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Canadians take pride in our historic role as a constructive and influential nation on the world stage, but the sad reality is that Canada's reputation as a foreign policy leader is in decline.
Under Paul Martin, the Liberals tried to modernize their approach to deal with today's challenges, but they failed to create a coherent role for Canada in the world. It was a little of everything and not enough of anything.
Following his election, Stephen Harper rightly identified that Canada's foreign policy lacked coherence, but his response to that problem was even worse. The so- called "muscular" approach he championed led to necessary reversals from poorly considered initial positions. Whether it was human rights in China or the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the Harper government demonstrated how poorly they understood international law and diplomatic relations and they embarrassed Canada by being caught wrong-footed at every turn.
Perhaps most notably, the continuing decision to oppose serious action on climate change has earned Canada a new global reputation as a dinosaur among nations. Representatives from other countries have openly wondered what happened to a Canada that once had been relied upon for leadership on issues of global importance.
The ultimate proof of Canada's fall from relevance was, of course, our failure to win a seat on the UN Security Council, a clear rebuke to what was once an expectation of an automatic place at the table.
This loss of reputation might be a small thing were the practical consequences not so severe.
The Harper government's approach to foreign policy has diminished Canada's voice on the biggest questions of our time. His pursuit of a "Canada-first" strategy, has ensured that Canada's interests are no longer given due consideration when important decisions are made at the international level. And our chances of contributing to real solutions are weakened.
I want to be clear that I am not criticizing the skills and dedication of our diplomatic service, our women and men in uniform, or any Canadians abroad carrying out the difficult tasks they have been given by their government to the best of their abilities. I am, however, very troubled by the incredibly poor direction they have been given by their government, our government.
Canada needs a coherent and effective foreign policy, designed by people who understand how the process works – people who actually care about the process – and are willing to implement it.
We need to invert the way we look at global issues. Turn it on its head.
Instead of reacting to each new crisis, each new conflict, each new problem as though it were an isolated and unique event, we must establish a way of approaching issues and an underlying philosophy that will provide a platform from which we can see our way to solutions clearly and consistently.
We need a long-term vision of our shared global future. Looking at each event or issue in isolation is short-sighted and leads to chaotic, ineffective and very expensive efforts to reduce the impact of the latest crisis and prevents us from actively preventing the next one.
If I can use a loose metaphor, instead of treating foreign policy like a trip to the emergency room – an unpleasant, expensive and often traumatic experience – a little planning, a healthy lifestyle and regular check-ups can avoid trouble.
In my more than twenty years of international diplomacy, I have stressed the need to treat people with respect, to listen carefully to their points of view and to then find common ground on which practical solutions can be built. Foreign relations are no different from relationships with your neighbours, friends and family. That is the approach toward solutions.
As much as we may feel disgust or fear or incomprehension when we see the heinous acts of some so-called leaders, we cannot fall into the trap of demonizing them, shutting our ears and shutting off any hope for progress. The killing of the next Hussein, Bin Laden or Gadhafi will not prevent the next despot from arising.
Distinct from defence of a nation and its territory or citizens, belligerence without the legal and moral authority of a United Nations resolution can only divide peoples and inflame passions against the aggressors.
Like its cousin colonialism, aggression will never lead to a better result. As a fundamentally destabilizing force, it cannot contribute to greater peace in the world over the longer term. We must rise above knee-jerk reactionary emotion and understand the longer-term objectives that will serve us all.
And we can only do that if we are clear about our values.
We cannot claim to stand for peace and so easily opt for war.
We cannot claim to care for our children's future and ignore the legacy of the environmental and the economic choices we make today.
We cannot claim to deplore racism and fall so easily into xenophobia.
We cannot claim to prize humanity and allow so much suffering.
We cannot claim to value the truth and preach from ignorance.
Stephen Harper and his government have violated each of these values.
We must understand our connection to others on this planet in a more direct and personal way. Their future is our future. Their failure is our failure.
Terrorism, civil war, and war between nations have the same roots in a failure to respect international law, human rights and a more basic failure to respect the humanity of others who are not like us.
We cannot violate those rules when it suits us, as the Conservative's have done, and then expect that others will obey them. It is time for us to lead.
Climate change, endangered species and water and food insecurity have common roots in a failure to respect the planet and the delicate eco-system that sustains it.
We cannot despoil nature and expect it to sustain us. It is time for us to lead.
Economists the world over – Stephen Harper being a notable exception – recognize that poverty, privation and economic instability must be reversed if we are to avoid disaster.
The growing gap between the rich and the rest of us – the hollowing out of the middle class – will bring the entire system down if it is not stopped. It is time for us to lead.
Canada cannot continue to ignore the relationship between climate change, civil unrest, economic instability and inequality at home and around the world. That will take us straight into the emergency room once again. These are not disparate issues that can be segmented from one another.
If we are to prevent crises rather than haphazardly reacting to them, we must understand how to reconcile our goals with our own values and to reconcile those with the goals and values of others. It is time for us to lead.
We must build our foreign policy from this foundation, with clear objectives, perseverance and integrity.
We cannot waiver in indecision as Paul Martin's Liberal government did; nor can we strike off in a misconception of our own self-interest, as Stephen Harper's Conservatives continue to do.
New Democrats have a vision and it is time for us to lead.


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|Of the 421 student athletes screened the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Heart of a Champion Day screening, 24 were referred for further medical evaluation.
Heart of a Champion Day athletic screenings in 2013 are setting records for both the number of students registering and the number who are being screened. The free program for high school student-athletes was pioneered by Carolinas HealthCare System and is being offered at four locations in the Charlotte region – Fort Mill, SC, Lincolnton, Charlotte and Indian Trail. All but the Indian Trail event have been completed.
The program screens for heart abnormalities that could lead to sudden death using an electrocardiogram and, if needed, an echocardiogram. Neither heart test is offered during a routine athletic screening. Also included are orthopedic and general medical screenings. All three Heart of a Champion Day screenings saw increases in the number of participants.
The final screening for 2013, at Union West Medical Plaza in Indian Trail, will take place on Saturday, June 8.
The program is directed by David Price, MD, co-director of primary care sports medicine at Carolinas Medical Center, and Nicholas Sliz, MD, FACC, pediatric cardiologist at Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute.
|Carolina Panthers quarterback, Cam Newton, attended the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools screening on June 1.
After being piloted for two years, Heart of a Champion Day screenings began for area public schools in 2008. Through the volunteer efforts of more than 650 healthcare professionals, the screenings -- valued at more than $1,500 per student-athlete -- are provided to our community student-athletes at no cost.
"I participate in the Heart of a Champion screening because I feel it is an important way to diagnose cardiac conditions in the young athlete that might otherwise not be identified with a typical examination," said Dr. Sliz. "By identifying these conditions, we can recommend the appropriate treatments and lifestyle modifications to ensure that they can continue to participate in athletics safely and live normal lives."
Five Carolinas HealthCare System hospitals -- Levine Children's Hospital, Carolinas Medical Center, CMC-Lincoln, CMC-Union and CMC-Pineville -- are sponsoring the screenings along with Carolinas HealthCare System's Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute and Sports Medicine & Injury Care, and OrthoCarolina.
Those providing financial or material support include Kohl's Cares, Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute, Levine's Children's Hospital, Carolina Panther Thomas Davis's Defending Dreams Foundation, OrthCarolina, Philips, General Electric, Welch-Allyn, Coca Cola, Jason's Deli and Morrison Catering.


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Rail Corporation of New South Wales is rolling out new e-procurement technology to 700 workers after a successful pilot program before embarking on further online business developments.
These will involve the use of Mincom's Axis e-Hub for the electronic receipt of invoices, and use of the Smartbuy all-of-government electronic marketplace.
RailCorp has linked Mincom's e-procurement module Envoy with its own systems and will use e-Hub for electronic document exchange using web services technology.
A spokesman says an e-commerce manager has been appointed as a focus for the initiatives, which are part of a broader cost-control program.
Rail Infrastructure Corporation (RIC), which along with the State Rail Authority (SRA) has now been absorbed into RailCorp, was this month named a joint leader in a NSW Treasury review of agency e-procurement strategies. The spokesman says the best practices of both the RIC and the SRA are being implemented at the combined entity.
Other plans include extending the use of a credit-card management system from 630 users to more than 1400, an extension of electronic tendering and an upgrade of the corporation's Mincom business software.
Asked why the RIC had been rated so highly in the Treasury review, the Rail Corporation spokesman says the strategy sets conservative targets and includes an extensive change management program.
"It has a conservative aim of $2.2 million savings over five years and includes performance targets and measures that are linked to procurement objectives," he says.
Eighty per cent of the corporation's general engineering and hardware and 60 per cent of its stationery purchases are now made electronically. Stationery and consumables are purchased through Corporate Express.
Online purchasing for other direct materials will begin next year, including safety equipment and uniforms.
Former Sydney Water chief information officer Vicki Coleman was appointed CIO of strategy and development. She will lead the linking of systems from the RIC and the SRA.
RailCorp's business unit CountryLink this month embarks on an outsourcing tender for its new reservations application. It will adopt online bookings for rail and road services, ushering in a complete replacement of its desktop hardware.


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The EOC said it would take another 45 years for women to receive a similar-sized pension to men.
And the gap between part-time workers' hourly pay, and that of their full-time colleagues will take 25 years to close.
Workplaces and services are designed for a time when women stayed at home, the EOC added.
"These startling indicators suggest that the reality of far too many men's and women's lives is out of step with their aspirations," Jenny Watson, chair of the EOC said.
"We are living in the midst of an unfinished social revolution," Ms Watson added.
The EOC echoed last month's call made by the Fawcett Society for the government to do more to close the gender pay gap.
But the report did note that British society had gone through substantial changes in the past 30 years, with parents sharing childcare responsibilities and women and men working more flexibly.
In October, the EOC will be absorbed into the Commission for Equality and Human Rights.
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*** All proceeds from this shoot will benefit the Ammons family.***
When: June 20th 7am-6pm
Where: Adamstown Rod and Gun Club, 563 Willow St Reinholds, PA17569
What: Benefit Shoot in conjunction with regularly scheduled 3D league shoot
Cost: $10.00, Regular League shooters plus the General Public invited
Novelty Shoots staffed by Archery M.D. and Grassland FFA spend at least $5 at novelty shoots- get a free T-shirtRefreshments available prepared by Adamstown Rod and Gun and Grassland FFA
Glenns Gang Keeping Our Eye on the Target T-shirts also available for sale
Background: Glenn Ammons, a senior at Garden Spot who is an avid sportsmen was diagnosed with a form of testicular cancer in November of 2008. He was actually deer hunting with his family in W. Va. when he developed flu like symptoms and began to dehydrate. It was when he was taken to the hospital for the dehydration that his cancer was discovered. He has been fighting courageously ever since. Two of the highlights of the last year involved hunting. His blood counts were too low for him to be allowed to go hunting this past fall. His doctors told him his counts had to be at a certain level to able to hunt. In less than a week his levels went well beyond the necessary level. Call it willing himself to be able to hunt, or a miracle of divine intervention, Glenn was able to hunt and harvested a nice 8 point and a doe in W. Va.
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Best-selling Author Discusses Sports Psychology Textbook
Best-selling author Kay Porter, Ph.D., a former professor at the University of Oregon, spoke in depth about her applied sports psychology textbook, "The Mental Athlete: Inner Training for Peak Performance" at The University of Scranton.
The audience for the informal discussion consisted of athletes, coaches, students and parents of athletes from the Scranton area.
Porter fielded questions from the 100 attendees for most of her presentation. Some questions focused on overcoming negativity, building team unity and 'refocusing techniques.'
When asked how to overcome negativity in the game, Porter said to just let go of all those unhealthy emotions. The idea of playing is to stay in the moment. "Let it go and refocus," she said, explaining that releasing the negativity becomes easier when an athlete is conscious of what is on his or her mind.
Porter led the audience through a step-by-step technique for refocusing during a game. The technique consisted of four steps. Athletes should rapidly blink four to five times in a row; open and close his or her eyes tightly for the same duration; take three deep breathes in with the nose and out with the mouth; and glance across the room from side to side moving the eyes only. According to Porter, the last step helps to balance the left and right sides of the brain.
In responding to a question from a sports coach about team unity strategies, Porter replied that building team chemistry is essential. It is important for the team players to encourage one another. She said experienced athletes should take the time to mentor incoming freshman in the beginning of each season.
Porter often mentioned that it all begins with a "strong mental voice." Regardless of the sport you play, she suggested you always say, "You are good. You deserve to be here."
Porter's lecture was held in the Moskovitz Theatre of the DeNaples Center on
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For the first time, researchers have been able to see a thought "swim" through the brain of a living fish. The new technology is a useful tool for studies of perception. It might even find use in psychiatric drug discovery, according to authors of the study, appearing online on January 31 in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication.
"Our work is the first to show brain activities in real time in an intact animal during that animal's natural behavior," said Koichi Kawakami of Japan's National Institute of Genetics. "We can make the invisible visible; that's what is most important."
The technical breakthrough included the development of a very sensitive fluorescent probe to detect neuronal activity. Kawakami, along with Junichi Nakai of Saitama University and their colleagues, also devised a genetic method for inserting that probe right into the neurons of interest. The two-part approach allowed the researchers to detect neuronal activity at single-cell resolution in the zebrafish brain.
Akira Muto, the study's lead author from the Kawakami lab, used the new tool to map what happens when a zebrafish sees something good to eat, in this case a swimming paramecium. The researchers were also able to correlate brain activity with that prey's capture.
The new tool now makes it possible to ask which brain circuits are involved in complex behaviors, from perception to movement to decision making, the researchers say, noting that the basic design and function of a zebrafish brain is very much like our own.
"In the future, we can interpret an animal's behavior, including learning and memory, fear, joy, or anger, based on the activity of particular combinations of neurons," Kawakami said.
By monitoring neuronal activity in the zebrafish brain, Kawakami thinks that researchers may also be able to screen chemicals that affect neuronal activity in the brain. "This has the potential to shorten the long processes for the development of new psychiatric medications," he said.
Current Biology, Muto et al.: "Real-time visualization of neuronal activity during perception."
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Vancouver artists hope to bring ideas to life in national sculpture contest
Three high-profile Vancouver artists are waiting to hear whether they have won a national sculpture competition to mark the Confederation Centre of the Arts' 50th anniversary. Douglas Coupland, Myfanwy MacLeod, and Althea Thauberger are among five Canadian artists selected as finalists after submitting public art proposals for the contest.
Coupland's proposal is a walkable plaza area studded with large, colourful steel panels in the shape of the Canadian provinces and territories; MacLeod wants to create a bronze sculpture of a man in a top hat crawling on all fours; and Thauberger, working with Vancouver architect Annabel Vaughan, has proposed a glass mural featuring life-sized photographs of Prince Edward Island residents.
Established in 1964, the Confederation Centre of the Arts is a national memorial to the founders of Canadian confederation located in Charlottetown, P.E.I. The centre includes several theatres and an art gallery.
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The £10m-rated Wales defender has attracted the interest of a host of Premiership clubs.
"Southampton said no to us because they are looking for more money, which they have every right to do," he said.
"I am not exactly sure what Tottenham have offered but they have offered more and that puts them in pole position."
Ferguson has admitted United's preference to do a deal with Southampton based on Bale's future progression could count against them.
"The bid we made for Gareth reflected his potential. There were a series of build-ups in it because we have to protect our own club's assets too," admitted Ferguson.
"We offered an initial fee with add-ons depending on how many games he plays, international caps and so on."
606 DEBATE: Where will Bale end up?
But Ferguson has not given up hope of landing Bale and insisted he was not frightened by the staggering sums now being spent on emerging talent.
"Anyone who guarantees a player first-team football every week is wrong," he said.
"There are so many examples of young players being given a chance at this club, no-one could dispute the fact they will get opportunities. Maybe the boy himself would need to assess that.
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"Bar Month" at OnMilwaukee.com is back for another round – brought to you by Aperol, Pinnacle, Jameson, Fireball, Red Stag and Avion. The whole month of February, we're serving up intoxicatingly fun articles on bars and clubs – including guides, the latest trends, bar reviews and more. Grab a designated driver and dive in!
I believe I've mentioned that I'm somewhat of a workaholic, but one job or 10, we can all agree on one thing, sometimes work just sucks.
You know the feeling I'm talking about, the days where everything seems to be against you; your phone stops ringing as you trip over your headphone cord to answer it, you drop half your lunch in a garbage can filled with your coworker's chew spit, you're late for work because you didn't know it snowed, every time you try to print the machine is jammed or out of paper, and someone drank the last cup of coffee.
Days like that and you spend the whole day wanting to smash your over-worked head straight into your cubical that looks like you got the short straw in the company cube draw. I don't know if this is a national thing, Wisconsin thing, or maybe an immature 25-year-old thing, but usually those are the days I want to head straight to happy hour and wallow in my self pity.
For me, yesterday was one of those days.
Of course because we are on this whole "the universe hates me trend," yesterday was also one of the days I had to work after work, which means I missed all the good happy hour specials. Go figure. Who even decided happy hour typically runs till 6 p.m.?
When I got to my second job the day ceased to improve. Dropped silverware right after it was washed, spilled sauce on my shirt, and knocked over chairs in the dining room at the exact moment the jukebox shut off. Clearly this was not my day.
Finally my shift was over, but instead of heading home I decided to try my luck one more time and see if a few cocktails could at least bring me out of my foul mood and cloud of self-loathing.
Hello Hotel Foster and all your hipster glory.
I chose this not so-on-the-way home establishment because I wanted a bit of consistency. One of my coworkers from Palomino happened to be working and I knew, if nothing else, I could at least count on her ability to make a drink. When I arrived, Lauren immediately made me a Gin Bramble, one of my favorites. I'm not exactly sure about the origin of the sweet gin infused elixir, but it's a hit every time. Somewhat sweet, yet somewhat sour, it really can't be beat.
To ensure that my late night happy hour was a success, I wrangled up two friends to join me. Neither had ever been to Hotel Foster and both were quite impressed with not only the flashy drink list, but also the extensive beer selection. A few standard classic drinks are even listed directly on the coasters (helpful when scrambling to figure out a decent drink order).
We all passed on the Old Milwaukee drink special in favor of a few higher-end cocktails. By round two, everyone was getting frisky with the craft cocktails, going as far as to ask the bartenders to "invent" new drinks. After pulling together an impressive something, one of my gleeful partners exclaimed, "he's an alchemist, no wait, a mixologist!" I promptly gave him a scathing look and wrist slap.
A few more friends arrived; while the bar wasn't packed it was busy enough for us to feel like we weren't the lifeblood of the place
The evening proved to be exactly what I needed – a simple way to wind down after a botched day at work. Cheers to hoping tomorrow doesn't involve falling, slipping or crashing into anything.
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I'm turning 26 and wanted to do something special. I wasn't looking for an average birthday celebration. I wanted to go out of town, maybe get crazy in Las Vegas, something new and exciting. However, it proved to be a bit difficult to coordinate my group of friends and get everyone on board for a vacation. Instead, I thought why not run 26 miles for my 26th birthday?
Q&A with Population Control
Published Sept. 24, 2013
Lisa Simonson sits down to talk making music, old people candy, alcohol and, of course, metal with local band Population Control.
Losing my Lambeau virginity: A first-timer attends Packers' home opener
Published Sept. 18, 2013
There are few things I'm embarrassed to admit. I'll freely tell anyone almost anything about my life; however, there's always been one thing I've had a hard time owning up to. I've never been to a Packers game. Not only was Sept. 15 the Packers' home opener, but it was also my first trip to Titletown.
Wisco pride, tattoo style
Published Aug. 7, 2013
A recent trip to Walker's Point Tattoo taught me a valuable lesson about myself: I'm not very good at getting tattoos. Although not my first, I'm sure the other patrons in the shop thought it was, given my wincing, cringing and twitching.
Learn the motorcycle basics with Ride Alive
Published July 16, 2013
Hoping to get my motorcycle license, I opted for a two-day Basic Rider Course at Ride Alive Motorcycle Academy.
Sky High skate jam
Published July 8, 2013
It's not every day a local business reaches a milestone like its 25th anniversary, but that's just what happened for independent skate shop Sky High this past Saturday. The all ages celebration brought out both younger and older skaters, proving that this Bay View staple is here to stay.
Published March 21, 2013
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Hughes holds no Robinho worries
Man City boss Mark Hughes insists he is not unduly concerned by quotes attributed to Robinho this week.
Last Updated: 16/10/09 3:28pm
Manchester City boss Mark Hughes insists he is not unduly concerned by quotes attributed to Robinho this week that saw the Brazilian state a desire to play for Barcelona.
The injured forward made the headlines in Spain after declaring an interest in moving to Camp Nou in order to play under Pep Guardiola, a known admirer of his talents.
It is not the first time such conjecture has emanated from Robinho's camp but Hughes is refusing to worry about paper talk, which he feels is often taken out of context.
On the contrary, having accepted a player of such calibre will always attract speculation, Hughes is instead focusing on Robinho's imminent return to City's first team.
"There is always speculation and noise surrounding Robbie, I think that's been the case since he came to the club," said Hughes on Sky Sports News.
"I think what you are referring to is some comments that originated from the Spanish press and we don't know the context, or how the questions were put to Robbie to get the response that they did.
"You can get a collection of quotes that when you tie them all up and put them together it looks like it's a story. I think there is that to be factored in. If you read the vast majority of the quotes you'll see there was a lot of positives in regards how he feels about Manchester City and what is ahead of us here."
He added: "That's going to happen and it does happen with Robbie on a regular basis. He's a great guy and the only thing that is frustrating at the moment is that he is not feeling well and can't make himself available for the team.
"Hopefully that will be resolved in the next week to ten days. We are not in the process of taking outstanding players out of the team.
"We want to complement the outstanding players at the club. We are looking to build, not dismantle."


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Reporting on health matters is one of the most difficult areas of journalism. The science, economics and, increasingly, ethics of healthcare are complex and not easily summarised in relatively short news articles.
An agency report on the Liverpool Care Pathway treatment for the dying, published on 1 November on the Guardian's website, brought an angry response from one reader who wrote of his "immense disappointment". At the heart of the story was the claim that "two-thirds of trusts that have used the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) have received financial incentives totalling millions of pounds for the implementation of the method".
The reader continued: "The article appears to me to be incredibly misinformed. I am a doctor and have worked in a hospice providing end-of-life care. I try my best to do my job to the best of my ability and the LCP is a means to allow staff to ensure they are thinking of all the needs of a dying patient (it is not about starving a patient and I think that sort of phrase is a shameful manner of scaremongering and sensationalising news. Something that does not suit a paper such as yours).
"I do not know the ins and outs of monetary incentives that hospital management get from meeting targets and how that is related to the LCP. However, I can tell you that the main message your ludicrous article sent was that the LCP is a means by which hospital staff can starve dying patients. Can you imagine how awful that sounds, not least what effect it will have on a family member who has a dying patient in hospital?"
The Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) is a method of treating the terminally ill in the last few hours or days of their lives. According to the Marie Curie Palliative Care Institute: "The LCP is used when the multidisciplinary team has agreed that the patient is dying and all reversible causes for the current situation have been considered. The focus of care now changes to care of the dying, this includes discussion with the relative/carer and, where possible, the patient."
The LCP was first developed by the Royal Liverpool hospital and the Marie Curie hospice in Liverpool in 1997 and has now been adopted by 85% of NHS trusts. In certain circumstances it may include withdrawing treatment, hydration and nutrition from sedated patients. Some patients' relatives have recently expressed concern about that aspect of the LCP as well as the idea that health trusts have some kind of financial incentive to adopt LCP, which has led to claims that it is "euthanasia by the back door".
The Guardian story used an agency report of the allegations in other sections of the press. Newspapers report on other newspapers' major stories, but summarising health stories can carry risks even when, as in this case, the story on the Guardian's website is a fair representation of what had been written elsewhere.
Following the original slew of stories about the LCP, 1,000 doctors, nurses and other medical staff were among 1,300 people who had used the programme who wrote to national newspapers challenging the concerns and criticisms reported in their columns.
A headline may be strictly accurate when it picks up on the withholding of nutrition and hydration as a part of the LCP in certain circumstances but paint a misleading picture of the medical and ethical issues involved. For instance the headline "NHS trusts adopt end-of-life regime which can involve withholding food" wrongly implies that the LCP is a new approach, and it may be tendentious. It is a good illustration of the difficulties of health reporting.
Denis Campbell, health correspondent for the Guardian and Observer, said: "Writing about health probably involves more potential pitfalls than other types of reporting … [there are] concepts that can be hard to convey, such as risk and prevalence; and explanation of key elements of the story is sometimes essential, not just useful. Some health stories are … hard to convey, especially if they involve numbers, and especially if those numbers involve calibrating the risk of something bad happening, such as developing cancer.
"The NHS is particularly difficult to write about because it is made up of what I suspect is – to most readers, unless they work in it – a baffling array of organisations: an 'NHS trust', for example, can be a hospital trust, mental health trust, primary care trust or ambulance trust – all in England. And this is before many of the current NHS organisations are swept away next April as part of the coalition's NHS overhaul and replaced by new ones such as clinical commissioning groups and the NHS Commissioning Board.
"Health is also highly personal; 'one of only two things everyone cares about – money and their body', as the truism goes. That brings with it even more responsibility to get it right … It might give them what they take to be hugely useful information about their own or a loved one's treatment or potential treatment, or chance of death, or chance of getting a fatal condition, for example.
"[The] personal, self-developed rules I try to stick to when covering health issues include the following: don't be afraid to add in the nuances and extra details related to the findings, announcements or opinions that form the basis of the story, or caveats/qualifications, even if these may be taken by some to water down the headline and/or top paragraph, as some 'greyness' is often the reality, rather than black and white. Be crystal clear about the key numbers in any story and where they have come from, eg how many and what sort of people were in that study or clinical trial or patient survey. When conveying risk, if new research shows that you having a certain gene or lifestyle means you have, say, double the normal risk of getting cancer, but the normal risk is only 1%, write that calmly, emphasising early on in the story that this is a dramatic proportionate increase but a less dramatic actual, real-world increase, in order not to scare people. Also be clear about exactly who is doing/saying the newsworthy thing you're writing about; that is, say who they represent and, if relevant, let the reader know that she or he may have an agenda, eg GPs calling for more services to be delivered outside hospitals, as GPs would benefit from that. When writing about something terrible happening, eg a baby dying in childbirth, point out high up the story that while a new study has found X, these events overall are generally very rare indeed."


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I've been a craftsperson my whole life. Mainly did sewing, though I just tend to learn how to do things when I want something, so I have a LOT of "good enough" skill-sets. Pottery is the absolute hardest thing I have ever tried my hand at, probably because you cannot become competent just by understanding theory. I'm used to just reading up on a skill, thinking it through really good, and then making what I want successfully. Can't do that with wheel-throwing! Darn stuff takes PRACTICE!
I do historical interpretive displays focused mainly on Iron Age Southwest Britain (and sometimes branch out and attend LARP events, which is actually how I got started - as a Viking in a Dagorhir fighting unit!) and am the kind of dork that goes all-out to dress up for Faerie Festivals and Renaissance Faires.
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Making stuff. ALL THE STUFF.
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INVESTMENT manager Lion Advantage's chief executive, David Hickie, is seeking suppression orders and a repeal of bans inflicted on him and his company by the corporate watchdog this week.
Hickie said, between gritted teeth, that he was off to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal to contest the two-year ban on him, and Lion's licence cancellation.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission rained on Hickie's parade yesterday morning when it announced the cancellations, which stemmed from a surveillance of Lion in the past month. Hickie said he did not think there would be a public announcement because he was appealing.
In spite of that surveillance and action, ASIC did not appear aware, until Insider contacted it, that Hickie late last month was granted a new financial services representative's licence by an arm of VentureAxess Group where he is also an executive director.
VentureAxess, which has a board similar to that of Lion and featuring stockbroking veteran Richard Green, only rejoined the trading lists of the National Stock Exchange in May after a capital raising.
Insider has never known Hickie to shirk a corporate brawl. A few of them have been chronicled over the years where he has challenged incumbent boards, such as Base Resources and Mind Challenge. When Insider spoke with Hickie he was concerned not just with the publicising by ASIC of its actions against him, but that its release said he was banned ''from providing financial services for two years''.
That, said Hickie, did not make it clear if he could still act as director of public companies such as VentureAxess and another planned NSX listing, Island Concepts.
According to the ASIC announcement, Hickie and Lion's sins were their failure to have professional indemnity insurance, not lodging financial reports on time for Lion and the schemes for which it acts as manager, not holding membership of an approved dispute resolution scheme at specific times, failing to notify of significant breaches and not having adequate compliance measures.
Hickie said he was late with the reporting, but only because his business had been subjected to legal action, including seizure of a company car, which made it hard to get the auditor to sign off on the books. Hickie and ASIC do agree that reporting is now up to date .
Big ask for ASX
MOUSTACHIOED ASX chairman Rick Holliday-Smith, will bravely go into his first annual meeting in October explaining to investors why the sharemarket operators' directors merit more money.
While ASX reported a $13 million profit fall to $339 million yesterday, Holliday-Smith and the board did warn that they want to lift, by $300,000 to $2.8 million, the ceiling on payments to non-executive board members.
Insider hastens to add that they argue in the annual report that the proposed increase is ''to facilitate a process of board renewal'', rather than increase the annual salary for existing directors.
The last time shareholders voted through an increase we all lived in a vastly different world - 2007, at the peak of the sharemarket and profits were booming.
Since then, ASX has had to watch its lunch being cut by competitors, and market volumes dwindle amid global and domestic uncertainty. About the only thing that has risen in equities markets has been the number of transactions, thanks largely to high-frequency trading patterns, which feature many, many, tiny, tiny transactions.
In the past 12 months ASX non-executive directors received a collective $2.02 million, well shy of the current ceiling even though it included $293,000 paid to departed chairman David Gonski.
Four of the ASX's remaining seven non-executive directors face re-election at this year's meeting, including longest-serving director Jillian Segal, who has been on the board for nine years and plans to stand again.
ASX chief executive Elmer Funke-Kupper picked up a comparatively modest package of $1.97 million for his first nine months in the job, including a $500,000 cash bonus - only marginally less than the entire board's wages.
His bonus for the latest financial year was actually $1 million, but half has been deferred because ASX has joined with most leading companies in trying to ensure consistent performance under their incentive schemes rather than encouraging executives to shoot for short-term pay-offs.
As for shareholders, returns since the last board pay rise have been grim in share price terms (far from unique in the post-GFC world) with the value of their investment down almost 30 per cent over that five years. Total return, including dividends, improves to negative 6.75 per cent, but once the franking credits are loaded on investors can claim a 4.2 per cent improvement in their fortunes.


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Nigeria, Kenya Buck Global Trend to Help Rescue Currencies
Nigeria, Kenya and Uganda bucked a global trend by raising interest rates to record levels in the past week as they struggle to protect their currencies and curb soaring inflation.
Nigeria's central bank boosted its key rate by 275 basis points to 12 percent on Oct. 10 at an emergency meeting, less than a week after Kenya and Uganda lifted their policy rates by 4 percentage points each. The currencies of the two East African nations have lost a fifth of their value this year, making them the worst performers in the world, according to Bloomberg data.
"Central banks are going to try to look after their currencies to steer inflation away from increasing as significantly as it has," Celeste Fauconnier, an Africa analyst at Johannesburg-based Rand Merchant Bank, said in a telephone interview. "The only way they can sort of manage the issue is through monetary policy."
Before Nigeria's rate decision, the naira slumped 7.4 percent against the dollar on the interbank market this year, reaching as low as 166.60 on Oct. 10. The currency surged as much as 4.6 percent the day after the rate announcement.
The worst drought in 60 years in East Africa fueled inflation in Kenya and Uganda, driving investors to abandon the currencies just as risk aversion globally picked up, compounding their plunge. Inflation in Uganda surged to 28.3 percent in September and reached 17.3 percent in Kenya.
Rate Cuts
Brazil, Turkey, Switzerland, Israel and Indonesia have cut borrowing costs since August to support their economies as a debt crisis in Europe threatens the global recovery, while the U.S., U.K. and Japan have kept rates near zero. India is the only large emerging-market nation to raise borrowing costs in the past two months, lifting its repurchase rate by 25 basis points to 8.25 percent in September.
The central bank in Kenya raised its benchmark rate to 11 percent on Oct. 5, while Uganda boosted its rate to 20 percent the day before, with both indicating they will increase borrowing costs further to help support their currencies. In Rwanda, which borders Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi and Democratic Republic of Congo, the central bank increased its key rate for the first time in almost three years to 6.5 percent on Oct. 7.
Banks Coordinate
The central banks of Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Burundi and Rwanda agreed to coordinate the tightening of monetary policy, curb currency speculation and reduce currency volatility, the East African Community said in an e-mailed statement today.
Price pressures may increase in Nigeria after the naira weakened and the government prepares to remove fuel subsidies next year. Inflation slowed to 9.3 percent in August, staying below 10 percent for a second consecutive month, the statistics office said on Sept. 14.
"Maintaining exchange rate stability, especially in times of global uncertainty, is crucial to the mandate of price stability," Nigerian central bank Governor Lamido Sanusi said on Oct. 10.
The naira gained 1.8 percent to 156.1 per dollar at 2:42 p.m. in Lagos. The Kenyan shilling rose 1.8 percent to 104.23 per dollar, while the Ugandan shilling advanced 0.1 percent to 2,880.
Oil-price declines and high dollar demand at twice-weekly foreign exchange sales have depleted Nigeria's foreign-currency reserves, making it more difficult for the central bank to support the naira within its targeted 3 percentage-point band above or below 150 per dollar.
Oil Reserves
The reserves of Africa's biggest oil producer have declined 9 percent to $31.4 billion in the 12 months through Oct. 6, according to data from the Abuja-based central bank.
In Kenya, the weaker currency is driving import prices higher, reducing personal spending and investment and threatens growth, Charles Robertson, global chief economist for Renaissance Capital in London, said in a phone interview. Higher rates may help draw investment back to the region, he said.
"In a world of zero percent rates in the West, these sort of levels are likely to help stabilize currencies," Robertson said. "When the global markets get more confident, which I imagine will happen in the next two or three months, you will see a rally in these currencies."
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At 04:02 PM 6/24/96 GMT, Ian Johnstone-Bryden had some good things to say. I would like to add a few thoughts to his mail. >> The question is, do you let it through your firewall when your >> CEO asks for it ? >> >The risk management answer has to be that you only permit that which can >be permitted under the requirements of the risk policy. Anything which is >outside those requirements has to be held or rejected until such time as >someone decides that the rules have changed. > >The reality unfortunately is that the people controlling the gateways are >often a fair way down the corporate structure from the CEO (and often less >exaulted beings) and depend on a pay check to feed the family. > >Its a tough call. Do the following: 1) Explain the risks (gently) to the executive management - in terms that they can understand. If possible, quote an indepent source (preferrably from a book, etc). This helps to make the issue less personal (us vs. them) and helps boost your credibility at the same time. 2) Make your recommendation - in writing, cc: several people (your manager, the ISO (Information Security Officer), the CFO, CIO, etc. Save the letter (you might need it). 3) Suggest alternative methods which help management to achieve their business goals while doing so in a secure manner. Ask the question "What problem are you trying to solve?" 4) Get someone from upper management to sign off on the risk. In theory, this gets you out of the loop (noose) should things go wrong. Be aware that this is no guarantee that your job will remain secure (but it helps). 5) You might want to talk to the CFO privately. Generally, they are able to make security a high priority & can sell it better to the CEO & other executives. 6) Keep your resume on file (at home) & up-to-date. Make sure you have networked enough so that if it becomes necessary for you to jump ship that you have a place to swim to. >Do you stick on principle? The CEO may not like it when you say he is >wrong and you may get fired or life becomes so bad that you leave. I stick to my principles. I call things like I see them & try to be as diplomatic as possible. From my experience, many CEOs have a problem with too many "yes"-men. They would much prefer to have you tell them (politely & tactfully): o what the real issues are o what the choices are o which choice you recommend o why you recommend that choice. Feed them the facts. Let them make the decision. It also helps (a lot) if you have established a high degree of competence before being confronted with the above situation. >OTOH if you give way and your system gets shredded, the boss who was such >a moron not to let you do your job right is not going to accept any part >of the blame and you could find your head on a pike outside the front >door. Agreed. Hence the CYA (Cover Yourself Always) memo mentioned earlier. >So maybe the call is between pain today, or extreme pain later. You should >know your own CEO and your personal needs, but if you dont the right thing >to do is attempt to do your job right which is observing the policy >requirements. > >Aint life a bitch? *I* don't think so. I think life is grand and offers many opportunities to grow. Challenges are just part of the process. Three quotes: "If you see a man on the top of a mountain, remember - he didn't fall there". - Paul Dunn "A ship in a harbor is safe - but that isn't what ships are built for." - Grace Hopper "Behold the turtle who makes progress only when he sticks his neck out" - anonymous If you are put in a difficult situation like this *always* choose the right & let the consequences follow. Perhaps in the short-term things may look a little bleak, but in the long run, it *always* pays to do the right thing. NEVER compromise on your principles. I have been in situations many times where I have had to make tough calls and haven't compromised on my principles. It is not always easy to do the right thing, but it is worth it. IMPORTANT Not compromising on your principles does *not* mean you dig your heals in the sand and try to block business. The compromising of principles is primarily an ethics issue - not a security issue. Also, if business is proposing something unethical, or completely insane, figure out your options and plot your heading from there. It is also very important to remember that business runs the company - *not* security. Work with them to try to design a solution which is secure & helps them achieve their goals. >Ian J-B. Best Regards, Frank Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature. -- Rich Kulawiec <standard disclaimer> The opinions expressed above are of the author and may not necessarily be representative of Fortified Networks Inc. Fortified Networks Inc. - Information Security Consulting http://www.fortified.com Phone: (317) 573-0800 FAX: (317) 573-0817 Home of the Free Internet Firewall Evaluation Checklist


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About a year-and-a-half ago, I learned that I have "lost" roughly 8000 of my original photographs!
Oh, I know exactly where they are, more or less; but still, they are most likely lost to me for all time.
I'll explain.
My images and artwork are represented on a world-wide basis ... some via websites that I manage, others by agencies in New York City, Chicago, North Dakota and other locations in the U.S. . The owner of one of the agencies passed away ... about a year-and-a-half ago ... and his family decided to dissolve the business.
Some months after the owner's death, his family began the daunting task of sorting about 500,000 thirty-five millimeter slides ... by photographer ... then boxing and mailing them. The slides were filed by subject, NOT photographer so you can just imagine the scope of such a project.
I waited a good year after being notified of the death of both my agent and his agency and then, I inquired about my 8000 slides. Long story short, after a second inquiry some months after the first, the owner's widow expressed her sadness and devastation and lamented ... "I doubt that I can get through all of the slides in my lifetime."
She informed me that she would send the 621 slides she had to date set aside for me ... which she did ... they arrived yesterday ... and I promised her I would make no further requests. I wished her and her family peace and I assume, that-is-that.
The age of digital photography which began seriously about ten years ago, made sending slides in plastic, 20-pocket pages, a needless phenomenon. These days, all submissions to agents and publishers are digital ... uploaded via FTP (file transfer protocol applications), key words embedded, no mailing ... slides/film are scanned, every image backed up and kept by photographer, agent, publisher ... it's a "have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too" deal.
I'd love to have my other 7400 "lost" slides, I truly would; but my loss is insignificant when contrasted with a family that lost a husband and a father ... a human being. I might get back to Baseball's Hall of Fame and retake the shots I got there many years ago ... and while I'll never get back to Philadelphia's Vet Stadium to get another shot of Mike Schmidt playing third (the Vet is demolished and Schmitty is retired) ... in the BIG PICTURE ...
Do I miss my photos ... of course; and do I hold out hope for their return ... somewhat.
But when an individual loses a loved one, he or she is likely to wish for their return ...
And I cannot think of anything more painful than a wish that holds no hope.
In perspective, the slides matter little ... but the memories are still mine.
Peace to you and your family, Andrea.
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But how many sleep-deprived nights are you prepared to spend in nightspots like LES Caves du Roy, Amnesia, or Billionaire?
Neither do I. But, several rounds of applause and a standing ovation later, LES MisérabLES proved all the naysayers wrong.
"I dreamed a dream…" of starring in a production of LES MisérabLES.
Especially since over the centuries, stories like LES MisérabLES have a great deal more staying power than stories like The Grey.
WATCH VIDEO of Paul jamming, as well as immortal riffs from rockers Jimmy Page and Slash on LES Paul guitars.
In the second, the social tragedy LES Aubes, the scenario is the present time.
Some three-quarters of an hour later we passed LES Stevenets.
Cette casemate tait perce d'troites meurtrires, par LESquelLES pntraient LES rayons de la lune.
She felt a thrill of pleasure as she entered her home at "LES Marches."
Etude sur LES lettres, LES arts et lindustrie pendant le quinzime sicle, vol.
: It was a fantastic turn-on, watching a lezzie scene
A lesbian: Mary is a les and John is a fairy/ I'd have figured you for a lez (1929+)


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Peter Irons appointed as the Raoul Wallenberg Distinguished Visiting Professor of Human Rights at Rutgers
July 20, 1987
Media Contact: Paul Lowenberg, 534-3120
Peter Irons, professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego, has been appointed as the Raoul Wallenberg Distinguished Visiting Professor of Human Rights at Rutgers, the state university of New Jersey.
The Wallenberg Professorship was created by the New Jersey legislature in 1986 to honor the heroic Swedish diplomat and humanitarian, who, in his position as Swedish consul in Hungary was responsible for saving several thousand Jews from Nazi concentration camps. He disappeared shortly after World War II ended and reportedly died in a Soviet prison in 1947, although his death has never been confirmed.
Professor Irons, who has taught at UCSD since 1982, was chosen for the endowed chair in part because of his work as a lawyer and historian in securing the legal vindication of Japanese Americans who challenged their forced internment during World War II. The Rutgers announcement of his selection noted that "the extraordinary breadth and pertinence of your interests would make your year here an exciting fulfillment of the Wallenberg Professorship."
Irons will hold the chair from January through December 1988, and he will teach and lecture at Rutgers campuses across New Jersey.
Irons graduated from Harvard Law School and received a Ph.D. in political science from Boston University. He has published two award-winning books, and is currently completing "The Courage of Their Convictions", a book of profiles of people who began important civil rights and liberties cases in the past fifty years.
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Where's My Emmy? is a series of YouTube videos with Brian & Stewie Griffin. These videos recreates the scene of Stewie beating up Brian in "Patriot Games" in the bathroom but instead of Brian's bet, it is Brian's Emmy Vote in 2009, which Family Guy is nominated.
The Office
Upload on August 17, 2009. Watch here
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From: "John Bryant" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] What the standard for Access after you tested
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 06:56:18 -0500
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Let look at the facts.
I am 16 my 4th cousin is 17 what do I do about 18,19,20,21
Why shoul any of accept
John Bryant
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Josiah Bryant Cooperative Research Group
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From: Vincent Vizachero <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] What the standard for Access after you tested
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 07:43:55 -0400
In the past, FTDNA seems to have acted as if they believe that the
projects belong principally to the administrators and not the
participants. Except in cases of outright abandonment, I am not
aware of many cases in which FTDNA has replaced or removed an
administrator without that person's consent.
If you are dissatisfied with the way the project is run, and the
administrator is hostile to any changes, then I think your best
option is to start or join a competing project (as Sharon
suggested) . There is no need to remove yourself from the Bryant
project if you join the O'Brien one, by the way.
Perhaps if enough Bryant members wrote to FTDNA and expressed their
dissatisfaction then a compromise could be brokered, but I'd view
that as a unlikely event.
On Oct 3, 2007, at 7:23 AM, John Bryant wrote:
> When this group became public I found I had four new close matches.
> I like to explore that. I tested for Y67 when I did not have any
> matches,Now I have 25 across surnames. The reason I Tested for Y76
> was to build a database for the furture. I think what this Group
> Administrator is doing is in effect hiding data from many people if
> they want a private project let them pay full price.
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These are the first egg rolls I ever made years ago & they were so good that I never tried another recipe. I found it on the back of the package of Azumaya Large Square Egg Roll Wrappers. The secret is definitely in the oyster sauce, so don't leave that out.
Top Review by chococandi X3
This was also the first egg roll recipe I tried and I definitely will keep this. I had doubled the recipe, thinking that it would be too much, even for my family of 6, but they were all eaten by next day! I actually used ground turkey for the meat and red cabbage and I added mushrooms, but they turned out just as good anyway. Deee-lish! X3
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- 1 teaspoon minced ginger (or a little more)
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- 1⁄4 lb bean sprouts
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- 3 green onions, finely chopped
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- Stir in oyster sauce and season with black pepper.
- Remove from heat & let mixture cool.
- Use 2 tablespoons for each egg roll.
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- Deep fry in oil (it says 350, if you use an electric wok), I do it in a cast iron skillet on the stove.
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U.S. Open champion Rory McIlroy has split with his management company.
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Before I couldn't get the traffic shaper to manage outgoing packets, so I
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works with throttling bandwidth in both directions respective to the end
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to be doing again. When setting up a pipe to specify bandwidth, it says to
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RoCKIn Camp 2014
RoCKIn Robot Challenge:
RoCKIn is short for "Robot Competitions Kick Innovation in Cognitive Systems and Robotics" and it is an EU-funded Coordination Action aimed at the promotion of research and education through competitions.
The RoCKIn Camp 2014 aims at supporting the preparation of teams to participate in the [email protected] and [email protected] challenges, the competition events that will be organized by RoCKIn in 2014 and 2015. [email protected] and [email protected] take inspiration from the corresponding RoboCup leagues, but they will focus on benchmarking robotic systems and networked robots. Both challenges require basic navigation capabilities with no restrictions on the mobile platform, advance perception, manipulation and human-robot interaction. [email protected] focuses on tasks that service robots execute in a real home environment, while the tasks to be performed in [email protected] target an industrial automation scenario.
The RoCKIn Camp 2014 will take place in Rome and is designed as a hands-on week long school, where teams acquire new capabilities and/or improve the performance of their systems in the competition tasks. The activities planned in the first four days of the RoCKIn Camp 2014 address the following topics: the robot platform and the basic software infrastructure, perception, manipulation and human robot interaction through speech. Each topic will include introductory lectures and practical sessions. The last day will be devoted to finalising a demonstration in the competition scenario.
Students and researchers, who have an interest in entering the [email protected] and [email protected] competitions, are invited to apply for the RoCKIn Camp 2014. We accept application in two formats:
• Individual applications by existing or prospective team members.
• Team applications (for teams of 2-3 people, not necessarily from the same university, but with an already established team). Team applicants are encouraged to bring their robot to be used in the practical activities, but this is not a requirement.
For the practical sessions, participants will be arranged into teams. Accepted applicant teams will become RoCKIn Camp 2014 teams; individual participants may be joining existing teams with the goal of creating additional collaborations and opportunities. If needed, additional teams will be created from individual applicants. Each team will be assigned a specific task, applying modules and tools presented in the lectures. The selection will be based on the team submission material and will also consider formation of new teams. The expected audience will be up to 12 teams and up to 36 participants.
All successful applicants will be offered:
• Accommodation in shared rooms (including breakfast, 6 nights)
• Lunch (5 days) and 1 social dinner
• Attendance to lectures and practical sessions
In addition, the teams of 3 people that will carry a robot to be used in the practical sessions of the Camp are entitled to receive a travel support up to 1200 Euros, and the team of 3 people that plan to attend without a robot are entitled to support of 600 Euros.
Intention to participate: 20th October 2013
To express your intention to participate send an email to [email protected], specifying team/individual names, affiliation and the number of team members.
Application deadline: 20th November 2013
Applications should be submitted via http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/rockin. The application should include a 4-page technical report with IEEE Conference Style, describing: scientific background, research objectives, expected knowledge / performance improvement, team description (including previous experience, role and competence of team members).
Notification of acceptance: 27th November 2013
For further questions contact Alberto Pretto: [email protected]
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October 22, 2012
What's the Benefit of Streaming Albums in Their Entirety?
Streaming an album ahead of its release has become common practice in today's music industry, but what benefit does it really have? Via The Stool Pigeon:
"We're competing in a very crowded market place with a lot of bands vying for attention, so anything that gets your music into people's ears is a good thing," adds Michael McClatchey, co-founder of indie label Moshi Moshi. "Even better if you can get people to listen to the whole album, as then they get the full picture rather than just a snapshot [which is what you get from a single release]."


text: Understood - in my scenario I only used a small number of disks as an example. In real life, the numbers would be much larger - I would always want *many* disks/spindles forming a logical unit - which now brings us back to the Oracle doc where it says: "Oracle ASM can be used on top of previously striped storage devices. If you use such a configuration, then ensure that you do not introduce hot spots by defining disk groups that span *logical devices which physically may be using the same resource (disk, controller, or channel to disk) rather than other available resources.* " The assumption in that statement is that a SAN administrator (or array administrator) can purposefully create the LUN (logical device) across disks and controllers and that Oracle recommends doing so. (Hence my questions) :) Chris Taylor "Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort." -- John Ruskin (English Writer 1819-1900) Any views and/or opinions expressed herein are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Ingram Industries, its affiliates, its subsidiaries or its employees. -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Zito [mailto:matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 11:40 AM To: Taylor, Chris David Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: VLDB ASM & SAN Striping Question Well, so - now we're stepping into territory beyond what I know *specifically* about the EVA and more generally about these types of arrays. So take everything I say with a grain of salt. First, most of these arrays, when you create a disk group, will typically auto-allocate disks based on some sort of balanced controller/shelf mechanism. So, you tell it to make a disk group out of 4 disks when there are 4 shelves hooked up to the array, one disk will come from each shelf, and each shelf maps to 1 controller, or something like that. I think the EVA puts some number of shelves per controller, but whatever. So - you could just say, "4 disk group", and it *should* go out and do the best it can do stripe things across controllers and shelves. That being said, the admin utility almost certainly can show you disks and their controllers, though it may not actually allow you to select specific disks. All that being said, your approach specifically subverts the architectural approach of your storage array, which wants you to make very large disk groups striped across many disks, and let the array worry about placement. Every LUN is striped across all of the disks, and there's even some sort of rebalancing capability, though I've never worked with it specifically. In addition, you're going to need to dedicate disk space for redundancy, so starting to make three-disk groups means you lose 1/3 of your space to redundancy. HP often recommends disk groups with 50+ disks in it, and then carving LUNs out of that. Matt -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l


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Holiday Boutique
The United Methodist Women's Holiday Boutique will feature arts, crafts, and baked goods, etc., plus jewelry, vendors, and more. A Chili Dinner will be served with dessert and a beverage for $7.
The Lighthouse at Magnolia Park
Magnolia Park United Methodist Church
2828 W. Magnolia Blvd.
Friday, Nov. 18, 1 p.m.—9 p.m.
For more information, call (818) 846-2866.
Juried Art Show
The City of Burbank Creative Art Center Gallery presents the Burbank Art Association Juried Art Show.
Creative Art Center
1100 W. Clark Ave.
Nov. 4—16
For more information, call (818) 238-5397.
Walking Cane Defense
Fall session for Oct., Nov., & Dec., is now open enrollment for classes in Walking Cane Defense for Everyone! This class will cover: the basic selection of a cane, both the advantages/disadvantages; power swinging, thrusting, blocking, and defending; self-defense techniques against weapon attacks; defense from grabs and attacks, tactics, and sequencing; all done in a cooperative learning system; taught by CaneMaster Instructor Toma Rosenzweig. Everyone is welcome to train – all ages, all levels, all ranks, all systems.
Aikido Daiwa School
4404 W. Victory Blvd.
Tuesday nights, 8:30 p.m.—9:45 p.m.
Mondays and Fridays, 2 p.m.—3 p.m.
Call (818) 339-4051 for more information, or contact "Toma" at email@example.com.
Humanity Thru Music
KLOS and The Avalon Hollywood Present the Second Annual Humanity Thru Music in benefit for Fur & Feather Animal Sanctuary, a 501(c)3 dinner/concert. Come rock out with the animals and raise money to build a no-kill sanctuary, vegan/veg PAWsta buffet, huge silent auction, VIP lounge, celebrity green carpet, and a huge concert with Platinum artist Richie Kotzen and TV celeb Gretchen Bonaduce opening with her band Ankh. General admission is $35/VIP $50. Buy tickets now at www.wantickets.com, www.ticketfly.com, or call (818) 398-0340.
The Avalon Hollywood
1735 Vine St.
Sunday, Nov. 13, 5— 10:30 p.m.
For more information www.furfeather.org.
U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree
Councilmember Tom LaBonge invites you to a very special holiday event featuring the 2011 United States Capitol Christmas Tree from the Stanislaus National Forest in Northern California this year. The tree is harvested and then trucked across the country, making stops in major cities such as ours, and finally decorated and showcased in our nation's capitol.
All are welcome to stop by for refreshments, to view the tree, and to sign the banner that will go to Washington D.C. with the tree.
The Autry National Center in Griffith Park
4700 Western Heritage Way
Sunday, Nov. 13, Noon—5 p.m.
A Little Sunday Music
Clyde Reasinger and his Big Band with Lee Roberts as the vocalist will perform at VIctorio's Ristorante & Catering Services on alternating Sundays with the Buzz Maddox Octet with vocalist Al Alexio. Clyde has performed with Harry James, Stan Kenton, Woody Herman, Billy May, Benny Goodman, Tex Beneke, Charley Barnett, Freddy Martin, Quincy Jones, and Jerry Fielding.
Victorio's Ristorante & Catering Service
10901 Victory Blvd.
For more information, call (818) 762-9000.
Classical Guitarist
Teens and others, who enjoy classical guitar presentations, are invited to attend a free concert at the Studio City Branch Library. Taro Wayama, who performed at a similar event last year, has agreed to present a cross-section of holiday songs. The composers represent Spain, Great Britain, the United States, Israel, and Ireland.
Mr. Wayama is a Japanese born guitarist/ composer. He is a winner of numerous competitions in both the United States and in Thailand; he has also played in Japan and Canada.
He has been honored with a "Best Original Score" designation at the L.A. Movie Awards for music used in the independent film, Anne Jennings. He is an active soloist and chamber musician, who often collaborates with clarinet, flute, and vocal performers.
Studio City Branch Library
12511 Moorpark St.
Thursday, Nov. 17, 5:30 p.m.—6:30 p.m.
For further information, you may contact the Young Adult Librarian at (818) 755-7873.


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A 123 Systems, the "green," federal stimulus-funded lithium ion battery manufacturer, announced atrocious quarterly results today. Most expected that A 123's results would be dark red. What was a surprise was the simultaneous announcement that the company had entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with a Chinese industrial group, Wanxiang, that will give the Chinese control of the company.
Remember that A 123 is the battery supplier to electric car-maker Fisker, and is also an investor in Fisker. It's also the third US lithium ion battery manufacturer to go under. The other two advanced "green" battery failures were ENER1 and Valence. But the other two simply expired; there was no resuscitation attempt by a large Chinese industrial group.
Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa has been conducting an investigation into A 123 and Fisker -- and the Department of Energy money that has been spent on these two companies to support Secretary of Energy Steven Chu's pipe dream for automotive transportation. I personally told the Senate in outside witness testimony 30 months ago that the A 123 and Fisker story would end in failure.
Taxpayer-Funded A 123 Green Energy Company Handed to Chinese. by LINDSAY LEVEEN. 8 Aug 2012, 3:19 PM PDT
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