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The County is establishing a unique address for each structure based on a consistent County-wide addressing scheme. This is done to improve the emergency response time and save lives. Existing addresses that do not comply with the County-wide scheme will need to be changed.
If you currently receive your mail through a P.O. Box, you can continue to do so. The structure's 911 address will be used to locate the structure in case of an emergency. You will need to notify the Post Office of your new 911 address only if you receive mail delivery at your residence.
Logical, consistent addressing saves lives. If someone new is hired as an emergency personnel worker they may not know you. Emergency responders from adjacent localities and the state do not have the local knowledge.
You will need to notify the Power Company, Phone Company, School System, Place of Employment, Insurance Company, DMV, Cell Phone Company, Cable Company, Newspapers, Bank, Magazines, Voter Registration, Schools attended by your child/children and your mortgage company if applicable (make copies of your notification letter).
Your new 911 address will consist of a house number and street name. You will be notified of what your new address is and will receive a packet containing your new address and a list of suggested people you should notify about your address change.
Unfortunately, the County cannot pay for that. The County will notify you when to begin using your new address and it is recommended that you wait until that time before you change anything.
Yes. Part of the County ordinance states that every structure must have their address properly displayed. The County ordinance is available for review and enforceable by fine.
No. The deed to your home is based on the actual property boundaries, not your 911 address.
The County tries to incorporate citizens' suggestions with regards to road names, but this is sometimes not possible due to road naming standards such as not using punctuation or personal names. Also, the county is trying to eliminate road names that are too much alike. Therefore, if your requested road name is similar to another one that has already been established, a different road name must be used.
The County will notify you of your new address.
A road name identifies your general location in the county. Your house number identifies your specific location on that road. Many times a caller is unable to give clear directions to their home or is unable to remember their road number during an emergency if they are panicked. The county's 911 dispatch system automatically locates 911 calls based on the 911 address attached to the phone number.
911 is a lifesaving emergency notification network in which the caller is identified by ANI (automatic number identifier) and ALI (automatic location identifier). This information is automatically displayed on the dispatcher's computer screen at the time the emergency call is answered at the dispatch center. The caller is required to only dial 3 numbers, 911, to be connected to the PSAP (public safety answering point). 911 is a nationally known emergency notification number.
The E stands for enhanced, which means the dispatcher gets address information as well as phone number information when you dial 911. Necessary information can be available to a dispatcher without verification from the caller, in the case of somehow losing the phone connection or if the caller is too upset to give clear information.
Currently a dispatcher will receive an emergency call and may be on the line with the caller from 1-5 minutes attempting to determine the caller's location. Many times the directions are inaccurate, thus increasing the response time of law enforcement, fire or rescue personnel. 911 is a lifesaving emergency notification network in which the caller is identified by ANI (automatic number identifier) and ALI (automatic location identifier). The caller is required to only dial three numbers, 911, to be connected to the PSAP (public safety answering point). 911 is a nationally known emergency notification number. Many times travelers or visitors may attempt to report an emergency without knowledge of the area. Without 911, valuable time would be lost trying to determine the emergency number and location.
Any roads that serve two or more properties with different owners will be named regardless of whether it is a private or public street or road.


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Was Octomom Nadya Suleman channeling Angelina Jolie as Christine Collins in the Changeling?
There are apparently some definite similarities between the two performances.
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WHITTIER – Octomom Nadya Suleman became unhinged with fear last year when she thought she'd lost one of her children, telling an emergency dispatcher, "Oh God, I'm going to kill myself," according to a recording of her 911 call released Wednesday by police.
Suleman made the call Oct. 27 after her 5-year-old son went missing from the front yard, only to find him a few minutes later after he returned from a walk.
Suleman's repeated threats of suicide prompting a chiding from the dispatcher, who could hear children's voices in the background. "Don't say that in front of your other child, OK?" the dispatcher tells Suleman. "Keep yourself under control for your other child; he doesn't need to hear that."
Suleman, an unemployed single mother, has come under scrutiny since giving birth to octuplets Jan. 26 when she already had six other children, ages 2 to 7. Talks show hosts, celebrities and others have weighed in on the topic, with some questioning her ability to look after 14 children.
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[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareEnlightWarlords Battlecry III] "LIMHK0_A"=dword:00000000 "LIMHK0_N"=dword:00000000 "LIMHK0_X"=dword:00000000 "LIMHK1_A"=dword:00000000 "LIMHK1_N"=dword:00000000 "LIMHK1_X"=dword:00000000 Start the game, and if done correctly, you will be able to select your hero again. Multiple cheats: ---------------- When you are playing either a skirmish or a multiplayer, in the passcode box (press enter) type either: iamatank, iaminvincible or iamagod for different results. Glitches: --------- Equipping any item for any item slot This glitch would allow your hero to equip any item in any available item slot in his inventory. This would allow you to equip helms on the boot slot or an accessory in the helm slot for example. Through this glitch you could equip multiple identical items, which you could use to your advantage. 1.Open the Campaign of the hero you want to do this glitch with. 2.Open his Item Stash to access his inventory. 3.Click (choose) the item you want to replace or replace an item with. 4.Press Esc to close the Item Stash window. 5.Open the Item Stash window again, and notice that the item you clicked (chose) is still chosen. Now you can move that item around in any of the hero's equipment slots, with the computer ignoring the appropriateness of that item for that item slot. 6.Click (choose) the item you want the item you chose to replace with. *The term is "REPLACE", meaning that the item slot you want to replace an item with should have an item equipped beforehand. For example, you want to put a helm in the boot slot, you would need a pair of boots in the boot slot to be replaced with the helm. In other words, you can't put items into item slots which do not have any items equipped with. This glitch would retain all the effects of the items. Although, I've noticed that the some bonuses such as "+x Damage" and "+x Armor" do not take effect if the item is not in its proper slot, but others such as "x% chance to cast xx" or "+x to command radius" still take effect. Use this to your advantage! Item, crown and XP: ------------------- Submitted by: Nelson Liang Use the map editor to create a medium map, preferably big enough to put the minesm building and shops yet still have a decend area for the enemy player. 1st: create the map 2nd: put some mines for the resources (minimum one for each type, but it will slow down your resources gathering so i put more than one) and a number of shop 3rd: put some building of the race you want to use. 4th: isolate a section of the map, a corner using water or other obstruction and put other player starting position there. Yours will locate near the mines and shops 5th: save the map and go to skirmish and choose the map you just create. Now you can use your hero to convert the mines and buildings. gather resource and go the each shop, choose to purchase the most expensive item. The more expensive, the more crown you can get by selling the item at the campaign outfitter. If you also want the EXP, make sure your enemies are in a same team, build up a flyer or siege engine to destroy them when you are ready. To max out the crown, leave the item you want to use in your stash in the campaign. Item farming, crown and EXP: ---------------------------- Submitted by: Nelson Create a big map, put mines, shops(the more the better chance of getting good item, thus can sell for a lot of crown in the campaign) and buildings of the race you like to use. Choose a secluded corner and isolate it from the rest of the map using debris or water. Put your starting location near the buldings and mines so you can convert them as soon as the game start. Put the enemies starting location in the secluded corner. Save and start a skirmish game. Now for easier play and maximizing the reward, set army point to 50 your enemies are in the same team, Use your army point to purchase some ranged troop since your enemies could send out flying unit. the rest will be used to purchase peasant to work in the mines. As soon as the game start, convert buildings and mines to earn resources, go to the shops to buy the most expensive items (the more expensive, the more crown you can get), after you filled up all available slot, build flying unit to destroy your enemies at your leisure. So you get good exp after the game finished. Decent item you start the campaign with. If you want to earn crown, sell the item in the campaign outfitter. To earn as much as possible, leave the item you want to keep in your stash before farming again.
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Comments/Context: Vistas of the Grand Tetons, the flat expanse of salt flats, the rumble of storm clouds, the wave patterns of eroded canyons, these awe inspiring natural treasures have now become the territory of landscape photography cliche. We have already "seen" them, the past masters of the medium having expertly captured these places with any number of emotions and mindsets: grandeur, reverence, joy, picture postcard banality, disappointment, anger, and even irony. But Letha Wilson's unconventional photo-based sculptures have done something I wouldn't have thought likely - they've brought tactile physicality back to landscape photography, and in doing so, have made the old tropes we've generally written off surprisingly fresh and immediate.
Wilson's photographic raw material is entirely forgettable: photograms of evergreen branches, views of the Badlands, lonely plants in sand dunes and sagebrush underfoot. But her sculptural interventions are unexpected and invigorating. The black and white evergreen silhouettes are geometrically cut through and pulled back, revealing backside images in color. The rocky hills of the Badlands are interrupted by flows of rough concrete, slashing through like thick strips of sediment. The endless dryness of salt flats is covered in a thin white scrim of cement, hovering like a delicate crusted veil. And the swirls and whorls of pink canyons are twisted like a fan, the image folded again and again, but on a turning axis that mirrors the flow of the walls. Each material intrusion matches its subject, and by reminding us of its tangible presence, each manipulation enhances our experience of the land. It's photography unafraid of its objectness, mixing visual elegance with physical, textural grit.
Wilson is yet another example of a contemporary photographer who is smartly disassembling genre boundaries. Her works find an easy structural balance between photography and sculpture, allowing her photographs to be both representative imagery and paper based things that can be cut, torn, slashed, and filled. The best of these works have an effortless combination of natural beauty and man made construction that settles into an unsteady but harmonious equilibrium. All in, a plenty promising debut.
Collector's POV: The works in this show are generally priced between $4000 and $6500, with the large concrete column priced at $18000. At this early point in her career, Wilson's work has no secondary market history, so gallery retail is the only option for those collectors interested in following up.
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Update – Arlee Stabbing Victim And Suspect Identified [AUDIO]
UPDATE-The suspect in Monday's fatal stabbing in Arlee has been identified as Nathan Adam Butler, a juvenile. The victim's name has been released byb the lake County Sheriff's Office as 51 year-old John Edward Fisher.
Lake County Deputy Attorney James Lapotka says Butler had a juvenile detention hearing today in Polson and was transported to the juvenile facility in Missoula. Butler has been accused on one count of deliberate homicide and two counts of assault with a weapon. all felonies.
An unidentified Arlee man in his 50's was stabbed to death, and two others were injured Monday morning.
Lake County Deputy Attorney James Lapotka
KECI-TV reports that Lake County Undersheriff Dan Yonkin said the incident occurred at a home in Arlee.
A 16 year-old boy was taken into custody and could face charges of deliberate homicide.
When sheriff's deputies arrived on the scene, one man was dead, and another man and a woman had suffered knife wounds and were taken to a hospital. The man was treated and released, while the woman is still hospitalized.
The 16 year-old suspect had left the scene, but was later located and placed under arrest.
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This is part of an ongoing series related to Peter Meyers' project "Breaking the Page: Transforming Books and the Reading Experience." We'll be featuring additional material in the weeks ahead. (Note: This post originally appeared on A New Kind of Book. It's republished with permission.)
Next week, I'm speaking at the Books in Browsers conference on "the infinite canvas." When I started chewing on this topic, my thoughts centered on a very literal vision: a super-ginormous sheet for authors to compose on. And while I think there's some great creative territory to explore in this notion of space spanning endlessly up, down, left, and right, I also think there are a bunch of other ways to define what an infinite canvas is. Not simply a huge piece of virtual paper, but instead, an elastic space that does things no print surface could do, no matter how big it is. So, herewith, a quick stab at some non-literal takes on the topic. My version, if you will, of six different ways of thinking about the infinite canvas.
Continuously changeable
The idea here is simple: refreshable rather than static content. The actual dimensions of the page aren't what's elastic; instead, it's what's being presented that's continuously changing. In some ways, the home page of a newspaper's website serves as a good example here. Visit The Boston Globe half a dozen times over the course of a week and each time you'll see a new serving of news. (Haven't seen that paper's recent online makeover yet? Definitely worth checking out, and make sure to do so using a few different screen sizes — laptop, big monitor, mobile phone … each showcases a different version of its morphing, on-the-fly design.)
Deep zooms
Ever seen that great short video, "The Power of Ten"? It's where the shot begins just above two picnickers on a blanket and then proceeds to zoom out so that you see the same picnic blanket, but now from 100 feet up, and then 1,000 feet, and on and on until you've got a view from outer space. (After the zoom out, the process reverses, and you end up getting increasingly microscopic glimpses of the blanket, its fabric, the individual strands of cotton, and so on.) Here's a presentational canvas that adds new levels of meaning at different magnifications. So, the viewer doesn't simply move closer or further away, as you might in a room when looking at, say, a person. As you get closer, you see progressively deeper into the body. Microsoft calls this "semantic zooming" (as part of its forthcoming touchscreen-friendly Metro interface). Bible software maker Glo offers some interesting content zooming tools that implement this feature for readers looking to flip between birds-eye and page views.
Alternate geometries
A printed page is a 2-D rectangle of fixed dimensions. On the infinite canvas, the possibilities vary widely, deeply, and as Will Ferrell's character in "Old School" might say, "in ways we've never even heard of." Some possible shapes here: a 3-D cube with content on each side, or pyramid-shaped ebooks (Robert Darnton wrote about those in The New Age of the Book, where he proposes a multi-layered structure for academics with excess material that would bust the bindings of a printed book).
Canvases that give readers room to contemplate and respond
I just got a wonderful print book the other day called "Finish This Book." It contains a collection of fill-in-the-blank and finish-this-thought creative exercises. It reminded me that one thing digital books haven't yet explored much is leaving space for readers to compose their reactions. Sure, every ebook reader today lets you take notes, but as I've written before, these systems are pale replicas of the rich, reader-friendly note taking experiences we get in print books. Job No. 1 is solving those shortcomings, but then imagine the possibilities if digital books are designed to allow readers to compose extensive thoughts and reactions.
Print book lovers (I'm one of 'em) wax on about their beloved format's special talents: the smell, the feel, its nap-friendly weight. But touchscreen fans can play that game, too. Recall, for starters, the first time you tapped an iPhone or similarly modern touchscreen. Admit it: the way it felt to pinch, swipe, flick, and spread … those gestures introduce a whole new pleasure palette. Reading and books have heretofore primarily been a visual medium: you look and ponder what's inside. Now, as we enter the age of touchscreen documents, content becomes a feast for our fingers as much as our eyes. Authors, publishers, and designers are just beginning to appreciate this opportunity, making good examples hard to point to. I do think that Erik Loyer is among the most interesting innovators with his Strange Rain app, a kind of mashup between short fiction and those particle visualizers like Uzu. It's not civilian-friendly yet, I don't think, but it points the way for artists interested in incorporating touch into their creations.
Jumbo content
A movable viewport lets your audience pan across massive content panoramas. Some of the possibilities here are photographic (Photosynth, Virtual History ROMA). Others have begun to explore massively wide content landscapes, such as timelines (History of Jazz). One new example I just learned about yesterday: London Unfurled for iPad, a hand-illustrated pair of 37-foot long drawings of every building on the River Thames between Hammersmith Bridge and Millennium Dome, complete with tappable backstories on most of the architecture that's on display.
These are just a few of the possibilities that I've spotted. What comes to mind when you think about the infinite canvas?
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Martin Scorsese loves to watch Leonardo DiCaprio. I guess we've known that for some time, but it never quite hit me as it did during The Wolf of Wall Street. We can argue all day over whether this is an attempt to remake Goodfellas or whatever (it isn't), but there's one thing that's pretty clear to me: This is as much one of Scorsese's concert docs (Shine a Light, The Last Waltz, etc.) as it is one of his narrative epics. Jordan Belfort, the real-life "Wolf of Wall Street," didn't just become famous for his crooked financial practices; he was also renowned for his revival-like, inspirational speeches full of blustery bullshit to his workers. He sells stocks with messianic fervor; then he sells selling stocks with messianic fervor. It's a perfect subject on which to hitch an extended DiCaprio concert. Half the movie is just him performing in front of people, and much of the rest of it is people reacting to him. There are even a couple of scenes one could call dance numbers.
(Spoiler alert for the rest of the review, to the extent that there can be spoilers for this movie...)
The performance, the transaction, the sell. They're all interconnected. Early on, when he's hiring a group of his old neighborhood drug dealer chums to help him build up his company, Jordan goes around a table asking them to sell him the pen that's in his hand. He then gives it to his pal Brad (Jon Bernthal), the one guy in this bunch who really understands selling. Brad promptly asks Jordan to write his name down on a napkin. "I don't have a pen," Jordan replies. "Supply and demand!" Brad crows. It's a perfect encapsulation of what the whole film is founded on.
That transactional quality extends to the weird instances of bodily mortification in the film, too. I haven't been able to shake these scenes. We know from Raging Bull that Scorsese understands self-abuse better than most other filmmakers. But here it's more than just the self; it's everybody. People as physical beings get put through the wringer here – be it through violence, or sex, or drugs, or other types of physical humiliation. Once he has money Jordan abuses his body with abandon. He also abuses others. The first time we see him, he's throwing little people at a Velcro dartboard. Later, he and his coworkers argue over whether it's okay to turn the little people into bowling balls. During one of his earliest pep talks, they get one of their office workers to have her head shaved in front of them. (Jordan announces that she's going to get a ton of money for letting them do this to her. And what's she going to do with that money? Get a boob job.) It's not so much that money gives you power. It's that people will break themselves, turn themselves into objects, for it. And once they have it, they will break themselves some more. So much so that after a certain point you wonder if maybe it was all about the breaking all along – a longstanding Scorsese theme. Money is just another Scorsesean excuse for self-destructiveness.
Take one of Belfort's final speeches to his troops – the one that starts off with him bidding adieu to the company but turns halfway into a declaration that he's not leaving. He singles out one of his long-serving brokers, Kimmie (Stephanie Kurtzuba), a woman who now wears Chanel and Armani suits. She wasn't always like that, he tells us. Together, they remember that when Kimmie first came to work for him, she had to ask Belfort for a $5000 advance so she could pay her son's tuition. The otherwise blustery and foulmouthed woman tenderly recalls that Jordan gave her $25,000 instead. Yes, it's a touching moment. And yes, DiCaprio plays it perfectly – I mean perfectly – Elmer Gantry-ing it up with just the right combination of snake-oil salesman and genuine pathos. But could the tears in Kimmie's eyes be for the person she used to be? The transformation is stark. Neither of these people needs money anymore. Kimmie, with her thousand dollar suits, clearly doesn't. And mega-millionaire Jordan Belfort certainly doesn't. So why doesn't he leave? Why does he stick with the bullshit company he founded? Because it's not even money or prosperity that he's selling anymore. It's the sell itself.
In some ways, these cosmic ambitions work against some of The Wolf of Wall Street's more mundane aims. At times it seems to want to be a financial industry expose/satire/whatever, but that doesn't quite work: Stratton-Oakmont was not exactly a representative Wall Street firm, and Belfort keeps declaring himself the outsider, the guy who wants in. Scorsese has bigger fish to fry – more spiritual points to make, as above – but the script occasionally seems to want to drag him back to a more specific kind of social satire and/or history.
After a while, you start to not care about the story points, even though the film keeps dutifully hitting them. It all gets particularly tedious during Belfort's fall. This is in part because his rise is already so unappealing – accompanied by so much depravity and horror – that there's little place for the fall to go. This is where the Goodfellas comparison is somewhat apt, and unfavorable. That earlier film actually gives us a sense of the intoxicating power of gangsterism, and we can see how someone could be seduced by it. Here, we're disgusted from the get-go. (That opening scene with the little people is funny and striking, but it gives up the game right at the outset.) So by the time we get the usual last-act shenanigans with the wires and the lawyers and the plea deals and whatnot, it's all anticlimax. Scorsese has already shown us the fall. Hell, he pretty much started off with it. The actual fall becomes redundant.
But the film's final scene is quite haunting, and brings everything back into focus, even as it leaves on an irresistibly open-ended note. Now, Belfort has become a motivational speaker. (And is that the real Jordan Belfort introducing DiCaprio in his scene?) This time, as before, he asks members in the audience to sell him the pen. As various people try (and fail) to make that basic transaction, the camera moves towards a group of wide-eyed audience members, sitting there waiting for their shot. And then, it cuts to black on their eager, expectant faces. It's a profoundly sad moment. Belfort at this point isn't even selling stocks, or money, or even that pen. At this point, we don't really know what he's selling. He has endless supplies of bullshit, waiting for it to become demand. And that demand could be for anything – money, women, tuition for your kid, healthcare, love, respect, dignity. His bullshit will fill our emptiness, whatever it is.


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Colorado Democrats avoid fracking fight after deal prompts groups to drop dueling proposals
Colorado Democrats avoided a politically costly fight over oil and gas drilling after a quid pro quo deal pitched by the state's fracking-friendly governor prompted groups to drop their dueling ballot proposals.
The cease-fire compromise from Gov. John Hickenlooper was announced with great fanfare at the state Capitol Monday morning with U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, a fellow Democrat who helped finance two initiatives that sought to limit hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. He agreed to back off his proposals, and groups pitching two pro-fracking proposals said later in the day they would end their campaigns as well.
A ballot-battle over drilling had Democrats worried about the implications. Taking the issue to voters could have negatively impacted Democrats in November by increasing fundraising for Republicans who favor oil and gas development and possibly boosting GOP turnout.
Hickenlooper is running for re-election, and incumbent Democratic U.S. Sen. Mark Udall is in a closely watched contest against Republican U.S. Rep. Cory Gardner. The race could help determine control of the Senate.
As a compromise to avoid the ballot fight, Hickenlooper said an 18-member task force would issue recommendations to the Colorado Legislature next year on how to minimize conflicts between residents and the energy industry.
Polis said the governor's announcement was "truly a victory for the people of Colorado and the movement to enact sensible protections and safeguards around fracking."
Fracking is a technique that blasts a mix of water, sand or gravel, and chemicals into underground rock formations to release trapped oil and gas.
Backers of the two measures sympathetic to the industry also declared victory.
"This is an exciting turn of events," said Rep. Frank McNulty, who worked on a ballot question that would have prevented municipalities banning fracking from collecting state revenue that comes from drilling. "For months we've asked Polis to pull his initiatives in favor of a more constructive approach."
Another pro-fracking initiative would have called for financial impact statements to be included in future ballot questions seeking greater oversight on energy development.
Signatures for the four ballot questions were turned in before Monday's deadline, but the groups had until Sept. 5 to pull them.
The Polis-endorsed measures would have increased the distance between homes and rigs from 500 feet to 2,000 feet, and another would have given local governments more control over drilling.
Hickenlooper said the suggested restrictions, if passed, posed "a significant threat to Colorado's economy." Opponents of the anti-fracking initiatives also raised concerns about unleashing legal claims over property rights if the state blocked energy companies from accessing mineral rights they own.
"I think we can all agree that responsible oil and gas development in Colorado is critical to our economy, our environment, our health, and our future," Hickenlooper said.
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Police have released the driver of a double-decker bus that crashed into a transit shelter in Ottawa and left three people dead and 23 more injured.
The driver of the OC Transpo bus was released unconditionally pending further investigation after she she was arrested and brought in for questioning after the crash Friday, Ottawa police said Saturday.
Investigators worked through the night and identified the three victims and contacted their families, said Const. Amy Gagnon. Their names will not be released at this time.
She said Ottawa police's collision investigation unit remains on the scene as it continues its examination of the collision.
The city bus hopped a curb and struck a transit shelter at about 3:50 p.m. Friday just as rush hour began. It plowed along the platform and into the overhanging roof of the transit shelter, carving deep into the vehicle's second deck. The first seats on the upper level of the bus were crushed together.
Officials say two of the dead were passengers on the bus, and the third was on the platform at Westboro station, a major stop on the city's busway.
OC Transpo has issued notices saying detours are in effect for the Dominion and Westboro transit stations. Road closures remain in place near the scene of the collision and police are asking the public to avoid the area.
During a press conference Friday, neither Police Chief Charles Bordeleau nor Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson would speculate on why the bus had left the road.
"Our (city) community has been rocked today. I know all those impacted by this tragedy will be surrounded and supported by many," Bordeleau wrote in a tweet published late Friday evening.
"Please keep victims, witnesses, families and our amazing first responders in your thoughts."
Paramedics said a total of 25 people were taken to hospital, suggesting one of the victims could not be revived at the scene and the other two died after arriving. Of those transported, 14 were in critical condition and 11 were in serious condition. Most of the serious injuries were incurred by passengers on the upper-right side of the bus.
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Donny Deutsch and CNBC Launch 'The Big Idea'
For an ad guy that likes to pontificate, Donny Deutsch now has an even bigger platform than he has running an ad agency. Airing Sundays at 9 PM and extending to a full 13 episode run, Deutsch will host a CNBC show called "The Big Idea" in which he will get celebrities to discuss cultural issues, trends and the celebrity's own dirty laundry. Now maybe we'll find out what Paris Hilton was thinking about in those Guess ads.


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And all the meeting of the children of Israel came together at Shiloh and put up the Tent of meeting there: and the land was crushed before them.
But there were still seven tribes among the children of Israel who had not taken up their heritage.
Then Joshua said to the children of Israel, Why are you so slow to go in and take up your heritage in the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you?
Take from among you three men from every tribe; and I will send them to go through the land and make a record of it for distribution as their heritage; then let them come back to me.
And let them make division of it into seven parts: let Judah keep inside his limit on the south, and let the children of Joseph keep inside their limit on the north.
And you are to have the land marked out in seven parts, and come back to me with the record; and I will make the distribution for you here by the decision of the Lord our God.
For the Levites have no part among you; to be the Lord's priests is their heritage; and Gad and Reuben and the half-tribe of Manasseh have had their heritage on the east side of Jordan, given to them by Moses, the servant of the Lord.
So the men got up and went; and Joshua gave orders to those who went, to make a record of the land, saying, Go up and down through the land, and make a record of it and come back here to me, and I will make the distribution for you here by the decision of the Lord in Shiloh.
So the men went, travelling through the land, and made a record of it by towns in seven parts in a book, and came back to Joshua to the tent-circle at Shiloh.
And Joshua made the distribution for them in Shiloh by the decision of the Lord, marking out the land for the children of Israel by their divisions.
And the first heritage came out for the tribe of Benjamin by their families: and the limit of their heritage went between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph.
And their limit on the north was from the Jordan, and the line goes up to the side of Jericho on the north and through the hill-country to the west, ending at the waste land of Beth-aven.
And from there the line goes south to Luz, to the side of Luz (which is Beth-el), then down to Ataroth-addar, by the mountain to the south of Beth-horon the lower.
And the limit is marked as coming round to the south on the west side from the mountain which is south of Beth-horon, and ending at Kiriath-baal (which is Kiriath-jearim), a town of the children of Judah: this is the west part.
And the south part is from the farthest point of Kiriath-jearim, and the line goes out to the west to the fountain of the waters of Nephtoah:
And the line goes down to the farthest part of the mountain facing the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is on the north of the valley of Rephaim: from there it goes down to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of the Jebusite on the south as far as En-rogel;
And it goes to En-shemesh and on to Geliloth, opposite the way up to Adummim, and it goes down to the stone of Bohan, the son of Reuben;
And it goes on to the side facing the Arabah to the north, and down to the Arabah;
And on to the north side of Beth-hoglah, ending at the north inlet of the Salt Sea at the south end of Jordan; this is their limit on the south.
And the limit of the east part is the Jordan. This is the heritage of the children of Benjamin, marked out for their families by these limits on all sides.
And the towns of the children of Benjamin, given to them in the order of their families, are Jericho and Beth-hoglah and Emek-kezziz
And Beth-arabah and Zemaraim and Beth-el
And Avvim and Parah and Ophrah
And Chephar-Ammoni and Ophni and Geba; twelve towns with their unwalled places;
Gibeon and Ramah and Beeroth
And Mizpeh and Chephirah and Mozah
And Rekem and Irpeel and Taralah
And Zela, Eleph and the Jebusite (which is Jerusalem), Gibeath and Kiriath; fourteen towns with their unwalled places. This is the heritage of the children of Benjamin by their families.
Joshua chapter 17
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Hill Staffers Switch to Campaigning for Public Office
Marc Korman has gained a new appreciation for his old bosses.
A former staffer to ex-Rep. Brian Baird, D-Wash., and Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Calif., Korman said he understands members of Congress much better now that he is running for office himself.
"Many Hill staffers joke about their bosses' stock answers to questions or stump speeches, but as a candidate, you start to see that you are meeting with so many different people so often, that you cannot be original every time," said Korman, who is running for the Maryland House of Delegates in District 16, which includes portions of Friendship Heights, Bethesda, North Bethesda, Rockville and Potomac.
Korman is just one of a long list of former staffers who attempt to make the transition to elected office. According to CQ Roll Call Member Information and Research, 76 of the current House and Senate members previously served as congressional staff, though those numbers do not include state and local offices, such as the one Korman is running for.
Putting Staff Skills to Campaign Test
Not all staffing aspects translate well to the campaign trail, where being front and center can be counterintuitive to the art of staffing.
"As a staffer, particularly in a caucus room full of members, you try to keep a low profile when in a room full of elected officials. As a candidate, you've got to work every room you're in like there's no tomorrow," said Andrew Platt, a former staffer for Rep. John B. Larson, D-Conn., who is running for the Maryland House of Delegates in District 17, which includes Rockville and Gaithersburg.
Korman and Platt both cited their understanding of policy as something voters appreciated, particularly in the D.C. region where many voters follow Congress closely.
"The policy knowledge and know-how you pick up on the Hill is often useful on the campaign trail. I think voters appreciate candidates who have tackled policy issues before, even at a different level of government or at a different scale," Korman said.
And staffers have better expectations about what to promise voters. "A candidate who has been a staffer brings a better understanding of what you can promise on the trail and what is actually possible to get done in Washington. Having worked in Congress, you have a sense of what is realistic and what is not when laying out your ideas and vision," said Doug Thornell, a former Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee national press secretary and current senior vice president of SKDKnickerbocker, a strategic communications firm in D.C.
In addition, former staffers understand the crucial role that fundraising plays in a campaign environment.
A GOP operative who declined to be named because of his ongoing work on current political campaigns highlighted fundraising as one of the key components to campaign success. "Staffers understand that the ability to be a successful fundraiser is to be a successful candidate. Staffers are often doing the legwork on the fundraising side. Candidates who haven't served in a political role before are often reluctant to do it. When you have a staffer who understands that importance, they are more likely to do what is necessary to have the resources to win," he said.
Korman agreed, saying: "The time spent fundraising is also frustrating to Hill staffers who want their bosses in the office for meetings or at hearings, but you cannot get elected without call time."
"It's hard to believe, until you've done it, how much time it all takes. Especially on a smaller campaign without a lot of staff, the candidate needs to do much of the work herself," said Brianne Nadeau, a former scheduler for Rep. John Sarbanes, D-Md., who is running for the D.C. Council for Ward 1.
The Capitol Hill Blind Spots
There are some disadvantages that come with being a staffer and running for office, though, including being associated with Congress' anemic approval ratings and an inability to translate the work done in Congress to the everyday people whom the laws affect. In addition, much of a staffer's time is spent in Washington, D.C., imbued in national issues, which can be different from local ones.
"One potential blind spot for those who rely on experience in Washington is that it can be challenging to have their finger directly on the pulse of local issues. Potential candidates can overcome that by immersing themselves in the communities where they seek office and knowing what folks are really talking about at the local Rotary, VFW, PTA meeting or even the hair salons and barber shops," said Brad Dayspring, communications director for the National Republican Senatorial Committee and a former senior aide for House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va.
"Translating what happens on Capitol Hill to ordinary people's lives can be a challenge for former Hill staff," Thornell said. "When you're on the Hill, you're spending all your time trying to figure out legislation, and in many cases you are speaking in jargon that is only understandable to other Hill staffers. Voters generally [couldn't] care less about process things like reconciliation, markups or motions to recommit — they want to know how a particular policy will help their family."
But the staffers running for offices are not daunted by the challenges.
"I actually love doing all these things and feel energized every time I am out knocking on doors," Nadeau said.
Korman agreed. "I was a field staffer," he explained. "[People] did not care about naming post offices or one-minute morning speeches. They wanted results."


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The sky is not falling
Current economic conditions are making some engineers believe that the end is near, and the sky is falling. From where I'm sitting, the sky is definitely not falling.
Recently, a few disgruntled engineers tried to convince me that the end is near. No, they're not looking at the Mayan calendar. They're looking at how their jobs are changing, and how the industry may be pushing them out of a job.
A couple of weeks ago, an electrical engineer having a really bad day confided in me that he was worried about his job—and the industry as a whole—changing. He feared that his job would soon become obsolete because suppliers would offer ready-made solutions that required little or no understanding of engineering principles. He believed that suppliers had already started this process, and it was just a matter of years before he wasn't needed.
Here's another example: A different engineer voiced his concern about lighting fixture manufacturers who aren't accustomed to working with end users over the life of an LED fixture. In the case of LEDs, the fixture manufacturer is often the first point of contact with the end user or building owner. In other cases, it's the electrical contractor. They don't always continue that relationship though. He said that clients ask specifying engineers to replace lights with LED fixtures, which can be expensive to the client both short- and long-term.
So where does that leave engineers? The sky is not falling. Quite the contrary, actually. It leaves engineers in a sweet spot, allowing them to have a long-term relationship with the manufacturer, building owner, and client. The manufacturer may do a perfect job selling an off-the-shelf product, offering even more tools and options for the engineer to do a better job (case-in-point: BIM). And the building owner may be comfortable with selecting and maintaining a system, but it's almost always the engineer who is called in to make it better.
Consulting engineers have the unique training and knowledge, thorough understanding of the codes, and ability to see the whole picture. We should be going to our clients—past and present—and ensuring their buildings are at the cutting edge of technology based on our strong relationships with manufacturers. Energy reduction is a buzzword these days, and building owners often are willing to spend a buck to save two. Just look at the advertisers in this publication; these companies are at the forefront of top-notch products.
My conversation with the concerned engineer ended on a positive note. I reminded him that commissioning systems and buildings would always be required. We chatted about the fact that one product might be easily selected and installed by an owner, but an entire system really needed an engineer's touch.
So the end really isn't near, and the sky isn't falling. From where I'm sitting, this is just the beginning.
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Since their first gig three decades ago, New York's Sonic Youth have broken most rules known to music, and in partnering with Fender on their own line of signature Jazzmaster guitars, Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo are continuing that trend.
"When Fender came to us with an offer to make signature models of our Jazzmaster guitars we jumped at the chance," Moore and Ranaldo said in a joint statement.
"These are the guitars that have defined the sound of Sonic Youth for more than 20 years." the duo said. "Although we love all guitars (yeah, they do - check out their beyond extensive gear guide), Jazzmasters are the ones we've modified and perfected for our uses over the years."
They're streamlined, baby
The guitars are manufactured to Ranaldo and Moore's personal specifications, with custom-voiced pickups. Both guitars are electronically streamlined, with no rhythm circuit and a one-volume knob.
Moore's Jazzmaster is green, while Ranaldo's 'Jazzblaster' is blue. Each guitar will come with a 24-page color 'zine designed by Ranaldo that the Fender website calls "the definitive insider's guide to all things Jazzmaster in the world of Sonic Youth."
"Lee and Thurston have always heavily modified their Jazzmaster guitars," says the description on Fender.com, "simplifying and stripping them down to the essence, leaving just a three-way switch and a volume knob." Although both guitars share similarities, Ranaldo and Moore's hand-tooled customizations of bridges, pickups, frets and the pickguard make them each unique.
Moore and Ranaldo were so smitten with the prototypes, they even used them in the recording of their new album, The Eternal. "We couldn't wait to get our hands on these axes," they say on the Fender site.
"The prototypes of our Fender models have already been thrust into action during the recording of our latest album, and have already begun to acquire the scrapes and scarz of live performance."


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The magnificent mobile mixture of Angry Birds and Star Wars that swept the mobile game charts gets social today, as Rovio launches the Angry Birds Star Wars Facebook game.
With weekly friend tournaments and five new levels to compete in every week, the Facebook version of Angry Birds Star Wars sounds perfect for players that have already mastered all the mobile game currently has to offer. Three new power-ups — Blaster Droid, Saber Sling, and Thermal Detonator — add a new twist to gameplay, while the new Clone bird allows players to duplicate any bird they wish, at least until Order 66 is executed.
You can play Angry Birds Star Wars right here on Facebook.


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Features List
SAS® Visual Analytics (SAS® Viya®)
- Import data from a variety of sources: databases, Hadoop, Excel spreadsheets, social media, etc.
- Drag an Excel file, CSV or SAS data set onto your workspace and quickly start building reports or dashboards.
- Use standard data quality functions like change case; convert, rename, remove and split columns; and create calculated columns and transformations using custom code.
- Prep data using append, join, filter and transpose functions.
- Reuse, schedule and monitor jobs.
- View lineage with network diagrams.
- Quickly view descriptive statistics on measures to help you see the characteristics of your data.
- Create calculated, aggregated or derived data items.
- Create drillable hierarchies in a self-service manner without the need to predefine user paths.
- Interactive data discovery enables business users and analysts to easily identify relationships, trends, outliers, etc.
- Precise and responsive layout capabilities give you flexible layout and design options. You can stack or group items, and more.
- A variety of graph objects or charts are included:
- Bar.
- Pie.
- Donut.
- Line.
- Scatter.
- Heat map.
- Bubble.
- Animated bubble.
- Treemap.
- Dot.
- Needle.
- Numeric series.
- Schedule chart.
- Vector.
- Key value infographics.
- And many more with flexible graph building capabilities.
- Add content from the web (e.g., YouTube videos, web apps) and images (e.g., logos) to your report.
- Custom sort allows you to rank order category data items in a table or graph by characteristics (e.g., products, customers). The characteristics that are most important to your organization will be displayed first.
- One-click filtering (e.g., one-way, bidirectional) and linked selections will allow you to spend less time manually linking content (e.g., visualizations, reports).
- Text objects include date-driven or system-generated text for relevant context.
- Synchronize selection and filters across visualizations in a report or dashboard.
- Use the search capability within Options to quickly find and apply filters to your reports.
- Link different reports (e.g., link a sales report to an inventory report).
- Report consumers can change calculation parameters and display rules using controls, filters, etc., to see the information that is most relevant to them.
- Report consumers can switch measures and change the chart type and formatting all on the fly, allowing them to make critical business decisions instantly.
- Set refresh rates for individual objects, pages or your entire report.
- Analytical visualizations include:
- Box plot.
- Heat map.
- Animated bubble chart.
- Network diagram.
- Correlation matrix.
- Forecasting.
- Parallel coordinates plot.
- Decision tree.
- And many more with flexible graph building capabilities.
- Geographical map views provide a quick understanding of geospatial data, including travel time and travel distance, and demographics data enrichment with Esri integration.
- Network diagrams enable you to display networks across a map.
- Bring your own custom interactive visualizations (e.g., D3.js graphs, C3 visualizations or Google charts) into SAS Visual Analytics so they're all driven by the same data.
- Key value visualization allows you to display important metrics (numeric or categorical value) in an infographic style for quick reference.
- Perform path analysis (Sankey diagrams) to visualize relationships between a distinct sequence of events.
- Add cell visualizations, like bars and heat maps, to your tables to quickly identify problem points and see trends in your data.
- Generate forecasts on the fly with forecasting confidence intervals included.
- The most appropriate forecasting model is automatically selected after running multiple models against data.
- Scenario analysis lets you see how changes in different variables would affect forecasts.
- Goal seeking enables you to specify a target value for your forecast and then determines the values of underlying factors that would be required to achieve the target value.
- Decision tree graphically depicts likely outcomes.
- Custom binning moves continuous data into a small number of groups for better interpretation and presentation of results.
- Text analysis capabilities enable you to automatically find topics and understand sentiment from text sources, including Facebook, Twitter, Google Analytics, YouTube comments and more.
- Recover reports you are editing when your session ends unexpectedly. Reports are automatically saved every five seconds after an edit is made.
- Pick up where you left off from a prior session on all your devices.
Augmented analytics
Augmented analytics
- Report Review analyzes your report and presents suggestions for improvements that can be made to the report itself or to the data used by the report. Report review also checks for accessibility issues.
- Autocharting automatically chooses the graph best suited to display selected data.
- Automatically builds an interactive analytical story based on all your data, ready to be published.
- Suggested insights automatically derived from your data allow you to quickly build informative reports and dashboards.
- Related measures are highlighted within the measure list so users can quickly identify potential interactions.
- Automated Explanation determines which variables contribute to an outcome and provides a simple, natural language explanation that is easy to understand:
- Quickly detect and highlight patterns and outliers in your data, including geo data.
- The steps taken to automatically explain your data are displayed for transparency.
- Determine the key difference between the top and bottom cases in data. For example, what best differentiates the lowest- and highest-risk cases?
- Identify interesting groups based on factors you select.
- Allows optional generation and display of high/low groups that report designers can toggle on.
- Automated Explanation and Automated Prediction capabilities are available in the following languages: Arabic, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Thai and Turkish.
Chat-enabled analytics
Chat-enabled analytics
- SAS Conversation Designer, which is included with SAS Visual Analytics, empowers users to create and deploy custom, natural language chatbots.
- Faster conversation design with visual, low-code interface.
- Get chat-enabled queries, text responses.
- Access data, reports and visualizations from SAS Visual Analytics reports and dashboards.
- Trigger advanced analytics and AI through a natural language, conversational interface.
- Configure bots within the SAS environment for easier, more accessible insights or connect to external services.
Sharing & collaboration
Sharing & collaboration
- Reuse and share report modifications, such as filters, calculations, hierarchies and report element formatting.
- Save a page as a template for use in other reports and to share with other users.
- Collaborate across mobile devices and the web by adding comments to a report.
- Create alerts for a report object so that subscribers are notified via email or a text message when the threshold condition is met.
- Distribute reports as PDFs or email in a secure manner. Distribute reports once or at recurring intervals, such as daily, weekly or monthly.
- Export reports to Excel and maintain crosstab format and filters to easily share reports and collaborate with other users.
- Import pages from other reports to accelerate analysis and increase collaboration.
- Playable dashboards let you put your report in slideshow mode.
- Administrators can configure support for guest access to view report or visualization.
- Guest users can view the insights that are available to the public.
- Users can see, organize and collaborate on their work using SAS Drive:
- Users can favorite, share, preview and tag their content from one place.
- Create projects that share data, content and other resources with project members.
SAS Visual Analytics Apps
SAS® Visual Analytics Apps
- Available for free from:
- App Store for iOS iPhone and iPad devices.
- Google Play for Android phones and tablets.
- Microsoft Store for Windows 10 devices.
- The app lets you connect and interact with your SAS Visual Analytics reports and dashboards using gestures native to your devices.
- Interact with your SAS Visual Analytics App for iOS using voice commands.
- Reports created once in SAS Visual Analytics can be viewed anywhere.
- Gain secure access to content on mobile devices, both online and offline.
- Annotate, comment, share and email reports to others for increased collaboration.
- Take screenshots and share comments with others.
- Notifications alert business users when a report is updated, data is changed or the application is updated.
Embedded insights
Embedded insights
- Create your own mobile apps using the SAS SDK for iOS and SAS SDK for Android to create embedded insights:
- Personalize your mobile app with embedded SAS Visual Analytics content, your corporate logo and name of your choosing.
- Preconfigure your mobile app to connect to SAS servers and subscribe to specified reports.
- Develop completely customized mobile apps that embed SAS Visual Analytics content (e.g., GatherIQ).
- Manage and secure your mobile app and data by integrating with mobile device management (MDM) service (via new APIs).
- Embed full reports or individual objects in websites and web apps using the SAS Visual Analytics SDK:
- Combine insights from multiple reports in one location.
- User selections within an embedded SAS Visual Analytics object can drive other elements anywhere on the webpage.
- SAS Visual Analytics SDK supports Report Themes, making it easy for you to carry your branding from reports to your customer websites and applications.
Location analytics
Location analytics
- Geographical maps are enabled through Esri ArcGIS Online or OpenStreetMap.
- You can lasso data points on geographical maps to select specific data for further analysis.
- Geographical maps make it easy to visualize measurement variances over a geographical area.
- Access to all Esri basemaps and geosearch is available through Esri ArcGIS Online at no additional charge.
- Custom polygons (e.g., sales territories, voting districts, floor plans, seating charts) will let you see the world just as your business demands it. These polygons can be animated to show how key metrics change over time.
- Geographic point clustering makes it easier to visualize high-volume location data and identify areas of interest. Get more or less detail at different zoom levels.
- Add map pins to mark points of interest and insights on a map.
- With Esri ArcGIS Online license, you can enrich your data with Esri demographic data:
- Start from a pin and select the area that can be traveled based on travel distance or provided travel time.
- Create travel routes between points.
- Understand how location affects outcomes by geocoding your data – adding latitude and longitude columns to your data based on location information in your data (country, state, postal code, city, street).
Security & administration
Security & administration
- SAS Environment Manager provides easy-to-use, web-based centralized administration and monitoring of your BI and analytics environment, including users, data, content, servers, services and security.
- User authentication and content authorization support governance.
- Object-level security (folders, reports, etc.) and data security (table and row levels) support governance.
- Seamless integration with corporate identity directories such as LDAP.
- Rules-mapping application capabilities for users and groups support governance.
- Whitelist or blacklist mobile devices to determine authorization for SAS Visual Analytics Apps.
- Near-real-time dashboard for monitoring system health and key activities.
- Distributed processing node addition and deletion.
- Scriptable APIs perform administrative tasks in batch, including management of security, libraries, users groups and configurations.
- Customizable monitoring and performance reports.
- Environment-wide log exploration, job scheduling and monitoring.
SAS Viya in-memory engine
SAS® Viya® in-memory engine
- CAS (SAS Cloud Analytic Services) performs processing in memory and distributes processing across nodes in a cluster.
- User requests (expressed in a procedural language) are translated into actions with the parameters needed to process in a distributed environment. The result set and messages are passed back to the procedure for further action by the user.
- Data is managed in blocks and can be loaded in memory and on demand.
- If tables exceed memory capacity, the server caches the blocks on disk. Data and intermediate results are held in memory as long as required, across jobs and users.
- Includes highly efficient node-to-node communication. An algorithm determines the optimal number of nodes for a given job.
- Communication layer supports fault tolerance and lets you remove or add nodes from a server while it is running. All components can be replicated for high availability.
- Support for legacy SAS code and direct interoperability with SAS 9.4M5 clients.
- Supports multitenancy deployment, allowing for a shared software stack to support isolated tenants in a secure manner.


text: Exposing skin to sunlight may help to reduce blood pressure, cut the risk of heart attack and stroke - and even prolong life, a study suggests. Researchers have shown that when our skin is exposed to the sun's rays, a compound is released in our blood vessels that helps lower blood pressure. The findings suggest that exposure to sunlight improves health overall, because the benefits of reducing blood pressure far outweigh the risk of developing skin cancer. The study has been carried out by the University of Edinburgh. Heart disease and stroke linked to high blood pressure are estimated to lead to around 80 times more deaths than those from skin cancer, in the UK. Production of this pressure-reducing compound - called nitric oxide - is separate from the body's manufacture of vitamin D, which rises after exposure to sunshine. Until now it had been thought to solely explain the sun's benefit to human health, the scientists add. The landmark proof-of-principle study will be presented on Friday in Edinburgh at the world's largest gathering of skin experts. Researchers studied the blood pressure of 24 volunteers who sat beneath tanning lamps for two sessions of 20 minutes each. In one session, the volunteers were exposed to both the UV rays and the heat of the lamps. In the other, the UV rays were blocked so that only the heat of the lamps affected the skin. The results showed that blood pressure dropped significantly for one hour following exposure to UV rays, but not after the heat-only sessions. Scientists say that this shows that it is the sun's UV rays that lead to health benefits. The volunteers' vitamin D levels remained unaffected in both sessions. Dr Richard Weller, Senior Lecturer in Dermatology at the University of Edinburgh, said: "We suspect that the benefits to heart health of sunlight will outweigh the risk of skin cancer. The work we have done provides a mechanism that might account for this, and also explains why dietary vitamin D supplements alone will not be able to compensate for lack of sunlight. "We now plan to look at the relative risks of heart disease and skin cancer in people who have received different amounts of sun exposure. If this confirms that sunlight reduces the death rate from all causes, we will need to reconsider our advice on sun exposure."


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L'Oréal announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire NYX Cosmetics. Headquartered in Los Angeles, NYX was created in 1999 by entrepreneur Toni Ko, who had a vision for creating a line of high-quality, on-trend professional color cosmetics at attractive prices. Rooted in professional makeup artistry and driven by an impactful social media and grassroots marketing strategy, NYX has become one of the fastest-growing color cosmetics brands in the U.S., reaching an expanding segment of socially connected consumers. In 2013, NYX reported net sales of $72 million, a growth of 46% vs. 2012. Sales continued to record strong growth this year, amounting to %93 million for the last 12 months ended May 31, 2014, up 57% over the comparable year-over-year period.
NYX offers a broad catalog of products that includes everyday basics, on-trend shades, special occasion makeup, and cult favorites like the one of a kind The Curve eyeliner and Butter lip gloss line. The brand is currently distributed through professional beauty stores, specialty cosmetics stores, other retailers, e-commerce and some NYX branded stores.
"NYX is a dynamic company that has done a tremendous job of harnessing the power of social media, digital marketing and multi-channel distribution," said Frédéric Rozé, president and CEO of L'Oréal USA. "Both L'Oréal and NYX share a passion for innovation and a confidence in the strength and vitality of the color cosmetics market."
NYX Cosmetics will continue to operate out of its Los Angeles headquarters under the brand's current leadership team. The brand will become part of the consumer products division of L'Oréal, and this acquisition further enhances L'Oréal's roster of American brands, which includes Maybelline NY, Kiehl's, Essie, Urban Decay and Clarisonic.
"NYX has seen tremendous growth in the last decade and I have complete confidence that L'Oréal will remain true to its brand identity and mission, which is to provide high quality, innovative professional cosmetics for women around the world," said Ko, chairwoman and founder of NYX Cosmetics. "We possess a shared commitment to creating best in class products, and the NYX consumer stands to benefit enormously from L'Oréal's extensive marketing, distribution and R&D resources."
Private equity firm HCP & Company, which is selling its interest in NYX Cosmetics, shared, "We met Toni when NYX was still an emerging brand and in partnership with her, we helped to build a world class management team, enhance customer relationships and support the growth through strategic focus," said HCP's managing partner and NYX board member Carlos Signoret. And "HCP has been an amazing partner to work with in growing the business. They have added tremendous value, and I would recommend this team to any entrepreneur or business owner," said Ko.
"The entire NYX team has done a tremendous job of rapidly growing the company while remaining true to their brand and its values. We are fortunate to have worked with such a passionate and dedicated team and are confident they will thrive with their new partners," said Jim Bland, principal from HCP and NYX board member. "HCP was incredibly supportive of our team and encouraged us to invest in our vision of becoming one of the top cosmetics brands in the world," added HCP CEO Scott Friedman.
The closing is subject to the usual regulatory approvals and other customary conditions.


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Change is headed your way. Can you see it coming? Look for it.
(Several weeks ago when the Lord first spoke these words to my heart, they gave me hope especially considering the horrific events of these past few months: hurricanes, floods, fires, earthquakes. And now this week a mass shooting of innocents. We all need hope that only He can give. Find a quiet spot, let Him speak to your heart because if you're like me, you could use some inner peace right now. First, quiet your inner thoughts, then listen for His voice to calm your stress. Allow Him to touch you and fill you with His overwhelming love.)
More of His words to my heart:
My child, I enjoy creating sudden changes in order to bring hope and joy into each life. Do you remember the words of your earthly Dad, "It's amazing how quickly things can change?" Also, "Things can turn around for good just as quickly as they can for bad." Do you remember these words spoke by your husband? Yes Lord, I do. Dad was talking about how gloomy the sky looked, but then after a few minutes the sky was blue, with the sun shining and clouds floating by. My husband said these words after several hours of figuring our finances. He was talking about our debt.
My child, I'm in the "changing" business. In fact I specialize in turning people from the mindset of defeat to expecting victory, from discouragement to hopefulness, from debt to prosperity, and from lack to the fullness of My blessings. Not to mention how I can change relationships from estranged to restored, from broken to healed and from cursed to blessed. Yes, I'm in the changing business. It brings Me pleasure to turn defeat and depression into victory and hope. I turn abandonment into completely restored. My death on the cross restored love to those destined for eternal abandonment to adoption and unconditional acceptance into My family. The Father loves each one, no matter the human flaws. My death brought victory to all those broken without hope. Lord, what about those sick and suffering?
My child, I give victory to all those who come to Me. Overall, they will have victory over circumstance and victory over death. While I don't erase struggles, I do indeed grant victory over struggles. Yes My child, in life you will have struggles and suffering, but because of what I suffered you can have victory. I paid the price for victory for all, especially those struggling and suffering now. They will all have victory. As they come to Me I'll give them the victory I bought with the price of My blood.
Thank you Lord for talking with me.
My child, it's My pleasure to talk with My children.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation, old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. 2 Corinthians 5:17 NKJV
He will not crush the weakest reed or put out a flickering candle. Finally He will cause justice to be victorious. And His Name will be the hope of the world. Matthew 12:20-21 NLT
He heals the brokenhearted and bandages their wounds. Psalm 147:3 NKJV
These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world. John 16:33 NKJV
But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 15:57 NKJV


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- Certificate of Verification - This Certificate issued in a situation where the septic system is already existing and a new home is being connected into the established system. The local Electrical Authority may request this certificate in order to establish or re-establish power at a particular location.
- Complaints - Site visits to reported areas where a septic system may be failing, illegal disbursement of sewage, or sewage outcropping on ground surface. Complaints often lead to repairs and/or notice of violations, which prompt the owner(s) to correct the problem(s) within thirty (30) days.
- Final Layouts - The final inspection of all septic systems (this includes all new systems, repairs to existing systems, and modifications to existing systems).
- Inspection Letters - A letter which is usually requested by realtors, mortgage lenders, home buyers, etc. This letter provides information as to the current operation of the septic system at a particular address.
- Repair Request - Request to have repairs made to existing septic systems. The Environmentalist will make a site visit to determine the problem and draw a septic layout for repair.
- Septic Permits (Layouts) - Requests for a new installation of a subsurface sewage disposal system, usually in regards to new construction.
- Site Evaluations - Requests for an Environmentalist to evaluate (site visit) a property based on particular requests (regarding: dwelling type and size, location of structure, swimming pool installation, addition of structures, etc.) from and individual to determine if appropriate area is available for the septic system.
- Subdivision Evaluations - Evaluation(s) of property being subdivided into lots or relocation of existing lot lines. Water Samples - A water analysis taken from the water source and tested for presence of bacteria only.


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Encode::IMAPUTF7(3pm) | User Contributed Perl Documentation | Encode::IMAPUTF7(3pm) |
Encode::IMAPUTF7 - modification of UTF-7 encoding for IMAP
use Encode qw/encode decode/; use Encode::IMAPUTF7; print encode('IMAP-UTF-7', 'Répertoire'); print decode('IMAP-UTF-7', R&AOk-pertoire');
IMAP mailbox names are encoded in a modified UTF7 when names contains international characters outside of the printable ASCII range. The modified UTF-7 encoding is defined in RFC2060 (section 5.1.3).
There is another CPAN module with same purpose, Unicode::IMAPUtf7. However, it works correctly only with strings, which encoded form does not contain plus sign. For example, the Cyrillic string \x{043f}\x{0440}\x{0435}\x{0434}\x{043b}\x{043e}\x{0433} is represented in UTF-7 as +BD8EQAQ1BDQEOwQ+BDM- Note the second plus sign 4 characters before the end. Unicode::IMAPUtf7 encodes the above string as +BD8EQAQ1BDQEOwQ&BDM- which is not valid modified UTF-7 (the ampersand and the plus are swapped). The problem is solved by the current module, which is slightly modified Encode::Unicode::UTF7 and has nothing common with Unicode::IMAPUtf7.
RFC2060 - section 5.1.3 - Mailbox International Naming Convention¶
By convention, international mailbox names are specified using a modified version of the UTF-7 encoding described in [UTF-7]. The purpose of these modifications is to correct the following problems with UTF-7:
1) UTF-7 uses the "+" character for shifting; this
conflicts with
the common use of "+" in mailbox names, in particular USENET
newsgroup names.
2) UTF-7's encoding is BASE64 which uses the "/"
character; this
conflicts with the use of "/" as a popular hierarchy delimiter.
3) UTF-7 prohibits the unencoded usage of "\"; this
conflicts with
the use of "\" as a popular hierarchy delimiter.
4) UTF-7 prohibits the unencoded usage of "~"; this
conflicts with
the use of "~" in some servers as a home directory indicator.
5) UTF-7 permits multiple alternate forms to represent the same
string; in particular, printable US-ASCII chararacters can be
represented in encoded form.
In modified UTF-7, printable US-ASCII characters except for "&" represent themselves; that is, characters with octet values 0x20-0x25 and 0x27-0x7e. The character "&" (0x26) is represented by the two- octet sequence "&-".
All other characters (octet values 0x00-0x1f, 0x7f-0xff, and all Unicode 16-bit octets) are represented in modified BASE64, with a further modification from [UTF-7] that "," is used instead of "/". Modified BASE64 MUST NOT be used to represent any printing US-ASCII character which can represent itself.
"&" is used to shift to modified BASE64 and "-" to shift back to US- ASCII. All names start in US-ASCII, and MUST end in US-ASCII (that is, a name that ends with a Unicode 16-bit octet MUST end with a "- ").
For example, here is a mailbox name which mixes English, Japanese, and Chinese text: ~peter/mail/&ZeVnLIqe-/&U,BTFw-
Please report any requests, suggestions or bugs via the RT bug-tracking system at http://rt.cpan.org/ or email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Encode-IMAPUTF7 is the RT queue for Encode::IMAPUTF7. Please check to see if your bug has already been reported.
Copyright 2005 Sava Chankov
Sava Chankov, firstname.lastname@example.com
This software may be freely copied and distributed under the same terms and conditions as Perl.
Peter Makholm <firstname.lastname@example.com>, current maintainer
Sava Chankov <firstname.lastname@example.com>, original author
perl(1), Encode.
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Posted on December 26, 2011
Ovariectomy (OVE) Versus Ovariohysterectomy (OVH) Revisited
If you've been reading my blogs for awhile now, you may remember two of my previous posts. While OVH surgery involves removal of the uterus and both ovaries, with OVE surgery just the ovaries are removed. Both are… Read More
Posted on March 17, 2011
Even More to Say About a Better Way to Spay
In January I wrote a piece called, "A Different Way to Spay" (http://speakingforspot.com/blog/?p=1931) describing two techniques for performing spay surgeries. The method widely embraced in the United States is ovariohysterectomy (OVH) in which both ovaries as well as… Read More
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A Different Way to Spay
This blog presents an idea that will be new for many of you and may be new for your veterinarians as well. I thought presenting a novel idea would be a great way to kick of the new year! … Read More


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Lighting Installation in Bishops Corner, Connecticut
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4-16 mph (3 wrap frame)
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Aqua Bike
Get an effective workout without strain on your muscles and joints with this lightweight, yet stable, stationary Aqua Bike. Weighing just 21 lbs., the Aqua Bike is ideal for low to medium-intensity workouts. Position the Aqua Bike in front of the swim current for a more challenging ride.


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THURSDAY, May 7, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Obesity, type 2 diabetes or high blood pressure increase teens' risk of premature blood vessel aging, a new study finds.
"Our study demonstrates that the slow changes in blood vessels that lead to the development of atherosclerosis [narrowing of the arteries] begins early in life," said lead author Justin Ryder. He's an assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Minnesota Medical School, in Minneapolis.
The study included 141 teens with normal weight, 156 obese teens, and 151 teens with type 2 diabetes who were followed for five years. The teens' average age was nearly 18 when the study began.
After five years, the teens with either obesity, type 2 diabetes or high systolic blood pressure were much more likely to have thicker and stiffer carotid arteries than teens with normal weight. The carotid artery is the main blood vessel that leads to the brain.
Obesity, type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure are major risk factors for heart attack and stroke later in life, noted the study authors. The findings were published May 6 in the Journal of the American Heart Association.
"Having obesity, type 2 diabetes or high systolic blood pressure were each independently associated with and equally predictive of having thicker and stiffer arteries among this group of young people," Ryder said in a journal news release.
"What surprised our team the most was that participants with higher systolic blood pressure compared to their peers in the study had a very similar risk as those with obesity or type 2 diabetes for thicker and stiffer blood vessels over time," he added. (Systolic blood pressure is the first number in a blood pressure reading.)
Ryder said obesity needs to be tackled seriously.
"Although type 2 diabetes is treated aggressively in the U.S., obesity needs to be treated just as vigorously because it has the same increased risk for premature aging of the blood vessels, which is an early sign of cardiovascular dysfunction and a precursor to cardiovascular diseases in adulthood," he said.
More information
The U.S. National Library of Medicine has more on teen health.
SOURCE: Journal of the American Heart Association, news release, May 6, 2020


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Name of a line of Egyptian kings, occurring in a passage of Manetho quoted by Josephus ("Contra Ap." § 14). It is said that they ruled for 511 years. Manetho explains "hyk" as "kings" (which Josephus disputes) and "sos" as "shepherds." The latter is "shasu" on the monuments. The Hyksos came as conquerors from Syria and Arabia; and Josephus claims them as the close kindred of his race. They were gradually expelled in a native rebellion, which began at Thebes. They form the fifteenth and sixteenth, perhaps also the seventeenth, dynasties. During the eighteenth dynasty Thothmes III. brought Egypt to its highest power; the nineteenth embraces Rameses I., Sethos (Setoy), Rameses II., usually taken to be the Pharaoh of the oppression, and Me(r)neptaḥ, the supposed Pharaoh of the Exodus.
The words in Ex. i. 8, "Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph," are thought to fit the long rule of Semitic kings, one of whom, Apopy, raised Joseph to high rank and settled his brethren in Goshen. If Adolf Erman, in his "History of Egypt," has rightly fixed the beginning of the eighteenth dynasty at 1530
If the "new king" is to be placed at the end of the eighteenth dynasty rather than at its opening (which hypothesis is not in conflict with that of Joseph's ministration under a Hyksos king), it may be explained thus: Amenophis (Amen-ḥotep IV.), of the eighteenth dynasty, and his two successorsattempted to reform the religion of the country, setting up a supreme god, Aten (= ?), in place of the many divinities of Egypt; this movement came to an end, and the worship of Amon, Ra, etc., was resumed; hence a king, not indeed new in race, but new in faith and in sympathies.
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New generations of digital infrastructure get deployed quickly even when they are incompatible with what already exists. But old infrastructure is incredibly slow to disappear. The complicated business and legal mechanisms embodied in computer systems are risky and expensive to replace.. But existing systems can't function without the infrastructure that was in place when they were built… Thus new generations of infrastructure can be easily added, but old and even antique infrastructures survive alongside them to power the applications that have not yet been updated to employ new technologies.
This persistence of infrastructure can be seen as a force likely to slow changes in Identity Management, since it is a key component of digital infrastructure.
Yet global economic and technological trends lead in the opposite direction. The current reality is one of economic contraction where enterprises and governments are under increasing pressure to produce more with less. Analysts and corporate planners don't see this contraction as being transient or likely to rebound quickly. They see it as a long-term trend in which organizations become leaner, better focused and more fit-to-purpose – competing in an economy where only fit-to-purpose entities survive.
At the same time that these economic imperatives are shaking the enterprise and governments, the introduction of cloud computing enables many of the very efficiencies that are called for.
Cloud computing combines a number of innovations. Some represent new ways of delivering and operating computing and communications power. But the innovations go far beyond higher density of silicon or new efficiencies in cooling technologies… The cloud is ushering in a whole new division of labor within information technology.
Accelerating the specialization of functions
The transformational power of the cloud stems above all else from its ability to accelerate the specialization of functions so they are provided by those with the greatest expertise and lowest costs.
I was making this "theoretical" point while addressing the TSCP conference recently, which brings together people from extremely distributed industries such as aeronautics and defense. Looking out into the audience I was suddenly struck by something that should have been totally obvious to me. All the industries represented in that room, except for information technology, had an extensive division of labor across a huge number of parties. Companies like Boeing or Airbus don't manufacture the spokes on the wheels of their planes, so to speak. They develop specifications and assemble completed products in cost effective ways that are manufactured and refined by a whole ecosystem. They have massively distributed supply chains. Yet our model in information technology has remained rather pre-industrial and there are innumerable examples of companies expending their own resources doing things they aren't expert at, rather than employing a supply chain. And part of the reason is because of the lack of an infrastructure that supports this diversification. That infrastructure is just arriving now – in the form of the cloud.
Redistributing processes to be most efficiently performed
So technologically the cloud is an infrastructure honed for multi-sourcing – refactoring processes and redistributing them to be most efficiently performed.
The need to become leaner and more fit-to-purpose will drive continuous change. Organizations will attempt to take advantage of the emerging cloud ecology to substitute off-the-shelf commoditized systems offered as specialized services. When this is not possible they will construct their newly emerging systems in the cloud using other specialized ecosystem services as building blocks.
Given the fact that the best building blocks for given purposes may well be hosted on different clouds, developers will expect to be able to reach across clouds to integrate with the services of their choice. Cloud platforms that don't offer this capability will die from synergy deficiency.
Technological innovation will need to take place before services will be able to work securely in this kind of loosely coupled world – constituting a high-value version of what has been called the "API Economy". The precept of the API economy is to expose all functionality as simple and easily understood services (e.g. based on REST) – and allow them to be consumed at a high level of granularity on a pay-as-you-go basis.
In the organizational world, most of the data that will flow through these APIs will be private data. For enterprises and governments to participate in the API Economy they will require a system of access control in which many different applications run by different administrations in different clouds are able to reuse knowledge of identity and security policy to adequately protect the data they handle. They will also need shared governance.
Specifically, it must be possible to reliably identify, authenticate, authorize and audit across a graph of services before reuse of specialized services becomes practicable and economical and the motor of cloud economics begins to hum.