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Joined: 26 Oct 2009
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Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 7:58 am
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I totally agree with being responsible for one's personal behavior.
What I am saying is - to have the availability of full service rescue is extremely costly for a rural area to provide and may not be feasible when you don't have a population base to spread out the costs.
What works on the coasts, does not necessarily work in the intermountain.
You and I may not expect to be taken care of. But, many folks put themselves in harms way and expect to be bailed out. This Tennessee fire MAY be an example of that.
This subject, the way I see it: "Is it the responsibility of small, municipal governments to provide emergency services even if they may not be reimbursed?"
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Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 8:06 am
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Chandler said
The thing to remember is that our realities are moving more in that direction. In proof of my point, I seriously doubt you could find a Republican that would support an increase in taxation of any kind. One has to keep in mind that they don't recognize the practical responsibilities of running much of local and state government services, and if the truth be told, they could give a crap.
This is absolutely NOT true in the rural west and upper mid-west. Of course at election time, it may sound like this, if you watch any TV campaign ads.
A lot of the small governements in this area are Republican run. There is very little difference between the two major parties methods of running small governments here IMO.
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Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 9:41 am
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Coboardhead, Thank you for introducing a dose of reality into the discussion. It would be a refreshing change if posters would refrain from making sweeping generalizations based upon nothing but their own poorly informed biases.
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Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 10:14 am
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isobars wrote:
coboardhead wrote:
Got to have some way to spread the risk!
Or not. Why should some couch potato city dweller be responsible for my safety when I race dirt bikes across remote SE Utah deserts or WS two miles west of Oregon?
I know you're not reading this but thanks for the fine example.
Firstly, no-one is suggesting others be responsible for your safety. Not even the cost of the actual rescue.
It is about the cost of having organizations in place with trained personnel, equipment, salaries etc. to make any rescue possible.
When you do assume risks, and everyone does all the time, even those working on their cholesterol level in front of the TV, you become a customer - even if everything goes well and you don't crash your dirt bike.
Now, narrowly defining the pool of risk-takers in order to allocate cost precisely will either be retroactive - (install credit card terminals in your SAR Helis), or proactive - pay upfront if you're going to take risks.
The latter, if optional, will invariably cause emergency responders to have to refuse rescue as in the house fire, or let the Utah tourist drown in Long Island.
The former arguably is piracy. Or, if you'll send the victim a bill afterwards an hope they'll pay up, futile.
I therefore will gladly pay for the choppers in Utah as long as the same funds pay for my local USGC station. That's what spreading the risk is - you combine your efforts and maintain an adequate emergency response system.
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Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 12:28 pm
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coboardhead--it's nice to have some thoughtful commentary, and your perspective from rural Colorado is particularly valuable. In my experience, mostly in California, there is a disconnect between the espousal of personal responsibilities, and the actual practice. Many hold a view that land ownership is a fundamental right, and government should do little or nothing to restrict one's use of his or her own land. In practice in California, that means development in hazardous locations--the coast, floodplains, and most particularly in fire prone zones in our arid semi-Mediterranean climate.
If there were consistency in the private property rights philosophy, those who espouse the rights would take on the responsibility. That is usually not the case. Land is divided and then developed around urban areas, in configurations where development is not dense enough to either replace the fire-prone vegetation, or establish a tax base sufficient to support fire protection and supression. This happens because developers have a disproportionate influence in the generation of campaign money for local government. Then come the fire, the local government responds because the people that live at the urban fringe are well to do and politically influential. Ironically, term limits have exacerbated this trend because if the fire doesn't happen while you are in office you don't get blamed.
It is not just fire protection that incurs a loss in these circumstances--frequently other public services--flood protection, sewerage, and police service--all cost more to provide than are generated in a post-Proposition 13 world. The fire-prone scenario is widespread through California and other parts of the west, but is also repeated in flood prone and erosion prone areas.
There are other subsidies to such development. Flood protection is heavily subsidized--at the Federal level, although a number of attempts to put it on a sound actuarial basis. FEMA puts money into rebuilding, again without regard to actuarial basis. And any losses that are actually incurred are written off on your Federal income tax.
So I see a lot of lip service about private property rights and responsibility--and a lot of subsidy of the actual risk. It's nice to see the forum actually progress in discussion rather than simply shout slogans, thanks for your thoughtful posts.
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Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 1:07 pm
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mrgybe wrote:
Coboardhead, Thank you for introducing a dose of reality into the discussion. It would be a refreshing change if posters would refrain from making sweeping generalizations based upon nothing but their own poorly informed biases.
You're relatively new here, Mrgybe, so your naivete is understandable. However, injecting reality into these discussions is not new. It has been tried at great length, in thousands of posts from many people, in this and other forums over the past decade plus, with only one result, with no exaggeration: it taught most rational conservative posters to regard the vast majority of ONLINE liberals as subhuman.
I will never forget Paul Braunbehrens' 2006 rec.windsurfing response to Brian Foster's typically polite discussion of pollution visa vis supreme couurt nominations:
Brian: "We can all agree that pollution sucks ... I've been seeing it with my own eyes since the late 70s and it looks like no one has made progress toward it. There have been Reps and Dems around the whole time and NO ONE did the job ... we are putting really toxic disgusting stuff in our waters. I don't support the extreme environmentalists either because they are too anti progress and anti business. There is usually a place in the middle we can agree on ... There is more work to do."
<irrelevant snippage; Google it if you think it matters. >
Paul: God damn, Brian. I really think you should just STFU.
Had that been a face to face conversation and Brian was intimidated, I would have shut Paul down by whatever means were required. Ive never physically assaulted anyone in my life, but I fucking will not stand silently by and let someone on either side of the fence get bullied like that. People who tolerate that in silence are part of the problem.
Multiply that by literally a few thousand in quantity and up to 5 in intensity, and you have a collective, representative idea of how the left behaves IN JUST A FEW WS BULLETIN BOARDS ALONE (e.g., rec.windsurfing, the supposedly moderated Yahoo group PacNW Windsurfing (sic?), and this supposedly moderated bulletin board). If I were not able to killfile them at will, I would long ago have complied with the request from Weatherflow management to build and document a body of evidence to support their eviction from this bulletin board. (Sorry, WF, but cleaning up the trash you let in is not your customers responsibility, and you compound your culpability by having moderators who admit they censor some posts based simply on their political tilt.)
I was heavily praised for grace under pressure a decade ago (and still get that via PMs and in person), once even nominated as a POTUS candidate, for my restrained responses in the face of full frontal attack beginning the day some rec.w miscreants discovered my politics are right of center. You may have noticed that Im not so restrained now (I wouldnt swear online, or call anyone a ratbag, before encountering these GD ratbags), and its for good reason: restrained responses have zero effect on the particular brand of liberal so heavily represented in these forums. Ive had to conceal my identity on some medical and professional forums after some of the rec.windsurfing scum stalked me across the internet into other forums. Uninformed generalized biases my butt; most of the people Ive killfiled, a couple I havent, and many Ive met in person have produced a bias, for damned sure, but its far from uninformed or overly generalized. My bias is against people who specialize in unfounded personal attacks against individuals in lieu of rational discourse, is well and clearly earned by many people, and is applied only when and where deserved.
If Coboardhead is being treated with respect by these people, its strictly because he so clearly leans their way, even if only moderately, on just about anything but Ocare. I couldnt care less whether he or anyone else is liberal or conservative; its behavior, not political persuasion, that matters most to me.
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Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 1:41 pm
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isobars wrote:
...injecting reality into these discussions is not new...
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
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Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 1:49 pm
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Thanks for spending the time and effort clearing that up iso. All twelve of us who actually read this forum thank you for the hours you spend typing away for....us! Time well spent!
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Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 1:55 pm
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Did Iso just take a giant dump on this forum?
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Posts: 2283
Location: Connecticut, USA
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 1:58 pm
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isobars wrote:
I will never forget Paul Braunbehrens' 2006 rec.windsurfing response to Brian Foster's typically polite discussion of pollution visa vis supreme couurt nominations:
Brian: "We can all agree that pollution sucks ... I've been seeing it with my own eyes since the late 70s and it looks like no one has made progress toward it. There have been Reps and Dems around the whole time and NO ONE did the job ... we are putting really toxic disgusting stuff in our waters. I don't support the extreme environmentalists either because they are too anti progress and anti business. There is usually a place in the middle we can agree on ... There is more work to do."
<irrelevant snippage; Google it if you think it matters. >
More Ficktion from the master. For anyone who cares (and I'm wondering why I still do) Mike claims that Paul's statement was in response to Brian's post (as quoted in part by Mike). It was not.
Not only was Paul's post not responsive to the topic of Brian's in particular but it could not have been in response because Paul's post was earlier in time than the post of Brian.
Paul addressed Brian's comments regarding Justice Alito and it was posted on Jan. 12, 2006 at 2:40 Google time as post No. 30 in a thread of 72 posts. The post of Brian Foster quoted by Mike was made 3 days later, on January 15, 2006 at 10:48 as post No. 34.
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text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Irish people are not allowed to teach in Indonesia Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Irish people are not allowed to teach in Indonesia Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Indonesia View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message gsbcn08080Joined: 26 Mar 2003Posts: 73 Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2004 5:23 pm Post subject: Irish people are not allowed to teach in Indonesia A friend of mine has applied for a job in Indonesia and has been told that they cannot accept her because she is Irish and THEY DO NOT SPEAK ENGLISH IN IRELAND. I do not plan to work there but as curiosity I answered an ad for EF and this is the mail they sent me: Dear Louise, I am afraid that Indonesian government regulations do not permit Irish citizens to work as English teachers in Indonesia. Ridiculous but true. Would you be interested in working in China? I have attached some information for your perusal. Best wishes, Alex Chevrolle Back to top ls650Joined: 10 May 2003Posts: 3484Location: British Columbia Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2004 10:48 pm Post subject: Re: Irish people are not allowed to teach in Indonesia Well, that simply isn't true. I work with another teacher from Ireland. I'll ask him today if there was something special he had to do, or if it was simply a matter of our school bribing the right official... Back to top gsbcn08080Joined: 26 Mar 2003Posts: 73 Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2004 6:51 am Post subject: I could not believe it either but the mail I posted was sent to me by the recruitment agency for EF. You can ask them yourself if you like here's the mail address I wrote to. [email protected] Back to top gugelhupfJoined: 24 Jan 2004Posts: 575Location: Jabotabek Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2004 6:56 am Post subject: I can definitely confirm that the story EF are telling in the UK is that it is impossible to get a KITAS as an ESL teacher unless you have a UK, US, Canadian, Aus or NZ passport. I know of foreign nationals holding academic posts in science subjects in Indonesian universities so I suspect there is a way around the issue by employing someone ostensibly to teach something else, and from my limited knowledge of Indonesian officialdom I suspect that a couple of crisp 50,000 ruhpiah notes might be enough to smooth the path! Back to top ls650Joined: 10 May 2003Posts: 3484Location: British Columbia Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2004 11:29 pm Post subject: I spoke with my fellow teacher from Ireland. He has family in both Ireland and the UK - and has passports from both countries. He had to use his UK passport to come here - so it does sound like you're up the creek as far as Indonesia. Ah well - there are plenty of other Asian countries you CAN teach in... Back to top WinmarJoined: 11 Feb 2003Posts: 125Location: Melbourne Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2004 3:09 pm Post subject: It is indeed the case. It's because English isn't the "official" language in Ireland. If I'm not wrong, it's the same for South Africans. Back to top ls650Joined: 10 May 2003Posts: 3484Location: British Columbia Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2004 10:52 pm Post subject: Laurent wrote: Irish like Aussie.. have a "bizarre" pronunciations of words, and also strange expressions..... Eh? I've been told by the students at my school that they find the Irish accent easier to understand than the Aussie accents of the other teachers. Laurent wrote: Since the early 80's Aussie and Irish folks also behaved very badly on Bali Island..... as per being drunk, having large tattoos, smoking pot, also loud at night in the streets...... I'm sure folks from every country of the world have behaved badly in the streets of Bali. Back to top gsbcn08080Joined: 26 Mar 2003Posts: 73 Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 8:39 am Post subject: Two things here- If you ever go to Ireland in summer you will see tons of foreign students there... do you know why? Because Ireland is famous for speaking the best English. I won't comment on American English even though I'm tempted. Some Irish people may get drunk but in general they are appreciated everywhere and certainly not famous for causing problems. I doubt very much what you said about them causing trouble in Bali, basically I dont believe it. As other posters said Irish are not "allowed" to teach in Indonesia because they think English is their second language. Some very "cultured" official must have consulted some books and it probably said that Irish is the official language. It says a lot about the cultural level of Indonesia. As I said in my first post I'm not interested in going to Indonesia I was just curious whether it was true or not. Back to top AramasJoined: 13 Feb 2004Posts: 874Location: Slightly left of Centre Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2004 2:34 am Post subject: Personally I consider some Irish regional accents to be among the most beautiful in the English language. I'm not quite sure why someone would think Australian accents contain 'bizzarre pronunciations'. I consider it far less so than a lot of English, Scottish and Welsh regional accents, and like those places, the accent is much broader among the working classes. If 'bizzarre pronunciation' was a problem then Americans certainly wouldn't be allowed to teach English. As an Australian I'm occasionally accused of 'not being a real Australian' (usually by English backpackers), since I don't usually have a broad working class accent , although I can do a reasonable impression of the peasantry if required I'm listening to Delores O'Riorden and The Cranberries as I type, and I'd give her a good rogering just on the basis of her voice Back to top WinmarJoined: 11 Feb 2003Posts: 125Location: Melbourne Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2004 8:25 am Post subject: I was given a lift by a couple of guys in country Ireland a few years ago, and I couldn't understand a bloody work they said! I had to say "pardon" at least two or three times every time they made an utterance, which was a tad embarrassing. I have a non-ocker Australian accent. Not sure if my pronunciation of words is weird or not, but I doubt it. Back to top kawJoined: 31 Mar 2003Posts: 302Location: somewhere hot and sunny Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2004 10:50 am Post subject: accents Sorry to hear about your problems with EF abd the being Irish bit. It does have to be said though that losing out on working in Indonesia with EF is no great hardship. If your heart is set on Indonesia ( and have no idea why it would be butsome people love it) then try some of the other schools. As for accents, I think the Irish one is great and where I currently am (nowhere near Indonesia)we'd love to have had more Irish applying. Even though I'm English -always have been and always will be - I find accents for the North of England difficult to understand - ok so I'm a southerner but even so............ Back to top WinmarJoined: 11 Feb 2003Posts: 125Location: Melbourne Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 9:43 am Post subject: Depends on how strong the accent is - mild northern accents are easy to understand, but strong Geordie ones on the other hand...... I don't think it's an EF thing - it's the pig-headedness of Indonesian immigration, as far as I've heard. They just won't issue a KITAS to teachers from countries which don't have English as their official language. Back to top realityJoined: 13 Mar 2003Posts: 105 Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2004 11:38 pm Post subject: You can work in Indonesia I know personally Irish Teachers, who have worked or are currently working in Indonesia. I also know South African born Teachers, working in Indonesia. I guess it depends on each School, and not the Immigration Department, dealing with the KITA's. There are other Schools, not just EF, and many offer better contracts and working conditions. 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"Great managers first and foremost have people skills," notes Shep Hyken, a St. Louis-based consultant.
Rate yourself from one to 10 (the highest level) on each of the 10 questions. Now get to work on those areas that need improvement.
Do you challenge employees to set new performance goals?
You must inspire employees to do better.
"The great manager encourages employees to set high goals."
Each employee should continually establish specific, achievable goals and draw up an action plan for meeting them.
Ask employees what they need from you, says Fred Martels, president of People Solution Strategies, Chesterfield, MO.
Finally, follow up with encouragement. "Employees want to be successful but they don't want to be left alone."
Do you coach employees to overcome performance issues?
Coaching encourages employees to generate creative solutions to performance problems. Because it emphasizes collaboration rather than confrontation, coaching improves workplace effectiveness while avoiding the costly stress generated by disciplinary sessions.
"Avoid being condescending because that often makes the person feel guilty or defensive," notes Hyken. Identify performance parameters, communicate them to the employee and then give the person the tools to achieve them. "Your goal is to help the employee push and stretch."
Do you encourage your employees to contribute new ideas?
Employees who feel they're part of the race will run the extra mile. "The manager must encourage employees to speak up and then listen to what they have to say," says Martels.
Encourage them to suggest ways to do things better, he suggests. "Ask stimulating questions such as, 'Here is our problem. How do we solve it?'"
Don't be too quick to kill ideas that have been tried and discarded before. Instead, let people shape a new direction with challenges such as this: "Tell me more. How would that work? What does everyone else think?" Or, "This might work, but recall what happened before when we tried it. How can we make the idea work this time?"
Do you take a personal interest in your employees?
Employees aren't just cogs in your profit machine — they're living human beings. And like you, they respond favorably when you recognize that they have a life outside of work. Learn their kids' names. Remember their birthdays.
Ask about their hobbies and vacations. Taking a personal interest in people's lives encourages them to stay with your business and commit to its goals.
Do you delegate well?
"Great managers let go and delegate," says Hyken. "People without that ability attempt to micro manage every process. Then they get stressed out because they are trying to do everything themselves." That's bad, because employees who feel disengaged from events feel helpless and demoralized.
The courage to delegate doesn't come easily. Hyken suggests using this formula: First, visualize the result you want the employee to achieve. Next, list the steps required to achieve that result and the skills requisite to each step. Then, rate the employee on a 1-to-5 basis on each of the skills. Finally, after training the employee to a 5 level for each skill, delegate the work with confidence.
Do you communicate your priorities and directions clearly?
You know what you want from your employees. But do they?
Employees can't perform well when they don't know what constitutes success. "Usually, employees don't really know what's critically important to their managers," says Lowndes. "Employees usually assume their current managers share the values of previous ones. That might not be the case."
Great managers communicate what's important in clear language. Finally, when an employee has not met your standards, couch your correction in words that inspire as well as challenge, suggests Lowndes. Begin with a positive statement such as, "Bill, you usually handle customers so well. However, why did you [state the activity observed]?"
Do you resolve conflicts in a productive way?
When two employees are in conflict, Hyken suggests, counsel each separately. Start with a statement such as, "I see [this] happening in the workplace." And, "Tell me what you are seeing."
Follow up with a statement designed to assess how the conflict affects the employee, "I feel [this] about what is happening." And, "Tell me what you are feeling.
"If you feel the individual is too upset to talk rationally, suggest that you talk at a later time," says Hyken. This will give the person some time to achieve perspective.
Emphasize the consequence of not resolving the conflict in terms of decreased productivity or even job termination.
Find out what each party in the conflict wants, then figure out how the need can be met.
Do you behave in a professional manner at work?
Are you a role model for your employees?
Florence Stone, an author of management books, gives these examples of professional behavior:
Dedication to work and willingness to put in long hours.
Giving credit to employees rather than to oneself.
Avoiding rumors and excessive socializing at work.
Communicating in a thoughtful way.
Do you inspire your employees?
Do you project enthusiasm? In other words, do you have a dynamic personality that inspires your employees?
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Enthusiasm begins with a genuine interest in other people, which often manifests as simple friendliness. The manager should never miss a chance to be friendly in behavior and speech. Greet everyone with a "Good morning!"
Do you listen well?
"Great managers are clear communicators," says Mel Kleiman, a Houston-based management consultant. "We're talking not only about speaking and writing, but also listening."
Here are some tips on being a good listener:
Encourage the employee to open up.
Summarize and repeat what you hear. This gives the employee an opportunity to correct misapprehension.
Ask the employee to express feelings about the issue.
Keep your focus on the employee. Don't start telling your own stories.
Encourage the employee to generate solutions to problems. Don't give advice.
Are you a great manager? The answer lies to a great extent with how well you work with your employees. Rate yourself on each of these 10 people skills and see how close to 100 you get.
I challenge employees to set new performance goals.
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I coach employees to resolve performance problems.
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I encourage employees to contribute new ideas.
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I take an interest in my employees' personal lives.
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I delegate well.
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An area retirement community is getting its residents and staff involved in the Flying Pig Marathon.
They'll team up to complete the 26.2-mile race in segments.
"At first it was tough to make myself go a mile, and now I just want to keep going, keep going," said Sharon Cusick, who's participating with Llanfair Retirement Community. "I've done more than two this morning."
She's been training for more than two months.
"I think it's wonderful to feel a change," said Curick. "I can feel my pace and my gait have changed, and my attitude."
Chappie Chapman is also training for the marathon with his dog, Merlin.
"He usually stays ahead of me on the walking, always has to sniff here and there and eat anything that he can find that's edible," Chapman said.
The goal is to get residents and staff up and moving.
"Our residents can progressively reach 26.2 miles, and they do not have to walk it all in one day, they can do it over an extended period of time," said Sheena Parton, executive director of Llanfair Retirement Community.
Cusick said she's now walked 87 miles to prepare.
"I'm very proud of myself, because I've never been athletic," Cusick said.
Chapman said he's walked 149 miles.
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Edinburgh City Council has developed a proposal to improve the pedestrian space in the city centre, particularly in the area around Princes Street and George Street. The report focuses, specifically, on improving the pedestrian space and environment in line with the delivery of the tram project, which is due to be completed this Summer.
One of the methods of achieving this is providing an opportunity for dedicated cycle provision in the area, as well as reducing the detrimental impact of vehicles on the City Centre environment. The Council's 'Action Travel Action Plan' sets targets to provide significant improvements in the walking and cycling infrastructure of the city centre by 2020, and the promotion of these means of travel.
The proposal states that by managing the traffic movement of Lothian Buses, it would achieve these objectives. Eastbound buses on Princes Street maybe relocated to George Street effectively halving the number of buses on Princes Street. The proposal also sets to close Princes Street to general traffic in both directions, as well as to allow general traffic on George Street in an eastbound direction only, including taxis. The Council have also announced they are to massively reduce parking availability spots in the City Centre. Josh Miller, George Street Association, explained that "this will just not work.. People will not have to park their cars somewhere else, more inconvenient, and a lot of time will be wasted'. He argued that the 'Council have not though through a viable alternative'.
Ian Perry, Planning Convener of the Council, said 'Princes Street has been suffering from the trams, and economic downturn, s we have agreed to increase the pavement space and redress the balance and attract more pedestrians into the town centre and to get more people to shop'.
The results of the consultation will be the subject of a future report and any changes will then be practiced to test how successful they are.
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Google's advertisement network, which shows ads on Google website (including Youtube and GMail), other search engines, as well as other websites and mobile apps. It is split into the Search Network, which shows text advertisements on search engines, and the Display Network, which shows targeting on a wider variety of websites. Allows targeting based on demographics, search terms, website visitors, similar audiences, etc.
Search Engines, Mobile Apps, Websites/Blogs, GMail, Youtube, Demographics, Geolocation Data, Search Terms, Lookalike Audiences, Website Visitors, Google, AOL Search, Ask.com, Netscape
Facebook allows targeting of advertisements based on interests, behaviors, location, and demographics. It also allows targeting groups like website visitors, app users, and audiences that look like existing audiences. It also provides a list of companies who can assist with advertising on Facebook. including data brokers who can augment custom audience lists. Additionally, data is available via the API and some app developers collect data from users via their apps, as Global Science Research did (and then sold it to Cambridge Analytica). Similar services are also offered on Instagram.
Advertisements, Social Media, Twitter, Mobile Apps, Website Visitors, Lookalike Audiences, Demographics
Social Media, Facebook, Campaign-Collected Data, Data Brokers, Browsing Data, Quantium, Experian, Epsilon, CCC, Geolocation Data, Data Brokers, Oracle Data Cloud, KBM Group, Acxiom
Twitter is a social media website that also sells data and advertisements. Companies and researchers can buy data from particular accounts, coming from certain geographic areas, or about certain topics. Continuous access to various quantities of data can be purchased, or historical data can be purchased one time. A subset of this data is available for free via Twitter's API.<br />Twitter allows companies to target advertisements based on lists of accounts/emails/phone numbers, audiences like known customers or followers of other accounts, website visitors or app users, search queries, interests, devices, geographic area, purchasing behaviors (based on data from data brokers), language, or gender. Users are then shown advertisements, usually in the form of tweets, and advertisers pay based on the number of impressions, clicks, engagements, followers, etc. Twitter operates its advertisement program and sells data in most countries.
Social Media, Twitter, Website Visitors, Mobile Apps, Lookalike Audiences, Purchasing Behavior, Geolocation Data, Contacts/Social Connections, Demographics, Search Terms
Social Media, Twitter, Campaign-Collected Data, Data Brokers, Browsing Data, Search Queries, Consumer Purchase Data, Acxiom, Datalogix


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With some signs of economic recovery in Europe, despite the continuing economic upheaval, can European labor markets be far behind? Unemployment in the Euro Area is at its highest level in more than a decade. Yet a combination of regional and institutional differences has resulted very different workforce responses across European nations.
The webcast will provide insights for executives that help them internalize the larger labor market conditions related to their company's business and bottom line. We will contrast how the labor markets in various European countries have changed in the last two and a half years and the varying depths these labor markets must recover from. Discussion will focus on the latest labor market data and draw connections between the data and the business challenges that our members face.
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For the security company in Vice City, see DBP Security.
DB-P is a character in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories. He is a gangster-turned-actor (possibly parodying DMX, Method Man, Ice Cube and Snoop Dogg who all became gangsta rappers turned actors). Ned Burner, posing as the father at the Cathedral, has Toni Cipriani kill him for not giving an interview to the Liberty Tree newspaper. DB-P is killed on his way to the Liberty City Free Radio studio on Staunton Island, arriving in a unique yellow bullet proof Patriot from Newport. DB-P was scheduled to do the interview in promotion for an upcoming film premier. His co-stars are Faith W. and Black Lightman. Like both Faith W. and Black Lightman his character model is the same as that of an average pedestrian model seen in Liberty City in 1998.
In GTA San Andreas, there is a Banshee parked outside the San Fierro Gym that has the license plate "DBP". This suggests that he may have been in San Andreas in 1992.
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Cashman: 'I'm not comfortable' talking to A-Rod
BOSTON -- In yet another example of the fractured relationship between Alex Rodriguez and his employers, Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said on Sunday that he has very little to say to his beleaguered third baseman.
"I'm not comfortable talking to Alex on this stuff, because I feel we're in a litigious environment, so I am not comfortable anymore talking to him," Cashman said during a lengthy interview in the visiting dugout at Fenway Park.
"Hello, goodbye, and that's it. Because anything else, I don't want to be distorted, to be quite honest."
Cashman said that he did speak to Rodriguez at the Yankees' Boston hotel on Friday, but their conversation did not go beyond a general greeting.
"At some point, it's hard to engage somebody too easily when this stuff is going on," Cashman said.
Cashman said that the Yankees and Rodriguez are "stuck" together as they attempt to handle Rodriguez's 211-game suspension and his appeal, a situation that he has described as "odd" because Rodriguez has placed himself behind a phalanx of attorneys.
The GM acknowledged that he believes Rodriguez is helping the team on the field, despite the "headaches" his due process has created. Cashman rejected a suggestion that the saga could prompt the Yankees to release Rodriguez, who has four years and $86 million remaining on his contract after this season.
"That's not something for me ... I don't think that's something that would be considered, personally," Cashman said.
The latest member of Rodriguez's legal team, Joseph Tacopina, spoke candidly in an interview with The New York Times that was published on Saturday. Among numerous claims, Tacopina alleged that the Yankees concealed MRI results that would have shown Rodriguez's left hip was injured during the 2012 playoffs.
Yankees president Randy Levine swiftly called those comments inaccurate, as well as a claim that he had told Dr. Bryan Kelly that he did not want to see Rodriguez on the field again. Rodriguez said on Sunday that he had read the article but declined to comment further.
Cashman said that Rodriguez had received the best medical care possible from the Yankees' training staff, team physician Dr. Chris Ahmad and also Kelly, who performed a procedure to repair Rodriguez's left hip in January. Levine has challenged Rodriguez to authorize the public release of his medical records.
"No one has hid anything from the guy," Cashman said. "The medical records are what they are. And if somebody wants to dispute them and fight over an opinion, that's fine. But there's a process for it. No one purposely did anything other than try to put the best team out on that field on a daily basis."
Cashman said that the Yankees have medical records that indicate Rodriguez was not receiving treatment for injuries, nor complaining of any, until he was pinch-hit for in Game 3 of the American League Division Series against the Orioles.
"So then he meets with [manager] Joe [Girardi] separately and says, 'Listen, don't give up on me, put me back in there,'" Cashman said. "He's fighting to stay in. But I see Alex's comments [Friday] saying, 'I never should have been out there,' which contradicts his own comments.
"I see his attorney talking about we're running him out there 'like an invalid.' I guess he's also lumping Alex in that, because, again, he was fighting to play."
Cashman said that Girardi and the Yankees' coaching staff have done a "remarkable job" separating Rodriguez's duties as a player from his legal situation, and expressed confidence that Rodriguez will continue to be handled professionally as long as he is a member of the Yankees' roster.
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Bariatric surgery did not reduce healthcare costs over the long term when surgery patients were compared with matched obese patients who did not have surgery, a review of almost 30,000 cases showed.
Surgical patients had lower healthcare costs in the first year after surgery, averaging about $1,000 lower per case, according to Jonathan P. Weiner, DrPH, of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, and co-authors. During the next 2 years, bariatric surgery was associated with significantly higher healthcare costs. In years 4 through 6, costs stabilized but remained higher in the surgery cohort for 2 of the 3 years.
Laparoscopic procedures were associated with lower costs only during the first few years after surgery, they reported online in JAMA Surgery.
Action Points
- This study indicates that bariatric surgery does not reduce overall healthcare costs in the long term.
- In addition, there is no evidence that any one type of surgery is more likely to reduce long-term healthcare costs -- those undergoing laparoscopic surgery had lower costs in the first few years after surgery, but these differences did not persist.
"Bariatric surgery does not reduce overall healthcare costs in the long term," the authors concluded. "Also, there is no evidence that any one type of surgery is more likely to reduce long-term healthcare costs.
"To assess the value of bariatric surgery, future studies should focus on the potential benefit of improved health and well-being of persons undergoing the procedure rather than on cost savings."
As evidence has accumulated to support the health benefits of bariatric surgery, the number of procedures has increased dramatically, reaching 220,000 annually as of 2009. Additionally, numerous studies have suggested that bariatric surgery reduces healthcare costs by improving patients' health and well-being.
In particular, laparoscopic bariatric procedures have won favor because of their association with shorter hospital stays and fewer complication rates as compared with open procedures. However, questions have persisted about the potential return on investment, the most cost-efficient surgical procedures, and whether cost savings are sustained over time.
To address some of the unresolved issues, Weiner and colleagues analyzed claims data provided by seven Blue Cross/Blue Shield healthcare plans with total enrollment of 18 million. The authors identified 29,820 plan members who underwent bariatric surgery during 2002 through 2008. Each patient was matched with another plan member who had one or more diagnoses associated with obesity but did not have weight-loss surgery.
The primary outcome was standard costs and adjusted ratios of the surgical patients' healthcare costs as compared with those of the matched nonsurgical group.
Consistent with bariatric surgery clinical experience, women accounted for 80% of the patients included in the study; 54% of the patients were ages 45 t0 64 and 37% were 30 to 44. About half the patients in both groups had hypertension, and 25% to 30% had type 2 diabetes.
The two groups had comparable healthcare costs in the year prior to date of the surgical patients' procedures: $8,850 in the surgical cohort and $9,590 for the comparison group. The standardized cost of surgery was $29,517, including the surgery and 30-day follow-up period.
In the first year after surgery, healthcare costs averaged $8,905 in the surgery cohort and $9,908 in the comparison group. During year 2, total healthcare costs in the surgical cohort peaked at $9,908, whereas costs in the comparison group decreased to $9,264. Costs in the surgery cohort exceeded those of the comparison group for 3 of the next 4 years:
- Year 3 -- $9,211 versus $9,041
- Year 4 -- $9,051 versus $9,232
- Year 5 -- $9,386 versus $8,966
- Year 6 -- $9,259 versus $8,714
Bariatric surgery patients had lower costs for prescriptions and clinic visits but higher costs for inpatient care compared with the comparison group.
In a critique of the study, JAMA deputy editor Edward H. Livingston, MD, said bariatric surgery clearly benefits a subgroup of patients who have a complication or condition known to improve dramatically with weight loss, such as diabetes and osteoarthritis. Reducing body mass index should not be the exclusive indication for the surgery.
"Bariatric surgery has dramatic short-term results, but on a population level, its outcomes are far less impressive," Livingston wrote. "In this era of tight finances and inevitable rationing of healthcare resources, bariatric surgery should be viewed as an expensive resource that can help some patients.
"Those patients should be carefully vetted and the operations offered only if there is an overwhelming probability of long-term success."
The findings are informative but do not necessarily reflect the current practices and economics of bariatric surgery, according to Jaime Ponce, MD, president of the American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. In particular, the study reflected a predominance of open procedures, even in the last year of the study period. Since that time, laparoscopic procedures have become predominant.
"We know that open surgery requires a longer follow-up to see the economic benefits of bariatric surgery," said Ponce, of Memorial Hospital in Chattanooga, Tenn. "Even in the last year of the study, a large number of open surgeries were performed. Today about 90% of bariatric surgery procedures are performed laparoscopically."
The findings also contrast with a substantial amount of literature documenting cost benefits of bariatric surgery, he continued. Most of that literature is based on more contemporary trends in bariatric surgery.
Ponce also noted that the study did not take into account the economic impact of the indirect benefits of bariatric surgery, such as improved employability, improvement in overall health, resolution of diabetes and other metabolic disturbances, and better quality of life.
The study was supported by Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Pfizer, and GlaxoSmithKline. The investigators also received in-kind support from the National Blue Cross/Blue Shield Association and the seven local plans that participated in the project.
Neither the authors nor Livingston had any relevant disclosures. Ponce also had no disclosures.
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JAMA Surgery
Source Reference: Weiner JP, et al "Impact of bariatric surgery on health care costs of obese persons. A 6-year follow-up of surgical and comparison cohorts using health plan data" JAMA Surg 2013; DOI:10.1001/jamasurg.2013.1504.
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JAMA Surgery
Source Reference: Livingston ED "Is bariatric surgery worth it?" JAMA Surg 2013; DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2013.1515.


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"Jersey Shore" is heading for Italy in an audacious attempt by MTV to lure Italo auds with subtitled guidos and guidettes.
The anthropologically charged experiment in cross-cultural TV exportation will kick off March 22, when the first season of the hit reality skein, which follows the adventures of the "juice boxes" and spray-on tanned femmes of young beach-loving Italian-Americans, will begin airing for young Italian-Italians on MTV Italia in a 10 p.m. slot.
Unlike the U.S. and elsewhere in Europe, MTV airs on free TV in Italy, giving "Jersey Shore" a potential Italo aud of 20 million-plus households.
Also, there are no Italian-American advocacy groups to raise a ruckus over use of the word "guido," which in Italy is just an ordinary name and has no other possible connotations. At least not yet.
MTV Italia, which is keeping mum on the matter, nonetheless is tubthumping the skein as having the "most famous Italoamericans in the world" as protags.
So how will "Jersey Shore" play on Italian shores, where experts blame cultural reasons tied to national identity for the fact that "The Sopranos" never really clicked on free TV?
Corriere della Sera, which
is Italy's leading daily newspaper, commented that "as if the boors on 'Big Brother' weren't enough, now we are importing a reality show that even boosts our country's bad name."
But the truth is Italians actually can't get enough of "Big Brother." More than 7 million Italo viewers recently tuned in to watch Mauro Marin win the 10th Italo edition of "Brother" on Mediaset, with local critics applauding the fact that Marin was the only contestant (male or female) in the house without protruding pecs.
That's the situation. Or, the Situation, for "Jersey Shore" aficonados. Which bodes well for the odds that "Jersey Shore" will become a hit in Italy.
"I will be checking it out. The trash level at times soars so high that it becomes truly sublime," vowed an early Italo convert on tvblog.it.


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Human Rights Watch founder Robert L. Bernstein has been roundly criticized for arguing that his own organization, which by its repeated reports suggests that Israel's human rights record is so reprehensible as to warrant heightened condemnation, has unfairly demonized Israel. To get a first-hand account of this ongoing argument, I arranged to accompany my son, a documentary filmmaker in Israel, on a recent appointment to tape an interview with Bassem Eid, the general director of the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group.
Apprehensively, we drive north out of West Jerusalem into the East Jerusalem neighborhood known as Beit Hanina. Israel's reviled security barrier, a concrete scar rising into the sky, dominates the landscape. The streets, crowded with top-of-the-line Mercedes, VW's and BMW's, as well as vehicular detritus that would easily qualify for America's cash-for-clunkers program, teem with Arabs, mostly young, but some bent with age. Other than a singled parked Israeli police car with two bored (and when we ask for directions, unhelpful) police officers, there are no Jews to be seen. Up a narrow, unevenly paved street, in a non-descript building, is the neat office of the Monitoring Group, staffed, in addition to Eid, by three Palestinian women – one Muslim, one Christian and one unidentifiable.
Bassem Eid is a short, dark-complexioned Muslim with a quick smile and a vibrant energy who lives in a refugee camp. My son and I are late for the interview, having gotten lost in the unfamiliar streets of East Jerusalem, but Eid's hospitality predominates over his impatience. As he sits in front of the camera and my son begins to ask questions, Eid quickly warms to his subject.
Eid spent many years working with B'Tselem, the Israeli human rights group that focuses on Israeli abuses in the territories. My son and I were pretty sure what we would hear: the usual catalogue of complaints about Israel's barriers to travel, humiliating searches and police harassment. But although Eid is critical of Israel, and in particular its West Bank settlements, this is not at all his focus. It turns out that he formed the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group when he concluded that a major element in the abuse of Palestinians – the abuse of Palestinians by the Palestinian Authority – was being overlooked. And on this subject, he is an expert.
The human rights situation in the PA is "very disturbing," and marked by "illegal detention ... political arrests, [and] torture inside the PA detention centers."
To Eid, Palestinians' self-inflicted abuses are more serious that any by Israelis. He describes the human rights situation in the Palestinian Authority as "very disturbing," and marked by "illegal detention ... political arrests, [and] torture inside the PA detention centers." Eid, who himself has been arrested by the PA, says he has seen the signs of torture on the bodies of Palestinians held by the PA. He notes that the PA in the West Bank and Hamas in Gaza present an "equal picture," and that there is "no difference" between them. Each uses imprisonment for years, without trial and without charges, and torture against opponents. Each is deeply corrupt, looking after personal interests "to build themselves rather than to build the society itself."
Nor can the West have a clear picture of these abuses. "I do not think," Eid says, "that there is any kind of open media anywhere in the Palestinian territories, neither in Gaza nor the West Bank." Journalists continue to be confined in West Bank prisons, and critical media, he says, has been closed down. "Mr. Abbas," says Eid, "may talk about free media where he is ruling but in my opinion, as a human rights organization, we are receiving a lot of reports how the right of free expression is being completely violated by the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah and by the Hamas in the Gaza strip." Moreover, according to Eid, these government abuses result in self-censorship, since journalists, once imprisoned and sometimes tortured in both the West Bank and Gaza, prefer to avoid a return visit.
Eid notes that Western reporters are largely shielded from what is actually occurring in Gaza and the West Bank. "Foreign journalists are based more in Jerusalem rather than in Gaza or the West Bank. For their safety, they prefer Jerusalem." So, says Eid, they rely on local journalists, who lack the objectivity that is expected from Western media.
In America and in Europe, reports emphasizing Israeli abuses (like those of Hamas Rights Watch) are widely publicized, creating an image of downtrodden Palestinians thirsting to be free of the Israeli boot while anxious to exercise a right of return. Eid rejects this picture. He has visited refugee camps in Syria, Jordan and Lebanon, and says that 70 percent of the refuges would prefer compensation over the right of return, because they understand the political reality that "return" means they would have to live within the borders of a Palestinian state and not inside Israel. Palestinians, whether they reside in Lebanon, or Jordan, or in East Jerusalem, cautions Eid, "can see what is going on in Ramallah, what is going on in Nablus, [and] what is going on in Gaza. And nobody wants to be part of such a troubled life."
Focusing on his neighbors in East Jerusalem, Eid concludes that they much prefer life in Israel.
Focusing on his neighbors in East Jerusalem, Eid concludes that they much prefer life in Israel, with its health benefits and, even for Palestinians, relatively open society, to life under the Palestinian Authority. "These people," he says, "don't want to become a part of the Palestinian Authority.... [They] are happy where they are right now."
Critics in the West, and enemies in the Arab world, may suggest a moral equivalency between Israel, Hamas in Gaza and the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, but Palestinians, says Eid, know better. It is time for Western critics of Israel to know better as well. .
This article originally appeared in The Jewish Journal


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TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami) – Large companies have succession plans, and so does the government: if the president is unable to serve, the vice president takes over.
What happens, though, if Gov. Scott were unable to fulfill his duties? Until this week, the lieutenant governor would have assumed the post.
Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll resigned this week amid her alleged involvement in an illegal gambling scandal.
While the state awaits her replacement, state law says Atty. Gen. Pam Bondi will fill the state's top post if Gov. Rick Scott were unable to serve.
However, state law doesn't leave Scott the option of permanently leaving the office of lieutenant governor open, even though the job has no officially prescribed duties, the News Service of Florida reports.
The law simply says that the if lieutenant governor's office becomes vacant, the governor "shall" appoint a successor for the remainder of the term.
Scott said in a statement Wednesday that "we will not turn our attention to this topic (a new lieutenant governor) until after the conclusion of the legislative session," which is in early May.
State law says that if there's a vacancy in the office of governor and lieutenant governor, the attorney general shall become governor.
If the attorney general's office were to be vacant, Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater would be next in line, followed by Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam. If somehow all of those offices were vacant, the Legislature would choose a new governor.
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Emma Watson was also among the starry mix at the 2014 Golden Globe Awards, held at The Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California on Sunday (January 12).
The young actress had me in complete amazement at her Christian Dior Couture outing—one that I would have never predicted. Lupita Nyong'o wasn't the only one having a red-haute night.
From the front, Emma's ribbon-tie dress was a classic standard—even borderline uninspiring. Of course, that's before the thigh-high slit came into focus and the true backless nature of the design was revealed.
Contrasting the languid fluidity of the gown were black skinny, cropped trousers and a sassy pair of violet-blue Roger Vivier 'Ergo Sexy' pumps.
The boundaries-pushing trends didn't stop there. She completed the effect with one Dior 'Mise en Dior' earring: two over-sized pearls decorating her left lobe.
While her ensemble may have pushed the envelope, her hair and makeup was downright pretty with her light magenta lip and sleekly effortless bun.
She's young; this is fashion fun; so why not throw a bit of shock and awe around. What do you make of her head-turning entrance?
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Marlins looking forward to All-Star break
MIAMI -- The Marlins certainly have heated up in the six weeks leading into the All-Star break, but the youthful club clearly could use a breather.
For many players, the first half has been a mental and physical grind.
The season started off miserably, with the club going 14-41 in April and May. Since then, it is 21-16 heading into Sunday's series finale against the Nationals at Marlins Park.
Injuries and inexperience tested the resolve of the squad during the first two months. But since Giancarlo Stanton and Logan Morrison returned from the disabled list in June, the offense has dramatically improved. The pitching staff also got a boost when Jacob Turner was promoted from Triple-A New Orleans, and Nathan Eovaldi and Henderson Alvarez came off the disabled list.
"The All-Star break is always good for guys," manager Mike Redmond said. "We've been grinding out there pretty well. I think it's always a time to reflect, regroup, take a deep breath and figure out what we all have to do to make this team successful."
Miami doesn't have a power-packed lineup, which magnifies the importance of Stanton, who blasted the game-tying home run in the ninth inning on Saturday. The Marlins went on to win, 2-1, in 10 innings.
Morrison, recovered from right knee surgery, missed the first two months.
The team will have a workout at Marlins Park on Thursday, and will open the second half on Friday at Milwaukee. But for the next three days, players are free to relax.
"It really just comes down to finishing strong, and sticking with our approach, the way we have the last month and a half," Redmond said.
Without playoff expectations, the Marlins will seek to continually improve in the second half around core players they anticipate having in 2014 and beyond.
"I'm excited," Redmond said. "These guys are playing hard. They're running balls out. It's fun to see them have some success, because they deserve it."


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Brooklyn Beer At 'Utica On Tap' March 22nd
We hope to see you at "Utica On Tap", the largest craft beer event in Utica on Saturday, March 22nd at the Stanley Theater. Over 60 craft beers to sample (for the 21 and over crowd with valid ID), including two brews from the Brooklyn Brewery.
First, here's who they are, according to brooklynbrewery.com:
"Brooklyn Brewery makes beer. Good beer. Not only does it taste good and make your meal better but we like to think that since its founding in 1988, Brooklyn Brewery has brewed flavorful beers that enrich the life, tradition and culture of the communities it serves. Its award-winning roster of year-round, seasonal and specialty beers have gained the Brewery notoriety as one of the top craft beer producers in the world.
Brooklyn beers are currently distributed in 25 states and 20 countries.
The Brooklyn Brewery is located at 79 North 11th Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 11249 between Berry Street and Wythe Avenue."
Brooklyn Brewery is bringing two of its beers for sampling: "Brooklyn Lager" (it's flagship beer) and "Brooklyn Dry Irish Stout". Here's a description of each, according to brooklynbrewery.com:
"Brooklyn Lager
Brooklyn Lager is amber-gold in color and displays a firm malt center supported by a refreshing bitterness and floral hop aroma. Caramel malts show in the finish. The aromatic qualities of the beer are enhanced by "dry-hopping", the centuries-old practice of steeping the beer with fresh hops as it undergoes a long, cold maturation. The result is a wonderfully flavorful beer, smooth, refreshing and very versatile with food.
Style: American Amber Lager
Malts: American Two-row Malts
Hops: Hallertauer Mittelfrueh, Vanguard and Cascade
Alcohol by Volume: 5.2%
Brooklyn Dry Irish Stout:
Brooklyn Irish Stout is brewed the old-fashioned way, without the nitrogen addition. A large portion of the grain is roasted like coffee beans, developing the typical color and flavor of this beer. Aside from British pale malts, the beer includes caramel malts, black patent malt, unmalted black barley and a proportion of flaked raw barley, which helps the beer develop a beautiful, thick natural head. The famous East Kent Golding hop lends to the earthy aroma. The beer is neither filtered, nor fined and has a light, brisk carbonation. Be sure to serve it with "two fingers" of foam, and enjoy the flavor of Brooklyn Irish Stout. Slainte!
Style: uh...Dry Irish Stout
Malts: Two-row English, black malt, black barley, caramel malt and unmalted barley
Hops: Willamette, Fuggles, Cascade, East Kent Golding
Alcohol by Volume: 4.7%
Availability: January-March"


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This corridor was one of the many corridors in Hogwarts Castle. It was located between the hospital tower and the Clock Tower connecting the two together.[1]
It connected the Hospital Wing to the fourth floor of the Clock Tower staircase inside the Clock Tower. The hospital tower staircase next to the Hospital Wing led from here to the main Fourth Floor Corridor. The Clock Tower staircase connected it to the Clock Tower Entrance and to the Fifth Floor hospital tower corridor.
In the 1993–1994 school year, Harry Potter and Hermione Granger used the corridor to make it back to the Hospital Wing before Albus Dumbledore locked it.
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film) (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game)
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PESCADERO — For Dee Harley, succeeding as a small farmer has involved much more than farming.
Her herd of 200 or so goats produces several award-winning cheeses, but Harley realized long ago that expanding her business to include other products and reaching out to potential customers through agri-tourism were essential to the survival of her dairy.
Harley, 46, shared what's she learned with three busloads of farmers, students, activists and others who rumbled up the coast Wednesday from the annual EcoFarm Conference on sustainable agriculture in Pacific Grove. The conference, which drew 1,800 people from the U.S. and abroad, wraps up Saturday.
About 140 people made the trip to tiny Pescadero to explore Harley Farms and three other operations that exemplify the area's status as a haven for small organic farms: Jacobs Farm, a grower of herbs and edible flowers; TomKat Ranch grass-fed beef; and Fifth Crow Farm, whose products include eggs and vegetables.
Harley, a native of Yorkshire, England, grew her dairy slowly. Along the way she realized she needed to diversify, even if it took time away from cheesemaking. If she didn't, Harley knew she'd have to lower the price of her cheese and produce a lot more of it to stay afloat.
"Ultimately it's to allow the farm to stay small and not dilute the integrity of the product," she said.
Today, she offers a wide variety of products and services including Harleys Farm goat milk bath products, tours and farm-to-table dinners, and team retreats for Silicon Valley corporations. A gift shop sells mohair socks, farming tools, cookbooks and pottery. Harley's latest idea is a line of indoor-outdoor goat milk paint that's so safe and natural, she joked, "you could literally eat it and not die."
Marilyn Conn, whose partner operates an organic citrus and avocado farm in the Central Valley, was impressed by the way Harley has drawn upon a network of artisans and other small farmers. Harley uses food from nearby farms for her dinner events, for instance, while the various signs adorning the buildings are carved by longtime friend and woodworker Three Finger Bil, who also devised the mix of ingredients in the goat milk paint.
"You feel sort of isolated," Conn, 59, said of life on her small farm in Lindsay. "Here it's more a community of farmers."
Building that sense of community among forward-thinking farmers is one of the core goals of this week's conference, sponsored by the nonprofit Ecological Farming Association for 33 years.
Zea Sonnabend, a member of the National Organic Standards advisory board, said in a statement that the conference is an opportunity for "meeting old and new friends, learning time-honored and new farming techniques and getting rejuvenated for the long days of the growing season ahead."
Contact Aaron Kinney at 650-348-4357. Follow him at Twitter.com/kinneytimes.


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Ok the irony is in FL now there are NO mountains. But still, I picked up a Breezer Thunder Expert 29er from Nashbar on clearance (it's a 2015 bike) for $~600 and change, hardtail. Normal price is around $1400, has deore xt components and a rockshox gold 30 fork so it's good for the price. I will miss full suspension but for the riding I do here I think that will be just fine esp with the 29" wheels. There are some fun trails in the area that are developed and managed quite a bit so I'm looking forward to going for a spin. I used to mountain bike all-the-time and am excited to get back on the bike again!
There's something very raw and very real about a good hardtail. More fun than a full squish in my opinion. How are you like the 29" set up?
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The findings from one of the largest sickle cell anemia studies of its kind could change the standard of care for very young children with the disease. Researchers from the Miller School, and 13 medical centers across the United States, conducted a randomized double-blinded trial to test the impact of hydroxyurea therapy for children between the ages of nine to eighteen months. The results of the two year NIH-funded clinical trial will be published in the May 14 issue of the prestigious British medical journal Lancet.
The objective of the trial was to determine if hydroxyurea therapy is effective in preventing organ dysfunction and clinical complications. The investigators at the BABY HUG (Pediatric Hydroxyurea Phase III Clinical Trial) clinical centers enrolled almost 200 patients and 86-percent completed the study. Half of the patients received hydroxyurea and half received placebo.
"This study represents a major step forward in treatment of the often devastating symptoms of sickle cell anemia in the infant or toddler- pain, painful swelling of the hands and feet, and a strong, but not statistically significant reduction of hospitalization, acute chest syndrome, and need for transfusion", said Daniel Armstrong, Ph.D., professor and associate chair of pediatrics and director of the University of Miami Sickle Cell Center. "Before hydroxyurea, the only treatment options were blood transfusions every 3-4 weeks, bone marrow transplantation, or acute management of symptoms, often involving repeated hospitalization. Hydroxyurea clearly offers these young children a chance to live a relatively normal life outside the hospital, and represents one of the first major breakthroughs in care in decades."
Sickle cell anemia is a disease passed through families in which there aren't enough healthy red blood cells to carry oxygen through your body. Normally red blood cells are flexible and round, and move easily through your blood vessels. In sickle cell disease, high levels of sickle hemoglobin cause the cells collapse. The resulting cells are shaped like sickles or crescent moons and due to their shape they often get stuck in the small blood vessels blocking blood flow to most of the organs in the body. This can cause many severe and life-threatening problems, including severe pain, damage to the kidneys, liver, and spleen, acute chest syndrome, or stroke.
Hydroxyurea is used to reduce the rate of these painful attacks by increasing the production of fetal hemoglobin, which helps prevent the sickling process. Sold under the brand names Hydrea and Droxia, hydroxyurea is an anti-cancer drug first used in myeloproliferative disorders, including chronic myelocytic leukemia, polycythemia vera and essential thrombocythemia, all blood disorders.
Fifteen years ago a study of hydroxyurea in adults demonstrated that the medication reduced episodes of pain and acute chest syndrome, hospitalizations and transfusions in adults with sickle cell disease. Subsequent multiple smaller studies have shown similar benefits and minimal toxicity in school-age children and adolescents.
In 1999, the U.S. National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute began the research with a pilot trial (HUSOFT) which showed that very young children tolerated a liquid hydroxyurea formulation; they then moved on to the Phase III BABY HUG trial.
Dr. Armstrong and Julio Barredo, M.D., director of the Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at the University of Miami then at the Medical University of South Carolina and also a co-author on the Lancet publication, were part of the original study design and steering committee for the BABY HUG study. Ofelia Alvarez, M.D., the pediatric clinical director at the University of Miami, was the local principal investigator for BABY HUG at the University of Miami and also a member of the study steering committee. Tally Hustace, a pediatric sickle cell nurse coordinator, also played an essential role in supporting families who participated in this very time-demanding and complex study.
The University of Miami has been a leader in research on sickle cell disease in the United States for more than 35 years. One of the original Comprehensive Sickle Cell Centers in 1975, the University of Miami Sickle Cell Center is one of only eleven Basic and Translational Research Programs in Sickle Cell Disease awarded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Investigators at the University of Miami have played a leadership role in every major natural history study and multi-center clinical trial on sickle cell disease funded by the NIH since the mid-1980s,
We could not have made these advances without an incredible partnership with our patients and their families", Dr. Armstrong is quick to remind. "We have some of the most willing and dedicated patients in the world. Their selfless devotion to help find a cure for everyone is the major reason that these studies have taken place and resulted in improved care for all children, adolescents, and adults with this awful disease."


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ESTE LUGAR SI IMPORTA: HERITAGE CONSERVATION IN UNINCORPORATED EAST LOS ANGELES by Laura A. Dominguez A Thesis Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF HISTORIC PRESERVATION May 2012 Copyright 2012 Laura A. Dominguez
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|One of the greatest challenges facing traditional historic preservation in the United States today is the task of integrating a more inclusive definition of cultural heritage in underrepresented communities into the broader movement. As this thesis will demonstrate, the tangible and intangible heritage of Unincorporated East Los Angeles and the burgeoning grassroots movement to safeguard it provide the field with powerful insights into the needs of twenty-first century ethnic communities. ❧ Characterized by a dynamic Chicano population and a long history of social activism, East Los Angeles currently lacks a formal preservation framework, leaving decisions about significance and interpretation in the hands of the community. Community-based heritage conservation and its evolving practices raise a number of questions about cultural memory, authenticity, and social authority, critically reshaping the relationship between place and identity. These changes are particularly visible in East Los Angeles, where heritage conservation belongs to a broader social and political movement over local agency within Los Angeles County. ❧ How do the unique cultural resources found in East Los Angeles produce a new method of recognizing, understanding, and conserving local heritage, and how do residents and activists interpret the significance of those resources? How have scholars depicted the relationship between place and identity in East Los Angeles, and how does an emphasis on the built environment and its associated intangible heritage redefine that relationship? Finally, how does community-based heritage conservation definitively alter the scope of traditional preservation, and how can the field adapt to these changes?
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Astro Pops Return from Space!
Taste-test, Aisle 1.
Did you happen to notice that the Astro Pop hasn't been sold for eight years? Yeah, we didn't either. But if you did, there's good news: a new company bought the rights to the candy and now they're back on shelves (currently at Dylan's Candy Bar and other specialty candy shops, and they're coming soon to Target, Walmart, and the like).
The really cool thing about Astro Pops is that these rocket-shaped lollies were actually created by rocket scientists in 1963. The scientists also made special wrappers which could withstand high heat, allowing the hot candy to be poured directly into the wrapper. The heyday of the Astro Pop was many years ago, though I did eat Astro Pops as a kid, when I loved any oversized and crazy-colored lollipop that was destined to be thrown out before its time. (It would take far too long to eat all at once, and would get linty while it waited for round two.)
So I was excited to try this reissued Astro Pop. Would I have the stamina to eat the entire thing? Would it taste like childhood? The answers are yes and yes, but I must say I do not feel very well, and childhood doesn't taste great.
The candy mold/wrapper that made Astro Pops so groundbreaking is quite difficult to remove from the candy—I actually had to use a knife. The texture of the pop is slicker and smoother than most lollipops, which is sort of nice, but this, combined with the conical shape, makes it pretty much impossible to eat hands-free. Seriously, every time I tried to type something, the Astro Pop would fly out of my mouth and onto my shirt, and once even made it as far as my computer screen (talk about a rocket!). The paper stick was also somewhat short, which made it hard to hold onto.
The pop is made up of three flavor sections: pineapple, passion fruit, and cherry. The pineapple section immediately reminded me of being a kid, thinking I was about to get a taste of can't-miss-lemon, and then being affronted with the strange, almost coconut-y taste of artificial pineapple. The passion fruit (green) level was more or less tasteless, and the cherry was a bit cough-droppy for my tastes. At the very bottom of the pop was some wax, which, to be perfectly honest, I tried to eat.
In spite of not really liking the Astro Pop at all, I did eat the whole thing, which involved several hours and also chewing (cheating). And while it was fun to hold a silly looking lollipop again, I think I'll leave these rockets in space.
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Oscar-winning actor Dustin Hoffman can add another celebrated role to his filmography: Good Samaritan.
The "Rain Man" and "Tootsie" star reportedly saved the life of a British jogger who suffered a heart attack while exercising in a London park.
Sam Dempster, 27, was running in the city's central Hyde Park when he suddenly collapsed, The Sun newspaper reported. Hoffman, who has a house in London and happened to be walking nearby at the time, phoned the emergency services and waited with Dempster until the medics came to the scene.
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"I want to say 'Thank you' to Dustin Hoffman. He saved my life," Dempster told the newspaper.
Dempster also thanked the hospital staff who treated him and the first-responder medics, who used CPR and electric shocks to jumpstart his heart.
Dempster reportedly cannot recall the exact details of what happened, but was informed of the actor's good deed by the medics, Martin Macarthur and Luke Sullivan.
"Dustin was fascinated. He seemed impressed we'd got this guy back so quickly," Macarthur told The Sun. "When we were carrying the patient into the ambulance he walked up and said 'Great job, guys.' He really appreciated what had happened."
Dempster is expected to make a full recovery.


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News | June 25, 2014
NASA's OCO-2 Will Track Our Impact on Airborne Carbon
Every time we get in a car and drive, we burn gasoline, releasing carbon dioxide and other compounds into the air and disturbing Earth's climate. Our use of fossil fuels continues to increase exponentially, with more than half of all fossil fuels ever used by humans being consumed in the last 20 years.
In comparison with the amount of carbon that enters the atmosphere from natural sources, our fossil fuel emissions are modest. "Carbon dioxide generated by human activities amounts to only a few percent of the total yearly atmospheric uptake or loss of carbon dioxide from plant life and geochemical processes on land and in the ocean," said Gregg Marland, a professor in the Geology Department of Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina. "This may not seem like much, but humans have essentially tipped the balance."
Scientists are able to accurately measure the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, both today and in the past, and the impact of our activities is apparent in those measurements. Before the Industrial Revolution, there were about 280 molecules of carbon dioxide out of every million molecules in the atmosphere, that is, 280 parts per million. By 2014, the concentration had risen to about 400 parts per million.
Although we know the concentration of carbon dioxide, much about the processes that govern the gas's atmospheric concentration remains a mystery. We still do not know precisely where all of the carbon dioxide comes from and where it is being stored when it leaves the air. That information is crucial for understanding the impact of human activities on climate and for evaluating options for mitigating or adapting to climate change.
Scientists expect to get some answers soon to these and other compelling carbon questions, thanks to the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2, a new Earth-orbiting NASA satellite scheduled to launch on July 1. OCO-2 will allow scientists to record detailed daily measurements of carbon dioxide -- around 100,000 measurements of the gas around the world every day.
"Now that humans are acknowledging the environmental effects of our dependence on fossil fuels and other carbon dioxide-emitting activities, our goal is to analyze the sources and sinks of this carbon dioxide and to find better ways to manage it," Marland said.
"If you visualize a column of air that stretches from Earth's surface to the top of the atmosphere, the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 will identify how much of that vertical column is carbon dioxide, with an understanding that most is emitted at the surface," said Marland. "Simply, it will act like a plane observing the smoke from forest fires down below, with the task of assessing where the fires are and how big they are. Compare that aerial capability with sending a lot of people into the forest looking for fires. The observatory will use its vantage point from space to capture a picture of where the sources and sinks of carbon dioxide are, rather than our cobbling data together from multiple sources with less frequency, reliability and detail."
Kevin Gurney, an associate professor at Arizona State University, Tempe, believes OCO-2 will complement a suite of NASA-funded efforts he is currently leading that quantify fossil fuel emissions by using statistics on fuel, activity of cars, etc., to pinpoint emissions on scales as small as an individual city building or street.
"This research and OCO-2 together will act like partners in closing the carbon budget, with my data products estimating movements from the bottom up and OCO-2 estimating sources from the top down," Gurney said. "By tackling the problem from both perspectives, we'll stand to achieve an independent, mutually compatible view of the carbon cycle. And the insight gained by combining these top-down and bottom-up approaches might take on special significance in the near future as our policymakers consider options for regulating carbon dioxide across the entire globe."
For more about OCO-2, visit these sites:
OCO-2 is the second of five NASA Earth science launches in 2014, the most in more than a decade. NASA monitors Earth's vital signs from land, air and space with a fleet of satellites and ambitious airborne and ground-based observation campaigns. NASA develops new ways to observe and study Earth's interconnected natural systems with long-term data records and computer analysis tools to better see how our planet is changing. The agency shares this unique knowledge with the global community and works with institutions in the United States and around the world that contribute to understanding and protecting our home planet.
For more information about NASA's Earth science activities in 2014, see: http://www.nasa.gov/earthrightnow
News Media ContactAlan Buis
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