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The built-in switch mode BEC with an adjustable voltage range from 5V to 8V, a continuous current of over 10A and peak current of 25A can supply enough power for your HV servos to operate at their peak.
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NW Space Agency January Cup Tasters
Posted by Panda on 8th Jan 2016
(Thanks to Jason Malcom & Tiff Winters for the photos!)
The Seattle coffee community met at Preserve & Gather last Wednesday for a cup tasters challenge, the first of many events from NW Space Agency. NWSA is a new organization that has teamed up with the Institute for Washington's Future to bring coffee skill events like this as well as roundtable discussions, co-roasting opportunities and several other events to the NW community. Visions is proud to sponsor and support the NW Space Agency.
Brian Hernandez (Morsel) took the cupping crown with Sam B. (Cherry Street) coming in second. There are three more tasters cup events slated for 2016 with the finals taking place in December.
2016 Schedule
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Baratza, Visions Espresso, Barista Magazine, Bonavita World, Kalsada, Fremont Brewing Company,
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1st printing. Written by Dick Van Dyke. Photographs of Dick Van Dyke featuring his thoughts on subjects ranging from Finance, to Sunday school. Softcover, 8-in. x 6-in., 80 pages, Text (with B&W Photos) Cover price $1.00.


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The final regulations for implementing the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act (ADAAA) of 2008 went into effect on May 24, 2011. In the two years since the ADAAA was enacted, employers have begun to experience the law's profound impact.
The EEOC reports that the number of disability discrimination charges has increased by nearly 30% in the past two years. That's inevitably going to lead to more ADA lawsuits. And more of them will be jury trials, as it becomes more difficult for employers to obtain summary judgments in their favor.
Now the regulations for implementing the ADAAA have been finalized. Since courts generally defer to such reasonable administrative interpretations, these regulations will be an important factor in future ADA cases.
The result of new regulations: More employees will now be considered to be protected by the ADA.
New regs clarify 'disability'
With the ADAAA, Congress expressly overruled several Supreme Court decisions that severely limited the ability of individuals to qualify as disabled.
An individual still must prove that he or she is a qualified individual with a disability who can perform—with or without reasonable accommodation—the essential functions of the specific job without creating undue hardship for the employer or a direct threat to him- or herself or others. The burdens of proof and the definitions of the terms "qualified," "reasonable accommodation," "undue hardship" and "direct threat" remain unchanged.
The ADAAA, however, significantly changes how the courts will interpret who has a disability.
The regulations clarify the definition of disability by identifying major life activities. The new regulations incorporate the major life activities listed in prior EEOC regulations including: caring for oneself, performing manual tasks, walking, seeing, hearing, speaking, breathing, learning and working. The ADAAA also includes a nonexclusive list of other activities such as: standing, lifting, eating, sleeping, reading, concentrating, thinking, communicating and executing any major bodily function. An impairment that substantially limits any of these major life activities is deemed a disability.
The regulations also create a list of per se disabilities, thereby discarding any individual and functional assessments.
Expect new view from courts
The regulations clarify the new "rules of construction," requiring courts to adopt less-restrictive interpretations of disability claims. Individuals whose impairment substantially limits a major life activity will no longer have to prove that:
- They are unable to perform activities important to daily life
- Their impairment limits another major life activity
- They are unable to perform a broad range of jobs, only a "type of work"
- Their impairment substantially limits them in comparison to the general population based on scientific or medical evidence but rather based on a "common sense" approach
- Their impairment necessarily must last more than six months.
The regulations prohibit consideration of the impact of mitigating measures (such as medication or corrective devices, except for eyeglasses and contact lenses) when determining whether an individual is disabled. Moreover, episodic impairments or conditions in remission, as long as the impairment is active, are nonetheless deemed to substantially limit a major life activity as disabilities.
Since the ADAAA virtually eliminates the possibility of any legal challenge to an individual's impairment as a disability, the issue will be whether discrimination is the cause of the adverse employment action, not whether the individual is actually disabled.
Prepare for changes
In light of the final ADAAA regulations, you should take several steps:
- Review your job descriptions to ensure they fully detail each position's essential functions.
- Review your procedures for engaging in a dialogue with applicants and employees about possible accommodations.
- Train supervisors to address how the organization can help an underperforming disabled employee perform his or her job. Note: Nothing in the ADAAA requires managers to tolerate bad behavior, insubordination or failure to achieve acceptable levels of performance.
- Document all communications with disabled employees to demonstrate your good-faith efforts to address their conditions.
Courts will continue to allow employers the discretion to choose among reasonable accommodations. You are not obligated to accept the accommodation the employee prefers. You are not required to create new jobs, relieve employees of essential functions or permanently reassign employees to light-duty positions.
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Unless you subscribe to the theory that there is no such thing as bad press, don't be the company that emails us and compares their new product to Flickr, but spells it "Flicker" in the email. And don't send us links to the product that show error messages that are completely wrong. In this case, the message on the link says they only support Firefox versions 18.104.22.168 and higher. I'm running 126.96.36.199, which is the most recent version in the 1.5 product.
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At All Aces Cleaning & Restoration we are committed to helping maintain your office hygienically all through the year.
We are a professional cleaning services company offering a comprehensive suite of cleaning solutions including dry cleaning, steam cleaning, an effective combination of both, cleaning through encapsulation technology and emergency spot and spill services.
Our services are available to all commercial establishments ranging from a small retailer, a big school to an office located in the 30th floor of a building. We are equipped to handle and manage all issues and problems associated with the entire cleaning process. Our services are available to you at your required regularity, maybe just once every year or once every week. Our efficient and reliable reminder system helps us to keep track of the next cleaning cycle thereby ensuring that no lapses or oversights take place.
We offer customised packages tailored to suit your requirements. Our services include customised and standard steam-cleaning programs, dry fusion carpet cleaning projects and deluxe cleaning programs using either a highly efficient and powerful electric machine or truck-mounted steam extraction machine. Our encapsulation cleaning process entails the removal of soil from carpets by loosening it using very little or no moisture. This process is the most effective and low-cost option to clean and maintain carpets.
Our encapsulation cleaning process involves the following:
- Pre-inspection stage: At this first stage our experts would identify the carpet's fibre and survey the spots and stains. This part also includes carpet evaluation and professional advice..
- Application of encapsulation detergent using a Cimex machine. The machine would spread the detergent using a rotational agitating motion encapsulating the soil. Ready for vacuuming when dry looking better and better after every vacuuming in the coming weeks.
- We use high-speed air movers for fast and complete drying of the area
NOTE: The encapsulation process is only for maintenance and is to be used along with steam cleaning.
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- Pre-vacuum stage: Here we would be using industrial or hospital-grade filtration.
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In our fashionable world it appears as if pure science is totally incompatible with religion and (to a big lengthen) philosophy. New technologies additionally supplied discipline and focus for areas of fundamental science that had been progressing slowly, as vaccines did for immunology and airplanes did for theoretical aerodynamics. Science has been such a wildly successful endeavor over the previous 2 hundred years largely because technology blazed a path for it to comply with. Certainly, Bush's efforts to determine the situations for beneficiant and long-term investments in science were terribly profitable, with U.S. federal funding for primary research" rising from $265 million in 1953 to $38 billion in 2012 , a twentyfold increase when adjusted for inflation.
The story of how DOD mobilized science to help create our world exposes the lie for what it is and supplies three tough lessons that need to be realized if science is to evade the calamity it now faces. Infrastructure in the society has grown with the help of science and know-how. We are dedicated to bringing science to the community and creating pleasure about scientific research and discovery.
Up to now, virtually every thing was analog but because of the science and know-how we at the moment are being digitalized by the day. For example, once a science matter has been discussed and college students have shared their data of it, pertinent vocabulary could also be taught. DOD's wants supplied not simply investments in but also a robust focus for advances in fundamental research in fields ranging from high-vitality physics to materials science to fluid dynamics to molecular biology.
The best way to mirror how you can train science with cooking or whereas cooking is through the use of examples. We provide a comprehensive range of science areas, so you possibly can tailor your research to fit your targets. The creation of computers is work of art by individuals was a milestone that may come a great distance in helping the society. Sense about Science has finished extra on a charity shoestring than any official marketing campaign to enhance understanding of science.
Science Honest initiatives are nothing greater than an experiment, write-up and presentation. Give them a lot of opportunities to experience science in a relaxed approach, via video games and enjoyable actions. Not solely would the National Science Foundation never have killed it, nevertheless it exemplifies the big knowledge spirit that's fast turning into the new face of science.


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International athlete arrested with party drugs worth Rs 50 crore
New Delhi: Discus thrower Harpreet Singh, a silver medallist in the 2004 Australia Commonwealth Youth Games, and two of his accomplices have been arrested after police seized 25 kg of party drugs worth Rs 50 crore from them, officials said on Friday.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Sanjeev Kumar Yadav said that the popular contraband drug Mephedrone, also called 'Meow-Meow', was meant to be sold at rave parties in Mumbai and Delhi
Those arrested are: Amandeep Singh, 29, and Harnish Sarpal, 36, and Harpreet Singh, 30 — all residents of Delhi.
Harpreet Singh is a renowned athlete who also also won bronze medal in SAF games in 2006 held in Colombo. He couldn't participate in the 2010 Commonwealth Games due to an injury. He also also taken part in some national-level athletic championships. He quit his sports career in 2006 after he tested positive in a dope test.
DCP Yadav said a team of the special cell had received a tip off on February 11 about Amandeep Singh and his associates were flying to Mumbai to get the drug consignment.They were to return to Delhi on February 14.
"The police teams apprehended Amandeep Singh and other gang members on Wednesday morning from New Delhi Railway Station. They were travelling in a Dadar-Amritsar train to reach Delhi. Over 25 kg of the contraband drug was recovered from them," Yadav said.
Amandeep Singh had done a diploma in Hospitality and Tourism from London and stayed there for two years. He later came in contact with one Kishan, the alleged kingpin of the gang, in London. Kishan, police said, is a native of Rajasthan.
"Harnish earlier went to London on student visa and took admission for an MBA. He met Kishan while working in London," Yadav said.
"Harnish and Amandeep who could not get permanent jobs were influenced by the lifestyle of Kishan — living a lavish life. They joined him in his drug peddling business to get easy money. Kishan wanted to extend his syndicate across the international borders," the police officer said.
In the meantime, Harpreet Singh was surprised to see the sudden change in the lifestyle of Amandeep Singh and also joined his gang.
Thier associates, Kailash Rajput and Kishan are presently residing in Dubai and the UK. The police are looking for other gang members in Mumbai and Delhi.
Yadav said Meo-Meow is used in rave parties in Mumbai, Delhi and, other metropolitan cities of India.
The drug comes usually from African sub-continent and is also supplied to the UAE, the UK and the US.


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Miss Ruth Boushon of Chili was injured slightly when automobiles driven by John F. Boushon of Chili and Esther G. Rottjer of Loyal collided at 1:30 p.m. Monday four miles east of Loyal on Highway 98. The Rottjer car was turning onto the highway from a town road, Officer Bertz reported. He said that the highway is partially obscured at that intersection.
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This week, to attain, maintain or regain my sense of wellness…
…I will practice politely excusing myself from any present company & take 2-5 minutes to give myself space by going outside & looking around me.
I will focus on the plant-life around me, the various movements, the way the light is falling & the different sensations I feel by slowly describing it all to myself. I will return to this widened awareness throughout the day.
Once I am comfortable doing this, I will add 'Timeout for Outside Mindful Distraction' to my Personal Coping Kete for use during times of stress and distress.
This is the first of many, weekly coping strategies to experiment with. You might like to download the information & strategies in the Coping Skills Recovery Resource sheet too. Come back in a week for a new strategy.


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A strap, a buckle and a contoured cork footbed are simply, but masterfully, combined to create the original Birkenstock sandal - the Madrid. This simple, iconic slide is still the purest expression of the minimalist tradition that guides Birkenstock design to this today. Note: The pattern can vary as the print is based on a natural snakeskin pattern.
- Birko-Flor – durable, synthetic upper material with shiny, snake-skin finish and soft backing
- Contoured cork footbed conforms to the shape of your foot and features pronounced arch support, a deep heel cup, and roomy toe box; lined with suede
- Lightweight EVA sole for cushioning and shock absorption
- Avoid extreme heat
- Heel shape: flat
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Upper: Birko-Flor
Birko-Flor is made of easy-to-care-for and hygienic PVC, which has been lined on the inside with a soft, breathable layer of fleece. This high-quality material is very gentle on the skin, and it's comfortable while also being very durable.
Insole: Real Leather
The flexible leather lining, which is gentle on the skin, nestles up softly against your foot and adjusts to its contour. The open-pored and thus very breathable surface makes for a comfortable foot climate, even during more strenuous physical activity.
Footbed material: Cork
Cork is a sustainable material extracted from the bark layer of the cork oak. This natural product is insulating and offers very good cushioning.
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EVA (ethylene vinyl acetate) is a high-quality, very light, elastic material with extremely good cushioning. As a result, it smooths out slight irregularities in the floor and ensures that every step is softly cushioned.


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Postmen in the Philippines will play cupid this Valentine's Day through a "Love Express" campaign that will accept flowers and chocolates for personal delivery.
The Philippine Postal Corp Philpost will revive the so-called "singing kartero", wherein people can pay 2,000 pesos ($40) to deliver a bouquet of roses, a greeting card and serenading the recipient with their favourite theme songs, Xinhua news agency reported.
It is issuing a limited edition of Valentine's Day personalised stamps that people can use to send their presents.
"With the popularity of taking selfies, one can now have their selfies printed on stamps for 17 pesos (#0.34) each," Philpost said.
A team of letter carriers called the Express Elite Force will deliver these gift items via Domestic Express Mail Service on Valentine's Day to clients within Metro Manila and nearby areas.


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Innovative & Generic Drugs Markets in Russia, Ukraine & Kazakhstan Analysed in New PMR Research Report Available at MarketPublishers.com
16 Jul 2012 • by Natalie Aster
LONDON – Among the CIS countries, Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan are considered to be the largest and most promising in terms of growth markets for the innovative pharmaceuticals and generic drugs. The regulatory changes within these countries have affected the way companies conduct business and thus they have to chose solutions to adapt their business models to the ever changing marketplace.
New report "Generic and Innovative Drugs Market in CIS Countries 2012. Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan" elaborated by PMR has been recently published by Market Publishers Ltd.
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Generic and Innovative Drugs Market in CIS Countries 2012. Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan
Published: June, 2012
Pages: 195
Price: US$ 2.800,00
The report provides complete coverage of current conditions in Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan in the field of innovative and generic drugs. It offers analysis of the complex legal environments in each country, with detailed accounts of the effects of recent and pending legislative activity on market development.
It provides extensive coverage of pricing and reimbursement regulations for each of the covered countries, including VAT rates and mark-ups. The report also covers market leaders, supplying details on the largest producers in each country and for the overall CIS market. Forecasts through 2014 offer a deep view at the future of these markets.
More new market research reports by the publisher can be found at PMR page.
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text: By breaking down the genetic and social bonds which reveal the origin of human life as we know it, David Wilcock reveals that we are the Martians. But Martians were not the only beings brought to Earth after the destruction of their worlds. What was intended to be burgeoning civilizations of peace and growth, degraded into warlike conditions. At last, interventions were made with the intention of interceding the growing conflicts. But will this on-going guidance be enough to forge a peaceful planet?


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CONSULTANT in Neuroradiology (Interventional) at UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST
Applications are invited for a replacement full time position in The Lysholm Department of Neuroradiology at The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, UCLH NHS Foundation Trust with sessions at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust.
We are looking for a talented and motivated individual to join our friendly multidisciplinary teams and to support the ongoing expansion of interventional neuroradiology services in two of London's premiere Teaching Hospital Trusts. A recognised fellowship or appropriate consultant experience in interventional neuroradiology is a requirement as is a preparedness to undertake work in all aspects of acute adult neurointerventional work including acute stroke and in aspects of paediatric neurointervention with appropriate suppory. The appointee will be expected to have a track record in research and take a leading role in interventional neuroradiology research on both sites. An interest in spinal interventions and management of head and neck vascular malformations will be an advantage.
The successful candidate will join a team of 14 adult diagnostic neuroradiologists and work within a team of 6 adult neurointerventionalists and a subgroup of 3 paediatric neurointerventionalists. She or he will be fully supported by a thriving and friendly department and will be encouraged to take forward academic developments within the Neuroradiological Academic Unit.
Major refurbishment and redevelopment of the department was completed in 2009 and the Neuroimaging Analysis Centre was established in 2012.
The department is equipped with 1.5 T MR, two 3 T MR, 128 slice CT, biplane DSA, and an Interventional MRI suite with a surgical table and a DSA.
A Gamma knife has been installed in 2012.
Candidates must be eligible for full GMC registration and either already be on the Specialist Register or be within six months of receiving their CCT in Clinical Radiology at the time of interview. Essential qualifications for this post include at least one year subspecialty training in neuroradiology in a recognised centre. The post is offered on a whole-time basis (10 Programmed Activities, on – call 1 in 12 for diagnostic neuroradiology.)
For further information or to arrange to visit the Department please contact Dr F Robertson or Prof. T. A. Yousry and arrangements can be made by contacting Mr Ian Leveney on tel. 020 3448 3446
An application pack can be printed from the Trust website at www.uclh.nhs.uk/jobs or, alternatively can be obtained from the UCLH recruitment services on Tel: 0870 442 4507. Our lines are open Monday to Friday 8 am – 7 pm and Saturday 9 am – 2 pm. A copy of the job description for this post can be viewed at the BMJ AdPlus site via www.bmjcareers.com/adplus.
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The Berghotel Bastei welcomes guests from all over the world. The 64 modern rooms are equipped with shower or bath, WC, hair dryer, flat screen TV with 4 Sky programs, telephone, minibar and room safe. Furniture made of light wood, warm friendly colors and elegant bathrooms create the right feel-good atmosphere (powered by Voglauer hotel concept). All rooms are non-smoking. A hotel lift is available. Surrounded by beautiful nature, you can sleep with the window open and enjoy the silence. W-LAN access in the hotel is free of charge for hotel guests.
Choose between the different room types:
Double room
The 20 double rooms (mostly south side and view to the summer terraces) are about 22 m² in size and partly have a balcony or terrace.
Double room with rock view
The 18 double rooms with rock view (north-east side) are about 22 m² in size and have the same facilities as the "Standard" double rooms. In addition, this room category offers a French balcony or terrace and a view into the bizarre rock world of the Wehlgrund.
Single room
The 4 single rooms are approximately 17 m² and have a bathroom with a shower.
Double room grand
The 15 double rooms grand (south side) are with 25-40 m² more spacious than the "standard" double and feature an additional sitting area with sleeping couch, where it is possible to have 2 extra beds. For a longer stay we highly recommend these rooms.
Double room grand with rock view
The 5 double rooms with rock view (north-east side) have a bath with shower and the same size and equipment as the double grand. In addition, this room category offers a view into the bizarre rock world of the Wehlgrund. For a longer stay these rooms are especially suitable.
Honeymoon room
The Honeymoon room (approx. 45 m²) with couch, furniture made of solid moor oak, 2016 completely new equipped sleeping area and view into the bizarre rock world of the Wehlgrund is great for couples in love. After the renovation in February 2014, the guest bathroom is presented in an elegant design and has a shower.
The suite (about 45 m²) with separate living room and bedroom, terrace with a view into the bizarre rock world of the Wehlgrund already gives on the arrival the right holiday mood. An additional sleeping possibility can be set up on the armchair in the bedroom. The bathroom is equiped with a shower.
Our en-suite bathrooms
The company König Bäder from Ottendorf-Okrilla modernized our bathrooms. Among the highlights are elegant and spacious washstands from Villeroy & Boch, hansgrohe fittings, spacious walk-in showers, as well as the design WC Geberit Monolith.
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There's more than enough strangeness to go around on HBO's new cartoon laffer, "The Life and Times of Tim."
Debuting on Sept. 28, the skein's plotlines are rife with one-in-a-million misunderstandings and snafus that leave its eponymous nice-guy protagonist menaced by a disgruntled prostitute and her pimp; pressured into fronting as his employer's new Hispanic VP (he's as white as Wonder Bread); and snookered into lodging a phony rape claim against a homeless "bum."
But the show's very history is a tale of profound unlikelihood. For one thing, "Tim" marks HBO's first foray into animation since "Spawn" shuffled off its quasi-mortal coil in 1999.
Second, how odd that after nearly a decade away from the cartoon biz, the premium cabler with a rep for being the gold standard of the smallscreen settled on a property that is so crudely drawn, deadpan, and static as to almost defy the term "animated."
And oh yeah: It was created by and stars a guy who'd never done series animation before in his life. Steve Dildarian is a former copywriter who made his name as the creator of the wildly popular "Budweiser Lizards" campaign. Burned out by the ad biz, he began doing "silly" acrylic paintings and provided the illustrations and voiceover for a handful of parodic online spots for the mega-brewer.
Still, explaining why "Tim" began as a live-action vehicle, he unhesitatingly says: "I'm not really an animation guy; I don't get into it that much, I don't know a whole lot about it."
"Tim," which Dildarian describes as "a slight underdog story" about "a guy who can't catch a break in life" began as a clutch of stills that he scrawled in Bic pen and colored in with markers. His girlfriend and fellow ad vet Luynette Cariapa sharpened them up via Photoshop.
But not too much. "The drawings were as crude as the voice tracks, which were as crude as the stories themselves," he recalls. That "organic feel" remained in the finished version. "Most of the animation is just people talking and their eyes looking around," Dildarian says. "It's through the editing that we hopefully make it feel like there's more action than there really is."
There was apparently enough for the folks at the 2006 Aspen Comedy Arts Festival, where "Angry Unpaid Hooker" snagged the animated short prize.
That led to the production of three more shorts comprising a pilot, produced by comedy vets Jimmy Miller ("Get Smart," "Semi-Pro") and Tom Werner ("The Brothers Solomon," "That '70s Show") at which point Dildarian's reps at Endeavor hooked him up with 20th Century Fox, but a disagreement over the show's rights nixed the deal. He later sold the show to the Fox net, which backed out on the eve of the '07 upfronts.
Enter Endeavor's Ari Emanuel, who shopped it around town, and Media Rights Capital, which ponied up financing sans network attachment.
"Two things were evident immediately," MRC head Morti Wiczyk recalls. "One, that this was a completely unique and original voice, and two, that he was surrounded by these titans of kind of comedy." Besides, Wiczyk notes, "If it works, animated half-hour comedy is a great investment."
Dildarian and Co. met with HBO, still under then-prexy Carolyn Strauss, which bought it the next day.
Casey Bloys, entertainment veep in charge of comedy, was in the room. He adds that what distinguished "Tim" (which will be paired with the revamped Brit sitcom "Little Britain" until November, and then with Aussie import "Summer Heights High") and put it in HBO's wheelhouse was a certain auteurish quality.
"It's so writer-performer-driven, and we've had a lot of success with that — whether it's Larry David or 'Extras' or 'Flight of the Conchords.' "
Still, Bloys goes so far as to refer to "Tim" as "charming," not an adjective that gets a lot of play in describing HBO fare. Sure, there are some mildly perverse scenarios, but where's the edge? "Sometimes the edge is what feels different, and this time it's the voice and the tone of it that seems different. I don't see anything else like it out there."


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Oogie's bags come in six different flavors: Movie Time Butter Popcorn, Wisconsin Cheddar 1848, Original Kettle Corn, Hickory Smoked Gouda, Caramel Chipotle and Spicy Nacho Cheddar, and yes, we love them all, but my kiddos absolute favorites are Original Kettle Corn and Wisconsin Cheddar 1848. I'll eat any of them, and frankly am just happy when there's some left for me to eat! You can purchase them as a set of six (choose whether to get all six flavors or two each of three) or purchase the bags individually.
They also sell these flavors as seasonings to be used in any creative way you choose (baked potatoes, salads, eggs, pastas, soups, etc!).
Which flavor will you try first?!
And I mean, Oogie's is for everyone! 😉
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§ 39.69 Radioactive contamination control.
(a) If the licensee detects evidence that a sealed source has ruptured or licensed materials have caused contamination, the licensee shall initiate immediately the emergency procedures required by § 39.63.
(b) If contamination results from the use of licensed material in well logging, the licensee shall decontaminate all work areas, equipment, and unrestricted areas.
(c) During efforts to recover a sealed source lodged in the well, the licensee shall continuously monitor, with an appropriate radiation detection instrument or a logging tool with a radiation detector, the circulating fluids from the well, if any, to check for contamination resulting from damage to the sealed source.
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Keeping on from the trip to Ireland, later in the week we headed up to Belfast and other parts of Northern Ireland, photos today are going to be from the drive up and seeing things in Antrim.
Again, first the travel summary. I'll start off with something that wasn't so great. Our two days in the north were July 11th and July 12th, and frankly I wouldn't recommend going up either of those days. For those who, like me, weren't aware of what the twelfth signifies and some of the history, relevant wikipedia entry here. Side-stepping the politics and impact to normal people's lives aspect, there are some pretty big impacts to a traveler. First is that the restaurants and pubs are either closed those nights or are closing early. Apparently the bus service is shut down early too. Also, the twelth is a bank-holiday meaning that shops and whatnot are closed anyway that day. Talking with the bartender at our hotel, he mentioned it's the only days that he actually worries and checks in on his friends to see if everyone made it home OK, since there are still some people who commit random acts of violence. Definitely not great for those that live there and not so reassuring for a traveler either. The other impact is traffic – the parades on the twelth generally are through the main street of the town or village, which is also the road that you'd be using to pass through. Note the conflict there :). On a less good note, if you're driving through a strongly loyalist area where people are lining the streets for the parade and your car is a (southern) Ireland registered car, you're going to get some very strange looks. Not that I think anything necessarily was going to happen to us, but hey, people are crazy some times. That said, I'd absolutely go back up to the North and to Belfast again to give it a proper visit. The people we talked to were all very nice, Belfast has some cool old buildings, and the landscape in the North was absolutely beautiful. I'd also like to go back to drive the coast road as it looked beautiful. We started up it on our way to Antrim and turned around and changed routes when we realized the impact the parades were going to have.
Positive things and sights: Giant's Causeway is a pretty amazing sight, particularly if you get great weather like we had 🙂 and is a definite must-visit if you're anywhere near it. The new visitors center is very shiny and new, though it's a bit annoying that you have to buy a ticket for the center to be able to talk to the tourist information people – that really felt like something that should have been available to everyone for free. The rope bridge at Carrick-a-Rede felt more like a made-up tourist attraction but still is worth doing if you have time and are in the area but if you have to cut something it's definitely cutable. It's probably also a lot cooler if you go to it first and then the Giant's Causeway, I felt a little underwhelmed seeing them in the reverse order. I can't really speak to the Bushmills Distillery in Bushmills town since it was closed by the time we tried to go, but I hear it's very cool.
As we drove back from Carrickfergus back to the inland route up to the Giant's Causeway, I caught this shot of a woman enjoying the sunny-ish day and view as re driving by.
The rocks of the causeway make a great natural chair 🙂
Part of the Giant's Causeway:
The same columns exist in the hill towards the back of the picture above.
Getting back up to the top of the hill
Shot towards a farmer's fields border the trail at the top of the hill
Nice shadows coming off the rope-bridge


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When the Internet runs out of news, they start making things up. We think this is funny, so we round up all the lies and speculation and put them here. We call it "Rumor Roundup" and we do it all for you! This week:
Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO Will Become Free to Play?
OH at a BioWare's marketing meeting: You know... we could learn a lot from the drug trade! Let's get 'em hooked with a free taste! [UberGizmo]
Apple to Separate Podcasts from iTunes?
By breaking it out of the pack, Apple has chosen to highlight the podcast! Finally! Validation of the podcast as a legitimate art form! (Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go listen to two guys talk about the Marvel action figues they collect.) [All Things D]
Google Will Announce a $199 Tablet During Google I/O?
At that price, they're going to have strip a lot of high-end features out — ya know, like a webcam, HD display, hard drive, processor, RAM, etc. (It'll essentially be a picture frame with a photo of an Android OS in it. But it'll come with an actual ice cream sandwich.) [WebProNews]
iPhone 5 Will Have a Smaller Dock Connector, Relocated Headphone Port?
Every iPhone case make is hissing, "YESSS!" while pumping their fist in the air. Every iPhone case owner is hissing, "FFFFFFF!" while pumping their head against their wall. [WebProNews]
The First Round of Windows 8 Tablets Will Be WiFi Only?
"Ah!" says Microsoft, "No one has thought of beating the Apple iPad by underdelivering a tablet's specs!" Pretty crafty, Ballmer! [Apple Insider]
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U23 rider Ben Ryan finished 34th overall in the P/1/2 field at this year's Killington Stage Race. Here, he talks about managing both school and racing at a high level.
Fitness is weird. You put a bunch of hard work in for months in preparation for a race and then you hope that whatever you did worked well enough to get you the result you wanted. It's not linear, it's certainly not exponential (at least not positively), and it's sort of unpredictable too. Yet somehow, most of us seem to figure it out to varying degrees of success, either by ourselves or with the help of a dedicated coach (shoutout to my coach, Jordan Villella of Cycle-Smart).
If you're unfamiliar with the Killington Stage Race, let me give you a run-down. It's three days of racing (two road races and a time trial), it literally goes uphill more than it goes downhill, and many, if not most, who start the race have marked it as the first target race of the year. If that doesn't make the race hard, nothing will. Throw in a few domestic elite teams like Toronto Hustle and it quickly becomes more of a "happy to just finish"-type of race than anything else.
I managed to put together great fitness for KSR two years ago as a Cat. 3. I won the 2nd stage, which finishes on the 20-minute climb up to the Killington Ski Resort, and the overall. Last year (my first in the elites), I did not put together good fitness and ended up trying not to die of the common cold throughout the weekend. This year though, I found fitness again, if only a modified version of fitness.
Along with the (seemingly) full-time job of bike racing, I'm also a full-time college student at the University of Massachusetts-Boston and the amount of training time I have is not always optimal. My previous coach, Adam Myerson, recommended Jordan Villella to me, as he works well with riders who have limited time and resources to be able to train whenever and however they want, and so far it's been great. Much of my training has become mental, understanding how to make the best compromises between school and training in order to optimize them both.
This weekend was the first big test of whether those compromises were the best they could be, and on the whole, they were. I pulled through a lot of doubt and uncertainty about what I could accomplish on the bike and regained the confidence surrounding my climbing ability that had started to wither away over the past season or so. On top of this, my final grades came in on Saturday evening; a 4.0 GPA for the semester.
Again, fitness is weird sometimes. But for many bike racers, fitness isn't just about riding your bike and putting in the work needed to get faster and stronger. For many of us, fitness is about finding the right compromises between cycling and the other things that fill our life, and the best feeling of satisfaction comes not necessarily when we reach the top step of the podium, but when we prove to ourselves that our work both on and off the bike can coincide at their finest. And that's what I found this weekend; that satisfaction that you found the perfect balance between cycling fitness and life fitness.


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CREA's 7th Disability, Sexuality, and Rights Online Institute
17th August –27th September, 2020
Completely online, 6 weeks, 8-12 hours per week
Deadline for applications has been extended to 12 July 2020.
To apply online, please click here. If you experience difficulty with the online method, you can download the application here and e-mail the completed form to Sushma Luthra at firstname.lastname@example.com. For any queries contact Sushma Luthra as well.
CREA's Disability, Sexuality, and Rights Online Institute is a six weeks long online course that began in 2010, and focuses on a conceptual study of disability, gender and sexuality, and its inter-linkages with issues of feminism, race, public health, development, violence, media, representation and law, amongst others. It is intended for practitioners and has a strong component on activists' initiatives that integrate disability, sexuality, and rights.
About the Course
The Disability, Sexuality, and Rights Online Institute provides a study of theory and practice for activists, practitioners, academics and human rights actors working areas such as disability rights, gender rights, development, sexual and reproductive health, sexuality, media, and law. The aim is to create awareness about how disability, sexuality and rights intersect, build a political perspective on how the sexual rights of persons with disabilities can be upheld, and provide knowledge on mechanisms for building more inclusive sexual rights advocacy. Participants develop their ability to work in inclusive and holistic ways that further human rights and social justice. CREA convened the first Disability, Sexuality, and Rights Online Institute in 2010. After six successful Institutes, we now have a wide ranging alumni base spread across the globe.
Why take this course?
Click here to see what our alumni had to say about it.
This course provided a great opportunity for me to systematically grasp knowledge and good practices about disability and sexuality. At different points it also prompted me to reflect on my personal experience as a woman with disability, and to use that as a resource of learning.- Zhying Ma, DSROI Alumni, 2016
- Disabled people are often excluded or discriminated against in relation to their sexuality by health, development, and rights organisations because they are not considered to be sexual or they are thought to be sexually vulnerable or uncontrolled. Sexuality issues and rights of disabled people are often disregarded in favor of issues that are considered more pressing and appropriate like employment and physical access.
This course will look at why sexual and disability justices matter to us all, with or without disabilities. It will look at evolving theories of sexuality, disability, disability justice and human rights, including embodiment, intersectionality and crip theory.
- We will consider differing representations of disability and sexuality across the globe, and ask why and how representation is important.
- We will examine violence against disabled women, and consider barriers and potential in providing sexual and reproductive healthcare for women with disabilities.
- We will discuss how to put rights into practice, from the local to the global level: UN Conventions and their limitations and use; national laws and their strengthening; and community actions in their application to different disabilities.
- Over the years the course has been adapted for accessibility across varying disabilities. We endeavor to keep working with participants to provide differing reasonable accommodations as per the needs of the participants.
- Our faculty are activists, practioners, academics, from across the globe who have years of engagement in the field of disability and sexuality.
- Our Teaching Assistants work with a group of dedicated participants, along with the CREA team, to ensure mentoring and support is provided to the participants.
This year we will also be offering a self-paced mode, allowing participants to engage with the material at a pace compatible with individual time frames. The self-paced mode, however, will involve participants working on their own without the benefit of faculty input and live interactions. Look out for more details in the coming month!
Format and Workload
The course will be conducted entirely online, and entirely in English. No special technology is required, and information about all necessary applications and platforms such as Microsoft Word, Power Point, Drop Box, etc. will be provided to selected candidates at least two weeks before the course begins. The Institute will be conducted mostly in virtual time, with some discussions planned for real time. The Institute will use diverse methodology such as power points, videos (with subtitles), readings, chats/ discussions and web conferencing. Participants will also be required to submit a final project. Although the course is introductory, the work will be challenging, including reading and discussion of complex theory. We encourage active engagement so participants can learn from each other's thoughts and experiences.
Course participation will require between 8-12 hours per week, depending on participants' capacity. Each week's requirements can be completed at the convenience of participants as long as it is within broader time parameters. Participants will be expected to participate in the entire course and complete all assignments, as far as possible.
The Disability, Sexuality, and Rights Institute is an introductory level course on the intersections of these issues. Independent activists and practitioners in development, sexuality, health, media, and rights NGOs and GOs worldwide are encouraged to apply. Thirty-five to forty participants will be selected based on demonstrated interest in disability and sexuality, and applicability to their work. Practitioners will be given preference over students, researchers, and academics.
People with disabilities are encouraged to apply for the Institute. The course has been designed and tested to be accessible to people with visual and hearing impairments. There is ongoing efforts to meet accessibility requirements of people with other support needs as well.
Participants are required to pay a registration fee of USD 60 to contribute towards course expenses. Fee waiver is available on request for a very small percentage of participants on need basis (please refer to the application form).
Resource People
The Institute is designed and taught by an international group of academics and activists in the disability rights field, specializing in sexual and reproductive health and rights from a global South perspective.
Janet Price is an activist and academic, who works at the intersection of disability, sexuality, and gender. In partnership with many others from Nigeria, India, Kenya, and Australia, amongst others, she has been convening DSROI since 2010. She is also on the Board of Disability and Deaf Arts (DaDa), Liverpool, which holds a biennial International Festival, DaDaFest.
Niluka Gunawardena is an educator, researcher and disability rights advocate based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. She is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Kelaniya and a Disability Consultant and curriculum developer at the University of Colombo. She serves on the board of Women Enabled International and the disability advisory panel of HYPE Sri Lanka.
Ekaete Judith Umoh is founder/Executive Director at FACICP Disability Plus, a Disability/women's rights organization. She was advisor to Hesperian Foundation, on "Health Handbook for women with disabilities project"; once served on AWID International Conference Planning Committee and member; UN Women Civil Society Advisory Group, Nigeria.
Nidhi Goyal is a disability rights and gender justice activist. She is the Founder Director of the non-profit Rising Flame. Her work spans research, writing, training, campaigns, advocacy, and art. She actively advocates at policy levels in India and the UN on issues of girls and women with disabilities. She is currently serving as the President of the Board of AWID.
Katherine Ott is a curator and historian at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. She works on the history of medicine and the body, disability and bodily difference, and LGBTQ history, among other topics. She has curated exhibitions on the history of disability, HIV & AIDS, polio, acupuncture, and medical devices for altering the human body.
Anahí Guedes De Mello is a Brazilian anthropologist. She is currently a collaborating researcher at the Center for Disability Studies (NED) with Federal University of Santa Catarina and an associate researcher at Anis - Institute of Bioethics, based in Brasilia. She is a deaf and lesbian activist in the disability rights and LGBTI+ social movements in Brazil.
We are also excited to have members from DisAbled Women's Network, Canada (DAWN), join us as faculty for DSROI! You can access their website through the following link: https://www.dawncanada.net/
Mildred Omino: Gender and Disability Rights Practitioner; 2020 Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity.
Megan Smith: Disability Rights Activist; PhD candidate & Marie Curie Research Fellow, University of Iceland.
Alimata Abdul Karimu: Independent Researcher and Rights activist; disability rights advocate.
Agnieszka Król: Sociologist (Jagiellonian University, Poland); feminist disability rights activist.
Reshma Valliappan aka Val Resh: Founder-Director of The Red Door India; Painter; Writer; Pantomime; Speaker; Educator
Additional input from activists working on HIV/AIDS, mental health, UN conventions, queer disability and more!
CREA's mission is to build feminist leadership, advance women's human rights, and expand sexual and reproductive freedoms. CREA is a feminist human rights organisation, based in New Delhi, India. It is one of the few international women's rights organisations based in the global South, led by Southern feminists, which works at the grassroots, national, regional, and international levels.
Deadline for applications has been extended to 12 July 2020. Applications received after this date will not be considered. Applicants will be informed about the selection decisions shortly after the application deadline closes, and will have sufficient time to familiarise themselves with course material and software.
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Oh, dearies, it was another week of fuckery in the world. Between Rolling Stone throwing a source under the bus when inconsistencies rose in her story (cue gloating from the "false accusations!!1!" crowd), a misguided storyline on The Newsroom, and the usual assortment of random awfulness, it's hard to see the good news. Of which there's a little bit, partially in the form of Legos. (As usual, trigger warnings for pretty much everything apply.) Read More This Week in Misogyny
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This Week in Misogyny: Awards Show Edition
New Yorkers, be sure to check out the recommended readings before hitting the voting booth in a couple weeks (you are voting in the primaries, right?) so you can be sure to vote for the feminist candidates, who aren't necessarily the female candidates. We've also got updates on the misogyny of the Emmys, lots of terrible people, some disheartening studies (the one about Fifty Shades readers was particularly interesting, though not terribly surprising), and so much more. (As usual, trigger warnings for pretty much everything apply.) Read More This Week in Misogyny: Awards Show Edition
Friday News Bites: Twitter #Fail, Equality Advances, Net Neutrality + More
Greetings, my lovely unicorns, and Happy Friday. We have a variety of newsy bits to cover this week, and more of them to make up for last week's vacation-posted brevity. Let's dive right in:
Read More Friday News Bites: Twitter #Fail, Equality Advances, Net Neutrality + More
This Week in Misogyny: Hoo Lordy
Oh, misogyny. It never stops, does it? This week we're catching up on three weeks worth of awful, so brace yourselves. Plus, you get to find out why I'm not friends with very many people from high school! (Yes, it's disgustingly relevant and you probably already saw the story.) As usual, trigger warnings for pretty much everything apply. Read More This Week in Misogyny: Hoo Lordy
End Of The Week News
Oh, lovely kids, rejoice! We have returned to another week of the news. Like the days that rise and fall, what happens in our world changes at the drop of a coin. Of course, it's easy to wax poetic if you're like me, who, in a recent attempt to indulge my sanity, has been avoiding the state of our world by binge-drinking cartoons and cat videos. Coping mechanisms, ahoy! Nonetheless, we come back to let you know what's going on in this good world. Shall we? Read More End Of The Week News


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Tell City
As the county seat, Tell City boasts the largest population in Perry County with approximately 7,200 (2013 census) residents. Tell City was recently recognized among the top 2.5% of all non-metro towns in the nation by BOOM CITY USA. The recognition is bestowed on communities for excellent achievement and offerings in the area of healthcare, education, recreation, culture, taxes, cost of living, crime rate, environment, climate, and access to major transportation routes. All of this adds up to a great place for families to call home.


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Lamborghini has pulled the covers off the most powerful and fastest-accelerating car it's ever produced - and it's also the firm's first hybrid.
Making its public debut at the Frankfurt motor show, the limited-run Siån previews Lamborghini's plans to take its brand of V12-powered flamboyance into the near future with models such as the next-generation Aventador.
As the model appeared in the flesh for the first time, Lamborghini announced it will enter production as the Siån FKP 37 as a tribute to ex-Volkswagen Group boss Ferdinand Karl Piëch, who died last month. Born in 1937, Piech was instrumental in bringing Lamborghini under the VW Group umbrella in 1998, helping the Italian maker to bring its pivotal Murcielago supercar to market.
Lamborghini CEO Stefano Domenicali said: "Prof. Dr. Piëch innately understood the attraction and potential of the Lamborghini brand and how it could fit within the Volkswagen Group, whilst retaining its unique Italian super sports car identity and design and engineering DNA.
"Prof. Dr. Piëch was an engineer and an innovator, particularly appreciating the appeal of the iconic Lamborghini V12 powertrain on which today, the Sián FKP 37 combines pioneering hybrid technologies."
The Aventador SVJ's naturally aspirated 6.5-litre 12-cylinder unit has been uprated from 759 to 774bhp with the addition of titanium intake valves, and is mated to a 48v electric motor producing 34bhp, for a combined total output of 808bhp. In what Lamborghini claims is a first for low-voltage hybrid powertrains, the electric motor is integrated into the gearbox and connected to the wheels for low-speed reversing and parking manoeuvres. The charismatic sound of the V12, Lamborghini assures, has been preserved.
The developments mean the Siån will offer enhanced acceleration over Lamborghini's conventionally fuelled models, sprinting from 0-62mph in under 2.8 seconds, with top speed claimed to be in excess of the SVJ's 217mph.
Power is not stored in a conventional lithium ion battery, but rather generated by a supercapacitor unit three times as powerful as a cell of the same weight, and three times lighter than a battery with the same output. The device, mounted ahead of the engine for enhanced weight distribution, is an evolution of that found in the Aventador to power the starter motor, and can store ten times as much power as the original.
A regenerative braking system, developed in-house, sends power to the supercapacitor unit under deceleration. Energy generated in this way is available as a power boost at the discretion of the driver at speeds of up to 81mph.


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We also work in Lagos State on the evaluation of a Quality Improvement scheme in public and private health facilities.
Our findings contribute to the gap in implementation research on what works, why and how in getting life-saving interventions to families at scale. IDEAS' research in Gombe State addresses the urgent need for better measurement and learning. Findings are continuously shared within the countries that IDEAS works and with groups around the world to contribute to best-practice in the measurement of quality, life saving health care for mothers and newborns.
IDEAS' work in Gombe State is led by Dr Nasir Umar and is implemented in conjunction with Data Research and Mapping Consult Ltd – IDEAS' measurement, learning and evaluation partner in Gombe. The Gombe State Primary Health Care Development Agency provides leadership for translating findings into action.
Our work in Lagos State is led by Abimbola Olaniran in Lagos, working with the Health Strategy & Delivery Foundation (HSDF) to implement a process evaluation of a Quality Improvement initiative in public and private health facilities.
Research areas in Nigeria are:
Focus on a core set of priority interventions is key to tracking progress in maternal and newborn health. Together with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a maternal and newborn health dashboard was created in 2014. The dashboard tracked population level coverage indicators for contacts with health services and for life saving interventions, together with facility level indicators of service readiness to provide life saving care. At six-monthly intervals IDEAS generated the primary data required to populate this dashboard and worked with partners to reflect on progress.
In addition, IDEAS primary data collected in intervention and comparison areas was used to evaluate progress in the state against a set of priority indicators for maternal and newborn health. Whilst data collection has been completed final results are published on a rolling basis.
Supporting local decision making
Beyond the maternal and newborn health dashboard, a more detailed results framework is an important tool to help local stakeholders identify and focus on key implementation objectives within a complex environment. Working with the State Primary Health Care Development Agency and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation implementation projects, IDEAS developed and supported a Gombe State results framework that combined population level coverage with implementation targets. This was populated every six-months with estimates generated by IDEAS' surveys, monitoring data provided by implementation partners and routine government data. Collectively, partners reviewed each results framework update at 'Data-driven Learning Workshops' and used it as a learning tool with which to improve programme decision making.
At these workshops partners came together for collective sharing and review of the most recent results, and a reflection on the targets and the inter-dependency of grantees' efforts. This was followed by consultation on the decisions needed to drive change. IDEAS provided technical support in the interpretation and use of data, including focussed actions that aimed to support improvement in the quality of routine data sources.
Improving coverage measurement
Measurement for maternal and newborn health faces many challenges, especially for care that is delivered around the time of birth. Women may not be able to accurately report on the clinical care that they received, and the measurement of the quality of care provided (including respectful care) lacks standardised methods. We aim to improve measurement of priority indicators for maternal and newborn health by comparing the coverage estimates derived from multiple sources. Using data from observation of births in health facilities as gold-standard we test the validity of maternal reports on care provided, and evaluate the reliability of different data sources to provide comparable estimates. In addition, methods for linking household and facility data to produce effective coverage measures of care are under development.
Fostering innovation sustainability
IDEAS carries out qualitative studies to assess what happens to donor-funded maternal and newborn health innovations that are scaled-up in the longer term and how the foundation and other donors can take steps to foster sustainability. One such innovation is the Village Health Worker scheme. This scheme introduces a new cadre of community-based health workers who provide information and support to families, to improve health care behaviours in the home and increase uptake of appropriate and timely health care services when required.
The study focusing on sustainability and scalability of the scheme has generated important knowledge on sustaining health programmes in low-income settings. The study enabled implementing partners to introduced real time improvements to the scheme. Overall, it builds on previous IDEAS' studies of scale-up and the work of other academics, and responding to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation interest in scale-up both geographically and with a longer-term legacy.
Understanding Quality improvement
Lagos State accounts for a significant proportion of the national burden of maternal and neonatal mortality because of its large population. To this end, Lagos State Ministry of Health and its agencies have been leading Quality Improvement (QI) initiatives in health facilities within the state.
While QI health interventions are increasingly being implemented in diverse contexts there is limited evidence about how generic QI health interventions can be adapted to suit different contexts. The Lagos QI Collaborative that delivers QI in three distinct facility environments, Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCs) and both public and private hospitals, presents a unique opportunity to generate evidence on how to adapt a single intervention to fit different contexts. The process evaluation will cover all three collaboratives using both quantitative and qualitative methods.
We hope that findings from this evaluation will generate the needed evidence to guide scaling-up the intervention to all facilities within the state. More broadly, the findings could serve as a guide for adapting the intervention to other states in Nigeria and countries with a similar context.
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Rosh Hashana Art
Here is a creative hands-on activity for the children to do! 1. Give the children a big piece of clay. Have them work the clay by kneading, banging, and throwing it (great for developing muscles in their hands, which is necessary for fine motor skills). 2. Have the children roll out the clay until it is flat but not too thin. 3. Have the children work with a partner for this next step. Give them Popsicle sticks and have the children take turns tracing (carving) out each others hands. 4. Children will then glue a plastic cup onto the center of their clay hands. 5. Gently fold clay fingers around plastic cup so that it looks as if the hand is holding the cup. 6. Let dry and apply Mod Podge to seal.
Apple and Honey Plate.
You will need: large red plastic plate, red plastic cup, brown construction paper (cut into rectangles for apple stems), 2 green leaves for each child and a picture of a bee for each child.
On the cups, have each child cut slits about 1/3 the way down from the to. Then have them fold them back so it looks like a flower. On one of the petals, glue a bee. Glue the stem and the leaves to the top of the plate so it looks like an apple. Glue the cup to the plate.
I make Rosh Hashanah L'Shana Tova cards with my pre-k kids using apples as a stamp. To do this, you need white (or colored) fairly sturdy stock paper (about 8×11 or larger.) Fold the paper in half. The card is going to be decorated with apple stamps. Cut apples in half and dip them in paint (you don't need a lot of paint here; you're going for a stencil effect.) Have the children decorate their cards with the apple "stamps." I then record their personal greeting inside the card.
Mosaic Apples:
Cut large apples out of paper (white). Then cut tissue paper/construction paper in green, yellow and red. Children glue them inside the apples. This is also a good way to review colors.
To make simple Shofars, you will need large, white, light weight paper plates. Fold the plates in half, cutting into the shape of a . Then, using a paper hole punch, punch holes around the Shofar. Give children a large piece of yarn, and then can sew a Shofar. These can be colored or painted.
Draw (or have the children trace) the outline of a honey jar on a manila folder. The bottom of the jar should be on the fold of the folder, so the jar will have a front and back when "opened". Have children cut out the jar, leaving the fold uncut. When jar is cut, have children open it and paint the inside with honey. They can then open and close the "honey jar" repeatedly and listen to the really fun sound it makes as it is opened and closed. The outside of the jar can be decorated before or after the honey is painted inside. When you send them home, make sure to put them in a Ziploc bag before putting them in tote bags, as they can be sticky and messy. The kids and parents love opening and closing the jars over and over again.
Apple and Honey Decoupage Plate.
Find clear or transparent colored plastic plates (the hard kind you could clean in the dishwasher.) I found some orange ones in a dollar store. Cut up lots and lots of small squares of multicolored tissue paper or cellophane. Have the children decoupage the bottom (back side, not the side you'd eat on) of them with large brushes and Mod Podge. When they're dry, hot glue a hard, clear plastic drink cup to the center. Use a duplicate cup to put honey into (so you don't have to do anything other than wipe down the plate when finished.) Also, once you're done with them, spray the backs with clear acrylic gloss (remember to do this in a well ventilated area.)
Round Challah Cover.
What you need: large round paper doily, colored paper, scissors, glue, crayons and/or markers.
For the first step, cut a circle the same size as the doily out of colored paper. Glue the doily onto the circle. Then cut out Rosh Hashana designs from different colored paper and glue them on the doily.
Silver Kiddush Cup.
What you will need: three paper or plastic cups, all same size foil decorating scraps (colored paper, felt, macaroni, etc.) glue or tape.
Glue or tape the bottoms of two cups together. Cover them with foil. Make designs out of the scraps and glue them on. Put the third cup inside to hold "wine".
New Year Cards.
What you will need: colored tissue paper, colored construction paper, glue, scissors.
Cut a rectangle from construction paper and fold it into thirds, lengthwise. Unfold them, then fold the bottom third back underneath the middle section. Draw a shofar, an apple, or other Rosh Hashanah symbol in the center of the middle section. Do not let it reach the edges. Punch a hole in the center of your drawing, and cut out the shape from the bottom and middle sections at the same time. Turn the card over and unfold it. Paste strips of colored tissue paper to cover all the cut-out space in the middle section. Put glue on the edges of the bottom section and fold it up over the middle section. Now write a New Years message on the card. Shanah Tovah!!!
Apple & Honey Dish.
for this you will need: large paper plate, small paper plate, muffin cup, crayons, paints, decorating scraps, scissors, glue, apples and honey.
Start by making pretty designs around the edge of the larger plate. Then glue the small paper plate onto the larger plate. Glue a muffin cup in the center of the smaller plate and pour honey into it. Put apple slices around it and enjoy a sweet holiday treat!


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E-Business conducted on an international basis
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//Today E- business has gained huge popularity on the International basis. So here, I will be explaining the concept of E-Business conducted on an worldwide basis by taking an example of a Company, which is a Virtual Organization (Smith Systems Consulting)//
A Virtual Organization is a productive organizational body that uses telecommunication tools to enable, maintain and sustain member relationships in distributed work environments. This organization involves members from distant places and co-ordinate the activities across member sites.
Virtual organization works electronically. In a virtual organization, all places of work are communicated using computer workspaces. This integration of electronics with business is known as e-business. This e-business is fully employed in virtual organizations. Electronic business methods enable companies to link their internal and external data processing systems more efficiently and flexibly, to work more closely with suppliers and partners, and to satisfy the needs and expectations of their customers in a better manner.
E-Business of Virtual Organization- Smith Systems Consulting
Smith Systems Consulting is a company that lay emphasis on delivering high value Web and business application services in the market. Starting from a group of five, Smith Systems Consulting has grown to be the most important regional consulting company with locations in Houston (headquarters), Atlanta and Beijing. Since, the company is expanding rapidly; it would possess clients that are positioned throughout the world (Smith System Consulting).
// Moving further, it is necessary to understand the legal issues that the Company may face while conducting E-business. So below given are the legalities of Smith Systems Consulting.//
The legalities of Smith Systems Consulting
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SpringOne Platform 2016 Replay: Next Level Redis with Spring
Recorded at SpringOne Platform 2016.
Speaker: Christoph Strobl
Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/next-level-redis-with-spring
Redis is one of the most popular Open Source Key Value Stores these days. Spring Data Redis Lead Christoph Strobl takes you on a tour through high availability and cluster scenarios. He explains Object Hash Mapping and Secondary Indexes as well as the Spring Data Repository abstraction that let's you seamlessly interact with Redis.


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March 17, 1999
The Rediff Interview/S M Krishna
'If the people who support me don't object to my wearing pants, I don't see why anyone else should'
The crowds at his home in Sadashivanagar in Bangalore waited patiently. As S M Krishna, president of the Congress in Karnataka and chief minister-in-waiting, spoke to them, advisors and strategists in the rooms upstairs give finishing touches to the extensive tours of the state that their leader will begin soon . M D Riti met him for an exclusive interview amidst all this activity.
How do you find the Congress in Karnataka now?
The Congress is in very good shape. The workers are enthused. (Congress president) Sonia Gandhi's image and the way she has conducted herself has really inspired party workers.
Do you think a Sonia wave will carry the Congress to power in Karnataka?
That is going to be an important factor, just like in Madhya Pradesh, where Sonia's influence saved Digvijay Singh. There was a time when the media dismissed Soniaji as a crowd-puller, but not a vote-getter. Madhya Pradesh has proved decisively that she can also get votes from the crowds she pulls.
So now the country has started taking Soniaji very seriously. I have seen the formative period of Indira Gandhi: I was an MP of the Praja Socialist Party that supported the minority government that she had led. I can now see a very close parallel between the evolution of Indira Gandhi and that of Sonia Gandhi. I see a lot of similarities. Soniaji is certainly shaping up very well.
Perhaps its just that the Congress needs a figurehead, dead or alive, to be able to do well. See what happened to the party after the death of Rajiv Gandhi.
The Congress has always had a figurehead, whether it was Indira Gandhi or Rajiv, and after them P V Narasimha Rao and then Sitaram Kesri.
However, I don't know what kind of attachment the party has with the Gandhis. There is an instant rapport between any nominee of the Gandhi family and the party workers. The minute Soniaji entered the hall at the plenary session of the Congress in Calcutta when Kesriji was president, there was some strange excitement in the air. The thrill that passed through the room was unbelievable.
What is the reason for this sudden popularity: Sonia's capabilities, her charisma or just her name?
A combination of all. She certainly has charisma, otherwise people would not flock to her wherever she goes. But she also has given the nation a programme, and proved that she is not seeking power. I think that is her greatest advantage.
So do you see yourself as chief minister of Karnataka after the next polls, with Sonia as your prime minister?
I certainly see Soniaji as prime minister of India in the near future. When she is ready to take over, the nation will definitely respond. But I don't know when that will happen.
Perhaps it also depends on how long this coalition government at the Centre would last. But as far as the chief ministership is concerned, that will be governed by the traditions of the Congress, which is that we authorise the party president to choose someone.
It is usually the custom that the person who leads a party to victory at the poll is offered the chief minister's post: even the Congress made state president Veerendra Patil chief minister when he had led the party to a great win in 1989. Besides, there is now a trend in Karnataka of projecting future chief ministers much before the poll.
The Congress has consciously steered clear of this trend. We never projected Sheila Dixit as Delhi chief minister or Ashok Gehlot in Rajasthan. When the Congress gets a majority, then the party high command applies its mind to choosing a chief minister. Until then, everyone is a chief minister-in-waiting.
Will Sonia play a major role in the Karnataka assembly election?
She will play a decisive role in the Karnataka election. The Gandhi family has a special attachment to Andhra and Karnataka. This election will be very crucial for Sonia.
Your image of being an English-speaking, trouser-wearing, US-educated politician has come in the way of your being made chief minister or party president until now. Do you think you will be able to overcome that disadvantage now?
Every politician wears trousers, operates from his drawing room and has a certain personal style. I have survived in politics for 37 years in spite of or maybe because of whatever style I have, and that is no mean achievement. I have won many elections and lost a few.
If the people on whom I depend for support don't object to my wearing pants, I don't see why anyone else should. Anyway, a person's qualifications and foreign education should be an added advantage to the party and not a disadvantage. Such a person may have a larger perspective and vision.
Besides, a man who wears a dhoti is not necessarily totally involved with or committed to the people. He might still grab land or harm the people in other ways.
Do you think Sonia picked you because she was more comfortable with a person who speaks English and has Western background?
I speak good Kannada also. In fact, I am known better as a good orator in Kannada than in English. You have heard me yourself many times. So I don't think that would have been a consideration at all for Soniaji.
Was caste a major consideration in your being chosen, then?
Caste must have been a consideration along with others: it must have been one of the many factors that Soniaji took note of, such as perhaps my popularity.
Were all the crowds who came to receive you on your return from Delhi to take over as party president genuine fans or rented supporters? The ruling Janata Dal in Karnataka alleges that they were all hired.
If they were hired, would they have waited without lunch or tea in the airport until after 2000 hours to hear what I had to say as soon as I alighted from the aircraft? Their patience proves they were all committed party cadres who came from all over the state. All this shows that Congress is united and derives its strength from workers all over the state.
Will the party go to the poll alone or as any other party's ally?
The Congress always goes it alone. We are strong enough to manage without anyone's support.
What about former prime minister H D Deve Gowda's recent meetings with Sonia?
My impression is that they were only courtesy calls, and this impression is based on authentic information. However, I was not involved in those meetings, so it would probably be better to put that question to Soniaji.
What will be the Congress platform at the forthcoming poll?
At the state level, the Janata Dal has been a total disaster of wasted opportunities and internal strife. At the Centre, the country is in a mess. The central government has lost its bearings, and has no single command. The country is completely disillusioned with it.
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee might have gone to Pakistan in a bus. Well, I went to Pakistan in an aircraft, with 35 MPs, and it made no difference. The nuclear device they exploded created Deepavali for two days. The euphoria did not last beyond that. On the other hand, it has done so much damage to the Kashmir issue, which had been put on the back-burner and has now been brought to the centre-stage again. The economy is in a bad shape.
In other words, you believe the Congress might win in Karnataka only because of the Dal or the Bharatiya Janata Party's goof-ups, not because of your party's strength.
Elections are always fought, apart from manifestos and candidates, in a particular atmosphere. In November, we will go to the poll with a state government that is almost in coma, and at the Centre, a rudderless Union government. The people are quite politically aware, and will react to all this: that will definitely help the Congress, because we have a united leadership and a single command.
Come on, you know that the Congress is no more united than the other parties. It was infighting that finished the Congress in Karnataka in the last poll in 1994.
Whenever the central leadership is weak, infighting has marred the Congress's chances of coming to power. But whenever there is a strong central leadership, as it exists today, this problem will not arise, because the central leadership will take care of such fights.
Do you mean that all of you like being treated like a bunch of naughty schoolboys who need to be kept in line by a stern leader? Don't you sometimes wish you had a little more democracy at the state level?
This is how we have survived for so long. Other parties just unite and divide repeatedly. We certainly don't want the kind of internal democracy that the Dal has been practising. One should not go on fighting just to prove the point that the party has internal democracy.