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After PGP Universal upgrade 10.2.1 MP4 4961 tries/fails to re-enroll 10.7.5 Mac
Not a retina MacBook Pro 13"
Worked fine for over a year with 10.6.8, 10.7.x and PGP WDE. When we upgraded universal server and pushed the upgrade policy, two machines - my mac and a pc - started trying to re-enroll the users. When this happens we removed upgrade from the Policy and are waiting for a fix.
We have:
- decrypted & unistalled wde from my Mac.
- unistalled it several times, using the tech note for command line uninstall, once with the tech watching me on webex
- deleted my user, computer and disks from Universal server
On enrollment, I get the user back in, but it fails with a 'data corrupt' error. I think its a problem with the tables on Universal server.
This started Nov 2. I now have an unencrypted machine, which is not good. Stays locked up when I leave the office.
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but since the next level support was due to call me at 8:30 and I have to be at a 9am meeting in 10 minutes, I thought I'd post to the online community and the PGP helpers here and see if anyone has had a similar experience.
My next step is to update my backup and wipe my machine, reinstall a blank O/S and try again. Really don't think its the client and there has been some funny business on the Universal server:
Group reports 3 members, but there are only 2. Remove them from the group, and my userid pops up in the group. Remove that user. Remove the group. Still can't enroll, but that 'hidden user' in group thing was really weird.
OK, off to my meeting. Any ideas?
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Support never followed up.
I removed my users from PGP Universal.
I backed up and formatted my machine.
I installed Mountain Lion on the machine.
I installed PGP WDE on my machine.
It's encrypted now. I'm slowly bringing over apps and data from my archive.
The external drive I have with my archive does not prompt to be mounted on boot or login. I have to unplug/replug it to get it to prompt me for my password (thunderbolt LaCie).
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PHP has no direct relationship to apache. You are executing CLI PHP and it will not be affected by environmental variables stated by the httpd.conf. I'm not a cron wizard by any far stretch of the imagination, but I'll try to help here too.
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1 From there he went to the area of Judea across the Jordan. A crowd of people, as was so often the case, went along, and he, as he so often did, taught them. | 1 Jesus then left that place and went into the region of Judea and across the Jordan. Again crowds of people came to him, and as was his custom, he taught them. |
2 Pharisees came up, intending to give him a hard time. They asked, "Is it legal for a man to divorce his wife?" | 2 Some Pharisees came and tested him by asking, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?" |
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ulcers Posts: 2I HAVE A YEAR 2000 JAG S,AND IT HAS LESS THAN 42000.MILES ON IT..BOTH FRONT WHEEL BALL JOINTS HAVE GONE ON THE CAR.PLUS THE A/C...PLUS IT OVERHEATED..PLUS THE REAR SENSORS.PLUS THE WINDOW REGULATORS...PLUS THE PARTS OF THE REAR PASSENGER BODY FRAME ARE FALLING OFF AND THE CAR HAS NEVER BEEN IN AN ACCIDENT.JAGUAR REFUSES TO REPAIR THE BALL JOINTS AND THEY ARE BOTH DEFECTIVE ...WANT AN ULCER.BUY A JAGUAR!!!!WHAT A PIECE OF TRASH!PRETTY BUT A WASTED TON OF CASH!!
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Like most health systems, Aria Health reports on a growing number of clinical quality metrics, such as infection and patient fall rates. Right now, the Philadelphia health system is tracking more than 70 performance metrics-just in clinical areas alone.
While Aria Health leaders are vested in the conviction that data guides performance improvement, they are also realists and recognize the huge administrative burden associated with quality reporting. "Most of this was primarily a manual, paper-based process, as it is at most healthcare organizations," says CNO Michelle Conley, RN, BSN, MBA, FABC. "We'd collect the data on paper, and then someone would have to sift through all that paper and put the data into a workable product and get the results to the frontline staff. That was incredibly time-consuming."
In early 2011, Aria Health launched a new quality tracking approach, using iPads and a web-based application to collect and analyze the data. The software automatically populates Aria Health's performance scorecard system, which allows leaders and frontline staff to easily track rates on various metrics across the system's three hospitals and units/departments.
"The new approach has really sped up the quality reporting process-from the time data are collected to the time that end users get the results" says Conley, who estimates that the turnaround has decreased from a few weeks to a few days. The new approach has also invigorated the health system's performance improvement efforts by ensuring frontline staff have key data in a more real-time timeframe.
To test the new data collection approach, Aria Health began small. "We started out with five iPads, looking at a select number of quality indicators and worked our way up," says Conley. "Now it's pretty robust. We are using iPads to collect data at the bedside on pretty much anything and everything we can with regard to our quality indicators, including all the core measures, nurse sensitive indicators, and any internal quality issues we're following."
The health system currently has a total of 17 iPads, which are kept on all the nursing units across Aria Health's three hospitals, as well as in the performance improvement and infection control departments. Nursing leaders and staff handle a lot of the data collection around quality metrics, often as they round on patients during a shift. "We put the tablets in centralized locations so staff can access them as needed," says Conley.
All of the iPads carry an app, or web-based software, that provides electronic forms for data collection (see exhibit below). "We build our own custom forms and surveys within the app, which allows us to create our own data collection categories and questions," says Bea Leyden, RN, BSN, MBA, Aria's director of nursing performance improvement. "We are also able to add 'logic' and 'hard stops' into our audit tools that aren't possible on paper. A hard stop reminds the data collector that he or she must input critical information into a field before proceeding. Building logic into the audits makes them more user-friendly. For instance, one question might ask, 'Is the patient on restraints?' If you say 'No,' then you can move onto the next question instead of having to answer five questions related to restraints."
Eventually, Aria Health hopes to provide iPads with the data collection app to all departments, including pharmacy and respiratory, that regularly collect data for performance-based scorecards. The health system also recently issued iPads to its board of directors so they can review hospital performance information electronically.
Aria Health had a web-based performance scorecard system in place before iPads came onto the scene. Health system leaders and staff regularly track rates on various metrics across the system's three hospitals and drill down to the unit level to get a grassroots perspective. "For patient falls, I can look at our health system's overall rate, each of our hospital's rates, and each individual nursing unit's rates," says Conley. "Once I drill down, I may find a unit that isn't really doing so well, and then we can zero in very quickly on where our areas of improvement are."
Thanks to Aria Health's speedier data collection approach, these performance scorecards, which are provided by the same supplier as the iPad data collection app, are now populated in a more real-time fashion. "There is no time delay from the time the data are entered in the iPad to getting the data to our performance improvement staff for proofing," says Conley. "Once approved, the data automatically populate the scorecards."
As a result, frontline staff are more aware of their units' performance data than they were previously, says Conley. "In the past, we would talk about our performance improvement indicators, but I'm not sure these metrics felt relevant to the staff. Before, they would get data that were a month or two old. Now they are getting data that relate back to what happened just a few days ago. It helps them to connect the dots and say, for example, 'Oh yes, our unit's fall rate went up because Mrs. Jones fell two days ago.' Then staff can hold a quick debrief on why Mrs. Jones fell and determine how to intervene and prevent such falls in the future."
A missing link in Aria Health's new quality reporting approach is data transmission-or uploading quality data from the iPads to organizations that collect and track quality data, including the Joint Commission and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
Once again, to address this gap, Aria Health started with a small pilot. Using the same iPad app, the health system recently uploaded pressure ulcer data from one of its hospitals to a national nursing quality database that provides participants with comparative data on nursing-specific metrics.
"This eliminated many hours of manual data entry, and it increased accuracy because we didn't have a human punching all the numbers," says Leyden. "Previously, we were collecting the data on paper, calculating our rates internally, and then hand-populating data through the nursing database's web-based system."
Once she can get enough iPads, Leyden hopes to extend the data transmission pilot to include all Aria Health hospitals, as well as data submission to other entities and regulatory agencies, she says. "But we are young into this process, and there are going to be lots of opportunities for growth and lots of potential."
Aria Health estimates that it is saving approximately 80 hours in data entry time per quarter in each hospital area now using the app, thanks to its new automated quality reporting approach. "Given the state of health care right now, everyone is looking for solutions to time-consuming processes," says Conley. "As health care gets leaner and leaner, we have to be more efficient."
Despite a tight belt on capital spending, Conley had no trouble getting the capital funding needed to launch this initiative. Aria Health's senior leaders quickly grasped that the potential time savings and benefit to high-quality care would more than outweigh the cost of the iPads and the software.
The initiative also fits well with the health system's performance improvement goals. "We can talk about quality and measure it," says Conley. "But if we don't put the data into the hands of people who can change them, then this is really is just an exercise. To me, the most exciting part about this initiative is that frontline nurses and clinicians are looking at this and saying, 'We need to improve our performance on this metric.' Our quality reporting process now puts the data in the hands of the people who can make a difference―and that improves the care experience for our patients."
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Gone are the days of decorating neon poster boards or turning your tackle box into a "cash register." In today's society, instant gratification trumps sweaty haggles with people in their front yards. There are lots of apps that allow you to browse through pre-owned clothes, furniture, appliances and more that are up for grabs.
If you have expensive taste, but don't have the wallet to match, Posh is a godsend. This app allows you to narrow down your search by size, color, style and brand as you look through gently used shoes, bags, jewelry, blouses, dress, shirts and pants from girls all over the country. There's also a really great feature that allows you to join a "party." These are themed, scheduled, on-app meetings of Posh users that want to either buy or sell an item that falls under a specific category such as "Summer night out" or "Kate Spade and Michael Kors bags." Best of all, the prices are listed by the seller, so you can comment on items and try to negotiate on a lower price. Posh will provide postage and monitors the shipping of each item for the buyers' satisfaction.
Sort of like a hybrid of Craigslist and Instagram, Offer Up allows you to set your GPS to find sellers in and around your area. You can find everything from furniture to appliances on this app, all priced by sellers, meaning you have the power to negotiate. Of course, you will have to coordinate the pick up of the item, but since it's probably in proximity, no worries. You can browse by category or just scroll the never-ending mosaic of the photos of things being "Offered Up" locally. It's very user friendly.
The biggest issue with any sites and apps of this nature is that many sellers may disclose that they just got an app, but it's a bit more worn than what their highly filtered Instagram photo may show. With this free app, users guaranteed that every item listed has been bought within the last 2 months. With a similar user model as Posh, everything is itemized by category. Since it's Mint Market's motto that everything is almost mint condition, I'd recommend this app specifically for electronics.
A resale app 2.0, this site allows you do a bit more than scroll photos of used merchandise and send comments. With this app, sellers can upload a picture of the barcode on the item. Within the app is a feature called Savvy Listing in which prospective buyers can use the in-app barcode scanner to scan the same barcode. With that, all of the specs for the item pull up almost like a Facebook profile for the merchandise. Of course, the condition of the item can't be detected through scanning, so relying solely on the itemized list of features is not recommended, but it definitely helps.
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TC-11 1.x will soon be the 'legacy' version of the app, and from the inside it may as well be a different app entirely. I was trying to think of a single file that carried over into 2.0 untouched, and I don't think there is one.
No where has this been more on my mind than the synth graph. TC-11 2.0 uses an entirely new connection system. The oscillators are higher resolution than before, there are new parameters for many of the audio objects, and the AHDSR, LFO, and Sequencers have been moved out of Pd and into Objective-C. Key filtering is out of the Sequencer and into the Oscillators / Filters (where they should have gone in the first place). The patch files themselves were completely re-written, and require a full conversion process to be updated for 2.0:
Ensuring the new app works and sounds the same as 1.x is essential. I'm sure some users out there have their one favorite user patch, and if it doesn't sound the same in 2.0, that's a critical failure. And until recently, the 1.x patches sounded completely different. Conversion wasn't working. Sleep was lost.
After lots of code spelunking and reverse engineering (is it reverse engineering if you wrote the app in the first place?) the patches are sounding great – just like 1.x. Of course, they also have tons of new stuff to play with, which makes this whole thing worth it. I'm just glad to be mostly out of the woods.
November 21, 2014
The next update to TC-Data is done, and that means turning my attention back to TC-11. It looks like I'll be pushing out a quick update just for 1.8.x Audiobus support for iOS 8. As a palate cleanser (post-testing monotony), I'm playing with camera brightness. Here are some thoughts about bringing a new sensor into an app.
The fun is definitely front-loaded. Research the video framework, load up a camera in a test app, and get some images to appear on screen. What part of the video are we going to use as a controller? I think there are two good candidates: brightness and motion.
I'm familiar with brightness calculating from Processing (all the way back to Scanner I). The challenge with iOS is, frankly, finding the least gunky way to get the data needed. So I Google some examples of brightness following and found one that works.
I start with low quality video to save on processing power, since we're not going to see images from the camera. But that's a bust because the frame rate is slow, and I do care about that.
Brightness following is go!
A quick look at Instruments shows I'm chugging as I create and destroy image data just to get the brightness. So all that code gets chucked. As it turns out (as some photographers may have known all along) that there is a BrightnessValue entry in the camera's EXIF dictionary. Free data! I'll take it when I can.
Like I mentioned, the fun is all at the beginning. Dropping this into the TC apps will take a lot of testing. Brightness values depend on the camera settings, and this should be able to react consistently in both high and low-light conditions. The stream has to start / stop at the correct times in the app lifecycle, the controller drawing needs to stick to the side of the screen that has the camera, etc.. But it'll be there soon.
October 23, 2014
When TC-11 was first released, it didn't have the floating touch preview view in the Patch area. That was the result of a common pitfall: what is obvious to you is not necessarily obvious to your users. I knew how adjusting parameters affected the patch, so there was little trial and error beyond flipping back and forth to the Performance view.
When users made the (in hindsight, obvious) request for a way to preview patches as they programmed them, the floating preview view was born. To implement it meant squeezing all of the functionality of the Performance view into the small subview, but there was one nagging issue: drawing.
The visuals drawn on the Performance view were updated in the same methods as the touch controller generation, i.e., the drawing code and touch code were intertwined. The correct thing to do was to decouple the two on the Performance screen. The easy thing to do was to duplicate the touch control code for the preview view and be done with it. Path of least resistance, ahoy!
Now a few years later I finally corrected my mistake. The touch control code and OpenGL code have been separated, and the main view and preview view are driven by the same code. This brings some nice portability: the touch control view can be dropped into any project and quickly connected. Even more interesting is that there could be two or more copies of the touch control view on the same screen. Split view mode?
October 4, 2014
I was really excited to present my research on TC-Data at the ICMC-SMC conference in Athens, Greece. The conference was packed with music – five concerts a day. There was a really nice acousmatic setup in the main concert hall at the Onassis Cultural Center.
The keynote speakers were Jean-Claude Risset, John Chowning, Gerard Assayag, Peter Nelson, and Curtis Roads. It was amazing to hear them all over the course of the week. Chowning's talk was particularly engaging: tracing his origins into computer music and the beginnings of all that we work with today.
TC-Data is the latest iteration of my touch control research. The goal was to unlock the touch screen controllers for generalized use.
Although based on TC-11, the interface and backend of TC-Data was completely rewritten to be as lightweight as possible. This meant redesigning the engine that ran the controller generation so that the iPad could be free to use its processor for the apps that need it – the synths that TC-Data can target.
I exhibited TC-Data at the ICMC-SMC conference in Athens, and was really happy to meet people that were excited about the project. So far it's been a great launch!
July 16, 2013
On July 13th Minor Vices got together to record Misdemeanors, a structured improvisation by Chris Burns. The 26 short movements of the piece set rules for the ensemble to follow while they play. In addition to being great music, excellent performances, and absolute fun, we got to break in new recording equipment and fully use a space we've occupied for years.
Minor Vices is: Chris Burns, David Collins, Adam Murphy, Trevor Saint, Kevin Schlei, Amanda Schoofs, and Seth Warren-Crow. Steve Schlei was the recording engineer.
June 13, 2013
WWDC has been incredible so far. Even waiting in line (not uncommon) means meeting tons of enthusiastic and friendly developers. The sessions have been fantastic. The upcoming API improvements are going to make things much easier, and there are some incredible new technologies I'll be dropping into my apps.
I've met with Apple engineers in Core Audio, Cocoa Touch, and UI Designers to chat about my apps and approaches to improving interface development. It's been great to ask the API designers how my interface approach can be better organized. I've learned a lot and there is still more to go!
June 7, 2013
Next week I'll be heading out to the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. It looks to be an incredible opportunity to meet other developers, Apple engineers, and check out whatever new is announced. If you'd like to keep track of things, chances are I'll be tweeting away (@BitShapeSoft).
December 7, 2012
On Tuesday I visited Adam Murphy's composition studies class at Ronald Reagan College Preparatory High School to demonstrate the basics of tabla performance. Adam lectured on Indian classical music structure and I talked a bit on rhythmic theory. The students were all attentive and sharp, and had some great questions. Hopefully I'll see them at the next Indian classical music concert here in town.
November 12, 2012
Monday night (November 12), Trevor Saint will be performing at the UWM Recital Hall at 7:30 pm. The first half of the program is a set of works for solo glockenspiel, mostly with electronics — including works by Matthew Burtner, Jeff Herriott, and Eric Sheffield/Anna Weisling, as well as a performance of Chris Burns' work "Opalescence". The second half of the program is a reprise of my work "Alligator Char", with David Collins, Adam Murphy, Kevin Schlei, Amanda Schoofs, and Seth Warren-Crow joining Trevor in a structured ensemble improvisation. Trevor is an incredibly dynamic performer, and this will be a terrific event.
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Coles hits out at 'appalling' ACCC
PUBLISHED: 01 Jul 2013 12:34:00 | UPDATED: 02 Jul 2013 04:56:39PUBLISHED: 01 Jul 2013 PRINT EDITION: 02 Jul 2013The ACCC said it issued Coles with six infringement notices totalling more than $61,000 for displaying imported produce underneath price boards that read 'Helping Australia Grow', and displayed the triangular 'Australian Grown' symbol. Photo: John Woudstra
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Coles slammed the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission over its handling of a food-labelling complaint as an "appalling regulatory process", triggering a rare concession from the consumer watchdog that its behaviour was "not adequate".
While ACCC chairman Rod Sims acknowledged its approach "wasn't as good as it should have been in the first instance", he said he believed the marketing was so clearly misleading that Coles would have been fined anyway.
Coles was hit with six infringement notices and a fine of more than $61,000 for displaying food, including navel oranges, kiwifruit, asparagus and almonds, underneath a sign which said "Helping Australia Grow" and displaying the triangular "Australian Grown" symbol. The fruit was from overseas, a fact disclosed on the individual items or their packaging.
Coles opted to pay the fine because it would be quicker than going to court. Spokesman Robert Hadler said the ACCC's handling of the case was appalling. "We question the principle, the materiality and the process around the decision," he said.
Mr Sims said the ACCC would learn from the episode but its decision to issue the fines was not a disproportionate response.
It is the second time Coles has fallen foul of the regulator this year. Legal action was launched last month to stop the retailer advertising pre-baked bread as "baked today, sold today", "freshly baked" and "freshly baked in-store".
The ACCC is conducting a long-running investigation into allegations of bullying and margin squeezing by Coles and Woolworths against their suppliers and farmers.
Both retailers maintain that profit margins for local suppliers are higher than those of overseas suppliers, and that local businesses have underinvested in their businesses to maximise profits.
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Figures published by Macquarie Bank on Monday suggest retailers such as Woolworths may have added $1.2 billion to their gross profit over the past three years due to increased charges demanded from suppliers in return for stocking their products.
A report from the Australian Food and Grocery Council and KPMG last week showed suppliers paid $4.19 billion in rebates, discounts, promotions and shelf fees last year, 20.4 per cent more than in 2009.
The data, obtained from 18 of the lobby group's members, was used by Macquarie analysts, who estimate that up to 70 per cent of Woolworth's gross profit on food and liquor between 2009 and 2012 may have come from higher trading terms.
"While it is an issue for the supplier base, it is also an issue for the large retailers," the Macquarie note stated.
"If the supplier base cannot continue to increase 'funding', retailer food and liquor EBIT margin growth will slow, perhaps by more than half."
Macquarie estimates that – assuming the suppliers surveyed by the Food and Grocery Council were representative of the industry, and using the 390 basis-point increase in trading terms, which they said had been implemented between 2009 and 2012 – Woolworth's food and liquor gross profit last financial year was about 11 per cent higher than it would have been had trading terms remained at the 2009 level, all other things being equal.
"While [the retailers] would most likely argue it used these better terms to fund lower shelf prices, whatever the uses of the funds, they still represent a profit transfer from the supplier's profit and loss to the retailer's profit and loss," Macquarie said.
Panel discussion mishap
On Friday Coles met with primary producers at the Victorian Farmers Federation annual conference in Melbourne, coincidentally the same day it paid the ACCC fine for misleading country of origin labelling.
VFF president Peter Tuohey said Coles stakeholder and industry relations manager Damian Callacho was caught short during a panel discussion when he couldn't readily identify the country of origin of a packet of bacon produced by fellow panellist and VFF pig group president John Bourke.
"It was a discussion around the difference between imported and Australian produced," Mr Tuohey said.
"Damian was handed this pork packet and asked to find where it came from. Then Marcus [Bezzi, ACCC enforcement and compliance executive general manager] jokingly pulled out a magnifying glass for Damian to help him.
"It was very funny, but the point was clearly made about how difficult it was to find out on the packaged product what country it came from."
Mr Tuohey said farmers were still sceptical about the Australian Grown marketing campaign run by Coles because most of the company's packaged produce, such as tinned fruit, is imported.
ACCC chairman Rod Sims said they hoped the fine was a lesson to all retailers that big companies shouldn't be making mistakes in public campaigns.
"If you're running a campaign to convince consumers of something, if you think it's relevant to Australians and that Australians will be more likely to buy it if it's locally produced, then you better get it right," he said.
The ACCC alleges those claims are misleading for consumers, given the bread was par-baked at a remote location, frozen, then re-heated in store. In some instances, bread from the Cuisine Royale range had been made and par-baked in Ireland before shipping to Coles in Australia.
Mr Sims said the ACCC was in "no way" targeting Coles by issuing the notices. "When this issue came up to the commission, you say 'oh no, not Coles', so it's in fact the opposite reaction. But this was based on a complaint, and when it's a complaint on something as high-profile as this you have to investigate it and we found it wasn't an isolated incident."
The Australian Financial Review
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Companies | Wesfarmers Ltd, Coles Group Ltd, Woolworths Ltd |
People | Rod Sims, John Bourke |
Topics | Consumer Goods & Services, Courts & Legal |


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Background: One of comic book history's oldest characters also happens to be Marvel's first mutant. Debuting in 1939, the nasty tempered Namor is the son of a human sea captain and a beautiful princess from the mythical underwater world of Atlantis. Prince Namor, who has super strength (he gets even stronger—Hulk level—when in the water), also has the ability of flight, thanks to some nifty wings on his ankles.
Why It Works: The powerful Sub-Mariner has been both hero and villain, at times teaming up with the Invaders, Avengers, Defenders and Fantastic Four and battling those very same heroes while declaring war against the surface world for what he fervently views as crimes against Atlantis. Judging from the anti-hero success of Riddick, Diesel would knock this one out of the proverbial park.
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US reports a drop in jobless claims. Is this the beginning of something?
Weekly unemployment claims dropped below 400,000 in the most recent report. While some see this as a signal that the economy is firming up, others caution that more positive indicators are needed.
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In a glimmer of good economic news, the Department of Labor reported on Thursday that the initial claims for unemployment dropped to 398,000 for the week ending July 16.
This is the first time in 15 weeks claims have dipped below the 400,000 level, a benchmark many economists use to gauge the health of the labor market.
A broader measure of unemployment claims, the four week moving average fell to 414,000 and continuing claims also dropped to 3.70 million from 3.72 million.
Some economists interpreted the falling claims numbers as an indication the economy has finally started to move away from the soft spot it appeared to hit in late spring and early summer. This would mesh with the consensus economic view that economic performance will start to improve in the second half of the year.
"What these numbers seem to be saying is that the decline in the economy has stopped," says Joel Naroff of Naroff Economic Advisors in Holland, Pa. "The question is do we go anywhere from here?"
On Friday, the government will release its first estimate of second quarter Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Early estimates are that it will show the economy growing in the vicinity of 1.3 percent to 1.6 percent on a seasonally adjusted annual rate. This would reflect some of the softer economic data.


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October 6 2014
Who runs the world? Girls, of course, and they also run to the finish line at these races.
What if someone you loved was involved in a tragic accident while training for an upcoming race? Would you do anything you could to help her cross the finish line?
At last weekend's Rock 'N Roll New Orleans Half Marathon race, true love reigned as Nick Zaunbrecher made sure his girlfriend, Monique Koll, achieved her dream of crossing the finish line, despite being wheelchair-bound from a spinal cord injury incurred during a horrendous accident.
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Newton Abbot, Devon.
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unintended pregnancy, notably abortion and maternal mortality, and the changing requirements of the reproductive life span. "Specific needs" include sexually transmitted reproductive tract infections; lack of involvement of males in contraception; and contraceptive failure and side effects. Figure 2-1 presents this breakdown in graphic form.
In economics, "demand" has both volitional and authoritative dimensions, since it comprises the notions of desire to purchase and possess, as well as the power to do so. In classical microeconomic theory, demand has an iterative relationship with supply, a relationship that is mediated by the market, which transmits information about prices, quantities, and elasticities in each.
However, application of traditional supply-and-demand concepts to understanding the role of demand in processes of technological innovation has not been very illuminating (Lotz 1993; Mowery and Rosenberg 1982). A more rewarding perspective is offered by marketing research, which distinguishes between "needs," "wants," and "demands'' in ways that are useful for thinking about development of new medical technologies in general and contraception in particular. In one analysis, a human need is defined as "a state of felt deprivation of


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We built this tilt-out cabinet for our trash and plan to build a matching one for our recycling. We modified it a little and used bead board on the face of the cabinet to match some other elements in our kitchen. We painted it bright red using some leftover paint and absolutely love it!
We ended up not using any mechanism to prevent the drawer from falling to the ground - the trash can we purchased is JUST big enough that it stops the drawer from opening all the way, which is great!
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We used Ana's plan for a tilt-out trash can, http://ana-white.com/2011/04/wood-tilt-out-trash-or-recycling-cabinet, and just used some beadboard paneling instead of doing the raised panel on the door. Hope that helps!
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Hi, I really like the way you did the brash bin with the beadboard door. Could you
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A passenger rail package that passed the Florida House on Monday would create a new regional rail system for Central Florida (SunRail), provide annual funding for for the existing Tri-Rail system serving southeastern Florida, and authorize a new venture into high speed passenger rail.
In the state Senate, however, the bill barely survived its first committee vote, winning 5-4 after a pro-rail senator replaced a member of the Transportation Committee who was absent due to illness. On a tie vote the bill would have died.
The main provision of the bill would authorize the state to pay CSX Corp. $432 million for 61.5 miles of track for the long-planned SunRail regional passenger system serving Orlando and other points in Orange, Osceola, Seminole, and Volusia counties. CSX would retain the right to operate freight trains on the line under stated conditions.
The bill would also require the state to pay an annual premium of about $2 billion for $200 million in liability insurance for SunRail.
For Tri-Rail in southeastern Florida, the bill provides $13 million to $15 million in annual operating assistance.
Through earmarks totaling $2.5 billion over 30 years, mostly in federal funds, the bill would set into motion planning for a high speed rail system in the Tampa-Orlando-Miami corridor.
The New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority has learned that revenue from a new payroll tax for transit will run about $200 million short of expectations, a development that MTA's chief financial officer, Gary Dellaverson, called "shocking" in an email message to board members.
The payroll tax is part of an MTA aid package that the state legislature put together last spring.
Dellaverson said the agency was concerned "both because of the magnitude of the underrun (20%) and the late date of its discovery." An operating budget of around $10 billion is to be presented to the board for its approval next week.
The MTA had to cope earlier with a reduction in the support it receives from an urban real estate that was hard hit by the recession. Dellaverson said in November that to close that gap it would need to tap $150 million in reserves.
Amtrak says its ridership during the Thanksgiving Day week this year set an "all-time record," with ridership up 4% compared with the comparable period in 2008; ticket revenue rose 1% compared with the year-ago period.
Amtrak says 685,876 trips took place between Nov. 24 and Nov. 30, generating $44.1 million in ticket revenue, which it claims is "the best weekly performance in company history."
"Once again, our performance illustrates the growing popularity of passenger rail service, which is a credit to our front line employees who operate a great railroad," said Emmett Fremaux, vice president, Marketing and Product Development. "To outperform our previous ridership record from FY08, when gas prices were much higher, is a great accomplishment."
"On behalf of the entire executive team, I want to thank every employee for their dedication to safety and customer service during such a busy time," said President and CEO Joe Boardman.
The Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH) rail system will get $356.9 million for new rolling stock, a new signal system, and other improvements under a preliminary capital spending program announced by the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey.
The bistate agency's capital plan also contains $503.9 million for continuing work on Access to the Region's Core projects and $349.7 million for the World Trade Center Transportation Hub.
Under PATH's proposed new capital budget, the biggest item is a $109.9 million payment toward the ongoing acquisition of 340 new passenger cars, which are being built by Kawasaki. The new signaling system is budgeted at $65.5 million. For infrastructure improvements, PATH is allocated $30.6 million; and for stations, $11.7million.
The Port Authority's total 2010 capital program is estimated at $3.1 billion and includes investments in airport and marine facilities as well as rail.
In announcing the program on Dec. 3, PATH said that in order to maintain a focus on long-term capital improvements, it was implementing new operating cost controls including job cuts that will bring staffing to the lowest level in 40 years.
--> The Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH) rail system will get $356.9 million for new rolling stock, a new signal system, and other improvements under a preliminary capital spending program announced by the Port Authority of New ...The Federal Trade Commission has given Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. antitrust approval for its planned takeover of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp.,operator of BNSF Railway. The approval, which was expected, appeared Mondayin a list of antitrust clearances routinely issued by the FTC.
Berkshire has offered to pay $26.4 billion for the 77.4% of BNSthat it does not now own. Combined with previously owned shares and$10 billion in debt, the takeover is valued at around $44 billion.
Berkshire has also filed a preliminary proxy statement withthe Securities and Exchange Commission giving notice that it has set Jan.20 for a special shareholders meeting in Omaha. Shareholders will beasked to approve a 50-for-1 split of Berkshire's Class B shares. The higher-priced Class A shares will not be affected.
The split would bring Class B shares down to about $66 eachfrom their current level of around $3,300.
Berkshire's Warren Buffett said earlier in an interview withCNBC that the split will enable "anybody that has as little as oneshare of BNSF to opt for the tax-free exchange ... So those small shareholderscan have exactly the same availability that otherwise would only have beenavailable to a big shareholder."
Jersey City, N.J., has hired a former state Supreme Court chief justice to mediate a disagreement over its Sixth Street Embankment, former ex-Pennsylvania Railroad right-of-way sought by various interests for green space, housing development, and/or light rail use.
The City Council has approved hiring former Chief JusticeJames Zazzali to mediate a resolution among city interests, developer Steve Hyman, and Conrail, the most recent rail operator of the property. The city will split the cost of hiring Zazzali with developer Steve Hyman and Conrail, which sold the property to the developer in 2005 for $3 million.
The route in dispute runs along the city's Sixth Street between Marin Boulevard and Brunswick Street, and is an infrastructure remnant from the days when the city's entire waterfront was served by several major Class I railroads. Hyman has fought an intense public battle to put housing, including upscale condominums, along the route. Jersey City planners seek the same right-of-way for open space and a new branch of New Jersey Transit's Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Transit system.
The city filed a lawsuit in 2006 arguing that, under federal law, Conrail, the previous owner, should have offered the site to the city before selling it to Hyman. In 2007, the Surface Transportation Board backed the city's position. But Hyman took the case to the U.S. Court of Appeals, which threw out STB's decision in June, saying it didn't have jurisdiction to hear the case.
The city and Embankment Preservation Coalition, a local advocacy group, have asked the appellate court to reconsider its decision. But the city and Hyman also have agreed to seek a mediated settlement out of court. "I think it's a worthwhile expenditure," said city attorney William Matsikoudis.
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Perhaps mindful of criticism in recent days suggesting a large portion of federal stimulus dollars targeted for alternative energy development was reportedly generating jobs outside the U.S., LaHood stressed that no such scenario would occur for U.S. high speed rail. "If this program is perceived as not creating American jobs, it is not going to succeed," he asserted. "This a tremendous opportunity for the rail industry to capitalize on a historic achievement."
DOT noted the Federal Railroad Administration has received 45 applications from 24 states totaling about $50 billion to advance large HSR corridor programs, while 214 applications from 34 states, totaling $7 billion, were submitted for corridor planning and smaller projects.
LaHood noted that 30 rail manufacturers and suppliers, "foreign and domestic, have established or expanded their base of operations in the United States," cognizant that in all likelihood they would be "required to build in the U.S." if they hoped to capture any significant business.
DOT released a list of those rail industry manufacturers and suppliers, which included: GE Transportation; Wabtec; Columbus Steel Castings; Bombardier Transportation; Alstom; Talgo; Kawasaki Rail Car; Siemens; Hyundai Rotem USA; Motive Power; National Railway Equipment Co.; CAF USA; US Railcar; Nippon Sharyo; Electro-Motive Diesel; Ansaldo STS USA; Lockheed Martin; Safetran Systems Corp.; Tangent Rail; Amstead Rail; AnsaldoBreda; American Railcar Industries; CXT Tie; Railroad Controls Ltd.; A&K Railroad Materials; Cleveland Track Material, Inc.; New York Air Brake; Plasser American; Simmons Machine Tool; Ellcon-National; Harso Rail; and ORX Railway.
"This is a significant achievement for America, and a positive sign of things to come for our country," LaHood said. "This will be a real win-win for private industry, American workers, and the traveling public."
Questioned aggressively by one meeting attendee on the slow pace of spending the $8 billion for HSR in particular and transportation needs in general, LaHood, polite but bristling, defended DOT's performance in 2009. "The money that hasn't been spent is the $8 billion for high speed rail; this notion that the 'recovery money [in general] hasn't been spent is nonsense," he declared.
Citing funding commitments to numerous modes, including light rail transit, LaHood asserted, "Our money is out the door, it is being spent, people are being put to work." He added, "When it comes to DOT, I don't care what anyone says; I know what's going on. ... I make no apologies; our money is out the door. We've done our job [so far] at DOT."
Another questioner asked whether identifying manufacturing states with high unemployment was a form of favoritism. Replied LaHood, "There are places in America that are really huring. This money could be used to put Americans back to work." And, too, he added, the states themselves have been proactive in submitting HSR proposals, further limiting the concept of political favorites in the HSR development process. "What we want to do is what the Recovery Act is supposed to do; use the money to put people back to work."
LaHood also lauded the current Congress, which he said was the most pro-passenger rail assemblage in recent memory. "High speed rail is a priority; this Congress gets it," he said. "They understand that the $8 billion is a down payment." It's only a funding start, he acknowledged, "but it's $8 billion more than we ever had."
FRA Associate Administrator Mark Yachmetz echoed LaHood's belief in opportunity for the private sector. "Success for us is development of a long-term program that transforms the way Americans view intercity travelingoptions," he said.
"Rail capital investment was once one of the engines that drove the U.S. economy. That is not the case today," but it could be once again, Yachmetz said, driven in large measure by the "development of the high speed rail program."
Traffic increased in nine of the 19 carload freight commodity groups in the week ended Nov. 28, although total carload volume was down 3.9% compared with the same week last year. Both weeks included the Thanksgiving holiday.
The Association of American Railroads reported Thursday that increases were seen in nonmetallic minerals (38.1%), grain (21.3%), farm products not including grain (20.1%), motor vehicles and equipment (15%), chemicals (13.2%), grain mill products (11.5%), metals and products (11.2%), metallic ores (3.1%), and petroleum products (2.2%).
Declines in commodity groups ranged from 0.9% for crushed stone, sand, and gravel to 28.3% for coke.
Intermodal traffic added up to 165,856 trailers and containers, down 6.4% from last year and down 32.1% from 2007.
Total volume on U.S. railroads for the week ending Nov. 28, 2009 was estimated at 27.6 billion ton-miles, down 3.8% compared with the same week last year.
Canadian railroads reported 69,216 carloads for the week, down 3.8% from last year, and 42,123 intermodal units, down 7.5%. Mexican railroads originated 12,760 carloads, down 1.7% from the same week last year, and 7,602 trailers and containers, up 24.1%.
Combined North American rail volume for the first 47 weeks of 2009 on 13 reporting U.S., Canadian, and Mexican railroads totaled 16,056,494 carloads, down 17.4% from last year, and 11,160,176 trailers and containers, down 15.4%.


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Angling for a record: Second round of flooding leaves fish-filled parking lot
Jo Tracy may have a new method for determining the severity of a storm.
It's not how many inches of rain fell; it's how many fish Tracy, 72, sees afterward.
It poured so much this weekend that the parking lot at the Carriage House of Evansville, an East Side apartment complex where Tracy lives, flooded from a nearby retention pond and its connecting drainage ditches.
When the waters receded Saturday, they left behind hundreds of small, silver carp in the parking lot, in flower beds and on the sidewalk. Some of them were close to half a foot long. All of them smelled like dead fish.
"This, to me, is unreal," Tracy said as she hiked along a drainage ditch toward a big pile of carp. "That's a lot of fish."
It was also a lot of rain that brought them there.
Another 2.25 inches fell Saturday, making this September Evansville's
second wettest on record. As of 5 p.m. Saturday, the total so far this month stood at 8.64 inches. The record - set in 1945 - is 9.89 inches.
This is just the first time Tracy has seen any fish, but floods have been causing problems for her all month.
She said the parking lot floods all the time and has cost some residents thousands of dollars in car problems.
"It's aggravating because you can't go to bed at night and think your car will be dry in the morning," she said.
Mary Blanc knows the feeling. Her home in the 4000 block of Bellemeade Avenue flooded Friday night and again Saturday morning.
After sustaining heavy damage in a flood last year, Blanc now has two sump pumps working to keep the water down. But those only keep flooding down to a couple of inches, and she'd like it eliminated for good.
Blanc met with Mayor Jonathan Weinzapfel on Monday, and he promised to meet with engineer consultants about the problem. She'd like a long-term solution, but she's not counting on it.
"I understand this is something people have heard for about 50 years," she said of Weinzapfel's plan. "We're getting it down to a drill, though. At this point, we're able to keep flooding to a minimum. But it's still a disaster, and we can't go forward with our home."
The weekend storms deluged the city, but Evansville was spared any tornadoes. Other parts of the region weren't as lucky.
At Dixon, Ky., officials were still counting the number of twisted trees and knew of a few buildings that were damaged.
"It's scattered," said Webster County Judge-executive Jim Townsend. "It's like it came down and went back up and came down and went back up over and over."
The National Weather Service completed preliminary reports of damage in Massac County, Ill., and Daviess County, Ky., and tornadoes appeared to have touched down in both.
In Massac County, weather service officials believe an F3 tornado sent two people to the hospital with minor injuries, tossed six vehicles up to 100 yards, uprooted numerous trees and destroyed four mobile homes.
Damage was less severe in Daviess County, where an F1 tornado reportedly touched down near the intersection of Haynes Station Road and Sawmill Road. No injuries were reported, but it caused extensive damage to a mobile home and a modular home and destroyed several small out-buildings.
Local residents will get a temporary reprieve from the rain, but more storms could develop Thursday, said Wayne Hart, chief meteorologist at WEHT-News25.
Those storms, Hart said, could anoint this September the wettest ever.
Tracy would like to see the record stay just as it is. After dealing with a flooded parking lot and the fish it left behind, she's had enough rain.
"The flooding is very frustrating," she said. "I hate to see people wading in 20-inch-deep water just to get to their cars."
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