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The Brizo Directional Wave Height Sensor utilizes Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) to measure wave statistics. Since the Brizo uses GNSS to calculate its heading, no calibration is required. The sensor is housed in a robust enclosure for rough environments. The sensor runs autonomously and can record data to SD cards, output over RS-232 or send messages over one of the embedded telemetry options available.
Wave Statistics: Max Wave Height, Significant Wave Height, Peak Period, Mean Wave Direction, Mean Spread (These are frequently used wave stats but not a complete list).
Brizo - Wave motion sensor using GPS and GLONASS, L1&L2 signals designed to store data internally, or interface with an external datalogger. Includes power cable, RF cable, GNSS antenna, USB cable, serial cable.
Brizo-I - Includes Iridium communications on Brizo, Iridium modem and antenna.
Brizo-C - Includes cellular communications on Brizo, cellular modem and antenna.
Brizo-R - Includes 900MHz radio communications on Brizo, radio transceiver and antenna.
- Measure both wave height & direction
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- Internal Logger
- Cellular Module for data transmission
- Iridium SBD Module for unlimited range & ocean-wide coverage
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- Measures max wave height, significant wave height, average wave height, peak period, mean wave direction and mean spread

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Lawsuit filed against nonprofit connected to Eric Greitens
ST. LOUIS - An attorney is suing a nonprofit group connected to former Gov. Eric Greitens for its records.
Attorney Elad Gross filed a petition against A New Missouri to the Cole County Circuit Court on Friday evening. According to a news release, Gross requested documents from the organization in early June, but never received a response.
The lawsuit also includes three board members in A New Missouri: Michael Adams, Robin Simpson and Jeff Stuerman.
I filed a lawsuit against the #darkmoney organization A New Missouri, Inc. We will take back our state from the powerful who hide in the shadows and build a government that is responsive to Missourians.— Elad Gross (@BigElad) June 22, 2018
I welcome @HawleyMO to join. #mosen #moleghttps://t.co/lPEvgW5Qgr
A New Missouri was created to promote Greitens' political agenda as governor. Critics call the nonprofit a "dark money" organization because it's allowed to conceal the identities of its donors.
A Missouri House panel originally submitted a subpoena to obtain records from the Greitens campaign and A New Missouri, but withdrew its request from a Cole County judge in early June.


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|Results from collision energy optimization
I have recalibrated the CE predictor based on my previous results and this works really well. However, when I run samples with longer peptides Skyline predicts collision energies up to 80, while the instrument only allows for collision energies up to 65. IS there any way of setting a global maximum value for Skyline?
An additional problem that I have run into is that Skyline occasionally chooses 0 as the collision energy for some peptides Even though I get good results for them in the CE optimization. Is it possible to tell Skyline to use the default value for the collision energy rather than 0 in these cases?
Another, more rare, issue that I've had is that Skyline sometimes provides me with duplicated Precursor-Product ion pairs which make Xcalibur complain. Is there any way around this?
I know that these are quite a few questions, but if you have any solution to any of the problems it would be much appreciated.
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Pilot Jokes
A: Start out with a large one.
A: a flying sorcerer.
A: Pilot error.
A: At the end of the flight the jet engine stops whining
A: Toilet paper hanging on the clotheslines.
A: God doesn't think He's a fighter pilot.
A: He can always boil his tie. (pilots eat with food in lap; getting tie dirty)
A: Because they knew she wasn't going to get up for any bathroom breaks
A: You have to purchase two airline tickets.
A: The cockpit door!
A: The Swine Flu to Hawaii on flight H1N1
A: a pilot, you racist.
A: By introducing a special Tiger Woods rate where mistresses fly free!
A: So the pilot can sit on his wallet.
A: When they get mad they can't afford to fly off the handle so they gotta go greyhound off the handle.
A: A hot air baboon!
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I am not a handkerchief girl and would have never considered using one or even going near a hankie shop until the other day when I was passing one in Roppongi Hills. For some reason, I was drawn in and I was amazed by the selection. Apart from the array of rather flouncy lady numbers, there were some gorgeously fun ones, ranging from a men's choice of golfing, fishing or cycling-themed items, to the more typical cutesy animal-themed ones. They were rather exquisite and I wanted to buy them all, but I wouldn't even want to wipe my sweaty brow with one, let alone blow my nose on it!
You can see their website here.
I love the packaging and the way that the handkerchief is folded to show both images.
The perspective is great on this one with the golfer far away and the ball up close.
I love this view of a swimming pool from above.
This idea is so cute. The embroidered cat is hanging from the top of the hankie and looks like it's pulling down the edge. The dog looks like he's pulling the hankie from the side with his teeth. Kawaii!


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|The Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) repository holds full-text theses and dissertations submitted for higher degrees at the University (including submissions from former Cape Technikon and Peninsula Technikon).
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RKO Radio Pictures, 95m 43s
The feature film debut from revered director Nicholas Ray, THEY LIVE BY NIGHT is roughly equal parts film noir, road movie and tragic romance. Its influence on GUN CRAZY (1950), PIERROT LE FOU (1965), BONNIE AND CLYDE (1967), BADLANDS (1973) and many other movies cannot be underestimated. THEY LIVE BY NIGHT had been known alternately as THIEVES LIKE US, YOUR RED WAGON and THE TWISTED ROAD before its eventual release in the US. In terms of self-awareness of the dark genre it reflects, the final title treatment stands as one of the most appropriately entitled examples of genre filmmaking.
After a most unusual prologue for what ultimately is a downbeat story, THEY LIVE BY NIGHT commences properly with a prison break in its later stages. The newly free men include lifers Elmo "One-Eye" Mobley, AKA Chickamaw (Howard Da Silva), the square-jawed Henry "T-Dub" Mansfield (Jay C. Flippen) and 23-year-old pretty boy Arthur "Bowie" Bowers (Farley Granger). The three wind up staying with Chickamaw's alcoholic brother (Will Wright), where Bowie begins to get acquainted with Chickamaw's plain but undeniably attractive niece Catherine "Keechie" Mobley (Cathy O'Donnell). Wrongly imprisoned, Bowie explains to Keechie he served seven years before his escape, and his history prior to incarceration would have dismantled any young man's future. His pop was killed over a pool game, and his mother ran off with the guy who offed her husband! Keechie can empathize to some extent, since her mother did not hang around either.
After the three escapees pull off a successful bank job, Bowie's hard luck continues when his gun is discovered at a crime scene featuring his prints. That incident sets him and Keechie on the run in the forlorn hope they can find happiness. Naturally the young couple would prefer to leave Chickamaw and T-Dub in their dust, but the past has a nasty habit of hunting down hapless film noir protagonists. As the story progresses, Bowie remains indebted to the men who engineered his escape from the big house. Though Bowie describes T-Dub as "steady" in the early moments of the film, later T-Dub none too gently reminds "The Kid" who sprung him from prison. Repeated compositions of Bowie symbolically imprison him in cage-like surroundings. He may have fled the joint, but the recurring images that oppress him suggest he is not really free, and perhaps never will be.
Such film noir sensibilities are the essence of THEY LIVE BY NIGHT, which advances the genre by way of creative cinematography, unforgiving social themes and imperfect characters whose poor decisions follow them. The great Robert Mitchum was interested in the role of Chickamaw, but was considered a leading man by the time THEY LIVE BY NIGHT was in pre-production. That was probably just as well, since Howard Da Silva makes a lasting impression as the one-eyed brute Chickamaw, whose blindness in one eye never is explained. Is his bad eye the result of WWII combat, or perhaps a battle scar from a previous crime? After he shoots a pesky cop, it might be assumed the latter. One would think he would sport glasses in an effort to conceal his most identifiable trait, but perhaps such matters of practicality would be pointless in the noir world, where a character's true self almost always finds expression. Interestingly, Chickamaw is shot dead (off camera) when he attempts to go it alone on a liquor store holdup. Thus the fatal flaw of criminals is shown to be their inability to stick together. The criminal code seems incredibly self-centered as the fugitives are ratted on by some of those closest to them. First Chickamaw's older brother sings like a canary after his daughter runs off with Bowie, later Mattie (Helen Craig) sells out to get her husband out of prison.
At the core of THEY LIVE BY NIGHT is the plight of poor, unworldly southerners like Bowie, a young man who has no idea why anyone could become fascinated with horseback riding or the peculiar game of golf. Bowie and Keechie are married by bargain-basement wedding master Hawkins (Ian Wolfe) for $20, with a $5 surcharge for a wedding ring. The cheapness of the proceedings is telling since money consistently brings the newlyweds nothing in the way of happiness. The "trigger-happy hillbilly" Bowie learns he is not welcome at fancy clubs, cannot relocate to Mexico, and leaves money with the woman who betrays him. Early in the film, Bowie speaks of no wild ambitions; he just wants his own service station, a familiar dream of the film noir protagonist (i.e. OUT OF THE PAST [1947], 99 RIVER STREET [1953]). But there is nothing like that in the cards for Bowie, who has to endure one of the great film noir lines from Hawkins, who tells him, "…I won't sell you hope when there ain't any."
Based on the novel THIEVES LIKE US (1937) by Edward Anderson and written for the screen by Charles Schnee, THEY LIVE BY NIGHT contains impressive location footage that adds a strong sense of the real world to the narrative. But what elevates this film more than anything from lesser crime stories is the positively stunning black and white cinematography. It is difficult to imagine the viewing experience being nearly the same had the film been shot in color. Obviously, that quality is one of the hallmarks of film noir. Cinematographer George E. Diskant handled the camera for an incredible array of noir productions, including DESPERATE (1947), PORT OF NEW YORK (1949), BEWARE, MY LOVELY (1952), THE NARROW MARGIN (1952) and KANSAS CITY CONFIDENTIAL (1952). Diskant was teamed with Ray again for A WOMAN'S SECRET (1949), THE RACKET (Ray uncredited, 1951) and ON DANGEROUS GROUND (1951), the last of which probably is the best of their collaborations. Cathy O'Donnell and Farley Granger would be matched again in director Anthony Mann's downward-spiral film noir SIDE STREET (1950). Director Robert Altman would preserve the Anderson novel's title for his 1974 adaptation THIEVES LIKE US.
The Criterion Collection's 2K digital restoration of THEY LIVE BY NIGHT presents the film in optimal condition, framed at the original theatrical scope of 1.37:1 and complete with uncompressed monaural soundtrack for the Blu-ray edition. The audio commentary option was ported from the Warner Brothers DVD first released in 2007 as part of FILM NOIR CLASSIC COLLECTION, VOL. 4. The track teams Farley Granger with the ever reliable film noir expert Eddie Muller. RKO boss Howard Hughes did not much care for THEY LIVE BY NIGHT according to Granger. The film sat on the shelf at RKO for two years before a successful screening in London prompted an American theatrical run. Both Granger and Muller have a lot of nice things to say about first-time director Nicholas Ray, whose approach to filmmaking challenged conventions of the day. Ray reached for a sense of authenticity beyond his contemporaries. Despite the obvious presence of various processed shots, at least one dramatic transition from location to soundstage, and Production Code concessions, with THEY LIVE BY NIGHT Ray established himself as a persistently convincing filmmaker capable of informing all four corners of the frame. He also began to build his reputation as a director perfectly willing to drive a film in one direction before switching gears and winding up somewhere completely different than the opening act implied. His film noir classics IN A LONELY PLACE (1950) and ON DANGEROUS GROUND both follow that pattern. Ray's groundbreaking cinema inspired a new generation of French filmmakers who ignited the New Wave that emboldened cinema of the late 1950s and 1960s. Muller also considers THEY LIVE BY NIGHT the first true road movie, and he credits RKO Production Chief Dore Schary for the vast assortment of noir films that studio would produce. Schary understood film noir material suited RKO very well since interesting stories could be filmed on tight budgets. RKO did not have the type of resources that the major studios possessed.
Another reappearance from the Warner DVD is the succinct featurette "THEY LIVE BY NIGHT: The Twisted Road" (6m 10s) with film critics Molly Haskell and Glenn Erickson, filmmakers Christopher Coppola and Oliver Stone and noted film noir historians Alain Silver and James Ursini. The remaining supplemental material is new to this Criterion edition. The most significant piece is "Outside of Time: Imogen Sara Smith on THEY LIVE BY NIGHT" (20m 53s). Smith sees THEY LIVE BY NIGHT as one of the key films of the late 1940s that transferred film noir from the standard urban milieu into country settings and seemingly open highways. An excellent point raised by Smith is the road film under review subverts the notion of the American highway as a metaphor for freedom. These roads lead to nowhere, and the couple's automobile further alienates them from society, as it in effect cuts them off from other people. Smith also references director Fritz Lang's YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE (1937) as an important precursor to THEY LIVE BY NIGHT. Both films borrowed from the exploits of Bonnie Elizabeth Parker and Clyde Chestnut Barrow, and Ray seems to draw from the social context of the Lang film that was released a decade earlier than Ray's production. Where the two films most differ resides within the protagonists. Bowie and Keechie are more victims of circumstance than hardened criminals (as the opening prologue states, the two "…were never properly introduced to the world we live in…"). They are less bound by crime than their respective outsider statuses. That feeling of otherness, of course, is one of the noir film's most dominant tropes. Smith notes Ray himself did not fit particularly well into society's institutions, yet he always made the most of the opportunities before him. Though he enjoyed the most creative freedom while making THEY LIVE BY NIGHT, he exercised less control over the more famous films he would direct subsequently, such as IN A LONELY PLACE, JOHNNY GUITAR (1954) and REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (1955).
Also unique to this Criterion release is an edited excerpt (6m 36s) from a radio interview with producer John Houseman, conducted by Gideon Bachmann for his FILM FORUM radio program. Originally broadcast in 1956, Houseman very eloquently describes the role of producer, which from his perspective chiefly involves the creation of an environment in which all contributors can thrive. When it comes to mainstream film production, he says content creators must come to terms with the fact that audiences demand escapist entertainment, though that does not mean theatrical product should not reach for more complexity in an effort to stimulate an audience's intellect.
The packaging includes a fine booklet essay by film scholar Bernard Eisenschitz.


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By Susan Smith of Raising Canine, LLC
Susan Smith of Raising Canine, LLC has recently moved to the San Tan Valley from Texas to be closer to her family. Susan has been training dogs for over twenty years and provides dog training services to owners who want their dog to learn basic manners, or who are having behavioral problems with their dog. She offers in-home, one-on-one consultations for puppy training, basic manners, behavior problems (from barking to aggression!), and preparation for special occasions. Susan comes to your home and tailors the training plan to your specific needs.
Susan uses science-based methods for the training and behavior modification of animals. She believes that the best way for owners to create a bond with their dog is for everyone to understand what's expected of them. Therefore, her goals are to help owners understand how to get good behavior from their dog, make training as fun as possible for the animal and the owner; to resolve behavior problems without doing any harm; and – most importantly – to create a happy, harmonious environment for everyone.
In addition to her dog training services, Susan also provides continuing education for professional dog trainers. She pioneered remote, on-line education in the dog training industry and has over three hundred on-demand webinars for dog trainers, as well as more in-depth programs, such as her course for those wanting to become a professional dog trainer.
Because dogs live very different lives than they did just a few years ago, behavior problems that didn't used to exist or be a problem, are now very disruptive for the entire family. Exercise and mental enrichment are two areas where dogs need help – they used to get these needs satisfied on their own, but now must rely on their human families to provide.
Because of these fundamental lifestyle changes in dogs, behavior problems can be very complex. It's no longer simply about teach a dog to sit or walk nicely on a leash. We now often deal with aggression and anxiety resulting from the dogs' lifestyle.
Because of these new types of behavioral problems, Susan is committed to turning the profession of animal consulting into a respected and educated field. To accomplish this goal, she is actively involved in various professional organizations including the Association of Professional Dog Trainers (APDT), the Certification Council for Professional Dog Trainers (CCPDT) and the International Association of Animal Behavior Consultants (IAABC). She believes in and is committed to a national certification for trainers as well as formal education and continuing online education for all animal consultants. Susan works with both owners and consultants to educate and help in every way she can.
Susan spent 3 years running a sanctuary for un-adoptable, primarily aggressive, dogs. The sanctuary was limited to 15 dogs and the dogs lived in the house with Susan. This was a most enlightening experience, and provided her with an understanding of what clients experience when living with an aggressive dog.
Susan's Start
Susan was born and raised in Alaska. In her late twenties, she decided it was time to experience the rest of the U.S., so she moved to Texas and opened a Mail Boxes Etc., USA franchise (now the UPS Store) in Austin, Texas. The MBE store gave Susan a good, practical education in running a business.
In the early '90s, Susan decided it was time to do something else, so she began exploring her options. She had three criteria: ability to make a comfortable income, flexibility of scheduling and a sense of enjoyment and accomplishment within her work. She was able to eliminate most of the list she came up with through the "enjoyment" factor; however, dog training met all her criteria.
She began apprenticing, reading and training. By 1996 she had sold her MBE business and was building her animal consulting business.
In 2002 she moved to upstate New York to start a sanctuary for un-adoptable dogs for the Animal Haven shelter in Queens. Animal Haven had purchased a 30 acre farm and the goal was for the dogs to live in the house with a lifestyle as close to "normal" as possible with aggressive dogs.
After almost four years, during which she got the sanctuary up and running, Susan decided to return to Austin and started thinking about what she wanted to do when she returned. She began consulting with a business coach, defined her criteria and began thinking about what she wanted to accomplish. She came to the conclusion that she wanted to maintain her original three criteria, and added the criteria of helping her chosen field become a viable and respected profession.
This led Susan to provide, online, science-based training, consulting and business education to dog trainers, in addition to dog training services.
Susan is the co-author of Positive Gun Dogs: Clicker Training for Sporting Breeds, the first book published in the United States advocating positive methods for training bird dogs. She is the author of many articles including Starting Your Own Dog Training Business and When to Ask for Help, which were published in the Association of Pet Dog Trainers' The Dog Trainer's Resource: The APDT Chronicle of the Dog Collection. She is a contributing author for the book "Top Tips from Top Trainers." She has authored many other articles and book reviews, and is also the author of a column on learning and behavior for the APDT Chronicle of the Dog.
- CPDT-KA from the Certification Council for Professional Dog Trainers;
- CDBC from the International Association of Animal Behavior Consultants; and
- CTC from the San Francisco SPCA.
Affiliations & Awards
- Former member of the Board of Directors of the Certification Council for Professional Dog Trainers;
- Former member Review Panel Committee for the IAABC;
- Former member Advisory Board for the CCPDT;
- APDT Member of the year;
- Former Discussion List Manager for the APDT list (8 years);
- Former Membership Coordinator for the IAABC;
- Past Chair of the APDT Member Relations and Communications Committee;
- Past committee member for the APDT Member Relations and Communications Committee; and
- Past member of the APDT Sponsorship Committee.
To contact Susan for training services, you can go to her website (which is still being designed – but is up and running!) www.eastvalleydogtraining.com, e-mail her at email@example.com, or call her at 512-916-4007. You can also check out her www.raisingcanine.com website if you're interested in more advanced education.


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The Keeper of Antiques: The Last Will Collector's Edition Game
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Tyra Banks is helping shed light on the transgender community in a new documentary for VH1.
According to reports, the supermodel will co-produce "TransAmerica," which she describes as "a groundbreaking docuseries that will blow the roof off stereotypes and set the record straight as we experience the lives of these fun, stunning women." The upcoming, eight-episode series will follow lives of five transgender women living in Chicago.
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In a statement, Banks said, "I am so happy to be a part of telling their fierce story."
Members of the cast include a recent college grad named Giselle, a consultant for Christian Dior cosmetics named Natalia, the "ultimate party girl" Sidney, an aspirant doctor named Victory, and model, actress and transgender advocate Carmen Carrera. "Being a woman means everything to me," Carrera said of her journey. "Before my transition I felt trapped, and now I've been set free. Carmen has arrived and I can't wait to share my story."
According to Susan Levison, the network's executive vp of programming, the show is about so much more than their gender. "It would be easy to focus on the transgender aspect, but this series is about so much more," she said. "This is a show about a group of compelling, gorgeous young friends who are on a unique journey while staying true to their authentic selves. We believe that message resonates."
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This post is a brainstorm about how we might be creating worlds of trouble with close to zero awareness of the motive. It may not seem complete, but it should be provocative.
Many of us are running around helplessly creating misery for ourselves, then denying we had anything to do with it. It's as if we're saying, "I'm so committed to making myself unhappy that I am never going to give myself a chance to be any different."
If you hide what you're doing from yourself, you have zero chance to stop doing it on purpose. And the other problem is, how can you possibly know what you've hidden from yourself?
"Hidden from yourself" may sound clandestine. It's more accurate to say that you do things unconsciously. Research shows we have pervasive subconscious tendencies to process emotions, hold bias and make complex decisions unconsciously. They become aware of the results of such decisions only after they are made.
And so any consciously induced solution must involve making the unconscious conscious. We need to become aware of how we're thinking and feeling before we can know how to do anything differently. The highest leverage opportunity has to do with beliefs or how we make meaning out of what happens within and around us.
Here's the absurd truth about beliefs:
* Beliefs are flexible. It's possible to believe anything.
* It's common to believe that what's bad for you is actually good for you.
* We experience and treat beliefs as irrefutable facts.
* When we're willing to question our beliefs, it's difficult to find the right ones to question.
* Emotional bias stemming from false beliefs can lead to decisions – all occurring at a completely unconscious level.
Six real examples of unconscious beliefs that create misery:
- Being alone is the only option for me. If I need other people, it means I am weak and will be rejected.
- My father should approve of me. It's wrong for him to disapprove for no good reason, so I must keep trying to prove him wrong and win his approval no matter how many times he rejects me.
- No one has the right to expect anything from me. I must refuse to do anything others' tell me to do just because they're telling me.
- Anything I do will result in failure, so there's no point in trying.
- Nobody has ever loved me, so I am unlovable. It's better to prove that up front to people who try to love me.
- I'm stupid and worthless and if anyone finds out, I'll never survive. I need to prove how stupid and worthless others are so there's no chance that my ugly secret will be discovered.
If you take the time to think about how these beliefs play out in real life, it's not a pretty picture.
Worse, getting someone to admit they are carrying around destructive beliefs so they can change them is worse than pulling a molar with nothing but a shot of whiskey and some rusty pliers. Not many takers. We'd rather live with the rotten molar and find a way to escape the pain. And then the escape route causes more pain. Vicious cycle.
Every self-destructive belief is a false trap that sets us at odds with the real world. Trying to escape a false trap is like punching a pillow that turns out to be a brick. It hurts. And then we're upset with ourselves for being so stupid.
How absurd beliefs play out in the real world. Imagine the following:
• You believe no one has the right to tell you what to do.
• You have a job.
• Your boss tells you what to do.
• You rebel in any number of ways.
— Refusing to do it
— Dragging your feet
— Underperforming
— Spreading rumors
• The boss is upset with your performance and tells you to correct it.
• You refuse to give in and correct yourself.
• The boss starts to micro-manage you.
• Now your problem of being told what to do is much worse than if you had simply cooperated in the first place.
• Your "solution" is creating more of the problem. You're trapped in a vicious cycle.
Feeling trapped is intolerable. Think of what wild animals do when cornered. They become aggressive. They'll take great risks and harm themselves in order to get out of that untenable situation.
Here's another scenario:
• You believe you have no right to ask anyone for help.
• Besides, asking for help makes you selfish and weak.
• There are many things with which you need help.
• You refuse to reach out and live with a tremendous burden.
• And you resent people for not noticing and offering to help.
• But you give no clues that you need help, so others are unlikely to notice.
• Every once in a while, someone offers to help and you turn them down.
• You suffer in silence, a life of quiet desperation.
Again, you're trapped. You need help. Asking for help is not an option, given your beliefs. Once again, you cannot see an obvious escape route.
Remember, beliefs are experienced unconsciously as facts. You take them for granted as truth without understanding how they affect your decisions. Therefore, you must live with the decisions that seem right, even though when viewed from a distance, they are absurd.
If this article applies to you, it may be helpful to learn more through this free and enlightening self-sabotage video.


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Andrew Bucci (District of Columbia/Mississippi, 1922-2014) abstract watercolor painting with geometric and figural designs. Signed "Bucci" lower left. Double white mat and giltwood frame. 11" x 8 " sight, 16" x 13 1/2" matted and framed. Provenance: West Tennessee estate. CONDITION: Couple of tiny smudges center right side and lower right corner.


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Clear text (x) does not clear the first suggested but not committed word
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|Adnane Belmadiaf
Bug Description
When the "Word suggestions" option in the "Language & Text" settings then the (x) clear button does not clear the first not committed word from the text input.
It seems that the suggested word is not yet in the text innut but only in the input method and the clear button does not clear the input method.
After the first word is committed, the second suggestion is cleared if you clear the content.
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- ubuntu-sdk-build-bot: Approve (continuous-integration) on 2017-02-21
- Christian Dywan (community): Approve on 2017-02-21
Diff: 17 lines (+6/-1)1 file modifiedsrc/imports/Components/1.3/TextField.qml (+6/-1)
|Christian Dywan (kalikiana) wrote :
|Christian Dywan (kalikiana) wrote :
- No AP tests fail.
- Word suggestions are off by default, but don't affect the test results.
- The most recent change related to the clear button is confirmed to not affect this bug: http://
- Apparently with AP we don't test the button visibility directly.
- We don't force the right IM settings to reproduce it either.
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|Confirmed → Triaged
|Adnane Belmadiaf (daker) wrote :
Maybe this is related bug 1661890
|Adnane Belmadiaf (daker) wrote :
This has been fixed in Qt 5.7 by introducing a clear method http://
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|Christian Dywan (kalikiana) → Adnane Belmadiaf (daker)
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|In Progress → Fix Committed
|Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :
This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-ui-toolkit - 1.3.2184+
ubuntu-ui-toolkit (1.3.2184+
[ Adnane Belmadiaf ]
* Add support for CheckBox label when set
* Add more tests for checkbox. Fixes LP: #1333228, LP: #1442851.
* Make sure we resets partial text input from the input method.
Fixes LP: #1630872.
* Fix ListItem title/subtitle alignment & elide in RTL mode.
Fixes LP: #1665944.
* Fix PageHeader title alignment & elide in RTL mode. Fixes LP: #1665942.
* Fix UbuntuListView docs. Fixes LP: #1486940.
* Add count prop to OptionSelector. Fixes LP: #1341559.
* Replace the hardcoded color with a theme color. Fixes LP: #1664758.
* Fix the import statement for Menu, MenuBar and MenuGroup.
Fixes LP: #1660604.
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* Fix memory leak in UCStyleHints
* ThinDivider: Anchors can't be null, set to undefined
* No need to call UCUnits:
normally because the fact that we already loaded it normally means we need
to load it normally. Fixes LP: #1558663.
* Fix conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)
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* Initialize UCApplication with no side effects. Fixes LP: #1662868.
* Unit test case insensitive FilterBehavior.
* ListItemPopover delegate should (in)visible as per action Bug 1662220:
[ListItem] Popupmenu shows traces of disabled actions
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* Check that window is not null before accessing its activeFocusItem property.
Fixes LP: #1664620.
[ Lukáš Tinkl ]
* Unbreak the startup race between unity8/qtmir and UITK trying talk to
content-hub. Fixes LP: #1663106.
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Did you know that every eye is different, such as its shape, the way it moves, etc… and can differ from others by anything up to 30%? Just like you, your eyes are unique and they deserve to be treated as such. Before now lenses didn't account for this, so when you looked through any area except the central part of your lens, you lost visual performance. Thanks to Eyecode, a new technology available from Essilor, you can benefit from a three-dimensional eye examination that considers how your eyes move. Now, wherever your eye moves, that section of the lens is individually optimised for them.
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The Nautilus – another gadget – what does it do?
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Nick Onslow answers a reader's question about a pension transfer.
I recently took up a job where I have become a member of the Local Government Pension Scheme. I'm trying to work out if it would be beneficial for me to transfer into the scheme two private pensions I hold, which have transfer values of £95,435 (Aegon) and £13,514 (Aviva).
Regarding the latter, I've been told by the LGPS that this amount "would enable [me] to count an amount of CARE pension of £1,117 per annum". I'm awaiting a quote for the former. My normal pension age is 67 (I'm approaching 50), at which point the above would be payable.
I'm finding it very difficult to get advice from independent financial advisers as to whether this is a good option, as they all want me to transfer management of my private pensions to them.
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The Aviva (£13,514) scheme paying £1,117 a year is offering a rate of 8.27%. You would be hard-pushed to get that rate from an annuity, based on the current levels being offered by providers. If the Aegon (£95,435) scheme offers the same return, you might receive an additional £7,892, bringing your future guaranteed income to £9,009 in total.
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Cari started dancing in Atlanta, GA in the fall of 2007. She currently dances in San Francisco, CA. Her passion is Lindy Hop, though she has an infrequent affair with Argentine Tango. Cari's favorite move is the swing out (why would you chose anything else?), and her favorite song (for now) is Chant of the Groove. Cari also loves classic choreographed dances like the Tranky Doo and Mama Lu's Stew.
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To my surprise the ladies that attended the class LOVED getting a little messy and creating it as well.
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It was in the days and few weeks following the Terrorist Attacks on the United States that I wrote my first book. I, I'm sure like so many, wanted to do something. But we felt so helpless. What could we possibly do?
I can't answer that for others. But for a writer, what else could I do but write? And so I wrote Dear America: A Letter of Comfort & Hope to a Grieving Nation (Ampelos Press, 2002).
This little book is still available in print. It was published 6 months to the day after September 11, 2001 -- on March 11, 2002. This year, for its tenth anniversary, Dear America was republished on Kindle.
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BVB enjoyed two-thirds possession and hit the woodwork three times from twenty-two shots, but had to settle for a solitary point against a dogged Mainz side who were leading at the break.
Jakub Blaszczykowski was restored to the starting line-up, but was disappointing and looked lost on the right-hand side before being hauled off after just half an hour with the hosts a goal-down after Andreas Ivanschitz took advantage of a Felipe Santana slip to score on 23 minutes. The introductions of Marco Reus and Ivan Perisic gave BVB some spark and they turned the game on its head when Neven Subotic and Marcel Schmelzer scored from a pair of corners five minutes apart.
The lead lasted just ten minutes though before Ivanschitz was played in by a lovely through-ball by Adam Szalai to level the scores with twenty-five minutes to play. Dortmund threw everything at Mainz in the closing stages but were denied by good saves, the woodwork, deflections and ultimately, bad luck.
Dortmund play Kaiserslautern on Wednesday with a potential DFB-Pokal semi-final tie against Bayern Munich awaiting the winners.
BORUSSIA DORTMUND 2-2 FSV MAINZ Subotic 50 Ivanschitz 23, 65 Schmelzer 54 Att: 79,015 Bundesliga, Signal Iduna Park. Drizzle 6°C. Ref: G.Perl
BORUSSIA DORTMUND | FSV MAINZ 20. Mitchell Langerak 7.0 | 33. Heinz Müller 6.8 2. Andreas Beck 6.9 | 2. Zdenek Pospech 6.9 4. Neven Subotic 7.8 | 16. Stefan Bell 7.0 15. Felipe Santana 8.2 | 15. Jan Kirchhoff 7.2 3. Marcel Schmelzer 7.2 | 3. Malik Fathi 7.0 8. Ilkay Gündogan 7.1 | 14. Julian Baumgartlinger 7.8 28. K.Katsouranis (c) 8.1³ | 27. Nicolai Müller 7.5¹ 30. Jakub Blaszczykowski 6.4¹ | 19. Elkin Soto (c) [Y] 6.9 26. Dennis Praet 7.9 | 25. A.Ivanschitz [*] 7.0 7. Viktor Fischer 6.8² | 28. Adam Szalai 7.0 9. Robert Lewandowski 6.9 | 17. Petar Sliskovic 7.0 ------------------------------- ------------------------------- 1. Roman Weidenfeller . | 13. Loris Karius . 6. Sven Bender 6.8³ | 4. Bo Svensson . 11. Marco Reus 6.9¹ | 11. Yunus Malli 7.0¹ 17. Marc Hornschuh . | 20. Junior Enrique Diaz . 22. Julian Koch . | 26. Niko Bungert . 23. Julian Schieber . | 30. Eugen Gopko . 24. Ivan Perisic 6.7² | 31. Chinedu Ede .
Match report by @realtimeFM:
"I fancy Dortmund to win this one, and they should have enough quality to see off the threat of Mainz. The visitors are missing three key players today with Marco Caligiuri, Maxim Choupo-Moting and Anthony Ujah." – Gregor Wolf, German Football Gazette.
[00] Robert Lewandowski makes his 100th Bundesliga appearance for Dortmund today, and Kostas Katsouranis is making his 425th career league appearance. Dortmund aren't done there with milestones though: If Sven Bender or Marco Reus come on, they'll make their 200th and 175th career league appearance respectively.
[00] Adam Szalai has also notched up a milestone today – this is his 200th career league appearance. He exchanges passes with Petar Sliskovic as the visitors kick off. There's three other Bundesliga matches underway at the moment: The bottom two Bochum and Koln play each other, as do Frankfurt and Freiburg, and Mönchengladbach host Stuttgart.
[03] After some keep-ball from Dortmund, Ilkay Gündogan sets up Dennis Praet who has his shot from 18 yards saved by the feet of Heinz Müller. Jakub Blaszczykowski is first to the rebound but the 'keeper makes a second save and Dortmund win a corner.
[04] Praet whips the corner in for Neven Subotic to head towards goal. Müller saves, but he, the ball and Robert Lewandowski all end up in the back of the net and the Dortmund forward is penalised for a foul.
[06] Riemann has put Bochum 1-0 up at home to Köln. Bochum have shipped 70 goals in 22 matches though, so don't expect that score to stay the same.
[07] …well maybe even more so now. Köln are down to 10 men with the dismissal of Jajalo in an incident unrelated to the goal.
[08] Katsouranis's challenge on Nicolai Müller only sees him inadvertently play the ball through to Ivanschitz. His shot on the bounce is saved well by Langerak, and Mainz win a corner. Santana heads it away.
[14] Mirkan Aydin has put Bochum two-up now.
[17] Szalai fizzes a shot wide from 20 yards out.
[18] Quickfire double corner for Dortmund. Fischer causing Mainz problems down the left.
[22] Santana heads Praet's corner towards goal and it's cleared off the line by Nikolai Müller. Dortmund getting closer.
[23] 1-0 MAINZ! Neven Subotic is caught out by a long-ball over the top, he slips and loses out to Andreas Ivanschitz who waits until Langerak comes out to attempt a save, and slots the ball home to give the visitors the lead.
[30] Dortmund are making a change already. Marco Reus replaces Blaszczykowski (6.4) who may well be on his way out of Surman's plans after another disappointing display.
[32] Gündogan and Fischer have been sloppy in possession this afternoon, number of chances gone amiss because of a poor final touch.
[33] Marco Reus cuts inside and chips towards goal from 25 yards but his shot comes back off the underside of the bar and is cleared away.
[42] Elkin Soto is cautioned after a foul on Reus, nothing major, but the Mainz skipper has been penalised a few times this half for niggly fouls, so the yellow seems like an accumulation of those.
HALF-TIME: Borussia Dortmund 0-1 FSV Mainz (Bundesliga)
[HT] Dortmund have made a second substitution, during the break: Ivan Perisic replaces Fischer (6.8). Mainz have made a change too: Yunus Malli is on for Nikolai Müller (7.5).
[47] Perisic anounces his arrival with a thunderous 25-yard drive that Müller tips round the post. That looked certain to nestle in the back of the net, great save.
[50] EQUALISER, 1-1! Dennis Praet whips a corner, Dortmund's seventh, in to the near post where Neven Subotic meets it with a header that sails past Müller for an equaliser. Attendance today is 79,015.
[54] 2-1 DORTMUND! What a turnaround! Another corner, the opposite side this time, is whipped in. Santana's headers smashes against the crossbar and Marcel Schmelzer is on hand to bundle it home from inside the six yard box.
[60] Yunus Malli spots Mitchell Langerak off his line and tries the lob from fully 35 yards but it bounces off the top of the crossbar on its way over, so close.
[62] De Jong has put Gladbach 1-0 up at home to Stuttgart. Bochum still lead 10-man Köln 2-0, and it's goalless between Frankfurt and Freiburg.
[65] EQUALISER, 2-2! Adam Szalai plays a pin-point pass through to Andreas Ivanschitz who has a simple job of slotting the ball past Langerak for his – and Mainz's – second of the day.
[71] Sven Bender comes on for Katsouranis (8.1) for Dortmund's third change. He'll take the captain's armband too.
[72] Felipe Santana hits the bar with a header from a Perisic free-kick crossed in from the left. Third time they've hit the woodwork today.
[77] It's end-to-end stuff here. Dortmund have racked up their tenth corner.
[81] In to the final ten minutes and Dortmund are still having the lion's share of possession. Mainz happy to drop deeper, waste some time and soak up the pressure. Can either side pinch a late winner?
[86] Not at this rate.
[88] Dortmund have another corner. Bender's shot was deflected over. Mainz scramble it away.
[90] Two minutes for one side to nick this.
FULL-TIME: Borussia Dortmund 2-2 FSV Mainz (Bundesliga)


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A bakery mixer is an industrial equipment which replaces manual labor through a mechanical system that allows to produce, continuously, large quantities of dough. The equipment is designed to prepare food, chemicals, ceramic dough, or other products. Bakers produce diverse products such as breads, muffins, cakes, biscuits, and pizzas. Bakery mixers consists of adjustable equipment that is extensively used in commercial and industrial bakeries. There are two main types of mixers, planetary mixers and spiral mixers. A planetary mixer has a non-rotating, fixed bowl. The name planetary mixer comes from the system used in the equipment that mixes the dough in the planets rotation direction. The planetary mixers are ideal to produce pastry products such as batters, creams, emulsions, and other sophisticated desserts which require faster, larger, and powerful rotation movements. The bowl is latched to the base of the machine and elevated into the mixing position, and inversely lowered to remove the bowl. Different types of attachments are available for these type of mixers. Standard attachments include a dough hook, whip, and paddle. Planetary mixers are available in full floor models and tabletop, to suit the customer's production needs. Bakery mixer size is decided by the available mixing bowl volume, which is often measured in quarts. Spiral mixer is another type of bakery mixer, the main function of spiral mixer is to delicately mix bread dough, enabling it to develop gluten structure, while not overworking the dough. This is achieved with the spiral hook which spins as the bowl of the mixer rotates to knead the dough. The advantage to this process is that the spiral hook kneads only a part of the entire dough mass at a given time. This helps friction heat low, producing a more homogeneous mix.
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Bauer Media's Cosmopolitan magazine has signed on as an official media partner of the 2018 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.
The sponsorship will deliver a month-long celebration of activities in the Parade's 40th anniversary year. In addition to this, Cosmo will be producing its second Pride Issue for March, which will hit the stands on 5 February 2018.
Fiorella Di Santo, Bauer Media's GM for fashion, food, luxury and home, said: "The Cosmo audience is growing, with over 1.2 million social connections, and our readers have never been more socially aware. We're thrilled with this sponsorship as it will allow us to continue to engage, inspire and empower future generations of Cosmo readers."
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Research shows that children of immigrants, the "second generation," have comparatively high educational aspirations. This "immigrant optimism" translates into ambitious educational choices, given the second generation's level of academic performance. Choice-driven (comprehensive) education systems, which allow the children of immigrants to follow their ambitions, are therefore regarded as facilitating their structural integration. The authors focus on an underappreciated consequence of these findings.
The author uses restricted geocoded tract-level panel data (1986–2014) that span the prison boom and the acceleration of residential segregation in the United States from two cohorts of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1979 and Children and Young Adults) to study whether the association between childhood neighborhood disadvantage and adult incarceration varies by race and ethnicity. Sibling fixed-effects models suggest that exposure to childhood neighborhood disadvantage increases the likelihood of incarceration in adulthood, net of observed and unobserved adjustments.
The dynamics of racial/ethnic wealth inequality among U.S. families with resident children (child households) have been understudied, a major oversight because of wealth's impact on child development and intergenerational mobility. Using data from the Survey of Consumer Finances (2004–2016), the authors find that wealth gaps between black and white households are larger in, and have grown faster for, child households relative to the general population. In contrast, black-white income gaps for child households have remained largely unchanged.
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"I recently had a serious accident. A tib-fib fracture. They went in with a rod through the tibia, right through the inside of the bone. Screws here and here. And then a plate here and some more screws and another plate over here. I was just walking home on a flat sidewalk. The doctor was surprised because that injury is more associated with a high velocity impact. Skiing, or something like that. The bike ride is because I am finally finding legs, but it is also physio. I was told cycling and swimming are the only two sports I can partake in right now. They are both low impact sports. Recovery is anywhere from six to 24 months. But the problem I am having right now is, I get badly swollen. By this afternoon, this entire lower leg area will get swollen equally as large as my knee. And then it his just pain because of all the scar tissue in there as well. This is about my fifth ride out since the accident. My first ride up here. Even after the riding it still swells. They say it will get better over time, but I suppose time is all I have on my side right now." Continue reading
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Icebergs, hot knives and butter
"I am a satellite imagery analyst and analyse the images we get for the conditions of the ice in the Canadian arctic, the NorthWest passage and the entire east coast of Canada, as well. We monitor ice conditions and icebergs and all that. And we run down to the American side a little as well. Especially this year. They have a lot of ice on their coast. They are not used to that. We are monitoring unusual conditions. Nowadays we have lots more satellite and data and there are a lot more ships into the Northwest passage. There was a European ship that went back and forth all summer. He was pressing through ice all summer long and he went through it like a hot knife through butter."
Small scale club events are essential to all cyclists, including elite national level riders
"This is the Ottawa Bicycle Club. They have been round since the sixties. They put on a time trial every Thursday night and everyone gathers here. Mostly because it is the best organized and it's well run." Continue reading
Being best at your second choice
"I am a cyclist-pro cyclist. I guess if I wanted to be the best in any sport, I wish it were cyclo-cross, but I am too heavy – and so I am not a good cyclo-crosser. But I have always been good at road racing and always been good at time-trialling. So last year at the Masters National Championships, I was second in the time-trial. As long as it is pretty flat, I can go pretty fast. And in the road race, I was third. That is national. In Ontario I am provincial champion. And I qualified in Denmark for the UCI UWCT world championships in Denmark this year." Continue reading
To helmet or not to helmet – a constant presence
"I did not wear a hemet and then I heard about a friend of mine who had an accident. And I kind of value my brain. So I spent quite a bit of money and got one that fits and had lots of ventilation. It took me a long time to get used to it because I used to feel claustrophobic. But now I would not go out without it. Funny, though, because they tell you sometimes it gives you a false sense of security and I go faster and I think, 'I have a helmet on' and if I fall .. and I go fast down these hills."
So, there is this bicycle story about an old axe
"Everything is functional. It has quick release wheels so I can get into a car, if I need to. But then, I take my wheel with me often, so if somebody does get through this lock, they cannot ride away on my bike. There are bikes out there that cost thousands. I would be so afraid my bike would be stolen. I keep this looking kind of ratty, with tape and stuff. And I keep it that way so nobody wants to steal it. So I just put money in every year to keep it tuned up. I just use the bike to get around on nice days. And this bike is 35 years old. It is a good frame but it is the only thing that has really stayed the same. I have had to replace cables and tires and still it is a good bike. As the old adage goes, 'We have had this axe in our family for 150 years and we have only had to change the handle twice and the blade once'."
A reminder that many cyclists are of two minds
"I am a cyclist and a driver and when I am in the car, I think cyclists are crazy. And when I am on my bike, I think car drivers are crazy. Taxi cab drivers are on another world. They think the road is their office and they can do whatever they want." Continue reading
A small glimpse into past days of public transport
"These are not all buses from West Flanders. They have buses from Holland and Brussels here. I used to work on these buses. This is all a little nostalgic for me." Continue reading
Art, cargo and the easier way
"I am a vendor here and I carry all my artwork this way. I live quite close. I have been doing it this way since 2011. I had a car but then moved closer and the bike worked." Continue reading
Point your bike into the sunlight
"We had meant to go to Denmark for our holidays, but it was raining there when we left the house, so we headed here instead. Today we move on. There is sunshine over there, so we will probably head in that direction." Continue reading


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SIU Terminates Investigation into Collision Between Police Vehicle and Cyclist in Cornwall
Case Number: 18-OVI-226
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The Director of the Special Investigations Unit, Tony Loparco, has terminated an investigation into a collision that occurred between an unmarked police SUV and a cyclist in Cornwall in July of 2018.
At approximately 4 p.m. on July 27, 2018, a police officer who was en route to a call was operating an unmarked police SUV eastbound on Second Street East. At the Second Street East and Millville Avenue intersection, the officer proceeded to turn right onto Millville Avenue. As this was happening, a 33-year-old cyclist – who was riding his bike eastbound on Second Street East in the bicycle lane - collided into the right front corner of the police vehicle. The cyclist was thrown off the bicycle to the pavement. He was transported to hospital for treatment of a shoulder injury.
Director Loparco said, "The evidence establishes that the officer had a momentary lapse of attention and at a minimum, made a right turn not in safety. However, while the injury sustained by the cyclist was unfortunate, it did not result from any criminal act on the part of the officer. The officer's driving did not rise to the level of dangerous driving under the Criminal Code. Accordingly, I have terminated the investigation into this incident."
The SIU is an arm's length agency that investigates reports involving police where there has been death, serious injury or allegations of sexual assault. Under the Police Services Act, the Director of the SIU must
- consider whether an officer has committed a criminal offence in connection with the incident under investigation
- depending on the evidence, lay a criminal charge against the officer if appropriate or close the file without any charges being laid
- report the results of any investigations to the Attorney General.
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To try to salvage my photography goal, I'm taking part in this week's Photography Challenge:
Between. Capture something in the middle of two things. It can be a person or object, or simply the space in between. It can also be a feeling or relationship — a bond that connects people, or a space that separates. This word might also reflect a choice you need to make — the challenge of choosing one thing over another — or any kind of transition, from childhood to adulthood, single life to married life, day to night.
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Last week Professor Michael Thick talked up the merits of Choose and Book here, Dr Francesca Lasman, who resigned as IT lead last month, explains why she did so and why she feels there are problems at the heart of the Government's flagship IT scheme
Dr Francesca Lasman, who resigned as IT lead last month, explains why she did so and why she feels there are problems at the heart of the Government's flagship IT scheme
I have resigned as IT clinical lead for my PCT. This was a post I had taken on in January 2003 to represent hard-working GPs who wanted IT to make their life simpler.
I resigned because I didn't think the IT was making their lives simpler in any way at all. And the final straw was the NHS's £95 million bribe to get GPs involved in a programme that I believe is cumbersome, overambitious and could stifle local innovation.
Long before Choose and Book, my semi-rural practice had been developing a system to allow the exchange of referral and discharge letters using secure mail in a standard format. This was so that data could be automatically imported into the hospital or GP computer system.
We agreed to be early adopters of the e-booking project, the first incarnation of Choose and Book, because we hoped our experience would be used to inform its development.
Unfortunately it appears that Choose and Book is a scheme being driven entirely from above. It takes into account the views of grassroots GPs only when they happen to coincide with the national political brief.
For a brief description of Choose and Book, see right.
My decision to resign was finally triggered by the announcement of the £95 million incentive scheme to introduce a system that no one locally has yet seen, using guidance that has not yet been written, and incorporating the untested element of choice.
The few bookings that have been made so far have not involved any choice, just booking to a familiar local hospital.
Although both the concept of choice and that of e-booking have been the subject of successful pilot schemes, the live system is the pilot for combining the two.
This creates all sorts of problems and the result, so far at least, is a top-heavy, cumbersome, administrative system, with limited benefits to patients and significant drawbacks for clinicians.
The problems are set out on the right.
If something is to be salvaged from the current mess there needs to be a sea-change in the attitude of the national Choose and Book team. My proposal is presented in the flowchart (below right).
This system would require far fewer changes than the current proposals and would allow both primary and secondary care to operate much as now, but with streamlined, faster processes. As long as the booking process did not take too long, I believe the patients would be just as happy with this system as with being able to book in the GP consultation.
Choice would be offered sensibly, with the most important information for the patient being offered by the GP. It would also allow local modernisation initiatives to be implemented without any hassle caused by Choose and Book.
If such a system is rejected then I have a message for John Reid. Please, for the sake of good patient care, slow the whole juggernaut down to allow sensible testing and piloting of systems. Also consider allowing clinical assessment services to be applied across the board.
If we plough ahead on the current course GPs will, I believe, insist on sticking with their safe, tried-and-tested referral systems and the millions of pounds already spent will be wasted.
Francesca Lasman is a GP in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, and formerly IT clinical lead for Huntingdonshire PCT she pioneered an electronic referral system in her practice and PCT
Choose and Book in a nutshell
in a nutshell
Choose and Book is intended to allow the referring primary care clinician, their administrative staff, or the booking management service (NHS Direct), to give patients a choice of five hospital providers for every elective referral, and to book an appointment electronically
The 10 biggest problems with Choose and Book
1. The referring clinician has to decide exactly which clinic the patient should attend, and whether the problem is urgent, instead of leaving the specialist service to sort this out.
This is fine for an experienced clinician referring to a familiar hospital. But it is potentially difficult when choosing somewhere unfamiliar. To get round this there is an optional decision tree being developed for each sub-specialty.
This is called service selection booking guidance (SSBG). To accommodate choice, this SSBG will have to be applied nationally. Potential problems here are how to write this guidance safely while not taking up too much time.
GPs may be tempted to direct patients to their familiar hospital where they do not need to use SSBG, thus scuppering choice. National SSBG could also stifle local modernisation initiatives.
2. The national 'one-size-fits-all' IT solution results in both primary and secondary care trying to fit their administration systems to the IT, rather than the IT accommodating local ways of working.
3. Trying to change too many things at once (introducing choice, e-booking, and all the other aspects of NPfIT) is bound to cause problems, particularly as there is too much riding on systems that are not yet in place.
4. Booking into predetermined clinic slots removes the opportunity for secondary care triage. It also discourages new ways of working such as referrals direct to continence advisers or physios for urogynaecology.
5. Secondary care clinicians are not saved any time as they have to look at all referral letters to ensure they are appropriate for their clinics. They can also, at the press of a button, reject the referral, creating a potential source of conflict with primary care.
6. Timescales throughout the project have so far been unrealistic. Eight months after our first go-live date (June 2004) Huntingdonshire PCT is still not ready to go live and has no definite date for the first early-adopter practice.
7. Poor communication, too many different providers with different agendas, and no live test system for early adopters to play with before installation in their practices have all hampered implementation. So have problems with hardware, especially upgrades and card readers.
8. It has been difficult to plan training as there are still too many unknowns. Screen shots of how the system will look are not enough!
9. The current software seems time-consuming to use. No one has yet tried to use it with choice, and this is bound to be more time-consuming for the clinician. The GP has to get at least as far as selecting the clinic type and urgency in order to get the unique booking reference number (UBRN) which is needed for anyone else to complete the booking.
10. The waiting times for clinics in different
hospitals are not accessible until the GP has got access to the UBRN. This should surely be available at the start!
How Dr Lasman thinks Choose and Book should work
Step one
GPs offer choice by accessing a spreadsheet from a dropdown menu of specialties. The spreadsheet would give the PCT-commissioned five providers for that speciality, with sub-speciality clinics and waiting times for day cases, inpatients and outpatients. Any other information, such as car parking, would be obtained by the patient via the booking management service.
Step two
The GP clicks on the selected clinic and is taken to a link providing any additional information such as printable patient information or clinic pro formas.
Step three
The GP dictates a referral letter or completes a pro forma in the normal way. At this point their involvement ends.
Step four
The referral letter is sent to the specialty at the chosen hospital either directly or via the booking management service if the selection had not been made in the consultation.
Step five
The hospital triages the letter, directs it to the correct clinic, and contacts the patient to arrange a convenient appointment time. Since this process can be completed using e-mail, it should be possible to make it much faster. Existing (though not yet released) software in Choose and Book, called clinical assessment services, could be used to implement this.


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December 2018 - Image Set
I love this Focus RS limited edition. It is my kinda car. It is basically like me in a car - small, cute, curvy and powerful! It handles well and is a comfortable ride. Easy now Tiger. I was very lucky to have the run of these motors for some piccies and vids one afternoon. I am grateful for how kind people are to me sometimes. Performance cars are so sexy. And I adore this colour. Check out the full length me, in heels and cute pink lingerie, getting naked by the car. You are in for a treat my lovely fans xxx