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Video Game Guide w/ Dynamic Video Search
The Video Game Guide was created to make it faster and easier for users to browse game trailers to determine which ones are worth investigating further. Now that there are so many videos to choose from, users need a faster way to say yes to a click thru or no, within 8-10 seconds. That is what Invent Squared's video game guide offers, leveraging InstaVid's Dynamic Video Thumbnail Platform.
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I Am On Location provides newsrooms with a real-time clip feed of video captured on location during an unfolding event, by a crowd-sourced, vetted and trained team of videographers. The Company's proprietary software syndicates videographer-uploaded content directly into a clip feed for real-time consumption in newsrooms. The business model supplies every newsroom with a free feed and monthly billing is based upon actual downloads.
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Websites that have a few videos to showcase in a small space can create their own video thumbnails that play with roll-over or a tap on mobile, to drive more users to watch the full video. Static thumbnails are not enough anymore now that GIFs and rotated images play in the image thumbnail space; with InstaVid, a real video plays in the thumbnail's place to quickly inform a user what the video is about.
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One-Touch Guide for Movie and TV Trailers was created to turn image thumbnails representing a video to an actual video playing so that users could jump one to the next to avoid wasting clicks and time on content they are not interested in. With over 100,000 trailers to browse no user is interested in watching them all and celebrates the option to cherry-pick their viewing experience, supplied by InstaVid's Dynamic Video Thumbnail Platform.


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In 2015, a strong community management plan is defined as permission to play in the social media space. Brands that do it aren't seen as spectacular anymore, and we're disappointed if a brand falls short and don't meet our expectations when it comes to customer care on sites like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. So now the question is not, "How do I provide community management on social media" but rather, "How do I make my brand stand out as customer care on social media?" To take the first step in answering that question, you don't need to look any further than those three networks. Here are three ways to use Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook to enhance your community management and customer service.
Back in January, Twitter launched a handful of new features to its platform, including the ability for users to Group Direct Message. Few brands have taken advantage of this to bring efficiency to their customer service. Imagine, instead of asking a user to DM you their email address so someone from customer service can get in touch, you were able to start a group DM and solve the customer's problem in one dialogue with the social media rep (who has the background) along with the customer service team member who can actually solve the problem; all in the customer's preferred channel of communication.
Arguably one of Instagram's least utilized features is the Direct Message. It's been challenging at best to prove the value and ROI of Instagram, especially when the reps at the network tell you it's all about "brand awareness." But most brands are just scraping the surface of using the platform for real community management outside of likes, comments, and hashtag-stalking. Similar to the above, if a user is reaching out on Instagram with a customer service issue (either they shared an image or left a comment), keep them on the platform where they made first contact with your brand and get into a Instagram DM conversation. You may even want to send a video to add a personal touch.
Facebook announced a major update to their Messenger app at their F8 conference: Facebook Messenger for Business. This feature will enable brands to connect with customers and provide information like order status, tracking details, and order modifications in a real-time chat setting. Their goal is reducing friction between users and brands. Customer will have an easier time asking and answering questions. Expect use-cases like those from launch partners Everlane and Zulily to be the tip of the iceberg for Facebook's plan with FB Messenger for Business.
Has your brand, or have you seen any brands, make use of these or other interesting customer service tools on social channels? Let us know in the comments!

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Mac delivers the killer blow
One last desperate swish, that's all it took. Time seemed to be ticking away on Crossabeg-Ballymurn's Courtyard Ferns Intermediate hurling championship lives in Bellefield on Sunday as Niall Murphy stood over a '65 in the third minute of added time.
Crossabeg-Ballymurn 2-16 Adamstown 1-18
He had the opportunity to drop one last ball into the edge of the square after an almighty scramble just moments earlier.
The goalmouth had been loaded on that occasion and Crossabeg-Ballymurn just couldn't get the ball to fall for them.
It seemed like the danger might have been cleared when the eleven men up for the Wexford District side couldn't latch onto Murphy's invitingly hanging '65. Adamstown forced it out to the 20-metre line and then it happened.
Eoin McDonald can't have ever caught a sliothar as sweetly. He had almost no space to work a shot but somehow, some way, the ball found a path, zipped into the air and bulged Paul Cooper's net just inches under the crossbar. Cue pandemonium.
As half the Crossabeg-Ballymurn team looked to celebrate the goal that would send them through to the semi-final, the others had realised that the full-time whistle hadn't gone. They didn't have to wait long though as John Carton's whistle came immediately after Paul Cooper despondently pucked the ball out.
It was an apt way for a thoroughly entertaining game to finish. The first-half saw Crossabeg-Ballymurn play with the breeze and rack up twelve points. McDonald had been key with four, while Niall Murphy also hit a quartet as their side led by 0-12 to 0-10 at the interval.
Lorcan French was scorer-in-chief for Adamstown before the break with six points and by the time he notched his seventh, seven minutes into the second-half, Crossabeg-Ballymurn had their opening goal on the board.
It was a really well-taken major too as Barry Murphy pulled in the influential Pádraig Foley's long ball and dispatched it past Cooper. They just about hung on to their lead until Paddy Whitty's effort came down off the left upright and fell perfectly for Seán Barden who fed Liam Stafford for the lead goal (1-16 to 1-15).
Twice Adamstown got themselves two ahead as time ticked away but there was one last, crucial twist in the tale as McDonald pounced to drill Crossabeg-Ballymurn into a semi-final clash with HWH-Bunclody.
Crossabeg-Ballymurn: Mark Dempsey; Martin Redmond, Billy Roche, Matty Sludds; Cormac O'Rourke, Pádraig Foley (0-1 free), Alan Byrne; Bill Eviston, Conor Devereux; Oisín Foley (0-3), Sam Kelly (0-1), Eoin McDonald (1-4); Barry Murphy (capt., 1-0), Niall Murphy (0-7, 3 frees), Andy Butler. Subs. - Seamus Carroll for Butler (37), Paddy Devereux for O'Rourke (37), Liam Kehoe for Kelly (57).
Adamstown: Paul Cooper; Johnny Connors, M.J. Cooper, Michael Curtis; Brendan Furlong, James Breen, Paudie Barden; Shane O'Gorman (capt., 0-3), Lorcan French (0-10, 8 frees, 1 '65); Tony French (0-1), P.J. Carroll, Liam Stafford (1-1); John French (0-1), Paddy Whitty (0-1), Seán Barden (0-1). Subs. - Ian Bradley for Carroll (46), Barry Power for J. French (55).
Referee: John Carton (Monageer-Boolavogue).
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Mark Berry reports on Dr. Gibson's introduction and Dr. Whittemore's keynote speech, at the 11th Invest in ME International ME Conference in London.
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How to Talk to Children About Art Paperback
This is a children's art book for grown-ups. In everyday language it shows how to explain to children what to look for and how to enjoy paintings as diverse as a Renaissance religious scene and a Jackson Pollock.
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Militia: It has been said oil will rise in Sept! Up $.73 for a starter.. lol Interesting thing to notice it was mentioned as a lead upto the HCL and Article 140. (See below.)
I have heard or seemed to get an under tone that "oil" is being used for the plan both for it going down in price to put pressure on those that need a wake up cal and to get things done according to PTBs wishes. It looks to have had the effect needed.
Up up we go! lol imho
Crude Oil 45.17 +0.73
Quotes: "Frank26: "Can you imagine if oil goes up what it will do to the dinar." ~Frank26"
"Frank26: "The United States has/had a voice in how Maliki is to go down….the US is flexing its muscles in Iraq because of Iran….I want you to start looking as the week stops….oil prices will start to climb in the month of September….Saudi's and OPEC will start limiting oil….and Iran can sell all they want…but in reality they cannot…..because OPEC only deals with the USD…."
Franks Quotes Cont.....
"Family the HCL as I have told you….is in the budget….but now I would like to tell you that it is now transformed into a budgetary issue…..it is not a Parliamentary issue….Parliament is looking for the HCL….says the articles but that is a bunch of baloney….
Parliament knows about the HCL and what to do with it….it is all about Article 140….I told you there was a rider….
Article 140 was not to be passed….the HCL was not to be passed….it is supposed to be amended….it was passed a long time ago and they are using the rider right now that we told you about to amend the HCL to deal with the citizens of Iraq….therefore budgetary portions of the HCL in the budget causes the 2017 budget to be fully implemented….
I pray to God that you understand Family." ~Frank26"
Michelle: So if the debt is ie 30 days net.... when did the LOC (Letter of Credit) 30 days net start.. IYO? Not looking for a date or rate
Militia: I am not sure to what letters of credit specifically or when any were issued, however, we can see that they are. I found this to ponder and it is relatively recent and a stark warning to those that don't have proper verbiage in the LOCs. Could be serious problems getting paid. That said, the case below is a positive sign that they are being used and those putting credit out to Iraq should by now be fully aware on this issues at hand.
16 November 2015
In Taurus Petroleum Ltd v State Oil Marketing Co of the Ministry of Oil, Republic of Iraq [2015] EWCA Civ 835, 28 July 2015 the Court of Appeal gave a clear signal that State-owned trading entities will face difficulties invoking sovereign immunity to evade payment of their debts. The decision also clarifies the rules of construction applicable to letters of credits, and confirms in particular that absent provision to the contrary, the situs of a debt due under a letter of credit will be the place of payment. The decision will be of particular interest to the crude oil and gas trading community, but its implications are relevant to anyone engaged in commodities trading and wider international commerce, particularly in sectors where State-owned entities participate in the market.
The dispute arose from efforts by Taurus Petroleum Ltd (Taurus) to enforce a USD 8.7 million arbitration award against the State Oil Marketing Co. of the Ministry of Oil, Republic of Iraq (SOMO). Taurus sought to do so with third party debt orders and the appointment of a receiver in respect of sums payable to SOMO under letters of credit issued in London by Crédit Agricole SA. Those orders were granted by the English court in March 2013, but were subsequently challenged by SOMO and set aside at first instance on the basis that the promise to pay under the letters of credit was made jointly to SOMO and the Central Bank of Iraq (CBI).1 Taurus appealed against that decision.
The letters of credit contained an unusual payment structure, which reflected the requirements imposed on Iraq by a 2003 UN Security Council Resolution.
The Resolution required that proceeds from the sale of Iraqi oil be paid into an account held by CBI at the Federal Reserve Bank in New York. Although the sanctions were relaxed in 2011, Iraq chose to retain this payment structure. As a result, the letters of credit in this case provided for payment of their proceeds to CBI in New York, while designating SOMO as the "beneficiary".
High Court
Payment under the letters of credit required Crédit Agricole to take certain steps in London. On this basis, Field J found that the debts under the letters of credit were governed by English law2 and that they were situated in London. The attachment of the debts under a third party debt order would not interfere with the authority of a foreign State and the court therefore had jurisdiction to make the orders that it did. However, Field J also found that under the terms of each letter of credit the promise to pay was made jointly to SOMO and CBI. Neither a third party debt order nor an execution order could be made with regard to jointly held rights and the orders were set aside.
Field J also considered matters of sovereign immunity under the State Immunity Act 1978 (the Act). The relevant provisions of the Act are: s13(2)(b), which provides that the property of the State is immune from execution; s14(2), which extends sovereign immunity to any acts by a separate entity in the exercise of sovereign authority; and s14(4), which renders the property of a central bank immune from execution. As SOMO was a separate corporate entity, debts owed to it were not State property. Accordingly, the sovereign immunity defence under s13(2)(b) did not apply. Sales of oil by SOMO were of a commercial (and not sovereign) character and therefore SOMO could not invoke State immunity under s14(2) either. However, the central bank's interest triggered the protection of s14(4) of the Act, leading to a discharge of the orders.
Court of Appeal – no jurisdiction to make third party debt orders or receivership order
Moore-Bick, Sullivan and Briggs LJJ were unanimous in holding that the appeal should be dismissed. However, they disagreed (among themselves and with Field J) on the proper construction of the letters of credit.
Moore-Bick LJ found, following the authority in Power Curber,3 that the debts under the letters of credit were situated at the place where payment was to be made (ie in New York). The court had no jurisdiction to issue the third party debt orders (which are orders in rem) with respect to property outside the jurisdiction. This conclusion did not necessarily follow with regard to the receivership order, which is an order in personam. However, in the circumstances, a receivership order would have the adverse effect of depriving CBI of its contractual right to receive payment. This led Moore‑Bick LJ to conclude that appointing a receiver would exceed the proper limits of the court's jurisdiction. Sullivan and Briggs LJJ agreed.
The above grounds were sufficient to dismiss the appeal, but the court went on to consider matters of State immunity.
State immunity and State-owned entities
Following the Gécamines case,4 Moore‑Bick LJ relied on the principle that a State-owned entity with separate corporate personality and powers typical of a commercial organisation is presumed not to be an organ of the State. The presumption was strengthened by evidence that SOMO's board, and not the Ministry of Oil, was responsible for and conducted the affairs of the company. The facts that SOMO did not retain revenue from oil sales and that it had to submit its programmes for the sale of crude to the Ministry of Oil were insufficient to rebut the presumption. Whether SOMO at any point held the title to the oil it marketed was similarly of "little consequence".5 Moore-Bick LJ also held that selling oil owned by the State is an ordinary commercial activity. SOMO was therefore not entitled to immunity under s13(2)(b) or s14(2) of the Act.
Following an analysis of the terms of the letters of credit, and in particular the special conditions which required payment of the monies to the CBI account in New York, Moore-Bick LJ concluded that while CBI had a contractual right to require payment, it did not have a proprietary interest in the debt. A contractual interest of this type was insufficient to trigger immunity under s14(4) of the Act.
Further information
This case summary is part of the Allen & Overy Litigation and Dispute Resolution Review, a monthly publication.
For more information please contact Sarah Garvey email@example.com, or tel +44 20 3088 3710.
MountainMole: I'm very encouraged by Mangelo. He sent his info to RR (RayRen) last Friday and said he was going to enjoy this weekend. Today he is meeting with his group to go over procedures. This is our week, this is our time.
SassyD: G-20 Pledges to Reduce Excessive Imbalances in Global Economy --Link
SassyD: Iraq declares military retirees pay the salaries across the "Ki Card" -- 09/05/2016 --
SassyD: Estimate of What Annuities Cost You in Fees and Penalties -- Tools & Calculators * Annuity Calculator * Understanding Annuity Calculators -- Link
Dinar Updates:
rcookie MORE AND MORE TALK ON A DAILY BASIS FROM EVERY CORNER OF IRAQ...ABOUT THE DIRE ABSENCE OF HARD CURRENCY AND LIQUIDITY IN THE IRAQI MARKETPLACE...
Dinar Chronicles:
I spoke with the Bank of China where I have an account and they said they know the news but they are waiting for the official announcement.
I only asked for the dong and the GCR and he went to ask his boss and told me it was true and waiting the official announcement and suggested me to go to my branch bank in these days.
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Scout53: A young boy showered my husband, Carl, and me with bubbles as he came running by us on the Atlantic City boardwalk. It was a light and fun moment on a difficult day. We had come to the city to visit our brother-in-law in the hospital and to help Carl's sister who was struggling and having trouble getting to her doctors' appointments.
So as we took a break and walked along the seaside boardwalk we were feeling a bit overwhelmed by the needs of our family
Then came the bubbles. Just bubbles blown at us whimsically by a little boy in the ocean breeze—but they had a special significance to me. I love bubbles and keep a bottle in my office to use whenever I need the smile of a bubble break.
Those bubbles and the vast Atlantic Ocean reminded me of what I can count on: God is always close. He is powerful. He always cares.
And He can use even the smallest experiences, and briefest moments, to help us remember that His presence is like an ocean of grace in the middle of our heavy moments.
Maybe one day our troubles will seem like bubbles—momentary in light of eternity for "what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal" (2 Cor. 4:18).
9/5/2016 05:24:43 pm
people don't seem to get the point. it doesn't matter how much the price of oil goes up. they are still on a program rate. until that changes nothing will make a difference. and don't say iraq cant stay at the program rate much longer because they can. they've been on it for 14 years. its all a money manipulation game. Iraq is at 1166 to 1 usd. Vietnam is 21,000 to 1 usd and is the second largest Asian economy. neighbor Cambodia is 5,000 to 1 usd and has 100 times less manufacturing and export than Vietnam. its all bs to line a few peoples pockets. they say Iraq has no liquidity. no dinar in the banks or markets. three things on that. 1. for months now Iraq has been "recovering" stolen cash in the very high hundreds of billions and trillions of dinars. did they misplace it again? what happened to all that money. 2. they keep saying that they WANT the dinar off the street, because the more there is the lower the value. 3. if everyone is supposedly using ki cards now, what difference does it make? they have already stated plans for a cashless society, so whats the problem. just more excuses for delays. jmo
9/5/2016 06:32:09 pm
You are are correct with everything you say and anyone who has spent years in this understands that anyone who makes that comment hasn't been involved long or is trying to make someone think they know something when in reality they don't. After eight years in this the reasons for why it must happen or why it didn't are unlimited and ever changing. There is no excitement in my family that this is happening any longer and now only hope and pray that someday it will.
9/5/2016 08:45:00 pm
9/5/2016 05:58:42 pm
even though they are on a programmed rate technically they can keep this rate with no change
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9/6/2016 05:57:48 am
Seems like we have a bunch of old timers responding to new kids on the block. Lol.
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With a defeat in Kansas and now a defeat in Arizona, the "religious liberty" movement gets set for Battleground: Georgia, with other states soon to follow, including Missouri, Mississippi, and Oklahoma.
Democratic state Rep. Stacey Abrams is the House minority leader for the Georgia General Assembly co-wrote an op-ed for CNN yesterday with conservative James Richardson, pointing out that Georgia "may shift from the cradle of the civil rights movement to the vanguard of legalized 21st-century bigotry with the consideration of this legislation, modeled on Arizona's, that would allow businesses to refuse service to gay and lesbian customers on the basis of alleged religious conviction." Abrams and Richardson wrote that should the bill become law, Georgia will be stained with the "lasting ignominy of Jim Crow."
Jim Crow hits the nail on the head. As Ian Millhiser wrote the other day on ThinkProgress, "religious liberty" was once "used to justify racism instead of homophobia."
And don't count the collective religious insanity of Kansas and its governor out just yet. According to The New York Times, Kansas' extreme antigay bill may be revived. Mississippi's bill has already passed the State Senate.
The Republican establishment has led the retreat from these hateful and hurtful pieces of legislation, as have Republican businesses owners and even chambers of commerce, leaving in their wake Nazified crowds of Religious Right and Tea Party bigots.
You would think, listening to them, that rather than a bill that persecutes gays being vetoed, a bill that persecutes Christians had been signed into law.
The Family Research Council (FRC) claims that the vetoed bill "should have been a political no-brainer." That no brains had something to do with the bill I think we can agree with. The FRC claims, with a straight face yet, that "by vetoing this bill Gov. Brewer is saying she supports government discrimination against people's religious freedoms."
The Tea Party Nation's Judson Phillips, opined on his group's website that Jan Brewer's veto turned discriminatory business owners into "slaves," saying that "The left and the homosexual lobby are both pushing slavery using the Orwellian concepts of 'tolerance' and 'inclusiveness.'" Phillips is afraid people will be forced to bake penis cakes for gay couples.
Who knew tolerance was Orwellian? Did you know that? I didn't know that. I'm pretty sure penis cakes aren't.
Rush Limbaugh differed from Phillips only in the direction of his paranoia, saying on his radio program that the Arizona bill was vetoed because, "There's just abject fear of minorities right now." He should have added fear of penis cakes.
It is difficult to tell whether the bill's proponents (whatever state they are in), are stupid, insane, or just the most intellectually dishonest people in the entire history of the planet. Perhaps all three. Look again at Judson Phillips for an example of where these peoples' heads are at (and no, it's not something you want to discuss in public):
SB1062 is a bigger story than simply the story of a cowardly governor who has no core beliefs.
SB1062 is the story of liberalism at work in America.
Liberalism is the paranoid belief that leftists have that somewhere, someone may be thinking for themselves. It is the tyrannical belief that no deviation in belief is allowed from the decreed orthodoxy.
It is the antithesis of liberty.
It is tyranny on the march.
Oh dear…
Whatever ails them, they are a scary bunch. I know they are not reading the same Constitution I am. Judson Phillips is not alone in eagerly and publicly displaying his ignorance of the Constitution. I observed here yesterday that The Williams Tea Party of Coconino County posted on their website:
The First Amendment was meant only to protect the Christian faith. When the founders spoke of religion, they meant the Christian religion. They did not have to keep saying the Christian religion because everyone knew that is what they were talking about.
That link is dead today. Maybe somebody passed them a copy of the First Amendment, which says, in full,
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
It says nothing at all, you will observe, about any particular religion, including Christianity. And as I demonstrated here yesterday, religion, in the 18th century at least, was not synonymous with "the Christian religion" and even if it was, if "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion" then Congress is forbidden from establishing "the Christian religion." That's my reading. It's an epic fail for the Williams Tea Party of Coconino County.
Meanwhile, to get back to Georgia, Abrams and Richardson tell us that,
Two bills exist, one in each chamber: Boosters of the House measure, House Bill 1023, have soft-pedaled the issue, but the sponsor of the Senate proposal, Senate Bill 377, griped this week that the only opponents to his legislation are those advocating "militant atheism," whatever that is.
As was the case in Arizona, "The legislation is so vague that it's not merely limited to individuals who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender: It could even be used as a means to discriminate against unmarried women and people of different faiths."
Fortunately, the Georgia bills may have hit a roadblock with the senate bill not getting on the calendar, and the House bill may not make it out of committee.
Sen. Josh McKoon (R-Columbus) sponsored the Georgia senate bill is already citing "bullying" as the cause if his bill fails. But critics of these bills can read as well as the next guy: Establishment Republicans understand the threat of such bills to big corporations in their states. Apple, Marriot, and the NFL, and Delta Airlines in Georgia, have all expressed their opposition on job and economic grounds. The extremist response is to denounce these corporations which they would otherwise be lining up defend.
And the Religious Right's response to all this? Well, it has got to be a "Satanic, socialist conspiracy to homosexualize the world" says Scott Lively.
Yeah, you stick with that, Scott. That'll win some elections in 2014. That and alerting the world that President Obama is "behind plot to unleash gay 'homo' demons on black men." Maybe those "gay homo demons" will even force Judson Phillips to bake that penis cake he is obsessing over.
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Yeh, I had to put the stop on the boys going into the bar and getting the free popcorn there. The image issue was a concern. I told them that if they wanted popcorn, buy some and we can make it up in the kitchen. They never questioned it after that.
There was a second bar in the banquet hall were the boys met and although the boys used the stools to sit on during patrol meetings, they never went behind the bar.
The only concern I had is when the IH would come to "see how the boys were doing." and would be a bit over-consumed with a high-ball in his hand...... and the boys knew he had had too much. We discussed it amongst ourselves and that was the end of it.
I think there is a direct ratio between adult hysteria and youth curiosity.
I agree, and I didn't grow up to be hysterical about alcohol (or guns). My kids see me drink, and they occasionally have a (very small) glass of wine or beer. BUT I'd be very concerned about the liability of having unsecured alcohol around underage kids. If the bar is in sight- but adequately secured- I'd have no issue. But in sight and unsecured- that's a lawsuit waiting to happen.


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Unanswered: Selecting Multiple Cells of Same Value
Im Just Wondering if anyone can help on this one.
Ive written a piece of VBA Code that moves rows of data when one of the fields is a specific value into a new worksheet.
How it is working at the moment is that i select the range i look for then
i replace the values i want with blanks
i select the rows that have blank cells in them
and then copy and paste them into a new worksheet
then i replace the values back in.
the code i use is
Lastrow = range("A1").end(xldown).row Myrange = "AB1:AB" & Latrow range(Myrange).replace MyVar, "" range(Myrange).specialcells(xlcelltypeblanks).entirerow.select selection.copy worksheets(DumpSheet).activate activecell.pastespecial Range("A1").end(xldown).offset(1,0).select Worksheets("Download").activate selection.delete
DumpSheet is a string Variable passed into the sub routine.
The Whole process takes about 1/2 - 1 hour to run which is deadtime for the user as they can't use their PC while its happening
Any Ideas
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Don't have a "solution" per se, but a couple of questions.
Why are replacing the values, then pasting them back into the other sheet? I may not understand your needs, but that seems like an inefficient way to copy the data to another sheet. Are you wanting to copy that data to another sheet, then delete that data from the original sheet?
Also, perhaps it is a typo, but in your second line of code, should that be?
Lastrow = range("A1").end(xldown).row Myrange = "AB1:AB" & Lastrow
range(Myrange).specialcells(xlcelltypeblanks).enti rerow.select
Replace it with:
range(Myrange).specialcells(xlcelltypeblanks).enti rerow.copy
Finally, it is not always necessary to select something to do something with the range/object. Selection slows the process.old, slow, and confused
but at least I'm inconsistent!
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Thanks for the Reply
Firstly im replaceing the Values of the cells so i can select all the cells of a specific value among a range of values for example find everything that equals A1ARI
through experimentation the replace of the values to blanks then selecting all the blanks is by far the quickest way i have found of copying accross the data.
The data set tends to be about 50000 rows long and quite a mess
The values get moved onto a seprate sheet so a lot more processing can get done on the removed rows i.e. counting unique values under certain conditions, find new instances of various factors and clearing out redundant data. I found that the processes i put in place to do this took far too long on the original data set and th operators PC would not be usuable for a long time.
Also, perhaps it is a typo, but in your second line of code, should that be?
Lastrow = range("A1").end(xldown).row
Myrange = "AB1:AB" & Lastrow--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
finally ive just had an idea how things could be improved if i cut the data out of the sheet then sort i could get rid of the lengthy deletes as long as nothing dodgy goes on. I need to clear the dataset of all used rows to find new instances of anything that has appeared so new records can be updated within other systems(Sounds like verbal diarrhoea i know)
This has been a work in progress for almost a year now with continual updates.
Any other suggestions would be most welcome ill try to see if i can ditch any of the select statements to see if the speed picks up
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Hi David et al,
Before I start to discuss the perfomance-issue I wonder if You have had or will have problems with the SpecialCells-method.
By design it is limit to 8192 non-contiguous cells.
There exist several approaches that may decrease the time for running it but it is subject how the data is stored in the worksheet.
Is it possible for You to upload an example - Just to have a better understanding.
Thansk in advance,
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Section 15 of the Commons Act 2006 provides that land can be registered as a town or village green if a significant number of the inhabitants of any locality, or of any neighbourhood within a locality, indulged as of right in lawful sports and pastimes on the land for a period of at least 20 years. The residents of Newhaven had used West Beach for at least that period, before it was fenced off in 2006, by the port authority, Newhaven Port and Properties Limited (NPP). In 2008, Newhaven Town Council applied to East Sussex Council (a registration authority for the purposes of the 2006 Act) to have West Beach registered as a town or village green. NPP was the only party to object to the application to have the beach registered. A non-statutory public inquiry found that the beach should be registered, and this recommendation was accepted by the Commons and Village Green Registration Panel.
In the Administrative Court, Ouseley J found in favour of NPP, on the grounds that registration was incompatible with NPP's statutory duty and responsibility over the beach, including the power to make bye-laws. It should be noted that NPP did not argue that registration was incompatible with any current exercise of its statutory duty; rather it was said to be incompatible with any future development of the port. This is because the Commons Act 1899 would, once the beach was registered, give East Sussex the power to devise a scheme for its management, and this would be likely to conflict with the beach's use as part of a port. The judge had characterised this state of affairs as allowing members of the public to acquire rights against what had been judged to be the public interest in having the land developed by NPP. The Court of Appeal, however, found this reasoning to be 'seriously flawed'. The question at issue was not, as had been considered in the lower court, one of NPP granting rights over its land. Rather, the scheme permitting registration as a town or village green was premised on the community already having rights over the land through use of a specified character over a specified period. There was also no question of NPP being asked to give permission (which, it was argued, they had no power to do), as the claimed use of the land by the community had to be as of right to satisfy the conditions for registration, and therefore could not possible be pursuant to a permission. It was also clear that registration did not depend on grant or dedication of a right over another's land. Nor was it possible to read an implied qualification into the Commons Act 2006 to the effect that registration could not take place where to do so would be incompatible with the statutory functions of another body. Richards LJ noted that where the acquisition of rights did not depend on grant or dedication of these rights, there was no reason why the land owner being unable to grant or dedicate rights should prevent their acquisition by prescription. Although the judge recognised that registration would cause difficulties for NPP, Parliament had made a clear choice not to exclude land owned by public authorities from the registration scheme, as had been confirmed in R (Beresford) v Sunderland City Council [2004] 1 AC 889. Further, bye-laws made by the previous port authority which were in force during the 20 year period required to show use as of right, although they had impliedly permitted use of the land, did not confer any right to use the land, and thus could not be said to preclude the pre-condition for registration.
The Court of Appeal also considered the grant of rights in the context of rights over Crown land. NPP argued that use of the foreshore was subject to a rebuttable presumption that such use was by permission of the Crown. In order to answer this question it was necessary to revisit case law dating from as far back 1821, concerning the right to bathe in the sea. These authorities illustrated that use of the foreshore by the public was not as a result of permission granted by the Crown, although nor could it be said that there existed a common law right to pass over this land. However, this did not exclude the possibility that the foreshore could be used as of right, and neither did tolerance of recreational use of the land.
Moving on to those arguments which had failed at First Instance, the Court of Appeal turned to the quaint question of whether a tidal beach could in fact be classified as a green. NPP essentially argued that to be a green, an area of land should be mainly grassy. It pointed to traditional understandings of a village green. The court cited the case of Oxfordshire County Council v Oxford City Council [2006] 2 AC 674, in which Lord Hoffman considered whether the statutory definition of a green could be narrowed by the inclusion of some of the qualities of a village green described in Oliver Goldsmith's poem 'The Deserted Village'. This was described as applying the 'Auburn test', so-called because of the name of the village described in the poem. Although the House of Lords found that it could not, these comments seem to have been made obiter, and counsel for NPP continued to press for the application of the poetry-based test. However, the Court of Appeal considered itself bound by the Oxfordshire decision, with Richards LJ noting that the decision was handed down whilst the Commons Act 2006 was before Parliament, which had not taken the opportunity to amend the legislative scheme in light of this. Of perhaps greater significance was the fact that the 2006 Act did not require land to meet the more traditional definition of a green in order to be registered; rather, it was enough that the land had been used by the community 'as of right in lawful sports and pastimes on the land for a period of at least 20 years.'
The next argument put forward by NPP again focused on the nature of the beach; it was argued that the land could not be registered as a green as the movements of the tide meant it had no fixed boundaries. The judge had been correct to reject the argument; the inspector's assessment that the boundary should be drawn at the low water mark was a reasonable one, and the fact that a particularly low tide would uncover land which could be used for the same purposes but was not registered should not preclude registration of the main section of the beach. A separate argument made was that, as part of the beach was often covered by the tide, it could not be registered as the use as of right could not possibly apply to all of it all of the time. The Court of Appeal found that Ouseley J had been right to hold that it was not a precondition of registration that the recreational use be the sole or dominant use of the land. The only condition was that it had been subject to use as of right for the determined period.
Finally, whilst the existence of a right of access could influence the outcome, it was not determinative. The lack of certainty over this question was not a bar to registration. There was clearly strong evidence of use as of right, and NPP's challenge failed.
In short, this case confirms an important distinction between permission, which can amount to the grant of a right, and tolerance, which leaves room for use as of right. It also highlights the fragility of our legal position in relation to many of the open spaces and natural amenities we hold dear, and just how important it is to protect them, not just against the big bad wolf of the corporate world, but equally against public authorities with a different focus.
Finally, pleasant though it may be to explore the pastoral landscape of common law rights over the foreshore, we are never far from the noisy battleground of human rights. NPP's case included a challenge under Article 1 Protocol 1. This was somewhat surprising, given that the registration is intended to protect the traditional usage of the beach for the local community, and Article 1 Protocol 1 is not designed to protect the rights of public authorities. Argument on this issue was adjourned.
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In collaboration with PeerView Press, APFED is proud to share a CME-certified educational video that follows the journey of Steve, a patient with eosinophilic asthma. In this activity you will learn about the diagnosis and management of patients with this severe asthma phenotype. Access the program today at http://bit.ly/2iLgYRl. Visit and like @PeerView Press's Facebook page for other additional CME opportunities.
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Petey Pablo Files for Bankruptcy, Again [PHOTO]
Petey Pablo has filed for bankruptcy for the third time.
Petey Pablo has filed for bankruptcy for the third time.
We reveal some of your favorite rappers' not-so-cool-sounding legal names.
In a rather embarrassing turn of events a farmer in Ireland asked Rihanna and her crew to get off his property. Rihanna was in Ireland to film the video for her new single "We Found Love" from her upcoming sixth studio album. The album doesn't have a title just yet, but RiRi has simply described the new disc as being simply GangstaR.
As if we don't have enough artist going to jail for gun charges, add one more to the roster.
Rapper Petey Pablo recently pleaded guilty to a weapons charge, stemming from a September 2010 arrest at the Raleigh-Durham International Airport in North Carolina...


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BROKEN ARROW, Okla.
A Broken Arrow neighborhood woke up to an unusual sight Sunday morning.
A pilot landed a hot air balloon in the middle of the Eagle Creek neighborhood. The pilot told FOX23 he had to do it because there was almost no wind to move the balloon.
Residents at one house said the balloon landing sounded like thunder.
"That it was going to fall on our roof; that was the first thought," said Judy Bradley.
It didn't land on the house, but it did land in her neighbor's yard.
The balloon's pilot, Martin Philpott, told FOX23 that he took off in Broken Arrow at around 8 Sunday morning. He said it was a smooth but slow flight because the famous Oklahoma wind didn't show up.
Because hot air balloons depend on the wind keep them moving, they had to touch down in the neighborhood instead of the planned landing site down the street.
"Today it was like watching a piece of cottonwood just gently float and drift down and set on the ground," Philpott said.
"It was a lot more excitement than we've ever had in our neighborhood," Bradley said.
No one was hurt and Philpott said the landing went well. Residents nearby said their kids loved being able to see the balloon up close.


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IMGE is one of the leading digital agencies in the country and we are looking to add strong, agile talent to our rapidly growing team. We strive to tell captivating stories for our clients that are creative, engaging, and inline with our clients' objectives.
So where does this job come in? We're looking for someone to help manage and oversee multiple political accounts and initiate complex and innovative digital strategies to help campaigns win in 2017.
Here's the type of person we're looking for:
You think digital first. You've accepted the fact that the internet is here to stay. Facebook, Twitter, Email, CPM, CRM, CTR, CPA are not foreign concepts to you. In fact, they're your jam and putting them together in a full-scale, multi-platform digital campaign is what you do.
You see the big picture. You like to think about strategy and focus on the cohesiveness of an online campaign. Connecting the dots is what you thrive on. Integrating email marketing, online advertising, social networks, and your website just seems right.
You like to solve problems. You don't shy away from a challenge and you thrive in the unknown. Our clients come in all shapes and sizes and each of their challenges is unique. You should be prepared to come to work everyday ready to tackle the next big thing.
You like to stay organized. You'll be juggling different parts of comprehensive digital strategies for top-tier political clients. Keeping yourself organized internally while managing clients is a crucial aspect to providing proactive and exceptional work for our political campaigns.
Yolo. We want to invest in a culture. Creativity is best nurtured in a relaxed, collaborative environment with lots of beef jerky, espresso, and blazing fast Wi-Fi. We can provide that. Feel free to wear a snuggie to the office. Just produce and be a team player.
If the above person sounds like you, then please keep reading. We definitely want you to be part of our team!
Here is what you'll be responsible for in this position:
The candidate must have the following skills:
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Main Route laid out here, there might be several smaller cruises that head out to this rally point, so PLEASE READ THE DISCUSSION THREAD for more information.
Route subject to slight changes based on road conditions at the time of the cruise.
My Lead/Service Vehicle 1, and our "Tailgunner" to be our eyes and ears out back...
Phone Numbers will be handed out just before the cruise begins.
Sunday, October 11th, 2015:
Rain Date: TBA
Rally Time: 12:30 PM-1:29PM
Leave Time: 1:30 PM
Start/Finish Location:
99 Restaurant & Pub
793 Southbridge St/ Mass RT 12/US 20
Auburn, MA 01501-1336
(508) 832-0999
Plenty of Parking: http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=r0x3wv ... orm=LMLTCC
Plenty of Parking and Easy to Access from:
I-90 Mass Pike, I-290, I-395, RT 146, US 20
Short trip from: I-84 to I-90, I-495 to I-90, I-190 to I-295
Primary Cruise Route: Almost 50 miles even, roughly 2 hours with pit stops
(its well under an hour with no stops).
99 Restaurant & Pub, 793 Southbridge St/ Mass RT 12/US 20 Auburn, MA 01501-1336 to Rt. 56 North
(Southbridge Road take right onto Leicester Street/ Huntoon Memorial Highway)
Rt. 56 North to Rt. 122 North (Oxford, Ma)
Rt 122 North to Rt 148 South (Oakham, Ma)
Rt. 148 South "Brookfield Rd"to Rt. 9 East (Brookfield, Ma)
Rt. 9 East to Quaboag Street
Quaboag Street to Reservoir Lot Pictures!
Quaboag Street changes into Shore Road
Shore Road changes into Podunk Road
Podunk Road to Rt 49 South
Rt 49 South to US 20
US 20 back to 99 Restaurant & Pub, 793 Southbridge St/ Mass RT 12/US 20 Auburn, MA 01501-1336
Follow the car ahead of you as best you can, if we are split up by traffic or lights... the caravan will pull over and/or send another vehicle back to find you.
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A federal jury awarded $250,000 to an orthopedic surgeon who claimed Wyoming Valley Health Care System in Wilkes-Barre discriminated against him because he suffered a psychiatric episode while performing a total knee replacement.
The doctor, who has bipolar disorder, relinquished his privileges and got help after the episode. The hospital reinstated him under the condition that he be supervised by a fellow orthopedic surgeon for six months. The doctor sued. He argued that the supervision requirement was unreasonable and effectively "banished" him from practicing in the community.
Wyoming Valley Health Care expressed shock at the jury's $250,000 verdict, contending the supervision requirement was "appropriate and necessary to protect our patients." The doctor is now practicing in Minnesota.


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Cristiano Ronaldo has Raul Gonzalez Blanco's record in sight
Madrid: Another piece of Real Madrid history awaits Cristiano Ronaldo as he can become the club's all-time leading scorer when they host Granada at the Santiago Bernabeu on Saturday.
Ronaldo is officially just two goals shy of Raul Gonzalez Blanco's 323-goal record despite having played over 400 games fewer than the Spanish legend.
Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo heads the ball during a practice session yesterday
However, the club claim he is just one goal behind Raul as they credited Ronaldo with a goal back in 2010 that was awarded to Pepe in the referee's report.
The World Player of the Year has struck eight times in his last two games to categorically silence the critics for his slow start to the campaign as he failed to score in either of Madrid's opening two La Liga fixtures or in two games for Portugal.
"I am happy, it is a proud moment for me to be in this position," Ronaldo said after netting his 33rd hat-trick for the club against Shakhtar Donetsk in midweek.
"I have to thank the team, they helped me a huge amount. Before I was bad and now I am good because I have scored eight goals," he added in a thinly veiled dig at his critics.


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Supplier selection and management is one of the critical issues for medical device manufacturers. Suppliers provide components to the device manufacturer, which means that they are critical to performance and delivery. Neither the FDA nor your notified body regulates your suppliers (with a few exceptions). They expect you to have an effective process to ensure your suppliers perform in the regulatory environment.
- How well do you understand the requirements for supplier management?
- Could you pass a regulatory audit or inspection without any issues?
This course delivers the tools, templates, and methods to help participants implement an effective and efficient supplier management program.
This two-day hands-on course provides a clear understanding of the underlying principles of supplier management. The course uses exercises to solidify understanding. In addition, the course uses FDA Warning Letters to illustrate the points and help you learn from others. As part of the practical implementation, the course includes receiving acceptance activities, outsourced processes, process validation at the supplier's location, supplier auditing techniques, and supplier issues in management review.
The course uses the Global Harmonization Task Force (GHTF) framework, but expands it to cover other issues and techniques important in effective implementation.
In addition to the discussion material, the course includes multiple exercises, guidance documents, and templates/tools to help you implement an effective program.
Learning Objective:
Upon course completion, participants will:
- Understand FDA QSR and ISO 13485 requirements for supplier management
- Understand the FDA's multi-tier supplier classification system
- Understand when suppliers have to register and list with the FDA
- Use an analysis matrix and radar chart to compare suppliers
- Explain the link between design control and purchasing data
- Develop an overall supplier management plan
- Understand how to develop and implement supplier controls
- Create receiving inspection criteria and apply them as part of supplier controls
- Create supplier measurement and monitoring systems
- Create a system for supplier business risk
- Create a system for supplier regulatory risk
- Create a risk based system for supplier audits
- Develop a supplier audit using the backward trace process approach
Who will Benefit:
- Quality Managers
- Supply Chain Managers
- Quality Engineers
- Supplier Quality Engineers
- Purchasing Professionals
- Regulatory Specialists
- Production and Process Engineers
- Design and Development Engineers
- Verification and Validation Specialists
- 08.30 AM - 09.00 AM: Registration
- 09.00 AM: Session Start
- Part A – Regulatory Requirements
- Supplier management in FDA QSR & ISO 13485:2016
- EU Medical Device Regulation (MDR)
- Unannounced visits
- Supplier Evaluation and Selection
- When suppliers have to register and list with FDA
- Outsourced processes
- Purchasing Data
- Acceptance activities
- Part B – Planning for Supplier Management
- Supplier management as a business process
- The business risk model
- The regulatory risk model
- The medical device risk model
- Part C – Planning for Supplier Selection
- Identifying what to procure
- Design control and purchasing data
- Identify risks (business, regulatory, and device)
- Identify controls (business, regulatory, and device)
- Special considerations
- Control numbers
- RoHS
- Conflict Minerals
- Part D – Potential Suppliers
- Identify potential suppliers
- Evaluative business capability
- Evaluate operational capability
- Using an analysis matrix and a radar chart
- Part E – Supplier Selection
- Sole source v. single source
- The directed procurement problem
- Selecting the supplier
- The Approved Supplier List
- Part F – Implementing Supplier Controls
- Building the final control plan
- Receiving acceptance as a supplier control
- Developing hidden controls
- The supplier quality agreement
- Part G – Monitoring, Measuring, and Evaluation
- Standard supplier metrics
- Implementing predictive analysis
- Developing a supplier audit program
- Using the supplier's QMS certificate
- The backward tracing process audit
- Supplier management as part of Management Review
- Part H – Feedback and Communication
- Supplier scorecards
- Corrective action requests
- Part I – Evaluating your program
- Supplier management maturity models
- FDA's QSIT
- MDSAP Audit Model
- GHTF guidance on auditing supplier control
- Case Study and exercise on maturity models
Dan O'Leary
President at Ombu Enterprises, LLC
Daniel O'Leary has more than 30 years' experience in quality, operations, and program management in regulated industries including aviation, defense, medical devices, and clinical labs. He has a Master's Degree in Mathematics, focusing on logic and number theory. His professional experience relates to quality, regulatory, reliability, and operations management.
Mr. O'Leary is a regular speaker at international conferences including ASQ, ISM, and RAMS. He teaches courses in reliability methods, medical device regulations and practices, statistical methods, management systems (ISO 9001, FDA QSR, & ISO 13485), and project management. Mr. O'Leary is an ASQ certified biomedical auditor, quality auditor, quality engineer, reliability engineer, and Six Sigma black belt; he holds an APICS certification in resource management.
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Richie Pollack Nominated for 3rd Calgary Blues Hall of Fame Award
For the third year running, blues harmonica guru Richie Pollack is nominated as Harmonica Player of the Year by the Calgary Blues Music Association's Blues Hall of Fame Awards.
He's already won twice, let's help him make it a hat-trick! Voting runs until Feb 12th, with the awards on Feb 24th. Vote at the Hall of Fame Awards voting page


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A POLICE investigation has begun into the deaths of two Melbourne women who obtained suicide devices from controversial euthanasia campaigner Dr Philip Nitschke.
A letter left by one of the women details their suicide pact. One of the pair had Alzheimer's disease, but the other was healthy.
Detectives this week asked Dr Nitschke, known as "Dr Death", to explain how the friends obtained equipment they used to die.
Viewbank housemates Val Seeger, 75, and Claire Parsons, 66, died in March, but their case was never made public by authorities.
In a note posted to Dr Nitschke and signed by both women, Ms Parsons said they decided to take their own lives after Ms Seeger was diagnosed in March last year.
Ms Parsons said that after agreeing to help her friend end her life, she felt existing laws left her no choice but to take her own life too.
Dr Nitschke admitted the women obtained equipment from him that he knew could be used as a suicide device. He said he had sold the equipment - which the Herald Sun has chosen not to detail - throughout Australia.
And Dr Nitschke has defiantly revealed plans to open a euthanasia clinic in Melbourne, having inspected a potential site in Essendon this week.
A coronial probe on the deaths "including whether this was assisted suicide" is also under way, Coroners Court spokeswoman Sheree Argento said.
Dr Nitschke said the women - friends for 24 years - took their lives.
It is understood Ms Parsons, an academic and published author, forwarded the letter, titled "I Have a Friend", to Dr Nitschke, asking it be passed on to news media.
Dr Nitschke says he received the letter after the women had died.
Assisting a suicide carries a maximum five-year jail term in Victoria.
Six people have been prosecuted for their involvement in a suicide pact, inciting suicide and aiding or abetting suicide in Victoria since 1997.
Senior Detective Emma Bennett, of Heidelberg CIU, said Dr Nitschke might be asked to make a statement in the investigation.
"The matter has to be thoroughly investigated to establish where they got (the equipment) from," Sen-Det Bennett said.
Dr Nitschke said Ms Parsons felt she could not live without her best friend.
The two women were members of their local Exit International group.
Dr Nitschke, its founder and director, is a focus of three Medical Board of Australia inquiries.
"Suicide is not a crime. This is the only example of where assisting someone to do something lawful is a crime," Dr Nitschke said.
"We are languishing in the dark ages here."
Dr Nitschke, who has a clinic in Adelaide, said his proposed Melbourne advisory clinic would operate one day per month.
"It would be talking to people who are sick and considering what their options are," he said.
His Voluntary Euthanasia Party was registered in Victoria yesterday. He hopes to run candidates at the election.
Anyone with personal problems can call Lifeline on 131 114.
CLAIRE Parsons could not be talked out of the pact she had with her best friend, euthanasia campaigner Philip Nitschke says.
Dr Nitschke said that people who had seen her the day before she ended her life reported that she was adamant, despite being perfectly healthy.
Her friend of 24 years, Val Seeger, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in March last year.
Dr Nitschke said the women were quite open about their plan at the last meeting of a local Exit International group they attended. He said Ms Parsons and Ms Seeger went to a euthanasia workshop in Melbourne in September, attended by about 300 people.
Ms Seeger was an award-winning and highly respected nurse.
Ms Parsons qualified with a doctorate in medical anthropology and did postdoctoral studies at Harvard University.
The pair volunteered with the Australian Red Cross emergency and disaster program for four years.
In a letter the women wanted distributed to the media, Ms Parsons wrote that after Ms Seeger's diagnosis her friend said she did not want to be sent to a nursing home or lose her sense of dignity.
"She knows that she cannot wait too long and forfeit her ability to reason, as to ask for assistance would constitute homicide on my part, and neither of us believes that to be acceptable," Ms Parsons wrote.
"Having said this, we are also aware that under the current (and we believe outdated) law in this land, the police are obliged to charge me with aiding and abetting a suicide and I am not prepared to undergo the harassment and disgrace of a prosecution."
Ms Parsons wrote that their decision had been a rational one made by two people who had worked with people who have Alzheimer's and who had a full knowledge of contemporary research in the field.
"We imagine that at the turn of the century, euthanasia/dying with dignity will be regarded as a normal, rational, ethical and legal action, accessible to all who wish to avail themselves of this option, while still protecting the vulnerable and their friends and family."
"Given the laws that exist at this time in history, what I am obliged to do, I will do, and do willingly.
"Who would consider a loyal friend to be someone who walks away when their friend is in need?
"What is loyalty when one abandons others in order to protect onself? I find I cannot do that.
"None of our actions has been taken lightly.
"But neither have they been taken with sorrow or regret.
"We are just two ordinary people, content and fulfilled with our lives but who have planned how to manage the disease confronting us and have chosen to leave this world before all dignity and integrity is lost.
"We will have a wonderful final day and share a meal together before we wish each other well on our final journey."
Originally published as Dr Death probe after friends' suicide pact


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Migration of Hemoglobin in Alkaline Electrophoresis
Of the hemoglobins normally present in an adult, Hb A migrates the fastest, followed by Hb F. Hb A2 moves only slightly from the point of origin near the cathode.Abnormal hemoglobins show the following migration patterns:Hb C migrates with Hb A2 near the cathode.Hb E and Hb O also migrate with A2 and C.Hb S lies between Hb A2 and Hb F.Hb D and Hb G migrate with S making accurate diagnosis difficult.Hb H and Bart's hemoglobin are unstable and very fast moving, with Hb H being the faster of the two. They are located nearer the anode past Hb A.Relative migrations of hemoglobin variants on alkaline electrophoresis are illustrated below. The application point is indicated by the arrow.