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The George Washington University Hospital | Medical Staff Info
The George Washington University Hospital | Medical Staff Info
Somebody should wake the medical community up to the fact that this is not the 17th Century and they are no longer the solitary font of knowledge amidst the great unwashed masses.
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Saturday, November 13, 2010
30 Things that are about as random as I get.
30 Things that are about as random as I get.
1. Nothing happened today: In my opinion, God already cancelled it yesterday.
2. I have no plans for the weekend: I'm not going to let God do this twice.
3. I believe in God, but only for referential integrity.
4. I shouldn't be doing this because I should be paying my property taxes, but I'm looking for a place to do it online.
5. When in good health, it takes me 6 seconds to fall asleep.
6. I had over a half-million books until my family home was vandalized, and after the sad triage, I contributed the lion's share to Cunningham Memorial Library.
7. I am possessed with putting periods between enumeration and the corresponding text.
8. I had to Google "Hello Kitty," and I'm still not sure what it is.
9. I have a problem with forgiveness, especially when people tag me.
10. At this moment, some of my hair is still pink.
11. I appreciate country music, but I don't prefer it.
12. I am accepting gifts, particularly heart-and-teddy beary T-shirts.
13. I used to live in a library or two.
14. I have a movement disorder, particularly trouble initiating speech, but most people think it's mental retardation.
15. I type faster than I talk and text slower than I type.
16. I gave up all television for a year: I have a blank spot in the FBI incident in Waco, Texas.
17. I hope to see another President in this country in my lifetime.
18. Sincerity is very important to me, but truth is an ideal and honesty not what it's cracked up to be.
19. I wish my cats were millionaires.
20. I misunderstood the intent of a bartender who tripped and fell into my arms last night.
21. "Casablanca" is doubtlessly the best movie ever.
22. I have a possibly unhealthy obsession with John Cusack
23. I've published technical literature and a poem, but I just want to get beyond the 988/1100pp? of the book I'm rewriting for the third time.
24. My highest cause is just to face every issue the best I can in the moment it is relevant to me.
25. I reject the encumbrance of political correctness.
26. I love women, but I don't pursue them.
27. When I'm drunk, I speak several unknown languages.
28. I am disgusted with celebrity for celebrity's sake, and the famous-for-being-famous.
29. If I can, I do; if I can't, I don't dream.
30. I consider any form of idol-worship dangerous.
Saturday, November 06, 2010
July 5, 2001 Reference to "The Matrix" from the old "Daily Rave"
The Daily Rave
About a month ago I was looking for clues on something -- I think I was seeking information on implementations of "bitset" -- when I ran across the following post.
> From: "Phobos"
> Newsgroups: alt.comp.lang.learn.c-c++
> Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 2:23 PM
> Subject: [C++] Iteration and Recursion
> <Greetings>
> I'm in the process of learning C++ and I came across the interesting topic of Iteration and Recursion, given that recursion creates new instances of variables every time that the function is called (thereby using memory etc.)
> I was wondering if anyone had an example of when recursion would be preferable to iteration?
> Or even an opinion on the subject...
I attempted to reply directly to the sender rather than muck up the list with my long-winded comments since it would appear that there's no way of getting a short answer from me. I have the incredibly good habit of supplying context, background and thorough description with the notion that the recipient may not be psychic, may be thinking of an entirely different subject or may have forgotten why I'm sending an essay on this or that by the time s/he sifts through the queue of messages ahead of mine, but for some reason, some people find a detailed report offensive. Personally, I read about 2K words/minute but I only write about 80 or 90 wpm at the most -- and I don't see the economy in replying to me in a diatribe on the length of my message.
Anyway, the poster apparently used a bogus address and my reply bounced. I was really disappointed that I didn't get the chance to share my opinion which was really on the order of free professional advice. There may be some imprecision in the way I expressed myself in the reply, so I still didn't want to post to the list and receive a barrage of technical criticism, so I sent it to a colleague who might appreciate the material. After our discussion, I began to be more comfortable with the idea of posting it to my journal, then archiving it and gradually promoting it and modifying it (on the basis of feedback, if I get it) until it is fit for publication in my Software Development Notes section.
To encourage me to change my way of thinking, this is the message that Roger sent me:
----------- begin message --------
From: "Roger Guisinger"<firstname.lastname@example.com>
To: <email@example.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2001 5:48 PM
This is good stuff. I would reply to him via the group, saying you have a lot to say about recursion but don't want to publish to the group, and establish an off-line dialogue. You might invite group members who are interested to join the off-line dialogue. You might publish it to your website, for example.
----------- end message -----------
[I agreed with his comment and sent him a reply like this.] It was one of these "news-web-posts" and I hit reply deciding that would be what I would do if I got a newsgroup-post reply, but if I got an Email address, I'd go ahead and answer the guy. [I thought of reposting but by that time I wasn't sure] in which newsgroup I found it: I was originally reading alt.comp.lang.learn.c-c++, but you know how web versions of newsreaders are -- you can jump off into another discussion without even knowing it. [I didn't want to search just to find it when it was] not a nice way to treat people whose aid he wishes to enlist. [I wanted to supply the information for other people on the list, but at that point I would be sacrificing potential income as well as time.]
So I wrote:
Posting it to my website is an interesting thought -- it might be a good thing for Software Development Note #n+1. I would want to clean it up first, though. [I was at first concerned with the time it would take me to convert this message to HTML and I was worried that] I'd immediately be flamed for any imprecisions, especially if I put it on a published page.
An overpowering thought was:
I should try to put a little more time into web content development. [I explained that I had lost a good biography that I had written for my web pages when] I hit the "Save" button, Microsoft Windows [failed], my disk crashed and that was the only file that didn't survive [after] I recovered as much as possible. [I was particularly disappointed because I felt that] It would have completely put to rest [the argument] about "not having any apparent focus [in my career path]." It showed what my objectives were, all the steps that I took in my approach to solve the problems that were important to me, how many of my milestones that I hit . . . .
[I was discouraged by how much I had accomplished without a computer and how little I was accomplishing with one, but I was optimistic enough to end with the light-hearted comment] -- Comedy is easy; Emotional Adjustment is hard . . .
Earlier I had written:
[After explaining how the message had bounced,] I thought you might be interested in my response to him, though, because it addresses recursion not only as a programming technique, with efficiency concerns, but with design and business concerns as well.
I enclosed the "essay" on iteration versus recursion which is the core topic of this website posting:
Subject: Re: [C++] Iteration and Recursion
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 13:15:05 -0400
Organization: Ernie's Place
I often find the decision as to whether to post to the group somewhat difficult. Many people have opinions, and in this case, I'm one of them.
You might [want to] think of recursion as an "expanding scope" problem: The invocation record that has to be resolved in order for the function to return is replicated, consuming more and more memory. But the last-generation element has to be resolved before it can be returned to the previous invocation.
This does mean that a "variable" is being replicated, but in each recursion that "variable" may hold a different value, altering the way in which each recursion is executed: It has its own memory, and in a sense, its own scope.
Once the final recursion leaves its scope, it releases its memory (in a well-behaved implementation) and returns its result to the previous recursion. So the memory usage expands and collapses like an accordion: It is effectively a way of invoking the same function with different parameter values -- something that you would be doing with iteration anyway. The difference is the kind and number of copies of that function (or its invocation record) that you would have in memory at the same time.
You might also think of it as a set of invocation records for a series of functions that are all pushed onto a stack, and popped off and resolved until the original caller is satisfied. This is roughly the kind of operation that you have in a parsing operation in the best of situations.
The difference here is whether we're pushing operators and operands or function parameters and invocation records.
Also, data structures (a tree, for instance) may behave in much the same way: A process builds a tree from the root to the leaves; as each of the leaves of the tree are resolved, the nodes are removed and their values are returned to the parents of these nodes until the tree has collapsed to produce some sort of unified result. You may think of the way parsing trees are built as an example.
Parses or algorithms that use this "expansion and collapse" to "intermediately compute and resolve" an inductive-like series may often lend themselves to recursion. If it is simpler to use iteration, iteration may be more desireable.
The "bad" form of recursion is "uncontrolled." Like an infinite loop, no exit is found -- but worse, it will continue to consume memory until there is an abort, or still worse, crash the operating system or the machine (depending on where it goes for this memory).
"Good" recursion, like the Prolog AI routines use, always have a point at which they "bail." This is usually because there is no need to continue in order to resolve: Imagine a scenario where there is a successive approximation conducted. At some point the approximation will exceed the precision given deltas and tolerances, or maybe just machine precision capacity. Prolog uses what is called a "cut element" to halt the recursion (at which the algorithm "collapses in on itself," steadily decreasing its memory use). This corresponds to the "if clause" of a well-written recursion --
> > > if (bail-point)
> > > return args
> > > else
> > > call-me(n-times);
> > >
So there is an efficiency consideration for recursion: A recursion should be limited in what it can and will accept as arguments to be workable. It should be known (roughly) how many invocation records will be pushed
and what kind of time and space resources will be used unwinding the stack afterwards.
Another way of looking at the decision as to whether to use recursion is whether determination of the parameters to a function depend upon a previous invocation of that function. It might be a bit egg-headed to seek a function that not only returns the result that you want, but also determines a succession of parameter values. Binary growth and collapse might tend in that direction, but only a few problem sets will naturally suggest recursion.
Now that we have talked about the decision to use recursion in terms of programming solutions and efficiency, let me suggest something I consider much more important: Business solutions.
If the recursion is simple, direct and controlled, it may well be coded in many fewer lines than comparable iterative solutions. If the solution is simple, direct, controlled, clear and can be placed in a single cognitive block, it may be easier to maintain. Sometimes efficiency takes a back seat to labor cost: If the recursive solution takes one page of code and "ten pages in memory," it may make sense to pay a programmer once for a recursive solution rather than pay many programmers for many hours maintaining iterative solutions that do not naturally derive their parameters, but rather rely on other functions to find those parameters for them.
If you would like an exercise that demonstrates this, write a program as though it were intended for a language that does not support recursion; then simulate recursion using iteration. It's better to conduct this experiment than to listen to me, but I think you'll find that simulating recursion proves more complicated than using it in the first place. This is the heart of the business maintenance cost argument: Recursion is good when it avoids complexity that increases production cost.
[Recognizing that I eliminated little confusion and introduced some imprecision I signed off on the reply with]
I hope this doesn't muddy the waters too much -- Ernie
Another colleague of mine (Bob Schaab) once launched a defense for my E-mail messages, "People always react kinda funny when they get their first Erniegram (aside: that's what I call Ernie's E-mails). When I got my first Erniegram, I thought -- What the heck is this guy tryin' ta say? -- but then I read the message again and I understood. He's just tryin' ta tell people what he thinks they oughta know -- what he'd like to know -- before startin' ta work on a problem."
When I put together what Roger and Bob have said, I decided that it would be better to publish this -- if anybody has any thoughts on improving it, I'll try to incorporate comments into another version that I will eventually post under the Software Development Notes section. Until then, don't get angry, consider this entry "an essay on probation" and I'll attempt to make it "right and good" in your eyes, too.
End of current rant and rave . . .
posted at 11:39:50 PM by Ernie Cordell
I found a number of interesting links at The Proceedings of the Friesian School on Tuesday (July 3rd). Intrestingly enough, I stumbled onto it when I watched the movie "The Matrix" and the form of the Latin Expression "Temet Nosce" troubled me (the form of Gnothi Seauton still troubles me, because I've long thought it should be Gnate Se-auton, but that's another story).
The site's Ownership, Copyright, & Disclaimer says:
The Proceedings of the Friesian School, Fourth Series is a non-periodic journal and archive of philosophy, updated as needed, published and edited by Kelley L. Ross, Ph.D.. All materials, unless otherwise indicated, are copyrighted (c) 1979, 1985, 1987, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 by the editor.
All rights are reserved, but fair and good faith use with attribution may be made of all contents for any non-commercial educational, scholarly, and personal purposes, including reposting, with links to the original page, on the internet. It is not necessary to obtain copyright release for such uses, but the Proceedings would be grateful to be voluntarily informed, for informational purposes only, of the use of its materials. Commercial use of these materials may not be made without written permission.
So if anyone has a presence of mind to do so, tell them that I have posted this and I would have informed them, but I likely forgot because my mind was a jumble as I rambled through links and blogs trying to bring as much useful material to light as possible.
I found the quote on this website, but I was intrigued in that a number of well-written, informed and clear-thinking articles were posted to this site, and a few of them were:
The Matrix -- A legitimate criticism of the horror that was supposed to be a mainstream, published review of the movie where it was pretty evident that the reviewer didn't even see the film. More credit was given to that reviewer, noting that "he surely wasn't paying attention" in this splendid article that is bound to add to the numerous interpretations that one fancies while watching the film that manages to combine action, adventure, science fiction, martial arts, doomsday projections and fairly deep metaphysical questions about the nature of reality. To my mind, both movie and article answer well the issue of the "brain in a vat" concept which troubles critics of "The Cartesian Theatre" as we continue to explore the nature of that which we might call "Sentient Consciousness."
Basic Buddhist Teachings and Doctrines is the best "nutshell explanations" that I've ever seen on the belief system, history and genesis of this religion. It fairly thoroughly delineates basic thoughts and precepts that are core to the philosophical base of Buddhism, and makes a good "side read" to the application of Buddhist thought in "The Matrix ."
Carl Gustav Jung is also a good synopsis of Jung's thought and even includes other links that show other earlier sources for the derivation of such concepts as "Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious."
Rudolf Otto is one such selection, showing that mystical features of Jung's expositions on synchronicity can be seen as extensions of "numinosity" that is common to every belief system that holds certain objects or persons "special" in the sense that they are regarded as "holy" or "sacred."
Excuse my occasionally poor descriptions (and maybe even erroneous ones in subtle distinctions that escape me) here, since I'm trying to draw emphasis to the links that I mention and present them for people to follow, not trying replace them or reiterate them elsewhere. I found them interesting because (1) they pulled together threads on the meaning of "Temet Nosce" which I'm more accustomed to seeing in the context of the Delphic Oracle (and hence in Greek); (2) they featured an article on "The Matrix" that added "meat" to my perceptions on the nature of reality exposed in the film; (3) the article on the movie showed the lengths to which some critics will go after having seen only the trailer for a film; and (4) there are good, substantive explanations of notions in philosophy that can edify and instruct casual layperson and intellectual savant alike.
posted at 2:50:23 PM by Ernie Cordell
This is a test: God, I hate writing this, but I'm tired of writing long test entries, and at this point I don't want to save an entry to cut and paste over again. With my luck, this one will work -- and I'll hate looking at it from aeons to come.
Copyright (c) 2001 Email Ernie Cordell
Dream Jewelry from the old "Daily Rave"
The Daily Rave
Dream Jewelry
The picture at left is a piece of jewelry that I rendered in Paint Shop Pro . . .after having a dream that I was seeking help for a problem about which I have no recollection. Actually, I took it for one of those dreams where you have a problem to solve at work, but you enter into a sort of extended metaphor of the problem and somehow arrive at a solution. It might be called a translucent dream, because I can't say that it was all that lucid, but I had a certain awareness that it was a dream -- which I forgot frequently throughout the course of the vivid visualization. It was quite a colorful dream: Mark Campbell used to call them Early Technicolor Dreams -- the kind that don't look like normal color vision, but more like rich color photographs -- or a day in the summer when you're wearing the old, green-tinted sunglasses -- or maybe like a day in The Matrix.
The surroundings or setting of the dream was in a place that looked like the Garden of the Gods or somewhere else in the Rockies above Colorado Springs, maybe up Cheyenne Mountain or towards [Zebulon] Pike's Peak. It had that dry, rocky appearance of the Garden, though -- or maybe more like one of those artist villages like Boulder, Colorado or Bisby, Arizona. I'm seeing a regularity here, but I don't think I'll post it with this story.
Anyway, I was on a dusty path with that reddish Martian Terrain look that the Arch has in the Garden or somewhere around the rock that looks like some kind of giant head -- it could have been one of those old farm access roads in the Georgia Plains, too, where they have that red clay; but it would have had to be during one of those droughts when the cracked soil crumbles and turns to powder.
There were people around me -- a lot of them -- with typical Midwestern casual wear like plaid flannel shirts -- or maybe just the tartans that look like the flannel shirts (you would have been crazy in the blinding sun of the dream to wear flannel, but dreams don't have to make sense, do they?).
These people on this colored landscape seemed genuinely interested in helping me, and were gathering around me like some kind of desert workgroup. There was the feeling of concern around me, like they all wanted to help, but beyond a certain specialization that they had -- they could only commiserate. Then one of them stepped forward in a sort of cream-colored skirt and white blouse that positively radiated in the bright sunlight. Everything seemed to glint and my vision was blurred as though the thick dust were in my eyes or that I had been crying -- the same kind of effect that you see when they film through a lens with petrolatum smeared around the edges. The effect made sense, as though sweat kept rolling into my eyes: I had the sensation that my skin was fevered -- like the roasting after-effect of sunburn. Maybe I had a slight cold (catarrh, grippe) whose influence I was no longer able to notice after I awakened.
This glowing figure, a woman with dishwater blond hair (as we used to say in Central Indiana) walked up to me with an animated sub-group who seemed quite encouraged and said, "Here, just put this on, and you'll be all right." People around her nodded and murmured in movie-style peas-and-carrots. I put the tether around my neck, and someone seemed to be helping me hook the crude fastener in the back.
As I had the amulet or pendant in my hand, I caught glimpses of it so that I noticed several basic figures in color -- a red button in the middle and green extenses around the edges. I noticed a very distinctive rope-braid etching around the edges of the crude silver. I later identified the individual stones -- a garnet in the center with a fine-dactyled ring setting, and inlaid turquoise forms that surrounded it. The silver seemed like the kind that you see from souvenirs of South American villages -- not like the fine Sterling that you see in the urban United States.
When I first awakened, I thought little of it -- hmm . . . a curious dream . . . and it was virtually forgotten. Later, though, it kept resurfacing until I thought to investigate it. I still do upon occasion -- I've found some old Russian pieces that resemble it -- but they are all in gold and feature clearer stones. I went to several exotic stores (without benefit of the image above), but I didn't find anything like it. One shopkeeper had me draw a rough pencil sketch in the store, but asked me to tell him what the materials were. I found it curious that none of the people with whom I spoke seemed to think it peculiar that I was searching something that I had only dreamt -- they treated my strange request as though I had told them, "I lost my catalogue."
The fellow who had me make a rough drawing in pencil suggested that it looked Navaho in a lot of ways, but then said, "No, I'm not sure -- there's something about it that makes that not quite right." He stared at it for a bit and added, "It can't be Navaho because all their jewelry has stones that are on the Medicine Wheel."
"What?" I asked, being wholly unfamiliar with formal studies of Native American Culture (except what one may learn walking around catching people here and there who tell you this thing and that; informal field work?) He made a smacking noise with his lips and then raised a finger in the air as if to say, "Wait just a minute." He ran off quickly and then returned with a big book that had a chart in it, "Garnet is on the Medicine Wheel -- I was wrong."
"So you think it is Navaho?" I asked.
"It could be . . . " he answered, "but, no, I don't think so -- there's still something wrong."
I didn't go back to that shop (near the Woodmont Triangle in Bethesda, Maryland) -- not because of any negative experience -- just because it isn't something that occurs to me on a regular basis. I had been thinking about it one day when I passed the Bethesda Farmer's Market. It must have been Spring or Fall because it was temperate -- not the nasty cold spray of a Washingtonian Winter -- nor the sweltering heat of Summer that afflicts the area around August. There were tables set up outside, and I remember the event like a delimiter of the season -- either one of the first days for such an event -- or one of the last ones.
I was looking at stones that day -- there were a lot of them -- particularly at the table of an Indian (Eastern, from the country India) merchant. He had huge eggs (not to say oolitics, but just to remark on the shapes) of turquoise that left a striking impression at just the sight. He also had some curious red stones -- some of them moonstones, I think, but the smaller ones seemed less rosy and more ruby. Anyway, my eyes flashed past crude silver, large lumps of turquoise and little bubbles of red as we casually conversed and I bought a few decorative minerals -- mostly I remember the amethyst, similar to an oolitic that I had hired cut in half as a friendship bond present for and between Mark Campbell (mentioned above) and Rick Kirby, a journalist that I can't seem to interest in Internet communication.
We started talking about my dream and the strange talisman that I was awarded by the people. It hadn't started out as a detailed description or elaborate conversation on the dream, but he asked me about the size of the piece, and I said, "When they gave it to me, I held it comfortably in the palm of my hand."
"Who were T h e y?" he asked.
So I told him a little more about the dream.
"I can have this made for you in India," he said, pushing out his lower lip, "It won't cost more than $40 in American money -- but you must promise not to be disturbed if it costs as much as $50."
So, in the context of our agreement, I came home and later that evening I made the above painting. We made several arrangements to give him a diskette with the JPEG image, but none of them worked. I later called his office persistently until I reached him and he told me that a full-sized FAX would be sufficient because he knew what the materials were in the pendant. He didn't call and I didn't see him again. Some people have told me that they think I simply designed some jewerly without charging anything.
I used to have this guy's business card around here -- maybe I still do -- but since I wouldn't be doing him any favors with this kind of advertising, I'm not going to identify him specifically. Who knows what could have happened to him? Maybe he was just too embarrassed by how much he underestimated the work -- maybe he was trying to hint at payment in advance -- if so, I wish he'd just been specific. I could have easily sent him a check and then waited for it to clear. I don't think most outdoor bazaars take credit cards -- if they do, I'm not sure that I want to use one where they tear down the show at the end of the day. I would have come to his store had he said it were necessary.
To sum things up at this altogether late hour at which I seem to be writing regularly, I'd still like to have it made. So many of the jewelers in DC have started drooling when I ask about having it made, and they pretty much balk at mentioning any prices, that I've stopped approaching the shops with all the glitz in the windows.
. . . but if anyone could help me to seek my fortune without losing one . . .
Copyright (c) 2001 Email Ernie Cordell
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Death By Blancmange
She brought me tea and biscuits;
Darjeeling and Earl Grey
Said all there was to say.
This gift told me we were through.The quarrel was so horrifying,
In silence that was agonizing,
Pregnant with a paralyzing love.
We clawed for words in desperation,
Marked by frequent hesitation,
Punctuated by a sense of dread. The theatre was stimulating,
Like cocaine and hyperventilating,
So we sent out for kindney pie nonetheless
Being civilized to our planned schedule
Despite the press of overwhelming stress.Like the quick rip of a bandage,
Vanilla Wafers did the talking;
Ginger Snaps were terser than our row.
So her heartstrings slipped the bow,
Going free when colored paper tore.Fatal moments conspired to make a difference,
While I gripped a river to come sooner,
But she couldn't tell that I held onto her.
A scalpel instant seered decisive resignation,
But faith means hoping something has to work.After dinner in the dark,
That funereal meeting in the park,
The second-hand pounded nails to make offence
The notion dreary that I couldn't entertain with her:
That she replaced herself with some crumbs and quince. Like Judas with a kiss,
She brought me tea and biscuits;
Darjeeling and Earl Grey
Said all there was to say.
This gift told me we were through.
Death By Blancmange
Like Judas with a kiss,
She brought me tea and biscuits;
Darjeeling and Earl Grey
Said all there was to say.
This gift told me we were through.
The quarrel was so horrifying,
In silence that was agonizing,
Pregnant with a paralyzing love.
We clawed for words in desperation,
Marked by frequent hesitation,
Punctuated by a sense of dread.
The theatre was stimulating,
Like cocaine and hyperventilating,
So we sent out for kindney pie nonetheless
Being civilized to our planned schedule
Despite the press of overwhelming stress.
Like the quick rip of a bandage,
Vanilla Wafers did the talking;
Ginger Snaps were terser than our row.
So her heartstrings slipped the bow,
Going free when colored paper tore.
Fatal moments conspired to make a difference,
While I gripped a river to come sooner,
But she couldn't tell that I held onto her.
A scalpel instant seered decisive resignation,
But faith means hoping something has to work.
After dinner in the dark,
That funereal meeting in the park,
The second-hand pounded nails to make offence
The notion dreary that I couldn't entertain with her:
That she replaced herself with some crumbs and quince.
Like Judas with a kiss,
She brought me tea and biscuits;
Darjeeling and Earl Grey
Said all there was to say.
This gift told me we were through.
Thursday, October 28, 2010
An American Tune: Testing Ping Blog Posts
And many times confused
Yes, and I've often felt forsaken
And cer-tain-ly misused
Oh, but I'm alright, I'm alright
I'm just weary to my bones
Still, you don't expect to be
Bright and bon vivant
So far a-way from home, so-oh far away from homeAnd I don't know a soul who's not been battered
I don't have a friend who feels at ease
I don't know a dream that's not been shattered
or driven to its knees
but it's alright, it's alright
for we've lived so well so long
Still, when I think of the
road we're travelling on
I wonder what's gone wrong
I can't help but wonder what has gone wrongAnd I dreamed I was dying
I dreamed that my soul ROSE unexpectedly
And looking back down at me
Smiled reassuringly
And I dreamed I was flying
And high up above, my eyes could clearly see
The Statue of Liberty
Sailing away to sea
And I dreamed I was flying . . . Oh, we come on the ship they call the Mayflower
We come on the ship that sailed the moon
We come in the a-ge's most uncertain hours
and sing an American tune
Oh, an' it's alright, it's alright, it's alright
You can't be forever blessed
Still, tomorrow's gonna be another working day
And I'm trying to get some rest
That's all I'm trying to get some rest
An American Tune: Testing Ping Blog Posts
Many's the time I've been mistaken
And many times confused
Yes, and I've often felt forsaken
And cer-tain-ly misused
Oh, but I'm alright, I'm alright
I'm just weary to my bones
Still, you don't expect to be
Bright and bon vivant
So far a-way from home, so-oh far away from home
And I don't know a soul who's not been battered
I don't have a friend who feels at ease
I don't know a dream that's not been shattered
or driven to its knees
but it's alright, it's alright
for we've lived so well so long
Still, when I think of the
road we're travelling on
I wonder what's gone wrong
I can't help but wonder what has gone wrong
And I dreamed I was dying
I dreamed that my soul ROSE unexpectedly
And looking back down at me
Smiled reassuringly
And I dreamed I was flying
And high up above, my eyes could clearly see
The Statue of Liberty
Sailing away to sea
And I dreamed I was flying . . .
Oh, we come on the ship they call the Mayflower
We come on the ship that sailed the moon
We come in the a-ge's most uncertain hours
and sing an American tune
Oh, an' it's alright, it's alright, it's alright
You can't be forever blessed
Still, tomorrow's gonna be another working day
And I'm trying to get some rest
That's all I'm trying to get some rest
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
w/o Cathy's steady hand
ipse dixit
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Trip to the store
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Graphite (the mineral) consists of parallel sheets of carbon atoms in a hexagonal lattice, which when one or few atoms in thickness, are called graphene. Graphite therefore is made from graphene sheets and there are about 3 million layers of graphene in 1 mm of graphite.
Graphene is technically therefore able to be made in a myriad of ways, including all graphite, however separating it down to a few atoms thick has been very expensive and hard to scale up. Another key issue is the fact that pristine (non-oxidised) graphene does not mix well into many products unless it first has certain chemical bonds attached to the graphene sheets (functionalisation) and few producers are aware of the end use of the products. Talga successfully addresses these issues by a number of solutions including:
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The Chevy Cruze meets modern-day demands by combining tech-savvy features with fuel-efficient performance. For trips to work or across the country, it serves as a technology hub that'll keep you connected on the road. Plus, with 47.2 cubic feet of max cargo space, it accommodates lots of luggage and equipment for all sorts of hobbies. To sum it up, if you're on the hunt for a "quiet, comfortable and fuel-efficient compact sedan or hatchback with available safety technology," KBB.com's 2018 Chevy Cruze review says you'll like this car.
For 2018, the Cruze lineup gains a new GM-created 1.6-liter turbo-diesel. Over 24,000 hours of computational analysis was used to develop the advanced engine, which provides a 700+ mile range! In addition, a new Satin Steel Gray Metallic paint color is now offered, showing off the Cruze's aerodynamic styling in a new hue. Continue below for more details.
You can find the new 2018 Chevrolet Cruze for sale in Springfield in hatchback and sedan body styles. Both can be had in L, LS, LT, Premier and new Diesel trim levels.
Cruze stands out among compact cars with its wealth of standard amenities, which include a MyLink touchscreen audio system, Bluetooth phone and audio, Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, OnStar 4G LTE (3-month/3-GB data trial included), a USB port, and power doors and windows. Starting with the Cruze LT, SiriusXM Satellite Radio, cruise control and LED daytime running lamps become standard, while the Cruze Premier adds additional luxury components like ambient lighting, remote start, heated seats and steering wheel, leather upholstery and 17-inch alloy wheels. There are also available RS and Redline packages that include exclusive appearance features for a sportier look.
The Chevrolet Cruze comes standard with a 1.4-liter EcoTec DOHC turbocharged four-cylinder engine that produces 153 horsepower and 177 lb-ft of torque. With the continuously variable transmission and FWD, the model achieves an EPA-estimated 30 mpg city/40 mpg highway.
The brand-new 1.6-liter turbocharged diesel four-cylinder offers 137 hp and an impressive 240 torque rating. EPA fuel economy estimates for the diesel are 30 mpg city/52 mpg highway for sedans with the manual transmission. Sedans with the automatic transmission achieve 31/47 mpg with the turbo-diesel. Hatchback ratings are only slightly lower but still impressive. Visit Reliable Chevrolet to test drive a 2018 Chevrolet Cruze in Springfield, Missouri and try the new diesel engine for yourself!
While compact, the Chevy Cruze is big on safety. There are 10 standard airbags, a backup camera, StabilTrack electronic stability control with traction control, and a strong body structure that includes high-strength steel in several areas.
Cruze LT (with automatic) and Cruze Premier models can be had with a Driver Confidence Package option that adds on Rear Cross-Traffic Alert, Side Blind Zone Alert with Lane Change Alert and Rear Park Assist. Also available on the Cruze Premier, the Driver Confidence II Package throws in even more technologies, including Lane Departure Warning with Lane Keep Assist, Forward Collision Alert, Following Distance Indicator and IntelliBeam Automatic High-Beam Control.
See the rest of Reliable Chevrolet's 2018 Chevy Cruze review below to browse photos, a walkaround video and independent compact car comparisons.
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Visit us when you're in town if you're looking for a resident Chevrolet Cruze dealer with offers you won't want to miss. We hope our 2018 Chevrolet Cruze review assists you when you're all set to make your eventual buying decision. Call to schedule an appointment to test drive the Chevrolet Cruze at Reliable Chevrolet in Springfield, MO, and view the new model upfront. Can't wait to see its trendy cabin amenities at our dealership? Check out our video clip now!
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Toni Costa is not in the dedication 1
The dedication reads:
To my siblings Adilsa, Adaline and Adalberto, for being a source of love. I'd feel lost without you. You are my guides, my friends and part of the craziness that is my life. Every day more united, every day loving each other more.
She miscarried a baby before Alaïa 2
She had a very dangerous ectopic pregnancy that had to be ended. I can't imagine the pain.
Televisa came knocking, but ... 3
The Mexican network offered her a part in 2014's Ya no creo en los hombres. Ada turned them down and the novela, which starred Adriana Louvier and Gabriel Soto, ended up being a huge success.
Her relationship with Toni Costa was on the rocks 5
Adamari is blunt in Amando about how her quest to get pregnant created havoc in her relationship with Toni and explains how they worked through tough times.
Covering Jenni Rivera's and Lorena Rojas' deaths happened at the worst time 6
In a weird coincidence, Adamari had to cover the news of the death of Jenni Rivera on Un Nuevo Día, only a few days after the passing of her mom Vidalina. The same thing happened when the news of Lorena Rojas' death hit the news: Adamari's dad Don Luis passed away at almost the same time.
She had many problems during her pregnancy, including diabetes 7
That must have been so scary! She even had problems with the amniotic liquid and had to be hospitalized. I cringed reading some of the details.
Toni Costa and the delivery 8
He was there all the way, even helping her with the most intimate things that no woman wants her man to do for her. You will fall in love with Toni. Guaranteed!
The message for Luis Fonsi 9
Her words show where her heart is regarding the Puerto Rican singer and their love story. Here's a part of them:
[As for my ex,] I'll always wish him and his family the best, and I'm very happy that now both of us have the lives we deserve and we've left our pasts in the past.
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Flooring that comes in several different widths in the same box.
Applying one coat of finish over another for added protection.
A molding accessory normally used at doorways, fireplaces, or to divide a room that is grooved on one edge and tapered on the other in a teardrop shape.
The act of sanding a finished floor and applying a new layer of finish.
A ratio of the amount of water vapor in the air to the amount it would have if it was completely saturated at the same temperature.
Refers to flooring that is elastic, flexible, or has "give". Resilient floors include vinyl, cork, carpet and
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Is your Coconut Yoghurt dairy free?
Yes, our coconut yoghurt is dairy free. It is simply made from organic coconut cream and probiotic cultures.
Where do you source your coconut cream from?
Our Coconut Cream comes from Indonesia. Our Coconut Cream supplier does not use any sprays or fertilisers, so the cream is organic. It is Verified Non-GMO, Rainforest Alliance Certified, Halal and Kosher. Furthermore, the coconuts are picked using sustainable farming practices with a focus on giving back to the community
Do you use any natural or artificial flavours, colours or preservatives in your products?
No, you will never find any of the above ingredients in our products. We believe in only using ingredients that will serve our customers health without detrimental effects.
Why is coconut yoghurt healthy?
Fermented foods load your gut with good bacteria, helping all the systems in your body function optimally.
Coconut products contain healthy saturated fats consisting of medium chain fatty acids which our bodies utilise as energy instead of storing as fat.
Coconuts are full of lauric acid which plays a crucial role in assisting our bodies immune system
Our flavoured Coconut Yoghurts are 100% natural, free from refined sugars contain less than 4% total sugar. This is the lowest level you will find in any New Zealand made fruit yoghurts. The flavours are made from scratch using only delicious whole food ingredients. We do not use any additives, artificial or natural flavourings
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Because we do not use any gums, starch or stabilisers in our coconut yoghurt you will find that some batches are runnier and others slightly thicker but always delicious.
Why do you package your Coconut Yoghurt in glass?
Through drawing inspiration from nature, we have kept a focus on sustainability and we selected to package our Coconut Yoghurt range in recyclable glass with a desire to minimise plastics in our food chain, oceans and landfills. We are always searching for environmentally friendly packaging options and ways that we can lessen our carbon footprint, and partner with companies and organisations also making a difference. Our jars make the perfect storage containers for your pantry staples. Another reason we chose to package in glass is because coconut cream has a high fat content and products high in fat leech the toxins from plastic very easily.
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Monday, November 2, 2015
Lisa Sellers currently works at the Visiting Nurses Association (VNA) of Indian River County. Before moving to the VNA, she worked with Dr. Michael J. Costello, a general and vascular surgeon at Lawnwood Regional Medical Center. She worked with him intermittently since 1996 until he recently retired. She had worked as an Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner since 2012 with Dr. Costello.
She received her Associate in Arts degree from Indian River State College (IRSC) in 1992. Then, she went on to receive her Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from Florida Atlantic University (FAU) in 1996 and her Master of Science in Nursing degree from FAU in 2012. She received the leadership award for the graduating class and was part of the honor society in nursing, Sigma Theta Tau.
She has a diverse nursing background. She held many different positions as a Registered Nurse, worked in the home health care arena and taught nursing education. While living in Montana in 2006, she was an instuctor at Montana State University. She did the clinical portions of the program with students at the hospital setting and outpatient settings.
When she returned to Florida, she worked for the Indian River School District as a clinical educator working with Licensed Practical Nursing students at Indian River Medical Hospital, rehab centers, nursing homes and the health department. She received the clinical excellence award nominated by her peers and students as an instructor while working in this program.
She credits her professional success to the scholarship assistance she received from the Lillian G. Lockwood Scholarship through the IRSC Foundation.
While she is very proud of her career achievements, she says her biggest accomplishments are her two daughters. She is confident that she has set a good example for them to pursue their education and folow their dreams.


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The Institute of Microelectronic Systems offers a wide range of jobs as a student research assistant in various projects and labs. The list of ongoing work and the list of research activities provide an overview of the available topics. Interested students can contact the responsible reseach assistants or the heads of the research groups Prof. Blume and Prof. Wicht at any time.


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DeRuyter State Forest
- Open for recreation: Year-round
- Fee: Free
- Contact Information:
- DEC Region 7 Sherburne Office: (607)-674-4017 M-F 8 am- 4 pm, firstname.lastname@example.com
- Emergency, Law Enforcement & Rangers: (518) 408-5850 or 911
- Location: DeRuyter, Madison County
- Wildlife Management: 7M
- Map: DeRuyter State Forest Map || DeRuyter State Forest Map (PDF) || Google Earth || DECinfo Locator
The 972-acre DeRuyter State Forest has a horse carriage trail that runs from north to south through the center of the forest. A public snowmobile trail passes through the property also running north to south. A section of the North County National Scenic Trail crosses the forest running east to west.
Featured Activities
General information on hiking includes how-to and safety tips and links to rules & regulations.
A portion of the North Country Trail (leaves DEC website) crosses this property. Hiking is allowed anywhere on the property unless posted otherwise.
General information on primitive camping includes how-to and safety tips and links to rules & regulations.
Primitive camping is allowed. Campsites must be at least 150 feet away from the nearest road, trail, or body of water. Camping for more than three nights or in groups of ten or more requires a permit from a Forest Ranger.
General information on fishing includes how-to and safety tips and links to seasons, rules & regulations.
Fishing Access information is available. Fishing Easement information is available.
Hunting & Trapping
General Information on hunting and general information on trapping includes how-to and safety tips with links to seasons, rules & regulations.
General information on snowmobiling includes how-to and safety tips and links to rules & regulations.
Cross-country Skiing & Snowshoeing
General information on cross-country skiing and snowshoeing includes how-to and safety tips and links to rules & regulations.
Cross-country skiing and snowshoeing are permitted on all hiking trails.
Horseback Riding
General information on horseback riding includes how-to and safety tips and links to rules & regulations. Proof of current negative Coggins certificate is required for all horses and out-of-state horse owners are required to produce a 30-day health certificate.
General information on animals includes links to information about birds, mammals, fish, reptiles, amphibians and insects that inhabit or migrate through the state.
This forest is located just west of State Route 13 in the Town of DeRuyter and is easily accessed from Fairbanks, Stanton and Tromp Roads.
- North Fairbanks Road (42.819562°N, 75.85572°W) Google Maps (leaves DEC website)
- South Fairbanks Road (42.807561°N, 75.853885°W) Google Maps (leaves DEC website)
- Tromp Road (42.819375°N, 75.862883°W) Google Maps (leaves DEC website)
Rules, Regulations and Outdoor Safety
Practice Leave No Trace (link leaves DEC website) principles when recreating on state land to enjoy the outdoors responsibly, minimize impact on the natural resources and avoid conflicts with other users.
All users of Deruyter State Forest must follow all State Land Use Regulations and should follow all Outdoor Safety Practices for the safety of the user and protection of the resource.
How We Manage Deruyter State Forest
DeRuyter State Forest is part of the Tioughnioga Unit Management Plan. A Unit Management Plan (UMP) guides the DEC's land management activities on several geographically related forests for a ten-year period, although a number of goals and objectives in the plan focus on a much longer time period. Each UMP addresses specific objectives and actions for public use and forest management. If you have questions and/or comments about this UMP, please email email@example.com.
DeRuyter State Forest, occupies a narrow ridge-top with a deep cut channel that feeds the Middle Branch of the Tioughnioga Creek. The 1875 Atlas of Madison County reveals a well established population of farmers in and around what is today DeRuyter State Forest. Cheese factories, sawmills and tanneries operated throughout the town and the New York, Oswego & Midland and the Cazenovia & Canastota Railroads linked distant markets with local farm and manufactured goods. During the late 19th century DeRuyter was a wide open landscape of farms, and fields and one could look west from Stanton Road and see the shimmering light reflected from DeRuyter Reservoir, built in 1863 as a feeder to the Erie Canal. Soon, however, industrialization and heeds to the cry of "go west young man" drew people away from rural New York and the pastures and cropland of DeRuyter that once fueled the local economy were slowly reclaimed by native forest.
Using funds authorized from the State Reforestation Act of 1929, the Conservation Department purchased land from, among others, Charles Boyd, Fred Hurt, Anna Granville and George Congers to create DeRuyter State Forest. Beginning in 1935, recruits from the Civilian Conservation Corp Camp S-103, located in DeRuyter, planted hundreds of acres of red pine and Norway spruce on the forest. Today these planted forests mask ,but don't completely hide, a rich history of settlement, abandonment and regrowth.
The Boyds, Hurts and Granvilles, along with their herds of cattle and sheep, have moved on; but today DeRuyter's regrown forest is home to a different group of residents. In early spring hawks nesting in planted pine fiercely protect their young while turkey toms pump up and show off in search of a mate. A buck deer bounds off through a thicket of witch hazel while a flock of cedar waxwings perch in a cherry tree to share in its juicy fruit. The low croak of a raven, a grouse drumming on a stump and a chorus of screaming spring peepers remind us that these seemingly lonely woods are alive with activity.
Nearby Amenities and Attractions
Chenango County Tourism Webpage (link leaves DEC website)
Gas, food, dining and lodging may be found in the nearby communities of Cazenovia and Cortland.
Numerous guide books and maps are available with information on the lands, waters, trails and other recreational facilities in this area. These can be purchased at most outdoor equipment retailers, bookstores, and on-line booksellers.
Additional information, outdoor equipment, trip suggestions and guided or self-guided tours may be obtained from outdoor guide and outfitting businesses. Check area chambers of commerce, telephone directories or search the internet for listings.
Consider hiring an outdoor guide if you have little experience or woodland skills. See the NYS Outdoor Guides Association (link leaves DEC website) for information on outdoor guides.


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If the term is unfamiliar, it's essentially another way to describe a mobile home. According to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the official definition of a manufactured home is a house that is built in an assembly plant — in compliance with strict design and safety codes — and transported on a portable chassis to its ultimate destination. And manufactured home insurance doesn't just protect your home — it also covers detached structures like garages and sheds.
Arranging the smartest mobile home policy means knowing the areas in which your abode is most vulnerable.
According to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), the top cause of fires in manufactured homes is electrical distribution equipment. In the majority of other homes, though, cooking is the top threat.
Why is this noteworthy? Mostly because it means mobile-home fires can occur more easily when no one is home, allowing the damage to spread unimpeded. To make matters worse, smoke alarms are missing in half of all manufactured homes, according to the NFPA.
Adding ample amounts of dwelling protection (which covers your home's structure) and personal property insurance (which pays to replace your possessions lost in a blaze) is a great way to gain some extra peace of mind.
While manufactured homes have come a long way over the years, the differences in construction between site-built homes and traditional homes can still bring about some insurance issues — one of which is insulation. You could also explore winterizing or insulating your mobile home yourself to further decrease your risk (and make your insurer smile).
One of the most common concerns your insurer may have regarding your manufactured home is damage from heavy windstorms. If your place is lighter than most site-built homes and is at risk of blowing over, you might feel more comfortable with increased limits on your dwelling protection, in case you need to repair your home in the specific instances it's damaged by wind or hail (convenient, huh?).
While your manufactured home will be your residence for years, it's still mobile for one day. Adding some form of trip collision coverage will help make sure you're prepared if the unthinkable happens and your home is totaled while being transported from the assembly plant to its destination.
Another key aspect to bear in mind with your manufactured home policy is the depreciation on mobile homes as they age. This could mean the value of your home might have gone down since you first started your insurance policy, and your limits on dwelling protection and liability coverage (not to mention your overall premium) are higher than they need to be.
It's always wise to reevaluate your home and your assets every so often to make sure you're getting the most from your manufactured home insurance.
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Zoho Desk Launched by Zoho Corp: SaaS for Collaborative, Intuitive Customer Supportby Tushar Mehta November 18, 2016 0 comments
Context and collaboration are two key imports from Zoho's recent launch event at Tenkasi, a village in Tamil Nadu, some six hundred kilometres adrift from capital city Chennai. Zoho's newest product Zoho Desk is the first software Made in rural India. Zoho Desk is a help desk software thoughtfully crafted with due consideration to challenges to support workforce and its implications on to the consumers of the business.
Zoho Desk makes the task for support teams easier and interactions for customers/stakeholders more amicable by intuitively categorizing, prioritising and controlling support queries received from across various channels including Chat support and social media. This eases the process of resolving support tickets by presenting information in a manner which is easy to perceive for the support agent. Quick understanding of the customers' problems translates to a quick and convincing solution. Zoho, thus markets this as context-aware helpdesk interface which eliminates beating-around-the-bush responses.
The software is beneficial tool for integrating credibility, giving positive, resolute responses to customers. The responses can be tuned for automated replies based on analysis of Customers' previous interactions with the service providers using Zoho Desk. Desk, like any other other offering from Zoho is a cloud-based SaaS application, which allows decentralised data so the agents need not dig up through silos of information. This also allows easy access to redundant transaction data or history.
Zoho extends support for Zoho Desk for various CRM (Customer Relation Management) software including Zoho's own CRM, and popular ones of the like of Salesforce, Oracle CRM and SAP. Zoho provides support for integrating these with Zoho Desk. Citing raging security issues for cloud-based services, Zoho has a dedicated team which hawks possible security breakouts.
The key aspects of Zoho Desk include:
Work Modes — which prioritize interactions with the customers in a real-time scenario, based on response due-time, priority, and customer type. This aids the support agents in identifying support tickets which require immediate attention.
Unified Response Editor — Within the newly conceived ticket, Zoho Desk provides intuitive customer information from Zoho CRM, past interactions with the customer, and suggests on pragmatic solutions for the issues at hand, helping with effective and obliging responses.
Headquarters — This feature allows Customer Service Managers to broadly gauge and analyse trends like volumes of interactions and customer happiness ratings, along with fine-tuned details such as long interaction threads and recent negative feedback, all from a single screen.
Agent Scorecard — Agent Scorecard is a dashboard monitor which presents each agent with their own average response and resolution times, number of active and closed tickets, and happiness ratings earned. This contributes to the creation of a culture of self-management in the customer support teams.
Team Feed — Users can mention colleagues across departments in a style resembling to social networks feeds, within the tickets to leverage an elaborate context of the issue raised and collaborate with them for a quick resolution. They can also follow specific tickets or customers to get real-time updates on both the web or on their mobile phones.
Zoho Desk offers a collaborative space for a delighting experience to the customers. Further, several tasks can be customised and triggered, escalations automated as per need, thereby eliminating bottleneck in decision making. This could help companies collating data in a channelized way to enhance UX (User Experience) as well as productivity and sales turnovers. A new Product pitching is most beneficial when the customer is happy and content with the existing services.
Zoho is currently employing it to leverage support to users, and has other key industry players like Tech Mahindra. Zoho offers integration with analytics tools like Zoho Reports, as well as other software offerings from Zoho. With the speculations about GST, Zoho Desk can be a useful tool to migrate towards a digitized and accurate business book-keeping.
CEO of Zoho Corp., Sridhar Vembu proudly comments on enabling local talent pool via Zoho University, and using a significant fraction of them in developing first software Made in Rural India, here at the beautiful village of Tenkasi in Tamil Nadu, as he remarks that Zoho Desk is built in a valley, just not the Silicon valley.


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Pet Pros Push Safe Pets Bill
Industry Standards Measure Protects Consumers and Codifies Best Practices
SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Feb. 13, 2017 /PRNewswire/ 360WiseNews |– An association of pet industry professionals championed legislation that would establish best practices and uniform standards throughout Illinois. The Best Practices and Uniform Standards to Ensure Consumer Protection and Safe Pets Bill is designed to create transparency in the sourcing of animals to help screen out puppy mills and other bad actors. The bill introduced Friday prohibits all pet stores and dealers from acquiring dogs and cats from commercial breeders not licensed by the USDA, and requires sellers to micro-chip all dogs and cats. The bill further aims to reduce shelter populations by enabling pet stores and rescues to reclaim dogs/cats sold that are given up by owners and to re-home the animals.
"This Bill will protect consumers while ensuring that pet stores, suppliers, dealers, breeders and operators of shelters and rescues are working in concert to document the source, health and well-being of pets," said IL Senator Mike Hastings (D-19-Tinley Park), co-sponsor of the bill SB1882. "The purpose of this bill is twofold," added co-sponsor of HB2824 IL Rep Jerry Costello, II (D-116-Belleville). "It improves upon previous efforts to eliminate Puppy Mills while ensuring that consumer rights are protected and best practices are maintained statewide." Keep Reading


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MOH appoints 14-member panel to review ElderShield
THE Ministry of Health (MOH) has appointed a 14-member ElderShield review committee to study ways to enhance the severe disability insurance scheme, as part of efforts to further strengthen the social safety nets for an ageing population.
The committee is expected to complete the review and submit its recommendations to MOH by end-2017.
It will be chaired by Chaly Mah, who is also chairman of the Singapore Accountancy Commission and former CEO of Deloitte Asia Pacific and South-east Asia.
Among some of the things that the committee will look into include the ElderShield design parameters to ensure adequate and affordable coverage, as well as the trade-offs involved in the review of the parameters such as the balance between benefit enhancements and premium levels.
The existing scheme has been in place since 2002 and was last amended in 2007.
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong had said in his National Day Rally speech this year that there will be a review to provide better support for Singaporeans who become severely disabled during their old age.


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Published on October 23, 2017
"Colorectal screening tests can detect colon polyps at an early stage, before they develop into colon cancer, and in many instances can prevent colon cancer entirely," says Mark S. Codella, MD, a gastroenterologist at Nazareth Hospital.
Precancerous polyps of the colon can be removed during a colonoscopy, preventing further progression to an advanced cancer.
Whichever colorectal screening test you choose, you should have it when you turn 50. African Americans should be screened at age 45, while other high-risk patients may require even earlier screening. Talk with your doctor about which of these common tests is right for you and how often you should be tested:
Colonoscopy. Dr. Codella calls this test "the gold standard" because it is the best test for finding and removing polyps from the entire colon. Its main downside is the prep work you must do to empty your bowel before the test, though the prep is a lot easier now than in the past.
Flexible sigmoidoscopy. Although similar to a colonoscopy, this test can only examine the inside of the lower colon, which means it could miss polyps on the right side of the colon. You still have to do the bowel prep work, and if a polyp or cancer is found, you'll need a full colonoscopy.
FIT test. This test detects blood in your stool, a possible sign of cancer. You can do the test at home. You place a tiny amount of stool in a vial or on a card using a small stick or probe, and you mail the sample to our lab. If results are positive, you'll need a colonoscopy.
55 to 84: The age range in which most men and women are diagnosed with colorectal cancer.
1.3 million+: The estimated number of people in the U.S. living with colorectal cancer.
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Nov 04 2008
Photo Contest #1: Finalists
We've moved into a new world now that we've started hosting photo contests. Despite my love for our writing-based contests, the web is really made for photos. Plus, it's fun to get to see our users. We've worked some bugs out and are ready to go for future photo-based competitions.
There won't be any special mentions for this week, so let's go straight to your five finalists. The five most creative costumes were Snoconegrl's Bob Ross, amueth's Rorschach (from The Watchmen), Lalaith's flying purple people eater, Jakutz' high tide, and Mach3's Alex Trebek.
The polls will be open until 5pm EST on Thursday. Remember, there's a sweet $50 Amazon.com gift certificate riding on this as well as the title: winner of the first MM photo contest.
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Words &: Pictures: Seth Kushner
Cosplay (コスプレkosupure), short for "costume play", is type of performance art in which participants don costumes and accessories to represent a specific character or idea.
It's no secret that I'm a comics fan. If you're reading this, then odds are you are, too. I've been a fan since before I was able to read and have collected weekly for over twenty-six years. But, I have never worn a costume to a comic con. Just not my thing. To me, that is a different level of fandom, and one which I find fascinating. A couple of years back, I decided to turn my lens to such fans, and create a photo series, as a way of examining these Cosplayers. The following photos were taken at several comic conventions.


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The WW2 Roll of Honour:
Surnames E - F
Sergeant 1575713 John Bernard Eastman
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Died on 1st October 1943, Aged 22.
Buried Birmingham (Handsworth) Cemetery, 20B 13663.
Warrant Officer 1425499, Joseph Edmund Edwards
525 Sqdn., Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Died on 30th January 1946, Aged 23.
Buried Le Grand-Luce War Cemetery, France, Row C. Grave 7.
Pilot Officer 133051 Reginald Staynes Elsom D.F.M
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Died on 13th October 1942, Aged 32.
Buried Loughborough Cemetery, 379/7
|The posthumous award of the Distinguished Flying Medal for gallantry and devotion to duty has been awarded to Sergeant Pilot Reginald Staynes Elsom. Sergeant Pilot Elsom was killed on active service last October. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs., Tom Elsom, of Ashby Road, Loughborough. We understand that two promotions have come through since his death that to Flight Sergeant, on September 1st, and his commission as pilot officer to date from September 3rd.
The official citation reads: - Sergeant Reginald Staynes
Elsom, No 218, Squadron (since deceased) was born at Loughborough in 1910. Sergeant Elsom was a most tenacious and level headed pilot. In July 1942, his aircraft was caught in a cone of searchlight and subjected to heavy fire from ground defenses. Despite extensive damage caused to the bombers tail plane he flew it safely back. In August, 1942, he was detailed for mine laying operations, and although he ran into a magnetic storm, he successfully laid his mines. Again in September 1942, his aircraft was hit and seriously damaged while over the French coast. Completely unruffled, Sergeant Elsom proceeded to his objective, and successfully evading strong ground defenses on his return journey, flew his battered aircraft home. On all occasions this airman displayed remarkable courage and determination.
The funeral took place with full Military honours on Saturday of the late
Sergt-Pilot Reg. Elmson, who was killed on active service. There was a large attendance at the service in the Loughborough parish Church, and crowds of the townspeople watched the cortege with which marched a party of officers and non-commissioned officers of the Royal Air |Force, six R.A.F. Sergeants acting as bearers.
The remains had rested overnight in the Parish Church. The coffin was covered with a Union Jack. The service was conducted by Archdeacon W.J Lyon, who gave an appropriate address. The choir was in attendance. Mr. Barton Hart, at the organ played Andante for flute, Violin and Viola (Beethoven). Minuet, 'La Reine' (Haydn) with the 'Nune Dimittis' was sung at the close of service. The Hymns sung were 'Jesus Lover of my soul' and 'Lead kindly light'.
Private 5380725 Arthur Laban Evans
1st, Bn., Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry
Died on 21st May 1940, Aged 29.
Buried Bruyelle War Cemetery Belgium II, A. 10
Gunner 4455861 G. G. Fail
Royal Artillery
Died on 20th November 1940, Aged 18.
Buried Loughborough Cemetery, ?
Private 14037185 Leslie Flowers
Royal Army Ordnance Corps, 21 Vehicle Repair Depot.
Died on 14th September 1947, Aged 23.
Commemorated Bradford Crematorium, Panel 1.
|E.R.A.3rd Class C/MX51214 Charles Henry Foster M.I.D.
H.M. Submarine Umpire, Royal Navy
Died on 20th July 1941, Aged 28.
Buried Loughborough Cemetery, 346/4.
Charles Henry Foster, known as 'Charlie', was born in Markfield, Leicestershire, in 1913. He was the elder son of Charles Henry Foster, a stone quarry worker, and his wife Ada (née Hill) who were married in 1912 in Loughborough. A second son, John W. Foster was born to Charles Senior and Ada in 1917 in Loughborough.
Charlie joined the Royal Navy in 1934, aged 21, and became an Engine Room Artificer. In May 1937 he was stationed at Wei-Hai-Wei, N. E. China, on H.M.S. Medway, a purpose-built submarine depot ship which served on the China Station before the Second World War.
H.M.S. Medway
In a letter from China to his fiancé Yvonne Van de Velde, a 21 year-old hosiery machinist of Loughborough, he wrote "In the event of my being 'unlucky'…no amount of scheming will deflect God's Will, my cherie, for He knows best". On 28th May 1938 Charlie and Yvonne were married at St. Mary's Catholic Church, Loughborough. While her husband was away with the Navy Yvonne lived with her father, a basket worker, at 100 Station Street, Loughborough.
In 1940 Charlie had a lucky escape from HMS Unity which sank off Scotland on 29th April, having been in collision with the Norwegian ship Atle Jarl in thick fog.
In 18th July 1941 Charlie was on the brand-new H.M.Submarine Umpire which had only been commissioned nine days previously. The submarine was en route from Chatham to join the 3rd Submarine Flotilla at Dunoon, under the command of Lieutenant M. Wingfield. From Dunoon she was to carry out a single working-up patrol in the North Sea before heading to the Mediterranean. She had stopped overnight at Sheerness before joining a convoy heading north.
H.M.S. Umpire
The submarine unfortunately suffered engine failure with one of the two diesel engines and as a result fell behind the convoy. The convoy passed a southbound convoy around midnight while about 12 nautical miles (22 km) off Blakeney, Norfolk, with the two convoys passing starboard to starboard; this was unusual since ships and convoys should pass port to port. No ships showed any lights because of the risk from German E-boats. In the early hours of 20th July 1941 an armed escort trawler, Peter Hendriks in the southbound convoy accidentally struck Umpire sinking her in 18 metres of water, with the loss of 22 men. Charlie and three other men escaped by the conning tower, but the rescue boats did not find him.
Charlie's body washed up on the beach at Sea Palling, Norfolk, on 2nd August 1941. His funeral took place from the home of his parents 29 Valley Road, Loughborough, and a special service was conducted at Emmanuel Church by the Rev. Harold Marley, who was assisted by the Rev. H. B. Holderness, Vicar of Holy Trinity Church. According to a press report "At the funeral there was a guard of honour from the 5th Leicestershire Regiment, a contingent of local Sea Cadets under the command of Lt. Morley, and Loughborough Association of ex-Naval Men. The coffin was draped with the Union Jack. Six sergeants of the 5th Leicesters…acted as bearers and a firing party was under the command of Lt. L. A. Smith". Charlie was buried at Loughborough Cemetery. He had been twice Mentioned in Despatches, once posthumously.
Two years later Charlie's young widow was remarried in Loughborough to James R. Saunders, and the couple went on to have two sons, Richard and James.
Corporal C7047746 Sydney Herbert George Francis
1st Bn., Royal Irish Fusiliers
Died on 25th May 1944, Aged 22.
Buried Cassino War Cemetery, Italy, VIII. A. 13.
News was received that Cpl. Sydney H. G. Francis, died of wounds in Italy on May 25th. He was the only son of Mrs. and the late Mr., Arthur Francis, of Burton on Trent. His mother is living at 9, Orchard Street, Loughborough. Before joining the Forces, Corporal Francis was a clerk at the Brush Company Ltd. He was engaged to Miss Lorna Boot, the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs., Boot, 99, Park Road Coalville.
Gunner 1558174 Richard John Fry
Royal Artillery
Died on 24th December 1942, Aged 27.
Buried Loughborough Cemetery, 381/42.


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Don't Trip! Joys and Challenges of Straddling Two Cultures to Research and Write a Biography of Archbishop Romero
By Emily Wade Will
Why did you choose to write a biography of Archbishop Romero? He's not exactly a household name outside Latin America.
Due to my interest and experience living in Latin America, I was smitten when Archbishop Oscar Romero became "the voice of the voiceless" in the late 1970s, using his position's status to defend the dispossessed. The more I learned about his story—no one expected him to shake up the status quo—the more engrossed I became in it.
In 1998, I wrote a draft biography for young adults. I used existing sources and did not anticipate doing my own research. However, having found little about Romero's early years, childhood through ordination, I decided to hunt for more.
So you just went to El Salvador and made calls?
A friend who lived in El Salvador encouraged me to visit. She linked me to a small nonprofit that connected me with knowledgeable people and helped me find publications I'd otherwise not be able to locate in the States pre-internet. The archdiocese also allowed me to do research in its archives.
And the Salvadorans granted you interviews and opened up?
Amazingly, yes, likely due to a few factors:
- I find Salvadorans friendly and forthcoming. Several interviewees expressed surprised delight and pride that I would travel from far away to learn about a Salvadoran. (I visited during the pre-Pope Francis era, when the Vatican preferred to keep Romero out of the limelight.)
- I had just finished a first draft, and I knew Romero's story well. Names of churches, locations and key figures were fresh in my mind, greatly easing my understanding of interviewees' comments.
- Most of the interviewees were elderly—retired, unhurried, patient—who enjoyed sharing experiences. Some, however, had poor hearing or spotty memories. A few, especially those with little formal education, didn't "get" my lack of familiarity with Salvadoran terms and slang. A third party often stepped in to smooth over communication problems. When I spoke with the woman who had helped in the Romero household as a tween, for example, her grown daughter explained the woman's comments to me. Such willingness to assist humbled me.
- I'm an unintimidating person and was fascinated with what each interviewee had to say. Such receptivity goes a long way to encouraging others to speak and be patient with an interviewer whose Spanish is less than 100 percent.
I asked mostly specific, often mundane, questions, such as how pre-seminarians dressed or the floor plan of the Romero house. When it came to more sensitive issues, such as relationships, as a journalist I knew how to gently reword and ask again until I teased out a reply.
Recording and transcribing the interviews allowed me to review conversations as often as I needed after I returned home.
What challenges did you face in using and translating Spanish sources?
- Feet Mired in Caliche
For the first draft, I relied heavily upon two English sources and one Spanish.
The latter, Piezas para un retrato, by journalist María López Vigil, assembled memories from some 150 individuals who had interacted with Romero. I delighted in these vignettes, bursting with color and slang, but had great trouble translating pre-internet, pre-WordReference forum, pre-Google Translate. Even with several dictionaries, I often could not locate a word key to comprehension. In El Salvador, I asked various individuals for help with phrases I hoped to quote.
Fortunately, by the time I began a second draft in 2013, Piezas had been translated into English as Oscar Romero: Memories in Mosaic by Kathy Ogle of the Ecumenical Program on Central America and the Caribbean (EPICA).
In her acknowledgements, Ogle named the squadron of individuals who had helped her with the task. I felt better about my own comprehension difficulties when I read her words:
"As colorful Salvadoran expressions and slang rendered dictionaries useless, I relied on a team of Salvadoran friends near and far to describe phrases in enough detail to help me choose worthy English equivalents. These consultations always generated moments of laughter and discussion—due appreciation for the linguistic creativity of the Salvadoran people. I am especially grateful to Zoila Elías, for whom no moment was inopportune to discuss the intricacies of Salvadoran caliche."
- Bloopers and Betas
Beta readers corrected my bloopers nearly up to print day. José Artiga, executive director of SHARE El Salvador, burst my balloon when he told me a translation of a pre-seminarian's ditty was inadequate. I had been proud of it, keeping the rhyme.
Here's the original:
Como un arbusto oloroso
nací por Cacahuatique
Y cresco súngano y hermoso
aquí por Chaparrastique.
My translation, using the cities' Spanish names, was:
Like a fragrant bush,
in Ciudad Barrios I was born and bred.
And here in San Miguel
I grow into a handsome pumpkin-head.
I had thoroughly researched súngano on the internet, or so I thought. Photos of it (large, round, brown rind and orange flesh) reminded me of cantaloupe. "Pumpkin-head," I thought, rhymes with "bred" and is a word that junior-high-age kids might use to brand one another as dim-witted. Genius!
Alas, Artiga told me súngano is not pumpkin-like. Small spikes remain after the sungano's flesh is removed, giving the fruit the name zapote cabelludo—"shaggy zapote"—in some parts of El Salvador. The schoolmate was making fun of Oscar's thick, unruly hair! I eventually arrived at "mophead," keeping the rhyme and a truer meaning of the jest, although losing the fruit allusion.
I'm so grateful for beta- and proofreaders who find my errors and guide me to more accurate translations!
How did I choose what to convey about the culture and context?
A critique group I belonged to played an essential role in fashioning content. I often erred by assuming readers knew more than they did. Chapter by chapter, critiquers showed me where I needed to add explanations or background. They were especially unfamiliar with Roman Catholic terms, including nuncio, women religious, diocese, miter, Jesuit, base communities.
Critiquers also indicated which material might be better booted to a footnote or exiled to a separate section. Their feedback about my fairly high writing level helped me see that the book's audience could extend beyond teens to general-public adults.
I wanted readers to understand the era that formed Romero; his personal journey is inextricably tied to specific historical circumstances causing people to cry "enough!" to oppression. Some might say I provided too much background on El Salvador and the Roman Catholic Church. Others find footnotes annoying. But I'm addicted to details able to cast a more complete or nuanced light to a narrative. Readers can skip over footnotes if they like. I also included two mini-chapters— "backgrounders"—on pivotal events; readers can choose to "get into the weeds" or step around them.
Coming to the topic as a woman also helped shape the content. The biographies I had read, by men, contained skeletal info about Romero's mother, limited to her roles as housewife and mother. The reality was more complex, and I came away believing that in every positive way, Oscar's mother guided his life.
What are your tips for preparing for cross-cultural interviews, both in regard to content and ways to help interviewees feel comfortable with you and your purpose? Do you know individuals who straddle both the cultures and languages well enough to help you proofread and offer suggestions?


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