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"Local first responders will be quickly overwhelmed in a public health emergency. Skilled volunteers will be crucial to the success of our local community response."
-Boyd C. Hoddinott, MD, MPH
Health Commissioner
After the events of September 11, 2001, it became clear that our greatest concerns could become reality and that we will likely face significant challenges in this new millennium. As we cope with this realization, we find ourselves asking, will we be ready when the next disaster arises? What can I do to help my family, my friends, and my community when that day comes?
The Medical Reserve Corps
MRC units are community-based and are a way to locally organize and utilize volunteers - medical professionals and non-medical people - who want to donate their time and expertise to promote healthy living throughout the year and to prepare for and respond to emergencies. MRC volunteers supplement existing local emergency and public health resources.
Strengthening the Public Health Infrastructure and Improving Emergency Preparedness
- Increase disease and injury prevention
- Eliminate health disparities
- Improve public health preparedness
- Promoted Health Literacy
The Medical Reserve Corps is one way to help build our local public health infrastructure. This program allows our community to pre-identify, pre-credential, and pre-train a supplemental workforce in advance of when we need them. As a small, local public health agency, in a community with one local hospital, we could never employ the number of nurses, sanitarians, and educators needed to respond to a situation that may affect the entire county of more than 46,000 citizens. A volunteer workforce allows us to plan ahead and be ready should the need arise.
MRC volunteers include medical and public health professionals such as physicians, nurses, EMTs, pharmacists, dentists, veterinarians, and epidemiologists. Other community members, such as interpreters, chaplains, teachers and school staff, office workers, and legal advisers, can fill other vital support positions.
- During a public health emergency, you may be asked to help staff an emergency vaccination clinic or pharmaceutical distribution site.
- During times of non-emergency, volunteers will receive free emergency preparedness education and training and have the chance to serve as public health ambassadors.
- Some activities might include assisting with flu clinics, providing education sessions on special topics, and promoting immunization campaigns.
- Example, LCHD offered a Flu Clinic last year at Indian Lake High School and the previous year at Benjamin Logan High School. These were county-wide exercises of our mass vaccination clinic plan. We had several MRC volunteers help us at these 2 events so that we could test our plans and improve them. And, volunteers got a real-world picture of why we need their expertise and how they would be able to help in a real scenario.
- Licensed medical professionals and others with medical experience: Nurses, doctors, pharmacists, EMTs, veterinarians, dentists, nursing assistants, and others
- Mental health professionals: Counselors, social workers, therapists, psychiatrists, clergy, and others
- People with special skills: Computer specialists, translators, health educators, epidemiologists, biologists, chemists, and others
- Volunteers to provide basic support services
- Working in their profession
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31st NATIONAL MAYHAW FESTIVAL
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4/18/2014 - 4/19/2014
Spring Creek Park.Colquitt, GA
Celebrating the Best Jelly in the World
Friday, we will have a Bake Sale "From Colquitt's Best Cooks" on the square at Dee's, from 10:00 am until 4:00 pm.
Friday Night's Concert on the Square will feature local and regional entertainers, including "Roger Buck Davis and the Individuals" and "The Bonfire Band". Bring your lawn chairs pick up your dinner at restaurants on the Square and enjoy gospel, country and old time rock n roll. Music begins at 6:30 pm. And get ready to "Dance in the Streets" until 10:30 pm.
Saturday starts with 5K Run and 1 mile walk – Parade through the Square at 10 am.
Then to the "Festival at the Park" for the rest of the day: Entertainment, Arts & Crafts Vendors, Children's Activities and Food Galore will be available.
While in Colquitt enjoy GA's Agricultural Icon and 14 other murals – see the carved tribute to the American Indian and get tickets to "Mayhaw" a musical comedy at Cotton Hall.
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Katherine Beadle, whose father was the postmaster in Norene for 42 years, beginning in 1936, said the community feels strongly toward keeping its post office.
The letter from the USPS stated that Norene would be put on a Rural Route Service operating from the Lebanon Post Office, almost 13 miles away. The USPS said that running the Rural Route Service would cost considerably less than operation the Norene Post Office.
"The feeling of the community, and it's very strong, is that we want to keep our office," Beadle said.
The Norene Post Office was established way back in 1878, when the community was known as Henderson's Crossroads. The community's name was changed to Norene in 1915.
Beadle said the Rural Route will make it difficult for Norene residents to mail packages because of the uncertainty about when the letter carrier will come to pick up and deliver mail. She also said that Norene is not the only community that will suffer if the office is lost.
"It not only serves the Norene community, but it serves the surrounding communities as well," she said.
Norene residents are invited to the Norene Community Center at 6:30 p.m., tomorrow, to meet with officials from the USPS, who will be on hand to answer questions and take feedback from the citizens.
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SIMD pipelined processor implemented on a FPGA
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Pattichis, Marios
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Shu, Wei Wennie
Christodoulou, Christos
Christodoulou, Christos
University of New Mexico. Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Parallel processing (Electronic computers)
Pipelining (Electronics)
VHDL (Computer hardware description language)
Field programmable gate arrays.
Parallel processing (Electronic computers)
Pipelining (Electronics)
VHDL (Computer hardware description language)
Field programmable gate arrays.
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The goal of this thesis was to create a processor using VHDL that could be used for educational purposes as well as a stepping stone in creating a reconfigurable system for digital signal processing or image processing applications. To do this a subset of MIPS instructions were chosen to demonstrate functionality within a five stage pipeline (instruction fetch, instruction decode, execution, memory, and write back) processor in simulation and in synthesis. A hazard controller was implemented to handle data forwarding and stalling. The basic MIPS architecture was extended by adding singlecycle multiplication functionality and single-cycle SIMD instructions. The architecture contains parameters for easy modification of SIMD units depending on the needs of the processor. The SIMD architecture was designed with distributed memory so that every memory unit received the same address. This simplifies the address logic so that the processor does not have to use a complex addressing mode. The memory can be pictured as row and columns method of access. The SIMD instructions were chosen to be able to perform binary operations to implement future morphological operations and to use the multiply and add operations for implementing MACs to perform convolution and filtering operations in future image processing applications. The board being used to verify the processor was a Xilinx University Program (XUP) board that contains Xilinx Virtex II Pro XC2VP30 FPGA, package FF896. The maximum number of units that can be instantiated in the FPGA on the XUP board is eight units which would use the entire FPGA slice area. This allows the processor to complete eight sets of 32-bit data operations per cycle when the SIMD pipeline is full. The design was shown to operate at the maximum speed of 100 MHz and utilize all the area of the FPGA. The processor was verified in both simulation and synthesis. The new soft-core 32-bit SIMD processor extends existing soft-core processors in that it provides a reconfigurable SIMD-pipeline allowing it to operate on multiple inputs concurrently, with 32-bit operands and a single-cycle throughput.
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I was 18 at the time and also the letter says the date was 9/27/2012
I believe the statute of limitations for petit larceny is three-years. Also, the statute will toll (stop running) during any time the suspect has fled the state of Oklahoma or has taken up residency in another state.
Therefore, if a suspect commits petit larceny in Oklahoma and immediately goes to another states and remains there, the statute will never run out on that suspect until he or she returns to the state.
I would strongly recommend consulting an experienced criminal defense attorney in your local area.
so what does that mean basically?? I have heard before that when people get a civil demand letter (which is what i got) that you can ignore it and after the second or third letter they stop. I know they can prosecute but from all i have read it is very rare that they do.
will that not happen because i am in another state??
also my leaving oklahoma wasn't immediate i left in december and i just got the letter this past week
Well to to make it simple, the prosecutor in the county where the crime occurred, can bring a claim within three years from the date the incident happened. But if you leave the state, the clock will stop ticking so it will won't start running again until you return to Oklahoma. I'm speaking criminally of course. Civil litigation is a whole different ball game.
Typo. If you leave the state, the clock will stop ticking and will not run out of time until you return. Assuming the prosecutor even decides to bring charges if Walmart wanted to press criminal charges.


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Employees Are Customer Experience Pros' Best Weapon
Posted by Andrew McInnes on January 31, 2011
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If you called American Express a few years ago to report a lost credit card, you got the card cancelled right on the spot. If it appeared under the couch a few minutes later, you were out of luck. You still had to wait several days for a new card to arrive. It was bad for you. It was bad for AmEx. Luckily, a customer care professional (CCP) noticed this phenomenon. And, luckily, AmEx had a formal program for CCPs to suggest policy changes to improve customer experience. If you call to report a lost card today, you can put a 24-hour hold on your card instead of cancelling it. If it turns up, you can have it reinstated — and then go use it. Everybody wins.
This solution may seem obvious looking back, but only an employee with unique contextual insight could spot it at the time. If your company isn't taking advantage of this insight, you're missing out.
As I describe in my new report, employees hold the key to great customer experiences. Why? Here are three reasons:
- Many employees observe customer interactions directly, so they can spot emerging customer needs and issues before they surface in traditional customer research.
- Employees also understand internal operations, so they're in a natural position to identify root causes of customer problems and suggest solutions. Back-office employees have just as much to offer here as customer-facing employees do.
- In addition to having valuable insight, employees have enormous influence. They directly shape the processes and interactions that affect customers, so they can make arms-length changes to quickly improve customer experience.
To show how the voice of the employee (VoE) fuels customer experience efforts, I created a simple graphic outlining the flow of insights and activities (see below).* It's time to start using this flow to your advantage.
To get started, take stock of your existing employee listening posts, from HR surveys to suggestion boxes. Form partnerships between the customer experience team and HR to formalize the program and divvy up the work. And start folding VoE into your existing voice of the customer (VoC) processes. The effort will pay off with better employee experiences, better customer experiences, and better business results.
* At a high level, and starting from the bottom left of the graphic, here's how VoE insights and activities flow: Employees pick up customer feedback from their frontline interactions and combine it with their knowledge of the business to create useful insights. They then provide that insight up through the organization, along with feedback about their experiences as employees — this feedback is critical, because employee experience affects customer experience. At the top, the combined insights inform strategic decisions, and then they flow back down as part of strategy, projects, and programs. These projects and programs change internal practices and ultimately result in better customer experiences. And then the cycle starts all over again.
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Comment from Ray Brown (not verified) on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 04:37
Hi Andrew (great Scottish name by the way!) I really liked your post and especially the diagram. I see a blurring of employee and customer engagement and I believe we need to develop what I call the B2Me channel to collect "actionable insights" from employees and customers. There is an argument for adding vendors to the B2Me mix.
Thanks, Ray. I agree about
Comment from Andrew McInnes on Thu, 02/03/2011 - 15:39
Thanks, Ray. I agree about the blurring lines. "Treating employees as customers" is a goal I hear more and more lately. How do you define B2Me? Sounds to me like it's about creating personal connections between a business and its key constituents -- customers, employees, partners even. But, that's just a guess based on the name.
Hi Andrew Tks for the
Comment from Ray Brown (not verified) on Thu, 02/03/2011 - 16:12
Hi Andrew Tks for the response. You've defined the B2Me channel exactly (maybe better than my definition!). The key is the context of the interaction. In what I call the hunting channel the sales and marketing folks have a context of "revenue" even if relationship features high in their rhetoric (and I'm not anti sales/marketing!). In the B2Me channel we have the "farmers" whose skills and context (and maybe personality) are significantly different. The key though is the context of the conversation, in the B2Me channel it is truly listening for "actionable insights." So to me it's a massive opportunity to have a second meaningful conversation with a stakeholder around process improvement, goal clarification, personal motivations, feedback loops etc - all things that the sales and marketing people will tell you that
"we do that already", but do they? and why would a business not want to encourage a second stream of meaningful, actionable conversation with stakeholders?
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Comment from Andrew McInnes on Fri, 02/04/2011 - 14:26
Excellent point about marketing and the "we do that already" response. My colleague Kerry Bodine is working on research right now about the connection between customer experience and marketing. I expect that she'll have some pretty pointed criticisms of the ways marketers traditionally think about and interact with customers. ...And, yes, happy to connect offline.
Fantastic piece that really
Comment from Julie-Ann Amos (not verified) on Fri, 02/25/2011 - 20:02
Fantastic piece that really points out the need to empower frontline staff. Employees truly are the ones that see what policies work and which ones don't. To improve service, they must be listened to. As this article (http://www.upyourservice.com/learning-library/customer-service-culture/i...) points out, it's critical for frontline staff to be able to effect change.
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TEMPE, Ariz. - A late Tennessee rally fell short in the opening game of a three-game series at No. 24 Arizona State on Friday night, as the Sun Devils handed the No. 19 Vols their first loss of the season.
Entering the game having outscored its opponents by a 103-31 margin, Tennessee (12-1) couldn't find the big hit when it needed to on Friday, as UT was 1-for-11 with runners in scoring position and left nine on base under the lights at Packard Stadium.
"I'm disappointed in the loss because the guys fought hard," said head coach Dave Serrano. "This was a typical Friday night matchup. I thought Nick Williams gave us a chance to win. I thought he pitched his tail off. He was a little up in the zone in the first inning, made an adjustment and pitched well.
"We had some opportunities and we had the right guys up, but that's the way the game of baseball goes. We didn't get the clutch hits and it cost us. Like I said to the team, we're not going to win every game, but it's a learning process for us."
After giving up two runs in the first, Williams settled in, giving up just one more run, seven total hits and just one walk. The senior from Knoxville struck out four and retired 12 Sun Devils (7-4) in a row during the middle innings.
Arizona State got a great start out of left-hander Brett Lilek, who improved to 2-0 on the season. The sophomore struck out three and gave up just three hits over seven innings of work.
The Sun Devils took an early 2-0 in the first inning off three-consecutive singles to start the bottom half. UT used a 5-4-3 double play to work out of the inning.
The teams went scoreless from the second through the sixth inning as Williams and Lilek went to work. UT threatened in the fifth with two on and no outs, but the momentum was stopped as lead runner Nathaniel Maggio was picked off second and the Sun Devils turned their second inning-ending double play of the night.
Arizona State tacked on another run in the seventh stanza as third baseman Dalton Dinatale sent the first pitch from Williams over the right field wall, ending Williams' streak of 12-straight retired.
The Vols got on the board in the top of the eighth off a Nick Senzel two-out RBI single off ASU closer Ryan Burr, who came in looking for a four-out save. Senzel roped the first pitch he saw into right to score sophomore A.J. Simcox, who reached base with a single. Simcox notched the only multi-hit game for the Vols, finishing 2-for-4 at the dish. The Vols had runners on second and third after the Senzel knock, but Burr got Vincent Jackson to line out to end the threat.
Josh Peterson and Andy Cox pitched brilliantly out of the bullpen for UT, combining for 1.2 innings of perfect baseball. Cox struck out three of the four batters he faced, stretching his scoreless streak to 15.2 innings with the outing. He's allowed just two hits and three walks, and struck out 16 during the span.
Down just two runs and to its last three outs, Tennessee got the ninth started with a five-pitch walk to David Houser. Derek Lance came in to pinch run for Houser and would later reach second on a defensive indifference. Each representing the tying run, Maggio was struck out swinging, Taylor Smart flew out to center and Burr sat senior Scott Price down on strikes to end the game.
Price finished the night 1-for-4, reaching base safely for the 25th-consecutive game, dating back to April 26, 2013. UT was held to just six hits in the contest. Houser and Will Maddox added singles for the Vols, who had no extra-base hits on the night.
The Vols and Sun Devils return to action at Packard Stadium on Saturday at 8:30 p.m. ET. UT will send out sophomore righty Andrew Lee (2-0, 3.60), while ASU will hand the ball off to lefty Ryan Kellogg (1-1, 4.50). All games of the series will be carries on The Sports Animal 99.1 FM / AM 990 in Knoxville, as well as online at UTSports.com/allaccess.


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Wired for fast-track learning? The newborn senses of taste and smell
© 2009 Gwen Dewar, Ph.D., all rights reserved
The newborn senses in perspective
Compared to vision and hearing, the chemical senses--taste and smell--seem relatively unimportant.
But for newborns, odors and flavors may transmit crucial information about the world. In fact, new babies may be especially sensitive to the smells and flavors they encounter.
Newborns can recognize the smell of their own amniotic fluid. And they seem primed to learn very quickly about the smells associated with their mothers.
Is this about finding food? Or bonding to their parents? Probably a bit of both. Check out these discoveries about the newborn senses of taste and smell.
What newborns can taste
Researchers recognizes five primary tastes--sweetness, saltiness, bitterness, sourness and umami, a savory, hearty taste associated with glutamate and found in meats, milk products, and mushrooms.
A newborn senses all of these tastes except one: Experiments suggest that babies can't taste salt until they are about 4 months old (Beauchamp et al 1986).
But newborns love sugar solutions--the sweeter, the better. In fact, when babies are given a sugar solution immediately before a painful procedure--like a heel prick--they cry less. Newborns also seem to like the taste of glutamate, which is found in breast milk (Beauchamp and Pearson 1991).
By contrast, newborns react negatively to some (but not all) bitter substances. And when a newborn senses a sour substance, he is likely to pull away and grimace (Steiner 1977).
Do newborns know about other, more complex flavors? Flavor complexity--what permits us to tell the difference between, say, peaches and apricots--depends on a food's odor. So if newborns are sensitive to complex flavors, it's because they have a well-developed sense of smell.
What newborns smell
Scent-memories of the womb
Experiments show that newborns recognize, and are soothed by, the smell of amniotic fluid. In fact, hours after birth, babies prefer breasts that have been dabbed with amniotic fluid (Varendi et al 1997).
This preference fades away after a few days, however. And even while it persists, newborns are also highly attracted to natural breast odors.
Find that breast
In one experiment, researchers tested newborns by holding a pad carrying maternal breast odors 17 centimeters from the baby's nose. In response, the babies wriggled towards the pad (Varendi and Porter 2001).
Similar methods reveal that babies can distinguish between breast milk and baby formula. When presented with two scents--the scent of non-familiar breast milk and the scent of familiar formula milk--formula-fed newborns showed a preference for the odor of human milk (Marlier and Schaal 2005).
Newborns learn to recognize their own mothers' distinctive scents
Can newborn babies identify their mothers on the basis of odor alone? It seems that they can. A recent study found that newborns undergoing a painful procedure (a heel prick) were soothed by the smell of breast milk...but only if the milk was from their own mothers (Nishitani et al 2009).
Newborns also respond to breast milk by making mouthing movements. In one experiment, newborns were presented with the odors of different breast milk samples--samples donated by their mothers and by other, unfamiliar women. The babies mouthed more in response to their own mothers' odors (Mizuno et al 2004).
Interestingly, the effect depended on how much skin-to-skin contact the infants had experienced with their mothers immediately after birth. Those who'd experienced more than 50 minutes of contact showed a greater difference in mouthing (Mizuno at al 2004). The results are consistent with the idea that newborns are especially likely to learn about odors in the minutes immediately after birth.
Is there a sensitive period for olfactory learning in newborns?
Maybe. Romantshik and colleagues presented newborns with a novel odor for 30 minutes starting either
• 4-37 minutes after birth or
• 12 hours after birth
A few days later, the infants were tested on their ability to recognize the odor. Only the babies who'd been exposed to the scent in the first few minutes after birth could do so (Romantshik et al 2007).
In fact, it seems that newborns can acquire preferences for a variety of novel odors if they encounter them immediately after birth.
In one experiment, researchers exposed newborns to the scent of chamomile while they were nursing. Days later, their attraction to the scent of chamomile was as strong as their attraction to the scent of breast milk (Delaunay-El Allam et al 2006).
What else can newborns do?
Quite a bit. The newborn senses of hearing and vision aren't fully developed. Yet babies can recognize their mothers' voices at birth, and they can quickly learn to recognize the faces of their caregivers. For more information about these newborn senses, see my article about social world of newborns.
References: Newborn senses
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As a matter of fact I had discussed with two people on here (Vince/Matt) of a one time deal I would get these guns for cost and offer them to people on here for that cost ( a one time deal)
Put up my money and add to my freight bill.
But you know why I didn't?
I told both the guys one of the guns would not work and I would be the dog.
This just proved my point.
Don't see a problem with what you have done. REALLY. I dunno why Matthew didn't just tell everyone where he got the gun from the beginning especially if you approved of it as a new product that is going to be sold by PBE. That would be more reason for people to buy it.
What you have done happens all the time on various forums for some choosen people getting to try things out and give an opinion afterwords. Most of the time they are not open about it or get upset when questioned afterwords if not being up front for being pointed out.
I do have another question how do you know the gun on EBAY will not perform as well as the gun that Matthew has in his possesion? Have you tried the gun from EBAY or is that an assumption that you have made without seeing or using it?
I feel like the King with No Clothes On.
P.S. I do not work for any competition and haven't a clue where you got that idea unless you are just paranoid. What is quoted above and in the older post is what you have posted on this forum in regards to the subject and topic at hand which is a COPIED GUN.
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the regulator with 3 relays is for a generator
the extra relay will connect the output of the generator to the battery when the generator has voltage on its output
alternator doesnt need this it has diodes that do the same thing.
But the alternator is always connected to the battery thru the diodes.
This is why theres a fuseable link (diodes can fail to a short)
the other two relays the one with very fine wire senses the battry voltage and will stop the charge at 14v or so.
the one with the larger wire feeds more voltage to the feild if the output tapers off.
these regulators very rarly fail and can usually be ajdusted for more or less charge or voltage.. the real old one have screws for adjustments.. the newest youve got to bend the tabs on the springs and contacts.
To fix these a point file and a burnishing tool is all thats required.
to fix a new electronic one a trash can and a new part is the only way possible. they are sealed and potted.
alternators have only brushes and bearings as moving parts they can be fixed with either of these.
older alternators have diodes that can be replaced and an external regulator( sometimes the relay kind)
newer alternators may be an all in one (brush diode electronicpack) that can be replaced as a unit.
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