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Developing NABUUR.com website
What is needed?
For the current site, there are maintenance tasks and sometimes bug fixes and code upgrades. You can find more information in a few places:
- Pivotal is our maintenance issues tracker
- Github is our code repository with a wiki and a tracker for code-level issues and bugs
- Our public documents on Google Docs have a bit more information on designs, setups, and procedures.
We're also working on revamping the website and upgrading to a newer Drupal version.
How can you join?
Get in touch, for instance through the IRC chat channel #nabuur on freenode!
What are the plans for ongoing maintenance and upgrades of the Nabuur website? I can help with a Drupal 7 upgrade.
Brylie Oxley
GrowHost - http://growhost.org
GNUmedia - http://gnumedia.org
I've had a look, but I'm afraid I can't quickly switch off the 'stalled' messages.
I'm supposed to meet Kester next week. Will ask him to have a look.
Hi Ildikó,
Yes, you're right we should switch off those messages.
I'm not sure if I can easily do that myself, but will look into it.
Dear All,
could it be anything done about these stupid messages which we get all the time through mail saying us that our project has been "STALLED" because no acivity there in three months!!!!!!!!! We have had lot's of activities the last weeks.I got the message this morning. I am going to be crazy about these messages.
Can anyone do something about this?
Kind regards,
Ildikó Stormbom
Facilitator for Matopeni
Hi D(ee),
Thanks for the offer!
I don't think your ideas are out of sync, actually there are quite a few things in there that we really could use help with.
One of the ideas that has come up earlier is to stimulate villages to work together based on their issues - thematic grouping and learning so to say. I'm interested to hear more about your 'Community Resources Toolbox' idea.
The same goes for volunteer support. I'm aware NABUUR can be a labyrinth, more or less. If you have some concrete input to improve that, let me know.
I'm not really sure how easy it is to set up email notifications on this site. To be honest - and as you can see from the dates of the posts you replied to - it's already a long time wish to move from this site to a better one. We just somehow got stuck during the transformation from being a staff run organisation to a volunteer run community. (More info on that here http://bit.ly/s9EXb6)
There is also a public folder with NABUUR docs - mostly related to developing a new strategy - which you can find here. I think it gives a clear picture of the past year (and a half), which has not been an easy ride. (I hope it doesn't scare you off)
Perhaps it's easiest to get in touch on Skype or so, to get a better picture of what you could help with. My id is pelleaardema (on skype, yahoo, msn, ...)
Hope to talk soon,
QUOTE (If you're interested in helping bring the discussion on other Big Vision elements towards user stories or requirements, that will be a great help to then let the community prioritise those and line up the next steps for the web developers to focus on.) END
Hi Rolf
I am not sure if I can help in this group, but I'm great at taking on laborious boring jobs as long as I know what I am doing... I hopped over to the tasks windows and didn't really get it, but it's possible there is stuff I can do, just not sure how to start...
In terms of prioritising here, from first impressions as a newbie around here - who may well be just sticking her oar in out of sync! - it seems that there are plenty of cries for help in terms of practical knowledge of how to put projects into place on the ground, or get projects going in terms of getting funded support or getting hte message of communities out to the wider world. Perhaps NABUUR camp referred to in your message also started the prioritisation for tasks here with the site. Is there a document I can look at in Googledocs to see how I can fit in here to give me the background to how the site is developing, what tasks are needed, how to use the task management pages here?
I cannot help thinking there is some stuff around techy solutions here which are also about the needs of busy people who are helping out here to ease the flow of information to those who need it. E.g. Workflow could be helped with something like email alerts in our personal accounts when messaged on here. Some of our employers don't take kindly to accessing websites they know nothing about and which "could compromise the company online security"...
Tag clouds... I love them and think they are a great way for those seeking answers to find their own ways into tasks needing sorting. This of course depends on information resources being available... There are some very knowledgeable people responding to some very specialist projects here, but I wonder if their knowledge is getting buried in time? Perhaps, I am volunteering here again in terms of knowledge systems / education / training materials...
Anyway, I'm offering help here, but need some pointers perhaps. Should I jsut keep continuing to read around here, reading until I fall into some niche I can cover?
Interesting issue to note here. I used keywords of volunteer support, which did not come up as having been raised as 'key words' before here. Any voluntary sector agency will agree that volunteer support is vital to workflow effectiveness. The I.T. systems can do that as much as helping the communities directly. Is this in the big picture?
Please point me to some Googledocs to do some homework!!! Thanks D
If I am not sure of my next step, I ask or make it up as I go along : D
I wondered about the 'Big Vision' here too. I'm a new-comer and am still learning about how I might fit in here. Training does seem to be an issue for communities writing funding applications, let alone all the practical hands on project managment stuff. There is a lot of links provided to outside agencies in forum postings for further resources I note and that is how it should be. However, a Community REsources Toolbox of some description which can be accessed via some kind of Tag Cloud could be a great training resource to develop. (Yes, I am volunteering here, if anyone with the same idea is reading this).
Otherwise, folk could be duplicating efforts and we need to give people resource links or materials to work with which could be put together in a more structured way...Even is this is haphazard via a tag cloud... Hope am not talking out the top of my hat here or teaching you to suck eggs!!! : )
If I am not sure of my next step, I ask or make it up as I go along : D
Hi Ron, and all,
Maybe first to clarify for some readers: I meant "wicked context" as a variation of "wicked problems" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_problem) :-)
In the web development, I'd like to think we're making some quite important usability improvements by changing the concepts a bit, and the flow in the interface a lot: a bit more than just changing the presentation of what we have, but indeed not incorporating other areas of a Big Vision.
The core concept of NABUUR appeals to people when they hear about it, but once you work with the site, that concept and appeal looses its glamour. Letting the concept shine through in more pages and making it more appealing will help, and provide a cleaner platform to build on.
At NABUURCamp, we had some good feedback from the local representatives on what will empower them and why, and also from the whole community on current issues with the "project/task" environment. Especially the latter resulted in a quite drastic change (and we think a simplification) in how the projects and tasks will be handled. (One concrete request from the local representatives at NABUURCamp was to have a downloadable manual/instruction, to be able to prepare offline and outside an internet cafe.)
Parts of the bigger vision and the processes around training and project approval are being discussed (see e.g. Maria's comment http://www.nabuur.com/en/group/nabuurcom-website-maintenance-and-develop... and the work in the Support and Resources group http://www.nabuur.com/en/group/nabuur-support-and-resources-team) and haven't yet been translated into web requirements.
So yes, the web team is currently focused on the concrete improvements around flow and usability. If you're interested in helping bring the discussion on other Big Vision elements towards user stories or requirements, that will be a great help to then let the community prioritise those and line up the next steps for the web developers to focus on.
Thank you for the comments. Please do not think that I regard iterative development or agile progression as anything wicked or wrong. ( I had a laugh at that!) The opposite is true as I have used them very effectively in the past. At the time introducing iterative development was like drawing teeth -remember changing folks' views away from the waterfall?
I think the difficulty we all (Nabuur) faces is certainly not with you reacting and developing the immediate changes that users say they want. You are responding to their demands as best you can and I have no criticism of that. I acknowledge and appreciate that you are trying to the 'fix the current concern' level but I am talking about the bigger Visionary concept for Nabuur. You say 'we picked one or two rather abstract "user stories" as requirements" and that is absolutely fine at a working level of ensuring say, a 'new screen appears with a different layout and additional information etc., that a user wants' as requested.
You mention that you 'worked on the way the flow should be for particular types of users' and that is getting nearer to where we need to be. I think, and please correct me if I am wrong, that you are focussing on displaying what we already have in a better way/style/format. Again I have no problem with that, you are simply trying to meet what people are asking to do to make their job easier, and that is great.
The difficulty is that I am not sure that anyone has documented the Big Vision for Nabuur that (I think) it needs to have, if it is to succeed in the future.
Let me give you a couple of examples -
* Training the FACs and LR's is a big problem do you have a schema for building training sessions/lessons? CBT? interactive teaching?
* Do we have some method of ensuring that a village team has enough ticks in the boxes to succeed before it starts out on a project?
* Do we have some methodology to connect (potential) donors to villages?
My concerns lie at the Visionary Level for the future; if everything is in place to address that, I apologize and I'll be delighted to shut up from here on in.
My fear is that we may not be addressing the bigger picture things that I have mentioned.....
Just had a chance to catch up with the contributions here. Thanks Ron, for explaining the wicked context in which NABUUR tries to work and might approach things. I fully agree that it's much more than "just" a communication tool.
Let me try to explain how we develop the new site so far, building exactly on the "different steps to be taken depending on the direction a person wants to go (e.g. just looking, register, help a village, Facilitate, etc)" that Ron mentions.
After the migration from Xoops to Drupal and the relaunch in July 2008, NABUUR started adopting an agile development process with monthly "sprints". In each "sprint", we picked one or two rather abstract "user stories" as requirements, and worked on the way the flow should be for particular types of users, designed forms and pages, built them, and tested them with various people.
We continued with that at NABUURCamp, with a group of people with very diverse backgrounds and expectations. General ideas like "As a local rep, I want to have a 'My Nabuur' dashboard so that I can do as much as possible if I have half an hour online time" have been discussed in detail (see eg. http://www.flickr.com/photos/whatdoesitwant/4408043627/ for some of the notes), and partly built.
NABUURCamp participants built the homepage they wanted to see ("As a visitor, I want to mmediately understand what the site is about, so that I can quickly decide whether I want to stay here and (maybe) join").
We don't have a blueprint or well-documented processes (yet?), as we're still establishing what works best for us, and also try to incorporate "best practices" we see in other open source and volunteer-driven web projects we're involved in. The 5 or 6 people who currently do the tech work in their free time have a lot of things to choose from.
If you're into website development, then please do join if you want to: communicate things more clearly to the whole NABUUR community, document the processes we follow, improve existing requirements, test designs or results with users, contribute code or designs, etc etc.
Drop an email to the nabuurcamp list http://lists.nabuur.org/mailman/listinfo/nabuurcamp, join the chat channel #nabuur on freenode. Or check out the next steps I just sent out to the list:
- Wednesday 17 March 6pm we'll have another gathering in Amsterdam, at "Budapest", the communal space behind the Buddha on the Pesthuislaan.
Both the group space on http://nabuur.com and the developers' site http://svn.nabuurtest.com/trac/ have undergone quite a bit of cleanup, so we should have all inputs organised online by tomorrow.
We'll also prepare a bit for another event:
- Friday 19 March 9am-5pm a lot of us will be at DrupalJam in Amsterdam, and Frans has talked KPN into donating their table to NABUUR. So we'll have an opportunity to present NABUUR to "all Drupal developers in The Netherlands".
Sign up on http://drupaljam.nl if you want to come along as well!
- Tuesday 23 and Wednesday 24, Pelle and Rolf will participate in the Ecampaigning Forum in Oxford. Last year, Romina facilitated a great discussion about working with online volunteers. One of our main topics for this year is creating more opportunities to connect platforms like NABUUR to each other.
- Thursday 25, Niels, Pelle and Rolf will meet up in London, to whip the roadmap further into shape and discuss the budget for speeding up development. Others in London who want to join?
Ron- thank you for taking the time to write such an intelligent and practical response to my $64 million dollar question! My mind is spinning- I have had to reread your post twice- and some!
I am not alone in wondering how on earth we progress this. Your simple plan makes sense. Clearly it is a much bigger job than re-doing some web pages and adding some extra functionality.
Everyone is doing their very best but like others have noted- it seems we are spinning our wheels.
How do we do this - when the over-riding feeling in these Posts over the last month is that we're still barking up the wrong tree?
It's a rhetorical question...I don't know if there is a solution based on the limited funds, the lack of paid staff or designated resources.
Is it time to start Nabuur again?? It wouldn't be the first time that orgs or groups have had to re-invent themselves or morph into something bigger and better due to growth and shifting priorities. Sorry...not being helpful...but I just had to say it out loud!
That is such a simple question- but you have asked the proverbial $64M one!
I cannot give you a full answer to be honest.
I am using many years of Project/Technical/Development/Management experience to look at what is happening with the Nabuur website.
My comments here are not in any way intended as a criticism of what has been done so far. I think things are more simply explained by saying that the original model of 'let's allow people to communicate' which was fine to start with, has not kept pace with the growth and demands that the volunteers and villages have placed on it. It now needs to expand to allow for the growth and changes to it that we have seen thus far, and expect from it in the future.
This is 'functionality' growth that the founders could not be expected to have foreseen.
(For the avoidance of doubt I am not referring to size or bandwidth or Db capability here.) I am talking about supporting the various needs that have arisen from the growth of Nabuur's activities. For example in addition to just communicating, very important though that is, we need to be helping village LR's (only if they want and choose to) to learn skills to improve internet access, communicate, plan, find other neighbours, find information, find funding, etc.
Similarly we need to help FACs (only if they want and choose to) learn skills to improve internet capabilities, to learn new skills, communicate, plan, attract other neighbours, find information, find funding,etc. Some functions for example 'Search' exist but many, for example 'Teach me' do not.
So my conclusion is that our site has to do more than just provide a communications medium. Our uniqueness is not communications, as others have pointed out elsewhere twitter and facebook do that better than we can and we should remember that we are not in competition with them for that. Our strength is in having volunteers with a common aim, we want to improve the outcome for others by using our skills to help them. We do that via the internet and at its most simple level through communicating, but we have seen that only a small percentage of the villages with problems they want help fixing actually achieve their end solution. So communication alone does not improve the outcome for villages to as high a level as we want to achieve, we need more capabilities to achieve that.
It is this lack of overall success for villages that concerns me and many other members. There are many reasons for the difficulties, some of which I have posted comments about before, that's when I believe I have some expertise to add to the debate, and for the other reasons, other people have commented, such as funding, governance, unrealistic expectations and the like.
Now back to your question. I believe that the processes that we should follow, and there will be several permutations, require different steps to be taken depending on the direction a person wants to go (e.g. just looking, register, help a village, Facilitate, etc) are not clearly enough defined. I am not sure that these have been mapped out for the various different 'routes' that are needed. I believe this is where the problem lies. This is what we have to improve if we are to make Nabuur more effective. (There may be some slight difference of opinion here between myself, who favours a logical stepped approach and that of the founder Siegfried, who I think favours a more organic 'just let the neighbours do it' approach. That notwithstanding we have common purpose in wanting to improve the lot of others so its the just the way we get there that we may not entirely agree with. I mention this because we cannot define the process if there is not a Common Understanding of what it should be. Perhaps this is something else that the members of Nabuur need to agree on?)
Until we have the processes clearly mapped out it is not possible for an engineer to define the logical steps and write the software to do the necessary tasks. (This is where I have the deepest sympathy for Niels and co., they are being asked to do the unachievable in my view, because they are not starting at the beginning of these processes but are being asked to add things half way through to something which does not in totality do the job we need it to do.)
I know that some of the functions we need, for example register or post a message are already there but many more such as 'develop a plan' or 'gain knowledge about something' or 'be trained on something' or 'find funding help' are not as well, if at all, catered for. Nabuur has to consider what it wishes to do about these things and here, like yourself I am not sure that these discussions are happening; again this is not intended as a barbed comment for anyone merely an observation on the situation we find ourselves in.
I believe that the resolution of the these problems will allow us to define the logical processes we need. Once defined that allows us to give the engineers, software code writers, database designers etc the information they need to be able to assess what we have Versus what we need. Then we will know what is re-usable and what functions/code needs to be written from scratch to support the expanded demand from Nabuur that everyone is searching for.
Ron- what you describe sounds very sensible and it sounds like the right solution. What depresses me is that I don't get the feeling we're headed that way. Does your System-Process-Functionality model require building Nabuur from scratch? Or can it still work with the basis of what we already have?
You are pointing out what may seem obvious to a PM/Sys Eng/IT Developer but it is probably not obvious to many readers of these pages.
You said "Nabuur is a communication tool and not a website." I think you are heading in the right direction there, but I would go even further.
Put another way Nabuur needs a 'System which allows a user to establish their user type, user definition,and capability, and then be directed to a suite of functions/functionality (with agreed processes) such as register, training, matching (for learning from other projects on the Db), ability/skill progression and assessment, funding access capability, and leading to project definition and management, reporting, and then learning and archiving.' This is much, much more than just communication.
What I believe is actually needed is a Systems Engineering approach from beginning to end which determines what Nabuur wants to do (use Requirements capture and analysis to do this) then define the process and map it to the functionality required to support the process. (I've intentionally left out traceability, test and validate, etc. )
What I think is happening is a website/page building exercise, which will not bring the benefits that are needed. Iterative development of a webpage is not the problem Nabuur faces but I think that is what it is doing and in so doing hoping it is solving its problem.
I believe System-Process-Functionality should be where Nabuur is heading and not just developing a communications platform. Hopefully someone can tell me I am wrong and explain why.
Niels: Please clarify your statement: "Virginia: I am trying to help addressing the point of laundering washing in public, we cant spend hours/days looking at homepages, spelling mistakes and images if we cant find a way of displaying the right information to the right people no matter the colour. and as this is an online group with people based across the world we have to have this discussion here but no "guests" should not be able to follow the "bickering".
Why are you spending hours and days correcting spelling mistakes? and "no 'guests' should not be able to follow the bickering" If that is "No, guests should not be able to follow..." that means you agree with me, that we shouldn't be airing our laundry, but as written it is "no guests should not be allowed to follow..." which means just the opposite - 2 'no's' equal a positive in English. Honestly, I am Not being critical - but I am sincerely trying to understand what your Thank you,


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New Lenox, IL (May 21, 2014) – Select Silver Cross physicians today announced a clinical collaboration agreement with Walgreens that will provide coordinated and expanded health care services, while improving access to high-quality, convenient and affordable care for patients in Will and Southwestern Cook Counties.
Physicians from Manhattan Medical Center, Physicians of Essington, Primary Care Professionals and Sanitas Medical Group will work with Healthcare
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Healthcare Clinic at select Walgreens-area locations partnering with Silver Cross include:
- Bolingbrook—101 Lily Cache Lane
- Joliet –1801 Ingalls Ave.
- Lockport—16750 W. 159th St.
- Mokena—20002 S. Wolf Rd.
- Orland Park—14680 S. LaGrange Rd.
- Plainfield—4822 Caton Farm Rd.
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- Romeoville—498 N. Weber Rd.
Silver Cross physicians partnering with Walgreens include:
Manhattan Medical Center
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- Vlad Badescu, M.D., Internal Medicine
Physicians of Essington
1051 Essington Rd., Suite 100, Joliet
- Joseph Hindo, M.D., Internal Medicine
- Anandavally Pillai, M.D., Family Practice
Primary Care Physicians
1890 Silver Cross Blvd., Suite 370, New Lenox
- Jinsup Kim, M.D., Internal Medicine
- Thomas Lee, M.D., Family Practice
- Priya Shastri, M.D., Family Practice
- Ramaraja Yalavarthi, M.D., Internal Medicine & Geriatrics
Sanitas Medical Group
1890 Silver Cross Blvd., Suite 265, New Lenox
1051 Essington Rd., Suite 230B, Joliet
- Latha Arla-Polavarapu, D.O., Internal Medicine
- Jose Penaherrea, M.D., Internal Medicine
- Daniel Ramirez, M.D., Internal Medicine
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OCONEE COUNTY - As Oconee County's new economic development ambassador, Mike Higgins hopes industrial businesses will continue to come to the area, drawn by its strength in technical programs.
As general manager of operations at Itron's West Union plant, Higgins knows about industry. He's been at West Union for 11 years. He started working at Schlumberger Metering in England in 1975 before it was bought by Itron. He worked at a water metering company in Paris, France, before joining Itron.
He wants to see more of the industrial stability present in Oconee County.
"Businesses of that type tend to offer higher-quality jobs to the community," Higgins said.
He helped recruit businesses as part of the Oconee County Economic Development Commission for five years before being appointed ambassador.
"He's been very supportive when we have a prospective business in town to sit and talk," said Jim Alexander, director of the commission.
Schools with strong technical programs such as Clemson University and Tri-County Technical College produce much of Itron's employees, Higgins said. About 40 percent of Itron's 1,000 employees have some educational background at Tri-County, and the school provides specialty training to workers.
He said questions about job creation arise at plants like Itron, which use a lot of machines in place of physical labor. Such machines attract skilled engineers to Oconee County, Higgins said.
"The skill you need to manage in a highly automated facility is much more complex than what you'd need for a labor (job)," Higgins said.
Higgins is a native of South Wales and has adapted to the American South easily. He and his family moved to Montgomery, Ala., in 1997 before going to West Union in 2001.
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The area's wealth of universities appealed to him, too.
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Fort Worth, TX (KXAS) -- The principal of a Texas middle school is under investigation for reportedly spying on a girls locker room.
Principal Wendee Long of Wayside Middle School in Fort Worth has been put on administrative leave for allegedly encouraging her daughter to put a hidden camera in the Argyle girls locker room during a high school basketball game back in February.
Long, a former school board member in Argyle, has been principal of Wayside Middle School in Tarrant County for five years.
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The U.S. Congress is considering passage of the "Americans with No Abilities" Act.
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Washington, DC - President Barack Obama and the Democrat controlled Congress is considering sweeping legislation that will provide new benefits for many Americans. The Americans With No Abilities Act. AWNAA is being hailed as a major legislative goal by advocates of the millions of Americans who lack any real skills or ambition.
'Roughly 50 percent of Americans do not possess the competence and drive necessary to carve out a meaningful role for themselves in society,' said California Senator Barbara Boxer. 'We can no longer stand by and allow People of Inability to be ridiculed and passed over. With this legislation, employers will no longer be able to grant special favors to a small group of workers, simply because they have some idea of what they are doing.'
In a Capitol Hill press conference, House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid pointed to the success of the U.S. Postal Service, which has a long-standing policy of providing opportunity without regard to performance. Approximately 74 percent of postal employees lack any job skills, making this agency the single largest U.S employer of Persons of Inability.
Private-sector industries with good records of non-discrimination against the Inept include retail sales (72%), the airline industry (68%), and home improvement 'warehouse' stores (65%). At the state government level, the Department of Motor Vehicles also has an excellent record of hiring Persons of Inability (63%).
Under The Americans With No Abilities Act, more than 25 million 'middle man' positions will be created, with important-sounding titles but little real responsibility, thus providing an illusory sense of purpose and performance.
Mandatory non-performance-based raises and promotions will be given so as to guarantee upward mobility for even the most unremarkable employees. The legislation provides substantial tax breaks to corporations that promote a significant number of Persons of Inability into middle-management positions, and gives a tax credit to small and medium-sized businesses that agree to hire one clueless worker for every two talented hires.
Finally, the AWNAA contains tough new measures to make it more difficult to discriminate against the non-abled, banning, for example, discriminatory interview questions such as, 'Do you have any skills or experience that relate to this job?'
'As a Non-abled person, I can't be expected to keep up with people who have something going for them,' said Mary Lou Gertz, who lost her position as a lug-nut twister at the GM plant in Flint , Michigan, due to her inability to remember 'rightey tightey, lefty loosey.' 'This new law should be real good for people like me,' Gertz added.
With the passage of this bill, Gertz and millions of other untalented citizens will finally see a light at the end of the tunnel.
Said Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL): 'As a Senator with no abilities, I believe the same privileges that elected officials enjoy ought to be extended to every American with no abilities. It is our duty as lawmakers to provide each and every American citizen, regardless of his or her inadequacy, with some sort of space to take up in this great nation and a good salary for doing so.
Variants of the above-quoted "Americans with No Abilities Act" bit of political humor have been circulating on the Internet since 1998, based on the
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In 2004 this lampoon was circulated prior to that year's U.S. presidential election, presented as a "What if?" piece projecting events forward into 2005 and quoting "President Kerry" (a reference to that year's Democratic presidential nominee, Senator John Kerry) as being a supporter of the AWNAA.
A 2006 version of this item altered the original's fabricated quotes from President Clinton and attributed them to instead to
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Barbara Boxer and Ted Kennedy, while the fictitious Mary Lou Gertz, described in the 1998 original as an unessential filing clerk at a Minneapolis tile wholesaler, was turned into a lug-nut twister at the General Motors plant in Flint, Michigan. (A reference to illegal aliens was also inserted into the concluding sentence.)
A 2009 variant again updated the piece, this time to invoke the names of President Barack Obama, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and Illinois senator Dick Durbin.
A 2007 version of this satire even changed the country, fingering Australia as the nation that had enacted the legislation and faceitously quoting Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard, and MP Martin Ferguson of Victoria as being in favor of it.
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World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples - St Kitts and Nevis : Overview
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St Kitts, together with Nevis constitute a two-island nation located in the eastern Caribbean Sea about 2,100 kilometres southeast of Miami in the USA. The area of the country is about 267 square kilometres.
Main languages: English, Creole
Main religions: Christianity (Anglican)
The majority (90 per cent, World Statesman 2000) of the population of St Kitts and Nevis is of African descent. Most of the rest are European-African or East Indian.
As in the rest of the Caribbean the orignal inhabitans of St Kitts and Nevis were Kalinago (Carib) and Taino (Arawak) groups. When Columbus landed in 1493 he named Saint Kitts after his patron Saint. Christopher. Saint Kitts was eventually settled by the English in 1623 and Nevis in 1628. For the next two hundred years shiploads of Africans were brought in to provide forced labour on the sugar plantations. As in the rest of the British Empire slavery on St Kitts was abolished in 1883.
During the 17th and 18th centuries Saint Kitts was seized by the French several times but was finally ceded to Great Britain in the 1783.Treaty of Paris. Saint Kitts, Nevis, and Anguilla were united as a British dependency in 1871. They became an internally self-governing member of the West Indies Associated States in 1967. The islands became independent from Britain in 1983 after Anguilla broke away from the dependency in 1980 opting to remain a British overseas territory.
Under the 1983 constitution the head of government is the prime minister, who must command a majority of the one chamber national assembly. The head of state is the British monarch, represented by a governor-general.
The principal economic activity is agriculture. The chief products are sugar and molasses. Coconuts, fruits and vegetables are also produced but exports are still largely reliant on the sugar industry. St Kitts has recently developed its tourist industry.
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Taissa Farmiga to star with Ethan Hawke, John Travolta in 'In A Valley Of Violence'
Taissa Farmiga has joined Ethan Hawke and John Travolta in the upcoming film 'In A Valley Of Violence'.
The 1890's-set Western film, which is written and will be helmed by Ti West, will track the story of a drifter, Paul, played by Hawke, who is seeking revenge for his best friend's murder, where 19-year-old Farmiga will portray a young hotel owner of the town who helps him in his mission, Deadline.com reported.
The film will be produced by Blumhouse along with Peter Phok and Sacrament producer Jacob Jaffke as executive producers, and is set to start filming late June in New Mexico.
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|On Friday, January 16 2004, a crew from Signs by Crannie took down the
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blade) emblem. In its final months, the Amoco signs had not been maintained
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Today's missile defense decision seems like absolutely the right move to me on both hawkish and dovish grounds. Deploying the sea-based Aegis system will give us a capability that is both more reliable and more appropriate than the questionable coverage that would have been provided by the ground-based interceptors President Bush wanted to place in Poland. The Polish missile defense would have used an untested booster rocket to launch an interceptor that is intended to destroy ICBMs.


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I'll take the cocoon pillow.
I will check the shipping cost tomorrow and PM but it should be minimal.Thanks for looking.
I will take the vest and travel sheet!
IF for some reason the vest sale falls, through, I'll take it next! Dad's birthday coming up. Will be a good box stuffer.
The vest and Digistow camera case are sold to Stephen M. He was the first to claim the vest. The Cocoon pillow is sold to Mdilthey.Joe, you just missed the vest. Are you still interested in the Cocoon travel sheet?
I'll take the travel sheet and pole if the person before me decides not to get the travel sheet.
The pole is sold to Stephan Q.
Is the travel sheet still available?
The sheet seems to be the most popular item. There are 2 potential buyers in front of you.
Travel sheet is sold to David Delabaere
Thanks for all the interest today. The pack covers and pillow are still available.
The Osprey pack covers and the Grand Trunk Pillow are still available.
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Osprey pack covers and Grand Trunk pillow.
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Hector Lombard, at UFC on FX 6, notched his first victory in the Octagon, but wasted no time moving on, calling out middleweight mouthpiece Michael Bisping. read news >>
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They were still speaking, but just barely, when Melissa arrived in the shuttlepod to pick up them and Yimar. Yimar chatted happily and asked about everything on the shuttle. Melissa explained how the thrusters worked, and they generally had a great time. Lili and Doug just sat in the back with the luggage. She stared out the window. He sighed, I'm sorry, he finally said again.
We'll talk later, she said, and they were silent for the remainder of the trip.
Jennifer and Joss were waiting at the shuttle bay, 'Ommy! 'Ommy! he called out when the ramp came down.
Don't hug too hard, Joss, Doug reminded him.
Go over and say hi to Daddy, Lili said, straightening up, Daddy missed you, too, yanno.
Big big .., Joss said to Doug.
What's he trying to say? Doug lifted Joss up and asked Jennifer.
We saw the kitchen this morning. Lots of big pots and pans. At least I think that's what he's talking about. He also got to sit in the big Captain's chair. It might be about that, she smiled.
I hope he wasn't too much trouble, Lili said.
Not at all. He only cried a little. But what's
'Duck Duck'
Oh, ha, it's
O Pato
. It's an English-Portuguese song about a duck, Lili pointed to Joss, a goose, she pointed to Doug, and a swan, she pointed to herself, even though right now I think I want to change the lyrics to a duck, a goose and a whale.
Portuguese? I thought you were French.
I am. My grandmother taught me that song, and a bunch of others. She had a job running a day care center for the European Union delegation to Titan. So I know Spanish and German songs, too.
We did go through
Frère Jacques
, Jennifer said, I figured that would calm him down, and I think it did. Or maybe he just wondered about my pronunciation.
Brian Delacroix came in, Sorry I'm late, it took me a while to get done with the breakfast dishes. Can I help with the bags?
Lili hugged him, teary again, I'm so glad to see you. Are you making good sauces?
Yes. Just the way you taught me, he looked at Yimar, Uh, hello, he stammered out, unused to seeing bald, alien teenaged girls.
Oh, bad manners, Lili said, Yimar, this is our friend, Brian. He has my old job.
Hiya, she said, hanging back a bit. She took Joss from Doug. Joss started to fuss a little, I think it's time for some quiet play.
Here, you'll be staying in, well, it's actually Crewman Cutler's old quarters, Jennifer said, And you'll have next door as well. So one room for you two, she smiled at Lili, who looked away a little, and another for Joss and Yimar.
Did you get a new roommate? Lili asked as they made their way through the hallway.
Kick Kick Kick
Yes, your pilot. She's a lot quieter than you were, Jennifer said, Here we are.
The Bridal Suite
, I suppose.
There was a large fruit basket on a desk, with small plastic baggies next to it, Oh, look! Lili called out, It's from Chef! And you, too, Mr. Delacroix! And look, there are bags, we can save the seeds and bring them back to Lafa II! she smiled, I gotta, her voice got emotional, I gotta go hug and kiss Chef. Excuse me a sec, she left.
She's all over the place emotionally, Doug explained, C'mere, Joss. Let's go see your room. Yes, you can bring your dinosaur.
Malcolm's PADD was flashing. A letter. He was on duty but the moment was quiet. The Calafans were friends, no one was about to start shooting at them. He could take a peek at Pamela's note.
I'm so glad you wrote. It just so happens that I will be totally free on the twenty-eighth and the thirty-first and all of the days in between. But not too much before there was a mining accident on Io perhaps you saw it in the news? They need any doctor they can get, so I'm off to get some serious overtime and help, but I'll be done by the twenty-eighth. I'll be doing regular surgery, not just plastic, so I'll be putting eyebrows back on and taking care of crushed ribs and all of that. Nothing too specific, I know you don't like hearing about that.
Tell me whether it's a day or evening wedding, and a day or evening reception as that'll define what I wear. And, uh, I have some special things for when it's just you and me. I can tell you're smiling, I can see you through the page. Plus of course I don't need the scarf back but I will spritz it with a lot more Toxic and you know I'll roll around a bit and get it in the sheets. I know you're smiling even more now and so am I. Might even be reddening, which is very hot. Anyway, I've teased you enough. See you soon and we'll scratch the itch.
He turned off the PADD and, despite himself, could tell he was reddening.
Are you feeling all right, Malcolm? Jonathan asked, You look a little flushed.
Uh, yes, sir, he squeaked out. Might have to scratch the itch a little earlier than expected, he thought to himself. It was going to be a long four weeks.
Alone at last, Doug said to Lili. Brian had taken Yimar and Joss to go look at the Botany lab's flowers.
Yes. We should talk, she said.
I know.
I, uh, do you know why I'm angry?
Well, you want to do it that way, the dream way. And I just can't anymore, he said.
I can understand if it bothers you that way. What bugs me more is that it was such an unequivocal, unilateral decision on your part, she said, You just decided it, case closed, and there's no discussion. It's like I have no position at all.
Lili, it feels like cheating to me. I mean, the Calafans, the way they do things there are husbands and wives and they, they go to sleep in bed together, maybe even having had lots of hot sex, and they dream about more sex, with other people. I'm like, what the hell? What could possibly be missing that they've gotta do it with someone else?
But you and I will be dreaming about each other, she said, a little teary again, And we are stuck otherwise. Unless you want to do math, well, we are stuck and there is nothing else when we're awake. I thought it would be good to have options, her voice was breaking a bit more.
Shh, shh. Look, it's a great number divisible by three and twenty-three. You like to do math, he said, using their word for the act, And it'll have to be enough. We'll make it enough. And five months will fly by.
Doug, I was thinking, I dunno if it's a good thing but I had an idea.
I'm all ears.
Well, I'm fifty years old. I'll be almost fifty-one when Petey is born.
Number Two Son.
Kick Kick
Yes, she smiled a little, Number Two Son. And I was thinking, I mean, I'm getting hot flashes throughout this pregnancy. I think I might want to be over and done with everything. I think I'd like for Miva to just tie my tubes, maybe the same time she does the
O'Day Reversal
No more kids? I thought we'd have our own team.
You honestly think, even if I don't get my tubes tied, that we'll have enough for a basketball team, let alone a baseball team?
I dunno. I guess not. But it's just, you're really amazing when you're pregnant.
Even when I'm barfing with morning sickness?
Yes, even then. It's kinda why we're in this mess to begin with. Beautiful white hot flame. I just want to be near it, he said, kissing her.
Then dream with me, she said softly.
I'm just afraid I'll like it too much. It's not real, it's not true. No dream is like this, like us.
Math, then?
Yeah, we'll do math. Every night and every morning if you like, he said.
I should really see Phlox at some point; ask him about all this kicking, Lili said, patting her stomach.
Later, he said.
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The COMPARE-Adapta study is a randomized, multi-center, prospective study conducted in China. The purpose of the study is to compare the ability of Search AV™+ and Managed Ventricular Pacing® (MVP®) to reduce ventricular pacing in dual chamber pacemaker-indicated patients. The COMPARE-Adapta study will also observe atrial fibrillation (AF) burden as demonstrated by Cardiac Compass® and the clinical profile Adapta® pacemaker patients.
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Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Prevention
|Official Title:
|Study of an Comparison of the Pacemaker Automatic Features in Reduction of Ventricular Pacing
- Reduction of ventricular pacing [ Time Frame: Baseline to 1 Month ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- AF burden defined by Cardiac Compass [ Time Frame: Baseline to 12 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Characterization of Adapta patient's clinical profile [ Time Frame: Baseline to 12 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
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|June 2009
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|October 2011
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Recent studies suggest that chronic right ventricular pacing is associated with a variety of adverse effects in patients, particularly those with intact or intermittent atrioventricular (AV) conduction.
Medtronic Adapta® pacemakers include Managed Ventricular Pacing®, a pacing mode designed to promote intrinsic conduction, and also Search AV™+, a feature designed to reduce unnecessary ventricular pacing in patients with intact or intermittent AV conduction.
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- Age greater than 18
- To be implanted with Adapta dual chamber pacemaker
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- Patient with a previously implanted pacemaker/Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator (ICD)/Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT) device
- Life expectancy of less than one year
- Patient has a mechanical tricuspid heart valve
- Medical conditions that preclude the testing requirement by the protocol or limit study participation
- Patient has persistent 3rd degree atrioventricular (AV) block
- Patient has persistent atrial fibrillation (AF)
- Patient has neurogenic syncope
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|December 23, 2009
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