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Library materials selection is vested in the director of the library, with the assistance of members of the professional staff of librarians who select resources in accordance with this Materials Selection Policy.
General Policies
The Library is a forum for ideas and information. The primary goal of selection shall be to collect materials of contemporary significance and/or of permanent value which will enrich the collections and maintain an overall balance representing many points of view with respect to a given subject. In addition, the library, recognizing that demand is a valid and important factor in selection, shall make available some materials which may be in widespread and persistent demand such as books on the best sellers lists.
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- CNN.com readers offer useful Hawaii travel tips
- Some took exception with a previous suggestion to skip the luau
- A night swim with the manta rays is a don't miss, says one commenter
Pricey tourist trap, cultural experience, or both? A handful of readers took issue with a recent suggestion that Hawaii visitors skip the luau in a list of Hawaii do's and don'ts.
And the luau was just one topic in the stream of suggestions CNN.com commenters offered for making the most of a trip to the Aloha State.
Here are some of the tips. Agree or disagree? Share your thoughts below.
DO NOT skip the luau, say multiple commenters, in response to one author's advice to give it a miss.
"Shame on you. Don't go to a luau? For goodness sake, how else can tourists connect with even a small part of Hawaiian culture?" asked a commenter with the handle Stanley Steamer.
"Just try to find one given by a church or as a fundraiser for a community organization -- it will be completely authentic," commenter Etian said.
"If you really want to go to a mainstream luau, try the Old Lahaina Luau on Maui or our second choice, the Polynesian Cultural Center's on Oahu," sankoji02 added.
Another reader also votes for the Polynesian Cultural Center, writing, "It's equal part comedy act, culture museum and hands on activities like learning to hula, playing native games, crafts, etc."
DO NOT leave your belongings unattended on popular beaches in Honolulu, "not even long enough to just dip your toes," cautioned reader James C Gray. Another commenter, Kolohegirl, agrees with this advice, especially in Waikiki, but added, "This is NOT true on the outer islands. You can definitely take a dip away from your stuff and it will still be there when you get back."
DO skip Waikiki altogether, some commenters say. "Avoid the 'famous' beaches like Waikiki," wrote commenter Henry Miller, who uses the tagline "professional curmudgeon."
"I lived on Oahu for a lot of years and found the northern and western beaches to be a whole lot less crowded and a whole lot more pleasant."
DO check out the free-to-watch surfing contests in late November and December, Lise Quinn recommends.
DO take a night dive with the manta rays in Kona on the Big Island, commenter ProfLogie advises. "Even if you can only snorkel it is like a scene from another planet. Surreal."
DO ride or drive along the road to Hana. Be warned: The legendary route to the historic town on Maui's eastern coast has 620 curves.
DO NOT forget to stop along the way to Hana (it'll help stave off car sickness). Kolohegirl girls suggests taking a hike or having a picnic overlooking the waterfalls. "This is one mistake the tourists always make -- thinking that they have to jam to Hana. The road to Hana IS the adventure."
DO try parasailing. "Go as high as they can take you, it's the best thing in the world," a commenter with the handle AndreaMilnes wrote. "I've been doing it off Kona since I was little."
DO snorkel at Molokini Crater off the coast of Maui. FLken recommends the Pacific Whale Foundation expedition that includes a stop to swim with sea turtles.
DO drag yourself out of bed before the crack of dawn to see the sun rise from almost 10,000 feet above sea level on the top of Haleakala, Maui's highest peak.
DO marvel at the Big Island's volcanoes. "Make the drive down to see where the lava flows into the sea, at night. It is an amazing experience," HandBananas wrote.
DO consider big-box stores for bargains on souvenirs. One commenter suggests the Sears at Ala Moana mall in Honolulu for Aloha shirts. "Biggest selection I've seen!" Another reader recommends local Goodwill stores for Hawaiian shirts priced from $5.
Commenter HandBananas points visitors to Wal-Mart for Kona coffee and macadamia nuts. "Yes, I know it is Wal-Mart, but it is a lot cheaper than the 2 million ABC stores you find on every corner."
DO NOT use your time in Hawaii to showcase your Hawaiian shirts. "I've been told by a few locals that only tourists and hotel workers wear Aloha shirts," says commenter Martin McCreary.
DO try the Aloha Stadium Swap Meet in Honolulu if you're looking for a more unique shopping experience.
Many commenters endorsed the idea of renting a condo instead of staying exclusively at luxury resorts, and some had other lodging suggestions.
"DO consider a B&B when staying in one location less than a week," a commenter with the handle Paul Below advised."A B&B can be a more local and less expensive alternative to a resort hotel."
DO look into camping. "I said screw the hotel and camped my entire time in Maui," commenter iEatSpam wrote. "There are camping grounds all over the island and hardly anyone uses them." Ray LeBlanc agrees, writing, "Free 3 nights in National Park ... site overlooking the ocean ... humpback whales going by ... trails to a waterfall. Magical."
DO rent a car, says one commenter, who also recommends the Andrew Doughty island guidebooks.
"DON'T expect to walk up to a restaurant in Waikiki during peak dining times and get a table with an ocean view," Martin McCreary said.
DO make reservations.
Cultural cues
"DO take time to enjoy the cultural gems of the islands" such as the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, says RobertInAtl. A little understanding of the history of Hawaii makes visiting the islands more meaningful, he says.
DO say "aloha" and "mahalo," advises commenter Dana Bass, from the Big Island. "Aloha" is used instead of "hello" and "goodbye," and "mahalo" means "thank you."
DO slow down and smile, Bass urges. "And most importantly, bring the aloha back to the Mainland with you."
Agree or disagree? Share your thoughts below.

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Nathan Corbett Gets Quick KO Win at Total Carnage 3
- Published in Australia
- Written by Rian Scalia
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Total Carnage 3 took place yesterday once again in Gold Coast, Australia with Nathan "Carnage" Corbett in the main event, taking on Poland's Kamil Sokolowski.
The fight was almost over before it even started, and was all Corbett. Just seconds into the fight, Sokolowski came at Corbett with punches but got countered with a few knees and then got dropped with a right elbow. Sokolowski couldn't get up and the fight was over just like that.
Also on the card was Michael "Tomahawk" Thompson, who fought another Polish fighter, Tomasz Makowski. The fight was heating up nicely in the first round before Makowski seemed to have broken his leg and was unable to continue, giving Thompson the TKO win. (Video)


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If you are very energetic and enjoy staying on the move, then you'll love it here because--There is always something going on on-campus!
If you don't want to try out for one of our championship sports, you can take part in our Intramural Sports where you can get a lot of exercise and have fun at the same time. Then, there are extra-curriculars such as our dynamic band, talented choir, and our spirited cheerleaders, as well as several ROTC programs.
You will also enjoy our Physical Education classes, which includes: aerobics, badminton, basketball, softball, swimming, tennis, and volleyball.
Our Student Government Association and Greek organizations, in conjunction with the Office of Student Life and Development, schedules many on-campus activities for the student body. These include: cook-outs, concerts, step shows, comedy shows, and much more.
You can also keep fit by working out in our new fitness facility. There are several on campus. So, what are you waiting for? Make that decision to come to Tuskegee. You'll be glad you did.
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In The artist and the Geelong memorial figure Lambert returned to the traditional subject
of the artist in his studio to construct a highly stylised composition. He portrayed himself dressed in singlet and trousers, seated to the left, and the monumental figure for the Geelong memorial on the right. The painting is based on formalist principles, using the large stretched canvas in the background to provide strong vertical and horizontal shapes. It is an essentially tonalist composition, painted rapidly in a range of browns and whites.
Towards the end of 1923 the Australian War Memorial had provided Lambert with rooms rent free at the Prince of Wales Military Hospital, Randwick, as a studio to complete the war paintings that had been commissioned from him. He slept on a small bed in this complex, which included an area for a painting studio, a sculpture studio and a kitchen. This studio enabled Lambert to take up sculpture seriously, by giving him the space he needed.
On 9 June 1923, the Old Geelong Grammarians Association offered Lambert a commission to create a sculpture to commemorate eighty-eight old boys of the school who had been killed during the First World War (ML MSS 97/7, items 22 and 23). He began working on the sculpture for Geelong Grammar soon after he moved to Randwick. The young nude warrior at the centre of the group, represented in this painting, embodied the timeless spirit of heroism. Here in the painting the grey sculpture looms over Lambert, like a menacing ghoul – suggesting that he was finding work on the sculpture overwhelming.


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PLHS announces ExCEL candidates
Pequot Lakes High School juniors Kayla Miller and Justin Mackenthun will represent Pequot Lakes as candidates for the statewide ExCEL program.
ExCEL — Excellence in Community, Education and Leadership — is a recognition program designed exclusively for Minnesota high school juniors who are active in school activities, who show leadership qualities and who are model citizens.
This is the 16th year that the Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL) has sponsored the ExCEL Award. Nominees must be a junior in high school, making satisfactory progress toward graduation requirements, participate in an MSHSL fine arts and/or athletic activity, hold a leadership position in school and work voluntarily in their community.
Miller is a three-sport athlete, participating in volleyball, basketball and softball. She is a letter-winner in all three sports and received all-conference honors in all three sports as well. She has been named to the Brainerd Dispatch all area volleyball and basketball teams.
Miller has been on the "A" honor roll since ninth grade and is a member of Student Council, Interact and Spanish Cub. She also volunteers in a variety of youth and community organizations. She is the daughter of Mary DeVahl and Robert Miller.
Mackenthun is a two-sport athlete, participating in football and wrestling. He has been named all-conference honorable mention in both sports.
He has been on the "B" honor roll since ninth grade. Mackenthun volunteers with youth sports as a coach and an official when not busy with school-related activities.
He is the son of Liz and James Mackenthun.
Statewide ExCEL winners will be announced during the MSHSL winter tournaments in early March.


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In his CM: the Next Generation series, Joe Farah gives us a glimpse into the trends that CM experts will need to tackle and master based upon industry trends and future technology challenges.
Senior executives must be able to say, "We understand the process and the data confirms that we're following the process." The problem in the CM world has been that the tools have been oriented to the design team, and not to the executives. Why is this and how can it change?
The "why" is simple. When the first movies came out, there was a theme: the world of entertainment, movies about Broadway, about movies, about stars. The entertainment industry focused on what it knew best: he entertainment industry. This persisted for many years, though it was complemented by many movies that were also "outside the box". It's the same with SCM tools. Our first focus was both on managing software and on helping developers. It was not focused on the business side of things.
In the emerging 3rd generation of CM tools, we see a definite shift. Perhaps this is brought on by the understanding that, to sell these tools, upper management must buy in. Perhaps it's just maturity. Or perhaps it's because the scope of CM just continues to widen. CM is, after all, a backbone technology. In reality, it's all of these and, in recent years, the IT governance issues of the business world has shifted the focus in each of these areas. Executives want to give more direction in tool selection and vendors realize that the business world is not disjoint from development. CM has clearly grown in scope to ALM
and third and fourth generation products will cover a much wider portion of the business model.
The Basics
What does it take to provide transparency of process and data up the chain of command? It takes a good combination of vision and technology. From a CM perspective, the processes must be integrated with the CM function without imposing undue overhead on the development team. The best way to accomplish this is to provide processes and tools that actually improve productivity while improving process. This has to be accomplished while providing the flexibility to model the required processes precisely.
Problems arise when we attempt to integrate tools together. Second generation CM tools performed tool integration with plenty of glue. The problem with glue is that it is inflexible, not to mention the time it takes to glue things together in the first place. A secondary, and related, problem was the lack of a single repository to hold all of the CM data. Even when nice data-sourcing front ends can be applied to all of the underlying repositories, there is still a multiplication of effort and technology to address things such as multiple site operation, consistency of backups, security and access permissions, and integrated process work flow. Most integrated toolsets do not attempt to deal with these issues across the board. The CM niche deals with file revisions and often advertises a multiple site solution based on this single slice of the pie. The result is a tool administration nightmare.
Third generation tools address these problems by ensuring:
- <Data> A common repository across the ALM spectrum and beyond
- <Process> A common process workflow engine
- <User Interface> A common user interface across the ALM spectrum


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Today I talk with Jansen Jones, a member of the Noveske Shooting team.
We talk about 3-Gun/Multi-gun competition, the shooting team, their use of rimfire for training, and getting started in 3-Gun.
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Nordic Components .22LR AR Uppers
Noveske Shooting Team 3-Gun Instructional Video
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Help Get Jamey a Service Dog http://paws4jamey.info/
Links for Jim Downey's Book can call be found here: http://www.communionofdreams.com/
Lastly we end the show with another great song from Madison Rising, links to ways to get their album can be found on their webpage by clicking on the band name.
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ARSC HPC Users' Newsletter 358, March 23, 2007
- Porting and Migration--Part I: Data
- Great Alaska Weather Modeling Symposium, Recap
- CVS Setup for Projects at ARSC
- Quick Tip
Porting and Migration--Part I: Data
[ By: Lee Higbie]
Porting codes as technologies are modernized is part of the life of a computational scientist. This is the first of a few articles describing some of the things you should do or can do to facilitate porting. In this article I will concentrate on data portability issues.
First some background on data representations.
Machines now use similar floating point data representations, more or less. They all use IEEE format which specifies the number of bits in the exponent (range) and mantissa (accuracy) of various floating data types. The IEEE standard does not specify the data layout in memory. Fortunately there are only two common ways of shuffling the bits into memory, but there are two. If you write binary data on one machine and read it on another, you are asking for trouble. And that is the raison d'etre of this article.
In addition to the arrangement of bits in memory, different compilers use different numbers of bits for variables. Though the bit-lengths can be specified, there can still be portability issues.
Fortran Data-Portability Suggestions
Mixing data types in COMMON
COMMON data are stored and accessed by location. If there is a data storage length change, all variables after that will be accessed incorrectly.Solutions:
Convert COMMONs to MODULEs, which are accessed by name (MODULEs are the Fortran-90 replacement for COMMONs).
If you can't convert to Fortran 90, separate data in COMMON blocks so that each block only contains data of a single, uniform type. For example suppose you have the following two COMMON statements in two different functions or subroutines (and assume the variables are typed as their names imply).
In subr1: COMMON /first/ int1, string, realArray In fn2: COMMON /first/ int1, int2, realArray
What mistakes can we find here? First, the COMMONs mix data types. Second, the data type of the second variable varies from subr1 to fn2. Third, the COMMON statements are not syntactically identical.
If the subr1 COMMON uses a short string (to describe realArray, say) that the second doesn't use, or the first COMMON is used twice but compiled separately with some obscure (are there any other kind?) compiler option, then references to realArray may be offset, (just as they are typographically above).
If you must use COMMONs, separate types:
COMMON /firstInts/ int1, int2 COMMON /firstReals/ realArrayand use identical statements in all routines.
The second statement of every program, function or subprogram should be IMPLICIT NONE, and to be certain of typing, you should tell the compiler to require it. There are many famous stories of programs that failed in spectacular ways. My favorite is the spacecraft that went to Mars instead of Venus because DO 10 i=1,10 was typed with a period instead of a comma. Don't let your career be blasted into space because of mistyped code.
To enforce typing: For the IBM xlf compiler, use -u; for Nelchina's PGI's compiler, use -Mdclchk. I haven't found a comparable flag for Midnight's PathScale compiler.Data-portability Suggestions For Any Language
Binary reads and writes of permanent files
The probability of being able to read a binary data file on a new machine is low. Even if the internal data representations are identical, you have no guarantee that external representations (in files) are. It is reasonable and proper to use binary I/O for temporary and emergency restart files to leverage their decreased computational load. That's all.
Binary data files
You have no way, at least almost none, of knowing how data are represented externally. We recommend netCDF. Kate Hedstrom has contributed several Newsletter articles on netCDF and friends:
- Manuals and support can be found here: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/
- And a tutorial is available here: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/docs_beta/netcdf-tutorial.html
Basically, netCDF adds an ASCII (plain text) header to a binary file so it can assure portability, at least for a decade or two. This means you only pay the speed penalty of non-binary I/O for the small header and not for the large dataset.
If the amount of data is small, formatted I/O is a practical alternative. The formatting changes the data into ASCII or plain text, which also makes it readable with tail, more, an editor, etc.
There are several reasons to use netCDF for external data files:
- Its headers provide some of the metadata that current ISO and DoD standards require.
- It's portable.
- It provides fast I/O.
- There are many utilities that allow you to look at large datasets. Quick & dirty visualization tools, for example, allow you to easily display plots, maps, etc of the data.
- It provides easy access to subsets of arrays.
- It is the external format in use or being adopted for weather data of all types.
One last note about permanent files. Files that have been archived will be saved forever, but that doesn't guarantee that you can read them next year. If they are binary files, you will have to provide information about the file format for anyone to have a chance of helping you recover the data. It is easy for me to save a Linear A or Sanskrit document. Either is easier to read than an unknown-format binary file, for any of us. In practice, both are info-free works of art.
Great Alaska Weather Modeling Symposium, Recap
[ By: Greg Newby ]
A symposium sponsored by ARSC and others was held on the UAF campus March 12-14. The focus of the symposium was methods and outcomes for computational weather modeling for Alaska and surrounding areas. Symposium participants came together from across Alaska and the rest of the US, for nearly three days of presentations and discussion.
One of the most exciting outcomes was information sharing among the three distinct groups of participants: weather practitioners, modelers, and researchers.
Despite many interests in common, these three groups have limited opportunity for in-depth discussion. This is because weather practitioners (with representatives including the Fairbanks and Anchorage National Weather Service forecasting office) are very focused on daily forecasts and other high-visibility work. Modelers, and those who develop models (with representatives including UAF academic members, as well as the major developers of the Weather Research and Forecasting model, WRF), face often competing demands from different user groups, on top of the computational challenges of getting their models functional, validated, and accepted. Meanwhile, researchers (with representatives from UAF and elsewhere) can often spot deficiencies in approaches of models and practitioners, but might not share their need for time-sensitive model output and forecasts.
Crowding all three groups in the room together, along with several other users of weather model output, created wonderful interaction and cross-fertilization. Attendees learned about a variety of topics, including:
- The status and future of the WRF model, and allied efforts including WRF/Chem (a model for chemical processes, often used to forecast air quality)
- Application areas utilizing model output, including fire modeling and snow depth estimation (the classic Alaska "fire and ice" duo!)
- Phenomena related to weather, including sea ice, ocean currents, and permafrost
- Long-term weather roles for climate change
The event included daily detailed weather briefings from National Weather Service staff members. These offered an opportunity for lively questions and answers about how Alaska weather patterns behave, and the challenges these patterns produce for models and forecasters.
The International Polar Year has just commenced, which made the timing of this symposium particularly appropriate. The role of weather and weather models is changing, along with global climate patterns. Symposium participants recognized that today's models might need to be adjusted for the future, and were also aware of the special challenges that Alaska presents (such as dramatic topography and vast areas, but sparse weather monitoring stations), even without the prospect of climate change.
The conference presentations will be archived at http://weather.arsc.edu/ (which is also the home of ARSC's twice-daily WRF output covering the Alaska domain). ARSC's support for computational science for investigation of weather activity extends to its intern and post-doctoral fellows programs, to related disciplines such as fire and climate modeling, and will be ongoing.
CVS Setup for Projects at ARSC
[ By: Anton Kulchitsky and Sergei Maurits ]
Extended groups of developers of a large project benefit tremendously from version control systems. Version control systems are used for two primary purposes: record keeping and collaboration. They are capable of tracking all modifications in the codes made by different contributors with thorough documentation of all changes.
They allow different branches of the project to develop and support the merging of different versions. Even a project with a single developer can benefit from such a tool as it can assist with documenting, tracking all modifications, and working with several versions of the software concurrently. See > HPC Users' Newsletter issue 278 Quick-Tip for more encouraging information.
There are many version control systems available now. Some of them, like CVS and Subversion, use a repository where the project is saved together with information of all its modifications. They are also known as server-client systems. Other, like darcs , do not require a centralized repository. They are known as distributed systems. Some comparisons of different version control software available at Wikipedia .
For the server-client systems, the server facility must have sufficient capacity, be accessible to all contributors, be regularly backed up, and be connected to a fast network. At ARSC, two storage systems, nanook and seawolf , fit these requirements. See for details.
Below are instructions on how to start using CVS at ARSC. Subversion set up should be similar.
By request of the project PI, ARSC consultants can create a project directory in the nanook partition, /projects, e.g., for the project "MY_PROJECT," the directory would be /projects/MY_PROJECT. Its owner will be the project PI and its group, the project group.
Only members of the project group will be able to work with the repository.
The access permissions on the repository directory should be set to "drwxrws---" (note the "s" for "setgid bit"). This ensures that when project members add files or directories, they will be assigned the correct group. Failure to do this will cause problems if the primary group of any project member is anything other than the project group.
Assuming you have a project directory, "/projects/MY_PROJECT," and a repository directory, "/projects/MY_PROJECT/repo," the following command will set the setgid bit on the directory:
chmod 2770 /projects/MY_PROJECT/repo
** WARNING: It's against ARSC's security policy to set the SGID bit ** on any file. You can set it on a directory as described here, but ** don't set it on anything else.
If you have an existing repository and are transferring it to a new project directory, then ownership and permissions must be set properly. To do this, you should:
- copy your previous repository to the project directory
change all ownership to the whole "repo" directory tree:
chown -R project_leader:project_group /projects/MY_PROJECT/repo
set the proper permission to all *directories* in the tree. You do not have to change permissions to files:
find /projects/MY_PROJECT/repo -type d -exec chmod 2770 {} \;
To be able to use the repository, you must set the CVSROOT environment variable to point to it. On the ARSC network of Linux boxes, the nanook projects directories are mounted on the local machines. Thus, continuing the example, you would make this setting:
[ksh/bash users:] export CVSROOT=/projects/MY_PROJECT/repo [csh users:] setenv CVSROOT /projects/MY_PROJECT/repo
This command can be placed in the appropriate shell initialization file.
On the remote machine you will need to use kerberized ssh:
[ksh/bash users:] export CVS_RSH=/usr/local/bin/ssh export CVSROOT=:ext:nanook.arsc.edu:/projects/MY_PROJECT/repo [csh users:] setenv CVS_RSH /usr/local/bin/ssh setenv CVSROOT :ext:nanook.arsc.edu:/projects/MY_PROJECT/repo
The above steps should complete the ARSC-specific CVS (or subversion) configuration. To learn how to use CVS, please check the appropriate documentation. You may also stay tuned to this Newsletter for follow-up articles.
Quick-Tip Q & A
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Tewodaj Mogues <email@example.com> has two questions about -xtdpdsys-.
a) -xtdpdsys- doesn't seem to allow for the specification of instruments
that are external to the model, in the way that for example -xtabond-
allows through the subcommand -inst()-, or -xtdpd- by including the
instruments in the subcommand -div()- but not in the variable list of
regressors. Is it correct that external instruments are not an option in
This statement is correct. -xtdpd- allows you to specify the external
b) The subcommand for predetermined and endogenous variables in
-xtdpdsys-, i.e. -pre()- and -end()-, do not accommodate time-series
operators, although one may in many cases want to include as a regressor
just the first lag of a variable (and not both the contemporaneous
variable plus its first lag).
Is there no straightforward way to deal
with this other than creating new variables or using xtdpd? By the way,
this problem appears to also obtain in -xtdpdsys- as well as -xtabond-.
The -pre()- and -endog()- options in -xtabond- and -xtdpdsys- create
instruments based on a variable being specified as predetermined or
endogenous. If time-series operators were allowed, confusion might arise
whether the original variable or the time-series operated variable was,
predetermined. For this reason, time-series operators are not allowed in
these varlists.
-xtdpd- accepts time-series operators in all its varlists and you can
the instruments you want.
-xtabond- and -xtdpdsys- were designed to handle relatively simple
dynamic panel-data models and to have correspondingly simple syntaxes.
If your model is more complex, I recommend using -xtdpd-.
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Brand Names: Canasa, Canasa Pac, Rowasa
Generic Name: mesalamine (rectal) (Pronunciation: me SAL a meen)
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What is mesalamine rectal (Rowasa)?
Mesalamine affects a substance in the body that causes inflammation, tissue damage, and diarrhea.
Mesalamine rectal is used to treat ulcerative colitis, proctitis, and proctosigmoiditis. Mesalamine is also used to prevent the symptoms of ulcerative colitis from recurring.
Mesalamine rectal may also be used for other purposes not listed in this medication guide.
What are the possible side effects of mesalamine rectal (Rowasa)?
Get emergency medical help if you have any of these signs of an allergic reaction: hives; difficulty breathing; swelling of your face, lips, tongue, or throat.
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Less serious side effects may include:
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- fever, sore throat, or other flu symptoms;
- rectal pain, constipation;
- headache or dizziness;
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This is not a complete list of side effects and others may occur. Tell your doctor about any unusual or bothersome side effect. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
Read the Rowasa (mesalamine rectal suspension enema) Side Effects Center for a complete guide to possible side effects
What is the most important information I should know about mesalamine rectal (Rowasa)?
Do not take mesalamine rectal by mouth. It is for use only in your rectum.
Tell your doctor if you have any type of kidney or liver disease, or if you are allergic to aspirin. You may not be able to use mesalamine, or you may need a dosage adjustment or special tests during treatment.
This medication comes with patient instructions for using either the rectal suppository or the rectal enema. Follow these directions carefully. Ask your doctor or pharmacist if you have any questions.
Try to empty your bowel and bladder just before using the mesalamine suppository or enema. Try to use the medicine at a time when you can lie down afterward and hold the medicine in. Avoid using the bathroom during this time. It may be best to use this medicine at bedtime.
Remove the outer wrapper from the suppository before inserting it. Avoid handling the suppository too long or it will melt in your hands.
Shake the rectal enema liquid well just before each use.
The rectal enema liquid may darken in color after it has been removed from the foil pouch. This should not affect the medicine. However, throw away any enema liquid that has turned dark brown.
Stop using mesalamine and call your doctor at once if you have severe stomach pain, cramping, fever, headache, and bloody diarrhea.
Avoid getting the rectal suppositories or enema liquid on clothing, flooring, painted surfaces, vinyl, marble, granite, and other surfaces. Mesalamine rectal products may stain surfaces.
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The Future of AI -- A Manifesto
The long-term goal of AI is human-level AI. This is still not directly definable, although we still know of human abilities that even the the best present programs on the fastest computers have not been able to emulate, such as playing master-level go and learning science from the Internet. Basic researchers in AI should measure their work as to the extent to which it advances this goal.
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Pirates waste Locke's outing in loss to Brewers
PITTSBURGH - This was the same Jeff Locke that made the All-Star team a year ago. Unfortunately for the Pittsburgh Pirates, it also was a terrific outing for Yovani Gallardo.
Locke pitched seven sharp innings in a spot start, but the Pirates left 10 runners on base in a 1-0 loss to Gallardo and the Milwaukee Brewers on Sunday.
Locke was recalled from Triple-A Indianapolis to start in place of Charlie Morton, who was pushed back a day to Monday. Pittsburgh also put right-hander Gerrit Cole on the 15-day disabled list with shoulder fatigue.
The Pirates needed a big strong game from Locke, and the left-hander allowed three hits and one run. He also struck out five and walked one while throwing just 75 pitches.
"That's the young man we saw pitching in the first half of the season last year," manager Clint Hurdle said. "Good tempo, good rhythm, he didn't mess around, man, he got right after it."
It was Locke's second start of the season for the Pirates. He allowed six runs and eight hits in 5 1-3 innings against San Francisco on May 5.
Locke (0-1) said he was on the same page with catcher Russell Martin.
"We just knew I was going to pitch my game," Locke said. "(Martin) just put down the right fingers and moved the ball around a little bit."
Gallardo (4-4) had a season-high eight strikeouts in his second win in his last three starts. He allowed four hits and walked one.
The Pirates had at least one baserunner in five of Gallardo's seven innings, but the right-hander got sharper as the game progressed.
"I was able to get out of some big situations and make pitches," Gallardo said. "That's always something positive to go from."
Milwaukee got the only run of the game in the seventh. Jonathan Lucroy led off with a liner down the left-field line that was grabbed by a fan while it was in play. He was awarded a ground-rule double on the interference.
Lucroy went to second on Carlos Gomez's lineout to center and scored on Aramis Ramirez's bouncer to first.
The Pirates then loaded the bases with one out in the bottom half. But Gallardo struck out pinch-hitter Jose Tabata and Josh Harrison popped out to second to end the inning.
"Yo was outstanding," Brewers manager Ron Roenicke said. "Just hung in there and made some great pitches, got better as the game went on."
Pittsburgh left 10 runners on base in its 10th loss in 13 games this season against NL Central-leading Milwaukee. Martin and Hurdle also were ejected in the eighth.
With two out and Andrew McCutchen on third, Martin looked a called third strike on a curveball from Francisco Rodriguez on the lower-inside edge of the plate. Martin spiked his bat and helmet in the batter's box. Hurdle then confronted umpire Ed Hickox about the call and was thrown out.
Roenicke said he thought the pitch looked questionable based on the way his catcher reacted to it.
"(Lucroy) made that pitch look a little not-as-good-as it probably was," Roenicke said. "Just because he was maybe in between trying to block or decide where the ball was going to end up."
Lucroy said he did not think the pitch was a strike.
The Pirates then put runners on first and second in the ninth, but Rodriguez got Travis Snider to hit into a fielder's choice that advanced Starling Marte to third and retired Harrison for his 19th save.
"I ended up making the right pitches to get out of (the jam)," Rodriguez said. "So it's definitely a nice win."
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K-1 World Grand Prix 2010 Heavyweight Champion and now former Strikeforce Heavyweight Champion Alistair Overeem has a big fight coming up as he makes his UFC debut, squaring off against Brock Lesnar. Apparently in one of his past trips to California he ended up plopped down in the middle of a set for a music video for "electro-pop" group LMFAO. If you are like me and are an adult male who has not flicked on the radio in the past ten years, the fact that this music exists can be alarming, disturbing and mildly amusing, but to each their own. Alistair Overeem appears in this video, which at least makes it sort of manly. This is LMFAO's "Sexy and I Know It" music video which includes men in banana hammocks shaking their stuff. Thankfully Overeem refrains from, to quote Mrs. Bluth, "waggling his pickle."
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Directed by Matthew Vaughn
Starring James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Rose Byrne
Long before Professor X (McAvoy) and Magneto (Fassbender) were foes, they were classmates and friends. X-Men: First Class dives into the epic back story of the band of mutants who came together to form Marvel's mighty X-Men . . . and of those who became their archenemies.
The story begins in 1962, during the time of the historic Cuban Missile Crisis and the Cold War. Working side by side, Charles Xavier (the telepathic leader of the future X-Men) and his friend Erik Lehnsherr (the future metal-bending villain, Magneto) seek out and help other young mutants like themselves to control their powers. Together, the team of superhuman heroes fights to prevent a nuclear war from breaking out. That is, until clashing ideas force each of them to choose a side in another brewing battle.
TFK asked McAvoy what powers he would want if he were a superhero in real life. "Invisibility, definitely," he says. "Just imagine the things you'd get to see! And healing, I think that would be cool."
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Bernadine "Bern" M. Parry
Bernadine "Bern" M. Parry
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Gathering of family and friends will be from 5-8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 11, 2013, at Williams Dingmann Family Funeral Home, St. Cloud, for Bernadine "Bern" M. Parry, formerly of Crosslake, Minn., who died New Year's Day at the St. Cloud Hospital. A prayer service led by Rev. Al Stangl will be at 7 p.m. Friday at the funeral home. Interment will be in Pinewood Cemetery, Crosslake.
Bernadine was born in Tracy, Minn., to the late Arthur and Merribelle (Hennessy) Burchill. She graduated from St. Cloud Teachers College (St. Cloud State University) and then taught business courses at Jordan High School and at Minneota High School in Minnesota. She married Edgar E. Parry on Jan. 28, 1943, in South Bend, Ind. After World War II, the couple settled in Richmond, Minn., and operated Parry Drug for several years. From 1965 to 1980, along with her husband, Edgar, Bernadine owned and operated Bruning Pharmacy in St. Cloud, where she was the bookkeeper.
Bernadine was a member of the Immaculate Heart Catholic Church in Crosslake and was a former member of the Church of St. Paul in St. Cloud. She was an avid bridge player, liked to garden, cook, entertain, be at the lake, golf and spend time with her family. After retirement she enjoyed traveling with her friends from the lakes area.
Survivors include her daughter, Kathy (Dr. Stephen) Schultenover of Franklin, Tenn.; sons, David of Crosslake, John (Marge) of St. Cloud, and Kevin (Mary Kay) of Pensacola, Fla.; grandchildren, Eric Schultenover, Sara Schultenover Kubicki, Anne Parry Hershberger, Mike Parry, Bryan Parry, Shannon Parry and Priscilla Rausch; great-grandchildren, Sophia Schultenover, Natalie Schultenover, Corinne Kubicki and Christian Kubicki.
Bernadine was preceded in death by her husband, Edgar, on Feb. 17, 1984; her parents; her brother, Jack Burchill; and her sisters, Phyllis Burchill, Patricia Burchill Mastronardi and Charlotte Burchill Welch.
She was a wonderful mother and grandmother, and well-loved by her children, grandchildren and her friends.
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I can't believe that Luca Cruz is already 3 months old. He was born March 20th which makes him just short of a quarter of a year old. His mom, Hilary Duff, has been very good about updating us regularly with pics of her little bundle of joy right from the get go. Just a few days after giving birth to baby Luca, Hilary was the first to debut pics of her and hubby, Mike Comrie's son. Today we have another adorable pic to swoon over. And, Hilary isn't one to only post pics which are "perfect" and staged. Check out this totally scrumptious pic of little Luca not so happy.. and yet still so completely cute!
Hilary posted this pic onto her official Twitter account, along with the message, "I sent my dad this pic and he said "luca told me to tell u, u made his oatmeal lumpy" lol he is cute when he's mad!"
OMG, seriously, he is cute even when he's mad! I just love that Hilary has been so open and candid with the public right from the beginning. She decided to publish pics of her newborn son for free rather than sell staged and air-brushed pics through magazines, which is just so refreshing. Twitter has been Hilary's forum for digesting her newly found motherhood, and I have to say, she is such a delight to watch go through it. I am really enjoying Hilary's relaxed approach to it all. This (completely adorable) pic is another example of this. Seriously though, this is one totally edible little bub – how does he look so cute while scrunching up his face in apparent pain? What a little munchkin!


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Sheriff gives new details about shooting, chase
MOUNTAIN CITY, Tenn. - Johnson County Sheriff Mike Reece released more information about the chase that ended in the arrest of two men, one of whom was wanted by the TBI in connection to a double shooting early this week.
Click here to view photos of the scenes of the shooting and chase.
The following is the full press release from the Johnson County Sheriff's Office:
"On June 13, 2013 at approximately 11:45 a.m. a 911 call was received from a Mountain City citizen stating that Richard Shane Mabe, who was currently wanted by the Johnson County Sheriff's Office for 2 Counts of Attempted 2nd Degree Murder, was a passenger in a vehicle at the McDonald's Restaurant on Highway 421 in Mountain City, Tennessee.
Mountain City Police Department, along with the Johnson County Sheriff's Office, were dispatched to this location. The Mountain City Police officers made contact with the vehicle on Highway 421. There were 2 Male subjects in the vehicle.
The vehicle turned onto Divide Road, at which time the Mountain City Police Department attempted to stop the vehicle. The vehicle refused to stop. The Mountain City Police Department then pursued the vehicle outside of the City, traveling on Divide Road.
At this time the passenger in the vehicle was identified to be Richard Shane Mabe. Mr. Mabe fired several rounds towards the Mountain City Police Department, striking one vehicle.
There was a Johnson County Sheriff's Office vehicle stationary at Dry Stone Branch Road at the intersection of Divide Road with Deputy Sheriff Mark Gladden and Deputy Sheriff Jon Stout. Both Officers were located outside of the vehicle when Richard Shane Mabe fired shots at the 2 deputies. The Johnson County officers returned fire.
The vehicle then proceeded to turn onto Highway 91 North and entered into the parking lot of the Quick Stop located on Highway 91. Both male subjects exited the vehicle with weapons in hand; they then carjacked a car located at the gas pumps. At this time Mr. Mabe became the driver of the stolen vehicle, leaving the parking lot, turning North onto Highway 91.
Investigator Cole Gladden then made contact with Mr. Mabe's vehicle with her vehicle. At this point, Deputy Sheriff Mark Gladden came in behind Mr. Mabe with the vehicle he was driving and made contact with the subject's vehicle once again, this time forcing Mr. Mabe from the roadway over an embankment, where the vehicle came to rest.
The Johnson County Sheriff's Office along with THP then surrounded the vehicle and took both male subjects into custody. Both males were transported to the Johnson County Sheriff's Office. Mr. Mabe was also taken to Mountain City Medical Center, where he received treatment for a laceration on his arm.
Both subjects are currently being held at the Johnson County Jail on the following charges:
Richard Shane Mabe, Age 33 of Mountain City, Tennessee has 4 Counts of Attempted 1st Degree Murder on Police Officers, Possession of a Firearm during the Commission of a Dangerous Felony, Possession of a Prohibited Weapon, Unlawful Carrying or Possession of a Weapon, Carjacking, and Evading Arrest.
Timothy Lee Greer, Age 29 of Creston, North Carolina is charged with 4 Counts of Attempted 1st Degree Murder on Police Officers, Possession of a Firearm during the Commission of a Dangerous Felony, Possession of a Prohibited Weapon, Unlawful Carrying or Possession of a Weapon, Carjacking, Evading Arrest, and 1 Count of Aggravated Assault on a Police Officer."
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If we cut CWebb, would we be able to just give his salary to another FA stud CB? Or would the cap situation prevent that?
If we cut CWebb, would we be able to just give his salary to another FA stud CB? Or would the cap situation prevent that?
if he doesnt take less $$$ he's gone....FA or not, any decent FA would be a upgrade & will make less $$ (in the firsr year of a new contract atleast)
Hosley would not be an upgrade next season, don't kid yourself.
So many people give up on players so quickly.... let Corey come back next season healthy and hungrier than ever.
You don't cut a guy like C-Web so fast. He was one of the best CB's in the league from the '07 playoff run up until 2011.
"Once a Giant, ALWAYS, a Giant."
Prince will most likely be the #1 CB next season taking some pressure off Webster. Assuming we don't play sides and they roll their best receiver to Websters side.
Or Maybe he just had a down season... it happens.
I'm not ready to give up on him. Without him playing lights out we never win the Super Bowl... hell we don't win either Suer Bowl.
"Once a Giant, ALWAYS, a Giant."
It's a significant chunk we can give to another #1 corner.. Get a true #1 corner, keep prince #2, and keep Hosley in the slot.
Truth is between Prince and Hosley, both of them haven't been ab;e to stay on the field.. So I think it's guaranteed we pick up another CB either in FA or draft


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- A corpse flower at the U.S. Botanic Garden will bloom for the first time ever
- Native to the rainforests of Sumatra, Indonesia, they take years to bloom
- When they start blooming, they get very hot and stinky
The United Kingdom has royal baby watch. Zoo Atlanta had panda baby watch. Now Washington has stinky flower watch.
The enormous plant known as the corpse flower is expected to bloom and stink up the grounds at the United States Botanic Garden Conservatory sometime this week.
It will be the first flowering of this titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum), also known as the stinky plant, which has lived at the garden since 2007. The plant doesn't have an annual blooming cycle; it can wait years or even decades between cycles.
It's expected to heat up, start smelling like dead animals and bloom overnight or in the early morning hours -- though exactly which night it will happen is not known. The heat and smell is to attract pollinator insects such as dung beetles in its natural habitat, said Ari Novy, the garden's public programs manager. The garden doesn't have any such beetles but resident flies could come calling, he said.
Once the garden confirmed on Monday, July 8, that the plant was going to bloom, staffers moved quickly to display it publicly on July 11.
A native of Sumatra, Indonesia, this particular plant is part of the garden's collection of 14 corpse flowers. They are rarely put on display because they require a lot of heat and humidity, which is why they are grown at the garden's production greenhouses in Southeast Washington -- rarely open to the public.
Now the star of the garden, the plant is growing quickly. It was 52 inches tall when it was put on display on July 11. By Saturday morning, it measured 62 inches high and 69 inches by Sunday night. Tuesday morning, it was 79 inches tall.
Once completely open, it can stay in bloom for 24 to 48 hours, and then it will collapse quickly.
The U.S. Botanic Garden last displayed a blooming titan arum in 2007. At least seven U.S. institutions have at least one titan arum in each of its collections.
The garden will have extended hours from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Tuesday and Wednesday. If you can't make it to the nation's capital watch it open up online on the garden's live flower cam.
The National Botanic Garden of Belgium saw its oldest corpse flower bloom last week, attracting about 4,000 visitors over three days, said garden spokesman Franck Hidvegi. It previously bloomed in 2008 and 2011. The garden has another four plants in its greenhouses, but Hidvegi said they are still too young to bloom.


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Please tell me what Eli does better than Peyton Manning.
I can see what you'll say now - "win"
I can't even believe I'm reading this......
Oderint Dum Metuant
It's too bad, I'm too good....
When did I EVER say Eli was better than peyton? Where? show me?
All I said was I WONT COMPLAIN ABOUT RESULTS!! You guys are just being ungrateful. Morehead is a lost cause as we know. He will bail ship soon enough if the Giants slip up anyway, cuz thats the kind of fan he is...but youre young enough to be saved, Moke. DO IT FOR THE KIDS, MAN!!!!!
Oderint Dum Metuant
It's too bad, I'm too good....
I'm just sick of hearing about the 2 SB's that Eli supposedly won by himself. I'm a GIANTS fan. Our TEAM won 2 SB's. Our defense was outstanding in both of those runs. They need to be given credit for that accomplishment.
Eli is a nice player but he needs conditions around him to be just right. If not he ends up looking like he did last season.
"Typical Morehead!"..................and he didn't even mean that as a compliment..
I love Eli and I am grateful but I do like Peyton Manning. I am not sure how much Eli can get done in whatever years he has left. Maybe after 2-3 years, I'd think about finding a new QB because his days as a starting QB could be over eventually.
I do find Peyton a better QB, despite the Lombardi's.
Try watching Randy Johnson as your QB and see how long it is before you JUMP SHIP.
"Typical Morehead!"..................and he didn't even mean that as a compliment..


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Council hears response to planning and zoning assessement
The Crosslake City Council met mixed reactions Tuesday night, June 11, at a public hearing held to discuss Crow Wing County's recent assessment of the city's planning and zoning.
Around 40 people attended the meeting at the community center. Chris Pence, Crow Wing County Land Services supervisor, wrote the report on Crosslake's department. He explained that the council had requested the report, which included 31 recommendations for changes to the city's planning and zoning.
Dave Fischer, a resident representing the Whitefish Area Property Owners Association (WAPOA), said WAPOA had reviewed the document and agreed with parts, but also had concerns.
"We concur there have been numerous instances where past and present councils have not provided consistent policy and direction to P&Z staff," Fischer said. "A substantial number of the criticisms of P&Z are a result of this shortcoming by the elected body."
Fischer also said WAPOA supports using a consultant to update the city's land use ordinances.
Another resident, Dick Dietz, supported WAPOA'S comments, but also said, "I think the city council themselves should be embarrassed by this report."
Resident Charles McCulloch was opposed to the rules of order of the meeting. At the beginning of the meeting, Mayor Darrell Schneider said the council would not be responding to comments. McCulloch called the meeting unproductive.
"My suggestion would be to get everything out in the open. Because it's not," McCulloch said.
Fischer said the elephant in the room was a resolution the council faced in the past asking administration to go to the county and come back with a draft contract to have the county take over planning and zoning. Fischer said the resolution didn't pass, but wondered if it was still an issue.
Schneider said he didn't want the planning and zoning commission to be composed of people from somewhere else meeting somewhere else.
Council member Mark Wessels made similar statements.
"We want staff in Crosslake. We want you to be able to get a permit here. We want you to be able to come to us if you're not happy," Wessels said.
Wessels also spoke about the county's process and changes in its Land Services Department, expressing that he wanted Crosslake to follow a similar course.
Resident Wayne Lindholm thanked the council for the whole process, and applauded them for looking at what others have done, rather than reinventing the wheel.
Other comments included concern over inconsistency among enforcement of the ordinances and a need to simplify and update the city's code.
Some residents expressed concern that the council would make a decision at the next council meeting without responding to concerns or having further dialogue with the community.
Council member Steve Roe, in response, proposed that the council come forth with a proposal, but that the next meeting would not include a final decision and that public comment would be taken at that time.
Schneider first supported the measure, but changed his mind after Wessels stated his worry that the measure would tie the council's hands and make them unable to move forward.
Though Wessels and Schneider voted against the measure, it passed on a 3-2 vote. The next meeting on the issue is at 6 p.m. Thursday, June 27, at city hall.
Pence's full report is available on the city's website at www.cityofcrosslake.org.t


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3 bedrooms Apartment with garden near city centre
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Площадь80 м²
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The house is at one of the best location, between the centre of Split ( 10 minute on foot) and natural park « Marjan» ( 5 min. on foot ).
If you decide to come to this apartment you will enjoy in relax atmosphere of the green garden ( you may eat breakfast, prepare lunch/dinner or just sit and relax in the pleasant atmosphere).
Accommodation consists of 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms with showers, kitchen, dining and rented a large apartment (2 extra beds, 3 double beds and 3 single) or separately in the rooms separately.
Free wireless internet access.
Special offer:
In our Mediterranean garden offer the possibility of gathering and storing food on the outdoor grill.
We rented bikes at affordable prices.
We organize trips to Omis, which includes rafting or a visit to Trogir with the possibility of going to the Krka waterfalls.
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Even though it was a short stay we enjoyed it very much. Apartment was exactly as it was described and according to the photos and more. Large bedrooms with big and comfortable beds a lot of space and plenty of room for 6+ people. The thing that has impressed us the most is the garden. You have to see it and have a coffee in the morning there to know what is peace in the middle of the city like.
Apartment is 10 minutes walk from the city center and famous Riva as well as Marjan (famous hill). There is a place for parking in front of the property. Our host Branimir was amazing, he waited for us at 8 pm in front of the house, welcomed us, showed us the plan of the city and all the good places to see-visit-eat. He has come to help us when we called, at night, to bring some things to us, bottle of wine even as a gift. And the outstanding performance and impression he made was when I left my lap top on the apartment and went back home. Branimir called me while on my way home, told me that I have forgotten it, put it on the bus for my home town and I got it. All of this in my book has made Branimir and his apartment pass with flying colors and highest marks. Thank you one more time.
The appartment was perfect for us and we loved the garden to relax and grill. Our hosts were very niceand we made a great trip with them to the krka- waterfalls. I would book again!
Branimir ist ein sehr freundlicher, zuverlässiger Gastgeber; seine Transfers vom und zum Flughafen kann man nur empfehlen. Die Wohnung ist sauber, liegt relativ ruhig in Nähe Altstadt; allerdings doch arg veraltet ausstaffiert, so z.B. die Küche und ihre Geräte.
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Everything was fantastic, lovely little balcony. Brane was very easy going, communication was good. The flat was very clean and cosy. Easy walk to the city centre. Higly recommended.
The apartment is lovely, well located and Branimir is very nice ! This is the perfect place to stay a few days in Split !
Very friendly and open hosts. They were very helpful and gave us really good tips. They picked us up at the airport and brought us back. I can really recommend the appartment. We had a very nice stay with them!
Nice place for family rest!
Silent area near the sea with amazing nature and clean water.
Apartments owners are very friendly and good people.
Hopefully we'll visit this place next year!
The situation is great, next to the Old town and in à quiet street. The flat is spacious and the terrace very Nice to enjoy à drink. Everything you need is there! You just have to love flowers, they are everywhere! Branimir is friendly and easy going. Just one thing, there is light in the morning...
Had a good stay in this apartment in Split. It is about 10 minutes walk to the Old Town. The apartment is well equipped cosy and clean. Air con was very effective. Branimir was helpful and met us at the apartment.
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Biliographical essays are drawn
from Lawrence M. Hinman, Ethics:
A Pluralistic Approach to Moral Theory,
3rd Edition [Wadsworth, 2002] © 2002
Classic Texts
The classic texts for utilitarianism are those of Jeremy
Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and Henry Sidgwick. Among
Bentham's works,
see, in particular, Bentham's A Fragment on Government, edited by J.
H. Burns and H. L. A. Hart (London: Athline Press, 1977) and his The Introduction
to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, edited by J. H. Burns and H.
L. A. Hart (London: Athline Press, 1970). (These are also available in other,
less expensive editions.) For excellent introductions to Bentham's moral
and political thought, see John Dinwiddy, Bentham (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1989) and Ross Harrison, Bentham (London: Routledge
and Kegan Paul, 1984). Also see David Lyons, In the Interest of the Governed
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973) and H. L. A. Hart, Essays on Bentham: Jurisprudence
and Political Theory (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982). Ross Harisson's "Bentham,
Mill and Sidgwick," The Blackwell Companion to Philosophy, edited
by Nicholas Bunnin and E. P. Tsui-James (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1996), pp.
Many of John Stuart Mill's works are
relevant, especially his Utilitarianism and On Liberty. These
are available on the World Wide Web (http://ethics.sandiego.edu/books.html)
and in various bound editions, including several that also contain critical
essays. See John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism: Text with Critical Essays,
edited by Samuel Gorovitz (Indianapolis, Indiana: Bobbs-Merrill, 1971); Mill's
Utilitarianism: Text and Criticism, edited by James M. Smith and Ernest
Sosa (Belmont, California: Wadsworth, 1969); and On Liberty: Annotated Text,
Sources and Background, edited by David Spitz (New York: Norton, 1975).
For an excellent selection of Mill's writings on ethics, see Mill's Ethical
Writings, edited by J. B. Schneewind (New York: Collier, 1965). Among the
best books on Mill's philosophy is Fred Berger's Happiness, Justice, and
Freedom: The Moral and Political Philosophy of John Stuart Mill (Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1984). For a brief but comprehensive overview
of Mill's thought, see Henry West, "Mill, John Stuart," Encyclopedia
of Ethics, edited by Lawrence C. Becker and Charlotte B. Becker (New York:
Garland Publishing, Inc., 1992), II, pp. 809-16.
Book IV of Henry Sidgwick's The Methods of Ethics,
7th edition (Indianapolis, Indiana: Hackett Publishing Company, 1981) is also
a classic source of utilitarian thought. For a fine introduction to Sidgwick's
thought and times, see J. B. Schneewind, Sidgwick's Ethics and Victorian
Moral Philosophy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977). For a brief introduction
to Sidgwick's thought, see Marcus G. Singer, "Sidgwick," Encyclopedia
of Ethics, edited by Lawrence C. Becker and Charlotte B. Becker (New York:
Garland Publishing, Inc., 1992), Vol. II, pp. 1149-52.
Critical Essays
Several of the editions of Mill's Utilitarianism and
On Liberty contain excellent collections of critical essays. In
addition to these anthologies, see The Limits of Utilitarianism, edited
by Harlan B. Miller and William H. Williams (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota
Press, 1982) as well as the collection of essays in the Canadian Journal
of Philosophy, supplementary volume 5 (1979). One of the more recent books
that often provides a good starting-point for studying utilitarianism is Utilitarianism:
For and Against (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973), which contains
an explication and defense of act utilitarianism by J.J.C. Smart and an interesting
critique by Bernard Williams. The essay by Williams has been one of the most
influential in raising the issue of moral alienation. One of the most nuanced
and powerful replies to Williams and others on this issue is Peter Railton's
"Alienation, Consequentialism, and the Demands of Morality," Philosophy
and Public Affairs, Vol. 13, No. 2 (Spring, 1984), pp. 134-71. This essay,
along with a number of other important pieces, has been reprinted in an excellent
anthology edited by Samuel Scheffler, Consequentialism and Its Critics
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988); also see David O. Brink, "Utilitarian
Morality and the Personal Point of View," Journal of Philosophy,
Vol. 83 (1986), pp. 417-38. The anthology that Bernard Williams and Amartya
Sen edited, Utilitarianism and Beyond (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1982) contains a number of perceptive articles. For a helpful anthology
of essays on the place of rights in utilitarian moral theory, see Utility
and Rights, edited by R. G. Frey (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press,
1984); Richard B. Brandt, Morality, Utilitarianism, and Rights (New York:
Cambridge University Press, 1992); and Rationality, Rules, and Utility: New
Essays on the Moral Philosophy of Richard B. Brandt, edited by Brad Hooker
(Boulder: Westview Press, 1993).
Overviews of Utilitarian Thought
For a very reliable, brief overviews of utilitarian thought,
see David Lyons, "Utilitarianism," Encyclopedia of Ethics,
edited by Lawrence C. Becker and Charlotte B. Becker (New York: Garland Publishing,
Inc., 1992), Vol. II, pp. 1261-68; Philip Pettit, "Consequentialism,"
A Companion to Ethics, edited by Peter Singer (Oxford: Basil Blackwell,
1991) pp. 230-240. Anthony Quinton's Utilitarian Ethics (New York: St.
Martin's Press, 1973) provides a helpful overview of classical utilitarian thought.
Also see David Lyons, Forms and Limits of Utilitarianism (Oxford: Clarendon
Press, 1965) and D. H. Hodgson's Consequences of Utilitarianism (Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1967). Russell Hardin's Ethics within the Limits of Reason
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988) develops a defense of utilitarianism
that relies heavily on game theory. Robert E. Goodin provides a strong defense
of a utilitarian approach to public policy issues in Utilitarianism as a
Public Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995). For a very
perceptive discussion of well-being in relationship to utilitarianism,
see James Griffin, Well-Being: Its Meaning, Measurement and Moral Importance
(Oxford: Clarendon, 1986).
The Distinction Between Act and Rule Utilitarianism
Richard Brandt introduced the distinction between act and
rule utilitarianism in his Ethical Theory (Englewood Cliffs, New
Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1959). On this distinction, also see A. C. Ewing, "What
Would Happen if Everyone Acted Like Me?", Philosophy, Vol. 28 (1953),
pp. 16-29 and A. K. Stout's "But Suppose Everybody Did the Same?",
Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 32, pp. 1-29. On the tendencies
toward rule utilitarianism in Mill's work, see J. O. Urmson, "The
Interpretation of the Philosophy of J. S. Mill," Philosophical Quarterly,
Vol. 3 (1953), pp. 33-39 and Henry West, "Mill's Moral Conservatism,"
Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Vol. 1 (1976), pp. 71-80.
The discussion of utilitarianism often takes place within the
context of a contrast with Kantian and other deontological accounts of morality.
John Rawls' "Two Concepts of Rules," Philosophical Review,
Vol. 64 (1955), pp. 3-22 is an important attempt to reconcile partially these
two traditions. Samuel Scheffler's The Rejection of Consequentialism
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982) provides a provocative rethinking of some of
these issues, as does Michael Slote's Common-Sense Morality and Consequentialism
(London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985), which contains an extended discussion
of satisficing consequentialism.


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I am in the AIC Apitherapy Course as offered online by Dr. Stefan Stangaciu.
Has anyone else here taken this course?
I am in the AIC Apitherapy Course as offered online by Dr. Stefan Stangaciu.
Has anyone else here taken this course?
Never heard of it but sounds interesting Please keep us posted what happens
Ok MrsBeekeeper tell us how the course is going? I am insterested in taking it also. The AAS is having a conference and course in LA this Nov. I am going to try to attend.
AASs next annual Apitherapy Course and Conference, known as CMACC, is tentatively planned for Nov. 12-14, 2010, in Los Angeles, CA.
Well, to be honest, I've been lazy. I have to write a 30 page thesis before I can take the open book test and get my certificate. I just have to buckle down and do it.
The course is interesting. Lots of the information I already knew, as gleaned from my husband who is a seasoned commercial beekeeper.
What I've found most beneficial, is being connected to many professionals. Doctors and scholars (who are bee-lovers) who email each other (and copy a group of us) regularily on interesting related subject matter.
Something else to keep in mind:
Apitherapy / Apitherapist is not yet a recognized profession. AIC will give you a "certificate", but that does not license us to open an Apitherapy clinic. What it will do, is give you information which you can serve. I can sell pollen & propolis & honey & even bees, but I can't diagnose and illness and perscribe Apitherapy as treatment. And certainly there are liablities for using BVT (Bee Venom Therapy) on others. These matters are addressed in the AIC.
My intentions:
When I have acquired my certificate, I will contact local naturopathic doctors, and advise them that I am a beekeeper who can provide these products, and with a doctors advisement, I could supply homeopathic remedies.
We have a lady in our county that has Multiple Sclerosis, how much liability am I going to assume if I supply her with bees? It is my understanding that she expects me to supply a minumin of 60 bees free of charge per week.
I would like to hear what others are doing.
Myron Denny
I know a place up here that sells bees for BVT, so I think that it is not a liability to do so. From my understanding, the only liability would be in diagnosing her illness, and then administer the stings yourself. In other words, we can't sting people - not for free, and certainly not for money.
I would recommend that you have her sign a waiver, absolving you of liability. Also, that you might require a note from her doctor, that they are aware of her taking BVT.
Also, whether you supply them for free or not is your own choice. But if bees are your livelihood, then it is not at all unreasonable to ask her to pay for them.
I would recommend that you have her sign a waiver, absolving you of liability. Also, that you might require a note from her doctor, that they are aware of her taking BVT.
The lady has a doctors appointment tomorrow, she will get the note and is willing to sign a note absolving me from liability, thanks for your input!
Hey Mrs. Beekeeper: I have looked into it on the internet. I is a great course based on what I read about it. It looked hard and you will learn alot. Could you private message the info for the class,cost,etc. It looked very interesting I know apitherapy works great for arthritis. Anyways keep me updated.
I took this course.
And how was the course? @ Saeed & Riverratbees


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How should one manage drone comb throughout the year? Should you remove it from the brood chamber once it has been capped and never return it? Is there ever a time to put it back into the brood chamber to encourage the queen to lay drones? is it ok to use in the honey supers once the flow is on? Should it all be removed for winter? What about in a NUC, can it be used to start a NUC?
Basically what are peoples management techniques for drone comb.


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