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MIAMI - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Thursday deported Valerio Ronchi, 59, wanted on criminal charges of sex assault of a minor in Brazil.
Ronchi, a Brazilian national, was turned over to authorities in Sao Paolo, Brazil.
Ronchi was convicted of sexual assault on a minor in the State of Santa Catarina Judiciary Branch, Criciuma District 2nd Criminal Court, in Brazil on Nov. 24, 2004. He was found to have drugged and performed a sexual act against an 11-year-old girl. He was sentenced to eight years, five months and seven days in prison. Ronchi fled Brazil to evade the imposition of his sentence.
ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents in Miami initiated an investigation as a result of an inquiry from the Brazilian Federal Police, the ICE Attaché office in Brasilia and INTERPOL. The investigation uncovered that Ronchi was found to be residing in the United States. On March 19, ICE special agents arrested Ronchi without incident near his place of work at Indianapolis Auto Sales in Pompano Beach, Fla.
He was taken into ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) custody at the Krome Service Processing Center in Miami on the same date.
He was placed into removal proceedings and an immigration judge ordered Ronchi removed to Brazil.
Ronchi was found to have entered the United States on July 05, 2006, at Miami International Airport as a B2 non-immigrant visitor for pleasure not to exceed Jan. 04, 2007. He remained in the United States beyond Jan. 04, 2007, without authorization.
The ICE ERO Miami Field Office effectuated Ronchi's removal to Brazil.


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Revenants by Daniel Mills
I'm now reviewing books for the site My Bookish Ways. Here's my first: Revenants by Daniel Mills.
Actually, "reviewer" is kind of a misnomer. I'm more of a "recommender" since I'm only going to review stuff I like or my curiosity for overcomes my curmudgeonishness.
And if you don't want to read the review, then I'll just say you should read Revenants by Daniel Mills. It's good.

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Class #36: "For Christ has set us free, not for a political freedom or a freedom of the flesh but for a theological or spiritual freedom, that is, to make our conscience free and joyful, unafraid of the wrath to come. This is the most genuine freedom; it is immeasurable" (LW, Vol. 27, p.4).
1 John 1:6-10 speaks of our Christian freedom from sin. Believers do not walk in darkness. Yet, it is not that we are sin-free. We continually confess our sin and He continually forgives and cleanses us. We say, "No," to our own sinful nature and fight against it. The Gospel promises freedom from sin, law, death, wrath, and the devil. Through faith in Christ, I do not fear death, as I have the promise of eternal life. Christ has taken the wrathful curse so that the devil's accusations are not true. I am not going to hell for my sins, I am forgiven.
"Therefore one's spirit must be trained, so that when it becomes conscious of the accusation of the Law, the terrors of sin, the horror of death and the wrath of God, it will banish these sorrowful scenes from its sight and will replace them with the freedom of Christ, the forgiveness of sins, righteousness, life, and the eternal mercy of God" (LW, Vol. 27, p.5)
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When it comes to Italian cuisine, pasta reigns supreme. It is the quintessential and Italian dish (equaled perhaps only by pizza) and served up differently from region to region – bucatini all'amatriciana in Rome, tagliatelle al ragu' in Bologna, and orrecchiette con cime di rapa in Puglia, among many others. While I myself am a huge pasta fan, I do think it tends to overshadow many other Italian dishes that are perhaps lesser known (at least to our non- Italian readers). Risotto is a perfect example of a dish that perhaps you might have overlooked in favor of pasta or pizza, and is definitely worth adding to your repertoire.
Many cuisines have their own spin on rice – the Spanish have paella, the Chinese have fried rice, the Mexicans arroz con leche. Risotto is rice done the Italian way – Arborio or carnaroli rice slowly cooked with white wine and broth and finished off with a healthy dose of parmesan cheese. Sounds delicious right?
If you're not Italian, I'd guess that you've probably had risotto a few times in restaurants, but not actually ever made it at home. "All that stirring!" a friend of mine said when she learned I was publishing this recipe next. "It's too complicated!" This is to a certain extent true – risotto is a needy dish, the equivalent of a fussy toddler who requires coddling and a bit of extra attention. It requires a cooking time of at least 30 minutes, during which broth is slowly added to the rice and stirred until completely absorbed. This process is certainly more complex compared to the quick boil time of pasta – but the slow stirring process is what releases the starch in the rice and gives the dish its signature richness, making the end result well worth the bit of extra effort. Besides being a nice change of pace from pasta, risotto is also comfort food that is still fancy enough for company, and is extremely versatile -- once you have the basic recipe down you can add any other ingredients you want!
The recipe I'm sharing with you in this post is probably a less traditional recipe for risotto – it uses pancetta and squash, a vegetable very similar to pumpkin that I love cooking with in the Fall. Its sweetness complements the sharp parmesan and salty pancetta very nicely, not to mention it's a cozy dish to have for dinner when the temperatures start to drop. Bon appetit everyone!
1 butternut squash, about 2 pounds
4 tablespoons olive oil
Salt and pepper
6 cups chicken stock
3 ounces pancetta, diced
1 medium onion
1 1/2 cups arborio rice
1/2 cup white wine
1 cup freshly grated parmesan cheese
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
Peel the butternut squash, remove the seeds, and cut it into 3/4-inch cubes. You should have about 6 cups. Place the squash on a sheet pan and toss it with three tablespoons of olive oil, 1 teaspoon salt, and 1/2 teaspoon pepper. Roast for 25 to 30 minutes, tossing once, until very tender. Set aside.
Meanwhile, heat the chicken stock in a small covered saucepan. Leave it on low heat to simmer.
In a heavy-bottomed pot or Dutch oven, sauté the pancetta and onion in another 1 tablespoon of olive oil on medium-low heat until the onion is translucent but not browned. Add a little more olive oil if needed. Add the rice to the pot and stir everything together. Add the wine and cook for 2 minutes. Next, add 2 full ladles of stock to the rice. Stir, and simmer until the stock is absorbed, 5 to 10 minutes. Continue to add the stock, 2 ladles at a time, stirring every few minutes. Each time, cook until the mixture seems a little dry, then add more stock. Continue until the rice is cooked through, but still al dente, about 30 minutes total. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Off the heat, add the roasted squash and Parmesan cheese. Mix well and serve.
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Share a Story - Change the World
Friends, I need to brag on the SOUNDS OF THE MOUNTAINS festival held here in VA! It always gets the best in storytelling, like this year with DONALD DAVIS, GERALDINE BUCKLEY, DOUG ELLIOT & KEVIN KLING, but this year it's also the home of a DEBUT Birthday PARTY for HE AIN'T RIGHT, my new CD which has been lovingly put together by the good folks at ROADCANDY RECORDS & TREEHOUSE ARTISTS. Copies of my CD will be there along with copies of my new book: 101GAMES THAT TEACH STORYTELLING SKILLS. Come by, visit, listen to great tellers. I'll be emceeing. To find out more about this awesome festival, kindly visit: soundsofthemountains.org
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I am a graphic and web designer living in the lovely Madison Wisconsin. When I'm not working on a project, I can probably be found doodling hand lettered type, learning a new soup recipe, or attempting to exhaust my rambunctious cat. I would love to talk to you about freelance work, internships or design positions.
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Who am I?
I am compassionate. My top two strengths on the strengths finder were empathy and belief. I feel deeply. I love with my whole heart. I want people to be everything God has created them to be.
I cry when I am hurt. I cry when others are hurt. I have been told I am a good listener,
I think about every angle of my decision-making to determine the possible consequences. I look at the big picture.
I am someone who thinks my actions, my words, and my faith should match up. I'm not perfect, and I make mistakes, but I will not use that as an excuse to keep making poor decisions.
By God's grace, I live by His Word and empowered by His Spirit. This doesn't mean I am always warm and fuzzy. Much of the time I am, but truth to me is more important than comfort.
I am sarcastic. I can dish it out, and I can take it.
I am stubborn and opinionated. Those two things are stamped all over my DNA.
I think for myself and have been doing so for at least two decades. I attribute that to the stellar gifted education I received in my elementary years. (Seriously.)
I am spiritual. I believe God is concerned about my life and involved in it. I would not have made it without Him.
I am a terrible dancer.
I am a great speed reader.
I rock at mommy-ing. Not because I am June Cleaver (I'm not). Not because I'm Martha Stewart (it's a good thing). But I've had to be an advocate for both of my boys' from day one (which was actually gestational age week 29), and I will continue to be until my last breath.
I sing in the car and in the shower. Country music and old hymns.
I am many things, good, bad and neutral.
But the one thing I am not ... a liar.


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Fall on Rock — Rappel Error (Uneven Ropes), South Dakota, Needles, Moonlight Ridge
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Another climbing legend passed on today. On June 24, Paul Duval (71) died of injuries sustained when he rappelled off the end of an un-equalized rope at Moonlight Ridge.
Paul was a very humble and gentle man. His contributions to rock climbing were numerous. We will miss him.
Paul had set up a rappel using someone else's rope that had multiple markings, including markings about 20 feet from each end. Paul was not familiar with this latest in rope-design. It appears that he short-roped one side due the selection of the wrong rope marking, which he apparently assumed was the middle mark. He had passed the first marking on the rope and then went all the way to the next mark, which was actually an end 'alert' mark, about 20 feet from the end of the rope. The center mark was faded and difficult to see. The short end of the rope was over a small overhang and Paul was facing in the opposite direction looking over an adjacent route off his left side. The overhang and short rope were off to his right side. He was also talking to the people who were on the ground and farther around toward the opposite side of the rock. Neither Paul nor the people on the ground ever saw or noticed that there was a short rope side to the rappel set-up and a very long side, because both ends were around a corner and behind Paul to his right. (Source: Peter Lev)
(Editor's Note: There are ways to ensure one has found the middle of the rope. The old fashioned way, guaranteed to work, is to grab both ends and slide back until reaching the bight of rope, which is the middle. Another method is to knot the ends of the rappel rope together so that it will jam in the rappel device.
Another reason the middle mark can be wrong is if one of the ends was cut off due to damage or some other reason.)


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Welcome to Vedic Tours & Travels
Vedic tours & travels takes its name from Vedas, the store house of higher wisdom. Knowledge that was heard or orally communicated first to the saints & sages and then from them to their disciples. Vedas are also said to be direct gift from God to man. It was only centuries later that man compiled this information to form of four volumes of whats called Vedas.
Translated for us, Vedic means relating to knowledge - knowledge of India, her culture & traditions, experience of the culture and values besides understanding the needs of a foreign visitor to the country. The direct result of this knowledge and experience over time is expertise in presenting India further to those wanting to know and experience as much as possible within limited time.
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I know even the title makes you look and wonder but its just more anthropology(sorry). In the NPR article For Cave Women, Farmers Had Extra Sex Appeal by Richard Harris, it talks about how they have been studying the Y chromosome to see if women and men both traveled and moved into Hunter-gather area. It found that it was just men that set off and then had offspring with the local women. Its an interesting article that made me re think, beacuse I always had in my mind this family walking along in search of better land (Like during the 1800s in America), but now its just the men that went and took over the land they found and had the locals fall for them. Or even if the women came along the males can "spread more" seeds so their genes moved fast in population. Since not only did they have the new sexy look to them with gifts of grain and animals that followed them, their children might of been healthier and more of them since they where able to have a greater population off the grain than the natural/local nuts and animals.
So now we can thank these women for falling for these grain men for how we live today…(know wonder we fall for men with fancy new technology, its in our genes)


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Pthisis bulbi, also called Atrophic bulbi / Small Eye / Shrunken Eye, occurs post eye (ocular) trauma (injury), eye surgery and eye infections (inflammations). Phthisis Bulbi or a painful, Blind eye does not have any vision (sight). Moreover, the blind eye can cause sympathetic ophthalmitis (a disease), which can in turn cause blindness even in the other normal eye. Hence, in an eye with no visual potential, it may make sense to remove the eye (via enucleation, evisceration, eye removal surgery), insert a silicone / acrylic ball implant surgically (to replace the volume of the removed eye) and instead fit in an artificial, custom made ocular prosthesis (false eye). A well fitted ocular prosthesis looks and moves just like a normal eye and it can be difficult even for people to tell if the eye is false or real. Dr. Debraj Shome is one of the top/ best oculoplastic & facial plastic surgeons in the world and currently practices in Mumbai, India. In this blogpost, Dr. Debraj Shome writes about eye removal surgery (enucleation, evisceration, exenteration), a blind eye and cosmetic treatment and rehabilitation of small, shrunken eyes with surgery followed by fitting an artificial, custom, hand made, prosthetic eye. Continue reading
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Challenges and Solutions
Why it matters:
- Organizations are challenged today to shorten and simplify processes but also want to get customer data into the development cycle. This is especially the case when development follows Agile development methods such as Extreme Programming (XP).
- When development experiences a tight timeframe or teams react to heavy weight front-end design methods, in-depth work with users may be resisted.
- Development teams often contend that developer intuition, expert user advisors, and lightweight usability testing is enough to collect user needs. But these techniques although quicker do not ensure a high quality product or application that work for the people who will use them.
- The user-centered design community is challenged to develop techniques to infuse in-depth user data into a design and development process that can fit with short time frames, limited resources, and the 2-4 week iterations of XP.
At CHI 2005, a formal SIG provided a forum for participants to hear how different companies have tackled these problems. After initial presentations by a panel, over 80 people broke into eight topic groups to brainstorm issues they're facing and possible solutions. The topics were:
Topic 1: Effectively communicating the customer data and keeping stakeholders informed
- Working with and managing teams
- Getting to the customer: finding them, working in different languages, dealing with large projects with multiple roles types
- Staying an iteration ahead when Development is using an Agile method
- Introducing user-centered techniques into the organization
- Balancing being rapid with being creative
- Communicating with distributed teams and distributed customers
- Maintaining the quality of customer data and interpretation sessions
The groups' results are displayed below. Also available are the slides from each panel member:
Karen Holtzblatt, InContext
Lisa Baker, LANDesk
Joerg Beringer, SAP
Topic 2: Effectively communicating the customer data and keeping stakeholders informed
- There is a lot of data, and raw data isn't suitable for communication
- It sometimes isn't clear how many data points we should have before we start to communicate
- Consolidated data is what needs to be communicated, but we don't consolidate until we have all the data
- There's a difference in communicating requirements versus communicating design specifications
- We need to keep focused on the user when determining requirements
- We need to make sure the design is implemented as designed
- We need to communicate not only solutions but also the underlying problem so the team can develop its own solutions
- Some of the Contextual Design models are less useful for communicating with developers
- We need to take into consideration the stakeholders' needs when communicating to them
- But sometimes stakeholders aren't clear about what they need, or don't know what they need
- Requirements need to be communicated so that they help in the development of test cases
- Communicate upfront, early on
- Train some of the developers to understand HCI and user requirements
- Get the developers interested in the things they care about
- Recognize that this varies from project to project and developer to developer
- Get the developers involved in the requirements phase and design process
- Help the developers understand the purpose and benefit of the Contextual Design models
- Reinforce open communication, don't just expect it to happen or happen without work
- Treat the design as a blueprint
- Establish the role of "design communicator"
Topic 3: Working with and managing teams
- Uniformed managers intervene in the process, and impose their own values
- Egos have to be dealt with, people want to impose their ideas
- Roles are unclear: who controls the information, consolidates it, communicates it
- Leadership and continuity is needed when the project is long
- Implement online project sites as a repository of user research results
- Create a central place to find out what's going on with the project and how ideas evolved over time
- Take communication out of email
- Use webcams projecting virtually to see what happens during activities like wall walks
- Have physical project rooms with continuity in their location
- Overcome egos and "I think" by teaching a clean (empirical) approach (field data, interpretation, design response)
- Stay grounded in the data
- Use a round robin process to inform one another about what we can do, what we're good at
- Involve the entire team in the synthesis of ideas (i.e., interpretation sessions) so there's a shared understanding
Topic 4: Getting to the customer: Finding them, working in different languages, dealing with large projects with multiple role types
- Recruiting customers needs to go faster
- The time needed increases when it's a new market
- The time needed increases if the customer data is controlled by a contractor/partner
- There can be issues around the organizational structure for contacting customers, including the account reps' thinking we are stepping on their turf
- The are cultural differences to approaching contextual interviews
- When you use translators to capture the data that are not UCD professionals the data quality becomes questionable
- Some cultures don't want to be filmed or are uncomfortable with Contextual Inquiry
- The more customers you get to, the more data problems you can have
- More data means a larger affinity diagram that takes more time to build, and can be so big that there may be information overload, especially if you haven't allocated enough time
- Requesting more time or resources has to be justified
- If you bring helpers in they have to be knowledgeable, not just "warm bodies" — you have to have the right people
- More data means a larger affinity diagram that takes more time to build, and can be so big that there may be information overload, especially if you haven't allocated enough time
- Finding the right users can be a full-time job
- You need a user profile in order to recruit, but sometimes you don't know who is right until you've done some interviews
- Create a "design partner program" with your existing user base
- Have an up front agreement to participate
- Partners get perks
- Address the reality of how long it takes to recruit
- Use a marketing research company
- Create positions for in-house recruiters (two full-time people)
- Agree in advance with the project manager on the user profile
- Resource appropriately
- Recognize that recruiting time is always underestimated
Topic 5: Staying an iteration ahead when Development is using an Agile method
- There is a lack of time and personnel
- Requirements are unclear
- It's unclear about how tasks are passed from one discipline to another
- Unrealistic deadlines are set by someone else
- Expectations are not set
- There are problems with getting feedback incorporated
- Plan multiple sprints ahead and work with the product marketing managers or project leads to get a global view of the goal — and to get team to agree to it
- Co-locate the different disciplines
- Keep a war room with the artifacts like wire frames visible to all
- Use a Wiki for remote workers
- Constantly re-asses where you're slipping and re-scope
- Do two versions of project simultaneously:
- "Fast" version using best practices to design but without user input
- "Slow" version incorporating feedback
- Plan room for feedback in your sprint
Topic 6: Introducing user-centered design methodologies into the organization
- Organizational resistance needs to be overcome; it is hard for organizations to change
- Resources are scarce
- Prior bad experiences with trying user-centered design result in not wanting to try again
- People don't understand how to resolve a perceived overlap in roles
- There isn't faith in the sample size, and this can cut both ways
- Either Marketing doesn't think a small sample is reliable or they rely on too little data
- Time or market pressures are dictated by external events that can't be changed
- Different teams have different goals, and they don't match
- Different teams have different needs and different idea of what is valuable to them
- Once you have a successful project, you have to figure out how to make user-centered design a standard practice and not a one-time event
- Start with a pilot project
- Pick a pilot project that you know will be successful; stack the deck in your favor
- Take people from a successful project and make them "ambassadors" to other teams
- Communications with other disciplines should always be based on reinforcing that you are in a partnership and not trying to invade their turf
- Start by explicitly stating the goals, and put them in writing so everyone knows what everyone wants
Topic 7: Balancing being rapid with being creative
- There's no time for design
- Iterations are too short
- The design of the existing product is a constraint
- People will self-censor big ideas because there's a short time frame
- There's a tendency to divide and conquer instead of taking a holistic approach
- There isn't time for a rich envisioning of entire design
- The team size may be too small or too narrow to stimulate divergent or creative thinking
- Team doesn't include and (or enough) designers/UX members
- There's too much focus on development versus design
- The focus is on "crash and burn"
- Handling problems presented in the previous release leaves no room for creativity in the next iteration
- The team feels it cannot take risks
- Design ahead and be aware of where you are going, with three possible approaches:
- Do an initial, holistic guidance for the design up front
- Vision and be creative upfront as guidance for subsequent releases, with freedom for divergent thinking
- Before each iteration, do the design for the next one out so you stay ahead and have time to be creative
- Do the entire detailed design up front, and then iterate in the development with the flexibility to adjust the design
- Do an initial, holistic guidance for the design up front
- Use somewhat longer iterations, and include a planning phase
- Work on maintaining open, positive relationships
- Be willing to re-factor, don't get too bound to a single concept
Topic 8: Communicating with distributed teams and distributed customers
- People work in different time zones
- Budgets for traveling are limited
- Off shoring is a common practice
- Languages are different
- Cultures are different
- Ideas are not in sync; there are different expectations, traditions, departmental structures
- Coordination is difficult
- Data and knowledge sharing is difficult
- It has to be stored somewhere everyone can access, but with security
- To support synchronous communication, be very flexible about meeting times and have standard meeting times that can be planned for
- To support synchronous communication, use a common web space
- Capture and share collaborative experiences
- Videotape the affinity diagramming process to better share the experience, but then run it in a fast or condensed mode
- Use digital whiteboards
- Employ a local expert or local consultant to do CI interviews
Topic 9: Maintaining the quality of the customer data and interpretations
- There are concerns that the right questions are being asked in interviews
- It's not clear that the right users are being interviewed
- Interviewers lose track of the problem focus
- Data is coming from multiple sources
- The data being collected and interpreted doesn't address the project's goals
- Review as you go along to see how the data integrates with the project's goals
- Get a large pool of users to start with, and then focus on those who are more experienced or can fill your data holes
- Go broad, and then deep on a few
- Use an iterative process
- Construct a persona → improve the focus → refine the persona → get team and stakeholder feedback
- Compare and check your data with other data sets like industry data, logs, marketing
This article reflects the effort of the three panelists who shared their experiences and then acted as discussion group leaders at the CHI 2005 SIG.
Karen Holtzblatt, PhD — InContext Enterprises
Lisa Baker — LANDesk
Joerg Beringer — SAP
Our thanks to everyone who attended the SIG.


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This article applies to:
E-Prime 3.0
E-Prime 2.0
This article is meant to provide helpful information and resources to users who are working with E-Prime for the first time.
Installed Resources
A Getting Started Guide is installed with both E-Prime 3.0 and E-Prime 2.0. This manual provides information on the E-Prime experiment design environment, E-Studio, and the data analysis applications E-Merge and E-DataAid. Additionally, information on best practices and other help resources are available in the Guide.
The Getting Started Guide is available as a .pdf file upon installing E-Prime. You can find the Getting Started Guide under either the E-Prime 3.0 or E-Prime 2.0 folder in the Start Menu. We recommend reading and printing the manual before programming your first experiment in E-Prime.
Also installed with the E-Prime system are sample experiments that depict how to incorporate elements such as images, sounds, and videos in your experiment. The article E-STUDIO: Sample Experiments [23971] lists the experiments and locations for E-Prime 3.0.
NOTE: E-Prime 2.0 contains the same Samples except for BasciButtonRT, Survey1, and Survey2. This is because SlideButton functionality is only available in E-Prime 3.0. Additionally, the E-Prime 2.0 location is ...Documents\My Experiments\Samples.
Tutorial experiments are installed with E-Prime. E-Prime 3.0 contains a starting point named "AdvancedTutorialStart.es3" for completing these Tutorials (...Documents\My Experiments\3.0\Tutorials). The following articles contain pdf's that will guide you through the Tutorials:
- E-STUDIO: Advanced Tutorial: Images [23803]
- E-STUDIO: Advanced Tutorial: Sound [23804]
- E-STUDIO: Advanced Tutorial: Movies [23805]
- E-STUDIO: Advanced Tutorial: Using E-Basic Script [23806]
NOTE: If you do not want to overwrite AdvancedTutorialStart.es3, save the experiment under a different name before you begin the Tutorials.
The same Tutorials exist for E-Prime 2.0 as well. However, the information to guide you through the Tutorials is located in the Getting Started Guide.
Product Service and Support Knowledge Base Resources
Due to the desire by users to want online documentation, the E-Prime 3.0 User Manual was created online. It can be found under the Documentation Articles area on our Product Service and Support site.
Users who wish to view the Documentation Articles should start with the Overview articles. The Overview articles contain links to other topics that highlight the features and functionality of the E-Prime system. Please see the links below to the Overview article of each of the 9 different categories in the Documentation Articles:
- OVERVIEW: E-Prime Getting Started and Getting Help [23281]
- OVERVIEW: Experiment Design Using E-Studio [23282]
- OVERVIEW: Logging and Data Collection [23283]
- OVERVIEW: Data Handling Using E-DataAid [23284]
- OVERVIEW: Data Handling Using E-Merge [27740]
- OVERVIEW: Timing in E-Prime [23285]
- OVERVIEW: Extending Experiments with Script [23286]
- OVERVIEW: Using E-Run [23287]
- OVERVIEW: Using E-Recovery [23288]
NOTE: In E-Prime 2.0, the information presented in the Documentation Articles can be found in the New Features - Reference Guide and the User Guide.
Psychology Software Tools hosts Experiment Articles that contain pre-programmed experiment files. The Experiment Library contains full experiments of common psychological paradigms (e.g., Stroop Task) that can be downloaded and run as is. The Sample Experiments highlight certain features and functionality in E-Prime and are not intended for data collection.
NOTE: The Experiment Library is a feature of E-Prime 3.0.
YouTube Resources
PST has YouTube channel with various videos on basic to advanced programming in E-Prime 3.0 and 2.0.
The following are webinars and Tutorials discuss basic functionality in E-Prime:
The following are webinars that discuss varying levels of scripting in E-Prime:
NOTE: The webinars above contain information that is relevant to E-Prime 3.0 as well.
Each E-Object and the E-Studio interface is described in the following series of YouTube videos:
NOTE: The videos series above contains information that is relevant to E-Prime 2.0 as well.
E-Basic Script Resources
E-Basic is a standard object-oriented programming language with over 800 commands, which has been customized to better fit the needs of E-Prime real-time research. Some of the E-Basic commands were specially developed by PST to accommodate the unique requirements of behavioral research. The E-Basic Script Resources contain examples that can be used in experiments to highlight the functionality of the E-Basic syntax.
In E-Prime 3.0, E-Basic syntax can be found online in the E-Prime Command Reference. The E-Prime Command Reference is launched through the Help menu in E-Studio or by using the link to the website (https://pstnet.com/ecr).
In E-Prime 2.0, E-Basic syntax can be found in E-Basic Help. E-Basic Help can be accessed through the Start Menu under the E-Prime 2.0 folder.
The E-Primer
The E-Primer is an independent book written by Michiel Spapé, Henk van Steenbergen, Rinus Verdonschot, and Saskia van Dantzig. The E-Primer provides an introduction into a wide range of experiments that can be set up using E-Prime. The book can be found on their website: www.e-primer.com.


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Ford Raptor Brakes
Looking for a Ford Raptor Brake Kit that still allows you to use the Factory Wheels? Well ADD has got you covered!
The engineering team at Addictive Desert Designs and leader in brake technology Alcon got together to design a new kit for the Ford F-150 and Ford Raptor trucks. Over a year in the making and testing, this Raptor Brake Update kit is the best on the market and the only kit designed to work with in a 17" wheel and without using non-standard wheel offsets that stress the steering on these trucks.
While the stock Ford brakes are great on these trucks the new Alcon upgrade kit provides a stiffer caliper and mounting structure to give a more consistent brake pedal feel even after extended abuse. The stock factory brakes utilize single piston and slide style calipers which can drag and while they work well the opposing piston design in this upgrade kit provides equal pressure / force on both sides of the rotor at the same time when the brake is applied. Combine that equal force pressure system with the about 30% larger pad surface area and you will experience a dramatic improvement in stopping distance and in extended use. Better by design is true in this kit for sure.


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Mike Huckabee on pot: Hey, Colorado, let us know how it works
Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee said states are supposed to be the laboratories of government so Colorado and Washington should spend a couple of years seeing how their legalization of marijuana works out before other states follow suit.
"If were going to have it, this is the way to do it. Road test it. Find out how it works," Huckabee said Saturday.
He also talked about being stoned and having the munchies.
The former governor of Arkansas is one of six Republicans eyeing the White House in 2016 who is speaking at the Western Conservative Summit underway in Denver this weekend. After addressing the crowd, he attended a question-and-answer session with the press and others.


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(Houston, TX) – Installing a child's car seat correctly is no easy task. In fact, experts estimate that three out of four car seats are installed incorrectly. Proper installation of a car seat provides children with the best protection in a crash.
This year, National Child Passenger Safety week is set for Sept. 16 through 21.
On Sat., Sept. 21, 2013, which is National Seat Check Saturday, AAA Texas, Safe Kids Greater Houston and Texas Children's Hospital will be hosting a free community car seat check from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at Houston Community College West Loop Campus, located at 5601 West Loop South, Houston. The event is free, but space is limited. Parents can call Safe Kids Greater Houston for more information at: 832-822-2277. Additional events are scheduled to take place during Child Passenger Safety Week, Sept. 16 through 21, and a full schedule can be found on the Safe Kids Web site at: www.safekidsgreaterhouston.org.
Making sure a child is in the proper restraint system, car seat or booster seat can help provide protection in the event of a car crash. Safe Kids Greater Houston, along with a coalition of community organizations, regularly hosts and staffs check-up stations around the community throughout the year, focusing on teaching parents how to install their child's car seat or booster seat based on manufacturers' instructions.
"At Texas Children's Hospital, we have seen thousands of children who are injured, killed or permanently disabled as the result of not being properly restrained during motor vehicle crashes. We educate parents about car seat safety and seat belt use in an effort to reduce the number of preventable injuries from happening to their children," said Diana Martinez, Health Educator and Safe Kids Greater Houston Coordinator.
All children younger than 8 years old who are shorter than 4 feet, 9 inches in height must be properly secured in a car seat or booster seat. Children not restrained at all or restrained in a system that does not fit their body can sustain serious head, neck and spinal injuries in a crash.
"As an advocate for the motoring public, AAA Texas works closely with legislators, health professionals and law enforcement to provide awareness and education in the community on the importance of child passenger safety," said AAA Texas Public Affairs Representative, Sarah Schimmer. "We appreciate the opportunity to partner with Safe Kids Greater Houston and Texas Children's Hospital to serve this community."
To find information about additional car seat check events taking place in the Greater Houston area during Child Passenger Safety Week, Sept. 16 through 21, or to schedule an appointment at one of the community locations that provides assistance throughout the year, please check the Safe Kids Greater Houston Web site at: www.safekidsgreaterhouston.org or call 832-822-2277.
About AAA Texas
As North America's largest motoring and leisure travel organization, AAA provides more than 53 million members with travel, insurance, financial and automotive-related services. Since its founding in 1902, the not-for-profit, fully tax-paying AAA has been a leader and advocate for the safety and security of all travelers. AAA Texas can be visited on the Internet at www.AAA.com. Follow AAA Texas on Twitter:
@AAATexas and Facebook: www.facebook.com/AAATexas.
About Texas Children's Hospital
Texas Children's Hospital, a not-for-profit organization, is committed to creating a community of healthy children through excellence in patient care, education and research. Consistently ranked among the top children's hospitals in the nation, Texas Children's has recognized Centers of Excellence in multiple pediatric subspecialties including the Cancer and Heart Centers, and operates the largest primary pediatric care network in the country. Texas Children's has completed a $1.5 billion expansion, which includes the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute; Texas Children's Pavilion for Women, a comprehensive obstetrics/gynecology facility focusing on high-risk births; and Texas Children's Hospital West Campus, a community hospital in suburban West Houston. For more information on Texas Children's, go to www.texaschildrens.org. Get the latest news from Texas Children's by visiting the online newsroom and on Twitter at twitter.com/texaschildrens.
About Safe Kids Greater Houston
Safe Kids Greater Houston, led by Texas Children's Hospital was established in 1998 to work on a local level at preventing unintentional child injuries and deaths. Safe Kids Greater Houston is one of more than 600 coalitions in the United States under the direction of Safe Kids Worldwide. Safe Kids Worldwide was founded by the Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. to prevent the number one killer of children ages 14 and under: unintentional injuries. Since the inception of Safe Kids Worldwide in 1987, the unintentional childhood injury death rate has declined 45 percent. The goal of the Safe Kids Greater Houston Coalition is to address major areas of unintentional injuries to children 14 and under in our local area. This is accomplished by raising awareness among adults and children, providing life saving education and resources, and by making childhood injury a public priority. At the heart of Safe Kids Greater Houston are our many valuable local partners that work to make the Greater Houston area safer for children. We encourage you to get involved so we can ensure that all children in the Greater Houston area have the chance to grow up healthy and safe, and do all the great things kids were meant to do.


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eleMount iPhone/iPad mount Kickstarts its way into production
In keeping with our recent decision to not report on crowdfunding projects until they've passed their initial funding goals, we decided it was a good time to talk about one project that not only passed it's US$10,000 goal, but thoroughly skyrocketed past it. The eleMount is an anodized aluminum mount that uses polyurethane mounting pads to stick to any surface, including the back of your iOS device.
While it can stick to your car dashboard or desk to use as a stand or car mount, the base of the eleMount can also be unscrewed to reveal a standard tripod screw mount. A ball and socket joint is used to move your iPhone or iPad into whatever orientation you desire. In case you're wondering, the material used to stick to surfaces does not leave any residue, so you can attach it to any new or future iOS device without fear of leaving a mark.
The eleMount will retail for an estimated $79.99, while a tripod-only model called eleMount mini will sell for $69.99. The Kickstarter project has a little over a day to go, and if the funding pledges reach over $200,000 (it's at around $174,000 at press time), they'll make a gold model to match up with Apple's new iPhone 5s color. That seems like a worthy goal! Check out the video below to get a feel for how eleMount works, and then head on over to Kickstarter to make your pledge and pre-order one.
eleMount iPhone/iPad mount Kickstarts its way into production originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Wed, 02 Oct 2013 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.


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The story of Juan de Fuca is part fact, part legend. The 16th century explorer employed by the Spanish gave his name to the east-west strait between Washington State and Vancouver Island, but he called it by a different name. For almost 250 years, many disbelieved his story or thought the man never existed. And he could not have guessed the other places on the west coast that bear his name today.
Born on the Greek island of Cephalonia in 1536, Ioánnis Phokás was the descendant of Greek refugees from the Fall of Constantinople in 1453. His father settled in the village of Valeriáno, which accounts for de Fuca's Greek name, Apostolos Valerianos. Little is known of his early life, but he entered the service of the King of Spain in 1555, eventually earning his stripes as a pilot in the Spanish Navy.
In 1592, he found himself in New Spain (now Mexico), and he was ordered to take two ships, a caravel and a pinnace, and search for the Strait of Anian, which geographers believed connected the Northwest Passage to the South Seas. When de Fuca returned, he announced the discover of a strait between 47 and 48 degrees north and that he had sailed past a pillar of rock, now called Fuca Pillar on Cape Flattery, into the strait. He eventually returned to Spain to claim rewards promised to him by the Spanish government, but he never collected a penny and returned home to Greece a disappointed man.
After his death in 1602, his story passed into legend. No Spanish records existed to verify de Fuca's claims. (Spain was notorious for its secrecy, which later complicated its territorial claims to the west coast.) His own accounts were vague and confusing. If it weren't for an Englishman, John Lok, who wrote about de Fuca's voyages, historians might still doubt them. English mariners, due perhaps to de Fuca's proposal to work for Elizabeth I, believed his claims, however. Captain James Cook, one of Britain's greatest explorers, was on the threshold of the strait in 1778 when he sighted Cape Flattery. Nine years later, an English fur trader, Charles William Barclay, entered and named the strait after Juan de Fuca, which was later explored by a succession of Spanish and English mariners.
Though Juan de Fuca could not have known it, he sailed over two other natural features that bear his name today: Juan de Fuca Ridge and Juan de Fuca Plate, both located off the coasts of Washington State and British Columbia. The features are part of the vast system of tectonic plates that cover the earth, though the plate is slowly disappearing under its neighbor to the east. It will be millions of years, however, before this piece of history will pass into legend.
Wikipedia: Juan de Fuca
Wikipedia: Strait of Juan de Fuca
Greek Consulate, Vancouver, Canada, via Internet Archive Wayback Machine
Lighthouse Friends: Cape Flattery, Wash.
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The result of a collaboration between Vitra and Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby, the Mariposa Club Armchair showcases an inviting form while maintaining a contemporary aesthetic.
With a slim body that offers optimum comfort in compact proportions, the Mariposa Club Armchair is composed of blocks of cushioning with visible seams. The cushions themselves are crafted from multilayer PU foam upholstery with removable covers, while the webbed metal frame creates a strong grounding for the armchair, softened with polyurethane foam to create an all-round, enveloping cushion feel.
With the addition of plastic glides for easy adjustment to fit any floor, the Mariposa Club Armchair is upholstered in rich Credo fabric: a durable 95% new wool blend with a beautifully soft, premium texture.
The perfect enhancement for compact urban living spaces and designed to go with the matching sofa, the Mariposa Club Armchair epitomises its designers' philosophy: to seek quality and expressive flare in a condensed structure.


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There are 3 types of Payroll Processing, each with their particular output:
- Invoices from Self-employed staffers: You use this when receiving an invoice from your staffer. You enter it, specifying exactly what shifts / adjustments / expenses that invoice covers, those get marked as paid, and you get a copy of the invoice in the system. You can download CSV files after running an Invoice Batch.
- Wages, Subsistence, Bonuses, Fines and Adjustments paid to employees: When you run Payroll for your employees, you get CSV files detailing the items that were paid in the selected period of time / jobs. You get separate columns for Wages, Subsistence, Bonuses, Fines and Adjustments. The report will include an "Expenses" column which will always be empty.
- Expenses: When running Expenses Payroll, you simply reimburse your employed staffers for their approved expenses. (Self-employed staffers need to add their expenses to their invoices). This report includes *only* Expenses. To make automation easier for you, should it be necessary, both the Employees and the Expenses report have the same exact format. Thus, you will see columns like Wage, Subsistence, etc in this report, but those will always be empty.
Both Wages and Expenses payroll outputs consist of two files with the same format:
- Employees: This is the file you will use to generate payslips, and pay your employees. It contains one line per employee, with the total amount due to them, their bank and tax details.
- Detailed: The detailed file is useful to do analysis of your business. It contains one line per "thing" paid (Shift, Adjustment or Expense), rather than grouping them by employee, but it also contains more detailed information about each shift or expense paid (like the job it belongs to, the date, expense type, etc). With this, you can use Excel's tools (filtering, pivot tables, etc), to get as much information as you may need.
Sample Files
These are some sample files you can use to see the format of files you would get, and to play around:


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Our in-house team are specialists in conference stage design, award presentations and product launches. We can provide a wide variety of cost effective stage set packages to an entirely bespoke construction that promotes your brand and message. Using our in depth knowledge of venues, AV and stage set design we are able to consult and build the most effective and engaging sets.
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Your dedicated Account Manager will meet with your team to understand the aims and objectives of your event and stage set requirements. The next step involves taking your brief to our design team who will produce 3D visuals rendered from different viewpoints of the set as well as a birds-eye view enabling you to visualise your set in a virtual environment. This is supported by detailed (CADs) drawings enabling us to manufacture the stage set with pinpoint accuracy and produce detailed room plans.
Once approved, our team will then get to work building your bespoke set, measured accurately to suit the venue, AV requirements and conference theme. Your bespoke set can include HD LED plasmas, floor length screens, or motion graphic showreels. Use of wide screen combines several specialist projectors with the power of the Spyder processing system allowing for seamless high-definition images, from many different sources, such as live camera, video, satellite link ups, powerpoint or keynote presentations and branded graphics.
Whatever your needs we continue to provide innovative ideas for our clients ensuring we deliver the best results and impact to make your event truly memorable.
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Beautifinda Newsletter October 2016
Welcome to Beautifinda's first newsletter!
Spring is here and we are delighted to have your on board as we build Australia's most exciting beauty platform.
At Beautifinda our objective is to help you find clients, build your brand and showcase your work.
In this months newsletter we feature an exciting new beauty business launching from @katiewinklermakeup and @illuminate_hairdesign , share some great customer feedback from @airbrush_tanning_brisbane and feature articles from our guest beauty bloggers @elleymae and @beautybyannierosee.
If you have a blog post you would like to be featured email me firstname.lastname@example.com.
Katie Winkler and Hayley Matthews
We speak with Katie and Hayley as they get set to launch STUDIO47 Hair & Makeup Bar. We can't wait to see their 'one-stop beauty fix' bar.
It's always great to get positive feedback from Beauty Pro's on how we are helping build their business.
Thanks for sharing how Beautifinda helped you find new clients @airbrush_tanning_brisbane
Thanks to B&T, Australia's leading marketing and advertising website for featuring the Beautifinda launch.
Elley Mae shares her favourite affordable beauty products on the blog this month. Check her site out also: www.elleymae.com
Annie Rosee joins us on the blog also sharing her all time favourite producs from each category: Check blog is awesome too: www.annierosee.com
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The venue was one of Copenhagen's oldest military sites , The Kastellet - a 17th century fortress. A fitting location to explore 21st century warfare!
The seminar formed part of an ongoing series of seminars by the Foundation to explore the implications and opportunities for a 5th generation enabled Defence force.
An indication of how universal these new future force considerations are was reflected by the attendees at the seminar. There were military and diplomatic representatives from Denmark, Norway, Finland, Italy, Poland, the Netherlands, Spain, Ukraine, the United States, and the UK. NATO and the European Air Group also participated. It was a truly global meeting of air power experts.
Dr Robbin Laird, who has previously worked with the Williams Foundation, was also at the Copenhagen seminar and his initial commentary on the issues explored can be found at:
The introduction into Air Force service of an all-weather long-range air-to-surface missile passed another milestone recently when a test AGM-158A Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) was successfully released from an F/A-18 at the Jervis Bay range facility or the first time.
The test missile is designed to carry out carriage and release trials from F/A18 aircraft to determine safe release parameters. The test was coordinated by teams from the Defence Materiel Organisation (DMO), Air Force and Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control.
Project manager SQNLDR Michael Spencer said the purpose of the trial was to determine if the aerodynamic flow permitted safe separation of a missile from the launch aircraft. Test pilots released the missile under typical operational flight conditions and delivery manoeuvres.
"The trial was conducted using a JASSM Separation Test Vehicle (STV), which replicates the operational JASSM and transmits separation data to a telemetry ground station operated by the Ranges and Assessing Unit at Jervis Bay," SQNLDR Spencer said.
DMO is acquiring the missile for Air Force through Project Air 5418 Phase 1 - Follow-On Stand-Off Weapon under contracts with Lockheed Martin and the US Air Force. The DMO project office is teamed with the Hornet Weapons Integration Project Team, from the Tactical Fighter Systems Program Office, to integrate JASSM onto the Air Force 'classic' F/A-18A/B Hornet aircraft and achieve the Initial Operational Capability by the end of 2009.
SQNLDR Spencer said the trial's success was made possible with support from other key Defence units including the Development and Test Wing of AOSG that provided the aircraft compatibility engineering expertise, test aircraft and crews; Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control that provided the technical expertise on the missile and its testing; the Jervis Bay Range Facility personnel with their telemetry equipment; 81WG for logistics engineering support; 78WG that provided a Hawk chase aircraft; and DSTO that provided wind tunnel testing and risk analyses.
"More Australian JASSM flight trials are planned as part of an incremental test program," SQNLDR Spencer said.
"This program builds on the results from each test to progressively improve confidence that the missile can be launched and operated safely over the range of flight altitudes, speeds and manoeuvres required to be used by our Hornet aircrews."
Meanwhile, other upgrades to the Hornet continue on track following the successful trialling of the new Raytheon ALR-67(V) 3 radar warning receiver and acceptance into service of the Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) missile.
The last four F/A-18F Super Hornets arrived at RAAF Base Amberley on 21 October 2011, completing delivery of 24 aircraft for Nos 1 and 6 Squadrons. The four new arrivals joined up over North Stradbroke Island with 16 Super Hornets already delivered, to carry out a mass flypast of 20 Super Hornets over Brisbane and the Gold Coast, before landing at Amberley.
The new jets and their crews were welcomed home by friends and family at RAAF Base Amberley with an arrival ceremony and a Super Hornet solo flying display. The Super Hornets achieved initial operational capability in December 2010 following the retirement of the highly capable F-111. Full operational capability of the Super Hornet is scheduled by the end 2012. The Super Hornet will give Australia an upgraded air combat capability, pending the introduction of the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter.
The decision, soon after the 2012-13 federal budget confirmed the RAAF's eight remaining C-130H Hercules would be retired early, has been expected for some time. Project AIR 8000, the BFA replacement, was active for more than 12 years, and the previous AIR 5190 ran for more than a decade before that. The C-27J will fill the requirement left vacant by the retirement of the last remaining DHC-4 Caribou tactical transports in December 2009.
"The C-27J was assessed by Defence as the aircraft which best met all the essential capability requirements and provides the best value for money. It was assessed as being able to fly further, faster, higher while carrying more cargo and requiring a smaller runway than the other aircraft under consideration, the Airbus Military C295," a ministerial statement said.
Further justifications supporting the decision are that the C-27J can access nearly four times the number of airfields in Australia than the larger C-130J, and double the number of airfields in our wider region, as well as being able to operate into softer or unprepared fields.
The new aircraft will be based at RAAF Base Richmond, with a reformed 35SQN, disbanded in 1999 when Caribou operations were consolidated with 38SQN, under the command of 84WG.
The aircraft and associated spares, training and equipment will cost about $1.4 billion. The first RAAF C-27J is due to be delivered in 2015, and initial operational capability is scheduled for late 2016. "Initial logistic support, including training for aircrew and maintenance personnel will be provided through the FMS program, utilising the system that has been established in the US," the ministers' statement reads. "Defence will seek a separate agreement with the C-27J manufacturer, Alenia, in order to ensure that RAAF can operate, maintain and modify the aircraft throughout its planned life."
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He will take over July 1 in the high-performing district that is facing a difficult fiscal future.
In December, the school board declared a "negative certification" for the district budget, meaning it may not be able to meet expenses next year.
A revised spending plan reversed the negative certification to a "positive" one earlier this year.
Taylor, who has been deputy superintendent of Corona-Norco Unified School District, will succeed Superintendent Dean S. Conklin, who is retiring next month after almost 15 years with Walnut Valley Unified.
The school district covers Walnut and parts of Diamond Bar.
"I'm going into a district that has a long, strong reputation for student achievement " that puts kids first and produces high results in the classroom," Taylor said.
"The budget has been a concern for districts across California. "
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The Walnut Valley Unified school board's search for the next superintendent included a visit to the Corona-Norco district earlier this month.
"The board unanimously feels that Dr. Taylor is an outstanding choice for superintendent. We feel that he will bring leadership skills and genuine care for people that will serve our students, staff and community well," board President Helen Hall said in a news release.
Taylor began his administrative career in Yucaipa-Calimesa Joint Unified School District. He has worked in numerous administrative positions, including principal, and has been a classroom teacher.
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TARDA's area of jurisdiction covers approximately 138,000 km2, comprising 100,000 km2 of the Tana Basin and 38,000 km2 of the Athi Basin. This includes most of the Central province, the southern districts of Eastern province, the riverine portion of North Eastern Province along the Tana River (Garissa and Ijara Districts) and parts of the Coast province where both the Tana and Athi rivers drain into the Indian Ocean.
TARDA is divided into three zones namely:-
Upper zone – Catchment areas of Mt Kenya and Aberdares region to Lower reaches of Murang'a District
Middle Zone – Catchment areas in the lower reaches of Murang'a up to Garissa
Lower Zone – Catchments areas below Garissa town, the Sabaki area and the coastal region
Based on the 1999 census, the population in the two river basins was estimated at 11 million people, which is about 37% of the National population of 30 million. The current population is projected at 15 million.
Administrative Coverage
This includes most of the Central province, the southern districts of Eastern province, the riverine portion of North Eastern Province along the Tana River (Garissa and Ijara Districts) and parts of the Coast province where both the Tana and Athi rivers drain into the Indian Ocean.
TARDA's Headquarters is located in Nairobi. There are three regional offices as follows:-
- Tana Regional Office based at Embu Town
- Athi Regional office based at Machakos Town
- Upper Athi Region based at TARDA's Go down Offices in Nairobi.
The Tana and Athi Rivers Development Authority was established by an Act of Parliament CAP 443; in 1974. The functions and responsibilities of the Authority are spelt out in TARDA Act Cap 443, Laws of Kenya.
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- To advise the Government generally and the Ministries set out in the schedule in particular on all matters affecting the development of the Area including the apportionment of resources.
- To draw up and keep up to date, a long-range development plan for the Area.
- To initiate such studies, and to carry out such surveys of the Area as it may consider necessary, and to assess alternative demands within the Area on the resources thereof, including electricity power generation, irrigation, wildlife, land and other resources and, to recommend economic priorities.
- To co-ordinate the various studies of, and schemes within the Area, so that human, water, animal, land and other resources are utilized to the best advantage, and to monitor the design and execution of planned projects within the Area.
- To effect a programme of monitoring of the performance of projects within the Area so as to improve that performance and establish responsibility therefore and to improve future planning.
- To ensure close co-operation between all agencies concerned with the abstraction and use of water within the Area in the setting up of effective monitoring of that abstraction and use.
- To collect, assemble and correlate all such data related to the use of water and other resources within the Area as may be necessary for the efficient forward planning of the Area.
- To maintain a liaison between the Government, the private sector and foreign agencies in the matter of the development of the Area with a view to limiting the duplication of effort and to assuring the best use of technical resources.
- To render assistance to operating agencies in their applications for loan funds if required and
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The following listing includes recommended doctors and practitioners for your thyroid care. Please note that being listed here in the Thyroid Top Doctors Directory doesn't necessarily mean a doctor is the right one for you. The doctor may be an empathetic and warm physician, but not open to working with drugs like Armour or T3 drugs. The doctor may be brilliant and innovative, but have a terrible bedside manner. Or the doctor may be quite costly and not on insurance programs. Always call the doctor's office ahead of time to find out more about the doctor's philosophy, approach, costs, and other important factors before going in for your first appointment. Please let me know if you have feedback -- positive or negative -- about doctors listed here, or would like to recommend your "top" doctor.
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Dr. Raymond Maxin , Primary Care Physician/Gerontologist, Oaklawn Avenue, Cranston, RI 02920, 464-4417. A patient writes: "He is very caring, takes time with his patients and is understanding and thoughtful. Dr. Maxim is brilliant when it comes to medical care and used up to the minute resources and information." (Added 1/06)
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Robert J. Dobrzynski, Diabetes & Endocrinology, 49 Seekonk Street, Providence, Rhode Island, 401-351-7100. A reader writes: "Dr. Dobrzynski is a compassionate, kind doctor. He understood my concerns re: "residual" symptoms that other doctors refused to treat. I've been to a few others, including Lahey Clinic and there is no comparison to the treatment I'm currently getting with Dr. Dobrzynski. I'm finally exhaling after three years, knowing that I'm going to be the person I was before hypothyroidism!" (June 2006)
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Knowledge of chocolate's benefits is not new. The ancient Aztecs discovered a "divine drink, which builds up resistance and fights fatigue." A cup of this invaluable, refreshing and nourishing drink, made by crushing the seeds of the Theobroma cacoa tree, permitted a man to walk for a whole day without food. Nutrition researcher, Michael Levine, among others, described chocolate as being the world's perfect food—chemically speaking
The heart-protecting properties of dark chocolate have been recognized for some time. Numerous dietary intervention studies have demonstrated cardioprotective effects of flavanol-rich foods and beverages. Black tea, green tea, red wine, various fruits and berries, cocoa and cocoa products all contain high concentrations of flavonoids, phenolic phytochemicals, which have been extensively investigated for their chemopreventive and antioxidant capacities. Flavonoids appear to exert their cardioprotective effects by defending against oxidation, improving endothelial function, reducing the tendency of blood to clot by improving platelet function and decreasing hypertension and reducing the risk of heart disease. cocoa may have more benefits than teas and red wine because of greater amounts phenolic phytochemicals and a higher antioxidant capacity.


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Not Fantastic Four #541, though (written by the departing J. Michael Straczynski, drawn by Mike McKone). Ben Grimm goes to France and meets the Justice League. Now imagine that as written by Frasier and Niles Crane, and that's the issue in a nutshell. Even McKone's work seems more light and ethereal than usual, although a lot of that is the pastel color palette. I just shake my head in amazement at this issue, and I'm not sure whether that's good or bad.
Holy crap, Criminal #3 (written by Ed Brubaker, drawn by Sean Phillips) was good. A great character study really helped ground me in the plot and made me want to reread the first two issues. My only question was the utility of having sex while recovering from a gunshot.
Likewise, She-Hulk #14 (written by Dan Slott, pencilled by Rick Burchett, inked by Cliff Rathburn) did a great job with Awesome Andy's awesome secret origin, although upon further examination I wonder if Burchett cheated by drawing very slight "expressions" on Andy's head. I didn't notice them at first, so I guess they were subliminable.
Through no fault of writer Gail Simone, penciller Nicola Scott, or inker Doug Hazlewood, I fell asleep while reading Birds Of Prey #101, and so missed out upon a very exciting issue which starts with Big Barda fighting a jet in mid-air and ends with just about everybody in some kind of trouble. I also never noticed how nice the Scott/Hazlewood team is; better even than Ed Benes was on this book. Glad I started getting it again.
Lots of weird stuff going on in Omega Men #3 (written by Andersen Gabrych, drawn by Henry Flint), and I think I fell asleep during this one too. I'm not sure whether I like Flint's work, although a 16-panel montage of Tigorr vs. spiders makes up for an earlier panel of a Superman with a lower leg almost as long as his entire torso. Lady Styx from 52 shows up here, all full of Hellraiser-style religion-through-sadism, and there is much freaking out. It's interesting enough for me to keep going, I suppose.
Checkmate #9 (written by Greg Rucka, drawn by Jesus Saiz) continues the Kobra-infiltration storyline, revealing along the way that current DC POTUS vacations in Kentucky (represent!). There is (almost literally) a backdoor crossover with another book, some Chaykinesque crosstalk between Sasha and Sarge Steel, and another character retooled by John Ostrander joins Mister Terrific. Pretty good.
Writers Kurt Busiek and Karl Kesel and artists Butch Guice and Phil Winslade wrap up a "classic Aquaman" two-parter in Aquaman: Sword Of Atlantis #47. It's okay, I suppose, although it still doesn't quite feel like classic Aquaman. It does, however, inform the relationship between Aquaman (both of them) and King Shark, so I guess it is worth noting.
Secret Six #6 (written by Gail Simone, pencilled by Brad Walker, inked by Jimmy Palmiotti) wraps up pretty well. Most of it is concerned with the Mad Hatter and Vandal Savage, both of whom appear to die in the issue, but one of whom actually doesn't. I liked it, and it would be interesting to see how Simone handled an ongoing series.
Finally, 52 #33 (written by JMRW, breakdowns by Keith Giffen, pencils by Joe Prado and Tom Derenick, inks by Jay Lesten and Rodney Ramos) was appropriately quiet. Nightwing gives Batwoman "official status," Ralph Dibny steals a doodad from the Flash Museum, the Question gets closer to death, Luthor continues to be a bastard, and there are assorted holiday glimpses of various characters. Oh, and Black Adam reaches the height of his naivete. I can't tell you which of these elements will be most important to the overall plot, but I do continue to enjoy the ebb and flow of this series. It might have been an objectively uneventful week, but that's the way the holidays are sometimes.


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Medical chip market on 12% CAGR
Moves to smaller and portable medical equipment for use away from hospitals is driving up sales of ICs and sensors in the medical semiconductor market, according to market research firm IC Insights.
The annual market for medical chips was worth $5.3 billion in 2014 and is set to rise to $8.2 billion in 2018, representing a compound annual growth rate over the period of nearly 12 percent.
IC Insights is predicting strong annual sales growth in 2015 (17 percent) that will fall back in 2017 coinciding with the next global economic slowdown in 2017.
The IC portion of the medical semiconductor business to $6.6 billion in 2018 while the marketshare for optoelectronics, sensors, actuators, and discretes is growing at a faster rate from a smaller base to reach $1.6 billion that year.
Medical semiconductor market forecast to 2018 ($ billions). Source: IC Insights.
The scaling of IC feature sizes, system-on-chip designs, improvements in sensors, and powerful analog frontend data converters are reducing the size of medical diagnostic equipment and the cost of using them.
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The 2nd installment of "Scoring At The Movies" finds Chris & Ryan knocking it onto the green…after a monumental number of bad stroke). It's the Costner/Russo (and, really, the Costner/Cheech) lovefest…with golf! Chris is a student of the links, so he's got you covered with credible details and history about the Game Of Checkered Pants, but we've got a lot more than just minutia about 3 woods and shanks. Wanna bet? If you don't, then apparently you can't be a golfer.
For The Record: Tin Cup's Rotten Tomatoes tallies are only slightly better than the reviews for Happy Gilmore (which actually has a 15% higher rating from RT audiences). Also, John Daly turned pro in 1987.
YouTube links: Roy's riddle and "Grip it and rip it" and Tin Cup and his lonely 7 iron and Simms outsmarts Roy and Roy's immortal 12 on the 18th hole and "This Could Take All Night" music video
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Making background image clickable?
I know I'm hoping for a miracle asking this but has anyone come across any recent solutions for making background images clickable? Maybe making the image an image map?
I know I'm hoping for a miracle asking this but has anyone come across any recent solutions for making background images clickable? Maybe making the image an image map?
I'd avoid image maps, support isn't great for them and they are a pain to make responsive.
First option are you 100% sure you can't just use an
img tag, does this really need to be a background image?
Second option use an empty
<a> tag positioned over the background image.
Thanks for the help Mark. Yes, this email has to use a background image. We've wrapped the background image with a DIV and <a> tag. This seems to work on gmail and has inconsistent support in the different Outlook clients we tested, which weren't many.
We've included a CTA button as an alternative to clicking on the image as well as made the headline clickable. The mobile version uses an entirely different hero using an image swap technique so the image there is not a background image. It's a complicated email :)
Thanks again.
Not sure what ESP you're using but we were able to do this by storing the background image code in the ESP's content blocks (ContentAreas), then wrapping the content blocks with
<a> tags:
<a href="YOUR LINK" style="text-decoration:none;"> %%=ContentArea("123456")=%% </a>
This allowed for clickable background images in most email clients, sans Outlook.
For Outlook support, we added the following conditional
[mso] code in the content block:
<!--[if gte mso 9]>
<v:rect xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" fill="true" stroke="false" style="width:600px;height:482px;" href="YOUR LINK">
<v:fill type="tile" src="https://image.gif" color="#fafafa" /><v:textbox inset="0,0,0,0">
This is very helpful! Thank you!
Hey Caleb, are you using Salesforce Marketing Cloud as your ESP?
My team just started converting some of our most used templates to MC's content areas. This is a great solution and I'm definitely going to present it to my team. Thanks Caleb!
Just to elaborate on Mark's solution. We had to do this for AMC movie emails... I placed a transparent GIF or PNG over the image and linked that. worked and allowed you to utilize the alt and title tags.