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Clonezilla is a partition or disk cloning tool similar to Symantec Ghost. It saves and restores only blocks in use on the hard drive if the file system is supported. For unsupported file systems, dd is used instead. It has been used to clone a 5 GB system to 40 clients in about 10 minutes.
For users on Linux and Unix, KDE offers a full suite of user workspace applications which allow interaction with these operating systems in a modern, graphical user interface. This includes Plasma Desktop, KDE's innovative and powerful desktop interface. Other workspace applications are included to aid with system configuration, running programs, or interacting with hardware devices. While the fully integrated KDE Workspaces are only available on Linux and Unix, some of these features are available on other platforms. In addition to the workspace, KDE produces a number of key applications such as the Konqueror Web browser, Dolphin file manager, and Kontact, the comprehensive personal information management suite. The list of applications includes many others, including those for education, multimedia, office productivity, networking, games, and much more. Most applications are available on all platforms supported by the KDE Development. KDE also brings to the forefront many innovations for application developers. An entire infrastructure has been designed and implemented to help programmers create robust and comprehensive applications in the most efficient manner, eliminating the complexity and tediousness of creating highly functional applications.
The WiKID Strong Authentication System is a highly scalable, secure two-factor authentication system. It is simple to implement and maintain, allows users to be validated automatically, requires no hardware tokens, has a simple API for application support (via Ruby, PHP, Java, COM, Python, etc.), supports multiple domains, and supports replication for fault tolerance and scalability. It also supports mutual /host and transaction authentication, wireless tokens only domains, locked tokens (to your PC), anti-keystroke logger keypad PIN entry, etc.
GroupOffice is a groupware suite that takes your office online, implementing online collaboration and CRM. It allows you to share projects, calendars, files and email online with co-workers and clients. It is easy to use and fully customizable. It also features synchronization with PDAs and Outlook.
fio is an I/O tool meant to be used both for benchmark and stress/hardware verification. It has support for 19 different types of I/O engines (sync, mmap, libaio, posixaio, SG v3, splice, null, network, syslet, guasi, solarisaio, and more), I/O priorities (for newer Linux kernels), rate I/O, forked or threaded jobs, and much more. It can work on block devices as well as files. fio accepts job descriptions in a simple-to-understand text format. Several example job files are included. fio displays all sorts of I/O performance information, including complete IO latencies and percentiles. Fio is in wide use in many places, for both benchmarking, QA, and verification purposes. It supports Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, OS X, OpenSolaris, AIX, HP-UX, Android, and Windows.
Lynis is an auditing and hardening tool for Unix derivatives like Linux/BSD/Solaris. It scans systems to detect software and security issues. Besides security-related information, it will also scan for general system information, installed packages, and possible configuration mistakes. The software is aimed at assisting automated auditing, software patch management, and vulnerability and malware scanning of Unix-based systems.
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Saints Rally to Knock Off No. 21 UNC Pembroke
– The North Georgia baseball team erased a five-run deficit
and rallied to take down 21st-ranked UNC Pembroke 10-8 in game one
of a doubleheader Saturday afternoon in Peach Belt Conference
action at Bob Stein Stadium.
North Georgia wins their third straight game and improve to 8-4 overall and 1-0 in the Peach Belt Conference, while the No. 21 Braves fall to 8-4 overall and 0-1 in the league.
North Georgia faced in early five-run deficit as UNC Pembroke scored a pair of runs in the second frame, and came back with four more in the third to take a 6-1 lead. The Saints jumped on top first however, using a Chad Sage single through the left side to plate Jordan Erisman and give the Saints a 1-0 advantage.
The Braves answered right back in the second inning with a two-spot as Aaron Parnell belted a two-run blast, his fourth of the season to give UNC Pembroke a 2-1 lead. In the third, the Braves added four more runs, all coming with two outs as Jordan Pegram doubled home a pair of runs, and Tom Porricelli used an infield single to bring another run home and make it a 6-1 UNCP lead.
It was all North Georgia from their as Brad Hall doubled home two runs in the third, before the Saints tallied five more in the fourth to take an 8-6 lead. Andre Airich drove in two runs in the fourth with a double to left field, and Chad Sage had the big blow, a three-run blast to cap the four-run frame.
UNC Pembroke added a single run in the sixth to pull to within a run at 8-7 as Kenny Mickens belted a two-out homer to left field, but North Georgia added runs in the seventh and eighth innings to seal the win. In the seventh, Kelly Bellavance skied a sacrifice fly to center to bring home a run, and in the eighth, Sage stayed red hot, launching his second homer of the game, and sixth of the season.
The Braves tallied a run in the seventh off a Porricelli solo homer, and loaded the bases in the ninth, but the Saints shut the door and came away with the series opening 10-8 victory.
Chris Rearick (3-0) had a rough start but regrouped and went 8.0 innings, allowing seven hits and four earned runs while striking out eight and walking a pair. Nick White came on in the ninth and went two-thirds of an inning, while Jacob Rickett faced the final batter for his first save of the season.
These same two teams will play the second game of a doubleheader on Saturday afternoon with first pitch set for 4:00 p.m.

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An important part of quality health care is shared decision-making between you and your health care provider. In shared decision-making, your provider shares information about your diagnostic tests and treatments and together you make decisions that best fit with your preferences, needs and values.
Shared decision-making and complementary therapy
Shared decision-making is important when considering complementary therapy as part of your breast cancer care. Not sharing information about complementary therapies with your providers may cause harm [3,17-18]. While some complementary therapies can be used with standard care, others have harmful side effects. Some interfere with the effectiveness of chemotherapy and radiation therapy. And, others can increase surgical risks (for example, some interfere with blood clotting, which can lead to excess bleeding). Talking to your health care provider about complementary therapies can help avoid such problems.
When complementary therapies are used with standard medical treatments, they are often called integrative therapies.
Using alternative therapies (instead of standard medical care) is not safe and is not recommended.
The importance of talking with your health care provider
Some people find it hard to talk to their health care provider about wanting to try complementary therapies along with their standard medical care. However, you should never hesitate to bring up issues that can impact your health. Your well-being is your provider's main concern. Knowing what complementary therapies you would like to try (or are already taking) is part of giving good care. Working together, you and your provider can make informed decisions about complementary therapies that offer potential benefits without harming you.
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STORRS — Most guys go to Disney World after they've won championships. Mike Cavanaugh was offered the job as architect of UConn's hockey future as he was pulling into the place with his family.
"I'll tell you this," Cavanaugh said Thursday at his introductory press conference at the Burton Family Complex. "When you're negotiating your first head coaching contract, trying to do it between Splash Mountain and Space Mountain is not the ideal thing to do."
Some folks on the outside might thumb their nose at what UConn can become as an elite hockey program. Maybe they'll point to the lack of tradition or the immediate shortcomings of campus facilities or the lack of this or lack of that. Yet anybody who has paid attention to what the state's flagship university can do when it puts its resources into something doesn't expect Cavanaugh to go over the edge, splash and forever drown in the Hockey East.
The question — if we may be permitted to extend the Disney metaphor — is will Cavanaugh be better than OK and take the program to celestial places it has never been? Can he orbit with the premier hockey programs in the nation?
"I'm not afraid to say it," Cavanaugh said. "I'm coming here to win national championships."
Let's step back for a moment and consider a major reason why it was a good idea for UConn to finally, mercifully, make the move to big-time hockey. This is a state rich in talent, especially in the prep schools. Some vintage names like Brian Leetch and Craig Janney, to be sure. But more recent names like Ryan Shannon, Cam and Tommy Atkinson, Ben Smith, Tommy Cross and Pat Mullane. They're Connecticut guys who had real impact on college hockey … and they all went to BC, where the lead recruiter was Cavanaugh.
"Those guys played an integral part of our success," said Cavanaugh, 44, whose success as the Eagles' associate coach spans 10 Frozen Fours and four national titles over 18 years. "The homegrown talent is something that attracted me to this job."
It would be idiotic to suggest that Cavanaugh could land every big state name right away or that his recruiting should end at the state line. He'll have to mine plenty of other areas. Look at Quinnipiac, which had one state player this past season. British Columbia got Rand Pecknold into the NCAA title game. National champion Yale didn't have one Connecticut player.
Still, Warde Manuel came right out and said it. A reason that he chose Cavanaugh over George Gwozdecky was his proven elite recruiting record in New England and Connecticut.
Can Cavanaugh make the best kids stay home?
"I don't see why not," he said. "When we got to BC, they said we couldn't recruit Canadians. We went out and got Chuck Kobasew and Krys Kolanos. When we won our first national title [2001], it was Kolanos who scored the goal from Kobasew [in overtime]. We weren't afraid to enter into those waters."
"I have a lot of connections in state, trusted friendships. I don't think it's going to be a problem. Do I think it will be easy? No, I don't think anything is easy in life. But I also understand the kids I have recruited here, they are UConn fans. They have a sense of pride in Connecticut."
Cross texted Cavanaugh on Thursday, saying, "You're moving to the best state in the country."
"It might be challenging at first," Cavanaugh said, "but when we build this program, kids are going to be clamoring to come here."
Some voices from outside Storrs said, hire Gwozdecky, 59, who had won two national titles with Denver. Voices on the inside said, hire interim coach David Berard. In the end, after the search, after all the conversations, Manuel had to answer the voice inside his head. He took Cavanaugh for three reasons: The quality man that he is. What he had helped build at BC. And his track record as a boffo recruiter in the region.
"In the end his success recruiting here was important to me and probably [why I] didn't offer it to George," Manuel said. "I wasn't just looking for a sitting coach based on his record."
All things considered, Manuel made a great choice, even if he accidentally called him Matt, as in the NFL quarterback, once. Cavanaugh quickly pointed out his old boss Jerry York used to do the same.
"Mike has the whole package," said Hockey East commissioner Joe Bertagna. "He's smart. He's experienced in the league. He's experienced in winning. He is highly respected in the league."
So when did Gov. Malloy, BC man, hockey fan, tell Manuel to hire him?
"About three months ago," Manuel said.
He was joking.
"I talked to the governor three-four times since last summer about hockey," Manuel said. "I called him to give him a heads-up on the three finalists. He said, 'Seems like great choices to me. I don't think you can go wrong.'"
After Cavanaugh had signed a five-year deal worth about $1 million, Manuel left Malloy a voicemail.
"I told him he didn't need to call me back and he didn't," Manuel said. "Look, he loves hockey. He's a great supporter of UConn. But he at no point tried to influence the decision. It just turned out I picked a great coach from his alma mater."
It's funny. Cavanaugh goes from the guy people wondered why he hadn't landed a head coaching job to one where people are wondering if he'll return to BC after York, 67, retires.
"If we do well and he's a candidate for BC, I'm fine with that," Manuel said. "I'll try to compete with BC or anybody else. I'm not going to make a decision based on if he may get taken away some day. I want the best people. Period. If he doesn't do well here, believe me, BC won't come calling. If he does, they'll come calling."
The home opener at the XL Center in the 2014-15 season will be against BC. After all the back and forth between the schools, after all the Big East and ACC turmoil, this should be delicious theater.
"I'm going to want to beat them bad," Cavanaugh said. "I don't think Jerry York would expect any less from me. I know Jerry is going to want to beat UConn. And in the summertime, I'll play golf and have a coffee with Jerry. But as long as they're keeping score, I want to win."
"One thing I want to make clear is BC was a terrific place for me. I developed a lot as a person there. I met my wife [Lynne] there. Both my kids [Quinn and Caroline] were baptized on campus. It'll always be a special place in my heart, but no more special than Bowdoin College, where I went to school, or North Andover, where I'm from. They're all special to me … but going forward, my time at BC isn't going to paralyze me as I become a Husky."
Cavanaugh met Jim Calhoun on Thursday. He met Ray Reid. He's itching to meet Geno Auriemma. More than that, he's itching to meet deans and professors and admissions officials. He said he'll make it simple on us: He's all about graduating players and winning championships. Good. He understands the lay of the land, even to the point of supporting an in-state annual tournament with Yale and Quinnipiac and calling it the Tim Taylor Cup in honor of the late Yale coach.
Manuel said he was talking about two shopping areas with Cavanaugh near his home in South Windsor. He came up with Evergreen Walk and was blanking on the second …
"Buckland Hills mall," Cavanaugh interjected.
"That's a little thing that points out how much time he's spent here," Manuel said. "If we've got a strong athlete in Connecticut, we have a guy who has done well here. People can say, well, that was BC. Shoot, that's what we're trying to build here and we're not giving in on anything."
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A Sacramento Superior Court judge has ruled that only school nurses can give insulin shots to children in public schools who have diabetes. The decision by Judge Lloyd Connelly overturned a 2007 California State Department of Education decision that allowed trained school staff, as well as nurses, to administer such injections.
Connelly's ruling sides with arguments made by the California School Nurses Organization, the American Nurses Association, the California Nurses Association and other nursing groups that allowing non-nurses to give the shots conflicts with the state law that says only licensed professionals may give injections.
Nurses' main concern, aside from the conflict with state law, was that improperly administered insulin could lead to extreme hypoglycemia, resulting in coma or even death.
Advocates for the ability of trained non-professionals to give insulin injections say that the ruling will result in many students with diabetes being kept out of school because of parents or guardians' fears that there will not be a school nurse available if a child suddenly needs insulin.
There are 2,800 nurses available to the state's estimated 9,800 public schools. Decades ago most public schools had full-time onsite nurses. But as educational expenses increased and enrollments soared, many districts began rotating nurses among schools, or in some cases did away completely with on-staff nurses.
It was the lack of full-time nurses at many schools that led a coalition of parents and diabetes advocates, including the American Diabetes Association, in 2005 to petition the state for the right to have trained non-nurses administer insulin in situations that required immediate action and where a nurse could not be made available quickly.
By law, parents are allowed to give insulin injections to their children and do not need professional certification to do so. In many cases where school districts did not have nurses available, they depended upon parents to fill the gap in emergency situations. The drawback, however, was that families with two working parents or single parents often faced hardships in suddenly having to leave work or travel great distances to administer insulin.
Advocates also argued that the lack of school nurses violated provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1973, which state that children with disabilities are entitled to a public education and that school districts must make reasonable accommodations for them. Uncertainty about the availability of nurses to give insulin injections, they said, went against the spirit of the act by leading parents and guardians to keep children out of school and created an atmosphere of fear or uncertainty among students with diabetes.
The California State Department of Education decided in 2007 to allow school personnel who had been trained to give insulin injections to substitute for nurses in situations that required quick action. The nursing organizations that later brought suit in Judge Connelly's court vowed at that time to have the decision overturned.
(Diabetes Health previously wrote about this topic.)
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The California nurses' unions obviously are more interested in job securityfor their members than in the health of public school students. There's no reason why a trained principal or teacher should not be able to administer an insulin shot, if OK'd by the parent. ONE judge shouldn't be able to make a ruling that adversely affects the lives of thousands of diabetic kids in California's public schools. Ridiculous.
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The positive impact recycling materials to wear has on the environment motivates many of the designers in the industry. It is an important cause for them to remake out of date clothing into a fashionable, desirable article of clothing. Some remade pieces can fetch high dollar amounts because of their uniqueness. The buyers of recycled fashions are enamored with the refreshing looks and choose to view the pieces as objects of art. In addition, they are, really. Many of the designers highlight their fashion pieces alongside the other media on display.
One designer in the recycled fashion industry makes her clothes for sale out of recycled water bottles. The yoga pants and other exercise wearable gear is pleasing to look at and functional to wear. The carbon footprint on the environment is the driving force behind this designer's creation. She states that by recycling the water bottles and making clothes from them, she is reducing the bad air quality in the US and in China. Because of China's pollution floating across the ocean, and infecting the United States with poor air quality by the enormous amount of particles in the air from the textile industry in China.
Some DIY Recycled Fashion Ideas
ü Sew a cute Patch on your favorite pair jeans.
ü Use an embroidery hoop and a t-shirt to embroider a design for a new look on a boring t-shirt.
ü Piece together, and sew some fabulous pieces of fabric into a patchwork skirt or apron top.
ü Make a unique belt out of old neckties.
ü Turn an outdated or un-wearable pair of jeans into a purse.
ü Make headbands out of fabrics form old clothes for your hair.
ü Make a wrap out of a button down shirt.
ü Use long skirts to hem a new short skirt for your wardrobe.
ü Use a cheese grader on a pair of jeans that need to have a destroyed look to them.
ü Use fabric dye to give new life to some of your older articles of clothing.


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But the court ruling Wednesday, which delivered a harsh criticism of Apple's efforts to "eliminate all retail price competition" in 2010 when it entered the e-book market, may soon be moot, experts say, as other companies aim to make traditional prices irrelevant by offering e-book rental services akin to Spotify and Netflix.
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While Apple decided to go to trial, five publishing companies have already settled with the federal government and terminated agreements made with Apple in 2010, in the weeks before the launch of the first iPad. Those publishers include HarperCollins, Lagardère's Hachette, CBS's /quotes/zigman/393390/delayed/quotes/nls/cbs CBS +0.56% Simon & Schuster, Pearson's Penguin Group and the Macmillan unit of Georg von Holtzbrinck. (HarperCollins is owned by News Corp. /quotes/zigman/18008449/delayed/quotes/nls/nwsa NWSA +0.54% , as is The Wall Street Journal and MarketWatch.) Since then, Amazon.com /quotes/zigman/63011/delayed/quotes/nls/amzn AMZN +0.38% has been steadily cutting the prices of e-books.
While the settlement between the government and publishers may lower prices in the short term, publishing experts say more companies are finding ways to allow readers to swap e-books, read them for a monthly subscription, or rent them from an e-library. Kindle owners who are also Amazon Prime members can already choose from over 300,000 books to borrow for free with no due dates, but they may only choose one book per month. Services such as eBookFling.com and Lendle.me give Kindle and Barnes and Noble's Nook customers access to tens of thousands of other potential e-book lenders for a 14-day period.
Also see: Apple handed defeat in e-books ruling
So far, there is no book-streaming or rental service with the scope and selection of Spotify for music, or Netflix for movies and television. "I'm skeptical that the economics of e-book subscriptions will be compelling enough for authors published by the big corporate houses to play along," says Simon Lipskar, the president of Writers House, a literary agency in New York. "Subscriptions are fabulous models for the branded platform, fabulous for the heavy-use consumer — and usually quite wretched for the creators of the works."
But others say consumers want the same flexibility they have with music and movies. "We're increasingly addicted to instant gratification," says Evan Carroll, digital media analyst and co-author of "Your Digital Afterlife." That, he says, is why people stream music with Spotify and Pandora, and movies through Netflix and Hulu. "I anticipate that we will see more e-book publishers take this approach in the near future," he says. In fact, it isn't a question of if — but when, says Peter Hildick-Smith, president of book market researcher Codex Group. "It's the next logical step in the market's evolution," he says.
There is a burgeoning market in e-book rentals. Safari Books Online — which has a website and apps on iOS and Android — has partnered with over 100 publishers to provide access to technology e-books on a subscription model; it has over 30,000 IT e-books. "Think of it as Netflix streaming for professional developers," says Safari's director of marketing Troy Petersen. Texas Southern University and California State rent text e-books at discounts of up to 60% off the print price through CourseSmart.com , a digital service that began in 2007 and partners with 100 universities and colleges.
Others are following a subscription model. Startup Oyster Books is planning an iPhone app that allows customers to read as much as they want for a monthly fee. But experts say its success will depend on the quality and quantity of titles and, of course, the price. (The company didn't respond to requests for comment.) In its first round of financing last October, Peter Thiel — an early Facebook investor — invested $3 million through his Founder's Fund. "Oyster's challenge will be to prove that they can make the model profitable for Oyster," says Mark Coker, founder of e-book distributor Smashwords.com . Harlequin, which publishes romantic fiction, also has a subscription model. Customers get two free e-books in the subscription of their choice, and every month after they receive a set number of books automatically delivered to their "My Bookshelf" folder on Harlequin.com .
It will be an uphill battle to get mainstream publishers and authors onboard, experts say. A successful e-book rental or subscription service will need to convince publishers that the service augments — rather than replaces — traditional e-book retailer sales, Coker says. It may make more sense to rent books, however, considering people tend to read them just once: "A song is a three- to four-minute customer experience, which is often repeated with the same song multiple times," he says. "A book is a multihour experience, but is seldom read a second or third time."
If e-book rentals take off, they may only make financial sense for avid readers. "Paying $9.95 a month for the premium Spotify is probably more than I used to spend on purchasing songs or albums," says Neil Schlager, founder of Schlager Group, a publisher of materials for students and teachers, "but I'm happy to do it because the service has value to me." To be fair, e-books prices are still low compared with print copies, Coker says. Amazon charges $9.99 for new and best-selling e-books. "Any e-book subscription or rental service needs to meet or beat what retailers are already doing," he says.


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Labor needs to fight the black dog in the bush
Male suicide is two and a half times more likely in remote Queensland than in our cities. Last week Mental Health Minister Mark Butler released the Suicide in Rural and Remote Areas of Australia report, which studies suicide in detail but offers precious few solutions.
It is yet another document launch from a federal government with a patchy record in both rural health and mental health policy.
Mental heath is the challenge of our generation. It costs Australia around $6 billion annually, with the bush bearing more than its fair share. The Government doesn't even have a regional health portfolio. That leaves the Coalition to doggedly pursue Labor to maintain any focus on mental or rural health.
Those living with mental health issues deserve all the support we can provide. So it is disappointing that a breakthrough drug now funded in a number of countries overseas has been refused funding approval here for the third time. The manufacturer has now given up, meaning the drug is only available to the rich on a private prescription.
Agomelatine targets completely different receptors in depression, making it a promising option for those suffering side-effects like sleep interruption. Just ask my Parliamentary colleague, Andrew Robb, who wrote of having to swap between different antidepressants in his book Black Dog Daze (2011). Sleep interruption can turn a productive life into misery.
The rejection was based on comparing the new drug to existing PBS antidepressants. The problem in mental health is that new treatments are so uncommon, the comparators are decades-old post-patent products whose prices are just a fraction of the cost of bringing cutting-edge alternatives to market. The older and cheaper existing drugs are, the harder it is to prove cost-effectiveness.
In cancer for instance, less cost-effective drugs than agomelatine are routinely approved because they compare well against expensive recently released alternatives.
By simply watching on and doing nothing, this government is presiding over an emerging two-tier system in our beloved PBS. On the one hand, our pharmaceutical system pays high prices for new drugs simply because they are replacing other high price drugs. On the other, patients in 'old drug' categories like depression either pay out of their own pocket or make do with last generation alternatives.
Knocking back breakthrough mental health treatments hits hardest in the bush. That is because rural incomes are lower and out-of-pockets costs higher. Access to mental health expertise is limited, particularly for those battling side-effects which this treatment avoids.
Labor made matters worse when it won office in 2007 and failed to continue the successful Howard era Mental Health Services in Rural and Remote Australia program. It phased this program out in order to expand the Coalition's flagship Better Access initiative, which while not ideally suited to rural circumstances was better than nothing. Fast forward to 2011, and Labor gave Better Access the chop as well, in favour of city-centric early intervention centres.
This week's report contains many other insights into the unique aspects of mental health in rural communities. There are a range of cultural, social and economic risk factors, particularly associated with male identity and masculinity, which result in higher suicide rates in the bush.
Macho attitudes, dangerous alcohol consumption, risky patterns of behaviour and tendencies towards violence often mask depression within rural communities that are in constant flux. The last decade alone has seen record-breaking droughts, floods, bushfires on top of exchange rate and industry deregulation pressures.
The current federal government is banking enormous savings from massive PBS price cuts. So it shouldn't force around 10,000 Australians to stump up the cash for world-class mental health care which is funded in Germany, Ireland, Spain and France.
As it stands, Labor risks taking mental health patients back to the pre-PBS era, a time when the rich got the best and the rest made do.
If you need to talk to someone call Lifeline on 13 11 14.
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acotrel says:
How many graduate clinical psychlogists have been produced by our Australian educational institutions and medical profession in the last ten years ? Drugs give a reprieve, however are not a complete answer to underlying problems.
YaThink says:
It is not just the bush. Cooroy is only 20mins from Noosa, but you can only access Nambour Hospital which is 40 mins away and has limited services.
A good example is someone we know, she is in her late 20's has bi-polar but it is taking years, yes years, to get her medication right. She will get an appointment with the mental health there, they try something, then they set an appointment for 8 to 10 weeks later (when the drugs they are trialling on her only last 2 weeks). Next, she loses it, as has happened a few times and gets arrested by the police. Last year was very scary, she was arrested due to walking up the middle of the road with a very large kitchen knife in her hand. The police then send her to Nambour, where she is treated in a different area, given a stop gap, and then the whole process starts all over again.
Her mother is too old to look after her, there are no proper mental health facilities, nowhere to go, not to mention the waste in police resources being called out to people like her. That is just one case in a regional area.
With unemployment being 2nd highest in Queensland in our region, this type of situation is only going to get worse. Now the Newman Government has cut back the health facilities even further, but as it is only 1 or 2 staff, no-one is jumping up & down about it. BUT, 1 or 2 staff when you only had 3 or 4 to start with and they could not help the population already, well, you do the maths?
Achmed says:
In Karratha we rely on using videolink facilities to speak with a psych.
The question that needs to asked is - How many psych's are there and are there enough to provide all these wanted/needed services? How many of them want to work in the regions?
How much of an impact was there when Abbott reduced training positions and handed $1 billion from the health budget to Howard to add to a phony surplus? That act showed the true Liberal care for Aussie health and now it appears the Liberals in QLD are showing the same low level of care.
I can go onto the Jobs WA website and the vacanices for the Pilbara and Kimberley are dominated by health services seeking more staff, or to just fill what they have.
Andrew J says:
Andrew, you need to make it clear that the rejection of agomelatine was by the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee, NOT the government itself. Your omission of this fact is clever politics, but inaccurate. PBAC is an independent body that advises the Government on PBS listing
Now,you can level legitimate criticism if the government second-guesses PBAC (which it did last year on a number of issues), but not for accepting its conclusions.
Basically it found that there was no new evidence, and no convincing proof of superior safety and efficacy. Anyone who wants to plough through the reasoning can do so here:
That said, you raise an important question. Not sure how the actions of your mate Newman is going to help here. Perhaps you could clearly articulate what you and the Coalition propose to do in the event of you winning the election.
In The Tunnel says:
Money that could be used to directly support people with depression is being leached away by Beyond Blue.
It is a quango that does nothing for us with depression but lavishes government funds on self promotion and a useless web site that could have been made by a 12 year old.
ByStealth says:
It would be good to see more funding for mental health services in this country. After seeing a friend slip through the cracks, I'd like to spare people the devastation these illnesses can cause.
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Under a Abbott-led coalition government, mental health would improve nationally through the following initiatives:
- increased spending on mental health and health funding generally
- a more flexible and compassionate unemployment/welfare system
- greater resources for non-profit government services, including regional areas
- improved conditions for employees across private and public workplaces
Abbott and his team are looking forward to implementing many initiatives to improve the mental and financial well-being of all Australians, regardless of where they live or how much they earn, or whether they earn at all. It's a central tenet of Liberal values, after all. Thank you Andrew Laming for reminding us of this, I wait with baited breath for how mental health will improve under your system.
True Blue Ozzie says:
Web sites Like Beyond Blue, Life Line etc in no way help many so depressed that suicide is the only option. When a person is so depressed and in the suicideal state only a real person trained in this feid can assit the person. Web sites like the above only assit those who realise they have depression, it in no way helps those in the suicideal state, only trained people on the ground can help these people. How do I know,well my only daughter hung her self at age 21 after 7 years of mental health issues,7 years of countless suicide attemps my daughters death was totaly preventable, it's the Health System and lack of funding on the ground that cost my daughters life, and left our shattered lifes forever dependit on a failing health system. It's long over due Mental Health should be on an equal footing with heart, cancer, kidney, liver problems just to name a few. How many more Australians must die at their hands and lives destroyed before Governments do something serious about this very real Illness? Roxan spent billions fighting big tobaco, smokers only kill them selves, this money would have been far better spent onthe Mental Health system on the ground with real people, a suicide death has far more reaching permeant health destruction on families left behind.
Swamp Thing says:
@True Blue. Very well said mate, lots of nice words on offer to them in strife but dosen't really help one bit. Practical assistance is rare & that needs to change - urgently.
Sorry for your loss.
Michael R says:
Both parties could start by not invading farm land for coal seam gas drilling. As Alan Jones said: "They are the victims of legalised theft."
Shame on all politicians who steal a farmer's land just to balance their budgets.
Greg says:
The victims are overwhelmingly white men, who are not allowed to have any lobby groups, because it would be racist and sexist if they did.
So it is not a political problem, and it gets little attention, especially when the victims get blamed for having "male identity and masculinity", "macho attitudes, dangerous alcohol consumption, risky patterns of behaviour and tendencies towards violence".
White men cannot ever be victims of anything, they must be blamed for everything, including their own suicides.
JB says:
@True Blue When I hear of stories like your daughter's I weep inwardly. The pain can be overwhelming.
I have suffered since I was 8, I am now over 50. Every day can be a battle. Beyond Blue may be a lobbying group to harvest research funding, but I believe Lifeline has trained councilors. I have not used it though. The reason is, I am not sure what their reporting and confidentiality is like when you go where depression can ultimately take you.
It is a illness no talks to me about it even though it is so obvious that I am overwhelmed by it. If one was suffering from an illness with a potentially fatal outcome friends would be all over me like a rash
There are no easy black and white cures in some cases. Councillors can be too professional and be just parroting and propagating what ever doctrine they have been taught and they are hugely expensive.
Sometime I just long to talk to a fellow human who simply understands where you are coming from. Perhaps funding the guidance of lay volunteers (including our family or friends). Just having one who is knowledgeable in talking and listening to a fellow human when they are down
(I admit it is a difficult skill) could be a valuable tool
to manage our companion:- depression.
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Great Place – Great Food, Nice environment, Cool atmosphere.
Pizza good Wait staff not so much – I enjoyed my pizza very much. The part I didn't enjoy was being violenlty sexually assaulted by a bevy of busboys after I passed out. I don't remember the incident very well but I can tell you that 8 Mexican busboys will leave a mark on your sore hole. I couldn't enjoy anal sex for 3 days after my visit there. At least they could have used a form of lubricant like Jose & I do when the occasion strikes us.
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Now that Major League Baseball seems to have grasped a handle on its past steroid problems, the 2010 season is the year of the pitcher. Yes, pitching is back in baseball and monster hitting and yearlong homerun contests are a thing of the past.
A similar trend on the PGA Tour can be seen as well. Instead of pitching, a level field of competition is back in golf. After an unassuming victory by Louis Oosthuizen of South Africa last weekend in the Open Championship at St. Andrews and a victory by Northern Ireland's Graeme McDowell at Pebble Beach a few weeks ago, it is apparent that the sport is not being dominated anymore by a sex-crazed and (possibly) steroid-charged Tiger Woods.
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There have been rumors of allegations that Tiger Woods has used HGH or steroids. None of them has gained any traction, but looking at Tiger's actions in the past there seems to be some smoke to that allegation. And usually, when there is smoke there is fire.
I first started thinking about Tiger's possible HGH/steroid use while listening to ESPN Radio's Colin Cowherd a couple of months back. Cowherd described Tiger's behavior and how it may point to some sort of enhancement drug use. Tiger was up late at night constantly lifting weights. He couldn't sleep. He had a tremendous sexual appetite that had him looking for sexual fixes during all hours of the night. (I recommend reading Vanity Fair's two-part series on Tiger's women, it's as smutty as it gets.) He was a machine and a damned good golfer – possibly the best there has ever been. Tiger's behavior would simply point to the notion that he was on something.
And then there is the New York Times report that Woods had been treated by the Toronto-based doctor Anthony Galea, who was charged with a U.S. criminal complaint last May for conspiracy, smuggling, distributing HGH, and introducing an unapproved drug into interstate commerce. Woods was interviewed by federal authorities investigating the doctor last month, according to The Associated Press, but no further investigation into Woods' relationship with the doctor has been reported.
Finally, there is the pending divorce settlement between Woods and Nordegren, and it too points to the notion that Woods used something to achieve greatness. According to TMZ, the two have agreed to a deal where Nordegren will receive $100 million, plus child support in exchange for her silence.
Silence? We already heard all the details about his sexual exploits didn't we? The world already knows that Tiger can't say no to every waitress, porn star and glamour girl that hits on him. What is it that he must pay $100 million to Nordegren to keep silent about? It isn't worth paying for more silence on his sexual life, but it is worth it to keep her silent about steroid or HGH use.
Yes, Tiger wants to keep Elin silent on something much bigger than sex. To me, this dollar figure says it all. Tiger has more skeletons in the closet that he can't have publicized, and it could just be use of HGH. That would be the biggest scandal in his life.
His significant drop in at least being a contender since his return, combined with everything I have already mentioned, certainly points to the notion that the Tiger of today is not the same as the Tiger of the pre-Thanksgiving wreck. I do believe a lot of that is mental, but I also believe that a lot of it is physical. His body is not what it once was.
"Some people have made up things that never happened," Woods told The Times back in February. "They said I used performance-enhancing drugs. This is completely and utterly false."
This year was going to be Tiger's year to grab at least two more major victories, as he has always done well at both Pebble Beach and St. Andrews. He is sitting with 14 major victories and needs five more to break Jack Nicklaus's record of 18.
If Tiger pulls his act together in the years to come to finally beat Nicklaus's record I wonder if we should, once again, talk about putting an asterisks text to his name because I, for one, don't believe he is the brilliant golfer he once led us to believe he is.


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Your loking to do way to much work and the paint may be in the grain of the painted wood. What brand of stains are you looking at. I thought Min Wax had a yellow based oak stain.
Our home was flooded and we had to buy new lower cabinets for the kitchen. We thought they were oak and purchased the "exact" oak cabinets from a surplus warehouse (no returning them). I've tried about 10 different kinds of stain to match the top and bottom cabinets and have had no luck. The base tint of the top cabinets is yellow and the base tint in all the stains I've tested are red. Is there any way that I can strip the upper cabinets to stain them all the same? I really only want to poly them to bring out the natural finish of the oak.
Your loking to do way to much work and the paint may be in the grain of the painted wood. What brand of stains are you looking at. I thought Min Wax had a yellow based oak stain.
I have found that 5f5 paint remover is effective. It contains methylene chloride and is not to be confused with the one labeled 5f5 Eco Solve with which I have no experience.
Your job will be easier it you remove the doors to work on them.
If you have occasion to sand the surface after stripping you must be VERY CAREFUL around the edges of the veneered parts. If you let the sander go over the edge it will almost instantly go through all of the veneer down to the underlying core and be very apparent when you finish the part.
I find that the little "palm sanders" are very good. They use very small high speed random strokes and don't require any concern about direction relative to the grain of the wood. I have a Black and Decker model sold by WalMart and probably others that has its own little dust collector.
You need to use very fine paper and I would try to use 220 grit or finer aluminum oxide on the raw wood. I have found that powdered pumice with a multilayer pad of paper towel on the sander does a nice job if you want to polish the polyurethane finish between coats to get rid of the little blemishes, or after the final coat. You need to wipe the surface clean of particles before the next coat. I use Coleman fuel as a mineral spirit for cleaning up.


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Chris Armas: The facility is fantastic. We couldn't ask for anything better. The great weather and beautiful field make for good training. The field was fairly soft and level and a little wet, so it was good.
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A firetruck donated by the Rutland-Dundee Fire Protection District will go a long way toward helping one hard-hit New Jersey community recover from the devastation of Hurricane Sandy.
The hurricane caused massive destruction last month along the East Coast, destroying homes, businesses and critical infrastructure.
The firetruck has been sent to Union Beach, N.J., on a freight train through a cooperative effort between the fire protection district, the Office of the State Fire Marshal, the Illinois Emergency Management Agency and CSX Transportation.
Shortly after the storm struck the East Coast, Rutland-Dundee FPD Fire Chief Richard Thomas contacted State Fire Marshal Larry Matkaitis, saying his department had a fire truck it could donate.
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"This is what fire departments in Illinois do, we help our neighbors in need," Thomas said.
"This is a great example of pulling together to help our fellow firefighters and our fellow Americans in their time of need," said Matkaitis.
"Gov. Quinn asked us to take every reasonable measure to help the citizens impacted by Hurricane Sandy," said Monken. "We appreciate the tremendous effort by CSX to ensure this firetruck gets to Union Beach as soon as possible."
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Montague Dawson (British, 1895-1973) H.M.S. 'Victory' sweeping the seas, with other ships of the fleet trailing astern of her 71 x 83.8cm. (28 x 33in.)
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Montague Dawson (British, 1895-1973)
H.M.S. 'Victory' sweeping the seas, with other ships of the fleet trailing astern of her
signed 'Montague Dawson' (lower left)
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71 x 83.8cm. (28 x 33in.)
H.M.S. 'Victory', the oldest warship in the world still in commission, is undoubtedly the most famous vessel in the long history of the Royal Navy; what is often forgotten however, is that when she found her immortality at Trafalgar in 1805, she was forty years old and had already had a more illustrious career than most of the other first rates in the fleet at that time.
Designed by Surveyor Slade, 'Victorys' keel was laid in Chatham Dockyard on 2nd July 1759 and she was launched on 7th May 1765. The classic 100-gun ship, she was measured at 2,162 tons and was 186 feet in length with a 52 foot beam. Despite her size, she soon achieved a reputation for sailing as fast as a more sprightly two-decker and this quality, along with her well-seasoned frame thanks to fully six years on the stocks, helps to explain her long sea-going career and her frequent employment as a flagship. Widely regarded as the finest ship in the fleet, it was hardly surprising that Nelson should have chosen her to carry his flag in the long hunt for the Franco-Spanish battlefleet which he finally brought to action off Cape Trafalgar on 21st. October 1805. As flagship however, she proved a prime target for the enemy gunners and even though she emerged victorious from the battle, she was severely damaged and could only limp into Gibraltar for temporary repairs with the greatest difficulty. Finally back in Portsmouth, with Nelsons body still aboard, on 4th December, she slowly made her way to Chatham where she stayed for almost two years whilst she was thoroughly repaired and, to an extent, rebuilt so as to reflect recent developments in design. Eventually returning to sea late in 1807, she remained in service until 1824 when she became flagship to the C. in C. at Portsmouth, and was given a permanent mooring within the harbour until dry-docked for restoration in 1922.
Napoleons plan for the invasion of England was timed for the late summer of 1805 but, knowing that the various French fleets were each blockaded in their home ports (Brest, Rochefort & Toulon), he devised a scheme to divert the Royal Navys attention and thus allow the invasion force to cross the English Channel unhindered. The plan involved the French fleets breaking out simultaneously, joining up with their Spanish allies and then making for the West Indies as if to raid British shipping and colonies in the Caribbean. Nelson would be forced to follow them but the French would meanwhile double-back and protect the invasion fleet whilst Nelson was either still searching the Caribbean or in mid-Atlantic on his way back home. In the event, the ruse was partially successful; the main Toulon fleet broke out and on 10th April (1805) Nelson received news that it had passed through the Straits of Gibraltar. News followed soon afterwards that the Spanish fleet was out of Cadiz and also heading west so Nelson was obliged to follow suit. Thus began the famous cat and mouse chase across the Atlantic and back which occupied the second quarter of 1805 and became the final phase in the long countdown to Trafalgar.
In this splendid portrayal of 'Victory', Dawson shows the flagship running under reduced sail in an evidently fresh breeze, just the sort of conditions she relished. By the standards of her time, 'Victory' was a fast ship and, with the wind in her favour, she could ride the swell like a thoroughbred clipper, just as Dawson has caught her in this spectacular image.
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Rises in pump prices for petrol and diesel over the last 10 years have been caused largely by higher crude oil prices and increases in tax and duty and not a lack of competition, an OFT report has found.
The evidence gathered by the OFT suggests that at national level competition is working well in the UK road fuel sector, although it has identified an absence of pricing information on motorways as a concern and does not rule out taking action in some local markets if there is persuasive evidence of anti-competitive behaviour.
The OFT launched a call for information on the UK road fuel sector in September last year to determine whether there are competition problems that need to be addressed. In addition to assessing the information submitted to it, the OFT has undertaken detailed analysis of pricing data to investigate claims that the £47bn market is not working well.
The OFT found that, pre-tax, the UK has some of the cheapest road fuel prices in Europe. In the 10 years between 2003 and 2012 pump prices increased from 76 pence per litre (ppl) to 136ppl for petrol, and from 78ppl to 142ppl for diesel, caused largely by an increase of nearly 24ppl in tax and duty and 33ppl in the cost of crude oil.
A key feature of the road fuels sector over the past decade has been the growing influence of the big four supermarkets. They increased their share of road fuel sold in the UK from 29 per cent in 2004 to 39 per cent in 2012. The supermarkets' high throughput per forecourt and greater buying power has allowed them to sell fuel more cheaply than other competitors. In August 2012, for example, the average price of petrol at supermarkets was 2ppl cheaper than the average at oil company owned sites and 4.3ppl cheaper than the average charged by independent dealers.
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The OFT has also found that fuel is often significantly more expensive at motorway service stations. In August 2012, for example, prices were on average 7.5ppl higher for petrol and 8.3ppl higher for diesel than at other UK forecourts. While these differences may be explained to some extent by the higher costs associated with running motorway forecourts, the OFT is concerned that drivers are not able to view prices until they have pulled into the service station. It has therefore asked the Department for Transport to consider introducing new road signs that would display service station petrol and diesel prices for motorway drivers.
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