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The Monday Roundup: Election reactions, victim shaming response, Chicago's Gateway Green, and more
Posted by Jonathan Maus (Publisher/Editor) on November 14th, 2016 at 11:27 am
Welcome to the first full week in what some are calling "The Trump Era."
Deep breath.
The rise of the right means different things to different people. From our end, we're staying vigilant to the real and potential changes that Trump's access to power might bring to all aspects of our lives. While it's hard to focus on anything but national news right now, there's a lot of work to be done in our respective corners of the world.
Here are the stories that caught our attention this past week…
Bike comic in New Yorker: It's not every week the New Yorker includes a multi-page comic from the perspective of a city-dwelling woman on a bike that deals with race and urban life.
Safety message smackdown: If you've ever been frustrated by victim-blaming public safety messages from government agencies, you'll love this response.
A view from 'The Brown Bike Girl': Some solid truths spoken by Courtney Williams with Black Girls Do Bike about how people of color see cycling and whether or not gentrification should be blamed on bike infrastructure.
Supressing the bike vote: A 99-year old man who showed up to his polling place in Wisconsin pedaling a tricycle was turned away because he no longer drives and didn't have a driver's license to use as a photo ID. He ultimately voted, but only after someone helped him get to the DMV.
One challenge to another: Libertarian candidate for presidend Gary Johnson will decompress from the campaign by riding the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route.
Chicago's Gateway Green: Want to get a feeling for what we'll soon have at Gateway Green in Portland? Check out the new Big Marsh bike park in Chicago.
Floating bike path in Chicago: We think Portland needs to be more bold for cycling and do bigger projects. Imagine having a floating bike path like this one proposed for the Chicago River between northwest Portland and a new path suspended under the St. Johns Bridge — or to connect the Overlook/University Park neighborhoods to the central city?
NYC mayor and Vision Zero: In New York City advocates aren't afraid to directly criticize their mayor for a lack of urgency around making streets safe.
Election Reactions
People don't like paying for new freeways: TransitCenter says that of all the big transit funding measures that passed last week, the ones that included big money for highways did a lot worse than transit-only measures.
Focus local: Ben Fried from Streetsblog says the election makes action at the local level more important than ever.
Road lobbyists head to DC: We reported about this a bit last week, but read more about the road and highway-building lobbyist Trump has tapped to oversee his transportation transition team.
Privatization coming: Laura Bliss from Citylab has an in-depth breakdown on how Trump's love of privatization will impact transportation policy. She too says local governments must step up to protect transit and non-motorized infrastructure.
Tell stories, burst bubbles: Chris Bruntlett with Modacity (who lives in Canada) has six bits of advice for U.S. advocates. They include using stories not statistics and getting out of the biking bubble.
Thanks for all the suggestions. It really helps now that BikePortland is once again back to one staff person. Trying to keep up. I need your support. Thanks for reading.
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Hanselminutes Podcast 104 - Dave Laribee on ALT.NET
My one-hundred-and-fourth podcast is up. In this episode I talk to the always thought-provoking David Laribee (blog) who coined the term ALT.NET just last year. It's turned into a Open Spaces Conference and continues to challenge the status quo, reminding .NET developers of the importance of being agile and enabling processes for continuous improvement.
What does it mean to be to be ALT.NET? In short it signifies:
- You're the type of developer who uses what works while keeping an eye out for a better way.
- You reach outside the mainstream to adopt the best of any community: Open Source, Agile, Java, Ruby, etc.
- You're not content with the status quo. Things can always be better expressed, more elegant and simple, more mutable, higher quality, etc.
- You know tools are great, but they only take you so far. It's the principles and knowledge that really matter. The best tools are those that embed the knowledge and encourage the principles
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The troika. The triumvirate. The monumentally talented trio. The inimitable Gary McHenry is on the left. Tedd Webb and Jack Harris are to his left, respectively. (But certainly not politically.) These were the glory days of Tampa talk radio. Never equalled, never approximated since.
This is history. Gary McHenry, Bob Lassiter and Bob Schuman. Three greats, all since passed. Lassiter was without peer, nonpareil. With a voice that could shatter wood. Singularly talented. A radio pioneer. Bob Schuman was a mensch. Jocular, always in a great mood. A man known for having a large enema bag dangling from his office ceiling like a Calder mobile.
Listen for his laugh. A listener forwarded this to me. The quality is poor. You can hear the ubiquitous Tampa Bay area lightning storm yonder. This was just a moment of interplay. Unrehearsed and spontaneous with that beauteous laugh of Hay's. That cachinnation that makes my soul smile.


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WASHINGTON – House Speaker John Boehner said Friday there has been no progress in negotiations to avert a "fiscal cliff" combination of automatic tax increases and spending cuts in January and called on President Obama to produce a new offer.
Hours later, Vice President Joe Biden again laid out the White House's terms: raise the top two tax rates paid by upper-income earners and give the president authority to raise the government's borrowing cap without the approval of Congress.
"Top brackets have to go up. The top rate should go to 39.6 percent," Biden said, referring to the top Clinton-era tax rate. Obama campaigned on raising tax rates on individual income exceeding $200,000 and family income over $250,000, and he's claiming his re-election as a mandate to insist on it. Republicans are offering new tax revenues through closing loopholes and curbing deductions.
Biden said the White House is willing to negotiate over rates — even as he pressed a new administration demand for authority for Obama to unilaterally raise the national debt and avoid a reprise of the debt crisis of a year and a half ago.
"We have to have a mechanism to stop the brinkmanship for dealing with the national debt," Biden said.
Boehner's frustration seems to be mounting. He said the White House has wasted another week and has failed to respond to Monday's GOP offer to raise tax revenues and cut spending. Obama and Boehner spoke privately by phone Wednesday. Boehner described the conversation as pleasant "but just more of the same."
On Thursday, two Boehner aides met with a top White House official in the Capitol for a discussion that Republicans said produced no progress.
These officials said presidential aide Rob Nabors insisted that Boehner agree to the president's demand for an increase in the tax rate on upper incomes, and also bow to Obama's wishes for presidential authority to raise the government debt limit without prior approval by Congress.
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As usual we slept in till around midday, but I was happy to go around sightseeing.
First we caught the train to Harajuku. Unfortunately we didn't see the colourful, creatively dressed fashion victims I had seen in books. Instead there were many punk looking rejects and a guy in a dress. What a disappointment.
We went around the corner to the Meiji-Jingu Shrine which was cool. Here I am at the first Torii gate to the shrine. There were another two or three getting closer to it, but once you see one Torii gate you kind of seen them all. Well, it's the only picture I took, so this is it.
We washed our hands and mouths before entering the shrine. Here I'm trying to get gf to tell me what this place is called.
I'm trying my best "cool" pursed lips pose. This is from inside the shrine area. There were a LOT of tourists here. This is pretty much the first time I have seen more foreigners than japanese.
I'm trying to tell gf to say, "Hi, to the video" but she keeps on saying just "Hi". I think it's cute.
Next, we went to Yoyogi Park to chill and saw Rockabilly dancers, actual bands with mini amps and picnicers. This would be a nice place to bring my guitar and for us to have a picnic also. Gf and I looking over the fountains.
From Yoyogi Park we walked towards Shibuya to her favourite french bakery that was about 10-15 minutes away and got some pasteries. I mentioned to gf that I saw a girl on a train with a Krispy Kreme donut box and she knew there was one in Shinjuku.
So.. Next stop Shinjuku!
This is a part of the lineup for the Krispy Kreme shop you can see on the left hand side of the photo. Along the right side of the bridge you see here is the line. The lineup continues along the front of the shop as well. This is a 2 hour line! We went later on, only waiting 30 minutes. They gave us a free donut in line. I bought a dozen donuts to which gf said "Really?!"
Before we went home I wanted to take a picture of the lights of Shinjuku. Even after walking through the seedy streets of Kabukichō, I couldn't find the ideal place for the perfect photo, but this is an example.
Sunday, 1 July 2007
Harajuku, Meiji-Jingu & Krispy Kreme, Shinjuku!
As usual we slept in till around midday, but I was happy to go around sightseeing.
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What if the Fed throws a QE3 and nobody comes? That is the ominous question portfolio manager John Hussman asks in his latest letter to Hussman Funds shareholders, and his answer will not encourage traders looking to the Fed for portfolio salvation.
Hussman's letter, published Monday, follows a week of negative economic data accompanied by easing moves by the ECB, Bank of England and the People's Bank of China that failed to inspire investors.
The former business school professor-turned-money manager characteristically parsed the data to show that it is both worse than it perhaps seems on initial inspection. Of Friday's job report, for example, Hussman (left) says the "internals" were "more dismal than the headline number" of 8.2%.
Most of the employment gains in the June employment figures benefited, surprisingly, the 16-19 age cohort and workers over the age of 55, masking a "plunge" in the key demographic of 25-54-year-old workers. Also, those counted as employed included "277,000 workers shifted to the classification 'part-time for economic reasons: slack work or business conditions.'"
While Hussman, who believes we are already in the midst of an "unfolding global recession," believes the June jobs report "may be looked on longingly within a few months," the main point of his letter is to show that the Federal Reserve has a markedly declining ability to stem market losses.
Hussman marshals evidence from a study by Nautilus Capital to show that each new effort by central banks to inject liquidity into the financial system has less and less impact as time progresses. The pattern, for the Fed, ECB and Bank of England, is captured by stock market bar charts that in general rise to lower and lower peaks following central bank easing.
And the reason for this is that quantitative easing is meant to drive interest rates down to encourage some investors into risky investments. But, "if interest rates are low already, and risky assets are already priced to achieve weak long-term returns (we estimate that the S&P 500 is likely to achieve total returns of less than 4.8% over the coming decade), there is not nearly as much room for QE to produce a speculative run," Hussman wites.
Eventually, investors become "indifferent between continuing to hold that cash versus holding some other security." Consequently, quantitative easing can barely lift markets beyond the decline that preceded and prompted it, Hussman adds.
And this is totally apart from the fact that GDP growth is weakly related to market fluctuations in the first place (meaning that QE is a poor policy choice if the objective is to revive the economy).
So as many investors await QE3, Hussman expects it will be of little avail:
"Our economic problems run far deeper than what can be healed by more reckless bubble-blowing by the Federal Reserve. At the center of global economic turmoil is a mountain of bad debt that was extended on easy terms by weakly regulated lenders with a government safety net. Global leaders have done all they can to protect the lenders at the expense of the public – to make good on the bond contracts of mismanaged financial institutions by breaking the social contracts with their own citizens. The limit of this unprincipled madness is being reached," Hussman writes.
The key distinction Hussman makes is between liquidity, which central banks are providing, and solvency, which they are not and which can only be obtained through debt restructuring, especially among European banks.
"The worst nightmare," Hussman warns, "is that global leaders will deny the necessity and belatedly discover that they have squandered the last opportunity to avoid a disorderly finale."
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Äpp « Immersion France » aitab teil Prantsusmaa keeleõppevõimalustes orinteeruda [fr]
Õppimisvõimalusi Prantsusmaal tutvustav ametlik agentuur CampusFrance andis õpihimuliste valikute hõlbustamiseks välja uue äpi « Immersion France ».
Äpp on laetav Google Play'st ja AppStore'ist. Tasuta nii prantsuse kui inglisekeelne abimees koondab Prantsusmaa keeleõppekeskuste parimaid pakkumisi. Saadaval on enam kui sada erineva teemaga keeleõppe koolitust – gastronoomia, turism, erialakeele väljaõpe ja palju muud põnevat.
Äpp aitab teil leida meelepärase koolituse ja interaktiivse kaardi kaudu avastada prantsusmaa erinevaid piirkondi.
Adding the French language to our tourist activities to increase the appeal of regions and territories
With over 130,000 students and foreigners arriving each year in France to study French, language tourism today creates several thousand jobs in our regions and generates over €115 million in turnover each year.
As the world's number one tourist destination, France has a wealth of attractions to encourage learners to extend or diversify their stay or to encourage tourists to discover its language while visiting a region. However, it still lags far behind Britain in terms of the number of language stays: although France has a particularly diverse range of options, from small, independent centres to major universities, and choices of language training to meet the needs of all people (schoolchildren, professionals, families, etc.), it now needs to be better organized, raise its profile and become more transparent for foreign customers who are constantly connected and increasingly demanding in terms of services and hospitality.
Immersion France: an app for promoting language stays
Based on this observation, and following consultation with sector professionals at the first seminar on language tourism last June at the Quai d'Orsay, the MAEDI and Campus France have developed, in partnership with Atout France and TV5 Monde, the Immersion France app which allows users to choose from 300 language stays in France while learning about the tourist attractions in our regions and the French art de vivre.
Immersion France is a free app in French and English for mobile phones and tablets, available for Apple devices and soon for Android, allowing users to choose a stay in France based on their language skills and on their preferences in terms of the length of their stay, accommodation and preferred additional cultural or professional activities.


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As a child I read voraciously so the seed of travel was planted by none other than Enid Blyton. Family holidays ran the gamut from icy dips in the early summer seas of Cornwall, to camel rides in north Africa, from Times Square to Tenerife. A GAP year upon leaving school cemented the travel bug. After graduating University and before stumbling, happily, into a career in the travel industry I spent a couple of glorious years exploring southern and east Africa, large swathes of South-east Asia, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka.
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Multipurpose Hall-Effect Sensor Family
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Note: The HAL 5xy sensor family is not recommended for new designs and is replaced by HAL 15xy
The HAL 5xy family consists of different Hall switches produced in CMOS technology. All sensors include a temperature-compensated Hall plate with active offset compensation, a comparator, and an open-drain output transistor. The comparator compares the actual magnetic flux through the Hall plate (Hall voltage) with the fixed reference values (switching points). Accordingly, the output transistor is switched on or off.
The sensors of this family differ in the switching behavior and the switching points.The active offset compensation leads to constant magnetic characteristics over supply voltage and temperature range. In addition, the magnetic parameters are robust against mechanical stress effects.The sensors are designed for industrial and automotive applications and operate with supply voltages from 3.8 V to 24 V in the ambient temperature range from –40 °C up to 150 °C.All sensors are available in the SMD-package SOT89B-1 and in the leaded versions TO92UA-1 and TO92UA-2.
Block diagram – system architecture
The HAL 5xy sensors are monolithic integrated circuits which switch in response to magnetic fields. If a magnetic field with flux lines perpendicular to the sensitive area is applied to the sensor, the biased Hall plate forces a Hall voltage proportional to this field. The Hall voltage is compared with the actual threshold level in the comparator.
The temperature-dependent bias increases the supply voltage of the Hall plates and adjusts the switching points to the decreasing induction of magnets at higher temperatures. If the magnetic field exceeds the threshold levels, the open drain output switches to the appropriate state. The built-in hysteresis eliminates oscillation and provides switching behavior of the output without bouncing.


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Economists think about soaking the rich, a little
One of the most contentious issues to be argued in the next U.S. presidential election is whether or not to tax wealth. President Barack Obama believes the rich aren't paying their fair share while Republicans are against any increase in taxes (with certain exceptions). Since Japan's budget deficit is even worse than America's, levying higher taxes on the rich would seem to be up for discussion here as well, but all we hear about is the consumption tax. Nevertheless, a number of Japanese economists have proposed a fuyuzei, or wealth tax, modeled on a similar idea that's been used in Europe. The way the tax has been proposed makes its purpose twofold: while it should be able to generate lots of revenue for the government, it may also have the effect of getting dormant savings into circulation, which is just as important as reducing the national debt.
The proposal was recently explained in Tokyo Shimbun by Hiromichi Shirakawa, the chief economist for Credit Suisse. The basic idea is to tax the money in savings accounts and treasury bonds on an annual basis. Based on surveys conducted by the Financial Information Center, the total amount of money in savings accounts and treasury bonds is about ¥854 trillion, so if the wealth tax rate were set at 1 percent, the government could collect ¥8.5 trillion a year. In 2010, the amount of revenue generated by the consumption tax was ¥10.2 trillion.
Other economists have suggested variations on this theme, such as a graduated tax bracket system, meaning the more money you save, the higher the percentage of tax you would pay. Or, in order to really make it a tax on the rich, set a bottom limit for how much money is being saved, so that only people who fall above those lines pay the wealth tax. Of the ¥854 trillion mentioned above, 52 percent is controlled by persons with cash assets of ¥30 million or more.
According to the Bank of Japan, as of December 2011, individual cash assets in Japan amounted to ¥1,471 trillion, at least half of which is money in near zero-interest savings accounts. The wealth tax would not be levied on money invested in securities or insurance. As it stands, the government levies a flat 10 percent tax on capital gains from stocks, while it withholds 20 percent from interest income. Stock profits used to be taxed at 20 percent as well, but the government reduced it to spur investment with the aim of eventually returning it to 20 percent. The increase has been continually postponed, however, presumably because people still aren't buying enough stock.
Shirakawa has advanced his idea on several TV shows and received numerous complaints from older people, whom the wealth tax would affect more since they have more savings than do younger people. In Tokyo Shimbun he said older people should think of their grandchildren, who will inherit this massive debt. But the main hurdle to introducing such a tax is lack of bureaucratic resources rather than political will. Because so many individuals keep the money in various accounts and/or invest them in various instruments, it is difficult for the Tax Bureau to determine exactly how much each citizen has in terms of assets. In fact, one of the arguments in favor of the controversial taxpayer ID number system currently under discussion is that it would make such calculations much easier, since all accounts and investments would be tied together through a personal ID number. (In fact, the government introduced the same sort of tax in 1950 but cancelled it after three years because it couldn't get a bead on people's assets.)
But what about so-called tansu yokin (savings in the wardrobe), meaning cash that is simply stuffed under a mattress or crammed behind the cookie jar, without any record that it even exists? No one has ever estimated how much cash is held secretly in Japan, though every once in a while you get some idea when an old house is torn down and a worker finds a stash of ¥10,000 bills; or an elderly person is swindled over the telephone by someone pretending to be his or her relative needing money right away to solve a problem. Last week, an old woman in Gifu handed over ¥60 million in cash to someone who said he was representing her son. Apparently, she had most if not all of this money on hand.
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The Spago post-Oscar party is now just as desperate to find a host as the Academy was after Billy Crystal dropped out. As for the most oft-mentioned front-runners, the troika of David Geffen, Barry Diller and Sandy Gallin has bailed, as have Barbara and Marvin Davis. "There's no chance of me giving that party," said Geffen a few nights ago. And Barbara Davis, who's holding a wedding for her daughter Nancy (to Kenny Rickel) only two days before the Oscars, said, "There just isn't room on my plate. And it's a difficult party; you can easily make enemies since there is only room for 200 people." Maybe Graydon Carter's party at Mortons will end up the A-list gathering spot.
Paul Marciano has occasionally been accused of going out on a limb with his provocative advertising campaigns for Guess. This time he's gone for the whole tree. Marciano has joined Tree People, the spirited environmental group that Bette Midler and producer-director David Zucker actively support. Marciano says the wild fires that burned thousands of acres in Southern California in October motivated him. So far, he and Guess have planted more than 15,000 trees.
And this fall, Marciano will add another member to the ranks of Tree People. he and wife Kymberly are expecting their first child in September. The couple had kept the news quiet, but Barbara Lazaroff tipped their hand the other night at Spago when she placed her ear against Kymberly's stomach to listen for the little Guess girl – or boy.


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On January 14, 2013 the DOL issued guidance on FMLA leave for adult children. Pursuant to the Family and Medical Leave Act, parents of an adult child have been previously able to take FMLA for a child who is incapable of self-care. A typical request has been "grandma leave" where grandma wants bonding time with a new grandchild and to "help" the new parents. The FMLA does not provide leave in this instance or for the care of adult children who may need treatment for the flu or other conditions where they are capable of providing or potentially capable of providing their own care. The January 14, Administrative Guidance substantially expands the circumstances under which such leave may be taken. Grandma and Grandpa still don't get time to spoil the new baby, but a complex pregnancy might give rise to leave entitlement.
Specifically, the DOL and the Administrators' interpretation No. 2013-1 reiterates that an eligible employee may take up to twelve work weeks of unpaid job protected leave for a son or daughter who is "incapable of self-care" who is 18 or older. Child is defined quite liberally under the regulations and includes any person for whom the employee might have provided parental like care or assumed parental responsibilities.
There are four requirements that must be met. The adult child a) must have a disability as defined by the ADAAA; b) must be incapable of self-care; c) must have a serious health condition; and d) must be in need of care due to the serious health condition. All four requirements must be met in order for the FMLA allocation to be applicable. This administrative interpretation clarifies that it does not matter when the disability occurs. The disability can occur when a person is under the age of 18 and be ongoing or be a new issue after 18.
The first prong is whether or not the adult child has a disability as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA/ADAAA). Pursuant to the ADAAA the nature of a disability has been significantly expanded and includes a mental or physical impairment that substantially limits one or more of the major life activities of an individual. In other words almost everything qualifies as a potential disability under the ADAAA. If conditions are episodic or even in remission they may still be considered disabilities. This may include such things as cancer in remission, post-traumatic stress disorder, epilepsy, diabetes and other similar conditions. Short term issues may also be a disability. Note, an uncomplicated pregnancy is not considered a disability and so leave (grandma leave) to assist with a standard pregnancy will remain uncovered.
The second prong is whether or not that child is incapable of self-care. In this instance the child must require care as a result of the condition that qualifies as a serious health condition or disability under the FMLA/ADAAA. Examples utilized by the administrative interpretation letter include an employee's 37 year old daughter who suffers a shattered pelvis and will be unable to walk for 6 months. This would qualify for FMLA leave. The second example is the employee's 25 year old son who has diabetes but "lives independently and does not need assistance with any ADLs or IADLs." This would not qualify as the son is capable of self-care. However, note that the need for care can be complicated as the FMLA encompasses "psychological comfort and reassurance that would be beneficial to a son or daughter with a serious health condition who is receiving inpatient or home care." All determinations of being incapable of self-care will be fact specific and may require more consideration than might have previously been needed in a circumstance of this type. The interpretation requires that the child must need active assistance or supervision in three or more activities of daily living (ADL) or instrumental activities of daily living (IADL). Activities of daily living can include everything from grooming, hygiene, dressing and eating to cooking, cleaning, shopping or transportation. Lists are provided in the regulations but these lists are not considered to be exhaustive. Other examples may include medication management and similar items. However, almost every parent will be able to meet the "comfort and reassurance" component.
The next prong includes specifically that the issue must be a serious health condition as defined by the Family and Medical Leave Act. The definition of serious health condition remains unchanged. See 29 CFR §§825.100(a) & 825.112(a)3.
The fourth prong is whether or not the child is in need of care due to the disability. It can be noted from Congressional comments that the intent was to address adult children who had "the same compelling need for parental care" as children under the age of 18. One issue specifically addressed in the wage and hour question and answer section is whether or not a parent may qualify for leave for an adult child if a spouse or someone else is available as a caregiver. DOL specifically states as follows: "Yes. The eligible employee need not be the only one available to care for the family member in order to be entitled to take FMLA leave. Spouses employed by the same covered employer may be limited to a combined total of twelve weeks of leave during a twelve month period for leave taken for certain specified reasons. However, this limitation does not apply to leave to care for a child (including a child of 18 years of age or older) who is incapable of self-care because of mental or physical disability with a serious health condition."
Employers may anticipate more requests for FMLA for longer time periods under this standard.


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I call these Ummels. They are one of a kind, hand painted found objects. I rescue mass produced statues from thrift stores and give them new life and make them unique.
This one is 15 inches tall and 9 inches around.
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La Finquita Cheese Issues An Allergy Alert Due To Potential Peanut And Tree Nut Contamination In Fresh Farmers Cheese
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – June 12, 2014 – La Finquita, LLC of Stamford, CT is voluntarily recalling one lot of La Finquita Quesito Fresco Campesino Fresh Farmer's Cheese, as a precautionary measure, because it may be adulterated with peanuts and tree nuts (pistachios). People who have an allergy or severe sensitivity to peanuts or tree nuts (pistachios) run the risk of serious or life-threatening allergic reaction if they consume this product.
The product was distributed through retail stores in Connecticut, New Jersey and New York.
The product is labeled as La Finquita Quesito Fresco Campesino / Fresh Farmer's Cheese. The product is packaged in a 14.11oz. plastic container, UPC Code: 0 94922 76809 4, with sell by date 06/28/14.
No other products are affected by this recall.
The recall was initiated after being informed by our milk supplier, that the milk used to manufacture the cheese may be contaminated with peanuts and tree nuts (pistachios).
No complaints or associated illnesses have been reported.
Consumers are urged not to consume these products and to destroy the products or return them to the retailer where purchased for a refund.
Consumers with questions may contact the company at (203)561-8140 / (203)561-3929.
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A Department of Natural Resources director's order listing sporting swine as an invasive species took effect over the weekend on Oct. 8, making it illegal to possess the animals in Michigan.
"Absent a regulatory program in Michigan law for sporting swine facilities, the invasive species order is being put into effect," said DNR Director Rodney Stokes.
Stokes said active enforcement of the invasive species order will not start prior to April 1, 2012, with compliance visits to swine shooting and breeding facilities planned after that date.
Sporting swine facilities can use the next six months to schedule hunts to reduce the population of sporting swine on their properties. Facilities still in possession of sporting swine on April 1, 2012, may face violations and fines.
The DNR acted to list sporting swine as an invasive species to help stop the spread of invasive swine across the State to eliminate the disease risk they pose to humans, domestic pigs and wildlife, and to prevent damage to agricultural and other lands. The state is working with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to eradicate feral swine. Legislation was also passed last year allowing people with any valid hunting license to shoot feral swine on public land and on private land with the permission of the landowner.
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IBM's Weakness Rattles Tech Sector
Oct 18, 2012 3:19 PM PT
IBM is often viewed as a bellwether stock for the tech industry. Its earnings points to how other companies are investing in tech -- or lately, how they are not.
Earlier this week, the company announced third-quarter 2012 diluted earnings of US$3.33 per share, a year-to-year increase of 4 percent. Third-quarter net income was $3.8 billion, flat year-to-year. Total revenue was $24.7 billion -- down 5 percent from the third quarter of 2011. All of IBM's operating segments saw a decline in revenue -- from services, software and hardware to global financing.
In Q3, for example, IBM's hardware sales fell an eye-popping 13 percent to $3.9 billion. Even if the decline in revenue had been expected -- and it largely was not -- these numbers would still be sobering for the tech industry.
No one stock is truly a tech bellwether, Mike Tarsala, chartered market technician for Covestor, told the E-Commerce Times,"but IBM is both the biggest and broadest supplier -- and its across-the-board revenue weakness was a shock for the entire technology group."
It's not a death knell for the industry, he emphasized, but it suggests that Q4 expectations for other stocks in the group may need to come down even more.
There was some good news, or rather a silver lining to IBM's earnings report, Andreas Scherer, managing partner with Salto Partners, told the E-Commerce Times. Namely, net income was flat -- which means IBM did a good job managing its costs.
"Also, it was able to increase its gross profit margin by 0.9 percent. So well done," he said.
How to Grow
The big issue is growth, noted Scherer. "Like many other tech companies, IBM is battling a weak world economy. Things in the U.S. are slow. The Europeans are trying to avoid an economic Armageddon, with Greece being on the brink of default and Spain being on the verge of having to request a bailout."
The list of global woes doesn't end there. China has slowed down as well. What does this mean to IBM? For starters, it has clearly spooked its customers in North America.
"IBM's business depends heavily on companies making expensive infrastructure decisions," Scherer said. "Those are easily postponed in times of uncertainty."
Revenue for the Americas' was $10.4 billion, a decrease of 4 percent from the 2011 period.
Customers in other regions of the world proved to be equally fearful about spending. Revenue from Europe/Middle East/Africa was $7.2 billion, down 9 percent. Asia-Pacific revenue posted a relatively paltry 1 percent increase to $6.5 billion.
Better news came from the BRIC countries: Brazil, Russia, India and China, where revenue increased by 4 percent.
What's Missing
Another problems for IBM is that it doesn't have any cool gadgets. Instead, IBM is associated with workhouse products for the office.
When people go to spend their discretionary income, in other words, they don't immediately think 'IBM," Scherer said. "Tablets, smart TVs, smartphones, gaming consoles ... IBM has no market share in these market segments."
Not that IBM's path to a turnaround is to suddenly start competing with Apple.
"For IBM, the hope is that its bets on higher-profit software and services, such as data analysis and cloud computing, will pay off," Scherer suggested.
Calm and Assertive
IBM, for its part, is maintaining a sober public face. The third quarter saw a focus on higher-value businesses, strategic growth initiatives and productivity, said CEO Ginni Rometty when announcing the earnings.
Furthermore, Big Blue sees opportunities ahead with a strong product lineup and an annuity business that provides a solid base of revenue, profit and cash.
"We are reiterating our full-year 2012 operating earnings per share expectation of at least $15.10," Rometty said.
IBM declined to provide further details.


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Vendor-Neutral Archive Consolidates Silos and Provides Access to Any Image, Anywhere, Any Time
CHICAGO, June 18, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Merge Healthcare Incorporated (Nasdaq:MRGE), a leading provider of clinical systems and innovations that seek to transform healthcare, today announced that St. Mary's Healthcare System has selected Merge's iConnect Access and iConnect Enterprise Archive to support their enterprise imaging strategy.
"Since we already use many Merge solutions including Merge PACS™, Merge Cardio™ and Merge Hemo™ across our enterprise, Merge's iConnect Enterprise Archive was a natural extension of our long-standing partnership," explained Brain Duncan, Manager of Radiology Services at St. Mary's. "Furthermore, we selected Merge's vendor-neutral archive because we believe that by using the information life cycle management polices within the enterprise archive, we will see extensive storage cost savings both now and well into the future."
"Additionally, as we work closely with referring providers in the Athens area, we need to get data to others quickly and easily. Because iConnect Access is a zero-footprint, web-based viewer, referring physicians can view images anywhere, including on mobile devices, which has made my life a lot easier," added Duncan. "Plus, iConnect Access image-enables our Meditech EMR to ensure that we're ready to meet the Stage Two requirements of Meaningful Use."
"We are pleased to see a longstanding client like St. Mary's standardize on Merge solutions throughout their enterprise," added Jeff Surges, CEO, Merge Healthcare. "The combination of iConnect Enterprise Archive and iConnect Access will further extend the value of their existing Merge solutions and ensure that their imaging strategy can scale to meet the growing needs for their owned and referring physician communities."
Merge's iConnect Enterprise Clinical Platform is the industry's only comprehensive solution for collecting, archiving, viewing, sharing and exchanging any type of image, anywhere, any time. It includes iConnect Access*, a zero-download DICOM image and XDS server, iConnect Share, a gateway for image sharing across the enterprise and iConnect Enterprise Archive, a vendor-neutral archive (VNA) to create an enterprise imaging strategy. It works with existing applications, leveraging widely-used web and healthcare technology standards, to provide a vendor neutral interoperable environment.
A recent InMedica study reported iConnect Enterprise Archive as the world's #1 VNA, storing over 15 billion images. As the industry's first true standalone VNA, it has been successfully integrated with over seventy-five PACS vendors and specialty workstations at over 350 sites across the United States. In over half of the implementations, Merge's customers have integrated third-party PACS with iConnect Enterprise Archive.
*iConnect Access is not FDA-cleared for diagnostic use on mobile devices.
About Merge Healthcare
Merge is a leading provider of clinical systems and innovations that seek to transform healthcare. Merge's enterprise and cloud-based solutions for image intensive specialties provide access to any image, anywhere, any time. Merge also provides health stations, clinical trials software and other health data and analytics solutions that engage consumers in their personal health. With solutions that are used by providers and consumers and include more than 25 years of innovation, Merge is helping to reduce costs and improve the quality of healthcare worldwide. For more information, visit merge.com.


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Dolbadarn Castle stands above Llyn Padarn, between Caernarfon and Snowdonia. Built by the Welsh Princes it dates to the 13th century and built by Llywelyn ap Iorwerth. Of simplistic design it remains in solid condition and predates the English fortresses of the Edwardian conquest and provides evidence of the extent of Llywelyn's influence and ingenuity.
Wales (Cymru in the Welsh language) is part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The major cities are Cardiff, Swansea, Newport and Bangor. The city of St. Davids is the smallest city in the UK with a population around 2000. Wales itself has a population of around 3 million. The Welsh language is spoken by around 20% of the population.


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DETROIT, April 1 (UPI) -- Jimmy Howard finished with 22 saves and Johan Franzen sparked Detroit's offense with a pair of assists Monday in the Red Wings' 3-2 win over Colorado.
Howard turned aside all 15 shots he saw during the first two periods as Franzen was helping out on goals from Justin Abdelkader and Daniel Cleary.
Damien Brunner also found the net for a 3-0 lead as the Wings rebounded from an embarrassing 7-1 Sunday home loss to Chicago.
The Avalanche got third-period goals from Jamie McGinn and Matt Duchene but it wasn't enough to prevent their 12th consecutive road loss.
Semyon Varlamov started in goal for the Avalanche but was pulled in the second period after surrendering three goals on 13 shots.
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Here are some general tips, hints and tricks to help you on your adventure through Liberty City in Grand Theft Auto IV.
Combat and Shooting Tips
- For more experienced players familiar with other competitive shooters, this kind of goes without saying, but for newer players, remember to RELOAD after killing someone with the Circle/B button. Actively reloading before each fight can give you the edge over other players, just make sure no one is going to jump around that corner and blast your guts over the wall, while you're at it.
- When shooting with an automatic weapon, improve your chances with the auto-aim by firing rapid single shots rather than bursts, and aim just above to hit the chest/head area. Your accuracy will stay the same, and if you tap quickly enough it'll be just like holding the button, only way more accurate.
- One way to combat a car speeding towards you is to aim for the driver's side and keep shooting. As the car comes towards, roll out of the way (Free aim then X/Square), and keep shooting. Auto Aim should help with this.
- When you need to shoot behind you in a car whilst driving, click the right stick in and press L1. You can release the right stick, the camera is 'stickied' behind you, whilst also allowing you to aim and shoot.
- If you're in a firefight with some punk who's hugging a dumpster for cover, try aiming for their feet.
- Crouch down for more accuracy. This may seem like a little thing, but when you aiming for someone far away, this boost in accuracy can really help.
- If somebody starts to follow you in a Buzzard or Annihilator while you're driving a car, then you can try driving under a bridge/overhead subway, drive to a Garage {e.g. Pay 'n' Spray), or go into a garage with an opening door. The helicopter will find it tricky to kill you and you could wait under there for a while until the helicopter pilot gets bored and goes away.
- For easier kills and save ammunition, use the one, two, punch. Shoot once in the head and once in the chest. Your opponent should drop down dead.
- Know your area well. Find accessible buildings, anyway to reach greater heights and best way to escape this can give you the edge against other players.
- Certain vehicles and objects allow you to climb and reach inaccessible areas e.g. fire escape.
- RPGs are tricky to avoid. If being shot at by one, immediately turn so your running length ways (across) away from center of the blast. (Note: this varies to the aim trajectory of the RPGs angle)
- Zig zag to avoid being fire at to decrease your chance of taking bullet damage. (Note: Theres little decrease if auto-aim is on)
- Only use weapons/vehicles you have experience at, build your experience with others in your own time.
- For an easier hit with grenades, count how long it takes for your opponent/enemy to pass a certain object. ( you pass object, count the X amount of seconds your opponent/enemy takes to pass that same object, shave off that X amount of seconds from the grenade timer ). (Note: time may vary due to the speed & distance of you and the opponent/enemy and the surrounding environment and objects).
- When it comes to the police, there are your best friends for getting guns. Shoot them and pick up their ammo/weapon.
- When using a sniper rifle on a moving target, aim 0.5 or 1 to 1.5 or 2 seconds ahead of them. (Note: time may vary due to the distance between you and the target, the speed of which the target is moving and internet connections for mutiplayer).
- When using a RPG on a moving target aim 3.5 or 4 to 5.5 or 6 seconds ahead of them (Note: time may very due to distance between you and the target, the speed of which the target is moving and internet connections for mutiplayer.)
- Helicopters provide a good resource of RPG ammo (X8).
- Enforcers provide 20% body armor (Police On Only).
- Ambulances provide 20% health.
- Police cruisers provde X5 shotgun ammo.
- Security guards & police officers provde X10 pistol ammo.
- N.O.O.S.E officers provide X10 machine gun ammo and X10 SMG ammo (Police On Only)
- Try not to stock up on ammo during/middle of a fire fight. Your chance of being shot, death & wasting your ammo are high. It's best if you stock up before/after the fire fight were the chances are lower.
- If you're about to die, change your weapon to something a little less powerful or nothing to stop other opponents from getting an advantage over you and others.
- Always plan an escape route to get yourself/your friends out of the area.
- The fire trucks hose makes a good imobilization weapon for those who want to getaway on foot.
- Position yourself in a space where you have a 180 degree view of the playing field or 45 degree view in a tight space.
- Some times brains of brawn and brawn of brains are better used in situations for its purpose.
- The best offence is defence and vice versa.
- Using RPGs & grenades in open areas can alter the course of your opponent. Fire them ahead, so they can change direction.
- The RPG has fuel to fire anywhere within your minimap on the HUD. Any opponent outside won't be within reach of the RPG.
- Any vehicles weak spot is the rear. Aim and fire the rear and it should go up in flames quicker.
- Weapons are best save for the right situations, shotguns for close up and machine guns for long range.
- Aim and fire the RPG low with a low but far enough angle to reach ahead of a target infront of you.
- Cover is useless if auto-aim is on.
- Use or have someone cover fire. Cover fire just means you're shooting your opponent/enemy while in cover to stop them from shooting back.
- Grenades are good used in tight spots or areas where your opponent is between spaces.
- Always drive defensively, that way you can spot things, players and areas of risk.
- When being chased by a faster vehicle, take more turns to increase the chance of escape and distance between you and the enemy. You can also hit the brakes when you're about to get caught by the other vehicle, that way they will keep on driving and possibly crash into something, giving you time to turn around and go away.
- If chasing a faster vehicle, wait till they take a turn or make a mistake then move in.
- Keep an escape car nearby for a fast getaway.
- While being chased in traffic, shoot the traffic behind you to make them stop and create an obstacle for the opponent/enemy.
- Glitches are good to use against others especially ones who don't know how to get in. (Note: glitches are not recommended as they can be offensive and unfair to other players also you may get kicked out of the game if the players do not know about the glitch and think you are using hacks)
- Vehicles can be used as improvised weapons.
- Rocket Launchers not recommended at close range, as it is very likely for you to blow yourself up.
- In Bomb Da Base if you are flying the helicopter to the boat, leave your friends by the dock and if you have headsets tell them to wait out of site behind a canister or something of the kind then fly to a roof of one of the surrounding buildings and take out your sniper and kill as much sentries as you can with the sniper then head of the roof and run into the ship your friends will follow.
- In GTA Race if you are tailing someone in a fast car shoot the tires. Even better, if they skid and the other players crash right into him possibly messing up the wheels on his car meaning he cant move and is stuck.
Racing Tips
- As the clock counts down in a multiplayer race, hold the handbrake and the accelerator. As it says 'GO', release the handbrake. You'll get a jumpstart.
- In races, be wary of players who like to play pinball on the first lap. Keep your distance or get out in front, and try to avoid collisions.
- Can't seem to ever get your turns right while racing? Here are some tips...Don't brake or accelerate in the middle of a turn, especially if you intend not to drift or power-slide; simply brake or accelerate before the turn, then take the turn and let the car do its work. If you seem to be taking the turn too slowly then add some throttle but beware of understeer, if you're taking it too quickly try the handbrake and slide the car into bounds. But if you intend to power-slide or drift through a turn in the first place, point the car towards where you intend the nose of the car to slide around (apex). Then turn and just right after that apply a touch of the handbrake; at this point the car should start sliding. Now counter-steer or turn into the slide and as the car goes around the turn it should self-correct and you'll be driving straight again. Some cars might easily spinout in these drifting turns or you might go too slow in them, in which case some throttle might be necessary while sliding to hold the drift without spinning out. Each car handles differently in GTA IV and different amounts of braking, handbrake, throttle, etc. will be needed. The instructions above generally apply to rear wheel drive vehicles, which most are in the game. The few front wheel drive vehicles will take nice tight turns better, but not drift as well, and throttle in the middle of a drift will be useless in holding it. The all wheel drive vehicles in the game will generally handle similarly to rear wheel drive vehicles, due to there torque bias to the rear wheels.
- A bootleg turn or driving forwards and spinning 180 degrees, and facing the other direction is good technique to know if you miss a turn or end up going the wrong way during a race. To initiate a bootleg turn, quickly turn and immediately after apply the handbrake. Then as your car slides counter-steer or turn into the slide (Note: it takes some practice to get this bit right) and as the car begins to face the other direction, let off the handbrake and straighten your steering out. Then apply the throttle and drive off in the other direction! You can also try to quickly steer the wrong way then immediately start your bootleg turn, this is known as a Scandinavian flick. The slower you are driving the more likely it will work, at higher speeds the car will probably continually spin and you might end up facing the direction you were driving in the first place. Note that every car in GTA IV handles differently and different amounts of handbrake and turning ferocity will be required.
- In races, use the radar to anticipate up coming corners, and enemy cars, especially the players that like to do the race backwards and total the decent players.
- In races, when you don't care about your image, when you can't gain a position, if there's a player ahead of you by not much, smash his rear before a corner, it's as efficient as braking if not better and allows you to gain a position. Carful, when you use this trick too early in a race, expect becoming a target for the player you've smashed, do it very late in a race, for example, in the very last laps. Don't worry too much about damage if you're driving a healthy rear-engined car, but take it in account.
- Playing dirty sometimes help, it may cause the frustration of other players causing them to lose concentration, opening up for you to strike.
General Driving Tips
- Only drive cars/trucks/vans/bikes/boats/pick-ups/SUVs & helicopters you have more experience with than others.
- Always drive defensively, watch out for players, areas & objects that may pose a risk.
- Use your brakes. (Not Hand brake) They are your best friends when it come to cornering & with vehicles that have no ABS and TC.
- To counter-act an involuntary/voluntary loss of control, hold down both your brakes and accelerator (Note: that vehicles are all different and may not be able to counter-act due to their weight, specifactions, driving skill, speed of which the vehicle is travelling or the environment)
- To corner better try releasing the accelerator so the vehicle can turn more aggressively into the corner.(Boats can turn better by adjusting its trim, helicopters by turning its pitch).
Rolled Over
- 5 rolls from a single crash. The easiest way to get this is to take a car (preferably a Police Cruiser or Taxi cab) to the airport. Take it out on the runway and hold down the accelerator. Aim for the yellow markers in the grass median. Line up the car so that the left or right half of wheels will hit the edge of the yellow marker. When you do this the car will flip at least two to three times. Hold the accelerator down the entire time and keep jumping off the markers until you get the achievement. You MUST keep the accelerator pressed the entire time. Since it doesn't count the 5 rolls by crashes, but by rolls done by the same car in a short period of time, you can just keep trying over and over until the Achievement/Trophy pops up
- If the car you are using becomes too damaged then NOOSE cars are readily available, the NOOSE Patriot is a car which can get this achievement, but it may take some time since the Patriot seems to be able to self-right or not do enough rolls to get the achievement, but it is possible. Be aware when trying take one, be sure to shoot the driver and take the car as quickly as possible.
- Alternative Ways:
- There is a Glitched Swing Set in the firefly projects south-west of the map near the corner of the freeway. In the park there will be two sets of swings. Take a Patriot to the left swing set (backing up), making sure you're facing the subway and you should get thrown into the air. Keep trying this and you should get the achievement within five minutes.
- Go to any skyscraper with no barriers, spawn any car, position the car so you'll roll off and the Achievement/Trophy will pop up.
One Man Army
- Load up on Armor, Combat Shotgun ammo, Molotov's and Carbine ammo. Head to any 'Cluckin Bell' food outlet. There is a pillar guarding the only entrance, hug to it and start murdering the fat customers. Wait for police and blow them away. Keep this up for 5 minutes and you'll have 6 stars in no time. Another method is to enter a new city when you're not supposed to and just hide for 5 minutes. Some people have also used a hospital. You will find many people to kill and get your wanted level up, and a health pack when you are almost dead. You can also visit littlelacysurprisepageant.com to get five stars, and use a cheat to gain a sixth star (this shouldn't prevent any achievements).
- Another way is to go to your safehouse in eastern Algonquin, the one with the laptop. Go to littlelacysurprisepageant.com inside the apartment and then head down to the lobby. Wait in the lobby, killing police officers as they come in. As soon as you kill enough to get bumped up to six stars, immediately head back for the elevator to your apartment. You'll have six stars, but the police won't be able to follow you. Set down the controller, go make yourself a sandwich, and come back to a new achievement. When you're done, just save your game, and you'll be back to full health with no police to worry about.
- Another easy way to do it is to get a helicopter and then get 6 stars. Fly as high as you can but be sure to stay in the police search area, and just sit there for five minutes, and you're done.
- Another easy way is to get a helicopter and fly to the top platform of the Statue of Happiness (on Happiness Island). One of the platforms there will be 4 doors on each side, one door leads you to the inside of the statue where a ladder is, climb this ladder until you are at the top where the beating heart is. Type 267-555-0150 into your phone which will give you a one star wanted level, keep doing this cheat until you have 6 stars and wait 5 minutes until the achievement comes. The police cannot reach you here. Note that you'll probably die in the end from the jump down to get the hell out of that creepy place.
- Another way that requires a little cash and killing PBX in The Holland Play. Just go to the lobby, access littlelacysurprisepageant.com in the guard's computer, go to your apartment, wait for a chopper to arrive and shoot it down. Shoot 2-3 down and you should have six stars. Then, just go to the bedroom part of the loft.
- Find the hospital in Holland in Algonquin. Jump down into the Subway and start gaining a wanted level, a First Aid Kit is located nearby. When you reach Six Stars, run down into the Subway where the police can't get to you. Stay within the boundaries, and hide here for five minutes.
- A good hiding spot is to go to the Westdyke Memorial Hospital in Leftwood, Alderney. Kill as many people as you can, and soon cops will be coming in. Once you've reached 6 stars, hide in one of the rooms and police will not be able to find you. If you run low on health, just go to the first aid. It will always re-appear. If you need more health again but it has not re-appeared yet, drink soda from the Sprunk machine. However, 1 can can't re-fill all your health so you have to drink multiple cans varying on one's health and cops can interrupt.
- The Russian Shop is a very good place to start a massacre. Kill lots of people (outside and inside) and once you've reached 6 stars, hide in the closet. If cops come, just kill them. You should have a new achievement.
- The simplest way to get this achievement is at the start of the game. Find subway tracks leading to Algonquin and follow them on foot under the bridge or under a tunnel to Algonquin. Stay in the tunnels with your wanted level at six stars. The cops cannot follow you here. Stand around for five minutes to gain the achievement then backtrack out of the search radius back to where you came from. Do not stay in the subway stations themselves, but on the tracks between as the cops have been known to be in the stations.
Chain Reaction
- Get a large vehicle like a Bus and go to the large, main bridge. Park the bus sideways so it is blocking all vehicles and when you see 10 vehicles, simply fire a rocket launcher at one of them and wait for the achievement/trophy to pop up. Damaging the vehicles prior to this (using less powerful weapons) and using grenades as well may help.
- Another strategy is to go to Auto Eroticar, park two cars in the garage so that there are at least 10 cars total, and so that they are all either touching, or very close to at least one or two other cars, then start firing rockets or throwing grenades to ensure that every car explodes.
- If you have the DLC for TBoGT (The Ballad of Gay Tony) you can use sticky bombs to make things easier by destroying many vehicles at once.
Pool Shark
- To get this Achievement/Trophy, all you have to do is beat someone at a game of pool (8 ball). Since all you have to do is beat someone on in a full game, try playing Michelle. She's really bad and it might take the not-experienced player a while to adjust to the pool controls. (Packie and Little Jacob are real good)
One Hundred and Eighty
- Play a game of darts with anyone. Then, aim for the little red box in the middle of the 20 point slice (which is at the top of the circle). Hit it three times in a row. You can't miss one, or you won't get the full 180 points. Hit it 3 times then wait for the Achievement/Trophy to pop up.
Gobble Gobble
- Go bowling with anyone and bowl in the most left lane. When it's your turn to bowl, Start by taking 2 full steps to the LEFT and lock that position in. Pull back for a second then roll the ball with no after touch. Since Niko is right-handed, the ball should roll straight for a strike. Make 3 strikes in a row for the Achievement/Trophy.
Finish Him
- To get this Achievement/Trophy, you need to do 10 counters in a fistfight in 4 minutes. To counter, dodge with X/A, then press Square/triangle/X/Y to do a counter move against your opponent (you'll see Niko Bellic do some snazzy Kung Fu move). The best place to get this Achievement/Trophy is at the helitour place in Algonquin. Go to the line at the building in front of the place and fight people through the line median thing (those sticks with the ropes connecting them that they have at real life airports) with Niko on one side and the person you're fighting on the other. These median things will force your opponent to make really wide swings, easy to dodge and counter. Since it will take at most 2 counters to knock out an opponent, you need about 5-7 guys to get the Achievement/Trophy. But the people will keep respawning because of the line and there's a hot dog stand out in front if you need health. Expect to get hit a few times, get a quick hotdog at the stand near the entrance on the street if you need it, and remember, girls will fight you too.
- If you have the DLC for TBoGT you can go to the LC Cage Fighters tournament and do all of your counters there and if you die in the process it won't matter because the timer for the Achievement/Trophy doesn't stop giving you a chance to finish off the rest of the counters.
Wheelie Rider
- Get a motorcycle capable of doing wheelies and go to the runway at the airport. The airport run is a nice, big, long, straight road to try this Achievement/Trophy on. You'll get a 4 star wanted level, but since you be driving fast around the airport, the cops will barely catch up to you. Start at one end, and pull back slightly to start a wheelie, and try to hold it. Hold it for a good 15 seconds to get the Achievement/Trophy.
- A very easy way to get this achievement and be able to perform it anywhere is to get a faggio and perform a wheelie. A faggio will not fall over from leaning back too much so it's even easy to get the achievement by riding in regular streets. Be sure not to hit anything though, as that will obviously knock you off.
It'll Cost Ya
- This Achievement/Trophy is earned by using a taxi to get from one island to another without skipping the trip, meaning you have to watch the whole trip. Hail a taxi at one end of a bridge that connects 2 islands and set a way point at the other end. Make sure you start off the bridge and end off the bridge. Get in the cab, and make sure you get the guy to speed up to make the trip faster. When you arrive, get out and watch the Achievement/Trophy come up.
- Another way to do this is hail a cab, go in and don't skip the trip. After a few streets (not at your destination) shoot out the window and the cab driver will get out and run away. You will get the trophy/achievement.
- Many people get confused with this Achievement/Trophy, just visit the Helitours site in Algonquin and go on all 5 of the helicopters tours. It should be noted though that all of the helicopters won't be there at the same time, so you'll need to remember which one you've already went on.
Under The Radar
- If you can't remember where all of the bridges are, After you go under one bridge, go to the pause menu and put a checkpoint on one of the Trophy Icons and fly to where you point the checkpoint at and do the same thing with the next one.
Genetically Superior
- An easy way to achieve a head start is to rather than line up with the other cars. Drive past the start line, but as you drive past. Graze one of the two cars in the front of the line. Doing this should initiate the race straight away. So you don't have to start at the back.
- Another way to do this is to play the races in The TLAD (The Lost and Damned) DLC and play through all of the races and once you've won all of them, stay near the easiest race you find and repeatedly play that. After about a minute after finishing the race the closest one will show up so stay near the race start.
You Got The Message
- A suggestion to minimise time spent looking for each of Stevie's requested vehicles is to use a map such as this one. Stevie's Text Message Cars
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Psychiatry as cognitive neuroscience : philosophical perspectives
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Neuroscience has long had an impact on the field of psychiatry, and over the last two decades, with the advent of cognitive neuroscience and functional neuroimaging, that influence has been most pronounced. However, many question whether psychopathology can be understood by relying on neuroscience alone, and highlight some of the perceived limits to the way in which neuroscience informs psychiatry. Psychiatry as Cognitive Neuroscience is a philosophical analysis of the role of neuroscience in the study of psychopathology. The book examines numerous cognitive neuroscientific methods, such as neuroimaging and the use of neuropsychological models, in the context of a variety of psychiatric disorders, including depression, schizophrenia, dependence syndrome, and personality disorders. Psychiatry as Cognitive Neuroscience includes chapters on the nature of psychiatry as a science; the compatibility of the accounts of mental illness derived from neuroscience, information-processing, and folk psychology; the nature of mental illness; the impact of methods such as fMRI, neuropsychology, and neurochemistry, on psychiatry; the relationship between phenomenological accounts of mental illness and those provided by naturalistic explanations; the status of delusions and the continuity between delusions and ordinary beliefs; the interplay between clinical and empirical findings in psychopathology and issues in moral psychology and ethics. With contributions from world class experts in philosophy and cognitive science, this book will be essential reading for those who have an interest in the importance and the limitations of cognitive neuroscience as an aid to understanding mental illness
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Canadian actor Bronson Pelletier's agency has confirmed that he has landed a "major role" in New Moon. The question of the hour of course is which one. His resume includes a stint on Discovery kids DinoSapien where he was 19 when he gave this interview.
Canadians will recognize him from the series Renegadepress where he played the role of Jack Sinclair.
According to Wikipedia (which we realize isn't always accurate) Bronson is a Native American First Nations(Apparently the right term for the majority of indigenous people from Canada. We stand corrected.) member of the Plains Cree tribe.
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Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Some people think that women who work part-time are ruining medicine and contributing to the physician shortage. So I want to present my very reasonable list of reasons why I work part-time in a flexible job:
1) I am sick constantly. Constantly. My kids are Petri dishes. And it always lasts forever. Even as I'm writing this, I'm coughing and my left ear really hurts and keeps popping. Is it easy to work under these circumstances? Not particularly. Maybe mothers of small kids who work full time have better immunity than me. Or maybe they're just better at working while very sick.
2) I don't have family members who can quickly cover for me in a pinch. Like when the daycare calls, saying my daughter has conjunctivitis and must be picked up NOW NOW NOW. (Literally, I am required to show up within an hour. OR ELSE.) Ideally, I would have a babysitter who waits by their phone, constantly on call for just this situation. Do those exist?
3) If the workday "ends" at 4PM, that's the only way to guarantee making it to the daycare by 6:30PM. I have no back-up if I can't make it.
4) I kind of like having two days off to recover from the week. It's called a weekend. It probably seems crazy luxurious to you, but believe it or not, it's actually sort of normal to most people.
5) When I feel like I'm rushing around and getting pulled in too many directions and expected to do three different jobs at once, I actually get kind of stressed out. And depressed. I don't like feeling that way.
6) There are things I enjoy doing that don't involve medicine OR my kids. And if I work part-time, I get to actually very occasionally do some of them. It's important to me. I feel guilty saying it, but it's true.
7) When I am really stressed out, I am not super pleasant to be around. I start screaming at the top of my lungs and then burst into tears because my daughter won't put her sneakers on in the morning. I'm sure I have inferior stress-compensation (likely genetic) compared to full-timers, but I just hate being like that.
8) I have trouble with night call. I never liked it, but at some point, between waking up for my baby's cries and waking up to a beeping pager, my sleep became very dysfunctional and a major source of stress. I've seen professions to address it, and it's better, but I can't deal with working at night.
9) I don't have the physical stamina you do, apparently. After working a very busy 10 hour day, I am too tired to play with my kids. I was never a high energy person. Somehow, I didn't realize how important this was when I went into medicine. I wish I had the energy, but I simply don't.
10) I am not a Type A personality. I just can't do it all at once. And if I tried, I wouldn't do it well. Does that mean I shouldn't be a doctor?
Trust me, I feel guilty that I can't work the hours some physicians work. Sometimes I wonder what's wrong with me, that I can't seem to juggle the same number of balls as some other women. But I have found a balance of career and family life that seems to work for me.
I'm sorry I'm ruining medicine.
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- AnonymousJanuary 23, 2013 at 4:28 AM
Sounds eminently sensible to me. I hope to help ruin medicine in the future tooReplyDelete
Fizzy, I work part-time too. Just be a honey badger. ;) It does NOT MATTER IN THE LEAST what other people think. (a much nicer way of saying fuck'em)ReplyDelete
I've done full-time solo OB. I've done full-time private practice. That's what my family needed at the time. Nowadays, life is better since I don't work all the freaking time.
Enjoy your girls being little...because soon enough they'll stand next to you and look you in the eye.
What is considered part time in the medical world - 40 hours? 50?ReplyDeleteReplies
Yeah, 40 hours sounds about right :)Delete
I probably work 32 hours a week.
I hope to someday work 40 hour "part time" too.Delete
Me too because I was so worried that I wouldn't ever have time for kids or my family once I become a pediatrician after medical school and I have 8 out of 10 of the things you listed! I like free-time and also would like to spend time with my family during those times sometimes and also just enjoy life. I will also be ruining medicine in the future!Delete
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Last summer I started working 2 days/wk in an outpatient IM practice - days are about 10h, sometimes finishing paperwork and charting at home but not always. Phone call about 1-2x monthly. I have a 3yo and a 15mo old, and this is so perfect, for all the above. we're all sick all the time, library story time is fun, grocery shopping during the week means we get a family weekend (when my husband's not on call - he's a physician, too). I wouldn't trade it for anything. To people who want to criticize, I tell them that the choice for me is not working FT vs PT, it's working PT vs not working at all at this stage in our lives. And wouldn't that just ruin medicine, especially in primary care . . .ReplyDelete
Thank you Fizzy. I too work part time 3.5 days /week, and I love it. I don't feel guilty however, because I'm happy. I feel that I can be a mom and a doctor too. Some days I feel overwhelmed about listening to all my patients' problems and having to cook/clean up after my 2 little boys, but at least I know I have those "extra" days to recover from the daily grind.ReplyDelete
I think part-timers are very valuable. I know lots of women who have gone part time in medicine as they started families. I also know lots of groups that search out part-timers to supplement older partners who want to go part time but are not quite ready to retire. It's a win-win situation. Pediatrics seems to do this best, as well as allow two part-timers to equal a full-timer, I guess because it is a "caring for kids" dominated field.ReplyDelete
Part time in pathology is hard. A lot of people (hell, women) I know who try part time end up earning the unjustified wrath of their partners since they don't work as hard (they take a huge pay cut!) and get guilted into coming in on their days off to finish cases they are too embarrassed to turf to others. I know someone who jumped back into full time as her kids got older because she said "Part time pathology is like a full time job without the compensation and benefits. It sucks." Hopefully PM&R is better. And I am sure there are some path groups out there that get part time right, but I don't know of any personally.
I laughed as I read your reasons for choosing part time, mainly because a lot of them rang true as reasons I chose pathology, ha ha.Replies
Fizzy listed a lot of reasons that also coincide with my interest in pathology! I didn't know there was a stigma to work part-time in path, too. But really, I'm not surprised.Delete
Fizzy, thanks for sharing all these reasons why you went part-time. Now I know it's not crazy to want these things: medicine, a family, and a life.
Finding a good job in pathology, which I understand is a little tough in the market today - like many other fields in this economy, is akin to finding a part time job in other fields of medicine. I get most weekends, and am lucky that there are members of my group that want to pick up half my call to supplement their families and lifestyle so I can be there more for my kids. Going in at night is a rare occasion for us all. We have tough weeks; the workflow is unpredictable - but there are many weeks where my load is light and my time is flexible so I can take care of dentist appointments, emergency grocery trips, attend all-important school holiday parties, etc. I love my job. Good luck Allison!Delete
Thank you! You too :)Delete
Which specialties are easier to find part time positions?ReplyDelete
I pretty much work full time, but it feels like part time! I'm an ED physician and I am contracted for 144 hrs per month which is full time for Emergency Medicine, but I typically work about 132 hrs per month, which is just fine by me. Usually comes out to about 12 to 14 shifts per month, which in a typical 30 day month equals 16 to 18 days off. Where I work, there are crazy people who just like to work nights, so I've only had 3 night shifts in the past 4 months and they were all together. I work a lot of afternoons/evenings/weekends, but I love my days off during the week. My husband stays home with our 2 year old little girl so my odd and varying hours haven't been a problem. My goal in life has always been to have more days off than I work. I guess I'm ruining medicine with you! But my family comes first!!ReplyDelete
If I had known part time physicians existed and were happily contributing to medicine I probably would haven considered med school more seriously. I went to PA school because I knew I didn't want to work 50-60 hours per week once I had a family. I'm very happy and blessed with my job, but I think women who balance work and family can be great role models to younger women. Working part time is a great way to find that balance (or at least try). And who knows, maybe you'll go back to full time when your kids are older.ReplyDelete
I am a nurse practitioner and I work part-time. It makes me a nicer person. I am refreshed and eager to listen the next day I am back at work. I have time to take care of myself, to exercise, read and to have a hobby. On my days off, I can do all of the above plus maybe clean off the cluttered counters in the house, run a few errands and get the grocery shopping done for the week. I am able to make all of the big things at my daughters school and we indulge in the occasional after school walk with the dog and cooking dinner together.ReplyDelete
I don't think you need to apologize at all. It's time someone finally redeemed this generation of women of the guilt and inadequacy we have been made to feel from the previous generation who flat out lied and told us we could "have it all."
And the added benefit of most part-timers is we can and do repeatedly step up to the plate to fill in for the full-timers when they go on vacation or are sick. I totally get it may be different for the MD's but I've seen the benefit of part-timers across the board in this way wherever I've worked and through a variety of professions.ReplyDelete
You're not ruining medicine, you are the future of medicine! And I am too. I work part time and your points rang true for me. Less hours means less stress and more smiles for me to share with my family, my patients, and my coworkers. Not to mention the investment in my daughter's childhood, which is totally irreplaceable.ReplyDelete
I want to ruin medicine, too. Because, then, I won't ruin myself. Thanks Fizzy!ReplyDelete


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Don't you just love those rare days, when you have absolutely nothing to do? Of course, days like that don't really exist. But, if you're anything like me, you can just procrastinate* and think up reasons why things can be left till tomorrow. It's about the only way I can allow myself to unwind (and doubles my stress when the other deadlines approach, but it always seems worth it at the time).
It was on a day like this, when I decided to tackle my Achilles Heel of the cookery world. Something that I failed so miserably on at my last attempt, and filled me with shame in the knowledge that I'd fed it to people…
… my basic, run of the mill pastry pie.
After the eye-watering disaster of my previous pie attempt, I tackled the mission with my usual determined stubborn-ness. This time it's going to be a fabulous pie, goddamnit. This time, it's going to be a Chicken & Sweetcorn Pie.
First, I bundled up all my ingredients:
Ingredients (Serves 4)
3 chicken breasts (or 575g), diced
2 leeks, chopped finely (I don't like big chunky bits, but it's your call if you do)
300ml boiled water with 1 chicken stock cube dissolved
340g shortcrust pastry (I used frozen and let it defrost at room temperature for 1 hour before use)
1 tin of sweetcorn, drained
1 tbsp dried thyme
1 tbsp dried rosemary
3 bay leaves
3 tbsp plain flour
30g butter
1 tsp dijon mustard
1 very heaped tbsp soft cream cheese
1 egg, beaten
I pre-heated the oven to 200 degrees.
Into a casserole dish, I put the chicken, leeks, thyme, rosemary, bay leaves and chicken stock. I seasoned it generously with salt and pepper, stirred, then popped into the oven for 1.5 hours.
Taking the casserole out of the oven, I carefully sieved into a measuring jug (twas very hot), separating the juices from the filling. I discarded the bay leaves and set both aside for the time being.
I melted the butter in a pan, then added my flour. I stirred until it formed a paste (or a roux):
On a low heat, I gradually added the casserole juices and whisked, until it formed a smooth, thick consistency.
I added the rest of the casserole ingredients to the pan, along with the mustard and tin of sweetcorn. I turned off the heat and stirred in a big dollop of soft cream cheese.
At this point, it's important to taste it and season, if necessary.
I cut my pastry in two and rolled them out on a floured surface; into rectangle shapes just bigger than my pie dish. I pressed the first layer of pastry into the dish, trying to make sure it came over the sides, and poured in the filling.
I placed the 2nd layer of pastry over the top, trimmed the straggly bits around the sides of the dish and embraced my romantic side with the leftover pastry. Awww…
I brushed the beaten egg over the top and made two slits within the heart to let the air escape (that sounds incredibly violent and gory!), and popped into the oven (200 degrees) for 40 mins.
Ahhh the golden wonderment… shame I had to attack it with my knife!
You could easily make this pie ahead, at various stages (up until it's been casseroled, or once it's assembled but before it goes into the oven).
It's also a great pie for using up leftover chicken – just skip the casserole part and saute the leeks & herbs until soft, then set aside and start at the roux stage.
I thoroughly recommend you serve it with some fluffy, buttery mash and honey glazed carrots. Yummaaay!
Enjoy 🙂 x
* don't procrastinate. It's very, very, very bad for you. I'll tell you why tomorrow…