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KAMLOOPS - Calling cards, doggie doo-doo, dog mess, dog kabobs… no matter what you call it the people of Kamloops are sick of seeing it in our city parks but there is little that can be done about it.
Kamloops is considered a dog friendly city by many standards. We have several dedicated dog parks and a total of 30 parks where dogs are allowed, with park improvements planned for the near future as well. But with owners not willing to clean up after their pets tolerance levels are dropping.
"We have a tremendous amount of activity in our parks," Parks Director Byron McCorkell says, "It's both good and bad."
Dog owners not cleaning up after their dog does its business in city parks came up again at council this week and McCorkell says the city does provide about 150,000 doggie bags per year — at a cost of about $4,500 — for dog owners to use but many people are still leaving the bags in the park instead of throwing them out.
"If we didn't (provide bags) we would have a massive problem," McCorkell notes. "It has become a bit of a tradition to see bags along the way."
He says dogs will often do their business within the first 10 minutes. Unfortunately not everyone bothers to bag the feces and those that do don't always dispose of the bag. McCorkell says instead of toting around the bag people appear to leave it along the path with the intention of grabbing it on the way back down. Too often the bags are left on the side of the path though.
McCorkell suggests new more 'folksy' signs to help create dialogue and to ensure money from licensing pays for any adjustments needed to how bags, dog feces and dog parks are handled.
"It should be owners paying for that stuff," he adds.
The dog licensing fee increased by $5 per year in 2015 to help pay for upgrades to dog parks in the city. In the effort to move more towards a user-pay system for dog facilities, the charge will also help cover the costs of adding a new dog park to the Juniper area and improving access of Rivers Trail through McArthur Island Park.
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Roland Cloud: iconic Roland instruments on demand
Do you dream of a studio where you aren't limited by the hardware you physically own? Could you imagine having everything from a legendary TR-808, D-50, Jupiter-8 and Juno-106, to the Aira System-8 and sampled Tera Guitar & Piano all at your fingertips? With just your controller keyboard, DAW and membership to Roland Cloud, you'll have access to a mind-blowing collection virtual versions of Roland's finest all to yourself.
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Roland Cloud is an ever-growing suite of virtual Roland instruments, sounds and tools developed for computer-based musicians and producers. This is a cloud-based subscription service with a continuously growing and expanding library filled with remakes of decades worth of iconic Roland synths, as well as newly developed software instruments. Roland have also added features to the software versions of hardware synths that weren't there in the originals.
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The Lee County School Board was held on October 14 at 7:00 pm.
The board recognized John Bost, a Thomas Walker High School Senior, is a Semifinalist in the 2015 National Merit Scholarship Program.
Thomas Ellis, Masonic Lodge of Pennington Gap, presented the program, "Gift of Knowledge." They have raised money with other Masonic in Lee County to give each 3rd grade student a Webster's Dictionary. The dictionaries will allow the students to become for confident, better writers, and more confident in themselves.
Pennington Middle School received the highest percentage of attendance for the month of September with 93.822%, and Elk Knob was second with 93.819%.


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Interface Bluetooth Adapter Yatour BTA for Skoda with 12 pin Quadlock
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The Interface Adapter Bluetooth Yatour BTA for SKODA is a system that connects to the port of the original car radio for the CD changer. Its main function is to add the Bluetooth hands-free and music playback features to the original audio equipment of the vehicle.
With this device Yatour BTA you can have Bluetooth handsfree (HFP) Integrated 100% on your audio equipment, handling functions via buttons of the radio or steering wheel controls (Receiving calls, end call, etc...). Even 2 devices can be synchronized together. And last but not least, allows Voice Dialing Function. It also has many options and control possibilities in the handsfree phone.
Another of its main functions is to play music from any device via Bluetooth, handling the songs from the radio controls and steering wheel controls using the System A2DP (Advanced Audio Distribution Profile).
* If you have synchronized 2 devices at the same time, you can use one of them to play music and the other as a handsfree phone. If you receive or make a call for the corresponding device, the Interface BTA will stop playing music, muting the device and will receive or make the call.
Includes a Jack 3.5mm AUX port (audio input) to connect other devices such as gps, pda, mobile, pc, dvd, iPhone, iPod, etc...It also has a USB port specially designed to provide 5V/1A power and charge the battery of all devices such as mobiles, smartphones, etc ... using USB adapters to charge the batteries of each one.
This BTA Yatour device is designed with high quality components, durable and provided with high fidelity HI-FI chip decoder to give maximum performance and powerful sound.
Excellent sound quality of Interface Bluetooth Adapter Yatour BTA is DIGITAL with no loss in quality or interference. Enjoy your stored music in your favorite device with the best quality playback and integrated with 100% to the original audio equipment in your vehicle.
In short, Interface Bluetooth Adapter BTA Yatour converts the audio of your vehicle in the most modern system, using the latest Bluetooth technology and integrated fully with your vehicle, keeping all the original functions of your radio.
|Built-in resistant plastic.
|Reduced size.
|Easy installation (Plug & Play connection).
|Data transmission by cable (not FM frequencies).
|Play music from any Bluetooth device via A2DP System.
|Designed to function as a hands-free phone.
|Digital sound quality.
|HiFi decoder chip.
|Charges battery devices using a USB port.
|Supports any devices connected to the Auxiliary Port 3.5mm (mobile, PDA, PSP, DVD, iPhone, iPod, etc...).
|AVRCP System, the control is handled from the buttons of the radio or steering wheel controls. 100% Compatible with steering wheel controls.
|LED indicator.
|Voice dialing function.
|Plays and control music from any mobile app supporting A2DP.
|Sync 2 devices simultaneously.
|Alerted when there's an incoming call.
|Allows call waiting.
|Display call incoming information on radio display, only on radios with ID3Tag feature.
|Keeps the original radio functions (Scan, repeat, random, etc ...).
|MUTE function that mutes any playback mode when a phone call is received.
|Display content is identical as CD Changer shows.
|Compatible with original CDC Changer installed. Requires VW12D Cable.
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NOTE: the Remote Control YT-REMOBTA is not included in the package. To purchase this product you must click on the "ACCESSORIES" tab of this same product page.
These accessories are optional and you can buy them by clicking "ACCESSORIES" tab in this same product page.
|With this accessory you can handle incoming calls and music. Remote Control YT-REMOBTA is essential to use some of the functions of the Interface Bluetooth Adapter Yatour BTA.
Cable length: 2 meters.
|This accessory is designed to remove noise from electrical interference generated by the vehicle engine or a bad derivation of ground.
|Keys and tools to remove the original radios.
- To install the Interface Yatour on Skoda vehicles that have installed an original CD Changer, you must purchase the VW12D cable which has a 12 pin female connector to connect both devices simultaneously. To purchase the interface with this cable, you must select from the dropdown above the cart.
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Skoda SuperB and Skoda Octavia.
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The cuneiform tablet collection of the Abbey of Montserrat
History of the collection
The Museum of the Montserrat Abbey houses the largest and most complete collection of ancient Mesopotamian artefacts in Spain. These objects come from the holdings of the Museu Bíblic, the original core of the present museum, that was founded at the Benedictine Abbey by Father Bonaventura Ubach (Barcelona 1879 - Montserrat 1960). The Biblical Museum was conceived as a vehicle and tool to understand and illustrate the Bible, the main concern in the life of the Catalan monk. Inaugurated in April 1911, it contained a modest number of archaeological and ethnological artefacts as well as specimens of the natural world acquired during Father Ubach's first travel to the Holy Land between 1906 and 1910. Two cuneiform tablets were included among these first objects.
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One in four emergency department patients in 2006 waited longer to be evaluated by a clinician than recommended at triage, an increase from one in five in 1997, according to a report in the November 9 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.
"Prolonged emergency department (ED) wait time decreases patient satisfaction, limits access, increases the number of patients who leave before being seen and is associated with clinically significant delays in care for patients with pneumonia, cardiac symptoms and abdominal pain," the authors write as background information in the article. Previous analyses have noted an increase in the amount of time ED patients wait to see a clinician. Between 1997 and 2004, median wait times increased 36 percent, from 22 minutes to 30 minutes. However, wait time alone is an imperfect measure of the timeliness of emergency care because it does not take into account the nature of patients' illnesses or injuries.
Leora I. Horwitz, M.D., M.H.S., of Yale-New Haven Hospital and Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn., and Elizabeth H. Bradley, Ph.D., also of Yale University School of Medicine, analyzed data from the National Hospital Ambulatory and Medical Care Survey to examine trends in the percentage of patients seen within the target time recommended during triage (initial process of prioritizing patients for treatment according to the seriousness of their condition). "Emergency departments are increasingly overcrowded, thereby straining resources," the authors write. "Triage assessment is intended to mitigate this strain by ensuring that the most acutely ill patients are prioritized for assessment, regardless of the competing demands on ED physicians' time. Considering wait time within the clinical context of triage assessment therefore allows for a more nuanced understanding of the timeliness of ED care than wait time in aggregate."
A total of 151,999 ED visits between 1997 and 2006 were categorized in the database as emergent (recommended that clinicians see in zero to 14 minutes), urgent (see in 15 minutes to 60 minutes), semi-urgent (see in 61 minutes to two hours) or non-urgent (see in more than two to 24 hours).
For all categories, the percentage of patients seen within the triage target time declined an average of 0.8 percent per year, from 80 percent in 1997 to 75.9 percent in 2006. The decline was greater—2.3 percent per year—for emergent patients, who had 87 percent lower odds than semi-urgent patients of being seen within the triage target time. "Overall, 56.6 percent of emergent patients were seen within the triage target time compared with 100 percent of non-urgent patients," the authors write. Results did not differ for patients with or without insurance, or for those of different racial or ethnic groups.
Many causes likely exist for increased wait times, the authors note. Per capita ED use has increased during the same timeframe, with much of the increase among less acutely ill patients. Moreover, high hospital occupancy rates decrease the number of beds available for patients admitted through the ED.
"The multifactorial nature of prolonged ED wait time lends itself to numerous avenues for improvement," the authors conclude. These include increasing patients' access to alternate sites of care; interventions to improve ED processes; and redesign of the physical environment. "Comparative research into the most effective methods of reducing ED crowding, decreasing ED length of stay and limiting ED wait times is urgently needed to help EDs prioritize their quality improvement activities and maximize their impact."
More information: Arch Intern Med. 2009;169[20]:1857-1865.
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Discover a wealth of indoor and outdoor adventure activities that the whole family can enjoy on the stunning Galloway Coast. From grass sledging to Zip Wires there is an activity to fit all ages and fitness. Why not visit us soon in beautiful Dumfries & Galloway in Southwest Scotland. You can even enjoy something to eat in our Basecamp cafe or stay overnight in our new Snugs.
Whatever you interest the centre will tailor make a package to suit your needs. Whether you want to try your hand at adrenaline-pumping activities such as one of Europes longest Zip wires or want to test your aim with archery, Laggan Outdoor runs numerous activities that will make your holiday one to remember.
How about trying your hand at clay pigeon shooting supprted by one of our great instructors, or be guided up hill and down on a coastal Segway adventure tour. If its warm and sunny, how about jumping into our water zorb and rolling down a hillside with 20 gallons of water . For the younger members of the family why not try grass sledging.
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Man is congenitally a corrupt creature. Right from the outset, this fact has been stated in some other ways in order to achieve two things. First is that scarcely should one count oneself out from this infection. As water is to fish, so is corruption is to every human person. Corruption is a household thing; there is virtually no person who is not corrupt in one way or the other. The entire world is corrupt, that statement should be seen as shocking, but it is obviously an irrefutable revelation. No one has ever challenge or denied it an understanding of the feature of corruption in its relation to man should enlist our sober reflection on the frailty of man.
Secondly, the tendency to stigmatize the ruling or wealthy class alone with corruption constitutes a serious hindrance to the fight against the plague. A thief should not call someone a thief. Perversion of a standard remains the same whether it is perpetrated by the rich or the poor, the powerful or the weak, the leader or the led, the educated or the illiterate. Development of the world has remained chequered and a far cry not because a section, but because every section of the polity is corrupt. Until we awake to the reality of identifying the virus of corruption in all facets of our public life and action, effort at addressing the problem in the world would be unproductive.
The Holy Bible provides us with some information and vital background to investigate what could be the origin and source of this cancerous disease know as corruption. The first two chapters of the book of Genesis give us a picture of creation, the purpose of creation and the standard for stability in creation. This is made clear in Genesis 1:26-28, as we read as follows; "Then God said, let us made man in our own image, in our likeness, and let them have rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth and over all creatures that move along the ground. So God created man in his own image, in the image if God, he created him; male and female, he created then. God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it".
Humankind in the creation was imbued with an exquisite beauty, unsurpassed wisdom and intelligence, distinct from all the other creatures. God built into man the value and dignity peculiar only to himself. When he took man and put him into the Garden of Eden. He gave him definite instructions to freely eat of every tree of the Garden but not of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The instruction was clear evidence that God destined man for greatness and goodness, through gainful engagement and freedom to choose, on the expectation that with obedience to his command, man would live a life of harmony, joy, justice, free from all fears, pressures and tensions pains and hurts, with defects and deficiencies.
Forbidding eating of the fruit of a particular tree became the primary normative standard before the first parents of mankind, as a condition for enjoying a full and complete life, and attaining an exquisite destiny. On transgressing against this one commandment, man was to forfeit this glamorous life package and face the wrath of God. The woman Eve, in her encounter with the tempter, was faced with two options namely , giving up the kind of life promised by God and giving in to the tempter's kind of life The tempter's approach was quit simple but subtle. By trying to convince Eve that they would not die if they ate the forbidden fruit.
The root cause of corruption therefore is covetousness. And covetousness is having a strong desire for something someone hasn't. The chief investigator of man into covetousness is the tempter, which is the devil. Covetousness operates in the absence of contentment. On the other hand, covetousness manifest in a frantic and an unscrupulous desire to possess beyond one's personal needs. Thereby violating an already established normative standard, just to achieve one's selfish aim (corruption).


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Seemingly out of nowhere, Say Anything have released a full stream of their new record 'I Don't Think It Is', before it officially drops digitally tomorrow (February 5th 2016), and then a physical release to follow on April 15th 2016. You can give it a listen below, along with a lengthy statement from frontman, Max Bemis:
"Hi, this is Max (from Say Anything.) My team and I decided to forego the dying art of the lead‐up and share our new record "I Don't Think It Is" with you, right now, with no warning. Why? Obvious. I want to be like Bey. Not‐really‐kidding aside, I've become a bit weary of doing the same song and dance leading up to the actual endgame, people actually listening to something. It also seems to fit with the core of this record: me destroying any notion of feeling blasé about music.
The recent history of Say Anything has been totally affirming. There was a nice little reaction to our last record, Hebrews, which was a step towards "progressive" (or "doing whatever the hell I want"). I suppose we have earned the right to remain somewhat vital. However, that entails trying new things. So without any plans for how it would turnout, I introduced a wild card into the equation…
Darren King is one of my favorite musicians ever. I love his band, Mutemath, and perhaps my favorite part of Mutemath is Darren's drumming and production touches. While hanging out, we somehow stumbled into the idea of making music together. Not just having Darren play on something, but collaborating fully on its production and creation. This is something I'd never done in 15 years of Say Anything and would be the closest I could be to being in a traditional "band". The next day, we got a call to work on music for another artist (more on that later) and decided to make our first song together. From the starting point of that song, we spent the better part of a year concocting what is surely the craziest record I've ever made.
This LP was anything but premeditated. All I knew coming from Hebrews was that I wanted to try to create the "Twisted Fantasy" of Say Anything records (just shut up and let me say stuff like that). These songs were the product of boozy hours spent in the studio creating, playing, sweating, laughing, and doing stuff just for the hell of it, embracing the free‐spirited cliché of musicianship. I had no idea what Say Anything might become with such NotSayAnything aspects thrown in: a drummer who plays like Stewart Copeland and DJ Shadow's love child, samplers and analog weirdness, improvisational playing and, most importantly, relinquishing my dictatorial control over the band's output. My more obvious influences reared their heads (as always)– 'emo', math rock, 90's KROQ playlists, and dubiously cred‐worthy pop punk. However, throwing Darren's aesthetic into the equation brought up latent aspects of my musical background and introduced completely new ones: early Beck, J Dilla, NYC Hardcore, something called "soul" music that I'm still trying to fully compute, and a lot more.
As the record formed some weird will of its own, it took on a loose thematic concept. My chronically anxious but brilliant best friend, Josh, became my bizarre muse and the centerpiece of the album's artwork. Josh spends too much time worrying and doubting himself, like most people I know. I wrote this record to say "this world needs its ass kicked and you're the one to do it." It ended up being about empowerment balanced by the grubby quirks of the human mind, unmarred by some cliché sense of positivity. Similar to the way you can put on a Jay‐Z song where he's talking about an oppressed childhood dealing coke and still feel like you can take on the world. Grunge wasn't really about anything, but inspired the whole world to get angry. So this is my approximation of that notion… a record to yell along to, because we all need that sometimes.
Like most of the hip hop records that gave birth to our approach, "I Don't Think It Is" is defined by collaboration, and not just with Darren. I got to "jam, dude" with two of my post‐punk heroes, Cody Votolato of the Blood Brothers and Paul Hinojos of At The Drive‐In. Our collaboration inspired two songs on the record. Just as important were the "next gen" artists who've inspired me to keep caring about punk music: Christian from the Hotelier, Michelle from Little Big League and Zack from Backwards Dancer. The song "Princess" serves as a reunion of sorts for Zack and Christian, who once both sang in the Hotelier together. I recruited Tiny Moving Parts' Dylan Mathieson to shred 'tappy tap' style over an already strange musical brew, thus making me look very bad at guitar. The Rick Rubin of current indie punk, Will Yip, was brought in and slayed the mix, beginning what I hope to be a long relationship of being overly enthusiastic together.
Along with contributions from my wife Sherri and her sisters Stacy and Christie, we saw the return of (essentially) founding Say Anything bass player Alex Kent, a man who played on some of our most beloved work. Alex contributed to an SA record for the first time in 7 or 8 years. Bizarrely, we were even able to get guidance and bounce the songs off of the artist who had first inspired our approach, that singularly charismatic MC/Producer from South Side Chicago. Long story, but yeah. That happened.
As weirdly me as our work will always be, Say Anything has truly become a collective. I can now go on with the rest of my life knowing there is an infinite amount of things left to do with this not‐really‐a‐band. "I Don't Think It Is" has cemented in my mind that it's going to be a fun few decades before I'm too old to parade my ever‐expanding ass in front of a crowd of sweaty kids. And despite Say Anything being a oneman band, it's nice to know that I don't have to do it alone."
The new album can be pre-ordered now via the band's official website (here).


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paperless Going paperless in college - anyone?
Uryupinsk replied to fflav's topic in Going PaperlessHi, first, sorry about my english, I'm French. I wrote a post yesterday on how I use Evernote to take Science Class Notes (http://discussion.evernote.com/topic/35255-science-class-notes-and-evernote/). I type all of my class notes in Emacs org-mode, not directly in Evernote, because I can easily include formulas when there are just 3-5 lines. Then I export the note into Evernote in PDF, so they are searchable. When there are diagrams I draw them and number each of them on paper, report number on my note ([diagram no. 1, etc.]), scan them at the evening (I have a cheap Epson scanner), and put into an Evernote notebook. I don't integrate diagrams directly into my class notes because I prefer have them separate. I type notes directly into Evernote for particular things, like summaries, important definitions, assignments and other things I want to access quickly. I put all school (and non-school) related documents, slides, agendas into respective notebooks. I also have a general "School" notebook to put all stuff that don't fit into a particular matter (not sure about this word) notebook. Hope this can help, I always try to find new ways to better organize my Evernote, for school and non-school related stuff.
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higher ed Science Class Notes and EvernoteHi to everyone, First I'm sorry about my english, I'm French. I'm using Evernote for about 2 years when I was in med school (switched this year to biology). In 2 years my workflow has changed many times because I want to go totally paperless. In some classes there are some math and chemical formulas and I like to type them instead of using a sheet of paper when this is not exceding a certain size. But I'm a bit perfectionist and I like to have beautiful formulas but writing them easily and in plain text. So here's my workflow : I'm using Emacs org-mode (which is similar to Markdown in term of markup language) and write my formulas in LaTeX. Org-mode can export the org file into multiple formats, like HTML, PDF or even ODT. So when I have a new lesson : I create a new org file that I put into a new Evernote note. I edit this file in Emacs, and changes are saved directly into Evernote. I write misc notes inside that Evernote note. At the end of each course I export it in PDF then put it in my note, so it's easily searchable. I put other docs, like lecture slides and scanned diagrams, into separate notes, then put links into the first one.I use this method too to write my WordPress blog articles and by exporting the org file in HTML... This method is convenient because the writing process during lecture is very, very fast, and produces great looking PDF with beautiful formulas. But it lacks of flexibility because to make my edits to the note searchable in Evernote I have to edit the org file, then export to PDF, then put it into Evernote. So I only use this method for lecture notes; for small notes I type them diretly into Evernote. Why I don't use Pandoc ? Pandoc is great but, on Windows, there is no editor that can export a file using it, and I don't want to use cmd every time I have to export a file. Also there's a pandoc-mode on Emacs but it doesn't like Windows paths... I hope my workflow will be helpful and I'd love to share thoughts with you on this topic.


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Black Rabbit finds a Murwillumbah haven
A MAKESHIFT studio set-up and a visit from the law wasn't enough to stop Black Rabbit George from producing some of his finest work yet.
Also known as Paul George from the Tijuana Cartel, the folk rocker's new single Bring You In ushers in a darker, more emotive edge than previous works, along with a more heavily produced and layered production approach.
"Bring You In is a song written while setting up to record something else," George said.
"I starting jamming on this little guitar riff and soon enough it formed into its own beast. I quickly gave up on the other track and let this one come out naturally."
Setting up an impromptu recording session at a friend's house, Bring You In had more of an instant impact than George would have anticipated.
"A friend of mine was away for the weekend so I set up a little studio in his kitchen to record the song. It was going quite well until about 3am when some police turned up," he said.
"I showed them through the studio and asked if they wanted to hear the track, they declined."
Bring You In's release coincides with a tour which takes in nine locations on the East Coast including the Nimbin Roots Festival and Murwillumbah's Haven Bar on Saturday, October 28.


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KBS goes abroad for Cali prep
Kelly Benefit Strategies is preparing for the Tour of California with a slew of foreign races.
Kelly Benefit Strategies will return to the Tour of California in May after being left off the invite list in 2009. KBS was one of five U.S. Continental teams announced as invitees to the largest stage race in States.
"Racing in the Tour of California is a really big deal for our team, our racers and our sponsors and it is the biggest race, probably in the history of the United States as far as who shows up," said director Jonas Carney.
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"It's a really big deal for everyone involved and we've built our schedule around doing well there."
The team won three UCI international stage races in 2009: the Vuelta Cyclista del Uruguay, Tour of Thailand and Tour de Beauce (Can).
Additionally, KBS picked up a number of top domestic results, including the overall at the Fitchburg Longsjo Classic (Zach Bell) and the Tour de Winghaven (Andrew Bajadali).
Carney is realistic in the team's expectations headed into a race of California's caliber, yet his expectations are high.
"Going into a race like that and expecting that you're going to go into a race like that and beat Lance Armstrong and Levi Leipheimer is a bit unrealistic, but I think that if you look at years past, a lot of domestic riders have won stages, they've worn jerseys, they've done fairly well in stages and different competitions," said Carney. "I think with the roster we have, we've built a real road team, a stage race team, with a lot of depth, so we're going to go in there and try to make our mark."
Riders expected to make the final roster for California include Andrew Bajadali, Zach Bell, Alex Candelario, Reid Mumford, Neil Shirley, David Veilleux and Scott Zwizanski.
"We have some guys," said Carney. "Candelario has been top five in stages. Zwizanski's time trialing last year was brilliant and if he can step it up a little bit, he has a shot of doing something in the TT. And with riders like Zach Bell, David Veilleux, Neal Shirley and Andrew Bajadali, a lot of our guys are capable of doing something on a given day and it's really about recognizing opportunities when they're presented and capitalizing on that."
KBS will tackle a slew of international races to prepare for California, including the Tours of Thailand and Uruguay.
Later in April, the team will send squads to the Tour of Korea and a series of French races, including the Tour of Brittany.
"The France and Korea trips, there is no reason we shouldn't be able to win at those races – win something, whether that be stages or the overall because we should be up to speed by that time," said Carney.
"The ultimate goal is to do well at the Tour of California and Philadelphia, the big stuff, this year. That's why we're going to France, to use that as a stepping stone for our guys to reach a new level, so they can do well at California or Philly, but because those invitations, they're such good races, such prestigious races for us, we're going to send a really strong squad and we're going to go over with the idea of doing really well there. It's probably the first race of the year where we'll really be ready and we'll be gunning for it, so I hope we'll be able to get results."


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Financial stress turns Bundy mother into armed robber
AS LISA Monk stood holding a knife in the carpark of Fisherman's Inn in March, her intent was clear.
She had been planning how she would rob the small fish and chip shop for weeks.
For an hour she stood and "psyched herself up", while holding a "robber's pack" made up of a pillow case filled with ziplock ties, masking tape and a 'closed' shop sign.
Her hands were gloved and she'd tried to conceal her identity by wearing a hoodie and bandana.
She knew the shop had no security cameras and she knew her targets were elderly and may be easy enough to tie up with the ziplocks and tape.
But even the most "premeditated" plans can go pear-shaped as Monk quickly discovered, after she was hit by a female shop owner and restrained by a male shop owner, who she threatened with a knife.
On Thursday Monk appeared in Bundaberg District Court and pleaded guilty to the crime.
Defence barrister Russell Clutterbuck told the court of the former occupational therapist's lack of criminal history, her failing marriage and of the physical, mental health and monetary woes which led to things getting "out of hand".
"She has previously been involved with the church and youth ... the offence is out of character for this lady ... a very unusual case," Mr Clutterbuck said.
But Judge Leanne Clare said financial worries combined with a mental illness diagnosis did not excuse the mother of two's actions, no matter how "unrecognisable" it was to her friends and family.
"There was no evidence of psychosis, elevated mood or cognitive impairment," Judge Clare said.
"(This can be) as simple and unpalatable as a middle-aged woman reacting badly to stress and deciding to do something stupid and serious.
"People in the community face terrible financial stress, worse than yourself, and are vulnerable to stress ... but very few commit such serious offences."
Monk was sentenced to 2.5 years' prison, suspended after four months.


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If you are concerned about your Facebook privacy settings and you may be showing a little to much information to prying eyes. A new iPhone application SNAP has been launched that allows you to easily check the status of your account security.
SNAP (Social Network Analyser for Privacy) iPhone app by BIT Systems looks at your Facebook profile and then creates a grade on how visible you are to the outside world.
The SNAP application also features an in depth search of your Facebook profile for any keyword and will it tell you how many times the word is found. It will show you exactly where, when, and how it was posted.
With Facebook seemingly changing their privacy setting everyday, this app is a great tool to help manage your account security. You can download it from the the app store for free. : iTunes Link
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Description of the VMware vCenter intergration implemented in Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Editions
If Acronis Management Server is installed on a guest operating system, which is backed up from the host, it will not display the correct task status on the dashboard
Connection to Acronis Agent for ESX/ESXi (Virtual Appliance) fails after the ESX IP address change. As a result, scheduled Virtual Appliance backup tasks fail too
Deploy Acronis Agent for ESX/ESXi to each host instead of deploying one to the cluster
To fix this, deploy the ESX agent on the ESX server whose virtual machines you want to back up and recover
You are either trying to back up a free VMware ESXi using Acronis Agent for ESX/ESXi or you have not added a license to your paid version of VMware ESX/ESXi
Shut down the appliance, unmount all volumes of guest systems, uninstall the appliance and then install the one from the new build
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Virtual Appliance does not support restore of files from a disk backup. If you need to restore files from a disk backup, please use Acronis Agent
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Server provides an easy way to deploy Agent for ESX/ESXi to every VMware ESX or ESXi server whose virtual machines you want to back up
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Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server Virtual Edition supports Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware ESX/ESXi on the host level
Agentless backup is not supported for fault-tolerant virtual machines
Acronis Agent for ESX/ESXi does not support free VMware ESXi. Acronis Agent for ESX/ESXi supports VMware ESX as a component of VMware Infrastructure Foundation, VMware Infrastructure Standard, VMware Infrastructure Enterprise
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List of supported environments. Free ESXi is not supported
Keep a copy of your backup archive in the virtual machine format ready for instant recovery
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The typical reason for a VM to be missing in the backup or replication wizard (unavailable for selection) is that this VM was created by Acronis vmProtect and is in fact a replica VM. It is not possible to back up replica VMs by default, however this may be possible after additional adjustments
You attempt to run a backup from virtual guest and get this error. Change location of virtual guest or change block size of used datastore, so that the datastore blocksize and blocksize of virtual guest matches.
Deploying the Agent for ESX(i) if it hasn't been deployed automatically during vCenter Server integration
Virtual Appliance does not support restore of files from a disk backup. If you need to restore files from a disk backup, please use Acronis Agent
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Instructions on how to save the Acronis Agent for ESX/ESXi Virtual Appliance logs to a network share
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This article describes, how to install the Agent for ESX(i) as Virtual Appliance or Agent in Windows.
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HONG KONG (SE): c was by far the most far-sighted of the modern day advocates of the need for the local Church in China to express the faith and the word of God within the cultural symbols and language of the local culture.
As the first apostolic delegate to China, he was a man well ahead of his time in terms of developing the Church that was then known as a foreign mission, and the tremendous contribution that he made to the maturing of the Church in China is now prompting significant numbers of Catholics to call for his beatification.
Born in 1876, Cardinal Costantini was nominated by Pope Pius XI as the first apostolic delegate to China in 1922, a position he held until 1933.
China of that era was in the midst of chaotic civil wars, while at the same time the control of much of the country was split up among western colonial powers with a neighbouring player on the block, Japan, beginning to flex its warring muscles big time across Manchuria.
It was precisely this web of colonialism and the protective legal fence that the French government placed around foreign missionaries, and to some extent local Catholics as well, that Cardinal Costantini saw as being the big diplomatic hurdle that the Vatican needed to jump in order to have constructive relations with the government in Beijing.
He also saw it as the one thing that stopped the Vatican making any progress in the country during its initial attempts to form ties with the government between 1885 and 1917.
In a paper posted on the UCAN website, Alexandre Chen Tsung-ming, the director of research at the Ferdinand Verbiest Institute in Belgium, says that strictly speaking, it was impossible to talk in any meaningful way about the Church in China, as it existed piecemeal in the pockets of the various colonial powers.
But the big power was France and the biggest obstacle was France, as it had its own uses for the Church in the Middle Kingdom and Cardinal Costantini began a difficult campaign to overcome a meddling Paris and turn local loyalties towards the pope.
Chen points out that first of all, the cardinal attacked Church leadership and the pope accepted his recommendation that six Chinese priests should be ordained bishops in 1924, the first local priests to move to that level of leadership in hundreds of years of Church life in the country.
He was also the first one to call a gathering of the bishops in China and that too happened in 1924, when a Chinese Council was convened in Shanghai.
How to express the faith in the language and symbols of the culture was one of the main agendas, which resulted in a discussion about how to develop fine Chinese-style Catholic art forms and foster local religious congregations of brothers and sisters.
If Cardinal Costantini was around today, he may even use the word Sinicisation, but he probably have been happier with indigenisation or perhaps even inculturation—but that word was not in vogue during his time.
Although what he was about is an important dynamic at all times and in all places, in view of what was to come in China, it has had an impact that would have been far beyond anything even the good cardinal himself could have imagined.
At the same time, he worked hard at lessening the influence that the colonial powers had on the life of the Church and sought to separate it from the so-called protective arm of France, setting new norms for both local priests and Catholics to follow.
Cardinal Costantini, above all people in China, understood clearly that the Catholicity of the faith lies in its ability to express itself in the language, signs and symbols of every culture and be lived out by every people in the world.
Between 1935 and 1953, he played an important role in liturgical reform, during which he had his own rites controversy to deal with, and on the delicate matter of what acceptance should be given to the Confucian rites of honouring ancestors, he made a big contribution.
However, Sinicisation as it is used today, has a radically different meaning from what Cardinal Costantini would have intended had he been the one to dream the word up.
In modern parlance, it has become a term for describing relations between the Chinese Communist regime and religious groups, sitting in the political sphere rather than the religio-cultural one.
But it also reminds people of Cardinal Costantini's contribution to China.
The current process of Sinicisation that Xi Jinping talks about imposes political and legal measures on the Church that have nothing to do with Catholic doctrine or normal Church management.
Cardinal Costantini was about exactly the opposite, he saw the grave danger of the political ties the Church had with the colonial powers and worked hard to place religious life squarely in the Chinese cultural embrace in its expression and customs.
Currently the process of beatification for Cardinal Costantini is under way, which although it will be a long drawn out affair will have important lessons for the whole Church in terms understanding the life of local Churches in their own unique circumstances.
Because of the ties of the Church in China with the colonial powers the patriotism of Catholics is something that has always been under scrutiny, but Chen argues that there are plenty of examples of Chinese Catholic people putting their lives on the line for the love of their homeland.
During the Sino-Japanese War from 1937 to 1945, Father Vincent Lebbe, who was rewarded with Chinese nationality, led teams of seminarians and sisters on the battle field as medics, but the Church had always been the butt of Japanese attack, as it was teaching the exact opposite to what the violent coloniser wanted people to hear.
The patriotism of Catholics has never been shaped by official government policy, but by faith in God and love of country, its history, culture and identity, but as Chen says at times they have been deprived of their nation's affection and it was the foreign bishop with a Chinese heart who helped them express their true love of country.


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The former University of Oregon coach and first basketball player I ever looked up to is now in charge of Kidsports. Coolio.
Good for her. Maybe she won't destroy them, like she did Oregon. What a terrible job of coaching.
That's one opinion.
Fact. Bev Smith was FIRED at Oregon.
Opinion: She is a terrible coach.
Here's a second one. I'm a friend of one of Bev Smith's players and I can state without question that the woman has serious problems dealing with African American girls. The girls went several times to the AD complaining about preferential treatment given to the white players. It might not have been the primary reason she was fired, but it certainly played a part.
And on a statistical note, her record at OU was not a whole lot better, and in some cases worse, than those three coaches you noted earlier were "bad". One might add Bev Smith to that illustrious list.
What about black coaches who have do not deal well with white players? Tia Jackson at UW, ring a bell?
Wow, these are some serious allegations. I don't know what to say.
As a Pac-10 follower, the complaints of race bias against Bev Smith are old stuff. I think you can ask the various editors of the online services you work for and they'll tell you the first hand stories. As for Tia Jackson, her reputation at UW is definitely different than at UCLA where she was considered the glue that held together a fractured team, and that included white players like Lindsey Pluimer.
In her defense, I don't think that Bev Smith was racist or malicious in the least but really just didn't understand the differences and similarities and tried to overcompenate. The problem is that if you're a coach of something like womens basketball, if you can't relate to the players who are the predominent race on your team, you're going to have big trouble. Her problems became so well known that it's believed that it helped usher in the era of the African American female head coach in the Pac-10 because ADs believed that coaches like Jackson, Nikki Caldwell, Niya Butts and LaVonda Wagner, who preceded the departure of Smith, could handle the situations better.
End result is Jackson and Butts have not proven themselves as being communicators and Wagner and Caldwell have. And unfortunately, Bev Smith didn't either.
Wait, let's be fair. Oregon has had huge issues getting black players. This was clearly shown in the early 90's book about Jody Runge and the Oregon program. It will only continue with Westhead and Dan Muscatell. Muscatell had a lily white team at Sac. St.
If any coach wants to learn how to handle the changing of the complexsion of your team, look at Mark French at UCSB. He had a lily white team and worked very hard to change that. Did a damn good job, too.
Sue, you call JB a bad coach but with your posts about Ben Smith, you consider Bev to be a good coach?
JB is a much better coach than Bev, ever hoped to be.
Is "JB" a reference to Jenny Boucek? If so, I don't recall ever saying Boucek was a bad coach. I always liked her a lot when she worked for the Storm. Whether or not she conducted religious discussions is a separate issue from her coaching.
I never said Bev was a good coach, either. I said I enjoyed watching her play when I was a kid.
Someone I've known for a LONG time, who has been a UofO season ticket holder for years and years, just emailed me. Said she hadn't heard the racial rumor. Thinks it was that Smith assumed team members would work on physical conditioning on their own, too, but they didn't. She's going to ask around Eugene about the racial allegations and get back to me. She will know who to ask in the community to find out the dealio.
Sorry JB is Joan Bonvicini. Sorry I thought I had posted the message on the Seattle U hiring thread.
If you haven't read Full-Court Press: Season Life Winning Basketball Team Women Who Made it Happen. Buy it and read it.
Cool, thanks for the recommendation. Always interested in a new book.
I know I may come off strong but I do enjoy reading your blog and whether we agree or not, we both share a passion for WBB.
I sure don't expect everyone to agree with me, and in fact, sometimes I learn from somebody else's side.
Thanks for reading.


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Yes, and there now seems to bee no way to download images in the original format, which reduces the benefit of my scripts, but having a blurred and watermarked image is better than no image.KYPREO wrote: ↑Tue Sep 10, 2019 3:19 amEffective 9 September 2019, Photobucket is now both watermarking AND blurring images posted by any free member whose remote-linked images exceed 25MB in bandwidth (calculated on a rolling basis). This basically means ALL images. So Photobucket has gone back on their public statements that they had lifted image blocking for former free accounts.
Don't worry, they won't be alerted to it as long as you stick to openly informing users that you'll PM them the solution so as not to alert PhotoBucket.
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It happens to just about anyone, I just couldn't resist the temptation to make a little bit of fun with it. (And I am glad you're accepting it as it was meant, and not pejorative).
Taking that stance is fine when dealing with a usergroup (or a user) from which that kind of action should be unthinkable. In this case it wasn't and your action (in this specific case shortsighted) would have caused more damage than the more or less private information being temporarily not so private.
This is something I like to use pleaseJohn connor wrote: ↑Sun Jul 21, 2019 9:43 pmI haven't been reading the whole topic, but I just use an extension called AWS S3 which offloads attachments to AWS S3 storage. It costs me no more than 70 cents a month and that's having a bunch of other data there as well. BUT! You need to know how to use it and how to secure it. Once you do it's like having the greatest cloud-based segregation ever. So attachments will all load from a different URL rather than your host's server.
Once upon a time I used Photobucket which I liked to call Photo-F-It. Not anymore. If I'm sharing images on the Internet beyond my own forum I'll use imgur or imagesGuru. In fact, I think there was a hacker tool called Photo-F-It. I think it cracked user accounts. This was years ago though and I'm sure that vulnerability has been sense patched.
Note that the current extension version of AWS S3 doesn't work with PHP 7.2. I had someone recode it for me. I can share it if someone wants it.
You're absolutely right, but perhaps what you haven't considered is what forum administrators would like done and what their users actually do are 2 different things.John connor wrote: ↑Wed Sep 11, 2019 5:01 amWhy are you people continuing to use PhotoBucket in light of what is going on especially given the fact there are many alternatives that exist?... I wouldn't even try hacks and workarounds. You're just prolonging the BS associated with their asinine platform. I for one would never put up with having my images blurred and watermarked.


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The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) said Thursday it will not go ahead with the PAVE 100 trial, intended to test a candidate vaccine in 2,400 American men who have sex with men.
Instead, the agency said, it will entertain a proposal for a smaller, more focused trial of the vaccine, focusing only on any possible effect on viral load.
Immediate support for the decision came from two major HIV vaccine advocacy groups, but a third said the move was probably not based entirely on scientific issues and worried it would be seen as a "vote of no-confidence" in the search for an HIV vaccine.
The NIAID move is "a bold decision" that bears in mind lessons learned from a recent failed vaccine study, according to Seth Berkley, president and CEO of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI).
"That is the way good scientific endeavors work," Dr. Berkley said in a statement.
He added that his group has been proposing smaller trials "to test for a sign of promise before proceeding to large efficacy trials" and welcomes NIAID's willingness to entertain such a small study.
The Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise, an international private-public research alliance, also supported the decision, calling for "innovative approaches" in vaccine research.
"The world also needs to rethink how we design HIV vaccine trials," executive director Alan Bernstein, Ph.D., said in a statement.
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But Mitchell Warren, executive director of the New York-based AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition, said the group had supported the PAVE 100 trial's scientific rationale, which was broadly backed during a meeting of NIAID's AIDS Vaccine Research Subcommittee a little more than a month ago.
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International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships Ballast Water - Problem Description and Methods of Eradication of Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS)
In the old days (even before this old mariner went to sea as a boy) ships used sand and rocks as ballast, so even in those days of wooden ships, mariners knew the advantages of ship ballasting. Nowadays we have a ballasting system comprising of segregated tanks, supplied with seawater from dedicated ballast pumps. This normally happens as the cargo is being discharged, especially on oil tankers.
There are several reasons for ballasting a ship; the main ones being keeping the propeller and rudder in the water maintaining steering and propulsion operations, maintaining the ship's trim and stability in heavy weather, and minimizing topsides wind drag.
However, ballasting and de-ballasting has led to some serious problems, particularly to environmental marine life at the port of discharge.
This is an article on marine engineering and in particular on the marine environment ecosystems that ships ballasting and deballasting can cause. We begin with an overview of a typical ballasting system.
Applications of a Typical Ballasting System
Oil tankers, container ships, and car transporting vessels are much larger than conventional cargo ships, having large segregated ballast tanks, so we will examine how the ballast system on a VLCC is operated, including the use of the compulsory double hulls.
The fitting of double hulls to all existing oil tankers and to new builds was enforced by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) after several bad tanker accidents involving major polluting heavy crude oil spills. The double hulls on oil tankers now form the ballast tanks, which is logical, as in a collision or grounding it would be the seawater that would escape from the ruptured hull to the ocean, rather than crude oil.
When discharging their cargo, oil tankers take on ballast simultaneously to ensure no extra stress is put on their large hulls, the chicksan loading/discharge arms, or shoreside connections. Ballasting is also used to maintain the ship's level trim during discharge, to ensure all the oil is pumped from the tanks, and so no pockets of oil are left in the tank extremities.
Reference Web: IMO - Double hulls introduced
Aquatic Species Carried in Ships Ballast Tanks
As we have seen, ballasting a ship in foreign ports can include taking onboard some exotic, aquatic species which will remain in the ballast tanks as stowaways until the ballast water is discharged in another port.
It is here that these aquatic, non-native species are introduced to the local waters worldwide, causing numerous problems as shown below:
- Great Lakes of Canada and USA
These are approached from the St Lawrence Seaway through a series of locks.
When I was at sea in the sixties our ship used to run between UK ports discharging in Toronto and Detroit, but even in these days there were many ships from numerous foreign exotic ports.
These undoubtedly introduced Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS), animals and plants such as the zebra mussel which rapidly reproduced, quickly populating the waterways and lakes clogging water pipes, filters, and pumping systems. They were also washed ashore at many recreational sites causing foul odors and sharp-edged shell accumulation; subsequent eradication and clean-up of these species cost in excess of $1 billion.
- Australian Ports
The introduction of North Pacific Sea Star to Australian ports was from ships discharging the larvae along with ballast water loaded in Japan or Korea. The larvae quickly grow to sea-stars of up to 100cm, a danger to local indigenous aquatic life; they poison prey before devouring them.
- Black and Caspian Seas
The introduction of the carnivorous North American Comb Jellyfish also known as the sea walnut was introduced by oil tankers discharging ballast water. Its invasion of these waters had a catastrophic effect on their whole ecosystems, decimating fisheries in the Black and Caspian Seas.
Reference Webs:
- NAS - descriptions of various invasive species in USA waters.
- NAP - Invasive species in the Great Lakes, Australia and Black Sea.
- Earthtrends - Zebra mussels distribution.
Invasive Species in Ballast systems – Eradication Methods
1. The exchange of ballast water in mid-ocean.
This is carried out by discharging the original ballast and refilling with the mid-ocean seawater, before entering the cargo discharge port.
2. Purification by UV or Ozone
The use of UV lamps or ozone on the ballast water to kill the invasive species has been suggested.
3. Mechanical control
This involves the use of fine mesh screens (50 Micron) and a backwash system located in the ballast suction inlets. It is designed to trap any invasive species before they can enter into the ballast system.
4. Biological control
Once the invasive species have been identified, the use of a species which control them in their own habitat can be introduced to manage their extermination in their new environment.
5. De-oxygenation of ballast water
This method entails the injection of nitrogen into the ballast tank water, thus starving it of oxygen. De-oxygenation is deemed to not only to eradicate any invasive species, but also mitigate the corrosion of the internals of the ballast tanks.
6. Use of fresh water as ballast
This would require the ballast tanks to be well washed out before filling with fresh water. The fresh water ballast could then be pumped ashore and used for irrigation in arid countries.
7. Coating of ballast tank internal surfaces
There are numerous anti-corrosion tank coatings available today, and these can incorporate anti-fouling additions such as silicon PDS (polydimethyelsiloxanes) to reduce the formation and reproduction of invasive species on the tank surfaces.
However most of the successful anti-fouling coatings are toxic and would be detrimental to indigenous aquatic species if discharged along with the ballast water.
Reference Webs:
- IMO approved ballast water treatments.
- Earthtrends - ballast water control
Nitrogen Purging of Ballast Water as per International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships Ballast Water