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Social media should be regulated - Musk
Founder and CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk, strongly believes that social media should be regulated.
Speaking in a CBS interview on Wednesday morning, the tech billionaire said: "Wherever there's something that affects the public good, then there does need to be some form of public oversight.
"I think there should be regulations on social media to the degree that it negatively affects the public good. We can't have 'will-nilly' proliferation of fake news; that's crazy," said Musk.
The news industry has been beset by information that cannot be verified or is patently untrue. More often than not, this is perpetuated on digital and social media platforms, with these organisations posting whatever they want.
Case in point: Last summer, an entity purporting to be CNN, announced to the world that the actor, Clint Eastwood, had died. That information went viral, and it was not true, deemed in common parlance to be 'fake news'.
The practice of journalism has been expropriated by media manipulators who are looking for a competitive edge by utilising click bate and other techniques of sophistry to supplant the work of editors and bona fide journalists in an effort to report favourable numbers.
Applied new acronyms have usurped veracity in modern journalism, and has eroded the public's trust in what is read, so much so that the President of the United States has dismissed certain news organisations as purveyors of 'fake news'.
This point is not lost on Elon Musk, who in his interview with Gayle King of CBS, said: "You can't have more clicks on fake news than real news. That's allowing public deception to go unchecked."
This is while social media platform, Facebook, has come under fire for allowing access to people's personal data, and for its inability to self-regulate its operations.
Its founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, is currently answering questions before both Houses of the US Congress concerning these issues.
On the issue of regulation, Zuckerberg said in Tuesday's testimony: "I think the real question as the Internet becomes more important in people's lives, is what is the right regulation? (It's) not whether there should be or not."
Apple's CEO, Tim Cook, weighed in on the matter, saying: We (Apple) care about the user experience, and we're not going to traffic in your personal life. I think it's an invasion of privacy.
"Privacy to us is a human right. It's a civil liberty. It's something that is unique to America. You know this is like freedom of speech and freedom of the press, and privacy is right up there for us."
The CEO added that Apple sells products, and people are not its products.
"The truth is we could make a ton of money if we monetise our customer. If our customer was our product, we could make a ton of money. We've elected not to do that because… our products are iPhones and iPads and Macs and HomePods and the Watch etc. And if we can convince you to buy one, we'll make a little bit of money, right?
"But you are not our product. You are our customer. You are a jewel".
Talking about the mining and monetising of people's data by social media companies, Cook explained Apple's position.
"We've never believed that these detailed profiles of people – that has incredibly deep personal information that is patched together from several sources – should exist.
"That the connection of all these dots, that you could use them in such devious ways if someone wanted to do that, that this was one of the things that were possible in life, but shouldn't exist – shouldn't be allowed to exist!" declared Cook.
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SKSW Guest Blog: Actual Wolf pt.2Mar 15, 2014
Revelation, Madness & Improvisation
I got to spend all of Thursday at Willie Nelson's Ranch in Luck Texas.
This was incredible. A, hopefully not, once in a lifetime experience.
The Chapel in Luck, Texas
Saw a TON of great music. I played in the afternoon with Nikki Lane.
The vibe was right and the set was tight. A great start to the day.
After Nikki... Clear Plastic Masks played. They are currently my favorite band and
they lit up the stage like a Christmas tree on the first day of February. ABSOLUTE FIRE.
Gotta check this band out! Also saw Hurray for the Riff Raff, Lucius, J Roddy Watson, Lukas Nelson & of course the man himself. Mr. Willie Nelson played a set. It was fantastic. A 10 song set that included some covers and a sit in by Billie Joe Shaver. YEE HAW!
I also ran into my good friend and last of the country gentleman, Mr. Josh T. Pearson.
Texas is defined by men like Josh. It is hard to distinguish between the two.
After a long day we headed back into town and went to bed. GREAT DAY.
Josh T. Pearson, myself, and Willie
Friday was a real busy one for me. It started off with an in interview w/ Sloucher Zine. Samuel aka Sloucher is an awesome dude i met in Sheffield UK. He resides in Mexico City. Check out his opinions. Then it was off to an Actual Wolf set at the Rock the Cause Party at Liberty Bar. Scott Herold puts on a fantastic event and is a good human being.
He's one of those guys that makes you believe & is always a champion of the underdog.
From there it descended into showcase/work madness. I thrive on this type of pressure but it's also tremendously draining. I got a brief break around dinner at ingredients. I played a solo set there and it's my favorite place in Austin. They support community gardening and local farmers.
THANKS ingredients!
Back into the insanity... 6th street was INSANE! Too many people, too much liquor... Absolute chaos. Pure sensory overload.
Things getting turnt up at ingredients
I got a text from my friend Mark during one of my nighttime showcases to see if I had time to sing on a few tunes at his showcase. It was tight but I did... So I hustled to Central Presbyterian for the Pitchfork Showcase. A few songs turned into a whole duo set. Really cool. A Friday highlight for sure. Thanks to Real Estate for letting me borrow your drums/cymbals. You guys really made that possible.
Real Estate at Central Presbyterian
6 showcases in the bag... I wandered down the hill, grabbed a quick slice and headed to bed.
One more day to go. WOLF OUT!!!
Notable follows: @CpmMusic @ilovelucius @HFTRR @sloucherzine @realestateband @in_gredients
side note: for everyone who needs a dose of real... Check out Josh T Pearson's music.
This is @ActualWolf signing off
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Cities offered £39m for low carbon heat networks
The government has offering up to £39 million to local authorities and public sector bodies to upgrade heating in towns and cities in England and Wales.
It is the first part of a £320 million fund which will be invested in the next five years to supply low carbon and recycled heat and help consumers reduce bills.
It follows a consultation launched in June this year on how best to use the funding to overcome barriers to investment in heat networks and increase deployment.
Heat networks, which will allow cities to recycle the wasted heat they produce from factories, power stations and even the London Underground and pump it into homes and businesses, are said to have the potential to reduce costs by as much as 30%.
Dubbed 'central heating for cities', they can also draw their energy from sources like combine heat and power (CHP) plants and biomass boilers.
The pilot will consist of one single competitive funding round and will inform the design of the main scheme, which is expected to open in 2017.
Energy Minister Baroness Neville-Rolfe said: "Heat networks can significantly improve the efficiency with which heat is provided to our towns and cities as well as helping to develop local infrastructure and reduce carbon.
"The new scheme will help us to develop viable reforms to make the most of the heat we produce and use it effectively to bring bills down for people across the country."
Pre-qualification applications will be open until 18th November 2016 and the full application window will be open until 28th November 2016.
Low carbon generation and the role of alternative fuels will be part of the discussions at the Energy Live 2016 conference on November 3rd in London. Limited free tickets available for energy end users and university students.
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Hello. Loving the game so far and can't wait for the new build! I have two small ideas that I feel (for me at least) might help the game. The first is when planning out an attack I sometimes forget what guns my characters have (whether I hired a merc or changed guns recently) and so I click through the characters remembering the order of the guns to plan where to move them. I feel that maybe having a small gun icon on the HUD indicating what guns the characters have could make it so you're able to more quickly plan an attach and not have to cycle through the characters first. Next is the hit percentage. Sometimes (normally with a sniper or carbine with a scope) I have a shot where the hit chance is maybe just a bit lower than I want. However I have experienced sometimes that when I use 1 of the 2 actions points to move to what I feel is an easier shot, in reality it wasn't and so my hit chance is much lower when I shoot. What about the possibility of having an option where you can see the new hit chance in the spot that you are considering to move to?
I'm not sure about others but I feel these could help players out. Keep up the good work!


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Nancy sent me a photo of her finished Hares' Easter, and I just had to share it with you!
You can see some of Nancy's other finishes on her blog at Lovely In Chocolate. Thank you for sharing!
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And, thank you for such a fun design with lovely colors! I can't wait to stitch Spring and Summer!
Yes, Yes, and I just adore it!! I have got to get this stitched! It is screaming at me....:):)
Just too darn cute, Paulette. I love your skinny bunnies.
Pretty colors!
This is just so cute. I love the bunnies and think I have to stitch this really soon!
Nancy did a great job! It is too cute.
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6 Things You Need to Start Your Own Online Anime Store
Many people have taken to eCommerce to either make a few dollars on the side or build a corporate powerhouse. In many instances, these people have used their own hobbies and interests to grow their inventory. In this case, why not build an online anime store? In reality, it could be just as profitable as


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What to test?
Today's instalment of Fedora Test Day will focus on new features in GNOME 3.14. Read more
Who's available
The following cast of characters will be available testing, workarounds, bug fixes, and general discussion ...
- Development - Elad Alfassa
- Quality Assurance - Vladimír Beneš (vbenes), Vita Humpa (vhumpa), Vadim Rutkovsky (vrutkovs), Adam Williamson (adamw)
Prerequisite for Test Day
- bootable USB key or CD/DVD disk with latest Fedora 21 live image or:
- machine or VM with updated Fedora 21
Known issues
- When booting in a KVM/libvirt virtual machine, networking may well not work: this is bug #811967, see comments #14 and #15 for workarounds
- Wayland session is not available by default: install it via 'sudo dnf install gnome-session-wayland-session'
- Default user doesn't have session switcher by default: autologin should be disabled and password should be set bug #1134438
- It seems that wayland session is not working in VM even though you can see thumbnail in boxes for example
- Timezone selection page in initial setup is too tall for many screens: GNOME #735534
How to test?
This Test Day has two parts. First part is covered by test cases and it's focused on testing new functionality in both X and Wayland sessions. Second is exploratory testing when you are free to use software how do you like. Don't worry and try to break GNOME in various ways which you expect to work.
We expect results from various types of environments like live images, classical installations, bare metal, any VM type, low resources HW, etc.
Update your machine
If you're running Fedora 21, make sure you have all the current updates for it installed, using the update manager.
Live image
The live images are suitable for writing to a USB stick or to a DVD media. They can be used for installing Fedora from scratch, and may also be used to test Fedora directly from the USB stick / DVD media without writing anything to your hard drive. More information on how to use the images is available at FedoraLiveCD.
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If you have an ARM system with accelerated graphics or sufficient power to handle software acceleration, and a reasonable amount of RAM, you can try the ARM image, SHA256SUM FIXME. The ARM wiki space has deployment instructions for various supported platforms.
Testing and reporting results
The testing page provides a list of the tests to run, and lets you report your results. Clicking on a test name will show you the instructions for doing that test, and clicking 'Enter result' will let you enter your result for that test. For the Hardware name, please enter the model number for your graphics adapter as precisely as you can. You can use the
lspci -nn command to provide the PCI ID, if you are comfortable doing so.
If you have problems with any of the tests, report a bug to GNOME Bugzilla for the appropriate component. If you are unsure about exactly how to file the report or what other information to include, just ask on IRC and we will help you.
List of Test Cases
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Donna Anderson
June 6, 2013
There's been a subtle shift in the language coming out of Washington lately. If you pay attention and listen closely you'll be fine. But it's like one of those subliminal messages they used in the old movies — the new language is best absorbed subconsciously, while you're thinking about something else. And the Feds are hoping that if they repeat it often enough you'll willingly roll over and forfeit your first amendment rights.
Of course, at the top of the list, we have Congress debating a new media shield law in response to the Justice Department's overreach in targeting AP reporters. On the surface it seems pretty cut-and-dried — a media shield law would protect journalists and their sources.
But anytime you implement a law you are essentially drawing a line in the sand, a line that can now, easily, be erased and moved until you're boxed into a tiny little corner.
The proposed law only protects journalists to a certain degree. Journalists can still be subpoenaed to turn over their sources if it's believed to affect national security matters, and yes, journalists can appeal to a federal judge. But let's face it, who appoints those federal judges? Certainly not the journalists.
And as we've seen happen so many times in the past, the definition of "national security" is whatever is most convenient for Obama and the DHS at the time.
While the media shield law in and of itself will limit the press' first amendment rights, it's the language coming out of Washington in support of the bill that's most frightening because it's influencing every American citizen, not just journalists.
On Sunday, Democratic Senator Dick Durbin appeared on Fox News Sunday. On live TV, in front of millions of average American viewers, he questioned the media shield law and whether it should apply to bloggers.
Mr. Durbin said, (emphasis mine) "Here is the bottom line — the media shield law, which I am prepared to support … still leaves an unanswered question, which I have raised many times: What is a journalist today in 2013? We know it's someone that works for Fox or AP, but does it include a blogger? Does it include someone who is tweeting? Are these people journalists and entitled to constitutional protection?"
The First Amendment guarantees freedom of speech for everyone, not just journalists, not just "the press" — everyone:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
But with just a few well-placed words, Durbin would have you believe that the first amendment right of freedom of speech only applies to journalists, and journalists are defined as only those reporters who hold credentialed positions with one of the mainstream media news outlets.
But Senator Durbin isn't the only one trying to limit free speech. On Tuesday, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) also pushed the subliminal agenda. Speaking to reporters (who may or may not have been credentialed), Durbin had this to say:
"Who is a journalist is a question we need to ask ourselves," he said. "Is any blogger out there saying anything–do they deserve First Amendment protection? These are the issues of our times."
To be fair, when it was pointed out to both Senators that everyone enjoys the right to free speech here in America, they quickly jumped in to say that they didn't deny that right, they were merely questioning where to draw the line between what gets protected and what doesn't.
In an even more blatant attempt to limit the First Amendment, Sen,. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.), while questioning some of the conservative groups targeted by the IRS, suggested that it was their fault they'd been targeted because they applied for tax exempt status.
"None of your organizations were kept from organizing or silenced. If you didn't come in and ask for this tax break, you would have never had a question asked of you."
That statement, in itself, is scary enough, but it's what he said to Fox News' Megyn Kelly in a follow-up interview that really hits the subliminal nail on the head. When Kelly pointed out that many conservative groups were kept waiting months or even years for approval for tax exempt status and wasn't that the same thing as being denied, McDermott said,
"Yes, but they were never denied their exemption. They could still operate…They can still collect money, they can still put out advertisements, they can use their First Amendment rights — nobody at the IRS stopped them from doing that." (emphasis mine)
Again, McDermott is subliminally suggesting that certain groups or individuals are not entitled to their First Amendment right to freedom of speech, that it's a right bestowed by those in authority upon only those who qualify.
Even Michelle Obama is using mind control tactics to teach us that we really don't have the rights we think we have. When confronted by a heckler during a Democratic fundraiser, instead of allowing the heckler to have her say and politely waiting for silence Mrs. Obama said, "One of the things I don't do well is this."
She then pointed at the heckler and delivered her ultimatum: They could listen to her or the heckler could have the microphone, "but I'm leaving. You all decide. You have one choice."
The message is subtle but it's appearing more and more often. If we don't start paying attention we're going to lose our Constitutional right to free speech.
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Your 1 ½" Primitive Pinwheel Tool comes with a FREE pattern!
It's Twister in an Itty Bitty size! Itty Bitty Primitive Pinwheels makes a small quilt out of 1 3/4" pinwheels. It's a really fun project to sew up, and looks great in any fabrics you choose. Try seasonal or holiday fabrics and place it on a small quilt stand on a shelf! Great for using up your scraps, too. Pattern includes the Itty Bitty Primitive Pinwheel Tool so you can get sewing right away.
Pattern finishes at approximately 10" square - if you want to make it bigger, just add more pinwheels! You'll need to add more fabric to your borders and binding than the pattern calls for if you do size it up.
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With the continued success of Brick's Backyard RInks, Frankin Sports has decided to partner with NESN to drive brand awareness and consumer engagement around this unique annual contest. During the Bruins' broadcast, Andy and team asked viewers to submit their best backyard rink videos via the Burst platform. Fans were able to easily upload videos from their mobile phones or laptops without downloading an app. The result was hundreds of authentic video submissions and a unique, interactive way for brands to increase affinity with customers in a brand-safe environment.
Burst Platform Advantages
Increased traffic and engagement: incorporating calls to action for viewer content combined with the ease of frequently featuring that content has facilitated an interactive experience for the viewer, and it has played an integral role in increasing web traffic, social media activity, and increasing viewer engagement for both the station and the brand.
Seamless integration into TV & digital workflows: with simple approvals from the Burst platform, viewer content gets published to interactive galleries on websites or pushed downstream directly into broadcast editing and
Rights cleared content: rather than having to reach out to viewers for the right to use their content, Burst automates the previously cumbersome permission process with customizable terms & conditions built into the upload workflow.
Time-saving: receiving rights-cleared viewer content all to a central, easy to use location in the cloud, with integration into existing digital and TV systems, reduces the time spent organizing and managing UGC in half.
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Hong Kong is known for its skycrapers excessiveness and crowded atmosphere. Finding a quiet and peaceful cocoon can be quite a challenge, especially for boutique-hotel lovers. So here I am! I found the perfect cozy place in the very centre of Hong Kong Island.
Few years after visiting the sister property – and first opened – Mira Hong Kong on Kowloon side, I finally reached Mira Moon in Causeway Bay district for a four-night stay. I heard a lot about that boutique hotel size property, especially thanks to its unique interior design, in a location surrounded by big chains and hundreds-room size hotels. And I have to say its reputation is really, really not usurped at all.
Design & Facilities
Member of Design Hotels collection, Mira Moon Hong Kong impressed with its great interior design by Wanders & YOO. As they say, the hotel proposes a "refreshing reinterpretation of Chinese traditions in contemporary Hong Kong".
And it's absolutely brilliant: that design is well integrated in the building and it's indeed a very fresh mix of modern and Asian style. Just look at that amazing lobby: some beautiful ornaments on walls and a huge wooden masterpiece on the ceiling. Wow!
Of course, because of its boutique size, the number of facilities is quite limited. The hotel offers a Champagne Bar near reception on 5th floor, a discreet Supergiant restaurant on the level below and a fitness center for sport addicts. More than enough for me!
With only 91 rooms for 35 floors, the hotel is able to propose four to five rooms max per level and insure a good soundproofing quality. The Half Moon room I had was absolutely quiet, no noise whatever from the inside or outside. Believe me, it's rare!
The room design follows the rest of the hotel, the creative direction made an exceptional work to make it unique. In the bedroom, the wall cladding is really stunning and includes all main components: bed frame, TV, dressing and mini bar. Should I mention the Victoria Harbour view?
Bathroom is no exception to that outstanding conception, featuring a modern standalone bathtub, wooden furnitures and white marble floor. Imagine yourself in the bath, with a glass of Champagne and looking at Hong Kong skycrapers… I really liked it!
I had the chance to enjoy breakfast, lunch and dinner at Supergiant – Spanish-tapas inspired – restaurant. Everything is a-la-carte – with the addition of a small sweet delicacies buffet for breakfast – and I must say I have been very impressed by dish quality.
I love eating scrambled eggs at breakfast, and surprisingly at Mira Moon Hong Kong they come with… caviar! At no extra cost. It was a first try for me and that was really good!
Then I tried several dishes for lunch and dinner, I particularly enjoyed their Mira Burger and Catalan canelones with braised beef. A fine dining venue at decent prices, the best combination :)
Level of exigency
Staff is very discreet at Mira Moon Hong Kong. Once you have your habits there, they recognize you and go the extra mile to enhance your stay; that was particularly true at Supergiant restaurant.
Receptionists were also very professional and friendly, making check-in/check-out processes smooth and without any issue. It might not be the same service quality as Peninsula HK or Upper House, for sure, but the value for money is unbeatable.
My new home in Hong Kong! Good price, good service and amazing design, that's three success factors that explain – to me – the good reputation of Mira Moon Hong Kong. Ideal for both leisure and business trips, close to city's main attractions and Time Square business offices. I would recommend to book a Half Moon room or higher in order to get a high floor and nice Harbour view.
Stayed from January 10th to 14th, 2018 – Sponsored media stay, but this article reflects 100% of my opinion and thoughts.
The Mira Moon hotel opened in 2013 and is composed of 91 rooms and suites. I stayed in a Half Moon Room – around 35sqm – which public rate starts at HKD 1,900/night.
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Someone is in my Computer – How *Not* to Properly Secure your VR ServerBlog Posts ,Random Musings ,Virtual Reality
January 9, 2017
A few days ago, between sniffling, sneezing, and attempting to nap away a pretty nasty cold, I was spending some time working on my home-away-from-the-physical-world that I'm building using High Fidelity when something quite literally out of my imagination happened. It was very clearly a scenario where the "problem was between the chair and monitor" – my mistake – and I immediately found the situation hilarious, if not a bit out of a science fiction novel.
Allow me to set the scene.
In the High Fidelity interface, you can switch between VR and non-VR mode, so I had changed to a traditional desktop window to switch in and out of the editor while I was also looking for new models to use in my domain. Since I had my sandbox running, my VR home was accessible to the outside world, but I had (thought) that I had set up my server to only allow people I had added to my friend list to join me. Besides, I hadn't shared my domain or my IP address with anyone, so I was pretty confident that I was alone in my corner of the metaverse…
Until I turned my avatar around and saw someone else's avatar standing in the middle of my empty virtual house!
A few things that I had going for me that made this drop from a nightmare-inducing level to "moderately traumatizing" in terms of my personal space being visited:
- I was not in my headset. I can't even imagine how terrifying it would be to literally look over your shoulder to another human-like being in what you thought was a private space. It was startling enough just in the 2D window I had open.
- I keep my microphone muted in social VR experiences until I'm actively talking to someone, so the visitor wasn't likely to be hearing anything other than the reassuring ocean music I have playing in my VR home.
- I knew that it was my fault, because I had tried to get a friend to hang out with me in High Fidelity a few weeks ago, and had opened up the server to other people coming in.
- My volume was muted, so if the other person had been talking to me, I missed it entirely.
Generally, my primary VR-server-security strategy was taken care of by me simply turning off my home server when I wasn't using it, and it didn't occur to me until this incident that I should a) really start building up (and paying attention to who I added) on my friends list, and b) actually confirm that my security settings were what I thought they were.
Sure enough, when I logged into the server in the browser to check my settings, I had checked "Any connected user" as having visit rights to my server. I had also forgotten that High Fidelity has a list of online users, and I had set myself to appear on that list so that anyone could move around the metaverse by going to wherever I was – so not having the IP address or domain name didn't matter, I was still visible in the world. Ooops.
It was a matter of a single check box and the stranger vanished – and oddly, what I walked away from with was a sense of mild vulnerability, but also, interestingly enough, the feeling that me panicking and disconnecting my server was actually rude of me!
Across the industry, we've only touched the very tip of the iceberg in terms of our understanding of VR's relationship to our social psychology, and to me, this whole event was a truly hallmark example of a series of emotions that I could only really ever achieve in a virtual world. Looking at the list of people online at the time, I suspect that the person who came to visit was actually one of the two people that I know AFK, but my emotional response was strikingly similar to the sensation of being snuck up on while engrossed in a task.
The first level of novelty that virtual reality applications provide is the level where you get to experience something that is physically impossible, like a roller coaster through Jurassic Park. The second level of that novelty is getting to create something that is physically impossible, like a pet made out of lightning that responds to sound in TiltBrush – but the true hallmark of the power VR has is when an experience allows you to feel new combinations of emotions that previously didn't exist in your life.
In this experience, I felt a rush of adrenaline paired with guilt that I hadn't properly set up my server, rudeness in how I responded, excessive humor and delight over a harmless, yet incredibly futuristic-feeling interaction, as well as pride when I fixed the security settings – all in the time frame of about 60 seconds. It was a tiny, universally insignificant event, but to me, the idea of someone out there, visiting the metaverse, stumbling upon a mostly-empty virtual space, and giving me an incredibly memorable event – that's what keeps me coming back. That's what keeps me so optimistic and excited at the opportunity to connect with people, and to truly redefine the definition of possible and the human experience.
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Dear RW 300,
I'm impressed and moved by your writing samples on the blog! Thank you taking the task so seriously, and for opening up and sharing so much about yourselves. Thank you for allowing us, instructors, to get to know you better. This type of communication is so important in education!
Thank you, Prof. McKenney, for embarking on this adventure with your talented and hard-working students. You all have made the blog project so much richer and more meaningful. I couldn't be happier!
Looking forward to reading more.
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The Age of Steam and the Age of Faith have both played their part in forging the local landscape.
The fact that such a large uncultivated open field exists in the middle of the city is due to the presence of the railroad. The Quebec – Montreal – Ottawa – Occidental Railway was built in 1876, on the same right of way that Canadian Pacific occupies today. The nearby Mile End train station was an important presence from 1878 up to the 1930s. The meadow used to be full of the tracks of railroad sidings serving local industries.
Maguire Street and Maguire Meadow, site of the Roerich Garden, are named for Hannibal Dellagenga Maguire, stepson of Dr Pierre Beaubien (1796–1881), who owned most of the land in this part of the Plateau. The young Maguire, son of a naval surgeon, acquired his name in honour of Pope Leo XII, Annibale della Genga, who reigned from 1823 to 1829.
Immediately East of the meadow, behind their newly-rebuilt wall, dwell the Carmelites, whose 1896 convent and the way of life it shelters constitute Montreal's closest link to the Middle Ages.
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Ministry examining proposal for initiating campaign against piracy: Ambika Soni
New Delhi, Sep 7 (ANI): Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni on Tuesday said the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting is in the process of examining a proposal regarding the launching of a multi-media campaign involving all stakeholders against the menace of piracy.
"For the proposed campaign, the Government and the private sector would work in tandem to make the campaign effective. In order to refrain the people from buying pirated goods, celebrities would endorse the campaign to enhance its impact and outreach," said Soni, while delivering the keynote address a seminar on anti-piracy and Regulation of Content- Legal Issues here today.
Ambika Soni stated that a multi pronged approach was necessary to tackle the menace of piracy, taking into account the demand and supply equation.
"A solution was possible if both the demand and supply of pirated content was reduced. It was critical to position appropriate instruments and mechanisms at both the policy and implementation level to make piracy a risky proposition," said Soni.
"In order to achieve the desired results, the deliverables had to be clearly earmarked on a roadmap that was implementable by all stakeholders involved in the process," she added.
Regarding the issue of content regulation, Ambika Soni said the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting set up a Task Force in November 2009, with representation from all key stakeholders on the issue.
"Structured discussions have been held with all the stakeholders including business organizations, consumer groups, media experts and statutory bodies such as NCW and National Commission of Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) to evolve a way forward," said Soni.
"It was necessary that civil society evinced confidence in the initiatives taken to redress the grievances vis-à-vis matters relating to content," she added.
On the issue of self-regulation, Ambika Soni stated that as a concept, the idea had to be effective in addressing the given concerns.
As far as the technology initiatives were concerned, she mentioned that the Ministry was facilitating the digitalization process.
"Taking into account the priorities, the Ministry was looking into a feasible sun-set date for complete makeover. The objective was to address the concern of all stakeholders and establish a roadmap in an enabling environment," said Soni.
"A case-in-point was the HITS policy, which reduced the cost of makeover for the analog operators in the move towards digitalization," she added.
Soni also referred to the constitution of the Committee under Dr. Amit Mitra on Television Rating Points (TRPs) in her address, which had been constituted in the backdrop of deficiencies in the present system of generation of TRPs in India given its possible impact on the programming content of TV channels.
"The mandate of the Committee was expected to address issues related to accuracy, accountability, transparency and objectivity in the generation of TRPs. It was also expected to examine as to how misleading TRPs may not only impact broadcasters and advertisers but more importantly the viewing public," said Soni.
"The report of the Committee would offer critical inputs in comprehensively examining all issues related to TRPs in India," she added. (ANI)


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Lok Sabha to discuss incidents of intolerance on Monday
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New Delhi, Nov 30 The Lok Sabha is scheduled to discuss on Monday the "situation arising out of incidents of intolerance" in the country, an official statement said.
"A Motion of Notice given under rule 193 by P. Karunakaran (CPI-M) and K.C. Venugopal (Congress) in this regard has been listed in the business of the house for Monday," the parliamentary affairs ministry said in a statement.
Rule 193 relates to short duration discussion sought by a member desirous of raising a matter of urgent public importance.
The government has also proposed six bills — The Bureau of Indian Standards Bill, The Carriage by Air (Amendment) Bill, The Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development (Amendment) Bill, The National Waterways Bill, The Electricity (Amendment) Bill, and The Factories (Amendment) Bills — for consideration and passing in Lok Sabha during the second week of the current winter session.
The Rajya Sabha will on Monday resume the discussion on 'Commitment to the Constitution' as part of the 125th birth anniversary celebrations of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar. The debate began on Friday and remained inconclusive.
Legislative business proposed to be taken up in the Rajya Sabha during the second week includes The Negotiable Instruments (Amendment) Bill, The Prevention of Corruption (Amendment) Bill, The Whistle Blower Protection (Amendment) Bill and The Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Amendment Bill.


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Samoa Air Suffers PR Turbulence After Charging Customers by the Pound
Everyone is created equally and everyone should be treated equally. We all know this. These very ideas are the foundation for our deep beliefs in justice and equality.
So what about Samoa Air's decision to charge passengers by the pound — yes, the sum total of the weight of their bags and bodies — to fly? Nothing could be more fair than that, right?
At the local store we all pay the same amount for a pound of hamburger meat, or a box of tissues or a pair of jeans. Fair is fair. So why is Samoa Air's decision to charge the public the same rate per pound to fly so controversial? Answer: because this is the worst public relations decision a brand can make. It may sound good in theory, but in practice it's a PR disaster because it's discriminatory, cruel and ignorant.
The policy not only unfairly charges people for being different, but for being different in a way associated with negative stereotypes and innuendos that for many are emotionally and socially crippling. It's another version of the school bus bully, except in this case the school bus is a plane and the bully owns it. The public is well aware that we are in the middle of a deadly obesity epidemic and that as adults we are all in charge of our own health.
Yet we also know that being in control of our lives doesn't mean we are in control of the universe. People have accidents. People get diseases. People are imperfect. And, yes, some people are overweight. But their struggle is personal; we are all vulnerable and have our weaknesses, but that doesn't mean we should have to pay extra money to visit our grandmothers. Only someone who has been incredibly fortunate in life would think like that (and they'd probably attribute their luck to some special place they occupy in the universe).
Well good for them.
The rest of us have to live in the real world, where we know life is tough but well worth it because of humanity's ability to show compassion and understanding while offering a helping hand. The act of exploiting overweight people demonstrates none of those values. The public knows this — which is why Samoa Air just failed Peter Shankman's "niceness" test in epic fashion.


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Location Information
A legendary symbol in Boston since 1855, Omni Parker House boasts old-world charm and elegance accompanied by all of the modern conveniences of a world-class establishment. Nestled in the heart of downtown Boston, located along the Freedom Trail and at the foot of Beacon Hill, the Omni Parker House offers the perfect destination for the leisure traveler, while all services and amenities appeal to those looking for a first-class business hotel.
Hotel Special Rates and Reservations
A special discounted rate of $220.00 S/D will be honored based on space availability. These rates include high speed Internet in your room and are only available through Monday, July 23, 2018.
To make a reservation, please click here to visit the hotel booking page. The group rate is lower than the Government Per Diem rate. Should the Government Per Diem rate fall below the group rate, 20% of the guestroom block will be made available at the prevailing Government Per Diem rate.
Top 3 reasons to stay at the Omni Parker House
- No need to factor in daily cab fees, parking expense, and the time associated with travel to alternate hotels. Everything is in one convenient location!
- By staying at the Omni Parker House, you gain the opportunity to further network with your industry peers and remain in the center of the activity surrounding the conference.
- SANS schedules morning and evening events at Omni Parker House that you won't want to miss!
Experience Boston
3 Quick Facts about Boston (https://www.trolleytours.com/boston/facts)
- Revere Beach was the country's first public beach and it was established in 1896.
- Boston built America's first subway in 1897.
- The nickname "Beantown" literally comes from beans. The name came as a result of a love among the city's earliest settlers for baked beans in molasses.
Lunch—utilize your hour-plus to fuel up for the rest of the day! Here's what's close:
- Rebecca's Cafe
Local deli serving breakfast and lunch. Fresh from scratch ingredients with vegetarian and gluten-free options. Just outside the hotel. Find directions here.
- Boston Kebab House
From kebabs to savory wraps, enjoy flavors of the Mediterranean. A 5-minute walk from the hotel. Find directions here.
- The Kinsale Irish Pub & Restaurant
Your Irish favorites are all here! Filling bangers and mash or shepherd's pie top the menu. A 3-minute walk from the hotel. Find directions here.
Dinner—whether you go sit-down or fast-casual, have fun exploring the city offerings.
- Union Oyster House
Established in 1826, it is a National Historic Landmark featuring your favorite seafood dishes. An 8-minute walk from the hotel. Find directions here.
- Cheers
Yes, that cheers. The one and only. Less-than 15 minute walk from the hotel. Find directions here.
- Grotto
Cozy, homemade Italian. Less than 8-minute walk from the hotel. Find directions here.
Travel Arrangements and Directions
The hotel only offers valet parking. Currently, day-only valet (in before 5:00 p.m.) Monday-Friday is $40.00. The current weekend rate for Saturday and Sunday is $34.00. The current overnight valet rate is $50.00. The parking rates in affect during the dates of this meeting may increase or decrease at the discretion of the hotel and will be applicable to attendees.
You may continue to check the hotel's website for advertised rates.
Other self-parking options are available in the area surrounding the hotel.
From Logan International Airport (BOS): approximately 2.5 miles
Taxi-fare to and from BOS range from $20 to $28 depending on traffic.
- Exit the airport and follow the signs for the Ted Williams Tunnel.
- Take Exit 24 for 93 North. Follow 93 North to Exit 23 Government Center.
- At the set of traffic lights, make a left around the loop, which will put you onto North Street.
- At the end of North Street (.25 miles), make a left onto Congress Street.
- Take your first right onto State Street (which becomes Court Street almost immediately) and follow it to the end, making a left at the fork onto Tremont Street.
- Take your first left onto School Street and Omni Parker House is immediately on the right.
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This policy does not apply to supplemental reading materials which may reasonably be acquired through standard collection building activities. Faculty may request that supplemental materials be purchased by the library and placed on course reserve. The library will purchase one copy of such materials for Course Reserves, to be housed at the primary campus where the course is taught. A second copy may be purchased by request only if course enrollment is over 100 students.
The following definition may be helpful for determining whether a book is considered a textbook: "An edition of a book specifically intended for use of students who are enrolled in a course of study or preparing for an examination on a subject or in an academic discipline…sometimes published in conjunction with a workbook, lab manual, and/or teacher's manual": from the ODLIS —Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science, by Joan M. Reitz, Libraries Unlimited (last updated November 19, 2007)
- A faculty member may place his/her personal copy of a textbook on reserve
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Prince George's County citizens and residents will now be able to receive emergency notifications and alerts via email, text message, and pager through a new alert system, NotifyMe Prince George's, which launched, Wednesday.
Administered by the Prince George's County Office of Emergency Management and Homeland Security, NotifyMe Prince George's, allows enrolled county citizens and residents to be informed of real time events taking place such as amber alerts, severe weather, school and government delays and closings, severe traffic, utility interruptions and emergency preparedness measures.
The following information was sent to us by Betsy Charlow:
Policies Available for Children 18 and Under With No Exclusions for Preexisting Conditions
January is open enrollment for CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield and Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Mid-Atlantic States individual health insurance policies for children. During January, these two companies will offer policies for children age 18 and under with no exclusions for preexisting conditions. This is an opportunity for those families that do not have access to family policies to find coverage for their children.
Decorating your home is a long-standing tradition around the holiday season, and unfortunately these same decorations may increase your chances of a fire.
Mark E. Brady, Chief spokesperson of The Prince George's County Fire Department gave us a few helpful reminders this holiday season to ensure the safety of our family and friends.
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"Is this the right place really?" asked Eric. "I kind of expected a mystic rune to be in, oh, I dunno, the bottom of a dungeon guarded by dragons and liches and hordes of undead. This looks a lot more like, well, nowhere in particular."
He was right, too. The shelf was a mere three yards wide at its widest, and slanted badly towards the water a hundred yards down. The barren shelf, the barren world-wall, and the boiling sea below.
"Well, we got the dratted dragon and we got the unearthly undead," said Hditr. "If you two want to stay here and guard. Me, I want to do some measurements and get going."
Eric frowned. He had evidently forgotten that he was undead.
Porth redirected the force of his engines somewhat. An itchy blue-white light from some instrument on the coracle fell across the shelf. "Tourists! Please observe certain precautions to increase the pleasure and duration of your stay on the rune-shelf! Note carefully the row of spikes that have been affixed to the metal of the shelf with great effort, great risk, and great glue by my wife and myself! These spikes provide you the very best handholds and footholds! If you remove both hands and feet from them and go sliding into the boiling sea, we will take it as a personal affront! We will be so busy being offended that we will not bother to try to rescue you in the roughly two-and-one-quarter seconds you have before you are boiled to death!"
Morth added, "There is only one way to keep us cheerful in such a situation. And that way is, if you have attached one of these chains to yourself. These chains are carefully calculated to dangle you a few yards above the water if you fall. We figure that you have about ten or fifteen minutes to hang there before you steam to death."
"In this circumstance, you will dangle there helplessly. We will swing you back and forth, perhaps bashing you into the walls, because it is amusing to do so. Then we shall figure out how to reel you back up," said Porth.
"But we will be cheerful, and we will not require any additional fee for the rescue about it," said Morth.
Porth slyly whispered, "Though the graceful and well-mannered would be moved to tip very generously under the circumstances."
Morth took over again. "Now, the geology of the rune-shelf. Note that we are parked here on the flattest spot — the only place that the coracle will actually stay on the shelf. The rune is over there, not quite halfway along the shelf from here. You will need to change chains once on the way there. If we stretched a single chain from this spot to that spot, it would be so long that you would be dropped into the water. We might as well not bother with a chain then, save that, if we did not have one, we would be unable to retrieve your boiled corpse and thereby start a bidding war between your next of kin (to bury you) and the purchasers at the Dibisto-Glandular Refectionary Brigade (who would like to vary their menu a bit). So then, you will need to do things in the right order when you get to the end of the next chain. First! Take the second chain's carabiner off its ring. Second! Hook it to yourself. Third! Unhook your first chain from yourself. Fourth! Hook it to the ring. Do not forget step four! You will need that chain to be on that ring when you come back!"
Porth peered at me. "Dragon, can your paws even use a carabiner?"
"I'd use a mouth," I said.
"Well, Snorb knows you've got enough of them," said Porth. "I apologize, but we did not use the beneficient influence of «Cuisine» on the chains. I suspect they taste terrible."
"Do not, in your alarm at their inferior flavor, nondelectable fragrance, and degraded vintage, spit them out!" proclaimed Morth.
"I won't," I promised.
Porth stared at Hditr. "My fellow badger, what are you doing there?" She was holding in one hand a glass jar with a complicated metal item inside, which might have been the love-child of a praying mantis and an astrolabe. With the other hand, she was scribbling in a small notebook, pressed precariously on her knee.
"I'm measuring the relative pungencies of «Cuisine», «Passerines», «Cloth», and «Manners»," Hditr said.
"You will be measuring your way into a warm bath if you do that on the shelf!" proclaimed Porth. "One hand and two legs on solid spots at all times, woman, or the only «Cuisine» you ever know will be a cream of Hditr soup!"
Hditr scowled at him. "Oh, go scare the scalamanders. I'll be fine."
"No such thing! You will be a fine potage!"
"If I don't take the readings, the whole point of this silly expedition is lost. I'm not trying to get «Cuisine», after all."
I muttered, "I am."
Hditr continued, "I'm trying to measure «Cuisine». If I can't take the measurements, I'm not going to get any measuring done."
"Speaking as your research research assistant with three mouths and six legs, how about if I take the notes?" I volunteered.
"Well, you'd better be accurate about it," said Hditr, but passed over a few sheets of paper and a marking-stick. I assumed that they were somehow the very official and scientific tools required for recording data properly, so I took them in one mouth (marking-stick) and one midleg (paper).
Porth and Morth tied a rope harness around me as best they could, and hooked it to the first chain, and I toddled forth on the soaked, slick, slippery, slanted, spike-lined metal shelf over the seething sea, in shadow. Which was all basically straightforward, since I had seven limbs to hold on with. (Not counting my tail and wings, which I occasionally waved around for balance, and not counting the two holding Hditr's important scientific instruments, which I could have dropped in an emergency.) Hditr herself was not nearly so comfortable, being rather larger and rather fewer-limbed than me, and burdened in one hand by her instrument. She kept shouting at me to slow down, or to stop and record the numbers of three quarts fifteen ounces one gill or some such, which I dutifully did. She only slipped terribly once, and slid nearly to the edge of the chasm, but caught her chain on one of the spikes and stopped herself before she went over. An adventure-writer would shine up every detail of that trip and make up a near-catastrophe or two more, but this is a nexterie rather than an adventure, so I'm going to pretend (equally falsely) that we gamboled over to the sigil without a hint of terror.
The cylinder walls of Drullguur are of stressed metal. You can see the wavy vertical lines of some ancient torque — or something, anyways. Mostly they are smooth. As we gamboled the wall became worse: first rough, then covered with square mounds, and finally, covered with lumps like huge boils or sores. The largest of these had actually burst, revealing a rough hole a foot high and two feet deep.
The Idol and the ultimate symbol of «Cuisine» is found nearly at the back of the hole. You can't see it from outside, unless you stick a head into it and look, and even then you mightn't recognize it, for it is a pattern of razory blades of torn wall-metal. When Drullguur was first being explored, an intrepid badger explorer stuck his hand in to see if there was anything of interest in this, the first and only hole he had seen in Drullguur's wall. And indeed there was, though he lost the use of his hand for all purposes save magic in finding it.
I reached my uninscribed wing in to enjoy or suffer the same fate.
"No! Stop!" yelled Hditr. "Wait! Write down, three quarts, fifteen ounces, and one gill!"
"Just like every time," I said, but «Language» and I did.
She braced herself against spikes, and waited for her mantislabe to come to complete equilibrium. "I am ready now, O hungry herpy!"
So, I stuck my wing in, and the blades of «Cuisine» sliced it. It stung! It stung like a cut — a chiffonade of cuts — a chiffonade of cuts sprinkled with finely-ground sea salt, smoked and powdered chilis, and the finest and strongest verjuice or vinegar! «Language» hadn't hurt nearly as much, though it had stung like insults, cruel words from a former friend.
"Well, isn't that interesting," said Hditr. "Hey, lizard, write down that it was up by fifteen gills, then down by twenty-one, then up eighteen, then down twenty-four, then up eleven, and …" She cast a spell of intense memory, and then had me write down the full set of sixty-two positives and sixty-one negatives.
"So, while I was getting stung, the force of «Cuisine» was jumping up and down like water on a hot griddle?" My new domain kept trying to insert itself in every thought and phrase I spoke for some time, like a cook who has just discovered how delicious roasted garlic is and wants to use it in everything.
"Exactly!" said Hditr. "Hopping higher and lurching lower than the normal intensity, for a full minute. Rising to a crescendo about eleven seconds in, and then diminishing gradually."
"What does that mean?"
"I have not the clumsiest clue," said Hditr.
"Why'd you come here, if you don't have a clue?" I asked. I was a bit petulant — this was my triumph, and she was stealing it — with Science!
She gave me an odd look. "I am trying to get a clue, and you can't pick 'em up in the market square in Udmurff for cheap," she said. "Let's head back now. Can you walk all right?"
I don't remember the flight to the Bull-Churned Gate at all. I am fairly sure I was having a sous-vide psychosis, or handroll hallucinations, or some other form of munchable madness. Hditr and Eric discussed the experimental results in low voices, but without referring to the notes, which were clutched tight in my coils as I was under the delusion that they were a very valuable salad.
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I read so many helpful comments after my last post on sugar binges. You guys are the best – did you know that? I hope so, because these comments helped convert powerlessness into motivation to do something about it. A few blogger friends said they had been thinking about making a change too, so I googled and found a great post on 3 Whole Plates on how to do 30 days Sugar Free. What appealed most was her sensible, common-sense approach to kicking the sugar habit, so I borrowed heavily and did some minor tweaking to suit my own needs.
Following the same simple 3-rule format, this is what I will shoot for from January 1-31:
1) No refined sugar. No white or brown sugar. This means no desserts or donuts or candy. Because I also hope to recalibrate my taste buds, I'm also going to cut out natural sugar products like honey and blue agave nectar, which I will miss dearly in my morning coffee.
2) No artificial Sweeteners. I've heard that artificial sweeteners try to trick the brain into thinking it's had something sweet, only to find out the brain is smarter than it looks and it looks pretty smart because it's, uh, a brain. I don't know if artificial sweeteners satiate my need for something sweet or not, but I do know most are made from hard-to-pronounce chemicals and they don't taste very good anyway.
3) N0 more than 10g sugar per serving in processed foods. This is any food that comes with one of those little black and white nutritional labels, which is mostly what I'll be eating unless I get a tiny farm (complete with tiny farmhands) under the tree Christmas morning. I chose 10g because the plain greek yogurt I eat every morning has 9g sugar per serving and I like even numbers.
That's it. I'll still have fresh fruit because last spring I tried a low-carb diet with no fruit or grains for 2 weeks and I got a terrible chest cold and a case of the sads, so nuts to that. With processed grains, I'll stick to the 'no more than 10g of sugar per serving' rule.
My main goal here is to reduce cravings and stabilize my mood and energy levels. Sugar used to be a wonderful high, but lately I've noticed how run down I feel, especially when I exercise. I believe I can do this for 30 days and hope it will motivate long-term, sustainable changes in what I eat and why. Food is a huge source of pleasure, and I wouldn't want it any other way. I just hope to change the pleasure from cheap thrills to something ultimately more enjoyable.
I don't plan to change the focus of this blog to nutrition, but I will check in and report how it's going. If you want to join in the
torture FUN by going sugar-free in January or by following your own plan, yes, yes! As someone wisely said, Power in numbers!


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This 480-hour precepted clinical course provides students with clinical experiences needed to develop and broaden their clinical skills and judgments. Students will consolidate and refine their acquired skills in assessment and client management in order to attain a level of competency and proficiency that will allow them to function independently in the nurse practitioner role.
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Collaboration and Effective Communication
- Demonstrate effective oral case presentation.
Coding and Billing for Documentation
- Analyze patient access issues surrounding various insurance programs.
- Detail appropriate coding and billing procedures.
Preparation for Certification and State Regulations
- Discuss various state licensure and national certification requirements.
Apply clinical experiences to scope of practice for the state of intended practice.
Relate the regulations for prescribing and dispensing medications to scope of practice.
- Prepare a professional portfolio.
Future Trends in Advanced Practice
- Apply appropriate test-taking strategies.
- Synthesize program competencies in clinical practice.
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Somewhere in the rolling tundra east of Deadhorse, a lone wolf hunts. The 100-pound male will take anything it can catch, or find — a ptarmigan, a darting tundra rodent, a fish, the scraps of a carcass, or, if lucky, a moose calf or caribou. Hunger is a common companion, but the wolf somehow survived when his mate probably died of it last winter.
That event may have triggered the lone wolf's incredible summer journey from south of the Yukon River to the crumbling shores of the Beaufort Sea. The wolf has traveled about 1,500 miles in four months, according to biologist John Burch, who works for the National Park Service.
Burch has studied wolves and the things wolves eat since the mid-1990s at Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve and Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve. Last November, he was part of a team that helicoptered to Copper Creek, a remote tributary of the clear-running Charley River. There, he tranquilized a healthy male wolf and fitted it with a satellite radio collar. The collar transmits GPS coordinates from the wolf every few days, which has allowed Burch to follow the wolf's trans-Alaska trek this summer.
Burch would have preferred that the wolf remain near Yukon-Charley, 2.5 million acres where the Yukon flows into Alaska. The wolf's collar is expensive and would give useful information about one of a dozen wolf packs that use the preserve as part of their home range. But the lone male is telling the biologists a different story about wolf behavior — what happens when a pack breaks up.
The solo male's pack was a small one. In 2006, the biologists had collared a dominant breeding female in what scientists called the Edwards Creek pack, which — due to the rigors of living in hungry country — shrunk to its smallest possible size.
"She ended up being the only member of that pack," Burch said. "She didn't pair up for a while, which was unusual. We joked that she must have been kind of ugly."
But then, last August, there he was. A large male bonded with the Edwards Creek female. In November, they caught him and installed his collar.
The wolves' short time together ended in February 2011, when the female died, possibly of starvation. A wolverine had eaten her carcass when Burch and others investigated. They didn't see the male around; he traveled around the preserve for a while but didn't catch Burch's attention until later in the spring. That's when, for some reason, he took off.
From May until now, the wolf has been on the move. The animal dodged ice chunks as it swam the Yukon. Then it shook itself off and headed for the upper Kandik River. From there, it drifted into Canada for a few days, juked back into Alaska and plunged into the Porcupine River. Another water obstacle forded, it headed north into quiet country. It crossed back into Canada and crested the Brooks Range near the upper Firth River, trotted eastward towards the Mackenzie River and then veered for the northern coast, close enough to smell the ocean.
From there, the wolf made a straight line back into Alaska, where it got close enough to see the Dalton Highway, a boundary it hasn't yet crossed. The wolf is still up there, about 20 miles east of Deadhorse. It lingers at its peril if another wolf pack patrols that area, Burch said.
Because other wolves are territorial, the lone male has all summer snuck "through the gauntlet of these resident wolves," Burch said. "It's a dangerous game. If they find a strange wolf going through their range, they'll kill it."
Burch has also studied wolves at Denali National Park, finding them most at risk from their own species.
"The primary cause of death in Denali was being killed by your neighbor," he said.
Why would the male in the prime of his life take such a risk? Burch said because usually only the dominant pair of a wolf pack breed, others might wander to find their own opportunities. And because it's such a tough life out there (a wolf that lives to 10 is doing well), the chance to join a new pack often exists.
"If one of the dominant pair dies, the other might accept a dispersing wolf as its new mate, or he might find a dispersing female," Burch said.
The lone wolf now roaming the tundra east of Deadhorse is now probably sniffing at scent posts — spots where other wolves have urinated, and using its other senses to weigh its chances.
"He could possibly determine that there's no breeding males (in the territory)," Burch said.
Wolves on the move have another species to avoid, Burch said.
"When a wolf encounters humans, it's usually not good for the wolf," Burch said. "He's a fairly young wolf — he might not be too savvy around a fish camp or a dog yard."
The wolf's long-distance journey — a drama being played out all over Alaska all year long — may end with it becoming the dominant male of a pack roaming treeless country up north. Or it may conclude in a few months, with Burch recovering the collar on a pile of hair, or a hunter or trapper turning in a collar to an Alaska Department of Fish and Game office.
"The other possibility is he could come back (to the eastern Yukon River)," Burch said. "He could realize where he came from wasn't that bad."


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There is a man who sits outside the Philadelphia Eagles facility every day. He arrives at five in the morning and stays no less than 12 hours. This man has just one goal. He wants to play in the National Football League, and he wants to do so with the Philadelphia Eagles. Rashaun Sligh is his name. Football is his game.
Rashaun Sligh, a Philly native, has been outside the Eagles facility for a couple of weeks now. He holds a sign that reads "Rashaun Sligh just wants an opportunity to be an Eagle" in large letters. He is certainly going about getting into the NFL in an abnormal way. That's the thing with Sligh. He hasn't led a normal life. "Nothing in my life has been traditional. Why should this be any different?" told me.
Sligh is a former Temple player who lost his last two years of eligibility due to transfer rules and tough circumstances. He transferred to Temple in his Junior year, but couldn't play due to the NCAA rules. Sligh struggled to pay for the school and the basic things in life. He found himself homeless during his Senior year at Temple. With no home, there was no safe place to study. His grades fell behind. Before he knew it, two years at Temple had come and gone. Sligh didn't play a single down of football in that time.
Because he missed those two years, he has no agent and no current scouting tape. "With no college film, what do I have to lose? I had to find a way to make a statement," slight told me in our time together. His statement has drawn national attention from various media outlets.
In fact, his story has become so widespread so quickly, that one of the most famous Eagles of all made a trip to see Sligh. Vince Papale, famous for becoming a Philadelphia Eagle as a walk-on and basis for the movie "Invincible" starring Mark Wahlberg, came out to meet Sligh.
"I didn't know who he was at first," Sligh told me. He said that Papale brought him some food, and left him with words of encouragement and respect.
His story hasn't garnered just positive feedback. Sligh told me that he has had his fair share of negative comments as well. "Philly is the toughest sports town there is. People have told me there is no point (in standing outside the Eagles facility). I didn't play in college, so I'm not gonna make it." He isn't letting that feedback get him down.
"I'm relentless. I'll keep coming back again and again and again. My cause here is genuine," Sligh stated. You could tell by talking to him that this wasn't just for publicity. Sligh is going about this the best way he knows how with the resources he has available to him. "If you're gonna try, you got to go all the way," Sligh said.
Sligh is a wide receiver. Here's some info on their WR staff, from The Inscriber's Senior NFL Writer/Editor, Sean Naylor:
"The Wide receiver situation of the Philadelphia Eagles was once in a crisis. However, in the 2017 offseason, they have made some solid strides to improve this area. They went out a spent some good money on two free agents that should help the team's offensive production tremendously.
Alshon Jeffery
Jeffery was an unrestricted free agent when the 2017 offseason began. He had several options from which he could choose. He ultimately chose the Eagles. I think this was the right choice for him based upon the youth of the offense. He can come in and be a leader and an established number one WR immediately.
Torrey Smith
Smith comes in and really makes the Eagles WRs a dangerous group. He is a number two receiver who has the ability to blow the top off defenses. He was underutilized in his previous two stops in the NFL. There is hope that the Eagles and Carson Wentz will be able to make him a valuable pickup. The Philadelphia Eagles are lacking in the slot area. Right now, they have Jordan Matthews and Nelson Agholor slotted in this position. Although, neither one is very strong at going over the middle. If there is room for a WR on the Eagles roster, it will be at this position."
Whether you support Sligh in this venture or think it's pointless, one thing sticks out. He doesn't plan on giving up on his dreams anytime soon. That alone earns him a lot of respect in my book.


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A powerful IoT analytics solution with embedded AI and industry-leading streaming capabilities.
Sensor-based data model
Organizes and stores large volumes of complex IoT data, hierarchies and other relationships for efficient analysis. Provides a single version of the data for users across the organization.
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Provides an intuitive interface that lets nontechnical users quickly prepare, organize, select and launch data without having to know the underlying technology and data structure.
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Automatically transforms and loads key data fields into the data model. Lets you integrate additional field and production quality data with your sensor data.
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Surfaces data selections and launchers in SAS or third-party applications and lets you access SAS capabilities from your preferred coding environment – SAS, Python, R, Java, Lua or Scala.
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Combines data exploration, feature engineering and modern statistical, data mining, machine learning and AI techniques in a single, scalable in-memory distributed processing environment.
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Analyzes and filters streaming data by processing huge volumes at very high rates with extremely low latency so you can understand events while they're happening.
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Extract maximum value from your IoT investments with a complete, AI-embedded IoT analytics solution that meets the challenges of complexity and scale. Regardless of skill level, users can easily access, organize, select and transform IoT data – without having to rely on scarce data scientist resources. Built on SAS® Viya®, the solution's integrated, business-focused interface lets you visually explore external data sources and big data stores like Hadoop with ease. You can quickly select data and launch it into dashboards, reports and analytic tools to make confident, accurate and timely decisions that drive innovation and performance.
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Accelerate outcomes from your IoT investments – SAS, third party and open source. Our secure, flexible and scalable IoT analytics solution uses SAS Event Stream Processing with embedded AI to deliver real-time analytics, empowering all types of users to make fast, confident decisions – no coding or specialized skills required. We develop and continuously improve the latest analytic techniques to find those best suited for high-frequency, streaming data. And you can use our industry-leading data management capabilities to make IoT data – generated anywhere – analytics-ready.
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SAS Analytics for IoT enables all types of users to transform data into intelligence with an extensible, sensor-based data model and an intuitive, visual interface built on SAS Viya that streamlines ETL tasks. Your entire organization – business users, engineers, data scientists and IT professionals – will collaborate more effectively and be equipped to make timely, confident decisions that propel your business forward.
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This solution runs on SAS® Viya®, which has the breadth and depth to conquer any analytics challenge, from experimental to mission critical. SAS Viya extends the SAS Platform to enable everyone – data scientists, business analysts, developers and executives alike – to collaborate and realize innovative results faster, with flexible licensing and pricing options to accommodate your current and future needs.
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"We felt strongly that the existing system wasn't serving citizens in flood-prone areas well. We knew we needed a scalable solution to get us from reactive to proactive and ultimately predictive. The scalability of Azure IoT platform became a critical component of our IoT architecture. In addition, we required a robust set of analytical tools that could deliver insight from both real-time and historical data and SAS Analytics for IoT offered that." Nicole Raimundo Chief Information Officer Town of Cary, NC
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- Article Edge computingWith traditional methods, data is captured, stored and analyzed later – limiting how quickly businesses can act on insights from the data. With edge computing, IoT data is processed at the edge of a network – right where it's created or collected – avoiding delays and enabling real-time processing and action.
- Article IoT in health care: Unlocking true, value-based careGiven the potential of IoT – and the challenges of already overburdened health care systems around the world – we can't afford not to integrate IoT in health care.
- E-Book Streaming analytics: Life happens fast. Are your analytics keeping up?Download this free e-book to find out what streaming analytics is, the unique opportunities it can address and five key success factors for planning your streaming analytics program.
- Customer Story Forecasting accuracy brings 'new energy' to CameroonEnergy supplier Eneo balances supply and demand to boost efficiency, save millions and improve reliability with SAS Energy Forecasting.
- E-Book Accelerate and improve business outcomes with AIoTOrganizations across multiple industries are using AIoT to improve quality, maximize equipment performance, improve efficiencies and more. Download this e-book to find out how you can reap the same benefits.
- White Paper Understanding Data Streams in IoTThis paper explains how streaming analytics helps you acquire, understand and use real-time, streaming data to make fact-based, automated decisions – and instantaneously react to new information.
- Article 5 ways to measure beehive health with analytics and hive-streaming dataThis analytical approach to understanding bee hive health can automatically alert beekeepers to changes in hive weights, temperatures, flight activity and more.
- Customer Story IoT data with artificial intelligence reduces downtime, helps truckers keep on truckingVolvo Trucks and Mack Trucks use sensor data and SAS AI solutions to minimize unplanned downtime.
- Article Making sense of streaming data in the Internet of ThingsThe Internet of Things has changed our lives forever. Read about how streaming data in IoT works, and why it has caused such a shift in the analytics world.
- Customer Story World's largest sports and humanitarian event builds legacy of inclusion with data-driven technologySpecial Olympics World Games Abu Dhabi uses SAS® Analytics and AI solutions to keep athletes safe and fans engaged.
- Article IoT securityThe internet of things, with about 6.4 billion external (and vulnerable) devices on networks, calls for a more rigorous approach to cybersecurity.
- Article IoT: The next best thing to reading your customer's mindConstant streams of data from myriad devices and sensors is what IoT is all about. But how are organizations using it to better customer experiences?
- Article Game-changing technologies turn IIoT data into goldThe real value of IoT lies in its data. Maciej Kranz says technologies like edge and fog computing, machine learning and AI can unlock the hidden value in data from the IIoT.
- Article Coming soon: The Industrial Internet and IoT standardsFrom smart farms to connected water meters, the IIoT party is happening – with consensus around IoT standards playing host.
- Analyst Report IoT Solutions World Congress 2019: The Value Is in the DataIOT Solutions World Congress 2019 was a turning point in the evolution of IoT deployments, with organizations like SAS showing real, scalable deployments of IoT solutions combined with AI.
- Customer Story Artificial intelligence and IoT analytics keep aircraft operational for crucial missionsLockheed Martin revolutionizes aircraft maintenance with the SAS Platform.
- Article How to drill a better hole with analyticsFrom drilling holes to preventing health care fraud, learn about some of the new technologies SAS has patented with IoT and machine learning technologies.
- Analyst Report SAS takes Event Stream Processing to Cisco's edge for Internet of Things stackSAS and Cisco work together to enable IOT type analytics from the edge of the network to the data center to the cloud, according to 451 Research.
- Analyst Report Bloor InBrief: SAS Event Stream ProcessingLearn why Bloor considers SAS a major contender in the market for streaming analytics platforms due to SAS' differentiating analytic capabilities, notable performance and continuous improvement of in-stream models using machine learning.
- Analyst Report Bloor Market Update: Streaming AnalyticsLearn why Bloor considers SAS a major contender in the market for streaming analytics platforms due to SAS' differentiating analytic capabilities, notable performance and continuous improvement of in-stream models using machine learning.
- Analyst Report SAS Dives Deeper into IoT AnalyticsIDC reviews the the latest release of SAS Analytics for IoT, a simplified offering aimed at helping customers monetize the value of their IoT data.
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- Article Connected vehicles: IoT steers a new direction for OEMsWith IoT and analytics, automakers and their partners can reshape business models, find new ways to monetize data and serve customers better.
- Article Three C's of the connected customer in the IoTTo optimize the connected customer experience, Blue Hill Research says organizations should build an IoT model based on three key features.
- Article Machine learning, data science and AI meet IoTIn this video, Kirk Borne and Michele Null discuss the intersection of machine learning, AI and data science with IoT data and analytics.
- Article IoT challenges in the connected supply chainThe IoT Is set to revolutionize supply chain management, but there are certain challenges it must overcome first. Here's what you need to know.
- Article IT/OT convergence: The dilemma of the IoT perception gapThe IoT phenomenon demands intimate collaboration between information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT). But IT and OT have distinct gaps in perception about the goals and outcomes of IoT initiatives. Tom Bradicich explains why IT/OT convergence is essential for successful IoT projects.
- Article Modern manufacturing's triple play: Digital twins, analytics, IoTUsing exact duplicates to manage complex systems dates to NASA's early moon missions. Today, IoT is key to implementing digital twin technology in manufacturing.
- Article The connected consumer: IoT's impact on the future of retailThe IoT and the connected consumer are set to revolutionize retail. Here are a few ways companies can take advantage of technology advancements.
- Article Can you make your smart factory smarter?Discover how the IoT helps weave quality across the smart factory to improve source materials, machine functionality and even customer service.
- White Paper IoT success depends on data governance, security and privacyThe IoT puts intense demands on the data management life cycle. Learn from 10 common mistakes organizations have made with IoT endeavors.
- Article IoT: The customer experience accelerator you can't afford to ignoreIoT represents a powerful source of data that, when combined with analytics, can yield insights on everything from behavior to emotions to health. And that's why it's key to improving customer experience.
- Article 5 Challenges for IoT in the insurance industryIoT promises to substantially reduce losses in the insurance industry, but adoption is low. That will change when the industry overcomes these five challenges.
- Interview IoT in manufacturing: Voices from the fieldThe Internet of Things (IoT) is a transforming the manufacturing industry. Learn how the concept of connected devices can power smart manufacturing.
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- Interview Connected consumers, IoT and what retailers need to do nowThe IoT is impacting retail, with more to come. Experts from Cisco, Intel and SAS discuss what's happening now, and what retailers need to do next.
- Customer Story Municipality puts wireless water meter-reading data to workTown of Cary, North Carolina uses SAS Analytics to analyze data from wireless water meters, assess demand, detect problems and engage customers.
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