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Monads from Two Perspectives
Just random scribblings. This is pretty standard stuff, but I worked this out for someone recently, so I'm typing it out.
Monads For Mathematicians
If you talk to a category theorist and ask for a definition of a monad, it looks something like this (taken from Wikipedia): a monad is a triple consisting of an endofunctor , and natural transformations and , satisfying the following laws:
Enough mumbo-jumbo. It's worth taking a second to think about what that means. The two natural transformations just give us a single way to treat any of the infinite family of objects (for any integer ) as just . We can flatten them, in essence. If there are too few 's, you apply . If there are too many, you apply . The monad laws above just guarantee that it doesn't matter at what level (number of applictaions of the functor) you work; you'll get the same result.
It's definitely time for an example. Suppose you have a fixed monoid . Now, in the category , there is a functor , which just takes any set to the cartesian product of itself and the monoid – i.e., consists of values from the underlying set, plus a "side value" from the monoid. We can also define natural transformations , and where multiplication is taken from the monoid structure. In other words, if you don't give me a side value (that's ), then I'll take the side value to be the identity from the monoid. If you give me several side values in a given order (that's ) I'll multiply them in the monoid to decide what the side value is.
Verifying the monad laws, stated above, is fairly straightforward. Really, the tricky part is just to understand the meaning of the pieces. Generally speaking, for a natural transformation , think of as applying the transformation on the left hand side of a tuple. Then think of as being the specialization of to values of type . Here's what happens:
- If , then . Then .
- If , then . Then . By associativity in the monoid, this is the same as the above, satisfying the first law.
- If , then and . Verifying the second monad law is left as an exercise (just write out what the function composition means, and apply ).
Monads for Haskell Programmers
In Haskell, of course, we prefer to think of monads differently, in terms of a type constructor and two functions "return" and "(>>=)", satisfying the following laws:
return a >>= f = f a m >>= return = m (m >>= f) >>= g = m >>= (\x -> f x >>= g)
The "return" function takes any value, and wraps it in the monad. The second operation, often read as "bind", is a little trickier. It takes one value wrapped in the monad, and function from a plain value of the first type to a second value wrapped in the monad, and produces the second value wrapped in the monad. Here are a few examples:
- Containers can be seen as monads. In this case, if I have a crate of thingamabobs, and each of those thingamabobs can be unpacked into a crate of whatsits, then I may as well (by unpacking the thingamabobs as needed) have a very large crate full of whatsits.
- Famously, I/O actions are monads. If I have an I/O action that produces a character string, and for any character string, I could get an I/O action that produces a number… then I can string them together into a single interaction producing a number. (The resulting I/O action will get the character string, compute the second action, and perform it to get the number, all in one go.)
A lot of this corresponds exactly to the mathematical definition above. The type constructor corresponds with an endofunctor (in the category of Haskell types), and the "return" function with the natural transformation . That is, "return" takes a value of any possible type T, and turns it into a value of type M T (M being our monad type constructor). The idea of a natural transformation is partially captured by polymorphic functions in Haskell. (Partially because we'd also need to verify that the tranformation commutes with morphisms in the category; i.e., that "return (f x)" is the same as "fmap f (return x)" for all values of f and x.)
It turns out that is actually the standard library operation called "join", which is defined in terms of the above, as follows:
join a = a >>= id
In other words, if I have a value of type (M (M T)), then I can turn it into a value of type (M T), by grabbing the encapsulated value of type (M T) and, well, doing nothing at all with it.
There's actually one more piece we're missing. In mathematical language, a functor simultaneously maps objects to other objects in a category, and also morphisms to other morphisms. So to recover a functor from the Haskell definition of a monad, we also need to decide how to map functions from type X to type Y into other functions from type M X into type M Y. It turns out we can recover this from the two operations, return and bind, that are standard for monads.
fmap f x = x >>= (return . f)
In other words, if I have a function , then I can easily obtain a function as follows. Use the bind operation to grab the encapsulated value, apply the function f to it, and then wrap it back up again with the return operation.
In the other direction, given an appropriate "fmap" and "join", the bind operation is easy to implement as well:
a >>= f = join (fmap f a)
Basically, the idea here is that because M is a functor, a function can be turned into a function . Then one can just apply the join () operation on the result to obtain the desired result.
The Equivalence Between the Two
It is a little tedious, but not really difficult, to show that these two structures are actually completely equivalent. In other words, using the definitions and correspondences above, if you have a Haskell monad satisfying the monad laws, then you also have a mathematical monad for the category of Haskell types. Similarly, if you have a mathematical monad for the category of Haskell types, then you also have a Haskell monad. In fact, as many people probably noticed, my first example of a monad at the beginning of this article is none other than Haskell's Writer monad.
If you haven't done it before, it's really worth doing.


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Usain Bolt, already enshrined as one of the greatest Olympians of all time, became the most successful athlete in world championship history when he anchored Jamaica to victory in the 4x100 meters relay on Sunday.
Bolt followed up the 100 and 200m double with his third gold in the final event, taking his all-time tally to eight. That matches American trio Carl Lewis, Michael Johnson and Allyson Felix but the Jamaican moved ahead by virtue of his two silvers from 2007.
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce also completed the hat-trick as Jamaica won the women's 4x100 relay in the second-fastest time ever, giving them all six sprint golds in Moscow to bring a smile back to the Caribbean island following the doping cloud surrounding the build-up to Moscow.
On a high-quality final day, there was a Kenyan middle-distance double as Asbel Kiprop retained his 1,500 metres title and Eunice Sum took a surprise gold in the women's 800.
Frenchman Teddy Tamgho became the third-longest triple-jumper in history as he soared 18.04 metres to win France's only gold of the week, while Christina Obergfoell's javelin victory gave Germany their fourth field event title.
Traditionally athletics programs ended with the 4x400m relay but such is Bolt's worldwide selling power that recent events have been rejigged to ensure the Jamaican gets top billing.
Jamaica were pipped by Britain in the heats but the favorites drafted in Bolt and Nickel Ashmeade, while the U.S., unusually, used the same four in their evening heat as in the final.
Initially it seemed to be working in the Americans' favor as they led approaching the final bend but Rakieem Salaam's handover to Justin Gatlin left the individual 100m runner-up off balance. He clearly strayed into the Jamaicans' lead outside him but somehow escaped disqualification.
It made no difference to Bolt, who streaked clear to complete victory in 37.36 seconds, the sixth-fastest ever, with the U.S. in 37.66
Britain, another nation with a painful history of relay foul ups, crossed the line third but were disqualified for a late changeover. That promoted Canada on to the podium and somewhat made amends for the 2012 Olympics when they were disqualified after finishing third.
Bolt delighted the crowed with a celebratory Cossack dance, not easy for someone 6ft 5ins (1.95 metres) tall, before parading round the track with his three medals on show for 50,000 flashing cameras.
"It gets harder every year as I get older but I'm proud of myself and my team mates and I'll continue to work as hard as I can to dominate for as long as possible," Bolt said.
America's women also got it horribly wrong, although they managed a super-human recovery to claim bronze.
English Gardner had come to a complete standstill by the time she finally collected the baton for the third leg but a brilliant bend and an astounding last leg by Octavious Freeman took the U.S. through half the field for an initial bronze behind France.
By then Jamaica's quartet of Carrie Russell, Kerron Stewart, Schillonie Calvert and Fraser-Pryce were celebrating their win in 41.29, second only to America's 40.82 set at last year's Olympics and inside the drug-fueled 41.37 of East Germany that stood for 27 years.
Hours later officials disqualified France for a changeover violation, promoting the U.S. to silver to give Britain the bronze and some consolation for the men's team's DQ.
Having become the fourth-fastest 1,500m runner of all time last month, Kiprop started hot favourite and nobody could live with his long-striding acceleration over the last 200 metres as he triumphed in 3:36.28.
American Matthew Centrowitz took silver and South African Johan Cronje a surprise bronze as both men finished strongly.
Sum's victory was much less expected as her late burst denied Russia's Mariya Savinova back-to-back 800m titles.
She took gold in 1:57.38, ahead of Savinova (1:57.80). Brenda Martinez grabbed third as she overhauled compatriot Alysia Johnson Montano, who had run a brave front-running race but ended fourth, flat on the track and sobbing uncontrollably.
Tamgho was already leading when he landed two fouls around the 18-metre mark before nailing the breakthrough distance with his last. Only American Kenny Harrison (18.09) and Jonathan Edwards, with his 1995 world record of 18.29 and 18.16 from the same Gothenburg world championships, have jumped longer.
Pedro Pablo Pichardo of Cuba took silver with 17.68 and American Will Claye was third on 17.52, well clear of out-of-sorts compatriot and world and Olympic champion Christian Taylor in a frustrated fourth.
After years of agonising near misses, an emotional Obergfoell took her first major javelin title at the age of 31 after throwing a season's best 69.05 metres.
Defending champion Maria Abakumova could only manage 65.09 behind surprise Australian runner-up Kimberly Mickle (66.60), to match the bronze her husband Dmitri Tarabin won in the men's final.
Obergfoell had previously won two silvers as well as finishing second and third at the last two Olympics.
Russia topped the medal table with seven golds, though the Americans will promote themselves top under their counting system after finishing second on six but also gathering a mountain of 14 silvers in a total of 25.
Jamaica also had six golds with Kenya on five, Germany four and Ethiopia and Britain both on three.
After signing off with a near-full house on Sunday following a week of poor crowds, the IAAF will be delighted to send their showpiece event to Beijing in 2015 and London two years later as returning to the most recent Olympic stadiums should guarantee healthy attendances throughout.
(Editing by Ed Osmond)

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By John Maguire and Paul Lalancette, Accenture Digital Video
However, to be truly smart, all devices—whether thermostats, security, digital assistants or others—in the home should be connected with each other and accessible through one central point.
Although the consumer demand and technology is there today, there is still some way to go to achieve the smart home where everything is connected and can learn and adapt to consumer behavior.
Consumers now expect constant online connectivity, wherever they are. Smart homes are a gateway to vast opportunities—for example, providing new services such as digital health care or home energy management—and now is the time for operators to develop an offer that fully meets the needs of the digital consumer.
Today, smart services are mostly brought to consumers through a variety of channels. But the future of smart homes is in the development of a fully integrated offer, giving customers a highly-personalized service, with everything they need brought together through one platform. The demand is certainly there; Accenture research found that 80 percent of consumers surveyed want a single provider for all of their digital needs.
The technology and consumer appetite for the smart home exists; now companies need to develop platform businesses and ecosystems that bring everything their customers want together into one integrated offer.
Smart home technology uptake has been slowly building over the last few years, with early adopter consumers introducing elements such as connected security, smart thermostats and voice activation systems into their homes. At the moment we have an aggregated system, where consumers engage with each home device and application separately. They might use one company for broadband/TV, another for their connected security and numerous other providers for other services.
Consumer mass market uptake and ease of use for the smart home will be driven via integration of these various services, blending traditionally operated delivered services, such as broadband and TV, with newer smart home services.
Home security:
Self-monitored home security via cameras, door locks, motion sensors enable people to receive notifications and remotely monitor their homes and to store footage of any activity.
Peace of mind
and comfort:
Homeowners can monitor the inner workings of their homes from afar. If they have a water leak or a smoke alarm goes off, they can identify it and, where possible, take appropriate action to resolve it remotely.
Energy and energy
From energy consumption to renewable energy production, smart technology can enable individuals to manage the energy use in their homes.
From tools to monitor hydration and heart rate, fitness devices and nutrition trackers, to services supporting the elderly and aging in place, tools will bring a range of services to support healthier living.
Media and
An interconnected digital TV and entertainment system can be managed in multiple rooms and across numerous media sources, and used to visualize and interact with all the other smart home services.
IoT commerce and the
service marketplace:
The incorporation of multiple applications and services operated by third parties into the home. Full integration of such services will be central to the future of smart homes.
Broadband &
integrated trust
Underpinning and essential to all of the other elements is the requirement for reliable broadband connectivity into and around the home, both wired and wireless, as well as the confidence of being able to trust as a consumer that the data and services travelling over those networks are secure.
Ten years ago, the idea that you could start watching a film on your television, leave the house, and then continue to watch it in your car was visionary, but far from reality. So too was the idea that your home technology system would know to dim your lights as the film starts, and let you order a pizza to eat while you watch it—but this is the future we're moving towards.
A truly smart home will employ machine learning and AI, learning its resident's behaviors and preferences, and connect every element of their house to meet their needs. For example, before they even wake up in the morning, their coffee will be heating up in anticipation of their alarm. They'll get out of bed to be told to the quickest route to get to the office, current weather and news, and any messages for them, whether personal or business.
If a light bulb in their house runs out while they're at work, they'll receive a message on their personal device to say that a replacement has been ordered, as per their preference for such repairs to be resolved automatically. Or if a bigger issue arises with a larger appliance or utility, details will be provided regarding options for repair, replacement or scheduling of outside assistance.
For a smart home to run in this way, every service operating in the house needs to talk to each other. At Accenture, we help our clients build platform businesses with open APIs through which they can connect to other services and applications in the ecosystem, and bring every element of a smart home together through one central hub. The key to success is for every part of this journey to be built from the consumer perspective.
This principle is also central to how technical issues in a smart home are resolved. Today, when there's a problem with a television, consumers might ring their media provider or manufacturer for help. But, in the future, the data available to smart home operators about the applications people are using will enable problems to be detected and resolved remotely. Or if somebody needs to seek assistance, augmented reality will let them see through a personal device how to fix their issue, or their digital assistant will talk them through the process.
Voice, text and images are helpful, but video is critical to the richness of engagement operators can offer to their customers—not only for the maintenance of their devices, but throughout smart homes. Video remains the main way in which people consume media and information, so it should be at the center of any smart home offer. In addition, we are increasingly seeing the growing potential of voice as a control interface, and while significant improvements are still required before it becomes the ubiquitous interface to smart home services, we can expect to see it playing an increasingly important role.
Smart homes offer communication service providers (CSPs) the chance to build a sustained, personalized consumer connection. As an established provider of valued services to consumers, operators are well positioned to upsell other services. If the quality of their existing broadband connectivity and customer support services are very high, customers are likely to be open to additional offers. Working with customers to create their smart home will only increase this personal connection, providing a deeper understanding of their needs and preferences and which applications they'd benefit from. Creating a smart home platform will also help reduce customer churn, one of the costliest items on a CSP's bottom line. Research found that 71 percent of consumers surveyed believe that "having a single bill integrating a bundle of products and services" will motivate them to purchase additional products and services. Deliver a great and comprehensive, integrated, service and people won't want to move to another provider.
Communication service providers need to create a platform that third-party organizations want to leverage to reach customers. From a financial perspective, this opens significant revenue opportunities, as well as ways to incorporate operational efficiencies by running an integrated service. The data available through the platform about consumer behavior will enable companies to identify potential additional services, and to pass these vital insights onto service partners. Create the platform of choice for customers and third party businesses alike, and the smart home opportunity will prove extremely fruitful.
Bringing together multiple parties to deliver smart home services is what makes it such an exciting opportunity, but is also the core challenge. Effective, mutually beneficial collaboration is crucial, and operators running smart home platforms will be at the heart of this relationship. They need to create platforms that businesses want to work with, to connect invaluable data about consumers and to facilitate easy, highly personalized customer interaction with services. This is the foundation of a successful and thriving ecosystem. The offering starts with getting the in-home connectivity experience right and migrating to the next generation hub that will enable the smart home to take off.
If companies act independently, the rapid innovative nature of developing services to the smart home will keep many from reaping a financial benefit. But developing a platform which truly meets consumers' and service providers' needs will bring about numerous financial rewards for all involved.
As ever with online business, data security remains paramount. This is an even more pressing concern when dealing with individual, highly personalized, consumer data. Central to any platform business will be its ability to operate securely, and to ensure any services accompanying services do as well, in order to maintain and build on the established trust relationship companies have with their customers.
Technology is no longer holding companies back from delivering on the promise of the smart home—it's only imagination and the ability to collaborate effectively that can limit what's possible. People want integrated digital services that make life easier, and communication service providers are well positioned to provide them. In fact, 71 percent of consumers would choose a communications service provider to manage their connected home. As businesses already operating in people's homes, communication service providers can ensure they deliver an excellent broadband service and then build on it to provide an integrated, customer-centric smart home offer.
Because if they don't take up this opportunity,
somebody else will.
John Maguire is managing director, Accenture Digital Video and Paul Lalancette is global lead, connected home, Accenture Digital.
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What a great start to Memorial Day Weekend for those of you in America:
Mimi on GMA.
It had all the elements of a classic Mimi appearance:
-She needed help walking. Several times. She SUMMONED help walking. Several times.
-Her dress almost fell off. Because she always wears clothes that are too small. Wait, what the f-ck am I talking about? Mimi is a size 2. If you don't believe me, check the labels (all of which have been manually reset by her staff).
-She blames Donatella Versace for her the fact that her pink sequined formal gown (at 8am) couldn't contain her
-She kicks off her shoes as she sits down on her stage-throne, and then for some reason the entire performance becomes a commercial for ... shaving cream? All I could focus on were her legs. It's like she was in the bathtub.
-She complains, repeatedly, that she doesn't have enough time for all her costume changes
-She complains, repeatedly, that it's too early for her to function
-She treats Miguel like he's her backup singer
And my favourite part of it all...
How often they keep complimenting her -- Mariah, you are so gorgeous, Mariah you are so fit, Mariah you are so gorgeous, Mariah you are so thin.
And you know why?
It's because THEY ARE TOLD TO.
Have I mentioned this before? I know several people who've interviewed Mimi. And it was suggested to each and every one of them, in advance, that they tell her how pretty and skinny she is, often.
Now enjoy if you haven't already. And if you have, we'll enjoy it again, for the 3rd time, together.
Also attached -- Mimi walking around NYC carrying a stuffed lamb.


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The Irish may be known to like a drink now and again, but many of them do not appear to want to be cajoled into an annual celebration of their best-known beer.
An Irish government minister criticized the international beverage firm Diageo for inventing a "pseudo-national holiday" to market its products, not least the Dublin-brewed Guinness - part of a growing backlash against "Arthur's Day".
Diageo began the celebration in 2009, to mark the 250th anniversary of the opening of Arthur Guinness's first brewery in Dublin. This year it will be marked on Thursday in 32 countries with events including free concerts by the likes of Irish rockers, The Script, British singer Emeli Sande and the Welsh band Manic Street Preachers.
Diageo says the event is a "showcasing of Ireland's talent and creativity", but it has been derided by some of Ireland's most famous musicians as a cynical marketing ploy, attacked by doctors concerned with high levels of binge drinking, and criticized by music fans who have called for a boycott on social media sites.
"It seems to me that Diageo has invented Arthur's Day as a pseudo-national holiday for the purposes of marketing," Alex White, a junior minister for primary care and health, was quoted as saying in the Irish Times.
"There is a serious problem, not only with the amount of alcohol we drink, but also with the harmful patterns in which it is consumed," said White, whose department has been urged to bring in minimum pricing on alcohol and curb the industry's sponsorship of sports events.
According to the Dublin ambulance service, there was a 30 percent increase in call-outs during last year's Arthur's Day compared to the same day a week earlier, prompting Ireland's Royal College of Physicians to launch a vocal campaign against Diageo.
Mike Scott of the band The Waterboys has joined the protest with "A Song For Arthur's Day".
Another tune written for the occasion, by the Irish folk singer Christy Moore, paints a picture of overwhelmed hospital emergency departments picking up the pieces of an evening's heavy drinking: "The A&E will be like a drunk tank in the firing line/ While Diageo goes AWOL at closing time."
Marketing experts have admired the slickness of Arthur's Day as a promotional campaign, but Diageo has been on the defensive all week, with representatives making regular radio and television appearances to justify the event.
"It's a fantastic example where we bring together three great things in Ireland - a great brand in Guinness, the pub, which is an iconic part of Irish culture, and music," Diageo spokesman Peter O'Brien told the Newstalk radio station.
"On Thursday, the vast majority of people will go out and enjoy all of those three things and enjoy them sensibly."
But 74 percent of the 7,000 listeners who texted RTE national radio after it asked their opinion said they were not in favor of Arthur's Day.
"With high rates of alcohol consumption and binge drinking, we don't need another reason to drink," said Professor Frank Murray, chairman of the alcohol policy group of Ireland's Royal College of Physicians.


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Meeting 2/10
Went to the White river focus group meeting last night and was suprised to see about 10 members from the seattle jeep club there. They were quite upset about the seasonal clousers being put into effect since they had not heard anything about it as the process went on for the last two years. On the upside of this conversation we were given the idea that the clousers may not be a completly done deal just yet. We can still write letters about it and maybeeeee get some slack in there. (address below) Jim Franzel who is the head ranger will be at the April 13th meeting to discuss these issues so if your not happy about the planned clousers then please write a letter and plan on attending the meeting. We mayyy just be able to prevent these to some extent but they NEED to hear from us loud and clear. As far as the rest of the plan. With the low snowfall this winter the work on the dayuse and entrance may be starting sooner this spring. This work will only be happening during the week so there may be some road closure issues during the week. Everything is supposed to be open on the weekends as normal. The FS has aquired funding for a dedicated trail crew at Evans this year and money for a small tractor. There will be a three person crew working there this summer as well as the two seasonals so things are looking good there. A big part of keeping these closuers at bay will be keeping the trails in good shape. This means more work partys and more diligence on keeping the water and mud from flowing down the trails. I know many people hate to see the "paving" of our trails but this is the reality of the situation. Parks like this used to be "under the radar" but with the advent of the internet things are being seen by whoever that were never seen before and its forcing the hand of the FS to enforce the rules and laws that govern them. If we want to play we better be paying attention.
Some other topics.
Night wheeling is legal at Evans
Ian, (FS leo) patrols until 3 am
Seasonal closuer Dec 15th - March 31st more ore less depending on snow.
Workparty planned for May 22nd-23rd
Deputy Dan is patroling on south hill of puyallup nowadays
Jim Franzel District Ranger
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(Clearwater, FL) February 12, 2013—SCC Soft Computer (SCC) is set to exhibit at the Children's Oncology Group (COG) Cytogenetics Workshop taking place February 22nd – 23rd at the St. Louis Airport Renaissance Hotel in St. Louis, Missouri. The 'Striving for Excellence' workshop will focus on the key role cytogenetics plays in the outcome of patients with pediatric leukemia.
SCC will showcase a comprehensive Genetics Information Systems Suite™ that offers a full range of genetics information management tools designed to automate workflow in the diagnostic genetics laboratory. This integrated laboratory and genetics software enables healthcare providers to personalize patient disease treatments based on individual's unique history and genetic composition, resulting in faster turnaround times in patient treatment.
SCC's Genetics Information Systems Suite™ consists of 6 technology modules (SoftCytogenetics, SoftMolecular, SoftFlowCytometry, SoftBiochemistry, SoftPathDx, and SoftHLA) which are fully integrated and share the same database and common functionality. Each module also has specific functionality to support the unique challenges and needs for testing and reporting in these laboratories.
One of the first to produce production-environment-ready genetics information systems, SCC is committed to providing clients with information management systems that enable them to compete in the highly competitive clinical diagnostics marketplace.
2013 Cytogenetics Workshop hours are Friday, February 22 from 1:00 P.M. – 5:30 P.M. and Saturday, February 23 from 8:00 A.M. – 4:00 P.M.
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The Children's Oncology Group (COG), a National Cancer Institute supported clinical trials group, is the world's largest organization devoted exclusively to childhood and adolescent cancer research. The COG unites more than 8,000 experts in childhood cancer at more than 200 leading children's hospitals, universities, and cancer centers across North America, Australia, New Zealand, and Europe in the fight against childhood cancer.
Today, more than 90% of 13,500 children and adolescents diagnosed with cancer each year in the United States are cared for at Children's Oncology Group member institutions. COG's unparalleled collaborative efforts provide the information and support needed to answer important clinical questions in the fight against cancer.
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SCC is at the forefront of laboratory, genetics, blood services, outreach, pharmacy, and radiology information systems software development and offers full suites of Web-enabled laboratory and genetic information management system solutions. Since 1979, SCC Soft Computer has designed, developed, and delivered powerful integrated clinical information management solutions to hospitals, large IDNs (integrated delivery networks), and laboratories.
Considered the largest LIS software production house in the world – with a workforce of nearly 1,600 professionals dedicated to LIS development – SCC has experience in accomplishing complex LIS implementations in large, multisite environments. SCC's flagship product, SoftLab®, has been recognized as the market standard for its robust functionality and ease of instrument interfacing, including robotics. SCC's SoftLab 4.0.3, 4.0.4, and 4.0.6 are 2011/2012 compliant and certified as EHR Modules by the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT®), an ONC-ATCB (Office of the National Coordinator – Authorized Testing and Certification Body), in accordance with the applicable Hospital certification criteria adopted by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). For full certification details, please visit:
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SCC has been ranked the Number 1 Laboratory Blood Bank application in the Best in KLAS Awards: Software & Services report in 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012. SoftBank, SCC's blood bank and transfusion service management system, has been recognized as the category leader in blood bank information management system solutions for three consecutive years. SCC is also ranked the Number 1 Laboratory application for Small (1-200 beds) Hospitals in the 2011 Best in KLAS Awards: Software & Services report. SoftLab, SCC's flagship laboratory information system, has been recognized as the category leader in laboratory information management system solutions. (www.KLASreasearch.com) SCC is one of the few LIS vendors who can say their systems work as well in a 150-bed community hospital as they do in a high-volume healthcare system. Their robust, integrated information systems dramatically increase productivity in the laboratory enabling hospitals of all sizes to do more in less time with fewer FTEs.
SCC has also been recognized over the years for its commitment to workforce training and professional development. SCC placed 3rd in the 2009 ASTD BEST Awards, and received two 2010 ASTD/ISPI OPAL Awards for Excellence in Team Success and Customer Satisfaction and the 2009 ASTD/ISPI OPAL Award for Excellence in Leadership Development. The company has been included in the Training Top 125 nine times in ten years—including four consecutive years in the Training Top 10 and two years in the Training Top 5, the only healthcare IT firm to achieve this feat. SCC was inducted into the Training Top 10 Hall of Fame on February 13, 2012, along with computer software giant, Microsoft Corporation (visit www.trainingmag.com for more information).


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A friend of mine here at the seminary, Jordan Zanetis, is preparing to return to Tanzania on a mission trip, teaching in Orthodox schools in the country. He spent two weeks there last year, and had an amazing experience, sharing pictures and stories with me when I first got here last summer.
He's set up a blog with various interesting items he's been posting before going:
Check out the recipe for pan-fried Tilapia!
Please take a look and help Jordan on his trip if you're at all able.


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Fully informed patients are often happier with their treatment. To help you get the answers you need, print out these questions to ask your medical oncologist, your surgeon and your radiation oncologist.
10 Questions to Ask the Medical Oncologist
- Why are you recommending this therapy?
- What are the risks?
- Are there other ways to treat the cancer?
- Where do I go for chemotherapy or hormone therapy?
- Will I be able to drive myself home after treatment, or do I need help?
- How long does the treatment last?
- What are the risks and side effects of treatment?
- Will my hair fall out? Will it grow back?
- Will I have premature menopause and infertility, and if so, should I consider harvesting and storing my eggs?
- Is there anything I should avoid during treatment?
- Should I change my diet or lifestyle?
10 Questions to Ask the Cancer Surgeon
- Why are you recommending this procedure? Are there other options?
- What are the risks? How do they compare with the benefits?
- How do I prepare for surgery?
- What type of anesthesia will I have?
- What happens during and right after surgery?
- Who do I talk to about breast reconstruction?
- How long will I be in the hospital?
- What are the potential complications of surgery?
- When can I go back to work and resume normal activities?
- What is lymphedema and am I at risk?
Before surgery, your surgeon should provide:
- Specific instructions to follow in the days before surgery
- An overview of the surgical procedures
- Information about recovery and follow-up care
After surgery, call your doctor immediately if you see signs of swelling, a build-up of fluid, redness or other symptoms of infection. Also watch for complications such as lymphedema that may include swelling in your arm or hand.
10 Questions to Ask the Radiation Oncologist
- What is the goal of radiation therapy?
- Does radiation affect fertility?
- What are the risks and side effects of radiation therapy?
- Where do I go for radiation therapy?
- How long does each session last?
- How many weeks does treatment last?
- Does radiation therapy make me radioactive?
- What should I avoid during treatment?
- Should I change my diet or lifestyle?
- Does radiation therapy affect having breast reconstruction?


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Healthy Environments for Children Alliance
HECA'S MISSION STATEMENT: A world-wide alliance to reduce environmental risks to children's health that arise from the settings where they live, learn, play, and sometimes work, by providing knowledge, increasing political will, mobilizing resources, and catalysing intense and urgent action.
HECA Inter-regional consultation
The Healthy Environments for Children Alliance Secretariat and the WHO Regional Office for Africa organized an inter-regional consultation on "Improving Children's Environmental Health in Settings - Experiences and lessons for policies and action" in Entebbe, Uganda from 29 November to 2 December 2005.
Support to HEC initiatives in countries
With funding from the Government of the Netherlands, 16 HECA-supported pilot projects are now underway in 13 countries aimed at supporting initiatives at local levels that address HECA priority issues. Types of activities being spearheaded by both governmental and non-governmental entities include: children's environmental health profiles and needs assessments; development of multistakeholder action plans to address children's environmental health issues; awareness-raising and advocacy activities; and small-scale implementation activities in key settings.
IPA/WHO/UNEP Workshop for African Pediatricians and others in the health-care sector on Children's Health and the Environment, Nairobi
The International Pediatric Association (IPA), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Health Organization (WHO) organized a workshop on "Children's Health and the Environment" in Nairobi, Kenya from 12 to 14 October 2005 for health care provider in the African who plan to teach other providers about environmental risks to children's health. Financial support to participants was provided by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Government of the Netherlands.


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I love checking out the couture collections from Paris, as I am always in awe at the craftsmanship that goes into each piece, and I adore that no gown is too big when it comes to couture. Normally for the spring shows, I am pairing up beautiful gowns with gorgeous actresses and hoping that they will wear on the Oscars red carpet, this year, however, being surrounded with wedding magazines getting inspiration for my own gown I thought I would share some couture bride inspiration.
Top of my wishlist, if I won the lottery, would have to be getting a wedding dress designed by Elie Saab, this man is a genius and his spring 2014 collection was another stunning scene of decadent elegance, gown after gown was just beautiful and the bridal moments were stunning.
The final gown above literally took my breath away when I was watching the live-stream, everything from the off-white hue to the exquisite embroidered detailing and voluminous silhouette – simply stunning. Just imagine how magical it would be to wear a dress like this on your wedding day, you could rest assured that no-one would be stealing your spotlight!!!
As well as Elie Saab, the ethereal musical Valentino gown really caught my eye, so it doesn't scream traditional bridal gown but there is something about that I think would work for a wedding, especially if you have a love of music.
Other gorgeous dresses that I loved included Dior's simple-yet-modern gown with its textured perforation dot design, the statement peplum gown from Alexis Mabille's exquisite collection, and the delicate lace embroidered Valentino gown that will never go out of fashion. Also, how divine is this heavily embellished white gown by Georges Hobeika – so swoon worthy!!!
As well as the divine, couture weeks also showcases the flamboyant and more out-there of pieces, including some that could work for some very confident brides. How about the showgirl look from Jean Paul Gaultier or how about walking down the aisle in Stéphane Rolland's white jumpsuit with wings?
If you won the lottery – which Couture bride would you be?


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The gadgetization of fitness has been a significant trend over the course of the past year. The wrists of anyone even vaguely into sports or exercise were suddenly adorned with the Nike Fuel Band, and our Facebook feeds full of RunKeeper and Strava reports of just how far our friends had jogged and cycled.
It seems pretty clear by this point that the iWatch will, when it appears, have a major focus on health and fitness. We don't yet know exactly what it will measure, but I argued in an earlier opinion piece that it's likely to measure more than any one of the devices currently available.
Will the old adage of 'What gets measured gets managed' apply, with all this data leading us to exercise more, eat more healthily and generally up our game fitness-wise? Or will it be a novelty that quickly wears off, with owners reverting to life as usual within a few weeks … ?
If my experience of fitness gadgetization is anything to go by, I think it could have a lasting effect.
Last year, I had a vague goal of cycling 3000 miles across of the year. I didn't do it – mostly because I didn't reliably measure my mileage. The odometer on one of my bikes stopped working, and that was the one I use for my everyday utility rides. Replacing it never made it very high up the to-do list. I had a GPS, which I used for social rides at the weekend, but not for everyday rides around town.
So this year, I decided to set the same goal, and to measure it properly. I usually have a cycling holiday of around 600 miles, so the rest of the year I need to average 50 miles a week.
To facilitate easy logging of my mileage, I bought a new GPS, a Garmin Edge 810. The key feature of this one is it connects to my iPhone via Bluetooth. As soon as I complete a ride, I hit the Save button on the GPS, it passes the ride data to the Garmin Connect app on my iPhone which then immediately uploads it to the web.
If I want to check my mileage for the week, or the year to date, all I have to do is click a link to a website. Not only that, but my cycling buddies can do the same – so if I'm falling behind, Questions Will Be Asked …
It's admittedly early days in 2014, but the evidence so far is that it works. I have used the GPS on almost every ride, even when it's just a mile or two. I check my mileage frequently, and use a synchronisation service called Tapiriik to sync my data from Garmin Connect to Strava, where more of my cycling friends hang out. I've signed up to the Strava mileage league table of a cycling club I belong to, so everyone in the group can see how I'm doing.
I'm organising more social rides, using a bicycle for journeys where I might otherwise have jumped in the car or on the tube (the informal name of London's underground metro service) and am generally making more of an effort to get out on my bikes.
I have friends who use Fuel Bands and GPS running trackers. They too report the same thing: the combination of ease of measurement and peer pressure via social networks provides the motivation to get out there and do the miles on those wet & windy days when they might otherwise not bother.
There will always be those who set half-hearted goals and then do little to see them through. A fitness gadget is never going to be a substitute for willpower. But gadgets plus social networks do seem to be a powerful tool. If the iWatch measures a whole bunch of things we don't currently measure, I can see it making a real difference.
If you use a fitness gadget, let us know your experiences in the comments – and vote in the poll to let us know whether you think an iWatch will make a difference to your health & fitness.
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1931 Ford Tudor Sedan - Let's Be Frank
Not All Dreams Come True The Way We Expect Them. Sometimes They're Even Better.
It's been said, "The best laid plans of mice and men go often awry." It's an idiom that illustrates the futility of making detailed plans when the outcome is uncertain, and it should be painted across the threshold of every workshop across America. After all, very few cars that enter a garage emerge the way their aspiring builders first imagined them. In fact, some just leave as parts.
But every so often rank amateurs exceed their wildest dreams. To call Mike Frank an amateur doesn't exactly do him justice; he did build a Cobra replica that's so faithful to an original that you have to feel under the fenders to know it's an imposter. But a kit implies a certain level of certainty: If you build it by the book, it'll come out all right. Building a car from scratch is another story; rather than an instruction manual or a box top for reference, you get a succession of potential pitfalls to avoid.
What's more, his '31 Ford Tudor isn't entirely his; he and his two sons, Brian and Jason, collaborated on it. Machining and upholstery withstanding, the three did every bit of work themselves or with the help of other amateur hobbyists. Factor the uncertainty that lurks under the paint of an old car, the personalities of three grown men, and the opportunity to spend into a second mortgage, and it's a wonder the project didn't culminate with a mushroom cloud
They found the car at Portland's Memory Lane Motors. Rust-free, original paint, wearing most of its mohair gut, and driving around on a set of '35 wires, it was a prime candidate for a drivetrain and stance update. In fact, the original plans called for something along those lines. "We started thinking we would make a few modifications to the body, bolt it to an aftermarket frame, and be done," Mike revealed. Then they rented a welder, listened to some friends, and took their first whack at car building by replacing the stock firewall with a recessed Bitchin' Products panel.
The rented welder did more than help install the new firewall; it lit a fire of sorts. "With strong hints from my two boys, my supporting wife bought me a small Lincoln welder for my birthday. Now we were in for some serious modifications." So much for those best-laid plans
Bolstered by their success, "We decided to weld up the rear body seams, sun visor and the cowl. As our welding skills improved we tubbed the rear inner fenders and welded the fenders to the body." Their confidence grew with each completed task. In fact, it wasn't long before they took on a chore that not many professional builders willingly tackle: They married the smooth running boards to the splash aprons and front fenders.
"Once all the fabrication was done we took it to a friend's garage to help us modify the rear bumper and fabricate a rear hitch receiver. He taught us a few more things about fabrication. Thanks, Larry, for all of your help.
"Next step was off to another friend's (Mark Comella's) for some lessons on body and paint," Mike reflected. "Mark and I spent countless hours doing the body work. One of my boys headed off to college in Spokane so I was sending him weekly pictures of the progress that Mark and I were making. Thanks to Mark and his countless hours and skill we have a paint job that is unsurpassed by even some of the industry's best." And, for the record, Mike earned the right to brag; the finish is House of Kolor's Tangelo Pearl, a multi-coat job that causes even seasoned veterans to fret, and it's near perfect. "No one believes it was done in a garage," he said, as he leafed through photos of freshly painted parts in a foggy impromptu spray booth made from an ordinary home garage and lots of plastic sheeting.
"The summer of 2007 we took the car to a few cruise-ins and did well in the under construction category," Mike recalled. "The following winter we took the car to Jim's Upholstery in Longview Washington for the interior. We stayed fairly conservative but made a few trick highlights with ostrich leather inserts and some embroidery on the back seats.
"Our final goal was to enter the car in the Portland Roadster Show once it was completed," Mike noted. "We made it to the 52nd annual show and took first place in our category."
Which brings up another idiom: Be careful what you wish for. "I have to admit I'm a little bit scared of it," Mike noted as he pushed his fingertip over a smudge of dried-up wax on the visor. "I'm afraid I'm going to screw it up!"
Of all the things Mike, Brian, and Jason Frank planned for, I don't think they ever thought of that.
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|Model A style / Total Cost Involved Inc. (Ontario, CA)
|Chassis plumbing
|Stainless steel
|Rearend / Ratio
|Ford 9" / 3:1 with Ford Trac-Loc limited-slip differential
|Rear suspension
|Total Cost Involved four-link with coilovers
|Rear brakes
|Ford 11" drum
|Front suspension
|Total Cost Involved A-arm
|Front brakes
|Ford 11" rotors, GM mid-size calipers
|Master cylinder
|Ford-style dual-reservoir
|Steering box
|Dodge Omni-style rack-and-pinion
|Front wheel make, size
|SLX95 by Billet Specialties (La Grange, IL), 17x8
|Rear wheel make, size
|Billet Specialties SLX95, 20x10
|Front tire make, size
|Toyo Proxes 205/40ZR-17
|Rear tire make, size
|Toyo Proxes 255/45ZR-20
|Gas tank
|Poly saddle tanks by Tanks Inc. (Clearwater, MN)
|Ford 302
|Machining / Assembly
|Grays Machine Shop (Tigard, OR)
|hypereutectic-cast by Federal Mogul/Speed-Pro (Southfield, MI)
|Performer-Plus 2122 flat-tappet hydraulic by Edelbrock (Torrance, CA)
|Water pump
|Edelbrock Aluminum
|Cooling fan
|SPAL 16" electric
|Aluminum by Mac's Radiator Repair Inc. (Portland, OR)
|100-amp GM-style
|Ford cast iron
|Roller-style by Crane Cams (Daytona Beach, FL)
|Valve covers
|Moon Equipment (Santa Fe Springs, CA)
|Manifold / Induction
|Action Plus by Weiand (Bowling Green, KY) / by Edelbrock 1406 600cfm
|Ignition / Wires
|Pro Billet distributor and 6AL ignition box by MSD Ignition (El Paso, TX) / Taylor Wire Products (Grandview, MO)
|FF4 1 1/2" block-huggers by Sanderson Headers (S. San Francisco, CA)
|Exhaust / Mufflers
|2" steel / 40-series by Flowmaster (Santa Rosa, CA); ceramic coated
|Other engine facts
|Ford C4 automatic
|Body style / Material
|Tudor sedan / steel
|Body manufacturer
|Ford Motor Company
|Body mods
|Seams welded; rear fenders welded to body; smooth running boards welded to front fenders and splash aprons; mini-tubbed rear wells; recessed firewall by Bitchin' Products (Prescott, AZ)
|Rootlieb (Turlock, CA) w/hinge from Dan Fink Metalworks (Huntington Beach, CA)
|'32 Ford by Brookville Roadster (Brookville, OH); stainless insert by Obsolete and Classic Auto Parts (Oklahoma City, OK)
|Owners and Mark Comella (Sherwood, OR)
|Paint type / Color
|Tangelo Pearl by House of Kolor (Picayune, MI)
|Owners and Mark Comella
|Other body items
|Plating by Oregon Plating (Portland, OR)
|'32 closed-car style
|Insert / Gauges
|Billet Specialties Trim Style 6-gauge / Arctic White Street Rod by Auto Meter (Sycamore, IL)
|Air conditioning
|Compac by Vintage Air (Ft. Worth, TX) w/Billet Specialties vents
|Painless Performance (Ft. Worth, TX); installed by owner, help Jim at SO-CAL Speed Shop Northwest (Tualatin, OR)
|Steering wheel
|Billet Specialties Street Star
|Steering column
|ididit Inc. (Tecumseh, MI)
|Chrome tilt by Lokar Performance Products (Knoxville, TN)
|Subaru WRX front seats; rear Glide Engineering (Cucamonga, CA)
|Jim's Upholstery (Longview, WA)
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UH Manoa Distinguished Visiting Scholar Program features U-Mass communications professor and filmmakerUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
UH Manoa Department of English
One of the world's leading scholars in a wide variety of media-related fields is scheduled for public appearances and a screening of films on the UH Manoa campus and at two UH community colleges as part of the Manoa Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the Liberal Arts program.
Sut Jhally is Professor of Communication at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Founder and Executive Director of the Media Education Foundation. Jhally has published and lectured extensively on the role that advertising and popular culture play in the process of social control and identity.
Jhally is the author of numerous books and articles on the media, an award-winning teacher, and the producer and director of films and videos dealing with issues ranging from gender, sexuality and race to commercialism, violence and ideology.
All programs — during the week of February 20 — are free and open to the public and will include question and answer sessions on the following schedule:
Monday, February 20 — 7:00 p.m. at Kapiʻolani CC ʻOhia 218Films: "Wrestling with Manhood," and "Class Dismissed"(90 minutes)
Tuesday, February 21 — 10:00-11:45 a.m. at Leeward CC GT 105Presentation on Media Literacy, sponsored by the UH Academy for Creative Media ("Tough Guise" and "Dreamworlds")
Thursday, February 23 — 7:00 p.m. at UH Manoa Architecture AuditoriumPublic lecture: "Tough Guise — The Crisis in Masculinity"
Friday, February 24 — 7:00 p.m. at UH Manoa Architecture AuditoriumFilm: "Hijacking Catastrophe" (90 minutes)
Jhally's appearances in Hawaiʻi are hosted by the International Cultural Studies Certificate Program that links studies in the Colleges of Languages, Linguistics and Literature, Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities and the School of Hawaiian, Asian and Pacific Studies and the East-West Center.


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However, as winter looms, several offices are preparing for weather conditions that could adversely affect the university. As you are aware, snow sometimes causes us to delay the university's opening, close early, or to close for an entire day.
Weather notices will be posted on the university homepage at www.wcsu.edu and will be sent via the new Everbridge notification system. If you were enrolled in the previous emergency notification system, you will continue to receive notices via Everbridge. If you were not enrolled and wish to receive such notifications, information is provided at http://www.wcsu.edu/ens/. Delays and closings will also be posted on the university's Facebook and Twitter feeds, and some area television and radio stations.
When the university announces a delayed opening, classes will begin and offices will open at the time given in the announcement. This applies even when classes are normally scheduled to begin earlier than the announced opening. For example, if a class begins at 9:55 a.m. and the university opens at 10 a.m., students and faculty will report to the 9:55 a.m. class when we open at 10 a.m.
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President Barack Obama is expected in Connecticut on Monday. He returns to celebrate what he and other longtime gun control advocates see as a shining example of more gun control laws on the books. If he follows his political playbook, he will again raise the false straw man argument of "standing up to the gun lobby."
He arrives as prospects for new federal gun restrictions are diminishing on Capitol Hill, failing of their own weight of proven ineffectiveness. Many Democrats won't support him and for good reason. Even the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, no tool of the gun lobby, could find no evidence of the effectiveness of the previous so-called "assault weapons ban" or any other gun control legislation. The Washington Post last week awarded the president three "Pinocchios" for continuing to use an exaggerated number of firearms sales that supposedly occur outside the scope of the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, known as NICS.
The truth is that we all want to make our state and our country safer. We are not the enemy, not in Connecticut, not anywhere else. We have families, too. We do not want to see firearms misused. We represent responsible companies and thousands of employees. We know what works and what is illusory.
We need to start by fixing NICS to include all relevant mental health and other disqualifying records from the states. Second, we need to strictly enforce existing laws to prosecute those who illegally purchase, possess or use firearms in crimes. Third, we must build on programs, such as my organization's Project ChildSafe, that we know work to prevent access to firearms by criminals, the young or at-risk individuals.
Unfortunately, there is no evidence that anything in the 139-page, catch-all bill passed by the General Assembly and signed by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy without benefit of even a careful read by our elected representatives, let alone a hearing in which the bill's language could be debated, will contribute meaningfully to enhanced public safety.
At the 11th hour, much was made of the mental health provisions in the bill. We would have liked to hear more about the thinking behind those provisions in the new law. They seem woefully inadequate when considering the inarguable common denominator of recent mass murders; where types of firearms and magazine capacities have differed, but the mental illness of the perpetrators has been the constant.
Here is what the General Assembly and the governor did accomplish: an Olympic-class double standard in public policy formulation. But outlawing the sale of the most popular style of semi-automatic rifle the law-abiding public seeks, but not its production here, does not guarantee job preservation.
Ours is already an expensive state for manufacturers, so the Connecticut makers of firearms and their components will quickly conduct the due diligence required of their fiduciary responsibilities to businesses whose brand equity surely will be damaged by this double standard. As we can see from social media chatter already well under way, many retail customers in other states will not buy products made in this state.
We can predict lost jobs. Faced with their own new state laws, Colorado manufacturers are already moving from that state. Connecticut companies can either move all their operations or those production lines and jobs making modern sporting rifles. All of our Connecticut companies have in hand letters from other states inviting them to move and offering attractive incentives to do so.
We all abhor the heart-wrenching tragedy that took place at the Sandy Hook Elementary School. Our hearts go out to the victims' families. But it is difficult to see how what is now law will do anything meaningful to prevent future tragedies.
The legislature has started the clock on pushing out the state's already diminished historic firearms industry. Connecticut's political leaders have been working to make the historic Colt factory building in Hartford a national park. It's the Colt business of today, along with the other manufacturers based here — and the jobs they provide —- that they are willing to see damaged, and for no gain in public safety. It's a shame because it's so unnecessary. It's also become all too political.
Lawrence G. Keane is senior vice president and general counsel for the National Shooting Sports Foundation, headquartered in Newtown.


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Redwater is located about 30 minutes NE of Edmonton, Alberta. We are home to 2,053 people (based on the 2016 Federal Census), approximately 120 businesses and are located only 5 km north of Alberta's Industrial Heartland. Redwater is a safe and secure community with an RCMP detachment securely ensconced in the community. The Redwater Health Center as well as ambulance service and the Redwater Volunteer Fire Department serve the Town of Redwater and surrounding area.
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I'm gonna be running a video-game-esque fantasy campaigns for some friends soon and one of my major world inspirations is the Final Fantasy series, in all its iterations.
For some unique locations I'm looking for galleries of epic fantasy artwork, stuff like floating mountains, ancient castles, magical forests, etc. Where can I find this online? Google and deviantart haven't proven fruitful, although I've found a few good leads on tubmlr.
Bonus points for floating islands/mountains ;)
Any suggestions?
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My thoughts on it.
Stuck or want to discuss the new version of prince of the yolkfolk, on iOS and Android Platforms
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My thoughts on it.
Hi all. Long time since I posted on here, but to discover this today was more than exciting. I think everyone with access to either an iOS or Android device should pick it up, because not only are you getting an awesome remake, you are encouraging Codemasters to consider Dizzy games in the future. Let's get our party on!!!
Back to the forums for good! :-)
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i preferred the c64 version mostly because you could die so there was some penalty for mistakes. doesnt stop me playing the updated one on my phone from time to time.had hope they would do this with all the old games if it had sold well.
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Picked up 500 shares at 2.99 today...just dont think that they can fill the gap now with trading days till CC.
Picked up 500 shares at 2.99 today...just dont think that they can fill the gap now with trading days till CC.
in my "around town car", I stream via the app - It hasn't crashed on me (the app ) since the very first days of development, for the most part.
I do seem to recall that I had some issues in the 2.0 beta days.
Also - I stream on a 1st gen iPad in the garage for hours on end - the only issue is that it times out.
I wish that I could say the same for our TTR1 in the dining room. I have to reset that #$@%#$ at least once per week.
Not only is it a frustrating PITA, it's really quite embarrassing to have issues when we have company -- especially so when it's a friend that hasn't bought into Sxm/SIRI.
I absolutely refuse to buy a new TTR1.
For the record, I am running the app on an iPad3 and I can't make it an hour without a crash. No idea if hardware has anything to do with the issue as I cant seem to get any of the people complaining around the net to come in here and share the details of their experience.
BTW, customer service is handing out credits to people experiencing issues AND the upper management is working diligently to fix the problem. Its a bona fide shit show. The recent bad reviews don't do the severity of the issue justice.


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A scene from "Zero Dark Thirty," a film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and produced by Mark Boal.
Since its release, "Zero Dark Thirty" has sparked debate about the movie's frank depiction of torture and whether such acts committed by the U.S. in the War on Terror mislead audiences into thinking torture played a role in the capture and killing of Osama bin Laden.
Now director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter and producer Mark Boal are standing up for their rights as artists to explore such morally challenging territory.
Appearing at the New York Film Critics Circle ceremony to accept awards for Best Director and Best Picture Monday night, the duo defended the film for including the torture scenes and also addressed a Senate investigation looking into whether members of the CIA unlawfully gave classified information to the filmmakers to help them tell their story.
Zero Dark Thirty torture controversy: Senators slam grossly inaccurate depiction
"I thankfully want to say that I'm standing in a room of people who understand that depiction is not endorsement, and if it was, no artist could ever portray inhuman practices; no author could ever write about them; and no filmmaker could ever delve into the naughty subjects of our time," Bigelow told the audience of critics and media.
Boal, Bigelow's collaborator who first worked with her on "The Hurt Locker," told E! News earlier in the evening that he and the director really didn't expect "Zero Dark Thirty" to garner this level of controversy.
"No, I don't think we quite expected that," said Boal. "It was a little bit of a surprise, but I hope that people go to see the movie and judge for themselves."
Oscar-buzz cheat sheet: Will controversy hurt Zero Dark Thirty's chances?
"Zero Dark Thirty" opens with graphic scenes of enhanced interrogation techniques that were implemented by the Bush administration after 9-11, techniques like waterboarding and sexual humiliation that are illegal under international law. But many political commentators have pointed out that by including the dark side of the government's hunt for Al Qaeda, it may give viewers the wrong impression: that the brutal interrogation methods worked and are the reason we found Bin Laden.
When in fact nothing could be further from the truth--as Senator Diane Feinstein, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and Senator John McCain, who was tortured during his service in Vietnam--publicly stated last month, fearing such scenes could perpetuate a myth.
The two joined Senator Carl Levin in sending the head of "Zero Dark Thirty"'s distributor, Sony Pictures Entertainment chairman Michael Lynton, a letter, saying "have a moral obligation to get the facts right" and noted that the Al Qaeda leader was found through the "hard work and dedication" of intelligence professionals, not in any way through "coercive interrogation techniques."
Early review roundup: what are the critics saying?
What the flick does extraordinarily well is tell the gripping account of a CIA operative (Jessica Chastain) doggedly pursuing Bin Laden's courier, who unknowingly leads the U.S. to the terrorist's hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan, culminating in the raid that ended in Bin Laden's death.
Upon taking the podium later to receive best picture honors, Boal seemingly alluded to the Senate inquiry by bringing up the recent news of a CIA officer who's now facing prison time for talking to journalists about waterboarding. He also stood by his work on "Zero Dark Thirty."
"I stand here tonight being extremely proud of the film we made," he said. "I think at the end of the day, we made a film that allows us to look back at the past in a way that gives us a more clear-sighted appraisal of the future."
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A car/bicycle accident resulted in minor injuries to a Morenci teen Friday afternoon.
Brittani Wilson, 17, of Wiley Road, Morenci, was riding a bicycle on Weston Road toward Morenci when a vehicle driven by Michael Long, 46, of Edon, Ohio, approached from the rear.
According to the report from the Lenawee County Sheriff's Department, Long slowed down and started to pass the bicycle. One car had passed Wilson and she was unaware of the second vehicle driven by Long when she turned into the path of his vehicle. Long slammed on his brakes, but couldn't avoid contact.
Wilson was thrown against the windshield and ended up in the ditch. She was transported to Bixby Medical Center by the Morenci Area EMS and was released from the hospital the next day.
Despite a sprained ankle, she will compete again this year in the Morenci Idol competition Saturday afternoon at the Town and Country Festival.


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JOB TITLE: Registered Nurse (Inpatient) eICU Critical Care
LOCATION: Geisinger Medical Center
DEPARTMENT: Nursing
WORK SCHEDULE: Days
WORK TYPE: Full Time
The Registered Nurse assesses plans, organizes, performs, and evaluates nursing activities to meet the needs of the patient. Promotes adaptive responses of patient/family to achieve the highest level of patient care, promote safety, and maximize patient satisfaction. Exhibits compassionate care during patient-nurse interactions. Coordinates patient care and interaction of staff. Meets the qualifications to provide care for patients in their assigned nursing unit.
The critical care/eICU Registered nurse will work with colleagues remotely assisting nurses at the bedside which allows for teaching, mentoring and providing patient care across the system and outreach hospitals. Assesses plans, organizes, performs, and evaluates nursing activities to meet the needs of critically ill patients who are admitted to the critical care units and eICU. Works as a member of the eICU and bedside clinical staff team(s) to provide optimal care for patients via teleconferencing and hands on bedside care. Responsible for providing ICU nursing care to a diverse population of critically ill patients across multiple ICUs at various hospitals. In the eICU, remotely collects, monitors, and analyzes patient and family data for the purpose of assessment and care management. Uses appropriate support tools and software systems to identify patients at risk for potential clinical problems, and communicates assessments to eICU Intensivists (from 7pm 7am).
Responsible for ensuring the very best patient/family experience by optimizing all interactions. Foster a positive work environment through mutual support and cooperation and adheres to GHS and unit specific Service Standards.
Reports directly to the Operations Manager.
Demonstrates strong organizational skills, interpersonal, relationship-building and effective communication skills.
Demonstrates excellent clinical nursing skills, knowledge, judgment and leadership in a multidisciplinary environment.
Demonstrates ability to work within a team environment as well as independently.
Demonstrates ability to be confident, personable, self-motivated and function with tact and poise in all situations.
Demonstrates the capability of making rapid and clinically accurate decisions based on evidence based practice.
Demonstrates ability to interact professionally on all levels within and outside the organization.
Demonstrates a positive attitude with strong critical thinking and problem solving skills
Demonstrates basic computer skills.
For Registered Nurses with less than five (5) years work experience as an RN, a BSN degree is required or enrollment in a BSN program within 12 months of hire date with BSN degree completed within 4 years of hire date is required.
For Registered Nurses with more than 5 years of work experience as an RN in an acute/inpatient capacity, a BSN degree is not required.
For current Geisinger Registered Nurses who transfer into this position, BSN degree is preferred.
BLS certification preferred and required within 60 days of employment.
ACLS/PALS may be required within 1 year of employment (unit specific).
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ACLS certification is required.
CCRN (Certified Critical Care Nurse) credential preferred. Must meet CCRN testing requirements after 6 months of hire. Must have a passing score on the CCRN within 18 months of hire.
Work is typically performed in an office environment, outpatient clinical settings throughout the system, and at the bedside.
The specific statements shown in each section of this description are not intended to be all-inclusive. They represent typical elements considered necessary to successfully perform the job.
OUR PURPOSE & VALUES: Everything we do is about caring for our patients, our members, our students, our Geisinger family and our communities. KINDNESS: We strive to treat everyone as we would hope to be treated ourselves. EXCELLENCE: We treasure colleagues who humbly strive for excellence. LEARNING: We share our knowledge with the best and brightest to better prepare the caregivers for tomorrow. INNOVATION: We constantly seek new and better ways to care for our patients, our members, our community, and the nation.
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ABOUT GEISINGER: Geisinger is a physician-led health system comprised of approximately 30,000 employees, including nearly 1,600 employed physicians, 13 hospital campuses, two research centers, and a 583,000-member health plan Geisinger is nationally recognized for innovative practices and quality care. Geisinger serves more than 3 million people in central, south-central and northeast Pennsylvania and also in southern New Jersey with the addition of National Malcolm Baldridge Award recipient AtlantiCare, A member of Geisinger. In 2017, the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine became the newest member of the Geisinger Family.
We offer healthcare benefits for full time and part time positions from day one, including vision, dental and domestic partners.* Perhaps just as important, from senior management on down, we encourage an atmosphere of collaboration, cooperation and collegiality. For more information, visit www.geisinger.org, or connect with us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.
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Schmemann Lecture Podcast on Ancient Faith Radio: "The Meaning of 'Icon' in the Orthodox Church," by Metropolitan Hilarion
February 5, 2011 • Deborah (Malacky) Belonick
"The icon is a silent but eloquent preacher of Orthodoxy, not only within the Church but also outside of it," observed His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev), as he presented the 28th annual Father Alexander Schmemann Memorial Lecture, entitled "The Meaning of 'Icon' in the Orthodox Church," to a packed auditorium on our campus. The lecture is now available as a Podcast on Ancient Faith Radio.
Metropolitan Hilarion's inspiring and informative presentation touched upon the dogmatic, anthropological, ascetic, cosmic, liturgical, evangelical, and moral function of icons within the Orthodox Christian tradition. The attentive and appreciative audience readily peppered His Eminence with questions following his talk and gave him a standing ovation at the close.
Metropolitan Hilarion, who is Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations, is associated with St. Vladimir's Seminary through both personal and organizational ties. In introducing His Eminence, our seminary Dean, Archpriest John Behr, recalled their friendship that began after their graduation from the Univerity of Oxford, where they both earned doctoral degrees, and he expressed his gratitude for His Eminence's service on the seminary's Board of Trustees.
Father John noted that His Eminence had been selected as this year's "Schmemann Lecturer" because of his scholarship and engagement with the wider world and contemporary issues. "Our former dean, Fr. Alexander Schmemann, had the seminary at the center of his heart, and his person and work shaped St. Vladimir's. But he also spoke to the wider church and culture at-large," said Fr. John. "Likewise, His Eminence holds the conviction that the Orthodox Church does indeed have something to say to the modern world, and he has a passionate willingness to address contemporary issues."
Following the lecture, Metropolitan Hilarion presented the seminary with an exquisite icon of the Theotokos and Christ Child, and then celebrated Great Vespers with the seminary community in Three Hierarchs Chapel.
His Eminence will be visiting the New York Metro area this entire weekend. He will do a book signing at St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Patriarchal Cathedral, 15 East 97th St., New York, NY, on Sunday after Divine Liturgy, 10 a.m., February 6th. He will be signing two of the books he published with St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, Christ the Conqueror of Hell: The Descent into Hades from an Orthodox Perspective (2009) and Orthodox Christianity: Volume I: The History and Canonical Structure of the Orthodox Church.
He also will attend the U.S. English-language premiere of his opus St. Matthew Passion on Monday, February 7th, 7:30 p.m. at The Church of St. Paul the Apostle, on Columbus Avenue between 59th and 60th Streets, New York City. The concert is being hosted by St. Vladimir's Seminary, in cooperation with the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York. Tickets are still available online or at the door the evening of the concert, but they are selling out quickly.
View a gallery of photos of the 28th annual Father Alexander Schmemann Memorial Lecture, by Tatiana Hoff.


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Diallo, Alleged Sex Attack Victim, Strikes Back: Strauss-Kahn Smiled Too Soon
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Arrogant and pompous Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the alleged sexual attacker of Nassifatou Diallo, has been living the good life, going to fancy restaurants and attending musical concerts, wanting the whole world to see that he didn't have a care in the world.
He started smiling a bit too early. Now that Diallo has publicly spoken, as one of The Black Star News' columnist first recommended on July 7, is Strauss-Kahn still smiling? For several weeks Strauss-Kahn's operatives had been trashing the alleged sex attack victim in the media, especially through Rupert Murdoch's New York Post.
But this week, in an interview with Newsweek and ABC Television, Diallo reiterated her allegations that she was sexually attacked by Strauss-Kahn, who dragged her into the hotel room bathroom and forced his penis into her mouth.
In the weeks following the indictment of Strauss-Kahn, the New York County District Attorney in Manhattan, Cyrus Vance Jr., succumbing to pressure from the wealthy, connected and worldly supporters of Strauss-Kahn, began to look for ways to toss the case. He told The New York Times that Diallo was tape recorded telling an inmate in a phone conversation the day after the alleged attack that she could make money from the case since Strauss-Kahn was wealthy.
Yesterday, after listening to the tape recording, Diallo's lawyer, Kenneth Thompson, said the alleged victim made no such statement and that the conversation had been mis-translated. Thompson said it was in fact the inmate who brought up the issue of Strauss-Kahn's wealth and that his client said she didn't want to discuss the issue and that her lawyer would handle the case.
If the government can use people in the Mafia to testify and to gain convictions why shouldn't Diallo be allowed to have her day in Court? Why should DA Vance Jr. and Strauss-Kahn and his team, which includes Murdoch's New York Post become the jurors and decide the case? The Post, in a "story" possibly concocted and fed by Strauss-Kahn's operatives claimed Diallo was a "hooker."
A sexual act occurred in the Sofitel hotel. Strauss-Kahn's semen was recovered at the scene. Diallo had never met Strauss-Kahn. Diallo says she's not a prostitute and Strauss-Kahn's hasn't claimed he paid for prostitution. Strauss-Kahn is clearly no Adonis and it's unlikely that Diallo took one look at his naked body and became weak-kneed.
Let the case go to trial and allow a jury to decide DA Vance.
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Video: Dutch 'Eating Designer' Marije Vogelzang
After ten years of working on food projects, Dutch product designer-turned-eating designer Marije Vogelzang has developed a philosophy about food incorporating eight points: senses, nature, culture, society, technique, psychology, science, and action. She's published two books about food, and this summer opened a restaurant in Amsterdam called Proef. Learn more about Vogelzang in this interview by Gestalten.
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