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WASHINGTON {AP} The State Department cleared the way Monday night for Juan Miguel Gonzalez to travel to the United States so he can pursue his quest to be reunited with his son Elian, as negotiations continued between immigration officials and the boy's Miami relatives.
The department granted the senior Gonzalez's visa request along with those of his wife, infant son and Elian's male cousin, kindergarten teacher and pediatrician. The visas for the six could be issued as early as today.
The Cubans' request for 22 other visas to Elian's classmates as well as National Assembly President Rafael Alarcon, a top aide to Cuban President Fidel Castro was still being reviewed. State Department spokesman James P. Rubin said U.S. diplomats in Havana will submit lists of questions to the Cuban government concerning these requests to determine the merits of the cases.
Negotiations over the custody issues recessed Monday night without any word on whether any progress had been made.
Manny Diaz, attorney for Elian Gonzalez's Miami relatives, said, "We continue to be first and foremost concerned about the mental, psychological well-being of this young 6-year-old. To that extent we have spent a lot of time talking about numerous issues and we will be back tomorrow to continue our conversations."
Outside the family's Miami house, Elian and two cousins played on a slide. They hid behind a blue tarp hung in front of the slide and teased photographers by pretending to shoot at them with toy guns.
About 150 protesters gathered in front of the home, some waving signs like "Miss Reno are you ready for another Waco? We are." and "Clinton Coward, Reno Witch, Fidel Loco." Reno was a reference to Attorney General Janet Reno.
The Immigration and Naturalization Service had said earlier it would end the Miami relatives' custody of Elian this morning if they did not agree to give him up if they lose an appeal of a federal court decision they lost last month.
But the negotiations shifted Monday to how to reunite Elian with his father when he arrives in this country.
"Our goal is to reunite Elian and his father," said Maria Cardona, a spokeswoman for the Immigration and Naturalization Service. "The issue is not whether we will transfer Elian to his father, but when and how."
Juan Miguel Gonzalez has not seen his son since the boy was rescued off the Florida coast more than four months ago. The child has become the target of an impassioned international custody fight.
He and his family would stay at the home of Cuba's chief diplomat in Washington, Fernando Remirez, who lives in an upscale suburban Maryland neighborhood. Remirez, his wife and two children will vacate the house to make room for the visitors from Cuba.
A government official who requested anonymity said there is a possibility that Juan Miguel will travel from Washington to Miami to pick up his son but not necessarily to the home of Lazaro Gonzalez, the great-uncle with whom Elian has been staying.
Lazaro Gonzalez said Monday night, "If the father comes or not we don't know, but he is welcome here."
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"Why is there so much controversy about drug testing? I know plenty of guys who would be willing to test any drug they could come up with"
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DEFINITION of 'Captive Agent'
An insurance agent who only works for one insurance company. A captive agent is paid by that one company either with a combination of salary and commissions or with just commissions. He or she may be a full-time employee or an independent contractor, and may be provided with office space and benefits by the employer. Captive agents have in-depth knowledge of their particular company's insurance products, but cannot help a client who does not need or does not qualify for that company's products. The parent company may push its captive agents to sell certain policies or meet certain sales quotas.
BREAKING DOWN 'Captive Agent'
The opposite of a captive agent is an independent agent. An independent agent does not work for any particular insurance company and is often paid by commission only. Independent agents can sell policies from an array of companies. This arrangement can be better for clients because the agent can seek out the best policy for that client's needs. However, an independent agent may not have specialized knowledge about a particular company's products. An independent agent arrangement can be better for agents because it offers a more diversified source of income, but it can also be riskier because the agent may need to provide his or her own startup capital, pay for business expenses and arrange benefits.


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Arsenal's Hector Bellerin continues to be linked with a return to boyhood club Barcelona after an impressive campaign for the Gunners.
The 21-year-old joined Arsenal from the Barca youth set-up when he was just 16 and has gone on to blossom in north London, with the right-back now a key member of Arsene Wenger's side.
However, reports say the Catalans took notice of Bellerin in the recent 5-1 aggregate victory over the Premier League side in the Champions League and see him as the ideal replacement for Dani Alves at the Nou Camp.
Bellerin has continually claimed he is happy where he is and was quoted earlier in the week as saying his "future lies with Arsenal".
Paris Saint-Germain and Bayern Munich are also said to be interested in the youngster, who is under contract until 2019, but a move away from the Emirates looks remote as things stand.


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If cooking the traditional Thanksgiving meal sounds daunting, have someone else make it for you. Here's a list of places that are open and serving Thanksgiving dinner today. Call ahead as reservations are required at most places. Prices do not include gratuity or tax.
-- Dan Macdonald/Times-Union food editor
The Hilltop Club
Address: 2030 Wells Road, Orange Park.
Time: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Price: $19.95 for adults; $10.95, children; under 3, free.
Menu: Buffet includes roasted and smoked turkeys, roasted steamship round of certified angus beef, fresh pork with apples and chutney, classic corn bread stuffing, cranberry cassis relish, garlic mashed potatoes with gravy, brandy glazed carrots and fresh candied yams. Desserts include: praline and traditional pumpkin pie, pecan squares, strawberry cloud, baked apple crisp and chocolate cake.
Reservations: Required.
Phone: (904) 272-5959.
Rudolpho's Restaurant at Christmas House
Address: 604 Ash St., Fernandina Beach.
Time: 2-8 p.m.
Price: $36 for adults; $18, children.
Menu: Wassail served on the verandah. Complete homemade turkey dinner with dessert and coffee, served fireside. Wine and beer available.
Reservations: Strongly recommended.
Phone: (904)-321-2121.
Uli's European Restaurant
Address: 216 11th Ave. S., Jacksonville Beach.
Time: Four seatings: Noon, 2, 4 and 6 p.m.; walk-ins accepted until 7 p.m. but no later.
Price: $16.95 for Thanksgiving menu.
Menu: Two different traditional Thanksgiving entrees as well as regular menu. Holiday menu includes: Roast turkey with giblet gravy or baked honey Dijon-crusted ham with butter rum sauce. Each entree will be accompanied by a house salad, mashed potatoes, English chestnut dressing, candied sweet potatoes, cranberry relish and creamed peas and mushrooms. Dessert, in addition to the regular fare, is pumpkin pie and pecan pie.
Reservations: Required for parties more than two.
Phone: (904) 241-4969.
Sawgrass Grille & The Tavern
Address: 43 PGA Tour Blvd., Ponte Vedra Beach.
Time: Buffet from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., with holiday specials during dinner hour from 5 to 10 p.m.
Price: $15.95 for adults; $9.95, ages 3-11; and under 3, free.
Menu: Buffet includes spring mix salad, roast turkey with stuffing and gravy, pineapple glazed baked ham, roast beef, snow crab legs, garlic mashed potatoes, green beans almondine, sweet potato casserole, cranberry sauce, macaroni and cheese, pumpkin pie and pecan pie.
Reservations: Yes.
Phone: (904) 285-3133
The Surf Restaurant & Bar
Address: 3199 S. Fletcher Ave., Fernandina Beach.
Time: Noon to 10 p.m.
Price: $17.95.
Menu: Traditional Thanksgiving dinner plus regular menu served.
Reservations: Suggested, not required.
Phone: (904) 261-5711.
Gallery Bistro
Address: 9753 Deer Lake Court, in Tinseltown.
Time: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Price: $80.
Menu: Takeout meals only. One 10- to 12-pound deep-fried turkey, one quart of giblet gravy, one quart of Southern green beans, one quart of garlic mashed potatoes, one quart of bistro stuffing, one quart of sweet potatoes, one quart of corn O'Brien, one quart of banana-nut bread pudding.
Reservations: To-go orders are being taken today, and pick-up should be arranged at the time of the order.
Phone: (904) 997-8320.
Cafe on the Green and Masters Ballroom
Address: Marriott at Sawgrass Resort and Beach Club, 1000 PGA TOUR Blvd., Ponte Vedra Beach.
Time: 11:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Price: Cafe on the Green: $35.95 for adults; $16.95, children 6-12; and under 6, free. Masters Ballroom: $32.95 for adults; $14.95, children 6-12; and under 6, free.
Menu: Buffet -- Carving station includes roasted Carolina turkey with corn bread dressing, giblet sauce and cranberry relish, roasted pepper-crusted prime rib with au jus and creamy horseradish. Entrees: Coq au vin with buttered noodles, crabmeat-stuffed flounder with fennel lobster jus, roast loin of pork and wild mushroom ragout. Desserts: Pumpkin, pecan, sweet potato and fruit pies, rum raisin bread pudding with dark rum anglaise sauce, tortes, cakes and tarts.
Reservations: Required.
Phone: (904) 285-7777, extension 6750.
The Augustine Grille
Address: Marriott at Sawgrass Resort and Beach Club, 1000 PGA TOUR Blvd., Ponte Vedra Beach.
Time: 5-10 p.m.
Price: Varies.
Menu: Thanksgiving menu.
Reservations: Required.
Phone: (904) 285-7777, extension 6751.
Chart House
Address: 1501 Riverplace Blvd., Jacksonville.
Time: Noon to 8 p.m.
Price: Varies.
Menu: Thanksgiving menu as well as regular menu.
Reservations: Required.
Phone: (904) 398-3353.
Cafe Winterbourne
Address: 8725 Old Kings Road S., in the Brierwood Shopping Center.
Time: Two seatings, noon and 2:30 p.m.
Price: $18.95 for adults; $10.95, children under 10; and under 2 free.
Menu: Traditional holiday menu.
Reservations: Required.
Phone: (904) 448-8434.
Copelands of New Orleans
Address: 4310 Southside Blvd., Jacksonville.
Time: Noon to 8 p.m.
Price: $14.99 for adults; $6.99, children.
Menu: Pilgrims Platter: Turkey breast meat with corn bread stuffing, green beans with ham, sweet potatoes and cranberry sauce.
Reservations: Yes (but not required).
Phone: (904) 998-4414.
95 Cordova at the Casa Monica Hotel
Address: 95 Cordova St., St. Augustine.
Time: Seatings at 11 a.m., 1, 3:30, 6 and 8 p.m.
Price: $38 for adults; $19, children.
Menu: Five-course dinner.
Reservations: Required.
Phone: (904) 810-6810.
Bravo! Ristorante and the Riverfront Cafe at the Adam's Mark
Address: 225 Coast Line Drive, Jacksonville.
Time: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Price: $28.95 for adults; $24.95, seniors (55 and older); $14.95, children; 5 and under, free.
Menu: Brunch.
Reservations: Yes.
Phone: (904) 633-9095.
Sterlings of Avondale
Address: 3551 St. Johns Ave.
Time: noon to 7 p.m.
Price: $19 for thanksgiving menu items.
Menu: Regular menu with traditional Thanksgiving meals as well.
Reservations: Yes.
Phone: (904) 387-0700.
Bistro 17
Address: 1171 S. Edgewood Ave., Jacksonville
Time: Noon to 6:30 p.m.
Price: $21.95
Menu: Traditional Thanksgiving buffet.
Reservations: Yes.
Phone: (904) 387-6609.
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Happy Labor Day to one and all. So tell us what is your choice of beverage for today????
My hubby and I are enjoying some strawberry colada's I just made they are delish!
Strawberry colada sounds good! I'm drinking an iced blended cappacccino added chocolate frozen yogurt. It's yum too!
Hi Linda, I just never could get into those iced coffees.
I didn't have anything but water, but I love iced coffees!
Hi Mimi, I started to make some watermelon margaritas too lol.
Well since I worked it was all about the water for me......
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Indians, Jays finish in tie
Indians, Jays finish in tie
at Dunedin, Fla.
Wednesday, March 14
Indians at the plate: Cleveland managed six hits against Toronto, but was held scoreless for the first time this spring. Indians second baseman Josh Barfield -- son of former Jays outfielder Jesse Barfield -- led the offense with two singles in four at-bats.
Blue Jays at the plate: The Jays collected seven hits, but scored no runs for the second time in three games. Toronto has just one run in its last three Grapefruit League contests. Third baseman Troy Glaus had two hits, and Aaron Hill, Royce Clayton, Gregg Zaun and Matt Stairs each chipped in hits.
Indians on the mound: Right-hander Adam Miller pitched four shutout innings versus Toronto. He yielded three hits -- all singles -- and had two strikeouts and two walks. Miller threw 65 pitches, including 42 strikes. Lefty Juan Lara chipped in three scoreless frames for Cleveland.
Blue Jays on the mound: Right-hander Tomo Ohka turned in four strong innings for Toronto in his third start of the spring. Ohka threw 39 pitches -- 27 for strikes -- and allowed no runs and two hits over four innings Righty Victor Zambrano also pitched 2 2/3 shutout inning for the Jays.
Grapefruit League records: Indians 9-6-1; Blue Jays 5-8-2.
Up next: Toronto right-hander Josh Towers is scheduled to start against Philadelphia left-hander Cole Hamels when the Blue Jays take on the Phillies at 7:05 p.m. ET on Thursday at Bright House Networks Field in Clearwater, Fla.
Cleveland right-hander Jake Westbrook is slated to take the mound against Tampa Bay righty Jae Seo when the Indians host the Devil Rays at 7:05 p.m. on Thursday at Chain of Lakes Park in Winter Haven, Fla.
Jordan Bastian is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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If you're going to be in Destin Florida this Labor Day weekend, it's all about the sinking your toes in the sand during the day and enjoying some delicious food in the evening. Think outside the restaurant and embark on a memorable dining experience on the SOLARIS yacht.
The SOLARIS is the area's only dining and entertainment yacht, docked at the Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort. Our chefs freshly prepare fresh seafood and prime steak while you enjoy drinks on the open air sky deck. Cruise into the sunset and dance under the stars.
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Cruise through Labor Day in Destin Florida
For a lot of people, Labor Day means two things: a day off and the end of summer. But why is it called Labor Day? Labor Day is a day set aside to pay tribute to working men and women….that would be YOU!
Whether you work 9 – 5, 80 hours a week or 24/7 as a stay at home mom, you work hard and deserve to play hard. Get on the water and enjoy this relaxing weekend aboard the SOLARIS. Our chefs are cooking up a decadent menu of fresh seafood, steak and more.
Head up to everyone's favorite part of the SOLARIS, the open air sky deck. A perfect place to enjoy a cocktail, take in the fresh air and relax. You might even catch a view of a dolphin while you cruise into the sunset.
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Our guests have been eating their way through the summer with succulent meals prepared by our executive chefs while cruising the waters into the sunset and dancing under the stars. The SOLARIS chefs freshly prepare all meals on board the yacht's galley while guests embark on the boat, enjoy a cocktail on the sky deck and get ready for an unforgettable night out.
The three course meal includes salad and dessert but the entrees are our claim to fame. From our famed BBQ shrimp, fresh crab cakes and prime beef steaks, our chefs specialize in savory fine dining.
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Bidle Brings Science from Rider Labs to Lawrence Children
For almost 20 years, Dr. Kelly Bidle, associate professor of Biology, has thrived in the research lab studying how microorganisms adapt and thrive in extreme environments. In fact, it was exposure as an undergraduate student to research on hydrothermal vent communities that led her to pursue a Ph.D. studying the living conditions of extremophiles. Her fascination with these unusual microbes has supported her research career that encompasses the fields of microbiology, genetics, molecular biology, and bioinformatics.
"I became interested in these organisms that live in really strange and extreme ecological conditions such as high temperatures or high quantities of salt," said Bidle, who studied at the University of Maryland's Center of Marine Biotechnology and later, Scripps Institute of Oceanography. "It all began when I was a graduate student and was fascinated to learn how hyperthermophiles, a type of extremophile, can live in environments with temperatures more than 100 degrees Celsius, the boiling point of water."
Since that time, Bidle's research has mainly focused on various organisms and their extreme ecological conditions. Currently, six Rider students are working in Bidle's lab on two different projects involving Haloferax volcanii, a salt-loving organism that lives in the Dead Sea. One group is taking a look at how the organism deals with stress, and the other group is exploring how it responds to light and darkness akin to the circadian rhythm, Bidle explained.
Recently, Bidle has become involved with a new initiative that has allowed her to share her passion for science and research with another group of students. Bidle was recruited to serve on the organizing committee for the Lawrence Intermediate School's inaugural Science and Inventions Fair. The fair, which will feature projects by 130 fourth-, fifth- and sixth-grade students, will be held on Saturday, March 20, from 1 to 4 p.m. at Lawrence Intermediate School. Some of the student projects will include a steam powered boat design, testing a variety of citrus fruits to conduct electricity, and using different liquids to grow plants.
"I think it's important for students at a young age to learn what science is about, to ask questions and find out how things work," said Bidle, a Lawrenceville resident. "The ultimate goal of the fair is to teach students the scientific method and an understanding of good science."
The organizing committee is composed of parents, who are mostly scientists, including chemists, biologists and a computer scientist. Bidle's husband, Dr. Kay Bidle, an assistant professor of Biology at Rutgers University, is also serving on the committee. The couple's oldest son is a fifth-grader at the school.
Bidle has also recruited a number of Biochemistry and Biology students and faculty from Rider to participate on the day of the fair. Rider faculty members, who will judge the student projects, include Dr. Todd Weber, associate professor of Biology; Dr. Danielle Jacobs, assistant professor of Chemistry, Dr. Bryan Spiegelberg, assistant professor of Chemistry; Dr. Johannes Dapprich, a Science and Technology Advanced Research Institute fellow; Dr. Shawn Wild, adjunct assistant professor of Biology; and Dr. Peter Hester, associate professor of Teacher Education.
In addition, Michelle Madigan, a senior Secondary Education and Chemistry dual major, Stephanie Lauer, a senior Biology major, Shaina Palmere, a senior Biochemistry major, Natalie Baggett, a junior Biology major, Joseph Park, a junior Biology major, Ian Hakkinen, a senior Biology major, and Ashley O'Brien, a junior Biochemistry major, will coordinate a series of hands-on experiments for the students to complete while the judging takes place.
"These activities have been funded by Rider's Office of University Advancement," Bidle said. "We are very grateful to acknowledge the generous support of Rider in helping to make the event both fun and educational for the students of Lawrence Intermediate School."
Bidle said many of the Rider students who are volunteering their time are either interested in teaching science in the future or have a passion for community service. For example, Madigan started her own mentor program as a freshman through the Martin House. Each year, she recruits a group of 15 students to conduct hands-on science experiments as part of an after-school program in Trenton. They also donate school supplies.
"At the end of the program, we'll ask 'Who wants to be a scientist?' and the majority of the students will raise their hands," Madigan said. "It's awarding to see that they had fun and that we made an impact."
Since January, the Science and Inventions Fair committee members have took turns running a weekly after-school science and inventions lab where students participating in the science fair to learn about the scientific method through hands-on activities. For example, Bidle taught a lesson about termites and her husband taught a lesson about water density.
On Tuesday, March 2, four students from Rider taught a basic chemistry lesson to about 30 students. Those students included Michelle Madigan, a senior Secondary Education and Chemistry dual major, Alyssa Brown, a senior Biochemistry major, Justin Klosek, a senior Chemistry major, and Stephanie Lauer, a senior Biology major. The Rider students conducted an experiment using milk and food coloring to demonstrate how soap breaks down fats and oils, Madigan explained. They asked the younger students to come up with a hypothesis, make observations and analyze the results.
"The fair is a way to get kids interested in science when they are young because science is used for everything," said Madigan, who is student teaching biochemistry at West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North. "We wanted to show the students that science is really hands-on."


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A Methodology for Template Extraction From Heterogeneous Web Pages
The World Wide Web is a vast and most useful collection of information. To achieve high productivity in publishing the web pages are automatically evaluated using common templates with contents. The templates are considered harmful because they compromise the relevance judgement of many web information retrieval and web mining methods such as clustering and classification and badly impact the performance and resources of tools that processes the web pages. Thus, the template detection techniques have received a lot of attention to improve the performance of search engines, clustering and classification of web documents.
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Thai League may add ASEAN players to foreign quota next season
Thai Premier League (PLT) clubs are studying a proposal to change its foreign player quota — a move that will create new opportunities for Southeast Asian footballers.
According to PLT deputy CEO Benjamin Tan, the league is in talks with its clubs to introduce a mandatory ASEAN foreign player quota from next season.
Currently, each of the 18 PLT clubs are allowed to register five foreign players in their squad, of which at least one must be a player from an Asian country.
Under the proposed changes for next season, out of the five foreign players one must be from an Asian country and another must be from South-east Asia.
This means players from Singapore and neighbouring ASEAN countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam will have more opportunities of playing in Thailand.
"The idea of having ASEAN players as part of the foreign player quota has been ongoing for quite some time now," revealed Tan, 40, who was the Football Association of Singapore's former deputy director of development and planning. "We are discussing this idea with PLT clubs to see whether it is feasible to bring in an ASEAN player into their squads."
The Singaporean added: "I believe that if you bring the best players from countries such as Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, (the regional flavour) will certainly help to boost the following of the Thai League and also bring in a number of potential sponsors."
Widely regarded as the best professional football league in the region, the PLT enjoys sell-out crowds regularly, with big games attracting more than 25,000 fans.
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Manuel Gómez holds a Ph.D. degree in material science and metallurgical engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM), Madrid, Spain, where he serves as a Mining Engineer. In 1999, he joined the National Center for Metallurgical Research (CENIM-CSIC) in Madrid, where he was Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellow. His doctoral thesis received a Best Ph.D. Thesis Award of the UPM in 2004. Between 2005 and 2007, he worked as a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow in BAMPRI Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa, USA. In 2008 he returned to CENIM-CSIC, where he currently holds a Tenured Scientist position in the Department of Physical Metallurgy. His research is focused on aspects such as the recrystallization, precipitation, and phase transformation of high strength steels (microalloyed, TRIP, DP, etc.), with special attention to microstructural characterization, modeling, and simulation. He has coauthored near 50 scientific papers, 50 conference contributions, and 4 patents about subjects mainly related to the thermal and thermomechanical processing of high strength steels.
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I love the clear lamps that PB sales but didn't want to dish out the bucks for it. So I went to Hobby Lobby and purchased a large clear jar (at 50% off). We made a wood stopper and attached the hardware. I found a $4 drum shade and covered it with burlap. The hardest part was making the stopper!
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– Controlling is one of the basic functions of managers.
– It is the measurement and correction of performance.
– Its purpose is to make sure that plans succeed.
Who Controls?
– Control activities are essential parts of the responsibilities of managers at all levels in the organization (first-line managers, department heads, and top management).
Basic Steps of the Control Process
– The basic control process, wherever it is found, and whatever it controls, consist of three steps as follows:
– setting control standards.
– measuring performance against these standards (monitoring).
– correcting deviations from standards.
– Example 1: controlling blood pressure
– Control standard: systolic blood pressure not more than 140 mmHg.
– Measurement: measurement of BP every month.
– Corrective action: medication administration
– Relationship between controlling and planning:
They are know as the Siamese twins of management.
– Standards can be quantitative or qualitative
– Quantitative: Physical units: thermometers in each examination room in health centre
– Qualitative: clean sheets of examination beds.
– It is important to differentiate between practice standards and control standards
– Practice standards
– Are the organization's detailed definition of the desired level for resources, the delivery processes and procedures, and the desired outcome of these processes.
– Control standards:
– Are indicators selected to monitor compliance with practice standards.
– Are measurable variables (characteristics).
– Are less detailed than practice standards.
Sources of Standards
1) Official documents.
2) Historical analysis of institution's own data.
3) Comparative standards (benchmarking)
4) Scientific.
5) Expert opinion:
Levels of Standards
Minimum standards:
– Represent the lowest level of acceptable performance.
– Appropriate only in health systems and facilities where the general level of care is average so that those below minimum standards are suspected to constitute a significant problem.
Minimum standards don't.:
– Under such situations, the presence of minimum standards is expected to encourage health care institutions to reach and even exceed them with the ultimate result of improving the quality of health services the patients receive.
– Optimum Standards
– The best level of performance under the best possible circumstances.
– They represent the ultimate goals toward which a health service program would direct its efforts and continuity try to achieve.
– Optimum Standards don't.:
– They are suitable mainly for health facilities which have achieved a reasonable high level of development concerning their resources, organization and operational systems and processes, and which have well established successful control programs.
Empirical / average standards:
– Empirical standards are usually averages that are based on actual practice.
– They may be based on institutional, regional or national averages within a certain time frame.
– Examples of these standards may include:
– The average number of investigations by diagnosis.
– The average hospital stay by diagnosis.
– The caesarean section rate.
Empirical / average standards don't.:
– Empirical standards are preferred by many people because they represent actual performance and therefore, provide a realistic target, which has been achieved by some institutions and exceeded by others.
– Empirical standards also have some limitations. The most important limitation is that they may conceal actual poor performance even though the standards have been achieved.
– Criteria for Setting Good Standards:
– 1)Good standards should focus on critical elements, i.e., elements known by their demonstrated relationship to the outcome of service (validity).
– High volume: affecting large number, e.g., diabetes mellitus.
– High risk: serious consequences, e.g., pneumonia.
– High cost: e.g., MRI examination.
– Problem-Prone: problem specific to the facility or department.
2)Current: standards should be reviewed and revised or changed as necessary so that they reflect the changes in medical sciences and technology, as well as changes in the socio-economic condition of the community and in the values and expectations of the people.
3)Good standards should be specific, objective, and preferably expressed in quantitative terms, thus to leading to reliability of measurement.
4)Standards should be reasonably attainable (realistic) considering resources and environment:
– Too high either cause anxiety or tend to be treated with contempt.
– Too low tend to breed premature satisfaction and complacency.
– Participation of all levels involved in the process in setting standards:
– Ensures that they are realistic.
– Promotes compliance with standards.
– Promotes self-control.
Examples of Hospital Control Standards
Input standards:
– Hospital care should be provided at a level of 4 hospital beds per 1000 population
Activity / process standards :
– Except in extreme emergency, all patients undergoing surgery shall have a signed consent.
Input standards:
– Hospital care should be provided at a level of 4 hospital beds per 1000 population
Activity / process standards :
– Except in extreme emergency, all patients undergoing surgery shall have a signed consent.
Output Standards:
– The postoperative wound infection rate should not exceed 2% of clean surgical cases.
– What is Measurement ?
– Measuring is the process of assigning a value to some objects, events, or phenomena, according to predetermined rules.
– The assigned value is usually numerical (quantitative), but sometimes it is nominal (qualitative).
– The use of the word rules is very critical. It means that the method of assigning value must explicitly (spelled out) and clearly state what is exactly to be measured, when, and where. This is important for standardization, which means that similar results should be obtained when the same measuring instrument is used by the same person or by different persons.
– Importance of measuring performance:
– Provides measures of achievement, so that each member of the organization knows not only his/her performance, but also that of relevant other members.
– To provide an objective basis for rewarding members of the organization.
– To provide data useful in setting new expectations (objectives).
– For controlling (to identify correctable deviations from the plan).
– 1. Accuracy of collected data
– 2. Reliability of measurement
1- Performance meets standards (In-control loop):
– No change is required.
– Continue monitoring.
2- Performance below standards:
Determine the cause of the deviation.
– a. If the deviation is acceptable, or its cause is uncontrollable, activities continue with no intervention (Acceptance control loop).
– Examples of acceptance deviation:
– The size of the waiting list increases because one of the theatres is being renewed.
– B- If deviation is unacceptable and the cause is controllable, intervention should occur (Required change control loop):
– Examples:
– Average stay higher than standard due to unacceptable reasons:
– Physicians do not discharge patients in time.
– 3. Actual performance exceeds standard (positive control loop):
– a. If desirable (e.g., % of pregnant women attending antenatal care clinic exceeding standard in one rural health unit of the district):
– Reinforce.
– Freeze in place.
– Replicate elsewhere (change standard in other units of the district).
– If undesirable, the cause should be determined and either "acceptance" or "required change" control loops should be used.
– For example, physical plant maintenance expenditures may be below budget, yet this may be undesirable if preventive maintenance is postponed.
– Steps of Corrective Action:
– Identify the root cause of the problem.
– Develop a plan for corrective action that includes:
– The changes required.
– The appropriate actions needed to overcome the problem.
– The person or group responsible for implementing and overseeing the actions (adequate authority).
– The time frame within which the actions should occur.
– Implement corrective action.
– Monitor and evaluate performance.
– Most Common Causes of Problems Are:
– Insufficient knowledge.
– Behavioral problems.
– Defects in systems (usually responsible for around 70% of problems).
– Appropriate corrective action:
– Insufficient knowledge may be corrected by:
– Training and continuing education.
– Providing reference source, e.g., books, periodicals, internet
Behavior or performance deficiencies may be corrected by:
– Counseling.
– Emphasizing supervision and motivation.
– Changing duties.
– Transferring.
– Withdrawing certain privileges.
– Discipline.
Defects in systems may be corrected by:
– Changing policies and procedures.
– Changing lines of authority.
– Changing span of control.
– Redistribution of staff.
– Control systems should be extensions of the planning process.
– Actual performance should be compared to planned performance.
– Feedback from controlling to planning, which may lead to changing of strategies or objectives.
– Effective control systems should coordinate standards of different units with one another and with objectives of the organization: Sometimes standards are not coordinated
– Effective control systems should be based on good control standards (critical elements, current, objective, realistic, participation). These standards should be explicit (predetermined, written and formalized.
– Effective control systems should be based on appropriate information. If information is not appropriate, the whole control process will fail.
– Either too little or too much information is undesirable. Too much information may cause important indicators to be lost. Too little information may be missing critical elements.
– Effective control systems should be designed to give the manager sufficient valid (measures what it is supposed to measure), reliable, accurate and sensitive detects changes) information at the right time in a usable format.
– Participation of all levels involved in a process should be involved in all steps of the control process:
– Ensures that standards are realistic.
– Improves compliance with standards.
– Promotes self-control.
– Improves problem solving and corrective action.
– When possible control should be forward looking (input and process control) as well as feed backward (output control). Neither of three approaches to control is a substitute for the two others.
– Leads to corrective action:
– An effective control system must lead to corrective action; merely uncovering deviations is not enough. Therefore, the system should be able to disclose:
– Where the problem areas are.
– The magnitude of the problems.
– Who is responsible for them.
– What should be done about them.
– Timeliness:
Control should detect, report and correct deviations quickly. Late feedback may result in a problem being attacked after it has already cured itself, or worse, it may allow a problem to get so out of control that more drastic means of intervention must be employed. The consideration of when feedback is "late" depends on the process being controlled and the speed with which intervention can be successfully employed. The control system that is not timely is not only useless, but also costly.
– Flexibility:
– Blind and inflexible use of numerical measures causes distortions. Changes and unforeseen circumstances require that judgment, common sense, and flexibility be used in control systems.
– To help managers concentrate on significant deviations, control standards (UCL & LCL) should be defined in terms of upper and lower acceptable limits. These are termed (tolerance limits). This is particularly important in the field of hospital care because most of the work in hospitals is stochastic (subject to random variation)>
– Economical:
– The cost of implementation of the control system (mainly cost of data collection and analysis) should not exceed its benefits.
– The practical difficulty is that most managers, particularly in the field of hospital care, find difficulties in estimating the cost of control and the expected value or benefits to be achieved out of it.
– Understandability:
– Reports should be simple; those that are too complicated will not be used.
– Problem-Solving Capacity:
– The manager should have the knowledge, skill, resources, and authority to intervene. Therefore, effective control systems should consider training managers who are going to implement and use them.
– Responsibility:
Control systems should reflect the authority-responsibly relationship. As far as possible, the worker and the immediate supervisor should be involved in the monitoring and correction processes.
– Backup Support:
– There should be an organizational structure behind the manager, which reinforces the manager's authority both to control the process and to step in when circumstances beyond the manager's control cause the process to step to get out of control.
– This support structure can be regarded as a "super" control system over the control system itself. The super control system is asked to intervene only when the manager calls for help, or when the whole process (including the manager and the control system) appears not to be functioning properly.
– Respect for the control system:
– All people involved – from those in the process to the manager – should regard the control system as a serious and essential part of the organization. This includes respect for the need to have control, belief in the standards of the performance, a feeling of responsibility for maintaining control, and a feeling that they do have the ability to intervene when necessary.
– Effective control system should emphasize rewards as well as sanctions.
– Concentration on sanctions and negative corrective actions will eventually lead to dissatisfaction, frustration and failure.
– Sanctions and negative corrective action when needed must be used promptly, fairly, and equitable.
It is a periodic formal evaluation of how well personnel have performed their duties during a specific period.
– Purposes of performance appraisal:
– Improve performance (main purpose).
– To determine job competence.
– To enhance staff development and motivate personnel toward higher achievement.
– To discover the employees aspirations and to recognize accomplishment
– To improve communications between managers and staff associates and to reach an understanding about the objectives of the job and agency.
– To determine training and development needs.
– To select qualified nurses for advancement and salary increases.
– Identify unsatisfactory employees for demotion or termination.
– Reinforce standards of job performance.
– Select quality individuals for promotion
– Discover aspirations of employees and reconcile them with goals of heir organization.
– Determine salary standards.
– Performance appraisal (evaluation):
– Performance appraisal is an integral part of management control function.
– It requires as a first step, careful gathering information on how employees at all levels in the organization are carrying out their duties.
– The criteria and standards under which performance appraisal is carried out are of great importance and should be included in the employees job description.
– The basic contents of job appraisal should include examination of:
– The quality and quantity of work accomplished.
– The employees attitude toward the organization and it's goals.
– The employees attitude toward other workers in the organization.
– Interests in performance appraisal:
– Administrative function:
– It provides a method by which most likely fair decisions can be made with regard to promotion, demotion, and transfer of an employee or termination of employment.
– Informational function:
– It informs an employee as to how his supervisor judges their performance.
– It indicates which area needs improvement.
– It assesses the organization audit it's human resources and specific skills.
– Performance appraisal should also alerts the employer to strength and weakness in its recruitment and selection processes.
– Motivational function:
– Properly conducted performance appraisal should motivate employees to improve heir own performance, both in their behalf and with assistance of their employers.
– Influence of hallo effect:
– Hallo an effect obscures the true nature of the performance being apprised.
– Performance appraisal process is described as having both evaluative and developmental components:
– Evaluative components:
– Focus on past performance and can be accomplished by using behavioral rating scales with narrative documents summarizing behavior in each category.
– Developmental components:
– Focus on future behavior and includes mutual goal projection by employee and supervisor.
Performance appraisal process includes:
1- Day-by-day supervisor-subordinate interaction.
2- Written documentation: (recording critical incidences – completing performance review form).
3- Formal performance interview.
4- Follow up with coaching and or discipline as indicated.
– It is essential to consider the concept that appraisal is an emotionally charged area, and that it is interpretation by the nurses being evaluated can have a strong impact on their self-esteem and subsequent performance.
– The process of appraisal for employees should consider three behaviors demonstrated by the nurse:
– Display of awareness of the rational for actions and self-confidence in performance.
– Display of ability to communicate effectively.
– Display of autonomy and responsibility for actions.
– Guidelines to decrease the likelihood of discrimination when doing the performance appraisal:
– The appraisal should be in writing and carried out at least once a year.
– The performance appraisal information should be shared with the employee, and the employee should have the opportunity to respond in writing.
– There should be a mechanism by which an employee can appeal the results of his performance appraisal.
– The supervisor should have adequate opportunity to observe the employees job performance.
– Notes (critical incidences) on the employees performance should be kept during the entire evaluation period.
– The evaluators should be trained how to carry out the appraisal process.
– The performance appraisal is preferred to be behaviorally based.
– The nurse manager should rate on several different dimensions such as:
– Initiative; including attitudes in dealing with patients and others.
– Internal motivation.
– Knowledge includes level of knowledge and skills in performing different nursing procedures/activities.
– Ability to work with others.
– Potential problems and Common errors in performance appraisal:
– Leniency error: A = 90 – 100, B = 80 – 89, C = 70 – 79.
– Recency error. The appraiser affected by recent events or incidences
– Ambiguous evaluation standards.
– Written comments.
– Appraiser ability.
– Appraiser motivation.
– Criteria involving judgments are used for performance evaluation.
Hallo error:
Is result of allowing one trait to influence the evaluation of other traits or of rating all traits on than basis of a general impression.
A logical error:
Is a rating a nurse possesses another chch or behaviors that is logically related.
– Horns error:
the evaluator is hyper perfectionist may rate personnel lower than they should.
– Contrast error:
Tendency of managers to rate the nurse opposite from the way they receive themselves.
– Central tendency error:
A small range of scores was applied in evaluation.
– Anecdotal notes:
Are objective description of behavior recorded on plain paper or a form. The notation include who was observed, by whom, When, and where.
It comprises a description setting or background and the incident, and interpretation and recommendations may be included.
Value laden words such as good and bad should be avoided. It is advisable to make several brief observations over a time span to allow for temporary Variables and to identify patterns of behaviors.
An advantage of anecdotal note readings is that not coerced into a rigid structure.
`The manager categorically assess the presence or absence of desired chch or behaviors. Checklists are mostly for tangible variables, Such as inventory of supplies, and may be used to evaluate nursing skills also.
– Rating scale:
It does more than just note the presence or absence of desirable behavior. It locates the behavior at a point on a continuum and notes quantities and qualitative abilities. The numerical rating scale usually includes numbers against which a list which a list of Behaviors are evaluated.
– Ranking:
It forces managers to rank the staff in descending order from highest to lowest even if they do not think there is deference.
– Key behaviors in performance review:
– Put the person at ease.
– Make it clear that the purpose of the performance review is to help the employee to do the best possible job.
– Review the ratings with the employee, citing specific examples of behavior that resulted in a particular rating.
– Ask for the employee's feelings about the ratings and listen, accept and respond to them.
– Together decide on specific ways in which weak areas can be strengthened.
– Set a follow up date.
– Express your confidence in the employee.
– Remember:
– Evaluation should be done day-by-day.
– The nurse must be informed about his strong and weak areas.
– The performance appraisal usually done annually and as needed.
– The nurse must be informed about the results of appraisal.
– According to the results, the employer can determine the staff needs for reward, development, updating.


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The gym was packed for the "Grand March" as proud parents and spectators turned out at Big Horn High School to get a peek at those tuxedo clad guys and their gorgeous dates dressed in stunning gowns for prom Saturday night in Big Horn.
Forty couples enjoyed the affair in a beautifully decorated gym which featured lit columns plus a fountain with running water. The dance ended at 12 midnight, but those Cinderellas didn't have to beat the clock home. The kids headed to the YMCA for the All Night After-Prom party, which included dodge ball, movies and video games. All the gyms were open to the kids, and even a hypnotist was on hand to entertain the crowd.
The theme for the night…"The Last Dance," and Caty Graves, student organizer, explained that is was literally the last dance for that gym because of the new high school being built on campus. Plans are to move into the new school on June 10th.


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Oct 05, 2008 Phil Blackwell Uncategorized
For most of four days, the fans that braved the cold temperatures and (at times) wild weather during the second edition of the PGA Tour's Turning Stone Resort Championship were waiting for someone, anyone, to take command.
Finally, in the last two holes on a sunny Sunday afternoon, a rookie named Dustin Johnson did just that, using power and clutch putting to beat playing partner Robert Allenby for his first-ever tour victory and a top prize of $1.08 million.
With birdies on the last two holes at Atunyote Golf Club in Verona, Johnson broke out of a crowded pack of contenders. He finished with a three-under-par 69 and a total of 279, nine under par. one shot clear of Allenby, and two ahead of seven players that tied for third place at 281.
Charles Howell III, the 54-hole co-leader with Tag Ridings, shared third with Woody Austin, Ryuji Imada, Matthew Goggin, Steve Allan, Robert Garrigus and Davis Love III. Never able to get moving until birdies at 17 and 18, Love posted a 70 in his final round.
Johnson, an All-American at Coastal Carolina University and a member of the victorious 2007 U.S. Walker Cup team, only joined the PGA Tour in January, after tying for 14th place in the grueling PGA Tour Qualifying School finals last fall. He immediately earned a trio of top-15 finishes in the winter west coast swing, but then disappeared from any contention for the next six months.
Now, at the start of the Tour's "Fall Series", Johnson broke through, though he only led outright once — after the 72nd hole, the only time that it matters.
In Thursday's chilly conditions, Johnson started three over par on his first five holes, yet rallied for an even-par 72, then just kept climbing the board. He got a 68 in the first group on Friday morning, enduring both weather delays (one due to a hailstorm) to move within four of 36-hole leader Jeff Overton.
One of the tour's longest hitters (he ranks fourth, averaging more than 309 yards per drive), Johnson saw that his accuracy problems (he ranks 195th in that category) mattered less at Atunyote, with its wide fairways and length past 7,500 yards.
Steadily, Johnson moved closer to the lead in the third round. His 70 left him two shots back of Tag Ridings and Charles Howell III when play got underway on Sunday, as Johnson went out paired with Allenby, a half hour ahead of the leaders.
Allenby made the big early move. The Australian, winless on the PGA Tour since 2001, birdied the 2nd, 3rd and 5th holes to zoom to nine under par and go in front, while Howell and Ridings struggled. Ridings, in fact, would shoot a 79 to fall far back.
Starting on the 6th hole, Allenby ran off nine consecutive pars, and that figured to be enough, since all sorts of players would rise to seven or eight under, then drift back with bogeys.
Meanwhile, Johnson moved to eight under with birdies on holes 6 and 8, only to bogey the 9th to drift back to seven under. He had a birdie-bogey shift on 12 and 13, and was two shots back of Allenby when the pair reached the par-4 15th hole.
Here, it began to turn. Allenby, accurate all day, suddenly saw his drive hook right into the trees. Despite some nice recovery shots, Allenby bogeyed, and Johnson was one back of him and Overton, who birdied the 14th to move to eight under.
Trying to regain his early magic, Overton instead bogeyed 16 and 17, falling into a large tie for 10th that included Nick O'Hern, Pat Perez, Joe Ogilvie and Charles Warren.
So it was now down to Allenby and Johnson. And on the long par-4 17th, Johnson crushed a drive, leaving him a wedge to the green that he stuck close. The birdie putt tied Johnson with Allenby as they went to the 624-yard par-5 18th hole.
With the honors, Johnson crushed a drive 357 yards over the left bunker, right into the next group. Allenby went to the right and was forced to lay up with his second.
Going for the green in two, Johnson overshot the target, leaving him a delicate downhill chip from the rough for his third shot that he hit eight feet past the hole. Allenby's wedge third shot left him 12 feet, uphill, for birdies.
Allenby went first. His putt was dead on line, but six inches short. After tapping in for par, Allenby had to watch Johnson take the most important putt of his pro career.
From eight feet out, Johnson confidently hit the ball in the cup, pumped his fist, then watched as no one behind him would get close to his 279.
The only local entry to make the cut, Horseheads native Joey Sindelar, finished at 294, six over par, just two shots worse than defending champion Steve Flesch, who got to 292.
All of them, in the end, finished behind Dustin Johnson, who in a chilly week of golf picked just the right moment to get hot — and got rewarded with a win.
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Passing data between activities in Android
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In Android is simple to run one activity from other. But what if you need to send data to the new activity. You can use several ways, for example DB, preferences, file system or just use Bundle. Last one is very useful in practice and I will show how to do this .
For this operation need 2 classes.
At first Intent
At second Bundle
Intent intent = new Intent(FirstActivity.this, SecondActivity.class); Bundle b = new Bundle(); b.putInt("key", 1); intent.putExtras(b); startActivity(intent); finish();
There are 2 method which are interesting.
First method is
b.putInt("value", 1);
This method puts in Bundle key "key" and its value 1. Bundle class has a lof of put* methods.
Second method is:
This method puts our bundle in Intent which starts new activity.
Now need to get passed data on new SecondActivity.
This process is also simple
Bundle b = getIntent().getExtras(); int value = b.getInt("key", 0);
First method gets needed Bundle.
Second method gets our data. As you can see there is second parameter "0". It is default value. In situation when Bundle doesn't contains data you will receive "0" (default value).
I hope it was useful for you.
December 4, 2009 at 2:36 am
Hi there!
Your post was very useful for me, thank you.
Best regards,
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Nov 7, 2011
Watch Aquino Cojuangco: Facts They Don't Want You To Know
Written under: Philippines, Politics
We first saw this Aquino-Cojuangco video here and just this afternoon, but many have already shared this one in forums and social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook.
We believe this one's worth thinking about, regardless of who really made it and how much truth is in it. We believe that this video is a call for everyone to always challenge what is being given to us by the media (the internet included) and seek the truth.
Now a certified viral video, the Aquino Cojuangco: Facts They Don't Want You To Know video is a testament to the dire need for change within ourselves, on how we think, and how we act.
We believe that the video is not there to divide us, but to unite is in seeking what's really good for our country.
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Knowledge Base
What's the best lubricant to use with the Bionic Runner?
A Super Lubricant for the Bionic Runner
Ingredients: Water, 99% Glycerine( anhydrous), Soap (pure as possible)
- Mix 1 cup of glycerine with 1/4 cup of water.
- Cut off 1/8th of a standard bar (13 grams or 0.45 oz) of 99.44% pure Ivory Soap
- Dice or shave the soap finely with a knife so the soap will dissolve more easily.
- Add the minced soap to the liquid, heat the mixture in a microwave oven or on a stove top for a few minutes (don't boil) and stir until the soap is dissolved.
- Mix 200 ml (cm3) of glycerine with 50 ml (cm3) of water
- Add 15 ml (cm3) or about 15 grams of diced artisan or handmade soap (which is similar to Ivory Soap).
- Add the soap to the liquid, heat the mixture in a microwave oven or on a stove top for a few minutes (don't boil) and then stir until the soap is dissolved.
The heating is just for speed and convenience. I have made some with and without heating and it works the same.
I've been working for weeks and hundreds of miles testing various new lubricant compositions to try to find a super lubricant for both the inner and outer BR rollers.
This lubricant is not just a quantitative but is a QUALITATIVE improvement over past lubricants, including glycerine.
- Satin smooth
- Whisper quiet.
- Great Ability to take extremely high pedal pressures with minimal wear (muscling up hills is back)
- Improved pedaling efficiency
- Endurance: one application lasts over 100 miles.
- The annoying Click-Clack from each pedal cycle on one side disappeared.
By Volume: 6% soap, 18% water & 76% glycerine
By Weight: 5% Soap, 15% water & 80% glycerine.


text: This is our official 0.8 release. Anyone still using 0.6 should upgrade. Anyone using an earlier 0.8 release should upgrade too (and delete ~/.leksah-0.8/prefs.lkshp and ~/.leksah-0.8/prefscoll.lkshp). There's lots of new stuff, so please have a look if you can. Let us know which of the things that aren't there you think we should work on next. Some changes in 0.8: * Workspaces (for working on projects with multiple packages) * Better metadata (includes nonexported definitions in workspace packages) * Optional downloading of prebuilt metadata for packages (you can turn this off in the first start dialog) * Better completion (keywords, language extensions, module name, non exported definitions) * Split in a client and server part (Client part doesn't import ghc-api) * Compiles with GHC 6.12 * Many bug fixes and little enhancements * Unstable and very limited Yi mode (vim bindings only for now) Not new but worth mentioning: * <Ctrl> <Enter> evaluates current line or selection in GHCi * <Ctrl> R adds missing imports To building Leksah yourself: * You need GHC 6.10 or 6.12 installed. The preferred way is current Haskell platform. * You need Gtk2Hs including the GtkSourceView2 package. (Currently gtk2hs has no release for 6.12. On Linux we suggest you use the darcs version and install it via cabal install) * cabal install leksah * leksah Making a Gtk application look nice on Windows and OS X is not easy so we recommend using one of these prebuilt binaries: http://leksah.org/packages/leksah-0.8.0.6.exe (Windows) http://leksah.org/packages/leksah-0.8.0.6.dmg (OS X) (Installation of gtk2hs for the development of gtk2hs apps is not done by these installers. Please consult http://leksah.org/download.html for more details about installation! Background information can be found in the Leksah manual: http://leksah.org/leksah_manual.pdf. Known bugs and problems: * If you have installed an earlier 0.8 version please delete your ~/.leksah-0.8/prefs.lkshp and ~/.leksah-0.8/prefscoll.lkshp * The server may occasionally allocate much memory, which has been observed on Windows. You can simply restart leksah (of leksah-server if you have started it separately) * leksah don't run with ghc-6.12.2 (http://http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4038) Have fun Jürgen & Hamish


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Los Angeles, June 25 (IANS) Singer Taylor Swift says she loves Scottish people during a gig at Glasgow's SSE Hydro arena.
The 25-year-old is currently dating Dumfries-born DJ Calvin Harris and during a gig at Glasgow's SSE Hydro arena, the 'Shake It Off' hitmaker revealed the duo have more in common than most people realise.
"Look at all of these amazing Scottish people in this room right now. I happen to love Scottish people, personally," she told The Sun newspaper, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
Indeed, Taylor admitted to having Scottish roots, something she only learned about following a recent email exchange with her father.
She said: "My dad sent me an email. It said our whole family is from Scotland, so I evidently am one of you."


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Ga. department gets grant for technology upgrades
The public safety partnership grant awarded earlier this year to Ringgold by the Governor's Office of Highway Safety is the first grant the department has received
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Ringgold, Ga., officers are replacing old equipment in their patrol cars and updating computer systems with a $10,000 state grant.
"[The department's] got budget restraints to deal with and tornadoes last year [that crippled] the city's revenue," police Chief Dan Bilbrey said. "It definitely helps."
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Mt. Ellinor is one of the southern-most peaks in the Olympics, and is Mt. Washington's closest neigbor. A surveyor by the name of George Davidson named the mountain after his boss' youngest daughter. (Davidson also named "The Brothers" after her two brothers, and Mt. Constance after Ellinor's oldest sister.) On a reasonably clear day, Ellinor can offer a variety of incredible views of all the major Cascade peaks, as well as close-range views of neighboring Mt. Washington, Stone, Pershing, and a glimpse of Mt. Olympus in the distance.
The distance from the "lower" trailhead is 6 miles. After about 1/3 the way, the trail opens up to a long, straight avalanche chute that will lead you to the summit basin. Once you reach the basin, head SW to the "true" summit. Despite the reasonably low elevation, exercise caution while on the steep avalanche chute as well as the final pitch from the basin to the summit. There are abrupt ledges in almost all directions on the summit. This little mountain offers one of the best glissades early in the season. Elevation gain is roughly 3200ft. Allow 3.5 to 4 hours for the trip to the summit.
Getting There
1. Drive on US 101 to Hoodsport.
2. Turn West onto Lake Cushman Road, and drive about 8 miles, until you come to a 3-way stop.
3. Turn right onto FS Road 24, then left on on Fs Road 2419 (a.k.a., Big Creek Road).
NOTE: At about 5 miles, you can stop and take the lower trailhead, or head on up about another mile to the upper trailhead. Early in season, the road can be inaccessible without 4WD and good ground clearance, to get to the upper trailhead.
Red Tape
A NW Trails Forest Pass is required.
When To Climb
Climbing is typically done from May to October, but climbing Ellinor in the winter can add lots of fun and excitement, plus you can avoid the Spring and Summer crowds.
Camping is allowed just about anywhere, but is rarely done since this is a day climb.
Mountain Conditions
For latest conditions, contact the Hood Canal Ranger District at: (360) 877-5254.
Wildlife Info
If you have wildlife pictures, you can post them here.
External Links
- Mt Washington - Mt Ellinor traverse
Some great pictures of these two peaks along with a brief route statement.
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hi i had watch this video on yotu to learn how to convert my code to exe
my code is
xv = input('Please dr. enter the values of x ponits : ' );
yv = input('Please dr. enter the values of y ponits : ' );
ylim([-5, 12]); xlim([0, 12]); grid on;
but the problem is when i excute my exe i only get empty plot the function input is not work??? how can i solve this
thank in advance best regards m.s
Use inputdlg function
Generate the program as having a console window. If you generate it without a console window, there is no-where for the user to input the values.
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Two Chelsea teenagers plead not guilty in fatal shooting in March
Two Chelsea teenagers have pleaded not guilty in a March shooting in which one man has already been charged, authorities said.
Erick Romero, 15, of Chelsea was arraigned Monday in Chelsea Juvenile Court, charged with manslaughter and two counts of assault with a dangerous weapon in the slaying of Elder Morales, Suffolk district attorney's spokesman Jake Wark said in a statement.
Romero was ordered held on $250,000 cash bail. He was indicted as a youthful offender, which means he could face adult penalties, if convicted, Wark said.
Elder Portillo, 18, of Chelsea was arraigned July 16 in Suffolk Superior Court on a charge of second-degree murder and two counts of assault with a dangerous weapon. He is being held without bail, Wark said.
Jonathan Castro, 22, of Chelsea was already being held without bail after his March 6 arraignment on charges including first-degree murder, armed assault with a dangerous weapon, and unlawful possession of a firearm.
Castro and Portillo are slated to return to court on July 30; Romero will return Aug. 12, Wark said.
On March 5, Romero and Portillo allegedly ran up the front porch stairs of a home on Blossom Street in Chelsea. The two allegedly had knives on them and were attempting to attack Morales and another man. Morales swung a chain at the two suspects in an effort to protect himself, Wark said.
Castro allegedly joined Romero and Portillo on the porch and fired a handgun multiple times at Morales and the other man, who ran from the scene, Wark said.
Morales was struck by two of the shots. He was transported to Whidden Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, Wark said.
A prosecutor at Castro's arraignment said Castro and Morales were from rival gangs. Prosecutors said today that Romero and Portillo instigated the attack because Portillo believed that one of the victims had stabbed him some months before.


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Since then, there's been little semblance of effectiveness, or even effort in Dallas, a pair of facts to which Phillips fell victim on Monday.
"I feel very badly for Wade, to be honest with you,'' Coughlin said, per Paul Schwartz of the New York Post. "It's a highly-competitive business we're in, we all want to win and we want to win every game and that's the nature of our profession. Really no one wants to see a coach dismissed or his family have to go through what they're going through so from a professional standpoint, from someone that's one of the 32 we extend our best to Wade and his family.''
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Killing or injuring a fetus at any stage of development would be a crime under a bill passed by the Florida House on Friday.
The House voted 74-42 for the bill that expands a current law, which allows for murder or manslaughter charges if a fetus dies after it has developed to the point where it can survive outside the womb. Current law also doesn't apply to injured fetuses.
The case of Remee Jo Lee, a Tampa-area woman who had a miscarriage after being tricked into taking abortion pills by her ex-boyfriend, was mentioned by opponents and supporters during debate.
"The child died and Remee Lee and her family get a life sentence. They suffer every day," said Rep. Larry Ahern, R-Seminole and the bill's sponsor. "And the perpetrator of this crime who admitted his guilt to the police was not even arrested immediately because they weren't sure how to charge him. It took the FBI and federal investigators to finally come in and charge him."
Federal authorities initially charged John Welden with killing Lee's unborn child and he faced up to life in prison. That charged was dropped when Welden agreed to plead guilty to product tampering and he was sentenced to nearly 14 years in prison.
Rep. Mike Clelland agreed that Lee's situation was tragic, but said that the bill is too broad and could apply in cases like car accidents where the driver at fault never intended to harm a fetus.
"This bill speaks to any crime - any crime - without regard to one's knowledge that the victim is pregnant (and) subjects those folks who commit much, much less serious crimes than an intentional act of giving someone an abortion pill to serious criminal penalties," said Clelland, D-Lake Mary.
Other Democrats raised concerns about enforcement.
Rep. Elaine Schwartz said it could be impossible to know in some cases whether a miscarriage is caused by actions during a crime or for other reasons. She also was worried that first responders at accidents would subject women to personal questions.
"Women will be subjected to questioning, to interrogation whenever there is an accident or some event when their injured. Are they pregnant? When was the last time they had intercourse? It is intrusive," said Schwartz, D-Hollywood. "It's much too broad, it's unenforceable and it is part of a war on women."
Lee watched the debate from the House gallery while holding the sonogram images of the 6-week old fetus.
"I don't want this to happen to anybody else, I don't want any other unborn children to suffer from this, I don't want any other woman to go through what I've been through," she said afterward.
Gov. Rick Scott is anti-abortion and believes the lives of unborn children must be protected, his spokesman John Tupps said. The governor will review any final legislation that makes it to his desk, he said.
Penalties for killing or injuring a fetus under the bill (HB 59) would be the same as if the crimes were committed against a person, except that the death penalty could not be sought.
Similar bills have been filed and died nearly every year since the law applying to viable fetuses was passed in 2005.
Also Friday, a parallel bill was discussed in the Senate, where Democrats raised similar questions.
Senate sponsor Sen. Kelli Stargel said some couples spend months or years and sometimes thousands of dollars trying to have a baby and the stage of development shouldn't matter.
"Just because that baby wasn't viable, doesn't mean it doesn't matter," she said.
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Question of the Week: Why Am I Losing Hair From My Weight Loss?
Yikes – are you losing hair?
It can be a scary thing – especially for women.
You can lose hair from weight loss if you have a lot of weight to lose which comes from your body being stressed, the sudden change in eating, and hormones being released from your fat as it melts off of your body.
This temporary condition is called Telogen Effluvium. Try pronouncing those words.
The short of this condition is that the hormones that are being released from your fat coupled with your change in eating is causing stress on your hair follicle.
It only effects the hair follicles that would have already been lost soon, but speeds up the process.
The thing to remember is it is temporary.
We women unfortunately have the problem of having hormones that can constantly mess with our bodies. I've actually experienced this once before in my early 30's when I had a really bad hormone imbalance.
I didn't go bald, but I was losing more hair than usual.
So here I am in my 21st week of my Ideal Protein protocol diet and about 4 weeks ago I did notice that I had started losing more hair when I washed my hair, when I dried my hair, and styled it.
Don't know why I didn't think to do this originally, but I immediately added Biotin and a B-12 vitamin to my diet to help slow down – if not stop – the hair loss.
It's taken about 4 weeks for the supplements to take effect and I'm noticing a decrease in hair loss now.
It really freaks some people out and they immediately think they should stop dieting or do something different.
If your program is a healthy program and it's working for you – please don't quit. Don't use this as an excuse to stop from realizing your dream of getting to your goal weight.
It's temporary.
You're hair will grow back and most likely – you are the only one that notices anything different.
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By Barry MillingtonOxford University Press; 320 pp. $39.95
There's a pronounced Internet aesthetic at work in Barry Millington's bicentenary tribute to Richard Wagner. The author of more conventional books on the composer's life and works, Millington here takes a nonlinear approach to his vast subject, minimizing chronological structure in favor of associative jumps, pivots and stand-alone blog-like entries. The 285 images do a lot of the work, as they would on a website — instantly summoning period and place, major and minor players, polemic (anti-Semitic and other caricatures) and politics. Excerpts from scores and other documents appear in facsimile, while a huge assortment of stage pictures in color testifies to evolving taste in Wagner production. You've heard of the man's penchant for silks and satins? Check out his own designs for a frilly housecoat and breeches, in the chapter "In the Pink."
This is not to imply that Millington has produced a frivolous volume. He may not actually deliver on the promise to "demolish … stereotypes once and for all" — he sometimes magnifies them — and the portrait of Wagner that emerges here evokes less of a "sorcerer" than a flamboyant, eccentric celebrity. But this author's knowledge is daunting in its cultural–historical scope, and it is musically precise. If his treatment of the operas is uneven — with Parsifal dispatched more summarily than Der Fliegende Holländer — he usually has something to offer the beginner as well as the practiced Wagnerite.
It's no surprise that the Ring receives the most riveting treatment. The chapter's apparently casual organization — another symptom of internet contagion — can be off-putting, with sources, plot, music, poetics, philosophy, criticism, theory all vying for attention less courteously than in more traditional works. But that associative freedom, that crosscutting, also helps the discussion achieve resonance. Amid stimulating comments on the Ring cycle by Shaw, Adorno, Mann, we can brush past allusions to Jung, Schopenhauer and Marx and turn a page to read about key structures, the opening bars of Das Rheingold or Wotan's second scene with Erda, the role of ensemble writing in Götterdämmerung — and even the changing attitudes in recent years toward the role of leitmotif.
In his relatively few chapters of straight biography Millington excels at compression and especially seasoning, by means of well-chosen details and deft use of quotes. He lets Liszt tell us about orchestration in Lohengrin, and Wagner boast, justifiably, of the hyper-charged content of Die Walküre's Act II. The author's own style may not be universally admired — chapter titles such as "Fatal Attraction: Tannhäuser" give some idea why — but it too may appeal to a different audience.
This book is very much of our own time. Millington tends, for instance, to emphasize the female characters, as he does justifiably in the "Senta-centered" view of Der Fliegende Höllander derived partly from Nina Parly's 2011 study. And what of the tolerance exhibited for Wagner's human excesses? But the surest sign of the times is Millington's ability to sugarcoat even his rigorous analyses, to favor the visual, facilitate browsing — and never tax our shrinking attention span.
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