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Nurses like you are the reason I've always wanted to be a nurse and now finally in school chasing my dream. Your story brought me tears. Thank you for being you :)Jan 20, '13
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Someone I went to school with who was a sports star and then went on to be a high school coach died because he drank a couple of Red Bulls before a marathon. He died from a major heart attack. I...Sep 1, '12
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I'm none of these things, I know the slim chance of finding a job once I graduate. I just want to be a nurse and have wanted this for a very long time. There is just a job shortage. It really...Sep 1, '12
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Me too! But I've wanted this for so long, I will do it anyway. There is a job shortage everwhere and not just in nursing. I think there is a nursing shortage I just don't think hospitals and...Aug 19, '12
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That's exactly why I'm careful what I post on here and I haven't posted as often as I like. I once read a post where this person was at a really low point in her career and she was feeling like...Aug 19, '12
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I passed my CNA skills test by watching the videos on Youtube. A fellow classmate of mine failed, I sent him the link to the videos and he studied them like I advised and he passed at his next...Aug 18, '12
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I feel the same as you. Been working at this place for 2 months. When I was hired they said a typical patient load is 10 and on occasion 15. Well since I started I have 17-20 patients every...Aug 18, '12
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Ultimate List Of Travel Companies And Their Benefits!Aug 12, '12
- Forum: Travel Nursing
I'm a CNA at a long term care facility and none of my nurses do what you do. They don't change a bed, they tell us to do it when they are done. Your CNA's should appreciate that you do that much! ...Aug 7, '12
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I'm experiencing some of the same where I just started working only 3 weeks ago. The sad part is no matter where you work there will always be people like you discribed. My biggest issue lately was...Jul 9, '12
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With your experience you could go into travel nursing, probably would work your butt off there too but at least you get to see and go places that may make up for it. Plus you get to work out your...Jun 25, '12
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I feel exactly as you do, being 34 and starting all over. So a few weeks back I posted something similar to this. Here is the link. ...Apr 27, '12
- Forum: Pre-Nursing Student
I spoke to an RN yesterday who said she did her clinicals while in school at a PEDS burn ward, 34 years ago. She said that to this day she still remembers the screams of a little girl when they went...Apr 11, '12
- Forum: Pediatric Nursing
I found this web site in my search on agencies. I am a nursing student who would like to travel one day. Its a list of agencies and what they offer. Hope this is helpful..... ...Apr 7, '12
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You just explained my life in your post. I have a 14 year old with type 1 diabetes. She's had it since she was 4. Now I am a nursing student but want to get into Peds not because of the reasons...Apr 7, '12
- Forum: Pediatric Nursing
Yes I was wondering the same, I am just beginning nursing school but want to travel after a few years and would love to hear your experience!Mar 26, '12
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ME TOO!!Mar 20, '12
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Thanks to all of you super women!! You're all an inspiration. I'm so excited to start. I will not let other people's negativity undermine what I am doing to better myself and my family.Mar 18, '12
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WOW!! Everything the OP stated is everything our CNA instructor told us not to do and warned us about from other CNA's. I really don't think she was making fun of the other CNA's accent, I believe...Mar 18, '12
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Thanks to you both, even though you know your not the only one in a situation but at the time you feel that way. Its nice to know other people who are or were in similar situations. I know nursing...Mar 17, '12
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I am 34 years old and after having marriage and children first instead of school I am now finally going back to school. I have wanted to go back for nursing for almost 10 years, I worked for years...Mar 17, '12
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Does anyone work as a travel nurse but does not take their spouse with them? How does it work for you?Jan 15, '12
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I agree. I worked with the developmentally disabled for 8 years taking care of them in their homes and I found it very rewarding. But I got those exact words a lot from other people. I am now...Jan 15, '12
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Marble Madness (Genesis)
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DescriptionThe idea of this arcade game is deceptively simple: Guide a marble down a path without hitting any obstacles or straying off the course. The game is viewed from an isometric perspective, which makes it harder to stay focused on the direction the ball is to follow. There are tight corridors to follow and enemies to avoid. There is a 2-player mode in which players must race to the finish; otherwise you're racing against the clock.
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- "マーブルマッドネス" -- Japanese spelling
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|Mean Machines
|Jan, 1992
|88 out of 100
|Player One
|Apr, 1992
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|Feb, 1992
|70 out of 100
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|Mar, 1992
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|May, 1992
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|Jul 14, 2008
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1001 Video GamesThe Arcade version of Marble Madness appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.
Graphics and SoundA non-advertised fact about the PC version is that it supports 16-color graphics and 3-voice sound -- but only on a Tandy or PCjr computer. All other users automatically get 4-color CGA graphics and single-voice sound.
Secret levelIn the PC version, there is a secret level accessible from the first level (involving being in the right place at the right time) which contained various difficult challenges (rivers, moving platforms and the like). This secret level does not exist in the original arcade game.
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- 1986 - Best Coin-Op Conversion of the Year
- Issue 04/1987 - #13 Best Game in 1986 (Readers' Vote)
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- Game Map (Sega Master System) (Images of the level maps of each level.)
- NES Player - Marble Madness (Shrine site with information about the game.)
Servo (55772) added Marble Madness (Genesis) on Feb 28, 2004
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AbstractInfertility (Sterility) is an absolute state of inability to conceive. T affects approximately 10-15% of the reproductive age couples in the ( US. Numerically important broad categories causing infertihty (either alone or in combination) are ovulation disorders, tubal obstructions pelvic adhesions, endometriosis and semen abnormalities.
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a form of functional ovarian hyperandrogenism and affects approximately 5-10% women of reproductive age. Insulin resistance and hyperinsulinemia appear to be almost universal features of the PCOS.
It is now 50 years since Stein and Leventhal first described this baffling syndrome. The classical picture is of an obese, hirsute, infertile female with oligomenorrhoea, ovaries although polycystic may not always be enlarged. The most constant endocrinological change is an absolute increase in the levels of LH and a high LH/ FSH ratio. Plasma testosterone is frequently slightly above the normal range.
As insulin has a direct effect on the ovarian androgen production in vitro, insulin resistance may play a crucial role in the physiopathology of the PCOS. Although the molecular mechanism(s) of insulin resistance in PCOS is unclear, excessive insulin independent serine phosphorylation of the β-subunit of the insulin receptor has put forward as a new mechanism for insulin resistance.
Insulin influence steriodogenesis via its own receptor arid notIGF-I to stimulate testosterone, estrogen and progesterone production by increasing C17, 20 lyase activity. The action of insulin at the oval}in polycystic ovary syndrome is preserved despite the co-existence of peripheral insulin resistance as it is mediated by pathways distinct from those which regulate the peripheral glucose disposal. Only the pathway regulating carbohydrate metabolism is impaired in PCOS WomeJ1 with PCOS exhibit elevated fasting insulin levels and are increased insulin response to an oral glucose tolerance test.
Levels of low' density lipoproteins and triglycerides are .elevated while high density lipoprotein cholesterol levels are reduced compared with those of controls. Insulin resistance is associated with alterations that accentuate thrombosis by increasing coagulation and inhibiting fibrinolysis. Elevated levels of both P AI-l and fibrinogen have beer documented in PCOS.
Obesity may be an important pathogenefic factor involved in the development of hyperandrogenism in women with PCOS. Among several other mechanisms hyperinsulinemia plays a fundamental role due to its gonadotrophic function which has been demonstrated both in vitro and vivo. Weight loss appears to be associated with a significant improvement in menses abnormalities, ovulation and fertility rates and with a reduction of . hyperandrogenism, hyperinsulinemia and altered gonadotropin pulsatile secretion.
Exercise via mechanisms independent of weight loss, also reduces insulin resistance reducing abdominal fat, increasing muscle capillarity and restoring both the level and function of glucose transporter-4 and. there is a well recognized association between PCOS and eating disorders.
Therapeutic efforts have focussed on agents that could treat or modify the clinical manifestations of these disorders. Antiandrogens as a sale treatment or combined with oral contraceptives are considered the treatment of choice for the manifestations of hyperandrogenemia, but there is no agreement about their efficacy on the metabolic sequclae of PCOS (insulin resistance, hyperinsulinemial dyslipidemia). Furthermore the improvement of insulin sensitivity by insulin sensitizers may be of therapeutic value directly and or indirectly in the management of clinical manifestations of hyperinsulinemia and hyperandrogenemia.
With this background in view a total of one hundred and eleven patients of peas were enrolled from an infertility clinic of Karachi in accordance to a set pattern of inclusion and exclusion criteria. A total of 100 patients completed the study while 11 patients left the study at different times due to their own reasons. Patients were divided into two groups each group having 50 patients. Finally Group A was given tablet metformin HCl 500 mg TDS for 90 days (12 weeks) after gradual build up (within 2 weeks) while Group B was the conservatively l1umaged group and was advised to have 30-60 minutes walk daily along with the. avoidance of excess sugars, oily food and red meat from their diet for a period of 90 days (12 weeks). The patients were evaluated at day 0 and day 90 of the study for: .
1. The effects of metformin HCl on the carbohydrate metabolism (fasting serum glucose and fasting serum insulin levels).
2. The effects of metformin HCl on the ovulation (serum progesterone level > 4 ng/ml was considered to be consistent with ovulation). .
OBSERVATIONS: S.No.ParametersDays ZeroDay 90 1Weight of Patient (kg)√√ 2Height (m)√√ 3Body mass index (BMI)√√ 4Blood pressure √√ 5Fasting serum glucose level√√ 6Fasting serum insulin level√√ 7Serum LH level√√ 8Serum FSH level √√ 9Serum testosterone level √√ 10Serum progesterone level √√ 11Serum prolactin level√√ 12Ultrasound pelvis√√
In group A weight (Kg) of the patients showed a decrease from a mean ±SD of 69.4±11.8 to 65.85±9.0. Body mass index (BMI in Kg/m2) decreased from 27.5±4.8 to 26.l±3.7. Systolic blood pressure (mmHg) reduced from a mean ±SD of 128±14.9 to 122±11.1. Diastolic blood pressure (mmHg) reduced. from 83±9.0 to 82±6.8. Fasting serum glucose (mg/dl) showed a reduction from 92.74±13.0 to 86±8.7. Fasting serum insulin (μU/ml) reduced from 20.6±11 to 9.8±5.6 and serum progesterone (ng/ml) increased from 1.3±0.3 to 9.5±5.1 from day 0 to day 90. All the parameters were found to be statistically significant with the exception of diastolic blood pressure which showed non-significant results. Whereas in group B weight (Kg) of the patients reduced significantly from a mean ±SD of 75.4±8.8 to 74.3±9.1. BMI (Kg/m2) reduced from a mean ±SD of 30±4.8 to 29.5±4.3. On statistical evaluation this was, also significant. Other parameters of systolic and diastolic blood .pressure, fasting serum glucose, fasting serum insulin and serum progesterone showed non-significant results.
When group A was compared with group B, group A showed significant reduction in fasting serum glucose, fasting serum insulin and body mass index while significant increase in serum progesterone level whereas in group B fasting serum glucose, fasting serum insulin levels and serum progesterone showed non-significant results while body mass index showed significant reduction. Although patients of group B showed significant reduction in their weights and' accordingly in their body mass index but they failed to produce improvement in their metabolic and endocrine parameters significantly. In group A 41 (82%) patients ovulated (serum progesterone> 4 ng/ml) while in group B only 2 (4%) patients ovulated (serum progesterone> 4 mg/ml).
Thus it is concluded that metformin treated patients showed significant improvement in. all parameters (except diastolic blood pressure) while conservatively managed group showed significant improvement only in BMI indicating on balance that metformin is of benefit in improving reproductive function and reducing insulin resistance independent of weight loss. It seems that metformin has a direct effect on the human ovarian sterioidogenesis in addition to reduction of the weight and body mass index.


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- "A wedding. I love weddings! Drinks all around!"
- ―Jack Sparrow
A wedding was the ceremony in which two people are united in marriage or a similar institution. Wedding traditions and customs vary greatly between cultures, ethnic groups, religions, countries, and social classes. Most wedding ceremonies involve an exchange of wedding vows by the couple, presentation of a gift (offering, ring(s), symbolic item, flowers, money), and a public proclamation of marriage by an authority figure or leader. Special wedding garments are often worn, and the ceremony is sometimes followed by a wedding reception.
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Following World War I, Thomas Cleland wrote a practical manual of color, funded and published by the Strathmore Paper Company. He outlines the almost endless options, good and bad, of printing various colored inks onto colored papers. Readers are encouraged to experiment with using various samples included at the back of the volume. Cleland went on to practice his own lessons, as art director of Fortune Magazine.
In his introduction, color theorist A.H. Munsell writes, "With white at the North pole and black at the South pole; and its axis between these points a measured scale of grays, we have a decimal neutral scale which painters call Value. The middle point of this axis must be a middle gray, and a plane passing through to the equator must contain colors of middle value. If, therefore, the equator be spread with a color circle … we have the equator as a decimal scale of hues merging gradually from one to the next and returning upon itself…."
"Each of these hues is supposed to grow lighter until it merges into the North pole at white, and darker similarly to black, and these are called the values (light) of color. They may also be imagined as passing inward until they disappear in the gray axis. Should there be still stronger colors, they will continue upon the same radii outside the sphere. These we call the chromas (strength) of color."


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This month we're honoring the work of Partners In Health nurses with a series of articles about their efforts to care for patients and lead others in strengthening health systems around the world.
At Partners In Health, we're not only grateful for nurses—we depend on them. Nurses comprise 84 percent of PIH's clinical staff and deliver the vast majority of care at our sites, from the clinics of Lesotho to the maternity ward of University Hospital in Haiti's Central Plateau.
"Nurses are the foundation of the care provided in every place we work," said Sheila Davis, PIH's chief nursing officer. "These nurses are asked to do a tremendous amount with little or no supplies, backup from other providers, and in some cases, formal education."
Some nurses work by themselves in remote health facilities serving rural communities in need. Others work in hospitals, delivering complex care for diseases such as cancer.
I don't know how these nurses do it. There's no backup.
In the rural mountains of Lesotho, reachable only on foot or by plane, nurses are the primary health care providers for entire communities—conducting prenatal visits, delivering babies, treating HIV, and caring for young children. In Rwanda, they staff rural health centers and provide specialized care, such as chemotherapy for cancer. In Russia, they embark on daily expeditions to ensure vulnerable TB patients take their medicine and have enough food. In Haiti, nurses are playing leadership roles across hospitals and clinics to improve care for specific diseases, including malnutrition, HIV, and tuberculosis.
"I don't know how these nurses do it. There's no backup," said Davis, who also works as a nurse practitioner at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. "I was at MGH yesterday, doing an exam on a patient, and I unexpectedly needed help. I called for my colleagues and had 10 people in the exam room within a few minutes. Where PIH works, there's no such safety net."
Though nurses provide the majority of care worldwide, they're often absent from positions of power in health institutions and systems. At the World Health Organization, for example, nursing specialists make up less than 1 percent of professional staff.
PIH is committed to elevating the role of nurses at the sites in which we work and beyond. This month, PIH and Zanmi Lasante, our Haitian sister organization, will celebrate the opening of the Nursing Center of Excellence in Haiti, which will raise the standard of care and sharpen nurses' critical skills to improve patient outcomes.
In addition, a comprehensive nurse mentorship program developed in collaboration with the Rwandan Ministry of Health is being scaled up and modified for other countries in which we work.
In the coming days and weeks, we'll be sharing a mix of stories that demonstrate exactly how important nurses are to our work. We hope you'll join us in celebrating these magnificent medical multitaskers and giving them the credit they deserve.


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Jana Pittman is happy, because this time there is no Jana Drama. Remember that? Jana Drama?
That's the force of nature the often comes in like a bitter cold front before every major competition she ever competed in as a 400m runner.
Normally, the Jana Drama involves injuries. How many of those have we ridden with her?
From the blown knee cartilage before the 2004 Games in Athens and the sight of her being pursued by the media as she hobbled around on crutches, to the toe injury that kept her away from Beijing four years later, to another foot injury that finally ended her athletics career before London four years after that.
The Jana Drama was hard for Pittman to ignore after she completed her final training session with Astrid Radjenovic in the women's two-man bobsled on Sunday morning.
"The biggest thing for me is that I got here injury free," she said on a cold morning at the Sanki Sliding Centre. "I lost the last two Olympics because of injury. Actually, it's the last three. To be able to finish the last training session and know I am putting my spikes on in two days time, with nothing wrong, is phenomenal. So I'm very grateful for this lady."
She says this pointing to Radjenovic, who has often been the forgotten part of Pittman's incredible comeback story that will see her become the first female athlete to compete at the summer and winter games for Australia.
Asked if she is surprised to be reflecting on her former, drama-filled life as a track athlete, she said: "I can't not. We're at the Olympics. I'm pretty lucky. I've been given a real gift and a second chance. I'll carry that with me for the rest of my life. Even if I never go to another Olympics, to finish on a high together would be great. It doesn't matter what the result is. The fact that we got here after all we've been through in the last year, and what this one [Radjenovic] has done for seven years, it's just fantastic. I could retire happy if I did."
Of course, the Jana Drama extends beyond the injuries.
From fallouts with former relay team member Tamsyn Lewis, to her on-again-off-again-on-again-off-again relationship with English athlete Chris Rawlinson that was dragged through the women's rags, to stories about her removing breast implants to improve her career.
The Australian public, which can be as fickle and dramatic as she could be, fell out of love with Pittman very quickly.
In an interview with ABC Radio in 2011, she admitted: "You know, I have made so many mistakes and so many of them have been written out, you know, through the public. You know, boobs in, boobs out, divorced, remarried, divorced. Like it's, it's quite comical when I look back on it really. So I guess the situation is that I'm the bad girl and that's it."
The shame of it is beneath the Jana Drama lies a pure athlete called Jana Pittman, who has as much defiance and ability as any we've seen. In 2003, at the age of 20, she was the youngest person to win the world championship in the 400m hurdles. She won it again in 2007. If not for injury, an Olympic gold medal would likely be hers, given her ability in the event.
When she abandoned athletics, she tried her hand at boxing and rowing, and then bobsleigh. They call American ice hockey star Joseph Pavelski the "Swiss Army Knife" because of his versatility. Jana could have the same nickname.
In her role as brakeman, she does most of the heavy pushing at the start. She has subsequently whacked on 11kg thanks to the combination of heavy lifting and more than enough protein shakes, meat and carbs to fuel a footy team. The result: she has the legs of an NFL linebacker.
"You eat for Australia," she laughed. "I have had to learn a lot from Astrid. Sometimes I overdid the training. The 400m is a lot of slog training and this one is about being recovered. We had one race where our push was horrendous at the start because I had done too much that week."
Looking at the sizeable crews from Germany, the USA and Canada, as they walk around the sliding centre on this morning, she will need the massive legs.
Don't go expecting medals, Australia, from Pittman and Radjenovic, although they finished ninth in their final training session.
"We're realistic," says Radjenovic. "Tenth to 15th is where we would plan to finish. We could sneak into the top 10 if we have a great few days. We'll wait and see."
And then what? The end of Jana Drama? For good?
She has broached the subject of competing in athletics at the summer games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.
"Dunno yet," she said bluntly. "I have to get through this . . . we'll see. This is about Astrid and I here and I don't want to take away from that."


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How old does an aspiring tennis champion need to be to win a men's grand slam tournament? The answer is, according to most tennis experts, much older than those who have gone before.
Tennis Australia chief executive
"The days of Boris Becker winning Wimbledon at 17 are gone," says Wood.
"It's just a different game."
Indeed, Australia's
If the chief of Australian tennis's governing body is correct, it is unlikely fans will see a performance reminiscent of Michael Chang's remarkable victory, aged just 17, at the French Open in 1989.
Nor are they likely to see a final similar to the 1985 Australian Open title match – then held on grass courts at Melbourne's Kooyong Stadium – when 19-year-old Stefan Edberg defeated 21-year-old Mats Wilander.
The academic chair of sports science at Murdoch University, Mark Hecimovich, says teenage youth can disadvantage athletes competing in an increasingly competitive sporting sphere.
"Would a 17 or 18-year-old be more well-rounded than a 25-year-old," asks Hecimovich? "Probably not."
"You'll see that today's athletes look more physical, they look fitter and more muscular."
Technology-led equipment changes have also played a part in determining who dominates the rankings, even if the move from wood to steel to aluminium to graphite (and other materials such as titanium) is sometimes promoted as helping a weaker player compete against someone much stronger.
Network Seven commentators and former top players Jim Courier and John Fitzgerald marvelled last week at the pace that Juan Martin del Potro could generate on his forehand.
They suspected the Argentinian's forehand would buckle a wooden racquet.
Technological advances mean current equipment can handle the power of a fully developed tennis player who is more likely to be in his 20s than in his teens.
Sydney lawyer and Tennis Australia president Stephen Healy says expectations need to be tempered to take into account the changed nature of the sport.
"The days of kids coming out of junior tennis and jumping into the top 100 at age 19 are pretty much gone," says Healy. "People are going to have to be patient and give these kids some time to develop."
For the tennis-loving public longing for a return to Australia's golden age, it is a wearisome wait.
Australia's brightest male prospect, Tomic, is just 18 and still has another inch to grow.
The trend puts pressure on the country's up-and-comers, who would historically know by their late teens or early 20s if they had a shot at the big time.
"Top juniors now have five to seven years of hard work ahead of them to break into the top 100," Healy says. "There is no quick fix."
The trend is evident in the women's game as well and the age of top-100 female players averages at more than 24 years.
Could a 12-year-old still win a junior grand slam tournament, where participants can be as old as 18, as Martina Hingis did in 1993?
Physiques, aggression and professionalism have also progressed significantly in the women's game during the past three decades. Martina Navratilova, Steffi Graf, Monica Seles and the Williams sisters are among the players most credited for leading the change.
Hecimovich says the impact of role models on a sport should not be underestimated, as future generations copy the stars' techniques and physical training regimes. He says in another individual sport, golf, there is now an assumption that you need big biceps to hit the ball a long way. Tiger Woods brought that idea
"All it took was one very famous player to change people's perception of what you needed to play good golf," he says. "Tennis could also drift in a different direction."
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Manhattan prosecutors and animal welfare officers said Tuesday that Joseph Graves beat and kicked the 6-pound Yorkshire terrier while he was pet-sitting it Jan. 16.
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Amy wrote
Petersen wrote (p. 458):
One way empirical finance researchers can address two sources of correlation
is to parametrically estimate one of the dimensions (e.g., by including dummy
variables). Since many panel data sets have more firms than years, a common
approach is to include dummy variables for each time period (to absorb the time
effect) and then cluster by firm (Lamont and Polk, 2001; Anderson and Reeb,
2004; Gross and Souleles, 2004; Sapienza, 2004; and Faulkender and Petersen,
2006). If the time effect is fixed (e.g., Equation (15)), the time dummies completely
remove the correlation between observations in the same time period.
In this case, there is only a firm effect left in the data. As seen in Section 1,
OLS and Fama-MacBeth standard errors are biased in this case, while standard
errors clustered by firm are unbiased (results available from the author).
Stas pointed out that clustered SEs are never unbiased. Point well taken. I would not suggest they are.
The above statement by Petersen makes no sense to me. Compare the contemporaneous correlations ("correlation between observations in the same time period")
for a one-way FE, two-way FE and the strange creature he suggests: one-way FE with time dummies, clustered by firm.* In all three cases the contemporaneous
correlations are quite similar. The contemporaneous correlation cannot be removed by including time dummies.
This should not be surprising, for correlation within a firm's observations is not removed by including firm dummies (fixed effects); you need to use the
cluster VCE to allow for such correlations (and as Stock/Watson have shown, that is mandatory unless you assume iid errors). So why would you expect
that allowing intercepts to shift for each time period would have the effect of removing correlations across firms for each time period? I'm sorry, but that
quote from a published article is just plain wrong.
* do http://fmwww.bc.edu/cfb/stata/twowayFE.do to see this demonstrated.
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Electric cars, light sensors and improvements to park changing rooms could help Watford Borough Council to reduce its carbon emissions.
Last year the council signed up to the Carbon Trust Local Authority Carbon Management programme and its five year plan to reduce emissions by 30 per cent has now been published.
From a baseline of 3,972 tonnes of CO2 in 2009/10, the council is predicted to have a "business as usual" emissions rate of 4,113 tonnes by 2015.
A 30 per cent saving would represent 1.191.6 tonnes by that time, reducing emissions to 2,780 tonnes.
The council has already identified ways to reach 16 per cent of their reduction target, through existing schemes such as the redevelopment of the council depot in Wiggenhall Road and the closure of the Church Street toilets.
Investment of £242,643 has also been secured to run projects that will save a further 63 per cent of the target, with 21 per cent outstanding.
In 2009/10, emissions cost the council £565,000 and taking no action could cost the council £220,500 by 2015.
However, the 30 per cent reduction, if achieved, would save almost £700,000.
Ways identified to reduce emissions include a staff awareness campaign, turning off lights and shutting windows, "smarter driving", buying electric vehicles and upgrading lights with sensors.
Meanwhile, projects to be investigated in the future include putting solar panels on the Town Hall roof.
Councillor Derek Scudder, portfolio holder for the environment, told Cabinet last night (Monday): "Over the course of the five year programme, our aim is to reduce carbon emissions by 30 per cent. There will be some up-front investment, with savings of £673,000 over that time.
"It's pulling together everything we do as a council that contributes to that reduction in carbon, from the cemetery chapel north Watford heater timer through to hot desking and getting staff to turn off computers.
"It's an ongoing project so projects will emerge during that five years [about how to make up the shortfall] but obviously engagement with staff is important.
"It's really important for us, apart from being the right thing to do, as it will save the council a lot of money."
Alan Gough, head of environmental services, added: "It's very exciting and the first time we have pulled all this together under a single umbrella.
"I think it's very good how the council will be setting a good local example. A little thing we do adds up so nothing is too small and nothing is too big."


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This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
This work presents a data-centric strategy to meet deadlines in soft real-time applications in wireless sensor networks. This strategy considers three main aspects: (i) The design of real-time application to obtain the minimum deadlines; (ii) An analytic model to estimate the ideal sample size used by data-reduction algorithms; and (iii) Two data-centric stream-based sampling algorithms to perform data reduction whenever necessary. Simulation results show that our data-centric strategies meet deadlines without loosing data representativeness.
Despite their potential application, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) [
By considering the real-time applications in WSNs, we can identify some related work. In general, current contributions consider architectures and mathematical models for general applications [
In WSNs applications, physical variables, such as temperature and luminosity, can be monitored continuously along the network operation. The data set representing these physical variables can be referred to as
Before introducing our data-centric strategy, allow us to comment on data-stream related work. The data-stream contributions usually focus either in improving stream algorithms [
Considering real-time requirements and sensor-stream characteristics, we propose a data-centric strategy capable of reducing the data during data routing. In this case, the routing elements consider some application aspects, such as data type and deadline information. Our strategy considers: (1) a project design of real-time application to obtain the minimum deadlines; (2) an analytic model to estimate the ideal sample size used by the reduction algorithms; (3) and two stream-based sampling algorithms to perform data reduction when necessary during the routing task.
To validate our data-centric strategy, we use specific scenarios in which application deadlines cannot be met without data reduction. In our simulation, we use a naive tree routing based on shortest-path tree in a flat network. Application information is fed to relay nodes during build and rebuild tree phases. To identify the stream item delay, we consider that the clocks of the nodes are exactly synchronized. Thus, the time synchronization problem in WSNs [
Regarding data reduction strategies for WSNs, current researches use data fusion, aggregation, compression or correlation techniques [
Our contribution can be highlighted through the analytical model, project design, different sample stream algorithm, and evaluation considering three more realistic real-time scenarios. The general contributions of our strategy are the following:
This work is organized as follows. Section 2. presents the data-centric real-time reduction problem. Section 3. shows how to design real-time sensor network applications by using stream-based data reduction. Section 4. discusses a formal formulation that is used to determine the ideal sample size. Section 5. describes the sampling stream reduction algorithms. Simulation results are presented in Section 6., and Section 7. presents our conclusions and outlook.
The problem we address in this work is the sensor-stream reduction algorithms as a data-centric mechanism to meet deadlines in real-time applications. We consider the data-stream sampling technique to perform data reduction [
Let us consider a WSN monitoring physical or environmental conditions, such as temperature, sound, vibration, pressure, motion or pollutants, at different locations. Such a system is represented by the diagram [
This diagram illustrates the following behavior:
The ideal behavior denoted by The sensed behavior is denoted by The reduced behavior is denoted by
The ideal behavior denoted by
The sensed behavior is denoted by
The reduced behavior is denoted by
Based on these behaviors, the problem addressed in this work can be stated as follows:
To address the data-centric reduction problem in real-time applications, we consider the following assumptions:
These assumptions are considered in the whole paper. For instance, the routing algorithm is shortest path tree, the stream item is the set V = {Vi,…, V
The first task of our data-centric strategy considers the design of real-time application. The objectives of this design are the: characterization of the stream flow while it passes by each sensor node; identification of the software components required by real-time applications by each sensor node; and identification of the required hardware resources by each sensor node. These aspects are illustrated in
Basically, we have three steps to characterize the stream flow in each node: received data, data classification, and data processing. Considering the received data,
Finally, the hardware resources necessary must be identified considering the
The second task of our data-centric strategy considers the
In the
In some cases,
Every relay node computes the new local deadline (
This deadline accounts the route between the relay and the sink node, and it is defined as
Let us consider
This consideration is necessary, because the information in the relay node is only about
In a similar way, let us consider
Thus, the estimated time to deliver
The first term of the sum is considered in
Thus, |
The delay can be depicted as the following:
Thus, to compute |V′|, used to meet the application deadline, we consider the inequality
Meanwhile, considering the |
In order to identify both formulations, in simulation study (Section 6.), we will use the terms
Finally, the third aspect of our data-centric strategy considers the sensor-stream reduction algorithm (
The in-network (data-centric) reduction algorithm is integrated into a shortest-path routing tree. In this case, the routing tree is built, based on application requirements, from the sink (root) to the sources nodes by using a flooding strategy. In this flooding,
In this forward process, when a relay node receives
When the reduction is able, a histogram of
In order to identify both algorithms, in simulation study (Section 6.), we use
Analyzing the Algorithm 2 we have:
Executes in
Define the inner loop that determines the number of elements at each histogram class of the resulting sample, considering
Define the outer loop in which the input data is read and the sample elements are chosen. Because the inner loop is executed only when condition in line 8 is satisfied, the overall complexity of the outer loop is
Re-sorts the sample in
Thus, the overall complexity is
since |
This section presents the simulation study of our data-centric strategy in specific scenarios. We perform our evaluation by using the NS-2 (Network Simulator 2), version 2.33
To identify assess the network behavior, we variate the number of nodes and the stream size (|
To evaluate the delay in real-time scenarios, it is important to determine the minimum deadline (
It is important to highlight that if either application has a deadline smaller than the one shown in
In the problem scope defined in Section 2., we discuss the impact of the solutions regarding the data quality, which is considered as our decision
It is possible to apply these rules, because we consider the reduction of only one source,
The deadlines for the real-time scenarios, that we consider, are 50% of the minimum deadlines with(out) concurrent traffic; minimum deadlines with delay caused by relay nodes in each packet transmitted with(out) concurrent traffic. These study are discussed in the next subsections. For all scenarios, we evaluate the simplified and complex formulations, both using
The first scenario considers half of minimum deadlines (
In this case, the
The reason is that, in the simplified formulation, the reduction is harder and less data is forwarded. When the number of nodes is 1024, the simplified formulation delivers 19% of data, while the complex formulation delivers 25%. This indicates that, considering only the deadline achievement, the simplified formulation is more appropriate. However, the reduction ratio is greater.
Regarding the data error evaluation.
The partial conclusion, considering this critical real-time scenarios, is that the simplified formulation is more appropriate, because the deadlines are usually met while keeping data representativeness. Considering the sampling algorithm,
The second scenario, considers
Error evaluations suggest that the simplified formulation is more appropriate for small networks and the complex formulation is more scalable. In general,
This scenario considers 50% of minimum deadlines (
The data error evaluation suggests that the simplified formulation is slightly better than the complex one. However, the partial conclusion, considering this critical and realistic real-time scenario, is that the complex formulation is more appropriate, because deadlines are met and data representativeness is kept. Considering the sampling algorithms, the behavior is kept in both
The last scenario considers
objective of this scenario is to identify the best strategy when the relay nodes have extra tasks with high priority and the network has a traffic that gradually increases.
The errors evaluation suggest that the complex formulation is more appropriate with the
In real-time applications of wireless sensor networks, the time used to deliver sensor-streams from source to sink nodes is a major concern. The amount of data in transit through these constrained networks has a great impact on the delay. In this work, we presented a data-centric strategy to meet deadlines in soft real-time applications for wireless sensor networks. This work represents shows how to deal with time constraints at lower network levels in a data-centric way.
With our data-centric strategy we met application deadlines in several scenarios. In additional, we showed how to design real-time sensor-stream reduction applications and a analytical model used to found the ideal sample size. Results showed the efficiency of the strategy by reducing the delay without losing data representativeness. If the application is not strongly dependent on data accuracy, or the network operates in exception situation (e.g., few resources remaining or urgent situation detection), then data reduction algorithms are powerful tool for real-time applications for resource-constrained networks.
As future work, we intend to match the proposed application-level solution with lower-level ones, for example, by considering some real-time-enabled signal processing method. In this case, not only data from a source is reduced, but similar data from different sources is also reduced, resulting in a more efficient solution. Another future work is to use feedback information to enable the source nodes to perform the reduction sooner. However, we intend to improve the central sampling algorithm complexity to
This work is partially supported by the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) under the grant numbers 477292/2008-9 and 474194/2007-8.
Build tree process.
Data-centric reduction design in WSNs real-time application, the sensor view.
Reduction algorithms.
Minimum deadlines.
Delay considering the half of deadlines without concurrent traffic.
ϒ-error considering the half of deadlines without concurrent traffic.
Φ-error considering the half of deadlines without concurrent traffic.
Delay considering the delay caused by relay nodes without concurrent traffic.
ϒ-error considering the delay caused by relay nodes without concurrent traffic.
Delay considering the half of deadlines with concurrent traffic.
ϒ-error considering the half of deadlines with concurrent traffic.
ϒ-error considering the half of deadlines with concurrent traffic.
Delay considering the delay caused by relay nodes with concurrent traffic.
ϒ-error considering the delay caused by relay nodes with concurrent traffic.
Simulation parameters.
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WARRINGTON Borough Council is set to spend £5.25 million on fitting solar panels on 1,500 Golden Gates Housing Trust (GGHT) properties.
But questions over a lack of data on how the scheme will eventually pay back and monitoring of its effectiveness have been raised by Conservative leader Clr Paul Kennedy.
The council's executive board approved the project on Monday night, saying a pilot of programme which had seen 623 houses have the panels fitted was a success.
Clr Russ Bowden, executive board member for corporate resources and assignments, said: "That has been a success, it's helping residents in some inner wards with their energy bills.
"It brings financial return back to the council but also addresses the problem in fuel poverty.
"One in five households in the borough is living in fuel poverty."
He added the scheme will generate around £1.4 million in extra revenue for the council eventually and reduce tenants bills by an estimated £233 a year in energy bills.
"The council will receive income which will fund the scheme and it will also provide employment and training with four electrical apprentices, two tenant liaison officers and additional related job opportunities are expected," added Clr Bowden.
But Clr Kennedy called on the council to refer the matter to the treasury management committee first before the executive board voted on it.
Speaking after the decision was made to go ahead he added: "I think they should be monitoring this and as time goes by people can find out about how it works.
"I believe we should look at things and see if has been helping the elderly and those on modest incomes.
"There isn't much meat in the report for me to look at. Is the feed in tariff going to remain the same? Do these panels last as long as people think they are going to?
"Our residents will still have to pick up the bill for these ideas."
He also questioned whether to make the move while GGHT are in discussions to merge with Helena Homes.
The executive board voted unanimously to approve the project.


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     Someone I met at the Maker Faire (Dean) is doing this event in San Jose this coming August, and it looks way cool. I will be in Europe for all of August, but I thought maybe there would be some NB folks who may want to put together a booth.

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The Forest Landowners Foundation Commissioned the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) to conduct a research project on the economic institutions affecting the financial and environmental performance of private forests.
The history of environmental and agricultural policy in some ways is analogous to Robert Burns' poem "To a Mouse" in that sometimes our best-laid plans often go awry.
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NEWARK, Ohio (AP) --Police say two women in Newark separately reported being targeted by someone firing blow darts at them, possibly from a dark-colored vehicle.
One woman told police she was walking along a street Sunday evening when she felt a sharp pain and found a blow dart several inches long stuck in her upper leg. Police say she was bruised but didn't require medical treatment.
A second woman told police she found a dart after hearing something hit her umbrella.
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Brand new member and it took me to have a problem with my motor to find this website. Looks pretty informative. Ok short story long. About 5 outings ago blew yellow 20 amp fuse under cowling of 2001 yammie 115hp four stroke. Replaced and blew again. Sent to mechanics and he said traced it to a pinched wire at the rear of the compass where it meets dash. (All the dash instruments are wired to the ignition) Good I thought. Had it out for about 4 times after that without any problems then all of a sudden last week blew same fuse 3 times. Now when this happens the tilt trim, motor and dash instruments do not work.) Fishfinder does. Can anyone shine some light on this and what might be the problem. Funny thing is that it is intermittent and no matter what I do to it at home, cannot get it to blow again.


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Nokia's future as an independent company is hanging in the balance and Microsoft could be forced to rescue it if chief executive Stephen Elop cannot resuscitate the group's smartphone business by the end of the year, warn analysts. The Finnish phone maker will cut 10,000 jobs and has issued its second profit warning in nine weeks. The Guardian
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At least 52 people have died in the latest clashes and bombings in Syria. The bloodshed comes as activists call for another day of protests, with the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad entering its 16th month. Fourteen people were also wounded when a suicide bomber blew up a vehicle near a Shiite Muslim shrine in Damascus on Thursday. AFP
Property prices in Hong Kong may fall as much as 20 per cent in the next 12 months as the city's new leader, Leung Chun-ying, sets out to increase housing supply after taking over in July, according to Deutsche Bank. Hong Kong house prices have risen about 8 per cent this year, extending gains since early 2009 to more than 80 per cent after a slowdown in the second half last year. Leung, who takes over as chief executive in July, has pledged to bridge a widening wealth gap and rein in home prices. Bloomberg
The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits rose last week, suggesting persistent weakness in the labour market after stumbling badly in recent months. Initial claims for state unemployment benefits rose 6000 to 386,000 seasonally adjusted. The prior week's figure was revised up to 380,000 from a reported 377,000. The Guardian
Honda has raised output at North American plants by the fastest pace in the region this year as it pushes to reclaim US market share lost to competitors and natural disasters in 2011. Honda plants in the US, Canada and Mexico built 748,217 cars and light trucks in the year's first five months, 67 per cent more than a year earlier. Toyota followed with a 64 per cent North American increase to 787,777 vehicles. Bloomberg
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TWO members of the working group set up by the Law Society to solve the crisis at the Solicitors Indemnity Fund (SIF) have attacked the group's proposal to stick with a compulsory mutual fund.
Instead, in their own minority report, Edward Coulson, a partner at Hammond Suddards, and George Ritchie, of Freshfields, have called on Chancery Lane to explore more fully the possibility of allowing law firms to seek insurance on the open market.
The Appleby Group's report, unveiled by its chair John Appleby last week, calls for a major overhaul of the current SIF, by dividing it up into mini-funds covering different areas of law, according to how risky the work is.
The group claims this multiple fund option will make it more responsive to the risk posed by individual firms joining the fund.
But in their unpublished 'minority note', which has been seen by The Lawyer, Coulson and Ritchie say the proposal does not solve SIF's fundamental problems, and has new problems of its own.
Coulson told The Lawyer that because SIF, or its proposed successor, could not assess the individual risks of firms joining it, those firms with good claims records always ended up subsidising those with bad ones.
He said it was vital more research was conducted into the open insurance option, which the November Group of City, national and regional firms has been long pressing for.
He added: 'I see this as a battle between those with a good claims record and those with a bad one who have a vested interest in sticking with a mutual fund so they can benefit from the cross subsidies which occur.'
The November Group had not met to consider the Appleby report when The Lawyer went to press, but one member, Holman Fenwick & Willan's Jonathan Fine said he personally felt the multiple fund proposal was 'too little too late'.
Meanwhile, the Law Society's deputy vice-president, Robert Sayer, has written to fellow council members calling for the consultation document to contain 'a clear straightforward explanation of the likely financial consequences of each of them [the options] upon a small range of typical firms'.
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Subject: Re: [AUS-KOORI] Names of Aboriginal World War One soldiers
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 11:26:51 +1000
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Thank you Philippa
There is also http://www.ulladulla.info/aboriginals-who-served-in-ww1
available to listers to view
Cathy Dunn
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On Behalf Of Philippa Scarlett
Sent: Wednesday, 4 July 2012 11:19 AM
Subject: [AUS-KOORI] Names of Aboriginal World War One soldiers
I have at last completed the first stage of my list of Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander men who volunteered to fight in World War One in the
Australian Imperial Force or AIF - and I am grateful for the help given to
me by people on the AUS KOORI List.
My list contains the names of more than 800 men and every listing includes a
reference.This is to ensure that each man named is actually Indigenous.
Earlier listings for a variety of reasons have often included the names of
non Indigenous men. A reference in many cases can also help people to find
out more about the serviceman they are interested in. Important too is that
a publicly available and referenced list enables service and sacrifice to be
The list is available at AIATSIS (copies to the Library and Family History
Unit), the War Memorial (copies to Gary Oakley and Garth O'Connell), DVA
(copy to Bob Noble) and major libraries. I have also provided a copy to the
National Archives.
I'd be happy to check any names for AUS KOORI listers and also to receive
information about WW1 Indigenous soldiers I may not have identified. I am
ready to make alterations if necessary if any of my references prove not to
be relevant.
My list is of volunteers and so includes men who volunteered and were
rejected, in many cases because of their Aboriginality. The important thing
is that they were prepared to fight and die for their country and this
should be acknowledged.
One of the reasons for compiling the list is that WW1 service records (even
of those rejected) can be a very valuable source of family information
because of the personal details the servicemen filled in when applying to
join the AIF. These and the letters from the serviceman and sometimes his
relatives, which are often found with a service record can be of enormous
value for those looking for information about their family. The service
records can be seen on the internet at the National Archives site
www.naa.gov.au. The best way to search for a WW1 serviceman is to go to the
NAA RecordSearch login form and search as Guest using relevant key words -
eg person's name and place and the WW1 AIF series numbers B2455 and
MT1486/1. If you refer to state you should use the abbreviations NSW, Tas,
Vic etc for best results. You can also search the WW2 series
B883 and B884 as in some cases a WW1 record has been amalgamated with the
record of a man who served in both wars - quite a few did.
I hope this will be of use to anyone interested in the service background of
their family - and their family history.
Philippa Scarlett
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Athletic clothing designer/retailer Lululemon (LULU) reported a rise in third-quarter earnings late Thursday, but LULU stock wasn't getting much of a lift off the news.
Lululemon earnings came in at $66.1 million, or 45 cents per share, comparing very favorably to the year-ago profit of $57.3 million, or 39 cents per share. Net revenue was higher by 20% to $379.9 million, all of which beat analyst expectations of 41 cents per share on revenue of $374.9 million.
While LULU's same-store sales increased 5% in the quarter, its outlook was less than flattering. Lululemon now projects flat same-store sales for its fiscal fourth quarter. Furthermore, it sees fourth quarter earnings of 78 to 80 cents per share, well below Street estimates of 84 cents per share. As a result, LULU also was forced to cut its full-year earnings forecast to $1.94 to $1.96 per share on revenue of somewhere between $1.605 billion to $1.61 billion.
Traders and investors found it difficult to be pleased with the rear-view mirror earnings amid the cut forecast, leading them to ditch LULU stock by more than 11%, sending shares below a technically important support level.
LULU stock, once a hot trend-follower equity, has lost nearly 20% during the past 12 months, massively underperforming the S&P 500 (to the extent that's a fair comparison to make).
More importantly, on the below mutiyear weekly chart, LULU stock, with Thursday's selloff, has for the first time since 2010 touched its 2009 uptrend line. This support line will hold until it breaks — I don't say that to be silly, but rather to make the point that it might still be too early to get long-term bearish on the stock, at least judging by the price action.
I like to focus around the confluence areas on these longer-term charts, and in the case of LULU stock, the area around the $60 mark not only offers the 2009 uptrend, but also a support zone for all of 2013. Simply put, a break below this area might get more real-money investors to jump ship, and thus change the construct of LULU's big-picture chart in a more meaningful way, because the stock's sideways trot since early 2012 largely remains one of fairly constructive consolidation.
More near term, and keeping the above chart in mind, Thursday's selloff has brought LULU stock to immediate-term oversold levels at the June support line around $60, which could lead to a bounce. More concerning, however, is the nature of Thursday's selling, which came on a big-volume down-gap, and those types of moves often see f0llow-through selling in coming days/weeks.
So, what's a trader to do?
For my part, I want to see LULU stock settle into a stabilization range, from which we can play the long side again. If Lululemon shares only give us feeble bounces in the coming days, then a short-side trade would be in the cards, with a first price target in the low $50s.
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The Biligirirangana Hill Range or BR Hills is a very popular weekend destination located about 180 km from Bangalore. With breathtaking beauty, a wildlife sanctuary and serenity, it is visited by tourists regularly from cities closeby. An amazing bird watching spot, jungle safaris and bird watching safaris here are a regular happening. If you are lucky, you may just spot a tiger! Rich in its flora and fauna, the sanctuary is home to over 800 varieties of plants. You can also choose to go fishing here, if you aren't the adventurous kind. For adventure enthusiasts, rafting, trekking and riding coracle boats is a pleasure and certainly worth it! Though a lot of people would be of the opinion that the journey to BR Hills is much more wonderful than the destination, you'd definitely need to visit it before reaching a decision. Away from the chaos, the quiet here gives one an opportunity to unwind. The tribal culture of the Soliga tribes adds to the charm of this lovely small town.The Biligiriranganatha Swamy Temple deserves a visit to witness the foot-long slippers that are offered to the deity by the tribes. With many resorts and homestays springing up here, you have many options to spend a laidback, rejuvenating weekend.
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SECOND home owners in the Lake District could be charged more council tax in a bid to help locals in need of housing.
Speaking in the House of Commons, MP Tim Farron said there are currently 3,000 people in South Lakeland on a housing waiting list.
But there are more than 3,500 second homes locally - many lying empty for more than 90 per cent of the year.
The Liberal Democrats have proposed an Empty Homes Premium to give councils powers to charge landlords extra tax if they do not fill their properties.
But Mr Farron wants this extended to cover second homes.
The Westmorland and Lonsdale MP was encouraged to submit his request to the Government's consultation, Technical Reforms to Council Tax.
The Government has already announced that councils will no longer have to offer holiday home owners a tax subsidy of up to 50 per cent.
"The decision to end the ridiculous subsidy for second homes was a massive win but, with over 3,000 families in South Lakeland on the social housing waiting list, we need to do more," said Mr Farron.
Mr Farron added that another levy on second homes would generate money to build more homes for local people.
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Cantwell Urges Bush Administration to Actively Seek Public Review of Proposal to Weaken Safeguards for Roadless National Forests
SEATTLE, Wash. - U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) is calling on the Bush Administration to hold public meetings and encourage public review of its proposed changes to the Roadless Forest Protection Rule before the 60-day comment period closes early next month. The rule currently protects more than 58 million acres of America's most pristine national forests from further development by oil, gas, timber and coal companies.
In a strongly worded letter to Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman, Cantwell said, "Despite the Department's commitment to an open and inclusive process, the Forest Service has not scheduled a single public meeting during this 60-day comment period. This stands in stark contrast to the 180 public meetings held during the comparable period of the initial rulemaking process, and would seem to drastically undercut the ability of the public to learn about the intent of this rulemaking, and to comment in a meaningful way."
Cantwell said that the Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, which the Forest Service published in the Federal Register, establishes a 60-day comment period that seeks comments on general principles of local forest planning that will be used in determining the extent and scope of revisions to the Roadless Forest Protection Rule. That 60-day comment period ends September 10, 2001. So far, Cantwell said, the Forest Service has done almost nothing to let the public know this process is under way or to encourage public review and comment of the proposed changes. She said any proposal to change the rule should undergo the same level of public scrutiny as the rule itself did during the initial rulemaking process.
The Roadless Forest Protection Rule precludes new road construction on more than 58 million acres of public land, and does more than any previous measure to protect America's few remaining roadless forests from further development by oil, gas, timber and coal companies. The rule preserves open space for recreational uses, including hunting, fishing, mountain biking and snowmobiling; protects watersheds that are sources of clean drinking water; and keeps intact vital habitat for fish and wildlife.
"I support the Roadless Forest Protection Rule, and the long-term view it takes on preserving national forests for future generations," Cantwell said separately. "It is a reasoned approach, particularly given that the Forest Service already has 380,000 miles of roads on Forest Service property and that most of these roads are in disrepair. In fact, the Forest Service has an $8.4 billion road maintenance backlog.
"I am confident that competing uses for public lands could be better managed if we focus on improving the condition of existing roads on the millions of acres of forest lands that remain open to road building and leasing for timber, oil, gas and coal," Cantwell said.
Polls have shown that 67 percent of all Americans - including 58 percent of Republicans -strongly support the current protections the rule provides for roadless national forests and public watersheds. The process the Forest Service and the Department of Agriculture undertook to establish this rule in the first place included a total of 600 public meetings in local communities nationwide (180 of those were held during the comparable comment period during the initial rulemaking process) and 1.6 million public comments - the most extensive public outreach in the history of the National Environmental Policy Act. There were 60,000 comments from Washington state alone, and 96 percent of those favored strong protection for roadless national forests.
"In the interests of an informed comment process, I urge you to immediately take action to ensure that the Forest Service schedules public meetings. If the Department's goal is truly to allow for informed participation, the public must be able to learn how and why the Forest Service intends to modify this rule."
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She has always been a staunch defender of her daughter's behavior, but now Dina Lohan sounds like she's changed her tune a bit.
The "Living Lohan" mommy seems to have come to terms with the fact that LiLo has an addictive tendency that she'll have to control from here on out.
She never seems to understand that her daughter is in bad shape, and once again Dina Lohan is vehemently defending Lindsay Lohan's antics at the Betty Ford Center.
Mama Lohan claims Dawn Holland attacked LiLo and that Lindsay is the victim of her exchange with Ms. Holland, not the other way around.
They've never been able to take a joke made at their own expense, and Lindsay Lohan's family is complaining about last night's episode of "Glee."
Dina Lohan and her kids have spoken out about Gwyneth Paltrow's character's sentiments about LiLo's craziness and penchant for rehab.
She's watched her daughter go through some serious trials, and Dina Lohan says Lindsay has changed during her time in the Betty Ford Center.
During an interview on the "Today" show, the "Living Lohan" chick mentioned that LiLo is getting better this time around.
Looking to spruce up her volunteer profile, Lindsay Lohan was spotted doing some work at the Dream Center homeless shelter in Los Angeles yesterday (September 26).
Excited about her daughter Lindsay Lohan's recent release from rehab, Dina Lohan was looking cheerful while running errands close to her home in Long Island, New York on Wednesday (August 25).
She's a fierce defender of her daughter Lindsay Lohan's every move, and this morning (August 13) Dina Lohan appeared on the "Today" show to talk about Lindsay's current condition.
The "Living Lohan" mom vehemently denied that there's anything wrong with LiLo and repeatedly took jabs at Judge Marsha Revel for playing "hardball" with her girl.
Looking after things while her daughter continues her stint in rehab, Dina Lohan was spotted leaving Lindsay's apartment earlier this week.
Joined by Lilo's good friend and rumored fling, Eilat Anschel, Dina emerged from the digs and the two quickly hopped into a waiting limo.