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Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
3 days until Election Day.
Just a comment to those who want to dismiss 'vote-flipping' as voter error. All kinds of people go to the polls to vote. They are highly educated and high-school dropouts. Rich and poor. They have long fingernails and nails bitten to the quick. They have thin fingers and wide fingers. They are going to softly touch the screen or touch it hard. Vendors and election officials tend to blame vote-flipping on the voters. They touched the screen too hard; drug their finger; had long fingernails; or their fingers touched too large an area. So, is it the voters fault? NO! It is the vendors who designed, built and sold these machines that don't work for all voters and it is the election officials who bought those machines.
A large majority of the 'vote-flipping' has been on older ES&S iVotronic DREs; those machines that were featured on last year's Dan Rather Reports. The cheaply built, poorly tested touch screens that were used as components on those systems should have been scrapped long ago. It's not the voters fault and this constant pointing of fingers is wrong. The vendors need to remember that when they point a finger at the voters they have three fingers pointing back at the real culprit, themselves; and it makes no difference what those fingers look like, they are the fingers of blame....
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U.S. attorney, FBI will be on lookout for fraud, abuses
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Concerns: Turnout, registration, software issues
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Turnout steady at all six polling sites
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Monday, October 22, 2012
Fall Porch
My favorite place in my whole house is the front porch. The weather has been so beautiful the last couple of days so I sit out on the porch every minute that I can.
I found this little green bench on Craig's List for $15. I think I'm going to sew a big pillow for the bench this week. The white rocking chairs (that you've seen in past posts) were also Craig's List finds. I'm all about finding great deals on Craig's List!
My porch probably has more "stuff" on it than any other room in my house- including about 15 pumpkins. If I had any other place to put them (or pots of flowers), there would probably be more. I have a feeling that my after-holidays-empty-house-depression is going to be very high this year due to my decor overkill.
The steps are lined with ornament kale and cabbage, mums, and pumpkins.
I bought mums at different stages of bloom so that they'll live a little longer. They will probably all have to be replaced before Thanksgiving and I probably won't be able to find any that late so I'll have to reevaluate this whole situation!
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The front porch is my favorite place too! It's so peaceful, but offers great people watching for me at the same time. Our little dog, Winston, loves to roll around in the grass in our front yard then come sit on the stairs to "protect" me from all the birds & squirrels that dare come into my front yard! Your porch is WAY cuter than mine, though!
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The Margraviate of Brandenburg (Markgrafschaft Brandenburg) was a major principality of the Holy Roman Empire from 1157 to 1806. Also known as the March of Brandenburg (Mark Brandenburg), it played a pivotal role in the history of Germany and Central Europe.
Brandenburg developed out of the Northern March founded in the territory of the Slavic Wends. Its ruling margraves were established as prestigious prince-electors in the Golden Bull of 1356, allowing them to vote in the election of the Holy Roman Emperor. The state thus became additionally known as Electoral Brandenburg or the Electorate of Brandenburg (Kurfürstentum Brandenburg or Kurbrandenburg).
The House of Hohenzollern came to the throne of Brandenburg in 1415. Under Hohenzollern leadership, Brandenburg grew rapidly in power during the 17th century and inherited the Duchy of Prussia. The resulting Brandenburg-Prussia was the predecessor of the Kingdom of Prussia, which became a leading German state during the 18th century. Although the electors' highest title was "King in/of Prussia", their power base remained in Brandenburg and its capitals Berlin and Potsdam.
Although the Margraviate of Brandenburg ended with the dissolution of the archaic Holy Roman Empire in 1806, it was replaced with the Prussian Province of Brandenburg in 1815. Despite its meager beginnings in the "sandbox" of the Holy Roman Empire, the Hohenzollern Kingdom of Prussia achieved the unification of Germany and the creation of the German Empire in 1871. The "Mark Brandenburg" is still used informally today to refer to the federal state of Brandenburg in the Federal Republic of Germany.
The territory of the former margraviate, commonly known as the Mark Brandenburg, lies in present-day eastern Germany and western Poland. Geographically it encompassed the majority of the present-day German states Brandenburg and Berlin, the Altmark (the northern third of Saxony-Anhalt), and the Neumark (now divided between Poland's Lubusz and West Pomeranian Voivodeships). Parts of the present-day federal state Brandenburg, such as Lower Lusatia and territory which had been Saxon until 1815, were not parts of the Mark. Colloquially but not accurately, the federal state Brandenburg is sometimes identified as the Mark or Mark Brandenburg.
The region was formed during the ice age and characterized by moraines, glacial valleys, and numerous lakes. The territory is known as a Mark or march because it was a border county of the Holy Roman Empire (see also Margraviate of Meissen).
The Mark is defined by two uplands and two depressions. The depressions are taken up by rivers and chains of lakes with marsh and boggy soil along the shores; once used for peat collection, the riverbanks are now mostly drained and dry.
The northern or Baltic uplands of the Mecklenburg Lake District have only minor extensions into Brandenburg. The approximately 230 km-long range of hills in the Mark's south begins in the Lausitzer Bergland (near Żary (Sorau)) and continues past Trzebiel (Triebel) and Spremberg, then to the northwest through Calau, and ends in the bare and dry Fläming. The southern depression is generally to the north of this ridge and appears strikingly in the Spreewald (between Baruth and Plaue an der Havel). The northern depression, lying almost directly south of the Baltic uplands, is defined by the lowlands of the Noteć and Warta Rivers, the Oderbruch, the valley of the Finow, the Havelland moor, and the Oder River.
Between these two depressions is a low plateau that extends from the Poznań area westward to Brandenburg through Torzym (Sternberg), theSpree plateau, and the Mittelmark. From southeast to northwest, this plateau is intersected by the lowland of the Leniwa Obra and the Oder River below the confluence of the Lusatian Neisse, the lower Spree Valley, and the Havel Valley. Between these valleys rise a series of hills and plateaus, such as the Barnim, the Teltow, the Semmelberg near Bad Freienwalde (157 m), the Müggelberge in Köpenick (115 m), the Havelberge (97 m), and the Rauen Hills near Fürstenwalde (112 to 152 m).
The region is predominantly marked by dry, sandy soil, wide stretches of which have pine trees and erica plants, or heath. However, the soil is loamy in the uplands and plateaus and, when farmed appropriately, can be agriculturally productive.
Mark Brandenburg has a cool, continental climate, with temperatures averaging near 0°C in January and February and near 18°C in July and August. Precipitation averages between 500 mm and 600 mm annually, with a modest summer maximum.
By the 8th century, Slavic Wends, such as the Sprevjane and Hevelli, started to move into the Brandenburg area. They intermarried with Saxons and Bohemians.
The Bishoprics of Brandenburg and Havelberg were established at the beginning of the 10th century (in 928 and 948, respectively).They were suffragan to the Archbishopric of Mainz; the Bishopric of Brandenburg reached to the Baltic Sea.
King Henry the Fowler started governing in the region in 928–9, allowing Emperor Otto I to establish the Northern March under Margrave Gero in 936 during the German Ostsiedlung. However, the march and the bishropics were overthrown by a Slavic rebellion in 983; until the collapse of the Liutizian alliance in the middle of the 11th century, the Holy Roman Empire government through bishoprics and marches came nearly to a standstill for approximately 150 years., even though the bishopric was retained.
Prince Pribislav of the Hevelli came to power at the castle of Brenna (Brandenburg an der Havel) in 1127. During Pribislav's reign, in which he cultivated close connections with the German nobility, Germans succeeded in binding to the Holy Roman Empire the Havolanie region from Brandenburg an der Havel to Spandau. The disputed eastern border continued between the Hevelli and the Sprewane, recognized as the Havel-Nuthe line. Prince Jaxa of Köpenick (Jaxa de Copnic) of the Sprewaner lived in Köpenick east of the dividing line.
During the second phase of the German Ostsiedlung, the shrewd diplomat Albert the Bear began the expansionary eastern policy of the Ascanians. From 1123–5 Albert developed contacts with Pribislav, who served as the godfather for the Ascanian's first son, Otto, and gave the boy the Zauche region as a christening present in 1134. In the same year Emperor Lothair III named Albert margrave of the Northern March and raised Pribislav to the status of king, although that was later rescinded. Also in 1134, Albert succeeded in securing for the Ascanians the inheritance of the childless Pribislav. After the latter's death in 1150, Albert received the Havolanie residence of Brenna, or Brandenburg an der Havel. The Ascanians also began to build the castle of Spandau.
In contrast to their leaders who had accepted Christianity, the Havolanie population still worshipped old Slavic deities and opposed Albert's assumption of power. Jaxa of Köpenick, a possible relative of Pribislav and a claim-holder to Brandenburg, occupied Brandenburg through guile, violence, and Polish help, and seized the Havelland. Older historical research dates this conquest to 1153, although there are no definite sources for the date. More recent researchers, such as Lutz Partenheimer, date it to spring 1157, as it is doubtful that Albert would not have responded to Jaxa's actions for four years.
With bloody victories on 11 June 1157, Albert the Bear was able to reconquer Brandenburg, exile Jaxa, and found a new lordship. Because he already held the title of margrave, Albert styled himself as Margrave of Brandenburg (Adelbertus Die gratia marchio in Brandenborch) on 3 October 1157, thereby beginning the Margraviate of Brandenburg.
The territorial limits of the original margraviate differed from the area of the current Bundesland Brandenburg, consisting merely of the Havelland and Zauche regions. In the following 150 years the Ascanians succeeded in winning the Uckermark, Teltow, and Barnim regions east of the Havel and Nuthe, thereby extending the Mark to the Oder River. The Neumark ("New March") east of the Oder was acquired gradually through purchases, marriages, and aid to the Piast dynasty of Poland.
Because of the sandy soil prevalent in Brandenburg, the agriculturally meager principality was denigrated as "the sandbox of the Holy Roman Empire". Albert invited colonists to settle the new territory, many of whom came from the Altmark ("Old March", a later name for the original Northern March), the Harz, Flanders (hence the Fläming region), and the Rhineland. After the capture of territory along the Elbe and Havel Rivers in the 1160s, Flemish and Dutch settlers from flooded regions in Holland used their expertise to build dikes in Brandenburg. Initially, the Ascanians protected the country by settling knights in villages; castles fortified with knights were mostly located in the border region of the Neumark. After a 14th-century decline in imperial power, however, knights began constructing castles throughout the principality, granting them more independence.
After Albert's death in 1170, his son succeeded him as Otto I, Margrave of Brandenburg. The Ascanians pursued a policy of expanding to the east and the northeast with the goal of connecting their territories through Pomerania to the Baltic Sea. This policy brought them into conflict with the Kingdom of Denmark. After the Battle of Bornhöved (1227), Margrave John I staked his claim to Pomerania, receiving it as a fief from Emperor Frederick II in 1231. The middle of the 13th century was a time of important developments for the Ascanian House, as it won Stettin (Szczecin) and the Uckermark (1250), although the former was later lost to the Duchy of Pomerania. Henry II, the last Ascanian margrave, died in 1320.
Having defeated the Habsburgs, the Wittelsbach Emperor Louis IV, an uncle of Henry II, granted Brandenburg to his oldest son, Louis I (the "Brandenburger") in 1323. As a consequence of the murder of Provost Nikolaus von Bernau in 1325, Brandenburg was punished with a papal interdict. From 1328 onwards, Louis was in war against Pomerania which he claimed as a fiefdom and the conflict did not end before 1333. The rule of Margrave Louis I was rejected by the domestic nobility of Brandenburg, and, after the death of Emperor Louis VI in 1347, the margrave was confronted with the False Waldemar, an imposter of the deceased Margrave Waldemar. The pretender was recognized as Margrave of Brandenburg on 2 October 1348 by the new emperor, Charles IV of Luxembourg, but was exposed as a fraud after a peace between the Wittelsbachs and Luxembourgs at Eltville. In 1351 Louis gave the Mark to his younger half-brothers Louis II (the "Roman") and Otto V in exchange for the sole rule over Upper Bavaria.
Louis the Roman forced the False Waldemar to renounce his claims to Brandenburg and succeeded in establishing the Margraves of Brandenburg as prince-electors in the Golden Bull of 1356. Brandenburg therefore became a Kurfürstentum (literally "electoral principality" or "electorate") of the Holy Roman Empire and had a vote in the election of the Holy Roman Emperor. The Margrave of Brandenburg also held the ceremonial title of Arch-Chamberlain of the Empire. When Louis the Roman died in 1365, Otto took over the rule of Brandenburg, although he quickly neglected the march. He sold Lower Lusatia, which he had already pledged to the Wettin dynasty, to Emperor Charles IV in 1367. A year later he lost the town Deutsch Krone (Wałcz) to King Casimir the Great of Poland.
The power of the Luxembourgs in Brandenburg declined during the reign of Charles's nephew Jobst of Moravia. The Neumark was pawned to the Teutonic Knights, who neglected the border region. Under the Wittelsbach and Luxembourg margraves, Brandenburg fell increasingly under the control of the local nobility as central authority declined.
In return for supporting Sigismund as Holy Roman Emperor at Frankfurt in 1410, Frederick VI of Nuremberg, a burgrave of the House of Hohenzollern, was granted hereditary control over Brandenburg in 1411. Rebellious landed nobility such as the Quitzow family opposed his appointment, but Frederick overpowered these knights with artillery. Some nobles had their property confiscated, and the Brandenburg estates gave allegiance at Tangermünde on 20 March 1414. Frederick was officially recognized as Margrave and Prince-elector Frederick I of Brandenburg at the Council of Constance in 1415. Frederick's formal investiture with the Kurmark, or electoral march, and his appointment as Archchamberlain of the Holy Roman Empire occurred on 18 April 1417, also during the Council of Constance.
Frederick made Berlin his residence, although he retired to his Franconian possessions in 1425. He granted governance of Brandenburg to his eldest son John the Alchemist, while retaining the electoral dignity for himself. The next elector, Frederick II, forced the submission of Berlin and Cölln, setting an example for the other towns of Brandenburg. He reacquired the Neumark from the Teutonic Knights and began its rebuilding.
Brandenburg accepted the Protestant Reformation in 1539. The population has remained largely Lutheran since, although some later electors converted to Calvinism.
The Hohenzollerns of Brandenburg sought to expand their power base from their relatively meager possessions, although this brought them into conflict with neighboring states. John William, Duke of Julich-Cleves-Berg died childless in 1609. His eldest niece, Anna, Duchess of Prussia, was the wife of John Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg, who promptly claimed the inheritance and sent troops to take hold of some of John William's holdings in the Rhineland. Unfortunately for John Sigismund, this effort became tied up with the Thirty Years' War and the disputed succession of Julich. At the end of the war in 1648, Brandenburg was recognized as the possessor of approximately half the inheritance, comprising the Duchy of Cleves in the Rhineland and the Counties of Mark and Ravensberg in Westphalia. These territories, which were more than 100 kilometers from the borders of Brandenburg, formed the nucleus of the later Prussian Rhineland.
When Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia, died without a son in 1618, his son-in-law John Sigismund inherited the Duchy of Prussia, which joined Brandenburg in the expanded state of Brandenburg-Prussia. In this way, the fortuitous marriage of John Sigismund to Anna of Prussia, and the deaths of her maternal uncle in 1609 and her father in 1618 without immediate male heirs, proved to be the key events by which Brandenburg acquired territory both in the Rhineland and on the Baltic coast. Prussia lay outside the Holy Roman Empire and the electors of Brandenburg held it as a fief of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, to which the electors paid homage.
The electors of Brandenburg spent the next two centuries attempting to gain lands to unite their separate territories (the Mark Brandenburg, the territories in the Rhineland and Westphalia, and Ducal Prussia) to form one geographically contiguous domain. Brandenburg-Prussia acquired Farther Pomerania in the Peace of Westphalia ending the Thirty Years' War in 1648. In the second half of the 17th century, Frederick William, the "Great Elector", developed the power of Brandenburg-Prussia. The state constructed Brandenburg's first navy (Kurbrandenburgische Marine), leading to short-lived colonies at Arguin, the Brandenburger Gold Coast, and Saint Thomas. The electors succeeded in acquiring sovereignty over Prussia in the Treaty of Wehlau in 1660. The territories of the Hohenzollerns were opened to immigration by Huguenot refugees in 1685.
In return for aiding Emperor Leopold I during the War of the Spanish Succession, Elector Frederick III of Brandenburg was allowed to crown himself Frederick I, King in Prussia. Prussia, unlike Brandenburg, lay outside the Holy Roman Empire, within whose boundaries no ruler could call himself king. As king was a more prestigious title than prince-elector, the territories of the Hohenzollerns became known as the Kingdom of Prussia, although their power base remained in Brandenburg.
From 1701 to 1946, Brandenburg's history was largely that of the state of Prussia, which established itself as a major power in Europe during the 18th century. King Frederick William I of Prussia, the "Soldier-King", modernized the Prussian Army, while his son Frederick the Great achieved glory and infamy with the Silesian Wars and Partitions of Poland. The feudal designation of the Margraviate of Brandenburg ended with the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806. It was replaced with the Province of Brandenburg in 1815 following the Napoleonic Wars. Brandenburg became part of the German Empire in 1871 during the Prussian-led unification of Germany.
During the Gleichschaltung of provinces by Nazi Germany during the 1930s, the Province of Brandenburg and the state of Prussia lost practically all relevancy. The region was administered as the Gau "Mark Brandenburg".
The state of Prussia was abolished in 1947 after the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II; the Gau "Mark Brandenburg" was replaced with the Land Brandenburg. Territory east of the Oder-Neisse Line (the Neumark region) was placed under Polish administration (became part Poland as her boundaries were agreed by the international powers in 1944 at the Yalta Conference) and separated from Germany. Most of its German-speaking population was expelled and replaced with Poles. Brandenburg west of the Oder-Neisse Line lay in the Soviet occupation zone; it became part of the German Democratic Republic. In 1952 the region was divided among the districts of Cottbus, Frankfurt (Oder), Potsdam, Schwerin, and Neubrandenburg; Berlin was divided between East Berlin and West Berlin.
This division of Brandenburg continued until the German reunification in 1990. The GDR districts were dissolved and replaced with the state of Brandenburg with its capital in Potsdam. The 850th anniversary of the foundation of the March of Brandenburg was to be celebrated officially on 11 June 2007, with preliminary celebrations having begun at the Knights' Academy of Brandenburg an der Havel on 23 June 2006.


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A charter amendment for renewable energy and public power appears headed for the November ballot, and already Pacific Gas and Electric Co. is rounding up front groups and touting inaccurate figures in an attempt to scuttle the plan.
The San Francisco Clean Energy Act, introduced by Sup. Ross Mirkarimi, would mandate that the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission "produce a comprehensive plan for providing clean, secure, cost-effective electricity for city departments and residents and businesses."
If passed, San Francisco would exceed state standards by requiring 51 percent clean, renewable energy by 2017; 75 percent by 2030; and 100 percent by 2040. Workforce development is also part of the plan, and if it's determined that public ownership of the grid is the way to go, any employees fired by PG&E will be hired by the SFPUC.
"The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is talking about taking over PG&E," Brandon Hernandez, the corporation's manager of government relations, said at a June 27 Rules Committee hearing on the legislation. "PG&E's system is not for sale," he asserted. He then went on to say a takeover would cost the city "at least $4 billion."
PG&E spokesperson Darlene Chiu told the Guardian: "That's our estimate for what our system costs in San Francisco."
But the California State Board of Equalization says all of PG&E's state-assessed San Francisco property was worth $1.2 billion in 2007. The board's appraisers assess PG&E's property for tax purposes and their final figure includes millions of dollars of property that San Francisco would not want to own.
PG&E threw other punches at the city. Hernandez threatened the loss of as much as $29 million per year in taxes and charitable giving. "We no longer will be contributing to San Francisco's nonprofits and service organizations," he said of groups that received $5 million from PG&E last year.
That money buys some political loyalty. The only organizations that spoke against the measure the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, the Bay Area Council, and the A. Phillip Randolph Institute all received bucks deluxe from PG&E. Between 2004 and 2006, the Chamber of Commerce Foundation received $166,000 from the utility; the Bay Area Council and Economic Forum grossed $132,500; and APRI banked slightly more than $100,000.
The Chamber's vice president of public policy, Rob Black, criticized the move toward municipalization because it would make San Francisco, like other municipal utilities, exempt from the state-mandated 20 percent renewable energy by 2010. "The Los Angeles utility is at 48 percent coal. That's not green, that's not renewable. That's something we need to be very careful about," he told the committee.
According to the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, their power mix is actually 44 percent coal. But Black didn't bother to check; he just took his figures from PG&E moments before, while conferring with Hernandez and Chiu. When questioned by the Guardian, Black said, "They didn't come to me. I went to them."
He reiterated the concern that municipally-owned power isn't required by the state to be clean and green, and becoming so could increase rates. "If we're creating cheaper energy, where's the incentive to do conservation?" he asked.
According to statistics from the meeting, the average PG&E household spends $74.55 per month on electricity, with 12 percent of the energy used hailing from renewable resources. An equivalent customer in the Sacramento Municipal Utility District has a bill of $46.60 for 18 percent renewable.
APRI's James Bryant said his Bayview community group has issues with the costs and the idea that former PG&E employees would be hired by the city and subsequently receive worse retirement plans.
When asked if he was there because his organization gets money from PG&E, Bryant said, "Not really." He added, "I don't have anything to do with their decisions. They don't have anything to do with my decisions.
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Other public comments overwhelmingly supported the measure. Some energy activists have been concerned that the legislation would derail or delay efforts to move toward renewables through the community choice aggregation (CCA) program.
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Many small business owners and business organizations have voiced their displeasure with being shut out of these events. So what are we waiting for? Let's hold our own jobs summit.
In this internet era, you don't really have to be invited to a White House confab to voice your opinion and make it heard on high. We're talking about a president who has his own Facebook page. The White House, too. Whether you agree with their policies or not, you have to admit there's never been an administration this accessible. Sure, it'd be great to go to the president's official jobs summit--but if you didn't get an invite, I say stop whining about that and let's get back to the main problem. We need to find ways to create jobs, and create a scenario where business owners are ready to hire again.
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Devon facts
Headquarters (founded) |
Oklahoma City (1971) |
Market Cap |
$23.1 billion |
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CEO John Richels (since 2010) CFO Jeffrey Agosta (since 2010) |
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Chesapeake Energy Encana EOG Resources |
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Just last week, one of those Fools, All-Star RSue, tapped the stock as a particularly attractive bargain opportunity: "The market is currently oblivious to the fact that Devon Energy is a special situation that possesses many catalysts for future higher profitability -- and subsequently also for significant upside stock price movement. Examples of these catalysts are the eventual rise in nat. gas and NGL prices, the board of director approved plan for an IPO of its midstream segment, exploration of asset sales, more extensive development of its oil producing properties, and the potential rise in Canadian oil prices."
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Charlton, Rodger, Thistlethwaite, Jill, Coomber, Jane and Johnson, N. (Neil) (2010) RCGP revalidation pilots : England and Wales. Coventry, UK: University of Warwick..
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Background – Revalidation for UK doctors is to be introduced in April 2012. The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), on behalf of the General Medical Council (GMC), is responsible for proposing the standards and methods for the revalidation of general practitioners (GPs) guided by the 12 attributes of the GMC Good Medical Practice. This College has proposed that the revalidation process for GPs build on appraisal with GPs
presenting supporting information of patient-centred clinical practice and areas of extended practice in a revalidation ePortfolio at 'strengthened medical appraisal', which will then be submitted annually as part of a five-yearly cycle. This evidence will be supplemented with
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The Mississippi State Extension Service is celebrating 100 years providing service to the people of Mississippi in May.
Clay County Extension Service Director B.J. McClenton said the extension office will be setting up displays in the county to celebrate the centennial.
"One of the displays will be in the lobby at the Clay County Courthouse and that one will have pictures of what we do and a history of the extension service," McClenton said. "The other will be in the Bryan Public Library and that one will be based more around our 4-H activities."
McClenton said brochures and handouts on the extension service and its activities will also be available at the displays.
The Mississippi State Extension Service began in 1914 when the Smith-Lever Act was signed into federal law. The Smith-Lever Act established the Cooperative Extension Service, which is the nationwide education system operating through land-grant universities in partnership with federal, state and local governments.
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McClenton, who has been director of the Clay County Extension Service since January, said the extension service is important because it's a free service that helps improve self-sufficiency for farmers. The extension service also involves 4-H groups to assist in training youth to take on more agricultural roles and responsibilities, according to McClenton.
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A modified filtered-error algorithm with fast convergence in systems with delay
Berkhoff, A.P. (2006) A modified filtered-error algorithm with fast convergence in systems with delay. In: Proceedings of ACTIVE 2006, 18-20 Sep 2006, Adelaide, Australia (pp. pp. 1-12).
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Abstract: | In this paper a multi-channel feedforward adaptive control algorithm is described which has good convergence properties while having relatively small computational complexity. This complexity is similar to that of the filtered-error algorithm. In order to obtain these properties, the algorithm is based on a preprocessing step for the actuator signals using a stable and causal inverse of the transfer path between actuators and error sensors, the secondary path. The latter algorithm is known from the literature as postconditioned filtered-error algorithm, which improves convergence speed for the case that the minimum-phase part of the secondary path increases the eigenvalue spread. However, the convergence speed of this algorithm suffers from delays in the adaptation path, because, in order to maintain stability, adaptation rates have to be lower for larger delays. By making a modification to the postconditioned filtered-error scheme, the adaptation rate can be set to a higher value. Consequently, the new scheme also provides good convergence if the system contains significant delays. Furthermore, an extension of the new scheme is given in which the inverse of the secondary path is regularized in such a way that the derivation of the modified filtered-error scheme remains valid. |
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How Much Does Iron Infusion Cost?
Iron infusion refers to a liquid dose of iron given through an IV. The procedure is typically done on patients with iron deficiency, a condition in which iron levels are low and pills are not sufficient to keep with iron loss. Iron is extremely important; your body uses iron to make hemoglobin, which carries oxygen throughout the body. A lack of iron can result in anemia. Three of the most commonly used solutions for intravenous iron therapy are iron dextran, iron sucrose, and sodium ferric gluconate.
How much does it cost?
- At a doctor's office or treatment center, plan on budgeting around $300 to $600 per round of iron infusion.
- According to a forum thread on the website ObesityHelp.com, some users claimed that they had to pay around $200 to $600 per infusion.
- Many treatments are done in cycles. For example, you may receive an infusion once a week for three weeks, and then your levels should stay level enough for about 18 months. The price range of three rounds of iron infusion would be $900 or $1800, which needs to be paid about every year and a half.
What is going to be included?
- The process of infusing intravenous iron involves placing an IV bag and a bag of fluid containing iron in dissolved form and draining the contents into the patient's veins. Often conducted in a hospital or doctor's office, the procedure may take up to several hours, depending on the type of treatment the doctor has recommended. Iron infusion is often performed over the course of several doctor visits until the patient's iron levels are corrected.
- Intravenous iron is considered generally safe although the drug preparation can result to severe reactions in some individuals. The procedure is typically conducted when a patient is experiencing too much iron loss and his body is not able to absorb iron taken by mouth. Iron loss usually occurs in people suffering from cancer, anemia, an inflammatory bowel disease with extreme iron deficiency, and end-stage renal disorder on dialysis.
- Intravenous iron comes in three types of preparations: Iron dextran, Iron sucrose, and Ferric Gluconate.
What are the extra costs?
- Testing. Before intravenous iron therapy is recommended, a patient will need to undergo a series of tests to find out if he has iron deficiency. The tests may include testing for blood in the stool, determining if there are abnormalities in the gastrointestinal tract, testing the urine for blood or hemoglobin, and for women, looking for abnormal or increased menstrual blood loss.
- Medications. Some patients experience pain and allergic reactions 1 to 2 days after IV iron infusion therapy, most often with Iron dextran. These patients are often prescribed with NSAIDs, such as ibuprofen or naproxen.
Factors that influence the price:
- Number of infusions. In many cases, the total cost of intravenous iron therapy is affected by the number of IV infusions performed, which is often dependent on the patient's condition and reaction to the therapy.
- Facility fees. Iron infusion can be done in the office of a medical professional or in a hospital. In several instances, having the procedure done in a hospital incurs higher fees because of the use of their facilities and services.
- Testing. Tests are often done on patients recommended for intravenous iron infusion to ensure that their system is capable of absorbing the drug preparation without developing complications. Screenings often add to the overall cost of IV iron infusion therapy.
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- Intravenous iron has an advantage over other types of iron infusion since experts recognize it as an option that causes less gastrointestinal pain and discomfort.
- Of the three basic and commonly used types of intravenous iron, sodium ferric gluconate complex in sucrose (Ferrlecit), or iron sucrose (Venofer) are regarded as safer than iron dextran, although reactions can still occur.
- Side effects of intravenous iron include blood clots, fever, headache, malaise, joint aches, and rashes. Iron toxicity (too much iron) symptoms include nausea, dizziness and a sudden decrease in blood pressure.
- Intravenous iron therapy may be suitable for some pregnant women. But they must meet the requirements and are in a pregnancy period where the therapy is safe for them, in addition to being able to comply with other factors.
- The amount of iron that you take may be different depending on your circumstances. For example, women who are pregnant need to get more iron, as would someone who has lost a lot of blood or is going through a growth spurt.
How can I save money?
- Having insurance cover iron infusion can lower the cost of the overall procedure. Many insurance companies shoulder the expenses, with their patients paying around 20%. If you do not have insurance or you are looking to potentially switch your policy, consider browsing through hundreds of policies at eHealthInsurance.com.
- Medicare is likely to cover the iron sucrose injection Venofer and its administration when it is used for its approved indications.


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Khan, Shahjahan and Hoque, Zahirul and Saleh, A. K. Md. E. (2005) Estimation of the intercept parameter for linear regression model with uncertain non-sample prior information. Statistical Papers, 46 (3). pp. 379-395. ISSN 0932-5026
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[Abstract]: This paper considers alternative estimators of the intercept parameter of the linear regression model with normal error when uncertain non-sample prior information about the value of the slope parameter is available. The maximum likelihood, restricted, preliminary test and shrinkage estimators are considered. Based on their quadratic biases and mean square errors the relative performances of the estimators are investigated. Both analytical and graphical methods are explored. None of the estimators is found to be uniformly dominating the others. However, if the non-sample prior information regarding the value of the slope is not too far from its true value, the shrinkage estimator of the intercept parameter dominates the rest of the estimators.
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No differences seen in overall survival, metastasis when chemo triggered low red blood cell count
THURSDAY, April 3 (HealthDay News) -- Breast cancer patients who develop anemia during chemotherapy face almost three times the risk of a recurrence in the same area of the affected breast, new research suggests.
The Austrian study was a re-analysis of information from a clinical trial that took place in the 1990s. Importantly, the findings also indicated that anemia did alter overall survival or significantly increase the risk of cancer occurring in a patient's other breast or spreading elsewhere in the body. Anemia, a common side effect of chemotherapy, is a low red blood cell count that can cause fatigue and reduced quality of life.
"This study is definitely not aimed at changing current practice," said study author Dr. Peter Dubsky, of the Medical University of Vienna. "This is a retrospective analysis that has yielded quite controversial data. The conclusion from our study is aimed at experimental and clinical oncologic research. Anemia is associated with a high likelihood of tumor hypoxia [too little oxygen in the blood]."
The chemotherapy used in the study was a combination of cyclophosphamide, methotrexate and 5-fluorouracil (CMF). The problems of anemia and related local recurrence are probably not limited to just this form of chemotherapy, noted Dr. Douglas Yee, director of the University of Minnesota Cancer Center. "I think this effect would be seen with any chemotherapy."
CMF is no longer commonly used in the treatment of breast cancer and has been replaced by other forms of chemotherapy such as taxanes, added Dr. Barry C. Lembersky, a clinical associate professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Also, there is a trend in breast cancer treatment to use chemotherapy less often, he said.
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1992 Lincoln Continental purchased used october 1992. Engine went bad day after purchase(63000 miles). New used engine replaced by seller had 47000 miles on it 12/12 warrenty. Transmission went bad 2 months after purchase. Rebuilt and on the way home engine started knocking it now has burnt valve. If you purchase a lincoln from this year have deep pockets.
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The Best Graphic Design Articles from 34 Top Design Blogs as Chosen By The Authors Themselves
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I went around to the top graphic design blogs on the net and asked their authors to choose their best or most popular graphic design article that they have ever written and here are the results. I present to you…The Best Ever Graphic Design Articles as chosen by the authors themselves.
They are in no particular order but I have organised them into categories.
- Graphic Design
- Web Design
- Picture Based Posts
- Tutorials
- Other
- Thought Provoking Articles
Graphic Design
- 99 Graphic Design Resources ALL Designers Must Know from us at Just Creative Design
- The Dos and Dont's of Colour from Inspiration Bit
- Top 50 Graphic Design Blogs from David Airey
- My Top 5 Biggest Freelancing Mistakes from Freelance Folder
- Best Logo Design Resources from Logo Design Love
- 8 Little Design Secrets from Leslie Tane Design
- How Can We Stop The Thieves from Elliot Jay Stocks
- How To Be A Design Superstar from Design Sojourn
Web Design
- The 25 Ways To Improve Your Site in 5 Minutes from Fadtastic
- Applying Hicks Law To Web Design from Alpha Blog Designs
- 101 CSS Techniques Of All Time from Noupe
- 77 Resources to Simplify Your Life as a Web Designer from Vandelay Design
- A Guide To Web Typography from I Love Typography
- Extensible CSS (A Series of articles) from Cameron Moll
- How to use WordPress to build a website with user-generated content from Creative Briefing
- Student Questions: What Should I Study To Become A Web Designer? from Positive Space Blog
Picture Based Posts
- 36 Beautiful Resume Ideas That Work from Job Mob
- Cool Business Cards from Inspiredology
- 20 Beautiful HDR Pictures from Adubzeedo
- Save The Earth from Mohdrafie
- Coffee Kiss from Design You Trust
- The Kotatsu – A Different Way Way of Thinking About Tables from Core77
- The One Page Graphic Design Portfolio Guide from You The Designer
- Vector Polishing Techniques from WebDesignerWall
- The Ultimate Guide To Designing with Black from Spoon Graphics
- Give Your Resume A Face Life from LifeClever
- Using the Blend tool and Distort Zig Zag Effect in Illustrator from Veerle
- Removing Wrinkles and Keepin' It Real – How to use the Healing Brush and Patch Tools from Laughing Lion Design
- The Art of Self Branding – from LeaLea Design
- Interview with Poster Designer Jason Munn – Small Stakes from GrainEdit
- Kick Butt Holiday Gifts For Designers from Bad Ass Ideas
- Recent Great Graphic Design Discoveries from Graphic Design Blog
- WordPress as a CMS – Content Management System from Graphic Design Blog.co.uk
Thought Provoking Articles
- 99 Designs: Bullshit 2.0 – from Graphic Push
- What Do You Consider Good Design from Creative Curio
- Poynter's Eye-Tracking Follies from Andy Rutledge
- You TOO Can become a graphic designer from The Graphic Mac
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Here is the list of all the graphic design blogs who partipated. Thank You!
- Creative Curio
- Graphic Push
- The Graphic Mac
- Andy Rutledge
- Graphic Design Blog
- Bad Ass Ideas
- GrainEdit
- Veerle
- You The Designer
- Spoon Graphics
- LifeClever
- Design You Trust
- Job Mob
- Adubzeedo
- Inspiredology
- Mohdrafie
- Fadtastic
- Alpha Blog Designs
- Noupe
- I Love Typography
- Vandelay Design
- Cameron Moll
- Laughing Lion Design
- Creative Briefing
- Positive Space Blog
- Inspiration Bit
- Logo Design Love
- Design Sojourn
- David Airey
- Freelance Folder
- Elliot Jay Stocks
- LeaLea Design
- Core77
- Leslie Tane Design
- Just Creative Design (Don't forget us!)
I know there are many many more great blogs out there so please leave a comment with a link to the best blog article you have ever written – it doesn't have to be related to design.
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Hey Jacob!
Pretty awesome collection. Chris Spooner made a good choice with his article; I found it extremely informative when he first published it.
SU'd and Dugg!
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Stumbled, Dugg and Floated. Great roundup, nice work compiling this, Jacob.
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Thanks, Jacob for inviting me to participate. There's tons of great stuff on your list.
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Really great articles, going to take some time to get through them all – Thanks
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Hey Jacob, thanks again for asking me to join in. All the best with it.
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Great list of design article. You really did a good job.
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added my 21st digg on April 21st, so hopefully #21 will be the lucky one for you to get this article to Digg's front page ;-)
Thanks for the invite. Lots to read here. Great job, Jacob.inspirationbits last blog post..PROs And CONs Of Going Solo
Hehey! Thanks Jacob! I'm glad to be featured on the 'Picture Based Post'.
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Hey Jacob, thanks a bunch for putting all this together and for including FreelanceFolder. Now let's Digg it :)
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Very cool. A lot of these are new to me—it's gonna take a week to go through them!
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Thanks for the chance to participate, Jacob. This will be a list to refer back to! Stumbled :)
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Thanks for the invite to participate Jacob.. this is a great idea and I look forward to seeing more of these great posts.
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Great list I've read a few of these posts and they are awesome
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Thanks, Jacob for inviting me to participate.
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Nice one and great job Jacob! Thanks for getting me involved.
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This is great, it's just what I was looking for. I'm always hoping to find great blogs and resources from others in the design field.
I have an art/design blog on which I often release freebies, etc., too. The latest post is: http://www.annstorer.com/2008/12/28/flourish-freebie-ornaments/
I'm a graphic design student at South Dakota State, and I've been assigned to create a book cover using only two spot colors. I would like to use a real photo and convert it to a black spot color, and use a bright, light teal, or just another color on top of that but i have no idea how to do that in photoshop or if it even can be done…any help would be AWESOME….(also if you know how to use two spot colors and blending them to create a variety of colors with just the two spot colors that'd be amazing as well) THANKS
Hey Jacob! Thanks so much for writing some good articles. I read your blog on a constant basis and always walk away with something useful. I wanted to share my blog where I post free high resolution photographs: http://free-images-etc.rb-d.com/. As a graphic designer, I find it extremely useful to have access to some quality photos when I work on projects, and I hope other creatives will get a kick of this site as well. Enjoy!
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A band of severe storms had folks in our region scrambling to find shelter and protection Friday morning.
As severe weather season approaches, there are probably more days and nights of storms not too far off.
Washington County, Virginia Emergency Management Director Pokey Harris, says now is the time for you to plan for the worst. "The best thing folks can do is to have a preparedness plan for their family," she said. "What best suits them, their home, and where they live."
Harris told me that in cases like Friday morning, there is simply not enough time to prepare a shelter for the public. In that case she says staying inside your home, in the interior and on the lowest level, is best.
If you live in a mobile home, Harris advises getting to the nearest substantial building or a private storm shelter.
Since last April's tornadoes Marty Jessee, the Lead Engineer at Berry Home Centers in Abingdon, has seen an increase in requests for built-in safe rooms or storm shelters. "Most of the new designs that we're dealing with now we're having a lot of people that are wanting these safer areas," he said.
Steve Kegley, the Manager at Berry Home Centers, says safe rooms are not just for new homes. "You can also retro-fit this into your existing home. If you have a basement or crawl space it can be retro-fitted in there," he explained.
Brian Stevens is a victim of the April tornado. He remembers the violence of that night. "It was scary," he said. "There was a lot of wind, the hail was real bad. It was really scary. First time I'd ever encountered anything like that."
And to make sure it was the last time he was unprepared, he built his own shelter in his backyard. His shelter is 10' by 10' with 12" cinder block reinforced with concrete and rebar. During the storms early Friday morning Stevens and his wife were seriously considering using it for the first time. "About 4:30 this morning when my NOAA radio went off me and my wife, we discussed it," he said.
The same discussion that many in the area were having all morning Friday.


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