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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760353953251845523.post2603346613997153526..comments2017-11-22T13:59:40.662-05:00Comments on Buckeye Surgeon: Are you guys ready for this?Jeffrey Parks MD FACShttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760353953251845523.post-83605740072223094402012-08-07T19:52:42.698-04:002012-08-07T19:52:42.698-04:00I love your blog. But I am a chronic every day pai...I love your blog. But I am a chronic every day pain sufferer who receives no respect from Medical Physicians, besides "seeking meds labeling".
When I see you complain of being tired, I will gladly trade you my situation for yours any day of the week 365.
I know what it feels like to not be able to sleep for 4 days straight, and I cannot function after the first 30 hours...my body goes into spasm mode, I feel shaky and my pain is unbearable...but somehow someway I am still here.
I just got back from vacation from Worlds of Fun and Schlitterbahn Water park for three days and I have been in bed or reclining ever since (75 hours ago) I just cannot recover.
I know I have the intellect to be a doctor but I do not have nor ever had the stamina it takes.
Wish you well, don't understand how you guys and gals do it.
Jeff in NebraskaLinksterhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760353953251845523.post-41245988902485802702008-08-08T02:54:00.000-04:002008-08-08T02:54:00.000-04:00I worked in tech operations through the dot-com bo...I worked in tech operations through the dot-com boom, and while I would never imply that the body of knowledge I needed to bring to bear in my work was as far-ranging or that the consequences were as grave (my errors could cost a great deal of money, but in the end it was *only* money: no one ever died because a website went down), the time commitment and the need to bring analytical skills, quick thinking, and accuracy to bear in high-pressure low-sleep situations was similar. The need to manage on-call time in a professional and disciplined fashion was also similar. And y'know what? I and my cohort stepped up straight out of undergrad -- in some cases straight out of high school -- with no particular pre-professional training to prepare us meet the pressure and time demands.

So I think your new doctors will be fine (at least the good ones), the same way my colleagues and I were fine.Kimhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760353953251845523.post-36715216086435202572008-08-06T15:50:00.000-04:002008-08-06T15:50:00.000-04:00Anon- Be careful with the generalities. I enjoy m...Anon- Be careful with the generalities. I enjoy my life as is. I love my wife. I work out 4-6 days a week. I write and read what i like. I don't feel I'm "missing out" on some unexperienced "perfect life" that would be available to me if only I didnt work so much.

And if I truly thought I did as much harm as good in my profession, I don't think I'd be able to come in to work tomorrow...

Your comments are probably not representative of your true inclination; more likely you'll find that you WANT to spend more time with your patients. You'll WANT to commit yourself to the optimization of their health care needs. That's medicine. If you truly define yourself as The Doctor, it's inevitable....Buckeye Surgeonhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760353953251845523.post-33758432637308029802008-08-04T17:07:00.000-04:002008-08-04T17:07:00.000-04:00So many of you are missing the point. There will n...So many of you are missing the point. There will not be any days like this when the current generation of residents are attendings because we won't stand for it.

the difference between the current generation and the older generation is that we value our lives outside the hospital, being well-rounding, seeing our families, volunteer work, and so on. We no longer define ourselves by our jobs alone as you do. We appreciate that medicine does not have to be the way you think it does, it can be done differently and it can be done better. The only problem now is that we still have to deal with attendings like you who are so hard headed you can't understand how these changes could possibly work. Like many things in medicine, it will take 40 years for this to come about properly, but it will work in the end and work much better than it does now.

When you die, you will say, I was a surgeon. You will have done has much harm as good in your profession (as any person in medicine does) and your patients will have gone on to abuse their bodies and be ungrateful for what you did for them.

When I die, I will have been an internist. I will have done as much harm as good in my profession and my patients will have gone to abuse their bodies and be ungrateful for what I did for them. I will have worked half as much as you, formed tight bonds with family and friends, volunteered for a charity, traveled the world, and retired to a loving wife, stimulating hobbies, good friends, and a full life.

The change is happening and there is no stopping it now. You can spout your dooms day scenarios all you want, but the new system will work so much better than the current people will wonder why we took so long to firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760353953251845523.post-66624420882194022602008-07-29T15:26:00.000-04:002008-07-29T15:26:00.000-04:00Well put jb. The "scut" I slaved over for hours a...Well put jb. The "scut" I slaved over for hours as an intern now is done by .....ME. Only I do it 700 times as fast and without even thinking about it as an Attending.

Even transporting patients was useful. You'd have to figure out how to work the IV machines, unhooking them, pausing them, etc. And you got to explore the hospital; cardiac stress tests, radiology, going to the lab.

Being an intern/lowly resident isn't all about "medical education". You aren't a student at Yale anymore. You are an employee at the bottom rung of the medical profession, trying to learn as you go along. It's this Gen Y "Age of Entitlement" that we see...Buckeye Surgeonhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760353953251845523.post-30779500635177549862008-07-28T07:07:00.000-04:002008-07-28T07:07:00.000-04:00jbthe hospitals do make money on residents.in addi...jb
the hospitals do make money on residents.
in addition to the bump you mention, which are indirect medical education funds, they receive direct education funds that averaged (several years ago), 120k per resident from medicare.

i didn't glean from the post the same things you did. from my internal medicine residency many years ago, the things i considered junk work were arranging disposition at nursing homes, filling out endless forms that anyone could have filled out, drawing bloods, running things to lab, caling around to find patients a primary care doctor in their home town. of course i still have to do most of that (except the blood draws and running things to lab) now.
agree with you on the value of front line education versus book learning. every day during residency is precious, even if you don't realize it at the email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760353953251845523.post-40201641492423120132008-07-27T13:11:00.000-04:002008-07-27T13:11:00.000-04:00Kudos to you for sucking it up and doing what's ri...Kudos to you for sucking it up and doing what's right on a holiday weekend. I'm with Bongi, though--mowing the lawn on top of it all...NUTS.

All I wanted to say, playing a smidge of devil's advocate here, is that it's VASTLY different to pull a weekend like you did and know from the outset you'd return to your baseline schedule, both for overall morale and knowing at the time it has an ending, than having that kind of life be the baseline, as it was before the work-hour implementation. OK, maybe not quite that bad all the time, but the point is that extremes can be dealt with as long as the person is flexible and knows they happen. However, it also has to be a reasonable increase from what they were working before, not a 500% increase. I can't say much about the 80h, but the 60h (first I've heard) is BEYOND RIDICULOUS. I worked that as a computer consultant regularly with no overtime (though avg billed hours were considered at bonus time), and I certainly didn't have human lives in my hands.

The other fallacy is the accross-the-board implementation of the hour limit. 80h/wk will greatly impede a surgical trainee's learning possibilities as the job requires specific vigilance/work beyond clock hours while a path, rads, derm just to name a few, couldn't be further opposite in terms of needs/issues. To lump all these residents in one basket is already mistake #0 before any hour limit is imposed.

Ok, I rambled-sorry. Great post, JP.enricohttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760353953251845523.post-10893513459742785002008-07-27T12:20:00.000-04:002008-07-27T12:20:00.000-04:00Get used to the "stupid things THEY waste your tim...Get used to the "stupid things THEY waste your time on." I'm in my 3rd decade of practice as a board certified surgeon, and believe me, the "stupid" things never end. 3 weeks ago, I was called out of bed to insert a Foley that the nursing staff could not get in. I was able to get it in because of the hundreds of times that I had done that "stupid" task as a student, intern, resident, and attending. The truly "stupid" thing is preferring reading a textbook at home to hands-on front line patient care exposure. The reason that some prefer reading a textbook is that it is something that some people are already good at. When you are in the hospital, you have to do things as a student or trainee that you may fail at, may be humiliated that a nurse or tech can do better than you can, or that get your precious little hands dirty doing.
To state that hospitals make money from educating residents reveals a fundamental ignorance of health care economics- the opposite is true. It takes a lot longer and costs more money to get any intervention done in a teaching hospital. Even Medicare recognizes this, giving extra funds to hospitals that are involved in graduate medical education.
While "bed-pushing" (I never had to push a bed, even when hours were unlimited) is a waste of time, thinking that you are someone's "bitch" for having the privilege of receiving a medical education reveals a level of arrogance and ignorance that puts into question your suitability to make good use of the educational opportunity that you are receiving. Step aside and let someone else have your place- someone who will be less resentful. It's not slavery when you can walk away anytime you want.
BTW, you will have to earn the respect that you crave, even as an attending MD. They may smile to your face because they have to, but they will be mocking you when you are out of earshot when they know how you view "non-MDs."firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760353953251845523.post-65634929306592846522008-07-26T16:59:00.000-04:002008-07-26T16:59:00.000-04:00It's not the hours. It's all the stupid things THE...It's not the hours. It's all the stupid things THEY waste your time on as a resident.

No smart resident would have anything against 80-100-hour weeks IF all those hours were truly educational. But 50+% of those hours are wasted on stupidities that sound good only on paper. This is why people prefer reading their textbooks at home to putting in Foleys and pushing beds at the hospital.

The residents are not your bitches. They are future attendings and they should be treated with the same respect as an attending, especially by non-MD's. Hospitals make a lot of money on the backs of their residents, and they should start returning the favor and treating residency as a 100% educational activity, not as firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760353953251845523.post-63656462540178585952008-07-25T22:25:00.000-04:002008-07-25T22:25:00.000-04:00Wait until you start practice. The transition will...Wait until you start practice. The transition will not be smooth at all with resident work-hours.
Teaching quality is not the same anymore with the new working hours.

 Check this intresting article
 Effect of ACGME Duty Hours on Attending Physician Teaching and Satisfaction

Vineet Arora, MD, MA; David Meltzer, MD, PhD

Arch Intern Med. 2008;168(11):1226-1228.Clinical Medicinehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760353953251845523.post-5352483469752553972008-07-25T19:41:00.000-04:002008-07-25T19:41:00.000-04:00Sleep deprivation is just a part of our job as cli...Sleep deprivation is just a part of our job as clinicians in residency and in practice alike; i hardly think being jealous of patients with pancreatitis is FMR's point. Take it easy, firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760353953251845523.post-10596148474745003012008-07-25T01:47:00.000-04:002008-07-25T01:47:00.000-04:00FMR, you also learned that you can work all night ...FMR, you also learned that you can work all night and work the next day. You didn't know that before med school. It's a valuable lesson to learn, once you are out in practice and have to do it on occasion. It's not fun, but it's life.
And don't even joke about being envious about the guy with pancreatitis. You never want to be the consumer in this firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760353953251845523.post-24918431980151604882008-07-24T22:53:00.000-04:002008-07-24T22:53:00.000-04:00I'm glad there are still some surgeons who actuall...I'm glad there are still some surgeons who actually choose to serve the patients they professed to care about when they entered medical school. It would be easy for you to open up a boutique practice and make lots of money for lots less hours, but you keep doing what you do, so thanks.

The one quibble I have is that people who trained in the 36-hour plus shift world think that when we only work 27-30 hours we don't find out what happened to that guy with the abdominal pain or that lady with the surgical abdomen who actually had ovarian torsion etc. We actually *do* know what happened. Why? Because we work as a team and we continue to follow patients at a team. So although I leave the hospital for 10 hours or so, the people I take over from when I get back tell me what the CT showed, that someone crashed, that someone developed a bleed. You don't have to actually be the one who was up for 36 hours, pushed the guy to CT scan, drew an ABG and found out he had a PE to learn from the case. He was on his way to a PE when I left 10 hours ago, and he still has a PE when I came back. I don't think that the scut work of answering pages and getting studies done is necessary. When I come back and see that Mr X is on a vent, I think back on what happened. And I wager I care a bit more about him than I would have if I hadn't slept for 2-3 days.

My point is that I think the continuity you speak of is over-rated. I had the continuity in med school: Q3 overnight and no going home post call. I followed cases for 40 hours or more. All I learned from the experience was to be jealous of those lucky people with pancreatitis who got to lie around in bed all day.Family Med Residenthttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760353953251845523.post-9460166106107860422008-07-24T22:25:00.000-04:002008-07-24T22:25:00.000-04:00... but thinking about it, (and please correct me ...... but thinking about it, (and please correct me if I'm wrong), I don't know if there something comparable to concierge/retainer medicine for surgeons. Is there a way for general surgeons to opt out of the Medicare/Medicaid system? I just honestly don't know. I'd love to some thoughts on the subject...Keeganhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760353953251845523.post-38562960210110938612008-07-24T22:21:00.000-04:002008-07-24T22:21:00.000-04:00re: AliceI agree with you that it's not enough to ...re: Alice

I agree with you that it's not enough to say simply "we don't like it." There are actions we can take. We can always walk away.

The recent Medicare fight is a good example. I'm sure most of it was a political maneuvering to satisfy the AARP, but we (the docs) made a big stink of it also - and our primary threat was that we would stop taking Medicare patients. Period. We came up with stories, testimonials of how great doctors were closing their doors to new Medicare patients. We said "you think a 6 month wait for a primary care doc is bad... try 2 years." I think it partly worked. Not enough for the Senate to do anything more drastic than to stall the cuts, but at least it was something.

But THAT'S our action... our inaction.

Being an FP, I sympathize with general surgeons. I honestly think they should be paid twice what they get now. Hands down. As an FP, I have the option of opening a concierge practice, charge 50-100/month and take on a panel of only 600. I don't need to take Medicare. Don't need Medicaid. Why would I want to be part of a system that systematically screws us and our patients over each and every year? Why would I choose to prop up an unsustainable system like that? It makes no sense.Keeganhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760353953251845523.post-40662533496832214122008-07-24T19:51:00.000-04:002008-07-24T19:51:00.000-04:00And Keegan is living in a dream world. There is a ...And Keegan is living in a dream world. There is a shortage of surgeons, so some surgeons will continue to work incredible hours. That can't be fixed simply by saying that we don't like it; and I doubt that compensation for surgeons or other physicians is going to increase anytime soon. If anything, I bet the primary docs get a bigger piece of the pie, and we keep firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760353953251845523.post-22391570722678924572008-07-24T19:50:00.000-04:002008-07-24T19:50:00.000-04:00AMSA shmamsa. Those guys are presumptuous idiots; ...AMSA shmamsa. Those guys are presumptuous idiots; like the AMA, they claim to speak for all of us when the majority of us don't belong, could care less about their initiatives, and are often embarassed by their actions. AMSA also supports the single-payer system, and I went out of my way in medical school to vocally set out the contrary point of view. If I'd known in medical school what I know now, I would have either a) not done surgery (intelligent, but unsatisfactory), or b) opposed their efforts in this direction as well. Seriously. AMSA is a student organization; who invited them to push residency policies?Alicehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760353953251845523.post-4603012096804158702008-07-24T18:31:00.000-04:002008-07-24T18:31:00.000-04:00Alice- AMSA is one of the biggest driving forces b...Alice- AMSA is one of the biggest driving forces behind the new intiatives. So in a way, new surgeons are asking for it. I don't mean to rag on you; I just think there's more pressure on your generation of trainees to milk every last ounce of experience from the time spent in residency. You'll be fine, Im sure. But for some others...

Drack- I always appreciate a well placed Pulp Fiction reference.

Make Mine T- Thanks for the cool links.

I knew you'd be with me on this one, Bongi.Buckeye Surgeonhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760353953251845523.post-82466099729751830722008-07-24T17:46:00.000-04:002008-07-24T17:46:00.000-04:00you mowed the lawn? twice?are you mad?other than t...you mowed the lawn? twice?

are you mad?

other than that, i'm with you.Bongihttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760353953251845523.post-16512752584447576802008-07-24T15:14:00.000-04:002008-07-24T15:14:00.000-04:00"I started having paranoid thoughts that the Starb..."I started having paranoid thoughts that the Starbucks guy had given me decaf instead of the Americano I had ordered."

HAH! That's funny! I've been there. After so many hours the coffee just doesn't work anymore and you really do start to wonder if someone's making decaf. Then, when it's all over and you finally have the opportunity to sleep, all that coffee comes back to haunt you and you lay awake spewing gibberish.
Can't believe you decided to mow the lawn....twice!
And the eating spree...you can only survive on peanut butter and crackers or dry sandwiches for so long before you become ravenous for real food.
Around here, the trauma docs are required to stay in house. Trauma is one 24 hr shift and never two in a row (post call you become back-up), and they can't cover ER call at the same time.
That was truly a long demanding weekend, but doesn't it kinda make you feel good to have one of those every once in awhile? (Easy for me to say, I only have to do the fun part) Here are some more examples of just how tired one can get. http://intraoporate.blogspot.com/2008/02/you-know-youre-tired-when.htmlmake mine traumahttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760353953251845523.post-40308510384527071272008-07-24T14:41:00.000-04:002008-07-24T14:41:00.000-04:00Dear Buckeye;Perhaps we should calll you Blearyeye...Dear Buckeye;
Perhaps we should calll you Blearyeye.

The other comments were interesting, from 'good going' to 'what's the matter with you?'

On a spectrum of humanity and experience the only other hypomanic individuals in this
class are naval officre captains
who command large ships.

No one can keep going at your rate without developing some serious chronic medical problems....shortened life, emotional breakdowns.

Training for 100 hours will not ensure you can do it in practice.
Do you think you will be able to continue at age 40,50,60 ?

I can give you endless stories about heart surgeons, general surgeons who died in their 40s, prematurely. How many patients more could they have seen in the next 20 years had they lived a balanced, alhough very busy lifestyle.

What do your kids and wife do during all this time away and the time you are collapsed on the floor.

Your issues are a lot more than mowing the lawn.

I love your stories, and because of this I give you this perhaps unwanted opinion, after 40 years as an eye surgeon.....two marriages and five children.

Priorities....God, Family,then work.

Daily exercise, even when on call.
Nutrition....follow your own advice as a doctor (actually consult someone in the health and wellness field)

Learn how to be more of a type B
personality. Your type A served you well to get through college, medical school, residency and the early years of practice. Life is like seasons.....they change....wherever you are now, you shouldn't be doing what you were doing earlier on.

Residency hours were decreased,not to protect the residents, but the general public. Many studies have shown the error rate jumps for sleepless doctors. The decisioins were made by objective people who had nothing to gain or lose regarding residency hour limits.Health Train Expresshttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760353953251845523.post-26436697748269405152008-07-24T12:34:00.000-04:002008-07-24T12:34:00.000-04:00I don't mind people with the residency restriction...I don't mind people with the residency restrictions but when they get out, people are sadly dissappointed when they make less than pharmacists and CRNAs. This is what managed care has done to surgeons.

Also the fps are going to keep arguing and saying you got 500 for an appy and it only took an hour and I work with a new medicare pt for an hour and only got 150, but that doesn't include preop, postop, and all of the days of rounding, including the 7 days of ileus that the patient had.

Sometimes strictly getting paid for a visit sounds better.Guyhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760353953251845523.post-81907235559029920942008-07-23T22:10:00.000-04:002008-07-23T22:10:00.000-04:00I have to respectfully disagree about work hour re...I have to respectfully disagree about work hour restrictions. Speaking as a 2nd year resident, I don't know if I can believe that patients aren't compromised by our lack of sleep. The question is - how much is the care compromised? Is it enough that it should it be part of informed consent - alerting the patient to the fact that you are on your 30th hour without sleep?

One may argue that since the patient has no choice in the matter (you're the only surgeon - so it's you or nothing), that it makes no sense to let the patient your sleep status - similar to how we don't regularly divulge where we went to school or did our training.

However, as physicians, we DO have some choice in to whether we want to put ourselves into such a situation where 2-3x a year we do 36-40 hour stretches are expected. We shouldn't put ourselves or our patients into that type of situation. And I understand the financial concerns and the shortage of general surgeons (and FP's AND primary care internal medicine docs), but the situation isn't going to get better anytime soon. So we're okay with these stretches for 2x/year. How about 4x/yr? How about 6? How bout every other month? Sounds really fun. We need more of us - pure and simple. And that's not going to happen until they start paying these specialties better. And that's not going to happen until there's some political call for action. And that won't happen until some senator's daughter's appendix ruptures and there's no general surgeon around to fix it. Honestly, a part of me would want that type of change to come sooner rather than later.

And I don't believe that by having these 36 hour stretches regularly during residency, we're somehow "training" ourselves to be good attendings later on. It's the same as the frat guy who drinks during the week to "get ready" for the big party on the weekend. Um... no. You're a dickhead for the whole week instead of just on Sunday morning.Keeganhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760353953251845523.post-18130117537706399582008-07-23T20:22:00.000-04:002008-07-23T20:22:00.000-04:00I am duly impressed by your wild weekend (and mowi...I am duly impressed by your wild weekend (and mowing the lawn, too!).

But what you and other current attendings don't understand is that we didn't ask for these rules. I don't think at any point residents were asking for them, except perhaps a few activists. Those of us who entered the system after the rules were made certainly have no choice in the matter. I'm just as concerned as you are about my ability to handle this kind of call without previous experience under shelter of an attending. I know the chiefs who graduated this year had more than a little trepidation about entering the real world as the first class to train entirely under the 80hr week. Ragging on us doesn't fix the real problem.

Maybe the attending surgeons in private practice should organize/sign a counterpetition against this much-rumored 56hr week.Alicehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760353953251845523.post-49268467138267837442008-07-23T18:51:00.000-04:002008-07-23T18:51:00.000-04:00Not to disagree with the end of you post, but curr...Not to disagree with the end of you post, but current resident/intern post-call mornings do not end around 8AM. More often I and everyone else get home around 1-2PM.Joshhttps://email@example.com


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Lapidoth has promised NIS 25 million to underwriters, including NIS 5 million to Luxenburg's own firm. Ginko's offering will not be underwritten. According to Karmin, institutional investors are interested, but do not want their names to become public knowledge due to the negative image of oil exploration in Israel.
Luxenburg: I gave up NIS 40mJacob Luxenburg bought control of Lapidoth in 2001 at a value of $14 million. Today the firm is traded at a value of $70 million, after paying a $7 million dividend.
"This is one of the best investments in Israel," said Luxenburg. "I learned to work with the capital markets. I started as a broker and I understood that to work fairly with the market is the best way. At first I looked at what other controlling shareholders were doing, and so immediately after buying the company I managed to pass a resolution in the shareholder meeting for an options plan and high salary. According to the plan I would have received NIS 40 million by now," said Luxenburg.
"But after a year I gave it all up and cut my salary in half. Suddenly I realized and understood that if I want loyal investors for the long term, I cannot do this to them. The investors loved it and gave me credit for what I had done. Now they will follow me even when I recommend to them to invest in the new oil rights," Luxenburg explained.
Luxenburg has transformed Lapidoth into a successful investment company. It holds 2.5 percent of Scitex, as well 5 percent of ILD Insurance. Last year Lapidoth took control of the publicaly traded venture capital fund Inventech, previously controlled by the Shoval family. Luxenburg cut management fees for Inventech, and raised its value by NIS 15 million.
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I try not to think too much about my lawn (which should be readily apparent to my neighbors), but a few years ago I made the switch to an electric, battery-powered push mower. It's a lot quieter than the gas mowers I used to have, and I no longer have to make runs to the gas station to fill up the can every few weeks or so.
I have a small yard; if you've got a lot of grass to cut, a riding mower is your best bet, but mowers are even worse polluters than modern cars. Now, there is a hybrid-electric mower that uses the same concept as the Chevy Volt to keep your lawn trimmed.
The Raven MPV-710 (manufactured in China, and available in the U.S. from Lowes) uses an electric motor for the drive, while a 420cc gas engine generates the electricity. According to the company, it can reach a top speed of 17mph, and can pull up to 500 pounds. The gas engine can be used as a generator as well, providing 12 hours of running time on 5 gallons of gas.
You can pick one up for about $3,000, which is in line with other types of mid-tier riding mowers, but you may want to keep your eye on early customer reviews. If you're looking for an even greener option, try the all-electric, zero-turn Hustler Zeon (starting at $4,999), which can mow an acre on a single charge. There's also the Recharge Mower G2, which appears to be a bit smaller.
As hybrid and electric technology becomes more advanced, we may see it engineered into even more gas-powered equipment. For now, check out the Raven in the video below.
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SAO PAULO, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Brazilian federal police said on Monday they had identified $3 million in offshore deposits in 2012 and 2013 in favor of Joao Santana, President Dilma Rousseff's campaign manager, helped by data obtained from Citibank.
Police Chief Filipe Pace said at a press conference the deposits were based on fraudulent contracts. He also said Santana had purchased an apartment in Sao Paulo with money illegally received from engineering conglomerate Odebrecht SA.
Prosecutor Carlos Fernando Lima said Santana had not been arrested because he is abroad, though police have a warrant for his arrest. (Reporting by Caroline Stauffer; Editing by Daniel Flynn)


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The word "girl" has regained currency - in certain contexts - as a term for grown women. "Girls' Night Out" at the Blaffer Gallery presents works by women that explore the concept of "girl." Group shows are notoriously uneven, and this one is no exception. But while individual works succeed and fail, the show, organized by the Orange County Museum of Art, presents an overall vision of girls/women that's heavy on awkwardness, angst and mental illness. Call me crazy, but this skewed curatorial vision of the "girl" experience could use a little more balance.
There are standouts in the exhibition, however. Thank goodness for Rineke Dijkstra - her video project and photos have a palpable humanity and empathy. For her video installation The Buzzclub, Liverpool, England/Mysteryworld, Zaandam, Netherlands (1996-97), Dijkstra set up a video camera in two European clubs for young people. You can hear the music coming from the dance floor as a variety of kids stand in bright light against a white backdrop. They dance awkwardly - the all-northern-European cast could be presented as evidence in support of the white-people-can't-dance theory. The kids, mainly girls, simultaneously smack gum and smoke cigarettes, trying to look cool and unaffected. Some begin to dance and bob jerkily.
The boys are the worst and the least successful at pretending to be cool; you feel bad that these girls have to date them. In a particularly amusing clip, one boy's dancing consists of twitching spastically like he's having a grand mal seizure. Another clip features a pair of Dutch-looking twins whose rectangular heads sport ears that stick out at right angles; they bob them in unison like those guys from Saturday Night Live.
"Girls' Night Out"
Blaffer Gallery, 120 Fine Arts Building, University of Houston, 713-743-9528.
Through April 1
Many of the kids are terribly young; a girl who looks 12 and has barely seen puberty drinks a Budweiser in slow motion. Her cheeks are round with baby fat, and her hair is pulled up into a bun with a tight sausage curl on either side of her face. It's the kind of hairstyle someone's mother does for her when she's eight. Another pudgy preadolescent with dark hair has unevenly painted her lips a vixen red. She tries to stare blankly and look cool from under her heavy black eyeliner. She will be an Elizabeth Taylorish beauty as an adult, but for now, her facade of cool is shattered as she brings a cigarette to her mouth, held by plump childish fingers with stubby, dirty nails.
Dijkstra makes us smile at and feel for the awkwardness of these kids in their cheap synthetic club clothes, trying so hard to be older, sexy and cool. She reminds us what it felt like to be so young, trying to act so much older and being completely unaware of how much we were missing the mark. Dijkstra's work is as straightforward in its conception as it is multidimensional in its effects.
Two other artists who fare especially well are Daniela Rossell and Katy Grannan, who offer us views of women from two different countries and the opposite ends of the socioeconomic spectrum. Rossell is a Mexican photographer who produced the series "Ricas y famosas" documenting her peers, the wealthy families of Mexico. Meanwhile, Grannan creates portraits of the middle class and unknown of places like Poughkeepsie.
Both photographers work with their subjects, teasing out their conceptions of self. Rossell photographs her sitters in their lavish home environments and allows them to dictate what they'll wear and how they'll pose kitschy theme rooms are de rigueur. Surrounded by their possessions, these women pose to create visions of wealth and sexuality. There's a "bird in a gilded cage" thing going in all this excess; they've surrounded themselves with furs, tiaras, chandeliers, maids, baroque furniture and taxidermied lions. They believe their beauty and sexuality are their currency.
Meanwhile, Grannan culls her sitters from ads she places in the newspaper looking for artist's models. She usually photographs the respondents in their suburban homes. Using their living rooms or bedrooms as studios, she collaborates with the sitters on the arrangement of the rooms and their wardrobes or lack thereof. The resulting photos have a sort of Diane Arbus feeling, but without that level of discomfort and distance - there's a hokey pinup quality to many of the photos and their tacky surroundings. A chunky girl in lace tights reclines on a hideously upholstered sectional sofa in a room with sculptured carpeting and swagged lacy curtains. The design of her tights blends into the surrounding excess of pattern.
But much of the work in the show feels too self-absorbed, too staged and just too irritating. Dorit Cypis's photographs of herself standing behind bars are guilty of this crime. Ditto the "Oh, let me pause in my nervous breakdown to photograph myself" images of Elina Brotherus. We see her standing with her maudlin, badly drawn self-portraits, crying over a half-eaten cantaloupe and crouched naked in a sink. Self-involvement overwhelms any other content. The level of angst that comes across in the photos is better suited to someone suffering in Darfur.
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While Eija-Liisa Ahtila's series of short videos based on women's accounts of mental illness works fairly well, other video pieces are heavy on pretense and low on content. Kelly Nipper's Bending Water into a Heart Shape (2003) is characterized as "poetic," but I would just call it affected. There are four video screens - two present different views of an ice rink; another shows a metal mobile dripping ice; and a fourth features a dancer trying to do a lutz in slow motion. The artist is trying too hard to make work that's so spare it must be meaningful. But the results just seem pretentious. Likewise her series of photographs depicting a woman partially obscured by a wooden screen, raising and lowering her arms. What exactly is the point of that?
Salla Tykk's video Thriller (2001) centers around a young girl who spends a lot of time staring - out the window, into a mirror, while lying in bed - all to a dramatic soundtrack. (Supposedly it's all about sexual awakening.) The setting is a bleak Scandinavian farm, and images of the staring girl are interspersed with footage of a young woman and young man engaged in obscure farm chores - dragging branches, leading sheep, launching a rickety boat. The video culminates with the staring girl shooting a sheep. Tykk is better off than Nipper, but her wordless video and its labored symbolism need to push further into the unsettling - or the ironic - to actually work. It's too much like something a first-year film student would make after watching too many Bergman films.
This show was sponsored by Neutrogena. In a "sponsor's statement" the company wrote: "Neutrogena has an insightful understanding of women...Like this exhibition, Neutrogena celebrates the power of the female identity..." Gee, do you think the whole "girl" movement has gotten a little commercially co-opted? I'm leery of contrived "women's art" exhibitions. Are "girl" shows the latest iteration of the Judy Chicago-esque vagina-thons of the 1970s?
But the main problem lies in the number of affectedly arty, convoluted and self-involved works included in this show. They aren't interesting art, nor are they the kind of art interesting women make. Whether you jump on the "girlness" bandwagon or not, it could be far better represented than it is in "Girls' Night Out."


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Israel's lead peace negotiator Tzipi Livni on Sunday ruled out Turkey taking an immediate role in reviving talks with the Palestinians, shortly before US Secretary of State John Kerry flew in.
Asked if Turkey could play an important role in the peace process -- an idea raised by Kerry at a press conference earlier in the day in Istanbul -- she told public radio: "The idea is interesting, but it could take time."
Livni, who is also justice minister, has been charged with heading up Israel's efforts to renew direct negotiations with the Palestinians which fell apart just weeks after they were launched in September 2010 in a spat over settlement building.
"We will look into the contribution of regional countries," the former foreign minister said.
"Regional leaders are important, every Palestinian leader who wants to negotiate must of course get the support of other countries in the region, but for the moment, we are fully involved in the efforts to bring about a resumption of direct negotiations, which the Americans are helping with," she said.
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Earlier on Sunday, while wrapping up a flying visit to Turkey ahead of his arrival in Israel, Kerry said Turkey could play a major role in the Middle East peace process.
"Turkey can be a key -- an important contributor to the process of peace in so many ways," Kerry told reporters, saying Ankara could play a "very central" role in creating a climate for peace within the international community.
"A country as strong and as vibrant, as energised and as transformative as Turkey can have a profound impact by being a partner in this process," he said.
The US secretary of state is Obama's new pointman on the Middle East as part of a renewed US effort to push the sides back to negotiations.
Expectations have been growing that Washington is ready to resume some kind of shuttle diplomacy to rekindle the moribund peace process.
But the State Department has sought to downplay expectations. "I would not expect the secretary to be putting down a plan," spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said on April 3.


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One of the storylines heading into Sunday's Redskins-Buccaneers matchup was how Washington's top-rated run game would stack up against Tampa Bay's third-ranked run defense. Not only did the rushing attack have some success, the Skins were efficient through the air, too.
Rookie running back Alfred Morris ran for 113 yards on 21 carries, including a 39-yard touchdown jaunt that gave Washington a 21-3 second-quarter lead. Sunday's effort put Morris in elite company. According to the Washington Post, he joins Larry Brown, John Riggins, George Rogers, Earnest Byner and Terry Allen as the only Redskins to rush for at least 75 yards in their first four games.
Morris has rushing 376 yards through the first quarter of the season, which works out to 94 yards per game.
"He's been playing great every game," said coach Mike Shanahan. "In the first half, I thought he played unbelievably. I thought their defense stepped up in the second half and played like they have throughout the year."
Meanwhile, rookie quarterback Robert Griffin III added 43 yards on the ground to go along with his 323 passing yards. Most impressive, perhaps: 26 of his completions (he had 35 attempts) went to nine receivers, and seven of those receptions were for at least 15 yards.
The biggest benefit to the Redskins getting up early, even if they had to scratch and claw to win it on a last-second Billy Cundiff field goal: Fewer option plays leaving RGIII open to huge hits, something that had become common during the first three weeks. Still, Griffin took plenty of punishment, two coming in the first half courtesy of Bucs safety Mark Barron, who forced a fumble near Tampa Bay's goal line (Pierre Garcon recovered for a touchdown). And later when Barron bodyslammed RGIII and drew an unnecessary-roughness penalty.
Another twist: Shanahan and son Kyle, the Redskins offensive coordinator, used Griffin under center Sunday (RGIII had primarily worked from the shotgun this season), which caught the Bucs' defense off-guard and gave Washington an advantage. It's this diversity that could ultimately save Griffin from wide-eyed defenders looking for a knockout blow.
Details via the Post's Jason Reid:
Sophisticated quarterback option plays. End-around runs after shifting into a modified quarterback shotgun formation called the "pistol." Shotgun misdirection calls. The Shanahans' offensive creativity is prompting Redskins fans to expand their football vocabulary. They are trying to construct the most creative offense in NFL history.
If the Shanahans realize their vision, they'll design an offense that draws from, well, almost every scheme and system that has worked. And Griffin is the foundation for whatever they can dream up.
The 'Skins are off to a good start. Yes, they're 2-2, but it's a good 2-2. A year ago, this team was 3-1 but no one -- not even Shanahan, we'd imagine -- expected their good fortune to last. This is the reality of building your team around Rex Grossman and John Beck. But this season, Washington for the first time in a long time, has their franchise quarterback.
Now they just need to find a kicker who converts slightly more than 25 percent of the time. Because if Billy Cundiff had made just half his kicks Sunday (and let's be honest, there's absolutely no excuse for missing from 41, much less 31 before he finally willed the ball through the uprights on the last play of the game.
"I just knew he wasn't going to miss four," tight end Fred Davis said. "I just knew he wasn't."
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Quick Details
- Drive Wheel: Track
- Type: Pumper
- Transmission Type: Manual
- Condition: New
- Horsepower: 150 - 250hp
- Tank Capacity: 3001 - 5000L
- Emission Standard: Euro 3
- Fuel Type: Diesel
- Max. Work Height: 50 M
- Size: 5,500X2,850X1,950mm
- Place of Origin: Shanghai, China (Mainland)
- Brand Name: Lannmarker
- Model Number: FFV09
- Rated Power: 175 kW
- Maximum Speed: 55 km/h
- Water Tank Capacity: 3.1 m3
- Moving Speed in Static Water: 4 km/h
- Vertical Slope Passing: 32
- Vertical Step Climb: 0.7 m
- Track Width: 390 mm
- Ground Clearance: 450 mm
- Track Adhesive Length: 3,360 mm
- Based on: Light Military Tracked Armored Vehicle
Packaging & Delivery
|Packaging Details
|Special Packing
|Delivery Time
|90 Days
SpecificationsFire truck, fire fighting truck, fire fighting vehicle
- all-road passability
- water floating function
- rapid mobility.
Fire truck, fire fighting truck, fire fighting vehicle
FFV09 is a multi-purpose tracked forest special fire-fighting vehicle which is developed by Lannmarker and his partner, according to terrain and physiognomy, forest fire situation and fire-extinguishing concept as well as on the basis of making full investigation and study to existing forest fire-fighting equipment, and the vehicle features military tracked armored vehicle technology and its mature & reliable parts or components. The vehicle is provided with:
- all-road passability and water floating function
- rapid mobility
- larger carrying capability
- capability of opening up the way
- better rescuing and towing capability
It has various kinds of forest fire-extinguishing devices and functions. The vehicle is basically configured in water fire-fighting equipment version. In addition, according to requirements of fire extinction operation, the vehicle can also be temporarily equipped with bulldozer blade, cultivating plough, fire extinction cannon (ammunition) and wind power fire extinguisher etc.
Tracked Fire Truck, Fire Fighting Truck, Fire Fighting Vehicle
|Engine Type
|Deutz F8L413 Diesel Engine
|Engine Displacement
|Cooling System
|Rated power
|175 Kw/2500 RPM
|Max Speed
|55 km/h
|Moving Speed in Static Water
|4 km/h
|Transmission Mode
|5 Forward Gears and 1 Power-assisted Gear
|Gasoline engine power
|Water Pump Lift
|50 -72m
|Water Pump Flow Rate
|2 - 12L / s
|Firing Range of Straight Stream Squirt Gun
|>40 m
|Water tank capacity
|3.1 m3
|Rated crew and passengers
|2 + 8
|Overall Length
|5,500 mm
|Overall Width
|2,850 mm
|Overall Height
|1,950 mm
|Track Width/Track Adhesive Length
|390 X 3,360 mm
|Roof Guardrail Height
|500 mm
|Ground Clearance
|450 mm
|Time for Water Tank to be Full of Water
|4 min
|Max. Gradeability
|Width of Crossing Ditch
|1.6 m
|Height of Crossing Vertical Wall
|0.65 m
|Max. Travel Distance
|400 km
|Net Weight
|7,900 kg
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OK Giants fans, you can start planning your weekend and your work week for next week. The schedule is out for the NLCS series with Phillie.
Block out both weekend nights for sure and you might want to cough a little while a work on Monday because Tuesday is a day game and the perfect opportunity to call in sick.
Game No. 1 in Philadelphia is set for 4:57 p.m. on Saturday.
Game No. 2 is Sunday night at 5:17 p.m.
The midweek games back here in San Francisco includes a day game with a 1 p.m. start Tuesday and 4:30 p.m. starts Wednesday and Thursday.
If the series needs to go back to Philadelphia the following weekend, the games will be 12:30 on Saturday and 4:30 p.m. on Sunday.
All of the games from here on out are on Fox.
Published at 10:46 AM PDT on Oct 13, 2010 | Updated at 10:48 AM PDT on Oct 13, 2010


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Computer Science and Information Engineering, World Congress on (2009)
Los Angeles, California USA
Mar. 31, 2009 to Apr. 2, 2009
pp: 778-782
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/CSIE.2009.863
Mass storage resolves the capacity requirements of huge data storage in the networks of enterprises and organizations. The complexity and cost of storage management needs intelligence to reduce the huge overheads, and intelligent storage becomes the ideal storage solution. The paper illustrates the related work with intelligent storage, proposes a hierarchical multi-agent architecture of the intelligent storage system and analyzes the key technologies. The scheduling policies of the intelligent storage system are also discussed. It is concluded that the storage intelligence lies mainly in time assigning and space distributed strategies.
intelligent storage architecture, key technology, virtual storage, schedule, multi-agent
Wei Song, Wenying Zeng, Wenfeng Wang, Yuelong Zhao, "Intelligent Storage Architecture and Key Technologies Research", Computer Science and Information Engineering, World Congress on, vol. 05, no. , pp. 778-782, 2009, doi:10.1109/CSIE.2009.863


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Kids can pick up the DVD at www.myairblaster.com <http://www.myairblaster.com/> . Its free with any purchase at the AB online store for the month of November.
The Airblaster Family Portrait is a compilation of exclusive interviews with the riders and founders of Airblaster, as well as riding footage of the crew. Jed Anderson, Nick Dirks, Ben Lynch, and Brandon Cocard each have their own chapter. Founders Travis Parker, Paul Miller, and Jesse Grandkoski tell how the company was started (Chapter 1), and introduce the riders. Chapters 2-6 will be released online (MONDAYS!… ie Sunday night actually) over the next 5 weeks. Or you can get the full DVD now at www.myairblaster.com <http://www.myairblaster.com/>.


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Fidor Developer - Terms of ServiceVersion 5.3 | Valid since 2015-03-26
General Terms and Conditions Fidor Bank AG App Development
1. Scope
1.1 The Fidor Bank AG (hereinafter: "Fidor") enables developers to code software applications via an open interface (hereinafter "API") which grants access to the banking systems of Fidor and to systems and services of third parties. Insofar it is possible for developers to code innovative software applications (hereinafter: Partner Apps) for different hardware platforms, but especially for mobile devices. These Partner Apps can be used by the Developer or provided to Fidor customers (hereinafter "Customers" or "End Users").
Developer is the individual person or legal entity, which develops and / or operates Partner Apps on its own responsibility (hereinafter "Developer").
1.2 These General Terms and Conditions govern the business relationship between Fidor and Developers in relation to the development, roll out, operation and use of Partner Apps. Fidor furthermore provides an open management- and development environment and a community platform for Developers.
In addition to these General Terms and Conditions the terms of the Fidor Developer community shall apply (https://developer.fidor.de/terms-and-conditions/).
1.3 Changes to these General Terms and Conditions will be provided to the Developer via the Fidor website and via the e-mail address, connected to the account. They shall be considered to be approved, if the Developer does not disagree hereto by e-mail. The Developer shall submit his objection within two weeks of the notification on any changes to Fidor. Otherwise the changes are deemed to be accepted by the developer. If the Developer contradicts or does not accept the change of the General Terms and Conditions, the contractual relationship shall end and the right to use the API according Sec. 5 expires with immediate effect.
2. Development of Partner Apps and Going Live
2.1 The development of Partner Apps in the test environment is open to everybody without limitation, who owns a non-locked Fidor account
2.2 For the going live and the operation of a Partner App, Developers shall meet the following requirements:
- Fully legitimized Premier or Business account with Fidor
- Account must be held in balance
- Account shall not be seized
- Account is not locked
- Account must not be a seizure protection account
2.3 In its sole discretion Fidor shall be free, to (i) allow or exclude Developers to code Partner Apps (ii) to revoke a permit issued to program a Partner App and / or (iii) to suspend the use of the API for live and in-service Partner Apps.
2.4 The development of a Partner App with a reference to the following business models and / or services shall require the written consent of Fidor prior to the commencement of development according Sec. 2.1:
- Bitcoins
- Virtual currencies
- Own banking services
- All business models for which an official authorization is required, in particular a license under the Money Laundering Act (Geldwäschegesetz, GWG), the German Banking Act (Gesetz über das Kreditwesen, KWG) and the Payment Services Oversight Act (Zahlungsdiensteaufsichtsgesetz, ZAG)
2.5 All risks associated with the development of the Partner App shall remain solely with the developer. Apart from the measures offered via the website or the developer portal, Fidor shall not be obliged to support the development process or to provide other support services. The availability of the website or the developer portal is not a contractual obligation of Fidor. Fidor shall have the right to shut down the website or the developer portal at any time, without notice and for any reason without any claims resulting hereof for the developer.
2.6 The Developer shall unlock and use Partner Apps only, if they have been subject to an functional test and can be run in the test environment (sandbox) provided by Fidor without any significant errors.
2.7 Before going live, each Partner App shall run through the specified process of approval provided on the Fidor website. Any productive use of a Partner App without approval by Fidor is prohibited. Fidor will try to approve Partner Apps in due course, but the time needed for approval will however be dependent to the legal and technical complexity of the Partner App and the available resources at Fidor. A certain time line for the approval of Partners Apps cannot be guaranteed by Fidor.
2.8 A new approval pursuant to Sec. 2.7 shall be necessary after any substantial changes, updates and / or upgrades to an existing Partner App. Significant changes shall be particularly any new functional capacities of the Partner App or new ways to access data of the Customer via the Partner App. Any functional change to the Partner App shall be reported by the Developer to Fidor at least 15 business days prior to the scheduled going live date.
3. Contents of Partner Apps / Use of Trademarks
3.1 It is prohibited to integrate illegal content in partner apps. The developer shall be obliged to refrain from the integration of any content, which infringes the rights of third parties. The Developer shall indemnify Fidor on first demand from all third party claims, in case of any violation of third party rights, particularly in the case of a violation of copyrights or a breach of competition law. This shall also include the cost of legal defense and prosecution.
3.2 Developers shall not integrate any functionality in Partner Apps which is capable of storing, processing or transferring data of customers or data on customer behavior in an unlawful way and / or obtain data without permission of the customer.
3.3 The Developer shall not integrate any functionalities in the Partner App, which enables End Users to bypass existing processes and functionalities of the Fidor banking system or its use in an unintended way. This includes in particular any bypassing of account limits and other restrictions on the account.
3.4 The Developer agrees to integrate the claim "Powered by Fidor" and the latest corresponding logo provided by Fidor in a legible font size and connect it with a link to the website www.fidor.de, in the Partner App, the associated website or mobile application and all other commercial releases related to the Partner App. It shall however be in Fidor`s sole discretion, to waive this right and request the deletion of the aforementioned claims and / or logos without any reason.
3.5 Fidor shall be granted a simple and non-transferable license to use the trade mark of the Developer free of charge, for press releases or any other information and advertising publications about the Partner App for all known types of use, but especially for use on the internet or mobile applications
4. Risk Disclaimer / Responsibility for Banking Transactions / Information Requirements
4.1 Despite all security measures taken by Fidor, API calls and / or banking services induced via the Partner App can be disturbed by hackers and be misused or altered in a fraudulent way. This can cause considerable damage to Fidor and customers. In particular API transfer calls with outgoing money transfers by Fidor are not secured through a mTAN or FIN (Fidor identification number) thus stipulating an increased risk when using these functions.
4.2 The Developer shall be technically and legally responsible for all banking transactions and / or other requests and transmission of own data and data from third parties, in particular for data from End Users. He shall be obliged to integrate state of the art technical security measures in the Partner App or any other IT infrastructure used. The relevant standard is § 9 Federal Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz, BDSG) and the Annex to § 9 Federal Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz, BDSG) in the interpretation of the IT-Grundschutz Catalogues (BSI-Grundschutzhandbuch).
4.3 In case of an illegal third-party access to the Partner App or a malfunction of the Partner App, the Developer shall be responsible for all damages related hereto. He will indemnify Fidor on first demand from all claims of third parties. This includes in particular all claims of End Users and the cost of legal defense and prosecution.
4.4 Fidor shall have anytime the right to demand a guarantee for the use of the Partner App in the form of a cash deposit or a bank guarantee. If the parties cannot agree on the type and amount of the guarantee, the rights of use of the API pursuant to Sec. 5 of these General Terms and Conditions shall forfeit.
4.5 The developer shall immediately inform Fidor if (i) significant malfunction of the Partner App occur, (ii) an act of unlawful access of third parties on data can be deemed possible, or (iii) operational problems in the area of data protection occur. The aforementioned obligation of information shall always exist in the case of:
- hacking attacks
- customer appeals or appeals from third parties to the data protection authorities
- shut down of the Partner App for more than two hours
In case of a breach of the foregoing information requirement, Fidor shall be entitled to block the Partner App and to terminate the contract extraordinary. The developer is also required to correct any malfunction immediately and rectify the existing defects.
5. Developers Rights / API
5.1 Under the condition of compliance with the provision of these General Terms and Conditions, the developer shall be granted the revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, worldwide right to use the API. A distribution right shall be explicitly not be granted.
5.2 Fidor shall have the right to change, update, or cease the API in its sole discretion. Related Developer claims are excluded.
6. Pricing and Cost
6.1 For the use of the API Fidor will charge a monthly fee of 14,90 Euro. Sec. 1.3 of these General Terms and Conditions shall apply accordingly to a change of this fee.
6.2 Additional fees, commissions and expenses incurred in connection with the services by Fidor or by third parties shall apply (eg. SEPA transfers, chargeback fees). These services will be charged separately to the developer.
6.3 The Developer undertaking the going live of the Partner App according Sec. 2 is solely liable for all payments to Fidor. It is the sole economic risk of the Developer, to pass on and charge the costs pursuant to Sec. 6.1 and 6.2 to the End User or the user of the Partner App. Payments to Fidor are not related hereto.
6.4 Fidor will invoice monthly in electronic form and at the end of each month. The costs are due immediately and will be debited to the account of the Developer and the Developer grants the necessary permission herewith.
6.5 Any agreement on revenue or cost sharing with regard to a Partner App will require a separate written agreement.
7. End User / Users of the Partner App
7.1 If the Developer provides the use of the Partner App to End Users with or without charge, he shall have the sole civil and contractual responsibility towards the End User.
7.2 The Developer is not authorized to represent Fidor against third parties.
7.3 The Developer shall ensure that the Partner App shall only be used with the inclusion of legally effective and appropriate Terms and Conditions for End Users. These Terms and Conditions shall include an explicit disclaimer, that the Partner App is not provided by Fidor, and the responsibility for content and operation remains solely with the Developer.
7.4 Whilst distributing and concluding the contract with End Users, the Developer must not give the impression to be regulated by the banking supervision and / or operate an own bank.
8. Liability
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Here are my recommendations to supplement his excellent video for keeping your immune system in top shape, many of which coincide or dovetail with Null's suggestions: Of course these are just a summary, but if you want a more comprehensive review please consider my new book Take Control of Your Health, which is loaded with key insights to improve your health and immune system.
Avoid Sugar
Sugar decreases the function of your immune system almost immediately. It is especially imperative to avoid sugar if you feel you are coming down with something, but keeping sugar out of your diet for the long haul will do wonders for your health and make your body stronger. Be aware that sugar is present in foods you may not suspect like ketchup and fruit juice.
Get Enough Rest
Just like it becomes harder for you to get your daily tasks done if you're tired, if your body is overly fatigued it will be harder for it to fight off disease. Regular rest will keep you strong and ensure that your body has the strength to fight off any potential invaders. Be sure to check out my article on Secrets to a Good Night's Sleep.
Eat Garlic Regularly
Garlic is a triple-whammy: it's antibacterial, antiviral and anti-fungal. Garlic is one food that you should be eating every day. It is important to note that the garlic must be fresh to give you optimal health benefits. The active ingredient is destroyed within one hour of smashing the garlic, so garlic pills are virtually worthless and should not be used. When you use the garlic, compress it with a spoon prior to swallowing it, or put it through your juicer to add to your vegetable juice. If you swallow the clove intact you will not convert the active ingredient, allicin, to its active form.
Don't Let Stress Become Overwhelming
We all face some stress everyday, but if stress becomes overwhelming then your body will be less able to fight off illnesses. It has been estimated that up to 90 percent of illness and disease is stress-related. If you feel that stress is taking a toll on your health, consider using Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), a type of psychological acupressure. EFT is remarkably effective in relieving stress associated with all kinds of events, from work to family to trauma.
When you exercise you increase your circulation and your blood flow throughout your body. The components of your immune system are also better circulated, which means your immune system has a better chance of finding an illness before it has a chance to spread. In a sense, exercising helps your immune system to be more efficient in weeding out and acting upon viruses and diseases. You can review my exercise guidelines for some great tips to get started.
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The U.S. Postal Service announced Wednesday that it is going to continue with Saturday mail delivery — not just Saturday parcel delivery, as planned. And I'm sure there must be a good reason.
Surely, the decision not to cut the day of delivery that would save the Postal Service an estimated $2 billion was made in response to clamor from a public hungry for glossy catalogs and postcards addressed TO CURRENT RESIDENT. Sure, it was costly, but we were willing to pay whatever it took to keep ferrying those glossies from mailbox to wastebasket.
Nope. 71 percent of Americans polled supported the cut. (Heck, Netflix has said they'd be fine with an end to Saturday delivery, although they are admittedly trying to force us into the arms of digital and might not be the best to ask.)
Well, maybe the USPS discovered that the cut would not save as much money as they thought and decided there was a better business approach to take.
Nope. The statement from the postal Board of Governors announcing that Saturday will stay notes that "The Board continues to support the transition to a new national delivery schedule. Such a transition will generate approximately $2 billion in annual cost savings and is a necessary part of a larger five-year business plan to restore the Postal Service to long-term financial stability."
So if all this is true, why the sudden change?
Well, the Board of Governors decided that cutting a day of delivery, as scheduled, would violate the will of Congress. "The Board believes that Congress has left it with no choice but to delay this implementation at this time. The Board also wants to ensure that customers of the Postal Service are not unduly burdened by ongoing uncertainties and are able to adjust their business plans accordingly," the statement continued.
There's a rider attached to the most recent continuing budget resolution, as there usually is, that has been the bugaboo of any changes to delivery frequency, mandating that service be maintained at 1983 levels. It's a strange vestigial requirement from when the USPS was a needed lifeline that now functions as a kind of appendix to the body of legislation, serving no visible purpose but occasionally flaring up and costing billions of dollars. The Atlantic Wire's piece on the subject was headlined "Congress Insists That You Get Mail on Saturdays, Like It Or Not."
As far as the Postal Service is concerned, Congress is about as fond of change as "Downton Abbey" 's Earl of Grantham, which is to say, not at all, because they still think it's 1903. Downton was broke for a reason. And when actual members of Congress get up on the floor and announce that the way to fix the Postal Service's mounting fiscal woes is to urge kids to send thank-you notes, you know that your business is in good hands.
I'm sympathetic to the plight of the USPS. It's in a difficult position; neither flesh nor fowl, it straggles along with too much oversight from Congress to function like a business but too much potential liability to taxpayers in the event it fails to be allowed to wander off. It executes, with grace, skill and reliability, a highly complex service — that fewer and fewer people are willing to pay for. "To restore the Postal Service to long-term financial stability, the Postal Service requires the flexibility to reduce costs and generate new revenues to close an ever widening budgetary gap," the USPS statement pleads. "It is not possible for the Postal Service to meet significant cost reduction goals without changing its delivery schedule — any rational analysis of our current financial condition and business options leads to this conclusion."
Given what they know of what they're up against, could they not have sallied forth with the plan?
As The Post reports, some in Congress, including Rep. Darrell Issa, thought the continuation of Saturday packages would be sufficient to meet this obligation. "This reversal significantly undercuts the credibility of Postal officials who have told Congress that they were prepared to defy political pressure and make difficult but necessary cuts," Issa fumed in a statement.
This won't get any easier. The money quote from the Board of Governors statement: "Delaying responsible changes to the Postal Service business model only increases the potential that the Postal Service may become a burden to the American taxpayer, which is avoidable." You said it. Right now, the Postal Service is supported by ratepayers, not taxpayers. Last year it lost almost $16 billion dollars, between the continued drop in mail volumes and the need to pre-fund its employee retirement benefits before it becomes (as seems increasingly inevitable, given the pace of responsible change) completely insolvent.
The poor Postal Service has a lot to struggle against. Time and technology are taking their toll. First-class mail volumes are not returning. The labor costs of delivering through sleet and hail and dark of night are considerable. And now that people are buying homes again, the range of places to which they must deliver is expanding.
The news that the USPS is not, in fact, canceling its Saturday mail delivery makes me think of an elderly man with thick spectacles, a hip plate and suspenders announcing that he has changed his mind: He is going to the club to pick up ladies, after all. Either way, we know how this ends.
Whether you put yourself out there or not is immaterial. Who's lining up? And that's my money you'll be wasting.


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Every tractor has a story.
And I was glad to hear all 30+ tractor stories last Wednesday in Alliance, NE when I stopped by the George and Belva Krejei farm after shooting a farm auction earlier in the day for our Machinery Pete TV show on RFD-TV. We strolled through George's beautiful tractor shed and went right on the down the line, me asking questions and George telling me the unique history on each tractor in his collection. A few highlights:
Farmall C: 3rd one delivered to Alliance, NE
1928 Farmall Regular: 1st tractor George's dad bought new
Farmall F12: from Texas, "roughest riding tractor ever" - George K.
1940 John Deere L: with Hercules engine
John Deere G: bought in memory of 1st tractor George ever bought, a G back in 1951
Minneapolis-Moline GB: George's uncle tractor - hardly used at all
Just the tip of the iceberg here folks. Below is the full Youtube video walk through and interview I shot with George covering all the tractors in his collection...and a special treat at the end of the video, George took me to the back room in the house and showed me his amazing toy tractor collection. Here's the video:
Lots of tractors...lots of great stories. Thanks George!


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I purchased the Nokia 7070 as I am not someone who is bothered about having everything within my phone and had decided I wanted a phone that was simple, lightweight and looked stylish and this phone thankfully ticked each of those boxes for me.
The phone is simply designed and is made up of triangular shapes all over to create a phone that when open is angled yet smooth and looks truly stunning and different from any other phone out there but thankfully this phone looks the part when open or closed and does not try hard to have loads of stuff on it calling for your attention but simply the triangular design and the coloured triangle which flashes when you are receiving calls (my light is blue but as shown in the picture you can also get a pink one).
The inside continues in much the same theme basis as the buttons continue to be triangular shaped allowing for a stylish look that thankfully does not detract from useability.
- Lightweight
- Good battery life
- Excellent sound quality (loud volume)
- Slimline
- Stylish
- Bright and colourful screen
- Well designed buttons making it simple to use
- Attention to detail means that the phone does not lose functionality with its stylish design
- No camera/video capability
- No radio/MP3 player
This phone in my opinion is one for someone who wants to be stylish but not show off as the phone does lack some capabilities which other phones have and many people rely on like camera and MP3. If you are looking for something stylish, well designed, lightweight and with a good battery life then in my opinion this maybe the one for you as I have found the phone to be an excellent purchase and thanks to its excellent price it is certainly competitive for a phone without "additional features".


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The Nap Nanny is a big wedge of contoured foam with a super-soft fabric cover. It looks like a great place to strap in a baby for a comfy snooze. But the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is issuing an official complaint against the manufacturers of the Nap Nanny, alleging that the product creates a significant risk of infant injury.
According to the CPSC, all models of the Nap Nanny contain defects in design, warnings, and instructions. More than 150,000 Nap Nannies (Generation One, Generation Two, and Chill models) have been sold since 2009. A recall of the Nap Nanny in 2010 resulted in improved instructions and warnings to consumers, but the CPSC has continued to receive troubling reports related to the product. The CPSC has logged more than 70 incidents of infants falling out or nearly falling out of the Nap Nanny, even after being strapped in with the harness. Five infant deaths have been linked to the product.
Nap Nanny is marketed as a tool to help babies sleep better, especially babies with reflux who benefit from sleeping in a semi-upright position. The product manufacturer, Baby Matters LLC, claims that their product is safe when used correctly.
The complaint issued by the CPSC states that Baby Matters, LLC has failed to produce an adequate recall plan to address safety concerns about the Nap Nanny. Accordingly, the CPSC is requiring the company to notify the public about product defects and offer consumers a full refund of their purchase. This could prove difficult, since the company went out of business last month.
It's always sobering to hear about any infant injury or death related to a product that is supposed to be safe. I seriously considered buying a Nap Nanny when my second child came along. She had such horrible reflux that I was willing to try nearly anything. We elevated one end of her crib mattress so she could sleep in a semi-upright position, but that just caused her to roll into a heap at the bottom of the crib. It seemed like the Nap Nanny was the solution to our problems because we could strap her into a raised position — she'd stay put and ease the reflux while she slept.
Well, we didn't end up getting a Nap Nanny because we couldn't swing the $130 price tag at that time. Maybe that was a good thing. Our little girl is such a violent sleeper that she may have been one of those babies who ended up wiggling out of the harness and falling from the Nap Nanny. The thought makes me shudder.
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A Little Welcome Wagon: Tom Cruise and Will Smith will team up to throw the Beckhams a welcome-to-LA bash on Sunday for 600 of their closest friends, including Oprah Winfrey, George Clooney, Jim Carrey, Anjelica Huston, Steven Spielberg, David Geffen, producers Jerry Bruckheimer and Brian Grazer, Warner Bros. President Alan Horn and Universal Pictures chief Ron Meyer. And other neighbors.
Emmy Noms Are In: And Ugly Betty is sitting pretty with 11 nods. The Envelope has more.
What's Gotten Into Those Clowns? Has LAT replaced its copy editors with the creators of Bum Fights? Story after story about Michael Vick's indictment on graphic allegations of animal cruelty, is preceded with astoundingly inappropriate pun-ny headlines. Including, from the site's homepage: "A Dog-gone Mess." Seriously?


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DEAR AMY: I am writing this for my wife, who is afraid of suffering repercussions at work. She works in a professional office with about 30 people. She likes her job, is well-respected and gets along well with her colleagues.
One of my wife's co-workers insists on keeping a bowl full of chocolate candies in a common area located where my wife can see it while working at her desk. She passes by it every time she enters or leaves her office.
The temptation has proved too much for her, and she eats an average of three pieces of candy a day. Her candy habit has proved detrimental to her ability to keep away excess pounds.
She has asked her colleague to move the candy to another location or to bring in some healthier snacks, but he refused and told my wife that she should have enough self-control not to eat it.
She took her complaint to the office manager, but he refused to have the candy moved and told her that she needed to be less rigid.
My wife tried to get some of her colleagues to back her up, but they are all too afraid of the political repercussions of confronting the office manager.
PO'd Husband
DEAR HUSBAND: The world does not owe your wife, or any of us, an environment scrubbed free of risk or temptations. Following bans on smoking, profanity, alcohol, allergens, sharp edges and hurt feelings in the workplace, your wife would now like her company to remove chocolate from her sightline lest she overindulge.
Your wife's manager could have easily "fixed" this by asking her co-worker to keep his candy stash in his own office; for whatever reason, this is not happening.
It is her job to accept this. If she cannot mitigate the bowl of chocolate, then maybe she can place a bowl of apples next to it.
In short, I'm suggesting that she accept reality and take responsibility for working around it.
DEAR AMY: Is there some nice way to tell guests that they are being rude? We hosted a party for a small group, and about half of the adults pulled out cellphones. In the middle of the party they were tweeting, checking email and not interacting with the guests. It seems everywhere you go nowadays, everyone is fiddling with electronic devices and not interacting.
I thought this was rude. I wanted to say something, but nothing came to mind. How do you ask guests politely to put away their electronic toys and pay attention to the live people in the room?
Puzzled Host
DEAR PUZZLED: I understand your frustration, but this behavior seems to be less "rude" than it used to be, certainly in a casual environment. Sometimes, people are using their devices to communicate with other people in the room, by showing, sharing or tweeting to their followers. Using your phone at a sit-down dinner is rude unless you are receiving an emergency call from the baby sitter.
There is no way to politely chastise guests for their poor manners.
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Oglethorpe County voters will head to the polls today to elect a chairman for the county commission.
Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. throughout the county for the special, non-partisan election to replace former chairman Charles Mathews, who died Feb. 23 after a heart attack.
Candidates vying for the seat are Ted Hughes, Robert Johnson, Ken Mallonee and Billy Pittard.
The winner will serve the rest of Mathews' unexpired term, which runs through Dec. 31, 2004. If no one gets more than 50 percent of the vote, the top two vote-getters will square off in a runoff July 8.
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