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Re: st: margins using weights in calculation?
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I am curious how your number of cases goes down when using pweights. But in any event the help for margins says "By default, margins uses the weights specified on the estimator to average responses and to compute summary statistics. If weights are specified on the margins command, they override previously specified weights." So, I think margins is doing it fine, and there is no need for you to repeat the weight specification on the margins command.
At 02:12 PM 5/10/2013, Brent Gibbons wrote:
When i run a weighted OLS regression (using either iweight or
pweight) with about 13,000 cases, I get a reported number of
observations of about 7,701 (which is what it should be given the
values of the weights. But when I then run a margins command to
compute dydx(*) on these data, with the same weight specified, I get
the original unweighted number of cases (about 13,000) as the
reported # of observations. Does this mean that when "margins" is
averaging marginal effects across all cases, it is disregarding the
weights and taking the simple unweighted average (i.e., giving each
case a weight = 1)?
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We consider the case of a peculiar complex behavior in open boson systems sufficiently away from equilibrium, having relevance in the functioning of information-processing biological and condensed matter systems. This is the so-called Fröhlich-Bose-Einstein condensation, a self-organizing-synergetic dissipative structure, a phenomenon apparently working in biological processes and present in several cases of systems of boson-like quasi-particles in condensed inorganic matter. Emphasis is centered on the quantum-mechanical-statistical irreversible thermodynamics of these open systems, and the informational characteristics of the phenomena.
More than forty years have elapsed since the renowned late Herbert Fröhlich first presented his concept of long-range coherence in biological systems [
"... under appropriate conditions a phenomenon quite similar to a Bose condensation may occur in substances which possess longitudinal electric modes. If energy is fed into these modes and thence transferred to other degrees of freedom of the substance, then a stationary state will be reached in which the energy content of the electric modes is larger than in the thermal equilibrium. This excess energy is found to be channelled into a single mode—exactly as in Bose condensation—provided the energy supply exceeds a critical value. Under these circumstances a random supply of energy is thus not completely thermalized but partly used in maintaining a coherent electric wave in the substance." [
This Bose(like) condensation does not follow in equilibrium but in non-equilibrium conditions, displaying a complex behaviour consisting in the emergence of a dissipative structure in Prigogine's sense [
In Fröhlich model vibrational-polar modes are excited by a continuous supply of energy pumped by an external source, while these modes interact with the surrounding medium acting as a thermal bath. The interplay of these two effects—pumping of energy subtracting entropy from the system and dissipative internal effects adding entropy to the system—may lead to the emergence of complex behaviour in the system consisting in what can be called
Fröhlich's synchronous large-scale collective oscillations imply inter-cellular microwave emissions which would constitute a non-chemical and non-thermal interaction between cells. These oscillations could therefore be revealed by detection of emissions of GHz or THz radiation. Such electromagnetic signals are of extremely low magnitude and the receiver technology to measure them was not available during Fröhlich's time. It is only now that the predicted signals can be detected by adapting technology that has been developed for space and astrophysical research. Hence, a whole new area of biology is now ready for investigation.
Earlier experiments looking after Fröhlich effect were not conclusive, but now as notice above a "second generation" of experiments are becoming available. They require further improvement, but already some preliminary results are encouraging [
Non-biological implications of Fröhlich effect could also be far-reaching. It can be mentioned some connection with homoeopathy and atmospheric aerosol physics. Regarding the latter, sunlight-pumped Fröhlich-like coherent excitations may play a role in producing anomalies in the spectrum of light absorption [
Other example where Fröhlich's condensation and Davydov's soliton appear to be present is the case of the so-called "excitoner", meaning stimulated coherent emission of excitons created by random excitations, in a situation similar to the case of photons in a laser [
In conclusion, we are facing a stimulating revival of Fröhlich effect, after a certain period of partial hibernation. This revival is a strong one in the sense that, as noticed, it may open a whole and relevant new area of research in basic biology and also in the realms of condensed matter physics. Let us consider the case of biological systems.
What is biophysics? For us, life is the most important phenomenon in Nature. It is also very complex, and in order to understand life and living processes several branches of science are needed. Biophysics uses biological and physical concepts for the study of life. One of the greatest physicist of the twentieth century, Erwin Schrödinger, wrote a beautiful little book [
An article in Science [
Which may be the theoretical approach in physics to carry on a program to deal with at the microscopic as well as, at the same time, the all important, macroscopic levels of bio-systems and their synergetic aspects? During the last decades this question concerning the theoretical description of the macroscopic behaviour of dissipative open many-body systems in arbitrarily far-from-equilibrium conditions has been encompassed in a seemingly powerful, concise, and elegant formalism, established on sound basic principles. This is a non-equilibrium statistical ensemble formalism, accompanied with a nonlinear quantum kinetic theory, a response function theory for systems arbitrarily away from equilibrium, a statistical thermodynamics for dissipative systems, and a higher-order generalized hydrodynamics. This is the formalism used for the study of complex behaviour in biological systems, mainly the so-called Fröhlich's effect and some other accompanying phenomena, as the long-distance propagation of nearly undamped and undistorted signals.
Here we present a description of these ideas applied to the study of a general case of complex behaviour in open boson systems, be it in bio-systems or in condensed matter like semiconductors. Hence, and in conclusion of this section, we may state that the results to be described, resulting from a promising particularly successful marriage of nonlinear non-equilibrium statistical thermodynamics and biology, lead us to paraphrase Herbert Fröhlich saying that it is particularly auspicious to see that biological systems may display complex behaviour describable in terms of appropriate physical concepts.
Particular complex behaviour has been observed in the case of boson systems, as Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) in fluids in equilibrium at very low temperature. A case is superfluidity in liquid helium evidenced by Pyotr Kapitza [
A second type of BEC is the one of boson-like quasi-particles, that is, those associated to elementary excitations in solids (e.g., phonons, excitons, hybrid excitations,
The third type is the case of boson-like quasi-particles (associated to elementary excitations in solids) which are driven out of equilibrium by external perturbative sources. D. Snoke [
Several cases can be listed:
A first case was evidenced by
A second case is the one of acoustic vibration (ac phonons) in biological fluids, involving nonlinear anharmonic interactions and in the presence of pumping sonic waves, with eventual STI relevance in supersonic treatments and imaging in medicine [
A third one is that of excitons (electron-hole pairs in semiconductors) interacting with the lattice vibrations and under the action of RF-electromagnetic fields; on an STI aspect, the phenomenon has been considered for allowing a possible exciton-laser in the THz frequency range called "Excitoner" [
A fourth one is the case of magnons [
There exist two other cases of NEBEC but where the phenomenon is associated to the action of the pumping procedure of drifting electron excitation, namely,
5. A fifth one consists in a system of longitudinal acoustic phonons driven away from equilibrium by means of drifting electron excitation (presence of an electric field producing an electron current), which has been related to the creation of the so-called Saser, an acoustic laser device, with applications in computing and imaging [
6. A sixth one involving a system of LO-phonons driven away from equilibrium by means of drifting electron excitation, which displays a condensation in an off-center small region of the Brillouin zone [
Moreover, on the question of response of biological systems to MHz radiation, recently some creative and difficult experiments have been performed to probe a part of science that is poorly understood. In these experiments, microtubules—a key component of the cytoskeleton—grow from tubulin dimers through guanosine triphosphate (GTP) hydrolysis. It has been shown that, on application of 1-20 MHz radio-frequency pulses to a heat bath with tubulin dimers, microtubules can assemble orders of magnitude faster in time, suggesting that ultrafast microtubule growth occur through radio-frequency-induced resonant excitation and alignment of tubulin dimers into a cylindrical shape. Besides, the spontaneous emission of coherent 3.1-3.8 MHz signals has also been observed during the subsequent GTP-induced polymerization, and it was found that the resulting microtubules exhibit length-independent electronic and optical properties. Moreover, additional resonance levels were observed when small-molecule drugs bind to tubulin's docking sites during radio-frequency-induced assembly. These findings can be interpreted in terms of the emergence of certain type of condensation phenomenon apparently distinct from a Fröhlich condensation [
In next section we describe the thermodynamical-statistical approach to Fröhlich condensate.
Let us consider a physical system modelling the conditions that lead to the emergence of Fröhlich effect. It is described in
An atomic model of the
The Hamiltonian consists of the energy of the free subsystems, namely, that of the free vibrations, with
For the quantum-mechanical statistical thermodynamic study of Fröhlich effect, whose results are reviewed here, we have resorted to an informational statistical thermodynamics based on the Non-equilibrium Statistical Ensemble Formalism (NESEF) [
We write for the system Hamiltonian
Let us now consider the thermostatistics of the system characterized by the Hamiltonian of Equation (1). Nowadays, two main formalisms are available, namely, computer modelling [
Application of NESEF to a particular physical situation requires in the first place to define the set of microdynamical variables that are relevant for the treatment of the problem (the important questions of historicity and irreversibility are incorporated in the formalism from the onset [
In the most general description and for any non-equilibrium system, according to NESEF we should begin introducing all the observables of the system and their variances. However, according to the fundamental Bogoliubov's theorem of correlation weakening and accompanying hierarchy of relaxation times [
The average of the microdynamical variables of set (5) over the non-equilibrium ensemble, which we indicate by
The relationship between the basic macrovariables of set (6) and the non-equilibrium thermodynamic variables of set (9) are what is termed as non-equilibrium equations of state, namely,
It may be noticed that the thermodynamic variable
The populations
After quite lengthy calculations it results that they follow the evolution equation given by
The six contributions on the right of this equation (rates of change of the populations generated by the different types of interactions present in the media) are:
We call Equation (15) Fröhlich contribution which is the one responsible for a super-population of the low-energy states and presence of long-lived boson coherent states in the case of items 1 to 4 above. It can be clearly noticed that the mentioned nonlinear contribution to the population of mode
The analysis presented above, after Equations (15) and (16), clearly evidence the presence in the kinetic equations for the populations of nonlinearities which are responsible for Fröhlich condensation. Using certain set of parameters, the evolution equations for the populations are solved (see [
Populations of the modes in the steady state for
An extensive analysis of the non-equilibrium statistical thermodynamics of Fröhlich condensate is reported in [
As it has been stressed in
Paul Davies [
In what refers to the processes governing consciousness in the human brain, Roger Penrose appears to have argued along a similar direction, as have been noticed in previous sections, in a kind of, say, a large-scale quantum action in brain functioning [
At this point we reproduce Penrose's statement that, "Such a feat would be a remarkable one, almost an incredible one, for Nature to achieve by biological means. Yet I believe that the indications must be that she has done so, the main evidence coming from the fact of our own mentality. There is much to be understood about biological systems and how they achieve their magic".
This question of large-scale quantum coherence and connection with macroscopic order has been, in some sense, partially anticipated by Herbert Fröhlich in his "The Connection between Macro- and Microphysics" [
This phenomenon has been called upon by Roger Penrose and other people as possibly having a role in consciousness, in connection with its eventual presence in microtubules in neurons.
In conclusion, as we have seen, Fröhlich condensate implies in the emergence of complex behaviour of bosons, as a result of exploring nonlinearities in the kinetic equations of evolution. There is a kind of auto-catalytic process leading to synergetic ordering, and as a consequence a decrease in informational entropy (uncertainty of information), following the fact of the consolidation of a long-range coherent macrostate. We see here the working of the microphysics—through the equations of quantum mechanics—with a subtle coupling to macrophysics through the resulting nonlinear kinetic equations, which are the average of the former over the non-equilibrium ensemble describing the expected behaviour of the whole assembly of degrees of freedom of the system.
As closing remarks, we can now recall the proclaim of the great Ludwig Boltzmann: "Thus, the general struggle for life is neither a fight for basic material ... nor for energy ... but for entropy [we say now information] becoming available by the transition from the hot sun to the cold earth" [


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1. Re: Simplest possible use of JAXB unmarshal convenience methodEJP Mar 10, 2012 4:01 AM (in response to 922980)You can only use JAXB to unmarshall an XML file if the XML file was produced in accordance with how JAXB would have written it.
Your file doesn't appear to do that.
2. Re: Simplest possible use of JAXB unmarshal convenience method922980 Mar 10, 2012 4:35 AM (in response to EJP)Well that's that.
Thanks for your straightforward answer.
I'll return to my tried and true methods and forget about JAXB.
3. Re: Simplest possible use of JAXB unmarshal convenience methodr035198x Mar 10, 2012 6:55 AM (in response to 922980)I don't see why you think that you can't use JAXB here.
Your one liner is simply
All you need to do is create/generate the Note.java class according to the XML structure you have and JAXB will marshal/unmarshal it.
Note note = JAXB.unmarshal(new File("D:\\note.xml"), Note.class);
4. Re: Simplest possible use of JAXB unmarshal convenience method922980 Mar 10, 2012 1:12 PM (in response to r035198x)For the documents I work with, I would have to create a Doc.java class corresponding to an 800+ line XML schema.
Here are a few lines from it:
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<xs:attribute name="id" type="xs:ID" use="required"/>
Looks daunting. But if there's a tool for this, I'd love to hear about it.
Currently, my methods for dealing with XMLs consist of many normalization steps that reduce the XML to plaintext, no markup, so that we can apply standard natural language processing operations to it (part-of-speech tagging, parsing). The plaintext preserves the basic semantic content of the original. That's what's needed for knowledge extraction. Our techniques are specialized ones focused on normalization. They lie outside the realm of the standard XML world. We have to draw outside the lines.
We did try JAXB in some 2002 work we published and earlier we developed our own techniques for marked-up text (SGML), published in 1991. But it looks like JAXB and today's many other XML tools can't magically replace the insights and techniques that have taken my students and I a couple of decades to develop.
See [http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/futrelle/research37/naturalLanguage.html] and the PDF linked to there, though it describes our thinking three or four years ago. We've moved on.
5. Re: Simplest possible use of JAXB unmarshal convenience methodjtahlborn Mar 10, 2012 2:46 PM (in response to 922980)
919977 wrote:seriously, did you do any research? i'm sure even a basic jaxb tutorial would mention how to use xjc to generate java classes from XML Schema. (I understand that the subjects you mentioned are all potentially very large, but doing some intro reading on each one of them would have answered your questions far faster than posting to a forum and waiting for all the answers to come back to you).
Looks daunting. But if there's a tool for this, I'd love to hear about it.
6. Re: Simplest possible use of JAXB unmarshal convenience method922980 Mar 10, 2012 3:52 PM (in response to jtahlborn)I've done a lot research, 60 or so publications, including the SGML work of 20+ years ago, but none of it seriously devoted to XML.
XML is a system for hierarchical, in-line markup. Heavily marked-up natural language is nearly impossible to read and understand. One word, with full syntactic and semantic markup can occupy an entire line.
So I've gone back to basics: Natural language text is a transcription of the ultimate language origin, speech, a linear phenomenon. I now treat text as linear with whatever structures needed added by stand-off markup (in a way which I think is far superior to another major stand-off markup scheme, the one in the ANC, the American National Corpus.) My tools are normalization, inverted indexes, and metadata.
Chomsky brought about a half-century of work viewing language as hierarchical. Chomsky got many of his earliest ideas from the formal language research in the RLE at MIT in the 1950s. He merely hypothesized (insisted) that natural language could be treated in the same way. Thousands fell under his hypnotic spell. Contemporary research in cognitive science and the rise of Construction Grammar have steadily driven out many of Chomsky's notions, if not flatly disproved them.
This thread, and even this entire forum is not the place to discuss issues of human language and cognition. Sorry if I've intruded. I've learned some things and probably annoyed many of you. Let's drop it, or do it offline (via gmail).
Nevertheless, thanks for the xjc pointer [sic]. I'll probably give it look.


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The Wednesday Club is holding a coffee morning on Saturday, February 15, from 10am to 11.30am, in the Methodist Church Hall, Chapel Street, Addingham.
Pancakes, tea, coffee and biscuits will be available, plus various stalls.
All proceeds will be donated to Hearing Dogs for the Deaf and the Endoscopy Unit at Airedale Hospital.


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CONFIRMED: Lindsay™ Won't Be in The 'Gotti' Movie
Two days ago, Gotti: Three Generations producer Marc Fiore was raving about Lindsay Lohan and claiming he was not only going to cast her as Victoria Gotti but had another role for her in his next movie, too. Then he spent the past 48 hours dealing with her management team (i.e. Dina). Guess how that went. TMZ reports:
Executive Producer Mark Fiore tells TMZ … he has ended negotiations with Lindsay's team because, "It just didn't work for me." Sources involved on both sides tell TMZ … money was an issue, but the various demands of her management team just got out of control.
Fiore wanted Lindsay to play Victoria Gotti, but says "I will only ride a merry-go-round with my kids," suggesting Lindsay's team was just too tough to deal with.
If this proves anything, it proves this: Lindsay Lohan isn't serious about being a actress. If she was, she would've taken this role for peanuts just to prove she's worth hiring again and won't derail an entire production. Instead, she demanded a bunch of ridiculous shit because that's entirely what she's in this for: Tchotchkes, pampering and making sure her mom gets a free ride for crapping her out. Seriously, they might as well become a mother/daughter con-artist team at this point which, honestly, has to be way less work. An entire month of showing up on set, or a five-minute oil baron handjob while your mom holds a stethoscope to his safe? I don't see how that's even an argument.
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LAMPASAS — The Lampasas Post Office was robbed this week, continuing a string of post office burglaries across Texas, said Charlie Boswell, a Lampasas Police Department investigator.
"It looks like they punched some locks in the outside drop boxes and probably stole some mail," he said.
Police responded to a similar burglary at the post office Jan. 26.
"We are seeing, since Christmas, an increase in attacks on our parcel lockers, in the interior of our lobbies, and our drop boxes office," said Mike Sullivan, a U.S. Postal Inspector for Central Texas. "The number of related robberies to different post offices in Bell County is possibly around 15."
The U.S. Postal Inspection Service is the law enforcement and security arm of the U.S. Postal Service,
The most recent break-in occurred between 5 p.m. Monday and 5:30 a.m. Tuesday, officials said. The Lampasas Police Department currently has no suspects.
"We do routine patrol (around the area), but all we can do is maintain a lookout in the area and stop anyone suspicious," Boswell said.
Sullivan said federal officials are currently beefing up security for rural post offices, which are the ones most commonly hit by burglaries.
Increased surveillance, better locks, more police patrol and better alarms are all measures currently taken by the postal service. For now, Boswell advises Lampasas residents to drop their mail off inside the post office, where it is more secure.
All area post office burglaries are still under investigation.
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I like this style, but my husband dislikes having the extra snaps for the legs. And if I'm going to be the only one using them, I might as well get colors I like, and these aren't my style.
-one size = less diapers to carry in diaper bag, since they can be snapped up or down to fit.
- quality materials, these last through at least 3 kids since mine were bought used too and are still going strong.
-pocket design is easy to stuff, and have prepped and ready to go!
-hip snaps keep these in place through crawling and toddling around all day
- hip snaps, my husband will not change these at night
-colors are not as cute as charlie banana. I must add, the colors wouldn't be as big of a deal if it weren't that DH already does't like this type.
Overall, these are the best fuzzibunz diapers in my opinion. Having one size makes stuffing simpler. I stuff them to the smallest size, and he can unsnap and move to a bigger size for the older girl if he needs to. But its still not my favorite brand, because of the hip snaps. And the colors, I just can't get over it. While I mostly CD to save money, I have to admit, the cute factor is a larger day-to-day motivator!


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Changes to Childcare Fin. Aid Program
In order to meet the increased demand for childcare financial aid for families who have the most need, Kids First has made several changes to its financial aid program on the recommendation of the Kids First Advisory Board.
Effective immediately for new applicants, the maximum income to qualify has been changed to 400 percent of the Federal Poverty Level or $90,000 adjusted gross income, whichever is lower. Previously, the amount was 560 percent of the poverty level. These changes will be effective June 1, 2011, for families currently receiving financial aid through Kids First.
"Reducing the maximum income to qualify was a difficult decision to make; however, it was necessary due to the decrease in sales tax revenue," said Sue Way, chair of the Kids First Advisory Board. "These changes allow Kids First to help the families most in need."
Further changes to the financial aid application process include adding interviews for applicants and including stronger language to discourage any possible fraudulent use of precious public dollars.
"Additional restrictions on qualifications were necessary to keep the financial aid program viable and serving those in the community who need assistance the most," said Shirley Ritter, director of Kids First.
Ritter added that Kids First wanted to let people know that falsifying information is a crime.
"Our reduced revenues from the sales tax and the increased need for assistance have led us to examine our financial aid program closely with the Advisory Board," Ritter said. "Are we helping the people that need it the most? We're doing everything we can to make sure of that."
Kids First Childcare Financial Assistance Program is funded through a .45 percent City of Aspen sales tax dedicated to housing and daycare. Nationally, it is a unique program. Kids First is a department of the City of Aspen and is served by an advisory board that makes recommendations to the Aspen City Council. There are currently 10 community members on the Kids First Advisory Board.
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The Papers of the Society of American Indians
The Papers of the Society of American Indians. Larner, John W. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, Inc.,1987.
MIC FLM E 75 S6 P374X 1987 10 reels, 35mm.
The Papers of the Society of American Indaians provide an extensive array of source material generated by the nation's earliest Pan-Indian reform organizations. The papers include about 5,600 items of correspondence between members, minutes, memoranda, reports, legal documents, newsclippings, and personal jottings. Both native American and white thoughts about assimilation and self-determination are represented in this collection drawn from forty-five collections nationwide. It covers all major issues and most of the important figures connected with U.S. Indian policy during the period of Progressivism. SAI items NOT INCLUDED in the collection due to wide availability: The American Indian Magazine/Quarterly Journal of the Society of American Indians , Report of the Executive Council on the Proceedings of the First Annual Conference of the Society of American Indians, and Report of the Executive Council on the Proceedings of the First-Third Annual Conferences of the Society of American Indians.
1 Correspondence, Abbot to Carter
2 Correspondence, Cash to Davis
3 Correspondence, Davis to Hoslin
4 Correspondence, Houghton to McKenzie
5 Correspondence, McKenzie (cont.) to Richards
6 Correspondence, Richards to Stephens
7 Correspondence, Stephens to Zeller.
Organizational documents.
8 Part I, Series B: Organizational documents SAI (cont.) Part II, Series I- Correspondence
9 Part II, Series I - Correspondence (cont.);
Part II, Series 2, Publications
10 Part II, Series 2, Pulications (cont.); Part II, Series 3, Newspaper coverage
The collection is indexed in Guide tothe Scholarly Resources Microfilm Edition of the Papers of the Society of American Indians. Included are two keys to acronyms, an author index for correspondence, author index for SAI pulications, and newspaper title index.
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DENVER, March 4, 2014 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Teatulia Organic Teas, known for deliciously organic, single-garden direct, and award-winning teas and herbal infusions, announced today that the company will debut three new varieties at the Natural Products Expo West in Anaheim, CA March 7-9, 2014.
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"These three new teas are the perfect addition to our tea family," says CEO and Co-founder Linda Appel Lipsius. "My favorite is our Oolong Tea. I simply can't get enough."
Teatulia Oolong Tea - 100% organic, from their own garden
This is a stunning, full-bodied cup with hints of fresh pie crust, lemon, and sake. It's guaranteed to please all levels of tea connoisseurs.
Suggested Retail Canister Price: $7.99-$8.49
Ginger Green Tea – 100% organic, from their own garden
The Ginger Green Tea is a comforting blend of green tea, ginger, and lemongrass. It is truly a harmonious fusion of tea and herbs that is sure to delight the senses.
Suggested Retail Canister Price: $7.99-$8.49
Chamomile Herbal Infusion – 100% organic
Teatulia's Chamomile Herbal Infusion is a sweet, calming cup with notes of honeysuckle and sugared candy. The chamomile is directly sourced from the fertile Nile River region of Egypt. Suggested Retail Canister Price: $5.99-$6.99
Not interested in the SKU proliferation, Teatulia's lines of teas are small and simple – focusing on the quality of each tea offered. They are also the only tea company where 100% of their teas in both the whole leaf and fine cut lines are USDA-certified organic.
Chris Olsen, Director of Marketing and Product Development, explains, "We wanted to provide tea lovers with varieties they'd be sure to love. Drinking tea should be a quality experience and these new selections are a wonderful, organic addition to our current lineup with the same purity and simplicity our consumers have come to expect from us."
All the teas will be available in Teatulia's signature eco-canisters to ship in Q3 of 2014. The Oolong and Ginger Green teas will have 16 pyramid tea bags per canister. Chamomile Herbal Infusion will be available in Target stores nationwide as well as other national retailers with 30 round tea bags in each canister.
About Teatulia:
Teatulia Organic Teas are sourced directly from their own garden in Northern Bangladesh and other like-minded gardens, with no long-term warehouse storage and no waiting around to be put into the right blend by a third party. The results are exquisite, clean and smooth teas that support education, business and health initiatives and demonstrate a thorough commitment to sustainability. Started in 2000 to give back to the local community, the Teatulia Gardens were established as an enterprise that would give the most people a living wage while protecting and strengthening the environment. The KSA Foundation has established revolutionary education, health and cattle-lending programs for the people working in the garden and surrounding areas. All sales of Teatulia Organic Teas contribute to this mission, helping to better the lives of men, women and children in our community while rebuilding the local ecosystem. In 2013, Teatulia received B Corporation certification, ensuring that they will always consider the impact of their decisions not only on their shareholders, but also on the community, the environment, workers, suppliers, and consumers. For more information about Teatulia Organic Teas, please visit www.teatulia.com.
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text: Film Freak Central tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-99928295733106445 2014-08-12T10:35:43-05:00 TypePad sex, lies, and videotape (1989) - Blu-ray Disc tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c01a511f47977970c 2014-08-12T10:35:43-05:00 2014-08-12T10:46:16-05:00 **½/**** Image A Sound B Extras C starring James Spader, Andie MacDowell, Peter Gallagher, Laura San Giacomo written and directed Steven Soderbergh by Walter Chaw Appearing in 1989 at the very end of the blockbuster decade and on the cusp of a digital revolution, Steven Soderbergh's micro-budgeted sex, lies, and videotape heralded a doomed renaissance in independent film that would find it melded, ultimately and inseparably, with mainstream concerns. It posits that people only tell the truth when they're captured on celluloid--that when the video camera starts running, the assumption of roles begins. By the end of the '90s, precisely a decade later with American Beauty, there's another character with a video camera, but in that one, everything has turned: the lies are on film, and the truth is digital. (See also: Michael Almereyda's endlessly rewarding Hamlet (2000) and the still-incomparable The Blair Witch Project (1999).) RUNNING TIME 100 minutes MPAA R ASPECT RATIO(S) 1.85:1 (1080p/MPEG-4) LANGUAGES English 5.1 Dolby TrueHD French 5.1 Dolby TrueHD SUBTITLES English English SDH French REGION All DISC TYPE BD-50 STUDIO Sony In between, there are bellwethers of that metastasis. First Terminator 2, trumpeted at the time as a sequel so long in the making... Bill Chambers Keane (2005) - DVD tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c01901eb35566970b 2013-08-09T00:51:00-05:00 2013-08-09T00:51:00-05:00 ****/**** Image B- Sound A Extras A starring Damian Lewis, Abigail Breslin, Amy Ryan written and directed by Lodge Kerrigan by Walter Chaw Lodge Kerrigan's astounding Keane deals with not only madness and the loss of a child but also our preconceptions of the cold universe and, shaving it precisely, our expectations for the kinds of cold comfort we expect film to provide. It's wrong to call it experimental, because the decision to shoot in four-minute takes doesn't announce itself as a gimmick as much as it settles comfortably into a groove alternating small explosions and lulls laced with anticipation. A lot of movies pay lip-service to carving space for their actors to find their way around difficult characters and emotionally taxing scenes--Keane actually does it. It's about the belief that there are no certainties in life, and it understands that trusting--and loving--in a world so swiftly lurching is akin to a kind of insanity. When we meet William Keane (Damian Lewis), as he's reeling around the Port Authority Bus Terminal looking for his daughter, it takes us a few minutes to realize that his daughter (if he's ever even had a daughter) has been missing for a year and... Bill Chambers Side Effects (2013) tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c017ee8512a3f970d 2013-02-07T20:37:59-05:00 2013-02-07T20:46:00-05:00 ***/**** starring Jude Law, Rooney Mara, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Channing Tatum screenplay by Scott Z. Burns directed by Steven Soderbergh by Angelo Muredda Whatever you may think of the distinctive yellow patina that creeps across his filmography, Steven Soderbergh is something of a chameleon artist, prone to the compulsive shape-shifting that's led some to mischaracterize commercial work like the Ocean's series as mere Hollywood capital to be cashed in on ambitious curios like Bubble. If anything, it's the Ocean's movies that most bear his signature in their attention to complex systems run amok and their indulgence of postmodern genre pastiche, which recur in projects as disparate as Haywire and Magic Mike. Both tendencies are in full force in psycho-thriller Side Effects, ostensibly the last of Soderbergh's theatrical releases and in many ways the most quintessentially Soderberghian despite its impersonal subject. It's an unusual swan song but perhaps the ideal one for a director who's always revealed himself in his formalist rigor, the conspicuous act of emptying out his idiosyncrasies into preexisting generic containers--in this case, half-a-dozen of them. Written by Scott Z. Burns, of Soderbergh's The Informant! and Contagion, Side Effects is a difficult film to parse without giving the trick... Bill Chambers Keen, Shaven: FFC Interviews Lodge Kerrigan tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c017c354e2e13970b 2013-01-04T11:22:41-05:00 2013-01-04T11:23:58-05:00 November 27, 2005|I got off on the wrong foot with Lodge Kerrigan almost immediately (the kind of thing I can usually avoid until at least ten or twelve minutes into an interview). It was an unexpected turn of events because I'm a fan and was dying to talk to him after getting poleaxed by his first three films: Clean, Shaven, Claire Dolan, and now Keane. It was my fault; I asked him if his films were a means by which to address his prejudices when, upon consideration, his films actually force me to address my own prejudices: prejudices about mental illness, prostitution, and the general desperation of the disenfranchised. I wouldn't call it a misunderstanding so much as a bad presumption on my part--this belief that the things that made me uncomfortable and/or crazy brought out the same feelings in Kerrigan. It's a presumption so deeply ingrained in me that I never stopped to think that the things I'm a prick about aren't the same things everyone else is a prick about, making the interview almost as interesting a prod for self-examination as are Kerrigan's films. One of the best films of 2005, Keane, like so many hard-to-classify movies, actually... Bill Chambers Film Freak Central's Top 10 of 2012 tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c017d3f4e11e7970c 2013-01-01T12:34:13-05:00 2013-01-01T12:41:36-05:00 by Walter Chaw I wish To the Wonder had been released this year--Take Shelter, too. The one because I love Terrence Malick and I'm excited that he's working so much, the other because I fear that Take Shelter is the last time Michael Shannon will anchor a picture without being instantly Christopher Walken-ized. It's his The Dead Zone, and he's amazing in a movie that takes big risks and pays off in a meaningful way; if he were to star in it now, I think it would be mistaken for camp. I also wish I'd seen Margaret in time for my 2011 list. Alas, local publicity has never been terribly interested in my participation. Nevertheless, thanks mostly to Netflix and FYC screeners, I saw a great many great films this year. I also saw Hitchcock. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Cloud Atlas, and Prometheus. There were technically "worse" movies this year, but why stick another fork in Alex Frost or What to Expect When You're Expecting? At the end of the day, when we measure the worst films of the year, shouldn't we focus on things we thought were going to be good that were all kinds of memorably awful?... Bill Chambers Film Freak Central's Top 10 of 2002 tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c017d3f25212c970c 2012-12-24T16:06:05-05:00 2012-12-25T19:44:52-05:00 THE YEAR THAT WAS... by Walter Chaw Love stories were the rule of the day for the year that was 2002. Sprung love stories, twisted love stories, emotionally devastating love stories flavoured by entropy and nihilism. The films that seem to fall out of that purview, About Schmidt and Morvern Callar, show themselves ultimately to be pictures moved by the deaths of a loved one or, as with Wendigo, studies of the dynamics of family from surface ideal to subversive schism. Romance is the prism through which identity and normalcy are redefined--a certain celluloid co-dependency that made 2002 (and 2001) the best years for film, and American film in particular, since the heyday of American cinema in the 1970s. The ten best films of this year are each devastating in their way. Two, The Bourne Identity and Solaris, recall the identity crisis of Blade Runner, while animé legend Hayao Miyazaki grows his reputation with the deceptively layered Spirited Away, essentially a love story between a little girl and the river spirit who saved her once. Charlie Kaufman started the year with his first screenplay (Human Nature) turned into a horrible film and ended it with two films from his screenplays... Bill Chambers Magic Mike (2012) - Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c016767f2cf02970b 2012-10-22T21:32:26-05:00 2012-10-22T21:32:26-05:00 **½/**** Image A Sound A Extras D+ starring Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, Cody Horn, Matthew McConaughey screenplay by Reid Carolin directed by Steven Soderbergh by Angelo Muredda Magic Mike opens with Saul Bass's red-and-black Warner Bros. logo, retired in 1984. That gesture is meant, I think, to pitch what follows as a throwback to smarter studio fare along the lines of Hal Ashby's Being There, but it also courts less flattering comparisons to the likes of the Police Academy movies. Steven Soderbergh's latest pop exercise falls somewhere between those two poles--a little too close for comfort to the Guttenberg side. Conceived as a loose riff on star Channing Tatum's time as a male stripper, it has a solid run as a cheerful smut delivery mechanism before hanging up its thong to become a rote '80s melodrama about good kids corrupted by bad drugs. If the howl of "Yes!" that greeted the first bared ass at my screening is any indication, that transformation won't hurt the bottom line (a figure these strippers always seem to have on their minds), though it does make Magic Mike another promising yet half-baked Soderbergh project instead of a good movie, sans asterisks. RUNNING TIME 110... Bill Chambers Gray's Anatomy (1996) [The Criterion Collection] + And Everything is Going Fine (2010) [The Criterion Collection] - Blu-ray Discs tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c017617751553970c 2012-09-04T20:35:46-05:00 2012-09-05T10:22:41-05:00 GRAY'S ANATOMY **½/**** Image A- Sound B Extras B directed by Steven Soderbergh A PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN THEATER ***½/**** directed by Skip Blumberg AND EVERYTHING IS GOING FINE ****/**** Image N/A Sound B Extras A directed by Steven Soderbergh SEX AND DEATH TO THE AGE 14 ***/**** directed by Dan Weissman and Brad Ricker by Walter Chaw The first ten minutes of Steven Soderbergh's Gray's Anatomy are obnoxious, and though there are few artists as interesting to me or as influential in my own life as Spalding Gray, the last 109 don't exactly blow my skirt up, either. Let me back up. I tripped over Swimming to Cambodia in English class, Freshman year, then procured my own copy at Boulder's invaluable The Video Station so that I could go back to it and, sure, impress Liberal Arts girls with it on a double-bill with Stop Making Sense. You might say that Gray and David Byrne were my wing-men for a couple of years there; it's fitting that my VHS copies of both those pieces are now and forever in the possession of ex-girlfriends and love interests. I wonder if I would ask for the tapes back were I... Bill Chambers Che (2008) + Milk (2008) tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c017742be1693970d 2012-06-26T14:17:04-05:00 2012-06-26T14:17:04-05:00 CHE ***½/**** starring Benicio Del Toro, Demián Bichir, Santiago Cabrera, Vladimir Cruz screenplay by Peter Buchman, based on the memoir Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War by Ernesto "Che" Guevara directed by Steven Soderbergh MILK *½/**** starring Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin, Diego Luna screenplay by Dustin Lance Black directed by Gus Van Sant by Walter Chaw Steven Soderbergh's Che is the curative to the Hollywood biopic formula that insists on reducing interesting/important historical figures to their workshop elements. It sees Ernesto "Che" Guevara as a charismatic figure but no T-shirt deity, as a guerrilla fighter with blood on his hands but also a revolutionary almost holy in his single-minded conviction that things weren't fair in the world and that one man--or one small group of heavily-armed men--could affect change that mattered. It's not a political film in the sense that it takes sides, rendering it a political film by the fact of it having no agenda except to make it difficult to condemn or celebrate first the events leading up to the success of the Cuban Revolution, then the failure of the Bolivian Revolution (which ended in Che's death). Soderbergh goes from close and medium shots in the... Bill Chambers The Painted Veil (2006) - DVD; The Good Shepherd (2006); The Good German (2006) - DVD tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c017615d82f0c970c 2012-06-26T14:05:16-05:00 2012-06-26T14:05:17-05:00 THE PAINTED VEIL ***/**** Image B- Sound A- starring Naomi Watts, Edward Norton, Liev Schreiber, Diana Rigg screenplay by Ron Nyswaner, based on the novel by W. Somerset Maugham directed by John Curran THE GOOD SHEPHERD **/**** starring Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, Robert De Niro, Alec Baldwin screenplay by Eric Roth directed by Robert De Niro THE GOOD GERMAN *½/**** Image A Sound A- starring George Clooney, Cate Blanchett, Tobey Maguire, Jack Thompson screenplay by Paul Attanasio, based on the novel by Joseph Kanon directed by Steven Soderbergh by Walter Chaw One of seemingly dozens of pretentious, self-produced vanity pieces from the Edward Norton grist mill, The Painted Veil, John Curran's adaptation of Somerset Maugham's story of colonial malaise, is a pleasant surprise. Naomi Watts and Toby Jones are fabulous (and Norton is steady); it's not terribly paternalistically racist despite being another Western film in which white people exert their magical influence in foreign lands; and even though it's all about prestige and hedonism, it manages now and again to actually be about prestige and hedonism. But like the simultaneously-opening Soderbergh noir The Good German, it's mostly interesting in the meta. What keeps this updating of the old Greta Garbo... Bill Chambers Ocean's Twelve (2004) [Widescreen Edition] - DVD tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c017742bde3be970d 2012-06-26T13:43:09-05:00 2012-06-26T13:43:09-05:00 **/**** Image A- Sound B+ starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Catherine Zeta-Jones screenplay by George Nolfi directed by Steven Soderbergh by Walter Chaw It's all so very beautiful that it's easy to be seduced by it. The people, of course, are gorgeous. The locations in Amsterdam and Lake Como, Italy are gorgeous. The soundtrack? Gorgeous. Cinematography, direction: gorgeous, gorgeous. None too pretty, though, is that sniffy feeling of crashing a party where you stick out like a sore thumb--where everybody knows everybody else and you keep asking the wrong questions. In that, at least, Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's Twelve is more faithful to the Rat Packer Ocean's Eleven than his own remake of the same--this picture's prequel--was. Ocean's Twelve amounts to a martini-and-lounge party at which everybody's having a really great time as you watch from your chair in the corner, daydreaming of looking like Julia Roberts, talking like brandy in a warm snifter, having more fame than The Beatles, and being richer than God. Buy at Amazon USA Buy at Amazon Canada RUNNING TIME 125 minutes MPAA PG-13 ASPECT RATIO(S) 2.35:1, 16x9-enhanced LANGUAGES English DD 5.1 English Dolby Surround French DD 5.1 SUBTITLES English French Spanish CC Yes... Bill Chambers Solaris (2002) tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c016767e2db78970b 2012-06-26T13:30:59-05:00 2012-06-26T13:30:59-05:00 ****/**** starring George Clooney, Natascha McElhone, Jeremy Davies, Viola Davis screenplay by Steven Soderbergh, based on the novel by Stanislaw Lem directed by Steven Soderbergh by Walter Chaw Steven Soderbergh's best film since sex, lies, and videotape (and the film most like it in theme and execution), Solaris is a moving, hypnotic adaptation of the classic Stanislaw Lem novel, which was first made into a film in 1972 by Andrei Tarkovsky. Co-produced by James Cameron's company Lightstorm, Solaris fits loosely into Ridley Scott's Alien future with its monolithic "Company" and the need for a specialist to infiltrate a corrupted interstellar outpost--a future Cameron plumbed in 1986 with his modern genre classic Aliens. But Solaris is less a science-fiction film than it is an existentialist melodrama that, by winnowing itself down to the fierce romanticism at the heart of Lem's novel (and Tarkovsky's trance-like adaptation), locates the core issues of identity and love that plague the dark hours. Buy This at Allposters.com Chris Kelvin (George Clooney) is a widowed psychiatrist asked cryptically by friend and peer Dr. Gibarian (Ulrich Tukur) to visit a space station orbiting the planet Solaris. Having recently lost contact with the station, Gibarian's request is honoured and... Bill Chambers Full Frontal (2002) tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c017742bdc940970d 2012-06-26T13:22:35-05:00 2012-06-26T13:22:35-05:00 */**** starring Blair Underwood, Julia Roberts, David Hyde Pierce, Catherine Keener screenplay by Coleman Hough directed by Steven Soderbergh by Walter Chaw An experiment in perceptual distortion that questions the nature of viewership and the law of observation that states, in part, that the nature of the process of observation necessitates a change in the essential quality of the observed, Steven Soderbergh's Full Frontal is a hyper-pretentious film-within-a-film-within-a-film conceit so gimmicky it hardly matters that by the end gimmickry is its point. The picture begins with the opening of a fictional film called "Rendezvous" starring Calvin (Blair Underwood) and Francesca (Julia Roberts), written by Carl (David Hyde Pierce) and produced by Gus (David Duchovny), and as this "fake" film proceeds in perfectly acceptable 35mm, it is interrupted by long stretches of extremely grainy digital-video footage that purports to represent "reality." Buy This at Allposters.com In that "reality," the writer Carl is having trouble with his icy bitch of a wife Lee (ice queen Catherine Keener, much better in a surprisingly similar role in Lovely and Amazing), Calvin and Francesca are being directed in the "fake" film by David Fincher (as is Brad Pitt), and Gus has a much-publicized encounter with... Bill Chambers Ocean's Eleven (2001) [Widescreen Edition] - DVD tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c017742bdbae9970d 2012-06-26T13:11:17-05:00 2012-06-26T13:11:17-05:00 **½/**** Image A- Sound A- Extras B starring George Clooney, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia, Brad Pitt screenplay by Ted Griffin directed by Steven Soderbergh by Walter Chaw Impeccably-costumed and impossibly-handsome action figures are arranged in cool poses throughout Ocean's Eleven, Steven Soderbergh's updating of the same-named Rat Pack caper. A throwback to the star-driven cinema of the Fifties and a reflection of our own fanatical interest in cults of personality, the film features transparent performances (with the exception of Don Cheadle, each performer in Ocean's Eleven is playing his- or herself), and the same kind of sadistic voyeurism that impels us to simultaneously deify and find fault with our favourite actors keeps our peepers glued to the screen as George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Elliot Gould, and Carl Reiner revolve around one another in a loose heist intrigue intended to relieve Andy Garcia of both his millions and his girlfriend. Buy at Amazon USA Buy at Amazon Canada RUNNING TIME 117 minutes MPAA PG-13 ASPECT RATIO(S) 2.35:1, 16x9-enhanced LANGUAGES English DD 5.1 English Dolby Surround French DD 5.1 SUBTITLES English French Spanish CC Yes REGION 1 DISC TYPE DVD-9 STUDIO Warner Buy This at Allposters.com Less than a week... 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(I confess I amused myself during the scene in which Paltrow's afflicted adulteress has her brain scooped out of her head by muttering "Goop, indeed." Sue me.) Still, it earns pith points for making Paltrow, typecast as a woman of privilege and longueurs, the Typhoid Mary of the new millennium, and more points still for being resolutely unafraid to characterize all of Asia as a giant petri dish ready to make a mass grave out of the rest of the world. Essentially, Contagion, as it... Bill Chambers


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Integrating & Sustaining Habits of Mind (Anderson's Law School Publications)
Integrating and Sustaining Habits of Mind is the fourth volume in a series describing 16 types of intelligent behavior called "habits of mind." These behaviors can aid both students and adults in school and everyday life as they encounter life's challenges. The habits also encourage thinking skills essential to lifelong learning.
Noted educators Arthur Costa and Bena Kallick maintain that a critical attribute of intelligence is not only having information but also knowing how to act on it. The habits of mind that contribute to this intelligence are
$ Persisting $ Managing impulsivity $ Listening with understanding and empathy $ Thinking flexibly $ Thinking about thinking (metacognition) $ Striving for accuracy $ Questioning and posing problems $ Applying past knowledge to new situations $ Thinking and communicating with clarity and precision $ Gathering data through all senses $ Creating, imagining, innovating $ Responding with wonderment and awe $ Taking responsible risks $ Finding humor $ Thinking interdependently $ Remaining open to continuous learning
In the first three volumes of Habits of Mind: A Developmental Series, the authors described these 16 behaviors (Book 1), presented strategies for activating and engaging them (Book 2), and offered assessment techniques (Book 3). In Book 4, they explain how communities, departments, teams, school districts, and school faculties can integrate the habits of mind into the school culture and sustain them.
Practitioners also contribute their insights and strategies. Curtis Schnorr and Thommie DePinto Piercy describe how their school brought a vision of the habits of mind to life. Deborah Hansen shows a staff development model for infusing the habits into her district's culture. Other chapters offer a wealth of practical tips.
Staying the course in the midst of a chaotic environment is not easy. Schools need an anchor. Because they transcend content, programs, and disciplines, the habits of mind are such an anchor.
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Hoping for Repeal is Not a Strategy
I'm up to my neck in surveys lately here at HealthLeaders Media. It's an annual thing in some respects. By that I mean we're putting together our 2011 annual industry survey results right now, but we've also recently launched free monthly intelligence reports that are based on surveys in which hundreds of healthcare leaders give us their opinions and insight about specific challenges surrounding the operation of a successful healthcare organization.
The report I'm working on now regards reform readiness. That is, the level of readiness hospitals and health systems have regarding the new health reform law. There's lots of interesting stuff in it, but on the whole, one broad conclusion from the survey responses struck me: Some of you are pinning your hopes for your organization's long-term well-being on repeal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
You see massive additional government regulation, reduced reimbursements, and pressure on your margin for the foreseeable future. Those are legitimate concerns regarding the law. Perhaps you're hoping the results of the election will mean the next Congress will repeal it, and you won't have to deal with it at all. The law is certainly not in any way perfect, and several of its provisions—mainly the long-term viability of the insurance mandate and the accompanying coverage increases—seem programmed to fail as they are currently written. But it is a law. They're tough to pass and tough to repeal.
I'm not saying a full repeal is impossible, but it's unlikely. Furthermore, pinning your hopes on repeal is not a strategy, it's a bet, and the odds are not in your favor.
However, the innovative and forward-thinking among you show yourselves not by ignoring the Act and hoping the regulations that will come with it go away, but by taking the broad themes of what the law is supposed to achieve (making healthcare a cheaper and higher quality service), and focusing on ways to achieve those goals. That, by contrast, is a strategy that doesn't directly depend on regulation or reimbursement rates, and it's one that will serve you and your organizations well, regardless of whether pieces and parts of the omnibus Act are rolled back or not.


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A man who agonisingly broke both heels jumping from the first floor of a suburban court building in a bungled escape bid has walked - gingerly - to freedom.
More than four months after Luke Weatherall's desperate leap inside Heidelberg Magistrates Court ended in horrific injuries, he legitimately won his freedom on Wednesday afternoon.
A magistrate jailed him for an aggregate of four months – he has spent 131 days in custody since the incident on March 8 – after he pleaded guilty to numerous charges including two of breaching intervention orders.
Weatherall inched into the dock in Melbourne Magistrates Court where his lawyer Anna Balmer had reported that doctors found Weatherall's injuries as the worst of their type yet seen.
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New York will spend $27 million bringing broadband internet to underserved rural and urban areas of the state as part of what governor's office called "the single largest direct investment of state funding into expanding broadband access in the United States."
The city is now accepting applications for the $25 million "Connect NY" program, which is supplemented by a $2 million Regional Council initiative, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced Aug. 27.
"This investment in high-speed Internet access will ensure that the information superhighway will be open to all New York businesses," Cuomo said in a statement. "By expanding the availability of high-quality broadband services, Connect NY makes our state a national leader in the digital economy and gives our businesses the tools they need to compete and prosper in the global economy."
More than 700,000 New Yorkers are unable to access high-speed internet, according to the governor's office, and another 6 million citizens face "significant obstacles" in connecting. The grant funds will be made available to applicants based on criteria determined by the Regional Economic Development Councils and Empire State Development, entities through which the funds were initially made available.
Criteria used to determine funds distribution include how underserved an area is, the potential positive impact from business and resident internet usage in an area, existing infrastructure that can be built upon, and degree of community support. A 2010 mapping project that identified broadband availability will continue to be used by the state to identify the most effective way to distribute funds.
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In other New York news, Gov. Cuomo announced on Aug. 27 that the Department of Motor Vehicle's new online voter registration service is being used. More than 3,400 New Yorkers, including more than 1,000 first-time voters, used the service.
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POWELL, OHIO – Brooke Bellomy and Lisbeth Brooks of Campbell University are tied for 30th place following Tuesday's alternate shot round in the third-annual Pure Silk Women's Collegiate Team Championship presented by the National Golf Coaches Association.
Bellomy and Brooks combined to shoot 10-over-par 82 at the par-72 Wedgewood Golf & Country Club. Ashley Armstrong and Kristina Nhim of Notre Dame lead the 54-team event at 3-under-par 69.
Meredith Swanson and Samantha Swinehart of South Carolina are tied with Vanderbilt's Kendall Martindale and Lauren Stratton at even-par 72.
Wednesday's second round will be best ball play, followed by Thursday's final 18, which will be determined by combined score. Live scoring is available on-line at Golfstat.com.
Both Bellomy, who hails from Ona, W.Va., and Brooks, a native of Waunakee, Wis., are rising sophomores. The duo ranked 15th nationally in the 2012 Golfstat Freshman Class impact rating for Campbell's Big South Conference championship squad.
The 2012 Big South Conference freshman of the year, Brooks ranked fourth among league leaders with a 76.03 stroke average. She finished seventh in the Big South Championship as CU claimed the title and earned the league's automatic berth in the NCAA East Regional.
An all-conference performer, Brooks gained three individual top 10s on the year. She tied for eighth at the Georgia State John Kirk Lady Panther Intercollegiate. Her low round (67) came at the Golfweek Program Challenge, where Campbell claimed the combined men's and women's crown.
Bellomy, who ranked eighth among Big South stroke average leaders (76.89), placed 13th in the Big South Championship. She earned a pair of top-10 individual showings, including a fourth-place effort at the Miami Hurricane Invitational.
In addition to being CU's low individual at the New Mexico Dick McGuire Invitational, Bellomy shot a season-low round of 70 at Miami.
During the 2011-12 season, Campbell placed among the top five teams in 10 of its 12 events, including victories at the Xavier/LPGA International Invitational, Fighting Camel Classic and Big South Championship. Under the direction of head coach John Crooks, CU won its 11th league title in 2012 and made its 15th regional appearance since 1993.
Campbell is represented in the NGCA event for the second-straight year. Last summer, Kaylin Yost and Maria Jose Benavides competed in the tournament, which was held in Dahlonega, Ga.
This year marks the inaugural title sponsorship of Pure Silk, a moisturizing shave cream for women. Part of the Perio, Inc. brands, Pure Silk is available at mass merchandise, grocery and drugstores nationwide and is a sponsor of eight LPGA golfers.
Wedgewood Golf & Country Club is an 18-hole private facility, considered one of the most challenging courses in Central Ohio. Opened in 1991, the golf course was designed by Robert Trent Jones, Jr.
Second and third-round play begins daily at 7:30am with tee times starting on both #1 and #10.
About the National Golf Coaches Association
The National Golf Coaches Association, founded in 1983, is a non-profit organization representing women's collegiate golf coaches. The NGCA was formed to encourage the playing of college golf for women in correlation with a general objective of education and in accordance with the highest tradition of intercollegiate competition. Today, the NGCA represents over 500 coaches throughout the U.S. and is dedicated to educating, promoting and recognizing both its members and the student-athletes they represent.


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Isabel Lucas: Christian Dior Launch Lady
Having a blast in her Australian homeland, Isabel Lucas showed up at the grand opening of the new Christian Dior store in Sydney today (January 31).
The "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" actress looked leggy in a multi-color strapless dress as she hammed it up for the shutterbugs.
Of the new venture, Dior couture chief executive Sidney Toledano declared it's an exciting and positive step in the right direction.
"The world has changed over the last three or four years and the center of gravity of the global economy is moving towards Asia. We are developing our business in this part of the world," he explained.
"There is a big demand in the world for very high quality, innovative product and brands with real history. The new generation, and in this part of the world I notice even more, they want to know what the history of the company is. They go to the store and want to see it, feel it, understand it ... We want every member of our staff to know all the information so the customer understands what we do. This is our global, long-term strategy."
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Youngblood (1986)
A skilled young hockey prospect hoping to attract the attention of professional scouts is pressured to show that he can fight if challenged during his stay in a Canadian minor hockey town. His on-ice activities are complicated by his relationship with the coach's daughter.
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Snake? Why did it have to be Snake?
After 20 years of espionage action, Guns Of The Patriots is being billed as the final instalment in Konami's million-selling series, and an explosive farewell for the surly Solid Snake. Yet while previous Metal Gears have been criticised for focusing too heavily on the muddled plot and not allowing fans to actually play the game, it feels as if technology has finally caught up with digital auteur Hideo Kojima. The PS3 delivers the muscle needed to bring his violent visions to life and refines the experience so it doesn't drive impatient players to distraction.
While the action is still riddled with confusing movies and bewildering conversations - each seeped in the macho nuttiness that has defined MGS and makes it feel like a cross between Andy McNabb and a Manga movie - welcome tweaks such as the ability to skip cut-scenes and optional flashbacks to earlier Metal Gears help make the labyrinthine story more engaging. It also allows Kojima to convey a strong anti-war message that's sharply poignant in today¹s political climate and adds a sense of gravitas to the testosterone-pumped tale.
Using the PS3 to bring this latest instalment to life has also given Kojima the opportunity to create the most detailed and stylish world MGS aficionados have ever seen: from the sun-baked streets of crumbling middle-eastern cities to frozen arctic bases and steaming jungles, all the environments are brimming with detail and convey a unique atmosphere. This time Kojima has also been careful to make the experience less linear and offer players multiple routes through the levels, which provide a deep sense of satisfaction by finding your own way through a maze of war-torn streets, rather than being forced down a narrow path peppered with set-piece challenges.
Also making the traditional MGS experience friendlier are the game's stripped-down controls. Whereas earlier episodes saw players tangling themselves in a jumble of thumbs while attempting advanced moves, hiding in the shadows or targeting enemies is now as simple as tapping a button, allowing players to execute split-second decisions. On the flipside, the enemies in Guns Of The Patriots are much smarter than the grunts found in previous Snake fables, the streamlined controls coming into their own as you roll between patches of darkness, snuggle against walls or hide inside abandoned oil barrels and inch your way across hostile territory.
Like all Metal Gear titles, the intense stealth action is an acquired taste and players more enamoured by the gung-ho heroics of Halo or Call Of Duty will probably want to drop a star from our final score. Even fans of console sneak-a-thons such as Splinter Cell will find Guns Of The Patriots hard going, the game requiring you to find a skittish rhythm, where you slip between stealth techniques and defensive action in the blink of an eye, and have the imagination to use spy gadgets in unorthodox ways. But as the swan song of a series that defined a genre, Guns Of The Patriots should be cherished as one of the PS3's greatest achievements - and because Metal Gear is the only place where smoking and pornography are actually seen as good for you.
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Clementsport historic monuments adjacent to temporary bridge
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after the flood of 31 March 2003
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Clementsport historic monuments adjacent to replacement bridge
carrying Highway One over the Moose River, installed
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"A large and handsome stone bridge has lately been
built across the river, at the joint expense of the
(Annapolis Iron Mining) Company and the Province..."
—Thomas C. Haliburton, 1829:163-164
Annapolis Iron Mining CompanyIn the village of Clementsport, Annapolis County, in the 1820s "a company was formed under the auspices of two American men, for the working of the valuable iron mines in the neighbourhood. Smelting furnaces were constructed and coalsheds and other buildings" necessary for their business were erected. "The beds of iron ore which they worked are situated to the southward of the village, and at a distance of about three miles five kilomteres from it." Moses Shaw (senior) of Clementsport was instrumental in setting up the Annapolis Iron Mining Company which was incorporated in 1826.
Iron ore was transported from the quarry along a railway built with maple rails, to the furnace at the mouth of the Moose River. Stoves and iron hollow-ware (pots, kettles, etc.) were cast in the foundry nearby. Power was provided from an undershot water wheel. Local farmers made charcoal and sold it to the company for use in the blast furnace. The dam wall and archway remain as part of our present-day (2000) road bridge.
The trip hammer used for crushing the ore can be seen at the parking lot by the bridge (the old village square). Many acres of land granted to Loyalist settlers in Clements Township only about forty years earlier, in 1784, along with ungranted land were bought and used for the mining of ore and manufacturing. L.V. Shaw, Moses Shaw's grandson, has written about this rather important and interesting episode in the history of Clements.
[Digby Courier, 14 June 2000]
The above was excerpted from a report in the Digby Courier of a meeting of the
Upper Clements Historical Society held on May 4th, 2000. The quotes are from
The History of the County of Annapolis, by W.A. Calnek, published in 1897.
Annapolis Iron Mining Company
Relevant Acts and Proceedings of the Legislature
First uploaded to the WWW: 2002 October 19
Additional historical content installed: 2003 April 19
New photographs installed: 2003 December 14
New photographs installed: 2004 March 25
Added Google Map link: 2012 November 25
Latest update: 2013 August 21


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