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While a phone has lots of benefits for children, access to the internet also raises issues, including viewing websites, photos and videos that may upset or disturb them.
We realise it's important for you to protect your children (and grandchildren) from inappropriate content online. To keep children safe, we offer parental controls for BT Mobile and Broadband customers that can be used on smartphones. Filters block unsuitable content, reassuring parents that young children can go online safely.
[Read more: Preparing children for online challenges as they start secondary school]
BT offers two types of parental controls that function separately: BT Mobile Parental Controls and BT Parental Controls. Here's how they work.
BT Mobile Parental Controls
Parental Controls are available to all BT Mobile customers, giving parents and guardians control over what type of content their children can access using a BT Mobile smartphone.
BT Mobile Parental Controls work when the phone is connected to the internet via BT Mobile's data network over 4G, 3G and 2G. They don't work if you are connected to wi-fi at home or via the BT Wi-fi app, head to 'BT Parental Controls' below to find out how to do this.
1: Go to bt.com/mymobile and log in with your BT ID.
2: Scroll down to Parental Controls
Look for 'Filter mobile data content' and you'll notice a drop-down menu, with three options: Light, Strict and Off.
Light: By default it's set to 'Light,' which blocks content suitable for the over 12's. This includes access to the following types of content. To explore them in more detail visit the BT Help pages.
- Alcohol
- Criminal
- Drugs
- Gore
- Hacking
- Hate:
- Pornography
- Self harm
- Sex advice
- Suicide
- Tobacco
- Violence
- Texts to 18+ services
Strict: This blocks content only suitable for the over 12s. This means all of the above, but also unmoderated social networking sites, online dating and chat rooms.
Off: This setting allows everything.
Once activated, BT Mobile Parental Controls take up to 30 minutes to work.
[Read more: Cyberbullying facts and advice]
BT Parental Controls
BT Mobile customers get free wi-fi at 5 million hotspots around the UK via the BT Wi-fi app. To protect your child if they go online this way, you'll need to activate BT Parental Controls, which are part of your BT Extras.
BT Parental Controls are also available free to all broadband customers, these apply to every device – laptop, tablet or smartphone - that connects to your home hub wired or wirelessly. BT Parental Controls also apply if broadband customers connect to a BT Wi-fi hotspot using your BT ID.
Activate Parental Controls: BT Mobile customers
- Go to bt.com/mymobile and log in with your BT ID.
- Scroll down to Parental Controls look for 'You have not set up your BT wi-fi parental controls' and click Get started. Go to 'Setting BT Parental Controls' below.
Activate Parental Controls: BT Broadband customers
- Go to MyBT and log-in using your BT ID.
- Scroll down to Manage your extras, look for BT Parental Controls and click Set up BT Parental Controls
Setting BT Parental Controls
BT Parental Controls have three options: Change filter levels, Manage allowed & blocked sites and Set filter times.
Change filter levels
There are three pre-set levels to choose between or you can customise your filter.
Light: Blocks Pornography, Alcohol and Tobacco, Obscene and Tasteless, Dating, Hate and Self-harm and Drugs.
Moderate: Blocks all the above and Social Networking, Gambling, Nudity, Weapons and Violence.
Strict: Blocks all the above and Fashion & Beauty, File Sharing, Games and Media Streaming.
Custom: Choose which categories you want to block, including: Search Engines and Sex Education.
[Read more: Step-by-step advice to setting up smartphone controls]
Manage allowed & blocked sites
Here you can choose which websites you want to be able to access all the time, regardless of your settings. You can also enter websites you want to block.
Enter the URL and click the green plus icon.
Set filter times
There may be times when you want to suspend BT Parental Controls, perhaps in the evening when the kids are in bed and adults will be online. Use the drop-down menu to select the days and time when the filter will be off.
Worried about your child being distracted when they should be studying? You can set times when social media, chat and games will be blocked on top of your normal filter options.
Click Save changes to finish.
Looking for more advice? Internet Matters can help.
Internet Matters is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to e-safety, set up by the UK's leading ISPs including BT.
InternetMatters has comprehensive advice about all online safety issues, with advice to help parents understand and deal with the issues facing young children today including:
- Online issues like cyberbullying, sexting and online grooming.
- Back to school e-safety tips
- Social networking
- Parents' guide to tech: Gadgets, games consoles, phones, tablets, laptops and televisions.
- Parental controls: How to activate them on devices around the home.
- Parent's guide to apps
To find out more about cyberbullying and other online safety concerns, Internet Mattersn offers a wealth of free, practical advice to parents and carers to help keep children safe.


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Nintendo recently released a torrent of new info on Pokémon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire, showing that while these may be remakes, they'll have enough changes to the gameplay systems that it'll feel like a brand new game. But you know us. We want to take an even closer look with the old Analysis Machine and while there might not be much actually hidden in the trailer, it will provide a better sense of what this new content entails. With that said, be sure to watch our previous analyses as we'll only be covering the new content here. So like many of the recent Pokémon trailers, this one shows off some of the new Mega Evolutions. First up is Mega Pidgeot who will have a boosted Special Attack and gain the ability No Guard. Along with it is Mega Beedrill who gets a boosted Attack and Speed as well as the Adaptability ability. These two are exciting enough, but there were two more Megas unveiled that weren't showcased in the trailer but in released screenshots; that being Mega Steelix and Mega Glalie. Unfortunately, we have no details on what kind of stat boosts the two will get, but Mega Steelix will have the Sand Force ability while Mega Glalie will have Refrigerate.
These all look like potentially great additions that could really change up trainer strategies, but arguably the two biggest additions are Mega Latios and Latias. And judging by the trailer it looks like Mega Latios can only be acquired in Omega Ruby while Mega Latias is exclusive to Alpha Sapphire. What's strange is that the two look extremely similar when Mega evolved, but there are differences. It's not immediately obvious but Mega Latios is larger and has red irises. The Mega Evolution also grants Latios greater Speed, Attack, and Special Attack as well as the Levitate Ability. Mega Latias is smaller than its counterpart and possesses yellow irises. It also gets a boost to Speed and the ability Levitate, but its Defense and Special Defense increases instead.
But the Mega Evolution for the two alone is not what makes them special. It's the Eon Flute that the player can eventually obtain. Using it will allow you to be able to freely fly around Hoenn on either of the Megas. This new soaring ability has a similar style to flying around in airships in classic Final Fantasies and, like those games, this allows you to land on any route, island, or town. You can even perform tricks while on the way and the day/night cycle changes the look of Hoenn. Besides just flying around the region, you can enter battles with wild Pokémon. In the distance in the trailer, you can see a flock of birds. If you fly into them, it will start a Pokémon battle.
And thanks to the released screenshots, we have a better look at what the flocks look like as well as what the aerial battles will be like. Interestingly, you won't be limited to just Flying Pokémon during these encounters. The biggest thing that you can do while Soaring though is find Mirage Spots. These dark passages can only be found in the sky or on previously inaccessible islands. However, even if you do find them, you won't be able to enter until certain conditions are fulfilled. We still don't know if the game will provide those conditions but we do know what the Mirage Spots contain. They give you a chance of catching past Legendary Pokémon like Ho-Oh, Lugia, Dialga, Palkia, Reshiram, and Zekrom.
One of the major ideas of the game is that the Pokédex can be completed simply by owning all of the 3DS Pokémon games. But even more than Soaring around Hoenn, the new PokéNav Plus truly adds to the game. First of all, it includes the DexNav which will allow you to see which Pokémon can be found in each area. From the trailer we can see the trainer has caught or at least encountered a Taillow and a Zigzagoon already, but there are shadows of other Pokémon as well. This will allow players to easily see if they've caught every Pokémon that can be found in an area. Additionally, it can find hidden Pokémon in the grass that then appear with their tails sticking out. The player can then sneak up on that Pokémon and start a battle specifically with it. But even better is that the DexNav will also provide details on that Pokémon. At its most basic, it can tell you what level the Pokémon is at.
But as you increase the DexNav's search level by finding different species with it, it can also show the Pokémon's first move, ability, and even what kind of potential it has. And if you want, you can set the Nav to solely search for that Pokémon that you've identified. Finally, just interacting with Pokémon in the overworld will register them in the DexNav whether they're hanging out with their trainer or flying by on their own. There's also the AreaNav which is essentially a refined map.
Not only does it show the region along with its towns and routes, but it can be focused to show Pokémon, trainers that you've battled before, your Secret Bases, and even berries. Going a little further, you can also use the AreaNav to quickly travel between towns if one of your Pokémon knows Fly. It may even be possibly to travel directly to one of your Secret Bases, a berry location, or a trainer once it tells you that he or she's ready for a rematch. It looks to be incredibly useful for quickly visiting hotspots around the world. Next is the BuzzNav which is actually a series of in-game shows that provides info on various Pokémon, routes, and characters as well as potential in-game events.
It seems mostly useful for tips and hints to players, but there is StreetPass functionality where the more people you pass, the more programs you can unlock. The rest of PokéNav Plus is the Player Search System from X & Y. Everything that you could do in that game with the system carries over into Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire. This of course includes Pokémon-Amie and Super Training. And while it's not directly related, it has been confirmed that character customization is not returning for the remakes. The character you choose will forever stay that way. The new functionality that's being added to Pokémon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire is truly exciting. Not only is it giving breadth and depth to the world by having locations off the beaten path, but it's making it slightly easier for players to catch them all and even find the exact type of Pokémon they want for their team.
It won't be long until we can see for ourselves as the game releases in a little more than a month. Of course, if we missed something, please let us know in the comments. If you liked this video, be sure to like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter at GameXplain. Thanks for watching, and make sure to stay tuned to GameXplain for more on Pokémon and other things gaming too..
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by David Anderson
Kinston Free Press
More than 30 state, regional and local leaders gathered for a summit in Kinston on Friday to lay the groundwork for determining the best methods for improving transportation in Eastern North Carolina and developing the economy for the coming decades.
For the foreseeable future, those planners will also have to deal with an ever-shrinking funding picture.
"I can tell you, we're really at a crossroads in transportation in North Carolina, in the nation," Jim Trogdon, chief operating officer for the N.C. Department of Transportation, told the group, which assembled in a training room at the Kinston Public Services Complex.
Trogdon talked about the need to develop a regional consensus among local communities, and an effort at the state level to divide North Carolina into three regions — eastern, Piedmont and western — and develop transportation solutions tailored to each region's needs.
"Eastern North Carolina could hopefully rally around a goal, strategies and solutions that are consistent with how Eastern North Carolina does business," Trogdon said.
He explained that North Carolina cannot focus on competing with neighboring states to grow jobs, but must work to compete with other nations economically, and transportation networks in Eastern North Carolina must be improved with that goal in mind.
"What we have been doing produces the same results, and we really have to do something different," Trogdon said.
Lenoir County Commissioner J. Mac Daughety, interim chairman of the Lenoir County Transportation Committee, asked Trogdon: "How can we come together to help you?"
The DOT leader said local people must do "whatever it takes to get some kind of consensus."
"That is really driven by people, not by anything that I know," he added.
John Chaffee, president and CEO of the Kinston-based North Carolina's Eastern Region Development Commission, said "we have to think locally and put it in a regional context," and determine "what kind of transportation systems we need to deploy to achieve that kind of connectivity."
Kinston Mayor B.J. Murphy, who also sits on the county's Transportation Committee, said, by the end of the meeting, "the beginnings of a southeastern North Carolina" coalition had been developed.
"Our assets in the East are our military bases, our two ports, the Global TransPark, East Carolina University, our medical school and UNC-Wilmington, and how to tie all of those organizations, all of those assets together through transportation will be crucial in industrial recruitment and job creation," he said.
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Pieces Of A Dream
Making sweet music together almost constantly since meeting at a Philadelphia junior high school in the mid-'70s, the principals in Pieces (keyboardist James K. Lloyd, bassist Cedric Napoleon, and drummer Curtis Harmon) were way ahead of their time. From the get-go, they mixed jazz and R&B long before there was a format for that, and their commercial success has not found them deviating from that original vision. Their most enduring radio hit is the instrumental piano ballad "For You," and that sort of elegance runs through the tunes here, even the most rousing tracks like the skittery, jazzy "Driving It Home" featuring Lloyd's amazing grace. Still, the collection could use a little more of that sort of chunky, bass-driven groove interspersed with all the midtempo lushness. Melodically, though, Pieces never misses, from the soprano sax driven opener "Took So Long" (horn played by occasional group member Eddie Baccus, Jr.) through the stunningly romantic (and also soprano based) "Love You for Life." Indicating that the album's title means they have returned to a sound reminiscent of their early-'80s work, and the retro vocal track "You and I," seems to fit that concept. Maysa Leak takes the floating lead vocal (anyone remember when they called these tunes quiet storm-like?) and Cherie Mitchell chimes in with a wonderfully bubbly Rhodes solo. The melancholy "Cry of the Lonely" is Lloyd's equivalent here to "For You," a true showcase for one of the genre's finest melodic keyboard whizzes.


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William Monk, now commander of the Thames River Police's Wapping Station, finally closes his late predecessor's last case.
Everyone in Queen Victoria's London knows that Jericho Phillips is the scourge of the Thames. Holed up in a well-guarded craft, he keeps a stable of young boys working to provide an unending stream of photographs for gentlemen with a taste for sodomy and pornography. But knowing isn't proving, as Monk finds to his fury after he chases Phillips down and arrests him. None other than Sir Oliver Rathbone, the former suitor of Monk's wife Hester, is engaged by an anonymous client of Arthur Ballinger, Rathbone's father-in-law, to defend Phillips. Exploiting his insider's knowledge of the passionate hatred of Phillips that Monk inherited from Commander Durban, the mentor who died heroically in his last case (A Christmas Grace, 2008), Rathbone is able to persuade a jury that Monk's arrest was based on prejudice rather than facts. His defeat forces Monk and Hester to start all over again, this time with the knowledge that Phillips is fully aware of their intentions and ready to anticipate each move. Perry offers the usual fare, except that this time the ceremonious speeches decrying human-rights abuses are less facile and more directly relevant, and the courtroom scenes are more plausible. Only readers new to Monk's exploits can doubt the outcome.
Perry hammers every point home mercilessly, but fans of this well-upholstered series have surely learned long since to deal with repetition.


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email@example.com> Subject: Re: Navigation to Alternate HTML for Screen Readers Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2001 13:32:18 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 > At 6:09 PM -0400 2001/10/06, David Poehlman wrote: > > It's not always desirable to make the user interface for a non- > visual user a derivative of the user interface for a visual user, > in the same way that it's not desirable to base the "user interface" > for a movie on that of a book. HTML, has no presentational information, it has structural information, I think if you're going to make these claims that different groups require different structural representations, then you need to start backing it up with examples, in my mind content has a structure, and it is only the representation of that structure which need change. The user interface for the non-visual user cannot be a derivative of the visual user, as HTML4.01 has no visual representation, therefore it is only a derivative of the HTML4.01 representation. > Unfortunately, we live in a world in which people with disabilities > are repeatedly told they must "settle" -- and so we get very good > people who I like, such as David Poehlman, not realizing that there's > anything more available to him. There is more to the world, Dave, > than just one-size-fits-all web sites -- there's a whole new set > of opportunities I want to show you and everyone else where usability > is not just a perk for the sighted. Examples, Techniques etc. The other problem I have, is that most developers, do not have the background, experience, or knowledge to create a tailored version for screenreaders (for example.) and to advocate the technique in the guidelines would require a huge amount of techniques and examples. I've yet to see any provided, let alone enough to explain to a developer without the disibility, and without the ability or access to anyone to evaluate usability of such a version, to encourage them by placing them in the guidelines would cause more damage to the idea of accessibility for all, than benefit it would cause. Jim.Received on Sunday, 7 October 2001 09:37:58 UTC
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On the 15th December 2016, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) gave a positive opinion for granting marketing authorization for TruximaTM, a rituximab biosimilar monoclonal antibody targeting CD20 in B-cells. The marketing approval application for TruximaTM was submitted by Celltrion Healthcare Hungary Kft. The CHMP concluded that TruximaTM shows "comparable quality, safety, and efficacy to Mabthera® (rituximab)" from Roche.
The CHMP gave positive opinions for using TruximaTM in combination with chemotherapy in first-line FL patients with stage III–IV disease, and for use as maintenance therapy following an induction response. TruximaTM is also indicated for use in stage III–IV FL patients resistant or who relapse following first-line chemotherapy. The CHMP positive opinion also includes an indication for use in CD20-positive DLBCL in combination with CHOP-based chemotherapy, and an indication for use in untreated and R/R CLL patients in combination with chemotherapy.
TruximaTM is proposed to be available in 500mg solutions for infusion and the data for the use of this drug is based on the previous EMA approval of Mabthera® (rituximab). The full indication for TruximaTM is listed below:
"Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL)
Truxima is indicated for the treatment of previously untreated patients with stage III-IV follicular lymphoma in combination with chemotherapy.
Truxima maintenance therapy is indicated for the treatment of follicular lymphoma patients responding to induction therapy.
Truxima monotherapy is indicated for treatment of patients with stage III-IV follicular lymphoma who are chemo-resistant or are in their second or subsequent relapse after chemotherapy.
Truxima is indicated for the treatment of patients with CD20 positive diffuse large B cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in combination with CHOP (cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, prednisolone) chemotherapy.
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL)
Truxima in combination with chemotherapy is indicated for the treatment of patients with previously untreated and relapsed/refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Only limited data are available on efficacy and safety for patients previously treated with monoclonal antibodies including Truxima or patients refractory to previous Truxima plus chemotherapy."
- European Medicines Agency, Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use. CHMP summary of positive opinion for Truxima. EMA/CHMP/813387/2016. 2016 Dec 15. http://www.ema.europa.eu/docs/en_GB/document_library/Summary_of_opinion_-_Initial_authorisation/human/004112/WC500218017.pdf. [Accessed 17/01/17].


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Why People Try to Ignore the Life Insurance?
Why People Try to Ignore the Life Insurance?
What is life insurance based on its definition?life insurance is a kind of guarantee that will give by the insurance company to the insurer. It is not about to guarantee the insurer life but to give the compensation for the still-alive family to manage the insurer grave and to continue their life. Every people do not want to let heir family get trouble after he or she died. Many people are also do not want their children to stop school and continue their bright future after they died. The financial problem becomes the major problem for everyone to stuck their life, especially when someone who can earn money in their family has gone. Based on it, people are trying to join life insurance, but today, people is trying to ignore it. What is the reason behind it?
Life insurance asks the client to do the regular payment. In this case, it is called premium. The premium amount is different for each person. The Actuarial has the task to calculate everything about it. The first time you apply for this insurance, you have to fulfill some documents like your personal identity, your working area, salary, and the historical disease. If you have the higher risk that will push you to dead soon, you will get the higher premium. The compensation that will take for everyone is also different for each person. You can read about it carefully before you decide to join it. The question is: why people is trying to ignore this insurance today?
First, it is because of the payment. The regular payment they have to pay for the whole of their life seems like a difficult thing to do, especially when they are already in their leisure time. They do not have any income anymore, but they have to pay the insurance.
It is a kind of heavy thing to do while on the other hand, there is many insurance companies offer the new style of insurance, which offer their clients to pay only for some terms and get the whole benefits forever. People will choose the option because they only have to pay it for sometimes and keep the fund in it until they die. Their family still get the compensation after they died. The second is because of many people do not see the benefits offer from this company.
Let us say if you pay something and you cannot get anything except you dies, who will get some money? Will you get the benefits of it? absolutely not! It is because you already died. Many people today is getting interested in the investment insurance which will give you extra fund that you can take while you are still alive. You can use the fund for holiday or enjoy your leisure time without worry about your financial problems and what will happen to your family after you die. It means you prepare your old day since you were young and it is the great choice to do.
Do you still want to join this insurance? You can ask your insurance agent about the plus and minus of life insurance. Commonly, each insurance company has its own rule and procedure of this insurance. However, people today is smarter than before and they are more selective in spending their money. They will extra careful to spend their money, especially to prepare their death. The only rich person will choose this way today because they already wealth until their next generation. However, for a middle and low-level person, it is better to save more to prepare their death.


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Data mining tools for Salmonella characterization: application to gel-based fingerprinting analysis
© Zou et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2013
- Published: 9 October 2013
Pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) is currently the most widely and routinely used method by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and state health labs in the United States for Salmonella surveillance and outbreak tracking. Major drawbacks of commercially available PFGE analysis programs have been their difficulty in dealing with large datasets and the limited availability of analysis tools. There exists a need to develop new analytical tools for PFGE data mining in order to make full use of valuable data in large surveillance databases.
In this study, a software package was developed consisting of five types of bioinformatics approaches exploring and implementing for the analysis and visualization of PFGE fingerprinting. The approaches include PFGE band standardization, Salmonella serotype prediction, hierarchical cluster analysis, distance matrix analysis and two-way hierarchical cluster analysis. PFGE band standardization makes it possible for cross-group large dataset analysis. The Salmonella serotype prediction approach allows users to predict serotypes of Salmonella isolates based on their PFGE patterns. The hierarchical cluster analysis approach could be used to clarify subtypes and phylogenetic relationships among groups of PFGE patterns. The distance matrix and two-way hierarchical cluster analysis tools allow users to directly visualize the similarities/dissimilarities of any two individual patterns and the inter- and intra-serotype relationships of two or more serotypes, and provide a summary of the overall relationships between user-selected serotypes as well as the distinguishable band markers of these serotypes. The functionalities of these tools were illustrated on PFGE fingerprinting data from PulseNet of CDC.
The bioinformatics approaches included in the software package developed in this study were integrated with the PFGE database to enhance the data mining of PFGE fingerprints. Fast and accurate prediction makes it possible to elucidate Salmonella serotype information before conventional serological methods are pursued. The development of bioinformatics tools to distinguish the PFGE markers and serotype specific patterns will enhance PFGE data retrieval, interpretation and serotype identification and will likely accelerate source tracking to identify the Salmonella isolates implicated in foodborne diseases.
- Data mining
- Salmonella
- bioinformatics tools
- data analysis.
Food safety remains an important concern due in part to the globalization of food supply and foodborne illnesses create an important public health burden in the United States. CDC data indicates that nearly 48 million people become ill, 128,000 are hospitalized, and 3,000 die due to foodborne illnesses each year, and non-typhoidal Salmonella enterica is one of the leading causes of illnesses among the top 31 known foodborne pathogens [1]. The characteristics of Salmonella infections has changed over time, including changes in the frequency of antimicrobial-resistant Salmonella subtypes implicated and the frequency of different serotypes among isolates associated with human infections [2].
Multiple phenotypic and genotypic Salmonella subtyping methods have been developed to efficiently detect the cases of human salmonellosis [3]. These methods include traditional phenotype-based approaches such as serotyping [4]; genotype-based methods such as Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis (PFGE) [3, 5]; DNA sequence-based methods including DNA microarray analysis, multi-locus sequence typing (MLST) [6, 7], multi-locus variable-number tandem repeat analysis (MLVA) [8, 9] and next-generation sequencing (NGS) [10–14]. Each of the subtyping approaches has been applied in Salmonella outbreak strain identification and source tracking; however they each have their own strengths and weaknesses in terms of sensitivity, cost, speed, and robustness.
Large amounts of molecular subtyping data have been generated by academia, private companies and government agencies. Along with the development of new technologies, it is anticipated that new analytical methods will be applied more often in combination with the conventional assays to characterize and subtype foodborne isolates, therefore, enhancing the current food safety and regulatory science paradigm [15]. Facing the large amount of emerging data and technologies, one of the major challenges is the data management, storage, analysis and retrieval, and how to build up the connections and communication for data developed by various subtyping methods. Data mining seeks to find new interesting patterns and relationships in huge amounts of data. Data mining involves the bioinformatics approaches that combine biological data using computational tools and statistical methods to analyze, summarize and transform data into useful information to improve food safety. Such a systematic approach facilitates the extraction and correlation of patterns of knowledge that is implicit in the stored databases.
PFGE is currently the most widely and routinely used molecular subtyping method by CDC and state health labs in the US for Salmonella surveillance and outbreak investigation [16]. Although PFGE provides less-detailed genetic information than NGS and other DNA sequence-based methods, it has been successfully used for over twenty years to type Salmonella from human patients, foods, and food animal sources because of its discriminatory power, low cost and high reproducibility [3, 5]. PulseNet (http://www.cdc.gov/pulsenet), the CDC's molecular surveillance network used for foodborne infections, has the largest and most rich Salmonella subtyping database in the world, storing more than 350,000 PFGE patterns of more than 500 serotypes since 1996 [17]. Data mining of this valuable database will provide resources to study the ecology, epidemiology, transmission, and evolution of the emerging Salmonella serotypes.
Several commercial software applications have been used to analyze PFGE data, such as BioNumerics (Applied Maths, Inc., Austin, TX), GelCompar II (Applied Maths, Kortrijk, Belgium) and Fingerprinting II version 3 (Bio-Rad, Hercules, USA). BioNumerics is the default software in PulseNet standard protocol [18, 19] and has been widely used in PulseNet participating laboratories and other public health laboratories that perform PFGE subtyping for bacterial foodborne pathogens for surveillance and outbreak investigations. These softwares are currently used to analyze PFGE gel images to generate dendrograms for clustering PFGE patterns from different strains of foodborne pathogens. No other methodologies or commercial tools are applicable on PFGE data except for the cluster analysis, which limits the usage of this subtyping technology in understanding the genetic diversities of foodborne bacteria. In addition, BioNumerics and other software have limitations on dealing with large number of samples (less than 20,000 patterns for Bionumerics), which is an obstacle for meta-analysis of the PFGE data and data mining.
In this study, in order to systematically investigate and characterize PFGE patterns of Salmonella isolates, BACPAK knowledgebase was created and systematic approaches assembled to build up a functional software package for PFGE data mining. The approaches include PFGE band standardization, Salmonella serotype prediction, hierarchical cluster analysis, distance matrix analysis and two-way hierarchical cluster analysis. The development of this software package and the application of its approaches provide a better understanding of Salmonella genetic diversity and epidemiology, and contribute to PFGE-based characterization and surveillance of Salmonella isolates in outbreak investigations.
Bacterial pathogen knowledgebase (BACPAK) construction and PFGE database
The data composition in BACPAK and Salmonella PFGE fingerprints database.
Antimicribial susceptibility test
Antimicribial resistant gene PCR
Plasmid sequence information
PFGE Database
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Paratyphi B var. L(+) tartrate+
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PFGE band standardization
Before analysis with the developed tools, the bands of all the PFGE patterns should be normalized. For example, when using Salmonella serotype prediction tool, the bands of tested Salmonella isolates should be normalized to band classes stored within the database, which are used in the development of training sets for the prediction tools. To accomplish this band normalization, the NCTR fixed band method [20] was implemented to standardize the band classes for cross-group analysis. In this method, the means of the band sizes of two adjacent bands of the training data was used as the standard to normalize the corresponding bands of each new sample. As an example, assume that the training data have a set of descending bands sized as s1, s2, s3, s4..., and the test sample consists of descending bands of t1, t2, t3, t4... if t1 ≤ (s1+s2)/2, t1 is normalized to s2, and if t1 > (s1+s2)/2, it is adjusted to s1 [21]. A total of 39,830 PFGE patterns were band standardized and stored in the database [21].
Salmonella serotype prediction from PFGE fingerprints
Previous studies have reported two classification algorithms, Random Forest (RF) [22] and Support Vector Machine (SVM) [23], to predict Salmonella serotypes based on PFGE fingerprints [21, 24]. The scripts of the algorithms were based on the packages "RandomForest" and "e1071" in R (version 2.12.1), respectively. Based on the prediction accuracies, the SVM algorithm was chosen to computerize the scripts as a practical tool for Salmonella prediction using PFGE fingerprints. The normalized database consisting of 39,830 patterns from 32 serotypes was used as the default standard and training set [21].
Hierarchical cluster analysis
The distances of any two of the standardized PFGE patterns were measured and hierarchical cluster analysis was pursued by the complete linkage method using "hcluster package" in R [25]. The scripts were converted to a computational tool provided in BACPAK.
Distance matrix development and two-way hierarchical cluster analysis
In the approach of distance matrix analysis, scripts were written in R to calculate the Jaccard Distance [26] of PFGE patterns for measuring the dissimilarity of PFGE inter- or intra-serotypes patterns. The color from blue to red indicted the values of the Jaccard Distance ranged from 0 to 1. The scripts were computerized as a tool to identify the differences and relationships among the various Salmonella patterns within specific serotypes and among the targeted serotypes.
In the two-way hierarchical cluster analysis, scripts were coded using R to calculate the average proportions of the bands present at every designated band location with values ranging from 0 to 1 to build the characteristic parameters of each target serotype. The hierarchical cluster analysis using the complete linkage was applied based on the dissimilarity measures of any two serotypes calculated by the Euclidean distance [27] of the characteristic parameters. The scripts were implemented to pursue a two-way clustering analysis of the PFGE patterns, in which both serotypes and band locations were clustered according to dissimilarity measures to simultaneously identify the associations between serotypes and band locations.
Results and discussions
To begin to address the need to develop improved analytical tools for PFGE analysis, a software package consisting of the integrated data mining techniques and the PFGE database was established and stored within NCTR's BACPAK. BACPAK is capturing and storing data including antimicrobial susceptibility data, plasmid sequence data, PCR data on antimicrobial resistance genes and PFGE data (Table 1). The PFGE database consisted of 45,923 semi-randomly selected PFGE patterns submitted to PulseNet from 2005 to 2010 (Table 1) [20]. Based on the statistics of the Salmonella Annual Report 2006 [2] and Salmonella Annual Summary Tables 2009 from CDC [28], isolates from the 32 serotypes represented in the BACPAK database comprised more than 80% of all Salmonella reported over the past 14 years in the US [21].
The approach for PFGE band standardization
Band normalization is the key point to allow the comparison from different dataset. Since BioNumerics was unstable to handle more than 20,000 PFGE patterns, the implemented NCTR fixed band method was especially useful for large dataset analysis. It showed higher accuracies when used to normalize PFGE bands for Salmonella serotype prediction in comparison to the conventional BioNumerics fixed band method [21], and made the meta-analysis available to clarify the inter- and intra-serotypes relationships in a large dataset [20]. In addition, NCTR fixed band method transferred the gel-imaged band class into certain digital parameters in the model, and normalized the bands of future candidates with no necessity to upload and save standard band class in BioNumerics [21].
The prediction approach for Salmonella serotype prediction based on PFGE patterns
The prediction algorithm was developed as described previously to identify Salmonella serotypes based on their PFGE patterns [21, 24]. In these studies, the NCTR fixed band method coupled to the SVM classification produced the highest average predictive accuracies for serotype determination (96.1%) [21]. Therefore, the SVM algorithm was coupled with NCTR standardization method and turned the R scripts which were implemented as a computational prediction tools installed in BACPAK.
Five selected test Salmonella isolates, the prediction results and the distinguished band markers by the two-way hierarchical cluster analysis tool for five serotype identification ("X" stands for band presence).
Test Salmonella isolates
Predicted serotypes
Real serotypes
Distinguished band markers (Kb)
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The original prediction tools were developed by a supervised classification approach [21, 24]. This approach focused on studying the association between PFGE patterns and serotypes determined using traditional serological methods, and applying the information learned from the training set as the rules for prediction in the test set. The prediction accuracy was measured by applying the prediction model based on the training set to emulate the population of the future profiles to be analyzed. If the samples in the training set do not adequately represent the likely samples to be encountered in use, then bias may occur. The training set used in these studies represents greater than 80% of all the isolates reported to CDC, therefore, the prediction tool should be able to predict most Salmonella serotypes. As such, this tool should be especially useful to predict the serotype of outbreak isolates before the conventional methods were carried out in a laboratory. The refinement of the predictive tool is an ongoing effort as additional PFGE data becomes available and is incorporated into the training dataset to improve the prediction accuracies.
Hierarchical cluster analysis
Distinguishing serotype relationships: distance matrix and two-way hierarchical cluster analysis
The five functional tools were assembled and integrated into a software package to study PFGE profiles for better understanding the genetic diversity of Salmonella and other foodbornbe pathogens. The analysis tools included in the package allow the systematic analysis of PFGE data from various aspects and make it available to meta-analyze PFGE profiles from large data sets. The software package is currently available in the NCTR internal BACPAK knowledgebase. BACPAK, as a general-purposed bioinformatics pipeline for foodborne pathogen analysis, will be a new addition to the FDA bioinformatics tools at http://www.fda.gov/ScienceResearch/BioinformaticsTools/default.htm.
Although NGS and other sequencing technologies are advancing rapidly in foodborne pathogen subtyping, PFGE is still the most widely used method to characterize Salmonella strains isolated from outbreaks[30]. In the developed software package, PFGE band standardization normalizes the data for cross-group large dataset analysis. The Salmonella serotype prediction tool based on PFGE patterns allows rapid and accurate prediction of Salmonella serotypes from outbreaks before the conventional serological methods are pursued. It also shows advantages in distinguishing an isolate that is serotyped as "unknown" by conventional methods, or for a laboratory where standard serotyping is not available. Hierarchical cluster analysis could be used to clarify the subsets of a group of PFGE patterns for source tracking and identification of outbreak isolates. Since Salmonella serotypes can be closely related in terms of their virulence, and antimicrobial resistance profiles [17, 30–33], our distance matrix analysis and two-way hierarchical analysis tools make it possible to study the relationships between phenotypes and genotypes of Salmonella isolates and to distinguish band markers and PFGE pattern diversity for serotype identification, especially for large dataset analysis. Theoretically, these approaches could be applied to other gel-based analysis and other pathogens in the future. Combined with the Salmonella genome sequencing data, the distinct serotype specific patterns and bands may provide useful information to aid in the distribution of serotypes in the population and potentially reduce the need for laborious analyses, such as traditional serotyping. In addition, the PFGE analysis tools in the software package are expected to help the in silico pattern construction to match PFGE data with NGS data in future studies.
This work and the publication were funded by Food Protection Plan of FDA. We are grateful to Ms. Beth Juliar and Dr. Tzu-Pin Lu for critical reading of this manuscript.
This article has been published as part of BMC Bioinformatics Volume 14 Supplement 14, 2013: Proceedings of the Tenth Annual MCBIOS Conference. Discovery in a sea of data. The full contents of the supplement are available online at http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcbioinformatics/supplements/14/S14.
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CHICAGO (CBS) — Millions of fans couldn't be more excited with the opening of the final Harry Potter film.
That includes one Chicago man who has taken that potter magic and turned into a decade-long career.
Harry Potter hasn't just worked his magic in the world of wizardry. It has also transformed the life of Emerson Spartz, a 24-year-old who has 21 people working for him.
Spartz created Mugglenet, dubbed the number-one Harry Potter website by millions of fans, including author JK Rowling.
"JK Rowling, without intending to, was providing moral guidance for a generation," Spartz says.
The Indiana boy was just 12 years old when he got the idea for the website.
"I had just started home schooling, and I was bored out of my mind and I thought it would be fun to make a website," Spartz tells CBS 2's Vince Gerasole.
A dozen years later, Spartz's River North company creates lots of websites. He's publishing books, too, that celebrate the human spirit.
"There is no greater way for someone in their early 20s to change the world than to use the Internet and the power of social media," Spartz says.
His relationship with Harry Potter has also turned into a love story. At Notre Dame, Spartz met finacee Gaby Montero, who also started her own cute animal website when she was 12.
His office will be attending a midnight show of the last Potter film, but a sentimental Spartz is holding off for now.
"I'm not in a rush to close this chapter in my life," he says.


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The spiral of violence
It will sound reasonable to many until it's learnt (at least from what I read) that the rockets have led to only one casualty in Israel. The rockets themselves were a reaction to previous aggressive acts from the Israeli army, and also the complete embargo that Israel has placed onto this part of Palestine. Not even food, aid, or medicine has been allowed to enter the Gaza strip, adding to the plight of many impoverished people there. Some exemptions to this embargo were only made earlier this week. Those aggressive acts by the Israeli military and the embargo were a reaction to the kidnapping of some Israeli soldiers and more rockets that rarely ever hit anything. I could go on like this forever.
When will both sides learn that violence begets violence? Does Israel actually expect a long bombing raid to decrease the level of violence and anger in the Gaza strip? Whether Israel has a sacred right to the land or they immorally forced their way into the land with the blood of Palestinian civilians; it is clear that such merciless killing by both the Israeli army and the suicide bombers will only provoke further aggression. An endless spiral of violence now defines the Israel/Palestine conflict, and the poorest victims are the Palestinian/Israeli civilians who just want to get along with each other in peace.


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Dear Baby Girl,
5 months old already?! Time is flying and you are growing like a weed, right before our eyes! It seems like just yesterday we were bringing you home from the hospital on that crisp October day. But then again, it's as though you've always been a part of our little family! How funny how it seems like both at the very same time.
What a month you have had! We celebrated your very first Easter! It was such a beautiful and wonderful weekend, and we started several new traditions as a family of 4! Your first year of holidays is just so very special!
You also got to go on your first shopping trip to a mall with Mommy this month! How fun! You slept the whole time, but I know you'll always remember it ;)
Spring is here, so we've spent a lot of time outdoors visiting the Zoo and the Botanic Gardens. You love riding in the Ergo, and are as happy as a clam when we are out and about. You are flexible and easy-going, which is such a blessing! As long as you have your favorite lovey doll and a blanket, you are good to go. No pacifiers for you! You are not a fan!
This month, we also introduced your first solid food - bananas! You really weren't sure about them...you just smacked them around in your mouth looking at us like we were absolutely crazy. We'll keep trying.
Ellie - you are just the most perfect baby and we are so thankful for each and every moment we have with you. We especially love your crooked smile, your fuzzy bald spots, your expressive eyebrows, your tiny toes that you like to grab, and of course your joyful personality.
Things you love:
Bouncing up and down
The play mat
Being held in the Ergo
Giggling with Andrew
Things you don't love:
Getting out of the bath
Nose Frieda :(
26 inches long
We love you so much sweet girl!
Happy 5 months!


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Online shopping project is a web portal which is implemented in java platform.
This website is developed by considering telegrandsindia.com website as a reference, this website is implemented with basic features that are present in every online shopping sites.
Main idea of this project is to sell products under different category through online.
As the usage of internet is growing day by day users are interested in using the internet for buying and selling goods which is a time-saving process and just a click away procedure.
In recent years sites like a snap deal..etc had grown rapidly in this field. This application is designed with features like placing orders, add modify delete and cancel orders form the list, subscription option for receiving latest deals to email.
online shopping project in java source code for free and project abstract with project execution procedure.


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Ali Zentner via Crowdrise
October 31, 2012
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2000 Hoosier Car Show and Swap Meet
On September 14-16, 2000, my wife and I attended the 34th annual Hoosier Car Show and Swap Meet that was hosted by Circle City Corvairs of Indianapolis, Indiana.
This was the first show I had ever been to that had a large showing of Corvairs! In fact I had never been to a show where there were more than four Corvairs entered. I may be mistaken but, I think there were about forty Corvairs entered at this show.
My Wife and I would like to start by thanking everyone in Circle City Corvairs, we had a great time and look forward to next year!
Lets get to the pictures I took. My apologies to anyone who's car I did not get a picture of. I tried to get them all and, some of the pictures did not develop. Just remember, I am not much of a photographer. These cars looked much better than any picture I could ever take! :o)
Click on the links below to view your favorite Corvairs at the car show!
Early Corvairs
Late Corvairs
FC Corvairs
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I recently attended a lunch-time talk at darc space on the report 'Parnell Street East: A Vision for an Historic City Centre Street' by the Dublin Civic Trust (a brilliant organisation). I know this part of the city pretty well and love the community feel, which is embodied at Ozanam House on Mountjoy Square.
It would be great to see the recommendations of the Dublin Civic Trust report (commissioned by the Dublin City Business Association and Carroll's Gifts and Souvenirs) carried out but in these gloomy times the prospect of even widening the footpaths or tree-planting, let alone large scale refurbishment of the historic buildings and redeveloping the scarred sections of the street, seem unlikely.
GLOOMY: The Georgian architecture of numbers 76 to 78 Parnell Street East is almost hidden under layers of plaster and unsympathetic shopfronts.
Image from the Dublin Civic Trust.
VISION OF THE FUTURE: How the report has re-imagined the three buildings, restoring them to their former glory complete with original door.
Image from the Dublin Civic Trust.
The Asian businesses that have sprung up on the street have brought life and colour to the area, making Parnell Street East a culinary (and karaoke!) hotspot. The area would benefit from being designated as a quarter (not everyone likes the idea of having specific designated quarters in the city, but I believe it has worked well in the case of the Italian Quarter), but should it be an 'Oriental Quarter' as envisaged by the report?
A lady who attended the event suggested that, as Smithfield is set to become a food destination and there is no guarantee that the Asian community will favour the Parnell Street East location in the long-run (Capel Street is another growing centre of Asian cuisine), perhaps we should focus on making it a Literary Quarter instead, given the street's proximity to the James Joyce Museum, the Dublin Writers' Museum, Fighting Words, etc. Indeed, both Asian businesses and literary centres can happily co-exist. Whatever happens, I hope that Parnell Street East will be renewed in the not too distant future.
The report makes for an interesting read, great for a large-scale 'before and after' fix too.


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Stories > Hippotherapy
Hippotherapy is a form of psychomotor therapy that makes use of the horse's rhythm and dynamics to influence posture and mobility. The horse's movement offers a sensorial discharge because it is both repetitive and varies in rhythm. These movements provide similar stimuli to the pelvis and back as that of the human walk. The three dimensional range of movement provides the perception of motion and works on motor control, spatial cognition and several other psychomotor skills. This kind of therapy is used to address not only motor issues but also cognitive and communicational, among others. It is especially recommended for work with children, both at a psychological and physical level. Among its benefits, it is especially good at reducing spasticity and muscular contractions associated with cerebral paralysis, at working general movement coordination, muscle tone and posture, balance, gestural and oral communication, vocabulary and articulation, socialization, and of course building a basic respect for living things and nature.
Thanks to:
Francisco, Gustavo, Pedro, Martim
Sónia Batista and Patricia Batista
Rita Prata (AARF)
Paulo Abrantes and Maria dos Prazeres Abrantes (Francisco's parents)
Caeiro da Silva (instructor at CHS)
Centro Hípico da Sobreda
Associação Almadense Rumo ao Futuro
Marta Vaz
Lisbon, July 2013
Sonia Batista readies the horse "Negrita" for their first therapeutic session of the day. She and her twin sister Patricia are both psychomotricity therapists specializing in psychomotor rehabilitation and hippotherapy. Having been born in the countryside of Portugal, in a region with strong equestrian traditions, horses have surrounded them all their lives and while pursuing their degree in the field of psychomotricity they were drawn to techniques which incorporated the use of the animal as a therapeutic vehicle and medium.
Rita Prata, clinical psychologist and AARF's occupational facilities coordinator. In the background, Liliana is passing by a large picture board which contains dozens of photographs of clients and residents. "Associação Almadense Rumo ao Futuro", founded in 1991, is a small NGO which maintains a residential home and activity centre for people with multi disabilities aged 15 to adults. They currently work with about 40 clients, 14 of whom are permanent residents. Residents, clients and staff view each other as an extended family. This is one of the institutions with which Sonia and Patricia collaborate.
The Equestrian Center of Sobreda (CHS) was founded in 1992. They host and care for an average of 10 to 14 horses, provide riding classes for students, advanced training, and other related activities. This is the venue where Sonia and Patricia host their therapy sessions, both for institutions and private clients.
Sonia and Patricia work with Gustavo on his cognitive abilities, on his focus, and on the recognition and naming of numbers. Patricia him with the articulation of a letter, exemplifying it. Exercises are repeated regularly during the course of a therapy session. Gustavo is 7 and he was diagnosed with a moderate autism. Hippotherapy was prescribed by his doctor as part of a range of therapies.
Several therapeutic toys are used in the sessions to work on the clients' cognitive and psychomotor skills.
Pedro, 20, rides his horse around a course of obstacles placed inside the ring. Pedro has a cerebral paralysis and is a wheel chair user. The movements of the horse serve to mimic the muscular tensions that are felt on the back and spine when one is walking. Stimuli experienced on specific muscles in the back and hips, while riding, help counteract their atrophy. The action of the horse, at a physical and emotional level, is much beyond anything a mechanical device has ever been able to produce. The horse communicates 110 multidimensional and intuitively responsive movements each minute, something a physical therapist alone could never match.
Posture, upper torso control, balance, and muscle strength are all continuously exercised while riding the horse.
A card with letters is used to practice the alphabet. Sonia explains that excess information does not generate added cognitive competence so each exercise must focus on a single specific task or mode of comprehension. Clear contrasts, visual and otherwise cognitive, are important in the elements that are employed in each activity so as to allow their easy differentiation and understanding. Every exercise must be simple and directed to one specific isolated skill in order to be effective.
Martim, 8, performs a coordination exercise. His therapy is focused essentially in left/right body balance through riding and specific motor exercises using pins and rings. He suffers from hemiparesis which affects his left arm's muscle strength. Light weights are used to stimulate the muscles – in this case 0,5Kg.
Martim guides the horse at the end of his therapy session. Patricia explains that work directed towards physical and motor disabilities is very rewarding for their clients – it is an area where you often see fast and visible improvements whereas in the case of intellectual disabilities these many times deepen and as such require continuous work to maintain and avoid regression of acquired skills and capabilities.
Francisco works on arithmetic skills using small wooden sticks. Sonia calls out numbers and operations to which Francisco must respond by handing her the resulting appropriate amount of tokens. This helps develop abstract thought. Francisco's father explained that it was in hippotherapy that he began doing arithmetic operations.
At the end of a hippotherapy session Francisco takes his horse back to its box to be unsaddled and cleaned.
Francisco, 9, loves computer games which he can play for hours in a row. On his table he also has a Nintendo portable console which he takes everywhere. Francisco was diagnosed with a 50% autism but is fully communicative and it is very difficult to notice. He has some learning deficits but his father mentions that nowadays he knows more about computers than himself does. Practically self-taught, Francisco is already fluent in using the internet and many applications.
Francisco sits with his parents, Paulo and Maria, on their living room sofa. He has been doing hippotherapy for several years now. Even though sometimes it is very difficult to reconcile his school schedule with the therapy sessions, his parents say that it is fully worth it. Besides being something Francisco loves, second only to computer games, they explain he is enjoying very beneficial effects and visible improvements on both his communication and cognitive skills, and his confidence.


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The inaugural event was the first to ever bring together more than 200 key stakeholders – including representatives from labour offices (public employment services), employers, the Ministry of Labour, government and the Parliament – with the aim of encouraging collaboration between public and private sectors in addressing unemployment challenges.
Outcomes of the conference included recommendations for further work on improving labour market policy legislation and for improvements to the effectiveness of professional activation services.
Participating in the conference were three Polish ministers: Minister for Labour, Jolanta Fedak; Vice-Minister for Labour responsible for the labour market, Czesława Ostrowska; and Minister Michał Boni, the Head of the Prime Minister's Advisory Committee.
Sharing international experience was Jeremy Groombridge, Director for Transformation and Product Management for the Jobcentre Plus UK, who detailed the British experience in public private partnerships for employment services from the public sector perspective.
In addition, representatives from Ingeus Europe and Ingeus Germany presented the private provider perspective, stressing the importance of partnerships, not competition, to develop complementary services alongside public services to assist those furthest from the labour market.
The national conference was co-hosted by PKPP Lewiatan (the Polish Confederation of Private Employers) and Ingeus under the patronage of the Ministry of Labour.


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The Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA) is an educational non-profit dedicated to promoting social activism and the defense of human rights. ALBA's work is inspired by the American volunteers of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade who fought fascism in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). Learn more at our website or sign up to receive email updates from ALBA. You may support ALBA through a tax-deductible gift through our secure donation site.
ALBA's 2019 Honorary Committee Features World-Renowned Filmmakers, Politicians, and Activists
Endorsing ALBA's 2019 event in New York City this year, where the Immigration Justice Campaign will receive the ALBA/Puffin Award for Human Rights Activism, is an Honorary Committee featuring world-renowned filmmakers, politicians, and activists. On May 5, ALBA and the Puffin Foundation will join in honoring and supporting the Immigration Justice Campaign (IJC)...
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In Memory of the City College of New York, Alumni, Students and Teachers
The City College of New York (CCNY) was founded in1847 as the Free Academy of the City of New York. Offering free tuition, the school served as a combination prep school, high school and college. It was renamed the College of the City of New York in 1866 and became the City College of...
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Arthur Witt by Peter Arthur Witt and Bert Witt
Arthur Witt lived an interesting and full, but all too short, life. The first child of Herman and Ida Witkowsky, he was born on October 4, 1907, in Brooklyn, New York. The family changed its name to Witt in late 1916. He died February 27, 1937, fighting the Fascists on the battlefield at...
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Gunnar Ebb by Unattributed
The Volunteer for Liberty, v. 2, No. 33, October 6, 1938 When Major E. Cecil-Smith Commander of the Mac-Paps was wounded at Hill 565, Teniente Gunnar Ebb, Finnish commander of Company 5 of the Battalion became what the Spanish Army calls an "accidental" commander of the Battalion. But there is nothing accidental about Comrade...
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Frank Rogers, War Commissar of the Mac-Paps by Johnny McGrandle
The Volunteer for Liberty, V2, No. 25, July 19, 1938 Just outside of Belchite towards Fuentes de Todos, a shell landed in the Estado Mayor of the Lincoln, killing commander Reiss and Battalion Commissar Parker. One of the corpse fell against Frank Rogers – a piece of shrapnel wounded him in the leg....
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Written During An Airplane Attack by Daniel Hutner
Written During An Airplane Attack by Daniel Hutner American Volunteer Killed In Action –September, 1937 The Volunteer for Liberty, V. 1, No. 15, September 20, 1937 Dawn still sleeps; but we awake, Aware that soon those shadows in The sky may hover. Everywhere about us the earth is raw, With wounds from shells...
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En Laces – Rafael, by Sam Spiller
The Volunteer for Liberty, V. 2, No. 32, September 17, 1938. You know, when we got all those new Spanish recruits late in May, we looked at them and a lot of us thought "Hells Bells, look at the kindergarten broke loose." Why, those kids –they didn't shave, some of'em would cry if you...
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The Inimitable by James Ruskin
The Volunteer for Liberty, V2, no. 33, October 6, 1938 There is not a man of us who did not like and appreciate Teniente Johnny Cookson Adjutant of the Transmission Company of the 15th Brigade for he combined the rare qualities of a man of science, a good organizer, and a sincere simple and...
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Waiting, by Alvah C. Bessie
The Volunteer for Liberty, V. 2, No. 31, September 5, 1938 We moved down off the hill in single file, the taste of breakfast still in our mouths –coffee, chocolate, ham and sardines, bread, marmalade and plums. There was a comfortable weight inside us., and there was, too, the inevitable nervousness, the pre-action...
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Two Poems by Miles Tomlin
Two Poems by Miles Tomalin The Volunteer for Liberty, V2, No. 35, November 7, 1938 TO ENGLAND From the English Dead We, who were English once had eyes and saw The savage greed of those who made this war Tear up from earth, like a hog loose in flowers So many lives as young...
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The term Fed Speak, in the monetary policy of the United States, refers to the verbose and wordy statements used by the Federal Reserve Board Chairmen to prevent the financial markets from over reacting to the chairman's remarks. This strategy was predominantly used by Alan Greenspan during his tenure with the Federal Reserve.
The idea of Fed Speak originated from the fact that financial markets were heavily concerned with any statements the Fed chairmen used to make and most of the times, this led to self fulfilling prophecy. Thus in order to prevent this, the Fed Chairmen developed this way of putting up their statements : Fed Speak , to purposefully detract meaning from the statements using ambiguous and cautious words.
Alan Blinder called Fed speak as "a turgid dialect of English" by the Fed Chairmen in making wordy, vague and ambiguous statements. It was generally the strategy of Alan Greenspan , who was the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board from 1986 to 2006. He used to make vague and ambiguous statements with little substance, and it was not easy to interpret his statements. He is credited with making Fed Speak " a high art" and popularizing it by the name of Green speak. He once said "What I've learned at the Federal Reserve is a new language which is called 'Fed Speak'. You soon learn to mumble with great incoherence."
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Well, the house has been back on the market now for a few weeks and we are getting lots of people through the door. Still no buyers though.
The chap who was really interested has decided that he won't pay more then his initial offer (which wasn't a satisfactory one) so we'll leave him simmering for a while.
Not holding out much hope for this chap anyway. At the end of the day, I've asked him twice now to formally confirm his offer with the Halifax but still nothing.
Its also interesting how many people are trying to pull a fast one and trying to take advantage just because we are moving abroad.
We even had one chap saying to the missus last night..'You moving to Australia, you give us cheap price..yes?'
Err, no
We may be moving abroad but we aren't going to sell the house for a pittance, were not that desperate (yet!) At the end of the day, if we don't sell before we move out in just over a months time then we'll have a mortgage and rent to pay at the same time.
It's not a perfect situation but we've budgeted enough to be OK for a few months and I seriously think if it does come to that, an empty shell would be easier to sell. Hey that rhymes! :)


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Donegal's 2002 squad kick off their Kennedy Cup campaign in Limerick today with their opening Group 1 game against Carlow (2.30pm).
It's the first of three group matches in two days - Donegal play Wicklow on Tuesday morning (10.30am) and then Kerry on Tuesday evening (4pm).
Kerry won the Kennedy Cup last year and along with Donegal, they are the fancied team to qualify from this section.
But Donegal manager, Kevin McHugh, was refusing to look beyond this afternoon's opener when he spoke about his team's chances over the weekend.
"They're all big games in the Kennedy Cup," he pointed out.
"You can't really afford to lose any game if you want to qualify as group winners.
"To get into the last eight of the competition, you must finish top of your group so there's no real room for any slip-ups."
McHugh's is into his third season as manager of this current group.
It's a talented squad and they went all the way to the final of the SFAI Inter-League competition two years ago, only to lose on penalties to Waterford.
Last year, they were back in the final at U13 level and managed to beat the same opposition.
"It was almost Deja Vu," McHugh said.
"We played on the same pitch, against the same team and with the same referee in charge.
"Thankfully the boys were able to put that penalty shoot-out defeat behind them by winning, which shows there's a bit of character about them."
McHugh though, insists his involvement with the Donegal squad is not about how many trophies they can win.
"It's more about the players and how they are developing," he said.
"If at the end of each season, you can say that these boys have improved as players and as individuals, you're doing something right."
McHugh might not know all that much about Carlow and Wicklow, but he knows plenty of the threat posed by Kerry. The sides met in last year's Galway Cup tournament in a 3rd/4th place play-off which the Munster side won 1-0.
Donegal have never won the Kennedy Cup, a tournament that's been dominated by the Dublin and District Schoolboys League (DDSL) over the years.
Kerry's win last year denied the DDSL a fourth win on the trot and an 11th win in 12 years.
The following is the Donegal squad for the Kennedy Cup: Adrian Mc Laughlin (Bonagee Utd.), Calum Friel, (Letterkenny Rovers), Kyle McMullin (Swilly Rovers), Stephen Black (Kilmacrennan Celtic), Domhnall Mac Giolla Bhríde (Gweedore Celtic), Adam Mc Cafferty (Dungloe), Ronan Mc Kinley (Bonagee Utd), Frankie Campbell (Swilly Rovers), Jamie Grant (Kilmacrennan Celtic), Jack Murphy (Bonagee), Finian o Donnell (Bonagee), Jason Mc Daid (Drumkeen), Patrick Ferry (Gweedore United), Carlos O'Reilly (Kilmacrennan Celtic), Matthew McLaughlin (Swilly Rovers), Gerard Duffy (Letterkenny Rovers), Kieran Tobin (Bonagee), Conor Black (Kilmacrennan Celtic), Kyle Campbell (Eany Celtic), Ben Boyle (Keadue Rovers).
The backroom team includes Ruidhrí Higgins, Gary Crossan and Andrew Wilson along with physio, Tommy Harkin.


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The Oregon Department of Justice (ODOJ) is not to be trifled with. Or at least Oregon State Police Detective David Steele can tell you that (sort of). Steele, convicted of forging a document in a federal murder case way, way back in 2014, now spends his days counting the mites in his prison bedding. Oh, nevermind—he only got 18 months of probation.
Anywho, our state DOJ has finished an inquiry related to the case and has found that our State Police bow under huge caseloads with little oversight regarding the flexible way they choose to handle it. It's not to say that other criminal action is occurring (though I'd guess that it is), but… for example, they have no policy to speak of regarding how to catalog digital evidence, such as photos or recordings. Things go disappearing from evidence all the time, right? I watch crime dramas. And I also know all about a lack of policy… we only have a few here at the Advocate and they're usually found under the table stabbing each other with forks over the last bit of dropped donut. It's dangerous.
So at the end of all this, the ODOJ decided that things were a mess, and that someone should clean it up. That's it. No big deal, anyway… just a probe after a cop was caught forging stuff.
Thanks, Oregon Department of Justice.
Rose Parade Wows a Few Hundred People, Maybe
Portland's Rose Festival, a tradition that dates back some amount of years between 50 and 100, is highlighted by a parade that recently drew just under the number of people that have tried to break into Stefani Germanotta's house. It was led by none other than Governor of Convenience Kate Brown, as well as Oregon's first female governor, Barbara Roberts.
All media outlets have been careful to point out that Brown is "considered" (whatever that means) the first openly LGBT governor so as to help pump up the word count when covering this blah event. In fact, Oregon Public Broadcasting's coverage goes so far as to actually produce another paragraph just to mention that she was named the 40th most interesting women in politics by The Washington Post.
My God, if you're not asleep right now, pinch yourself just to be sure.
Some floats in the parade included a bunch of cops on horses, a high school marching band, something called the Oregon Mayors Marching Group, a Vietnamese Community Float, and even more big a*s horses from none other than Budweiser, because why not. Maybe that ad they released making fun of craft breweries wasn't enough, so they wanted to parade about a bunch of horses and have them sh*t in the street.
Results from a scientific Corvallis Advocate poll show 86.7% of onlookers selected "root beer" as their favorite float of the day.
Union Gets Medieval on Some Shakespearean A*ses
Unions… known for their dockside hideouts, under-the-table payouts, and dastardly attempts at providing American workers with fair conditions and decent wages. Well, those bastards are at it again—and this time the behind-the-scenes workers of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival will be raising their hands and saying stuff like "Aye!" and "Nay!"
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Oh, and by the way, Lee Barbee: don't give this app a one-star rating because your hardware is malfunctioning. Talk about tacky.
Washington Hates Bears
Cinder the cuddly, lovable man-eater was released into the wild last week. A year and a half old, the poor wubbins' had been badly burned during a wildfire in North Central Washington. It was touch and go for the young black bear, but by golly, she made it!
And she gets to spend the rest of her life named "Cinder." Way to go, Washington. You sick freaks.
Crazy Guy Does Crazy Sh*t and I Don't Like It, No Sir
Christof Teuscher is a nutjob associate professor at PSU who engages in something called "ultra running." What is ultra running? Well, in this case it is summiting Mt. Adams and then Mt. Hood, in one go… having put 158 miles under his feet. Oh, and in just under 65 hours.
I feel like I'm going to have to stress-vomit just thinking about it.
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