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Personalisation and Self-directed support links
You may wish to use the following links to find further information about Personalisation and Self-directed support.
Personalisation - national perspective
ACEVO is the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations and we are the leading voice for chief executives in the third sector. This page provides their views, links and news on Personalisation
Community Catalysts are a Community Interest Company established by the charity Shared Lives Plus. They provide information and support on Personalisation in Practice aimed at smaller organisations
Demos, a 'think tank', published a document advocating a simple yet transformational approach to public services.
In Control Partnerships is a social enterprise - a charity and an independent company. It works in partnership with citizens and government, and with charities and commercial companies supporting the development of personalisation.
A website promoting knowledge and sharing the development of tools and resources to take forward the 'Think local Act Personal' agenda.
SCIE have developed a range of resources to support people and organisations to understand more about personalisation
SCIE (the Social Care Institute for Excellence) have developed an e-learning resource providing audio, video and interactive technology to assist in exploring the nature of Personalisation.
UNISON is Britain and Europe's biggest public sector union with more than 1.3 million members. This link is to their pages on Personalisation.
FURTHER SEARCH HELP - You may wish to use the following words (which are not intended to be an exhaustive list) for a further search for information on personalisation nationally:
what is personalisation in social care; personalising social care; delivering personalised services; how do I introduce personalisation;understanding personalisation in social care; personalisation policy
Personalisation - Hampshire perspective
Hampshire County Council - Personalisation e-learning course
An e-learning course that has been developed by Hampshire County Council to provide background on Personalisation and self-directed support (SDS) in Hampshire. The course is free to use and will take approximately 20-25 minutes.
Hampshire County Council - Putting People First - Shaping your future, choosing your care 938kb
This is a report by Hampshire's expert Commission of Inquiry into Personalisation that was launched at the end of November 2008 and sets out the plans for the transformation of Adult Social care in Hampshire.
Hampshire Learning Disability Partnership Board - Personalisation
The Hampshire learning Disability Board is made up of 5 Local Implementation Groups (LIGs) who work for, and with, people with a learning disability and their family and carers in the areas where they live.
Hampshire PaCT (Partners in Care Training)
A Hampshire County Council site, providing presentations and sources of information to show how, practically, Hampshire is approaching the workforce development required for Personalisation.
Through the Personalisation Expert Panel, SCIL are actively involved in shaping personalisation in Hampshire.
FURTHER SEARCH HELP - You may wish to use the following words (which are not intended to be an exhaustive list) for a further search for information on personalisation in Hampshire:
personalisation in Hampshire; Hampshires approach to personalisation
Self-directed support
Age UK is a national charity supporting people with age related issues. They have put together some help and advice around relevant legislation' the requirements of local authorities' current limitations and practical guidance.
Hampshire County Council - Self-directed support
Hampshire County Councils information and the background to, and how Hampshire are developing, Self directed-support.
In Control Partnerships is a social enterprise leading in Self-directed support. This link is to their thoughts on what self-directed support is, about people being in control of the support they need to live the life they choose.
FURTHER SEARCH HELP - You may wish to use the following words (which are not intended to be an exhaustive list) for a further search for information on self-directed support:
self directed support; sds in social care; developing self directed support; supporting users with self directed support; personal budgets;self directed support assessment
Person centred planning
Department of Health - Personalisation through Person Centred Planning
This joint good practice guidance published by the Putting People First and Valuing People Now teams includes a range of tools and good practice examples on person centred planning and support planning.
The Hampshire PCP website includes a range of documents, policies and guidance notes to help you with Person Centred Planning and approaches.
Helen Sanderson Associates (private consultants) resources for developing Person centred planning as a process for continual listening and learning, focussing on what is important to someone now and in the future, and acting upon this in alliance with their family and friends.
FURTHER SEARCH HELP - You may wish to use the following words (which are not intended to be an exhaustive list) for a further search for information on person centred planning:
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For April Fool's Day, my friend Brody and his girlfriend Emily (they're both seventeen) told her parents they were engaged. They got them downstairs and he told them about how he was going to provide for them financially, and lots of other stuff. Emily's mom started to tear up, so Brody kept squeezing Emily's hand to tell her to stop, which she took a signal to keep going.
Emily finally went over to hug her mom, and whispered, "Aw, Mom, it's okay, because this is an April Fool's joke." Her dad laughed for about ten minutes straight, and her mom started crying more because she was so happy.


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Bellevue imposes utility tax on some Issaquah water customers
January 30, 2012
By Warren Kagarise
NEW — 6 a.m. Jan. 30, 2012
Bellevue officials decided Jan. 23 to impose a utility tax on water customers in Greenwood Point and South Cove — Issaquah neighborhoods served by the Bellevue municipal water system.
Bellevue City Council members approved extending a utility occupation tax to the water utility's revenue, including for customers beyond Bellevue. Starting March 1, customers should start to see a 10.4 percent on water bills. The change does not affect customers in Bellevue.
Officials intend to use the additional dollars for fire hydrants, oversized pipes and reservoir storage.
The decision followed a 2008 state Supreme Court ruling related to how cities pay for municipal fire hydrants. The ruling in Lane v. Seattle identified hydrants as a general government service and not a utility.
Officials passed on a proportionate share of the cost of the tax to Bellevue customers as part of the utility's business expense — but not to customers living outside Bellevue during 2010 and 2011. In the meantime, officials from Bellevue and the affected areas negotiated agreements.
Bellevue officials said the tax is necessary, because the Supreme Court ruling declared local governments must pay for hydrants — or "fireflow" service in government parlance — from general funds, and not from water revenues. The cost to provide fireflow capacity to jurisdictions outside Bellevue during the negotiation period totaled $567,000.
Bellevue reduced water rates by 6 percent in January 2010 and increased the utility occupation tax on water by 5.4 percent. (In Issaquah, officials cut water rates 2.28 percent and enacted a 2.33 percent utility tax after the ruling.)
In Issaquah, the city water utility provides water and sewer service to most residents. Service for North Issaquah neighborhoods, including Providence Point, and Klahanie in unincorporated King County, comes from the Sammamish Plateau Water and Sewer District.
Bellevue serves water customers outside the city in Clyde Hill, Hunts Point, Kirkland, Yarrow Point and unincorporated King County, in addition to Issaquah.
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Are Fire Hydrants part of Fire Fighting? Really not a utility…we pay plenty on property tax fire Fire Emergency…. why does the consumer always suffer from goverments misuse of our taxes….geezzzeeeeee!
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How is this applicable for the West? Putting reconciliation and mediation first surely could serve families in civil law cases having to do with divorce, family inheritance feuds, and other domestic issues, Diamond suggests. "Far from helping to resolve feelings, court proceedings often make feelings worse than they were before." As he points out, "All of us know disputants whose relationship became poisoned for the rest of their lives by their court experience." It's a sentiment with which many psychotherapists and lawyers would heartily agree, and which some states have already signed on to, in terms of requiring mediation prior to divorce. This is an area that cries out for more study by both the legal and the psychotherapeutic communities.
Moving on to family life, Diamond notes that children in hunter-gatherer societies seem more emotionally secure, independent, and curious than kids reared here—not just to him, but to other Westerners who've spent time in traditional cultures. He has no studies to back up this impression, but he nonetheless wonders if this greater self-confidence is due, at least in part, to such traditional practices as "the long nursing period, sleeping near parents for several years, far more social models available to children through allo-parenting [provided by adults in addition to the biological parents], far more social stimulation through constant physical contact and proximity of caretakers, instant caretaker responses to a child's crying, and the minimal amount of physical punishment." Despite the lack of scientific proof, he avers that the long-term success of these methods in these societies makes them worth a try. In this, he seems a bit behind the Western "now," where some of these practices have been gaining traction for decades.
At the same time, unfortunately, too many of the current realities in Western life—parents' overly long working hours, the lack of funding for community support systems, and overuse of digital games that double as babysitters—make the goal of more interactive parent–child time seem admirable rather than realistic. One possibility: take a lesson from the positive ways in which some traditional societies value their elders and organize programs that regularly bring seniors into more direct contact with young people to be potential mentors. It would be a new twist on allo-parenting that could be beneficial to many generations simultaneously.
Diamond is particularly persuasive in his case for a mindset he calls "constructive paranoia." The idea is that it's self-protective to become vigilant to the signs of the many low-risk but frequent hazards we face repeatedly. For traditional societies, this encompasses the possibility of lion attacks, dead trees falling over, or an enemy ambush in the forest; for us, traffic accidents, heart attack warnings, and icy sidewalks. While traditional societies learned the importance of continuous awareness to potential danger from life-and-death experiences, too often we in the West take our continued well-being for granted—at our own peril. We assume that we won't fall asleep at the wheel, no matter how little we've slept the night before, or that the taxi will stop at the red light, rather than speed through and catch us, texting unawares, as we cross the street. Diamond speculates that, in addition to training themselves to be alert as a survival instinct, traditional societies further help guard against negative occurrences by continually and constantly talking to one another about every last detail of their daily lives, including minute observations about any change in behavior, weather pattern, strangers approaching, newly fallen trees, or animal tracks. Rather than being boring, such conversations serve up information that helps instill and refine the instinct for caution as they go about their lives. In our case, adopting such a mindset—and listening for nuggets of advice in someone's seemingly endless tale of medical ills—might help us bypass an avoidable pitfall.
Diamond continues with a (literally) stomach-churning chapter about the public health crisis wrought in traditional societies by the Western diet. When he visited New Guinea in the early 1960s, Diamond reports, "The non-communicable diseases that kill most First World citizens today—diabetes, hypertension, stroke, heart attacks, atherosclerosis, cardiovascular diseases in general, and cancers—were rare or unknown among traditional New Guineans living in rural areas." But the introduction of Western lifestyles into many of these areas has brought, within decades, high rates of these diseases. The culprits, as he sums them up, are "salt, sugar, fat and sloth."
We all need to teach—and learn from—each other to eat less, consume more healthfully, and exercise. How to do that is the subject for another book entirely. But in the meantime, the lessons Diamond distills in this book provide plenty of food for thought.
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A few weeks ago I won the Covergirl mascara giveaway hosted by Liana of BeautyBag411. She was so kind to send me a few extra goodies as well! I was really excited to see that she included an eyeshadow brush, so that I could finally stop using the horrid free foam shadow applicator.
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A 28-game starter at point guard as a senior for head coach King Rice last winter, Jesse Steele led Monmouth in several categories, including total points, assists, 3-pointers made, 3-pointers attempted and minutes per game.
Once a walk-on before turning into a scholarship player and a huge piece of the puzzle for the Hawks, Steele is now gone thanks to graduation. The player who takes over that starting spot is going to be a major point emphasis throughout this month.
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When you visit Nacogdoches Dental, your smile is our top priority. Our experienced dental team is dedicated to giving you personalized, quality care. We provide comprehensive treatment planning and use restorative and cosmetic dentistry to achieve your optimal dental health. At Nacogdoches Dental, we are committed to restoring and enhancing the natural beauty of your smile through education, prevention and state-of-the-art procedures.
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She's doing everything she can to make it a good Christmas for as many children as possible. But just weeks ago, a Harlan County woman was thrown through a windshield and over 25 feet from her car after a serious accident.
Connie Partin says she doesn't remember much from that Sunday in October when she says a truck crashed right into the car she was in. Connie was thrown through the back window and out onto Highway 119.
"I just remember when they put me in the ambulance," Connie said.
Connie is now home recovering from a broken pelvis and a broken hip, but not a broken heart.
"I may not do everything I used to do, but I can still wrap those toys," she said.
Connie helps sort and wrap gifts every year for the Empty Stocking Fund which delivers hundreds of gifts to children who otherwise may have nothing under the tree.
"It makes me feel like I'm doing my part to give them a good Christmas," Connie said.
Muggins Bennett leads the Empty Stocking Fund and was surprised when Connie still wanted to help out this year. He says he can't deliver gifts to her house fast enough.
"I thought she was going to tell me she couldn't do it and she said no, they're wrapped bring me some more," Muggins said.
"I had always helped in it. I didn't want to be left out this year, so I was determined to do my part and do what I could do," Connie said.
Because the accident may broken many things, but her heart and passion to help children this Christmas is still very much intact.
For more information on how you can donate money to the Empty Stocking Fund, you can also call Muggins Bennett at (606) 589-5310. You can also send your donations to:
The Tri-Cities Empty Stocking Fund
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Vishu is the astrological new year of Kerala. Part of Hindu traditions and customs. Vishu conveys the message of auspiciousness and prosperity. Cultivation of new crops commences on this day. Vishukkani or the viewing of the auspicious objects is an important ritual associated with Vishu.
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This is a very beautiful song. This song is called kaalindi paadumbol. it is a music album which was shot for vishu.
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Metallica -- Copenhagen, Denmark -- July 27th, 2009
So far...
That Was Just Your Life
The End Of The Line
Ride The Lightning
The Memory Remains
Broken, Beat & Scarred
Leper Messiah
Sad But True
No Leaf Clover
Suicide and Redemption
The Day That Never Comes
Master Of Puppets
Dyers Eve
Nothing Else Matters
Enter Sandman
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Last Caress
Phantom Lord
Seek and Destroy
metontour.com says that something "special" is coming...I have no idea.
EDIT: It turns out that the something special was Suicide and Redemption. Meh...
Special...my guess is either a cover with a guest, The Unforgiven 3/Suicide & Redemption, or Frayed Ends of Sanity in full.
It says that the next song is gonna be a world premiere, so the songs you suggested seem pretty likely.
Suicide & Redemption sucks.
Something specail maybe they will take out nem
I would have preferred Frayed Ends. Maybe someday...
[QUOTE=mankvill;221461]Suicide & Redemption sucks.[/QUOTE]
I wouldn't say it sucks. In fact, I quite like the track. I just wouldn't really want to hear it live.
Thats an awesome set. Its nice that they did S&R. After all this IS the Death Magnetic tour and they should try out all the songs from the album on this tour. Its also good because in the shows coming up they might consider playing other instrumental classics like Orion, Ktulu and To Live Is To Die.
I'm consistently amazed some of you have nothing better to do than follow the gradual revealing of setlists to shows you're not even at ;)
Anyway, it was an awesome set. Suicide And Redemption was excellent, but highlights were clearly No Leaf Clover, Ride The Lightning and Leper Messiah. And Dyer's Eve I guess, but that's a pretty weak song.
This is the third World Magnetic Tour show I've been to, and easily the best setlist.
[QUOTE=ravenheart;221492]I'm consistently amazed some of you have nothing better to do than follow the gradual revealing of setlists to shows you're not even at ;)
And I'm consistently amazed at people who have nothing better to do than calling everyone else jobless.
Ever heard of the word 'multitasking'?
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I woke up this morning and went to check my Yahoo mail account. I paid for a 50 MB account a few months back, since I use that as my primary email account. I wondered how the GMail situation would affect that. Now I know.
There was a notice in my mail file this morning telling me I had... *TWO* GB of mail storage now!


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In Theaters June 29th, 2012 | © 2012 Universal Pictures
Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane brings his boundary-pushing brand of humor to the big screen for the first time as writer, director and voice star of Ted. In the live action/CG-animated comedy, he tells the story of John Bennett (Mark Wahlberg), a grown man who must deal with the cherished teddy bear who came to life as the result of a childhood wish...and has refused to leave his side ever since.
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- Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Joel McHale, Giovanni Ribisi, Seth MacFarlane
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- Comedy
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I tried to resist but couldn't.Bob Mondello, NPR, 06.29.2012
Everything goes on too long -- Ted's carousing, Lori's watchful waiting, John's wistful indecision.Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal, 07.02.2012
It's a goofy premise pursued with crass -- as well as sentimental -- relish.Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post, 06.29.2012
You'll feel the warmth and camaraderie of a Bostonian and his little sentient bear.Laremy Legel, Film.com, 06.29.2012


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Partitioning of European water framework directive priority substances in greywater treatment systems and implications for sludge management.
Donner, Erica and Eriksson, Eva and Scholes, Lian N. L. and Revitt, D. Mike (2009) Partitioning of European water framework directive priority substances in greywater treatment systems and implications for sludge management. In: SETAC Europe, 19th Annual Meeting (Proceedings of), 31 May-4 June 2009, Gothenburg, Sweden.
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Across the globe, pressures on potable water supplies continue to increase. Recognition of this trend and news of the looming problem of wtaer shortages has stimulated a growing interest in wastewater reuse/recycling. One option increasingly explored is the on-site treatment and reuse of greywater, especially for non-potable uses such as toilet flushing and irrigation. However, the composition of greywater is highly variable and can contain a wide variety of micropollutants, including the priority and priority hazardous substances identified in the European Water Framework Directive. The work reported in this paper was undertaken within the broader context of the EU ScorePP project, which aims to support authorities and industry in meeting the requirements of the WFD by designing suitable source control programmes to effectively limit/cease the emissions of these substances into urban environments. The specific goal of the research presented here was to determine whether more widespread deployment of on-site household greywater treatment could form a useful emission control barrier to help achieve the goals of the WFD, and further to investigate the likely fate of PS and PHS during the ensuing sludge treatment and/or disposal.
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There are different techniques to pie making; this is my mother-in-law's recipe and method to baking manha pie.
*separate egg yolks from egg whites, with the egg whites in a separate mixing and set aside for meringue topping.
1. Mix sugar and cornstarch in a mixing bowl, then add egg yolks stir. slowly stir in about half the can of carnation milk to saturate the mix. set aside.
2. In a heavy medium-size pot, add water and bring to boil, and add the rest of carnation milk. then add the sugar and cornstarch mixture slowly into boiling water, while stirring constantly with other hand.
3. Stir in young meat, butter or margarine and vanilla
4. Cook over low heat, stirring gently but constantly, until mixture thickens and boils 3 minutes.
5. Pour into pastry shells and let cool.
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6. Beat egg whites and cream of Tartar until foamy-white in a medium-size bowl; beat in sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time, until meringue stands in firm peaks.Then add 1/2 teaspoon vanilla and beat to mix well. Pile onto filling, sealing to edge and swirling into peaks.
7. Bake in moderate oven (350) 12 minutes, or meringue is tipped with brown. Cool pie for at least a half hour before cutting.
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The above acronym stands for "Things That Make Me Happy And I am Grateful For", since ten days, on my personal Facebook, I have been posting everyday about what makes life beautiful to me.
Some days I struggled a little, most days I struggled to pick only one thing, one person, one moment.
Here the first ten statuses of my project so:
What do you think?
Would you engage in something similar in front of your Facebook family and friend?
Some of these are serious, deep, important, beautiful things, while others are silly simple pleasures.
I am a person that lacks discipline, so I would love to be able to bring this project on for as long as possible, aiming for 365 days.
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Several parents raised concerns at a public hearing at Whitworth-Buchanan Middle School Tuesday about how proposed middle school rezoning in Rutherford County would affect their children.
Issues ranged from future growth to removing magnet schools to an increase in free- and reduced-price lunch participants at Whitworth-Buchanan, but most parent concerns were focused on uprooting their child from a school they were already used to attending. The plan would move almost 600 students, according to proposed planning documents.
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Recap: TEDxManhattan 2012 Viewing Party
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I picked up a new washi tape set a while back and have been trying to come up with ways to use it ever since. This stuff is addictive. So I grabbed a few blank notebooks that I was planning on using for another project and went to town. I realize this is rocket science here, but hey - they only took one minute to make, so I thought I would share the process in case you want to make your own...
- Washi tape - slim set (lots of colors here)
- Scissors
- Moleskine cashier notebooks (set of 3)
- Choose an interesting color combo and start rolling out strips of tape into any pattern you'd like. I went with stripes - it's quick and easy.
- After attaching each strip of tape, cut off excess, but leave room to wrap the tape around the back so it won't come undone easily.
- Fold the excess tape over to the back and attach. All done!
Here's the photo version of this step by step...
Take it further!
Take this simple project one step further, and stamp your own custom message into the front cover, with a wooden mallet and a set of leather stamps (like this one)...
That's it! So simple.
What do you think? Will you be making a few of these for yourself or buddies?
P.S. I'm becoming obsessed with the leather stamp kit I used for this project, so prepare yourself for more DIYs that involve indented messages soon.


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요르문간드 (Korean)
Genres: action
Objectionable content: Significant
Plot Summary: The series follows Koko Hekmatyar, a young arms dealer who sells weapons under HCLI, an international shipping corporation that secretly deals in the arms trade. As one of the company's unofficial weapon dealers, she secretly sells weapons in many countries while avoiding the local authorities and law enforcement as most of her work is actually illegal under international law. Traveling with her is her team of bodyguards who are mostly composed of ex-military veterans. Her latest addition to her crew is Jonah, a seemingly emotionless child soldier who is skilled in combat yet ironically hates arms dealers. Jonah joins Koko as he wishes to find the arms dealer responsible for his family's death. What follows is Koko and her crew's escapades around the world.
User Ratings: 659 ratings have been given [details]
Running time: half hour per episode
Number of episodes: 12
Episode titles: We have 12
Vintage: 2012-04-10 to 2012-06-26
Opening Theme:
"Borderland" by Mami Kawada
Ending Theme:
#1: "Ambivalentidea" by Nagi Yanagi
#2: "Shiroku Yawaraka na Hana" by Nagi Yanagi (ep 4)
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Core promoters are predicted by their distinct physicochemical properties in the genome of Plasmodium falciparum
1 Dipartimento di Malattie Infettive, Parassitarie ed Immunomediate - Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Viale Regina Elena, 299, 00161 Rome, Italy
2 Department of Parasitology, Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo 4-6-1, Shirokanedai, Minatoku, Tokyo 108-8639, Japan
Genome Biology 2008, 9:R178 doi:10.1186/gb-2008-9-12-r178Published: 18 December 2008
Little is known about the structure and distinguishing features of core promoters in Plasmodium falciparum. In this work, we describe the first method to computationally identify core promoters in this AT-rich genome. This prediction algorithm uses solely DNA physicochemical properties as descriptors. Our results add to a growing body of evidence that a physicochemical code for eukaryotic genomes plays a crucial role in core promoter recognition.


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Treasures that washed ashore this week;
flotsam we hope the next tide carries away:
Build more affordable housing
We are glad to see proposed new development at Mashpee Commons will include affordable housing.
In the first phase of new construction at the southwestern corner of the Commons, 13 of 53 rental units will be affordable. The $10 million project will extend Market Street to Job's Fishing Road and includes eight townhouse and rowhouse-style buildings. Some will have retail space on the ground floor and apartments upstairs.
Developers want to complete the project by the end of this year.
The town of Mashpee and state officials also deserve a pat on the back for partnering with Mashpee Commons, which received a $901,250 award from the MassWorks infrastructure fund. The fund offers money for affordable housing and economic development projects.
Some just don't get it
When will the Vatican learn to properly respond to the pedophilia crisis within its ranks?
Once again last week, a high-ranking Vatican official tried to deflect criticism away from the highest levels of the church to individual offenders.
Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Vatican's U.N. ambassador in Geneva, told the U.N. Human Rights Committee that the Vatican had little jurisdiction to sanction pedophile priests.
"Priests are not functionaries of the Vatican," Tomasi said. "Priests are citizens of their own states, and they fall under the jurisdiction of their own country."
That may be the case, but don't tell a priest that he is not a foot soldier for the Vatican or the pope.
Pedophile victims groups called Tomasi's defense hollow, given how Vatican officials instructed bishops for decades to protect abusive priests and not turn them over to police.
"When they say that these crimes should be prosecuted by states, it seems so disingenuous because we know that the church officials at the state level obstruct those efforts to bring justice," said Barbara Blaine, president of the main U.S. victims group. Exhibit A is former Cardinal Bernard Law, who shuffled abusive priests like a deck of cards in the Archdiocese of Boston. And how did the Vatican choose to punish him? They gave him a plum position in Rome.
Human rights committee members repeatedly asked the Holy See to create a data collection system to track abuse cases and how victims are provided for. Tomasi said the Vatican would consider it. Consider it? That should have been created years ago.
Fortunately, not all members of the Vatican hierarchy think like Tomasi. Msgr. Charles Scicluna, the Vatican's former sex crimes prosecutor, said nothing will improve if there is not more transparency and accountability on the local level.
How not to handle a bomb
Did you hear the one about the airport security guard who seized a pipe bomb from a man in Canada and then gave it back to him? This is not a joke.
The Canadian Broadcast Corp. reported last week that a Canadian Air Transport Security Authority guard seized the bomb at Edmonton International Airport in September, but then returned it to Skylar Vincent Murphy, 18, of Spruce Grove, Alberta. Murphy was then allowed to board a flight to Mexico.
The day Murphy returned from Mexico, he was arrested by a large number of uniformed officers, a SWAT team and bomb-sniffing dogs.
A CATSA spokesman said that some of the officers involved in the incident were suspended.
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the forest too dark,
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This is way early to be thinking about this but im trying to figure out what to do when i deliver..I have three teenagers, 13, 15 and 17. As well as a ten year old and two little ones. My boys ( the teenagers) are all very responsible, aside from the teenage things that every teenager goes through they are very good kids and im very lucky.
We have family around us but the closest ones are about an hour away, and the hospital is very close ( like 10 minutes). I think i am okay with leaving the teenagers ( mainly my oldest) in charge if this happens over night. He already watches the younger ones but has never done an over night. Any thoughts?


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Retrial (15 Oct. 2004)
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In a retrial after 22 years Sturgis prosecutes, and Harm defends a man, a young seaman at the time, who was wrongfully convicted of murder. Meanwhile Mac prosecutes, and Bud defends a chief warrant officer with four wives and families.
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WEST WARWICK ŌĆö The tension was evident in West WarwickŌĆÖs gymnasium last night in a game between the Wizards and the Prout Crusaders and had little to do with the scoreboard.
Fans on hand were there in anticipation of senior Tyreese Garrick scoring her 1,000th career point for her WizardsŌĆÖ career and have been waiting for over a week with recent cancellation of games to do so.
Garrick would accomplish the feat with 2:55 remaining in the first half as the Wizards won that small battle, but they ultimately lost the war as the Crusaders controlled the boards and won going away, 52-42.
ŌĆ£West Warwick brought that energy to the gym and we helped them out with some sloppiness not being crisp in our offensive sets. In my five years here, we have always had a tough time playing them. They are talented, well coached, scrappy, and tough to beat here. This was a good win for us,ŌĆØ said Prout head coach Phil Quinn.
Prout raced out to an early 8-0 to begin the game while the Wizards were flat footed and stuck on neutral.
West Warwick climbed backed into the contest thanks to strong drives to the basket that resulted in frequent Prout fouls and an 18-1 free throw disparity in the first half.
ŌĆ£Well, you canŌĆÖt start out as poorly as we did to begin each half. We started out down 8-0 to begin the first half and had to dig out of that hole and we did that by being aggressive and driving to the basket,ŌĆØ said West Warwick head coach Mike Francois. ŌĆ£We took 18 free throws the first half and only two in the second and I thought that was a reflection of us not being aggressive enough.ŌĆØ
The combination of Garrick scoring her 1,000th point and an aggressive attitude led to the Wizards grabbing the momentum and actually taking a two-point with them into halftime.
For Garrick, it was a time to breathe again as the intensity of the moment was weighing in heavily on her and her teammates minds and their ability to execute.
ŌĆ£It was overwhelming, but IŌĆÖm glad I was able to do it. It feels great to do it here and in front of my family and friends,ŌĆØ she said. ŌĆ£I was definitely forcing the issue and I play much better in the flow of the offense and once I make a few shots that gets me even more focused mentally. It would have been great to get this win, but we have overcome losses before. WeŌĆÖll be fine.ŌĆØ
ŌĆ£IŌĆÖm very happy for her, itŌĆÖs a great accomplishment. The coaches, players, we are all proud of her. SheŌĆÖs a great kid and deserves the honor,ŌĆØ added Francois.
After controlling most of the action in the first half with solid ball movement and offensive execution, the Crusaders were held to just two points over the final five minutes and went into halftime searching for answers.
ŌĆ£I was upset because we werenŌĆÖt running our sets that well. In the beginning of the year with a young team, I can understand, but this late in the year it should not be happening. So we made our adjustments at halftime and our attack against their press, moved Emily and Madeline to the frontcourt to attack the basket, and we just executed better form there,ŌĆØ admitted Quinn.
Prout came out and scored the first ten points of the second half and quickly regained control of the action.
Forwards Madeline Hagerty and Jordan Oswinkle owned seemingly every rebound in the second half that came their way as the duo piled up 24 collectively, 14 of them offensively.
Their play helped overcome an off shooting night from star guard Emily Caswell, who scored the 1,000th point of her career this past Tuesday against Tiverton.
ŌĆ£Emily didnŌĆÖt have it tonight, but it was great to see the other girls step up and make shots and play hard. Oswinkle and Hagerty had great games and really were aggressive going after missed shots. We need that type of team effort, especially now that we are getting closer to the playoffs,ŌĆØ said Quinn.
Meanwhile, the Wizards fell into the familiar role of playing catch up and were unable to shoot the bell well enough over the course of the final sixteen minutes as Prout held a consistent 8-12 point advantage to finish the game.
ŌĆ£The first three minutes of each have are so important. We were able to come back and take the lead in the first half, but to come out and have them go on a 10-0 run to start the second half was big,ŌĆØ said Francois. ŌĆ£We werenŌĆÖt patient with our offense and we lacked the execution we needed to win this game.ŌĆØ
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ŌĆ£I told the team that if we had everybody playing aggressive and rebounding the ball defensively we would have a good chance at winning this game. (Prout) did a good job of controlling the glass and outworking us,ŌĆØ said Francois. ŌĆ£Except for may be two possessions in the second half we watched them play volleyball and get second and third looks at the basket. As a team, we have to do a better job of boxing out. Hopefully, we will do that and be ready come out and play against Narragansett.ŌĆØ


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Action Half Life 2 is designed to simulate the experience of being in an Action movie. Movies like Hard Boiled, Face Off, and Die Hard are the inspiration for AHL. AHL2 is AHL reborn on Source engine.
Today we share some insight into what the walldive is.
Posted by [ladnet]brad on May 7th, 2012
Another two months have passed without a post, but we've been not completely lazy. All draw and holster animations on the player models have been revised to make them look less clunky and awkward. In other words: they look good now. In addition to that the entities for the goal modes – the generic and special versions – are done as well. They now "just" lack some game logic to be usable in-game, but that shouldn't be too much work.
But the main reason for this news post is our first Dev Diary video, today's episode shows off our new stunt, the walldive. Enjoy the video.
We'll update you with new information and/or videos as soon as we got new material to share.
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They will fight over cat poop! Kind of tmi?
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Just kidding. But I did have a question. I have 2 cats. I change their litter box everyday and I don't understand why their poop smells SO bad. Is it their diet? At my moms house, her catbox/cats poop doesn't smell at all.
What am I doing wrong?
P.s NO I am not being a smart ass, so please don't give me a smart ass answer, I know poop smells, but this smells up my entire house, not just the cat box area.
I would say it's the type of litter you're using, but I don't know for sure. :)
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Jive Nation Toronto Modern Jive Dance Video – Memory-Joggers
September – October 2011
Modern Jive Dance Lesson – Memory Jogger October 26th 2011
This week our modern jive memory jogger has the Intermediate first. Three Lady Turns almost Pirouettes) start the Intermediate routine and leads you need to execute this move in such a way that your hands don't get locked up. You do that by sliding your right hand down the lady's arm just below her wrist and keeping your left hand up high and stationary. Be careful when you practice this move so that the lady doesn't get dizzy… limit it to two turns until she's comfortable with the spins then you can add a third if she's ok with it. The Reverse Walking Pretzel is very cool – again leads your lead needs to be firm so the lady makes that quick turn out. There's no break in the walking. Good job everyone.
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Modern Jive Dance lesson – Memory Jogger, October 19th.
I'm getting asked every week now… when are the videos going up?! Glad they are helpful, keep watching and remember you can also see them on Jive Nation Toronto's Facebook Page
So this week we did quite a challenging beginner dance lesson with the Wurlitzer Astaire Lean and an American Spin Exit, followed by a Yo-Yo. Modern Jive is known for its graceful leans and dips and seducers… they are a little more challenging but well worth mastering as they have a very high "wow" factor when done correctly. Tip for any lean – leads you must maintain great upright posture, and prepare for the lean so the lady is comfortable, a lean is what we call a "trust move". Avoid rushing into a lean, or the lady will not be happy – and won't be willing to go into the lean. Ensure you you have contact from hip to ankle to your feet. Watch Matt very carefully as he executes the lean – he doesn't involve his back or torso and he is always upright, simply giving a slight bend of the knee to do the lean. Try practicing at home without a partner.
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Modern Jive Dance lesson – Memory Jogger, October 12th.
Where we feature some basic and fun modern jive dance moves, including the Swizzle, the Octopus and First Move. The First Move is a very versatile modern jive dance move with many variations and exits; it never fails to look good. Tip: It requires a good strong lead men so no wimpy arms – lead the lady in all aspects of this move. Ladies, as always, wait for the lead as anticipating can throw off the timing. A very stylish move.
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Modern Jive Dance Lesson Memory Jogger – October 5th.
Featuring the First Move Push Spin Figure of Eight and Catapult. Lots of beginners this week and they all did very well with what's a rather tricky routine if you are new to modern jive, however these moves look very impressive and with practice are very easy to master – like most modern jive moves. Remember to use these videos to review frequently – they will help you build up your moves repertoire.
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Modern Jive Dance Lesson Memory Jogger for September 28th!
We learned the Basket, Two-handed Travelling Returns, The Hallelujah – a great move for un-crossing hands (I first learnedthis simple, yet stylish modern jive move at my Ceroc classes in England years ago and it's also called the Fan) the Slide Break and the Lady Spin. Use our videos as memory joggers once you've attended a class to review all the evening's moves. Watch them repeatedly to add new moves to your repertoire. Aim to master and practice a couple modern jive of moves a week.
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Modern Jive Beginners Dance Lesson Review – September 21 -2011
Featuring the the U-Turn, I-Turn, Man Break Thru ( a nice transition move) and the Springer – which always looks cool when you do it, especially at the club! Remember to use these modern jive dance videos as memory-joggers for when you have been to your modern jive class. And as always the key to becoming a confident dancer is – doing the freestyle after each class and practicing your dancing
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Modern Jive Beginners Dance Lesson Review – September 14-2011. This week we featured the First Move, The Wurlitzer/American Spin Exit and the Yo-Yo, popular and basic Modern Jive dance moves. Watch the video frequently and practice yourself – and you're set!
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Beginner Modern Jive Lesson – September 7th 2011, Beginner Walk Thru with a short clip of the Intermediate routine.
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That's why Lilly has added a new approach to its drug-development strategy. This approach—unique to pharmaceutical companies—uses external venture capital and the company's own virtual drug development organization, called Chorus, to expedite the development of compounds from Lilly and outside companies.
In typical drug development, a large number of compounds fail to make it past Phase II clinical trials. Chorus has developed more cost-effective and faster methods to reach clinical proof of concept—that is, to determine if a candidate drug is likely to be effective. That helps us determine whether to invest further in the most promising compounds.
Established in 2002, Chorus is a small, multidisciplinary drug-development group within Lilly that conducts early-stage development work. Chorus operates on a "virtual" model: It consists of a group of Lilly employees that manages drug-development work done by a network of hundreds of external experts and companies from around the world.
Chorus focuses on designing and executing highly focused development plans that progress compounds from candidate selection to clinical proof of concept in human clinical trials. Using this approach, Chorus has been able to reach decisions about 12 months earlier and at about half the cost of the current industry model.
Lilly has designed, and is investing in, several venture capital funds—dubbed the Mirror Funds—created to supplement the company's pipeline and expand access to innovation. The funds will license drug candidates from Lilly and other companies and pay for clinical development and testing to take the compounds through the clinical proof-of-concept stage.
Our venture-capital partners get access to Chorus and Lilly molecules from the pipeline, and they share in the profits from successfully developed drugs. As an investor, Lilly also shares in fund profits. As of August 2011, one of the independent venture-capital firms participating in the Mirror Portfolio has acquired four molecules and will oversee the next phase of their development. Three of those molecules were developed preclinically by researchers at major academic institutions and are being studied as potential treatments for cardiovascular, diabetes, and oncology indications; the fourth molecule was developed by Lilly and is being studied for its potential in bone healing and cancer.
Lilly retains rights to buy back all Lilly molecules licensed by the funds as well as to evaluate and acquire a limited number of external compounds. Within five to seven years, the funds are designed to pay for the development of a pipeline of compounds that "mirrors" the number of compounds at this stage of development in Lilly's own pipeline.
In 2001, Lilly launched InnoCentive, a company designed to expand Lilly's access to the global scientific network. InnoCentive created a global online network that now exceeds 250,000 scientists around the world and operates as a sort of "open market" for technical challenges. Lilly scientists have tapped into this network to obtain solutions to many technical challenges, and external scientists have received monetary rewards from InnoCentive for solving technical problems. This crowd-sourcing approach has proved to be quite effective at solving challenges cost-effectively and efficiently.
In 2005, Lilly brought in venture-capital investors to expand InnoCentive, but retained 20 percent ownership and a seat on the board of directors. Since then, the company has expanded its open-innovation approach to address a broad array of problems from diverse sectors of society, including governments, nonprofits, and other corporations, both within and outside of the pharmaceutical sector. Clients, including Lilly scientists, NASA, the Cleveland Clinic, Procter & Gamble, the Environmental Defense Fund, and many others, post their problems under "pavilions" divided by topic area. At any given time, challenges posted across the pavilions might range from traditional biochemistry conundrums, to the creation of alternative fuel sources for impoverished women in the developing world, to removing contamination from plastics recycling, to how to more effectively conduct humanitarian food drops.
To learn more, visit the Innocentive website.
250,000Approximate Total Registered Solvers from Nearly 200 Countries
12M+Total Solver Reach through Strategic Partners
1,00Total Challenges Posted to Innocentive.com
339,726Project Rooms Opened to Date
24,256Total Solution Submissions
866Total Awards Given
$28MTotal Award Dollars Posted
$5k to $1MRange of Awards, Based on the Complexity of the Problem
50%Average Success Rate
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Cierra Pagano (left), 6, and her sister Rory, 3, of Forked River, enjoy a ride during the 2012 Ocean County Fair.
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A new addition to the schedule is a rooster crowing contest.
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■At 8:48 a.m. on Friday, Patrolman Wayne Shivers investigated an accident involving a school bus on North Passaic at Main Street. The bus driven by Angelo Lekkas, 70, of West Orange, was stopped at a red light when it was struck from behind by a 1992 Toyota driven by Jacksmine Jean also of West Orange. The bus was operated by the Livingston Board of Education and was going to the ECLC on Lum Avenue with 11 students and one aide. No one on the bus was injured but Jean was transported by the Chatham Emergency Squad to Morristown Medical Center with a minor head injury. Jean was also issued a summons for careless driving.
? John Escobar Fontalvo was arrested for driving while intoxicated at 2:17 a.m. on Saturday. Oct. 13. Escobar Fontalvo was pulled over by Officer Thomas Cuff after driving over the posted speed limit with a flat right front tire. Escobar Fontalvo submitted to a field sobriety test and was arrested and transported to police headquarters where he submitted to a chemical breath test. There Escobar Fontalvo attempted to walk to the restroom but stopped 5 feet short and urinated on the wall of the processing room. He was then charged with disorderly conduct, criminal mischief, driving while intoxicated, reckless driving, failure to maintain a lane of travel and several other motor vehicle violations. He was released to a sober driver pending a court appearance.
? At 6:43 p.m. on Oct. 13, Officers Alfred Keiser and Thomas Armenti responded to a report of a burglar alarm that had been activated at a Pomeroy Road business. They found a broken window and an unsecured door near the loading dock entrance to the business. While checking the rest of the perimeter of the building, Keiser located an unoccupied vehicle in the parking lot near a wooded area adjacent to the building. The hood of the vehicle was still warm. The officers then located William Millette, 47, of Lake Hiawatha in a wooded area about 100 feet away from the vehicle. Millette was transported to Parsippany police headquarters where he was charged with criminal mischief and defiant trespass. He was turned over to the custody of the Morris County Jail in lieu of $10,000 bail.
? Michael Beyroutey, 24, of Parsippany was arrested after a motor vehicle stop on Halsey Road conducted by Officer Robert Appel who had observed the vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed on Littleton Road before turning left on Halsey Road. After a brief investigation, Beyroutey was placed under arrest by the officer for driving under the influence and transported to Parsippany Police Headquarters where he was processed before being released pending a court appearance. He was also charged with careless driving.
? Officers responded to the area of Tabor Road and Circle Drive at 1:23 a.m. on Oct. 13 to investigate a report of a motor vehicle crash. Officer Robert Appel spoke to the driver, David Reilly, 30, of Haskel, who said a deer had jumped in front of his vehicle so he swerved and ran off of the road into an embankment. Reilly was placed under arrest and charged with driving under the influence. He was transported to Parsippany Police Headquarters where he was processed before being released pending a court appearance.
? Officer Matthew LaManna responded to the area of West Hanover Avenue and Shongum Road on Wednesday at 5:23 p.m. to investigate a report of a four car motor vehicle crash. The accident investigation revealed that Gary Geiger, 46, of Vernon, was driving west on West Hanover Avenue near Shongum Road when the vehicles in front of him slowed before having to stop in traffic. Geiger's vehicle failed to stop and struck the vehicle that was stopped in front of him. That vehicle struck the car in front of it which in turn struck the fourth vehicle that was involved. No one was transported to the hospital from the crash scene. After a brief investigation, Geiger was charged with driving uder the influence. He was transported to Parsippany Police Headquarters where he was processed before later being released pending an appearance in court. He was also charged with creless driving.
? At 3:44 p.m. on Monday, police responded to Park Lake near the intersection of Hoagland Avenue for a reported motor vehicle accident. Witnesses reported that a beige Toyota had struck the fence at the lake, backed up and left the scene. Police observed severe damage to the gate and were given the plate number to the vehicle. Police located and charged Pareshabe Patel, 39, of Dover with careless driving, leaving the scene of an accident, failure to report an accident and driving on the sidewalk.
? On Tuesday, police were called to 350 Route 46 on a report of a suspicious male who was walking around the property. Police located Nicolas Torres, 30, of Flanders, who had warrants for his arrest out of Mountain Lakes, Mount Olive and Garfield. Torres was turned over to Mountain Lakes Police.
? On Tuesday, police received a report that an adult had purchased cigarettes for a minor. Police charged John T. Kavanaugh, 21, of Rockaway, with purchasing cigarettes for a minor. Kavanaugh was served with a complaint summons and released pending a court date.
■At 1:55 a.m. on Oct. 13, Officer Frank Schomp was on routine patrol traveling through the Blue Heron Interchange when he observed a 1998 Chevrolet sedan drive into the parking lot of a closed office building on Laddey Lane. The vehicle then turned it's headlights off. The officer then pulled in behind the vehicle and investigated. The operator, Steven Miick, 32, of Carlsdat, could not provide a legitimate reason why he was parked in the lot of a closed business. The officer detected a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage emanating from Mick's mouth. Miick was administered a series of field sobriety tests at the scene, which he failed so he was placed under arrest for driving while intoxicated. He was additionally charged with careless driving, and two documentation violations. Miick was released several hours later to a sober adult. His vehicle was impounded.
■ At 12:16 a.m. on Oct. 6, Cpl. William Moyle was on routine patrol traveling west on West Mountain Road when he observed a blue Acura being operated with an inoperable left headlight. After stopping the vehicle, the operator Wendy F. Bartsch, 48, was arrested for driving while intoxicated after she failed a series of field sobriety tests. Bartsch was transported to police headquarters and her vehicle was impounded. Officer Joseph Pensdo assisted with the investigation.
■At 4:15 p.m. on Wednesday, George E. Beecroft, 44, of Blairstown, was taken into custody by Officer Adam Feichter on an active criminal warrant issued by Washington Township Municipal Court. This warrant was issued as a result of a theft case from June 2012. Feichter took the initial investigation report from a township resident and completed the investigation with an arrest warrant issued for Beecroft, who also had active criminal warrants from Mansfield Township Municipal Court and White Township Municipal Court totaling $1,100. Beecroft could not post his bail which was $7,500 with a 10 percent option. Beecroft was later transported to the Morris County Correctional Facility.
? At 8:11 a.m. on Wednesday, Officer Michael Hade stopped a motor vehicle on County Route 512 in Califon for a motor vehicle violation. The driver of the vehicle, Paul Camara, 45, from Glen Gardner, was found to have active warrants from municipal courts in Wharton, Greenwich, Greenbrook and Randolph in the amount of $5,012. While being taken into custody Camara complained of stomach pains and was transported by the Long Valley First Aid Squad to the Hackettstown Regional Medical Center. The Wharton Police Department responded to the hospital and took custody of Camara, who was also issued motor vehicle summons for failure to wear a seatbelt and driving while suspended.
■At 1:09 a.m. on Oct. 7, Officer Michael Thompson observed a white Chevrolet sedan pulled to the side of Naughright Road for unknown reason. Thompson spoke to the driver and detected the odor of marijuana emanating from the interior of the vehicle. A subsequent investigation revealed the passenger, Daniel Gaeta, 25, of Long Valley, was in possession of marijuana (under 50 grams) along with drug paraphernalia. Gaeta was arrested and transported to Washington Township Police Headquarters where he was processed. Gaeta received a criminal complaint for possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. Gaeta was later released with pending court date in Washington Township Municipal Court.
■At 2:44 a.m. on Oct. 7, 2012, while on patrol in the area of West Springtown Road. Officer Michael Thompson observed a red pick up truck driving in an erratic manner. Thompson stopped the vehicle and detected the strong odor of marijuana emanating from within the vehicle. A subsequent investigation revealed the driver, Bennet Kleinhans, 22, of Long Valley, was under the influence of marijuana and in possession of marijuana (under 50 grams) along with drug paraphernalia. Kleinhans was arrested and transported to Washington Township Police Headquarters and issued criminal complaints for driving under the Influence of a controlled dangerous substance along with possession of marijuana (under 50 grams). Kleinhans also received a motor vehicle complaint for failure to keep right. Kleinhans was later released with a pending mandatory court appearance.
■At 1:16 a.m. on Oct. 12, Patrol Officer Michael Thompson observed a black Ford Focus fail to stop prior to making a right turn on red at the intersection of East Avenue and Route 46. Thompson stopped the vehicle and spoke with the driver who was identified as William Kenerson III, 21, of Glenwood. While speaking with Kenerson, Thompson detected the odor of burnt marijuana emanating from within the vehicle. A subsequent investigation revealed Kenerson had ingested marijuana prior to operating the motor vehicle. Kenerson was charged with being under the influence of a controlled dangerous substance. Kenerson was also issued a motor vehicle complaint for failure to stop at a red traffic signal. Kenerson was later released with a pending court date.
■On Oct. 5, Patrol Officer Michael Thompson was dispatched to Target Department Store in reference to a shoplifter in custody. Dennis Padilla, 19, of Asbury, had attempted to shoplift approximately $120 worth of shoes, xBox live cards, and cellular phone cases. Padilla was arrested and transported to Washington Township Police Headquarters where he received a criminal complaint for shoplifting. Padilla was later released with a pending court date in Washington Township Municipal Court.


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Could restore lost tax revenue
Presenting at the ongoing G20 summit in Moscow, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has revealed a 40-page plan meant to undo tax avoidance schemes used by companies like Apple and Google. Multinational corporations will use strategies such as dumping patent rights into shell companies, or claiming interest deductions in one country without reporting taxable profits in another. The proposal would develop rules over the next two years to counter the schemes, and force companies to detail where they report their income.
The director of the OECD's Centre for Tax Policy, Pascal Saint-Amans, refers to one of the tax avoidance strategies as "double non-taxation." Apple in particular is known for using a method called the "Double Irish," which involves setting up two companies in Ireland -- one to hold intellectual property rights, and another to license the rights without turning a high profit. The second company is taxed at a rate of just 12.5 percent, a shadow of the 35 percent international tax rate some businesses might otherwise owe the US.
In the long run, the goal of the OECD proposal is make it harder for companies to hide profits offshore. Apple has an estimated $100 billion or more in offshore cash reserves; it has said it wants to repatriate that cash, but only on the condition that it and other corporations can secure a tax "holiday."


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Its most likely arizona's new love interest (hilary burton) or maybe dr avery cause if you remember clearly he was also hurt in the storm and he wasn't shown in the promo. #whowillsurvive
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What is a Carbon Nanotube?
A Carbon Nanotube is a tube-shaped material, made of carbon, having a diameter measuring on the nanometer scale. A nanometer is one-billionth of a meter, or about one ten-thousandth of the thickness of a human hair. The graphite layer appears somewhat like a rolled-up chicken wire with a continuous unbroken hexagonal mesh and carbon molecules at the apexes of the hexagons.
Carbon Nanotubes have many structures, differing in length, thickness, and in the type of helicity and number of layers. Although they are formed from essentially the same graphite sheet, their electrical characteristics differ depending on these variations, acting either as metals or as semiconductors.
As a group, Carbon Nanotubes typically have diameters ranging from <1 nm up to 50 nm. Their lengths are typically several microns, but recent advancements have made the nanotubes much longer, and measured in centimeters.
Carbon Nanotubes can be categorized by their structures:
What are the Properties of a Carbon Nanotube?
The intrinsic mechanical and transport properties of Carbon Nanotubes make them the ultimate carbon fibers. The following tables (Table 1 and Table 2) compare these properties to other engineering materials.
Overall, Carbon Nanotubes show a unique combination of stiffness, strength, and tenacity compared to other fiber materials which usually lack one or more of these properties. Thermal and electrical conductivity are also very high, and comparable to other conductive materials.
Table 1. Mechanical Properties of Engineering Fibers
|Fiber Material
|Specific Density
|E (TPa)
|Strength (GPa)
|Strain at Break (%)
|Carbon Nanotube
|1.3 - 2
|10 - 60
|HS Steel
|< 10
|Carbon Fiber - PAN
|1.7 - 2
|0.2 - 0.6
|1.7 - 5
|0.3 - 2.4
|Carbon Fiber - Pitch
|2 - 2.2
|0.4 - 0.96
|2.2 - 3.3
|0.27 - 0.6
|E/S - glass
|0.07 / 0.08
|2.4 / 4.5
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Table 2. Transport Properties of Conductive Materials
|Thermal Conductivity (W/m.k)
|Electrical Conductivity
|Carbon Nanotubes
|> 3000
|106 - 107
|6 x 107
|Carbon Fiber - Pitch
|2 - 8.5 x 106
|Carbon Fiber - PAN
|8 - 105
|6.5 - 14 x 106
What are the Potential Applications for Carbon Nanotubes?
Carbon Nanotube Technology can be used for a wide range of new and existing applications:
- Conductive plastics
- Structural composite materials
- Flat-panel displays
- Gas storage
- Antifouling paint
- Micro- and nano-electronics
- Radar-absorbing coating
- Technical textiles
- Ultra-capacitors
- Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) tips
- Batteries with improved lifetime
- Biosensors for harmful gases
- Extra strong fibers
How Does Nanocyl Produce Carbon Nanotubes?
Nanocyl uses the "Catalytic Carbon Vapor Deposition" method for producing Carbon Nanotube Technologies. This proven industrial process is well known for its reliability and scalability. It involves growing nanotubes on substrates, thus enabling uniform, large-scale production of the highest-quality carbon nanotubes worldwide.


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Damit i hate computers, Still waiting on email to join.... WTF. Scar please delete me from that stampede site. So i can rejoin to receive activation email to the Stampede site... Last one got lost in junk and deleted
Indeed, it'd be nice if he could come.
So, to bring the whole misnomer full circle, I'll call him Bryce, even though his name is Bruce.
How's that?
Not to 'jack my own thread, of course.
Will be good to see you again, Brett.
Im in...screw August lets go now.........Anyone.... I wish I could
05 busa...........sold.
07 GSX-R1000....."totaled"
09 busa...........sold.
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Review: Razer Kraken Pro headset
Tight-fitting headset covers all-around needs for gaming, everyday listening (July 20th, 2014)
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Product Manufacturer: Razer
Price: $80
The Good
- Gaming sound characteristics
- Noise isolation
- Weight
The Bad
- Muted highs in music
- Microphone
- Tight fit
Gaming headphones are a challenge to get right, for a long list of reasons that are unique to the consumer buying them. Some shoppers want a universal set of headphones, some weigh the difference in the configuration, while others just want something with a good built-in microphone for voice chat. What about gamers looking for their next set of headphones for longer gaming sessions? Razer, a brand many gamers are familiar with, may have a solution with the Kraken Pro headset. But is it good enough solution for gaming and everyday needs?
The Kraken Pro headset features plastic construction like many gaming-focused headsets, which makes the unit lightweight and drives down the cost. The entire headset only weighs 0.65 pounds, allowing users to keep the headset on for longer periods without feeling it there. The headband and ear cushions are covered in a leatherette that's soft to the touch. On the side of the headband that makes contact with the head, a jersey-like material is used. With its adjustable headband, the Kraken Pro can hit a range of 17 to 21 inches in length, measured from the center of each ear cup.
Even though the Kraken Pro headset doesn't weigh much, that doesn't mean that it's completely free from comfort issues. The foam, while comfortable, doesn't have as much give as some higher-end headphones like the V-Moda M-100s. Since there a drastic gap in price, $80 versus $310, the lower-quality material in the Kraken expected to a degree.
It does, however, cause the headphones to feel tight on the head. After wearing the Kraken Pro headset frequently across three days, we found that the unit was finally "broken in" enough to allow extended use. Maximum wearing time was two hours before a break was required during this period. Unfortunately, the cups aren't free to pivot, since they are housed in a plastic frame with a stop built in. The headset can, however, fold into a compact item for storage with two hinges about the ear cups.
The circular ear cups of the Kraken Pro are large, offering a fit for a large number of users with its 3.33-inch outer and two-inch inner diameters. Inside the cups, there's about 0.75 inches of room, before compression, to work with before ears make contact with the plastic speaker housing. While some people may not run into problems, those with big ears could run into discomfort issues from the plastic rubbing on the antitragus (the small tubercle on the visible part of the ear). There is a thin mesh on the side, but it doesn't offer much protection.
Consumers looking for a USB headset will need to look elsewhere, as the Kraken Pro is an analog solution. Razer does have a USB version of the Kraken headset, but it doesn't have some of the Kraken Pro features such as the retractable microphone. It also lacks the color choices Razer introduced with the white and neon options. Be warned that consumers looking for in-line controls won't be satisfied by the Kraken Pro, as it doesn't have any built-in control system.
Connections are made with a 3.5mm jack for smartphones or a cable extension that splits channels between input and output. The cable attached to the headset is only 4.2 feet long, making use of a 6.6-foot extension cord necessary in most situations.
Sound for the Kraken Pro is really where the headset shines. It's heavier on the bass, but for a gaming-focused headset that's a key feature to have when it comes to sound awareness for the player. The thud of a cannon firing or the heavy footsteps of a soldier coming up behind a player is easily picked out of the sounds of an active game. For those that play shooters like Red Orchestra 2, the headset helps a great deal for situational awareness when compared to headphones that are focused on music.
On the topic of music, the balance of the headset isn't bad. However, with so much of the focus weighted towards bass, the high end of the Kraken Pro feels weak. High notes feel like they're brought down by the stronger the bass component of a song. It's not so much that they're completely overridden, but enough to be made aware of if one expects rock style vocals to stand out. At 100 percent volume on a MacBook Pro, the bass heavy "Hunter" hit a peak of 110.9 dB, while the dynamic "Notorious" topped out at 101.5 dB. There is also a difference of 28 percent from the top to the bottom of the tested volume levels.
At first, it didn't appear that the Kraken Pro headset had much in the way of noise isolation. The headset doesn't make use of fancy microphones, or appear to have a wealth of padding to keep sound out. Once a user starts talking into the microphone or singing along with songs, then the isolation stands out. A person wearing the headset can hear their voice clearly over everything else because so much outside noise is kept out.
Mileage will vary depend on the hearing sensitivity of the user, but while listening to music at 50 percent volume on a MacBook Pro, an outside party had to yell for their voice to register to the person wearing the Kraken Pro. This can be attributed in part to the seal the pads make against the head.
While the microphone is necessary for modern gaming headsets, it's a low point for the Razer headset. The microphone picks up a lot of background noise when in use, making it better suited for press-to-talk gaming situations or other non-professional areas. Using the microphone for a podcast requires more filtering out than a desktop cardioid solution.
Razer's Kraken Pro is a good value for any gamer looking for a new headset. While the performance suits the needs for consumers looking for headphones for all occasions, the bass becomes the only point of contention in sound quality. Comfort can be a slight issue depending on the head size of the person buying it, but the light weight keeps the top of the head from feeling any discomfort during longer sessions. For the price of $65 on Amazon, gamers will be hard pressed to find another headset in the same price range that performs as well as the Kraken Pro.


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GFX are great, sounds are great, music is great...What I didn't like was... errm... actually scratch that, haven't found anything yet....
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Found ppl are complaining about game crash and trainer not working and other problems. Do you think the game is worth it?
Yes it's worth it and if you can do without the achievements you can use the ingame cheats. Btw the game hasn't crashed on me.
My only complaints about the game are 2 fold:
1) It took ages to finally get a decent arsenal. I think they have you running around with only the pistol and shotgun for a little too long. Ammo for assault rifle is scarce too so can't use it much early on.
2) Getting a little tired of the environment and (please don't spoil it in replies or whatever) so far it doesn't look like it's going to change much. The color palette is basically starting to bore me a bit, previous installments had me going through more variation by now. But we'll see, I'm still quite early in the game I think.
I'm praying to come across some plain but effective, humongous fields with endless hordes getting thrown at me i.e old school Serious Sam style. I like the urban touch and the situations it brings, but so far it's a bit too many walls and buildings instead of more ammo and enemies.