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Luke List is a Web.com tour golfer from Florida, and Golf Channel enlisted him for one of their regular "facts about the community" bumps for coverage of this weekend's Nationwide Children's Hospital Invitational at Ohio State's Scarlet Course in Columbus. Unfortunately, Golf Channel supplied Luke with a bizarre and entirely-false set of facts. Here's what Luke informs Golf Channel viewers:
Ohio was founded in 1812
Ohio was founded in 1803.
by Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus died in 1506.
And became the state capital in 1816
The state capital of Ohio is Columbus, not Ohio. (Columbus wasn't founded by Christopher Columbus, either.) Columbus was named state capital in 1812, but wasn't officially a city until 1816.
Ohio State is the largest university in the country
It was, once, but hasn't been for quite a long time. Arizona State is the largest university (by enrollment) in the country.
Luke's from Florida, so he has no way of knowing these facts are bullshit (well, he should have known the Christopher Columbus part, but whatever). Where does Golf Channel come up with this stuff?
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San Diego utility customers are bracing for a rate increase that will boost typical bills by about 11 percent starting Sunday.
Amid September's often sweltering heat, utility ratepayers who don't watch their thermostat and energy use closely could see a substantial jump in their bill, consumer groups and utility officials are warning.
A residential inland customer using 500 kilowatt hours of electricity during summer months can expect to see electricity charges rise 5 percent from $84 to $89, said Stephanie Donovan, a spokeswoman for San Diego Gas & Electric.
A similar customer consuming 1,500 kilowatt hours can expect a 20 percent bill increase, from $375 a month to $452.
State utility regulators granted San Diego Gas & Electric a 7.6 percent rate increase that applies retroactively to the start of 2012. Past-due increases will be applied to bills between Sept. 1 and the end of 2015.
On top of that general rate increase, which exceeds $500 million over a four-year period, utility customers in San Diego and southern Orange counties also will be charged an additional $40 million in annual transmission fees starting Sunday, according to SDG&E.
Further bill increases from commodity costs, some linked to the extended outage and retirement of the San Onofre nuclear plant, are expected later in the year, after SDG&E underbilled customers, Donovan said.
Businesses that sell or lease solar rooftop equipment have seized upon the rate hike as an opportunity to recruit customers, blanketing media with advertisements.
San Francisco-based Sunrun, which purchases and installs solar equipment for homes and then sells the output to homeowners under lease agreements, opened a temporary sales showroom outdoors at a shopping center in Mission Valley on Friday, writing up estimates for passersby.
An entrance sign challenged customers: "Electricity rate through the roof? You can do better."
Solar customers can offset much of their electricity bills with credits for the energy they generate, under state "net metering" provisions. The solar payoff also has been sweetened by California's rate structure, a legacy of the energy crisis of 2000-2001 that saw rolling blackouts amid electricity market manipulation.
That equation may soon change. SDG&E regards the current rate structure as unfair to some customers and unsustainable, joining the state's two other investor owned electrical utilities in lobbying state lawmakers and utility regulators to rewrite the rules.
Under California's steeply tiered rate structure, electricity charges rise in steps as the customer uses more energy within each billing cycle. Customers who exceed the highest benchmark -- tier 4 -- pay roughly double the base rate for electricity.
SDG&E asserts costs are being piled on nonsolar customers who are heavier users of home electricity, slowly undermining the utility's ability to pay for distribution infrastructure and customer programs. The September rate increases, the utility says, will be shouldered by about 25 percent of customers.
Environmental and consumer groups say the utilities' proposals to increase fixed charges would undermine incentives for conservation and rooftop solar.
Local politicians including Oceanside Mayor Jim Wood and San Diego County Supervisor Dianne Jacob joined rooftop solar installers at a protest Wednesday at the downtown San Diego headquarters of Sempra Energy, parent company to SDG&E. They sang a protest song to the tune of "You Are My Sunshine."
Dan Sullivan, president of San Diego-based solar installer Sullivan Solar Power, urged lawmakers to resist efforts to redraw utility billing regulations.
"Do not tell Californians to go solar and then pull the rug out from under them," he said.

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Yeah, I'm bringing this back. It may incorporate much more than I originally planned, eventually. But for starters, here's some "I was bored at work and found some free time" sketches. In case you can't tell from right off the bat, it's characters from FullMetal Alchemist. And as you can probably easily tell, I tried doing it from memory and failing miserably.
from left to right:
Gluttony ("not really")
Lust (her hand says "reverse harch"...only after did I realize her hand is backwards - plus a "God damn I suck" thrown in as a personal critique)
Ed Elric ("Who you callin' pipsqueak?!")
and an unfinished Greed ("And then I forgot how the rest of his head went").
and a not-nearly-as-muscular-as-he-needs-to-be Major Armstrong.


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Twenty-five years ago, I was in business school when a professor gave us the assignment of forecasting the global demand for drill bits fifty years into the future. My fellow students and I approached the problem in pretty much the same way, by making assumptions about how the world would be in that time, and what the impact would be on the drill bit marketplace. We'll be off fossil fuels by then, so no more need for those kinds of drill bits. The population will be much larger, and that will drive demand for hand tools that rely on drill bits. After everyone took their turns providing a number and the rationale behind it, the professor informed us that we were all wrong. The answer, he explained, was that "fifty years from now, the world-wide demand for drill bits will be zero. However, the world-wide demand for holes will be enormous!"
The point of this lesson was twofold. First, that it is myopic to think that people need certain assets; rather what they need is the outcome of that asset. People don't need cars, they need mobility. Cities don't need street lights, they need streets that are safe to drive on and walk down at night. People don't need drill bits, they need holes.
Secondly, that this shift from buying products to buying outcomes would require emerging digital capabilities that we were just beginning to catch glimpses of 25 years ago. These digital capabilities would enable companies to measure, analyze, and adjust their offerings in near real time in order to deliver and quantify their value. Such outcomes may range from guaranteed machine uptimes on factory floors, to actual amounts of energy savings in commercial buildings, to guaranteed crop yields from a specific parcel of farmland.
Half way in, and we certainly appear to be well on our way to realizing that prophecy. Enabled by increasingly rugged, low cost sensors, the physical world is becoming digitized. Over the last 10 years, the digital exhaust from these sensor readings has enabled greater efficiencies, safety, and revenue opportunities.
Companies like Union Pacific were early beneficiaries by analyzing 20 million daily sensor readings that described the temperature and sounds from train wheel bearings. Union Pacific can now predict a derailment with a high degree of confidence more than a week out, which has cut bearing-related derailments by 75 percent and reduced unscheduled maintenance-related delays. Quite an achievement considering that a train derailment can cost upwards of $40M and put lives at risk.
Valmet has traditionally been a manufacturer of pulp grinding machines that produce tissues, glossy paper, cardboard and other paper products. Valmet began instrumenting these machines - which are the size of a football field - to better understand what leads to unplanned downtime and inefficient consumption of machine consumables, such as belts, felts and chemicals. The resulting data and analytics have led to two new revenue opportunities for Valmet. First, they can deliver a service to clients on how to best optimize the machine for maintenance, which leads to higher uptime for their clients. Second, they are able to quantify the value of their higher priced (and higher quality, as a matter of fact) consumables with respect to life expectancy under actual client operating conditions.
What we are starting to see now is that the industrial IoT leaders are establishing board level goals that go beyond operational efficiencies, safety, and add-on revenue streams to something much more disruptive and fundamentally game changing by selling outcomes.
Companies like Monsanto are moving from selling products like seeds and fertilizers, to precision agriculture where crop yields are maximized. By connecting smart farm equipment such as tractors, tillers and seeders with data on weather, soil conditions, and crop health, Monsanto can measure, analyze, and adjust activities like when and how a farmer ploughs his field, how deep to plant the seed, and spacing of plants in a row. Crops have their best chance to reach their highest potential when data from billions of events, coupled with combinations of analytic techniques involving statistics, machine learning, and graph analysis aid farm management practices.
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Simulation of Radiation Dose Response in Phantom for CTH. Chen-Mayer[1], R.E. Tosh[1]
[1]National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, USA
The radiation dose produced by an x-ray CT scanner to the patient is conventionally referenced to measurements performed by an ionization chamber in a phantom. On a fundamental level, the radiation absorbed dose, J/kg, can be determined directly by the temperature rise in the absorbing material. We model the temperature response in a high density polyethylene (HDPE) phantom.
Use of COMSOL Multiphysics: A PE cylinder with 2D axial symmetry is heated by a planar source with a 2.8 s on/off cycle. The simulation performed with a pure PE phantom gives a much lower contrast for the beam on/off transitions. Adding glass and wire materials prduced better matching with the experimental data, but still needs adjestment of the beam power.
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On Bread (and Butter) Alone
Butter is butter is butter, right? Sweet cream butters are all made with cream (from cows) that's been whipped into a frenzied state in which the fats glob together and the water falls away. So it should all pretty much taste like butter, yes? Well... yes and no, actually.
After reading a piece on Endless Simmer, in which Brendan goes crazy for Kerrygold, I really wanted to know whether I'd be able to detect appreciable differences between butter brands... particularly the "higher end" brands (read: imported).
So, before the wimpy dollar dropped any further against the powerful Euro, I biked to my local Key Food (Greenpoint, Brooklyn). I knew they carried lots of crazy European brands.
Are there differences? You betcha. I can say (or type, rather) this with conviction now, because I just tested nine different butters in rapid succession.
Taking one in the gut (ow!) and another one in the wallet (oh!) for scientific research, I'm publishing my results for you, dear reader.
The Method
Just so you know a little bit about the process here... I made every attempt to purchase the sweet cream/unsalted butter varieties for maximum flavor range. (I'd hoped to use Plugra, a "European-style" US brand as the tenth contestant, but the only type on hand was salted, unfortunately.)
I'm listing the lineup in the random order in which they were sampled. Super-thin slices of a "French" loaf were used as sample-carriers and sparkling mineral water was the palate-cleanser. (And just in case you were wondering, "Yes... I do feel ill now. Thanks for asking.")
The Lineup
1. Lurpak
Weight/Price: (8oz/277g) $3.99
Origin: Denmark
Color: Pale white-yellow
Sweet and creamy with long-lasting pleasant flavor that lingers in the mouth.
Score: B
2. Spomlek
Weight/Price: (7.05oz/200g) $2.99
Origin: Poland
Color: Pale yellow
Creamy. Buttery. Nothing distinguished.
Score: C
3. Delitia (Parmigiano-Reggiano Butter)
Weight/Price: (8oz) $4.99
Origin: Italy
Color: Pale white-yellow
This is a funkier butter flavor. Is it possible it's not as creamy?
Score: B-
4. Mantuanella Farmstead Butter
Weight/Price: (200g) $5.99
Origin: Italy
Color: Pale white-yellow
Again, this one has a funky-farmy flavor. For some reason, I like it slightly better than the Delitia. Maybe a little sweeter?
Score: B
5. Krowka Maslo Wiejskie from Lieberman Dairy
Weight/Price: (200g) $2.99
Origin: Pennsylvania, USA
Color: Pale white-yellow
With a flavor that's fresh, sweet and creamy, I have sudden visions of buttercups for no apparent reason. Not sure if I like this one more than others because it's whipped, so there's a little extra air in it? Maybe it's actually fresher because it's from PA? Whatever the case, I like it.
Score: A-
6. Celles Sur Belle
Weight/Price: (8.82oz/250g) $4.99
Origin: Poitou-Charentes, France
Color: Pale white-yellow
It's... buttery. But it tastes kind of flat. Nothing to write home about. Maybe it's old?
Score: C
7. Elle & Vire
Weight/Price: (200g) $3.99
Origin: France
Color: Pale white-yellow
Wow! Yum! This butter tastes sweet and fresh with crazy high notes that make it taste... lively. I was just wondering if I was experiencing butter fatigue, but WOW! I want to eat the whole packet. I'm a little shocked.
Score: A
8. Land O' Lakes
Weight/Price: (16oz, 453g) $4.29
Origin: USA
Color: Pale white-yellow
Ah, the butter of my youth. It's fine. It tastes pretty flat, actually.
Score: C
9. Kerrygold
Weight/Price: (8oz/227g) $2.50
Origin: Ireland
Color: Yellow
This tastes like it could be a good, creamy butter, but they put salt in it (is that just for the ones they stamp "Imported"?) so most of what I'm tasting is salt. I'm actually pretty disappointed.
Score: C+
The Summary
I know people go crazy for European butters, but some of those brands just don't seem like they're worth the money or the hype, particularly with the dollar in the doldrums these days.
Land O' Lakes is the best dollar value among these samples and it's probably fine for baking. The Pennsylvania brand, Krowka, made a surprisingly strong showing. And I don't know what kind of crack they're putting in the Elle & Vire brand (maybe I just got a very fresh batch?) but I like it. A lot.
I suspect that freshness has a lot to do with quality, so I'd bet that any butter tasted at the source is going to be simply delightful.
Yours in food exploration,
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Every week, Shifting Perspectives explores issues affecting druids and those who group with them. This week, everyone discovers (as I have been saying for years, but who listens to the bear tank with an ass the size of Cincinnati? No one, that's who) that PUG's are not so bad.
Moore returns with a ukulele. I'm going to pull out one of the big guns on the folk scene in the Americas -- Richard Shindell. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a high-quality version of this song available anywhere online, and I highly recommend listening to the versions off Shindell's Sparrow's Point or (more especially) the live album Courier. Yes, it starts off slow, but give it a chance. On A Sea of Fleur-de-Lis is a very odd, albeit poetic, song with esoteric lyrics, although they make a little more sense once you know they were written while Shindell was considering leaving Union Theological Seminary. Otherwise, as with many of Shindell's pieces, BYO subtext.
Beat that, Moore.
Anyway, after reading Archmage Pants' article on the new LFG system for mages and Daniel Whitcomb's guide on the same for death knights, I decided it wasn't fair letting a bunch of smelly DPS have all the fun.
"But some death knights tank," you object.
That's just a widely-disseminated myth, as all those of us on the Retaliation battlegroup know. You have tried the new LFG, right? Allow me to be the Virgil to your Dante in this new, more lucrative version of hell. Concerning tanks, by the way --
Shifting Perspectives: How to be a good PUG druid
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1. You can queue for dungeons as anything, but the process is a lot faster if you do so as a tank or healer.
If you're geared to do whatever you like and simply want to enjoy LFG for its own sake, you'll be fine queuing as anything. However, if your priority is amassing a huge pile of badges to get yourself equipped in full Tier 9 for your preferred spec/s, the most expedient means of doing this is to go as a tank or healer.
Of these, the barrier to entry for a tank is considerably higher, and the group much more likely to be a punishing experience if your fellow players outgear you. Of the two "I can't even finish swigging my Pepsi before the queue pops" roles, it's easiest to start off healing, not least because you don't have any loot competition for a Need roll on leather +spellpower gear unless there's another druid in the group.
Admittedly, the barrier to entry for a DPS player is lower than that of a healer, but on my battlegroup I see 3-second waits as a tank (no joke), 5 to 7-second waits as a healer (score!), and 4 to 17-minute waits as a DPS (consolation; you can finish your Pepsi).
2. Only queue as a tank or healer if you can tank or heal.
People have already noticed a rash of hybrid players popping into groups through the tank or healer option while not actually being specced or geared to do either. Don't lie about your toon's actual capabilities -- despite the queue times, only go as DPS if that's what you're comfortable doing. Otherwise, you get situations like the one I had last night after wiping on a Drak'tharon Keep trash pull and then finally inspecting the tank:
Me: Um, I'm sorry to ask, but are you Prot full-time?
Paladin "tank": No.
Me (eyeing his Mark of the War Prisoner and unenchanted, ungemmed "tanking gear"): I don't think you're defense-capped in your current gear.
Paladin: (silence)
Me: I'm pretty sure you need 535 +defense to tank this place.
Paladin: F**k no I don't.
Me: (discovers she is out of schnapps)
Paladin: Hey, can we do Better Off Dred?
3. When you queue can have a big impact on the group you get.
If you're still gearing up and worried about running into players who massively outgear you, try to use LFG during typical raid times. Most raids span a period from roughly 7:30 pm to midnight, and that's a decent chunk of time to avoid the majority of raiders if you're apprehensive about being in a group with them.
Now, it has to be said that most people are perfectly friendly and this may seem like it's overly paranoid, but if you're queuing as a tank or healer, you are much more vulnerable to the problems that result from getting matched to a group with significantly better gear than yours. An outgeared tank will go prematurely gray trying to keep aggro against people in 245+ gear. An outgeared healer may not have the healing throughput or mana regen for a group that's chain-pulling dungeons. While most reasonable players will adjust to a tank who's doing as much threat as their gear allows, and will wait for a healer to drink between pulls when necessary, some won't.
Queuing during your own server's raid times isn't foolproof -- not all of the servers on your battlegroup are on the same timezone -- but you are much less likely to run into players with high-end raid gear between, say, 9:00 and 11:00 pm server time. Conversely, if you want the now-archetypal silent-but-deadly group that mows through pulls with brutal efficiency, you are more likely to find overgeared players outside of raid times.
4. Doing Halls of Reflection? Remove Curse and Abolish Poison are your friend.
Icecrown's three new 5-mans have some nasty damage in store, and Halls of Reflection trash has all of its keys mapped to Cursed Arrow, Deadly Poison, or Level 5 Death to Tank. On heroic, the failure to dispel these can result in a wipe due to the sheer amount of damage that can build, particularly if your healer gets CC'd in the interim.
Moonkin: A well-played moonkin can singlehandedly drop the difficulty of HoR trash. If your healer is a priest and struggling keep up, help them out by dispelling poisons (particularly if on the tank). If your healer is a paladin or priest, remove curses. On all 4 healing classes, keep an eye out for the healer Cowering (a magic debuff from the Ghostly Priest mobs that we can't do anything about), getting Kidney Shot by the Shadowy Mercenary, or being ice-trapped by the Tortured Riflemen (which we can't shift out of). In all three cases, that's 2-4 seconds where your healer is effectively out of the game.
As a tank and sometimes healer, I normally despise Typhoon and other knockback effects in dungeons (bonus points to the players Typhooning or Thunderstorming mobs into the next pull in Pit of Saron!), but here it can be a godsend. Use it to interrupt the Ghostly Priest's heals and/ or force some of the ranged mobs into a better position for the group. If your group needs the CC, Root the Spectral Footman or Shadowy Mercenary before they can reach the group (the Footman is probably a better target because the Mercenary is likely to shadowstep to the group anyway). Or, you can Root any of the mobs if the group has effectively LOS'd the entire pull (which they should be doing anyway).
Cats: Feral cats will point out that popping out of form all the time to dispel is a crippling DPS loss that may wind up impacting the group more negatively than if you'd just let the debuffs stay up, and that's entirely correct. However, that still leaves you with the problem of multiple enraged mobs doing a ton of damage, and one of them (the Priest) attempting to heal. If your healer or tank is in desperate need of some breathing room, consider using Maim as a finisher on one mob and burning Predator's Swiftness for an insta-Cyclone on another. The ability to shut down the damage output of two mobs should not be underestimated, particularly near the start of a pull. Don't forget to Innervate the healer on cooldown; there is very little time to drink between trash waves.


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Top Line: New NHL realignment plan, Blues-Flyers trade coming?, more
The Blue Jackets and Hurricanes could end up in the Atlantic. (Photo by Jamie Sabau/NHLI via Getty Images)
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A guide to this morning's must-read hockey stories:
• So apparently the NHL has dropped the four-conference plan for realignment and has some new ideas on the playoff format. Does it really have to be this difficult, fellas?
• St. Louis GM Doug Armstrong has been spotted at three of Philadelphia's last four games. Is veteran Danny Briere his target?
• The Flyers revealed Tuesday night that Tye McGinn was out with a broken orbital bone. Now the Simon Gagne trade makes a little more sense.
• The Hobbit could be back on Broadway soon. Mats Zuccarello may rejoin the Rangers after his KHL season is over. He extended it himself yesterday, scoring the game-winning goal for Metallurg Magnitogorsk with four-seconds left on the clock in Game 4 of its playoff series against Salavat Yulaev Ufa.
• The New Jersey Devils have placed Martin Brodeur on IR, proving that he is human after all. Keith Kinkaid has been recalled, highlighting just how diligent this team should be about exploring the market for a young goalie with real NHL potential.
• Instead, the Devils are said to be shopping for a top-six forward, with seldom-used defender Henrik Tallinder as the bait. Can just imagine the crowd trying to beat down Lou Lamoriello's door to make that one happen.
• The reaction in Dallas to yesterday's Cole/Ryder trade? "There's a chance the Stars push all the right buttons with Cole, and he is spectacular. There's a chance he can't find a fit in Dallas and he flops and you have a $4 million player you can't move."
• Montreal GM Marc Bergevin is quickly putting his stamp on the surprising Canadiens and proving himself to be one of the savviest minds in the game.
• Tuukka Rask is headed for a big payday this summer. Read this one all the way to the end and you'll see that the trade to New York has had no impact on Tim Thomas' decision to sit out the season.
• Braden Holtby denied Alexander Semin on a 2-on-0 shorthanded break just three minutes into the game, and kept the door shut the rest of the way as the Caps blanked the Canes, 3-0. After the game, Holtby threw the old reverse-compliment at his former teammate: "If he decides to play, he could be the best player in the world."
• The Islanders were expecting to beat the Bruins last night, but the loss leaves them with a 2-8-0 mark at home, the worst record in the league. With five games left on their seven-game home stand, the Isles need to find a way to come out of these contests with something more than satisfaction with their compete level.
• The Vancouver Canucks have a surplus of wingers and a glaring hole at third-line center. Somebody with some size and snarl would be ideal, but they won't get that kind of player without paying a painful price.
• Just yesterday we were talking about how reliant the Florida Panthers are on their power play. They proved it again last night, scoring four times with the man advantage to knock off the Penguins in a thrilling game at the BB&T Center.
• A 4-1 road trip may have salvaged the season for a Jets team that "sucked" before it left Winnipeg.
• The Red Wings could get Johan Franzen, Brendan Smith and Kyle Quincey back in the lineup for tonight's game in Los Angeles, but it looks like Val Filppula will be out.
• Nothing has come easily for the San Jose Sharks this month, so even a shootout win at home over the lowly Avs looks like an extra large slice of chocolate cake.


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The Spooky Pooky Kickstarter is officially underway!
Guess what arrived?! The first official yeti prototype!
I am so beyond thrilled with how he turned out. It's perfect.
The only changes you will see to him will be that his little tushy will be dropped just a tad.
Other than that, what you see here is the very yeti you will be able to buy through my Kickstarter!
Check out my video and keep following me here, Instagram (@spookypookycreations) and my Facebook page and you can find out when the kickstarter actually goes live. We are just test running it now so it shouldn't be long at all! :)
There will be a few different pledge rewards and we are even going to add a stretch goal for a bigfoot plush. I'll be sharing those pics and details over the next few days as well, so make sure you follow me!


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Driving a large commercial truck, whether it's a tractor-trailer, a tanker, or any other similar vehicle, requires substantial training. Trucks handle considerably differently than most other automotive vehicles, and there are a number of unique factors which truck drivers must be made aware of in order to ensure that they can operate safely on the road.
Trucking companies, therefore, have an important responsibility in ensuring that their workers are trained properly before allowing them to start driving. The unfortunate truth, however, is that far too many trucking companies fail to take the necessary precautions when they hire and train new drivers, allowing those who may not be fully prepared to get behind the wheel.
A tragic illustration of this fact can be found in a case out of Texas. In 2011, Daniel Rhodes was struck and killed by a large commercial truck, the driver of which was attempting to return to the road after another vehicle had forced him off. According to arguments made by the attorney Jim Hart, who represented Rhodes' surviving family in a wrongful death suit against the companies employing the driver, with appropriate training, the driver would have known not to attempt to get back on the road in that type of situation.
Hart, along with other counsel from his firm Williams Kherkher, was able to recover damages of approximately $11 million for his clients in their suit. However, if the companies had simply made the choice to ensure that their drivers were properly instructed, this tragic situation could likely have been avoided entirely.
A report released by the Special Investigations Division of the House Government Reform Committee revealed that abuse occurs regularly in one in three nursing facilities. In addition to verbal and physical abuse, some incidents of sexual abuse occurred. A woman on the board of a nursing home mentioned that grand-scale studies can drum up inflated, and thus, problematic statistics. She mentioned that stringent protocol requires facilities to report extremely trivial incidents, like two residents shoving one another, as abuse.
However problematic the method of cataloging is, the Special Investigations Division reviewed numerous abuse cases much more consequential than patient disagreements. The report showed that of the 9,000 incidents reported within a two-year period, nearly 2,000 of the cases involved serious, possibly fatal, negligence in nursing homes.
Staffing is a major concern in reforming nursing facilities. Many nursing homes hire under-qualified candidates that work double to triple shifts. Additionally, the training that new candidates receive often fails to teach workers practical skills in interacting with high-needs patients. These poor working conditions lead to poor quality of care for elderly residents.
The report also found that the quality of care in not-for-profit facilities exceeded that of for-profit nursing facilities. Many not-for-profit nursing facilities are community-based or religious-based initiatives. The Special Investigations Division posits that since the people working for these organizations tend to be working for more personal reasons, the residents are in a more attentive and compassionate setting.
This leaves the climate surrounding the for-profit facility grim. Of the 17,000 nursing homes in the United States nearly 11,000 are for-profit businesses. In an interview, a certified nurse mentioned that qualified nurses often don't want to work in nursing facilities because of the low pay and poor working conditions. Qualified nurses can just as easily find employment for better pay and benefits in hospitals or other out-patient care centers.
Type 2 diabetes, which is also called adult-onset diabetes and non-insulin-dependent diabetes, is a serious illness suffered by many individuals around the globe. This persistent disease influences the body's behavior in processing sugar/glucose, which is the body's main source of energy. There are ways to prevent this type of diabetes; however, if unchecked and allowed to develop, it would result to lifetime suffering.
Though anyone can be susceptible to Type 2 diabetes, those who are 45 years old or above and most often inactive, have low HDL cholesterol or a high triglycerides level, hypertensive, overweight and have been diagnosed with pre-diabetes or gestational diabetes, are more prone to developing it.
A person will start suffering from the dreaded diabetes when he/she begins to have high blood sugar. This happens when his/her pancreas (the gland near our stomach which secretes the hormone insulin and controls the amount of sugar in the bloodstream) stops to produce, or begins to produce, very little insulin or when it no longer responds to insulin. This sugar or glucose comes from all the food and beverages a person consumes; it is also the cell's source of energy – the energy the body needs to be able to perform daily activities normally.
In 1999 the oral diabetes medicine Actos (also called Pioglitazone), from Takeda Pharmaceuticals, was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for market release. The drug was intended to help Type 2 diabetics control their blood sugar level by increasing their sensitivity to insulin. Actos also helped decrease the amount of glucose that the liver releases and it was claimed safe even if taken without food.
It should be noted, though, that Actos is not a cure to Type 2 diabetes, to which there is no known cure; it only helps the body to manage glucose level and absorption of insulin. In 2008 Actos became the 10th most prescribed drug in the US. Its efficacy was, likewise, recognized in a number of European countries, like France and Germany.
Studies that showed Actos' effect in increasing the risk of bladder cancer surfaced in 2010, though, and despite the fact that an earlier study, conducted in 2005, already arrived at this same conclusion, this finding was never brought to the attention of the FDA. Cases of adverse effects and deaths due to Actos piled one on top of another. Despite this, Takeda kept denying that Actos increased the risk in the development of bladder cancer. Besides bladder cancer, the drug was also found to cause severe, permanent damage to vital internal organs.
As early as 2011 at least 10,000 lawsuits were filed against Actos' manufacturer Takeda. The company's continuous denial of the adverse effects of Actos, despite knowledge of it and the obvious evidences render it much more liable as it openly violated patients' trust.
Symptoms of bladder cancer include: presence of blood in urine, constant urgency and straining to empty bladder, frequent urination and feeling of pain when urinating.
Grout is the substance used to fill the spaces between floor and wall tiles. A mixture of water, cement, sand, and color tint, it is a fairly porous substance that, over time, can fill with dirt, mold, and other unpleasant contaminants. Proper grout sealing can help to prevent these problems from occurring, but even the best sealing job may not be enough to prevent grout stains from appearing over time. Fortunately, cleaning your grout, while sometimes tedious, is fairly easy work.
Grout cleaning should begin with the cleaning solution itself. In most cases, grout can effectively be cleaned with do-it-yourself cleaning solutions, such as a mixture of equal parts baking soda, salt, and water. Spread this cleaning solution over any dirty areas and allow to soak for a few minutes. Then, with a stiff brush, scrub the area clean. You may also want to consider applying a bleach solution if there is any mildew or mold in your grout, as bleach will kill the spores and prevent them from growing further.
Once these tasks are complete, you can either wipe the area down with a wet towel or, even better, use a wet/dry vacuum to pull up any remaining dirt particles from the grout, leaving it looking clean and new. After this is done, you might want to consider applying a sealant to help prevent dirt from collecting in the future.
Burn injuries are particularly damaging in a way that many other types of injuries are not. Burns can occur extremely quickly, and if left untreated, can result in serious infections or even death. Therefore, it is important to understand what the possible causes of burn injuries can be, and how they can be avoided.
The most common cause of burn injuries is exposure to fire. Explosions, natural disasters, or even simply routine accidents can all expose an individual to serious burn injuries. Car accidents can similarly place an individual at risk of fire burn injuries.
Boiling liquids and steam can also cause serious burn injuries. In fact, except for extremely minor cases, these types of burn injuries are often more severe, as boiling liquids can more easily pass through several layers of tissue before the source of damage is stopped.
Chemical burns are another serious form of burn injury that can have serious long-term consequences. Depending on the type of chemical involved and the method of exposure, chemical burns can be among the most severe that an individual can suffer. Furthermore, because of the possibility of inhalation, exposure to hazardous chemicals which can result in burn injuries may even be life-threatening.


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Then, I made my second batch of chocolate heart-shaped macarons, and they turned out so perfect and nice! All of them got eaten with delight and I couldn't take a picture of sandwitched chocolat heart-shaped macarons. The other thing that I wanted to try is THE BLACK MACARONS! I don't have a black powder colour and I couldn't find it anywhere. Then I tried a combination of 3 different colours: Purple, Green and Red. To my surprise it worked.
Part of the Mactweets challenge that Deeba and Jamie are hosting, I made all these macarons. The January Mactweets challenge was "DO SOMETHING OR ADD SOMETHING YOU'VE NEVER DONE BEFORE BUT HAVE ALWAYS WANTED TO TRY".
For recipe, I always use my usual recipe adapted from La cuisine de Mercotte, the Queen of French Macarons!.


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Here and There
**Phillies will send Domonic Brown, RHP JC Ramirez and RHP Vance Worley to the Mjor League Baseball's annual Rookie Career Development Program this weekend in Leesburg, VA.
**SS Freddy Galvis, 2B Harold Garcia, 1B Matt Rizzotti, RHP Justin DeFratus, INF Carlos Rivero, RHP Michael Schwimer, RHP Michael Stutes and RHP Chris Kissock will participate in the Phillies Prospect Education Program at Citizens Bank Park, Jan. 6-9.
**Phillies will be holding a mini camp for pitchers in Clearwater, Jan. 13-17. Around 15 pitchers will be invited.
**An amazing 85,000 kids have committed to the Be A Phanatic About Reading program this winter.
**Three spring training trips to Clearwater are now sold out. Same for the Phillies cruise and Phantasy Camp.
**Top selling Phillies merchandise during the holidays were: Cliff Lee t-shirts, Wives' Cookbook, Great Expectations video and holiday ornaments.
**When Pat Gillick was the Toronto GM, he built two World Champions. One of the key trades he made to solidify the club was getting second baseman Roberto Alomar from the Padres. Pat and Roberto will be inducted into the baseball Hall of Fame in July. Very fitting that they will share the stage that day.
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In my humble opinion, The Phillies should create a natural grass area near the kid's games area, for a peaceful spot at the bank and call it "Christina Green".
Anybody else feel that way?


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Ugh this is killing me, he looks exactly like Junie. I seriously did a double take
So of course the "owner" emails someone today saying she needs to find a home for this dog by tomorrow because they are going on vacation. Apparently he has severe issues:
He barks when he is in his crate
He gets excited and jumps and pees
I know, I know terrible, unmanageable and not even remotely puppy-like issues
So yea, I'm just doing my part to spread the word about him so he isn't dumped in a shelter. Yes, she is also calling shelters today. She will be in for a rude awakening there, that's for sure. I'm working on his pictures now.....