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I think PS4 and Xbox One are equal in their ability to amuse consumers but I have no faith in Sony to get anything right, they probably wont deliver on a series of promises and generally ignore their customers once they have spent their money.
Microsoft tried very hard to generate a strong indie developer scene and put a lot of work into user experience. The controller is ergonomically designed to be comfortable. The thumbsticks are the most accurate I have ever used, and they are durable.
The first iteration of ps3 dashboard was abysmal and my friends ps3 is still suffering from random crashes, deleted save games, games wont update and thus wont work, games that cant be completed because of bugs. He's a total fanboy and has never owned an Xbox so he thinks this is normal.
The playstation controller was designed by someone who thought it looks nice, they have stayed with the design because of brand and it gives me serious pains in my fingers when I use it for only 1 hour. How other people do not experience this is a mystery to me. Their thumbsticks break down and get food stuck in them easily.
I also think the trends favour Microsoft so its likely that, due to market share, a lot more titles than usual will be available on both platforms. Especially in the PS4 -> Xbox One direction.
Also, xbox will integrate better with my windows phone, desktop and tablet. Do Sony even sell these things anymore?
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NEW ALBANY – A May 7 public hearing will allow New Albany residents to voice their opinions on alcohol in the city limits.
The Board of Aldermen set a 5:30 p.m. public hearing on a proposed ordinance to govern the sale of alcohol.
The city's voters approved the sale of spirits and wine on March 18 by a margin 1,217 for to 910 against. Under state law, aldermen are compelled to create an ordinance setting parameters not addressed directly by state law.
The draft ordinance will allow for alcohol to be sold both by the bottle in package stores and by the drink in state-permitted restaurants and clubs. State law sets hours for package stores at 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., Monday through Saturday, with an extension to 1 a.m. on New Year's Eve.
New Albany's draft ordinance also would forbid Sunday by-the-drink sales, with serving hours from 10 a.m. to midnight. An exception would be made when New Year's Eve falls on a Sunday, when by-the-drink sales would be legal from 1 p.m. to the following 1 a.m.
The draft ordinance makes possession of liquor and wine illegal in parks, playground, school campuses, libraries, museums and most other public properties.
Establishments without a liquor license are forbidden to allow patrons to "brown bag" their own alcoholic beverages under New Albany's draft ordinance.
City attorney Regan Russell said the ordinance is not as detailed as some might expect.
"There's a lot that's not in there, because state law already controls so much," he said. "Hours, days, distances from churches – there are already a lot of things out there that we don't control."
By state law, no establishment selling alcohol can be within 400 feet of a church or funeral home (100 feet in an area zoned commercial).
One audience member at Tuesday's board meeting demanded to know, two weeks after the election, why New Albany's economy hadn't yet delivered the economic growth that alcohol proponents had touted.
"Where are the restaurants?" she asked. "I thought they'd be breaking ground by now."

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The Denver-based chain gave customers a taste of its 100 percent Angus burgers on Tuesday, but is celebrating its grand opening today.
In honor of its new store at 2222 McKinney Ave. (at Pearl Street), Smashburger's operators will donate $1 from each of its Lonestar Smashburgers sold at its Uptown location between now and Jan. 17, 2011, to Family Gateway, a nonprofit that provides services to homeless families.
Smashburger's Lonestar version includes cheddar cheese, chili, diced onions, diced tomatoes and fresh jalapeños on a chipotle bun.
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Seven Blue Sisters in SB Skies
updated: Feb 02, 2013, 10:00 AM
By Chuck McPartlin
We had some nice clear skies last week, but the Moon was bright, so it
was a good time to image a prominent star cluster. Well placed in
Santa Barbara skies these days, are the Pleiades, or the Seven Sisters.
They are overhead as darkness falls, next to brilliant Jupiter, but
about 400 light years away, while Jupiter is at about 40 light minutes.
The Pleiades are often mistaken for the Little Dipper, which is
actually the constellation Ursa Minor, the Little Bear. The
Pleiades form more of a "micro dipper" in the shoulder of the
constellation Taurus, the Bull. Taurus, by the way, represents
only half a bull - he ends at the waistline. The story is that
when he was placed into the sky, his rear half cracked off, and
fell back to Earth, and brought forth politicians.
Here is the Pleiades image, a mosaic of 80 individual photos
taken with a modified monochrome video camera used for security
systems, attached to a 5-inch telescope. Printed full size, it
would be about 3 feet across - way too much ink. This gives you an
idea of how small the field of view can be through a telescope.
As you can see, there are more than seven stars in the Seven Sisters.
There are thousands of stars in the cluster, gravitationally bound
and moving through space together. Because the cluster is easily seen
and near the ecliptic, the path of the Sun and the planets across the
sky, lots of cultures have stories about it.
One Greek story involves seven sisters who were being pursued by
Orion. Zeus turned them into doves, and they flew up into the sky
to become these stars. One of sisters is dimmer than the rest,
because she married a mortal, and longed to return to Earth, while
the other sisters had the foresight to marry immortal gods.
The video camera is more sensitive to red light, and the Pleiades
are hot, young stars, and thus blue. Here is an image generated from
planetarium software, showing more what your eye would see. The named
stars of the cluster have been labeled, but are rather hard to read.
From left to right they are: Atlas, Pleione, Alcyone, Merope, Maia,
Sterope, Taygeta, Electra, and Celaeno. Atlas and Pleione are the parents
of the sisters. The little line of stars trailing down from Alcyone
is known as "Ally's Braid".
Finally, here is an image assembled with big scopes - the Palomar Observatory
Sky Survey's Oschin Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope.
The strange superimposed hieroglyphic represents the fields of view of the
instruments. Here you can see lots of color, not only in the stars, but in
the reflection nebulae surrounding them. The Pleiades are colliding with a
cloud of space dust, very small particles of carbon and silicates puffed off
and left behind by an earlier generation of stars. These particles preferentially
bend and scatter blue wavelengths of light, amply supplied by the cluster.
Earth's daytime skies are blue for the same reason. Our atmospheric particles
scatter the blue wavelengths of sunlight down to our eyes.
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Morgan Stanley analyst Scott Devitt and his team have a review out of e-commerce and internet advertising firms out today, with downgrades for both eBay (EBAY) and Twitter (TWTR).
First up, eCommerce: Devitt notes that 2013 favored domestic segments of online sellers, including Amazon (AMZN), Groupon (GRPN) and eBay, thanks largely to macroeconomic conditions, but as the bigger picture improves, the former two should be best positioned to benefit, given company specific initiatives. He raised his price target on Amazon from $404 to $435, as he is "increasingly confident that revenue and profitability growth can accelerate from 1) improved performance internationally; 2) Amazon Prime gaining momentum; and 3) AWS continuing to experience sizable growth in public cloud computing." For Groupon, he maintained his $15 price target, calling it one of the most asymmetrically attractive risk-reward stocks in his coverage, and that the company should surprise on the upside throughout 2014.
While he maintained Overweight ratings on both Amazon and Groupon, he cut eBay to Equal Weight, and lowered his price target by $1 to $57: "While management deserves accolades for the business turnaround and is positioning eBay as a key player in omni-channel long term, we see risk to 2014/2015 estimates. Without positive catalysts that will allow investors to incorporate eBay's omni-channel/offline initiatives into their numbers, we believe the current risk-reward profile is balanced."
On the online advertising side, Devitt writes that Twitter has gotten ahead of itself, trading above even his most bullish scenario. (Read more about the Twitter downgrade here.) By contrast, he prefers competitors Facebook (FB) and Google (GOOG):
FB: We incorporate Instagram revenue into our estimates and raise our 12-month price target to $62 (from $53). With the recent launch of News Feed video ads, we see Facebook as better positioned than Twitter as TV ad spend transitions online. With a significant lead in global user reach, engagement, and time spent, Facebook appears the best way to play social internet.
GOOG: We believe that YouTube remains Google's most underappreciated asset and are increasingly confident in Google's local ad opportunity. We boost our 12-month price target to $1,172 from $1,075.
He also initiated coverage of IAC/InterActiveCorp (IACI) with an equal weight rating and $67. He writes that the company's Match.com asset is its best, but the there is risk to its search business. Still, he notes, healthy cash generation and capital return may limit the stock's downside.


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| To use this machine, you sit with a straight bar behind your neck with your arms bent in "goal post" formation, as you push the bar up and overhead. "Problem is, when you place your shoulders into this extreme external rotation it stresses the shoulder joint and increases the risk of impingement," says Brad Schoenfeld, author of "Sculpting Her Body Perfect." Impingement occurs when the space between the rotator cuff muscles and a bone on top of the shoulder narrows, pinching the tendons.
Safer Pick: Front Dumbbell or barbell shoulder presses Hold dumbbells out to the sides with your wrists stacked above your elbows at a right angle. Push them overhead and together and then back to the starting position. Repeat 12 to 15 times for two to three sets.
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| This machine locks hips into position so only your waist moves. This puts you in a very inefficient position and puts a lot of torque on the spine, says Schoenfeld. "It's especially dangerous when initiating the movement -- that's when there's greatest stress on the spine."
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Stand with feet slightly wider than shoulder width apart and extend a light-to-medium medicine ball (5 to 6 pounds) in front of you. Bend knees and hips, dropping into a squat as you bring the ball down to touch your left foot, shin or knee (depending on your flexibility). Rise up out of the squat as you simultaneously rotate and raise the ball up and across your opposite side, as if throwing it over your opposite shoulder. Do 10 lifts to each side for two sets.
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Safer pick: Good mornings
These strengthen the same muscles and allow you to maintain a neutral spine, says Schoenfeld. Hold a barbell behind the head, near the upper back. Keeping your back straight (very important) and knees slightly bent, bend forward until your torso is nearly parallel to the floor. Slowly return to starting position. Start with a weighted body bar for eight to 10 reps for two sets.
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| On this machine, you pull a bar down behind your neck, which requires you to rotate your shoulders externally. This produces similar stress to the shoulders as that of the shoulder press, says Schoenfeld. "You also often end up smashing the bar into the back of your neck, which can damage the little bony processes."
Safer pick: Lat pull down in front
Use the same cable but pull it down to the front, not behind your neck. Anchor yourself in the pull down seat and grasp a bar slightly wider than shoulder width. Lean back slightly and focus on squeezing your shoulder blades together as you pull down the bar to touch just below your collar bone -- this way, you're still working the back. Slowly allow the bar to return to the starting position. Do not rock back and forth, but keep your torso stable. Repeat 10 to 12 reps for two to three sets.
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Safer pick: Stiff-legged deadlifts
They activate all the same muscles in the correct sequence with less risk, but they must be performed perfectly, says Ramirez. Stand with arms straight down, weighted body bar in front of your thighs. Engage the abdominals as you bend forward at the hips, keeping back straight and knees slightly bent. Do not round your back! Bend forward only as far as you can without losing your form and then slowly stand back up by pushing your heels into the ground. Repeat 10 to 12 times for two to three sets.
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Safer pick: Campfire squats
These work the same muscles without the knee stress. Stand with toes pointed out to 10 and 2 o'clock. Bring elbows between your knees and hands together in a prayer position. Straighten your legs, lift your butt up towards the ceiling, and bring it back down. Repeat 20 times.
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Safer pick: Push-ups
Form is key. Keep your back straight (do not allow hips to sag) and make sure your fingers are pointed forward. Aim for 12 to 15 reps for two to three sets.
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Safer pick: Crunches
For a real challenge, try crunches on an exercise ball. Just make sure to pick the right size for you. A 55-centimeter ball works best for most women. You should be able to sit on the ball with your legs bent at a right angle, thighs parallel to the floor. Perform as many as you can in good form for two to three sets.
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| Women believe doing this seated outer thigh machine will tone and tighten their outer thighs, but it's simply not going to happen, says Ramirez. Instead, when you're pushing out you just put pressure on the thigh and hip bones. Not only is it irritating to those bones, it may cause a hernia or symptoms of sciatica (pain and numbness of the leg).
Safer pick: Leg lifts with ankle weights
Use two-to-five pound ankle weights. Lie on your side with your head resting on your arm, legs stacked straight. Raise the top leg straight up and then back, tracing a capital letter "D" as you bring the leg back down to meet the bottom leg. Without actually resting the leg, lift it back up and to the front. Trace a lowercase letter "r" as you bring it back toward the lower leg. Lift the leg straight up one more time. Slowly lower. Repeat 25 to 50 reps per leg for two sets.
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Safer pick: Yoga
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Established in 2002, the National Gallery of Ireland's Centre for the Study of Irish Art was opened to the public on the 18th June 2003. Over the past decade, it has firmly established its role in promoting and supporting the study of Irish art. Its library and archive collections are now an essential resource for anyone interested in the history of visual art in this country.
HistoryThe CSIA is one element of the Gallery's Library and Archives department, which holds a rich assortment of published and archival material relating to the history of western art. These vast collections, available to the public in the Gallery's reading rooms, originate from a modest compilation of books that began in the 19th century for use by staff. This expanded and became the natural location to deposit other types of research material, which the Gallery amassed from various sources over the course of its history. During the 1960s, the study and research of art history in Ireland increased in popularity, particularly with the launch of the art history courses in both Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin. This did much to highlight the value of research material associated with art history and in 1968, facilitated by the expansion of the Gallery building, a reading room was opened in the basement of the Gallery's new extension.
The library quickly developed in size and, over the years, individual collections containing various types of material emerged. In particular, a collection relating to the visual arts in Ireland began to take shape. This formed the nucleus of an Irish art archive, one that would eventually develop as an autonomous collection.
In the early 1990s, as part of the planning process for the Millennium Wing, the provision for a specialised research facility to support the study of Irish art was included in the Gallery's programme for the expansion of services. When the new wing was completed in 2002, it included accommodation for the CSIA which, with the sponsorship of the ESB, opened in the following year.
AchievementsOver the past ten years, the CSIA has developed a wide-ranging collection. This has been achieved most significantly through the generous donation of material from individuals and bodies who are concerned with the future care and use of archival collections. Donations to the CSIA have come from various sources including historians, scholars, descendants of artists and their family members, or directly from the artists themselves. To date, much of this material has been used by a broad range of researchers and historians to enrich our understanding of the development of the visual arts in this country.
To date much of the collection remains unexplored, and the CSIA is continually seeking new and innovative ways to enhance access and promote its collectionsholdings. Following in the footsteps of the celebrated national art archives of Europe and America, there is great scope in the coming years to expand the CSIA collection and services, and to progress its role in preserving and providing access to research material for the future study and interpretation of Irish art.
Gift of Knowledge (2011)
This exhibition celebrated some of the important gifts and bequests which the CSIA, Library & Archives have received over the years from individuals who recognise the cultural and educational importance of library and archives in contributing to our knowledge of art and artists, culture and heritage.
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Jack of All Trades (2012)
This exhibition features a selection of illustrations that highlight the tradition of commercial illustration by Irish artists who are best–known for their achievements in painting. This includes Jack B. Yeats, Aloysius O'Kelly and Richard Thomas Moynan.
'Alive Alive O!'-Dublin Street Life 1750-1900
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Personally, I like variety. If someone who "doesn't know anything," gives me a good idea that just happens to work, I'm as happy as a hooker at the high roller table. I think it's true for any discipline. Of course a bit of salt in a fresh wound adds a bit of entertainment, as well.
What the heck is keeping you so busy in the N. British Isles that you don't have time for a doggy forum? Anyway, have a safe journey back. I'm sure there is alot of value in your observations.
As worthless as the amnesty poll. Doesn't matter! So move on and post up some training threads if everyone is supposedly out training.
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Just read an article on the front page of the Skagit Valley Herald (www.skagitvalleyherald.com) title "FEDS ASK FOR MORE TIME FOR SALMON PROPOSAL" that is on the issue this thread has been discussing.
"A federal agency that is rewriting a salmon recovery plan for the Pacific Northwest has asked for a six-month extension."
"A federal judge ordered NOPAA Fisheries to rewrite its recovery plan, known as a biological opinion, last May [2003], after ruling that the existing bluprint violates the Endangered Species Act."
"U.S. District Judge James Redden set a June 2 [2004] deadline for the new plan. The previous plan, adopted in late 2000 by the Clinton administration, remains in effect while the rewrite is completed."
"But in court papers filed this week, the fisheries agency, formally known as the NMFS, said it needs another six months to do the job. The agency said the comprehensive nature of the recovery plan, and the extensive work it has done with the affected state, as well as the Indian tribes and conservation groups in the region, make the delay unavoidable."
"Todd True and other conservationist say they would not abject to an extension of up to three months to allow the government to do a thorough job. But they say six months is too musch time."
""I think some extension is reasonable and fair to provide,' said Nicole Cordan, policy and legal director for the Save our Wild Salmon, another group involved in the case."
"'The judge has made it clear all along that he wants us to work more closely with the states and tribes on this, and we are happy to do that,' Brian Gorman [from NOAA Fisheries] said. 'It just means it is likely we will need an extension of time.'"
"The extension request comes as the bush administration considers a major policy shift of samon protection. A draft plan being considered by NOAA fisheries would add hatchery-bred salmon to any decision about protecting wild fish runs under the Endangered Species Act."
"Bob Lohn, the agency's [NOAA] regional administrator, said the POLICY CHNAGE WAS REQUIRED BY A RECENT FEDERAL APPEALS COURT RULING THAT FORCES OFFICIALS TO COUNT ALL FISH THAT ARE GENETICALLY RELATED [emphasis added by flytyer]."
As everyone can clearly see by this article, NOAA's new salmon policy that hatchery and wild fish of the same species are the same was forced to happen by Judge Hogan's decision. The other judge, James Redden, made the ruling on when NOAA had to have the salmon recovery plan changed to reflect Hogan's decision that wild and hatchery salmon are the same after the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed Judge Hogan's ruling and sent the case back to the Oregon Federal District Court for the Oregon Court to make a ruling as to the date NOAA was to have the new plan ready. And Judge Redden told NOAA that they had to include the treaty fishing tribes of the states effected, the states effected, conservation groups that were involved supporting NOAA's original salmon recovery plan (which said hatchery and wild fish were different-remember Judge Hogan ruled otherwise), timber interests, agriculture interests, and power generators in both the process of developing the new policy and the have their concerns addressed in the final policy.
Judge Reddden has required NOAA to provide him with a copy of the new salmon recovery plan by June 2, 2004 so that he can review it to see if it complies with the orders of Judge Hogan and the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. In other words, NOAA must include in its salmon recovery plan hatchery and wild fish being treated having no difference.
Like I've said before in this thread, Judge Hogan, and appointed for life federal judge, is what has caused the change in the salmon recovery plan and the delisting of salmon when there are hatchery and wild fish in the same river system.
The change is being forced by Judge Hogan's ruling, period.
It is not just that judges can interpret the law any why they like, they also create law with their rulings. This creation of law by judges is known as "Case Law", and other judges use it (these decisions made by other judges) to make decisions in similar cases. Also, lawyers use case law to present their case and make their argument to persuade the judge to make the decision they want in the case.
I don't know how many of you know this; but law school teaches their students how to argue a case effectively. They do not study the law. Instead, the prospective lawyers study peior decisions of judges (case law) and the arguments made by the attorneys that led to the decision made by the judge.
Therefore, judges do indeed make laws!! To think otherwise, is not accurate.
wait just a cotton pickin' minute here
Placing the blame on elected politicians for bonehead decisions like this is just foolishness!
Remember if you don't like something vote the Rascals out!
What kind of double talk is this? You can't vote out an appointed bureaucrat. And in the case of federal judges, it is a life time appointment.
It is not the judges that make law but our elected officials
True but the judges can interpret the law any way they want.
It is only the special interests that demand accountability. The rest of us just wring our hands and do nothing.
I didn't want to have to get into this but,,,,special interest groups run on MONEY and some have members with a lot of it. Unfortunately, ,none of us do.
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|well ,I just had dinner and a few drinks with a lawyer friend.Been around a long time with some very big law firms.For whats one mans opinion, he said it is well known that Clinton appointed a bunch of real fruit cakes to the 9th circuit.Proof of that is that 67%,according to him, of their decisons are reversed .Lets hope he is correct!Beau
Placing the blame on elected politicans for bonehead desisions like this is just foolishness!
If you must find a scape-goat just look in the mirror. It is our general apathy that allows such things to continue. It is only the special interests that demand accountability. The rest of us just wring our hands and do nothing.
Remember if you donb't like something vote the Rascals out!
It is not the judges that make law but our elected officials. Don't like something demand changes.
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Any administration is powerless to change what a court decrees a federal agency must do or change. Just like priot administrations, the State of Washington, and various fishing and environmental groups were unable to do anything about Judge Bolt declaring and having affirmed by the 9th Circuit Court that the tribes in Washington State were entitled to 50% of the harvest on all river systems with salmon and steelhead runs in the state. No amount of hand-wringing, finger-pointing, or wishful thinking is going to change the Bolt decision, nor are they going to change the Hogan decision on hatchery and wild salmon being the same species.
The only place either can be changed is Congress. With Bolt, Congress would have to either overturn portions of the treaties Bolt relied upon, or outright abolish all American Indian Treaties.
With the Hogan decision, Congress would have to change the Endangered Species Act to make small DNA differences of the same species lawful for listing or not listing a species as threatened or endangered.
I think the possibility of either of these happening is about the same as the possiblity that in the next 5 minutes 25% of the earth's population is simply going to vanish without a trace. Congress is not going to abolish the Indian Treaties because it is far to volitile an issue; likewise, they are not going to change the Endangered Species Act to declare small DNA differences within the same species is sufficient to declare a species threatened or endangered.
Thanks... I'm having a tough day. Earlier I attributed a quote from Mae West to Eleanor Roosevelt...
|To Teddy Roosevelt the White House was a "bully pulpit". Who knows, to Bush "bloody pulpit" may be fitting. (I couldn't resist, and wanted to correct you before Flytyer did.)
I stand corrected. Of course, the case would have never made it to the 9th Circuit without the government's appeal. As a casual observer of the process, I'm left wondering about the zeal with which said appeal was conducted. How zealous can a career administrator in any agency be when he knows full well that his appointed bosses in DC and the field are beholden to those with an ideological bent different than his own. The average gummint employee is nothing if not a master manager of his career.
My point, and I still believe it is correct, is that there is plenty of blame to go around. The legislature left the loop hole, the industrial interests and their handmaidens in the executive branch jumped through it and the judge held the safety net on the other side.
If, indeed, the office of president is a "bloody pulpit," then the preacher needs to deliver the right sermon. Otherwise the administrators know that they can get away with, and perhaps even be rewarded by, whatever means are deemed to justify the end. If such were not the case, we wouldn't be spending so much time fixing corporate financial reporting and the SEC's oversight function. And yes, that goes back to prior administrations as well. The tone, the atmosphere, the ideology aren't being set properly with regard to this issue and most others involving our natural resources. As others have pointed out, if they really wanted to do something about this, they'd find a way. But they won't becaue they don't want to do anything about it despite their "appeals" to the contrary.
I agree with you that a "solution" to the problem that appears to be raised by the decision would be to eliminate hatchery fish. I don't pretend to know whether it is the best solution, but it may be a solution.
BTW Congress revisits existing legislation all the time. The tax code may be the best example. But let's get beyond carping at each other about what the courts and Congress may and may not do.
In this instance, Congress has already passed the Environmental Protection Act way back in 1972 when Tricky Dick was in office. Judge Hogan used that federal law when rendering his decision that hatchery and wild salmon were the same, genetically identical species. Therefore, there is nothing for Congress to hold a hearing on, and I do not see Congress considering a bill that would replace or ammend the Endangered Species Act, which was designed and passed to prevent the extermination of species. The feds made their case for the biological differency between hatchery and wild salmon to Judge Hogan and they lost.
Let us not go down the road fishemen and environmentalist went down with Bolt's decision on tribal netting. It was counterproductive and had the end result of wasting a lot of time, energy, and resources only to have Bolt's decision continue to be affirmed (mostly through the appeals court's refusal to reconsider the case). Instead of hand-wringing, finger pointing (remember all fingers need to be pointed at Judge Hogan and the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals), and chest-beating, we need to work within the framework of the court ruling and use things such as the listing of dollies to prevent overharvest of wild fish.
The alternative to this is to eliminate hatcheries and only have wild salmon in our rivers because if you take the hatchery fish out of a river system and only rely on the greatly reduced wild fish for a salmon run, the fish can be said to be nothing other than threatened or endangered. This also means that no one will be able to fish with the result that there will be lawsuits filed on behalf of commercial fisherman, tribes, developers, timber companies, etc. to force the states and feds to put hatchery fish back in the system in order to prevent "extinction" of the species. And since the courts have already determined that hatchery and wild salmon are identical, they would win these lawsuits.
Congress holds hearings on issues. The issue here is the appropriate protection of endangered species. Congress is free to pass new legislation, within the bounds of the Constitution, that addresses that issue. New Constitutionally sound legislation trumps pre-existing court decisiions.
So, you are right, Congress doesn't hold hearings on court decisions, but that hasn't and shouldn't stop Congress from dealing with issues that "bad" court decisions have raised. Courts act as a check and balance on Congress, but Congress may also act as a check and balance on the courts.
Flytyer's got it nailed...
For those who feel Bush is the cause of the Hogan decision, you're wasting your energy. You can blame the current administration as much as you want, but you would be better served by looking at the Boldt Decision and seeing the aftermath of that on fishery management.
Then take a deep breath, and ask yourself how you can make the best out of the Hogan decision. Realize that this decision doesn't take away all ESA habitat protections as many of the watersheds still contain stock that is endangered-- dollies for example. Also, while the feds decree if a run is endangered or not, the states, in most cases, still make the rules on harvest and habitat.
What can you do, besides flapping your gums (sorry but that's what a lot of this is), to influence state decisions? That is a question that needs to be answered.
Leland-- In regard to that article you posted-- speaking as one who has to evaluate what I write professionally for balance and accuracy-- this story was obviously slanted. The writer is not a friend of Bush and was interested, in my opinion, in showing Bush in a bad light. Based on what I know to be facts, there are inaccuracies in what was written.
I'm still going for $.03 because of inflation,
Congress does not hold hearings on court decisions.
Notice what the lawyer for the Pacific Legal Foundation, Russell C. Brooks said, "Upon hearing this news, I am cautiously optimistic that the government may be complying with the law (remember the law referred to is Judge Hogan's ruling that there is no difference between hatchery and wild fish) and ending its slippery salmon science."
The Pacific Legal Foundation is ready and waiting to file more lawsuits in federal courts to force NMFA/NOAA, other federal agencies, and the states to change their salmon policies, rules, and laws to reflect Judge Hogan's decision. The federal agencies are simply complying with Judge Hogan's (and the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals) ruling.
For the reporter to say the court's ruling was not appealed is disingenuous at best and an outright lie at worst, Judge Hogan's ruling was appealed by the administration's NOAA and other agencies to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The reporter knows this (or should know this) and barely mentions the fact that Hogan's ruling was upheld by the appeals court. There is the possibility that an editor edited the info on the appeal out of the reporter's original article. At any rate, it is disingenuous for it to have been left out and an outright lie to say Hogan's decision was not appealed.
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While there is not yet a formal proposal for the Pittsburgh Public Schools to take over the distressed August Wilson Center for African-American Culture, state auditor general Eugene DePasquale has a message for the district:
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"I would rather much more be proactive on this and have too much caution," Mr. DePasquale said after issuing a news release Monday. "Even the idea of thinking about assuming that [debt] to me is something that would be fiscally irresponsible to the district."
Pittsburgh Public Schools expect to run out of money in 2016 if the district doesn't change course. Mr. DePasquale recently announced he is starting a wide-ranging audit of the district.
The school board recently set up an ad hoc committee, which had a brainstorming session on Jan. 31.
At the meeting, school board member Mark Brentley Sr., who heads the committee, said he hoped the district could have a proposal to purchase the center in 45 days.
The center, which opened Downtown in 2009, carries about $9.5 million to $10 million in total debt.
"In no way, shape or form is the school district in any position to assume that type of debt," Mr. DePasquale said.
In response, Mr. Brentley said, "I still believe that it is a possibility for the district to acquire it, to provide of the services or some additions to the Pittsburgh Public Schools."
"I think the district has always had debt. I think we will continue to work out some creative way we can present to the [bankruptcy] judge for consideration," he said. "I'm sure no one is arguing that this would not be considered a good investment."
While he said the center's financial situation was "unfortunate," he said, "we are the best next rightful owner of this facility."
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Mr. DePasquale said he was trying to be proactive.
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Well, I am now officially the Documenter for ClanLib.
I'm also working on writing a multiplayer ClanTTT (Tic-Tac-Toe), network multiplayer game. Of course it's only an example. I will use it as a basis for a ClanLib tutorial. (The current tutorials (not written by me) are way out of date.)
I got one of the two lead developers to join Advogato. If some people could certify him as a Journeyer, that would be cool. Then he could actually sign himself up on the project page. Funny how "observers" can't sign themselves up even to their own projects. He's mstarch.
I have been studying object oriented architecture and design, along with trying to figure out the architecture of ClanLib, in order to write documentation for it. For the longest time I was stuck because the inheritance tree didn't make sense. There is a CL_Target interface, which is something you can draw on. Then there is a CL_SurfaceProvider which instantiates images that can be blitted to the screen. Then there is a CL_Canvas, which acts as both a CL_SurfaceProvider and CL_Target. That is, you can draw on it, then use it to instantiate a CL_Surface. A CL_Surface is packed into a special format designed for fast blitting to the video card, not for drawing on. In fact, the data may be cached on the video card. For some reason (probably for the benefit of CL_Canvas) CL_SurfaceProvider (which is an interface class) inherits from CL_Target. Yet, not all surface providers are intended to be Targets. Most surface providers just load an image from a file, or the resource manager. So I asked why they made it the way they did, and suggested an improvement if there wasn't a reason. That is, make CL_Canvas use multiple inheritance of interfaces, both CL_Target and CL_SurfaceProvider. I haven't heard back from the mailing list yet. I'm new to this so maybe it's some kind of social mistake to suggest an improvement (stated as a question) without knowing the whole situation, and without providing a patch (and testing it out yourself to see if it is feasible). Who knows. We shall see. Actually I just wanted to ask if I was way off base before I tried changing the code.


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The acceptance of a man sticking his pecker up another guys dirty sphincter and often licking off the residue is the least of our problems.
If they kept their perversion to themselves it would be fine. However
They take it to the classroom and initiate our children to the harmless and highly acceptable behavior of this mentally ill phycotic fetish.. It is their goal to make it as normal as sex between a guy and a gal.
So yes it does affect many normal families. Like bobby has 2 mommies or 2 daddies. which many schools now indoctrinate our kids with.
They need to keep their buisiness private,,,, its weird,,has been socially unacceptable for almost 6 thousand years. And all of a sudden its good stuff.?
I would feel the same if they taught mommie is married to a donkey as well and I have nothing against donkeys either.
What the hell is wrong with this Fn picture.
It sounds like I don't like queers but nothing can be further from the trueth. I feel for them in a way. It must be hell growing up being attracted to the same sex,,,and being ridiculed and sometimes beat up by your peers.,but the standard is the standard.
Why should I lower mine so somebody can feel good about their perversion.
They ought to be able to live in peace like anyone else without being mocked. However their flagrant fluffy feathered behavior in a public setting ,,,and their desire for their perversion to be noticed and accepted leaves them wide open for some rather strong opposision.
Our society can go no lower when it glorifys perversion and silences rational thought.
Buy the way I know,and love and accept as a friends some who are of this persuasion. And have counceled some and understand the pressures they can face. But it still is destructive behavior. And should not be considered acceptable in any arena.
To call it marraige is no different than spitting in Gods face and telling God he's or she is an idiot.


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(Today's guest post comes to us from Carrie Fitzgerald, a professor of astronomy at Montgomery College in Maryland. She directs the Montgomery College Observatory; this piece originally ran on her blog.)
Driving past the woodsy grounds of the US Naval Observatory on Massachusetts Avenue, you can't help but notice the prominent "USNO Master Clock" displaying the time in bright red digits. That is part of their mission, after all, to "determine the positions and motions of celestial bodies, motions of the Earth, and precise time."
How exactly do they do what they do? And who are these modern day keepers of time and celestial motion?
In the physics and engineering department at MC, we are particularly lucky to have Amy Fredericks as an adjunct astronomy professor, teaching the evening section of our Astronomy 101 course. Not only is Amy a dedicated and enthusiastic instructor, she is also a real live astronomer at the US Naval Observatory!
For students who have wondered how I set the times of the Observatory Open House nights (I base it on when civil twilight ends), or how I know how much of the Moon's visible disk is illuminated (81% last open house), well, I owe it all to Amy and the USNO Data Services. If I were a leprechaun, the data services portion of the USNO website would be the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. It's even better though, because the data services page is super easy to find.
Have you ever wanted to know more about what goes on inside the USNO and what goes into maintaining something as complex as the data services? Amy was generous enough to satisfy our curiosity about what she does during the daylight hours.
Q. I know you as our brilliant and intrepid evening astronomy instructor at Montgomery College, but you have a whole other life at the US Naval Observatory. How long have you been there, and what do you do?
A. I have worked at USNO for 6 years, in the Astronomical Applications Department. You could say I'm both an astronomer and a computer programmer. My department, working in concert with Her Majesty's Nautical Almanac Office in the UK, produces the Astronomical, Nautical, and Air Almanacs. I work in the AA Department's Software Products Division, which produces software and web applications related to the almanacs and also astrometry and celestial navigation.
I maintain the web applications and assist in the testing and maintenance of all our software products. Our website is http://aa.usno.navy.mil/.
Q. Is there a typical day for you at work? If so, what is it like?
A. A typical day may include making updates to our website or our data services, attending status meetings on the latest upgrade to one of products, or helping to get that upgrade ready by testing it.
Q. The USNO in Washington, DC has telescopes. What kind of telescopes do you have and what are they used for?
A. The biggest telescope we have in DC is the 26-inch refractor. It is the telescope that Asaph Hall used in 1877 at our old Foggy Bottom location to discover the moons of Mars. It is still used today (despite DC's light pollution!) to study double stars and the moons of the outer planets. We have a few smaller telescopes that are also used for research.
Our "dark sky" site is USNO's Flagstaff Station in Arizona. That's where we have some big reflecting telescopes that are used for viewing fainter objects than we can see from DC. One of them was used to discover Charon, the biggest moon of Pluto, in the 1970s.
Q. What is your favorite thing about being at the USNO?
A. Our products are used by the military, the scientific community, and the public. I love being able to support all of our users. And, of course, I love the people I work with at the Observatory.
Q. Are you ever able to bring what you do at the USNO into the classroom?
A. Sometimes I make passing references to it but not too much. I'm always trying to think of ways! I know friends at other colleges have assigned their students to use our website in their homework.
Q. The USNO is also the official residence of the vice president, so I have to ask…in all the time you've been at the USNO, any vice president sightings?
A. Sadly, no! Just his helicopter and motorcade on occasion. He does use our library for news interviews, so the librarians probably see him the most.


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Is anyone planning on running? There is only a derby and Q so I didn't know if it would get much interest. Me and a buddy were wanting to come over and run the derby but thus far no one has signed up for either and I'm not fooling with a derby with less than 10 dogs. Anyone planning to attend?


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Big fan of this series. I feel like it is what Resident Evil should have evolved into. Lots of scary and intense parts, and plenty of shooting. Plus it delves into the psychological aspect of Isaac pretty heavily in the second, which makes the unfolding of the story fantastic. I also have to admit that Ellie, the girl from part 2, is probably one of the most endearing, and probably one of my favorite, non-RPG characters I've encountered.
This new game is going to feature drop-in/out co-op, much like Resident Evil 6. Apparently this was their plan from the beginning, but couldn't implement it until this one. This game is looking like it'll be a must-buy for me.


text: It's been just over a month since Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith was released into theaters across the globe, and while some theaters still are playing the movie, others have moved on to newer releases. Although Star Wars has been a strong box office performer, the movie industry overall has been performing under expectations and is going through its 17th week in a slump. So, after a month and now with less venues to choose from, will Star Wars fans be willing or even able to return to the box office before the movie leaves theaters altogether?


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As an example, I have a module called "Random" in my game engine, exposed to Angelscript as a global, which can generally be treated like an overloaded function to generate random numbers with various parameters. Additional Random objects can also be created for deterministic simulations and the like, so I'd be losing some functionality if I just exposed this stuff as global functions.
class Random { public: Uint32 operator()(Uint32 max); Uint32 operator()(Uint32 min, Uint32 max); Sint32 operator()(Sint32 max); Sint32 operator()(Sint32 min, Sint32 max); float operator()(float max); float operator()(float min, float max); double operator()(double max); double operator()(double min, double max); // Normal distribution float normal(float mean, float deviation); // Exponential normal distribution float normalExp(float mean, float multDeviation); // ... };
Is this something that is likely to be added to Angelscript in the future, or would it throw a wrench in the design?
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Critical and Analytical Thinking
Pandora's Box
Maybe you have already heard that someone, a journalist, your teacher or parents, refer to a complex situation as a "Pandora's box".
What is a Pandora's box? Who is Pandora and how did she get that box? Did she open the box? Can you think of an example where you can use the phrase "to open a Pandora's box"?
Do your research about this topic, and then send your answers here.
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|Once upon a time there was a man named Hephaestus(Aphrodite's husband). One day Zeus ordered him to make Zeus a daughter she was the first women made out of clay. Hephaestus had made the beautiful women as commanded and named her Pandora. Zues sent his daughter down to earth so that she could marry Epimetheus who was a gental but yet lonley man. But Zeus was not doing this for his daughter he was doing this to get even.For Epimetheus and Prometheus where both brothers... Zeus had gotten mad at one of the brothers (prometheus)for giving people fire without asking permission of Zeus. So Zeus gave pandora a box with a big lock on it. He made her promise to never open the box and he gave the key to Pandora's husband and told him to never open the box. Zeus knew Epimetheus's curiosity would get the better of him. Pandora was very curious and one day she decided that she wanted to know what was in the box so she stole the key from her husband and opened the box. All disease,sickness,hate,and envy flew out of the box. Her husband Epimetheus woke up from the sound of her sobbing, he asked what had happened and she said "I opened the box and all these things flew out!" Pandora opened the box to show him how empty it was but before she had time to closee the lid a little blue bug flew out... she tried to catch it but couldn't. The little blue bug said "thankyou for releasing me now i am free and may spred hpoe through out the world". We now live in a world with envy,crime,hate,disease and-HOPE "TO OPEN PANDORAS BOX" MEANS TO GET INTO A SITUATION THAT WILL CAUSE GREAT GRIEF.


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24 January 2012 - 12:25pmDarin starts work around midmorning and carries on until late in the afternoon, washing dishes and fetching water. When the customers stop coming, Darin helps her boss fold the table and pack up the pots, bowls and cutlery. Then they head home. "I am trying to help," explains Mariam, the woman...


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So why are you still here reading this for? Go! Go! Go!
note: you must be a registered member to download it.
So why are you still here reading this for? Go! Go! Go!
note: you must be a registered member to download it.
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split. - Robert E. Howard
Well, I TRIED to download it, but the silly computer said I needed Quicktime 5.0 so I tried downloading that and installing it, but about halfway thru, the power in my apartment flickered and shut off my computer (quietly sobbing) I'll just wait til E! shows it on the news tonight.
Who's a sexy kitty? Who is? Yes, you are. You're a SEXY kitty...
PHONE BOOK Written by Bendis. Art by Jim Lee. Total copies sold: 15 billion.
"Comic Collecting. Miss a decade, miss a lot."
man, that had to suck...i'm at school now so i'll download it when i get home...
%$&*! I hate *&^%ing Quicktime, I hate it so bad! They won't even let me download it, "Error, site not responding". I hate Apple I hate Quicktime %^* it to &^$ing &^&*!
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I really SHOULD be working, but I have watched the damn thing every ten minutes for the last 3 hours!
I'm a freak... glad I saw it on the big screen, too!
The site has some major traffic right now im guessing. It took me like 20 minutes to register, and im running on broadband cable modem.
Anyway, It sucks you need Quicktime Pro to watch the large version. Im not going to pay $30 for crappy quicktime!
"Watch this, I'm going to horrify you into a coma..."
Well, I had no real time issues with downloading the trailer, but did anyone else have a problems with the sound? I had no playing sound with my trailer at all! Have to wait and try it again! Just wondering if you guys had the same experience?!
I got the biggest version of the trailer and I don't have Quicktime pro.
Quicktime pro lets you watch it in fullscren format. I don't care if the black is on the top and bottom when it goes into full screen as long as I have the biggest version of the trailer.
I do not have quicktime Pro, and I have not had any problem watching the large version of the trailer.
You might not be able to download it from starwars.com without buying quicktime pro, but you dont need quicktime pro to view the trailer.
As for the full-screen thing...do you mean I could watch it in pan-and-scan or do you mean I could watch it the same size I'm watching it now?
All your base are belong to us!
Finally got to see it after watching a half hour of Emmy crap on E News Daily. It was cool, but what the hell is up with Watto's new fashion? He looks like a Toydarian WW1 soldier.
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By Ben Levisohn
Are iron miners worth buying? It depends on which ones, according to a new report from Credit Suisse, which looks at how lower iron-ore prices could impact different companies.
Take Cliff's Natural Resources (CLF). The analysts put a $10 price target on the stock, implying a drop of more than 50%, as the company's assets have trouble being profitable without higher iron-ore prices. Credit Suisse writes:
Our cost curve analysis suggests that on a 2-3 year view CLF's Canadian and APAC assets are likely to be displaced off the top end of the cost curve. The core US business is not on our seaborne cost curve, but will generate 16-23% EBITDA margins through the cycle (putting it in the third quartile), not the 40-50% that we've seen the past few years, and on this basis CLF's operational earnings are $200-300mn p.a., which on the historic 5x multiple is worth $1.5 – 2.0bn. We see this as insufficient to service the company's $3.1bn net debt position.
Rio Tinto (RIO), however, looks to be in a far better position, thanks to its ability to keep costs low. The analysts write:
Our DCF-based SOTP valuation of Rio is US$63/shr and price target is set in line, implying 21% upside. Rio is the world's lowest cost iron ore producer of scale, and is expanding production in Australia from ~240mtpa (100% basis) to 290mtpa…Rio is now targeting a 20% reduction in capex in FY13 and then again in FY14 and to achieve this, we expect that Rio will slow the rate of pace of expansion from 290mtpa to 360mtpa by using a combination of greenfields and brownfields mine expansions. As Rio goes ex capex, we anticipate gearing levels will fall rapidly and we anticipate debt to be ~$12bn in FY16.
The market hasn't been kind to iron miners today. Cliffs has dropped 1.2% to $21.43, while Rio has dropped 2.1% to $46.71. BHP Billiton (BHP) has fallen 2.6% to $63.93 and Vale (VALE) is off 2.3% at $14.53.


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The Hotel Le Chaplain offers a warm welcome in a refined and contemporary setting on Paris's Left Bank in the heart of the thriving cultural and artistic districts of Saint-Germain-des-Prés and Montparnasse. The famous Fabienne Santrot De Courrière has decorated each room with Mona Lisa's, Brigitte Bardot's, Maryline Monroe's or Josephine Baker's smile.
- 14 m2
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- Free Wi-Fi
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HNN122 - Nursing Management and Interventions 1
Unit details
|2014 unit information
|Enrolment modes:
Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), CBD, Warrnambool, Waterfront (Geelong)
Trimester 3: Burwood (Melbourne) - only available for commencing students with credit for prior learning for the pre-requisite units
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|(Normally students must be enrolled in the Bachelor of Nursing or an associated combined degree to enrol in this unit)
|Unit chair:
Trimester 2: J Hosking
Trimester 3: M McGrath
|Campus contact:
Burwood (Melbourne): M McGrath, Warrnambool: L Mielnik/S Ireland, IKE: G Rea
|Contact hours:
1 x 2 hour class or equivalent cloud presentation/s, 1 x 2 hour seminar, 1 x 2 hour simulation session per week
Note:You will need to access substantial learning resources and experiences in CloudDeakin (Deakin's online learning environment). Compliance with the Standards in computing, connectivity and student capability are a condition on your enrolment.
This unit is the second unit in the Clinical Studies in Nursing: Year 1 cluster. In this unit principles of nursing care introduced in previous units are further developed. Opportunities will be provided for students to develop an understanding of therapeutic medication administration, symptom management and management of behaviours of concern, for example, those related to dementia and delirium. To achieve this, principles of pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics will be introduced as the foundation for therapeutic use of medicines. The management of symptoms and behaviours of concern will be introduced through principles of comprehensive assessment, implementation of appropriate interventions, and evaluation of outcomes. Underpinning concepts of this unit are patient-centred care, evidence-based practice, and quality improvement approaches. Students will have opportunity to apply and integrate knowledge and skills learned in this unit and previous units during a two (2) week clinical placement.
Online tests 4 x 30 minutes (equivalent 2000 words) 40%, examination (2 hours closed book) 60%, skills (equivalent 1500 words) hurdle requirement, clinical assessment pass/fail (equivalent 2000 words)
Department of Human Services policy and Working with Children Act
In accordance with Department of Human Services policy*, all students are required to undertake a National Police Record Check prior to clinical placements in each calendar year of their course. In accordance with the Working with Children Act 2005**, all students are required to undertake a Working with Children Check at commencement of the course. Students who fail to obtain a Police Record Check and a Working with Children Check prior to the commencement of clinical placement will not be able to undertake clinical placement and this will impede progress in the course. Students may also be required to declare their immunisation status to satisfy the requirements of health organisations where they will be undertaking their clinical learning experience. A health organisation may refuse to accept a student for placement if the student's immunisation status is not satisfactory to the health organisation.
* Department of Human Services 2007, Service agreement information kit for funded organisations 2006–2009, State Government of Victoria, Melbourne, retrieved 1 July 2007.
** Department of Justice 2007, Working with Children Act 2005, Victoria, Australia retrieved April 2012
Prescribed texts
Berman, A, Snyder, S, Levett-Jones, T, Dwyer, T, Hales, T, Harvey, N, Luxford, Y, Moxham, L, Park, T, Parker, B, Reid-Searl, K & Stanley, D 2012, Kozier and Erb's fundamentals of nursing, 2nd edn, Pearson, Frenchs Forest, NSW.
Tollefson, J 2012, Clinical psychomotor skills: assessment tools for nursing students, 5th edn, Cengage Learning, South Melbourne.
Unit Fee Information
|Student Contribution Rate*
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|Fee rate - International students
* Rate for all CSP students, except for those who commenced Education and Nursing units pre 2010
** Rate for CSP students who commenced Education and Nursing units pre 2010
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After attending Texans camp, The Sideline View's John Harris is "not buying" FS Ed Reed (hip surgery) will be ready for Week 1.
Steelers GM Kevin Colbert said the team still does not know if suspended WR Martavis Bryant will be reinstated.
The Palm Beach Post's Joe Schad reports Dolphins C Mike Pouncey underwent a "stem cell procedure within the past few weeks."
According to ESPN Boston's Mike Reiss, the "expectation" is Mike Gillislee will "essentially fill LeGarrette Blount's role" in the Patriots' offense.
Nick Underhill of the New Orleans Advocate expects Mark Ingram to remain the Saints' starter even if Adrian Peterson is signed.
Bills declined to match RB Mike Gillislee's two-year, $6.4 million offer sheet, making Gillislee a New England Patriot.
The Steelers have exercised ILB Ryan Shazier's fifth-year option for 2018.
NFL.com's Ian Rapoport reports the Saints are "closing in" on a deal with free agent Adrian Peterson.
Dolphins C Mike Pouncey (hip) remains on crutches.
Richard Sherman reported to Seahawks voluntary workouts on Monday.
Michigan LB/S Jabrill Peppers failed his Combine drug test.
Free agent OT Jake Long announced his retirement after nine seasons.


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FRIDAY'S FAB FINDS™ | June 18 | bouquets, DIY ruffle shirts + cakes + plant centerpieces, ring shots, bridesmaid clutches + vote!
Happy Friday, everybody! Ok, let me just get something out of the way real quick. May I ask a hugetastic favor? If you think I deserve it, please take a sec to let 'em know over at the Wedding Channel that The Knotty Bride is one of your favorite Real Bride Blogs. (The more votes, the better chance I have of winning!) If you don't mind, of course. Pretty please? You would make my year! Thank you like crazy! (If you do enter me and you feel like letting me know, go for it and, of course, I'm totally writing you back and thanking you to the high heavens. My gratefulness knows no bounds.)
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Love that, right? Me too. It's one of the Finds, today. (:
Ok, let's get going!
First off, this kind of rules. I think it'd be such a fun little project to do at your tame bachelorette party. Personally, if it's strip club vs. ruffle shirt projects, I think I'll opt for the ruffle shirt every time. {Continue reading…}


text: yeah lets just fire a coach who seems to have the potential to be good. that line of thinking is exactly why we've been mediocre forever. no stability. lose one season, just keep firing the coach and get another right? you gotta give philbin a chance to build the team. at least 3 years. do you see the talent that he was given on this roster? no wr's. below averge o line. below average secondary. give it time. even the great bill belichick went 5-11 his first year with the pats