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Now that the U.S. government has managed to successfully locate and kill al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, the debate over whether using so-called enhanced-interrogation methods to gain intelligence in order to protect the homeland has only intensified.
But on Tuesday's "The View" on ABC, co-host Joy Behar offered her own idea – a book deal. Co-host Whoopi Goldberg referred to former Vice President Dick Cheney's declaration that enhanced-interrogation methods work and that evoked protest from Behar, accompanied by a suggestion.
"There's a few ways to look at that. I mean, for example if we use these enhanced techniques, then they can use them on us," Behar said. "[I]t just encourages more of it around the world and our soldiers have to endure it. And then the other thing is it's possible that a $6-million book deal would have worked just as well, you know what I mean? There are other ways to get information out of people, pay them off. Who knows what would have worked?"
She reiterated her point that use of enhanced-interrogation methods puts U.S. prisoners of war at risk.
"What I'm saying is a lot of people are tortured and they get a lot of information out of it, as you've just pointed out – maybe it works, maybe it doesn't," Behar said. "You have to decide if it's worth it to torture that many people to take a risk that it will happen to us."
However, Betty White said based on her experience, which goes back a few years, she didn't think this debate would ever be settled.
"I remember seeing a Franchot Tone movie when I was a kid and when I was a kid was you know, two centuries ago," White said. "But they showed torture, bamboo shoots under the fingernails and it was the most horrific thing I had ever seen. Well, it was what was being used at that time and if we haven't learned anything in all those years and we're still fighting each other and fighting wars, I think it's a hopeless case we're ever going to learn anything."


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Smaller growing crape myrtle that we love for its opulent display of true red flowers in August to October. Slow growing to 8′ tall and 4′ wide in 8 years. Full hot sun and rich to average well drained soil with REGULAR deep summer irrigation to bloom. Loves heavy clay soils as long as they are irrigated. Fall color is red/orange and in time the stems exfoliate to glossy tan. Give this small tree/shrub the hottest site possible. Easy, disease resistant and cold hardy. Great for smaller gardens.
Lagerstroemia indica 'Victor' (Red)
Plant type: Tree
Biomes/Growing conditions: Hot Aspects
Sun exposure: Full Sun
USDA Hardiness zone: Zn7a 5º to 0ºF
Foliage color: Light Green
Foliage season: Winter Deciduous

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I'm going back to school to get my graduate certificate in philanthropy!
August 27, 2014
Blogging Break
Which do you want first, the good news or the bad news? Good news? Ok!
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August 4, 2014
Send Grandpa and Me to Washington DC
Over the weekend I learned that my grandpa and I were chosen for an Honor Flight to Washington DC in honor of his military service. His way will be completely paid for, but I need to raise $500 to accompany him. I will be using all the profits from my Etsy shop for the trip. Would you like to help send me to DC? Click here and go shopping!
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July 31, 2014
Sea Fan Wall Art
Today's post is written by my guest blogger and very artistic cousin-in-law Heather. After I saw how BEAUTIFUL her sea fan wall art turned out I knew I needed to share her tips and tricks with all of you. If we're being honest with ourselves, don't we all have a baggie of found sea things that we should be displaying? I know I do!
|Heather's Sea Fan
|Other materials needed
Materials needed:
Seashell or sea fan for center piece
Picture Frame (I chose a raised/shadow box picture frame)
Scrap book paper of choice
Acrylic paint (optional)
Paint brushes/foam brushes
Heavy craft glue
1. Paint a thin layer of mod podge on top of the sea fan to let it dry. If you are working with a fragile sea shell, you can do the same to strengthen it.
2. Select picture frame. Paint it to color (if needed) and let dry.
3. Cut out a piece of scrap book paper to fit inside frame/become the back ground for the shell. You can paint highlights/accents on to the scrap book paper if desired.
4. Once all pieces are dry (sea fan/shell, picture frame and scrapbook paper) assemble the frame with the scrap book paper in place of the picture.
5. Glue the sea fan to your frame/glass. The frame I chose is a drop shadow frame, however has the glass flush against the backing. Because of this, I decided to glue the sea fan on top of the glass, centered. If your glass is raised to the top of the frame (leaving space inside the frame/box for a shell) you will need to take an extra step of gluing the scrap book paper to the backing. To do this, you'd want to paint a thin coat of the glue to the back of the scrap book paper and adhere to the backing of the frame so the scrap book paper is strong enough to hold up the shell. Once done, then you'd glue the shell to the scrap book paper).
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July 21, 2014
Baby Shower Gifts
One of my dearest friends is having her first baby girl (!!!) so I did what any rational friend would do and locked myself in my sewing room for the day, played a few Christmas movies, and sewed frilly things!
I started with a onesie I bought at Target and some perfectly colored remnants from Jo-Ann's. I wanted to add ruffles to the butt and found this super quick tutorial on Shabby Mom of 2.
I love how all of the pieces came together and can't wait to see baby girl in this outfit!
I started with a onesie I bought at Target and some perfectly colored remnants from Jo-Ann's. I wanted to add ruffles to the butt and found this super quick tutorial on Shabby Mom of 2.
I know kid clothing items tend to get washed A LOT, so I think if I were going to do this again I sew each ruffle in a tube shape them turn them right side out before attaching them so all raw edges are inside. I'm a bit worried that the unfinished edges on the under side of these ruffles will fray. But maybe baby girl will have out grow this little number by then anyway!
I had quite a bit of material left over so I cut two rectangles, the same size, and sewed them together at the sides. Then I added a pocket on top, inserted elastic, and hemmed the bottom. Wa-la, 20 minute skirt!
I also added a personal label to this special piece. So glad my mother gave them to me for Christmas a few years ago!
This special outfit still needed a finishing touch and I had some pink and white stripped material left so I found this fabric flower tutorial at Scattered Thoughts of a Crafty Mom.
I love how all of the pieces came together and can't wait to see baby girl in this outfit!
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July 13, 2014
Crafts with Krista
This weekend I went to Michigan to spend time with my sister and she had a fun craft planned for us, state art! First we went to Michael's to get scrapbook paper that coordinated with our decor then we went to Ikea (!) to get frames.
This was a super simple project with big impact that anyone could do. I would highly recommend you give it a try! (Please ignore our dinosaur television, it just won't quit!)
Krista printed out our states, Michigan and Indiana, on copy paper. We cut our states out and traced them backward on glitter paper.
It was very important to double check and make sure that the states were traced BACKWARD onto the glitter paper so the glitter would be face up and the state correctly oriented. Then we cut out our states and a heart in a coordinating color.
Next we glued the states and hearts onto the backgrounds.
Some masking tape, pop the hangers on, and replace the back. Craft complete!
Once I was back home I eagerly hung my new art. I chose to do two states, one for both places I have lived as a married lady.
This was a super simple project with big impact that anyone could do. I would highly recommend you give it a try! (Please ignore our dinosaur television, it just won't quit!)
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July 9, 2014
Hot Pad Bowl
Do you ever burn your hands taking a hot bowl out of the microwave? Me too! I touch it lightly, decide its okay, then make it about half way across the kitchen before I can't decide which counter is closer and nearly drop the bowl.
Thankfully, over the weekend my aunt gave me a set of hot pad bowls. I had never heard of them before but now I can't imagine using the microwave without them. My aunt used a pattern similar to this one I found at 2 little hooligans. It is very important to use all cotton material, batting, and thread for this project. Happy nuking!
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July 7, 2014
Worth the Work
Porch sitting is one of the summer past times that I most enjoy. I rarely have time that I feel I can spend that way. I have found that if people join you in your porch sitting it is even more enjoyable. I decided I needed to acquire more seating for my porch so more people could join me.
This is what I found on one of our treasure hunts one Saturday morning. I knew it would take some work, but the price was right. Hello my sweet lil' glider.
|"New" glider
|Lots of weathered spots
I found it easier to take a bucket of bleach to the mold before I finished dismantling the entire thing.
|A little muscle power and a scrub brush is all it takes
Here is what the frame looked like when we had it mostly dismantled.
|Lots of spots of surface rust
Here is the finished product. It has already weathered a couple of bad summer storms this year and came out wonderfully. Sometimes it is worth it to invest in some paint. I hope you too get a chance to sit and drink a cup of coffee and listen to the birds.
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Research Paper: Importance of Effective Nursing Leadership Today
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Leadership Roles Faced in Today's Society For Nurses
Today, nursing professionals are required to perform a wide range of roles in healthcare, including patient education, advocacy and ultimately leadership responsibilities. Properly performed, nursing leaders can help their healthcare organizations achieve optimal clinical outcomes, but it is reasonable to suggest that many nurses lack the experience or training they need to become effective leaders overnight. As the research will show, there is also a gap in the existing body of nursing scholarship concerning the precise competences that are needed by nursing leaders today. To gain some fresh insights into these issues, this paper reviews the relevant literature concerning the various types of leadership roles that are faced in modern society for nurses, followed by a summary of the research and important findings in the conclusion.
Review and Discussion
Nursing leadership has experienced some fundamental changes over the past century, evolving from the traditional hospital matron role in the late 19th century to clinical leadership to promote improved healthcare outcomes by the late 1990s (Sorensen & Delmar, 2011). According to George and Haag-Heitman (2011), nursing leaders are in a good position to promote improvements in clinical practice by focusing providing their subordinates with the resources and tools they need to perform the responsibilities effectively. Moreover, nursing leaders can also promote accountability for practice amongst their subordinates. For instance, George and Haag-Heitman note that, "[Nursing] managers will play an essential role in helping facilitate direct-care nurses' ownership of their practice outcomes" (p. 258). Likewise, Haycock-Stuart and Kean (2012) point out that, "The contribution of [nursing] leadership is recognized to be central in achieving the change required to meet the policy drive for quality care" (p. 372). It is noteworthy that nursing leaders are increasingly being looked to as the driving force for implementing the changes that will be needed to improve the overall quality of healthcare services.
While the research is consistent in showing that there is no "one-size-fits-all" leadership approach that is most effective all of the time, a growing body of evidence indicates that the most effective nursing leaders today employ a transformational leadership style (Sorensen & Delmar, 2011). In this regard, Sorensen and Delmar (2011) emphasize that, "The transformational leadership style has been compared with the clinical leadership style and is found to prevail in magnet hospitals, a concept whose international recognition has been accompanied by the dissemination of transformational/clinical leadership styles" (2011, p. 422).
Other authorities also cite the need for effective nursing leaders to drive improvements in the quality of clinical care provided, but many also agree that fundamental changes in the existing healthcare delivery framework will be needed to achieve optimal outcomes, especially in community nursing settings. For example, Haycock-Stuart and Kean (2012) emphasize that, "Delivering the quality agenda will require ambitious leadership and strong professional values, supported by a robust and effective governance framework, suggesting change is required in community nursing" (p. 373). Efforts to improve the quality of healthcare services are certainly not novel, but there is a growing body of scholarship that supports the need for nursing professionals to lead the way in improving the healthcare delivery system. As Haycock-Stuart and Kean (2012) conclude, "Senior nursing leadership has a pertinent role in bringing the quality agenda to the fore" (p. 373).
Notwithstanding the compelling need, though, Sorensen and Delmar (2011) also emphasize that, "In spite of several studies of nursing and clinical leadership, it is still unclear how nurses navigate between nursing and leadership roles" (p. 421). While the debate over nature versus nurture continues, it is reasonable to suggest that some nurses manage to make the transition into leadership positions more readily than others, but it is also reasonable to suggest that all nursing leaders need ongoing feedback concerning how well they are performing their responsibilities in order to identify opportunities for improvement and problem areas that require resolution.
One approach that has proven efficacy in helping nursing professionals navigate between the traditional nursing role and leadership roles in peer review using the American Nurses Association (ANA) Guidelines for Peer Review. In this regard, George and Haag-Heitman report that, "Peer review implies that the nursing care delivered by a group of nurses or an individual nurse is evaluated by individuals of the same rank or standing according to established standards of practice" (2011, p. 255). Properly and timely performed, the peer review process can provide nursing professionals with the feedback they need to identify opportunities for improving their practice as well as identifying individual strengths that can be drawn upon for this purpose (George & Haag-Heitman, 2011).
Given the chronic shortages of qualified nursing leaders in the United States and many other Western nations today, it is also vitally important to provide nursing professionals with the training they need to perform their responsibilities properly, including forging personal relationships with other nursing leaders and staff. For example, Galletta, Portoghese, Battistelli and Leiter (2012) point out that, "The quality of working relationships that employees develop at the unit-level, influences employee attitudes with implications for both employee outcomes and unit performance" (p. 1772).
To the extent that relationships between nursing leaders and subordinates are healthy will likely be the extent to which the nursing unit achieves optimal clinical outcomes while simultaneously minimizing unplanned nursing turnover rates (Galleta et al., 2012). This point is also made by Sherman and Pross (2010) who maintain that nursing leaders that forge healthy relationships with other supervisors and nursing staff provide the framework that is needed to achieve improved patient care. In this regard, Sherman and Pross (2010) note that, "The establishment of a healthy work environment requires strong nursing leadership at all levels of the organization, but especially at the point of care or unit level where most front line staff work and patient care is delivered" (p. 1).
These observations are highly congruent with the following key elements that have been identified by the Nursing Organizations Alliance as being integral components of a healthful practice/work environment:
A collaborative practice culture;
A communication rich culture;
A culture of accountability;
The presence of adequate numbers of qualified nurses;
The presence of expert, competent, credible, visible leadership;
Shared decision making at all levels;
The encouragement of professional practice and continued growth/development;
Recognition of the value of nursing's contribution; and,
Recognition by nurses for their meaningful contributions to practice (Sherman & Pross, 2010, p. 4).
Some of the traditional roles that are performed by nursing leaders have been significantly expanded and amplified in recent years in response to increased calls for accountability and cost efficiencies. For instance, Bolton (2015) emphasizes that, "Those institutions that have succeeded have done so in collaboration with their nursing professionals. They have not approached the issue in terms of replacing physicians but of collaborating with physicians" (p. 23). This type of close collaboration between healthcare practitioners can have a synergistic effect on improving healthcare outcomes and staff morale provided that nursing leaders understand this expanded role (Bolton, 2015).
It is also important to note that nursing leaders at all levels can play an important part in ongoing efforts to improve clinical care. In this regard, Bolton (2015) adds that, "Top facilities are also likely to have not just a chief nursing officer (CNO) but untitled nurse leaders who continually contribute to advancing the profession and the work of healthcare improvement" (p. 24). Some salient examples of these different types of expanded nursing leadership roles include nurses who are responsible for minimizing hospital lengths of stay and patient safety coordinators who are tasked with preventing nosocomial conditions as well as medication errors and falls (Bolton, 2015). In this regard, Bolton (2015) emphasizes that, "Having exemplary, highly skilled and educated nurses on staff leads to decreases in the number of hospital acquired conditions -- including falls, pressure ulcers, and infections. Solid evidence supports this assertion" (p. 24).
While some fortunate nursing professionals possess the innate leadership traits required to serve in these various capacities while forging strong health relationships with other supervisors and staff, many nurses lack the experience and training they need to be effective leaders. In some cases, nursing willingly and even aggressively seek out leadership positions, but in many cases they are promoted or otherwise assigned to these positions irrespective of their readiness. Consistent with the so-called "Peter Principle" that holds that people tend to assume additional responsibilities and ever higher positions of leadership until they reach a point where they are no longer effective, nurses who transition into leadership roles may find they lack the knowledge and skills they need in their new role.
Today, nursing professionals form an integral part of the healthcare delivery system in countries around the world, and many are assuming new roles in their capacity as nursing leaders. These nursing professionals are increasingly expected to help drive the changes that are needed in order to provide optimally effective healthcare services today. The research also showed, though, that far too many nurses who accept positions of leadership lack the formal training… [END OF PREVIEW]
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Adult length: 12.5 in.; tail length: approximately 16 in.; appearance and color: slender, lithe build, with a short grayish coat, bright yellow legs and white masks of fur around their eyes and dark brown or black coloration around the mouth and chin; non-prehensile tail often curls over one shoulder when resting; dentition: 36 teeth, and their teeth are sexually dimorphic - males have large upper canines.
Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Paraguay and Venezuela; a small population has been introduced to Southern Florida and many of the Caribbean Islands.
Tropical forests at middle canopy, but will occasionally come to the ground or go up into the high canopy.
Life Expectancy
Sexual Maturity
Females: 2.5 years; males: 4 years
In the wild, they eat berry-like fruit, leaves, insects, tree frogs and small invertebrates; in the Zoo, they are fed a scientifically developed, commercially available primate diet, assorted fruits, vegetables, starches and insects.
IUCN – Least Concern; CITES – Appendix II
Squirrel monkeys are insectivores-frugivores, consuming insects and fruit in their diet, depending on seasonal abundance of each resource, and supplementing their diets with small vertebrates, nectar, flowers, buds, seeds, leaves, and gum. Squirrel monkeys rarely go after insects that are in motion and prefer to capture stationary insects on plant surfaces. They hunt for insects on the surface of live leaves or by unfolding leaf curls of dead foliage and prefer caterpillars and grasshoppers over other insects. Saimiri preferentially ingest small, soft, berry-like fruits less than one centimeter in diameter found in the lower and middle canopies of the forest. The small vertebrates consumed include bats, which they systematically search for in large stands of trees, small birds, and bird eggs. They spend 75-80% of their day foraging. During the year, the period of greatest food abundance is between April and June. The common squirrel monkey is polygynous with a multi-male, multi-female group structure. Most social interactions occur within the various age/sex classes, with the division of classes being between adult male categories, mother-infant categories, and juvenile categories. The core of the group is made up of the adult females and their young. As a result of the natural attraction each class has to the adult females, the different age/sex classes come together as one social group. Even though juveniles play and jump around an appreciable amount during phases of high activity, they usually stay close to the adult females. In terms of the males' level of attraction to the adult females, the phase of the yearly reproductive cycle is what determines their distance from the adult females. Overall, interactions between the various age/sex classes are most frequently directed to adult females. It is important to note that the division of age/sex classes is not so strictly defined because the degree of segregation between sexes can vary. That is, those subspecies which have a high degree of sexual dimorphism are sexually segregated, such that the males and females of that subspecies interact less with each other than do those of subspecies that are not very sexually dimorphic and thus sexually integrated. The fact that reproduction is seasonal plays a major role in the social behavior of common squirrel monkeys. Adult males are generally socially inactive during the birth season and spend their time traveling and foraging at a distance from the group. During the breeding season, adult males become fatter, excited, aggressive, and highly vocal and spend most of their time engaging in dominance interactions among themselves or following and approaching the adult females in estrus, in hopes of being able to mate with them. Males can increase their chances at copulating with receptive females by approaching them quietly. Non-receptive females, on the other hand, respond aggressively to any male approach and will threaten and chase the males away, usually with the help of surrounding females. Mating occurs between September and November, with births occurring from February through April. Gestation lasts 160 - 170 days. The birth season is short and occurs during the time of greatest rainfall, perhaps because the wet season brings an abundance of food and water. Infants develop rapidly. They become fairly independent between five to eight months of age and spend only a small percentage of the day with their mothers. Also at this age, infants can find food. Infants are active members of the social group, climbing, running, exploring, and frequently making contact with adult members of the group. Most adult-infant interactions are initiated by infants towards adult females who are not their mothers. Adults generally respond to the infants calmly, but some adults may respond with antagonism. Infants rank the lowest in the group. Many other aspects of common squirrel monkey social behavior, such as dominance relationships, coalitions, dispersal patterns, and aggression, stem from the feeding ecology of the animals. Feeding ecology directly affects the females of the group which in turn affects the behavior of the males in the group. The feeding patches for them are very small and dense, which makes it possible for an individual with the greatest capability of winning a fight, if one were to occur, to monopolize access to any patch. It should also be noted that within group competition among different groups is extremely high, and between-group competition is moderate to high. Coalition formation is not as stable as would be expected among the females of the group because considering their small and dense feeding patches females with the greatest capability of winning a fight would benefit more if they were to form alliances to gain control of a patch and then not share the patch once in control of it. All males emigrate from their natal group and some females may as well, although the females are more often philopatric (remaining in birth group). Males are typically dominant to females, but females still have a high status in the group and are capable of forming coalitions against dominant males.
Their small body size makes squirrel monkeys susceptible to a variety of predators across their range including raptors, snakes, and felids. Raptors are responsible for the highest number of observed predations on squirrel monkeys. One predator avoidance pattern seen in squirrel monkeys in Peru is prolonged associations with other primate species. Squirrel monkeys and capuchin monkeys are seen forming mixed-species groups and associating for many days. These interactions are peaceable and squirrel monkeys benefit from the extensive alarm calling system of capuchins, which serves to alert group members of potential predators. Squirrel monkeys may also benefit in terms of gaining access to previously unexploited resources. Capuchins use similar fruit sources and small ranges, and squirrel monkeys can exploit their knowledge of these ranges to utilize new fruit patches.
Special Interests
Color vision in squirrel monkeys has been extensively studied as a stand-in for human ailments. In humans, two genes for color vision are found on the X chromosome. Typically, one gene (OPN1LW) produces a pigment that is most sensitive to the 564 nm wavelength, while the other gene (OPN1MW) produces pigment most sensitive to 534 nm. In squirrel monkeys, there is only one gene on the X chromosome but it exists in three varieties: one is most sensitive to 538 nm, one to 551 nm and one to 561 nm. Since males have only one X chromosome, they are dichromatic (a form of color-blindness in which only two light wavelengths are distinguished rather than the usual three) although with different sensitivities. Females, on the other hand, have two X chromosomes, so some of them can have copies of two different alleles. The three alleles seem to be equally common, leading to one-third of females being dichromatic while two-thirds are trichromatic (the condition of possessing three independent channels for conveying color information, derived from the three different cone types). Recently, gene therapy has given the human OPN1LW gene to adult male squirrel monkeys, producing behavior consistent with trichromatic color vision. Until recently, there were only two species of squirrel monkeys, a South American species, S. sciureus and a Central American one, S. oerstedti, but with genetic tools increasingly available, the genus has been reclassified into five species based on genetic, physical, and behavioral characteristics. Squirrel monkeys are now divided into two groups, the Saimiri sciureus group, containing S. oerstedti subspecies, S. sciureus subspecies, and S. ustus and the Saimiri boliviensis group, containing S. boliviensis subspecies and S. vanzolinii. Most of the literature and information available on squirrel monkeys does not make these newer distinctions and focuses on the traditional taxonomy with only two species.
A group of free-ranging individuals was spotted and photographed in 2009 at the Tijuca Forest in Rio de Janeiro - possibly the result of an illegal release or of an escape from the pet trade; by 2010, the Squirrel Monkey had begun to be considered as an invasive species in the Brazilian Atlantic rainforest, and there were concerns about its role as a predator of eggs of endangered bird species. Habitat destruction, illegal hunting, and capture for the pet trade or medical research all pose threats and problems to the squirrel monkeys. This species is listed as Least Concern, given its relatively wide range, adaptability to some degree of disturbed forest, and apparent lack of major threats. Additionally, given its small size, it is not generally hunted. However, populations undoubtedly are declining in some areas due to forest destruction and fragmentation.
Jacksonville Zoo History
Our earliest records for this species show it as part of our animal collection from 1972 to 1985. Squirrel Monkeys returned in 2004 and we have a very successful ongoing breeding program with this species.
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Acquisition Enhances 3sun's Aberdeen Presence
3sun Group, a specialist provider of products and services to the global energy industry, announced the acquisition of RRC Controls Services Ltd., based in Gourdon Aberdeenshire. The deal, worth a six figure sum, is part of 3sun Group's plans to expand its footprint in Aberdeen and enhance its service offering to the energy industry.
The acquisition of RRC Controls Services, an established manufacturer of subsea control systems for the offshore oil and gas industry, will allow 3sun to provide the global subsea market with full turnkey engineering solutions. These will be delivered at much shorter timescales from a lower cost base and all elements of a subsea system will be manufactured in-house, rather than being outsourced.
As part of the acquisition RRC Controls Services will be a wholly owned subsidiary and all current staff will be retained. It is envisaged 40 new jobs will be created between Aberdeen, Gourdon and Great Yarmouth within the first 12 months. Many of the new jobs will relate to the development of a range of new products including a deepwater control module.
Graham Hacon, managing director of 3sun Group said, "RRC Controls Services deliver high quality products and services and we have been tracking its progress for some time now. We saw an opportunity to extend beyond our past working relationships through acquisition. Bringing RRC Controls Services into the 3sun Group combines our collective knowledge and resources to provide clients with full turnkey solutions, quickly and cost efficiently. This puts us in a unique market position to serve the global subsea sector whilst extending our oil and gas portfolio. It also strengthens our position in Aberdeen, which is a key market for us. We will retain RRC Controls Services base in Gourdon which represents 5,000 sq ft site comprising of office and warehouse space. RRC Controls Services has completed projects for many of the major oil and gas operators and we plan to draw upon this extensive experience to grow the business further, with plans to increase staff numbers significantly in the next three years."
The acquisition of RRC Controls Services follows 3sun Group's recent expansion into Denmark with the opening of an office in Esbjerg, to offer its range of products and services to a wider market and range of companies operating within the area.
Since the company was established six years ago, it has grown from an initial team of one to now employing 240 people across its headquarters in Great Yarmouth, England and bases in Oban, Aberdeen, Chester, Bergen Norway, Germany and in Esbjerg, Denmark. Turnover has increased from £2.4 million in 2010 to £6.5 million in 2011 to £12 million in 2012, and the group is on target to achieve £13.5 million in 2013.
Rapid growth has been achieved following the strategic acquisition of Dawson Energy in 2010, an industry leader in delivering installation and maintenance services for wind turbines, which has allowed 3sun to expand into the renewables industry. This move has in turn led to increased export activity for the group.
The group's lead advisors for the transaction were Jon Dodge of JDC Corporate Finance and James Hunter of Mills & Reeve both based in Norwich.
3sun Group employs 240 staff and is currently working on several projects in the U.K. and Europe. The group has overseas experience in Europe, Asia, Africa, U.S. and New Zealand.


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Makenzie is doing well again today! She slept all night. This makes 3 nights in a row! She got up around 9am. She was all smiles and talking! We hing out at home for a while and played. She was amazing! I put her in her walker and she stayed for over 20 min with her head up watching her brothers and the TV! I took her out and layed her on her stomach over her Boppy pillow and she pushed up with her arms and lifted her head all of the way up to follow the boys side to side across the room! After about 5 min she decided that she had enough and brought her knees up. It looked like she was just going to crawl away! She also put her butt up a couple of times. It was really cute as the whole time she was grunting! Tons of work! She is such a fighter!
As for her feeding we are up to 50ml an hour! Ya God! She seemed a little tight around noon so I stopped the feed and vented her stomach. She has been burping but there was still a bit of air in her tummy. As soon as we got the air out she loosened up and went right to sleep for her afternoon nap! I think we are going to stay at 50ml untill tomorrow. She is now at the number of calories she was getting befor the new tube! (850ish) The dietitian would like her to get to 1200 calories per day to see good weight gain! She CAN do it! God provided this and he will lead us all the way to the finish line! Thank you for all of the prayers! Keep thanking God for this new healing! Keep praying for Makenzie!
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Simple Technique To Get Your Athletes Relaxed
The question surfaces often by coaches and parents:
"How can I help some of my athletes relax before big (games, meets, races, etc.)"
Tom Petty said it best, "the waiting is the hardest part." It's the amount of time to actually "think" before a competition that causes the most stress.
Since, the moment itself provides enough excitement, NOT
nervousness, it is a matter of athletes NOT getting "over-hyped" rather than being "under-hyped."
Here's How To Get Your Athletes Relaxed
Aside from actual mental training and mental toughness that focuses on pre-competition strategies, there actually is a super-fun way to help ease the tension of an entire team and get em' relaxed.
When I am with teams at ALL levels, I'll use any break or transition to play the old reliable "rock, paper, scissors."
It is easy, fun, fast, and best of all, competitive.
All athletes hate to lose, so they can switch their focus to winning a game of RPS rather easily.
These moments have scored big points with getting their mind away from the upcoming competition. But more importantly, I also use the quick game to help them with their focus, confidence, and to ease the tension.
Dr. Rob Bell is a Sport Psychology Coach. His company DRB & associates is based in Indianapolis. Some clients have included: University of Notre Dame, Marriott, and Walgreens. Check out the most recent books on Mental Toughness-


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For St. Patrick's Day (instead of Luck, our hope is in the Lord):
Jeremiah 17:7 – Blessed [is] the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is. (Over a shamrock graphic)
Spring Forward, time change
Spring theme: 2 Corinthians 5:17 – Therefore if any man [be] in Christ, [he is] a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
Church Spring Cleaning Day (inviting members to come help clean the building)
Start Fresh in Your Bible Reading
Jesus is the Lily of the Valley (Maybe for Easter?)
Fairest of Ten Thousand (over a pretty field of flowers graphic)
Renew your Spirit: Psalms 51:10 – Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
(Graphic of springs, running water..etc):
Ps. 104:10 He sendeth the springs into the valleys, which run among the hills.
John 4:14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
These are all really good! Thanks for giving us lots to go on next month. Check back to see what quotes we use.
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Kiran Nandalike, M.D.
Pediatric Pulmonology
Pediatric Respiratory and Sleep Medicine
- Assistant Professor
Glassrock Building
2521 Stockton Blvd.
Sacramento, CA 95817
Driving Directions
Primary Phone:
UC Davis Children's Hospital
2315 Stockton Blvd.
Sacramento, CA 95817
Driving Directions
Primary Phone:
Additional Phone Numbers
Phone: 916-734-2011
Fax: 916-734-4757
Clinical Interests
Dr. Nandalike's clinical interests include pediatric sleep disorders and pediatric flexible bronchoscopy.
Research/Academic Interests
Dr. Nandalike's research interests include pediatric upper airway and sleep, obesity and sleep apnea.
Pediatric Pulmonology
Center/Program Affiliation
JSS Medical College, Mysore, India 2000
Adichunchunagiri Institute of Medical Sciences, Bellur, India 2004
Mahatma Gandhi Memorial College, Udupi, India 1994
Internship: Pediatrics, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn NY 2004-2005
Pediatrics, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn NY 2005-2008
Pediatric Pulmonary, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx NY 2008-2011
Sleep Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx NY 2012-2013
Board Certifications
American Board of Pediatrics,
American Board of Pediatrics, Pediatric Pulmonology,
American Board of Pediatrics-Sleep Medicine,
Honors and Awards
Best resident award during second year of residency, Maimonides Medical Center, 2006
Star award for excellence during chief residency, Maimonides Medical Center, 2008
Assembly on Sleep and Respiratory Neurobiology (SRN), ATS international meeting., 2011
Select Recent Publications
Sin S, Wootton DM, McDonough JM, Nandalike K, Arens R, Anterior nasal resistance in obese children with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS), Laryngoscope. 2014 Feb 24.
Pillai S, Nandalike K, Kogelman Y, Muzumdar R, Balk SJ, Arens R, Severe obstructive sleep apnea in a child with melanocortin-4 receptor deficiency, J Clin Sleep Med. 2014 Jan 15;10(1):99-101.
Nandalike K, Shifteh K, Sin S, et al. Adenotonsillectomy in obese children with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome: magnetic resonance imaging findings and considerations. Sleep. 2013;36(6):841-847.
Parikh SR, Sadoughi B, Sin S, Willen S, Nandalike K, Arens R. Deep cervical lymph node hypertrophy: A new paradigm in the understanding of pediatric obstructive sleep apnea. Laryngoscope. May 10 2013.
Muzumdar H, Nandalike K, Bent J, Arens R. Obstructive sleep apnea due to extrathoracic tracheomalacia. J Clin Sleep Med. Feb 1 2013;9(2):163-164.
Nandalike K, Agarwal C, Strauss T, et al. Sleep and cardiometabolic function in obese adolescent girls with polycystic ovary syndrome. Sleep Med. Dec 2012;13(10):1307-1312.
Nandalike K, Strauss T, Agarwal C, et al. Screening for sleep-disordered breathing and excessive daytime sleepiness in adolescent girls with polycystic ovarian syndrome. J Pediatr. Oct 2011;159(4):591-596.
Arens R, Sin S, Nandalike K, et al. Upper airway structure and body fat composition in obese children with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. Mar 15 2011;183(6):782-787.
Vicencio AG, Chupp GL, Tsirilakis K, et al. CHIT1 mutations: genetic risk factor for severe asthma with fungal sensitization? Pediatrics. Oct 2010;126(4):e982-985.
Nandalike K, Kessel A, Tripathi S, Sweberg T, Vicencio AG. Foreign body aspiration in a child with unilateral lung aplasia. Pediatr Crit Care Med. Sep 2011;12(5):e216-218.


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Ресурсы проектирования
Design & Integration Files
- Schematic
- Bill of Materials
- Gerber Files
- PADS Files
- Assembly Drawing
Оценочные платы
Буква "Z" в наименовании компонента указывает на соответствие требованиям RoHS. Отмеченные платы нужны для оценки данной схемы
- EVAL-CN0204-SDPZ ($65.00) Flexible, High Voltage, High Accuracy, Low Drift PLC/DCS Analog Output Module
- EVAL-SDP-CB1Z ($99.00) Eval Control Board SDP
Драйверы устройств
ПО (код на С и/или FPGA) для связи с цифровым интерфейсом компонента.
Пример проекта FPGA BeMicro для CN0202 с драйвером Nios
Пример проекта FPGA BeMicro для CN0204 с драйвером Nios
Плата сопряжения и оценочная плата FMC-SDP для CN0202 / Пример типового проекта Xilinx KC705
Плата сопряжения и оценочная плата FMC-SDP для CN0204 / Пример типового проекта Xilinx KC705
Особенности и преимущества
- High voltage, up to 44V
- Programmable analog output
- Galvanic isolation from rest of system
- Ideal for PLC and DCS modules
Области применения и технологии
- Контрольно-измерительные приборы
- Healthcare
- Промышленная автоматика
Circuit Function & Benefits
The AD5662 low power (0.75 mW typical @ 5 V), rail-to-rail output, 16-bit nanoDAC® device and the AD5751 industrial current/voltage output driver are well matched with respect to input and output voltage ranges, as well as reference voltage requirements.
The ADR444, with low drift (3 ppm/℃ maximum for B grade), high initial accuracy (0.04% maximum for B grade), and low noise (1.8 μV p-p typical, 0.1 Hz to 10 Hz), provides the reference voltage for both the AD5751 and AD5662 and guarantees ultralow noise, high accuracy, and low temperature drift for the circuit. This circuit provides all the typical voltage and current output ranges with 16-bit resolution and no missing codes, 0.05% linearity, and less than 0.2% total output error.
The ADuM1301 and ADuM5401 provide all the necessary signal isolation between the microcontroller and the analog signal chain. The ADuM5401 also provides isolated 5 V power. The circuit also contains key features for industrial applications, such as on-chip output fault detection, CRC checking to prevent packet error (PEC), and flexible power-up options, making it an ideal choice for robust industrial control systems. No external precision resistors or calibration routines are needed to maintain consistent performance in mass production, thereby making it ideal for PLC or DCS modules.
Figure 1. Basic Analog Output Circuit for Single Channel (Simplified Schematic, All Connections and Protection Circuits Not Shown)
Описание схемы
The current output, which is provided on a separate pin, can be programmed for the standard ranges of 4 mA to 20 mA, 0 mA to 20 mA, 0 mA to 24 mA. There is also a 2% overrange setting which provides 3.92 mA to 20.4 mA, 0 mA to 20.4 mA, and 0 mA to 24.5 mA. The voltage and current output pins can be tied together to configure the end system as a single-channel output if desired.
The AD5662 is a single channel, low cost, low power, rail-to-rail voltage buffered output nanoDAC device. The AD5662 guarantees ±1 LSB DNL under a wide range of reference voltages that can vary from 0.75 V to the VDD supply. In the circuit of Figure 1, the AD5751 and AD5662 operate from a common reference source of 4.096 V, provided by the ADR444. The whole system will benefit from the ultralow noise and low temperature coefficient of the ADR444. The ADR44x family of references are ideal for driving either the reference or the power input of converters because they can source and sink current. The AD5662 also incorporates a power-on reset circuit to ensure that the DAC output powers up to either midscale or zero and remains there until a valid write takes place.
The ADuM1301 is a triple channel digital isolator. The ADuM5401 is a quad channel digital isolator with isoPower® integrated, isolated, dc-to-dc converter. They are both based on the iCoupler® technology. They are used to provide isolation between the signal chain and the system microcontroller, with an isolation rating of 2.5 kV rms. The ADuM5401 provides an isolated 5 V power supply for all the circuit in the secondary side.
The digital power and analog power should be separated and connected with a ferrite bead. Each power is well decoupled by a 10 μF paralleled with a 0.1 μF ceramic capacitor. See the schematics in the CN0204 Design Support package for more details.
Devices for PLC and DCS applications generally need ESD protection and overvoltage protection much higher than the formal recommended specifications. The AD5751 has integrated ESD protection diodes internal to each pin that can prevent damage from transients. However, the industrial control environment can subject I/O circuits to much higher transients. External 64 V, 1500 W transient voltage suppressors (TVS); a 50 mA, 30 V PolySwitch; and power Schottky diodes are built into the EVAL-CN0204-SDPZ circuit board to provide higher voltage ESD protection, 50 mA overcurrent, and 64 V overvoltage protection. The optional external protection circuits are not shown in the simplified schematic of Figure 1 but can be found in the detailed schematic (EVAL-CN0204- SDPZ-SCH pdf file) in the CN0204 Design Support package: www.analog.com/CN0204-DesignSupport.
The circuit must be constructed on a multilayer PC board with a large area ground plane. Proper layout, grounding, and decoupling techniques must be used to achieve optimum performance (see Tutorial MT-031, Grounding Data Convertersand Solving the Mystery of "AGND" and "DGND," and TutorialMT-101, Decoupling Techniques).
Integral nonlinearity (INL), differential nonlinearity (DNL), and output error are the most important specifications for PLC, DCS, and other process control systems. The AD5751 has highly flexible and configurable output ranges that can be tailored to meet the needs of the application. Measurements of INL, DNL, and output error for the circuit are shown in Figure 2, Figure 3, and Figure 4, respectively. This data was taken at 25°C in the voltage output mode using the internal current sense resistor. The AD5751 range was set for 0 V to 5 V. The test results for all the other ranges are listed in Table 1.
The test results shown in Table 1 were made at 25°C using the EVAL-CN0204-SDPZ board powered by an Agilent E3631A dc supply and measured with an Agilent 34401A digital multimeter.
Note that the output ranges 0 mA to 20.4 mA and 0 mA to 24.5 mA are both designed to be trimmed by the customer to precisely match the 0 mA to 20 mA and 0 mA to 24 mA ranges. The 1.70% FSR output error measurement in the 0 mA to 20.4 mA range includes the gain error, which can be removed by customer calibration.
Figure 2. INL for 0 V to 5 V Output Range
Figure 3. DNL for 0 V to 5 V Output Range
Figure 4. Output Error for 0 V to 5 V Output Range
Основные варианты исполнения
For multichannel applications, the AD5623R (12-bit), AD5643R (14-bit), and AD5663R (16-bit) are dual nanoDAC devices, and the AD5624R (12-bit), AD5644R (14-bit), and AD5664R (16-bit) are quad nanoDAC devices.
The AD5750-1 and AD5750 are both bipolar analog output drivers and can supply ±10 V and ±20 mA.
Оценивание характеристик и тестирование схем
- System Demonstration Platform (EVAL-SDP-CB1Z)
- CN-0204 Circuit Evaluation Board (EVAL-CN0204-SDPZ)
- CN-0204 Evaluation Software
- Software for controlling external test measurement equipment (not included on CD)
- Agilent 34401A, 6.5 Digit Digital Multimeter
- Agilent E3631A 0 V to 6 V/5 A; ±25 V/1 A triple output dc power supply
- PC (Windows® 2000 or Windows XP) with USB interface
- National Instruments GPIB to USB-B interface and cable
Getting Started
Load the evaluation software by placing the CN0204 Evaluation Software disc in the CD drive of the PC. Using "My Computer," locate the drive that contains the evaluation software disc and open the Readme file. Follow the instructions contained in the Readme file for installing and using the evaluation software.
Functional Block Diagram
Figure 5 shows a functional block diagram of the test setup. The pdf file "EVAL-CN0204-SDPZ-SCH" contains the detailed circuit schematics for the CN0204 evaluation board. This file is contained in the CN-0204 Design Support Package: www.analog.com/CN0204-DesignSupport.
Connect the 120-pin connector on the EVAL-CN0204-SDPZ circuit board to the connector marked "CON A" or "CON B" on the EVAL-SDP-CB1Z evaluation (SDP) board. Nylon hardware should be used to firmly secure the two boards, using the holes provided at the ends of the 120-pin connectors. After setting the dc output supply to +25 V, −25 V and +6 V output, turn the power supply off.
The Agilent E3631A supply has ±25 V/1 A and 6 V/5 A output channels. The ±25 V/1 A and 6 V/5 A are isolated with respect to each other. Therefore, the ±25 V/1 A can be used to provide the +50 V power supply to the circuit. There must be no external connection between the "−" terminal of the 6 V/5 A supply and the "COM" terminal of the ±25 V/1 A supply.
With power to the supply off, connect a +25 V power supply to the pin of CN3 marked "12~50VIN," and the −25 V power supply to the pin of CN3 marked "GND_ISO." Leave the "COM" of ±25 V/1 A unconnected. Connect +6 V to CN2 the same way. Turn on the power supply and then connect the USB cable with the SDP board to the USB port on the PC. Note: Do not connect the USB cable to the mini USB connector on the SDP board before turning on the dc power supply for the EVAL-CN0204-SDPZ.
Figure 5. Test Setup Functional Block Diagram
After setting up the test equipment, connect the pin of CN4 marked "VOUT" or the pin of CN1 marked "IOUT" to the input of the Agilent 34401A. Make sure that the cable connection on the front panel of the Agilent 34401A is correct, depending on the different input signal type (current or voltage). Testing the INL, DNL, and total error will take a considerable amount of time because all of the AD5662 16-bit DAC levels must be set and measured by the 34401A.
The software provided on the CD allows the DAC codes to be set by the PC. An automatic test program is necessary to step through the codes and analyze the data. This is not provided on the CD but must be implemented by the customer to correspond to the requirements of the particular multimeter used in the test setup.
In the test configuration shown in Figure 5, the GPIB output of the 34401A multimeter interfaces to a second USB port on the PC using the National Instruments GPIB to USB-B interface and cable. This allows the multimeter readings corresponding to each code to be loaded into an Excel spreadsheet on the PC. The data is then analyzed for INL, DNL, and total error using industry-standard definitions.
For more details on the definitions and how to calculate the INL, DNL, and total error from the measured data, see the "TERMINOLOGY" section of the AD5662 data sheet and also the following reference: Data Conversion Handbook, "TestingData Converters," Chapter 5, Analog Devices.
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RICHMOND, Va. – The awards continue to roll in for VCU freshman defender Juan Monge Solano as he was recently named to the 2011 Soccer America All-Freshman second team.
The newest accolade brings his postseason honors total to five, as he was previously named to the All-CAA first team, All-CAA rookie team, College Soccer News All-Freshman second team and NSCAA Division I All-South Atlantic Region second team.
The San Jose, Costa Rica, native served as a force on both sides of the pitch for the Rams in 2011.
Defensively, VCU finished the season with a 1.17 goals-against average, which was fourth best among the 12 CAA institutions. Additionally, the Black & Gold notched six shutouts on the season.
Offensively, Monge Solano finished third on the team with 11 points on five goals and one assist.
Monge Solano was the only representative from the CAA to be named to the 2011 Soccer America All-Freshman teams.


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If you are looking for a rewarding career that you can get started with quickly, then you might want to consider court reporting. You don't need a four-year degree to start a court reporting career, and you can usually get started with your career in just two years. You do need certain personality traits to be successful as a court reporter. Read on to learn what they are.
As a court reporter, you are going to be spending long hours sitting still and transcribing everything that goes on around you. This means that you have to be able to concentrate on what is being said by multiple speakers without having your mind wander.
You also need to be a speedy typist because you have to keep up with what is being said. Thankfully, during your court reporting classes, you will learn a special type of shorthand called stenography that will allow you to capture the words. By the time you graduate, you will be able to capture dialogue at 225 words per minute which are what you will need to be able to do to get a job.
It is very important that you have excellent grammar skills. You have to have a strong command of the English language to be a good court reporter. You need an excellent vocabulary because you have to be able to recognize words when they are being spoken. You also need to know some basic legal terminology so you can recognize those words faster.
You have to be able to spell because you need to record the words accurately. You also have to be a very fast typist. There are other skills you are going to need as well. It is very important that you be able to show up to work on time and you have to be extremely punctual. Court cases start on time, and you can't ever be late since you are in charge of doing all the recording. Being punctual is crucial.
You also have to maintain a professional attitude, and you need a calm personality because the courtroom can get heated and you don't want to lose your cool which means you lose your concentration. You need to stay calm no matter what the circumstances are. Confidence is another trait you need if you want to do well as a court reporter.
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Obama Validates Arpaio Report: Confesses to Illegal Presidency
|Posted by George Freund on December 30, 2016
|~ hehe "reg~ist~terd" "voters"( the elites could send out ole bernie)& LOL you'd "vote" weekend at bernies ...in~ta office ... fucking TWICE hehe
Saturday, December 31, 2016
On December 15, after a five-year investigation Maricopa Country, Arizona, Sheriff Joe Arpaio released new forensic analysis evidence confirming that Barack Obama's alleged birth certificate is a forgery. This was verified by completely independent forensic experts who discovered an authentic birth certificate from which forgers created a computer-generated modification transforming it into an official Obama birth certificate. The counterfeited document was released in 2011.
Arpaio noted that the fraud was a major violation of federal law—regardless of where Obama was born—and sent his findings to Congress. Predictably his conclusions were ignored by the mainstream media.
But Obama has been confessing unconsciously to his illegal presidency for some time in exactly the way Jesus and cutting-edge psychoanalysis reveals—in one "log in his eye" projection after another. Remember the new understanding of the human mind. A person's subconscious, far more astute than we ever realized, quick-reads himself in the blink of an eye. So we listen to Obama's projections which are both his quick-read take on himself and a model of correction.
This monumental paradigm shift in psychology allows us to understand unconscious communication and the human mind's startling super-intel awareness of conflicts and resolution. This new knowledge about the human mind allows us to fully grasp a man's meaning.
Understand the new science of unconscious communication provides the exclusive hard evidence—apart from circumstantial evidence (fraudulent birth certificate, refusal to release any records, etc.)—that Obama is an illegal president. His unconscious super-intel mind has specifically confessed in its unique language.
Projection confessions
Looking back at Obama's recent comments, we find distinct projection confessions. While in Germany on November 17 he spoke about false news (a projection in itself) and how to determine the truth.
Obama declared, "In an age of so much misinformation—packaged very well…if we're not serious about facts, about what's true and what's not, if we can't discriminate between serious arguments and propaganda then we have problems."
In other words, he has disseminated misinformation about the legality of his smoothly packaged presidency, lied about the facts and propagandized America from the beginning of his candidacy.
Obama's super-intel reports exactly where his deceit led. If we don't discriminate between the truth and a lie and spot the propaganda, "we won't know what to protect. We won't know what to fight for."
When the media, the Congress and the courts—all the way to the Supreme Court— submitted to Obama's propaganda, together they carried out the biggest birth conspiracy of all: accepting his U.S. birth and Hawaiian birth certificate as true facts.
Indeed, they didn't know what to protect or what to fight for—our very foundation, the rule of law. That's how close we are to losing America. No wonder Congress can't face Arpaio's findings.
Obama's super-intel warns us, "We can lose so much of what we've gained in terms of democratic freedoms…prosperity we come to take for granted." He's hinting that we can lose our democracy. We can take our prosperity for granted as great nations invariably do before they fall from within.
We return to Obama's admonition to get the facts—precisely what Sheriff Arpaio has just provided. Facts are determined by reality, and our leaders have consistently ignored the reality of Obama's phony birth certificate.
Here is where the breakthrough to the magnificent super-intel comes into play. Projections identify accurate unconscious facts someone wants to hide. The bottom line is that our brilliant super-intel picks up on the facts. It's vastly superior to our conscious minds which remain prone to blind spots.
Imagery of illegality
Unconsciously Obama's consistent projection imagery presents the deeper fact of his illegal presidency almost daily. In Obama's extensive interview with Rolling Stone magazine one day after the election, he said the way to bring the country together in the face of false news "is how we create a common set of facts." Note the repetitive projection that he has created "fake news" about his presidency, but he points again to the answer—get the facts.
In the interview, he specifically points to his illegal presidency, and he spontaneously links Trump's surprising election to his own election.
Early on election night in 2008 his key advisors told him, "We don't think we're gonna win this thing." Read his super-intel imagery; he didn't think he should have won the election and didn't really win because he had been ineligible to run.
Confirming his hidden confession, Obama then told how he would advise Trump, "Number 1, however you campaigned, once you're in this office, you are part of a legacy dating back to those first Revolutionaries. And this amazing experiment in democracy has to be tended."
It's another projection confession. Obama campaigned as the first revolutionary illegitimate president and took office as such. He failed to tend to—protect—America's amazing democracy. Instead he experimented with it, breaking the rule of law, our nation's very foundation—and got away with it.
Don't overlook his continued unconscious instructions to Trump: tend to democracy by enforcing the rule of law. Unknowingly Obama continues to instruct Trump to investigate his illegal presidency. As demonstrated in my recent book, The Stockholm Syndrome President: How Trump Triggered Obama's Hidden Confession, Obama intuitively pleaded with Trump to hold him accountable and free him from his secret control by radical Islam. This led to Obama's illegal candidacy and attack on America. Now Trump has new factual evidence: Arpaio's proof of a forged Obama birth certificate.
Immigrant president
In the Rolling Stone interview, Obama makes a familiar reference to immigrants secretly referring to himself. The 2016 election results showed that "Democratic immigration-rights activists failed to realize borders mean something to the majority of Americans," he said. His super-intel is saying he was an immigration-rights activist about his illegal presidency entitled to make up his own rules and assault millions of Americans who knew that without borders we have no country. His super-intel functions as a "rule of law" activist correcting him and confessing to his great misdeed.
His denial confession reveals his contradictory thinking. He insists that "the rule of law and values that stay true to our (his) immigrant roots…don't have to be contradictory." Notice Obama's illogical thinking—he can both break the law and keep it at the same time as his key imagery declares, "I am an immigrant rooted in an illegal presidency."
This matches his earlier comment that fake news created a "dust cloud of nonsense"—a perfect description of his fake presidency.
Ban illegal presidency
In rich projection imagery he then tells of people on Facebook "passing crazy stuff about [how he] has banned the Pledge of Allegiance." Again secretly he admits that he behaved in a crazy way running as an illegal president and totally destroyed his allegiance to America. He reveals how distorted—"crazy"—his conscious thinking is so that it allows him to severely violate the law and it means nothing. His reference to the "Pledge" points to the oath of office he specifically violated on his Inauguration Day in 2009. He knows his presidency should be banned. He should still be impeached.
In the end Obama's super-intel provides the antidote to his misleading of America with his illegitimate election. The answer—come back to the facts.
The interview took place in the Oval Office. Obama commented, "Sitting behind that desk is sobering…it will have an impact on him [Trump] as it has on every president." Obama soberly and solemnly acknowledges his true legacy as America's only illegal president. He cannot live with himself without telling the truth subliminally.
Informed citizens only hope to constrain Obama
His super-intel reveals the stunning solution now, "I think the most important constraint on any president is the American people themselves, of an informed citizenry that is active and participating and engaged." It's as though he's advising, "American citizens—of which I am not one—get the facts about my horrendous illegal presidency. Hear my super-intel telling you that secret fact again and then constrain me. Match it with the circumstantial facts of my suppression of my records. Match it with my forged birth certificate—now an undeniable fact.
Even our conservative leaders can suffer Beltway blindness. One leader—an outsider—saw it. Donald Trump was certain Obama was an illegal citizen. Can he now return to that belief for America's sake? Obama himself tells us how important it is that he be brought to justice—America's rule of law restored to its rightful place. Obama's super-intel speaks not only for himself but for all America—to fight for and protect our nation.
Arpaio has done his part, now it's up to the citizens.
Obama's encouraging Americans to become informed and then take action. Constrain him by urging—insisting—their congressional representatives restore the rule of law. Deep down Obama knows he should be impeached—it's the only way for justice to be satisfied.
Because of that unconscious fact he promises "that is going to be something that I will, in my own modest ways, continue to try to encourage for the rest of my life." Obama will continue to confess subliminally. His inner God-given moral compass demands it.
In the presidential debate when forced into the Obama birth certificate question, Donald Trump should have answered the question with this concept 2 + 2 = 5. As for the birth certificate issue, I have been forced by Big Brother media like yourselves to submit that the birth certificate is legitimate. To pass the test for political correctness I must concede this so called fact in spite of any evidence to the contrary. In The Brave New World we cannot have ideas or thoughts independent of the state apparatus and its media cartel.
Then as everyone gasps as his comment sinks in, he should have said the hell I will concede on the birth certificate issue. 2 + 2 = 4 and to hell with Big Brother too.
Nazi theory indeed specifically denies that such a thing as "the truth" exists. ... The implied objective of this line of thought is a nightmare world in which the Leader, or some ruling clique, controls not only the future but the past. If the Leader says of such and such an event, "It never happened" – well, it never happened. If he says that two and two are five – well, two and two are five. This prospect frightens me much more than bombs.
George Orwell
In Nineteen Eighty-Four, Orwell writes:
In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense. And what was terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might be right. For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?
In Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground, the protagonist implicitly supports the idea of two times two making five, spending several paragraphs considering the implications of rejecting the statement "two times two makes four."
In Napoléon le Petit, Victor Hugo writes: "Now, get seven million five hundred thousand votes to declare that two and two make five, that the straight line is the longest road, that the whole is less than its part; get it declared by eight millions, by ten millions, by a hundred millions of votes, you will not have advanced a step." Here, Hugo is echoing earlier French thought—Sieyès, in his "What Is the Third Estate?" uses the phrase, "Consequently if it be claimed that under the French constitution, 200,000 individuals out of 26 million citizens constitute two-thirds of the common will, only one comment is possible: it is a claim that two and two make five."


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PathEdit 1.01
PathEdit is a commandline utility that will add or remove folders to the System or User Path entries in the Registry. I wrote this to work with the Inno Setup Installer. It includes the source and Makefile for Borland's Free C/C++ compiler. Also included is the unix code getopt/getopt_long ported to work on Win32 with the Borland compiler.
shp2tile 1.14
shp2tile 1.13
shp2tile 1.4
shp2tile 1.2
shp2tile 1.1
shp2tile 1.0
Version 1.14 adds a new option to quadtree tiling to control the maxdepth. Thanks to Daniel Morissette.
Version 1.13 adds a command line -v or --version to print the current cvs version number of the source file. So the numbering has jumped from 1.4 to 1.13.
Please upgrade to at least shp2tile 1.4, it fixes some serious bugs that were found by Bob Basques tiling some large point files, but the problem is generic can happen under some conditions on any file. You do not need to re-tile data. The problem was a divide by zero that resulted in crashes and other more obvious problems.
shp2tile is a utility that will divide a large shape file into multiple smaller tiled shape files. Development was originally sponsored by Luca Pescatore and it is released under GPL. shp2tile 1.1 includes some nice enhancements made by Daniel Morissette from DM Solutions to generate square area tiles and to do a quadtree like tiling that limits the maxium number of objects in any given tile. See images of sample output for Middlesex County, MA tiled into a 4 X 4 grid and here is the same area tiled using the --quadtree 4200 option
A version compiled for windows is included in the MS4W package from maptools.org.
|PHP Class
A Double MetaPhone implementation for PHP. This is a significant enhancement over the Soundex aglorithm and can be used for fuzzy word or name matching. Here you will find the PHP Class you can download and use in your PHP applications. You might also want to check out a new port of this done by Kirk HERE
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WALTHAM, Mass.-The Coast Guard women's volleyball team concluded a perfect weekend at the Brandeis Volleyball Invitational with a pair of victories this afternoon against Trinity (Conn.) and Brandeis, 3-2 and 3-0, respectively. After a 4-0 weekend, Coast Guard moves to 5-2 on the season; Trinity and Brandeis drop to 2-1 and 3-4, respectively.
Senior Kelsey DePorto, with 33 kills on the day, surpassed the 1,000th of her career against Brandeis in the second match of the day. She becomes just the 10th player in Coast Guard volleyball history to amass as many 1,000 for their career.
After recording 56 kills in the Bears' four matches, DePorto was named to the All-Tournament Team. A three-time All-NEWMAC selection, DePorto now has 1,013 kills in her four-year career.
Game 1: COAST GUARD 3, Trinity (Conn.) 2
The Bears opened the day with a 3-2 victory in a five-set thriller against Trinity. The Bears dropped the first set 20-25 before rallying 25-17, 25-21, 25-27, and 15-13 for the victory.
Senior Samantha Marmolejo recorded 20 digs to lead the club defensively in the opener. DePorto led the way with 17 kills, hitting at a .388 rate while sophomore Maggie Hine contributed 33 assists in the winning effort.
The victory over Trinity was the 14th in a row for Coast Guard dating back to the 2000 season.
Game 2: COAST GUARD 3, Brandeis 0
After a narrow victory in the opener, Coast Guard was able to get by Brandeis a little easier in the finale with a 3-0 straight set victory. The game scores were 25-22, 25-16, and 25-16.
DePorto led the attack in the matchup with Brandeis with 16 kills, attacking at a .469 clip. She was joined on the attack by sophomores Kelsey Hickle and Ashley Dumont who added seven and five kills, respectively.
Hine again led the way with 26 assists and was one of four Bears with at least six digs. Marmolejo paced Coast Guard with 13 digs while freshmen Susan West and Rebekah Muller tallied nine and six, respectively.
Coast Guard played exceptionally well against Brandeis, attacking at .269 as a team, compared to just a .029 rate by the Judges. The committed just 10 attack errors while Brandeis finished with 25 for the match.
With the victory, Coast Guard has now defeated Brandeis three times in a row since 2010.
Coast Guard head coach Aylene Ilkson was very pleased with her team's performance over the weekend, saying, "Today we were able to close out a very competitive, high intensity match against Trinity." She continued by saying that she "was very proud to see the team stick together through adversity and the challenge that faced them across the net. Then, to beat Brandeis in a dominant fashion was the icing on the cake. I'm very proud of my team this weekend."
Brandeis: Liz Hood
Babson: Brianna San Diego
COAST GUARD: Kelsey DePorto
Emmanuel: Christine Durkee
Rhode Island College: Amanda Cabral
Trinity: Hannah Brickley
Tufts: Isabel Kuhel
Wellesley: Sydney Carfagno
Wesleyan: Kate Centofanti
Coast Guard will return to action on Saturday, September 14th when they travel to take on archrival Merchant Marine at 12:00 pm. The Bears return home on Tuesday, September 24th when they host Smith in a New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference match-up at 7:00 pm.


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October 24, 1999, Section 7, Page 46Buy Reprints
This Last On
Week Week List Fiction
1 1 5 HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN, by J. K. Rowling. (Levine/Scholastic, $19.95.) A British boy's life at a school for witchcraft is menaced when an infamous murderer escapes from prison.
2 2 19 HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS, by J. K. Rowling. (Levine/Scholastic, $17.95.) A British boy finds trouble when he returns to a witchcraft school.
3 3 44 *HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE, by J. K. Rowling. (Levine/Scholastic, $16.95.) A British boy finds his fortune attending a school for witchcraft.
4 6 2 PERSONAL INJURIES, by Scott Turow. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27.) A crooked lawyer joins forces with an F.B.I. agent who has secrets of her own.
5 4 4 *HEARTS IN ATLANTIS, by Stephen King. (Scribner, $28.) Five long, interconnected stories about an America haunted by the Vietnam War.
6 1 A WALK TO REMEMBER, by Nicholas Sparks. (Warner, $19.95.) In 1958, a high school senior in North Carolina finds love with the daughter of a Baptist minister.
7 5 15 TARA ROAD, by Maeve Binchy. (Delacorte, $24.95.) Two women exchange houses for the summer.
8 1 SECOND WIND, by Dick Francis. (Putnam, $24.95.) A British meteorologist chases hurricanes in the Caribbean and then faces other kinds of storms back home.
9 13 2 THE LOOKING GLASS, by Richard Paul Evans. (Simon & Schuster, $17.95.) A clergyman fleeing his past nurses an equally troubled woman back to health.
10 8 10 ASSASSINS, by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. (Tyndale, $22.99.) The sixth volume in a series about true believers who confront the Antichrist. (+)
11 1 THE NEW JEDI ORDER: Vector Prime, by R. A. Salvatore. (Del Rey/Ballantine, $24.95.) A ''Star Wars'' novel.
12 7 6 THE ALIBI, by Sandra Brown. (Warner, $25.95.) Jealousy, intrigue and corruption beset a Charleston lawyer.
13 1 DUNE: House Atreides, by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. (Bantam, $27.50.) A prequel to the ''Dune'' chronicles, Frank Herbert's science fiction series.
14 10 4 BIG TROUBLE, by Dave Barry. (Putnam, $23.95.) An outrageous chain of events suddenly changes the lives of half a dozen people in Coconut Grove, Fla.
15 15 4 HARD TIME, by Sara Paretsky. (Delacorte, $24.95.) V. I. Warshawski copes with mysteries involving a multimedia conglomerate and a prison for women.
16 9 10 *BLACK NOTICE, by Patricia Cornwell. (Putnam, $25.95.) Kay Scarpetta's investigation of a ship's cargo gets her involved in an international conspiracy.
This Last On
Week Week List Nonfiction
1 1 3 'TIS, by Frank McCourt. (Scribner, $26.) An Irish immigrant gets used to life in America: the second volume of a memoir.
2 2 2 DUTCH, by Edmund Morris. (Random House, $35.) The authorized biography of Ronald Reagan, bedecked with fictional passages.
3 3 105 TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE, by Mitch Albom. (Doubleday, $19.95.) A sportswriter tells of his weekly visits to his old college mentor, who was near death's door.
4 1 ALL THE BEST, George Bush, by George Bush. (Drew/Scribner, $30.) The former President's letters, diary entries and memos, with commentary.
5 4 5 FAITH OF MY FATHERS, by John McCain with Mark Salter. (Random House, $25.) A family memoir by the United States Senator and former P.O.W.
6 9 3 WHEN PRIDE STILL MATTERED, by David Maraniss. (Simon & Schuster, $26.) The life of the football coach Vince Lombardi.
7 5 40 *THE ART OF HAPPINESS, by the Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler. (Riverhead, $22.95.) What Buddhism and common sense tell us about everyday problems.
8 6 45 THE GREATEST GENERATION, by Tom Brokaw. (Random House, $24.95.) The lives of men and women who came of age during the Depression and World War II.
9 7 6 ISAAC'S STORM, by Erik Larson. (Crown, $25.) An account of America's deadliest hurricane, which killed at least 6,000 people in Galveston, Tex., in 1900, and the Weather Bureau scientist who failed to forecast it.
10 11 4 *SHE SAID YES, by Misty Bernall. (Plough, $17.) The life of Cassie Bernall, a 17-year-old junior who was killed at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo. (+)
11 8 4 *THE SWORD AND THE SHIELD, by Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin. (Basic Books, $32.50.) How the K.G.B. operated in the United States and other countries during the cold war.
12 1 *A MAN NAMED DAVE, by Dave Pelzer. (Dutton, $19.95.) The concluding volume of a memoir that began with ''A Child Called 'It' ''and ''The Lost Boy.'' (+)
13 10 2 *THE TERRIBLE HOURS, by Peter Maas. (HarperCollins, $25.) The role a United States Navy officer played in rescuing the crew of a submarine in 1939.
14 1 ARETHA: From These Roots, by Aretha Franklin and David Ritz. (Villard, $25.) The autobiography of the Queen of Soul.
15 15 2 *HITLER'S POPE, by John Cornwell. (Viking, $29.95.) An account of Pius XII's conduct during the Holocaust and his relationship with the German dictator.
This Last On
Week Week List Advice, How-to and Miscellaneous
1 1 4 GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS 2000. (Guinness, $25.95.) A profusely illustrated collection of records about subjects as various as sports and technology.
2 2 64 SUGAR BUSTERS! by H. Leighton Steward et al. (Ballantine, $22.) A diet designed for losing weight, increasing energy and combating disease. (+)
3 1 THE CARBOHYDRATE ADDICT'S HEALTHY HEART PROGRAM, by Richard F. Heller, Rachael F. Heller and Frederic J. Vagnini. (Ballantine, $24.95.) A diet. (+)
4 14 LIFE STRATEGIES, by Phillip C. McGraw. (Hyperion, $21.95.) How to find what matters in your life and what to do about it. (+)
Rankings reflect sales, for the week ending Oct. 9, at almost 4,000 bookstores plus wholesalers serving 50,000 other retailers (gift shops, department stores, newsstands, supermarkets), statistically weighted to represent all such outlets nationwide. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A dagger (+)indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders. Expanded rankings are available from The New York Times on the Web: www.nytimes.com/books.
And Bear in Mind
(Editors' choices of other recent books of particular interest)
AHAB'S WIFE: Or, The Star-Gazer, by Sena Jeter Naslund. (Morrow, $28.) The great whaling novel reworked from a female, liberal, Protestant point of view, with compassion replacing obsession and good deeds determining a happy ending; Ahab's wife gets along without him very well.
ETHEL & ERNEST, by Raymond Briggs. (Knopf, $21.) A British artist's extraordinary illustrated memoir of his parents, evoking with love and anguish their struggle in the post-World War II atmosphere of deprivation and self-denial.
GALILEO's daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love, by Dava Sobel. (Walker, $27.) Galileo and the scientific/theological struggle that engaged him rise to close-up dimensions in this account organized around the letters of his daughter Suor Maria Celeste.
GAP CREEK, by Robert Morgan. (Algonquin, $22.95.) Rotten luck almost always prevails for the penniless characters in Morgan's third novel, set in rural North Carolina at the turn of the century; but the book sings with its detailed evocations of daily life and strategies for getting through it.
MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN, by Jonathan Lethem. (Doubleday, $23.95.) An energetic, off-kilter detective novel that is as much about consciousness as crime; the narrator is a gumshoe afflicted with Tourette's syndrome.
PASSIONATE NOMAD: The Life of Freya Stark, by Jane Fletcher Geniesse. (Random House, $27.95.) A subtle, generous portrait of the irrepressible traveler, explorer, Arabist and writer whose unorthodox Middle Eastern circuits unnerved British officialdom in the 1950's.
PLAINSONG, by Kent Haruf. (Knopf, $24.) A novel solidly built in a single place, the high plains of Colorado; the characters' unadorned lives are registered in unadorned prose, and people who doubt they could ever change go right ahead and change, without fussing, when they have to.
THE PLEASING HOUR, by Lily King. (Atlantic Monthly, $24.) A first novel whose heroine, an American au pair in France, survives (but not undamaged) both the difficult social ambiguities and the more primitive urges that she meets in her involvement with a French family.
SECRETS OF THE FLESH: A Life of Colette, by Judith Thurman. (Knopf, $30.) An intelligent life of the woman who became a national monument of French letters in the first half of the century and defied every convention she encountered.
STRANGE BEAUTY: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics, by George Johnson. (Knopf, $30.) A portrait, by an informed enthusiast, of the brilliant, tormented man who dominated elementary particle physics in the heady 1950's and 60's.


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Working out is only effective when you're used to doing it the right way. Streamline your workout to get real benefits and to avoid the worst exercise habits.
In an ideal world, mastering the will power to go the gym is
enough to help you get in shape and lose weight. Unfortunately,
working out can turn out to be a waste of time if you're doing it
wrong. Discover the worst exercise habits and find out how
to break them.
Spending time at the gym will do nothing for your goals if you waste your time on a useless workout or simply make one of the common exercise mistakes which tend to undermine your effort.
Reading while Working Out
If you can focus enough to read a magazine while you're working out, you've fallen into the trap of one of the worst exercise habits. Doing the same exercises every day stop being effective and going through the motions while trying to distract yourself won't get you the results you expect. When you absolutely need a distraction, try music or TV, but avoid reading, even if you're bored on the stationary bike.
Sweating Too Much without Hydration
You can't sweat fat off, but you can dehydrate yourself very fast. Moderate exercise means you'll sweat, but don't focus on the sweating as the guarantee of the workout being effective. Stay hydrated and steer clear of one of the worst exercise habits which can impact your health in a bad way.
Avoiding Resistance Training
Some women still believe weight lifting and resistance training will make them bulk up in an unflattering way. The truth is these exercises burn a lot more calories than walking a mile in the same time. Alternate mild cardio with resistance training and you'll see results much faster. You won't bulk up unless you use the vigorous workout 5 days a week for months or years.
Committing Too Much Too Fast
The best way to stop exercising is to jump into a hardcore regimen your body isn't prepared for. If you try to get too much done in the first week, you'll simply end up with sore muscles and less will to exercise. Along with not eating enough before working out, this is one of the worst exercise habits that can stop your progress before you see results.
Counting on 'Magic' Gadgets
Don't believe everything you see on TV and stay away from gadgets that promise great results super fast. From sneakers that aren't approved by orthopedic doctors to electrodes that zap your muscles and weights that have batteries to make them shake, most gadgets don't actually deliver on their promise and trusting them, then being disappointed can also affect your exercise motivation.


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Fairmate has made its marketing plans keeping customers in centre point. We have made our presence felt in market by offering quality products at reasonable price with rapid and reliable services, back up by freely and readily available technical advice and assistance.