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This book, written by the JDO Specification Lead and one of the key contributors to the JDO Specification, is the definitive work on the JDO API. It gives you a thorough introduction to JDO, starting with a simple application that demonstrates many of JDO's capabilities. It shows you how to make classes persistent, how JDO maps persistent classes to the database, how to configure JDO at runtime, how to perform transactions, and how to make queries. More advanced chapters cover optional features such as nont
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A major new study of the theory and practice of warfare in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Using relevant examples from recent history, this book provides a complete introduction to the issues, ideas, concepts, context and vocabulary of modern warfare. The expert team of authors explore the conduct of war across land, sea, air and space in addition to addressing key issues relating to contemporary strategy, weapons of mass destruction and irregular warfare, including insurgency, terrorism and civil war. They provide an incisive and structured grounding in military theory and argue for the importance of understanding warfare within the joint (inter-service) context and as an evolutionary rather than a revolutionary phenomenon. By providing the tools required to truly understand contemporary military doctrine this accessible survey will be an invaluable resource for any student of military history or international relations as well as for military professionals.
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Stop Chewing Qat If You Want To Immigrate To US, Yemenis Told
Issue 324
Sana'a, March 30, 2008 – The US embassy in Sana'a said on Sunday it will not allow Yemenis who are addicted to qat, to enter the United States as immigrants.
The immigrant visa applicants should prove they have stopped using qat three years ago at least, if they want to be eligible applicants, a diplomatic source told Gulf News.
It is worth mentioning that many Americans based in Yemen, including diplomats, use qat during Majlis (social gatherings).
This measure will not be applied to those who go to the US for a visit, and not for immigration, the sources said. "Qat has two chemical components, cathine and cathinone, legally defined as drugs by the US Centre for Disease Control and the US Controlled Substances Act," the sources said.
"Cathine is a Schedule IV drug and cathinone is a Schedule I drug. Schedule I drugs are considered to have a high potential for abuse and for which there are currently no accepted medical uses."
Abuse of Schedule I drugs is considered a "Class A" medical ineligibility under the Immigration and Nationality Act. So, the sources said, applicants for immigrant visas who are medically found to have used a Schedule I drug beyond simple experimentation (ie a single use), must be found ineligible for a visa.
Former users of qat that can medically prove that they have not used it for at least three years may be found to have a "Class B" medical condition.
According to the INA, "sustained, full remission of addiction or abuse of specific substances" reduces the Class A medical ineligibility to a Class B medical condition, which does not render the applicant ineligible for an immigrant visa.
About 60 per cent of Yemenis including women and children use qat as an stimulant. Students use it to help them stay awake during exams.
Those who support qat say it helps them relax from strains and stresses of work. Qat sessions in Yemen bring together people from different social, political and economic backgrounds.
Women have their own qat sessions.
What is qat: Natural stimulant
Qat is a natural stimulant from the Catha Edulis plant found in east Africa and southern Arabia. The shrub reaches heights of up to 20 feet.
Qat leaves contain psychoactive ingredients known as cathinone and cathine, a milder form of cathinone. Fresh qat leaves, which are typically chewed, produce a mild euphoria.
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Definition of aiguille in English:
A sharp pinnacle of rock in a mountain range.
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- Across the valley, towering above you, is the snow-covered dome of Mont Blanc, glaciers tumbling down its northern face –and the razor-sharp 'needles' of several aiguilles, set in a jagged line across the southern horizon.
- The summit of the Aiguille Verte exhibits the original culmination of the group which is now divided into several aiguilles.
- For the athlete who will spend days on an aiguille for the sake of gymnastics has less of the true stuff in him than the simple fellow who goes a walking tour in Devonshire from an honest liking for high places.
Mid 18th century: French, literally 'needle'.
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Capita-Union anybody rock this?
so i pretty much completely destroyed my all mountain board (rome anthem) this year and am prowling for a new kit. I'm heading down to chile in july/august for a couple of weeks and will probably bring my hero 58 for any powder/park days but I'd also like to bring a ripper for big mt stuff. i've never ridden capita boards or union bindings but heard they match up pretty well. anyone ride this setup? i'm kind of looking at the black death or indoor living with a pair of forces. good bad average?
sure why not? its all preference anyway, right?
its not preference? you are supposed to ride what other people like?
yeah we don't get demos up here either, but people but WAY too much faith in "reviews" of things and way too much thought into trying to match equipment, sometimes you just have to make a choice and buy stuff and find out what your preferences are. what if someone says its a "bad set up" and someone else says its great?
well. that being said - i love my forces, theyre a great all around binding. im looking to get a capita next year with union contacts, more of a park set up than youre looking at. but im definately sold on union, very durable and imo great customer service. ive also heard great things about the black death inc., i would definately look into it if i were riding big mountain but unfortunately im on the east coast :(
most people on this forum seem to have good things to say about union and capita in general though.
Not for soft jocks
I rode the Black Death Inc.159W with Union Forces. And that was my favorite board of choice for my 10 days in Jackson Hole.
i ride a horroscope with forces and i absolutely love it. i would definitely recommend the indoor living as i plan on picking up that deck myself next year.
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Thursday, teachers, administrators and the public voiced there objections and opinions about the proposed school district budget for next year at a public hearing. Following the hearing the Moffat County School Boards decided to pass the budget as proposed for the upcoming school year. The conflicts over budget cuts were due to declining Continue reading
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A group suing to block the Obama administrations sage grouse protection plan says that documents show that politics were the main reason behind the policy and that the program goes against the advice of experts. The plan sets aside land in 10 western states including Wyoming and Colorado for Sage Grouse habitat. The lawsuit, by a group of rural Continue reading
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is urging states to reject the Environmental Protection Agency's proposed new Clean Air Rules, by refusing to send in state plans. Each state has different target standards they will be required to reach when and if the rules take effect. In an op-ed piece, McConnell said "The Continue reading
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About the Book
A stunning and gritty graphic novel integrating the iconic strategy text by Sun Tzu into a sweeping thriller set in the near future when Wall Street is militarized and China is the world's dominant economy.
Kelly Roman served time for a horrific friendly fire incident. Once free, he discovers that his brother died while working for Sun Tzu, the ruthless strategist who runs China's global financial empire.
From the apocalyptic third world of suburban Ohio, Kelly heads into the futuristic Gomorrah that is Manhattan to infiltrate Sun Tzu's organization and find out who murdered his brother—and why. Using the skills and genetic enhancements his Special Forces career provided him, he'll confront both Sun Tzu and his nemesis, a monster of biotechnology known only as The Prince.
Throughout his harrowing adventure, Kelly documents Sun Tzu's ancient wisdom, which guides him through each bloody battle and hairbreadth escape in his quest for vengeance and redempti on.
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"Ingenious....Roman and DeWeese have made a visual explosion out of Sun Tzu's iconic understatement." — San Francisco Chronicle
"The dystopian story is not for the faint of heart, but those looking for a gory thriller will find plenty to keep them busy." — Publishers Weekly
"An epic dystopian story. . . . that revels in all of the trespasses and heroism of which only human beings are truly capable." — Kirkus Reviews
"In Roman and DeWeese's graphic novel, Sun Tzu is alive and well" — Detroit News
"Phenomenal artwork, a brilliant story-one of the best graphic novels I've ever read." — Tarquin Pack, Producer, Kick Ass, Executive Producer, X-Men: First Class
"An astounding adaptation of Sun Tzu's ancient text that made me think about its application in an entirely new way." — General (Ret.) Stephen N. Xenakis, U.S. Army
"Imaginative, provocative, powerful, and disturbing, Kelly Roman's Art of War should be required reading for those concerned with the future of America and its place in the world." — Minxin Pei, Professor of Government, Claremont McKenna College
"THE ART OF WAR rebrands the millennium. It melts down debased ideology, re-values cultural currency, mints strange new coin and buys tomorrow-pawns everything you know. — Jamie Delano, author of Hellblazer
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- On Sale: 07/31/2012
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A new study suggests that although moderate amounts of running can have several health benefits, it may actually be detrimental to a person�s health to run more than a few hours a week, WebMD is reporting.
The study compared data from nearly 4,000 male and female runners over the age of 35. The study found that high-mileage runners had about the same longevity as people who didn�t run at all. Those who ran two or three hours a week had the longest lifespans compared to the other two groups.
The researchers behind the study still aren�t sure why high-mileage runners have shorter lifespans and they caution that more research needs to be done. In the meantime, they suggest that runners limit the amount of stress they put on their bodies and stay well informed about information related to their health.
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Apple Archery Edge Bow Press
Bench-mount press offers limb tip and conventional compression for compound bows. Engineered to eliminate limb twisting. Apple Archery® Edge Bow Press features adjustable limb pocket posts for long and short riser bows and presses all center pivot compound bows. All-steel construction with a powder coated finish.
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Create a simple egg-shaped Easter card with two colors of paper, one solid and one patterned. Make and send these Easter egg cards in no time. Project designed by Fawnda Norman.
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Tao, JH; Zhang, MG; Chen, LF; Wang, ZF; Su, L; Ge, C; Han, X; Zou, MM (2013). A method to estimate concentrations of surface-level particulate matter using satellite-based aerosol optical thickness. SCIENCE CHINA-EARTH SCIENCES, 56(8), 1422-1433.
AbstractWe propose a new method to estimate surface-level particulate matter (PM) concentrations by using satellite-retrieved Aerosol Optical Thickness (AOT). This method considers the distribution and variation of Planetary Boundary Layer (PBL) height and relative humidity (RH) at the regional scale. The method estimates surface-level particulate matter concentrations using the data simulated by an atmospheric boundary layer model RAMS and satellite-retrieved AOT. By incorporation MODIS AOT, PBL height and RH simulated by RAMS, this method is applied to estimate the surface-level PM2.5 concentrations in North China region. The result is evaluated by using 16 ground-based observations deployed in the research region, and the result shows a good agreement between estimated PM2.5 concentrations and observations, and the coefficient of determination R (2) is 0.61 between the estimated PM2.5 concentrations and the observations. In addition, surface-level PM2.5 concentrations are also estimated by using MODIS AOT, ground-based LIDAR observations and RH measurements. A comparison between the two estimated PM2.5 concentrations shows that the new method proposed in this paper is better than the traditional method. The coefficient of determination R (2) is improved from 0.32 to 0.62.
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Lander, WY (AP) - A 42-year-old woman accused of hitting her boyfriend several times with her car during an argument outside a Riverton motel has been charged with driving under the influence and two counts of aggravated assault.
The Riverton Ranger reports Teresa Leah Sunrhodes, of Lander, appeared in court for a preliminary hearing Wednesday and faces up to 21 ½ years in prison if convicted.
She was arrested April 16 after witnesses said she struck Anthony Hopper with her car. Police say her blood alcohol content was 0.278 percent, more than three times the legal limit for driving.
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Definition of wraparound mortgage in English:
wraparound mortgage
A second mortgage held by a lender who collects payments on it and the first mortgage from the borrower. The lender makes the payments to the original mortgage holder.
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The Forfeiture Racket
Police and prosecutors won't give up their license to steal.
Around 3 in the morning on January 7, 2009, a 22-year-old college student named Anthony Smelley was pulled over on Interstate 70 in Putnam County, Indiana. He and two friends were en route from Detroit to visit Smelley's aunt in St. Louis. Smelley, who had recently received a $50,000 settlement from a car accident, was carrying around $17,500 in cash, according to later court documents. He claims he was bringing the money to buy a new car for his aunt.
The officer who pulled him over, Lt. Dwight Simmons of the Putnam County Sheriff's Department, said that Smelley had made an unsafe lane change and was driving with an obscured license plate. When Simmons asked for a driver's license, Smelley told him he had lost it after the accident. Simmons called in Smelley's name and discovered that his license had actually expired. The policeman asked Smelley to come out of the car, patted him down, and discovered a large roll of cash in his front pocket, in direct contradiction to Smelley's alleged statement in initial questioning that he wasn't, in fact, carrying much money.
A record check indicated that Smelley had previously been arrested (though not charged) for drug possession as a teenager, so the officer called in a K-9 unit to sniff the car for drugs. According to the police report, the dog gave two indications that narcotics might be present. So Smelley and his passengers were detained and the police seized Smelley's $17,500 cash under Indiana's asset forfeiture law.
But a subsequent hand search of the car turned up nothing except an empty glass pipe containing no drug residue in the purse of Smelley's girlfriend. Lacking any other evidence, police never charged anybody in the car with a drug-related crime. Yet not only did Putnam County continue to hold onto Smelley's money, but the authorities initiated legal proceedings to confiscate it permanently.
Smelley's case was no isolated incident. Over the past three decades, it has become routine in the United States for state, local, and federal governments to seize the property of people who were never even charged with, much less convicted of, a crime. Nearly every year, according to Justice Department statistics, the federal government sets new records for asset forfeiture. And under many state laws, the situation is even worse: State officials can seize property without a warrant and need only show "probable cause" that the booty was connected to a drug crime in order to keep it, as opposed to the criminal standard of proof "beyond a reasonable doubt." Instead of being innocent until proven guilty, owners of seized property all too often have a heavier burden of proof than the government officials who stole their stuff.
Municipalities have come to rely on confiscated property for revenue. Police and prosecutors use forfeiture proceeds to fund not only general operations but junkets, parties, and swank office equipment. A cottage industry has sprung up to offer law enforcement agencies instruction on how to take and keep property more efficiently. And in Indiana, where Anthony Smelley is still fighting to get his money back, forfeiture proceeds are enriching attorneys who don't even hold public office, a practice that violates the U.S. Constitution.
Guilty Property, Innocent Owners
Technically, civil asset forfeiture proceedings are brought against the property itself, not the owner. Hence they often have odd case titles, such as U.S. v. Eight Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty Dollars or U.S. v. One 1987 Jeep Wrangler. The government need only demonstrate that the seized property is somehow related to a crime, generally either by showing that it was used in the commission of the act (as with a car driven to and from a drug transaction, or a house from which drugs are sold) or that it was purchased with the proceeds.
Because the property itself is on trial, the owner has the status of a third-party claimant. Once the government has shown probable cause of a property's "guilt," the onus is on the owner to prove his innocence. The parents of a drug-dealing teenager, for instance, would have to show they had no knowledge the kid was using the family car to facilitate drug transactions. Homeowners have to show they were unaware that a resident was keeping drugs on the premises. Anyone holding cash in close proximity to illicit drugs may have to document that he earned the money legitimately.
When owners of seized property put up a legal fight (and the majority do not), the cases are almost always heard by judges, not juries. In some states forfeiture claimants don't even have the right to a jury trial. But even in states where they do, owners tend to waive that right, because jury proceedings are longer and more expensive. Federal forfeiture claimants are technically guaranteed a jury trial under the Seventh Amendment, but can lose the right if they fail to reply in a timely manner to sometimes complicated government notices of seizure.
Federal asset forfeiture law dates back to the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act of 1970, a law aimed at seizing profits earned by organized crime. In 1978 Congress broadened RICO to include drug violations. But it was the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984 that made forfeiture the lucrative, widely used law enforcement tool it is today.
"The Crime Control Act did a few things," says the Virginia-based defense attorney David Smith, author of the legal treatise Prosecution and Defense of Forfeiture Cases. "First, it corrected some poor drafting in the earlier laws. Second, it created two federal forfeiture funds, one in the Justice Department and one in the Treasury. And most important, it included an earmarking provision that gave forfeiture proceeds back to local law enforcement agencies that helped in a federal forfeiture."
This last bit was key. "The thinking was that this would motivate police agencies to use the forfeiture provisions," Smith says. "They were right. It also basically made law enforcement an interest group. They directly benefited from the law. Since it was passed, they've fought hard to keep it and strengthen it."
The 1984 law lowered the bar for civil forfeiture. To seize property, the government had only to show probable cause to believe that it was connected to drug activity, or the same standard cops use to obtain search warrants. The state was allowed to use hearsay evidence—meaning a federal agent could testify that a drug informant told him a car or home was used in a drug transaction—but property owners were barred from using hearsay, and couldn't even cross-examine some of the government's witnesses. Informants, while being protected from scrutiny, were incentivized monetarily: According to the law, snitches could receive as much as one-quarter of the bounty, up to $50,000 per case.
According to a 1992 Cato Institute study examining the early results of the Comprehensive Crime Control Act, total federal forfeiture revenues increased by 1,500 percent between 1985 and 1991. The Justice Department's forfeiture fund (which doesn't include forfeitures from customs agents) jumped from $27 million in 1985 to $644 million in 1991; by 1996 it crossed the $1 billion line, and as of 2008 assets had increased to $3.1 billion. According to the government's own data, less than 20 percent of federal seizures involved property whose owners were ever prosecuted.
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Cancers 2013, 5(2), 462-490; doi:10.3390/cancers5020462
Regulatory Roles for Long ncRNA and mRNA
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AbstractRecent advances in high-throughput sequencing technology have identified the transcription of a much larger portion of the genome than previously anticipated. Especially in the context of cancer it has become clear that aberrant transcription of both protein-coding and long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are frequent events. The current dogma of RNA function describes mRNA to be responsible for the synthesis of proteins, whereas non-coding RNA can have regulatory or epigenetic functions. However, this distinction between protein coding and regulatory ability of transcripts may not be that strict. Here, we review the increasing body of evidence for the existence of multifunctional RNAs that have both protein-coding and trans-regulatory roles. Moreover, we demonstrate that coding transcripts bind to components of the Polycomb Repressor Complex 2 (PRC2) with similar affinities as non-coding transcripts, revealing potential epigenetic regulation by mRNAs. We hypothesize that studies on the regulatory ability of disease-associated mRNAs will form an important new field of research.
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Author Walter Kirn is up next for the Writers in the Loft Series at The Music Hall Loft in Portsmouth. He will read from his recent work, "Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery and a Masquerade," at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 26. In the summer of 1998, Kirn, an aspiring novelist struggling with impending fatherhood and a dissolving marriage, set out to deliver a crippled hunting dog from Montana to the New York apartment of Clark Rockefeller, a secretive young banker and art collector who had adopted the dog over the Internet. Thus began a 15-year relationship that drew Kirn deep into the fun-house world of an outlandish, eccentric son of privilege who ultimately would be unmasked as a brazen serial impostor, child kidnapper, and brutal murderer. Kirn's story takes readers on a haunting journey from the posh private clubrooms of Manhattan to the hard-boiled courtrooms and prisons of Los Angeles. Tickets are $40 and include a hardcover copy of the book. Stop by The Music Hall box office at 28 Chestnut St., call 436-2400 or visit www.themusichall.org. The Loft is located at 131 Congress St.
We the People will present a free public screening of the acclaimed documentary "Inequality for All" at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Phillips Exeter Academy. Directed by Jacob Kornbluth and narrated by former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, the film examines the roots of income inequality in America today. Reich, a noted economic policy expert who now teaches at U.C. Berkeley, explores how the widening gap between rich and poor has roots in economic and policy changes that began over 30 years ago. We the People is a free lecture and film series exploring issues at the intersection of current events, religion, and ethics. It is co-sponsored by the Congregational, Episcopal, and Unitarian Universalist churches of Exeter in association with Phillips Exeter Academy and Water Street Bookstore. The screening will be held at the Academy Building assembly hall, located on Front Street. Call 772-4216 or visit www.exetercongchurch.org.
Join Randy Price for an interesting lecture on his life and career in broadcast journalism from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday, March 27, at Star Theatre at Kittery Community Center in Kittery, Maine. Price is co-anchor of WCVB-TV's "EyeOpener," New England's top early morning newscast. He joined WCVB-TB Channel 5 in June 2009, and also contributes to breaking news stories and major event coverage for NewsCenter 5 and TheBostonChannel.com. During his distinguished career, Price has been honored with numerous humanitarian and professional awards, among them the broadcast industry's highest honor: a national Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Newscast in Boston. This free lecture is part of the theater's ongoing lecture series. Call (207) 439-3800 or visit www.kitterycommunitycenter.org. Star Theatre is located at 120 Rogers Road.
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Is it necessary to complete the interview processes for a discharge assessment?
Q: What is the requirement to complete a discharge MDS for a resident who has a planned discharged to the community? Is it necessary to complete the interview process?
A: When the discharge is planned, SNFs are required to complete the discharge assessment in its entirety, including the resident interviews that apply for this assessment. Section F is missing from the discharge assessment and, therefore, you would not have to complete the interview for Daily and Activity Preferences. But the BIMs, PHQ-9, and pain interviews are all included on the discharge MDS and must be completed for all planned discharges. It is only for an unplanned/emergency discharge that SNFs may not be able to complete all aspects of the assessment, such as the resident interviews, and should just complete the assessment to the best of their ability.
A little more information on coding and completing discharge assessments: If the discharge is return not anticipated within 30 days, you would code item A0310F as 10. If the discharge was return anticipated within 30 days, you would code item A0310F as 11. The MDS completion deadline for both of these assessments would be the discharge date + 14 days and the submission deadline would be the MDS completion date + 14 days.
Hi Diane, I would like to know when the completion of section F will be required? I have heard that we will only be completing section F for admissions and annuals.
When re-rugging during the conversion from MDS 2.0 to MDS 3.0 can you clarify if the same day can be used for a 5-day and 14-day assessment. For instance a resident admitted on 9/20/10 my understanding is a 3.0 5-day would need to be done Oct 1-2 and a 3.0 14-day would need to be done day 10/2-10. Can both be done on October 2 and still avoid the default rate?
I am unable to find specific parts of the RAI that allow dashes except in Section C. I do not know how to truthfully complete a MDS, for example, a pain assessment when the person is Code Blue leaving the building and they have not been in a lookback assessment. Our software does not allow dashes in every section because they do not have directive of where that is in their tech info. Do you have a source that says a dash can be entered in all sections?
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Due: Within 7 Days
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Is this form required before the PPS 5 day assessment? The information is the same on both forms. I understand the need for completing the entry tracking on non PPS Residents but it seems like double work. Can we combine?
Please clarify this question.
If the Resident is admitted with Medicare Part A in place wouldn't the start date of most recent Medicare stay be: The date of admission to SNF?
I was told by the MDS coordinator that the ARD for activities and social services does not apply and that we are to complete the MDS anytime from day 1 to the ARD. What is the reasoning for this. If I complete on day one it does not give a clear picture of the resident since admission.
Please tell mee this 42 page discharge will be eliminated! It is almost a complete repeat of the admission mds. Very time consuming and how do you ask a deceased patient any of those questions especially if they died before you even had a chance to meet them? Someone spent a lot of time with very poor insight as to the cost of paper and need for extra staff to meet all these requirements.
Although the discharge assessment required under the MDS 3.0 means more work for the interdisciplinary team, it could help track an individual's progess across healthcare settings to improve care transitions and even the quality of care people receive.
Also, if the resident passes away or is unexpectadly discharged due to an emergency, the residnet interviews do not have to be completed. In these situations, just complete the assessment to the best of your ability based on information from staff members and the medical record.
The discharge MDS Is way to long. The renetry is about 8 pages and that seems appropriate. We had 6 discharges the on Friday and it took me 4 hours to complete the process to the best of my ability. In my opinion the admission MDS is sufficient since we show progress and/or decline by doing a significant change MDS Big, big waste of paper and nursing time. This what most are saying!
if a patient dies on day 2 is a 5 day assessment done with discharge
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Some gotta win. Some gotta lose…
Nice work, Dad. Don't plan on winning the Father of the Year award anytime soon.
More likely it will be the kids of the very rich family down the street who can afford the best health care.
So you kids may already be middle-aged. Sorry.
I'm dying to be 100.
Some days I feel like 100…
but soon, everyone will be able to afford the best healthcare.
so it will be available to no one.
or just the very rich.
Unless the decision is left up to Kathleen sebelius, in which case none of those kids will live to see 11.
Nah – the first 50 will just feel like a 100!!!
Because of the cockup of our economy the life times have been starting to drop as more people start eating more poorly and under greater stress for longer periods as they lose their homes and cars and jobs.
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I'm very excited about the new members.
Did 133 events in the 2010 election cycle
11:24:16 AM I want you to think about what you want to do in the next two years, where you end up … This is a long struggle.
11:24:50 AM Nothing is permanent (in politics) — talks about GOP reversing some of his policies after he left office
2012 election was about repealing much of the 20th century
11:28:13 AM I want us to worry about the 21st century and how to make the most of it.
We're in a delicate and paradoxical position…
11:32:08 AM I can't tell you how many countless nights in the WH after the 1994 election…I thought about the ppl who were defeated bc they voted for the economic plan, the assault weapons ban, etc
Republicans are going to make it very difficult for you to win by negative refrence — need an affirmative agenda of jobs and innovation
Need to act on immigration. And guns, but it has to be done right.
11:34:11 AM We should assume going forward that the ppl who disagree with us … Will not make it as easy for us to draw the contrast as they did last time.
You were elected because ppl thought you were better candidates … And bc ppl didn't blame our party for conditions they have they didn't like
The most impotant thing I can tell you is this is a job. It's a job.
Need to do it and sell it at the same time.
11:37:04 AM Here's the dilemma. We do have a long term debt problem but that doesn't mean austerity now is the right approach.
Paul Krugman's right.
We need a jobs program…we need a strategy to promote innovation, start-up businesses, repatriate money – bring back taxes overseas – keep manufacturing sector expanding.
When I left office one of my regrets was that I didn't raise more sand about things I wanted to be done … Cites a conversation with Alan Greenspan about regulating derivatives.
I didn't say as much in public as I did in private bc the R majority at the time didn't even want to fund the SEC
Sometimes starting the debate is important.
11:44:13 AM Timing is everything.
Need a jobs program and a longer term program to bring down the debt.
Only reason interest on the debt is only 7 right now is bc interest rates are so low – if they were like when I was prez would be 15 pct. Where would you get the other 8?
11:46:23 AM we Democrats own the health reform bill
Was the best you could pass given filibuster in the Senate.
But it really depends how it's implemented.
I urge you not to walk away from this issue just because a bill was passed.
The Republican answer on health care is to get it off the books – send it to the states
The problem is that things that need to be done are not scoreable — such as making it pay for performance not procedure — applause
I would be as forward-leaning as I can on this issue.
Talks about increasing incentives for immigrants in STEM fields to stay in US
You cannot turn away from them and say oh that's not our demographic, we have nothing to say to them
11:56:51 AM we got to do something on this. Tells an anecdote about a small-town Arkansas Democrat who knows a gun-collector who isn't against background checks
It's important not to give up on anyone — to talk to them
There are people out there who aren't part of our demographic
Treat these ppl as our friends, our neighbors, as ppl we share a country with
We have to find a way to compare ourselves to the competition without being negative.
12:01:14 PM There's no reason to be negative about the future.


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The Witches
by Roald Dahl
Character Clues
Character Analysis
Appearance is most important when it comes to the witches. The witches' bodies are just plain revolting. They're deformed on the outside, which reflect their mean and messed-up insides: they're bald, have scabs on their heads, square feet, claws, and blue saliva. This is an image that, if nothing else, makes us remember that the witches are not human. They're monsters.
Speech and Dialogue
There sure is a lot of dialogue in The Witches, and for good reason. The narrator needs to learn from someone (Grandmamma) what the deal is with witches. The Grand High Witch needs to convey information to her gaggle of followers. Grandmamma and her grandson have some major planning to do. All of these things take some conversation time. Through the characters' speech, we're able to tell quite a bit about them.
Let's start with our narrator. He asks a lot of questions about witches, about mice, about fishing bait – there is nothing too small for a question. This might just tell us that we have a pesky narrator on our hands, but more likely, Roald Dahl is conveying his protagonist's curiosity. (For more on this, check out "Characters: The Narrator.")
The Grand High Witch also has some peculiarities to her speech. She rolls her "r"s and uses "v"s for "w"s. It all adds up to sound something like this:
"You brrrainless bogvumper! Are you not rrree-alising that if you are going rrround poisoning little children you vill be caught in five minutes flat? Never in my life am I hearing such a boshvolloping suggestion coming from a vitch!" (8.34)
You might notice that English isn't her first language. As strange of a creature as she is, her difficulty with the language just makes her sound even more distant from what we know as readers.
In case you haven't noticed, we keep calling our narrator "our narrator." This isn't because we want to remind you incessantly that he's the guy telling the story. It's because he doesn't have a name. In fact, Grandmamma doesn't really have a name either, just a title. Why on earth would the two main characters of a story (three, if you include The Grand High Witch) not have names? Well, it certainly makes them more adaptable. For example, instead of the narrator being one particular boy, we can almost think of him as an every-boy. That allows us to put ourselves in his shoes (and the fact that his grandma doesn't have a name adds to that possibility). It's a lot easier to imagine that we're a nameless boy than, for example, Percy Jackson.
What's more, our main characters seem to be the only ones without names. Almost all of the other characters in The Witches are identified by name. Of course there's Bruno Jenkins, our narrator's fellow boy-mouse. Then we have the vanished children from Grandmamma's stories, all with names (some first and last). Even some of the witches have names (Mildred, Millie, Beatrice). Even Timmy (4.61) and Ashton (6.10) – our narrator's schoolmates who are only mentioned in passing – get names. Even our narrator's mice, good old William and Mary, have names. All this makes it pretty clear that Roald Dahl didn't just forget to give our narrator and his grandma names. He did it for a reason.
Actions speak louder than words, or, in The Witches, at least equally as loud. We think of Grandmamma as a thick-skinned, tough nut of a woman, and our opinion is proven true by her actions. Think about how she goes ahead and moves to England with her grandson when his parents die. We know how much she loves Norway – she says it herself – yet she makes the immense sacrifice of leaving her homeland in order to take care of her grandson. This action shows her to be a loving, caring, and most importantly, selfless lady.
Our narrator takes quite a bit of action in the story, too. Most notably, he risks his own life in order to prevent the witches of England from killing all of the country's children. Not many of us have been put in this kind of a situation, but you can imagine it would be tough. Still, our narrator does it with gusto, showing himself to be courageous and, like his grandma, unselfish.
But if you think that actions only define the good characters, think again. Aside from their ugly, monstrous bodies, how do we know the witches are evil? Because they turn kids into mice, that's how. The witches are mean to kids, which proves that they're bad to the bone.


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Reb Aisel Harif was a man of the people. He was not interested in creating rabbinic dogma or hardships for those in Slonim, where he served with such distinction. And he especialy resented what he felt was the unnecessary strictness of the dayyanim, the judges of his day.
" You enjoy forbidden things, " he told a senior dayyan.
" What do you mean," asked the dayyan, deeply offended.
" Simply that you enjoy your own severity and forbidding matters to others."
Rabbi Aisel also worked unceasingly to help the poor. He would often borrow in order to give money to the poor. So, it was understandable that he was often in debt.
Somebody once asked him how he could possibly extricate himself and pay off his debts.
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Thank G-d, there are enough rich men in Slonim who are in position to pay back what I lay out for their poor."
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A new waste disposal strategy was announced on 10 January by Stephen Chu, head of the Department of Energy (DoE). He underlined the importance of nuclear energy to the US power system which counts 104 operating nuclear reactors. Safe management and disposal of highly radioactive used reactor fuel as well as similar military wastes "must remain a national priority" in order to "ensure that nuclear power remains part of our diversified clean-energy portfolio," he said.
America's new strategy would see a 'pilot interim store' being operation in 2021, with a focus on taking used nuclear fuel from current shut down power plant sites. By 2025 a larger 'full-scale interim store' would open, and by 2048 an underground disposal facility should be in place to permanently store and dispose of the material. The facilities could be co-located in any combination or sited separately – all depending on the expressed will of American people. There could even be more than one underground disposal site.
The schedule is meant to reduce the growth of the federal government's liabilities under the 1982 Nuclear Waste Policy Act, under which it was meant to begin taking used reactor fuel from power companies in 1998. As it is, some 68,000 tonnes of used reactor fuel reside at 72 different power plant sites across the country, with the DoE repeatedly reimbursing power companies for the cost of this. The two interim facilities will accept used reactor fuel at a rate faster than the 2000 tonnes per year it is being produced by the power industry in order to gradually draw down the backlog, said the DoE. "The sooner that legislation enables progress on implementing this strategy, the lower the ultimate cost will be to taxpayers," it said.
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Andrew Amos, Employee of the Month
By Stephanie Ciccarelli
November 4, 2011
We're pleased to announce that Voices.com recently instituted a program honouring our staff as Employee of the Month!
The team at Voices.com thought it would be wonderful to profile each month's Employee of the Month in recognition of their hard work and dedication to serving our customers.
Andrew Amos is the first official Voices.com Employee of the Month and I'm privileged to share more about him with you in today's VOX Daily.
Meet Andrew Amos
Andrew Amos joined our team in July 2011 after we had settled in at our new Voices.com offices downtown. I happened to know Andrew prior to this when he interned at Museum London as we both sat on a marketing committee for the museum. When he applied for a position as an Account Executive at Voices.com after completing a degree at the University of Western Ontario, we were excited to say the least.
In addition to community involvement (CNIB SENSEsation unGala, Heart & Stroke Big Bike, United Way Stair Climb), Andrew goes above and beyond the call of duty using his skills to inspire those around him and contribute his skills in media and public relations.
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A number of Andrew's Voices.com teammates shared specific things in the nomination process that let us know why the felt Andrew was deserving of the honour. Here's some of what was said.
๠Andrew has a great attitude and is very helpful toward his coworkers with any help they might need.
๠Andrew is a very thorough employee. He's very detailed in all that he does job related, and is always willing to contribute beyond his call of duty.
๠Andrew has gone above and beyond. He has also taken on extra responsibility such as writing press releases.
๠Andrew has shown initiative getting involved with some of our writing projects and is always trying learn new information pertinent to the voice over world.
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WHERE DOES trust come from?This is what every marketer wants to know. Without trust, marketers know that there are no sales. Trust means the prospect believes not only that the product being sold will actually solve his problems, but that if for some reason it doesn't, the company will make good on its reputation of performance.We happily pay a premium to buy our jewelry from a fancy store instead of from a shady character on the street. Why? Because we trust the store to sell us the real deal, while the guy with the watches in a briefcase represents substantial risks.Corporations pay consultants billions of dollars for their advice, when they could probably find similar advice down the street at the local community college. Why the premium? Because Bain and McKinsey and the like are trusted advisers. They've built enough of a track record, and enough confidence, that they can command substantial premium.
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Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases, treating her as if she were actually going to do everything it is in her power to do. Whatever you have been expecting for some time comes as less of a shock.
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The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.
And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.
If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride, because it shows you trust in your own powers. Never bother about other people's opinions. Be humble and you will never be disturbed. Remember St. Aloysius, who said he would continue to play billiards even if he knew he was going to die. Do you play well? Sleep well? Eat well? These are duties. Nothing is small for God.
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The following were reported to the Meridian PD from July 17, 2014 to July 18, 2014.
At 9:36 PM, on July 17, 2014, Meridian Police responded to an armed robbery in the 1700 block of North Frontage Road. A w/m suspect tried to rob the victim at knife point. Officers arrived on scene and took a suspect into custody. No one was injured and Detectives are still working on the case.
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My print column this week considers how, in this golden age of online criticism, to best compile user reviews. It's a question that may not have occurred to most visitors to sites such as CitySearch and Yelp, which encourage visitors to share their experiences at restaurants and other local retailers. Next to each listing on those sites, an average rating is posted.
But a few Web sites think that the number of votes, as well as the content of those votes, should count. For instance, as noted in the column, IMDB.com doesn't use straight averages to list the top 250 movies of all time, as voted on by its users. Instead, each movie starts out with 1,300 votes and a ranking of 6.7, which is the site's average (I'm using "average," here and in the column, to mean the mean, not the median, a distinction explored in another recent column). That helps smooth the effects of a few intense votes; it takes a lot of votes to budge the IMDB meter up or down from 6.7. The Web sites BoardGameGeek, Beer Advocate and Rate Beer also use what's known as Bayesian averaging to rank board games and beers.
Weighting rankings to adjust for number of votes is an instance of Bayesian inference, which combines "common-sense knowledge and observational evidence." That's the description on a Microsoft Web page explaining Bayesian statistics, an area of interest for the software giant because of its Xbox Live gaming platform. Players of games such as the new Halo 3 are assigned a "TrueSkill" ranking, which is updated after each game result, but using a Bayesian approach rather than a straight average of game results. TrueSkill is used to pair strangers in evenly matched online games.
This may all sound complicated, and there are reasons to prefer the typical average, including simplicity. Whatever your preference, it's reasonable to want to know how review sites rank items. But I found that not every site is entirely transparent. A spokeswoman for CitySearch declined to answer any questions about how its ratings work. One of my unanswered questions: Why do unreviewed restaurants seem to all have three and a half stars (such as in this listing of restaurants near the Journal's main offices)? That may mean the site uses a Bayesian approach. A YouTube spokesman, meanwhile, declined to disclose the exact formula used for its "top rated" category, saying only that it incorporates the number of votes and the content of them. "As a policy, we do not go into detail about our ranking systems," he said.
What do you think? Do you agree with Aleks Jakulin, the Columbia University research scientist I quote in the column, that restaurants and other things should be ranked using Bayesian inference? Or would you rather just see a straight average? When you use online rankings, do you take into account the number of votes as well as the average vote? Please let me know in the comments.


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6 Responses to "WebID – Universal Login for the Web"
Great Work Manu. It's good to see that one can do this with flash and javascript too. This will certainly grow the number of places WebIDs can be applied, which is certainly a revolutionary technology in its simplicity and power. The list of supported tools is very long as described in detail on http://esw.w3.org/foaf+ssl
There are a couple of your claims above that I think need a little tuning or explaining in more detail.
Now the IE Active X solution may have some usability issues, but I think it needs clearly pointing out what those issues are, so that they can be understood clearly,
Secondly you say "you get the peace of mind that if you lose one of your WebIDs, you can always just deactivate it via your WebID provider and generate a new WebID". There is in fact a better way still: you can keep your WebID, and just remove the public key from your public profile. In fact you should be able to have any number of public keys associated with one WebID.
Now when I log in to digital bazaar it asks me for the WebID I already have (I have a few in fact). My browser — Chromium — asks me for my client certificate, but then you don't use it! If this system should allow me to use either my flash certificate or my browser certificate this would be great — if I have already submitted my browser certificate then it should use that. So hopefully we can get it to that point. Especially as me and many people have disabled flash – I just reinstalled it for your site.
What I think you have done is to have tied one more keychain into the WebID system: the flash keychain. Flash is really a browser in a browser. Now it would be even better if flash could use the browser keychain, because then the same keychains could be used for logging in from the browser and flash.
After this tweaking I think we should have something very useful here that will interoperate nicely with the many other WebID implementations.
Great Manu. That solves some of the issues. As this conversation is also going on the foaf-protocols mailing list in this archived thread, I won't just duplicate the thread here
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Do you have food(s) that you try to stay away from because you fear you will overeat it once you start with a small bite?
For many of my clients, cookies, peanut butter, and bagels fit into this category of "trouble foods." These hungry athletes try to stay away from these "fattening foods." They believe that eating, let's say, one cookie will lead to eating 200 cookies, and they will end up getting instantly fat. Sound familiar?
If a food has too much power over you, try this experiment (as suggested in the book Beating Your Eating Disorder):
• Weigh yourself (first thing in the morning) on Day 1 of the experiment.
• Make one dietary change that you are sure will make you get fat (such as eating a big cookie at breakfast).
• Maintain this one change for 7 days (without making any other food or exercise changes), then weigh yourself again.
• Repeat this experiment for another 7 days. Take the average of the weights. (Weight fluctuates due to shifts in water.)
Have you gotten fat? Doubtful.
Take note: if the scale has gone up a tiny bit, the gain is likely due to replenishment of depleted muscle glycogen (carb) stores. For each one ounce of carbs stored in your muscles as glycogen, you also store about three ounces of water. Hence, do not obsess about a number on the scale. Rather, observe how much better you feel during the day and also during your workout.
While food experiments sound like a good idea, the reality is they can be very anxiety provoking and hard work. Eating more calories is hard because you are giving up control without being sure you will feel better in the long run. To learn how to take the power away from trigger foods, try reading Beating Your Eating Disorder. Other self-help books are available at www.gurze.com.
Just imagine how nice life will be for you and your loved ones when you can wake up without food fears and rigid food rules… this is a change worth making!
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San Diegans won't need to go any further than the beautiful University of San Diego campus this summer to get a taste of some of the best wineries from the Napa and Sonoma valleys.
The second annual USD Wine Classic takes place Sunday, July 25 at 2 p.m. in the Garden of the Sea overlooking Mission Bay and the Pacific Ocean at the university's Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice. The event features more than 25 USD family wineries (owned or managed by USD alumni, parents and friends) with wines poured by the owners and vintners. Participating wineries include Caymus Vineyards, Charles Krug, Joseph Phelps, St. Francis Winery, and Ferrari-Carano Vineyards and Winery.
Proceeds from the event are expected to raise more than $40,000 to support student scholarships at USD. Approximately 65 percent of all undergraduate students at USD receive some form of financial aid.
"This is a wonderful opportunity to enjoy a gourmet experience at an affordable price and support deserving students at the same time," said Martin Kaplan, director of Alumni Relations at USD. The event includes the wine tasting along with gourmet paired food, music and a silent auction. More than 500 tickets have already been sold and fewer than 100 remain for the event that is becoming one of the premiere wine-tasting events on the West Coast.
Along with wineries from Napa and Sonoma, several of the biggest names in Baja wineries are also participating including Adobe Guadalupe, L.A. Cetto and Monte Xanic.
Tickets are $75 per person and are available at www.usdwineclassic.com. Call (619) 260-4819 for more information.
The University of San Diego is a Catholic institution of higher learning chartered in 1949; the school enrolls some 7,800 undergraduate and graduate students and is known for its commitment to teaching, the liberal arts, the formation of values and community service. The fall 2007 establishment of the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies brings the University's total number of schools and colleges to six. Other academic divisions include the College of Arts and Sciences and the schools of Business Administration, Leadership and Education Sciences, Law and Nursing and Health Sciences.


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Abstract—We define a distance measure between 3D polygonal arcs of equal length, and show that the minimum value of this distance measure is the smallest eigenvalue of a certain matrix. Using this, we develop a mismatch measure and a matching algorithm for 3D polygonal arcs of unequal lengths.

Polygonal arcs, matching, distance measure, mismatch measure, quaternions, rotation matrix, eigenvalues.
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Growers and PCAs, particularly in the lower San Joaquin Valley, are being warned to be on the lookout for excessive early season damage from leaffooted plant bugs and other large plant bugs.
Bob Beede, University of California Extension farm advisor for Kings County, issued an alert after numerous reports of leaffooted plant bugs feeding in almond orchards in southern Kern County near Maricopa.
Heavy rainfall the valley has experienced this winter and spring encourages growth of host vegetation, supporting larger populations of the overwintering adult insect, he notes.
Research by Kent Daane, UC insect ecologist, also shows greater winter survival in years with fewer hard freezes.
"It's very important to get out in the orchards frequently, preferably twice a week, to detect early any injury by leaffooted plant bugs or stink bugs so pesticides can be used most cost-effectively," he says.
"Be on the lookout for clear gumming on the surface of almond hulls and epicarp lesions on pistachio nuts caused by the feeding insects. Migration from surrounding seeded or succulent vegetation into orchards should increase with warmer weather."
Orchards next to native vegetation and such host crops as pomegranates, olives, citrus, and Italian cypress and juniper trees, are especially vulnerable to invasion by the adult insects, which are strong flyers.
Fritz and Monterey almonds are more prone to attack from the insect than Nonpareil, Beede says. Hard shell varieties, which leaf out a little later than soft shell types, have slightly smaller nuts that may be more succulent and attractive to the leaffooted plant bug as overwintering adults migrate into orchards.
However, Daane's research shows that kernel damage decreases markedly once almond shells harden. After hardening, clear gumming can still be observed on the hulls, indicating the continued presence of leaffooted bugs or stink bugs in the orchard. Spotting of almond kernels can also result from their feeding.
Pistachio kernels remain susceptible even after shells harden, causing black spots (kernel necrosis), limited botryosphaeria infections, and some damage from yeast infection.
The insect can be difficult to spot in trees. "In addition to staying in the tops of trees, they tend to avoid discovery by moving around to the back side of nuts as you approach them," Beede says. "Beating the foliage with a stick or a shovel handle can force them into flight."
In almonds, feeding damage from leaffooted plant bugs causes fruit drop. "If you see a significant amount of fruit drop, you should assume that the insect has been present in the orchard for at least three, if not five, days," he says.
Typically, the leaffooted plant bug doesn't move into pistachio orchards until June, when the season's first generation of adults is produced.
"Crop consultants have reported achieving good control of the insect in almonds with Lorsban," Beede says. "The University of California is extremely hesitant to suggest using pyrethroids early in the season on almonds because of the potential to kill a large percentage of parasites and predators needed to control web-spinning spider mites later in the season.
"This is especially a concern in Kern County and on the West Side where these spider mites often become very difficult to control without parasitic wasps and predators that feed on them." Lorsban, an organosphophate, is disruptive to beneficials.
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Abhishek Bachchan wasn"t any different, as Mani Ratnam transcended his actor's prowess with Yuva and Guru.
And now, it"s the turn of Vikram to strike gold, as Mani Ratnam has shot an exclusive trailer for his Raavan featuring Vikram alone. Sources believe that the complete teaser would precisely deliver a glimpse on his breathtaking performance. Also, a different teaser for the Hindi version featuring the actor will be aired simultaneously.
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Comedian and actor Stephen Colbert, host of Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report," defeated Seeger, plus Carol Burnett, Billy Crystal and David Sedaris, Sunday in the Best Spoken Word Album category of the 2014 Grammy Awards.
Colbert won for his album "America Again: Re-becoming The Greatness We Never Weren't." Seeger's entry, "The Storm King," is an album of narratives voiced by the Beacon-based folk legend, complemented by diverse world music presented with musician Jeff Haynes.
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LITTLELEEDSTED LITTLELEEDSTED Feb 1, 2012 14:10 Flag
So Bates has sacked SG afer last nights performance,no surprises there.Who is going to be our next manager because one thing Bates will not pay top dollar to get a decent manager.Most likely bring his mate Wisey back i hope notSort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
Easyrider2609 Easyrider2609 Feb 4, 2012 15:36 Flag
The whole scenerio would make a nice Film! Probably a "Horror" Film! Nice one Bates you Bar Steward!
Nicely timed as well just after the transfer window who would of thought eh? The thing about Warnock is we probably make a good match, Leeds not well liked by other fans (though we have dropped to 7th most hated club I think) and Warnock pretty much despised by most fans and Bates well we all love him!
Lotto, I know what you mean. Solksjaer was just my tip for a great future manager. Before sacking Grayson, Bates will have had a new manager in mind and I do not think he has the imagination, or incentive, to go for anyone like Solksjaer. In December, reports said that Bates and Warnock were seen dining at Qulton Hall.
Simon Grayson's position as manager was uncertain last season. This term, he has been skating on thin ice and only lucky results prevented him from getting an earlier dumping. It is unlikely that the club did not have a contingency plan in place for his sacking. For sure, Bates will know who his new manager is. I suspect it will be Warnock, for the simple reason that fans can then hate the manager instead of the owner!
Put me in my place lol, not quite what I was meaning though :)
Solksjaer was the reserve team manager at Man U. In 2010 he became the manager of his former, home-town club Molde FK and took it to its first ever league trophy in 2011.
littleleedsteds littleleedsteds Feb 3, 2012 17:40 Flag
Whatever happens it`s been a great game plan by Bates,wait till the end of the transfer window sell our captain buy no one then sack the manager.No promotion this year and if we dont appoint a new proven manager soon(not an ffffing chance of that happening) we could well be looking at relegation
Easyrider2609 Easyrider2609 Feb 3, 2012 15:53 Flag
Easyrider2609 Easyrider2609 Feb 3, 2012 15:51 Flag
Since when Bryan has Bates ever worried about keeping the Fans Happy?
This is going to be a big problem as far as I can see.
All the managers available are not, IMO, suitable to our club for one reason or another. Therefore, Bates will have to think out of the box this time and come up with a clever solution to keep the fans happy.
Redfearn would be the easy option, but his track record is not good and who would he bring into the backroom staff, which is so important and probably one of the reasons for Larry's demise.
I believe Clark will refuse the job today as he has a chairman at Huddersfield who is ploughing millions in to support his club and that will never happen with Bates.
Solksjaer would actually tick all the right boxes (apart from the fact he is MU) as far as a good up and coming manager is concerned, and would certainly have my backing, but if he were ever to be offered the MU job in the future he would leave in a flash. That said he is probably the best of the bunch and a few years at ER would certainly not do his CV any harm.
It's going to be an interesting week next week.
Al, you surprise me. I had expected you to comment about Lee Clark!
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