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Recent Dollar Tree finds
Having the DT dt's!!
I'm completely OUT of Dollar Tree 'project product' and I'm feeling a little 'panicky'! Stopped in yesterday to see if I could 'get a fix' ; hoping the new spring stuff would be in. Lots of EASTER stuff, but no 'general spring', like the resin birds, flower pots etc. NOTHING that I really needed or wanted. Yet 'out of desperation' I grabbed a few ceramic birds (the ones that have been there FOREVER because no one really likes them all that much!) to CHALLENGE myself to make something out of them. New post to follow soon.
The Easter stuff IS really cute, btw, if you do a lot of Easter decorating. Just not 'my thing'. I used to buy lots of the plastic eggs and make them into grubby rag eggs. And even grubby dip some of the bunny figurines in my grubby candle wax to make them look like chocolate bunnies.
There are some AWESOME plastic baskets and bins for storing and organizing stuff in, in pretty spring colors. Would make great gift or Easter baskets too.
The Dollar Diva LOVES a 'freebie'
And I found a bunch of them HERE. Compliments of 'Just Something I Made' blog.
I was going to say "here are a few of my favorites", but I really love them ALL and my brain is about to EXPLODE with ideas for ways I can use them all. SO, here are a few to 'whet you appetite':
This one also has a matching sheet with the names of the birds the eggs came from!
Go check it out. There are LOTS more.
Birds of a feather
Digging through the archives of my other blog to show you a re-cap of Dollar Tree birds over the years and what I've done with them,
Those are from a couple of years ago. Ceramic DT birds on thrifted bases (glued together with e6000; and spray painted) They STILL have these particular birds in my local Dollar Tree stores. And Dollar Tree glass candle holders would work just as well. I just 'used what I had', which happened to be thrifted ones for the bases.
This bird is from a couple years ago, as is the candle holder I adhered him to. The color match was so close that I didn't need to paint these! GOTTA love when a make-over is as simple as that!
Same little DT bird as previous picture; but this one was added to the top of a finial I crafted. A new e-book on how to make these and MANY more finials will be finished up for sale in my etsy shop SOON!.
Gotta have some NESTS if you're gonna have birds! Thrifted vintage urns and pedestal candle holders make great nest holders, to pair up with these other Dollar Tree birds on pedestals I made.
For those I used some unfinished candle holders I had on hand. Again the glass candle holders from DT would work just as well. Just DON'T ever substitute another adhesive for the e6000! Let glue dry overnight before painting.
An entire flock! First painted black, then dry brush painted ivory, leaving some of the black showing.
Lots of little birds tucked in throughout this display.
This past Christmas I did LOTS of white glittered birds with glitter crowns. The owls came from Target a few years ago, and were originally brown.
I also did some TURQUOISE glitter birds just for fun! Only did a few 'just in case' the color didn't "FLY" (did I really say that?!?!) The turquoise birds sold out very quickly. Lesson learned!
I tucked the birds in everywhere throughout my booth at the antique mall!
My all time FAVORITE birds from Dollar Tree were these, from a year or 2 ago, with the WIRE FEET. This was the last of that stash that I was saving. sigh. HOPING they will make a come-back this year. I'm checking weekly. Watching and waiting for the new spring merchandise to come in. It's trickling in right now. After Valentine's day it will REALLY be out. THEN, I'll be checking every other day! And when they do arrive, they'll all be going home with me! No such thing as too many birds in my craft supply stash! (the little red birds I just showed a few posts ago)
Another of the birds with wire feet; this one painted differently. Cream color paint then Ralph Lauren tobacco glaze. This set is for sale in my etsy shop.
For Christmas, I did some of the crowned birds glued to the top of gift boxes.
The above set is ENTIRELY from Dollar Tree; the bird, the box, the trees and the snowflakes! I just added a bit of artistic flair!
Dollar Tree glass vases / votive holders turned into cloches by turning them upside down and adding a bird for a handle. These birds came from the craft store, but I used the same birds as in the second picture in this post for this purpose when I could get them.
Again, not a DT bird, but would/could have been. (see what I mean about no such thing as TOO many birds!?!)
Valentine birds. This set is currently for sale in my etsy shop.
Some PINK glittered birds with vintage sheet music crowns for this Valentine's Day.
Available for purchase in my booth at Stars Antique Mall in Portland, Oregon.
MORE love for this little ceramic bird from a few years back; this time on top of a 'make do' cloche with a nest and egg. On the right is one of the 'painted and glazed' birds mounted on a little paper mache box. Spanish moss and an egg inside the box.
BIGGER cloche with nest and egg under the glass. Repainted thrifted pillar candle holder used for the base.
Here's a better picture of that cloche. It took some patience to get the bird to stay in place on that domed lid. The hole in the bottom of the bird helped. Not using too much adhesive (e6000) helped too! Applied just a few dabs around the hole in the base of the bird, gently set it in place on the cloche, then quickly removed it and let the adhesive 'set up' until it was tacky. Applied a tad more, then put in place to stay. Had to hold it in place for about 15 minutes to be sure it didn't slide off!
Yep, I used those little birds a LOT!!! some more cloches made from thrifted vintage components.
BIG cloche with dinner size plate base, adhered to a large pillar candle holder. Spray painted them both ivory.
Little cloche with nest grass and egg. This is and espresso cup saucer and a mini brandy snifter for the base. The bell jar behind it was just glued onto a DT candle holder for a base.
These bird tea light holders were originally a dark orange color. Glued to a DT candle holder (the kind that come in a 2/pk) Painted everything cream color then glazed with my Ralph Lauren tobacco glaze.
Another of the tea light holders, just painted and glazed.
Styro wreathe from DT, covered with strips of burlap and one of the little birds glued on the inside.
Another burlap wreath in a lighter color and with a burlap ribbon at the top.
Can't wait to see what kinds of birds Dollar Tree will have for me to PLAY WITH this year!!!
Altered Dollar Tree art plaques
Got these wood plaques topped with designs printed on paper, and black wire decorative scroll on the top at Dollar Tree a while back. A good 70% of the time when I buy 'supplies' (items that I eventually ALTER) at Dollar Tree, I don't yet know HOW I will be using them. Something about an item just 'catches my eye' (in this case it was the pretty black scroll top) and I just KNOW I will be able to 'do SOMETHING with it' and I'll grab a bunch!
I was painting these gold cherubs (and several others); not yet knowing HOW I was going to use them. Figured something would come to me as I worked on them. They were nice and FLAT on the back side so applying them to some kind of flat surface came to mind.
See instructions for the complete transformation of these gold cherubs over on my Trash 2 Treasure blog. SO, while the cherubs were drying for the final time, I scrounged through my stash to find something to attach them to. Tried a few different things, and settled on the scroll top plaques.
I was just 'trying them out' and laying them on the plaques to see if the proportions were right. I had every intention of completely covering the plaque with some scrapbook paper. But, the cherubs fir SO perfectly on top of the bird, AND the wording perfectly fit the theme; so I decided to just glue on the cherub and be done!
Well, ALMOST done!! After they dried overnight and I hung them to take pictures, I decided 'something was missing'. It needed a tad more 'altering'.
So I gave them some vintage sheet music paper crowns!
NOW they're done!
Then I did one like I had originally intended to do, covering the entire background with scrapbook paper, and adding some embellishments.
I just used regular tacky glue to put the crowns on. First, test fit your crown and gently 'form it' to the shape of the head. (this one was a tad oval shaped) Hold crown upside down and run a generous bead of bead of glue around the entire inside of the rim. Then turn it right side up and put it on. Gently (without crushing the tips!) hold crown in place for about five minutes for glue to set. Then set aside to completely dry.
I put them out in my booth at the antique mall WITH my Valentine stuff, but they really aren't so Valentine 'specific' that they won't work to display year round. Something I try to keep in mind when I am creating.
Little red birds from Dollar Tree
You've seen them every year, the little red or white bird ornaments that come three to a package. Cute little ornaments, for sure. I just wanted to make them CUTER!
I was already making crowns for the birds with the wire feet (painted white and glittered first!) Why not make some for the little red birds too?
The just barely fit over the tip of my index finger! The smaller ones ARE a bit of a challenge to make. I used regular weight paper, because even cardstock would BEND when I tried to roll it that small. Tow layers of regular paper glued together did the trick just fine. The glue added a lot of sturdiness to the crown, then adding more glue and the glitter, still more.
I just hunted through all my craft supplies to find something the right size to wrap my paper around; a glue stick worked for me.
Let the glue completely dry overnight; then with a VERY point little pair of scissors, cut your points. I usually do a batch of a dozen or more of the crowns at a time.
Then it's GLITTER TIME. Use fine glitter. For these little crowns I found it difficult to HOLD the crown and add the glue and glitter. I ended up using a pair of needle nose pliers. BRUSH the glue on with a stiff bristled paint brush, and sprinkle on your glitter. Set aside to dry. You will have one little 'bare spot' where the pliers were; fill that in later.
I glitter them all at once. Let dry. Then go back and put a dab of glue on that bare spot and sprinkle on the glitter.
I used regular tacky glue (NOT hot glue!) to attach the crowns to the birds. Apply dots of glue all the way around the inner rim of the crown, slip the crown through the string hanger and position it in place and let it dry. I usually go back after a few minutes and make sure the crowns are tightly in place.
I took mine to my booth at the antique mall, and hung them on my glitter Valentine tree!
In the above photo from a couple of years ago, I took some of the white feather 3/pk birds and tea stained* them and gave them sheet music paper crowns.
* I don't use actual TEA for my stain, or coffee or vanilla or molasses or ANY other sticky and smelly kitchen product! You can buy my stain recipe here in my etsy shop.


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Hurricane Preparedness in the Gulf of Mexico
Hurricanes and tropical storms can significantly affect U.S. oil and natural gas operations, especially in the Gulf of Mexico, which contains more than 3,000 oil and gas platforms, coastal refineries and processing centers. During Hurricane Isaac, 24% of daily oil production and 8% of natural gas production was shut off. A decrease in production can cause gas prices to go up and in extreme cases, can even cause supply shock.
In order to keep up with consumer demand, the oil and gas industry has developed procedures that allow them to resume operations as quickly as possible after a hurricane. More importantly, these procedures also keep personnel in oil and gas jobs safe before and during a hurricane.
(Hurricane Isaac path through the Gulf of Mexico (GOM))
Planning Ahead
Oil and gas companies prepare for potential hurricanes on a yearly basis. Preparation usually includes evacuation drills for personnel; updates to a company's hurricane response plan; and testing of batteries, generators, and equipment. Equipment must also meet certain standards. For example, offshore platforms must meet standards set by the American Petroleum Institute and Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement. Offshore facilities since 1988 must be able to withstand "100 – year Storms", a designation that includes everything up to Category 5 events. Platform decks must exceed the average height of hurricane-driven swells, generally estimated to reach 80 feet. Drilling rigs are also equipped with GPS tracking systems to aid in recovery after a storm.
Hurricane Safety Protocol
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Operations cannot always resume immediately, even if there is no damage to equipment or infrastructure. Restarting a refinery is complicated and may take several days. This delay can cause a drop in production across the entire country. Half the gasoline on the East Coast and half of the crude oil run in refineries in the Midwest are shipped from the Gulf Coast through pipelines, barges, and tankers. Pipelines need electricity to move these commodities, so a power outage in a storm area can also hinder production.
Market Response
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As shown by the chart below, the spike was especially bad in the Midwest because the storm forced a pipeline that delivers crude from Louisiana to close.
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I am blogging after a long time today. I don't know why though. It's not that I didn't have time or didn't have anything to blog about or even that I had forgotten about it. I just didn't. However, today, after a long time, I felt the need to write. Probably because there are things that are bothering me. Things that I cannot talk about to my friends, because it may offend my other friends. Even if they don't ever come to know about it, I don't want to say things about the people I love that are not complimentary. This, however, is a new development in me. I have never thought about not talking about someone in a manner that is not in their best interests. If some friend of mine hurt me, or offended me, or irritated me, I would just go to another friend and talk about it. Complain about it, rather. Not necessarily bitching about the person, though. Today, I don't want to do so. This however, doesn't mean that I don't bitch about anybody. I do, guilty as charged.
Anyway, going back to what I started with. So, there are things that bother me. Small things, petty things. I won't go into specifications, though. There are just some things I don't like. Call it childish, call it oversensitive, call it whatever. Call it a blue monkey, if you so please. But simple as daylight, I don't like them. So, I wanted to make a list of ten things that I do not like. I don't know why. I just like making lists. It makes me happy. And today, I am very unhappy. So, my victims, I shall present to you the list, in no particular order.
Things I Don't Like:
- I don't like it when people don't answer my texts. Thanks to technology, I can now see if the person has read my text or not. So, if they don't answer it, I feel bad. It makes me feel like I am disturbing them and that they don't want to speak to me. Or they are just not interested. And I don't mean that one has to reply immediately. If you are busy, I understand! But hell, you've been online for 4 hours now, 9 different times! Reply to me! Also the fact that I don't tell everything to anybody and don't share my daily activities or anything of that sort with anyone, it feels worse, because the things that I do share, that I do text about, they are important to me. Your acknowledgement is important to me, your opinion is important to me. If I tell you what I had for lunch and you don't reply, okay, no problem. But if I tell you that I baked a fancy cake for my best friend's birthday, knowing that I am a clutz in the kitchen, I am expecting a reply! Even a smiley works!
- I don't like pizza.
- I don't like it when people don't make an effort. If I make an effort to make you happy, I am expecting something back. If I am considering your feelings, your likes and dislikes, your opinions and thoughts, then I expect you to consider mine! I am not paving a smooth road for you so that you can glide along with me, without a care, without bothering to do anything for me! Do me a favor and don't be so selfish and self- centered. Sometimes, make an effort to do something for me, even if you don't want to do it, or even if you don't like it. Make me feel a little important. Make me feel appreciated. I am doing a lot for you. And if you cannot do anything for me, at least appreciate what I do for you.
- I don't like hot food.
- I don't like it when people cancel last minute. Unless it is an emergency, don't do it. Just don't do it. I will understand till an extent. But if you tell me, that somebody called you to do something else that you didn't want to say no to, like have lunch, then I am going to throw a crowbar at your face, and you will not complain about it.
- I don't like animal prints.
- I don't like being spoken to rudely. I don't like being snapped at. I don't like being cut off mid-sentence. I am not a rude person, I am generally not rude to anybody. So if I am not speaking to you like that, I do not appreciate being spoken to like that. And if you cut me off mid-sentence with some sort of offhand comment about how you don't want to listen to it, it makes me feel unimportant. Like what I am saying is not worth your time. That I am not worth your time.
- I don't like watching Bond movies, Indiana Jones movies and I don't like metal.
- I don't like being anybody's secret. I hate it. I have been in a couple of relationships where the guy wouldn't let me tell anybody about the fact that we were in a relationship. Not even my friends. But I quite obviously told my friends and that lead to a hell lot of arguments. When I was in those relationships, I was too young and stupid to understand exactly what was going on because the guy would give elaborate explanations of why we couldn't tell anybody and why we should be together in secret and a whole lot of other bullshit. Later I learned that I wasn't pretty enough for them to tell anyone about me. And no, I am not assuming this, I was told so. That hurt. And agreed that I am not one of the most beautiful people on earth, I can't even pass off as pretty. But man, could you be more insensitive and rude? So these days, I hate it if anybody even proposes that we don't tell someone or anyone. No matter what the reason. I may understand, I may agree, but I will hate it every second of everyday. I may know that the reason in completely valid and has nothing to do with me, but I will still feel that maybe if I was pretty, if I was smarter, he wouldn't mind telling anyone because it wouldn't matter. Because he would feel lucky and proud to have me, like I would feel lucky and proud to have him.
- I never liked Swat Cats or Captain Planet.
So there. A list of things I dislike.
Anyway, on a different note, Durga Puja just passed. To those who don't know, Durga Puja is a four day festival celebrating the Hindu goddess, Durga. Although only 4 days are celebrated, Six days are observed, Mahalaya, Shashthi, Maha Saptami, Maha Ashtami, Maha Navami and Vijayadashami. People build pandals, decorative, artistic and creative pandals that house beautiful idols of the goddess. Here. Some pictures for you.
Aren't they beautiful? The saddest part is, these beautiful idols, these beautiful works of art, are submerged into water on Vijayadashami. If I made these, or even something half as beautiful, I sure as hell wouldn't have the heart to let them disintegrate to mud!


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Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS)
U.S. Department of Labor
Office of Labor-Management Standards
Seattle District Office
1111 Third Avenue, Suite 605
Seattle, WA 98101
(206) 398-8099 Fax: (206) 398-8090
September 7, 2010
Mr. Daren Konopaski, Business Manager
18701 120th Ave NE
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Dear Mr. Konopaski:
This office has recently completed an audit of IUOE LU 302 under the Compliance Audit Program (CAP) to determine your organization's compliance with the provisions of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (LMRDA). As discussed during the exit interview with Accountant Beverly Colgrove on August 30, 2010, no violations of the LMRDA were disclosed in areas of financial activity included in the CAP. This does not exhaust all possible problem areas, however, since the audit conducted was limited in scope and did not include all areas of your union's operation.
I want to extend my personal appreciation to IUOE LU 302 for the cooperation and courtesy extended during this compliance audit. I strongly recommend that you make sure this letter and the compliance assistance materials provided to you are passed on to future officers. If we can provide any additional assistance, please do not hesitate to call.
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See where TKS has installed VOC Concentrators in North America.
In 2013, TMMK elected to use our VOC Concentrator (FBC) equipment, for the energy savings and lower green house gas (GHG) emissions. TKS has installed five (5) units at TMMK's Georgetown, Kentucky manufacturing plants, covering an existing body line, a new Lexus bumper line, and two new Camry bumper paint spray booths.
The brand new FBC systems replace several aging Carbon Rotor systems and RTOs. One 40,000 CFM system on a body line, a 20,000 CFM system on a bumper line, and three smaller 10,000 CFM systems on their new bumper line.
Fluidized Bed Concentrator (FBC) + Thermal Recuperative Oxidizer
Installed 2015 & 2016
25,000 cfm & 25,000 cfm
Installed by Taikisha Canada.
Ford continues to invest heavily in the research and development of new Desorber technologies. TKS installed a pair of packed-bed desorbers at the Oakville research facility in Ontario. Instead of a thermal oxidizer and a traditional fluidized desorber, Oakville uses nitrogen as a flow gas and heats the packed bed of carbon to 700°F to release even the high boiling point solvents, then condenses them and recovers the solvent for re-use.
Installed 2014
40,000 cfm
Installed by TKS Industrial.
TMMK's first FBC system, TKS installed this 40,000 cfm system on the clear coat zone exhaust from TMMK's Body Paint Line 2. It replaced an aging regenerative thermal oxidizer (RTO). It has been running in a 2-shift arrangement since 2014.
Installed 2012
105,000 cfm
Installed by TKS Industrial.
Honda's first FBC unit in the U.S., Honda Motors of Alabama (HMA) sports an uncommon FBC design: two Adsorbers paired with a single Desorber and single thermal recuperative oxidizer. In 2012, TKS installed this pair of 50,000 cfm Adsorbers plus 1,300 cfm Desorber & Oxidizer on the solvent-borne clear coat paint booth exhaust from HMA's Body Paint Line in Lincoln, Alabama. It has been running since 2012.
Installed 2017
20,000 cfm
Installed by TKS Industrial.
Honda's second FBC unit in the U.S., Honda's Marysville Assembly Plant (MAP) selected a TKS' exclusive VOC Concentrator technology: FBC. Paired with a small thermal oxidizer to save energy, it successfully captures and destroy the VOCs from their paint booths.
Honda's FBC system is unique -- it captures solvents from a dry scrubber booth system that utilizes a limestone powder to capture the paint over spray, rather than a traditional wet scrubber booth system which uses water. As a result, Honda's FBC system does not require any humidity controls, which further reduces the energy usage of the system. Honda MAP's FBC unit uses ~80% less natural gas than an equivalent RTO.
Installed 2016
2x 10,000 cfm
Installed by TKS Industrial.
TMMK's new "Bumper Reborn" bumper spray booth design, part of Toyota's Global Paint Line (GPL) standardization effort, includes an FBC unit for VOC Abatement of the bumper clear coat zones. TKS Industrial installed two (2) independent FBC systems, one on each of TMMK's new bumper paint lines.


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Hany Rambod's Ultimate Guide To FST-7
What do the bodybuilding greats of our time all have in common? A style of training that showed them the limitless potential of their physique. Here's what you need to know about FST-7.
Hany Rambod's nickname is "The Pro Creator." He's watched his protégés take home the ultimate prize at the Olympia Weekend 15 times—including three on a single night in 2014. Far more times than that, he's watched his clients push their already impressive physiques where they never thought possible.
The way he did it is no mystery. Rambod's clients all followed FST-7, or "fascia-stretch training," his signature training style. Do it right, and it can substantially change both the size and shape of your muscles. Just don't expect it to be easy or painless.
If you've wondered what all the fuss is about, Rambod has created a video explaining the fundamentals of FST-7, along with tips on how to scale it for everyone from beginners to advanced lifters and how to maximize your nutrition and supplementation while following FST-7. And when you're ready to stretch yourself, follow the upper-body workouts Rambod created for 2014 men's physique Olympia champion Jeremy Buendia.
What is FST-7? Hany Rambod's Ultimate Guide to FST-7
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Blood Clot Treatment in Gonzales, LA
Understanding Blood Clots
Blood clots are masses created by platelets to stop bleeding throughout the body. Blood clots which develop near the surface of the skin are, in most cases, non-lethal and can be cleared up with minimal treatment. Blood clots formed in deeper, larger veins pose more serious health risks.
Common risk factors include obesity, pregnancy, use of certain medications, and lifestyle choices such as smoking. Blood clots can occur almost anywhere blood flows. Superficial cases are characterized by swelling, redness, and pain in the area of the clot. More severe symptoms such as signs of a stroke or heart attack in cases of deeper clotting. Common treatment options include combinations of medications such as blood thinners and antacids.
Symptoms of Blood Clots
Symptoms of superficial blood clots include:
- Swelling
- Redness and discoloration
- Warmth in the affected areas
- Pain and soreness
Symptoms of deeper clotting are more dangerous and can include signs of a heart attack or stroke. Arterial clotting may lead to pain, coolness, and lack of a pulse in affected extremities.
Treatment of Blood Clots
Blood clots located close to the surface of the skin may be cared for without the involvement of medical professionals. This is typically accomplished using warm compresses and medications such as acetaminophen or ibuprofen.
Deeper clots typically pose more serious health risks. Because of this, blood thinners as well as medications that disrupt communications between platelets are commonly prescribed.
Blood Clots - The Prognosis
Superficial blood clots are not typically fatal and are easily treated and eliminated using warm compresses and over-the-counter medications. Deeper clotting can lead to conditions such as deep-vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolisms which both carry high recurrence rates and the potential for long-term complications.
While superficial clots may be healed with minimal discomfort, diligent attention and monitoring are required to ensure that deeper clots don't develop into highly lethal conditions.
Request more information about blood clots disease today. Call (225) 647-1947 or contact Adult Medicine & Diagnostic Center online.
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July 22, 2008—John McCain has denounced Barack Obama as being "completely wrong" on Iraq, but it was McCain who advocated what turned out to be the fundamental strategic blunder in the post-9/11 conflicts, the hasty – and premature – pivot from Afghanistan to Iraq.
Only weeks after the Taliban were routed from Kabul and the remnants of al-Qaeda had fled from bases in Tora Bora, McCain took the lead in urging the Bush administration to turn its attention toward Iraq.
In a Feb. 2, 2002, speech to the Munich Conference on Security Policy, McCain said the United States and its allies needed to concentrate on overthrowing Saddam Hussein.
"The next front is apparent, and we should not shirk from acknowledging it," McCain said. "A terrorist resides in Baghdad, with the resources of an entire state at his disposal, flush with cash from illicit oil revenues and proud of a decade-long record of defying the international community's demands that he come clean on his programs to develop weapons of mass destruction.
"A day of reckoning is approaching."
McCain's speech, with the ambitious title, "From Crisis to Opportunity: American Internationalism and the New Atlantic Order," laid out the aggressive neoconservative agenda that President George W. Bush would pursue in the months that followed.
Bush soon was diverting U.S. intelligence resources from Afghanistan to the new front – Iraq – undercutting efforts to track down Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri and other key surviving al-Qaeda leaders, who had sought refuge in the rugged Pakistani tribal areas.
By late summer 2002, the Bush administration had begun its propaganda campaign to stoke American war fever toward Iraq. In the fall, Bush stampeded Congress into approving a use-of-force resolution. One year after McCain's speech, the U.S. military was putting the final touches on invasion plans.
On March 19, 2003, Bush fulfilled McCain's dream by launching the invasion of Iraq, succeeding in ousting Hussein's government in three weeks but then finding a large U.S. expeditionary force tied down by a stubborn insurgency for the next five-plus years.
Captured al-Qaeda documents make clear that bin Laden and his inner circle viewed the U.S. attack on Iraq as a welcome gift, a chance for them to rebuild their organization inside Pakistan, a nuclear-armed country where al-Qaeda had old allies in the tribal regions and historic ties to Pakistan's shadowy intelligence agency, the ISI.
Al-Qaeda's Iraq strategy was summed up in a letter that a senior al-Qaeda leader, known as "Atiyah," sent to Jordanian terrorist Musab al-Zarqawi in December 2005, urging Zarqawi, who was leading the "al-Qaeda in Iraq" contingent, to tone down his aggressiveness and take more time because "prolonging the war is in our interest."
[To view this excerpt in a translation published by the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, click here. To read the entire letter, click here. ]
Zarqawi, who spurned this advice and alienated many of his erstwhile Sunni-insurgent allies, was killed in a U.S. air strike in June 2006. However, the chaos that Zarqawi had helped spark, especially the brutal ethnic cleansing that drove the Sunni and Shiite populations apart, took months longer to burn out.
In Washington – and throughout the mainstream U.S. news media – it has become conventional wisdom that the violence in Iraq has decreased because of Bush's brave decision in early 2007 to "surge" U.S. combat forces.
McCain also claims credit for this policy shift and it is at the heart of his attacks on Obama, who opposed the "surge."
However, the reality is that a variety of other factors, predating the "surge," were already moving Iraq toward a reduction of violence.
Not only was the hyper-violent Zarqawi eliminated in June 2006, but many Sunni tribal leaders – offended by the excesses of Zarqawi's jihadists and reeling from the death toll inflicted by American firepower – soon were accepting U.S. cash payments in exchange for a truce.
Also helping to ease the violence, Shiite militia leader Moqtada al-Sadr declared a series of cease-fires. Plus, the ethnic cleansing, which had been particularly ugly in mixed Sunni-Shiite neighborhoods, largely had separated the two sects, eliminating a major cause of the slaughter that raged in 2006.
Though these developments preceded the "surge" – and appear to have been far more important than the extra 30,000 U.S. troops, Bush and McCain now bait anyone who opposed the "surge," like Obama, as weak and unfit to be Commander in Chief.
In their simplistic rendering of the story, Bush and McCain are aided by the superficiality of the U.S. news media, which has always shied away from challenging Bush-McCain pronouncements about the war.
Those two Iraq War advocates, however, have been shaken in recent days by public demands from Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki for a U.S. withdrawal timetable. Maliki went public with his discordant message on July 7 in the context of discussing U.S.-Iraqi negotiations on a "status-of-forces" agreement that would govern the continued presence of American troops after a UN resolution permitting the occupation expires at the end of this year.
Bush, who has adamantly opposed any "timetable" or "timeline," finally talked Maliki into agreeing to the semantic fudge of a "time horizon." But Maliki undercut that by telling the German news magazine, Der Spiegel, that he viewed Obama's proposed 16-month withdrawal timetable favorably.
"Obama's remarks that, if he takes office, he would withdraw the [U.S.] forces within 16 months, we think that this period might increase or decrease a little, but that it might be suitable to end the presence of the forces in Iraq," Maliki said.
Thrust into damage-control mode, the White House sought a "clarification" from Baghad that only muddied the issue more. Though Maliki's office agreed to say his words were misconstrued, it soon became clear that they weren't.
During Obama's visit to Iraq on Monday, Maliki's spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh, told reporters that the Iraqi government wanted the U.S. troop withdrawal to be completed by the end of 2010, whereas Obama's 16-month timetable from the start of his presidency would put the departure date sometime in May 2010.
The rough correlation between the views of Obama and Maliki was another blow to McCain, who has talked about a continued U.S. military presence in Iraq stretching on for possibly 100 years or more.
But possibly a larger vulnerability for McCain is the fact that he was a leader in the neoconservative strategy to downplay the political-military challenges in Afghanistan in favor of exaggerating the strategic threat from Iraq.
In recent months, it's become increasingly obvious that the diversion of U.S. military and financial resources to Iraq over the past five-plus years bought al-Qaeda and its Taliban allies time to regroup and reorganize inside Pakistan.
The United States and NATO forces in Afghanistan now are facing a deteriorating security situation that was highlighted by a brazen Taliban assault on a U.S. military base on July 13 that killed nine American soldiers.
From base camps inside Pakistan, al-Qaeda forces also are believed to be plotting new terrorist attacks against the United States. In addition, political strains inside Pakistan have renewed concerns about the possibility that the country's nuclear weapons might fall into the hands of Islamic extremists.
Much of this predicament can be traced back to the hubris that infused McCain's speech in Munich in February 2002.
In those heady days after the U.S. ouster of Afghanistan's Taliban regime, McCain hailed "a new American internationalism" designed "to end safe harbor for terrorists anywhere, to aggressively target rogue regimes that threaten us with weapons of mass destruction, and to consolidate freedom's gains through institutions that reflect our values."
To McCain, this meant that the United States had a fundamental right to invade any country on earth that was viewed as an actual or potential threat, a theory of American exceptionalism to international law that was at the heart of Bush's strategy of "preemptive war."
"Americans believe we have a mandate to defeat and dismantle the global terrorist network that threatens both Europe and America," McCain said. "As our President has said, this network includes not just the terrorists but the states that make possible their continued operation.
"Many of these are rogue regimes that possess or are developing weapons of mass destruction which threaten Europeans and Americans alike. We in America learned the hard way that we can never again wait for our enemies to choose their moment. The initiative is now ours, and we are seizing it."
McCain even presented himself as a forerunner to Bush's neoconservative policies.
"Several years ago, I and many others argued that the United States, in concert with willing allies, should work to undermine from within and without outlaw regimes that disdain the rules of international conduct and whose internal dysfunction threatened other nations," McCain said.
"Just this week, the American people heard our President articulate a policy to defeat the 'axis of evil' that threatens us with its support for terror and development of weapons of mass destruction," McCain said in reference to Bush's warning to Iraq, Iran and North Korea.
"Dictators that harbor terrorists and build these weapons are now on notice that such behavior is, in itself, a casus belli. Nowhere is such an ultimatum more applicable than in Saddam Hussein's Iraq."
McCain then reprised what turned out to be the bogus case for invading Iraq.
"Almost everyone familiar with Saddam's record of biological weapons development over the past two decades agrees that he surely possesses such weapons. He also possesses vast stocks of chemical weapons and is known to have aggressively pursued, with some success, the development of nuclear weapons," McCain said.
"Terrorist training camps exist on Iraqi soil, and Iraqi officials are known to have had a number of contacts with al-Qaeda. These were probably not courtesy calls," McCain added in the smug, sarcastic tone common to that period.
As it turned out, the "vast stocks" of chemical weapons and the prospect of nuclear weapons were non-existent. The active "terrorist training camps" on Iraqi soil were hostile to Hussein's secular regime and were located outside Baghdad's control in areas protected by the U.S.-British-enforced "no-fly zone."
Evidence collected after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003 revealed that Saddam Hussein rebuffed overtures from al-Qaeda, which he regarded as an enemy in the Arab world. Those contacts were not even "courtesy calls." [For details, see our book, Neck Deep.]
However, in February 2002, at the crucial moment when al-Qaeda's leaders were on the run and Afghanistan was in desperate need of rebuilding, McCain became a leading advocate for the neocon rush to war in Iraq.
As it turned out, McCain appears to have been "completely wrong" in that judgment, a strategy that has damaged U.S. standing in the world and has played into the deadly hands of Osama bin Laden.
This article is republished in the Baltimore Chronicle with permission of the author.
Republication or redistribution of Baltimore Chronicle content is expressly prohibited without their prior written consent.
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This story was published on July 22, 2008.


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[Technology] What the hell is Sarahah? [Written by Brandon Williams]
In the recent weeks, there has been a new app/website combination sweeping the country, an app that once again allows people to air out their thoughts and opinions about individuals, anonymously, prompting people to screenshot and share these responses with the teeming masses on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter(for those of us who still use that sort of thing lol) and the difficult to pronounce name of this app is "Sarahah". Launched in June, by a man named Zain al-Abidin Tawfiq, a developer out of Saudi Arabia, the app has amassed over 10 million downloads in the Google Play Store, and while the iTunes Store doesn't say how many downloads the app has, it does show that it has 1.12k ratings and it's #2 in social network app downloads. With its increasing popularity, first gaining momentum in its homeland of Saudi Arabia then gravitating to Canada, the United States, and reportedly is currently building momentum in India, the numbers seem to be on a nice and steady rise…for now anyway.
The way it works is, once you download the app and register, you are provided with your own "web page" and address that people can use to contact you. Once they follow the address, they are taken to a very simple screen with a box to input text and the simple instructions above it stating "Leave a constructive message :)" and the user can type a little message telling you however they feel about you. Now, if you're thinking to yourself "Well gee, Brandon, this sounds remarkably close to the old Formspring/ask.fm website people used to use" well you're thinking is correct, it is almost EXACTLY the same thing. The defining difference being that those sites were more based on a 'question and answer' dynamic where Sarahah focuses mainly on one sided commentary on you as a person.
According to Tawfiq, the app was initially intended as a means for employees to critique their bosses without fear of losing their jobs or respect, but he thought it would be interesting for regular everyday people to use so he widened his scope. While you do have to have the app to RECEIVE comments, you don't have to have it to leave them. All that is needed is the link or the web address to whomever's day you want to improve or ruin and you're in business. The big appeal to the app, in my opinion, is the combination of Ego and Mystery. For those of us that have the app, we're curious to see what people will say about us, good or bad, we want to see these things and if they're good we like to let these things feed our ego and boost our self-esteem, but if they're negative we want to tell somebody how wrong they were about us and defend ourselves, so to speak. And from the other side, it's the ability to say whatever you want to whoever you like(provided they have the app), with no threat of accountability and full anonymity.
While I do understand the allure of this kind of app, in that as a human I am burdened with an ego and there's nothing better than having it stroked every now and again(Giggety), I feel that in this day and age we already allow too many people and things into our lives and heads and in that we are too concerned with this idea of necessity to know everything people are thinking. If a person's opinion or critique of you were really that important, they'd be more than willing and able to confront and address you about it directly rather than hiding behind yet another digital mask, or if the person is genuinely saying positive things that they think about you why would they even want to remain hidden, why not tell you personally so they can see how their positive words have affected you and you can both share in the joy. I'm not condemning or talking down on anyone who has the app, hell I had it myself for a short time, but I decided to get rid of it simply because while the app is intended for people to leave positive comments and criticisms, we all know the way the world is now and it just seemed like I was leaving myself open to the chance for negativity to attack on yet another platform, when we all have to fight hard enough to avoid it on a day to day basis. That being said, I think this app is going to be pretty fly by night unless they come out with the update that allows you to reply directly to those who left comments, which developers said they have been "studying the option." I see this app as yet another in a long line of here today, gone tomorrow apps that will soon be replaced by some other attention grabber.


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The dire bear was seriously injured, but William didn't doubt it could still kill him if he was careless. William hadn't tested how easily his bones broke in this body, but he decided it was better to not have to find out. Besides, he could easily die without breaking a bone, if he let himself get slashed. Upon thinking about it, he noticed a few slashes here and there, and realized his dodges hadn't been quite as perfect as he thought.
Still, the bear was looking much worse. There was blood matting its sides, turning its brown fur black in the darkness. William had long since lost concentration on his light spell, but fortunately the moon and stars lit things well enough for him to see. Scorch marks were dotting much of the rest of the dire bear, where it wasn't bleeding. Even so, a large part of that damage was only on the surface, and while that could kill something with enough of it, striking critical organs was more important. For that, he needed more power.
William started chanting, once again. This time, it would be a protracted chant instead of firing it off at the first good opportunity. That was risky, because if he lost concentration, he could suffer magical backlash. On the other hand, he needed to take the extra time to gather more mana, so that this spell could be more powerful… and hopefully the final one. Chanting and dodging around was really starting to take the breath out of William.
There was another reason he couldn't afford to have the battle drag on much longer. His parents would be running out of arrows, since they would normally have no reason to have a quiver of more than about twenty arrows. Though they weren't doing any critical damage with their shots, they were weakening and distracting the bear, and William wanted as much of that as he could get.
Though William wasn't an expert on bear expressions, he felt that its current one was something like annoyed. It hadn't been able to get to the tasty food in the barn, and it hadn't been able to kill these people attacking it. William thought it might have chosen to retreat, but it didn't realize how injured it was. Perhaps it couldn't understand being injured by those smaller than it. Then, it did something completely normal… and totally unexpected.
Still some distance away from William, it stood up on its hind paws, threw back its head, and roared. The sound was deafening where William was, and he staggered back. Even so, it didn't cause any real damage to him, and even his ears would be fine. It was the other more unexpected effect that he hadn't anticipated. All around, the mana in the air became agitated, trembling violently. Even the mana around William, already under his control, fluctuated uncomfortably. He was already controlling more than he was comfortable with, and he felt his control slipping. However, he couldn't afford to lose his spell now, nor could he afford to suffer magical backlash. He found himself yelling in response, and mentally tightened his grip on the mana already under his control. In addition, he wrested control of mana between himself and the dire bear. All of this happened in an instant, and at the same time William pointed his staff toward the dire bear and released his spell.
William's hearing was somewhat numbed, but he still heard the thunder caused by his lightning bolt. Normally, the thunder was very faint, since any electricity under his control was rather limited, and hardly comparable to a true lightning bolt. However this time his spell actually displaced enough air for there to be a sonic boom it left in its trail. As for the actual lightning bolt, it struck dead center on the bear's chest. That was actually off target, since he wanted to hit the heart, but at least William didn't manage to miss such a gigantic creature. Besides, it didn't appear to matter as the bear toppled forward, with blood pooling underneath it.
William held his staff out cautiously as he caught his breath, waiting to see if the dire bear would move again. Instead, the reflective pool of blood only grew larger, though its final expanse was limited by the blood soaking into the ground. As the pool continued to expand, William's father Barend approached him. "Are you alright, Josef?"
He took a deep breath and then nodded. "Yeah, I'm alright. I wasn't expecting anything like that to show up here."
Barend nodded. "Indeed. This is close enough to the city that it probably shouldn't have been able to get here unnoticed. We should send word in case this isn't an isolated incident."
Despite growing up on a farm where they raised animals, William didn't eat meat that often. After all, most of the animals weren't raised for their meat, and those that were didn't get eaten by them, but sold. They still ate fowl on occasion, since those grew more rapidly and were cheaper, and there occasionally hunted things nearby, but even so meat wasn't something they ate every day. That is, not until the last few weeks. Right now, they had bear meat. Lots of bear meat. Far, far too much bear meat. It was rather tough and stringy… but beyond that the taste wasn't bad, and William thought that it probably had a lot of protein.
This was after they carted as much as they could into the city, and were still doing so every week. The remains of the bear took up about half of one of the cooler buildings, and William was glad they had that, or it would have mostly rotted in the field. Well, perhaps they could have managed to hire some exceptionally powerful animals to drag the corpse into the city, but it was better this way. Dire bear meat wasn't all that popular, and with thousands of kilograms of it, it didn't sell that quickly even in a city of many people. Still, it sold some, and over the course of the entire creature, it was worth quite a bit of money.
Though he wasn't much for the taste, William was glad for the meat, since he had stepped up his physical training, and his combat training in general. That was especially true in terms of magic, which he hadn't wielded in combat much himself, at least not directly. Sure, he might not run up against a dire bear again, but there were other dangerous things in this world… or in this country. William hadn't really thought about it much, but there had been some powerful followers of the Demon King, and even if he was destroyed some of them would still be around. He wasn't sure if they had continued to follow in his unpleasant style of "ruling", but there were mixed statements about them which didn't fill William with confidence. Not that he planned to go against them, at least not at this point, but being stronger himself wouldn't be bad.
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The kit brings a fresh twist to the line of Tau battlesuits - they're noticeably denser models with a great presence in a collection of miniatures. Each one features a particle accelerator on the back.
Next post we'll look at air support for your Tau forces!
Til then, Have a Great Battle,
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Hi friends,there are large number of websites using wordpress.And there are more things we can do in wordpress without coding knowledge.It is possible through wordpress plugins.In this post I am sharing about the "display widgets" plugin how to show specific widgets in different posts,pages and categories.
Some sample images given below.
- Goto>> display widget plugin page
- Goto wordpress dashboard ,choose plugins then click add new and in search bar type display widgets.
- A list of plugins appears in that see display widgets and click install now finally click activate plugin.
- Now goto,Appearance >> widgets .
- On widget , right most side,active sidebar with widgets available.
- Choose one widget and now you can see like below image.
- Now you can see two options within your widget "Hide on checked" and "Show on checked"
- Hide on checked helps to hide that particular widget in the page, post or category sidebar.
- Show on checked helps to show that particular widget in page, post or category sidebar.
- Another main advantage of plugin is you can also make to show or hide particular widget in categories.
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Transition Years explore the wilds in Cappanalea
Transition years are enjoying the mild weather in Cappanalea this week. They are completing their explorer course which involves spending the week in groups preparing for an overnight trek in the wilds of South-West Kerry. They have completed modules in Campcraft, expedition planning, navigation, abseiling and canoeing.


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Park Hill student charged for allegedly having loaded gun at school
Platte County juvenile authorities have accused a 16-year-old student of unlawful use of a weapon for allegedly bringing a loaded .22-caliber handgun to Park Hill High School on Wednesday.
A petition was filed today with juvenile court officials charging the student with a felony for bringing a weapon onto school property. Because the student is a juvenile, his name and city of residence is not being released. He was arrested Wednesday afternoon by the Platte County Sheriff's Office and is scheduled to appear in juvenile court Friday.
The student, who is a Platte County resident, is being held in the Clay County juvenile detention center, said Tammy Glick, an attorney for the Platte County juvenile officer.
Platte County does not have a juvenile detention facility and contracts with Clay County to use its center, Glick said.
School officials learned about the handgun at the end of the school day as students headed to their buses. A fellow student alerted authorities that the boy either showed or told someone about the gun. The boy was taken to the school office, where the gun was discovered in his pocket. The handgun included a loaded magazine.
There was no indication that the student intended to use the gun at the school, said Capt. Erik Holland of the sheriff's office.
Classes resumed today without incident, said district spokeswoman Nicole Kirby.
Last week, Park Hill South High School was put on lockdown for two hours after a telephoned threat, but there was no indication the incidents were related.


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Digital citizenship
Our IT facilities have been extensively developed to meet the curriculum and administrative needs of the school, and are now among the best in the independent sector. The school has pioneered the use of virtual learning environment (VLE) technology to provide online learning resources for pupils working at school or at home. QS Connect, the school portal, enables access to the Firefly VLE as well as to the school network, wherever a member of the school community has access to a computer and the internet. Parents use QS Connect in order to access school correspondence and information, and to track their daughter's progress.
However, it is not enough to boast excellent facilities. Pupils need to be taught the importance of using new technology in way that is safe, helpful and kind to themselves and their friends. Whilst we embrace new ways of communicating with both parents and pupils, growing responsible digital citizens should be the responsibility of every school and at Queen's we take this very seriously. From Reception onwards girls are taught skills on a weekly basis that enable them to participate in the digital world in a safe, secure way which enriches their life and learning.
Our provision includes:
- 43 computers for pupil use
- All classrooms have computer facilities
- All classrooms have interactive whiteboards
- Dedicated computing suite containing 26 computers
- Mobile suite of iPads including dedicated free Queen's App Store
- All computers are equipped with Microsoft Windows and Office, along with more than 50 educational software titles
- Online learning resources available through the Firefly VLE
Following an extensive external assessment by Naace (National Association of Advisors for Computers in Education), our Lower School has been awarded the prestigious ICT Mark. The award recognises the school's success in developing the strategic use of computing in both administration and across the curriculum. Parents will have the satisfaction that their children are attending a school at the forefront of modern technology.


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Software and Documentation
Profiles Research Networking Software is available for free under a standard BSD Open Source license.
Community Wiki
Visit the Profiles RNS Google Group for additional information about the software not available on this website.
Technical Requirements
- Microsoft SQL Server (versions 2008 through 2017) database server (Standard or Enterprise Editions)
- Microsoft Windows IIS 7 or later web server with .NET 4.6.2
- Apache Tomcat with Java to support the optional ORNG extension
We recommend a physical database server. Some institutions have found a virtual machine is sufficient for the web server. Database storage will vary, but an instance with 10,000 people will require about 100 GB storage and 16 GB RAM. Profiles RNS works on both 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems.
How to Cite Us
Profiles RNS is a grant-funded project. Our continued support depends on us being able to report on who is using our software. Please include the following acknowledgment on an easily accessible page of your Profiles RNS website:
Profiles RNS Version 2.11.1
The key features of Profiles RNS include:
- Import human resource data (name, addresses, title, affiliations, etc.)
- Automatic PubMed article and NIH grant import and name disambiguation
- Passive networks, such as top concepts, co-authors, similar people, same department, and physical neighbors
- Concept clouds, concept categories, geographic maps, and radial graph visualizations
- User editing of profile content, with full control over privacy settings and proxy capabilities
- Optional ORNG/OpenSocial extension to support custom plug-ins and JSON-LD
- Optional ORCID extension to create unique author IDs and synch profile content with ORCID.org.
- Optional eagle-i extension to connect to investigators' research resources.
- Enhancements to optimize Profiles for optional search engine discoverability
- Social network analysis metrics are calculated for co-author networks and stored in the database, but are not displayed on the website
- Profiles RNS is a Semantic Web application based on the VIVO 1.4 ontology, with support for RDF, SPARQL, and Linked Open Data (LOD).
This version of Profiles RNS was released on June 5, 2018.
This release includes bug fixes and performance improvements for Profiles RNS 2.11.0, which introduced a new feature called Group Profiles, which enables site administrators to create separate pages in the Profiles RNS website for centers, laboratories, projects, or other groups of people. This allows a group to share information about itself on the Profiles RNS website and link to the profile pages of its members. Group Profiles was developed through a collaboration between Boston University and Harvard. View the Release Notes for a complete list of changes. The Profiles RNS 2.11.1 download contains upgrade scripts to convert a Profiles RNS 2.0.0 or higher database to Profiles RNS 2.11.1. In order to upgrade from earlier versions of Profiles RNS, first upgrade to Profiles RNS 2.0.0 (see below for links to older versions), and then apply the Profiles RNS 2.11.1 upgrade scripts.
Profiles RNS Disambiguation Service (Medline Publications)
Profiles RNS uses a Disambiguation Engine to obtain Medline articles for a person. This is an XML-based web service that can be used independently of the Profiles RNS software. You send the service a person's name, email addresses, affiliations, and any known Pubmed IDs, and it will return all Pubmed IDs that match according to a specified probability threshold. The Profiles RNS Disambiguation Engine works by first identifying "seed" publications that have a very high match probability, and then using the authors, MeSH terms, article title words, journals, and affiliations of those articles to find additional matches. View the Disambiguation Service Documentation for more information.
Profiles RNS Publication Loader (Scopus Publications)
Publication Loader is an add-on feature to Profiles RNS that enables administrators to import different types of publication data from external files, including commercial data purchased to extend Profiles RNS beyond biomedicine to cover an entire university or organization. This tool is still in development; however, a Publication Loader Prototype is currently available, which imports Scopus publication records obtained through Elsevier's SciVal Author Profile Refinement Services (described below) into Profiles RNS.
Elsevier is assisting Dr. Griffin Weber in his development of a tool to import data from Scopus into Profiles Research Networking Software (RNS). This tool will enable institutions to populate Profiles RNS with full historical publication records from Scopus, which is an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed research literature containing over 20,500 titles from 5,000 publishers and over 49 million records. The database covers Medline titles as well as additional journal articles, books and conference proceedings from the scientific, technical, medical and social sciences fields and the arts and humanities. Purchase of the Scopus historical publication records can be obtained through Elsevier's SciVal Author Profile Refinement Services, which combine both automatic author name disambiguation and manual data review by Elsevier's staff to create precise, current and reliable publication lists for users. The data import tool will be available in Profiles RNS in mid-summer of 2013 and Elsevier will be able to provide feeds of Scopus data for Profiles RNS in Q4 of 2013. For more information on Scopus data and Elsevier's SciVal Author Profile Refinement Services for Profiles RNS, please complete this form: http://info.scival.com/scival-consultation-request.
Older Software Versions
Below are past releases of Profiles RNS. Institutions are encouraged to use the Lastest Version of the software. View the Release Notes for more information.
- Profiles RNS 2.11.0 - Released on May 1, 2018 - Group Profiles, minor bug fixes, support for .NET 4.6.2 and SQL Server 2017
- Profiles RNS 2.10.0 - Released on January 5, 2017 - NIH grant disambiguation, Live Updates showing recent profile changes
- Profiles RNS 2.9.0 - Released on August 12, 2016 - Research Funding, Freetext Keywords, and Education and Training modules
- Profiles RNS 2.8.0 - Released on May 11, 2016 - Flash visualizations replaced with HTML5, Almetric Badges on publications
- Profiles RNS 2.7.0 - Released on August 10, 2015 - Active Directory and Shibboleth authentication, Activity Log
- Profiles RNS 2.6.0 - Released on March 23, 2015 - Section 508 compliance, vCards, links to PubMed Central
- Profiles RNS 2.5.1 - Released on September 18, 2014 - ORNG enhancements and integration with ORCID and eagle-i
- Profiles RNS 2.5.0 - Released on August 5, 2014 - Performance enhancements and bug fixes [developer's release]
- Profiles RNS 2.1.0 - Released on July 25, 2014 - Integration of ORNG with the Profiles RNS ontology [developer's release]
- Profiles RNS 2.0.0 - Released on August 9, 2013 - Added support for Open Research Networking Gadgets (ORNG)
- Profiles RNS 1.0.4 - Released on June 7, 2013 - Performance enhancements and bug fixes
- Profiles RNS 1.0.3 - Released on March 13, 2013 - Performance enhancements and expanded Concept and Publication profile pages
- Profiles RNS 1.0.2 - Released on August 21, 2012 - User interface enhancements, such as new visualizations and connection pages
- Profiles RNS 1.0.1 - Released on July 3, 2012 - Full editing of profile content; standardized code and database object names
- Profiles RNS 1.0.0 - Released on June 1, 2012 - Rewrite of Profiles RNS to use linked open data (RDF) with the VIVO ontology
- Profiles RNS Beta - Released on July 22, 2011 - Pubmed disambiguation, active and passive networking, network visualizations


text: We now have 43 members on our email list. I went to the San Diego Service Center today to have my frunk adjusted and Bill, the manager of the Service Center, said there were over 400 Teslas in San Diego, so we only have 10% participation. So, lots of growth if we want it. Since there are many to-be-owners that are going to pick up their cars in Fremont, and many more who haven't experienced the superchargers or long trips that involve planning ahead, I thought it would be interesting to hear from a pro. Randy Schimka, from SDG&E's Clean Transportation Division, just picked up his new Tesla S at the factory less than a week ago. He is going to talk to us about his experiences taking the factory tour and driving back home. Randy is also a Nissan Leaf owner and can go over with us how to plan a long trip in a totally electric vehicle. Member Phil Trubey has offered to host the meeting. Phil owns Willow Creek Stables in Olivenhain/Encinitas. The address is 3049 Camino Del Rancho, which is a road off Lone Jack road in Olivenhain/Encinitas. The road sign has a very small Camino, so the road sign looks like it says Del Rancho. It'll be on the right off Lone Jack. The stables are at the end of Camino Del Rancho. Don't take the earlier service road. Attached is an aerial picture of the top part showing where people can park if they want to stay on paved road. The numbers in the attached photo are how many cars can fit in that spot. The idea is for people to circle around the road/barns and park more or less single file. There is also a dirt parking area for people who want to make quick getaway. It's pretty compacted dirt and there isn't much of it, so the cars won't get that dusty there. Phil said we can hold the meeting in the rec room. Prior to the meeting, we can have a meet and greet (see below). Date: Tuesday May 21, 2013 Time: 6:30 – 7:15 PM Meet and Greet; 7:15 PM Presentation by Randy Schimka Location: 3049 Camino Del Rancho, Encinitas/Olivenhain If you are not on our club email list but wish to attend, please send me a private message with your name and email address. We may not have room for everyone, so let me know ASAP. David Guggenheim Organizer P.S. At a future meeting, perhaps we can have Wes from Elite Finish Detailing and Evan Rowe from Auto Armour LLC talk to us about how to maintain our cars.


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1. We already had a gallon sitting at home left over (but were thinking that if we didn't want that colour that we could paint the guest room or our room with it).
2. The neutral-ish map that is the inspiration for decorating the nursery didn't look as good when I put it up to neutral walls, it made it look more yellowy and the blue really brought out some of the colours.
3. It wasn't a baby blue, but more of a grey-ish blue that sometimes even takes on a greenish under tone which I liked. It's more of a grown-up blue than a baby blue.
4. Blue is my favourite colour.
Without further adieu, here are a few of what will probably be some of the most boring pictures ever (but it was a very exciting day for me so bear with me!)
Here's just the primer:
And a little bit of infused smoke...
It's hard to get a true picture of the colour. It's a little more accurate I think in the bathroom post from when we painted the same colour in there.
Here's what's left for us to do before we can set the nursery up:
* Finish electrical in the hallway
* Drywall the hallway
* Mud the hallway
* Sand the hallway
* Prime the hallway
* Paint the hallway
* Take hallway floors up
* Remove all nails from the hallway floor
* Install new subfloors in the hallway
* Install new bamboo floors in the hallway
* Install new subfloors in the nursery
* Install new bamboo floors in the nursery
Gosh, when you write it all out it seems even more daunting! Here's hoping we have enough time in the 7 weeks before baby is due. Luckily we've crossed one or two things off that list since I drafted this post, but still lots and lots to do!
Ps. Has anyone found a technique or tape that DOESN'T pull your paint off?? Now we have to go back to repair parts of the brand new ceiling paint because the frog tape I used peeled so much off. So frustrating. I know cutting in is the only sure-fire way to not peel paint off, but I just don't trust my abilities yet.


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the beauty of football is that any team can build a championship caliber team in just a few years. this is due to equality in the amount of money teams can spend on players a.k.a the salary cap. baseball has doomed itself in my opinion. i love baseball. it is my favorite sport. but when the yankees are allowed to spend 180 million dollars on a first baseman, 170 million on one pitcher, and another 80 million on a second pitcher. they have spent a total of 400 million in one offseason. that is absurd for a few reasons. one no one deserves that type of money. there are too many things in this world that could use that sort of money. another reason, and the one i believe is destroying baseball, is only a handful of teams can even afford top baseball players. the yankees, red sox, dodgers, angels, cubs, mets and maybe the tigers are all willing to spend money in large amounts. that leaves 25+ teams to sign the "scraps" of the offseason. there is no coincidence in the fact that these major market teams make deep playoff runs every year. sure there is the occasional slip (i.e. 2008 tigers and yankees) and sure teams like the rays will slide into a championship and make some noise but baseball has sold its soul to the no salary cap era. baseball needs to change its policy soon or the sport could buy itself out.
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City ponders property tax exemption
Staff writer
A public hearing will take place 4:30 p.m. April 15 during the Marion City Council meeting concerning an industrial revenue bond for the September Housing projects.
The city has the option of entering in an industrial revenue bond agreement with Homestead Affordable Housing. An industrial revenue bond uses the city as conduit to acquire funds through a bank. The city would have ownership of the property for the life of the bond, but if the company went under, the city would not be responsible to make payments, Gilmore Bell accountant Sarah Steele said.
As a part of the bond, the city must grant tax abatements for the project — a sales tax exemption for all building materials and a property tax exemption. The property tax exemption could be set for any period, with a maximum of 10 years. City Administrator Doug Kjellin said it would not be worth it for Homestead to accept an agreement for anything less than 5 years of tax exemptions. Kjellin added that there is an option to have Homestead pay property taxes on the existing property, about $8,300.
The property tax exemption would apply to Marion County and USD 408, thus the reason for the public hearing. The city is the only tax entity with the power to make a decision.
The September housing project includes renovation of 22 existing assisted living apartments and the construction of 10 new duplexes west of the football stadium.
Construction projects
The city approved a bid from Middlecreek for the Jex Addition sewer project.
The total bid was $432,000, which was more than $300,000 less than bids from Tri Star Utilities and Nowak Construction.
Some individual cost differences include a lift station, which Middlecreek projected to cost $80,000 and the other two companies projected to cost $130,000 and $114,800 and 8-inch PVC pipe that Middlecreek projects to cost $133,000 and the other two companies projected to cost $304,608 and $271,700.
Engineer Darin Neufeld said he checked that all of the materials for the project would be the same. The cost difference comes from installation procedures. He added that Middlecreek could have lower costs across the board because the company is based in Peabody, it would have lower fuel costs and not have to pay for lodging for employees.
Neufeld said Middlecreek can start building and installing the lift station but that procedure would take nine to 12 weeks. He said the project could run through November.
The city discussed the upcoming Main Street resurfacing from Locust to First streets. The Kansas Department of Transportation is paying $200,000 of the $267,000 total cost.
Neufeld said the project is up for bid for the next 30 to 45 days. The project cannot begin until June 10, after Chingawassa Days, and must be completed the week before Art in the Park. Neufeld said the project should be completed in about two weeks.
Because of Kansas State statutes, the council voted again on a resolution denying Diana Holub's appointment to the board of zoning appeals. Mayor Mary Olson submitted the appointment at the Feb. 18 council meeting.
As in previous votes, Todd Heitschmidt, Chris Meierhoff, and Jerry Dieter voted for the resolution and Olson and Jerry Kline voted against it.
Holub currently serves on the Marion Planning Commission and previously served on the Board of Zoning Appeals. The reason the resolution states for denying her position is that she "is unqualified and/or not fit to hold the position."


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Dear society, or rather, dear people who try to cope with society. To live up to its expectations, because we all try so hard to accomplish something in our lives, don't we? Somewhere in our head a voice is telling us what we have to accomplish. Our abilities trying to get us there. Our abilities sketching the person we are today.
Are we? Are we the person made thanks to the abilities we have or have achieved. Perhaps we are all trying to hard. Do we, in reality, want to have all those abilities? Or can we just be satisfied with what we are already capable of doing? Do abilities show us who we really are? Or do our choices make us the person we are today?
Here is the Gobstone Alley box review I got from my sister for Christmas. I really adore the simple Harry Potter themed items that are in there. I adored the candle and tea the most. I also got some Hufflepuff socks and a Felix Felicis necklace. Don't we all need a little luck sometimes?