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This week on Kickstarter Tuesdays, I am talking about two projects that could use your support! First off is a special film in the Atlanta Metro.
Heavy Water – A Feature Film
Andrew Donoho has lived in Atlanta for the past few years. He has come across a handful of fascinating stories from local homeless men and women and recovering addicts. He wanted to take these elements and build them into a redemption story with a touch of sci-fi to explore themes about materialism, self-control, and the pull between different expectations within our world. Low-income Atlanta presents a visceral texture, aesthetic, and history that provides them with a unique backdrop for these stories, rarely shown on film. Andrew spent 2 years working in the Atlanta film industry meeting talented peers that shared his vision for the movie. Six long months went into forging a well thought-out script and finding the right actors. Then they shot the movie.
Heavy Water follows the story of River, a recovering addict recently released from prison, played by Carter Jenkins. Carter has proven to be an incredible asset to the film with a massive passion, impressive ability, and previous credits from films and T.V. shows such as Surface, Aliens in the Attic, and Valentine's Day. The film opens with River desperately trying to reintegrate into society and make enough money to keep his home, pay for his mentally distressed younger brother, and escape the control of his domineering uncle. When all options disappear and times grow harder, an old friend named Jed provides River with what seems to be the perfect solution.
They just finished their final day of principal photography, and they are about to enter post-production. They started out with a small budget and have stretched it incredibly far, working with talented actors and a crew of over 35 incredibly skilled artists. They have secured a huge amount of resources from the local industry: two red cameras, Zeiss Super speeds, a two-ton lighting package, expansive and beautiful locations, police cars, factories, amazing props, and an art department that's re-shaping and defining the world. They have managed to create a unique and beautiful aesthetic, and a powerful story being told to the best of their abilities. Now they are reaching the end of their funds, and they are looking for support from people who want to be a part of the film for their post-production, pick-ups, and finding distribution.
This movie has been talked about on the LA Times and E! Online because Jake "The Snake" Roberts is a star in this movie. The funds from Kickstarter will allow them to afford postproduction, which is one of the most costly elements of filmmaking. This includes camera rentals, actor's flights, lights, and crew for their reshoots and pickups: they still need to shoot the final scene and get a lot of tight inserts they have missed. The crew still needs to create a full musical score for the movie and to do the final edit of the movie plus corrections. Funds would also go to film festival fees, posters, website, and other promotional activities for the movie.
As of August 13th, this Kickstarter project has raised around $13,800 of the $25,000 goal they need to be funded. And as you know in Kickstarter, a project is not funded until the fundraising goal is reached! This project only has 8 days left to reach the $25,000 goal. For a pledge of $25, you will get a link to watch the movie online in HD. For a pledge of $45, you will get to see a behind the scenes video of the making of Heavy Water. There are also many more awesome pledge levels! To learn more about Heavy Water and to pledge money, go to: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/heavywatermovie/heavy-water-a-feature-film
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Tribesports: Revolutionizing the Sportswear Industry
When most people exercise, they often wear special athletic clothing to make them feel comfortable. Now, a company out of Great Britain is bringing the world's first community-powered sportswear range, bringing you premium quality at up to 40% cheaper than leading sports brands.
Tribesports Performance Wear will be made to meet the highest quality technical specifications, using premium technical fabrics and cutting-edge construction methods. BUT, despite being the same quality (or better) than the leading sports brands, they will be brought to you at up to 40% cheaper. How can athletic wear be 40% cheaper you ask? Well, by supporting Tribesports Performance Wear, you are not paying for a middlemen, paying for brick and mortar stores, paying for celebrity endorsements and sponsorship's, or paying for TV ad campaigns and billboards.
From the first sketches to the final product, they have developed the range with quality, performance and versatility in mind. These detailed design CADs outline some of the key performance features of the products. All fabric & trim selections have been specifically chosen to keep you looking and feeling great while you work out. Moisture wicking fabric, lock-down zip pullers, 360 degree reflectivity, heat transfer size labels, the list goes on. The Tribesports Performance range is designed to sit close to the skin for a streamlined fit. The ergonomic seams follow the contours of your body for a supportive, comfortable finish. Here's some of the technical detail of the athletic wear.
Tribesports Performance Wear has a line of men and women athletic wear that includes short and long sleeved shirts, shorts, zip-top, and capris. Tribesports are currently at the final prototype stage on their first range. All styles are quality control checked, sweat tested and are ready to run. On reaching their funding goal of £30,000 (~$46,000), your pledges will go directly towards moving the very first Tribesports performance wear range from final prototype stage into production. They have worked tirelessly to put all the necessary logistics in place for this project. Supporting their solid in-house team, they have built strong relationships with suppliers, manufacturers, quality control, global logistics and fulfillment specialists and other expert service providers to minimize any potential risks and pitfalls.
As of August 13th, this Kickstarter project has raised around 52,000 pounds of the 30,000 pounds goal they need to be funded. This project has 23 days left to raise as much as it can! For a pledge of 6 pounds ($10), you will get a one of a kind Tribe-founder exercise towel. For a pledge of 16 pounds ($25), you will get your choice of an ultra-lightweight Performance Long Sleeve or Short Sleeve Tech Tee in the color of your choice. There are also many more awesome pledge levels! To learn more about Tribesports Sportswear and to pledge money, go to: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1478963130/tribesports-revolutionizing-the-sportswear-industr
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On Black Friday, the market confirmed its new rally, signaling that investors can move off the sidelines and into top-rated stocks breaking out of bullish patterns. The major averages remain choppy, so it's especially important to look for stocks that are truly leading the market.
The traditional year-end gift-buying binges bode well for card processors Visa (V) and MasterCard (MA). Shares of both reached all-time highs intraday Monday. They're also among an otherwise diverse group of stocks with rising relative strength lines, meaning they're outperforming the broader S&P 500 index.
Also on the Bolting RS Lines Screen Of The Day is the Chinese Web portal Qihoo 360 Technology (QIHU), which is trying to take market share in the Chinese Web search business.
Qihoo soared 9.8% Monday in an otherwise down day for the market to 27.44, blasting above key resistance levels to a 52-week high. Qihoo had already been one of the best-performing stocks in November, while Baidu slumped to multiyear lows.
Visa closed down Monday almost 1% at 148.64. MasterCard was down 0.4% at 486.65. But the RS lines remained at all-time highs.
Home improvement chain Home Depot (HD) makes the Bolting RS Lines screen's cut. The handyman's hangout is expected to get a boost in the coming quarters by a long slow cleanup expected in the wake of the massive Superstorm Sandy, which slammed into the East Coast at the end of October.
Home Depot shares were down slightly Monday to 64.98, but intraday climbed to a more-than-12-year high. The stock consolidated from early October to mid-November, but the RS line continued to march higher, showing Home Depot's outperformance while the market was in correction.
Amgen (AMGN) shares rose initially, but closed down less than 0.5% Monday. The biotech's stock has been consolidating since hitting a high on Oct. 18, but its RS line has held steady, actually hitting a fresh high Monday.
Rental car firm Avis Budget Group (CAR) and specialty chemical firm Eastman Chemical (EMN) also make the list, and are trading near new 52-week highs. Avis closed down slightly at 18.91. Eastman was down 1.4% at 59.91.
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Lenders are not expecting a revival in the syndicated loan market after it slumped 70 per cent in the first half of 2012 to less than $14 billion. Asian banks are also grabbing a bigger share of the shrinking pie.
"I don't think that loan volumes are going to pick up in any meaningful way for the second half of 2012," HSBC head of leveraged and acquisition finance for Asia-Pacific Lyndon Hsu told The Australian Financial Review. "You can adjust that for what is coming up for refinancing, that will occur naturally. But fresh financings, whether it will be for working capital or acquisitions, I think activity is going to remain low, and that's being driven by a lack of confidence."
According to Bank of America Merrill Lynch, $32 billion in syndicated debt is due to mature in the second half of the year.
Last year's lending volumes were boosted by companies refinancing debt ahead of schedule in the last quarter of 2011. Analysts at the investment bank also attribute the unusually low volumes this year to elevated spreads and renewed global uncertainty. The increasing number of companies turning to capital markets to replace bank debt has contributed to the trend.
As the market has shrunk, Asian banks have ramped up their share of new syndicated lending from 17 per cent to 21 per cent, while European banks have retreated to 15 per cent share against more than 30 per cent before the crisis.
"The major French banks – BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole and Société Générale – have been particularly conspicuous by their absence. Conversely, the Japanese banks – Sumitomo, Mizuho and Bank of Tokyo – and HSBC have been strong," a Merrill Lynch report said.
Singaporean and Taiwanese banks have also started to selectively fill the gap left by the departing Europeans.
While European banks shrink their balance sheets and reduce the number of people dedicated to the Australian market, HSBC's Hsu said the Asian-centric bank had increased its Australian coverage to three individuals covering Australia working with its debt capital markets team.
Australian banks have also stepped in to pick up the European slack.
"I think the Japanese banks are very relevant right now," ANZ head of loan syndications, Australia, Sean Joseph said. "The mega-banks are aggressive and I would say they are strong competition to the domestic majors in terms of being able to do deals at competitive levels."
One of the impacts of the European banking withdrawal should be a welcome spike in pricing for the banks, but the lack of activity is hindering this. "That hasn't happened because there has been a lack of deal flow, so everyone has been reasonably competitive on the deals that have come up. So pricing is pushing sideways," Mr Joseph said.
"I would expect pricing to go up if we see many deals coming to market but so long as there is a quiet market, I think people are going to bid deals reasonably aggressively."
But banks are also facing higher costs and are less keen to lend for periods longer than three years. "You will find that banks still struggle with long-term tenors because they can't cost effectively match the long-term funding for such loans," Mr Hsu said. "Credit is less of the issue, this is to do with the cost of funds."
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Situated in Keighley, this hotel is within 1 mi (2 km) of Cliffe Castle Museum, Keighley Library, and Keighley Civic Centre. Keighley Playhouse and Keighley Bus Museum are also within 2 mi (3 km).
This hotel features a restaurant, a bar/lounge, and massage/treatment rooms. Free English breakfast, free wired Internet in public areas, and free self parking are also provided. Other amenities include dry cleaning.
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NY-GOV: Why Giuliani Probably Won't Run
New York Democrats are increasingly nervous about running on the ballot with Gov. David Paterson, according to the New York Times. That's not surprising, ...
New York Democrats are increasingly nervous about running on the ballot with Gov. David Paterson, according to the New York Times. That's not surprising, given Paterson's approval numbers. But, their biggest fear strikes me as misplaced. From the New York Times article:The biggest fear is that Mr. Paterson presents such an enticing target that he will encourage a challenge from a prominent Republican, like former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, who could galvanize the party and give Republican voters a reason to be enthusiastic about the race.
I doubt that Giuliani actually is going to run. The problem he faces is that Paterson is so unpopular that he isn't actually that enticing of a target.
The dynamic right now in New York is that Paterson keeps saying he's running for governor and yet no one actually believes him. How can he possibly win with an approval rating in the twenties?
That dynamic actually puts Giuliani in a very awkward position. Obviously, he'd be a heavy favorite against Paterson. But he has no assurance that Paterson actually will be the Democratic candidate.
Unless something dramatic changes, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo would pummel Paterson in a Democratic primary. If Cuomo is the nominee instead, Giuliani will be the underdog. Coming off of a disastrous presidential bid, I doubt Giuliani is interested in adding another losing race to his legacy.
As a result, what we're likely to see -- and in fact already seeing -- is a comedy of indecision. Giuliani won't declare that he is running until he knows Cuomo isn't running. To avoid intraparty unpleasantness, Cuomo won't declare whether he is running until Paterson says he isn't running. Yet Paterson keeps saying he is running because, hey, who knows, things might turn around for him.
What Giuliani really needs is for Paterson to say he is running and for it to be obvious that he really means it and Cuomo to say he's not running and for it be obvious he really means it. The trouble is that no one ever believes a politician with a bad approval rating who says he's running (people even talk about Jon Corzine not actually running and his election is three months away) and rarely does anyone believe a politician with a great approval rating who says he isn't running.
Giuliani is already facing pressure to make up his mind soon, to give other Republicans a chance to build support. He also has already given a vague timetable for his decision: "by this fall." Unless somehow it is clear that Cuomo won't be the Democratic nominee by then, I'm betting that Giuliani takes a pass.
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Media in the next 40 years...
"I think we're going to see a 10-15 year changeover," says The New England Journal of Medicine's Art Wilschek. "We're seeing a lot of readers still reading the print. They still haven't gone totally to the Internet—they're using it for different purposes—but the younger doctors are using it more."
For The Journal's part, nejm.org is getting 14 million views per month, and the title is looking to leverage its leading brand more online. "Like everyone, we're looking for opportunities," says Wilschek. "We just don't jump into everything."
Of course, online ad rates are a fraction of what print rates are, and even as more advertisers migrate online, they aren't likely to catch up. That could mean less-profitable pubs get squeezed out. "They'll close or reinvent themselves," says Wilschek, who notes that many publishers are making more from CME and custom publishing than from traditional ads.
Turmoil in medical publishing is nothing new–many of the biggest titles from years past, like Medical World News, Medical Tribune and Modern Medicine, are no more. But in the brave new world of medical information, the ease of entry that controlled circulation granted to the titles of yesteryear will be lost. Still, not everyone's sanguine about the business. "It's still the best possible and least expensive means of leveraging a sales call," says CMI's Bob Girondi. "People are going to say, 'If I'm going to do this in a cost-effective manner, I'm going to have to include a broad array of customer-focused, fully-integrated media, beginning with journal advertising.'"


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Matt Hornsby necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 115 diseños de 34 diseñadores freelance.
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We are a small company that sells a variety of shipping supplies to other businesses.
Our business is directed towards companies of any size in need of shipping supplies.
Hornsby Supply is looking for a logo that primarily features our name. We would like for "Hornsby" to be the main focus and "Supply" to be secondary. While we encourage a creative logo, we are mainly looking for a simple, yet sharp looking, design. We require that the logo design be in a vector format and that there be no use of stock photos or clip art.


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Today I finally got access to GooglePlus and leapt in setting up my circles etc. Putting aside the fact that a significant portion of the people I follow aren't on there yet, it seems like a very slick service and I think it has a lot of potential. But there's a fair amount of muddle in there too.
+1, Comment, Like, Share
Google are attempting to link many of their existing services together with Google Plus and this makes a lot of sense, but at the moment it also seems to be leading to some redundancy and for me at least, confusion. For example on my profile I now have a Posts page which lists the stuff I'm specifically sharing in Google+. These items can be +1'd Commented or Shared.
Then I have my +1 page which lists the stuff that I have +1'd around the web, but not the stuff that I've +1'd on Google+. Since a +1 is not a share as such, I haven't shared these items in Google+, but the link will be visible through my profile.
And then there's Google Buzz which contains all my Google Reader shares. Although they are shares, they have not been shared in Google+, only in Reader and Buzz. These items can be Liked or Commented but there doesn't seem to be any way to share them in Google+ from this screen.
Can you understand my confusion?
Where to Share?
On top of the question of how best to share things in Google+, there's the matter of how to connect it to my other social networks. This is my current arrangement:
- Reader Shares are piped into Buzz and from there into Twitter
- Reader Shares also go to my blog as a Daily Link Digest
- Blog Posts are piped into Twitter
- My Twitter Feed is posted as a digest on my blog (a little recursive, but not too much)
- My photos are posted via Posterous to Tumblr, Flickr, Picassa, Facebook and my Blog (so they also end up on Twitter)
So where does that leave Google Plus?
That's what I'm trying to figure out. The Circles structure means that I can aim my posts very specifically in Google+ which will allow me to maintain groups for Tech, SciFi, Photography etc. But how I'm going to connect that content to the rest of my social sites is a big vague right now.
Suggestions anyone?
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Eternal Hostility: A New Year's Resolution
It was a year of social service program shutdowns driven by the governor's office in Springfield. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King's description of a triplet of giant evils, each insoluble in isolation from the others, helps us identify an answer to the Tribune's question. King spoke of the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism. Training for, and the diversion of money to, wars overseas was a crisis inextricable from the race crisis at home, as were policies promoting radical wealth inequality. Rep. Danny Davis of Chicago, whose grandson was killed by gun violence in 2016, insists that "poverty was fueling the city's bloodshed, and that Chicago needed to make investments 'to revamp whole communities.'
America's Policing Problem Is Global
Which has ever brought a peaceful future nearer to neighborhoods: weaponized military and surveillance systems, or the efforts of concerned neighbors seeking justice? The United States withholds resources needed for the task of healing the battle scars our country has inflicted on so much of the world. If our fear is endless, how will these wars ever end?
The Cold War Might Not Be Over — and the US Is Making It Worse
In the historic port city of Yalta, located on the Crimean Peninsula, I visited the site where Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin, in February of 1945, concluded negotiations ending World War II.
These leaders and their top advisers were also present at the creation of the United Nations and other instruments of international negotiation and non-military cooperation. Tragically, the creation of the "Cold War" was underway soon after.
De-Incarceration: A Different Drum So Needed
The solution to our awful prison problem is contained in the story of Gov. Edgar, Ratliff, and Celestial Ministries: Make a preferential option for those who are most impoverished in our midst. We might fund these efforts by taking money away from the corporations promoting criminal attacks on innocent people in other lands.
Building Trust Takes Resources, Not Drones
Glancing upward at one of the six U.S.-manufactured aerostat blimps performing constant surveillance over Kabul, I wonder if the expensive, high-tech, giant's-eye view encourages a primitive notion that the best way to solve a problem here is to target a "bad guy" and then kill him. If the bad guys appear to be scurrying dots on the ground below, stomp them out. But crushing only the right dots has proven very difficult for a U.S. drone warfare program documented to have killed many civilians.
Hammering for Peace
I wish that the testimony of my friends who literally beat guns into garden tools could be part of the courtroom proceeding. They urge us to make guns and other weapons unnecessary, using raw tools of compassion and service to heal the conflicts in which weapons are used. I wish my young Afghan friends here in Kabul, who live under constant surveillance of Unmanned Aerial Systems, could testify about their desire to refine tools of peace making and constructive service.
Surveillance and Surveys in Kabul
In Kabul, where the Afghan Peace Volunteers have hosted me in their community, the U.S. military maintains a huge blimp equipped with cameras and computers to supply 24-hour surveillance of the city. Remotely piloted drones, operated by Air Force and Air National Guard personnel in U.S. bases, also fly over Afghanistan, feeding U.S. military analysts miles of camera footage every day. Billions of dollars have been invested in a variety of blimps, which various vendors, such as Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Northrup Grumman, and Aeros have shipped to Afghanistan. All of this surveillance purportedly helps establish "patterns of life" in Afghanistan and bring security to people living here. But this sort of "intelligence" discloses very little about experiences of poverty, chaos, hunger, child labor, homelessness, and unemployment that afflict families across Afghanistan.
One Afghan Teenager Says 'Enough!' to the Taliban — and the U.S.
Tall, lanky, cheerful, and confident, Esmatullah easily engages his young students at the Street Kids School, a project of Kabul's Afghan Peace Volunteers, an antiwar community with a focus on service to the poor. Esmatullah teaches child laborers to read. He feels particularly motivated to teach at the Street Kids School because, as he puts it, "I was once one of these children."
Esmatullah began working to support his family when he was 9 years old. Now, at age 18, he is catching up on school.He has reached the tenth grade, takes pride in having learned English well enough to teach a course in a local academy, and knows that his family appreciates his dedicated, hard work.
When Esmatullah was nine, the Taliban came to his house looking for his older brother. Esmatullah's father wouldn't divulge information they wanted. The Taliban then tortured his father by beating his feet so severely that he has never walked since. Esmatullah's dad, now 48, has never learned to read or write. There are no jobs for him.
Let It Shine
In the face of wars, refugee crises, weapon proliferation, and unaddressed climate change impacts, let us echo the common sense of children. Let goodness shine.
Or, as our young friends in Afghanistan have put it, #Enough! They write the word, in Dari, on the palms of their hands and show it to cameras, wanting to shout out their desire to abolish all wars.
This past summer, collaborating with Wisconsin activists, we decided to feature this refrain on signs and announcements for a 90-mile walk campaigning to end targeted drone assassinations abroad, and the similarly racist impunity granted to an increasingly militarized police force when they kill brown and black people within the U.S.
Building Toward a New Dawn in Afghanistan
On this fast day, I remember that many U.S. people worry — like anyone anywhere — about the hardships a new day may bring, in a dangerous and uncertain time that seems to be dawning on every nation and the species as a whole. In the U.S., we carry the added knowledge that most of the world lives much more poorly — in a material sense, at least — than we do, and that were the sun to truly rise upon the U.S., with familiar words of equality and justice truly realized, we would have to share much of our wealth with a suffering world.
We would learn to "live simply so that others might simply live." We would find deep satisfaction in beholding faces like those of my friends gathered for a friendly morning meal before a day of voluntary fasting. Or, like Mohamedou, we would find warmth in the imagined breath of others sharing involuntary hardships.
"Another world is not only possible," writes author and activist Arundhati Roy, "she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing."
People living in the U.S. must know that life in the daylight might also be the start of an unaccustomed fast.
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A Perth man released from Bali's Kerobokan prison a year ago on marijuana charges says conditions at the jail for Australians are horrendous and inhumane.
Robert McJannett says the unsuccessful appeal of Bali Nine member Andrew Chan is "deeply saddening" and urged the Federal Government to bring Australian prisoners there home to serve their sentence.
Mr McJannett spent five months in the Indonesian prison after being arrested at Denpasar Airport in December 2009 with 1.7g of marijuana in his luggage. He was released in May last year.
The former trade unionist praised Mr Chan as a "reformed drug trafficker" and "reborn humanitarian".
"He's caring and he's got compassion," Mr McJannett said. "He's got a lot of remorse for what he did.
"I'm sure he feels a bit guilty about those younger fellows in the Bali 9 as well.
"I saw Andrew mentor other prisoners on a regular basis, including looking out for the younger members of the Bali 9, like Scott Rush."
As he revealed on PerthNow's iPad app last night, Mr McJannett said without Mr Chan's help, he would not have survived his time in prison.
"I've got him to thank for getting myself up off the floor and straightening out my health so I could survive in there," he said.
"He certainly sought me out when I got to the prison. He gave me an attitude adjustment in quite a stern fashion. He was there for me when I needed somebody."
Mr Chan was the organiser of the venture to smuggle 8.1kg of heroin to Australia from Bali. He had his death sentence confirmed for the third time when his final appeal against it was rejected on June 17. His only option now is to plead for clemency from Indonesia's president.
Referring to the recent sentencing of 15 years in prison for the man blamed for the 2002 Bali bombings, Abu Bakar Bashir, Mr McJannett slammed the "double standards" he said were rife in the Bali judicial system.
"Everyday in Kerobokan prison you see double standards," he said.
"The corruption there is so out of control that nobody anywhere on the face of this planet can stand up and say that anybody gets a fair trial in the Bali prison system."
Mr McJannett said the Federal Government should bring all the Australians home to serve their sentences here.
"Andrew does not deserve the death penalty, but on the contrary should be returned to Australia along with other Australians suffering the indignation of the corrupt Bali legal system," he said.
"It's a much more violent experience for a Westerner in an Asian prison than it is for an Asian in an Asian prison, so the punishment is doubled on that alone.
"What I saw of the Bali 9 is that many of them are suffering from health issues, dental issues and medical issues. Some of them are drug addicts, too. They're not getting any treatment.
"If they were in Australia, they would be properly looked after; they'd still have to serve out a prison sentence, which is still a big punishment."
Source: Perth Now, June 24, 2011
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FDA Approves Idelvion for Hemophilia B »
"The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today approved a drug for children and adults with hemophilia B called albutrepenonacog alfa (Idelvion, CSL Behring), which combines albumin with factor IX to reduce injection frequency."...
(Generic versions may still be available.)
The sulfonamides should not be used for the treatment of group A beta-hemolytic streptococcal infections. In an established infection, they will not eradicate the streptococcus, and therefore will not prevent sequelae such as rheumatic fever and glomerulonephritis.
Deaths associated with the administration of sulfonamides have been reported from hypersensitivity reactions, hepatocellular necrosis, agranulocytosis, aplastic anemia and other blood dyscrasias.
The presence of clinical signs such as sore throat, fever, arthralgia, cough, shortness of breath, pallor, purpura or jaundice may be early indications of serious reactions, including serious blood disorders.
Sulfonamides should be given with caution to patients with impaired renal or hepatic function and to those with severe allergy or bronchial asthma. In glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase-deficient individuals, hemolysis may occur. This reaction is frequently dose-related.
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Complete blood counts should be done frequently in patients receiving sulfonamides. If a significant reduction in the count of any formed blood element is noted, Gantanol (sulfamethoxazole) should be discontinued. Urinalyses with careful microscopic examination and renal function tests should be performed during therapy, particularly for those patients with impaired renal function.
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Carcinogenesis: Sulfamethoxazole has not been adequately tested in animals to permit an evaluation of its carcinogenic potential.
Mutagenesis: Bacterial mutagenic studies have not been performed with sulfamethoxazole. No chromosomal damage was observed in human leukocytes cultured in vitro with sulfamethoxazole; the concentrations used exceeded blood levels of sulfamethoxazole following therapy with Gantanol (sulfamethoxazole) .
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I told him I wanted my money back and he refused and never returned. I have hired an attorney and neither would he answer the phone calls or voicemails left. Lucky I have all his threatening voicemails and his signature of work that he promised to do on a contract that he didn't want to sign but wouldn't release any money until he did. Karma will come back and get you
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I'm probably not going to rewrite it but I'm intrigued by the problem, what is the optimal way to represent a direction in 3D, i.e. with as little space, redundancy and invalid value cases as possible, and if possible no normalization checks and renormalization operations needed?
(With direction I mean just the direction, i.e. not including position in space nor any roll (rotation around the direction vector itself). For instance a line (ray) can be represented by a point and a direction.)
An idea is to use a rotation in the x-y-plane (represented by a signed int A that is the nominator in the fraction A/PI, giving the interval [+- PI]), plus a half-circle rotation in z-space (represented by a signed int B in B/(PI/2), giving the interval [+- PI/2]). There are no invalid nor un-normalized values so that's good. But it's not fully optimal in terms of bit representation:
- the z-space-rotation has twice the angular precision of the x-y-rotation which is a little irregular,
- even more irregular is that the closer the direction gets to the Z axis the greater the angular precision,
- at the directions +Z and -Z, A has no meaning (all values of A are equally valid).
And using this representation in actual 3D code seems less than efficient. Every time it's used two divisions and floating point conversions seem to be required. And how would you efficiently apply an arbitrary rotation to it?
Your thoughts?
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text: And I admit, her daughter (Kendal?) seems like a nice girl, and a decent dancer, despite having a bipolar psychopath for a mother and now being stuck with Cathy as a teacher (I was at Jill being all "Wow, you fixed three things in fifteen minutes!" Getting her to do it right once is nice, honey. It's not fixed until it's right the majority of the time.) But that Globetrotter thing--you can't tell me that wasn't producer manipulation. Though I loved when the Globetrotters were congratulating her and the one player held up his hand for a high-five, and I mean UP. Given how tall he is, probably nine or ten feet in the air.


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Today is National Coffee Day, which we're assured is a 100% legitimate holiday and not just something cooked up in a Starbucks marketing department somewhere, and baristas everywhere are celebrating by...well, by being forced to work even harder to accomodate all the mooches wanting their free cup of coffee. But is coffee all it's cracked up to be? Sean Adams and Randall Cleveland argue their points as fiercely as they would fight for the mud cup...
On the path to enlightenment, there are no stops for coffee by Sean Adams
Does the sun require caffeine to rise? Must the rooster indulge in a mug of dark roast to greet the morning? Is the Earth's spinning aided in any way by the consumption of warmly brewed beverage? The answer to each of these questions, my friends, is no.
Waking up is my motivation to wake up. Each morning when I open my eyes at 5am, I say, "congratulations, Sean. You have won! The darkness did not take you prisoner! The night did not consume you! You are whole and you are wonderful!" And then I leave the house and roll in the lawn, bathing myself in the only water source I can trust: the fresh morning dew.
We, as a race, need not fear the effects of sleep. When you drink a cup of coffee each morning you are essentially smothering your sleeping self with a pillow. You are telling the tired you, "I am far more concerned with the heaviness of your eyelids than the validity of your ideas." But if you gave your tired self a chance, you might find that he's actually an amazing human being.
I, myself, often get some of my best work done when extremely tired. I've written some of my best poems and whittled some of my most detailed wooden bird sculptures just out of bed, crafted some of my finest vegan paninis, performed a few of my greatest one man shows, and trimmed some fantastic hedge sculptures after restless nights of little to no sleep. And yet, for some reason, society tells me that I require coffee to function? Ridiculous!
Man invented the car, but now man takes after the car, filling himself with a dark, dangerous liquid in order to move forward through life. But it does not have to be this way! We can overcome our dependence on coffee, just like we can get overcome our dependence on foreign oil by trading in our cars for alpaca-drawn-carriages!
Please join me, and we will let our eyelids droop in happy unity!
Coffee is the Only Thing Keeping Me From Killing You and Everyone Else in This Office by Randall Cleveland
Let me be honest right off the bat, here: I don't give a flying crap if you like coffee. Your wants, needs, likes, and dislikes are absolutely subatomic on my radar of stuff to worry about. But in order for you to understand the importance of a day like National Coffee Day, let me make one thing perfectly crystal clear:
Coffee is the only thing keeping me from murdering you in your pathetic little cubicle right now.
Mankind was not made to waste away at a desk under fluorescent lighting while staring at various flickering screens. But hey, I recognize the status quo, and since I feel like mankind was also not made to live in dumpsters I understand that I have to hold down a job. Which means 40-60 hours a week in here, sitting at a desk.
With you people.
But on the weekends, my time is mine. I can do whatever I want! I can run and laugh and jump and swim and kayak and mountain bike and hang glide, or at least I would do those things if I wasn't so beat down and defeated by the end of the week that I can barely muster the energy to sit upright on the couch to watch whatever Jamie Kennedy travesty Comedy Central is running eight times in a row. And when I close my eyes every Sunday night, after I wipe the tears away and accept that yes, tomorrow I will have to go to work again, I dream. I dream of flying through an endless, cloudless sky as blue as any sapphire. The wind rips along my back and through my hair and I laugh, joyously, at the freedom I've never felt but always knew I needed to feel.
And then, like some unsympathetic prison guard, the alarm clock jolts me awake. And I'm forced to trudge to my car, still half asleep and longing for the blue sky, and drive through an hour and a half's worth of commuter traffic to finally reach my destination: a place I hate with the fire of 10,000 suns.
And then you show up, all chipper and stupid, and say things like, "I don't know how you can drink that stuff! It stains your teeth! Hee hee!"
You know how I can drink this stuff? I grit my g** damn teeth and I drink it. I hungrily savor the decadent stuff from Kona, and I pull a John Wayne and tough through the gritty instant crap when that's all we have. I drink it because it's the only thing that kills the pain. I drink it because even as I'm explaining this to you, even as I'm doing my best to explain my situation and try to earn your understanding, all I can think about is grabbing your tiny muppet head with both hands and squeezing.
I want to squeeze your head so f*&^%ing hard your eyes explode like over-ripe cherry tomatoes. Do you have any idea how many items in a typical office could be used to commit cold-blooded murder? Because I do. I think through a new scenario every morning before 8:15 rolls around and there's finally a fresh pot. I could push the snack machine over on top of you. I could force feed you Post-It Notes until you're fully taxidermied. I could probably put enough force behind a Dry-Erase marker to lodge one in your skull. Hell, I could bludgeon you to death with this very coffee mug if it weren't the vessel for the life force that keeps me and you and everyone else in this s*&t hole alive.
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Auckland's Waiheke Island has been ranked in the top 10 islands to visit in the South Pacific by an influential travel review website.
The annual TripAdvisor Travelers Choice Destination awards honour top travel places worldwide, based on millions of reviews and opinions from travellers.
Waiheke Island - described as a haven of beautiful beaches, gastronomical treasures and small wineries - features alongside a range of stand-out Pacific Island destinations, including Bora Bora and Taveuni Island in Fiji.
In the same poll, Auckland central was rated the second best destination in New Zealand.
Auckland was also the only destination in New Zealand to have three beaches in the top 10 list, with Piha ranked number three and neighbouring west coast beaches Bethells and Karekare also placing in the top 10.
"These accolades reinforce the transformation that Auckland is going through and cements our reputation as a destination in our own right," says ATEED (Auckland Tourism, Events and Economic Development) tourism manager Jason Hill.
The recognition follows several other accolades in the last six months, with Waiheke Island being listed in the New York Times 46 Places to Go this year and Auckland being named Australasia's top destination in the 2012 World Travel Awards.
Auckland was also ranked third in the world on the 2013 Mercer Scale of Global Lifestyle Cities and named Best Turnaround Destination by Britain's Cruise Insight magazine.


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DONGXIANG, Jiangxi, May 23 (Xinhua) -- The death toll from a train derailment in east China Sunday has risen to 10, say rescue authorities.
Another 55 people were injured, two of them seriously, after the accident in Jiangxi Province, said a statement from the rescue headquarters.
The train was en route from Shanghai to the scenic city of Guilin in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, when it came off the tracks at around 2:10 a.m. in Dongxiang county, Fuzhou city.
It derailed after hitting a section of track that had been damaged by a a landslide, the Ministry of Railways said in a press release early Sunday.
Xinhua reporters who went to the scene saw the locomotive and nine of the 17 carriages of the K859 service off the tracks and overturned in a mountainous area. One carriage was twisted and crushed on top of another.
All the surviving passengers had been rescued, said a spokesman with the rescue headquarters.
Most of the bodies had been recovered, although rescuers were still trying to get into the seriously mangled third carriage, which had been crushed, said the spokesman.
The Shanghai-Kunming railway line was closed after the accident.
More than 2,000 rescuers and four excavators were working at the site, trying to restore the line before dark, the spokesman said.
"Each carriage had 118 seats. It is not yet immediately known how many passengers were aboard," said a police officer surnamed Luo, from the Railway Bureau in Nanchang, capital of Jiangxi.
He said the bureau had called for four legal medical experts to the accident site to help identify the bodies.
"We are afraid the casualties could soon rise, as four of the derailed train cars were severely damaged," he said.
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The Kentucky Genealogical Society offers a lot of great programs, and everything I've attended so far has been worth the drive to Frankfort.
The weather has changed and I'm excited about all of the outdoor activities that are coming up in downtown Carrollton.
Carrollton Main Street Program's First Fridays at the Courthouse Square returns from 4-8 p.m., Friday, June 6, with live music from the Downtown County Band, a favorite of crowds from years past.
Thanks to generous community donations and a successful five-week pilot, the Family Fitness Night program will begin September 2014 in the Carroll County School District.
"I want these events to be a fun way for families to exercise together," said Carrie Smith, health services coordinator for the district. "Having a routine of exercising year-round is beneficial for everyone in a family, not just the kids. Our Family Fitness Nights are a great way for the whole family unit to spend time together and to get fit."
If identity theft still seems like a relatively rare crime when compared to other types of stealing, the truth is that it plays a much bigger role than one might think.
According to a report last December by the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics, it was responsible for nearly $25 billion in financial losses nationwide in 2012, which was $10 billion more than all other property crimes combined.
With memories of the long winter starting to fade and the Memorial Day weekend now behind us, the time has come to begin planning for summer.
There certainly is no shortage of activities nearby or across the state, and their popularity can be seen in the bottom line. According to an annual study released earlier this month, Kentucky's tourism and travel industry was responsible for $12.5 billion in direct and indirect spending in 2013, which was a 2.6 percent increase over 2012. Overall, these businesses employ nearly 176,000 people.
The Carroll County School District is hosting several summer learning activities throughout the community this summer. The STEM Bus, credit recovery/enrichment and the summer reading program will all be active during the months of June and July.
The Center of Accelerated Learning will be open for three sessions so that students can earn course credits.
Memorial Day may be the unofficial kick-off to summer, but as we ready for the upcoming holiday weekend, it is vital that we never forget it is much more than that. It is also a time when we as a nation pause to mourn and to reflect upon those men and women who paid the ultimate price defending our freedom.
The holiday is nearing its 150th anniversary, and given that it came about in the wake of the Civil War, it seems appropriate that there is still some debate between the North and South about its exact origin.
When many of you hear about University of Kentucky basketball, you might think of Big Blue Nation or the eight-time NCAA Champions — maybe even a fervent fan base.
But one thing is for sure, the University of Kentucky basketball team is and always has been one of strong teamwork, dedication and perseverance, whether they were winning or losing. These are qualities that a couple of the team's former players will hone in on, from 4-5 p.m., May 30, at the Carroll County Middle School.
A beautiful sunny Monday morning. Sometimes it seems hard to equate beautiful and Monday in the same sentence, but today, it's all true. The grass is green, part of my garden is planted and spring is all around us. Good times all around.
One thing that makes any time better is having family or friends around. This brings me to the point of exactly that: family and cooking.
In this month's Health Matters, we are going to hit a few topics and tidbits to help with nutrition and training.
The question arises at least once a week, what about eggs? I love them and want to eat them daily, but should I limit my consumption, due to the fear of cholesterol consumption?
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On February 9, 2012, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (the "CFTC") adopted the final rules (the "Final Rules") that will amend part 4 of the CFTC Regulations relating to commodity pool operators ("CPOs") and commodity trading advisors ("CTAs"), including new forms CPO-PQR and CTA-PR to be filed by CPOs and CTAs.
The Final Rules will repeal section 4.13(a)(4), which exempts CPOs from CFTC registration where the pools are offered only to qualified eligible persons ("QEPs"). QEPs include, among other persons, qualified purchasers defined under the Investment Company Act and certain non-US persons. The implication of this repeal is that the general partner or sponsor of a private fund that trades or takes positions in commodity interests (such as futures, commodity options and swaps) must register with the CFTC as a CPO, unless it is eligible for another exemption. Many of such general partners or sponsors will be eligible for the de minimis exemption under section 4.13(a)(3), assuming that the relevant private fund does not use commodity interests in excess of the threshold amount under the de minimis test.
The Final Rules will modify section 4.5 in a manner to require the investment adviser of a registered investment company to register with the CFTC as a CPO unless the use of commodity interests by such investment company meets the de minimis test, which is the same as the 4.13(a)(3) test, except that the use by such investment company of commodity interests will not be taken into account for purposes of such test where such use meets the definition of bona fide hedging transaction under the CFTC Regulations.
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This ''Gear and Chain'' piece by McNeese State associate professor Kenneth Baskin won Best of Show at the Regional Juried Ceramic Competition at the University of Dallas. (Special to the American Press)
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Kenneth Baskin, associate professor of art at McNeese State University, won the Best of Show award for his ceramic piece titled "Gear and Chain" exhibited in the Regional Juried Ceramic Competition at the University of Dallas.
The exhibition showcases contemporary ceramic sculptural and functional artwork. Baskin will also have a solo exhibition at the University of Dallas in 2014.
Les Manning, the competition's juror, also selected Baskin's ceramic piece "Hammer Mill" for inclusion in the campus exhibit.
Manning is senior artist-in-residence at Medalta, a ceramics studio in Alberta, Canada.
A former director of ceramics at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada, Manning has been a prominent influence on the ceramic arts scene for more than 30 years.


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text: Lyons - Richard "Dick" M. Hochbruckner, 74, entered eternity on Saturday (February 16, 2013) at Clifton Springs Hospital.Family and friends may call Tuesday (Feb. 19) from 12 noon to 2 p.m. at Waterman Funeral Home, 124 West Miller St., Newark. Memorial Service will follow at 2 p.m. Burial in Riverview Cemetery in Phelps, N.Y. In memory of Dick, please consider donations to Palmyra VFW War Dads, 4306 Route 31, Palmyra, NY 14522 or Clifton Springs Hospital, 2 Coulter Road, Clifton Springs, NY 14432.Dick was born the son of Charles and Dorothy (Spahn) Hochbruckner on Sunday, March 27, 1938 in Rochester, N.Y. He drove tractor trailer over the road for McCall Trucking in Ontario, N.Y. for many years. In the later years he worked for Seneca Foods as a machine repair specialist. Dick was a member of the American Legion in Lyons. He was also a member and served as chaplain in Sons of the American Legion in Newark and War Dads in Palmyra. Dick was a member of the Palmyra Moose Lodge. He enjoyed working around the yard and wood working.Dick will be remembered by his loving wife, Phylis (Fisher) Hochbruckner; sons, Richard M. (Malinda) Dunlap and Michael R. Hockenbruckner and his friend, Tracy; daughters, Kimberly Hochbruckner and Tina Zanders; sisters, Mary Lou (Russ) Roberts and Linda (Gerry) Weckelman; step-son, Mark (Cindy) Guinup; step-daughters, Lori (Ronald) Button and Cindy (David) Wren; many grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews.Dick was predeceased by his grandson, Richard M. Hochbruckner; brother, Charles "Chuck" Hochbruckner; sisters, Jamie Hochbruckner and Nancy Mayerce.You may light a candle of memory or condolence by visiting www.watermanfuneralhome.com


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Pros / No beginner telescope is more portable than this one. You can carry it all on your back.
Cons / Its lower aperture means views will not be as sharp, especially in deep space.
Verdict / This unit is terribly convenient, but it won't give you the kinds of views that higher-aperture scopes offer.
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The Meade ETX-80AT-TC refractor with backpack used to really stand out in the field of telescopes for beginners based on its go-to capability and extreme portability. The go-to field has become a bit more crowded over the years, but this starter scope still has some noteworthy plusses.
This is still one of the best beginner telescopes for eliminating excuses. There's no awkward bulk since it tucks into a backpack; hauling it to dark skies will not be an issue. Wrestling star charts to find targets is also not an issue with this product. The go-to functionality will guide you to your targets. Astronomy is not known for being an especially affordable hobby, even at the beginner level, but it is worth noting that this set costs less than $300 and is well equipped to offer some amazing views of the universe.
We like this unit for its versatility as well. It is a great tool for bird watching or for viewing any other terrestrial targets. Use it for that all day and for astronomy all night. This scope will be at the ready.
If you were only allowed one telescope in your life, a short-tube 80mm refractor like the Meade ETX-80BB would be a good choice. It's small enough to pack, well, into a backpack. It's light enough to take anywhere. Its aperture is wide enough to grab plenty of photons. And its 160x magnification can bring many invisible bits of the universe into your field of view.
Research-grade optics are in Meade's DNA, and this instrument benefits from that heritage. The scope comes with two so-called Super-Plossl eyepieces, which successfully overcome the main disadvantage of Georg Plossl's original 1860 design — that users often find plain Plossls to only come into focus uncomfortably close to their eyeballs.
This scope is not good for astrophotography, except for very short exposures of very bright objects. The Alt-Az mount would make a blurry, wandering, rotated image of any dime object, and the fork mount could easily damage any but the tiniest cameras attached to the tube if the scope swung too far vertically.
The set includes a Meade AutoStar Handbox, an internal time chip and the AutoStar Astronomer edition software and instructional DVD. If this software did nothing else but catalog information about more than 19 million stellar objects identified throughout centuries of research, it would already be pretty cool. The fact that it can tell your telescope to point at any of these objects at a given moment is even more exciting.
You can also set up custom catalogs based on certain types of items – such as Messier objects, for example. Select one of your catalogs for a night of viewing, and the Meade ETX-80BB will do the rest.
Although an unlikely request from a beginner, you can even set AutoStar to move your telescope remotely. You can control your scope set up in the backyard from the comfort of your den, or even control a telescope in another country using just AutoStar and the internet.
If you're not sure what you want to see, or what might be visible on a given clear night, let AutoStar handle it. Just select a Tonight's Best tour, and the controller will point the telescope toward the planets, stars and nebulae that are in the best viewing positions. The internal time chip keeps a factory-calibrated time and date, so your scope knows what looks best and when.
An LCD screen will teach you about what you can see through the scope with information on distance, temperature, mass and history.
The built-in Barlow lens flips into position when needed to provide more power when you're studying lunar and planetary surface features. An included internal battery pack is designed for six AA batteries (to be provided by the user). You'll get about 20 hours of battery time out of each set.
Two Plossl eyepieces, 9.7 mm and 26 mm, are designed to offer comfortable, long eye-relief and a good basic choice between low-power and higher-power magnification.
The backpack will store your ultra-portable telescope, tripod and accessories, including an image-erecting prism, dew shield and compass/bubble level.
This backpack observatory has a one-year warranty, and coming from a respected manufacturer like Meade, that really means something. Meade also stands behind its products with a place on its website for emailed questions and customer-service telephone contacts.
Meade has produced a nice group of videos that are specific to its various product lines. The set of videos on the ETX series contains nearly 20 helpful clips to get you started. A separate set of 13 videos is specifically regarding the Backpack Observatory group.
The Meade ETX-80AT still stands out among telescopes for beginners. It will fulfill the needs of a wide range of new astronomers, many of whom are looking for a first instrument that they can take hiking or to the beach. They want a telescope that provides gorgeous views of the craters on the moon, Saturn's rings and more. They want all of this for a great price. This all-in-one go-to telescope from Meade fits the bill.


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American singing superstar Beyonce Knowles is pregnant, according to a report.
Us Weekly credits a source close to the singer as saying the 29-year-old, who is married to hip hop mogul Jay-Z, is in her first trimester.
Apparently the news came as a surprise to the power couple.
"B was shocked. She loves kids, but she wasn't ready to be a mother just yet," a source told the magazine. "She really wanted to get her album done and tour the world again."
Another insider told the magazine that Beyonce realises that "this is a gift from God and she's so happy".
The singer and her 40-year-old rapper husband, real name Shawn Carter, married in a secret ceremony in New York in 2008.
Record producer Kevin Liles, who is a friend of the couple, reportedly told Us Weekly: "Jay has been all about family since I met him, and he's always going to be.
"I wish them the best."
The Grammy Award-winning singer's sister Solange told the magazine: "She's got the most beautiful heart. She'll be a great mom."
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