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What long-term strategies and best practices would you recommend?
Christian Haller: One of our primary approaches is to manage risks; not only technical risks but product and development risks, such as marketing, reimbursement, and regulatory approval. In our experience, many companies do not put sufficient effort upfront into planning out a detailed vision of what the product is, how it is going to be used and paid for, the business case of the product from the buyer's point of view, and the user experience. While mostly everyone gets around to these activities, much time and effort can be saved by spending more time up front on these issues.
Medical device R&D directors should take more time planning, talking to potential users to find out what they really want from the product, and identifying how the product fits into the business model, not only as a manufacturer but how it fits into the consumers' business model. They need to focus on the final outcome as early on as possible. This will mean fewer changes in the development process. Very often, people come up with an initial idea but do not think through all of these issues and they have to continually redefine the image of the product. They spend more time re-developing the product and as a result, substantially more money than they really need to.
These strategies also help in decreasing the time to market. We have reduced our average time of filing very complex devices to a year or just under. Compared to industry averages, we are proud of this metric. Of course, you cannot guarantee how long the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will take to approve a product, but planning upfront and a proactive approach with the FDA helps speed things up.
What challenges are medical device R&D directors in North America facing?
Christian Haller: The market is focused on coming up with new products with fewer resources. Many companies are cutting R&D budgets ahead of the taxes on medical devices, which will be imposed by the Health Care Reform Bill. People will have to keep doing more with less, in addition to having to come up with products that work better in order to be approved for use by the Bill.
There are also significant modifications to the FDA rules which we are not used to; there are many unknowns in that regard. From our experience, it is important to take a cooperative and proactive approach with regulators. R&D directors should spend a lot of time on due diligence and determining the best regulatory strategies, going to the FDA with their plans, defining their own recommended regulatory path and working to build consensus upfront. You have to be your own advocate with the FDA. Talk early and talk often, is what we tell to our clients.
How can the product lifecycle be extended?
Christian Haller: In the effort to get to the market quicker, we advise clients not to add too many features that are not absolutely essential. We have found that one of the best ways to extend the lifecycle of a product is to define the architecture of the device, so that additional features and applications can be added cost effectively later on. By defining the architecture appropriately, you enable the ability to refresh the product at a later stage.
When outsourcing parts of the R&D process, how can manufacturers ensure everything is in sync?
Christian Haller: Firstly, they need a detailed written plan from all solution providers that covers the entire development process. When we start a project, we give the client a very detailed plan covering all the stages of the project, all the deliverables and activities defined, with a detailed listing of what will and will not be included. It is important to communicate that effectively. Everything should be written down, from beginning to end. The two parties have to reach complete agreement on the plan and the review process before starting.
Secondly, the parties have to establish regular scheduled meetings, perhaps once a week either in person or via teleconference, to walk through the status of the job.
Thirdly, it is necessary to have a team at the outsourced end that is dedicated, and a project manager who is constantly in contact with the client, who will oversee the project from beginning to end. The team at the outsourced company should be an extension of the manufacturer's own development team.
Lastly, the way we see it, it is more efficient to have third party suppliers who can do the entire job. One could hire a software company, an electronics company, and a mechanical design company, but that generally means getting all those different outsourced resources working together harmoniously, often a full time job. Going to a company with a proven track record that is able to do the entire job is key. People will be more motivated to cooperate with each when there are fewer companies involved.
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Always up to date live Interactive Maps can be found here: Highway Systems | Functional Class
The maps listed below are current as of March, 2015. They have been constructed in ArcGIS 10.2 using ArcMap. Esri, Inc. There are two map sets available including highway systems and functional classification. These copyrighted© urban maps show roads "open to public travel" on a land grid of township, range and section lines. Cultural features adjacent to roads are displayed by symbols. The maps also indicate national forests, lakes, reservoirs, streams, canals/ditches, and railroads.
- The Highway Systems maps include a designated system of highways that include both federal and state mandated systems for Montana. An interactive map of these system routes are available.
- Highway Systems include:
- the National Highway System (NHS) - includes the Interstate and other principal arterials as provided in Title 23, U.S.C.
- the Primary Highway System - MCA 60-2-125(3)
- the Secondary Highway System - MCA 60-2-125(4)
- the Urban Highway System - MCA 60-2-125(6)
- The six functional classifications for urbanized and urban areas include:
- Interstate
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20 August 2013
how to change url
EDIT: what I was trying to do was see if mods could change the url for a thread when we change the topic title. Nope, only admins can do that.
20 August 2013
Topic Title testing urls
Topic Slug test-urls
EDIT: Lest anyone thinks I know computer-y stuff, I just found these words on a mod toolbar page and Googled them.
20 August 2013
EDIT: Here is a picture of an example from a "how to" page I found via Google dealing with the changing of a slug. I imagine this is an approximation of an admin page for the BB forum.
@Joe, I gave it the old college try. I don't see anyway to change a URL. Perhaps only admins can see an admin page where they can be changed? If there is a way for the mods to change them, we eagerly await your instruction.
EDIT 2 : if a mod simply moves a thread from one forum to another, the URL does change to reflect the new forum. I had this in Pimp your stuff at first and moved it to "all together now" and then to "gettting better". The URL updated both times. Just an FYI...I did the second move after I locked the thread. Didn't know we could do that.
The URL doesn't update when we change a topic title.
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This is the best place I could find for this - I'm literally testing urls. I'm trying to add the good links to Amazon & iTunes and for some reason the preview of the sig isn't working, yet when I post the updates show up.
EDIT: It worked!
20 August 2013
I happened to be talking about the Amazon link to a co-worker yesterday. She and I figured out that on our phones we could go to Joe's link and set his landing page as an icon on our phone desktop. She said it will make it a lot easier for her to remember and use the "link". I am going to put an icon for the link on my computer desktop too.
Will x-post this to the other thread on this topic.
7 February 2014
Joe said
Thank you for the autosig!
I saw every reason to include it and no reason to leave it off, so I hope it steers a few people to the right place
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Pharma meets social media
But as I read today through various Twitter posts, WhittmanHart Interactive linked to the following MediaPost article that points out that the FDA does not prohibit pharma companies from engaging in social media. But the bigger question, of course, is the "how" that goes along to simply deciding social media participation is okay. Giving away control to consumers over comments on, say, official pharma company blogs, Twitter accounts or Facebook pages could be a tough call for drug brands that deal with so many legal issues.
After all, pharma companies have enough problems with restrictions and regulations on direct-to-consumer advertising overall. They will have to think long and hard about the best way to engage consumers in the social media space.


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Dawes Rolls
The Dawes Rolls (or Final Rolls of Citizens and Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes, or Dawes Commission of Final Rolls) were created by the Dawes Commission. The Commission, authorized by United States Congress in 1893, was required to negotiate with the Five Civilized Tribes to convince them to agree to an allotment plan and dissolution of the reservation system. One of the consequences was the creation of rolls of the members of the five tribes (Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw, and Seminole). The rolls were needed to assign the allotments and to provide an equitable division of all monies obtained. These rolls became known as the Dawes Rolls. The Dawes Commission was quickly flooded by applicants from all over the country trying to get on the rolls.
The Commission went to the individual tribes to obtain the membership lists but the first attempts were inadequate. Finally Congress passed the Curtis Act in 1898 which had a provision that a new roll would be taken and supersede all previous rolls.
Tribal citizens were enrolled under several categories:
More than 250,000 people applied for membership, and the Dawes Commission enrolled just over 100,000. An act of Congress on April 26, 1906, closed the rolls on March 5, 1907. An additional 312 persons were enrolled under an act approved August 1, 1914.
The rolls are, for the most part, considered complete. Some Indians did not apply because of their displeasure with the allotment process and others applied but were rejected because of the residency requirements. Notable among those who resisted enrollment were Muscogee Chitto Harjo (Crazy Snake), and Cherokee Redbird Smith. Both Harjo and Smith were eventually coerced into enrolling, but some full-blood hiding in the Cookson Hills never did enroll.[1] Generally, though, to prove membership in any of the Five Civilized Tribes you must prove descent from a person listed as a citizen on the final rolls. Courts have upheld this rule even when it has been proven that a brother or sister of an ancestor was listed on the rolls but not the direct ancestor himself/herself.
The Rolls remain important today as several tribes use descent from Dawes Roll members as a requirement for tribal membership and the federal government uses them in determining status for Certificate of Degree of Indian Blood.
For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Dawes Rolls.
Ward Surname
The following Cherokee and Cherokee offspring with the WARD surname are identified in the Dawes Rolls.
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Spiritual Life
Red Lion Christian Academy's Bible Department is driven to magnify the truth that our God is big, transcendent, and glorious. The focus of Christian education is to acknowledge God for who he has revealed himself to be and to ascribe worth to him. We believe that it is impossible for us to worship a being we don't know (ascribe worth). Christian education at Red Lion seeks to partner with families and churches to unpack the revelation of God as revealed by God in the Holy Scriptures. All subject matter, therefore, is theological in nature and helps us to honor Christ as holy. Christ, our Creator and Redeemer, gives Christians a growing understanding of the God-created integration between all subject matter. Believers learn how that integration is related to the gentle and respectful defending our faith even when we are slandered.
I had a class full of many friends who challenged me to be a spiritual leader. It is because of the spiritual growth I experienced in high school that I consider my time at Red Lion a blessing.
Chapel sets the stage students to experience and engage in a relationship with Jesus Christ. Students in preschool through twelfth grade take Bible classes to learn and apply the Word of God. Students in all grades participate in scripture memory. Students in kindergarten through twelfth grade memorize Scripture weekly (by way of an accumulated scripture memory program), discuss Bible truths in a loving a caring environment, and learn how to apply them to their lives in ordered to allow Christ to reign in their hearts.
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THE FBI is poking around the celebrity magazine world on the West Coast, investigating allegations of kickbacks and pay-for-play schemes, according to a source who was contacted by investigators.
The source was told that the probe, which appears to be at a preliminary stage, involved "paparazzi and In Touch" magazine.
The source was contacted by an agent named Dennis Webster in the FBI's Los Angeles office. Webster had not returned calls to Media Ink by presstime.
Specifics about what the feds are looking into remain murky, but people at the celebrity magazines have been burning up the lines in recent days since a story about the FBI probe was posted Wednesday on the complex.com Web site and picked up by gawker.com and jossip.com.
However, the source said that West Coast legal circles have been buzzing that Hollywood stars who have long felt they were being harassed by the paparazzi were perhaps pushing the feds to act.
Stars have long been frustrated that local law enforcement has been unable to thwart the paparazzi unless they either pose a real threat to someone or are trespassing on private property.
At the heart of the FBI's probe is whether an editor at In Touch received kickbacks from a photo agency that works with the magazine in exchange for doling out plumb assignments to the agency, the source told Media Ink.
If the unnamed editor took payments and didn't report it as income, it could be a matter of tax evasion.
The yet-to-be-identified photo agency could also run afoul of federal regulations if it was not properly reporting cash payments to individuals.
The source said that one agency had garnered $80,000 in assignments from In Touch without ever getting a photo into the magazine.
The speculation is that the agency was kicking money back to an editor who continued to dole out the plumb assignments.
Complex.com said the focus of the investigation involved selections of covers, but other sources said that seemed far-fetched.
A spokeswoman for In Touch said, "It doesn't make sense. All photos are selected in New Jersey. We have not been contacted by the FBI."
The Hollywood scene is generally regarded as a tricky place to be a journalist, with talk of kickbacks and under-the-table payments constantly circulating.
While unethical, it is often tough to say when it crosses the line into illegality.
But as one source who was chatting about the scandal offered, "It would have to be a lot of money over a long period of time to get the FBI interested."
It remains to be seen if the FBI inquiry will yield any fruit. So far, however, it has stirred up the celebrity and gossip reporting world, stretching from Hollywood to London's Fleet Street.
No chance
There is now no possibility of Stephen Canell and Janet Evanovich ever collaborating on a series of adventure novels.
Ironically, the first book in the series was to have been called "No Chance," and the Grand Central Book imprint of Hachette Book Group had set for it to debut last fall. It was to have centered around a Special Forces veteran named Benjamin Cannon.
However, an insider said it looks like the series has been scrapped entirely, and now Media Ink is hearing that the resulting fallout may have caused a rupture in the relationship between Evanovich and her longtime agent Robert Gottlieb at Trident Media.
Evanovich is worth millions, thanks in part to "Plum Lucky," a novella that appeared in early January and was at the top of the hardcover fiction bestseller list last week, and to "Plum Lovin,' " which stood at No. 1 on the paperback fiction bestseller list.
Both of those books are from St. Martin's Press, where she is one of the imprint's mega-authors.
When we queried her publicist there about who might be representing her these days, we were told, "Janet is not available to talk."
A call to Gottlieb also yielded no response.
Metro mess
Metro International, the worldwide publisher of free daily newspapers in New York, Philadelphia and Boston, is bringing in low-cost replacements in the United States after purging 27 positions at the three freebies.
The latest move came in Boston, where Editor Saul Williams was replaced by former Metro Boston reporter Matthew Killorin.
Killorin confirmed his appointment, but declined further comment.
In New York, where the North American Editor-in-Chief Jon Auerbach was ousted along with Metro New York Publisher Daniel Magnus, the parent company has dispatched Tony Metcalf, former international editor-in-chief who had earlier quit to work in the Middle East.
However, sources don't know how long Metcalf will stay in the position, and believe he is on temporary assignment until the company can replace publishers in New York and Boston.


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Anyone from the Bungie Community on ESO? I picked it up at launch and have been enjoying it a lot. With that said, it's had some pretty shitty bugs and server downtime seems erratic at best. But when the server is up and you're not stuck at a bugged quest, it's bloody brilliant. Released for PC on April 4th (and coming on consoles later), Elder Scrolls Online is an MMO with all the MMO stuff, but instead of giving players a choice between many different servers to play on Zenimax uses some voodoo and runs two "Mega Servers" for NA and Europe. You're placed in the world with others on the same or similar step in a quest, so while you can play through solo you may find that more often than not you'll walk around a corner to find a few other people about to take on the same group of mobs or boss as you. It isn't perfect, sometimes quests get glitched when too many people appear during a certain stage, but I think it shows potential and (for the most part) works well. The PVP is large scale siege warfare set in a zone called Cyrodiil, and is essentially capture the flag (with castles, keeps, siege weapons, and large groups of players in your way). When you enter your stats are buffed up to level 50, and PVP (as far as I know) is for level 10 through Veteran Rank 10. You don't have to PVP in the PVP zone, there are also quests and dungeons there that you can run as well as lots of resources to gather. But enough of that, what are your thoughts on it? Did you anticipate the release and dive in as soon as you could? Or are you more speculative, waiting to see how it goes after launch, and then deciding to get it or not? Or do you just not like MMOs, tell us why, or what you'd like to see from a game like this? Did you buy it and hate it? These are the things I want to know. Go on, tell me...tell me everything. P.S. I'm playing on PC in Aldmeri Dominion as a Knightblade archer, currently level 46, and looking for people to do shit with. I can make bows and light/medium armor too, if you need some. edit: oops, didn't realize it wasn't out on consoles yet, thanks to everyone for pointing that out.
I'm giving it 2 years till it goes free to play or loses a lot of players like Star Wars did a while back.
Getting it on ps4 when it comes out
I haven't been playing all to much (primarily been running around in cyrodiil gathering ebony ore) because im waiting for my friend. If you wanna add me (though im low level) message me your name and ill give you mine. btw, Inb4brokenlore inb4playedbetaanditwasbad
Waiting for Xbox one release.
I played the Beta a little bit and found it to be pretty lackluster. Then again, there were a lot of features missing, so maybe I didn't give it enough of a chance. Are there fun side things to do? Would an ex-WoW player enjoy it? I loved Oblivion and Skyrim, and I'm afraid it won't live up to my expectations.
Level 43 Imperial Dragonknight Ebonheart Pact PS: Game isn't released on consoles yet.
June 10 on consoles.
FYI: Anyone who's playing ESO right now is playing it on PC.
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Queer Liberaction holding rally Sunday on courthouse steps
Queer Liberaction is organizing a protest for a third consecutive weekend in response to the June 28 raid of the Rainbow Lounge that left one man was hospitalized for a week with head injuries.
The rally begins at 7 p.m. at the Tarrant County Courthouse located at 100 E. Weatherford Street in Fort Worth.
Four speakers are expected, including Dr. Stephen V. Sprinkle, an associate professor of practical theology at Brite Divinity School at Texas Christian University. The Rev. Carol West, pastor of Celebration Community Church in Fort Worth; Chuck Potter, a Rainbow Lounge patron who witnessed the police and Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission raid; and local radio personality Rick Vanderslice will also speak.
Queer Liberaction organizer Blake Wilkerson said, "The Fort Worth Police Department along with the TABC used excessive force in carrying out a routine liquor license check. We in the LGBT community are particularly disgusted by these events, especially given that it took place on the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellions.
"LGBT people should be indignant about how the Fort Worth Police Department and the TABC has so brazenly trampled upon the rights of LGBT Americans," Wilkinson said. "We demand accountability, explanations and action, and we demand them now."
Wilkerson pointed out that while arrests were made at two earlier bar inspections that day, harsh intimidation techniques were only used at Rainbow Lounge and, he says, only the Rainbow Lounge raid resulted in injuries.
To publicize the rally, Queer Liberaction held two poster-making parties on July 9, one in Dallas and one at the Rainbow Lounge in Fort Worth.
Over the weekend, teams will hang posters and distribute fliers around Dallas and Fort Worth. In Dallas, a group will meet at Buli on Cedar Springs on Friday, July 10 and Saturday, July 11, both at 8 p.m. A Fort Worth group will meet both Friday and Saturday at Rainbow Lounge at the same time.
Wilkerson said that anyone interested in participating is welcome to join the group at Buli or Rainbow Lounge to help distribute fliers.
On July 5, the group staged a Milk box protest at Sundance Square. Representatives of the ACLU, Stonewall Democrats, Fairness Fort Worth spoke at that event, as did activists Hardy Haberman, Sprinkle, Potter and Vanderslice.
The Milk box events, named for slain San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk as well as the crate they use, engage passersby on issues of homophobia and civil rights.
In addition to eyewitness accounts of the raid, speakers said that pressure must be kept up on city and police officials to conduct a thorough investigation into the incident.
"It's very encouraging that we are coming together as a community to stand up for ourselves and not let this issue be swept under the carpet," Wilkinson said. "We're staying out in the streets, keeping the issue on the front burner and demanding accountability."


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Could Napoleon have had a Napoleon Complex?
To answer this admittedly odd question, you'll have to visit the marine archaeology museum (known in Israel as the Glass Factory Museum) at Kibbutz Nahsholim, located between Caesarea and Haifa on the Mediterranean coast.
At the museum, you'll be surprised to find the French emperor's sword. Amazingly, underwater archaeologists discovered this antique. In fact, they found lots of other French military equipment, as apparently Napoleon and his soldiers ditched supplies in their 1799 military retreat from Palestine's coastal waters.
But returning for a moment to my original question: As a man of significant power and influence, Napoleon Bonaparte probably did not carry a standard "army issue" sword.
More than likely, he ordered a special sword cast to his particular measurements and his rank.
So when you look at Napoleon's sword, ask yourself what its length suggests about Napoleon's true size.
The maritime museum, however, is far from being just a museum of military relics.
Given that this is a museum dealing with the sea, it provides visitors with insights into the mysterious purple snail. As the museum's curators point out, the elusive purple snail had a connection to the ptil tekhelet (Numbers 15:38-9), the distinctive colored thread that was woven into the fringes of the tallit.
In the exhibits, the curators try to answer the following issues: From what marine animals might this color have been extracted? From what geographic area did this color come? What was the real color of this thread? How was this color obtained?
Also: Are there chemical reactions that affect the color of the thread? How were counterfeit colors detected? Using both mounted displays and film, the staff has formulated responses to these complicated questions.
Consciously or unconsciously, the museum gives vent to some irony: The facility, housed in Baron de Rothschild's short-lived (1891-1896) glass factory, displays both wondrously delicate authentic Roman glass and the remains of an early Christian mosaic church floor found at nearby Tel Dor.
And speaking of Tel Dor, this site is one of the ongoing archaeology projects in Israel. Since the 1980s, archaeologists have been digging every summer at this ancient port — and there is no end in sight.
Archaeologists tell us that Dor was a natural harbor; it was first a Canaanite harbor town. Later, it was used by the Philistines and Phoenicians.
From the Book of Kings, we read that King Solomon made Dor one of his 12 governorates. This administrative function lasted throughout much of its Assyrian and Persian history.
During the Hellenistic and Roman periods, Dor became an important port city. It had paved streets, temples, a theater, a multifaceted water and sewer system and a major walled fortress.
Dor probably only declined in importance after Herod completed Caesarea's port (25-13 BCE).
(The museum opens every day at 8:30 a.m. During the week, closing time is at 2 p.m.; on Fridays, the museum closes at 1 p.m. and on Saturdays at 3 p.m. For more information, visit: mizgaga.com; meanwhile, for Tel Dor info, go to: dor.huji.ac.il)
People love the Dor coast not just for its long history, but also for its wild beauty. Numerous caves with adjacent pools line the waterfront.
This area is known for its massive accumulation of sea shells. In fact, many of these shells help to form a peculiar kind of rock known as beach rock.
In the summer months, the water is vivid shades of blue. In season, lifeguards protect swimmers at the beach's southern end.
Further out to sea, people enjoy other water sports like kayaking, sailing, diving (sunken ships may still be seen in this area) and fishing. During a recent chol ha-mo'ed Sukkot trip, we were fortunate enough to see storks and other water fowl at Nahsholim's fish ponds.
Not everyone, however, wants to maintain the current appearance of this nature reserve. Some want to develop the seafront so that it includes restaurants, walkways, parking and additional beach vacation units.
The battle lines have been drawn between what one might loosely call the environmentalists on one side and the developers on the other side.
Putting aside this confrontation for the moment, more unusual area sights lie ahead. For instance, did you know some owls have to work for their keep?
If you continue traveling slightly north and east of the museum, you can learn more about these owls at the certified organic vineyards at Amphorae Winery, located by Moshav Kerem Maharal.
Instead of using potentially harmful pesticides on the crops, the growers settle owls in their fields. At night, the owls leave their bird houses to hunt the rodents that would otherwise damage the crops.
So here is a win/win/win situation: the owls (with their voracious appetites) have ready prey to hunt; the growers are able to make a living by justifiably claiming that they are selling a healthy crop; and the consumers who buy Amphorae get award-winning wine (but not certified kosher), untouched by chemicals.
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Barton: I want to stay
Joey Barton has expressed his desire to stay at Newcastle, following on from his initial disappointment at the imminent departure of Magpies skipper Kevin Nolan.
Barton tweeted angrily on Wednesday that more departures may occur after news surfaced that Nolan had gone for a medical examination at West Ham, where he is expected to be named the club's new captain on Thursday. Later, Barton revealed that he has no plans of heading toward the exit door at St James' Park, if given the option.
"I have got no ambitions to leave the football club, I don't want to leave the football club. I would love nothing more so than to win a trophy at Newcastle, the same way as a number of players. Whether I get the opportunity to do that is out of my hands," he told Sky Sports News.
28-year-old Barton has reportedly been told that his current deal, which expires in 12-months, will not be renewed at Newcastle. However, the midfielder pledged his loyalty to the club on Wednesday evening, and said he had faith that the team would come out of Nolan's likely transfer in a strong position.
"Obviously, it would be a great disappointment to lose Kev. He's a great pal and I think he has done fantastically for the football club. But this is the game we are in, unfortunately. Sometimes it is a little bit like ships in the night.
"Hopefully, the move breaks down, but if it doesn't, you have got to believe in the process of the football club, and no one player is bigger than the football club," he said.
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Veterans celebrated with Capital City Freedom Corner
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"It's more and more recognition for all the servicemen, military, and actually families too who have served our country," said Fry.
Veterans, their families, friends, and fellow proud Americans gathered at what was declared the Freedom Corner on East McCarty Street in Jefferson City Monday.
The landmark will serve as a place for veterans and loved ones to reflect on those who served or passed away.
"We can never forget the sacrifices that those who served have made, especially those who never came home. The men and women who died for our country. I think memorials like this go a long way to ensure that they are not forgotten," said veteran Don Hentges.
Tipton Vietnam veteran Ted Fry said it was good to see all of the branches represented at the ceremony.
"It's more and more recognition for all the servicemen, military, and actually families too who have served our country," said Fry.
The six month project headed by the East Side Business Association and the owner of the old Warwick Village transformed this section of the Capital City into something forever etched in history.
"We hope it's something as they drive by and see it or stop and see the bricks and pavers that have been put here to recognize other veterans that they are proud of the service and recognize we as a nation are proud of their service as well. We hope it also encourages young people to consider service to our country," said Donnell Rehagen, president of the East Side Business Association.
Freedom isn't free.
"The freedoms and securities that we enjoy today and every day are a direct result of those sacrifices by our veterans," said Jefferson City mayor Eric Struemph.


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I am a 34K and would really love to be a 34C. Is that possible? I was told that they might grow bigger again after the surgery - true? I am 5'7" and currently weigh 167lbs - still losing pregnancy weight though.
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Congratulations on your decision to proceed with breast reduction surgery. It is one of the most patient pleasing operations we performed. It will likely be in your best interest to reach a long-term stable weight prior to proceeding with the surgery.
Unfortunately, there is no direct correlation between the amount of tissue removed and the ultimate cup size that a patient will wear after breast reduction surgery.
Before undergoing the breast reduction procedure it is very important to communicate your size goals with your surgeon. In my practice, the use of photographs of "goal" pictures (and breasts that are too big or too small) is very helpful. I have found that the use of words such as "natural" or "C cup" or "fake looking" means different things to different people and therefore prove unhelpful. Also, as you know, cup size varies depending on who makes the bra; therefore, discussing desired cup size may also be inaccurate.
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1) Make sure that you are over the pregnancy hormone fluctuations, and that your weight is relatively stable (it does not have to be all the way down).
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Recurrence of breast volume after breast reduction
You are correct in trying to loose your pregnancy weight before scheduling your breast reduction because in eliminating as much of the hormonal variability of the postpartum, reducing the fatty component of the breast and getting yourself psychologically fit, you'll truly be ready.
In all discussions with breast reduction patients, I always discuss that there are essentially three phases during which the breast volume may recur. a) Virginal hypertrophy occurs in young women who develop early. b) Postpartum hyperplasia is evident after pregnancy and lactation. c) Involutional hyperplasia is best understood as the extra volume which appears around menopause. So it is possible for a big breasted woman who has a reduction mammoplasty to "grow again", if she has additional pregnancies and as she goes through menopause.
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You sound like an excellent candidate for a reduction. You will probably do better if you are at your pre-pregnancy weight, but that is not absolutely necessary. Your breasts should maintain their size post-op without a significant weight change or a change in hormonal levels.
Bigger is not alway Better
Your breast size should be stable after breast reduction surgery as long as your weight remains relatively stable (no large fluctuations). It would certainly be a good ideal to lose your pregnancy weight and get down to what you consider your goal weight prior to surgery. If you do have another pregnancy after breast reduction, your breasts may change and the result of your reduction by be altered enough that you may want another operation for revision or correction.
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Breast reduction and pregnancy weight
If you are still actively losing weight, then I would hold off on a breast reduction. Get down to your usual weight and if the breasts are stil too large, then undergo the procedure.
These answers are for educational purposes and should not be relied upon as a substitute for medical advice you may receive from your physician. If you have a medical emergency, please call 911. These answers do not constitute or initiate a patient/doctor relationship.


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Mises Daily Articles
The Chimera of the Group Mind
[Excerpted from chapter 9 of Theory and History.]
In their eagerness to eliminate from history any reference to individuals and individual events, collectivist authors resorted to a chimerical construction, the group mind or social mind.
At the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries, German philologists began to study German medieval poetry, which had long since fallen into oblivion. Most of the epics they edited from old manuscripts were imitations of French works. The names of their authors — most of them knightly warriors in the service of dukes or counts — were known. These epics were not much to boast of. But there were two epics of a quite different character, genuinely original works of high literary value, far surpassing the conventional products of the courtiers: the Nibelungenlied and the Gudrun. The former is one of the great books of world literature and undoubtedly the outstanding poem Germany produced before the days of Goethe and Schiller. The names of the authors of these masterpieces were not handed down to posterity. Perhaps the poets belonged to the class of professional entertainers (Spielleute), who not only were snubbed by the nobility but had to endure mortifying legal disabilities. Perhaps they were heretical or Jewish, and the clergy was eager to make people forget them.
At any rate the philologists called these two works "people's epics" (Volksepen). This term suggested to naive minds the idea that they were written not by individual authors but by the "people." The same mythical authorship was attributed to popular songs (Volkslieder) whose authors were unknown.
Again in Germany, in the years following the Napoleonic wars, the problem of comprehensive legislative codification was brought up for discussion. In this controversy the historical school of jurisprudence, led by Savigny, denied the competence of any age and any persons to write legislation. Like the Volksepen and the Volkslieder, a nation's laws, they declared, are a spontaneous emanation of the Volksgeist, the nation's spirit and peculiar character. Genuine laws are not arbitrarily written by legislators; they spring up and thrive organically from the Volksgeist.
This Volksgeist doctrine was devised in Germany as a conscious reaction against the ideas of natural law and the "un-German" spirit of the French Revolution. But it was further developed and elevated to the dignity of a comprehensive social doctrine by the French positivists, many of whom not only were committed to the principles of the most radical among the revolutionary leaders but aimed at completing the "unfinished revolution" by a violent overthrow of the capitalistic mode of production. Emile Durkheim and his school deal with the group mind as if it were a real phenomenon, a distinct agency, thinking and acting. As they see it, not individuals but the group is the subject of history.
As a corrective of these fancies the truism must be stressed that only individuals think and act. In dealing with the thoughts and actions of individuals the historian establishes the fact that some individuals influence one another in their thinking and acting more strongly than they influence and are influenced by other individuals. He observes that cooperation and division of labor exist among some, while existing to a lesser extent or not at all among others. He employs the term "group" to signify an aggregation of individuals who cooperate together more closely. However, the distinction of groups is optional. The group is not an ontological entity like the biological species. The various group concepts intersect one another.
The historian chooses, according to the special plan of his studies, the features and attributes that determine the classification of individuals into various groups. The grouping may integrate people speaking the same language, or professing the same religion, or practicing the same vocation or occupation, or descended from the same ancestry. The group concept of Gobineau was different from that of Marx. In short, the group concept is an ideal type and as such is derived from the historian's understanding of the historical forces and events.
Only individuals think and act. Each individual's thinking and acting is influenced by his fellows' thinking and acting. These influences are variegated. The individual American's thoughts and conduct cannot be interpreted if one assigns him to a single group. He is not only an American but a member of a definite religious group or an agnostic or an atheist; he has a job, he belongs to a political party, he is affected by traditions inherited from his ancestors and conveyed to him by his upbringing, by the family, the school, the neighborhood, by the ideas prevailing in his town, state, and country. It is an enormous simplification to speak of the American mind. Every American has his own mind. It is absurd to ascribe any achievements and virtues or any misdeeds and vices of individual Americans to America as such.
Most people are common men. They do not have thoughts of their own; they are only receptive. They do not create new ideas; they repeat what they have heard and imitate what they have seen. If the world were peopled only by such as these, there would not be any change and any history. What produces change is new ideas and actions guided by them. What distinguishes one group from another is the effect of such innovations. These innovations are not accomplished by a group mind; they are always the achievements of individuals. What makes the American people different from any other people is the joint effect produced by the thoughts and actions of innumerable uncommon Americans.
We know the names of the men who invented and step by step perfected the motorcar. A historian can write a detailed history of the evolution of the automobile. We do not know the names of the men who, in the beginnings of civilization, made the greatest inventions — for example, lighting a fire. But this ignorance does not permit us to ascribe this fundamental invention to a group mind. It is always an individual who starts a new method of doing things, and then other people imitate his example. Customs and fashions have always been inaugurated by individuals and spread through imitation by other people.
While the group-mind school tried to eliminate the individual by ascribing activity to the mythical Volksgeist, the Marxians were intent on the one hand upon depreciating the individual's contribution and on the other hand upon crediting innovations to common men. Thus Marx observed that a critical history of technology would demonstrate that none of the 18th century's inventions was the achievement of a single individual.1 What does this prove? Nobody denies that technological progress is a gradual process, a chain of successive steps performed by long lines of men, each of whom adds something to the accomplishments of his predecessors.
The history of every technological contrivance, when completely told, leads back to the most primitive inventions made by cave dwellers in the earliest ages of mankind. To choose any later starting point is an arbitrary restriction of the whole tale. One may begin a history of wireless telegraphy with Maxwell and Hertz, but one may as well go back to the first experiments with electricity or to any previous technological feats that had necessarily to precede the construction of a radio network. All this does not in the least affect the truth that each step forward was made by an individual and not by some mythical impersonal agency. It does not detract from the contributions of Maxwell, Hertz, and Marconi to admit that they could be made only because others had previously made other contributions.
To illustrate the difference between the innovator and the dull crowd of routinists who cannot even imagine that any improvement is possible, we need only refer to a passage in Engels' most famous book.2 Here, in 1878, Engels apodictically announced that military weapons are "now so perfected that no further progress of any revolutionizing influence is any longer possible." Henceforth "all further [technological] progress is by and large indifferent for land warfare. The age of evolution is in this regard essentially closed."3 This complacent conclusion shows in what the achievement of the innovator consists: he accomplishes what other people believe to be unthinkable and unfeasible.
Engels, who considered himself an expert in the art of warfare, liked to exemplify his doctrines by referring to strategy and tactics. Changes in military tactics, he declared, are not brought about by ingenious army leaders. They are achievements of privates who are usually cleverer than their officers. The privates invent them by dint of their instincts (instinktmässig) and put them into operation in spite of the reluctance of their commanders.4
Every doctrine denying to the "single paltry individual"5 any role in history must finally ascribe changes and improvements to the operation of instincts. As those upholding such doctrines see it, man is an animal that has the instinct to produce poems, cathedrals, and airplanes. Civilization is the result of an unconscious and unpremeditated reaction of man to external stimuli. Each achievement is the automatic creation of an instinct with which man has been endowed especially for this purpose. There are as many instincts as there are human achievements. It is needless to enter into a critical examination of this fable invented by impotent people for slighting the achievements of better men and appealing to the resentment of the dull. Even on the basis of this makeshift doctrine one cannot negate the distinction between the man who had the instinct to write the book On the Origin of Species and those who lacked this instinct.


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Cruising on NCL Jade soon. Can we walk from port into the city? If so, how long of a walk. If not, are there taxis/public transportation available at the port to take us into the city?
We were in Palma de Mallorca on Norwegian Jade just two days ago. Yes, you can walk, but it would be a long one to the Old Town. NCL offered a shuttle bus for $10 per person for an all-day pass... buses ran frequently enough so that you could come and go as you pleased.
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Monday's Caught On The Web
Things that caught our eye around the finance and business-related web. Think you've got something for tomorrow's list? Email Lauren Mills or direct message us on Twitter @wsjthesource
Naked Capitalism: Does this mean we never leave? $1 trillion mineral find in Afghanistan
"…The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan […so…] if we make the Afghans affluent enough, they'll be happy the U.S. is there and getting its cut for showing them the way.. [This'll be an interesting one to watch.]
The Oil Drum: Belief systems at a turning point
Re. the "BP Horizon Blowout, we may be hitting a turning point in belief systems, in more than one way…"
Zero Hedge: Deflation? Try a tale of two inflations
"…it is advisable to allocate for inflation protection so not to put all the eggs in one direction, in case some investors have positioned largely in anticipation of a deflation."
Business Insider: George Soros: We are just entering "Act 2″of the crisis, and we're totally screwed
"…the collapse of the financial system as we know it is real, and the crisis is far from over." [And other words of doom.]