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Free HIV tests for patients of Okla. dental 'menace'
7,000 patients of a dentist in Tulsa, Oklahoma are being urged to undergo HIV and Hepatitis tests. Investigators accuse Dr. W. Scott Harrington of using dirty instruments and other unsafe practices. (March 29) AP
State epidemiologist stressed that "this is not an outbreak" and patients are being offered free medical testing.
The Tulsa health department is opening a free testing clinic Saturday for as many as 7,000 dental patients who may have been exposed to HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C from a dentist cited as a health "menace" because of alleged unsanitary conditons at his two dental clinics.
Dr. W. Scott Harrington, an oral surgeon in Tulsa for more than 30 years, is accused of unsanitary practices, including using rusty instruments and lax sterilization procedures.
He has surrendered his license, voluntarily closed his two Tulsa-area clinics and is cooperating with health officials, according to Kaitlin Snider, a spokeswoman for the Tulsa Health Department. He faces a hearing before the Oklahoma Board of Dentistry on April 19 and faces the possibility of having his license revoked.
A free testing clinic is being opened Saturday morning in Tulsa and will continue next week for 7,000 patients, notified by letter, who may have been exposed since 2007, when the earliest patient information is available. A hot\llne is also being set up.
State Epidemiologist Kristy Bradley emphasized Friday that the public should not panic because exposure to HIV, hepatitis B and Hepiatitis C through an outpatient dental clinic is rare.
"I want to stress that this is not an outbreak," she told reporters.
Harrington's, whose Tulsa practice is in a thriving part of town, stopped practicing March 20 after the Oklahoma Dentistry Board lodged a 17-count complaint against him, calling Harrington a "menace to the public health by reasons of practicing dentistry in an unsafe or unsanitary manner."
The complaint said the clinic's alleged sloppy handling of needles and drugs used in operations "cause(s) great risk of cross-contamination."
Susan Rogers, executive director of the state Dentistry Board, said that Harrington, as an oral surgeon, regularly performed invasive procedures involving "pulling teeth, open wounds, open blood vessels."
REPORT: The official complaint
STORY: HIV test urged for 7,000 Oklahoma dental patients
The board's complaint also noted Harrington and his staff told investigators a "high population of known infectious disease carrier patients" received dental care from him.
Among the claims was one detailing the use of rusty instruments in patients known to have infectious diseases.
"The CDC has determined that rusted instruments are porous and cannot be properly sterilized," the board said.
The Oklahoma State Department of Health zeroed in on the clinic through a little detective work after a patient with no known risk factors tested positive for both hepatitis C and HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
The department matched the patient's most likely period of exposure to an appointment for a dental procedure at the clinic.
The board also found poor record-keeping of dangerous drugs, including the presence of at least one drug vial with a 1993 expiration date.
Agents from the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and the federal Drug Enforcement Administration have joined the investigation into how drugs were used and maintained at the clinic, KTUL-TV reported.
According to the complaint, the clinic had varying cleaning procedures for its equipment, needles were re-inserted in drug vials after their initial use and the office had no written infection-protection procedure.
The complaint said that during the inspections of the clinic, Harrington referred to his staff regarding all sterilization and drug procedures in the office, saying, "They take care of that, I don't."
Other alleged violations included permitting some assistants to perform IV sedation on patients that only a licensed dentist may legally carry out. Such violations are treated as a felony.
"The office looked clean," said Joyce Baylor, who had a tooth pulled at Harrington's Tulsa office 1½ years ago. In an interview, Baylor, 69, said she'll be tested next week to determine whether she contracted any infection, the AP reported.
"I'm sure he's not suffering financially that he can't afford instruments," Baylor said of Harrington.
Harrington could not be reached for comment Thursday, the Associated Press said. A message at his Tulsa office said it was closed, and the doctor's answering service referred callers to the Tulsa Health Department. Phone numbers listed for Harrington were disconnected. A message left with Harrington's malpractice attorney in Tulsa, Jim Secrest II, was not immediately returned.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is consulting on the case, and agency spokeswoman Abbigail ?Tumpey said such situations involving dental clinics are rare.
Last year a Colorado oral surgeon was accused of reusing needles and syringes, prompting letters to 8,000 patients, Tumpey said. It wasn't clear whether anyone was actually infected.
Contributing: Associated Press


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Previously red-hot shares of Quiksilver (NYSE:ZQK) tumbled 9% Friday morning after the apparel maker disclosed a 4% slump in same-store sales that fueled a deeper-than-expected second-quarter loss.
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Reporting after Thursday's closing bell, Quiksilver posted a loss of 19 cents a share in the second quarter. On a non-GAAP basis, it lost 12 cents a share, badly missing consensus calls from analysts for a loss of 4 cents.
The company said revenue fell 6.8% to $458.7 million, widely trailing the Street's view of $505.4 million. Same-store sales shrank 4%. Gross margins slid to 46% from 49.2%.
Sales at its namesake brand slumped 10% to $182 million, while Roxy sales fell 4% to $129 million and DC revenue gained 1% to $129 million.
Andy Mooney, Quiksilver's CEO, said the weaker-than-expected results reflect shrinking sales within its Europe, Middle East and Africa wholesale channel as well as declining gross margins across all three of its flagship brands.
"We believe that, over time, our new focus and structure will allow us to significantly improve profitability, working capital efficiency and competitive positioning," Mooney said.
In response to the earnings miss, analysts at Janney trimmed their fair value target on Quiksilver's stock to $7.00 from $7.50 and maintained a "neutral" rating.
Shares of Huntington Beach, Calif.-based Quiksilver slumped 8.87% to $6.99 ahead of Friday's opening bell.
The retreat threatens to eat into the stock's impressive 80% surge in 2013 through Thursday's close at $7.67.

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Mashup: MCF Technology Solutions + DocuSign Comments
MCF Tech is a world-class operations and information management consultation company. MCF Tech employs leading platform technology partners to craft and deploy customized, best-in-class software solutions to customers seeking greater efficiency, control and transparency along the supply and information chain. MCF Tech is proud to include DocuSign's eSignature solution in the MCF Tech arsenal.


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40 literary terms you should know
Why should you read and/or bookmark this list?
1) It is interesting and informative. If you don't know the meaning of bildungsroman or hamartia, you need to read this.
2) I found it via Elmo Keep. Once upon a time, Elmo taught me all about teh interwebz at university, and I probably didn't do all the recommended readings for that course, so we can (collectively, retrospectively) make up for it now by reading something recommended by her.
3) The self-referential humour in entry #30 is quite self-referentially humorous.
4) Entry #40 is one of my favourite words: verisimilitude.
Go forth and learn!


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Software-defined data center value. CRN, March 2018
Michael Dell Leads CRN 2017 Top 100 Executives Pack. CRN, August 2017
Dell EMC World, May 2017
CRN Best of Breed 2017, October 2017
Podcast: Fortt Knox with CNBC's Jon Fortt. May, 2017
Michael Dell's birthday wish for Dell EMC. USA Today, September 2017
Dell EMC World TV interview, May 2017
Dell EMC World: theCube interview, May 2017
Partner Sales Growth, Cloud and IoT explosion. CRN, June 2017
SAPPHIRE NOW, May 2017
The Gamblers Behind Tech's Biggest Deal Ever. Fortune, December 2016
The 'Golden Age' Of Information Technology. CRN, December 2016
Dell EMC World: opening general session, October 2016
Bloomberg News interview from Dell EMC World, October 2016
Dell EMC World: theCube interview, October 2016
Growing the Dell EMC Channel. CRN, October 2016
Dell EMC World TV interview, October 2016
Driving channel growth, $4.5B R&D investment and naming global channel chief. CRN, July 2016
EMC World: opening general session, May 2016
EMC World: theCUBE interview, May 2016
Three resolutions for our customers and partners
Global CEO Survey. PwC, January 2015
The Economic Club of Washington, D.C., March 2015
XPRIZE Vision Talk, May 2015
'New Way' SDN Opens Door For Dell To Shake Up 'Old Way' Cisco. CRN, June 2015
Council on Foreign Relations, December 2014
Aspen Across America. December 2014
Helping entrepreneurs create jobs. The Huffington Post, January 2015
Washington Post Q&A, March 2015
Update from the World Economic Forum. CNBC, January 2015
Accelerating Growth as a Private Company. Bloomberg TV, December 2014
Answering to Customers, not Wall Street. The Wall Street Journal, November 2014
Life After Wall Street. The New York Times, November 2014
Becoming an entrepreneur again. Inc. magazine, July/August 2014
UN Foundation's first Global Advocate for Entrepreneurship. Fast Company, June 10 2014
Reinventing Dell. USA Today, June 10 2014
Dell's Channel DNA. CRN, October 13 2014
Dell's channel momentum, CRN, September 2, 2014
Fortune Brainstorm Green, May 20, 2014
Michael and customers tell their startup stories at SXSW 2014
Dell's path to privatization. Forbes
Dell Annual Analyst Conference highlights 2014
Michael and Susan Dell at DWEN 2014
Dirty little secret about big data, Inc.com
Future plans for Dell, Charlie Rose
Dell's bold case to partners, CRN
Forbes Q&A, October 30, 2013
Michael's 10th Oracle Open World Keynote
Michael's vision for a private Dell, part 1, CNBC
Michael's vision for a private Dell, part 2, CNBC
Michael's interview with All Things D, 2013
Michael on founding and transforming Dell, Exceptional
Michael discusses Dell's entrepreneurial roots and leading through change, World Changers
Michael shares insights about social media collaboration in Pre-Commerce
Michael's perspective on the 30th anniversary of the PC, PCMag.com
Michael shares his thoughts on the power of IT in education in The American Public School Teacher
Michael Dell's Dorm Room Startup Summit, Forbes


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1. Re: Good video editing system? (Mainly After Effects)John T Smith Apr 19, 2012 4:48 PM (in response to LukeyADOBE)1 person found this helpful
Unless you are in a "managed network environment" where you will use the extra features, all you need is Win7 64bit Pro
If it was me, I'd go with a Corsair 850watt Gold power supply, not Bronze
I don't know that case, but I have a CM Storm Scout mid-tower case, and now I wish I had gone with a full tower case for easier cable layout
SSD for anything other than boot and software MAY be counter productive http://forums.adobe.com/thread/902915?tstart=0
Some other notes...
Build http://forums.adobe.com/thread/947698
-more build ideas http://ppbm6.com/Planning.html
2. Re: Good video editing system? (Mainly After Effects)Harm Millaard Apr 20, 2012 12:27 AM (in response to LukeyADOBE)
In addition to John's remarks, be especially wary of Kingston memory. Check that it really is 1.35V memory and does not use Micron chips.
3. Re: Good video editing system? (Mainly After Effects)verbalan May 12, 2012 11:11 AM (in response to LukeyADOBE)
Looks good to me!! Realistically, you'll only need 750w of power, but if you have the money for 850w, then go for it!. Sounds similar to the system I'm hoping to build in the next week or two:
Case: Antec P280 Super Midi Tower Case - Gun Metal Black
CPU: Intel Core i7-3820 3.60GHz (Sandybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor - Retail
Motherboard: ASUS P9X79 Pro: Intel Socket 2011
RAM: Kingston Blu 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C10 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C10D3B1K2/16G)
Graphics Card: Gainward GeForce GTX 570 Goes Like Hell 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
Hard Disk 1: Corsair Force GT 60GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CSSD-F60GBGT-BK) for SSD caching
Hard Disk 2: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001)
Optical Drive: LG GH22NS90 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM
Power Supply:Corsair Enthusiast Series TX750M High Performance 750W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply (CP-9020003-UK)
Processor Cooling: Noctua NH-D14-2011 Dual Radiator CPU Cooler with PWM Fans (Socket LGA2011)
OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional SP1 64-Bit - OEM (FQC-04649)
Memory Card Reader: Akasa USB 3.0 SuperSpeed Memory Card Reader (Internal header) (AK-ICR-14)
@Harm Millaard could you have a look at the Kingston RAM I've picked out here and tell me if is really 1.5V memory or if it uses those Micron chips? http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-121-KS Are Kingston a bit dodgy and should I consider a different brand like Corsair (they would be my first choice but I'm a bit restricted in height because of my CPU cooler.
Tell me what you think!
4. Re: Good video editing system? (Mainly After Effects)Jim_Simon May 12, 2012 11:28 AM (in response to LukeyADOBE)
One thing I notice is the lack of sufficient hard drives.
The SSDs are good for the System drive and the other would be good for the new After Effects Global Cache. The 2TB is good for Media. But ideally you should still have separate Project and Export drives (one for each).
5. Re: Good video editing system? (Mainly After Effects)Harm Millaard May 12, 2012 11:34 AM (in response to verbalan)
Don't know about the i7-3820 and the memory controller on-board, whether it is as finicky as the i7-3930. Can't help you there. The Corsair TX 'Bronze' I would exchange for the AX 'Gold' PSU.
Each module kit has been tested to run at DDR3-1600 at a low latency timing of 10-10-10 at 1.65V.The SPD's are programmed to JEDEC standard latency DDR3-1333 timing of 9-9-9. Each 240-pin DIMM uses gold contact fingers.
This means that these memory sticks are not optimal. Given the CAS latency timings and the voltage, I assume they do use Micron chips.You should be looking at memory sticks that run at 1.35V @ 1600 speed.
6. Re: Good video editing system? (Mainly After Effects)verbalan May 12, 2012 11:58 AM (in response to Jim_Simon)
@Jim Simon I actually have another 1tb hard-drive that I didn't mention from an old external drive sans casing and I have a 250gb drive from my old PC. So you're saying that I should use the 2tb for media and 2 more drives for project and export? What's the benefit of this?
@Harm Is there a massive benefit in getting the AX Gold over the Bronze? I'm already fairly over-budget as is!! Could you suggest some RAM that would perform optimally with a low-profile to fit under my CPU cooler? I'm hoping to get 16gb (2x8gb) to start off with and then later on, upgrade to 32gb with another 2x8gb. Will my motherboard run ok with just two slots of RAM for a while?
7. Re: Good video editing system? (Mainly After Effects)Bill Gehrke May 12, 2012 12:25 PM (in response to verbalan)
Go for the gold much better regulation and lower ripple
Find yourself some low voltage RAM and check what ASUS recommends, there have been nightmare problems with the new LGA 2011 CPU's and RAM chips
8. Re: Good video editing system? (Mainly After Effects)Harm Millaard May 12, 2012 1:14 PM (in response to verbalan)
There is a natural tendency to skimp on the PSU, if it delivers 750W, so what? 750W is enough, right? No, wrong. It is all about the quality and stability of the output current and not about the rated output under optimal conditions. Even a 1200W PSU will not increase your energy bill if the system does not need that power.
Regarding memory, see the 'Case' panel here: http://ppbm6.com/Planning.html
9. Re: Good video editing system? (Mainly After Effects)Jim_Simon May 12, 2012 5:24 PM (in response to verbalan)
What's the benefit of this?
Speed. Generally speaking, the more you separate things onto different drives, the faster your system will perform. If the Media and Export drive are the same, then the system has to read and write to the same drive. That slows things down. So...
C: SSD - OS and Programs
D: 1TB - Projects/Scratch
E: 2TB - Media
F: 250 GB - Exports
G: SSD - Global Cache (for After Effects)
10. Re: Good video editing system? (Mainly After Effects)verbalan May 12, 2012 6:49 PM (in response to Jim_Simon)
Thanks for that! Hadn't thought of it at all!
Is a second SSD necessary for AE's Global Cache or would 32-64gb RAM do the job?
11. Re: Good video editing system? (Mainly After Effects)Jim_Simon May 13, 2012 7:46 PM (in response to verbalan)
You'll benefit most from both. (But to the best of my knowledge, you can't assign the Global Cache to RAM, only to a drive.)
12. Re: Good video editing system? (Mainly After Effects)Dvico May 14, 2012 3:45 AM (in response to Bill Gehrke)
Dear Bill!
What is this nightmare problem what you mentioned?I have G.Skill DDR-3 32Gb /1866 KIT with Asus P9X79 Pro and till now Im not recognized any problem.Mr. Harm and other said better the RAM voltage 1,35V.The specification
of this my Gskill is "test voltage: 1,5V" .This mean I made a wrong choise when I bought this type?
Thanks for your help!
13. Re: Good video editing system? (Mainly After Effects)verbalan May 14, 2012 10:14 AM (in response to Dvico)
I was trying to figure out what RAM to use when I spotted Overclockers have a service where they build a computer for you. The P9X79 Pro is the default motherboard and it gives you the following choices for the RAM. Could be a good reference point perhaps when choosing the RAM?
I think I'm gonna have to change to liquid cooling to make life a bit easier. Trying to find compatable RAM that's low-profile (and now 1.35v) is a nightmare. Gonna go with the Corsair H100 with Noctua fans to keep the thing a bit quieter. Have to see if my Antec P280 case will fit it now (I think it will).
Yikes, this whole issue with the RAM is really pushing the price up for me. Nearly considering moving back down to an LGA 1155 socket board now with an Ivybridge i7. I just loved the idea of having the ability to use 8 slots of RAM and the option of upgrading to the 3930K with 6 cores (or it's inevitable Ivybridge 8-cored cousin) in time...
14. Re: Good video editing system? (Mainly After Effects)verbalan May 14, 2012 2:08 PM (in response to verbalan)
I was hoping to get the Corsair Vengence 16gb (2x8gb) and just use the two sticks for the time-being and later get the same again to bring me up to 32gb.
" Tested together at 1600MHz, Vdimm = 1.50V, at latency settings of 10-10-10-27 on Intel DDR3-based motherboards."
"XMP 10-10-10-27 values at 1600MHz, 1.50V"


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Venture Capitalist Explains How Patents Can Be A Tax On Innovation
from the not-all-vcs-demand-them dept
Besides, over the years, we've seen more and more venture capitalists come to the realization that in many cases, patents do a lot more harm than good. We've written about a few venture capitalists who have come out about problems with patents -- and over the weekend Union Square Ventures' Fred Wilson (a friend, and Techdirt reader), wrote about just how much damage patents have done towards innovation -- specifically with some of his portfolio companies. Specifically, he's talking about having those companies sued by non-practicing entities (he uses the term "trolls" which we like to avoid). He also mentions -- in the comments -- how USV doesn't require companies to have patents, and he's invested in plenty of companies without patents.
At one point, Wilson writes:
I'm a fan of allowing market forces to work in most cases, but not in the area of patents.But, of course, patents are not a proper market mechanism. They're the opposite of one. They're about the gov't creating monopolies. That's not "letting markets work." It's declaring that the first company to claim an invention gets to control the market, rather than letting the actual market decide which company can best execute in delivering the product to the market. A supporter of free markets shouldn't support the patent system. It's not a free market at all.
From there, though, Wilson kicks off a good discussion on how to deal with such things. He points out that it's often cheaper just to pay off the patent holders (and most companies do that), but that just encourages them to continue creating a "tax on innovation." So, instead, he wants to discuss what reforms can be put in place, with two initial suggestions:
- If you sue someone for infringement and lose, you pay the defendants' legal costs.
- "Use it or lose it." If you're not putting the patent into practice, you don't get to use it.
The second one is also a little troubling, because if a patent is valid (a huge if), you could potentially see a situation where it makes sense for the company to license it rather than develop it. Instead, however, I'd offer an alternative: if the patent holder is not developing a product based on the patent, then (a) the courts cannot issue any kind of injunction to stop the production of the product by others (which is the direction we're moving in thanks to the MercExchange decision) and (b) any damages should be greatly limited to the cost of a reasonable license plus a small penalty.
However, if Wilson is serious about looking for ways to fix the patent system, he should look to support an independent invention defense that would invalidate the patent. This one change would solve so many of the problems with the patent system. Since the patent system was designed to encourage independent invention, it shouldn't be discouraging it and denying those inventors who came up with an idea on their own the ability to commercialize their inventions. Furthermore, since patents are only supposed to be granted on inventions that are non-obvious to a person skilled in the art, the fact that multiple individuals came up with the same idea should be proof enough that the idea doesn't pass that test.
It's no secret that I'm not a fan of the patent system at all. There is so much evidence out there that patents do nothing to increase innovation and plenty of evidence to show how they actually stifle innovation, that I think the patent system actively works against its stated purpose ("to promote the progress of science and the useful arts"). However, if we must have such a system, then put in place an independent invention defense which also invalidates the patent, and we'd be a lot further towards a reasonable system -- especially since it's so rare to find patent infringement lawsuits that involve any actual copying.


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Q. Since the electric utility power meter has the neutral bonded to the enclosure, is it necessary to install a main bonding jumper in the service disconnect?
A. Yes, a service neutral conductor from the electric utility must be routed with the ungrounded conductors and terminate to the service disconnecting means via a main bonding jumper [250.24(B) and 250.28], as shown in the Figure. The service neutral conductor provides the effective ground-fault current path to the power supply to ensure that dangerous voltage from a ground fault will be quickly removed by opening the overcurrent device [250.4(A)(3) and 250.4(A)(5)].
Caution: Dangerous voltage from a ground fault won't be removed from metal parts, metal piping, and structural steel if the service disconnecting means enclosure isn't connected to the service neutral conductor. This is because the contact resistance of a grounding electrode to the earth is so great that insufficient fault current returns to the power supply if the earth is the only fault current return path to open the circuit overcurrent device.
Q. What are the NEC requirements when replacing 2-wire receptacles in bathrooms where there is no equipment grounding conductor in the outlet box?
A. When existing receptacles are replaced in locations where GFCI protection is currently required, the replacement receptacles must be GFCI protected. This includes the replacement of receptacles in dwelling unit bathrooms, garages, outdoors, crawl spaces, unfinished basements, kitchen countertops, rooftops, or within 6 ft of laundry, utility, and wet bar sinks [406.3(D)(2)].
If no equipment grounding conductor exists in the outlet box for the receptacle, such as old 2-wire Type NM cable without an equipment grounding conductor, existing nongrounding-type receptacles can be replaced with [406.3(D)(3)]:
- A GFCI-type receptacle marked "No Equipment Ground," or
- A grounding-type receptacle, if GFCI protected and marked "GFCI Protected" and "No Equipment Ground."
GFCI protection functions properly on a 2-wire circuit without an equipment grounding conductor because the circuit equipment grounding conductor serves no role in the operation of the GFCI-protection device.
Q. Is a hard-wired 120V rated electric heater in a bathroom required to be GFCI protected?
A. No. GFCI protection is only required for 15A and 20A, 125V receptacles located in the bathroom area of a dwelling unit [210.8(A)].
Q. What are the installation requirements for installing nonconductive fiber-optic cable in the same raceway with power conductors?
A. Nonconductive optical fiber cables are permitted to occupy the same cable tray or raceway with conductors for electric light, power, and Class 1 circuits [770.133(A)]. Nonconductive optical fiber cables can't occupy a cabinet, outlet box, panel, or similar enclosure housing the electrical terminations of an electric light, power, or Class 1 circuit.
Ex 1: Nonconductive optical fiber cables are permitted to occupy the same cabinet, outlet box, panel, or similar enclosure housing the electrical terminations of an electric light, power, or Class 1 circuit, if the nonconductive optical fiber cable is functionally associated with the electric light, power, or Class 1 circuit.
Q. Is it always necessary to install equipment grounding conductors in each parallel feeder from a generator to the transfer switch?
A. If circuit conductors are installed in parallel in separate raceways as permitted by 310.4, then an equipment grounding conductor must be installed for each parallel conductor set. Where conductors are installed in parallel in the same raceway or cable tray, a single equipment grounding conductor is permitted [250.122(F)]. Each equipment grounding conductor must be sized in accordance with Table 250.122, based on the rating of the circuit overcurrent device, but it's not required to be larger than the circuit conductors [250.122(A)].
Q. Can a receptacle outlet be installed above a suspended ceiling to feed cord-connected equipment, such as a projector, by feeding the cord through the ceiling?
A. No. Flexible cords must not be run through holes in walls, structural ceilings, suspended or dropped ceilings, or floors [400.8(2)].


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Saturday the breakfast meetings began at 7:30 AM. The one on "21st Century Marketing for Genealogy Societies" given by Thomas MacEntee was recorded and also broadcast live as a webinar. I had planned to catch it that way but had trouble accessing the wifi. I'll watch it at the SCGS website.
At 8:30 Janis Martin presented "Unclaimed Persons: Every Life is Worth Remembering". I have been a part of this group since it began 3 years ago. In fact, I blame them for my facebook addiction. Joining facebook was a requirement to participate in the group. I think this group serves a very worthwhile purpose and really enjoy participating.
"20th Century Public Records" with Tom Underhill was full of alternate ways to search for people. He mentioned some unusual sources such as property records, military unit sites, and e-Bay. Tom was very interesting and had a fun presentation.
Next was "Blogger Summit 2" a roundtable panel discussion featuring Dick Eastman, Joan Miller, Elyse Doerflinger, and Kathryn Doyle. Some of the topics discussed were affiliate marketing, finding your blog niche, copyrights, disclosures, and privacy policies. It was a spirited discussion moderated by Thomas MacEntee with lots of questions from the audience.
Lunch was a hot dog and soda purchased at the outside concession stand. I took it back to Blogger Island in the Exhibit Hall since there wasn't a chair to be had in any of the eating areas. Eventually there were some vacant chairs at the Island and some more Bloggers appeared with their lunches. Everyone compared their experiences and took lots of pictures. (Just search for Jamboree 2011 on facebook or google to find pictures).
After lunch, I attended Daniel Horowitz's "Family Tree Builder 5.0: What's New in the Next Generation of Genealogy Software. Daniel is connected with MyHeritage.com and explained how the software works to match cousins and resides in the "cloud". I actually recently had a connection to my great-grandmother's grandfather find my tree recently and make a match. He lives in Norway and I plan to meet him when I am in Norway next Spring.
My final Saturday session was with Kerry Bartels and was "The Many Facets of the National Archives Website". It was a 90 minute session with lots of info about a subject I know little about. It was extremely informative but I will still keep Kerry's syllabus handy as I explore the website.


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Though the satirical "And Now a Word From Our Sponsor" feels like the love child of the Peter Sellers classic "Being There" and one of Jim Carrey's signature gimmick comedies, director Zack Bernbaum still carves his own offbeat groove with this amusing fable.
Meet Adan Kundle (Bruce Greenwood), a missing ad agency chief executive who resurfaces one day speaking only in popular advertising slogans. As a result, his agency's ruthless, eyes-on-the-prize president (Callum Blue) wants the loopy Kundle declared unfit to run the booming firm.
Meanwhile, widowed charity worker Karen (Parker Posey), who once attended a memorable seminar led by Kundle, takes in the former ad honcho until a spot becomes available for him in a psychiatric rehab facility.
In time-honored fashion, the beatific, loud-shirted Kundle starts enhancing the lives of those in his sphere, including Karen's prickly teenage daughter (Allie MacDonald) while he offers such knee-jerk (or are they?) responses as "Relax, it's FedEx" and "Got milk?" Though some catchphrases fit into the dialogue better than others, they're fun to anticipate as are the inevitable moments when Kundle is mistaken for a pithy visionary.
Michael Hamilton-Wright's salty-sweet script hangs on a slender conceit, one that could have used a more dimensional approach to Kundle. But with the nimble Greenwood and a kinder, gentler-than-usual Posey in charge, "And Now" proves a thoroughly engaging lark.
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redcapscorner wrote:I used to live in Louisville when I was younger, and might be going back there on vacation sometime this summer. If I do, I'd be happy to bring an army with me and look you up! I live in Philadelphia these days, though, which is obviously a hike from Kentucky.
Hoboman wrote:I forgot for a moment what forum I was on.
Jbgarrison wrote:You say you are into tabletop gaming, and Louisville, KY is not just a small town, so you probably have a game store nearby?
Maybe you could print up the Brikwars rules, take them down to your game store and see if they'd let you run a BrikWars intro game there. If you got recruits, you could of course, send 'em to this forum.
redcapscorner wrote:How close are you to the Highlands? Bardstown Road? If memory serves me, that's where the game shops are. I used to buy Magic cards at a comic/toy/game shop called the Great Escape, and I heard a few years back that somebody opened a more dedicated game shop on the same strip, near Ear-X-Tacy.
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The surfer bitten by a 10-foot shark off of Hawaii won't let the ordeal keep him out of the water.
Joshua Holley got 42 stitches on his left foot and will need surgery to repair severed tendons after a shark chomped on his foot as he surfed off Oahu's North Shore on Tuesday. But he told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser (http://bit.ly/HlpbVa) that he plans to return to the waves as soon as doctors say it's OK.
Holley believes that a tiger shark attacked him.
Tuesday's attack was the first on the island this year, and the first one confirmed statewide this year, Randy Honebrink, education coordinator and shark specialist for the state Department of Land and Natural Resources, told the newspaper.
Warning signs were posted at several North Shore beaches.
On Kauai, a shark sighting was reported off Haena Beach on Tuesday morning, fire officials said, but there were no subsequent sightings.
"I'm doing OK. Thank you God that I'm alive, lucky to be alive," he told KHON-TV from his bed at Wahiawa General Hospital as medical staff cleaned his wounds. "I'm not gonna lie, I was pretty terrified."
Holley was recovering at home Wednesday. He recalled punching the shark and paddling to shore with help from two surfers. He was about 30 to 40 yards from shore when he felt the weight of the shark.
"I'm not afraid to go back in the water," he told Hawaii News Now (http://bit.ly/Hfebr9 ). "I'm not mad at the shark at all because one thing we gotta remember when we're surfers, we're going out in their domain."
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HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has kicked off its Real Time Information (RTI) awareness campaign and will be writing to more than 1.4 million employers over the next month.
RTI is due to start in April 2013, and will change the way that employers report on and send PAYE data to HMRC. By October 2013, all employers and pension providers will have to use RTI, as it is vital for Universal Credit to work.
A pilot of the scheme was launched in April 2012, and participants have been providing details of tax, national insurance and other salary deductions in real time as opposed to at the end of the tax year.
For RTI to work all employers will have to prepare, which is why HMRC is launching its campaign now. Measures that employers will have to take include:
- Cleaning data - for RTI to work, the data held by employers on their employees must be as clean as possible. Information such as name, address and national insurance number must be correct and up to date to ensure that HMRC can match records correctly and ensure the right amount of deductions are paid.
- Payroll alignment - all employers will have to provide HMRC with an extract of all employees in their PAYE scheme that tax year, regardless of whether they have since left. HMRC will then compare this data with data they already have to ensure records are accurate and up to date.
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- Red states and blue states didn't always refer to Republican and Democratic electorates, respectively. Red and blue were frequently used to describe American political affiliations, but which color represented which party was not consistent until relatively recently (ca. 2000) -- for instance, during the Cold War, who wanted to be described as "red" in American politics? [url]
- Studies of how linguistic descriptions of color affect the way people perceive colors have rekindled the idea that language can shape how people think. And that's doubleplusgood. [url]
- Babies used to be dressed up in all white, but then little boys started only wearing blue... and girls would wear only pink. Again, this convention wasn't settled on for a long time, and it could have easily gone the opposite way (boys in pink, girls in blue). The real loss is in gender neutral colors for children's clothing.... [url]


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We are a first time user so please bare with us.
We are a multi faceted company with several focuses all within the training and development market.
The first part of what we do is act as the Master Distributor for the Australia/New Zealand market for a company that develops a series of assessment tools (laymen's terms personality profiles, but we don't use that terminology as it is not correct). This business has us working with internal Human Resources, Learning & Development and Organisational Development professionals for larger organisations as well as external trainers, coaches and consultants to help them use our assessment tools in their training initiatives in their organisations (internal) and for their clients (external).
Our main job as the master distributor is to develop and protect the market for our tools in Australia/NZ and to build a distribution network of trainers, coaches and consultants.
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Internal - These are professionals who work within larger organisations in the capacity of Human Resources, Learning and Development, Training, Recruitment and Organisational Development.
External - these are trainers, coaches and consultants that companies hire to work with their company to select and develop the people in their organisation.
Typically these audiences are "people people" they like things that are bright and vibrant. A core message we want to get access is that our business is about people and helping them discover themselves and how to be happy, productive and get what they want.
We are looking to rebrand our business, we have recently changed the focus of our business to focus on the profiling tools and accreditation programs we offer and we plan to rebrand as such. The first stage of this is to design a new logo, then stationary, then a style guide, then a new website. So we are asking you to design the future of our business.
Our website right now does not reflect who we are but have a look anyway to get a feel of our past http://www.dtssydney.com.
We like logos (and over all styles) that are softer colours for example we prefer a dark grey to black. have a look at http://www.DISCaccreditation.com.au for examples. We like the idea of a "clean look" i.e. white space is important, not too much going on - simple is best.
I have uploaded some sample designs in a PDF and additional information and some covers of books we have in the market. The designs in the PDF are things we did inhouse but not suite there - we like the idea of the logo incorporating a person as this is a focus of our business. Historically our colours have been a purple, grey and black (see old logo in attachment) but please feel free to experiment with colours and provide options.
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May 7 - Bryan Mick of Omaha reported a theft.
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May 9 - A&M Greenpower of Pacific Junction reported a theft.
May 10 - Brian Knowlton of Wapakomets, Ohio reported a burglary.
April 29 – Erin Gray of Glenwood reported a simple assault on her daughter.
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Ryan Everett Curts, Carson - defendant, admits violation of probation on original charge of possession of a controlled substance, sentence of 28 days in county jail imposed, ordered to pay court costs and fees.
Shawn W.C. Hazel, Omaha - driving a motor vehicle with a suspended license, pleaded guilty, ordered to pay $25 fine, court costs and fees.
Primary election voters residing in the city of Glenwood and Glenwood Township will have the opportunity to take part in a new electronic check-in process when they go to the polls June 5.
Mills County is one of 55 counties in Iowa to implement a bar code scanning process designed to improve the election check-in process. Precinct Atlas is the name of the computer program established in Cerro Gordo County in north central Iowa. The program is the first of its kind in the country and has received positive reviews.
Pinnacle Construction will serve as the city of Glenwood's general contractor for the first phase of the renovation project at the new City Hall after all, but the Glenwood-based company will be paid about $10,000 less than originally anticipated.
The city of Glenwood has violated state law by not publishing minutes from its city council meetings in a timely manner, a manager for the Iowa State Auditor's Office and a representative of the Iowa Newspaper Association Legal Hot Line have confirmed.
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The regular meeting of the Wabash Wranglers was called to order on April 29, 2012, by our president Hannah Sorenson. We first prepared the meal for the Loess Hills Estates residents before our meeting so we could serve it after our meeting.
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Friday - Cereal & Crackers
Monday - Cereal & Crackers
Tuesday - Donut or Yogurt
Wednesday - Biscuit & Gravy
Thursday - Hot Dog on a Bun, Baked Beans, Chilled Strawberries, Shortcake, Milk.
Michael Moore scored four goals to move within two of Glenwood's career goal record as the Rams routed Creston 10-0 in Hawkeye 10 Conference girls soccer on Thursday.
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Aston Villa manager Paul Lambert admitted that his side's 3-0 defeat to Wigan Athletic has hit him worse than the recent heavy losses to Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur.
Villa went into Saturday's game at Villa Park off the back of an 8-0 mauling at Stamford Bridge and a 4-0 humbling at their own ground by Spurs either side of Christmas Day, leaving Villa teetering above the relegation zone.
However, after goals from Ivan Ramis, Emmerson Boyce and Arouna Kone lifted Wigan out of the bottom three and consigned Villa to shipping a total of 15 goals in their last three games, Lambert said that was the loss to the struggling Latics was the most significant.
"Spurs are a really good team and Chelsea too but there was a good chance against Wigan to break away," he said. "This was a side that came here with one point in six games and we are at home. That is what is disappointing."
Villa take on Swansea City on New Year's Day before they host Southampton in what could be a hugely important match at the bottom of the table, and Lambert said that losing to a relegation rival such as Wigan so heavily is hard to stomach.
"That's the disappointing thing, when you are competing with everyone else round about you and you get turned over 3-0 at home, then it certainly hurts you, that's for sure," he said. "It's a hard one to take."
The former Norwich boss had to look on from the dugout as some of the home fans left Villa Park before an hour of the game had been played following Kone's 56th-minute strike to make the score 3-0. Lambert said he understands the frustration of supporters who had to endure the Premier League safety being secured at a very late stage last season, and were given hope of a revival with a well-earned 3-1 win at Anfield prior to the Chelsea defeat.
"The fans since I've been here have been brilliant, totally fantastic with myself and the team, so I can understand," he said. "The crowd will go away hurt like everybody else, so are we. I know we have to stick together, that's really important.
"This football club has been in a survival battle for the last couple of years. You're in a fight, but so are about eight other teams. Everybody is in a fight. The last three results have certainly hurt us, there's no doubt about it because everybody was all positive after the Liverpool game. But as soon as three results go against you, there's negativity, I can understand that. I can see that. But I've got the belief that Aston Villa will be fine."


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I was passing by the newsstand when I saw the headline. It was in "MAN LANDS ON MOON"-sized letters plastered across the front page of the paper: "POPE RESIGNS." Wow! I was so shocked that I almost swallowed my false teeth. "This hasn't happened for 598 years," I thought to myself. I reckoned that there would be big changes coming soon. Maybe some new Armani vestments or an ergonomically improved method of genuflecting. Exciting times indeed.
Pope Benedict declared that he no longer felt physically or mentally up to the job of leading the church, and would step down on Feb. 28. The newspaper article said that the 85-year-old pontiff had been seen of late dozing off during Mass. Honestly, it wasn't until I read this article that I realized that falling asleep was NOT an integral part of the Mass. I regularly visit dreamland during the interminable, rambling sermons that punctuate most services.
I have to say, I wish the Pope well. He deserves some respite in his old age. It seems like Popes never have an easy time of it. Throughout history they've been imprisoned, banished, executed, you name it. And in my lifetime, they always seem to be falling down, breaking bones, having health crises, getting shot.
I mean, come on, as a Catholic school veteran, I know that suffering is considered good, and dying is even better, but geez, if the Pope can't catch a little slack here on Earth, what hope is there for a shlub like me? I might as well just go on partying until I drop.
Anyway, you could say that this unexpected retirement has left leadership of the Catholic Church in Limbo, except that Pope Benedict himself deactivated (decommissioned?) Limbo in 2007, so they have to get to work quickly to elect a successor in order to avoid anarchy and rampant sinning.
Obviously, the Catholic Church is no stranger to publicity. They get more press than Justin Bieber and Nora the Piano Playing Cat combined. Not all of it is good publicity, however, so I have a suggestion that will turn picking a new Pope into good PR. Make it a reality TV show!
It could be like the popular, "Big Brother" series, where houseguest contestants are sequestered in a residence and forced to live together under constant surveillance, performing assigned chores. Periodically, they vote each other out of the house, until only two remain. Then a jury made up of previously evicted houseguests chooses a winner.
Imagine the possibilities. 118 Catholic Cardinals — with a couple of baseball's Saint Louis Cardinals thrown in for good measure — locked in a medieval castle, tasked with unfamiliar jobs like making sandwiches or doing their own laundry. Hilarious disagreements would ensue over things like "Hey, who moved my scepter?" or "Who's burning incense? I TOLD you, I'm allergic!" or " I KNOW you're not spitting tobacco in the house!" Who among them will seek an eye for an eye? Who will turn the other cheek? The world will eagerly tune in to find out.
The winner will receive all of the following:
• Leadership of over 1 billion Catholics worldwide.
• Legislative, executive and judicial power over the State of Vatican City, the only remaining absolute monarchy in Europe
• Three jewel-encrusted thrones (formal, casual, poolside)
• Artworks by da Vinci, Michelangelo and others
• Unlimited use of the Popemobile
• A lifetime supply of Pope-sadent toothpaste for a sparkling smile that says, "I'm infallible!"
• Total retail value of all the prizes: 98 trillion-billion dollars. Runners-up will receive coupons good for free breadsticks at Olive Garden.
Until recently, I thought that there were only two people in the world who would never retire — the Pope and my barber, Don. Now it's down to just one person, so from now on when I'm feeling lost and need advice, I'll have to go see Don (who is presently 112 years old) for some ancient wisdom. Just the other day, he said to me, "Jim, getting old is a freaking pain in the ass, but you gotta keep going for as long as you can." Genius! Amen to that.


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Jessica Phillips Overcomes Hardships to Advance on 'American Idol'
Jessica Phillips of Brooklyn, N.Y. has been through a lot in her short life. Her boyfriend, Angelo, of five years suffered a massive stroke and had to be hospitalized for a month and a half. When he finally came to, Phillips said he didn't know who she was.
Acting as his full-time caretaker, Phillips said her music career fell to the wayside, but that's not the case anymore. With her golden ticket to Hollywood, Jessica is taking center stage on 'American Idol.'
After relaying her emotional story to the judges, Phillips launched into 'Again,' by Faith Evans. Jessica ran through the song like it was child's play, almost too easy. But hey, you've got to play it safe to get ahead sometimes, right?
The judges made the easy decision to put Phillips through to the next round and Jessica got to deliver the exciting news to her boyfriend, who stood behind the doors waiting for his superstar girlfriend. We liked what we heard from Jessica today and hope to hear her tackle more songs on episodes to come!
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Wippermann wins vault, floor at Hokie Classic
November 3, 2012 | Blacksburg, Va.
The Liberty University gymnastics team made a trip to nearby Blacksburg, Va., for the Hokie Classic at Virginia Tech, with senior Jill Wippermann taking first place in both vault and floor, and finishing second place in the women's all-around.
Wippermann's performance led the Lady Flames to a third-place overall finish out of 15 teams.
Sophomore Alyssa Frost took third place in the women's vault.
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LED carpet turns the floor into a screen
BIG-SCREEN TV not involving enough? How about a giant LED-studded carpet that transforms the floor into a vivid display? The design could let animated characters step out of your TV and whizz across the floor or guide passengers at an airport.
Announced last week, the carpet is the result of a collaboration between Dutch carpet-maker Desso of Waalwijk and display and lighting firm Philips of Eindhoven. The trick was to engineer a carpet backing that could transmit light, says Desso's Ludwig Cammaert. Instead of the usual opaque, rubbery resin, Cammaert built a translucent plastic backing that can stand up to heavy wear and tear. This is laid on top of a 10-millimetre-thick steel screen peppered with LEDs.
The carpet could provide animated signage on the floors of shops, theatres, and hotels, says Ed Huibers of Philips. And at airports, arrows could point passengers toward their departure gate, for example. "Architects are looking into other interesting applications now, too such as placing QR codes on the floor," he says.
It is a clever idea to turn the floor into a display, says Simon Parnall of News Digital Systems, a firm developing ways to build large tiled screens cheap enough to cover walls. "This technology could have an enormous range of uses, signage just being the first," he says. "I am sure interactive gaming applications will soon follow. It very much fits in with the vision of ubiquitous screen technology we share."
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The Swobo Baxter only "kind of enjoys" this stuff.
Yesterday, I took the bus that drops me off at The Maul. Kind of a misake: Quivira was trashed. There was one and a half usable lanes, and cars were still treating it like two whole ones, even with me on the road. That meant I was getting buzzed. A LOT. And even taking what remained of the outside lane, people were still cutting too close for my comfort if it was dry out, much less with snow still adorning the roadway. I wasn't going to risk that again. The sidewalks were unusable, as well. Quivira's a no-go.
So I was betting on 87th street to at least have sidewalks that'd been smoothed over and trampled down by people. The sidewalks on 87th are generally ridable after a good snow-storm. The street itself was NOT going to be ridden on with the fresh snow we got today. Vehicular Psychlists and you Followers of Forrester: just shut up right freaking now, unless you tried riding 87th Street over I-35 today. Usually, I agree with you guys on the VC thing. Not today.
Having set my mind on 85th/87th, I decided to take the Antioch bus to get closer to home today. It was running a bit behind schedule, so I took some pics.
The reflective sidewalls still get me every time. I love that feature.
The bus ended up getting me to my usual stop at 85th about an hour behind schedule. That's okay. I have lights. 85th was fine. Snowpacked, but okay. So was Goddard. Then, I got to 87th. Packed with cars honking at one another, my decision to stay off the road itself was quickly reinforced. That's when the Baxter decided to not move. And who could blame it. The snow was knee deep in places, hip-deep in others, and right there at the BP Gas Station, it was almost enough to bury half the wheel.
So, I hiked. It was 2 miles of walking through all kinds of snow, plow boulders, and crap. All while hauling my backpack and pushing a bike through the stuff. When I got to the 87th street and I-35 overpass, I took a quick break. Just to catch my breath. Okay, maybe it was just a photo-op. But I laid there for a minute or two anyways, allowing my heart rate to settle down a bit.
When I got to the bank parking lot at 87th and Quivira, I was finally home free, on plowed residential thoroughfares and parking lots.
All told, my commute home took three hours, but a good chunk of that 3 hours was spent waiting for and riding on the bus. The last 3 miles (one on the bike, two on foot) took a little under an hour.
This was by far the most tedious commute to date, but I was mostly dressed for the occasion, and I got a good workout from the whole ordeal.
It is interesting that in 2 miles spent hiking through the snow along 87th street, there was not one single passerby who paid me any attention at all. No honks. No "are you alright?" No anything. Not that I needed or wanted any help (I could've summoned help easily had I felt life or limb to be in danger) but I really thought that mankind was just a bit more decent than that.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – A league-leading 29 athletes represented MIT on the 2013 New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Winter Academic All-Conference Team. Criteria includes a minimum GPA of 3.5/4.0 scale or 4.35/5.0 scale, achieving second year academic status at his or her institution, and being a member of a varsity team for the entire season.
The NEWMAC consists of 10 highly selective institutions committed to academic excellence: Babson College, Clark University, U.S. Coast Guard Academy, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, Springfield College, Wellesley College, Wheaton College, WPI, and MIT.
Winter sports sponsored by the NEWMAC are: men's and women's basketball and men's and women's swimming and diving.
Clark secured the second-highest number of honorees with 20, followed by WPI (15), and Smith and Wellesley with 14 apiece. The following is a list of MIT's NEWMAC Academic All-Conference recipients:
Andrew Acker
James Burke
Jamie Karraker
Mitchell Kates
Nicholas Prus
Matt Redfield
Reinier Strobos
Michelle Battipaglia
Lauren Sascha Burton
Sharon Hao
Craig Cheney
Brendan Deveney
Michael Everett
Remy Mock
Max Pruner
Ron Rosenberg
Danil Tyulmankov
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Thursday, February 14, 2008
Posted by Zari
Labels: meme
29 comments:
- Alina Chau said...
Lovely illo with wonderful message!
- February 15, 2008 at 1:48 AM
- Pierina said...
Zari!!! me parece hermosa tu palomita. Parece un Mandala de paz y amor :) Y muy buena idea para difundir el mensaje!!!! Gracias por nombrarme, seguire la cadena.
Voy a imprimir la paloma para ponerla frente a mi mesa de trabajo :)
- February 15, 2008 at 5:28 AM
- Monica said...
What a beautiful dove of peace, Zari, and what a great message. I feel the same way and I will continue to pray for peace and for the end of suffering for both mankind and animals all over the world...
- February 15, 2008 at 7:23 AM
- rosmayd said...
PLEASSSEEEE quiero que me enseñes estas combinaciones de color y texturas que me encantan!!! cada vez mas lindas, esta palomita es la mas linda que he visto.
gracias por tenerme presente siempre.
besos y mas besos Ro
- February 15, 2008 at 10:45 AM
- Gustavo Pinela. said...
No entiendo "ni papa" del idioma de liBANO, pero desde el punto de vista del diseño y la estética me parece una caligrafía preciosa, que tu, que creo que la dominas, podias utilizar más a menudo, es preciosa. Me parece una iniciativa estupenda que espero q funcione, yo tengo curro hasta abril y apenas duermo por ello, pero aportaré algo (además del regalo que tenemos pendiente, jaja); me gusta ver que aunque sea por "culpa" del amor... has metido color en el blog, y vaya color!!!
Enhorabuena y... Saludo;)
- February 15, 2008 at 12:30 PM
- Tizzalicious said...
I love that illustration!
- February 15, 2008 at 6:26 PM
- Chickengirl said...
I love your dove. This world definitely needs a bit more peace and love. Thanks for the tag.....
- February 15, 2008 at 6:57 PM
- flora said...
This is such a beautiful message and a lovely illustration! We can never have too much peace, love and respect for each other in this world! Thanks for this beautiful post you did!
XOXO to you too! : )
- February 16, 2008 at 1:48 AM
- Zari said...
hello everyone! thank you so much! i know that together we can help spread some love and peace! the world need that urgently! - believe me, I can tell Lebanon needs a loooot of prayers! and so do many other countries!
again thanks!
btw, feel free to use any of the 3 dove icons for you post and link.
- Gustavo...el fondo de la illustracion es una pagina de un periodico libanes del 14 de febrero del 2008, como es de esperarse son puras noticias de conflictos...pero la palomita y los colores estan tratando de borrar tanta tristeza ;)
- February 16, 2008 at 2:23 AM
- JC said...
Zari, these doves are absolutely beautiful!!! I'd love to spread the message about peace and love. Definately count me in on this! And I'm praying for you too! =)
- February 16, 2008 at 7:03 PM
- studio lolo said...
thank you Zari! What a wonderful way to spread the word. I'll pass it along!
- February 16, 2008 at 7:46 PM
What a wonderful dove and a wonderful idea. Zari I'm not critical - It's just that you said that it represents "selfish love" instead of "selfless love" which is the opposite.
I'm in New Zealand and a new blogger so I do not know how to upload and link very well yet.
However I will redirect people to your site. [I have, and will continue to meditate on world peace - my Mum has lit a candle (she's Catholic)]
love your site
- February 17, 2008 at 9:24 AM
- pupu-sketch said...
ohhhhh!!! Thank you for the love zari!! I would definitely spread it!! Yehahahah!!
- February 17, 2008 at 3:17 PM
- atomicvelvetsigh said...
ohh i would love to do this too.. thanks for the invite.. i'll try to complete the post this week.. and i would also write a translation in my native tongue. i'll drop by once im done.
- February 17, 2008 at 9:19 PM
- pati @-;-- said...
¡Qué linda, Zari! Me encantó esta entrada... ¡gracias por invitarme!
- February 17, 2008 at 9:21 PM
- Zari said...
thank you JC, Laurel, & Ellie for your wonderful posts...+ a big thanks for your mom Ellie, for lighting a candle; this world needs so much light!
Pupu and atomicvelvetsigh...can't wait to see your posts...thank you!
Pati, me alegro tanto de volver a verte por aqui amiga! espero contar contigo ;)
- February 17, 2008 at 10:04 PM
- 3ster said...
Zari, preciosa!!!!!
No tengo palabras, me han encantado tanto la idea como la forma, los colores, la limpieza.
Y tu firma! Qué original es!
Nada, que una maravilla.
Gracias una vez más por compartir tu arte, guapa!
Un beso muy fuerte
- February 18, 2008 at 1:33 AM
- willynillywaterlily said...
Aloha Zari,
Thank you for tagging me! I have never done a meme before (in fact I had to look up what a "meme" was!), so I hope I have done it correctly! I love your peace dove illustration and all that it symbolizes!
- February 19, 2008 at 2:22 AM
- Diana Evans said...
great message...I just received it from a blog friend...
- February 19, 2008 at 5:18 AM
- ValGalArt said...
What a beautiful illustration! I love the way you incorporated the moon into the dove! Exquisite! This is a great idea and tag and I will meditate on it!
- February 19, 2008 at 9:31 PM
- Emila Yusof said...
Thank you for tagging me Zari! I love the sweet dove!
Mine is already up: http://emilayusof.com/?p=1151
- February 20, 2008 at 8:21 PM
- Anonymous said...
Hi Zari, your tag is travelling and we are wondering at the twit blog what the writing says on your wonderful design :)
- February 21, 2008 at 3:42 AM
- Miho Sakato said...
thank youuu Zari!
i love your peaceful illustration.
- February 21, 2008 at 7:49 PM
- Bimbimbie said...
Hello Zari, one of your lovely doves has just landed in my garden and is busily sending peace and love from her new tree branch. Thank you and Love and Peace to you *!*
- February 22, 2008 at 5:54 AM
- JaMiLLa said...
I had been tagged by Mariuca about doing this meme.
I'm so interested in this Love and Peace meme.
Before doing this, I would like to know more info about the real meaning of Valentine's Day other than celebrate for romantic love to ur beloved one.
I read out the wikipedia explanation but I still can't get it. What's the underlying meaning? Can you explain it shortly?
- February 22, 2008 at 6:23 AM
- flora said...
I've just displayed your meme on my blog! : ) xo
- February 22, 2008 at 8:04 PM
- Zari said...
OOOH! thank you everyone for your cooperation and prayers....love and peace to you all!
Jamilla: it is said that in ancient Rome, getting married was prohibited so that men would have no obligations other than fighting in wars but St. Valentine continued marrying couples in secret till he was killed for that -he became a martyr -
so, this story makes me think more about a "selfless love" than a romantic one...Selfless as St. Valentine sacrificed himself to help others and bless their union according to God's laws...he died loving God and us humans :)
...I just wish people could be less selfish and think more about others, there is so much suffering in the world...I don't think I'd die for any cause but at the same time i can't be indifferent...
I hope our prayers can help...
- February 23, 2008 at 8:56 PM
- Maria said...
Hola Zari, veo que la palomita está gordita, de manera que serán muchos los kilometros que podrá recorrer llevando el mensaje de paz. Un alto en nuestro quehacer diario para reflexionar es lo mínimo que podemos aportar para ayudar a este mundo que habitamos y del cual somos responsables. Gracias por recordárnoslo
- February 24, 2008 at 3:53 AM
- JaMiLLa said...
WoOOo that's so touching!
This is how Valentine's Day started. He is a great man of all couples. He is a loving man. He just want to help people to be in love. That's pretty good.
Thank you, Zari for giving me the information.
St Valentine gave alot of happiness to the people all over the world, including myself. It's endless love. I will remember him every Valentine's Day in respect of him. I salute him for his braveness and loving...
- February 24, 2008 at 11:19 AM


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I've gone to quite a few conferences for people who provide continuing medical education now, and while these folks are experts in adult education (in many cases, they literally have written books on it), I can't tell you how many times I've seen the same old talking head lecture/stuff a year's worth of material into two days/no time for reflection/minimal interaction/etc./etc. mistakes being made. In fact, up until last week, I don't think I'd made it through an entire conference without at least one presenter saying, "Don't follow my example—do as I'm saying, not as I'm doing." It would be kind of funny if it weren't so sad. And frustrating for me as a learner.
So imagine how excited I was when I saw that the CME Congress, the "Olympics of CME" that is held just once every four years in Toronto, was planning to shake things up a little. I'd like to applaud the CME Congress organizers at the Society for Academic CME, the Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions, the Association for Hospital Medical Educators, and the Canadian Association of Continuing Health Education (led by SACME President Gabrielle Kane) for doing something we all talk about a lot, but seldom put into practice at our own meetings: Really designing the meeting to maximize learning.
But first, let me get my geek on and say how glad I was to see the Congress offering a vibrant social media presence. There was a dedicated member of the University of Toronto CEPD monitoring the event Twitter hashtag, and quite of few of the participants were tweeting our aha! moments and key takeaways throughout the event. We also were welcomed to participate on the organization's Facebook page, and there was a mobile site set up for the Congress—not to mention free Wi-Fi throughout the meeting space!
But what I really loved was the conference organizers' willingness to shake things up. While the congress was organized around five main themes—medical simulation, safety and quality improvement, assessment of clinicians, optimizing learning, and interprofessional continuing education—they came at these themes in a number of different, sometimes even playful ways. The plenaries offered both main speakers and "discussants" who would take what the speaker had to say to new levels and/or discuss the practical implications of the topic. The concurrent sessions offered a mix of 60- to 80-minute sessions that were either intensive workshops led by one team of faculty, or best practices/research sessions consisting of a mix of 12-minute presentations on related topics.
Then there was the plenary on engaging learners that entailed a "play within a play," where two people role-played the realities of how pedagogy, politics, and practicality—the plenary's topic—played out in real life. Well, maybe not quite like real life, since it entailed conference co-chair Ivan Silver, MD, MEd, sprinting down the aisle in his "IdeaMan" superhero costume. Then there was a "Survivor"-style facilitated poster session. Grouped to represent either Canada or the U.S., each presenter had just three minutes and three slides to make his or her case. The audience voted for the top three, who then went into a challenge round to deem the ultimate poster survivor winner. I opted to go to the Innovations Booth during that timeframe, which was fantastic. In just four 15-minute sets, I learned about four innovations that could help save time, streamline CME operations, and improve learning. Finally, there were the Fringe sessions, which gave us a glimpse into new and different approaches to CME, from game-based learning to using dramatic presentations to inform and educate.
I don't think I even once heard a presenter say, "Do as I'm saying, not as I'm doing," though I do have to admit we still are in need of remedial work when it comes to unreadable PowerPoint slides. Kudos to the CME Congress organizers for a job extraordinarily well done. I can't wait for 2016!


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Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Presentation Tommorow At REI: Touring The California Central Coast
My wife Meghan is doing another presentation at REI, this time to talk about bicycle touring, highlighting routes and tips for riding along the Central Coast of California. As part of AIDs LifeCycle we traveled from San Fransisco to Los Angeles, and on our own we toured with camping gear from San Luis Obispo to Santa Barbara. These experiences and others we have had traveling by bike will inform the talk. If you are new to bike touring and have been wanting to try getting into it, I highly recommend coming out.
7:00pm to 8:30pm at the Santa Monica REI [map]. [Facebook Event Page]
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Transportation experts say that Route 24's danger lies in its badly designed interchanges and poorly maintained road surface, as well as a healthy dose of poor judgment from drivers.
From 2006 to 2008, nearly 2,400 people crashed their cars, trucks and motorcycles on the 25-mile stretch of Route 24 that runs between Randolph and Berkley.
Eight of those people died.
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Spread those injuries out evenly over time, and the urgency of the matter becomes clear: Every day, somebody gets hurt on the Brockton area's stretch of Route 24, a heavily traveled drag strip of a road whose 60-year-old design is, by modern standards, an engineering disaster.
And what's worse, it seems there's little anybody can do to fix it.
"We're all in agreement that the Route 24 corridor is not an ideal roadway," said Jim Hadfield, transportation planning manager at the Southeast Regional Planning and Economic Development District in Taunton.
Hadfield and other transportation experts say Route 24's danger lies in its poorly designed interchanges and shoddy road surface – and, of course, lots of careless, distracted and otherwise irresponsible driving.
The interchanges "are not up to today's design standards," Hadfield said. "Some of them were just squeezed into an area. So you have abrupt curvature to an on- and off-ramp."
The on-ramps curve sharply, forcing drivers to slow down, and the merging lanes are short, leaving them little time to pick up speed. Meanwhile, motorists bomb down the straightaways, meaning that cars merge into highway-speed traffic at a dangerously slow pace.
Getting off the road can be equally risky.
Route 24's off-ramps curve sharply, and drivers can't see beyond the bend ahead. On the southbound Route 24 exit onto Route 140, for example, the curve can hide a long line of cars backed up on the ramp. A driver slowing from highway speed may not see that traffic until crashing into the last car in line.
Those design elements may have sufficed when the roadway was built in 1951. But they would fall far short of federal interstate standards today.
The state has made some improvements, most notably in lengthening the deceleration lane for southbound traffic exiting onto Route 140.
But reconfiguring other interchanges would require land that is simply not available. Business have been allowed to build right up to the edge of the highway. Nowhere is that more obvious than on routes 44 and 27, where commercial development essentially has painted the highway into a corner.
"It's a huge problem," Hadfield said. "There are (business) driveways close to major intersections and intersections next to major interchanges."
The intersection of Route 44 and Orchard Street in Raynham may be the worst example.
Orchard Street, a major local north-south road, meets Route 44 mere feet from where Route 24 spits cars onto the federal highway.
Off-ramp drivers, merging from the right, find it nearly impossible to merge into the far-left lane to make a left turn onto Orchard Street.
Drivers willing to wait for their window of opportunity can cause traffic backups on the exit ramp that reach all the way back to Route 24.
"The northbound off-ramp to Route 44 is one of the most dangerous interchanges in southeastern Massachusetts," Hadfield said.
Potholes pose a whole other host of risks. Route 24 is crumbling, and drivers swerve wildly to avoid the divots. That, at least, can be fixed: Massachusetts is using federal stimulus money to fix some of the worst pavement, particularly the rough stretch on the Avon-Stoughton line.
"Luckily enough, the state is going to be coming through Avon, Stoughton and down through Raynham to mill and overlay. So the pavement will be taken care of," said Charles Kilmer, transportation program manager for Old Colony Planning Council in Brockton. "But that doesn't take care of driver behavior and driver distraction."
Though the road is notoriously treacherous, drivers still chat on their cell phones and tap out text messages while flying down the straightaways and flowing in and out of traffic.
Massachusetts lawmakers have debated a ban on text-messaging while driving, but have yet to pass one.
Inconsistent car speeds cap Route 24's long list of problems. More than 128,000 vehicles travel Route 24 every day, driven by people of various skill, experience, discipline and temperament.
"You have some motorists driving really fast. For whatever reason, they're in a hurry, doing 85 mph, weaving in and out of traffic. And you have people who might be doing 50 mph in the middle lane," he said. "It's like a clogged artery with cholesterol. So people get frustrated."
Coming Monday: Speeding drivers that add another element of danger to Route 24.


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Rappers have tried innovative ways to sell their records, but leave it to Jay-Z to get the best results. Samsung Electronics Co. purchased 1 million copies of his new album, "Magna Carta Holy Grail," before he even had a chance to publicly announce it. The company plans to give each copy away free to owners of their Galaxy line of phones three days before the album's official release date, through an app.
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Check out the new and more interactive version of the Historical US County Boundary Maps tool!
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- Show me the answer now please! Now, when you type a Place and a Year* and click the Go button, you will be zoomed to that place and an information panel will automatically appear above the map, as highlighted here:
- I want the details. The information panel above the map shows the year, county name, full place name, and details about the latest evolution of your county of interest's boundaries as of the year you chose. Source information about the boundary change is also shown in parenthesis at the end of the Details.
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- Hmm, what are these other places around here? Now you can zoom and pan around the area and then click the map to see information about places in other counties as of that same year. Late-breaking news: Now, when you drag the map such that it's center falls in another state, you will be asked if you want to see county boundaries for that new state instead. Can't make it much easier...
- OK, I want to see more. Literally. Want a bigger map window to work with? Just click the little + sign in the upper right corner of the map pane.
- Now I'd like to time-travel. Click the arrow button on the right side of the Year box to scroll forward a decade at a time and see the county boundaries change before your eyes. Alas, you can also click the arrow button on the left side of the Year box to...you get the idea.
- *But I know the exact date I want. Based on feedback from Tami Glatz, you can now enter an exact date to see county boundaries in effect as of that date! Dates must be entered in the format M/D/YYYY, or you can still just enter a 4-digit year if you want.
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passambhayaü kàyasaïkhàraü assasissàmã ti sikkhati,
he trains like this: making the bodily process calm I will breathe in,
I have been trying to translate this word but cant find a translation anywhere, only those that are in the translations of the suttas on accesstoinsight and Bhikkhu Bodhi's translations of the Nikaya's. I think it translates os "formation" but wanted to know other possible translations, could it be also "conditioner"? Is it similar to "sankhara "?
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OMAHA, Neb. -- Throughout Michael Phelps' amazing swimming career, only a handful of men have had the courage, the conditioning and the competitive moxie to race him in the 400-meter individual medley and match him stroke for stroke.
Ryan Lochte did that last night. He pushed Phelps to the limit, making the world's best swimmer summon something from deep inside himself, something we haven't seen in more than a year.
The absolute refusal to lose.
Phelps broke his own world record in the 400 IM last night at the U.S. Olympic trials, going 4 minutes, 5.25 seconds, nearly a second faster than the mark he set at the 2007 FINA World Championships in Melbourne, Australia. And the Rodgers Forge native who turned 23 today needed every inch to hold off Lochte, who went 4:06.08. Lochte's time also broke Phelps' old mark, but it wasn't enough to win, thanks to an amazing finishing freestyle leg by Phelps in his first event of the trials.
Lochte, who took the lead briefly at the 250-meter mark, pushed Phelps harder than any swimmer has since he and Eric Vendt each went under world record time at the Fort Lauderdale Grand Prix in 2002. Phelps emerged the victor that day in a showdown that was later dubbed "The Perfect Race" by the swimming community. His battle with Lochte last night likely overtook that race as the new standard.
"Someone asked me, 'When is the last time two people went under the world record?' " Phelps said. "I remembered back to that race with [Vendt] thinking that was probably one of the greatest races of my life. Being able to do that tonight [was a thrill]. Having Ryan next to me really helped me go that fast."
For the past six months, the 400 IM has been the one event that, publicly and privately, annoyed Phelps. It never felt right, no matter what he did. He would try to swim fast and his legs would feel like cement. He would try to swim easy and his times would reflect it. At every meet this winter and spring, he would look up at the scoreboard in frustration.
"I don't know what was different tonight," Phelps said.
"I think the competition level was just different," Bob Bowman, Phelps' coach, said. "Other races where we weren't happy, it was partly because nobody was really pushing him. Easy for someone like Michael, your best is at such high level, it's hard to generate that level of excitement just yourself."
If anyone was going to challenge Phelps' dominance in the 400 IM, it was Lochte, one of Phelps' closest friends on the national team. The 23-year-old Daytona Beach, Fla., native is a swimming savant who yearns for competition, but at the same time, he also embodies the classic laid-back skateboarder/surfer ethos that seems to insulate him from pressure.
Lochte doesn't seem bothered by nerves because, generally, he doesn't think too much about the gravity of the moment. Any moment, really. He just enjoys hanging out with his girlfriend, playing with his dog (whom he named after rapper Lil' Wayne), listening to hip-hop and swimming faster than just about anyone else on the planet.
What made Lochte's performance last night even more amazing is that just three weeks ago, he badly sprained his ankle chasing after his dog, an injury he says he still notices when he pushes off the starting blocks or the walls.
The two friends were even at 300 meters, and Phelps said he knew when he glanced over at Lochte that it was going to be "a dogfight" to the finish.
"Michael's last wall was really what won him the race," Bowman said. "I also thought he did a really good job of not over-swimming the butterfly. For him, that's one of the most important things, to just control the butterfly and not step on the gas."
Phelps won't be competing in the 100-meter backstroke but has six events remaining. Bowman and Phelps managed to share a laugh in the news conference an hour after the race when someone asked whether there was any risk to Phelps swimming in such an intense race on the first day when he still has a full schedule of events ahead of him.
"I think the only risk in having pushed that hard is to my heart," Bowman said.
Said Phelps, "All the hair on your head is going to turn gray."
Bowman responded: "No, it's already gray. I think you're going to make it all fall out."email@example.com
The Associated Press contributed to this article.