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With mounting evidence that shared hospital rooms contribute to medical errors, higher infection rates, privacy violations, and harmful stress for patients, the updated Guidelines for Design and Construction of Health Care Facilities calls for single-patient rooms in medical/surgical and postpartum units to become standard for all newly constructed hospitals. This is the first such recommendation since these guidelines were originally published by the federal government in 1947. Updated every 4 years by the Facility Guidelines Institute (FGI) and published by the Washington, D.C.-based American Institute of Architects (AIA), the guidelines are currently used by more than 40 state governments to regulate hospital licensing and construction.
2006 Guidelines for Design and Construction of Health Care Facilities highlights include:
"These guidelines are focused on patient safety. The committee, where possible, used an evidence-based approach to conceive the best possible environment for patients to heal in," says Joseph G. Sprague, chairman of the Health Guidelines Revision Committee. "Our thorough review concluded that private rooms lead to considerably less potential for disease transmission, greatly reduce medical errors, help prevent falls, and certainly allow for patients to sleep better. Patients will not only heal better, but they won't end up spending as much time in the hospital."
Scot Latimer, president at the AIA Academy of Architecture for Health, says, "Initial costs for all private rooms in hospitals will pay for themselves very quickly, and nursing units with private rooms are far less costly to operate. Hospitals will actually be able to run at a higher occupancy rate, as well as reduce the costs and safety risks that are associated with patient transfers."
According to the AIA Consensus Construction Forecast Panel report in June 2006, healthcare construction, the second largest institutional sector, accounts for over 7 percent of non-residential construction activity and is projected to increase 6.3 percent this year, followed by an additional 5 percent next year.
According to the full AIA Consensus Construction Forecast Panel report: "These recommendations must be adopted by every state in order to achieve measurable improvements in recovery time from illness and injury, and to provide a safer, healthier environment for patients," says Paul Mendelsohn, senior director of AIA state and local affairs. "We will work towards achieving uniformity in state health facility codes so that hospitals can offer a far more conducive healing environment and additional economic benefits."
To order 2006 Guidelines for Design and Construction of Health Care Facilities, visit the AIA website or call (800) 242-3837, option 1.
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The new album includes such classics as AC/DC's "TNT," Steve Miller's "The Joker," Elton John's "Rocket Man," the Stevie Nicks/Tom Petty duet "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" (which Puddle Of Mudd recorded with BC Jean), Neil Young's "Old Man," and the first single, The Rolling Stones classic "Gimmie Shelter."
Another standout track on the album is Puddle's take on Billy Squier's "Everybody Wants You." Billy Squier himself has already heard the track and remarked, "Sounds like these guys have got the right idea."
"Our goal in interpreting these songs was to pay more tribute rather than reinvent," guitarist Paul Phillips said. "These are all classics that are perfect in every sense, so who are we to mess with that? We just wanted to represent them in their true form and add a little of our sound to them. We cut everything with very few takes and tried to keep it very live like those old seventies records. We didn't want to Pro Tool the hell out of it."
Beginning July 23, Puddle Of Mudd have scheduled five shows where for the first half of the show they will perform songs from re:(disc)overed followed by a run of Puddle Of Mudd hits.
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1. Gimmie Shelter
2. Old Man
4. Stop Draggin' My Heart Around
5. The Joker
6. Everybody Wants You
7. Rocket Man
8. All Right Now
9. Shooting Star
10. Funk
11. D'yer Maker
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July 23 – Webster Theater, Hartford CT
July 24 – Northern Lights, Clifton Park NY
July 26 – Hampton Beach Casino, Hampton Beach NH
July 28 – Starland Ballroom, Sayreville NJ
July 30 – House of Blues, Cleveland OH
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LAS CRUCES — Susan Palmer spent a large part of her day last Wednesday filling bags with coupons.
"These will go to the first 250 shoppers," she said of the of the bags being prepared for last Friday's shopping rush at the Mesilla Valley Mall.
The life of a marketing director is never slow.
"You keep busy," said Palmer, marketing director for the mall. "But I like it."
Palmer is closing in on her second year with the retail center at 700 S. Telshor Boulevard. She came to southern New Mexico from Kansas City.
"I wanted to live somewhere warm where I could play tennis all year long," she said. "I had been to El Paso to visit friends from college, so I had seen the area before. In fact my friends brought me to eat in Mesilla. I remember driving under the pecan trees because they brought me the back way. That stuck in my mind."
Palmer grew up in Topeka, Kan., and went to college at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, where she earned a bachelor's degree in communication. She picked up an MBA at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
"I started out selling advertising," she said. "I used to call on all the malls in Kansas City and became friends with all the marketing directors. One marketing director decided she wanted to go into real estate and the general manager, who knew me, called me and said, 'You want to switch jobs?'"
Palmer said she was intrigued by the idea.
"I'm a shopper, I love to shop," she said.
At her first mall, she said she had to hit the ground running. The owners were very community-conscious.
"My challenge was to have a local event every weekend, whether it be a Kansas City Corvette club or a dance recital," she said.
She has been in shopping center marking for 12 years now with several stints in the Kansas City area and in Louisiana.
"I liked it right away," she said.
Working in Las Cruces is very different from a metropolitan area like Kansas City. With a smaller population base, the mall becomes a regional hub, not just a neighborhood location.
"There, you have so many people, you don't have such a wide marketing area," she said.
She said that her stint in Louisiana was similar to Las Cruces from a standpoint of regional attraction. Still, she said the Mesilla Valley Mall has the longest reach of any of the shopping centers she has worked at.
"Here I advertise the bigger holiday events and sidewalks sales in Ruidoso and Deming and Silver City and T or C. For those people, especially if something is going on on the weekends, it could be a day trip for them."
When Palmer came on board, the mall was in the midst of a major renovation.
The renovation began in April of 2005 with work on the roof and parking lot as well as landscaping around the outside of the building. Eventually the old tile inside the mall was ripped up and new flooring was installed. Decorative lighting was added throughout the common area as was new furniture seating groups, new food court furniture, interior painting and surface refinishing. In addition, a new mall logo and sign was developed.
The mall, which opened for business in 1981, completed the $5 million project in the spring of 2006 and held grand re-opening events in April of that year.
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U.S. Forest Service special agent fashions box calls
Russ Arthur prepares turkey sounds for hunting season
CLEVELAND, Tenn. - As soon as he was old enough to walk, Russ Arthur began accompanying his father to a hunting camp at the south end of the Cherokee National Forest in the mountains of East Tennessee.
There were far fewer wild turkeys back then than there are today, but that was almost beside the point. What stuck in Arthur's mind was the camping, the cooking and how much the men enjoyed their turkey calls.
"I had an infatuation with sitting around the hunting camp with those old-timers," Arthur said. "A lot of them used hand-crafted calls, the kind that lend themselves to a unique sound."
Tennessee's spring turkey hunting season opened Saturday. In keeping with family tradition, Arthur plans to return to that same hunting camp with his father, Jim, who's now 83 years old.
A supervisory special agent for the U.S. Forest Service, Arthur makes the kind of turkey calls he knew as a boy. His workshop in Bradley County is stocked with blocks of wood, turkey wing bones and turtle shells. In his experienced hands, even a can of snuff can be made to gobble and cluck.
Arthur, 50, began making turkey calls 20 years ago. He started with wing bone calls, the kind used by American Indians. A turkey wing has three bones, the smallest of which forms the mouthpiece of the call.
Blown like a trumpet, wing bone turkey calls are especially good at reproducing the yelp of a hen, the basic turkey sound.
"The hardest thing about making a wing bone call is rendering it down and getting it presentable so that it not only works, but doesn't leave a bad taste in your mouth," Arthur said.
To learn how to make box calls, Arthur spent two days in Georgia with Glenn Honeycut, a turkey hunter who had camped and hunted with him and his father.
With box calls, a wooden paddle is gently rubbed across the box's lid, which is dusted with chalk to produce friction. The hollow box acts as a sound chamber, and the paddle is, in effect, a violin bow. Arthur carves his boxes out of solid wood, and like musical instruments, no two are exactly alike.
In his workshop is a block of American chestnut from a church built in North Carolina in the 1800s. He also makes box calls out of pecan, hickory, walnut, cedar, cherry, poplar, magnolia and dogwood, and more often than not, he cuts the trees himself.
Arthur has made 104 box calls and has never sold a single one. Instead, he gives them away, often to young adults who are getting started in turkey hunting.
"No two of my calls sound alike, which is just as well, because no two turkeys sound alike," he said. "Some are high pitch, some are low pitch. Some are raspy, and some are clear."
It wasn't long after the Pilgrims arrived that wild turkeys began to decline. The clearing of forests played a role in their demise, but market hunting also contributed. By the late 1800s, turkey populations in the Southeast appeared to be headed down the same path as elk and buffalo.
Today, wild turkeys have been restored to every county in Tennessee. Their comeback - the result of stocking efforts and regulated hunting seasons - ranks as one of the true wildlife success stories of modern times.
"In my opinion, turkey hunting in the mountains of East Tennessee is one of the biggest challenges in the outdoor world," Arthur said. "You're out there with the spring wildflowers, listening as the gobblers announce their presence. As a hunter, you're competing against the other hens. You want that box call to say, 'Hey, come to me. I'm more attractive than these other gals.' "
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By Michael DavisIf a bill introduced in the Georgia General Assembly this year passes, county and city police across Georgia could be a rare sight on the state's interstate highways. The bill, House Bill 6, would have speeding fines collected off of interstate highways by local police put directly into the state treasury. Local leaders and police groups are afraid the bill will discourage police from patrolling interstates. "That may be good for the coffers of Georgia but it would not be good for us," said Henry County Commission Chairman Jason Harper in a recent meeting with members of Henry's legislative delegation. "Across the state of Georgia, you would affect safety because across the state of Georgia, counties would stop patrolling the interstates." But the bill's sponsor, Rep. Ben Bridges, R-Cleveland, says the measure is intended to keep local jurisdictions from running speed traps on interstates in order to generate revenue and points out that fines generated by Georgia State Patrol stops would still go to the local jurisdiction. "The purpose of this is to keep local jurisdictions from preying off the public just for the purpose of making money," said Bridges, a retired state trooper. Some jurisdictions, he added, "are stopping people they know aren't going to come back to court." "They need to be protecting the public where the public needs to be protected," he said. But separating interstate speeding fines from other types of fines may pose clerical problems, said Clayton County State Court Clerk Brenda Smith. "At this time, the way we do business, that's not something we have to track," she said. "And if we have to start tracking where the ticket is given, I see that being a lot of extra work for my office." The Georgia Association of Chiefs of Police continues its stand against the measure, saying that if local communities don't see a fiscal benefit to patrolling highways, their officers' time will be used elsewhere, possibly leaving highway speed limits meaningless. "If there are no residuals going to municipalities for their labor, they are less likely to apply that labor in the area of traffic enforcement," said GACP spokesman Frank V. Rotondo. Rotondo points out that there are other Georgia laws that are designed to keep local police from "exerting too much traffic control," such as a statute that allows the state to revoke a department's radar certificate if fines generated from tickets of 10-17 miles per hour over the speed limit (a common infraction) make up more than 40 percent of a department's budget. "There are some logical approaches our legislators have used to address over-zealous law enforcement," Rotondo said. Bridges said he will continue to fight to get his bill, which was stopped in committee last year, passed. "I'm not doing this to make money for the state," he said. "I just don't feel like public safety (personnel) ought to be out there making money." ---- On the net: http://www.legis.state.ga.us
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I became involved with YOGC because it provided my private music students an outstanding opportunity to play with a much larger group than they would find at school. The board has a core of deeply committed individuals but also makes a practice of recruiting some new board members every year, to widen the circle of talent and influence available to help out. The challenge is to really involve all the members, who may wait to be asked to give of their time.
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If this organization had 10 million bucks, it could...
provide private lessons to all the members and expand the preparatory program.
Ways to make it better...
we had more students in the program.
In my opinion, the biggest challenges facing this organization are...
the relatively small number of prospective students.
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This plant is attractive to bees, butterflies and/or birds
Flowers are fragrant
Average Water Needs; Water regularly; do not overwater
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6-8 ft. (1.8-2.4 m)
6-8 ft. (1.8-2.4 m)
USDA Zone 8a: to -12.2 �C (10 �F)
USDA Zone 8b: to -9.4 �C (15 �F)
USDA Zone 9a: to -6.6 �C (20 �F)
USDA Zone 9b: to -3.8 �C (25 �F)
USDA Zone 10a: to -1.1 �C (30 �F)
USDA Zone 10b: to 1.7 �C (35 �F)
USDA Zone 11: above 4.5 �C (40 �F)
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This plant has been said to grow in the following regions:
Clovis, California
Larkspur, California
Long Beach, California
Napa, California
Brooksville, Florida
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Hobe Sound, Florida
Jacksonville, Florida (2 reports)
Miami, Florida
Niceville, Florida
Port Charlotte, Florida
Saint Petersburg, Florida
Sebring, Florida
Seffner, Florida
Tampa, Florida (3 reports)
Webster, Florida
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
New Orleans, Louisiana
Austin, Texas
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On Aug 6, 2012, troplady from Kahului, HI wrote:
Because I love the blooms on this plant I planted 2. The plants are healthy and growing butwon't bloom. Our soil is sandy ( Hawaii). they have been in the ground about 8 months. I have seen them bloom here at a higher elevation and no sandy soil. Anyone know a fertilizer I could use or some way to encourage them to bloom?
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LOVE the tricolored blooms. Have not noticed a significant scent; however, it is planted near the street where our neighbors benefit the most. Looks lovely against the yellow back drop of our house. Our YTT is a small tree form, which works nicely to screen the garage windows.
On Apr 9, 2005, eileenelder from Seffner, FL (Zone 10a) wrote:
This plant reseeds itself. When I purchased my home I had two huge 13+ foot shrubs. I now have these growing amongst all of my shrubs. I finally today started removing some, it broke my heart - I LOVE this shrub. The flowers are beautiful, the smell wafts around my house all day.
On Oct 6, 2004, Jamespayne from Sebring, FL (Zone 9b) wrote:
I purchased a Brunfelsia grandiflora early last Spring 2004, and now in the Fall of 2004 it has grown 4 times it's size, reaching a height of over 4 feet and still putting out new growth. It was in bloom when I purchased the plant, and I can not wait to see the flowers change on this plant now that is is much larger. It survived 3 major hurricanes with little damage!
On Sep 12, 2004, Monocromatico from Rio de Janeiro
South American shrub, very similar to other Brunfelsias, just the flowers being significantly bigger, plus some minor foliar characteristics.


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Toasted quinoa, lentil & poached salmon salad
Cooking timePrep: 15 mins Cook: 40 mins Plus cooling
Skill levelEasy
ServingsServes 6
Great if you're following a low-cholesterol diet, this fresh plate of greens contains nutty, toasted supergrains and flavoursome lemon and herbs
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- Healthy
Nutrition per serving
- kcalories
- 302
- protein
- 24g
- carbs
- 25g
- fat
- 12g
- saturates
- 2g
- fibre
- 7g
- sugar
- 4g
- salt
- 0.6g
- 140g quinoa
- 1 tsp olive oil
- 400ml light vegetable stock (we used bouillon)
- 250g asparagus, trimmed
- 100g frozen soya beans
- 140g broccoli, florets trimmed and halved (we used Tenderstem)
- zest and juice 1 lemon
- 2 salmon fillets (about 150g each)
- ½ garlic clove, crushed
- 250g pack ready-cooked puy lentils
- 6 spring onions, sliced on the diagonal
- large handful mint and parsley, roughly chopped
- 85g baby spinach leaves
- 25g flaked almonds, toasted
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- Rinse the quinoa and tip into a large non-stick frying pan. Turn the heat to medium and dry out the grains, stirring to move them about the pan. Once all the liquid has evaporated, stir in the oil. Continue cooking the quinoa until it has turned a nutty brown and starts to 'pop' – this will take 10-15 mins. Stir every so often to stop the quinoa burning. Pour over the stock and simmer for 15-20 mins until all the liquid has been absorbed. Tip into a bowl and allow to cool.
- Meanwhile, bring a large pan of water to the boil. Drop in the soya beans, asparagus and broccoli, and simmer for 2 mins. Remove using a slotted spoon and plunge into a bowl of ice-cold water. Drain the vegetables.
- Add 1 tsp of the lemon juice to the pan with the vegetable water, then turn the heat down to a gentle simmer. Season the salmon fillets and submerge fully in the water. Poach for 6-8 mins until just cooked. Remove, allow to cool, then take off the skin and flake into large chunks.
- Make a dressing by mixing together the garlic, most of the lemon zest and remaining lemon juice. Mix the quinoa, lentils, drained vegetables, spring onions, herbs, spinach and dressing together in a large bowl, then season. Pile onto a serving plate, top with the salmon, then scatter over the almonds and remaining lemon zest.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, June 2013
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Comments, questions and tips
Hi, I've been curating salad recipes from around the web for myself, friends, and family and decided to post all of them on my blog. I just want to make sure it's ok with you guys since I used your image! Thanks for the recipe!
Here's the link: http://www.mariasalad.com/toasted-quinoa-lentil-poached-salmon-salad-rec...
Really tasty recipe. I tried cooking the quinoa following the above recipe, then when I made it again I didn't have time for step 1 'popping' the quinoa. It tasted just as good! So save yourself the effort. Simply simmer the quinoa for 10 mins then stand for 10 mins. Good easy-cook quinoa method here www.lovequinoarecipes.com. Will make again using the short-cut method.


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While Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions wasn't a bad game (let's forget about Edge of Time), it was only a matter of time before Beenox was given a shot to put Spidey in an open-world Manhattan. This is where The Amazing Spider-Man comes in, tying in to this Summer's blockbuster movie reboot. Games attached to movies have a sketchy history, occasionally providing some pretty good highs but far more miserable lows. Web Head's latest movie game definitely isn't E.T., but it's no Goldeneye either.
One of the most noteworthy aspects is that The Amazing Spider-Man game acts as an epilogue to the film. If you plan on watching the movie spoiler-free, then it goes without saying that you should hold off on playing the game as characters are constantly referencing those events. Beyond that, the story is otherwise insignificant. In the aftermath of the movie's resolution, there's a viral outbreak that's turning the citizens of Manhattan into cross-species mutants, much like the Lizard before. It turns out that Oscorp Industries continued Dr. Connors' research despite the obvious side effects, and soon enough other super-powered cross-species such as Iguana, Rhino, and Scorpion are rampaging through New York. Connors is the only one with the knowledge to reverse the effects, so Spidey busts him out of the asylum he put him in, to develop a cure. Of course, there are other forces at work that will do their damnedest to make sure that the former Lizard that terrorized Manhattan doesn't suddenly become its savior.
With the fact that the primary actors from the film lend only their likenesses (though Peter doesn't even get that), one can't help but think that this epilogue will have no bearing on the movie's sequel despite the large-scale destruction and mayhem experienced throughout. As far as the story is concerned, it's clear that The Amazing Spider-Man exists only to capitalize on the movie's hype; which is too bad. Also unfortunate is how hit-and-miss the gameplay can be. On the one hand, swinging around the city is a blast. The physics feel true as you propel yourself between skyscrapers, building speed and momentum with well-timed thwipping. Despite its simplicity, web-swinging works quite a bit differently than it did in previous Spider-Man games. Specifically, you don't always need something to attach your web to. You'll always be able to swing away from a standstill – even if it's at the top of the Empire State Building. And you'll never hit the ground so long as you hold the swing button. While it's not realistic to be able to get through Central Park this way, it beats the alternative of running like a chump.
The Amazing Spider-Man also introduces the Web Rush, which allows you to slow down time and zip either onto a perch or directly into an enemy to engage in combat. While it's useful as you whip yourself around the city collecting comic book pages (an addictive aside that unlocks digital comics), there's little need for it once you're in a fight. Conversely, the game also introduces the Web Retreat to Spidey's arsenal, which yanks him from harm's way and into the shadows at the touch of a button if he's overwhelmed.
The combat itself is where The Amazing Spider-Man begins to unravel, unfortunately, as it's simply not very good. The mechanics are heavily influenced by Rocksteady's Batman games. There is one button to strike, another to counter, stuns via web shooter rather than a cape, and several takedown combos. The sad thing is they are outclassed by Batman in just about every respect. Spidey's motions seem gawkish as he takes down goons and bots, and it's not uncommon to completely miss an enemy that you were meaning to hit. Countering can also be touch-and-go, with your Spider-Sense sometimes triggering too late and allowing enemies to get cheap hits in. It's highly frustrating, but there's no sense of satisfaction either because of how easy it is to bail on a tough fight.
Ultimately, The Amazing Spider-Man fails at being consistent one way or another. While the character models for Spider-Man and his cross-species rogues gallery look good enough, "normals" such as Gwen Stacy and Dr. Connors are dead-eyed stiffs with terrible lip-syncing all around. The borough of Manhattan looks fine as long as the sky isn't overcast, where excessive bloom lighting makes it hard to see anything. Meanwhile, going indoors subjects you to laboratory after laboratory, after sewer after laboratory. Usually they are slathered in acidic goo left behind by cross-species enemies in a half-assed attempt to make levels more dangerous to traverse. The thrill of collecting comic pages is canceled out by the monotony of playing ambulance for dozens of infected citizens.
What Beenox has delivered isn't a terrible game, but that's hardly comforting. There have been good movie games, superhero games, and Spider-Man games. Hell, we even got all three at once with Treyarch's Spider-Man 2. While the developer's third crack at the license and the freedom of an open-world Manhattan held promise, the end result is far less than amazing.


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The author is indebted to his wife for her assistance in examining and transcribing many of the old records in this country and abroad and in the preparation of the manuscript, and for her aid and coöperation in many other ways.
The Introduction is taken largely from a paper read by the author before the Grotius Society in London in May, 1927;1 while some of the views expressed in the Conclusions are taken from a paper read before that Society in June, 1928.2
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A superb KF in flight capture, well done
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By Greg GelpiTake back your school. That was the message repeated by a number of parents gathered Tuesday night at Forest Park High School. The Forest Park Parent Teacher Student Association held a meeting to address increasing concerns of gang violence in the wake of a fatal shooting and numerous threats. The school sent a letter to parents last week warning of the possibility of gang activity at school, but Principal Morris Davis said he did so because he would rather err on the side of caution. "The school's answer to the ills is to make your young people safe," he said. "I'd rather alarm you and keep your child as safe as I can." But Davis said he can't solve all of the problems of the world. He said he can only take measures to increase safety of students on campus. Once they leave school, he can't do anything to increase their safety. Narwanna El-Shabazz drew applause from the crowd when she questioned the participation of parents and challenged them to take action. "Take your school back," she said. "These are your children." El-Shabazz, an area vice president of PTSA, called upon parents to give an hour or more to help patrol the hallways, clean up the school and take an active role in the school's safety. The Forest Park PTSA has 25 active members, President Tanevery Jenkins said, although more than double that number attended the meeting. "As a group, we're stronger than an individual," she said. "As a group, they can't stop us." Members of the Forest Park and Clayton County police departments and School Resource Officer Sgt. Walter Randall said they rely on information and support from those in the community in curbing gang violence. Information is crucial to battling gangs, they said. "I've said from day one that I can't take care of a problem I don't know about," Randall said. "I'm sure your children will tell you that I'm really good about taking care of the problems I know about." Randall, who has worked as the school's resource officer since the program began at the school 12 years ago, said that Forest Park High has the fewest violent crimes per capita of all 51 schools in Clayton County. He placed signs containing a phone number for students and parents to use to confidentially report safety issues in each classroom of the school, he said. To report a concern, they should call the hotline at (770) 472-7200, extension 64516. The county police have a special unit that focuses on gang activity, Assistant Commander of Special Operations Mark Thompson said. "It is our belief that information is power," he said. "I don't think you would be frightened if you knew who you were dealing with." The officers urged all of the parents to call 911 and alert authorities of any suspicious activity. Some parents accused officials of trying to "sweep the problem under the carpet." But, officials responded that by holding a meeting and asking for information they are addressing the problem. "We're not going to solve the problem overnight, but we can start by informing you," Davis said. Fears of gang violence increased after the fatal shooting of Devon Gates. Vap Chhoum was arrested in connection with the incident, and threats of retaliation began to circulate. In response to the threats, Morrow High School canceled its annual homecoming parade and increased security at its homecoming football game.
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Saybian Morgan wrote:whoa mama I'm tearing up looking at all that wood. If only my f250 could drive on water Id be there hauling loads back to the mainland.
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Barclays and Standard Chartered are among banks being asked to curb lending rates in Zimbabwe as the government puts pressure on the financial services industry to aid economic recovery.
A draft agreement between 23 banks and the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, a copy of which has been obtained by Bloomberg, stipulates that lending rates cannot be more than 10 percentage points above the companies' cost of financing. This cost currently ranges between 1 percent and 7 percent while banks charge lending rates of as much as 25 percent.
There is a need to ensure "that bank charges and interest rates promote financial inclusion, stability and economic growth", the central bank and the lenders say in the agreement, which is yet to be ratified.
The pressure to lower interest rates comes after Finance Minister Tendai Biti said in November last year that the country could amend its banking laws after financial institutions shunned central bank attempts to restart the country's capital markets by selling treasury bills for the first time since 2008.
Under the terms of the agreement banks will also be compelled to pay customers an interest rate of at least 4 percent on term deposits of more than $1 000 (R8 500) and to design accounts with lower charges to cater for poorer customers. Zimbabwe's annual inflation rate was 3 percent in November.
"The matter is still under discussion and we hope it will be finalised soon," said George Guvamatanga, the president of the country's bankers' association.
Stanbic Bank of Zimbabwe, a unit of Standard Bank, is included in the agreement as are units of Nedbank, Ecobank Transnational and Old Mutual.
Barclays Bank of Zimbabwe is the biggest bank by market value on the Zimbabwe stock exchange. Its stock declined 35 percent from the beginning of last year to 28 US cents at close yesterday. Biti said four banks held 80 percent of deposits in Zimbabwe. – Godfrey Marawanyika from Bloomberg
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Sometimes, it's necessary or desirable to disable the automatic running of an R-OSGi instance and the attendant creation of a listener on R-OSGi's default port (9278).
- When attempting to run other R-OSGi instance(s) on the localhost (e.g. running the Getting_Started_with_ECF's_RFC119_Implementation).
- When running JUnit plugin tests
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To disable R-OSGi in a given instance, provide the following on the command line when starting (Eclipse or some other app that has ECF installed):
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Jacksonville quarterback Chad Henne calls signals at the line during a preseason game against the Philadelphia Eagles at EverBank Field in Jacksonville. The Jaguars are in Oakland to face the Raiders today.
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In the case of the hapless Jacksonville Jaguars, the panic button has been worn down. The Jaguars managed only a safety last week. Their running back is always hurt. Their wide receiver is serving a drug suspension and their quarterback stinks.
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