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Topic: Mandalorian language
I'm not sure this was posted before, if it has been, I apologize. I just find this insane. It is basically like, Fett fans are so crazy, they might as well be like the Klingon fans of Star Wars. Here's what I found cruising wikipedia today:
Mandalorian (Mando'a) is a fictional language spoken by the Mandalorians of Star Wars. It is currently being developed into a working language by Karen Traviss.
Portions exist in the Republic Commando video game and its spin-off books, Republic Commando: Hard Contact and the sequel, Republic Commando: Triple Zero. Online samples include fan-created dictionaries, web logs by Traviss, and two downloadable guides from StarWars.com. A recent article in Star Wars Insider contained a guide to the language, and online audio clips have been released as well.
The language started as Republic Commando game lyrics by Jesse Harlin at LucasArts, and it is from that that Traviss has begun developing the language.
This entry on the Mandalorian language is from here:
Further discussion here by Karen herself:
http://boards.theforce.net/literature/b … 91/p1/?439
(I think she should come here to talk about it, personally.)

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Server arrangements
Because Django uses WSGI, it can run on any WSGI-compatible Web server. Here's how to run Django on various server arrangements.
Apache with mod_python
See the official documentation. you can also look at the django_apache_and_mod_rewrite small tutorial.
Apache with FastCGI
See the official documentation.
Mac OS X users, see Django with FCGI on OS X?.
lighttpd with FastCGI
See the official documentation.
Django/lighttpd/FastCGI instructions for use on TextDrive shared hosting accounts are also available.
Multiple versions with FastCGI
See MultipleVersionsWithFCGI?.
See #172.
See the description in the trac-wiki for how to combine them. TooFPy is a pure-python webserver with focus on the creation of web services.
Apache with SCGI
SCGI can be used with Apache like this. It builds on stuff from the Apache+FCGI documentation above.
lighttpd with SCGI
See Running Django using SCGI through LightTPD.
Django behind/inside Zope
It's possible to query a Django site from Zope or Plone and return the result. This allows you to include a Django site inside a pre-existing Zope/Plone site. It's good for custom content that you don't want to use existing Zope technologies to develop. For the code, see this partly documented file. It's in a temporary location for the time being; for more info, e-mail jeff (at) bitprophet (dot) org.
Running Django as a traditional CGI is possible and would work the same as running any other sort of Python CGI script, but is generally not recommended.
With traditional CGI, the program which will be run -- in this case, Django plus a Django-powered application -- is loaded from disk into memory each time a request is served, which results in a significant amount of processing overhead and much slower responses. FastCGI and SCGI, in contrast, load the code only once -- when the server starts up -- and keep it in memory as long as the server is running, resulting in much faster responses.
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Wind Power
Energy is blowing in the wind
Wind power is actually another form of solar energy. As the sun heats air, land and water on the surface of the earth, different areas absorb heat at different rates; the resulting temperature differentials create water and air movement , manifesting themselves as winds and ocean currents that help to keep the world running with relatively stable climate and precipitation conditions.
Wind power technologies are simply a means of taking advantage of this natural force to do useful work, rather than just watching it blow leaves around. Humankind has been making use of wind power for millennia, from the vast sailing ships of old to the large wooden windmills for grinding wheat and other grains (hence the name windmill, as opposed to simply wind turbine). The huge water pumping windmills used in Holland also made use of this natural force, to move water in the process of reclaiming land from the sea.
These methods permitted the use of wind for mechanical energy, by harnessing it into some form of physical work. The comparison to an electrical wind turbine is like the comparison of a car to a gasoline generator - one is designed to produce motion while the other is designed to produce electricity, but both use the same fuel. A wind turbine simply uses the mechanical energy captured in its spinning motion to produce electricity, for charging a battery or powering an electrical device directly.
The largest wind turbines are designed to be self-contained power plants, outputting electricity directly to the utility grid just like large coal, hydro or nuclear power plants. In some cases, these wind machines are grouped together in 'wind farms' with a nearby power substation to handle the electricity pumped out by the machines. Wind power is the single fastest growing energy source worldwide, although it currently comprises a very small portion of global energy supply - 0.051% as of 2003 according to the International Energy Association, but with growth rates of over 50% per year since then.
Small scale wind energy is an extremely viable option for year-round homes where there is a nominal level of wind - generally, this means annual average wind speeds of at least 12 miles per hour. The reason that wind will make the most sense in such abodes is because the annual availability of solar radiation complements that of wind; in the summer, there is much sun and little wind, while in the winter wind picks up and sun drops off.


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The District will resume normal business and class schedules on Tuesday, January 22, 2018.
On the third Monday in January, the nation observes Martin Luther King Jr. Day, established to honor the preacher, author, civil rights leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner. He is most notably known for his "I Have a Dream" speech delivered at the 1963 March on Washington in Washington, D.C.
Since 1994, the U.S. Congress has commemorated the holiday as a national day of service, encouraging Americans to participate in service projects within their communities.
On Monday, the District will host its first Martin Luther King Jr. Community Service Day. Approximately 40 campus principals and central administration employees are expected to distribute meals and care packages to approximately 200 homeless individuals just outside downtown Fort Worth. The service event is one of two that FWISD employees and students are leading this school year. Students are also slated to participate in service projects this spring on Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta Day, Monday, March 25, 2019.
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"I experienced the tangible sensation of a collective state of waiting. Not a waiting that has its known motif, but an indefinite lingering, quietly swimming beneath our thoughts like an unsolved puzzle with pieces we don't recognize. The Rabbit Hole, being a clear embodiment of this mood, is the reluctant invitation to that state, to that specific world, where the unspecified exists outside our peripheral."—Kristoffer Axén
The Rabbit Hole, by Kristoffer Axén, was featured in reGeneration 2: Tomorrow's Photographers Today, the second book in Aperture's series turning the spotlight to the next generation of potential star photographers. The language created by Kristoffer Axén relates to cinema. His world—composed with digital tools—is depicted in almost monochrome tones and gives the impression of being a non-place in a non-time. The interaction between the scenes represented and the viewer's imagination gives way to fiction. The series, which evokes more of a nightmare than reality, enables him to question the world in which he lives.
Kristoffer Axén (born in Stockholm, Sweden, 1984) graduated from the International School of Photography in 2009. He has participated in group shows in China, Denmark, and the U.S., and his work is held in the collections of the Musée d'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland; and Michaelis School of Fine Arts, Cape Town, South Aftrica.
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Oneida baseball beats Sidney, Oriskany to win Lew Bennett Tournament in Rome
ROME >> Oneida's boys baseball team managed only one hit through the first five innings of its opening game of the Lew Bennett tournament at Delutis Field Sunday afternoon.
Coach Jeff Skibitski's squad finally got its offense rolling in the sixth with some help from Sidney's defense and never looked back, rallying for a 5-2 win in game one and beating Oriskany 6-4 to take the title.
"I'm just really proud of these kids," said Skibitski. "It's been a tough spring for everyone and it shows that these kids have really been focused on getting their work done inside the gym."
While Oneida started slow offensively, strong pitching and solid defense kept them in the first game against Sidney. Branndon Inman gave up three singles in the bottom of the first inning, which gave Sidney a 2-0 lead. Inman settled down and struck out Jon Gorshack to end the inning. He struck out the side in the second and wouldn't allow another runner to reach third until the fifth inning. He quickly ended that threat with another strikeout.
"I just pitched and did what I do best," said Inman. "I moved the ball to the hitters and made them make plays for my players. They (Oneida's defense) made the plays that needed to be made."
While Oneida's defense was making plays the offense was struggling to do so. Two walks and a Nate Carinci single loaded the bases in the fifth but Sidney pitcher Zak Green struck out Drew Mallinder to end the threat.
Oneida finally broke through in the sixth, with some help from its opponent. Andrew Sreca started the rally with a two-out single and Tyler Colvin and Michael Lerch walked to load the bases. Sidney brought Nate McDonald in to pitch and he got Jordan Koons to hit a ground ball to third. Trey Crawford fielded the ball cleanly but his throw to first was off line, allowing Sreca and Colvin to score. Lerch advanced to third on the play and scored the game-winning run on a balk by McDonald.
"I was thinking 'oh, there we just took the lead,'" Lerch said.
Gorshack led off the bottom of the sixth with a single to put the potential tying run on base for Sidney. He wasn't there long, taking off for second as Inman threw to first. Mallinder threw Gorshack out at second and Inman set down the next two batters to preserve the lead.
Oneida gave him a pair of insurance runs in the top of the seventh. Mitch Cavanagh led off with a hard ground ball up the middle. It took a bad hop and hit shortstop Billy Kozak in the face, allowing Cavanagh to reach first. Mallinder followed with a long double over the centerfielder's head to bring Cavanagh home. Three batters later Sreca blooped a double down the right field line to score Mallinder and give Oneida a 5-2 lead entering the bottom of the seventh.
Back-to-back errors to start the frame brought the potential tying run to the plate with no outs for Sidney. Cavanagh relieved Inman and struck out Brandon Bessett looking. Matt Fisher followed with a sinking line drive to center field that looked like a sure single. Lerch read the hit perfectly, bolting in to deny Fisher with a tremendous diving catch. He easily doubled the runner off second base to send Oneida to the championship game.
"I was just trying to knock it down," said Lerch. "Somehow I caught it."
Oneida's offense didn't take nearly as long to get going in the title game against Oriskany. Starting pitcher Matt Carinci helped his own cause with a two-run homer in the first inning and Oneida took an early 3-0 lead. He didn't allow his first hit until the fourth inning, a solo home run to Dan Buehler. However, Cavanagh also homered and Oneida took a 6-2 lead into the seventh inning.
Again, things got interesting for Skibitski's squad. Alex Liddy's two-run home run cut the lead in half and Oriskany brought the tying run to the plate. Again Oneida's defense was up to the challenge. Joey Stoffle induced a ground ball to shortstop. Koons and Dylan Cafalone turned a 6-4-3 double play to clinch the title for Oneida.
Matt Carinci was named tournament MVP, allowing two hits over five innings on the mound in addition to his home run.
Oneida 5, Sidney 2
At Delutis Field
Oneida 000 003 2 5-5-2
Sidney 200 000 0 2-8-1
Branndon Inman, Mitch Cavanagh (7) and Kyle George; Zak Green, Nate McDonald (6) and Pat Vibbard.
2B: Drew Mallinder (O), Andrew Sreca (O)
Records: Oneida 1-0, 2-2; Sidney 6-2.
Oneida 6, Oriskany 4
At Delutis Field
Oriskany 000 101 2 2-4-5
Oneida 301 020 x 6-8-1
Matt Carinci, Joey Stoffle (6); Tyler Tarkowski.
2B: Cody Murphy (Or)
3B: Murphy (Of)
HR: Carinci (On), Cavanagh (On), Dan Buehler (Or), Mike Liddy (Or)
Records: Oriskany 1-0, 3-2; Oneida 1-0, 3-2.


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The Village of Caparrua Santa Lucia
The village of Caparrua Santa Lucia belongs to the municipality of Cetraro, in the province of Cosenza, region Calabria.
>>>COVID-19<<< Data about spreading of Covid-19 in Caparrua Santa Lucia are not yet available.
For the province of Cosenza, to whom Caparrua Santa Lucia belongs, on 2020-05-31 are reported 468 cases. In the previos day there were 468 cases, thus having a variation of 0 cases, i.e. 0.00% with reference to the number of cases reported in the previous day.
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The village of Caparrua Santa Lucia is 1,85 kilometers far from the same town of Cetraro to whom it belongs.
To the municipality of Cetraro also belong the localities of Acqua degli Angeli (4,92 km), Acquicella (3,11 km), Angilla (6,37 km), Battendieri (3,14 km), Bonella (5,60 km), Bosco - Arvara (4,41 km), Caparrua (1,76 km), Case sparse (-- km), Ceramile (2,36 km), Cetraro Marina (0,62 km), Citino (3,32 km), Dattilo (3,59 km), Difesa (3,98 km), Ferraro (6,48 km), Fonte (2,43 km), Fratica (3,63 km), Gallufo (4,86 km), Lampezia (3,84 km), Lecara (5,96 km), Malvitani (2,25 km), Manche (2,22 km), Marina di Cetraro (0,60 km), Massete (3,42 km), Molinello (3,70 km), Motta (1,68 km), Nezzo (2,61 km), Orecchiuto (3,40 km), Palazzese (6,02 km), Palazzuola (1,01 km), Ponte Arenazza (3,48 km), Porcili (2,99 km), Porrili (5,97 km), Rammatico (4,44 km), Ricoso (1,62 km), Salineto (2,11 km), San Biagio (3,68 km), San Filippo (3,75 km), San Filippo - Battendieri (3,76 km), San Francesco (1,22 km), San Giacomo (1,67 km), San Martino (2,93 km), San Pietro (5,04 km), San Tommaso (5,39 km), Sant'Angelo (4,50 km), Santa Barbara (2,02 km), Santa Lucia (1,09 km), Santa Maria di Mare (1,75 km), Santa Marina (2,21 km), Santo Ianni (5,25 km), Sinni (2,52 km), Sopralirto (0,95 km), Torrenuova (5,93 km), Torretta (3,37 km), Triolo (3,24 km), Valle (3,58 km), Varrone (6,58 km), Vigniddonici (1,73 km), Zampolo (2,96 km).
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Shower chances take a break for a few days as welcomed sunshine returns to the South Florida weather pattern Friday.
More sunshine will lead to afternoon high temperatures climbing to near 90. It will be partly cloudy with isolated thunderstorms.
The weekend will bring a gradual improvement to the pattern with mostly sunny skies for Saturday, though thunderstorm chances are expected by Sunday afternoon. Temperatures will be around 90.
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Deals came fast and furiously at Sundance over Wednesday night.
Publisher Hannover House's film and vid arm has picked up Joel Schumacher's dark teen chiller "Twelve" for around $2 million.
Plans are for a major-market theatrical rollout this year. Hannover has released a handful of titles theatrically, but until now hadn't jumped into bigger films. A private equity fund is backing title acquisitions for Hannover.
"It's a very significant investment for us," said Hannover CEO Eric Parkinson. "In order for us to really thrive, we have to step up."
"Twelve" was produced by France's Gaumont, Radar and Original Media, with CAA packaging the financing. Gaumont, both a production and a distribution company, financed "Twelve."
Gaumont sparked to the script by Jordan Melamed and wanted to make a Schumacher film. "As a low-budget indie-style film, we could go into production without pre-sales," Gaumont chairman Sidonie Dumas told Variety.
"Twelve," based on the best-selling tome by Nick McDonell, chronicles the violent and drug-fueled exploits of privileged Manhattan teens. Chace Crawford, Emma Roberts, Rory Culkin star along with 50 Cent, Ellen Barkin and Kiefer Sutherland.
Former Lionsgate and Weinstein Co. distribution chief Tom Ortenberg will consult with Hannover on the pic's North American rollout through his One Way Out Media consulting shingle.
"Twelve" is Sundance's official closer. Its first public unspooling is at Park City's Eccles theater Friday evening.
In other action, Newmarket plunked down around $1 million in an early-morning deal for the U.S. distribution rights to Spencer Susser's "Hesher." A Canadian deal for the pic is currently closing.
"Hesher" premiered here last week to mixed industry reaction but has continued to be a crowdpleaser.
Film stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a mayhem-prone loner who takes up with a family still reeling from a death. Pic also features Devin Brochu, Natalie Portman and Rainn Wilson.
Newmarket plans a fall release for "Hesher."
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I'm heading up to Darwin on the 21 for the graduation ceremony for a course I did last year.
I could go to the one here but I'd rather use the excuse to see my friends again :lol: >waves to everyone up in the humid topend<.
I'll only be up there a few days and I'm ahead on Gone Astray so you won't notice any real difference with the comic but I'l be happy to see you guys again (except Paul (<-- joking!!))
Well better get back to work.
~ Darkhorse, AKA Toby, AKA Tallulah, AKA Tanami, AKA Bloody Annoying Nuisance (to my friends)


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There are plenty of humans in the Fleet. Troopers and Stub Wing pilots must be bionic but everyone else is optional.
Okay Rob, I will admit that I mistook that there were no "human" left in the fleet just Borg soldiers/sailors. Which makes me feel better about the Fleet, and their ability to become "GODS" and go Rogue. More humans, less likely to think of themselves above humans. So a Question then what is the Standard Naval Officer Pistol?
Maybe it was how I was reading things but I would love to see more on how Scavs and Fleet can work at the same level, I had seen reference to the Expeditionary Scavs.
YES! Expeditionary is the name given to scavengers who go across the Light Jump Net into Droid space for those things that are of very high net worth. Would it help if I blogged in detail about that? I ran a long campaign and have a half-written setting about it.


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With the sesquicentennial commemoration of the U.S. Civil War well underway, I thought I would join in by starting a blog on emancipation. While there are plenty of subjects to focus on when studying this conflict, freedom for the slaves is IMHO the most important. At its heart, slavery caused the Civil War and emancipation was its most important result. So a blog with this focus is much needed.
So in "Civil War Emancipation" I will do the following: 1) commemorate important milestones in emancipation in the Civil War as their 150th anniversary arrives in the sesquicentennial; 2) discuss noteworthy publications on this subject; 3) comment on current events related to the Civil War and emancipation; 4) plus write on whatever else comes to mind that is appropriate.
Please feel free to make comments and suggestions for the Civil War Emancipation blog. I would like it as much as possible to be of service to its readership. And please forgive the mistakes I make because I'm a novice blogger.
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Sports will dominate our lives this summer with soccer's EURO 2016 and the Olympic Games coming up. But how about these three exotic disciplines instead? Not stadium fillers, but spectacular all the same!
Splashdiving has been a popular pastime in Hawaii since around 1700. Scoffers would call it a cannonball competition. The principle is simple: The winner is the diver who makes the biggest splash.
Hornussen is a Swiss national sport. It's a little like cricket or baseball, but with hockey and golf elements, too. Each team has up to 18 players, and a match lasts for four hours. Tradition has it that the losers pay for supper.
Polo sticks? Yes, but up to three meters longer than regular ones. Ponies? No, elephants. This sport is popular in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Thailand. But are the elephants just as happy about elephant polo?


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The following is a guest blog post by Matt Waltrich, Vice President of Payer Solutions at RemitDATA.
As the market continues to evaluate alternative pricing models, bundled pricing shows great promise
Imagine this: Your car needs new brakes and your auto shop tells you the cost is in the range of $150 to $3,000. They tell you to pay $500 now since that's the amount you have on hand. The next day, the service is done and you pick up your car. Thirty days later, you receive a $700 bill for 'rotor installation time and materials'. When you call, they explain that the staff mechanic was off that day and they had to bring in an expert to fill in. A few days later you get another bill for $350 for additional work that was needed on your calipers. When you call the auto shop again, they tell you they don't control 'third party costs.' You were never told up front about these costs, and you are now on the hook for $1,050 in extra fees. Time to find a new auto shop.
Sadly, in the world of healthcare, this is not an uncommon scenario, where $1,050 could just as easily be a financially crushing $105,000 unexpected medical bill.
Although healthcare pricing models have traditionally been designed around fee for service, payer/provider contract rates are often complex, with little transparency and consistency for the patient. In May 2013 the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) reported huge discrepancies in the prices that hospitals charge for common in-patient procedures. This echoes the perception that pricing set by providers is often arbitrary, such that only the uninsured are charged the list rates. In some cases, pricing even seems to be disconnected from the actual cost of care, with inflated rates offsetting negotiated discounts.
In an effort to address this, provisions within the Affordable Care Act (ACA) are targeting how healthcare is organized, delivered, and paid for. For example, the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) initiative was created by the ACA to increase fee for service reimbursements for Medicare based on alternative payment models (APM) and to increase the percentage of reimbursements linked to quality and value. Reimbursements are aligned with four broadly defined models. These models bundle payments for multiple services under individual episodes of care. With BPCI organizations enter into payment arrangements that include financial and performance accountability for these episodes of care. The goal is higher quality and more coordinated care at a lower cost to Medicare.
The industry will watch models like this closely. Applied more broadly, pricing models like BPCI can give payers a new approach to deliver greater value to providers and patients. Bundled pricing makes it easier for patients to compare medical costs and understand how procedures are valued, including the cost of the facility and providers. This approach empowers patients to price compare, and seek out low cost, high quality care.
Some health plans have already implemented their own alternative payment models, for example:
- In 2008, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts developed its Alternative Quality Contract (AQC) which gives provider groups an annual budget for meeting all the healthcare needs of their patients while still hitting quality targets.
- In 2011, CaroMont Health and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC), implemented a bundled payment arrangement for an entire knee replacement.
As payers begin to invest in implementing more bundled payment initiatives, the application of comparative analytics can help guide payers toward identifying the greatest opportunities to impact cost of care. By examining historical claims data, payers can identify their highest volume and cost procedures (grouped by episodes of care) to establish actual prices. By applying these pricing methodologies, payers can reduce costs with a consumer-driven model that focuses on value-based choices.
Several factors should be considered in determining the success of these models:
- Provider willingness to embrace risk/reward models
- The ability for providers to collaborate amongst themselves and effectively manage payment distribution for episodes of care in a coordinated fashion.
- The alignment of plan benefit designs that encourage members to use providers in bundled payment arrangements.
With proper development and application, bundled pricing models have the potential to drive significant change in the industry by lowering cost of care, improving outcomes, and giving health care consumers better transparency around true costs. With the broad adoption of alternative payment models throughout the healthcare industry, surprise bills and unanticipated fees may become a thing of the past.


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Admission offered to 11.9 percent of all applicants
Princeton University has offered admission to 1,631 students, 11.9 percent of the 13,690 applicants for the class of 2008, Dean of Admission Janet L. Rapelye announced Thursday, April 1.
Acceptance letters were mailed to 1,050 students who applied through the regular decision process. Another 581 students who applied for early decision were admitted in December. The University is expecting approximately 1,175 students for the class of 2008.
"We are particularly delighted with the strength of the admitted students, and we look forward to greeting them on campus this month," Rapelye said. "The admitted students have superb leadership and personal qualities, and possess talents and achievements in areas such as dance, theater, music, athletics, art, politics, debate and community service."
More details are available in a news release.
Contact: Lauren Robinson-Brown (609) 258-3601


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Why Site Blocking Orders Need To Be Challenged In Court
from the two-sides-to-every-story dept
There is an extremely dangerous trend to remove proper judicial review from cases involving alleged copyright infringement. Sometimes that means "voluntary" actions by ISPs -- the SOPA and ACTA approach. Sometimes, it means appearances before tribunals by members of the public without adequate legal representation, as is happening under New Zealand's "three strikes" law. And sometimes it might involve a judge, but consist of the latter simply agreeing to requests from the copyright industry, without anyone challenging the grounds for doing so.
That was the case for the most recent action by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), which represents the recording industry in the UK, as reported by Techdirt last week. Now Andres Guadamuz on his TechnoLlama blog has dug a little deeper into the judge's reasoning for granting these orders, and discovered the following remarkable section:
the evidence indicates that blocking orders are reasonably effective. The effect of the order made in Italy with regard to TPB [The Pirate Bay] referred to in 20C Fox v BT at [197] was a 73% reduction in audience accessing TPB in Italy and a 96% reduction in page views. The blocking order made in Italy in relation to KAT has had a similar effect. As for the effect of the orders made in England in relation to TPB, as at 19 December 2011, TPB was ranked by Alexa as number 43 in the UK, while as at 21 November 2012, its UK ranking had dropped to number 293.
As Guadamuz notes:
I had to look for the source of such astounding information, but I was not able to obtain any reliable resources, and I suspect that it is a figure given by the BPI, which may have been pulled out of the nether regions of their institutional anatomy. On the contrary, I found a report from Torrent Freak claiming the opposite, but this claim should be taken with a pinch of salt.
The use of Alexa is also rather surprising, since it is very rarely quoted these days:
Alexa works by measuring the behaviour of users who have installed a toolbar in their browser. This gives a snapshot of a very narrow demographic, that of Alexa toolbar users. Needless to say, people who are more likely to share files online are less likely to have any sort of toolbar installed on their browsers, particularly one that tracks online behaviour. Similarly, there are studies that prove that Alexa's rankings tend to be wrong for both small and big websites, as they tend to produce some serious mismatches with reality.
And Guadamuz goes on to point out:
In the end, the best way to try to ascertain the effect of ISP blocking orders is to ask the people who are engaged in the practice. This is precisely what was done by Dutch researchers Joost Poort and Jorna Leenheer. They conducted a survey of thousands of Dutch residents about their downloading behaviour. While more than 75% of respondents claimed that they never downloaded any illegal content, those who engaged in the practice replied that they were not affected whatsoever by the blocking of TPB in the Netherlands. Only 3.6% claimed that they are downloading less, and only 1.9% admitted that they had stopped downloading entirely. This seems like a huge failure of blocking orders.
But none of this information was presented in court. Instead, the judge used his own -- or maybe the BPI's -- figures to justify his blocking orders. That's why it's regrettable the ISPs involved did not mount any kind of challenge where they could have offered an alternative view on how effective such orders really are, so that the judge could form a more balanced view of the situation. More generally, this episode shows the dangers of moving to systems where the other side of the copyright story is not fully and fairly presented.
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Own Bracelet Made Out Of METALLICA Guitarist's Strings
If you are a METALLICA fan, you can now own a bracelet made out of Kirk Hammett's guitar strings, with all proceeds going to charity. Use the coupon code KH1234 to get 10% off. Each guitar string bracelet is handcrafted from recycled fine silver and guitar strings used and donated by the artist you select. The bracelets must slip over your hand unless a custom clasp is added; please size accordingly. Bracelets are packaged in recycled DVD cases with certificates of authenticity. Profits are donated to charities selected by the artists. Each bracelet is custom made upon order and production time can take up to three weeks before item ships.
(Thanks: NJthrasher)


text: One reason Apple has never been to keen on the jailbreaking community is that there are always some folks out there that unlock their device in order to circumvent the App Store and install pirated apps. Some have also used jailbreaking as a way to avoid paying for in-app purchases while still downloading the additional content. Now it turns out that there's another way to do that — without jailbreaking.It's a more complex process than the average iOS user would be inclined to undertake, and it involves accepting a certificate from a Russian developer's server (which is not something security experts generally advise doing) and modifying DNS records under Wi-Fi settings on the target iOS device. Following the steps basically creates an in-app purchase proxy and allows content to be downloaded without a valid receipt from Apple. Unsurprisingly, the developer's server has already buckled under the additional traffic it received in the hours following the hack's publication.The hack wasn't 100% effective, however. Many users reported that it didn't work in certain apps, which might have something to do with Apple's iOS purchasing APIs. Apple has always provided a way for app publishers to validate digital receipts. However, it appears as though the decision to implement validation is left up to developers and is not yet mandated by Apple. That may change in the wake of this highly-publicized hack, of course.If this turns out to be the case, it seems strange that Apple hasn't required receipt validation for in-app purchases all along. After all, it's not just developers and publishers who lose out when paid content is downloaded for free. Apple misses out on its 30% cut, too.More at 9to5 Mac


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When I baked these back in November I didn't think to photograph them in a holiday setting. The clip art holly sprigs add a festive touch, don't you think?
There are a couple dozen recipes that were chosen in the early days of TWD, before I joined the group. I've been very slowly trying to bake some of those recipes on my own, so that I can - eventually - say that I've baked every single recipe in the book. Such is the case with Dorie's Gooey Chocolate Cakes, which I baked in early November when I was stuck at home waiting for repair people and it was chilly and gray outside: perfect baking conditions!
n.o.e.'s notes:
- This recipe is Dorie's take on the craze for molten/lava chocolate cakes. You can find the recipe on this blog post from the early days of TWD on the blog Lemon Tartlet.
- I made 1/2 recipe and used silicone mini cake pans, similar to these. Because the pans were silicone, I didn't need to butter or flour the pans, and after they were baked the cakes slipped right out.
- The timing is critical in this recipe. Because the cakes are supposed to end up being liquid in the center, doneness tests don't work. You have to use your timer and trust that it will all come out correctly. In my case, however, the cakes didn't end up molten. I was baking in a different oven from my usual, so it might run a bit hot, or I might have baked a minute or two too long.
- Although my cakes were not totally molten in the middle, they were soft. I served them with whipped cream, which melted into the warm cake in a most appetizing fashion.
the verdict:
These were perfectly portioned little cakes, and even if they weren't exactly gooey inside, they were soft-ish and quite good. This recipe is ideal for instant-gratification: the cakes are not too difficult to put together, have a short baking time, and are designed to be eaten hot. Win, win, win!


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In many parts of the world, medical providers care for their patients who have HIV/AIDS without the benefit of laboratory tests -- sometimes even the most basic ones. Fortunately, in the United States (and various other countries), medical providers almost always have available to them a wide range of diagnostic tools. Below are some of the most important ones.
1. Complete blood count (CBC). This tells you whether you are anemic (too few red blood cells), neutropenic (too few of the white blood cells called neutrophils that fight bacterial infections) or thrombocytopenic (too few platelets, or thrombocytes, for your blood to clot normally) -- all of which occur commonly in people with HIV. The CBC also gives you something called the "differential," which is an individual count of all the different kinds of white blood cells: neutrophils, monocytes, lymphocytes, basophils, and eosinophils. It is also crucial to determining your total CD4 (T4, T helper) cell count, a critical measure of immune function.
2. CD4 cell count. The FACS (not "fax," although pronounced the same way) or Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorter machine identifies CD4 cells and directly measures what their proportion (percent) is of all your lymphocytes (white blood cells) when your blood was drawn. So, the CD4 percent is what the machine actually measures, and the total (or "absolute") CD4 cell count is derived from multiplying the percentage of CD4 by the total lymphocyte count. That is why the differential (see above) from the CBC is necessary -- in order to obtain your CD4 cell count.
Over time, the CD4 percent is a more stable measure of your immune system function because the total CD4 count is influenced by your white blood cell count at the moment your blood was drawn, a number that varies constantly. Nonetheless, by habit and tradition, health care providers have used the total CD4 cell count for key decisions, such as starting HIV meds or preventive therapy for opportunistic infections, like PCP (Pneumocystis pneumonia).
3. HIV RNA PCR (HIV ribonucleic acid polymerase chain reaction), or "viral load." This key test tells us how much virus is in a millilter (abbreviation: ml) of your blood, one-fifth of a teaspoon. Note that it does not tell us how much HIV is in your entire body, where most of the virus is -- in tissues, such as your lymph glands (lymph nodes). Even though this test uses a tiny quantity of blood, it has proven to be a very good indicator of response to antiretroviral therapy.
There are two versions of the most commonly used test, the Roche assay, and both have established cut-off values for the upper limit of how much virus can be detected and the lower limit, which is referred to as "undetectable" virus. Note that "undetectable" means the amount of HIV is less than the technical ability of the test to detect it and does not mean that HIV is not present.
The Amplicor version of the viral load assay has a low end cut-off of "less than 400 copies/ml" of HIV RNA/ml and an upper limit of "greater than 750,000 copies/ml." The Ultrasensitive test has a low end cut-off of "less than 50 copies of HIV RNA/ml" and an upper limit of "greater than 75,000 copies/ml." The significance of the difference between these two tests is that the Amplicor test is more accurate at higher viral loads and the Ultrasensitive test is more accurate at the low end of viral loads.
It is useful to do the Amplicor test when someone is first evaluated for HIV disease because it is valuable to know before starting treatment if the viral load is in the thousands, hundreds of thousands, or millions. Once someone is on HIV treatment and is doing well, it is more useful to use the Ultrasensitive test, given that the goal is to get the viral load as low as possible and this test is able to detect lower levels of virus in the blood.
There are other types of viral load tests, such as the branched DNA (bDNA) assay, that are sometimes used. There are various technologies but the measurement principles, with cut-offs for the upper and lower limits, are similar to what is described for the RNA PCR tests above.
4. Serum Chemistries -- liver and kidney function tests.
Liver Function Tests (LFTs): These tests measure some key functions of the liver, a complex organ that does many important tasks in the body. The liver manufactures proteins that are essential to blood-clotting and to keeping fluid in your bloodstream instead of leaking out into your tissues and causing swelling (edema). The liver breaks down most environmental poisons (toxins) and drugs to rid the body of them. It also forms bile, which is important for digestion.
Amino aspartate transaminase (AST, formerly SGOT) and alanine aspartate transaminase (ALT, formerly SGPT) are key enzymes that indicate how well liver cells (hepatocytes) are functioning. The levels of an enzyme called alkaline phosphatase and a protein by-product called bilirubin indicate how well the production and excretion of bile is going. Albumin, a protein made in the liver, is critical for keeping fluid in the bloodstream and is an overall measure of nutritional status.
Liver function can be damaged by alcohol abuse, environmental toxins (including street drugs), viral infection of the liver (viral hepatitis) and a long list of diseases. Since people with HIV sometimes also have chronic hepatitis B or C, drink too much, or experience liver damage (hepatotoxicity) from medications, LFTs are important to monitor.
Kidney (renal) function tests: These tests measure how well your kidneys are doing their primary job, which is to rid the body of protein waste (blood urea nitrogen, or BUN) and regulate blood volume by filtering out the waste and extra water to form urine. The two main kidney function tests look at the level of waste as a way to measure how efficiently your kidneys are operating. These tests can provide clues that someone might have HIV-associated nephropathy (HIVAN) or kidney malfunction due to other causes, such as dehydration or drug toxicity.
Since some drugs are excreted from the body by the kidneys, dose adjustments need to be made when a person develops altered kidney function. Awareness of kidney dysfunction is also important when selecting an ARV regimen because some medications, like Viread, are not preferred for someone with underlying kidney disease.
Kidney function should be checked when someone enters HIV care. Thereafter, people at high risk of developing kidney disease (primarily African Americans and diabetics or people with a family history of diabetes) should have their kidney function checked at regular intervals. Routine checks are also recommended for people on ARV therapy.
5. Syphilis blood test. Syphilis, like HIV, is a sexually transmitted infection that may have no symptoms at all. If left untreated, it can cause -- years later -- significant disease and death due to damage to blood vessels and the brain.
There are a number of blood tests for syphilis (RPR, FTA, syphilis IgG), but the type of test is less important than the fact that everyone with HIV should have one upon entering HIV care and women who become pregnant should have one. After that, screening depends on risk -- people who are at higher risk of exposure through unprotected sex, especially with multiple partners, may need to be screened regularly. Several outbreaks around the country among men who have sex with men have occurred over the past several years. Sex workers, incarcerated individuals, and people with other sexually transmitted infections are also at high risk.
6. Tests for viral hepatitis. Many HIV-positive people are also infected ("co-infected") with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) and/or hepatitis C virus (HCV). It is very important to find this out because, if left untreated, both conditions can ultimately lead to severe scarring of the liver (cirrhosis), liver failure, and liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma, or HCC for short).
Some HIV medicines are active against hepatitis B, so it is important to craft an ARV regimen that will adequately treat both HIV and HBV at the same time. Hepatitis C currently requires treatment with two drugs that do not control HIV, and this therapy can be pretty challenging. However, depending on virus type and other factors, treatment can be very effective.
In addition to HBV and HCV, it is also important to test your blood for proteins that are protective (called antibodies) to hepatitis A (HAV). There is no chronic form of hepatitis A, but if you already have chronic liver disease from hepatitis B or C, you can get much sicker from hepatitis A than someone who doesn't have HBV or HCV because you already have some liver damage. Since there are vaccines available for hepatitis A and B (but not, unfortunately, for hepatitis C), these should be offered to every HIV-positive person whose blood tests show no prior exposure to these viruses.
7. Resistance tests (genotype and phenotype). These tests tell us whether your virus is resistant to certain HIV drugs (in other words, the medication is not effective against your virus). Testing for transmitted resistance is now recommended before starting HIV meds, as up to 16% of people have a virus that is resistant to one or more antiretrovirals. These tests are also crucial for people who are not responding to their HIV therapy.
Both genotypes and phenotypes are done on a blood sample. Genotypes, which are simpler, faster, and cheaper to perform, identify changes in particular viral genes that are associated with reduced or no response to specific drugs. Phenotypes, which are more complicated, time-consuming, and expensive to perform, test how well your HIV grows in the presence of different concentrations of HIV drugs.
Genotypes may be more than adequate for early resistance because they look at how much resistance the virus has compared to virus with no resistance; phenotypes have some advantages for people with extensive resistance because they can indicate how well the virus responds to individual drugs. The phenotype results can be especially useful when there are no"new" drugs available to someone and the only option is a "salvage" regimen of drugs to which the virus is still susceptible.
In the most difficult cases, both tests add information of value. Cost can limit the availability of these tests, especially the phenotype.
8. Serum lipids. Diet, exercise, cigarettes and your genetic heritage (the genes you inherited from your parents and ancestors) all influence your risk for heart disease. Since we now expect HIV-positive people to live a long time, we have to pay attention to the fact that both HIV itself and some of the medications used to treat it have been associated with abnormal lipid levels (cholesterol and triglycerides, which are fats in the blood). This makes it important to obtain fasting lipids when you first enter HIV care, and to have them repeated at least once a year. Repeating them more often will depend on whether they are normal or not to begin with and what other heart disease risks you have -- are you overweight? Do you smoke? Do you have diabetes or high blood pressure? Do you exercise? Do you have a family history of high cholesterol or heart disease?
To be accurate, lipid testing must be done in the "fasted" state -- no food (or drink, except water or diet soda or plain tea or black coffee -- any drink without calories) for a minimum of eight hours, ideally 10 to 12. Fasting lipids include four separate measurements of different forms of fats that circulate in your blood: total cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein (HDL, or "good cholesterol"), low-density lipoprotein (LDL, or "bad cholesterol"), and triglycerides.
High levels of HDL protect you against heart disease caused by clogged arteries in your heart (atherosclerotic heart disease). Unfortunately, high levels of the other fats are associated with an increased risk for heart disease. Lipid levels can be lowered with lifestyle changes, but some people may also have to take lipid-lowering drugs in addition to a diet change and other interventions.
9. Pap smear. A Pap smear involves scraping cells from the cervix or anus (usually with a tiny cotton swab), preparing them on a slide, and viewing them through a microscope. Every HIV-negative woman should be screened once a year for cell changes on the cervix that could lead to cervical cancer. Depending on CD4 count and other factors, women who are HIV-positive should be screened twice a year (every six months) for cervical cancer.
Cervical cancer is caused by infection with certain strains of human papillomavirus (HPV). Cervical cancer is a real threat to HIV-positive women, especially at lower CD4 counts, and became part of the case definition of AIDS in 1993. If caught early, it can be cured.
Anal Pap smears are still not standard of care due to limitations of the test and because an expert is needed to accurately analyze the results. The wealth of data that exists for cervical Pap smears does not exist for anal Paps, so questions remain about its reliability and predictability as a screening tool. In some centers, anal Paps have been an effective way to screen for anal carcinoma, but many centers lack health care providers and pathologists (the doctors who interpret Pap smears) who can perform this test reliably.
This test was developed initially for men who have sex with men, thought to be susceptible to anal carcinoma because of sexually transmitted HPV infection. However, women can also benefit from such a test, even if they have not had anal intercourse.
10. Screening tests for cancer. Now that HIV-positive people have the prospect of living out a normal lifespan, it is important to provide cancer-screening tests because most cancers are age-related. Also, there is some evidence that people who are HIV-positive may be at higher risk for a broader range of cancers than the ones that have long been HIV-associated, like Kaposi's sarcoma and B cell lymphoma.
The guidelines for performing these screening tests are the same as those for HIV-negative individuals.
- For men aged 40 and older: an annual prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood test to look for prostate cancer
- For women aged 40 and older: a baseline mammogram (type of x-ray) to detect breast cancer, with subsequent mammograms based on age and family history
- For all people aged 50 and older: a baseline and then subsequent colonoscopy to detect colon cancer
- For smokers: QUIT! A chest X-ray may be prudent for smokers, but there is no clear interval for subsequent screening.
Judith Feinberg, M.D., is a clinician and Professor of Medicine at the University of Cincinnati, where she is also the Director of the AIDS Clinical Trials Unit. Dr. Feinberg is an American Academy of HIV Medicine (AAHIVM)-credentialed HIV Specialist. Taken from Positively Aware Special Issue Fall 2006.
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Vestas will supply 33 V112 3MW turbines to the Arjäng project in Värmland, and the Skaveröd project in Uddevalla. The contract includes an eight-year service agreement, with installation set for 2014.
Arjäng and Skaveröd have a 33MW and 66MW capacity respectively.
This is the second V112 order for Sweden this month. Last week, paper manufacturer Holmen signed a deal with Vestas to supply 17 V112s for a project north of Stockholm.


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Friction hitches
The diameter and type of cord used to make a friction hitch must be selected according to the rope it will be used on. Holding power and ease of release can be adjusted by changing the number of wraps.
- Read the technical notice before viewing the following techniques.
- It is important to fully understand the information provided in the technical notice before using this complementary information
- Mastering these techniques requires training.
- Consult a professional before attempting to perform these techniques on your own.
Easy release, locks in both directions.
Locks in both directions.


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5 Event Trends at SXSW 2011: Streaming Content, Less Swag, Branded Transportation, and More
Each year at South by Southwest, there's a lot to take in during the Interactive, Film, and Music portions of the festival. But for those who stick around for the long haul—10 days—it's not hard to spot a few common threads in all of the event marketing initiatives from sponsors and piggybacking brands.
Here's a look at the trends spotted in Austin, Texas, that you can likely expect to see more of throughout the rest of the year.
1. Streaming Content
The desire to have an event reach beyond those in attendance is a constant consideration for marketers and planners. And while SXSW attendance continues to grow, brands like AOL, IFC, and The Fader have all increased efforts to give their festival activations a larger audience. All three streamed interviews and performances from their SXSW hubs on their Web sites in 2011.
Other brands took the critical mass of attention and influencers falling on the city to stream less conventional events online. Ray-Ban, for example, streamed the popping of a gigantic water balloon, which kicked off a water fight the brand also chronicled on video.
2. Branded Transportation
A substantial portion of the cars traversing downtown Austin this year were covered in logos and decorative advertising—and they weren't just for show. Chevrolet promoted its eco-friendly Volt with the "Catch a Chevy" promo. Certain intersections throughout Austin were staffed with Chevy representatives, and anyone who walked by when a car was parked there could get a complimentary lift back to their hotel or to their next show.
Other brands promised more than just a free ride. Sunglasses-maker Carrera ditched its stationary gifting suite for the "Band Van." Talent and media could call for rides across town, and while they sat in it, could pick out a new pair of shades.
3. Less Swag
What some may call cost-cutting, others might be inclined to dub a responsible move. Swag, freebies, and paper usage had been on the rise at recent iterations of SXSW, but not this year. This was clear from registration, where official festival tote bags—normally packed with pounds of postcards, snacks, and other items that ended up in hotel garbage cans—were streamlined, with only a few programming books and other easily recycled materials.
4. QR Codes
It took awhile, but the QR code (a matrix bar code that, when snapped by a camera phone, transfers data) seems to finally be taking hold in North America. At SXSW, the distinctive, pixel-formed squares popped up on posters for events, on branded materials at parties, and even on napkins and cocktail glasses.
The usefulness of the data transfer is still up for debate, but the fact the festival-goers were taking photos of the codes and taking them back with them means they have to be making some impression.
5. Extended Presence
This may be unique to SXSW, one of the few festivals fractured into differently themed categories, but brands and sponsors that once focused on only one segment of the festival are now in it for the long haul. AOL maintained a strong presence after the technology-focused days were over, and, this year, Hewlett-Packard created a pop-up complex that took them from Interactive through Music. There's no longer just "one" SXSW audience that brands are trying to reach. They want them all.


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For many of us the time is here to help our aging parents or family members when it becomes difficult for them to manage on their own. Organizing our own family can be somewhat of a challenge at times and the additional responsibility of our helping our aging parents can be overwhelming. However, no one says you have to carry the responsibility all alone. As working parents with children, we are faced with new stresses to balance work and family. Families who are separated by great distances must make hard choices to provide care. Sometimes nursing homes or special care retirement centers seem to be the only options. You do have a choice and Visiting Angels can help. These options are to provide in-home assisted living care for your loved ones without sacrificing their independence. Visiting Angels can provide assisted living care in the home.
The services that are provided through assisted living care providers have been enhanced over the years. These services have changed from providing only medical support to providing total in-home assisted living care for the elderly. It is no longer necessary to have the simplest tasks postponed or left undone because you were not able to find the time to assist yourself. In-home assisted living care providers can help with simple tasks on a daily, weekly or at need basis.
Assisted living care providers are professionally trained and well screened essential personal caregivers. Assisted living care services range from simple companion care to daily chores like meal assistance, hygiene assistance, light housekeeping, medicine monitoring, and errand transportation to name a few. The best thing about assisted living care services is that you are in control and through open communication can easily monitor services provided. Assisted living care caregivers are available on a regular schedule or on demand given a short lead time.
The reality of caring for our loved ones is that it can be overwhelming at times and we don't have to go it alone. The cost of in-home assisted living care is far more affordable compared to an assisted living facility. Visiting Angels is the family alternative to assisted living facilities and nursing homes.
Bio: Linda Dunkelberger is a freelance writer and editor. "Assisted Living Care Can Be Made Easy" describes in-home assisted living care providers that can help with in-home elderly care. Visiting Angels is the nation's most trusted name in assisted living care giving and coast to coast care. For more information visit us at www.VisitingAngels.com.
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I was fortunate enough to be invited to Earth's most classy and famous expert league – the FakeTeams Hoops Tournament. The league has 14 teams consisting of three FakeTeamers (the hosts of this shindig), two guys from ESPN, one from Canada's The Basketball Jones, one rep from Give Me the Rock, one from Fox Sports, one from Dime Magazine and fbasketballblog, RotoWorld, Damn Lies and Statistics, Life is Just a Fantasy … Basketball Blog and a partridge in a pear tree (I'm either the partridge or the tree, I'm not sure). You may recognize most of those stellar publications from their permanent presence on the right blogroll, or their ethereal presence everywhere else.
The format is a 14 team, 9 category, H2H, snake draft with the following roster format: PG/SG/SF/PF/C/G/F/3 UTIL/3 BENCH
I happened to have scheduled another draft 30 minutes before this one, so at one point, I felt like a fancy Wall St. trader scanning from one monitor to another, only I was wearing frog pajamas, which I'm assuming most Wall Street traders don't do.
Everyone's strategy is to draft as good of a team as possible. Usually, that manifests in picking three players with similar skill sets in the first five rounds and deciding that THAT is their team's identity. Me? I wanted a balanced team. From round to round, I wanted the players that filled the most stats cats that I had neglected the round or two before it.
Overall, I think ol' Razzball has a shot at this thing. I got one of the most well-rounded point guards in the game (Evans), the number one pick in the draft (Durant) added to a lock for FT% with Martin and the Bumpus Hounds (West and Hibbert) as my deadeye bigs. We also have a few exciting upside guys like Hickson, Hill, Anderson, Udoh and Shumpshump mixed in with glue guys like Odom and Jamison. Running the team's rosters against my projections, no one's catching this team in PTS and FT% and I finish top 3 in 3PT, AST (almost everyone on this team tosses out assists) and TOV. This team might be in trouble with BLKs and FG% (which is lucky, because those two categories are often connected). The draft is the first step and I avoided tripping and cracking a tooth on the pavement, so that's nice.
David Pincus over at FakeTeams, our league commissioner, did a nice write-up on the draft, which you can read here if you're into it. He's also compiling every owner's thoughts on how they drafted. Check that out over the next week. I mostly babble about going completely neurotic alone in a room lit only with the twinkle of Christmas tree lights. Pulitzer, here I come!
Anyway, let me know what you think of the team …


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And then, he'll say something like: "See that pasture with those six hogs?"
After more than a decade in the culinary arts, the 32-year-old La Crosse native went back to school to learn more about the meat and vegetables that end up in his kitchen. Powell begins an internship at Organic Valley on Monday after graduating from Western Technical College's agri-business science technology program.
"It's a huge weight off my shoulders," Powell said. "There were a couple times where I really thought about, 'Is this the right idea?' "
Powell is one of 1,136 graduates who will be honored at 2 p.m. today at Western's spring commencement ceremony in the La Crosse Center. College officials will grant 527 associate degrees and 242 technical diplomas, with 321 students graduating from Western's certified nursing assistant program.
Powell's Western degree marks his second spin at college. He also studied the culinary arts at Fox Valley Technical College, but he realized about two years ago that he needed to return to the world of higher education to realize his dream.
Powell wants to own a farm-to-table restaurant — a place that mixes modern cooking with "old-school" butchering, Powell said.
"I think butchering is kind of a dying art," Powell said. "People don't eat heart. People don't eat liver. People don't eat kidneys."
Powell was the type of student who always added to the conversation in his classes at Western — often to talk about his favorite food, said Tracy Harper, an instructor and department head.
"Lots of discussions about bacon," Harper said. "Every class."
Powell's passion for food was obvious, and it was infectious, Harper said.
His love for food dates back to the baked goods served up by his grandma and aunt. He wouldn't settle for anything that wasn't as tasty as his grandma's cuisine, Powell said.
He started brushing up on his skills with different ingredients. About 12 years ago, he got a job at Syl's Place, a Barre Mills supper club. Powell worked in the kitchen and behind the bar.
"Pouring drinks wasn't really my thing," Powell said. "I like playing with fire."
He also has worked in kitchens at the La Crosse Country Club and restaurants in the Green Bay area.
"I was pretty lucky in my 12 years in the kitchen," Powell said.
He was the executive chef at Pogreba in La Crosse but relinquished that title when he went back to school.
An unfortunate incident with a mechanical bull forced Powell to focus on his transition from cooking to agriculture. Nursing an injured elbow — compliments of the bull — Powell took two months off to focus on his studies.
Now, he's back where he started, at Syl's, but the horizon is completely changed. Western instructors and the people he met there have given him the ability to pursue his goals. They taught him things he could never have learned in the small garden of his childhood home on the North Side, Powell said.
He and some of his friends are raising livestock and testing recipes on family and friends, but Powell is focused on Organic Valley, where he'll work this summer as an intern in the quality assurance department.
"Between a couple of my buddies, we've got to find a plan," Powell said. "If we're going to do it, we're going to do it right."


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New England Silverlight Guild October 18, 2010 Kick-off Meeting (Microsoft, Framington CT)
NE Silverlight Guild
Monday, October 18, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
Event Details
The New England Silverlight Guild (NESLG) is organized to promote and encourage designers, developers, and innovators of all skill levels to share, laugh and grow our skills and knowledge around Silverlight, Expression Blend and Windows Phone 7. We meet on the 3rd Monday of every month at the Microsoft New England Research and Development Center in Cambridge, MA and at the Microsoft Farmington Office in Farmington CT. We will have guest speaker at one facility and use Microsoft LiveMeeting as the web conferencing service.
Our speaker will be presenting at the NERD Center in Cambridge MA and a LiveMeeting conferencing service with the Microsoft Farmington CT facility.
Jesse Liberty "Silverlight Geek" is a Senior Community Program Manager for Microsoft, focused on Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 programming.
Session Abstract
Silverlight as a Transmedia Platform
See Intro Video: http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/SilverlightTV/Jesse-Liberty-Explains-Silverlight-as-a-Transmedia-Platform-Silverlight-TV-33/
About Jesse
Jesse works from home in the Greater Boston area but travels to Redmond frequently to check in with the Silverlight team.
Jesse builds an on-line community for Silverlight using various teaching/training outlets:
• blogging - http://jesseliberty.com/,
• videos - http://www.silverlight.net/learn/videos/silverlight-4-videos/,
• tutorials - http://www.silverlight.net/learn/,
• Presentations world-wide - http://jesseliberty.com/current-presentations/
Jesse was honored by Silverlight Cream (http://SilverlightCream.com) with the on-line award "Best Blog Post of 2010". (http://bit.ly/Num1Cream)
Food and beverages will be provided at both facilities for this event. Feel free to organize a group outing to the local watering hole after the meeting.
Event meetings are organized by Gary Chin (Silverlight Instructor at Brandeis University) and Dennis Perlot of CT TyMetrix
Call for Speakers: Take an opportunity to share your knowledge. Feel free to email us at: firstname.lastname@example.com
When & Where
Microsoft Farmington CT
74 Batterson Park Rd, #100
Monday, October 18, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
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I signed up to post photos of my two dogs that were lost to cancer in 2009. However the memorial page will not allow me to post. Is it locked?
Anyhow , me and my wife are huge pittbull lovers! We have two here at home, one that is going to be 10 this year and the other a young rescue that is about 1.5 years old. I am going to start reading through the forums now to see what kind of community this is.
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In response to the current and projected increased enrollment of Seattle Public Schools a task force is being formed to examine and prepare a set of recommendations to the superintendent for the purpose of being prepared for continued demands for future classroom space in our buildings at all levels.
Two major pressures on capacity availability within our buildings are:
The role of the task force is to gather, analyze, review, and consider information and data and to prepare a report to the Superintendent of Schools regarding Seattle Public Schools capacity issues. Read the Capacity Management Task Force Charter.
Our goal is for the task force to include parent/guardian, family, and community members who represent the diversity of Seattle Public Schools and who can provide valuable insight and perspective regarding the future of facilities for the students of Seattle Public Schools.
Appointment of the task force will be for ten months.
Meetings will begin at the end of June 2016 and continue until March 1, 2017. Additional meetings will be scheduled as needed.
Please complete the application form and submit it to Flip Herndon, as indicated, by June 15. Applicants will be notified by email, if possible, or by phone by June 20, 2016.
Open the webpage with the Capacity Management Task Force Application for family and community members .
Capacity Planning and Management is part of the Capital Projects and Planning Department. Capacity management requires working to balance the number of students at each school with the space available. Read more about our department on our Capacity Planning and Management webpage.


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LITTLE ROCK — Secretary of State Mark Martin, a Republican, filed for re-election Tuesday just after Democrat Susan Inman filed for the constitutional office.
LITTLE ROCK — Secretary of State Mark Martin, a Republican, filed for re-election Tuesday just after Democrat Susan Inman filed for the constitutional office.
Also filing Tuesday was Republican Saline County Circuit Clerk Dennis Milligan for state treasurer.
The week-long political filing period began Monday and runs through next Monday.
There are 265 federal, state, district and nonpartisan judicial positions up for election this year, including each of the state's 100 House seats and 18 of the 35 Senate seats. the primary election is May 20 and the general election is Nov. 4.
On Tuesday, 51 people filed at the state Capitol, bring the total to 187 for the first two days, along with 90 who previously filed petitions for nonpartisan judicial races, said Alex Reed, spokesman for the secretary of state.
Inman, a long-time election official, said she wants to brings integrity and non-partisanship back to the office.
"I want to restore transparency and integrity to the office of secretary of state," she said. "I think its high time that we look at people's qualifications and credentials, rather than just a D or an R next to their name, so that we can elect people qualified to fill those jobs they are entrusted with by the voters in Arkansas."
Inman also criticized Martin for not informing absentee voters on the new voter ID process.
"The absentee voters did not know what to do," she said, adding if she had been in office they would have understood the new law and known what they had to do to vote.
The new voter ID law took effect Jan. 1 and was used for the first time in a special election in Craighead County in January for a state Senate seat. After a majority of absentee voters failed to submit a copy of their ID with their ballot, as required under the law, county election officials were unsure whether the law allowed those voters to correct the error.
The law allows voters who do not bring ID to the polls to cast a provisional ballot and gives them until noon the following Monday to present ID to have their ballot counted, but it was unclear whether the cure period applied to absentee voters. The election officials ultimately decided, acting on advice from Martin, to give the voters until noon of the following Tuesday — because the next Monday was a holiday — to submit ID.
State Attorney General Dustin McDaniel said later in an advisory opinion that he could find nothing in Arkansas' new voter ID law that allows for a cure period for absentee voters who fail to submit ID with their ballot.
Martin did not immediately return a telephone call seeking comment Tuesday.
Milligan, a former chairman of the Republican Party of Arkansas, said his business experience and his "county-level executive" experience qualify him for state treasurer.
"The treasurer's office, as it has been shown, has had some difficulties," he said, adding that he has twice previously "been called upon by my party to go into jobs that are difficult, including the state chairmanship, and also as the sitting circuit clerk of Saline County … I went into that office when there were some issues and some trouble."
Former state Treasurer Martha Shoffner resigned May 21 after being indicted on public corruption counts. She was later charge with 14 counts of extortion and bribery. She had been under investigation for more than a year because of suspected bond transactions in her office when federal authorities took her into custody at her Newport home May 18 after an informant delivered a $6,000 cash payment in a pie box.
A trial on those charges is scheduled for March 3.
Earlier this month, she was charged with 10 counts of mail fraud for allegedly using $9,800 of campaign funds from her re-election campaign for state treasurer for personal use. Shoffner allegedly mailed campaign checks for payments to a personal Wells Fargo credit card from Nov. 5, 2010, through Oct. 9, 2011.
A hearing is scheduled for Thursday on the new charges.
Rep. Duncan Baird, R-Lowell, co-chairman of the Joint Budget Committee, has said he also plans to seek the state treasurer's seat.
Also filing Tuesday was Janis Percefull of Hot Springs for 4th District Congress. Percefull, an historian and part-time history teacher at National Park Community College in Hot Springs, had said she planned to seek the Democratic Party nomination.
James Lee Witt, former director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and director of the state Department of Emergency Management, filed to run for the 4th District congressional seat in the Democratic primary on Monday.
Also Monday, Rep. Bruce Westerman, R-Hot Springs, filed to run for the congressional seat in the Republican primary.


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Twitter and its financial advisors will be patting themselves on the back and counting their bucks after the firm's first day on the stock exchange saw its perceived value rise 73 per cent at the close of trading.
Investors piled into the stock at the start of trading; nearly doubling its initial $26 IPO price to $50.09 before the sell-off began. Prices rose again through the day before brokers took their profit and the stock price settled down to $44.90 at the close of trading at the New York Stock Exchange.
The other big winners of the day were the vampire squids at Goldman Sachs, after the company earned itself an estimated $59m in fees for handling the IPO.
Twitter executives didn't open trading themselves, but left the traditional ringing of the stock exchange well to a motley collection of famous and not-so-famous users of its service. These included the social media manager for the Boston Police, a nine-year-old who used Twitter to set up a lemonade stand, and the actor Patrick Stewart – who confessed he had only started using the service in the last year and wouldn't be investing.
"I'm not a financial person at all and nobody should take my word as a good reason for investing in anything," he said, The New York Times reports. "But it is a brilliant organization, and the impact it has worldwide is so extraordinary, and furthermore, it's free."
For now at least, Jean-Luc. Twitter still has yet to turn a profit and its users have been vocal about rumored attempts to monetize the service by spamming their Twitter feeds with adverts and sponsored posts. We'll have to see if Wall Street gets its money's worth, but Twitter played the market beautifully, unlike other social media IPOs.
Twitter first set the price range for its public offering at between $17-$20, then raised that to between $23 and $25 before settling on $26. Given the excitement in secondary market the company looks to have judged it just right, given the healthy end of day's results, whereas Facebook's high initial IPO sent the stock plummeting on its debut. ®
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The Chicago Fire announced today that the launch of a new 2011 season ticket deposit program. Fans participating in the 2011 season ticket deposit program will also have the ability to hand-select their 2011 seat location at a Select-A-Seat event.
2011 program deposits are only $100 per seat. Those who place deposits will receive an equal number of complimentary seats to any 2010 Fire match.
Fans who make 2011 season ticket deposits will also be eligible for several other offers for 2010, including:
· Lock in remaining 2010 ticket packages at current season ticket prices.
· Eight-month interest free payment program
· Priority to purchase tickets for the 2010 playoffs
· A Personal Fire Ticket Sales Representative
The Fire return to MLS league play at the New England Revolution on Sunday, June 27 at 6:00 PM CT (Comcast SportsNet). On Tuesday, June 29 at 7:30 PM CT, the Fire return home to TOYOTA PARK in their quest for their fifth Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup title with a third round match against the Charleston Battery. Additionally, the Fire will host "World Cup Night" presented by Best Buy at TOYOTA PARK when the club takes on reigning MLS Cup Champions Real Salt Lake on Thursday, July 8 at 8:30 PM CT (ESPN2). For tickets and more information on how to purchase ticket packages, please call 1-888-MLS-FIRE (657-3473) or head to the club's official website at www.Chicago-Fire.com.
For live updates, news, photos and videos of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, visit the Chicago Fire's World Cup page atwww.Chicago-Fire.com.


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Be careful! Starting in PHP 5.3.7 the behavior of is_a() has changed slightly: when calling is_a() with a first argument that is not an object, __autoload() is triggered!
In practice, this means that calling is_a('23', 'User'); will trigger __autoload() on "23". Previously, the above statement simply returned 'false'.
More info can be found here:
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Monthly Archives: December 2007
More Pictures of Brainerd
Here are a few more historical pictures of buildings in Brainerd. Again, these were taken from Elsie Walker Everest's scrap book and aren't identified as to the sources. I hope you enjoy this little bit of Minnesota history.
Beneath this clipping in Aunt Elsie's handwriting are these words: "We got our railroad passes here – changed cars, etc. "
This picture has written on it: "Ralph's first school in Brainerd." Ralph Everest was the husband of Elsie Walker and the notation is in her hand.
The caption reads: OLD WASHINGTON HIGH Built in 1884, the building was destroyed by fire in 1929.
Text of the caption: PIONEER BRAINERD This was Front Street, Brainerd, in 1871, less than a year after a settlement had been started here. The buildings shown above were located somewhere west of Sixth street. Notice the heavy forest at … Continue reading
Transcription of the caption: FIRST SCHOOL This is the first school building of Crow Wing District No. 1 situated between Old Crow Wing and the highway. The first owner of the picture, which is now the property of the Crow … Continue reading
Old Pictures of Brainerd, Minnesota
Good Evening, My Aunt Elsie (Walker) Everest kept diaries and scrapbooks for about 40 years, as I've mentioned elsewhere in the blog. Just tonight as I was browsing a scrapbook titled "Scraps and Snaps" I came across a number of … Continue reading


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So without making you wait any longer, the winner is...
Emma Haughton
Congrats Emma! I really hope you like the book and find something you would like to crochet.
Just send me your contact information and address and I'll put it in the mail this week.
My preferred email address is firstname.lastname@example.com
For the next post, I have another pattern book to share, but I haven't taken any photos yet.
For now, I will share my most recent finished project. It's a Christmas tree skirt.
I actually made two. Of course Ireland wanted one for her tree. I didn't mind since I messed up the first one and made it small with a tiny opening. That worked well for her artificial 4 ft tree. We have a live 9 ft tree in the living room, so the opening for the stand had to be a lot larger. I was inspired by Cherry Heart blog.
This is Ireland's
Anyway, I'll be back in a few days to tell you about another book. I'm not sure if I'll do a giveaway for that one yet. I only have one copy of it for now. I just might decide to do one though. Kind of like a celebration for each published project.
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It's amazing how much candid video we are getting out of a rebel controlled rural war zone in Eastern Ukraine. In the video below, we see a guy cart off one of MH17s Black Boxes.
This video, shot on Friday, is welcomed by many as some have claimed that MH17's black boxed were expressed to Moscow immediately after the shoot-down, while other say they are still in Ukraine. With the emergence of this video, at least we now know that one was found intact and not in Russia as of Friday.
For our full coverage on MH17 please click here.
Tyler Rogoway is a defense journalist and photographer that maintains the website Foxtrot Alpha for Jalopnik.com You can reach Tyler with story ideas or direct comments regarding this or any other defense topic via the email address firstname.lastname@example.com


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2013-12-11 - After previously putting up the first trailer on their upcoming new record »Shine«, Finnish Rock fairies INDICA now present the second part of their behind-the-scenes look. In this clip Jonsu talks about the creation of »Shine«, which is actually based on a dream of hers.
The trailer is available at the following link:
Also available is the first album trailer, you can watch it here:
And the lyric video for 'A Definite Maybe' is available to watch here:
»Shine« will be released on January 24, 2014 via Nuclear Blast, giving you a real kick-off start for the New Year. You can pre-order your copy of »Shine« at this address: http://smarturl.it/INDICA-Shine
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INDICA – new record »Shine« out now!
2014-01-24 01:00 - The long-awaited new of Finnish female five-piece INDICA record »Shine« is in stores now! The album is available as a limited first pressing in a beautiful digipak with ... Details
INDICA –'Mountain Made Of Stone' lyric ...
2014-01-20 00:00 - With the release of their new album »Shine« just a few days ahead of us, Finnish all-female Rock quintet INDICA has now put up the lyric video for their melancholically ... Details
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2014-01-08 00:00 - The release of the long awaited new INDICA record »Shine« finally ahead and set for January 24, 2014 via Nuclear Blast. To give you another idea of just how bright their ... Details
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2013-12-18 02:00 - With the release of their new record »Shine« coming closer by the day now, Finish all-female Rock quintet INDICA have just released the third trailer, to give their fans a ... Details
INDICA – 'A Definite Maybe' digital single...
2013-12-06 00:00 - As the first single, INDICA release 'A Definite Maybe' on iTunes today. The emotional track is out of their upcoming new record »Shine«, coming up on January 24th, 2014 ... Details
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Whipping bitterly cold gusts of air against my exposed skin, the wind howled mercilessly, landing a barrage of freezing punches from all directions. Inescapable, unrelenting, this assault makes each step outside feel like a mile away. Winter in New England can be a challenge to cope with on the best of days, and through the eyes of a SAD-sufferer, no day is a good day. Days blur, sloppily, slowly, into one ugly mess of endless slush, ice, and darkness.
Lighting the way through these murky moments is the promise of imminent escape. Having the foresight to book a ticket back to Hawaii while airfare was still reasonable was the smartest impulse buy (not to mention the most expensive) I made all year. Memories of warmth, sun, and genuine happiness fuel a stubborn persistence to keep hanging on just a little while longer. White-knuckling it through the stress of final exams and bleakness of winter's descent, the day of departure simply can't come soon enough.
In the meantime, the tastes of Hawaii provide some small comfort, a tiny tropical oasis in the midst of less favorable conditions. Turning back to those incredible macadamia nuts that I had been saving for a rainy day, stashed way back in the depths of the freezer for safe keeping, savory inspiration pulled me away from my standard palate of sweet ingredients.
Seeking something light and bright to contrast with all of the other, heavier comfort foods keeping me afloat, quinoa proved an ideal canvas to paint the colors of Honolulu upon. That concept turned out quite literally, as dried hibiscus blossoms (the official state flower) and red beet juice stained the white grains a dainty shade of dusty rose. Buttery macadamias and a generous splash of coconut milk lend richness to the otherwise lean pilaf, balancing the opposing desires for clean flavors and soothing touches of decadence. Flavored simply with a backdrop of garlic and scallions, the floral infusion is what sets the dish apart. Each bite brings back visions of brilliant blooms, stretching upwards to kiss the cloudless blue sky.
Although it won't stop me from counting the days until my Hawaiian adventures begin anew, a heaping helping of warm quinoa does help time pass at least a little bit more easily- And certainly much more deliciously.
Mahalo Macadamia Quinoa Pilaf
2 1/3 Cups Water
6 Dried Whole Hibiscus Blossoms, or 6 Bags Hibiscus Tea
1 14-Ounce Can (1 3/4 Cups) Full-Fat Coconut Milk
1/4 Cup Red Beet Juice or Puree (Optional, for Color)
1/2 – 1 Teaspoon Salt
2 Cups Raw Quinoa
1 Cup Macadamia Nuts, Coarsely Chopped
1 Tablespoon Coconut Oil
1 Large Sweet Onion, Diced
4 Cloves Garlic, Finely Minced
1/4 Teaspoon Ground Black Pepper
1 Large Scallion, Thinly Sliced
Place the water and hibiscus blossoms or tea bags in a large saucepan over medium heat, and bring the water to a boil. Cover, remove the pot from the stove, and allow the tea to steep for about 30 minutes.
Squeeze out and discard the spent blossoms or tea bags. Return the pot to the stove and introduce the coconut milk, beet juice or puree, and 1/2 teaspoon salt. Bring the liquids to a full boil before adding in the quinoa. Cover and turn down the heat to low, keeping the contents of the pot at a gentle simmer. Cook for 16 – 20 minutes, until all of the liquid has been absorbed and the quinoa is tender. Turn off the heat but keep covered for 10 minutes to steam and finish cooking.
Meanwhile, toss the macadamia nuts into a dry skillet over medium heat, and stir constantly until they're lightly toasted and smelling irresistibly nutty. Quickly transfer to the pot of quinoa to prevent them from burning and lightly wipe out the skillet.
Melt the oil to the skillet before adding in the onion and garlic. Saute, stirring periodically, until golden brown all over. Transfer to the pot of quinoa, along with the pepper and scallion. Mix thoroughly to combine and distribute the nuts and onions evenly throughout the quinoa. Stir in additional salt to taste, if desired.
Serve immediately while still warm, or chill for at least four hours for a refreshing cold salad.
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Lawsuit Settlement Requires New Homes for 4500 Mentally Ill Illinoisans
A lawsuit that complained that thousands of mentally Ill people in Illinois are being treated unfairly is about to be settled.
The settlement orders the state to transfer 256 people from larger institutions to smaller homes or apartments over the next year, with nearly 400 more transferred next year. Over the next five years the agreement between the state and the American Civil Liberties Union would affect about 4500 mentally ill Illinoisans.
Diane Zell heads the Champaign chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. She says too many people left institutions only to be warehoused in nursing homes not designed to care for them. She fears that the state's economic situation may not mean a smooth transition for many of those people.
"Most poeple who have serious mental illness have not completed their education, and they may not be employed, at least not employed to the extent where they have health insurance," said Zell. "So this is a problem that won't go away."
Nevertheless, advocates of the mentally ill are hailing the agreement as a landmark. The settlement needs a judge's approval and both sides have requested a hearing to consider the specifics of the plan.