Software
|Microsoft Windows XP 32/64, Vista 32/64, 7 32/64, 8 32/64
|Sony UPD898MD (UP-D898MD) Digital A6 B/W Medical Printer Power Specifications
|Power Requirements
|AC 100 to 240 V, 50/60 Hz
|Input Current
|1.3 A to 0.6 A
|Sony UPD898MD (UP-D898MD) Digital A6 B/W Medical Printer Safety Standards
|(US/CA) ANSI/AAMI ES60601-1, UL 60601-1, UL 60950-1, CAN/CSA-C22.2 No.60601-1, CAN/CSA C22.2 No.601.1, CAN/CSA C22.2 No.60950-1 (EU) EN 60601-1, EN 60950-1 (CB) IEC 60601-1 (2nd/3rd Ed.), IEC 60950-1
|(US/CA) FCC Part 15 Subpart-B Digital Device Class A, ICES-003 Class A Digital Apparatus (EU) EN 60601-1-2 (Class B), EN 55022 (Class B)+EN 55024, EN 61000-3-2+ EN 61000-3-3 (AU) AS/NZS CISPR22 (EN55022) Class B (JP) VCCI Class A, JIS C 61000-3-2 (KR) KN22, KN24 Class B
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|9.5 lbs
|13.5 × 9 × 8.5 in
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Sony UP55MD Analog A5 Medical Printer
- Compact, efficient design
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How Do I Become a Lexus Corporation Dealer?
Lexus is the luxury car brand of Japan's Toyota Motor Corporation. Launched in 1989 with two models, the LS 400 and the ES 250, Lexus is widely recognized for the quality of its cars. Lexus has also been particularly successful in the U.S., with hopeful business people lining up for a chance to become a franchised dealer. Because it's been such a success, Lexus tends to have high qualification standards when considering franchise dealership applicants.
Existing Lexus Dealerships
A franchise auto dealership is one that's authorized by an auto manufacturer to sell new cars from that manufacturer. If you already have the investment capital and auto dealership experience, consider finding an existing Lexus franchise that's being offered for sale. Auto dealership brokers specialize in helping to sell existing auto dealerships. The "National Business Brokers" website, for example, lists auto dealerships for sale and helps put sellers together with prospective buyers.
New Lexus Dealerships
As of 2012, there were only 231 Lexus dealerships nationwide and the brand is very desirable in terms of franchise possibilities. Generally, you must also already own one or even several auto dealerships before Lexus will award you a franchise. Though the cost to create a new Lexus dealership varies, $10 million to $40 million or more, when land is included, isn't unusual. Existing auto dealers normally work directly with Lexus to win approval of their franchise applications.
Toyota Dealer Development Program
Toyota's dealer development program for minorities and women includes a capital component the company uses to help finance franchise ventures. Toyota also works through various minority organizations, such as the National Association of Minority Automobile Dealers, to identify and select minority franchise applicants. If you're a minority or woman, either working alone or with business partners, and desire a Lexus franchise Toyota's dealer development program may be your best chance at obtaining one.
Toyota Avenues for Advancement
Many auto dealers started out on the selling floor before going on to own their own dealerships. The Toyota Avenues for Advancement Program (TAAP) offers a path for individuals already working at Toyota or Lexus dealerships to eventually own their own franchise. TAAP provides partnership, education and training, as well as financial assistance opportunities to hopeful dealer candidates working at Toyota or Lexus franchises. Toyota's TAAP program gives candidates auto dealership general manager experience and skills the company feels are mandatory for franchise ownership.
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Interview with Harold Goldblatt
Last semester, one of my favorite class periods was the one in which we talked with Harold Goldblatt about his translation, especially his translation of Mo Yan's Pow!. One of the great moments was when I asked him how many books he had translated and he honestly wasn't sure. "Something around 50-55, I think."
One of my favorite moments of BookExpo America was hanging out with Stephen Sparks, who is one of the coolest and smartest booksellers out there, and a great Best Translated Book Award judge.
So here, thanks to the Los Angeles Review of Books are the two of them together.
Stephen Sparks: You just about stumbled into translating Chinese. Can you tell us a little bit about your history with the language and how coming to it accidentally has shaped your work, if at all?
Howard Goldblatt: Truth be told, I've stumbled into nearly every aspect of my relationship with China and the Chinese language. Had I been sent to sea directly from Naval OCS during the early phase of the Vietnam War, like my classmates, instead of Taiwan, none of the rest of my life would have turned out remotely as it did. Had I been accepted into any graduate program in Chinese other than the only one that grudgingly let me in the door, I'd not have chosen a thesis topic that led to my discovery of a writer, Xiao Hong, practically no one had heard of at the time, who is now one of the giants of the period, and who put me on the map, as it were. And since none of her work was available in English, I ventured into the field of translation and haven't stopped since. My critical biography of her (in Chinese) and rendering of her masterwork, Tales of Hulan River, are still in print, 40 years later. Then, "affirmative action" got me a job at that same university in a department that, untill that time, was comprised solely of native speakers of Chinese. Finally, Nieh Hualing, who, with her husband, poet Paul Engle, ran the Iowa Writers Workshop, stumbled upon my translation and recommended me to translate a novel for a large commercial press. I've had lots of help along the way and more than a little luck; my indebtedness to those factors manifests itself in my passion (some might call it obsession) for translating literary texts — mainly fiction — from Chinese. I simply cannot think of a single thing I'd rather be doing professionally. [. . .]
SS: You've said, without arrogance, that anyone who reads Mo Yan in English is reading Howard Goldblatt. How do you define what a translator does? And how does your understanding of translation relate to your characterization of translators as being eternally apologetic?
HG: I still find it baffling that a reviewer of a translation can credit or fault the author of a book for good/bad writing. It's probably wrong to do that with the translator as well, though they are her words, since unless the reviewer knows the original language, he cannot be sure where the merit/fault lies. On behalf of literary translators everywhere, let me declare that we have nothing to apologize for, save screwing up a translation and, maybe, the occasional bad choice of what to translate. And yet, some outlets continue to omit translators' names in published reviews, leading a reader to assume that the work was written in English, and it has taken years to get publishers to prominently display the fact that what the reader has in her hands is a facsimile of the original work. Whenever I begin to question my role in the literary process, I pull out my copy of Robert Wechsler's book, Performing without a Stage, for encouragement. He reminds us not only of the perils we face ("There is no such thing as a good translator." I.B. Singer) but, importantly, the signal service we provide ("Translation is a more advanced stage of civilization." Borges). One question I'm often asked is for whom I translate — the author or the reader. While the choice is more nuanced than that, my answer never varies. The author wrote for his readers, and that is for whom I translate.
There are some prizes given to translated fiction — the American PEN Center award, the Best Translated Book Award, the Man Asian Prize (also available to works written in English), the Dublin IMPAC Prize, and more. But the only U.S. prize in which the translation is first checked for accuracy is the Translation of the Year Award from the American Literary Translators Association. That means that the other prizes are given for the book, not the translation, since the judges cannot know if in fact the translators have done their job well; I served as a judge for one of the PEN contests, in which a great many languages were included, while we judges were competent in three or four. I loved the book we chose, but to this day can state only that the translation read well. [. . .]
SS: How has translation changed for you as your understanding of Chinese culture and literary practices deepened?
HG: The obvious assumption would be that the process has become smoother, more comfortable, more internalized, while in fact my progression has had a somewhat unsteadying effect; maybe it's a case of "the more I know, the more I realize I don't know." Or maybe my self-imposed standards have gotten more demanding. I don't seek perfection; I just try to ensure that my renderings are, in the end, better than anyone else's could be. And when I fail, I grieve (that's a bit dramatic, I know). In a recent review of a novel by Mo Yan, which the reviewer absolutely hated (she too is a novelist, a breed that as often as not seems to hate other people's novels), she loved the English title, which was not a literal translation of the Chinese, but a homonym of part of it, but then raked me over the coals for 1) exoticizing the text (she wanted me to use "Mum" and "Dad" for "Dieh" and "Niang" — to each her own, I say), and 2) for the descriptive "sick turtle." Why, she asked, didn't I simply say "stupid prick"? And she was right; what was I thinking? A bad stumble, in my mind. I don't mind so much when I make a mistake; we all do that, authors included. What I hate is fouling a work by translating words and missing their impact or intent or tone. That would not have bothered me 20 years ago, at least not as much as it does now. In some respects, experience has been a boon, in that I've learned how to negotiate treacherous semantic waters with the confidence to simply bow to realities and move on when I encounter untranslatable items.
Read the whole interview here and then be sure and buy a copy of Pow!.


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Oklahoma Deer Muzzleloader Season Begins Oct. 23rd
After a successful black bear season ended Oct. 1 when hunters harvested 32 bears on opening day - reaching the season quota and therefore officially closing the season - sportsmen are now enjoying deer archery season and gearing up for deer muzzleloader season Oct. 23-31.
Along with black bear archery season, deer archery season opened Oct. 1 and hunters are already enjoying cooler days afield and ample hunting opportunity statewide. Deer muzzleloader season is the first opportunity that all sportsmen can use firearms to harvest deer, and the season accounts for about 20-25 percent of the total annual deer harvest in Oklahoma.
Muzzleloader season spans nine days. The modern gun season opens Nov. 20 and runs for 16 days. Archery season remains open through Jan. 15, 2011.
Deer are plentiful in every part of Oklahoma, whether it be in wide-open prairie or pine-covered mountains, and several wildlife management areas across the state offer hunting for at least part of the muzzleloader season, some through special draw hunts that give sportsmen a unique opportunity to change up their usual hunting routine.
To learn more about deer hunting on wildlife management areas, consult the current "Oklahoma Hunting Guide" or log on to wildlifedepartment.com. The website offers regulations, useful hunting information and an award-winning digital wildlife management area atlas. And best of all, it is free. In addition to detailed maps, sportsmen can find information such as camping locations and contacts for local biologists.
In the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation's most recent Big Game Report, available in the current issue of Outdoor Oklahoma magazine, big game biologist Jerry Shaw calls muzzleloader season a "season of contrast."
"In the same hunting party one can see a hand-built flintlock shooting lead balls, hand molded and carefully loaded from a fringed buckskin 'possibles bag,' and then turn to see another hunter shooting a stainless-steel-barreled scoped rifle loaded with smokeless powder and pistol bullets sitting on top of a polymer sabot. While one hunter worries about keeping the powder 'in the pan, dry, the other wonders if his kids have noticed that the battery powering his electronic ignition was pilfered from the television remote just hours before. No matter which end of the spectrum a muzzleloader hunter tends to gravitate toward, one thing remains constant, it is a fantastic time to be outdoors."
During muzzleloader season, hunters can harvest a buck and two antlerless deer (at least one antlerless deer must be harvested from Antlerless Deer Zone 2, 7 or 8), and most of the state is open to antlerless hunting every day during the season. Resident muzzleloader hunters must possess an appropriate hunting license and a deer muzzleloader license for each deer harvested. Nonresident muzzleloader hunters are exempt from a hunting license while hunting deer, but they must possess a nonresident deer muzzleloader license for each deer hunted or proof of exemption. For a map of Oklahoma's antlerless deer zones, consult the current "Oklahoma Hunting Guide" available online at wildlifedepartment.com or anywhere hunting licenses are sold.
Upon harvesting a deer, all hunters must attach a field tag to the animal. New this year, the date and time of harvest must be recorded on field tags placed on deer, turkey and elk in addition to the hunter's name and license number. The field tag, which can be constructed of anything (such as a business card), must remain attached to the carcass until it is checked either at the nearest hunter check station, with an authorized Wildlife Department employee or online at wildlifedepartment.com.
Hunters can harvest a turkey with their muzzleloaders Oct. 30-31 in most of the state. A fall turkey license is required, unless exempt. Turkey fall gun season runs Oct. 30 through Nov. 19, and details on the season are available in the current "Oklahoma Hunting Guide."
Hunters age 10-35 who have not completed hunter education can buy an apprentice-designated hunting license and hunt while accompanied by a licensed hunter 21 years old or older who has completed the hunter education course, or a licensed hunter 21 years old or older who is otherwise exempt from hunter education (includes those 36 years old or older, those honorably discharged or currently active in the Armed Forces or members of the National Guard). Hunters under 10 years old must complete a hunter education course to hunt big game or to buy any big game hunting license.
For specific information regarding which areas are open to muzzleloader season, licenses, bag limits, blaze orange clothing requirements or legal firearms, consult the current "Oklahoma Hunting Guide" or log onto wildlifedepartment.com
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Submitted by hunter25 on Tue, 2011-03-22 20:25.
The one time I hunted in Oklahoma it was in fact with a muzzle loader. The experience I had was nothing like the state mentioned in this article as we saw almost no deer at all. I had a great time hunting with a friend on his family farm we just did not see much game other than turkeys which I did not know had an open season. I doubt I will be going back any tinme soon but wouldn't mind giving it another shot some day.
The weather was quite warm when I was there so that may have had something to do with it also.


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You are surrounded by four simple words. Four words probably picked up sometime between third and fifth grade. The words are: West, South, East, and North.
Does it grate to list these four words with West as the first on the list instead of North? Have no fear. It will not be part of your permanent record if you do not list north as the first on the list.
If asked what these four words mean, nearly everyone from grade school through graduate school will answer "directions". If you thought "directions", you must understand when you were in school you were taught definitions not meanings. Directions are the definition of the four words, but not the meaning.
What do we put in bread dough so instead of the dough remaining flat it gets taller? The answer is Y-E-A-S-T. Note the word east in the word yeast. We put yeast in bread dough to make the dough "rise".
The word East means to raise, after all the sun, moon, stars and planets all seem to rise in the East. You knew East means to rise even before breakfast this morning. You have heard of the word "Easter", which means to rise. If you lived in Europe several centuries ago, there was a goddess named Esther. It was Esther's job to make the plants rise from the ground each spring. An observer can determine if the goddess pictured in the painting before them is the goddess Esther because she is always depicted either holding or surrounded by rabbits. These animals were known as Esther's rabbits, the origin of the modern symbol of Easter rabbits.
If "east" means to rise, "west" means "to go down." The meaning of these two words simply reflects what is happening in the sky. Celestial objects appear to rise in the east and go down in the west.
South has the sense of "the place of the sun". When the sun is in the south it is as high as it can be for that day. Instead of writing "the place of the sun" on our maps, it is easier to write south.
Of the four words north is perhaps the most interesting. If we translate the word "north" into English, it means "left", as in left and right. In order for north to be on your left, you must face the east. The Latin word for "left" is the word sinister, which means evil.
Why is north thought of as evil?
To understand this you have to pay attention to the daily weather report. When cold arctic air moves out of Canada and quickly heads south creating snow in Louisiana, citrus crops freeze in Florida, this cold weather front is known as the Arctic Express. This is not just an American phenomenon. Several decades ago hundreds of Europeans died when an Arctic Express covered much of Europe.
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It is a dark and stormy night 9th century in Europe. You want to find directions. What can you do? The magnetic compass hadn't reached Europe yet. It is dark and stormy so no hint from the stars. You can find north by looking for the local church. Back in "the good ol' days", churches had their front doors facing east. Well, not exactly east. If the church was dedicated to St. Sophia, the patron saint of wisdom, for example, the church would be
shifted slightly north of east. This to allow on August 6th, the feast day of Saint Sophia the first rays of the rising sun to pass through a special window and illuminate the center of the alter on the other interior side of the church. Another word for east is "orient, this slight shift of the church known as its orientation, is how the word "orientation" entered the English language.
It is difficult not to notice we are dealing with opposites. Not just in the words, but their meanings as well: North (cold), South (hot), East (rise), and West (set). The question is: "Where do these opposites meet?"
It must be a difficult question to answer with our Western civilization view of things because having given this topic in over 700 lectures, there was only one student who was able to answer correctly. The student was from the Navajo reservation, well steeped in Navajo traditions. He explained it was an easy question to answer because the Navajo sees himself or herself as part of nature.He went on to explain Western minds see themselves above nature so no doubt students might picture a map, or the Earth suspended in space.
What answer did the student from the Navajo reservation give?
Without skipping a beat after the question was asked "Where do these opposites meet? His answer was: "They meet wherever you are."
Something as simple as West, South, North, and East… words learned as "directions" sometime between third and fifth grade have a considerable cultural slant once you decide to put your curious mind to work.


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'HTC First' Render Leaked, Points To Facebook Home
Days before a scheduled Facebook event, a render of a new Facebook-centric phone has appeared. The HTC first, previously known by other names, seems to have been repurposed for the device.
Trustworthy Twitter account @evleaks posted a render of the 'HTC First', a plain-looking smartphone with a few signs of Facebook integration. While there are no obvious marks to indicate the social network's branding, the phone's colour scheme and rounded home button point to possible integration with Facebook Home, the name of the launcher expected to be bundled with the HTC-made device.
The device shares few design traits with HTC's recent handsets with its rounded corners and left-side volume rocker, but this render is unlikely to resemble the finished product. Then again, 'HTC First' sounds like a fishy name to begin with, so we'll take the leak with a grain or two of salt.
The HTC first is known by another name from previous rumors, HTC Myst, and it's reportedly going to be a 4.3-inch device that will feature a 720p display, Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM, 4G LTE, 5-megapixel camera, 1.6-megapixel front-facing camera, Bluetooth 4.0, Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean and Sense UI 4.5 on top which will include the new Facebook Home.
What do you think? Could the HTC First be the Facebook phone everyone has been waiting for?


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Listen to Hoody Season, the latest track from Styles P. The cut dropped on Saturday, March 3rd, 2012. Styles P's future brightens with every new release, and Hoody Season certainly isn't an exception. It's a fitting addition to a solid catalogue that Styles P has been developing since stepping foot in the game. We're excited to hear more.
Have you heard Styles P's How I Fly, featuring Avery Storm, Curren$y & Nitty Scott MC? If you're down, make sure to visit Styles P's profile page for the newest info, news, songs, and mixtapes.
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"Keep it G like the alphabet upper case
Your pigs, stay the fuck away
All I know is 4 kilos is a buck a day
This is more than you talk but fuck what a sucker say
Police coming through then its tucked away
If not, 3 words, duck or pay
Airshit, like the night people
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I'm from San Luis Potosi S.L.P
Aww we're a little far from each other, anyway, surely we're gonna meet in the concert on april!! I'm so happy!!
Nicolas, you're just too lazy to research in our archives, remember, everything is kept on fb the very original idea of 'Many nations, one revolution' was Nastya's! Though the idea of 'Love above all' was Natalia's and the idea of combining the two was mine and the final order was Nastya's, so tooootally a collective creation
I also noticed that the German folks were very quiet/calm compared to audiences like over here.
and then rushed to meet Nicolas and Christina... eventually... we had to wait
Was it maybe Lang Lang? He is very famous...i can't remember the music in the break..sorryBut maybe you can listen to it..http://www.youtube.com/user/langlang?feature=relchannel
Whaaaaaaaaaaaat??? In this Video my hometown is shown!!! Ettlingen! How funny... I know, Lang Lang was discovered in Ettlingen, but that this is here in this Forum and it is the city where I went through and through every day... Crazy


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Four more questions in the #SYW challenge.
What is your favourite beverage?
Without doubt my favourite beverage is a latte. I like them weak and with only a thin layer of foam which can be a hard balance to find.
What is your interpretation of 'The Golden Rule"? Are there ramifications to breaking it?
Every area of life seems to have its own Golden Rule so this is a tough question to answer. I think the nearest I can get to an overarching Rule is: 'Treat other people as you want them to treat you.' For me, this means being treated, and treating others, fairly with respect, and kindness. The ramifications of not following the rule are obvious. If I don't treat people with kindness and respect, I have no right to expect the same in return. A world in which we are all kinder and more respectful to one another would be a welcome improvement. Oh dear, that sounds a bit sanctimonious but you did ask!
Sunrise or sunset person?
It depends on the time of year. In winter, sunrise can be pretty late so there's no need to get up specially early to see it. Around here, winter sunrise can be especially atmospheric with mist smoking along the water of a loch or drifting across a hilltop. The long days of mid-summer mean sunrise is almost in the middle of the night and it can still be light around 11pm. I love them all.
Do people in modern society anthropomorphize animals too much?
Yes, I think some people do, especially dogs.
And finally, what were you grateful for during the past week?
My umbrella. After a hot, dry summer our weather seems to be doing its best to refill all the rivers, lochs and reservoirs in double-quick time.
This post links to the Share Your World (SYW) weekly writing blog challenge hosted by Melanie at Sparks From a Combustible Mind.


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On Wednesday, June 12, around 100 asylum seekers– many of them women and children– arrived by bus in Portland. Because our emergency shelters are already at capacity, these asylum seekers are being sent to stay at the EXPO building. Federal and state agencies have told the city to expect more arrivals in the coming weeks.
The Southern Maine Democratic Socialists of America rejects the narrative put forth in news headlines that the arrival of these families is a "problem" and affirm that this "very critical emergency" we face is actually a manufactured crisis.
The City and State are already being congratulated for their response, when they should be shamed for their evasion tactics. Asking citizens to donate via crowdfunding text is washing their hands of their responsibility, both in the incendiary language they have used to respond to this situation, and for actions they've taken to get us to such an unprepared position
The effects of the United States' reckless foreign policy, disastrous domestic and global wealth inequality, and an increased frequency of climate disaster will only bring more people in dire need to Portland, and our city needs to be better prepared to welcome them.
Asylum seekers are not coming here just because they want to.
They are fleeing violence, food scarcity, and persecution in their home countries, and are making the obvious decision to save the lives of themselves and their families by coming to the United States. The US has played a role in the global injustices and poverty that facilitates this violence, and we have an obligation to help the people impacted by it. US imperialism and global capitalism will continue to create instability around the world. As a self-proclaimed sanctuary city, Portland must fulfill that proclamation with action and greater preparations to meet the basic needs of people fleeing violence
The only problem we have is a public policy one.
Portland City Manager Jon Jennings and the councilors who walk in lock-step with him have prioritized private profit over the public good for far too long, systematically eroding our housing stock, under-funding our shelters and community support funds, and creating the perfect conditions for fiscal catastrophe and civil unrest. Their policy decisions and votes provide corporate welfare to the real estate developers and the billionaire corporations funding their campaigns. This leaves working-class residents to pick up the tab, as we have done here. They have pushed our city to the breaking point, and any crisis we face is a direct result of their short-sighted decision making
We need radical solutions, not damage control.
Portland's $200,000 Community Support Fund was established in 2015 to help families who are here legally but cannot yet work. Underfunded from the start, Manager Jennings sponsored an amendment to deny new applications to the fund beginning July 1, 2019. Councilor Pious Ali and Mayor Ethan Strimling will sponsor a motion at the June 17th City Council Meeting to strike that amendment, but we must do more.
For too long, our housing stock has been commodified and compressed behind exclusionary zoning walls to cater to the needs and profits of the wealthiest in society. Massive corporations have been sold swaths of public land at below market value. Hoteliers and short-term landlords have made fortunes by flipping our depreciated and depleted housing stock. The council has enacted affordable housing zoning in name only, and voted down any efforts to strengthen it
We make the following demands:
We demand that arbitrary deadlines not be set upon asylum seekers to sign up for benefits.
We demand that finding sanctuary for new arrivals not be limited to "affordability" logic, in which the end goal is profit, but rather where is best for them. For example, the schools that are best funded (often by affluent white populations) should not escape consideration
We demand that corporations like Wex, Unum, and Maine Health, be required to pay into the Community Support Fund.
We demand that hoteliers be required to donate a number of rooms in times of housing shortages.
We demand that while our city of 70,000 is unable to house one-to-two-hundred new neighbors in need, short-term rental licenses be rescinded.
We demand that our city's "inclusionary" zoning rules be made truly inclusionary, by removing the ability to build affordable units off-site.
We demand that our city's inclusionary zoning fees be at minimum doubled and the required affordable units be raised to at least 25%.
We demand that our city begin a good faith dialog about building public housing.
We demand that the media, those tasked with governance, and those citizens who engage in discourse do not restrict themselves to the narrow thinking of neoliberal austerity. The question should not be, can we afford it? But rather, how do we accommodate all that are made homeless?


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I've been told to wait until they fix the technical issues that have plagued the game, but I think it's been long enough and I feel like I should write a review. However, with GT5 arriving soon, I might get distracted, long enough to put off writing the review. I'm still affected by Black Ops "stuttering" problem.
Now, I don't know if I should mention this in my review or not, it certainly has affected my enjoyment of the game so far, but I'm sure it will be fixed in the future. It's so sad that games are released unfinished and untested these days. But I don't think it's fair, especially with the state of the economy right now that developers and publishers are almost stealing money from us! I'm amazed at how gaming websites like IGN and Gamespot can rate some of these awful games so high. Gametrailers.com, a site I usually trust gave Black Ops 9.3! It's nowhere near worth a 9! Black Ops was truly the Windows Vista [Me/95/insert buggy Windows release here] of game releases.
With that said, my collectors edition GT5 has been shipped. I hope this game is more enjoyable than the other crap games that were released with year. Though looking at EA and Activision's catalog, that won't be hard to achieve.


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[Q'uo] Law Of One – How do you know when your heart is open?
Q.) Is there some sort of inner knowing that one is actually doing it and their heart is open?
A.) Q'uo: You see, where you put your energy, where you put your mind, is vitally central to your experience. If you begin with an act of faith and say, "I think life is this way and I'm going to live as if it were this way," then you cast yourself into the midair of faith having no proof of anything but the simple feeling, the knowing, that all truly is well and that the universe does make sense. It is not meaningless, and you are not alone. You are loved, you are needed, you are full of purpose, and you simply need to let go of any preconceived notions as to how that works and simply engage in life to the best of your ability, as a conscious seeker that understands the power of choice, the power of desire, the power of intention. The universe will begin to perceive you as joining the dance. You will begin to get synchronicities back. You will see repeating numbers. You will see your totem animal. You will see the signs that what you were thinking is important and that what you were thinking just now is especially important, so ponder it.
The universe will begin to help you. You will feel that feedback. And the more you lean into that, the more you will receive it, so that eventually, when someone says, "Well, why do you believe the way you do?" you have almost no ability to explain. Because you are an old, experienced hand at working with the Game of Life now. You understand about choices. You understand about love. You understand about the hall of mirrors in which all things speak to you—people, situations and things—and you are comfortable at last in this game, and enthusiastic to play it.
It is not that you have become one who controls your life. It is that you have become one who enjoys the surprises of life and who knows that even in the darkest hour, there is light and love aplenty for one whose mind is stayed upon the truth of love. -Q'uo -The Law Of One
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I'm going to make a bit of history here with this expression, because I've never heard it used anywhere else, even on Google. In effect, in relation to football matters, it means what is normally referred to as "diving" (an inadequate term, as water is normally involved with that). "Doing a Newton" relates to Isaac Newton's gravity law that states "what goes up must come down" (although possibly not described thus by him) , as even a feather will fall to earth eventually.What prevents us all from floating about like a space-walking astronaut is our weight. We are also prevented from falling over in motion by the ability to move one foot in front of the other in the action known as walking or running and balance. When falling, the natural instinct is to push a foot/leg forward to prevent it and stay upright. This is well known to all, especially those moving forward at speed on a football pitch and particularly by a few elite individuals who have perfected the art of demonstrating gravity rules to a high degree. Hence, the way to get a penalty when tackled is to simply keep both feet together and "do a Newton". Being unable to defy such law of gravity means a rapid descent to terra firma and, in many cases, fame and fortune if you can con the ref and earn a penalty.
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Cesareans stabilized, NICU admissions and resuscitation decline after implementation of PeriGen® Patterns™
Becker's Hospital Review just released the results of 10-year study on the impact of process improvement and the use of PeriCALM on the rate of cesareans, NICU admissions and CPR/ventillation/intubation.
The study, authored by Sam Smith MD and Lynette Philip RN of MedStar and Adi Zmiri MD, Emily Hamilton MD CM, and Thomas Garite MD of PeriGen, looked at data for 78,459 births for Cesarean rates, NICU admissions, and the use of extraordinary fetal resuscitation procedures before and after the introduction of a management focus on care processes and staff training combined with the use of PeriCALM Patterns.
Following is a summary of the results published by Becker's:
- Despite an increase in factors associated with rates of cesarean sections, the rate of cesareans remained stable after the introduction of PeriCALM and advanced management strategies.
- NICU admissions declined by more than half after PeriCALM and the process improvement steps were introduced.
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June 23, 2009
Ryan Hall demonstrates a move to the class at 50/50 BJJ. Hall will compete in the Abu Dhabi World Championships, held in late September in Barcelona, Spain.
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Thank You!
I want to personally thank all of you who purchased EmbroideryWare in 2016. I enjoyed developing this product for you and hope it has unleashed your creativity. Look for a new release out soon with a great new feature, embroidery objects.
The commercial version of EmbroideryWare is just over 5 months old. I am excited to see where it will go in 2017. In the past 5 months we have added many things. Some of these are:
- Automatic Fills
- Free motion embroidery
- Tablet compatibility
- Quick menu options, fill underlay, fill topstitches, running stitch, zigzag underlay
- Over 25 new lettering files
- Discounted lettering packs.
- Three EmbroideryWare product bundles Basic, five letters, ten letters.
Embroidery Objects
Embroidery objects are intelligent embroidery designs that you only need to create once. Once created you can paste any number of them in your design. Build a library of cool embroidery objects and use them over and over!
The following snowflake design will demonstrate the use of embroidery objects. First I drew a six element snowflake arm as shown below. Then I turned it into an embroidery object.
Next using this embroidery object, I created a circular pattern of six. Notice how the boxes around each embroidery object are rotated as the pattern is created. The endpoints of these boxes control the object. They can be used to scale, rotate, and align the object just like any other graphic. Once the endpoints are modified the embroidery object will update automatically.
Finally a fill object is added to cover up the jump points between the arms. There are now seven elements in the final design. Six are embedded objects and one is a fill. These seven elements are used to create the final snow flake.
Now that the snow flake is done it can be copied and pasted many times into the final document. The example below shows the result. Pretty Cool!
Also these objects can be linked to files on your computer. If you change the linked file all the objects linked to it automatically update.
And finally you can group the colors from one object to the next to minimize color changes.
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There's still time to Kiss Me, Kate
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Locally based theatre group the New Ottregians have been wowing audiences this week with their latest production – Kiss Me, Kate.
The show tells the tale of an American theatre touring company who are performing a musical version of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew.
One of the cast members runs up a gambling debt of $10,000, and signs it in the name of the show's director – bringing him to the attention of two local debt collectors...
"Of course everything comes out alright in the end," said Toni from the New Ottregians. "The audiences are certainly enjoying it and the feedback we've had has been excellent."
Tickets are still available for the performances tomorrow (Friday) and Saturday. These start at 7.30pm at The King's School, with proceeds going to Hospiscare.
Tickets, priced £8 for adults and £4.50 for children, are available in advance from Stagestruck in Broad Street or Bagpuss gallery in Mill Street, or on the door.
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The markets have remained volatile this week. Recent economic reports have largely been disappointing, particularly the latest housing market data. While certainly concerning, we don't think enough evidence has accumulated to join the double-dip recession crowd at this point. Overall, the market seems to be digesting some degree of slowing in the U.S. economy. It may be a rocky summer as this process continues, with the market lurching in both directions on the latest news.
We wouldn't be surprised if the market is largely range-bound between the February/May/June low of 1,040 on the S&P 500, and the January high of 1,150 for the next several weeks. If that happens, it would reflect a level of indecision among investors as they try to determine whether there's more in the tank for this bull market, or if it's time to take profits. That's not a terribly exciting scenario for investors, but it may be what's needed after the large swings of the past couple of years.
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PUDR expresses shock and concern at the manner in which the Office of the Superintendent of Police, Kalahandi in Odisha is issuing threats and intimidation of encounter deaths to public spirited individuals and professionals in the Niyamgiri region in the course of their regular discharge of duty. A forty-year old journalist, Padmanabha Choudhury has been threatened to
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A 16-member fact-finding team of All India Coordination of Democratic Rights Organisation (CDRO) and Ganatantrik Adhikar Suraksha Sangathan, Odisha (GASS) had been to Niyamgiri area and Vedanta Plant site, Lanjigada and spent three days from 26th to 28th April, 2019 there. All members got divided into two teams. One team visited various villages of Niyamgiri like Lakpadar, Belang Mandal and Dangamati to investigate violation of human rights in the region.
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PUDR strongly condemns the attacks on migrants from Bihar, UP and Madhya Pradesh, who are being forced to flee from Gujarat as a result of violence unleashed by the Thakor community. About 50,000 Hindi speaking migrants have left Gujarat and returned to their native states the attacks began. Without jobs and homes, destitution stares them in the face.
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PUDR notes with concern the intimidation of the residents of Kathputli colony by the Delhi police since the night of 18 December. While Police presence was visible in and around Kathputli colony for the past few days, the police were deployed in large numbers (approx. 250 police personnel) on 18th night and barricades around the colony were erected. The next morning, on 19 December, DDA officials along with the police went to get the signatures of some residents who have decided to shift to a transit camp at Anand Parbat.
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PUDR condemns the ongoing attacks by the state police and land mafia against the protesters who have been agitating against the construction of the Kanhar Dam project in Sonbhadra district for the past seven months. The arrest of Roma Malik, Sukalo (30th June), Gambheera Prasad (21st April), Pankaj, Laxman and Ashrafi Yadav (14th April) of the All India Union of Forest Working People (AIUFWP) is the latest demonstration of such terror tactics.


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by Riley Kate Lancaster, 2016 Miss Northeast Alabama
One of the greatest things about Dare to Share Your Stuff is that it does not limit sharing to a personal belonging or an actual item. You can share your time and services as well. I had the privilege of sharing and volunteering my time at Hospice of Marshall County-Shepherd's Cove's bereavement camp, Community Camp HOPE. At this moving camp, I was given the opportunity to participate in the activities and help with the children and adults who were there to remember their loved ones. The volunteers who shared their time and efforts to put on Community Camp HOPE did an unbelievable job at preparing activities for the participants to remember their loved ones. The first activity was yoga. By relaxing your body and finding that calm and quiet time, you are able to reminisce on all the great memories you shared with a loved one in the past. The second activity on the list was canoeing. One of the best ways to let your emotions get outside of your body is to get out and get your hands and feet moving, so at Community Camp HOPE they offered a time to canoe! It is sometimes difficult to be able to speak on how you feel, but one way you can display your emotion is by art. The third activity was arts and crafts. Participants were able to create any picture on the canvas to aid and express their emotions. The last activity at Community Camp HOPE was equine. One amazing quality about horses is that they can sense how you feel on the inside. It was so beautiful to be able to stand before, and care for, these alluring animals and know that you can share your emotions. At the end of the day and after all activities were finished, the volunteers shared a poem and the participants released butterflies for their loved ones. The whole day was such a beautiful experience. I enjoyed sharing my time with everyone who was a part of Community Camp HOPE and I cannot wait to get involved again.


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Gulmarg- Land of Lord Ghorawalla !
Rashmi Talwar
"Helicopter service in Gulmarg; flying you on top of the world;
Places where we fly: Mont Apharwat, Frozen Lake, Sunshine, Tosa Maidan and Srinagar Airport.
Rs 7500/ per person."
Much as I was elated by this small red billboard, I noticed on the way back from Gulmarg, Kashmir, owing to my senior citizen parents – not in the best of health, who could see some exotic places if they so desired, it got me thinking about the place Gulmarg –the famed 'Meadow of flowers'.
Gulmarg waters do not speak. They take side lanes, quietly dolloping down from crevices and flow silently downstream, moistening lush undulating daisy slopes, embellished with hues and shades of wild swinging flowers in the softest breeze. Rolling hilltops are a fairyland where children would love to roll downhill and play antique games of L-O-N-D-O-N —London.
'The meadow of flowers' appears to open as a large cine screen after a Deodar tree-lined ribboned road enters a passage cut through the hills. I feel immersed into the spectacular beauty of the vista of Gulmarg, that appears like Switzerland, where no condescending boundary walls rupture the beatific scenery perched at an approximate altitude of 2650 m and located merely 56 km north of Srinagar- the Capital of Jammu& Kashmir, a simple 90 minute drive.
However, after a day and a night stay at Gulmarg, I realized that other than the exotic flowers, Gulmarg can boast of the best talkers and fighters in the region. They are the famous Ghorawallas or Horse owners of Gulmarg, whose fame spreads throughout the Kashmir valley.
The verdant greens, sugary air and exotic flowers of the valley have done little to sweeten their moods, disposure or decency. Hence like the naturally growing pitcher plant – or insectivorous plant on Gulmarg slopes and crevices, the famed Ghorawallas of Gulmarg have learnt to trap their prey by fear, falsehood or fallacy. While the pitcher plant may remain a silent spectator to its squirming prey, this variety is highly advanced. It is loudmouthed, threatening, ready to turn anything into a big street brawl, capable of mob terror, fleecing, uses Pakistan slogans to instill fear and even resorts to violence with 'Kashmiri' drivers from other regions besides tourists.
One wearing pheran or loose cloak, kohled eyed and henna reddened beard and hair, possessed a rare knack of odd combinations. Seeing the Poop litter in this scenic valley, I suggested poop bags could be used for Ghoras or horses like in European countries to keep the place clean. The smarting Ghorawalla took it as a jibe–"The dayyy Poop bags will arrive in Gulmarg, Kashmir will go to Pakistan!" he declared.
Interestingly, although Government claims a stronghold on the Gondola services of Gulmarg, the Ghorawallas have the real say on plying to the Gondola site. If access to gondola and everything in-between feels so cumbersome in Gulmarg where the lords and Masters are the Ghorawallas, a shake of the grey cells should be of priority to Helicopter Service in the region, for a hassle-free, better and more lucrative business turnover. Perhaps the Heli services which has found few takers till now, and Ghorawallas should sit in a bilateral meeting to chalk out the strategies for the smooth operation, with Ghorawalla as a shareholder of the profit.
After all, the Ghorawallas in Gulmarg have united and created a solid vote-bank of the sitting Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) and therefore are supposedly given a free rein to loot the tourists while whispers abound that the police and bureaucracy are told to lie low and quietly collect their 'cuts' for being cooperative in 'smart' deals.
If you wish to use the circumbulation road of this scenic window of flowers – "Either you hire a a horse or Ghora or pay for a Snow Vehicle PVC," a Ghorawalla literally barks to incoming tourists. Interestingly, like local warlords many of these Ghorawallas own both these modes of transport.
Perchance if you were able to push in a currency note as a chai-paani into the rough hands of the loudest protesting Ghorawalla, as a clearance to use your own taxi for the roundabout road, he will give you a free show of his stained toothed smile, even pull out his gruff hand to shake yours most vigorously, salute you and will assure you, there would be no Ghorawalla to stop or hassle you. The next, you know, another Ghorawalla, a short distance ahead will stop your vehicle, put his hand out for a bakshish (bribe) and dial a number on his cellphone to tell the next Ghorawalla about the welcome and protocol to be meted to you for plying your own vehicle. By the end of the route you could be lighter by a few hundred currency notes, for having indulged and navigated in a drive around.
Tourists on a day tour, a one and a half hour drive from Srinagar, are in for the best theatrics. If they decide to hire none of the above transport modes, they will be made to feel like a celebrity as the Ghorawallas will stalk them throughout their trek. They'll urge them for a free test ride on the horse and then hold out their hand for the price.
By chance if you do settle a deal for a horse, marking out the territory of the ride, another surprise awaits you. Ghorawalla will refuse pointblank that he was a party to this deal and may ask two to five times more. If you feel strongly up for justice, and are not ready to give up without a fight, you'll witness the speed with which tens of other Ghorawallas surround you and curse your riches for holding back payment to a poor Ghorawalla! Until you decide to call curtains.
When I requested a security man to let me pass by the barricade by paying a fee of Rs 50, as was mentioned there, because my parents could neither climb a horse nor take the PVC or snow vehicle, the police personnel asked me to make a deal, a deal with a Ghorawalla! The Lord Ghorawalla stood with his foot on a rock and picked his tooth staring at me. If there is the slightest of feelings that flits past you, that there is any rule of law here, please feign a memory lapse. The best recourse would be to equip yourself to beg or cry or whimper. These emotional froths just might work.
Two barricades in the circular road cuts a road through the stunning valley. Only if you are on night stay showing your booking on the cellphone, would you be allowed to ply your vehicle or taxi in the area. But this too has a clause and your night booking is 'not yet' a lucky ticket!
"You are fortunate if you booked a stay inside the barricaded area, else all those booked in hotels or huts or guest houses outside the barricade are barred from passing and treated at par with other day tourists."
Once a Ghorawallas told me to take the horse instead of the Gondola, up the hill on the Gondola Kangoori route as I had failed to purchase an online ticket. "It is a big blunder," He shook his head and continued-"Why didn't you buy ticket online and now Gondola ticket counter is closed for three days, until previous bookings are cleared". He told me he could extricate few tickets in the black. He also suggested that going on his horse was the best adventure I could have, would cost less than Gondola and the views would be breathtaking by the royal horse ride. Adding,-"Many a times the Gondola develops faults mid-air, and was hardly safe." I decided to check and found readily available Gondola tickets not only for Phase-I but also Phase –II for one fourth the price and an assurance that breakdowns are rarest of rare cases. Ghorawalla during our conversation had also explained that I might like to fill the tummy of his animal as a sadkaa or offering to the Divine, with an extra for horse-feed as his 'poor' horse did not relish mountain grass on this slope.
This takes me to the red billboard for Heli services –"Are the tourists visiting Gulmarg being freely allowed access to the Helicopter service or will they have to kowtow to the Lord Ghorawalla in the land of bloom showers?
For all you know, the Ghorawalla may just find another story using his trading skills, to strike a deal with a naive tourist claiming his horse has wings! "So you don't really need a helicopter at that cost when it flits away so quickly, you miss all the beauty na, and the views are stunning from my flying horse!" he may add.
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