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All In The Family... Another Trip Down Memory Lane... History and Old Stuff...
In 1963-1964, I made a scrapbook. On the first page, I recorded the following information:
My Scrapbook
Started in 1963, May 20
Gennie L. Hill
Rose, Nebraska
Age 11-1/2, Grade 7
Duff School
One of the first things in the scrapbook is a drawing of one end of our living room. The Westinghouse record player has the place of honor on the library table. The piano is the same one that sits in my living room today. I didn't do a good job of drawing the curtain fabric, but I do recognize it.
Looking through the scrapbook, I can see that I was thrilled by romance. Many newspaper clippings about the engagements and weddings of local young people fill the pages. I can hardly believe that these couples are all in their 60's now.
I was particularly interested in the marriage of Jim Saar, a neighbor's son who worked several years for my dad, to his sweetheart, Orpha. I saved Orpha's engagement pictures from two newspapers, the wedding invitation, a wedding napkin, and a thank you note. I also made a list of every person who had any part in the wedding from the bride and groom to the woman who served the cake. It began with these words:
June 16, 1963, brought the day that Jim, Orpha, Charlotte [my younger sister] and I had waited for over a year to come. Jim's Wedding Day! The colors were lilac and white...
I last saw Jim and Orpha Saar at my father's funeral in 1996. Jim went to trade school and became a plumber after he quit working for my dad. He's now retired. Orpha was still just as little and cute as she had been in her newly-wed days.
Some of the folks in my scrapbook aren't around anymore. Helen Swanson, my Sunday School teacher in 1963, passed away recently. She was 93 years old. Her husband, Elmer, also passed away recently; he was 100 years old! My scrapbook holds a birthday card with a penciled note that Helen sent to me over 40 years ago.
In one newspaper photo, Jerry Dearmont, a neighbor boy who was a year older than me, is receiving a soil conservation award. I was in 4-H with him for ten years. Sadly, he died at a young age of a brain tumor.
At that time, the Soil Conservation Department had a slogan contest every year. In my scrapbook, I recorded a winning slogan I wrote: "Conservation saves the nation for the next generation." Winners had their slogan displayed on the Long Pine Drive-in Theater marquee during the winter (while the drive-in was closed,) and winners also received a $1.00 cash prize. That was big money for me.
Several high school graduation announcements from my brother's friends appear in my scrapbook. One of them was from Roger Koelling. Roger was our pastor's son, a year older than my brother, and he worked in the hayfield for us a summer or two. On the envelope flap, I wrote the following about his tragic death:
Roger Koelling, our preacher's son, drowned in June right after he graduated in 1963. He drowned in Hord Lake at Central City, Nebraska. Over 300 attended his funeral.
On page 24, I included a drawing of Jacqueline Kennedy's face on a sheet of notebook paper. Beneath a notation that I had caught a 32-inch 7-lb. northern pike in our lake, I wrote,
This is Jacqueline Kennedy. I drew it. It looks a lot like her. On November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, President Kennedy was shot. 30 min. later in the hospital, he died. The following Mon. was a day of mourning. The new president was Lyndon Johnson. Assassinator (Killer) of Kennedy was Lee Harvey Oswald. On the following Sunday, he was shot to death by Jack Ruby. Pres. K. funeral was on Mon.On a later page beside a sample of 1963 Christmas seals, I noted, "Jack Ruby was condemmed (sic) to the electric chair in March." That would have been March of 1964. (As it happened, he died of cancer before his execution.)
A newspaper clipping of me as the 1000th patient in the Rock County Hospital is the only photo of myself in the scrapbook. It's a record of one of two times in my life that I've been hospitalized for something unrelated to childbearing.
The hospital auxilliary ladies gave me a bouquet of fresh flowers, a snifter with a plastic rose stuck in the bottom of it and a guest book. My schoolmates and chums, the Horner girls, signed my guest book several times when they came to our house. In the "Comment" column , they wrote things like, "She is a crazy kid," and "Nice bedroom." The covers of the book finally fell off and I threw it away long ago.
I was in the hospital because I had fainted one morning while I was putting on my shoes. My fingernails were cutting painfully into the palm of my hand just before I fell, and the next I knew, my mom was hauling me to the car. Mama was strengthened by adrenaline and mother-instinct because I surely weighed 90 pounds or more. I was running a high fever and had a convulsion, but after a couple of days in the hospital, I was fine.
I tried to get my kids to keep scrapbooks, but neither of them were interested when they were younger. Keely did made an extensive memory book when she was a high school senior. She made the pages from cardstock and she put many of her snapshots and souvenirs in it. She printed a heading for each page, and she had her friends and teachers write in it. It turned out very nicely, and she will enjoy it through the years.
Isaac told me today that he wants to start carrying a camera to school so he can get some photos of his senior year. And even if he never makes a scrapbook, I've filled a filebox with memorabilia for him -- awards and greeting cards he's received, some envelopes with little locks of his hair that I saved, his best stories and drawings from school, notes from his teachers and all his report cards. (I made a similar box for Keely.)
Still, a box of stuff selected and preserved by Mom won't create a time capsule of his personality and interests like a scrapbook that he compiled himself would do.
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Remembering Alan Justiss
Posted by Matthew Moyer on February 15, 2011
We're sad to report that friend of the Zine Collection and Jacksonville writer par excellence Alan Justiss passed away over the weekend. Though he created a vast body of work, mixed it up with the likes of Alan Ginsberg and Charles Bukowski, and had a huge influence on at least two generations of young Jacksonville writers and creatives–and much will no doubt be written about that–we remember him fondly for his work above and beyond the call of duty in promoting the first Much Ado About Zines event last spring. Though obviously in ill health, Alan, acting as the grand old man of Jacksonville zines, undertook a hectic two-day schedule promoting and participating in the event. He appeared on WJCT's First Coast Connect radio show (listen to that episode here) talking about the history of zines and chapbooks, gamely attended the gala fundraiser for the event, adding some much needed grit to the champagne bubbles, got up bright and early to do a reading on the day, signed books and chatted with fans, and finally attended a lunch with all of the other zine writers. His performance, shunning a microphone and relying on the gravitas of his voice for amplification, was just electrifying and incantatory. He easily held his own against savvy wordsmiths like Patrick Hughes and Duncan Barlow. It was a great thrill to be able to gather such a diverse and talented group of zine writers; but at the end of the day, it was Alan Justiss who sat at the head of the table. He will be missed.
5 Responses to "Remembering Alan Justiss"
February 17, 2011 at 4:51 am
He was my friend….a true friend+
February 17, 2011 at 4:45 pm
my dear and beloved friend.
February 23, 2011 at 3:48 pm
The first time I saw Alan was just after moving to Jacksonville 14 years ago. I was at a performance at the Loft, and Alan walked up to the performers, swaggering and speaking in broken sentences, interrupting the performance. It was then and there that I wanted to know more about Alan. I had the opportunity to meet with him, drink with him, and have wisdom imparted by him. The true definition of a dynamic person. This community just lost a great artist – a great human.

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AP PHOTOS: In Peru, fly the flag in July or pay up
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Anyone traveling in Peru in recent weeks could easily have concluded it's among the world's most patriotic nations. Until they find out why the national flag is flapping virtually everywhere: Failing to fly the banner for Independence Day can bring a hefty fine.
Under a 1939 national law, Peruvian homes, businesses and institutions are required to fly the red-and-white standard from July 27 through July 30 to honor Independence Day, which falls on July 28.
But some municipalities require that the flag be flown for the entire month of July, or even longer. Enforcement varies from municipality to municipality.
There is uniformity neither in the specified time period nor in the penalty for non-compliance. Fines begin at about $20 and can run as high as $380, according to a 2011 study by the Peruvian Institute of Municipal Administration.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – With a couple of weeks of fall practice in the books, the Lipscomb baseball team is set for a busy week hosting the 8th-Annual Lipscomb Baseball and Friends Golf Tournament and Parents Weekend on Friday and Saturday.
"This is a fun weekend coming up," said Lipscomb head baseball coach Jeff Forehand. "We've finally been able to put together the whole weekend to combine our alumni and support group to raise a little money but mainly to have a good time together.
"It's something we hope that all of our alumni will try to get out to. We'll have an alumni batting practice after the golf scramble which will turn into a home run derby for those guys. They really enjoy coming back and doing that."
The Friday golf tournament is set for an 8:30 a.m. shotgun start with lunch following at the Legends Golf Club in Franklin. Saturday features a special event at 9 a.m. as the dads of the current Bisons squad will hit the cage for some batting practice of their own with their sons.
The Bisons will then hit the field for a scrimmage at Ken Dugan Field at Stephen L. Marsh Stadium showcasing their early work in fall practice that has included a lot of jousting for playing time.
"We have a lot of competition going on," said Forehand. "With 18 new players coming in, it was evident that was going to be the case. With half of the team being new, everyone is out to earn a spot.
"After the first couple of scrimmages we've been able to evaluate some guys and it's really exciting to see the energy level up and the competition level up. I feel like we've got a good group chemistry starting out at the beginning."
Along with the plethora of new faces, the Bisons return an experienced starting pitching staff but Forehand is most excited about the new depth that should be a dominant force in closing out games in 2014.
"We've got some experienced guys that are coming back that should be able to anchor the bulk of the starting load but I feel like the best part of our team has got to be our bullpen. One of the things we set out to do in the offseason was to bolster the bullpen with the addition of several guys that we feel are going to be key members on that end."
Forehand is looking forward to being able to play a little chess in the late innings, something he was unable to do this past season with only one lefty on the staff.
"I feel good about being able to match up out of the pen and the different looks we will be able to give the other team from left handers to right handers and side arm guys will give us an advantage.
"It's nice getting back to having multiple lefties on the staff after what happened with us last year with Chris Nunn and a freshman signee getting drafted it kind of put us behind the eight ball in left-handed pitching. Replacing those guys was a main focus this year and we have five lefties that have come in and will give us great opportunities to match up late in games. Hopefully some of those guys will transition into a starting role as well."
That staff will be showcased in Saturday's scrimmage and several times throughout the rest of the month as the Bisons head toward the end of Fall camp.
"It's hard to believe we're already in October," said Forehand. "The finish of fall practice is going to creep up on us quickly but I think at the end of the month we'll have a good idea of where we are heading into the spring."


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The absurd -- and dangerous -- policy prescription came in a GOP primary debate in June. Moderator John King said he had recently visited communities affected by severe weather, and noted that the Federal Emergency Management Agency "is about to run out of money."


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The idea that by the year 200x there will be more smart devices on the Internet than people has become widely accepted. You can already see it if you look at the most integrated manufacturing facilities. Everything from the factory floor up is being connected using web technologies. If connecting a smart device can create substantial customer value and you do not do it, your competitors will. So the questions in many cases is not should I do it, but how should I do it?
Answering the "how" question is highly dependent on a myriad of factors. Some of the more important are:
- What is the value to your customer of the functionality enabled by connecting your smart device (an in-depth discussion of this can be found at http://www.silver-bullet-technology.com)? This will limit what you can do, by limiting the cost etc., and should be used as a key gauge to what functionality should even be considered.
- What kind of data transfer volume must be sustained. In the IT world, web applications and services are often scaled to handle tens of thousands of transactions per minute? In general the volume of a smart device will be small, on the order of (10) messages a minute, but if this not the case you need to know.
- What communication characteristics are needed? For instance, do you need near real-time synchronized communication or just periodic asynchronous reports? Should the information flow be initiated by the device or the external world?
- What is being done in your industry? For instance if your device is a factory floor machine, you should consider OPC, especially the new XML data access specification.
- What level of security is required?
- Who is going to connect? There is a big difference between connecting a device with proprietary remote applications at the manufacturer's facilities versus connecting with any customer's supply chain applications.
Understanding the characteristics of your device given the chosen function(s) can be complex. A first order analysis of a potentially high value function for many devices, remote performance optimization, is summarized in Figure 1:
As you can see it requires a number of different steps with the remote application connected to the device, each with different characteristics. We can significantly change this application's potential value to customers by making both the configure and report steps synchronous and ending up with the capability to perform near real-time performance optimization.
{mospagebreak title=Options}
It is a given that we are moving device-specific data using a reliable but unsecured transport, TCP/IP. But all that TCP/IP provides is the transport of "stuff", any stuff. What we need above this is a means for our software to access TCP/IP and the structuring of how and what is being transported. We can break this into three areas of investigation, TCP/IP access, high-level transport protocols and data format protocols.
There are two primary access methods. The most common is the socket interface which provides a simple means to access a software TCP/IP stack. Almost (if not all) platforms of any sophistication provide a socket interface. It can even be found on eight bit micro-controllers. However, this is not the only access method. The TCP/IP stack and the underlying physical connection issues can be off loaded. This is possible using the fairly recent "internet chips" or by front ending your device with another internet capable device. The only typical hard resource requirement on the current device is an RS-232 serial interface.
The primary transport protocol choices are:
- Proprietary
- File transfer protocol (FTP) or its "simple" version (TFTP)
- The world wide web protocol (HTTP)
- Email protocols (SMTP and POP3)
- Network management protocol (SNTP)
The principal data format choices are:
- Proprietary
- De facto and industry standards (e.g. comma delimited files, …)
- Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Finally there is the combination of high-level transport and data format protocols to define the most versatile standard, the web service. Web services are pretty new and the idea of standards is still very much a moving target (though zeroing in quickly). For our purposes web services can be broken into three levels of standardization:
- Comply with the premise of web service (HTTP 1.0 and XML 1.0).
- Comply with the WS-I Basic Profile (XML 1.0, XML Schema, HTTP 1.1, SOAP 1.0, WSDL 1.0).
- Comply with an industry specific definition of a web service (e.g. OPC XML data access 1.0).
More detail on the technical options is provided at:
{mospagebreak title=Comparison of Options}
If we wanted to examine every possible solution combination that would become a very large task. Luckily we can take a serious look at only a sub-set of the possible solutions and get a pretty good idea of what is practically available. Specifically the options summarized in the following table were examined in detail, including the design, implementation, and test of reference code sets:
|Top Level Transport
|Data Format
|Proprietary content updater
|Content updating
|Email client
|Periodic pre-defined reporting
XML Scheme
|Web service client
|Content updating
XML Sceme
|Web service server (light)
|Information retrieval
|Web service server (WS-I Basic Profile)
|General Purpose for control, configure and reporting
XML Scheme
The proprietary content updater is described in detail in http://www.the-solution-llc.com/strategy.zip. The specific reference implementation provides a good example of offloading access to an Internet capable device (in this case an off-the-shelf Windows CE device). Since the application-level protocol is simple and binary, data exchange is the most efficient by far. The reference implementation on the CE device is fairly small, requiring less than 900 lines of C. If the device itself had the capability to connect with the Internet, the implementation on the device would be the same size, etc. Since the application-level protocol is proprietary, the server-side component had to be implemented at the socket interface level. A minimal server required another 900 lines of C++. This does not include the support applications that would be needed to keep track of changes, etc.
The email client provides the means for a "center" to specify the pre-defined report which a device will mail periodically. Both the requests and the reports are sent in the body of the email in XML format. Both also include security measures to circumvent attacks. The device reference implementation using a socket interface required less than 600 lines of C++ while the implementation using offloading to an Internet chip, ConnectOne's iChip, required less than 800 lines (Note: The overall size of the iChip implementation would be substantially smaller since the software TCP/IP stack etc. is not needed). The performance of both implementations was roughly the same. Two desktop-level (not enterprise) applications for a center were also implemented. These provided the means to easily compose and send report requests and to retrieve, parse and store device reports in a database. Both were implemented in Visual Basic as email client programs (the email server was provided by the ISP). Together they required less than 1000 lines of VB.
The web service client is described in detail in http://www.the-solution-llc.com/updateservice.pdf. It provides the means for a device to intelligently update its content (including software). The updating procedure is significantly more sophisticated than that used in the proprietary content updater though it achieves the same basic objective. The procedure uses the exchange of defined (using XML Scheme) XML documents and then a series of HTTP gets to update the device. The reference implementation includes some security measures but is not completely adequate in this area. The device reference implementation using a socket interface and a minimal sequential XML parser (Note: the actual implementation used the Xerces open source XML parser which is large) should require less than 800 lines of C. Two server-side reference implementations were undertaken, one using J2EE and one .NET. Each took less than the 500 lines of code (Java and C# respectively) to implement the update web service.
The light web service server is described in detail in http://www.the-solution-llc.com/webservice.zip. It provides the means for client programs (including web pages, spreadsheets etc.) to easily retrieve information from a device using HTTP gets with "freehand" XML documents as the response. The device side server reference implementation took less than 500 lines of C++. The client side scripts (VB script and VBA) required less than 100 lines.
The basic profile compliant web service server is described in detail in http://www.the-solution-llc.com/embeddableserver.pdf . It provides a general purpose "command and control" interface through a WSDL defined interface. The device side server reference implementation using a socket interface tool less than 1000 lines of C++. The Internet chip version, ConnectOne's iChip, required less than 1400 lines (Note: The overall size of the iChip implementation would be substantially smaller since the software TCP/IP stack etc. is not needed). Unlike the email case, the performance of the Internet chip version was substantially less than that of the socket interface version. In general the Internet chip should be restricted to five or less simultaneous connections. Where this option really shines is on the client side. Two client applications were built to test the server, one using C# and .NET the other Java and Sun's Java Web Services Developer Pack 1.3. In both cases ,access to the web service was automatically generated from the WSDL and the client program simply called stubs.
None of the solutions examined used a De factor or industry standard data format. Why? Because with the possible exception of government EDI standards, they are all expected to disappear under the integration power of web services. This is not to suggest that the use of XML standards comes without a price. For example, the amount of data (in bytes) exchanged to "read" a device's short parameter would be approximately (10) bytes with the proprietary binary encoding option, (130) bytes in "freeform" XML and (900) bytes with a basic profile compliant web service. The only reason this inefficiency is tolerated (or even ignored) is because bandwidth and processing capabilities have grown so large and web service support so widespread.
Until the advent of the Internet chip, the use of the offloading option was too expensive for most applications (though it did provide a good development path to get from legacy to next generation devices). With the Internet chip, that is no longer true. If your device has an available serial interface and the connectivity-enabled applications have value (e.g. performance optimization), then you can probably fit and afford one.
{mospagebreak title=Recommendations}
Given the high variance in characteristics, it is unrealistic to think that there is one single best solution. All of the solutions investigated can be implemented even on devices with fairly modest platforms. However, some key points can be made:
- Unless you absolutely cannot afford the inefficiency, XML is the way to go for data format.
- A basic profile compliant web service server is extremely attractive if you will need to tie in to a customer's or you own IT organization and have a persistent connection. This option requires that you know what you are doing (both technically and otherwise). If "connecting" is new for your industry, approach this carefully. If your device works on the factory floor, you should seriously consider an OPC XML data access compliant web service.
- If synchronous operation is not required for the connection enabled applications you will support, the email client is the safest and easiest path. It is especially attractive in circumstances where there is no persistent connection and you are enhancing a legacy device using an dial out version of an Internet chip set. It can be implemented, even on a large scale, without any need for extensive enterprise infrastructure using any of the widespread access ISPs.
{mospagebreak title=The Business Case}
Is there really a business case for connecting smart devices to the Internet? If so, how and when should a manufacturer of smart devices respond?
Business Case
Connecting smart products is not valuable on its own; it adds potential value by enabling new functionality in the product. From the perspective that counts, the customer's, additional functionality in a product is worthwhile if:
- It saves them money and/or time; increases their revenue or opens new uses.
- The value provided by item 1 above significantly exceeds any additional costs.
Are there connectivity-enabled applications that meet this criteria? The answer is yes, lots of them. Some of the potentially more valuable applications for industrial/commercial devices include:
- The ability to tie key factory floor machines into an enterprise's supply chain management software. Bill Kernodle of Clemson University states that the ability to access key production machine information can "… reduce stock outs, wait times, and inventories by 90 percent for traditional supply chains by getting total asset visibility and by making decisions in daily time intervals rather than weekly…".
- Crucial remote support operations can provide great value to your customers and possibly new revenue streams to the manufacturer. High value operations include automated content updating, inventory control and performance optimization. The potential exists to provide remote, near real-time performance optimization for entire manufacturing lines using modeling software, such as Flexsim, that connects with key factory floor machines. Even in less sophisticated environments there is often significant value in product optimization based on trending information automatically collected and emailed to manufacturers for analysis.
- Smart devices can often be converted to near or completely unattended operation when the ability for fault detection is coupled with remote updating and troubleshooting capabilities. This potentially opens significant new market niches that were previously prohibited because of high on site support requirements and has the potential to significantly lower maintenance costs in current niches.
If the information provided by a device such as the state of the world around it, is more valuable than the device itself, you have a strong candidate. Think about it — What difference would the capability to remotely communicate to your device by a human or another machine make to the perceived value of the device? Does this mean that all devices should be connected? No, in spite of the hype the Internet connected toaster makes no business sense.
If connecting a smart device can create substantial customer value and you do not do it, your competitors will. The bottom line is that given a set of characteristics, there already exists technical solutions that will met them, even on fairly modest platforms.
If your devices have not connected and your industry has not connected, you and your customers will probably not know what is important. How do you proceed without betting the company? Conceptual presentations, no matter what form (short of very sophisticated virtual reality) are typically useless when faced with trying to fathom something fundamentally new. People cannot tell how they will react to something new until they touch it and play with it. So if you have time, follow these steps:
- Identify the potentially highest value, connectivity-enabled functions.
- Make a working prototype(s) that includes at least the core functions identified in step 1. Carefully assess the prototype's perceived value with both internal and external audiences. An offloading approach (see http://www.the-solution-llc.com/strategy.zip for an example) can often enable even "legacy" devices to perform as good prototypes.
- Rework the prototype until your assessments indicate that you have the basic functions and their technical parameters nailed.
- Develop the first production release device based on step 3 above as quickly as you can.
- Run like hell, continually improving and expanding the device. Once Pandora's box is open, change will come quickly.


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Oct 11 (Reuters) - Alaska Airlines said it will buy 50 Boeing 737 single-aisle jetliners, worth $5 billion at list prices, in its largest order yet.
Alaska Airlines, which runs an all-Boeing fleet, said the aircraft will be delivered between 2015 and 2022.
The airline is owned by Alaska Air Group Inc , which also owns Horizon Air.
Most of the 50-aircraft order is for the 737 MAX - the new engine variant of the popular 737 that offers better fuel efficiency, Alaska Airlines said in a regulatory filing. ht tp://link.reuters.com/zyh33t
Alaska Airlines currently operates 120 Boeing 737s.
Earlier this month, Boeing reported an increase in orders for its third quarter, helped by the new 737 MAX.
It said it had received orders for 821 aircraft in the 737 MAX category by Oct. 3.
(Reporting by Neha Alawadhi and A. Ananthalakshmi in Bangalore; Editing by Sreejiraj Eluvangal)
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Portman the professional
This is Natalie Portman in London shooting Thor 2. Last year, Sarah posted this article about Portman being pissed over the firing of director Patty Jenkins from the project as she had advocated for Jenkin's involvement and wanted to see a woman direct a superhero movie for a change. Rumour has it, Portman was so disappointed about Jenkins' dismissal she was considering taking time off from acting. Time off? Not if there's a contract in play, but Portman does have enough influence that the studio reportedly involved her in the search for Jenkins' replacement. It turned out to be Alan Taylor. You might know him from Game Of Thrones. So it all worked out in the end then. And, ever the professional, Portman is on set, smiling and back to having brown hair.
Speaking of a professional Portman...
Have you ever seen her audition for The Professional? She still looks and talks exactly the same!


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Darjeeling, Sep 4 (IANS) Most elected members of the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) skipped a meeting of the autonomous development body in West Bengal's Darjeeling hills Wednesday and demanded release of all arrested GTA members.
The protesting GTA members submitted a memorandum, saying they would boycott all sittings till all the 10 arrested GTA members are released.
Of the 45 elected members, only four - including the chairperson and deputy chairperson of the GTA - took part in the meeting.
All elected GTA members are from Gorkha Janmukti Morcha, which won all the seats in the maiden elections held last year.
Twentynine GTA members signed the memorandum addressed to GTA Principal Secretary R.D. Meena demanding all arrested members of the body be set free. Six of the arrested members are executive members.
The members were taken into custody as part of the Mamata Banerjee led government's crackdown on the GJM ever since it intensified the movement for a separate state of Gorkhaland late July.
Meanwhile, hundreds of people raised pro-Gorkhaland slogans in the hills Wednesday, while bare-chested men whipped themselves publicly, demanding a separate state.


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February 25, 2009, 04:15:26 PM »
I posted a similar thread a couple years back, before I quit studying for the LSAT. I'm studying again now.
Here's my situation: I've basically taken a few years off to get my sh*t together. I finished school three years ago and I've been unemployed for just as long (not counting some freelance web design work).
I'm pretty sure my old professors have long ago forgotten who I am and I have no managers or supervisors I can turn to.
Any advice is appreciated.
Jamie Stringer
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February 25, 2009, 04:23:59 PM »
You should go and try to re-establish connections with professors with whom you had a good relationship before like, immediately.
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February 25, 2009, 04:29:18 PM »
Do you have a couple of profs that you took more than one class from? Maybe you still have some of the coursework? If you do, I'd go and talk to them, bring copies of the coursework with you and talk to them about a recommendation. Give the papers or whatever to the prof to jog their memory. (Make sure you chat them up enough and give them time to remember you-- they'll likely guess you're there for a LOR, but it'll be more polite if you don't present that way).
Have you done any volunteer work in the past few years that you'd be able to get a recommendation from?
Good luck- tough situation.
Pardon Johnny Cash.
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February 25, 2009, 05:17:24 PM »
Can you take a couple courses again at a local college? A lot of times, if you already have a B.A., most states schools (particularly if you're a resident) have very lax admission standards. Go part time with in-state tuition, take two courses, get a couple A's and request LoRs. Not those 300 seminar classes, but something at least slightly analytical with a low enough class size where the prof will learn your name.
LoRs are important and they're not. They're important in the sense where if you just get a very general "He got an A, he must have done alright", this looks poorly. However, I doubt there's much of a difference (in terms of influencing the strength of your application) between a pretty good and an excellent rec.
So, if you can take just a couple of quick classes, it might be worth the investment.
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One option is to follow what the others have said below. Gather your academic work, resume and law school essays and have your former profs do a mock interview (it worked for me) with questions you have written up for them to ask you. This will give them a sense of you. But it won't be as good as them having interacted with you on a regular basis while you were in school. Other than that, I would recommend waiting two years if you cannot get solid references now.
Depending on when you want to start law school, you may be able to build a relationship with a supervisor. Try working for Teach for America or City Year...law schools love those organizations. It's "community service", but you get paid a stipend for it. And it will allow you to get good references if you do good work. Also, consider volunteering with AmeriCorps or the United Way for at least two years.
If you have no community service and you are not a URM or disadvantaged White student, you are going to be fighting an uphill battle anyways, as schools look for that. Community service is pretty much expected unless you can demonstrate that it was not possible for you to do it, especially at elite law schools. Besides other soft factors, how do you think they separate all of those 3.7+/168+ applicants?
You can also go back to school for a quarter or two to get some additional courses in and get LOR's from thos profs. Try to take more than one course with at least one of the profs. Do a long-term research assistantship, that's another option.
Good luck!
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Here are some basic facts about MRSA, what it is, what it isn't
and how you can help us to combat MRSA in hospitals
Staphylococcus aureus is a bacterium that is commonly found on
human skin and mucosa (lining of mouth, nose etc). The bacterium
lives completely harmlessly on the skin and in the nose of about
one third of normal healthy people. This is called colonisation or
carriage. Staphylococcus aureus can cause actual infection and
disease, particularly if there is an opportunity for the bacteria
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Staphylococcus aureus causes abscesses, boils, and it can infect
wounds -- both accidental wounds such as grazes and deliberate
wounds such as those made when inserting an intravenous drip or
during surgery. These are called local infections. It may then
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food poisoning.
Infections caused by many antibiotic-sensitive varieties of
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antibiotics such as some types of penicillin and erythromycin. Some
S. aureus bacteria are resistant to the antibiotic methicillin, and
they are termed methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
They tend to be more complicated to treat and require the use of
other antibiotics. We are lucky in the UK that the MRSA that infect
patients are usually more sensitive to antibiotics than in some
other parts of the world.
MRSA stands for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
They are varieties of Staphylococcus aureus that are resistant to
methicillin (a type of penicillin) and usually to some of the other
antibiotics that are normally used to treat Staphylococcus aureus
infections. There are different types of MRSA and the Health
Protection Agency is able to carry out laboratory testing to
distinguish between them.
It is not generally necessary to treat MRSA colonisation or
carriage. MRSA infection is no more dangerous or virulent than
infection with other varieties of Staphylococcus aureus , but it is
more difficult to treat depending on whether it is resistant to any
other antibiotics. Some of the antibiotics used to treat MRSA
however can on occasion be more difficult to use or may cause side
MRSA infections usually occur in hospitals and in particular to
vulnerable or debilitated patients, such as patients in intensive
care units, and on surgical wards. Some nursing homes have
experienced problems with MRSA. MRSA does not normally affect
hospital staff or family members (unless they are suffering from a
severe skin condition or debilitating disease). In general, healthy
people are at a low risk of infection with MRSA.
MRSA are one of the most prevalent
micro-organisms involved with healthcare-associated infections
worldwide. Most patients who are colonized with MRSA do not go on
to develop an infection. The surveillance of MRSA in the UK is a
mandatory scheme run by the Department of Health and measures the
number of blood-stream infections reported by Acute NHS Trusts. The
latest data for this shows there were 3,517 reports between October
2005 and March 2006 (for further information see the mandatory
surveillance report 2006).
MRSA strains were first seen in many countries
in the 1960s, but new strains appeared in the 1980s, which have
caused outbreaks of infection in hospitals throughout the world
including the UK. Further new strains also emerged during the
The rise in MRSA infections in the UK is
likely to be multi-factorial. The new strains that emerged in the
1990s may be more virulent (i.e. more likely to cause infections)
than some of their predecessors, or more easily spread on the hands
of healthcare workers, equipment, and perhaps via the environment.
There are also a number of factors that aid in the spread of MRSA
in hospitals such as: patient transfers within and between
hospitals, the increasing number of very ill patients seen in
hospital and the difficulty in isolating some patients with MRSA.
The increasing complexity of healthcare and medical intervention
also add to the risk of acquiring MRSA.
Several studies have shown that workloads are
also an important factor: the more the required number of hand
hygiene measures needed per hour the less the compliance. This is
why rapid acting alcohol and other hand hygiene solutions are now
advocated in healthcare: they are easier and faster to use.
MRSA is most commonly spread via hands, equipment, and sometimes
the environment. It is important that healthcare workers and
visitors wash their hands before and after visiting a patient.
Provided hands are not soiled (when they should be washed with soap
and water), rapid acting alcohol and other hand hygiene solutions
are now advocated in healthcare: they are easier and faster to use
than hand washing. Equipment should also be cleaned after use.
There will be precautions put into place to prevent the spread
of the organism from patient to patient. Ways of limiting the
spread include hand washing, cleaning equipment after use and
keeping the environment clean. The hospital may need to move the
patient into a single room, or in with other affected patients, to
reduce the risk of spread to another patient. Each hospital will
have a policy on how to best manage MRSA within their local
Hospital strains of MRSA do not normally cause harm to healthy
people, including pregnant women, children and babies. Visitors
should ensure they wash their hands before and after visiting the
Some people carry MRSA most commonly in the nose and
occasionally on the skin without it causing harm to themselves or
others. This is known as colonisation or carriage. When a person
has an MRSA bacteraemia (bloodstream infection) this means that
MRSA has gained access to tissues and bloodstream and is
multiplying and causing harm. MRSA rates are measured by dividing
the number of patients with MRSA isolated from blood specimens in a
hospital by the activity level within the hospital which provides a
'rate'. This enables one hospital to gauge itself against other
similar hospitals and investigate possible causes for
Carriage of MRSA should not be a reason for stopping admission
to hospitals, nursing or residential homes or for discharge to
their home. However sometimes hospitals screen upon admission eg
for planned elective surgery. This enables treatment eg special
washes or ointments to be given to reduce or clear MRSA before
If equipment and wards are not cleaned properly there is a
possibility of a contaminated environment contributing to the
spread of infection. However dirty areas of hospitals do not
necessarily have high MRSA rates or, clean ones low MRSA rates.
Good hygiene particularly in the form of simple everyday
precautions such as hand washing is an effective method in the
prevention of MRSA spread. If cutlery and plates are washed using
soap and water (preferably hot) this will remove MRSA. The risk of
acquiring MRSA through contact with curtains, sheets and cushions
etc is very low.
Thorough hand washing and drying between caring for people, and
whenever necessary, has been shown to be the single most important
measure in reducing cross-infection. Healthcare workers use
antiseptic solutions, including alcohol hand rubs. More recently,
many hospitals have alcohol gels for hand cleaning at the end of
patients' beds. The environment must be kept clean and dry. Whilst
in hospital, patients may have to be nursed in a special ward and
visitors may be asked to wear gloves and aprons. Before going home
visitors may be advised to wash their hands.
Various research initiatives are underway from the design of
hospital wards, the use of isolation rooms, to the effectiveness of
interventions like Clean Your Hands Campaign and investigation of
the causes of multi-drug resistance. The Department of Health has
also set aside £3 million for research as part of implementing
Winning Ways, the Chief Medical Officer's action plan to reduce
healthcare associated infections.
Community-acquired MRSA infection (C-MRSA) is when an MRSA
infection occurs in a previously healthy individual who has no
recognised risk factors associated with MRSA - for example, no
previous hospitalisation, surgical procedures or prolonged
antibiotic treatment. In the UK, the term community-acquired MRSA
may refer to infections in residential homes caused by hospital
strains of MRSA However, some other countries (eg United States)
are describing strains of MRSA that have arisen in the community
('true' community MRSA) and are very different from hospital MRSA
strains. Some of these strains carry a toxin called
Panton-Valentine Leukocidin (PVL). These usually affect otherwise
healthy people and are unusual in the UK.
Yes, 'true' C-MRSA infections are different from the hospital
acquired MRSA, notably C-MRSA is more sensitive to antibiotic
treatment than hospital acquired MRSA, and therefore a wider range
of antibiotics can be used to treat them.
There have been no systematic studies to establish how common
C-MRSA infection is in the UK , but S. aureus isolates referred to
the HPA's reference laboratory are routinely tested to identify
whether they are C-MRSA. Through this surveillance of MRSA
isolates, the Health Protection Agency has identified approximately
100 cases over the last three years.
It is believed that personal contact is the principal risk
factor, particularly where the skin is likely to be broken.
Investigations in countries that have seen this type of MRSA
describe infections in for example in prison inmates, those
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and injecting drug users.
Treatment of C-MRSA infection is easier than for hospital
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treatment. C-MRSA is universally sensitive to the antibiotics
vancomycin, rifampicin, gentamicin, and linezolid.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) provides national
statistics on causes of deaths. ONS statistics show that in 2004 in
England and Wales, 1168 death certificates mentioned MRSA as a
factor contributing to the death of those individuals. In 360 of
these individuals MRSA recorded as the main cause of death, in
other words a death due to MRSA infection.
This figure is incorrect. It comes from a very rough estimate of
the number of deaths which may be attributed to all hospital
acquired infections (HAI), not just MRSA. The estimate was made in
1995 by a working group of the Public Health Laboratory Health
Service. It used an estimate of the percentage of deaths associated
with all HAIs made in the USA in the 1980s (1% of all deaths in the
USA). This percentage was applied to the total number of deaths
occurring in the UK, yielding a crude estimate of 5,000 deaths from
Patients in hospital are more vulnerable to many infections,
including those caused by MRSA, because devices such as intravenous
catheters, or procedures such as surgery, provide an entry point
for germs to enter the body. The most common types of infection
caused by MRSA are local infections of the skin that can be treated
successfully with proper skin care and antibiotics. Some MRSA
infections can become life-threatening. Patients who are at
particular risk are those who are seriously ill with another
medical condition or whose immune system is weakened by diseases
such as diabetes or kidney disease, or by treatments for conditions
such as cancer.


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FEMA Actions Peeve Arkansas U.S. Rep. Ross
February 23, 2010 by RVBusiness · Comments Off on FEMA Actions Peeve Arkansas U.S. Rep. Ross
U.S. Rep. Mike Ross, D-Ark, has written the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) seeking answers to questions which the federal agency has previously ignored regarding the single lot sale of some 15,000 mobile homes and trailers warehoused here, and Ross now has a state ally in Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel, according to the Hope (Ark.) Star.
Ross said his questions concerning the Jan. 29 auction have gone unanswered.
"Prior to this auction I, along with the entire Arkansas congressional delegation, sent a letter to GSA (General Services Administration) and FEMA requesting the immediate suspension of this auction until an appropriate disposal plan could be developed," Ross wrote. "However, this request was ignored and the units sold for $27.4 million, or approximately $1,825 each."
Ross said he wanted to know why FEMA departed from its typical sale of lots of 200, or individually.
"In comparison to the $1,825 per unit received during the recent auction, I would like to know how much these units were sold for on average when they were sold individually," he wrote. "Given the current economic climate, I would also like to know the justification for this auction's immediacy when it could negatively affect manufacturers and consumers in this state and potentially flood the market and collapse an important industry on which many jobs depend."
Ross also sought the current status of the sale and whether the high bidder, which FEMA has not named, has complied with all the terms of the sale. Ross said last week that he would send the letter before considering other steps he might take, based upon the agency's response.
Ross' Feb. 12 letter to W. Craig Fugate, the administrator of FEMA, comes on the heels of an advisory by McDaniel that Arkansans who purchase mobile homes or travel trailers from dealers who acquired them as a result of the bulk sale should be aware of their condition and potential hazards.
"The attorney general predicts that the retail market may soon be flooded with these surplus units which have been stored by FEMA at several locations across the south since shortly after Hurricane Katrina in 2005," McDaniel's advisory notes.
The attorney general warned of getting something that was not necessarily a "good deal."
"We expect that these units will be offered to the public in various venues, including the Internet, and at prices which may appear to be deeply discounted," McDaniel said. "However, a discounted price does not necessarily mean the buyer is getting a good deal, and buyers interested in acquiring a surplus manufactured home or travel trailer need to proceed with caution."
McDaniel warned about possible lack of maintenance to the units, mold, mildew and water damage which might have occurred, and the possibility of lingering formaldehyde fumes inside the units. He advised retail buyers to ask questions concerning the source of any unit they purchase, and warned that questions of property title, registration and state sales tax payment on the units may be unresolved.
"Proceed with caution, extreme caution, if your are tempted to respond to what appears to be an attractive offer for a travel trailer or manufactured home," he said.
McDaniel said complaints may be filed with the Public Protection Department of the Arkansas Attorney General's Office at (501) 682-2341 or (800) 482-8982, or at www.ArkansasAG.gov online.
FEMA has warehousd he units at the Hope Municipal Airport since shortly after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.


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Memorandum of Understanding between UNDP and Ministry of Municipal Affairs to help support host communities in Mafraq and IrbidAug 14, 2013
Within the framework of the "Mitigating the impact of the Syrian refugee crisis on Jordanian vulnerable host communities" project being implemented in Irbid and Mafraq, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Ministry of Municipal Affairs on Wednesday 7 August 2013. The MOU aims at enhancing the effectiveness and efficiency of basic municipal services provided in the host community, including solid waste management services.
The MOU included areas of cooperation to promote municipal services, strengthening institutional mechanisms at the municipal level through improved management systems, solid waste management and other development tools to communicate and connect with the host communities to raise awareness of services.
H.E. Engineer Walid Otoum, Secretary General of Ministry of Municipal Affairs, highlighted the importance of the project and how it sheds light on the essential role played by municipalities in the targeted governorates, it also attracts international support for those municipalities to enable them to fulfill the burden placed upon them in light of the increasing pressure on municipal services, which has led to the need for concerted national and international efforts to enable municipalities to address these pressures in terms of providing the mechanisms and the necessary equipment and raise the efficiency of its employees.
H.E added that the crisis have added a significant burden on municipalities, especially that they already have limited resources, he also thanked UNDP for their support to hosting communities.
On her part, Ms. Zena Ali Ahmed, UNDP Country Director, clarified that the role of the programme is to contribute to the achievement of economic and social development of host communities in Jordan through a holistic project which includes several outputs, including creating job opportunities for youth in the targeted governorates, support municipalities through the provision of equipment and workers for a limited period of time, in order to contribute to their immediate needs. Additionally it aims to raise the municipal capacity in responding to the urgent needs and support young people to start small and medium-sized projects.
The signing ceremony was attended by Engineer Walid Otoum on behalf of the Ministry of Municipal Affairs, Ms. Zina Ali Ahmed on behalf of the UNDP, Dr. Raed Al Adwan, Director of the Directorate of Local Development in the Ministry of the Interior, and both the governor of Mafraq Mr. Abdullah Al-Khattab, and the Governor of Irbid Mr. Khaled Abu Zaid.
As a first step of launching the agreement which is funded by the Japanese government to support host communities in Jordan, UNDP will present one million four hundred thousand dollars to support the municipalities in Irbid and Mafraq to meet the immediate needs of equipment, and will continue to secure further financial support for the implementation of the agreement.
Contact information
Ms. Nora Isayan
Communications Officer
Resident Coordinator's Office in Jordan


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I can't see their strategy paying off, short term, though. Long term, Nokia will fade into being "Just another one of those identical Windows Phone manufacturers", short term, they'll alienate what user base they have left, and get a few early-adopter geeks like us in exchange. It will take the general public a while to realise things at Nokia are any different to business as usual, and most people have some fairly deeply ingrained preference of manufacturer already, anyway.
Edit: They should have focused on staying unique. Furthering Meego development, probably making it look like Symbian, or be themable to look like it (actually this video makes it look kind of like Symbian anyway), while still striving to bring new features in. The watchword of anything should be configurability, expose those that think they can handle it to as much new hotness as they want, while the regular schmoes get something they're already familiar with. They also needed more third party app developers, or a way to open up to the existing app stores of other OSs. QNX has an Android emulator, doesn't it? Meego could probably have done that, too. Sure, native apps would look and be better, of course.
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Coin Collection
The collection of about 12,000 coins forms one of the greatest specialized collections of Byzantine coins in the world.
An online exhibit offers insights into the numismatic holdings at Dumbarton Oaks and Byzantine numismatics at large: 118 gold, silver, and bronze coins illustrate the history of the monetary system with its imperial and religious representations. Seven sections set the coins in their larger historical context. The online exhibit is available here (alternate link).
The majority of the coins were published, together with the Whittemore Collection of the Fogg Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in five catalogue volumes, covering coins from 491 to 1453. Volume I, by Alfred R. Bellinger, volumes II and III by Philip Grierson appeared in 1966, 1968 and 1973; volume IV (1081–1261) by Michael F. Hendy, and volume V (1261–1453) by Philip Grierson, were both published in 1999, completing the series.
In addition, there is a considerable collection of late Roman coins of the fourth century: the gold and silver coins were published in Dumbarton Oaks Papers 18 (1964). A substantial number of late Roman medallions was published in Dumbarton Oaks Papers 12 (1958) and 50 (1996). A catalogue of the late fourth- and fifth-century coins (395–491) was published by Philip Grierson and Melinda Mays in 1992.
The collection continues to be enlarged. Among these recent acquisitions, about 150 Arab-byzantine transitional coins struck in Syria, Palestine and Egypt in the seventh century have been published by Clive Foss with a historical introduction and synthesis.
Some 900 uncatalogued acquisitions will be made accessible on an online database in the near future.
Seal Collection
The 13,000 lead seals at Dumbarton Oaks, together with the Fogg collection of 4,000 seals which are temporarily on loan to Dumbarton Oaks, form the largest and most comprehensive collection of Byzantine lead seals in the world. Six catalogue volumes have now appeared in print, five on geographical seals by Nicolas Oikonomides, John Nesbitt, and Eric McGeer and one on imperial and patriarchal seals by John Nesbitt.
The Byzantine Seals Online Catalogue continues the work started in the printed volumes by publishing the collection online. In this way we can provide access to this unrivalled source to curious visitors, or to scholars studying the prosopography, philology, art history, economic, institutional and administrative history, and historical geography of the Byzantine Empire.


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Whether their palette serves as a backdrop for lights and brights to pop, or just creates a comforting cocoon to relax in, these Room For Color entrants rock their deep, dark décor looks, utilizing chocolate, navy, charcoal, and black. Get inspired by the daring hues of these bold spaces.
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Dell and Best Buy Similarity — Hubris
Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) and Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE: BBY) are each in trouble as the business environments they helped to create become passe and investors wonder if either can regain any measure of relevance. In the face of those problems, each may be taken private by its founder and private equity interests. In the case of Dell, it is Michael Dell who will head a buyout. For Best Buy, it is Richard Schulze.
Investors have wondered about conflicts of interest and why two wealthy men would want to risk long shots on their ability to rebuild broken companies. Hubris seems the only logical explanation. If each man changed his industry for the better once, why shouldn't he be able to do it again?
Several media outlets already have commented on the ways that anticipated private equity deals for the two companies are similar. Schulze and Dell have been savaged for not finding new strategies. The Internet has deeply wounded both. People often buy consumer electronics online. Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has taken a bite out of each. It is hard to see how either company could reverse this.
Investors worry that Dell and Schulze could buy their companies inexpensively. Each man owns enough of his firm to influence the vote for a new ownership structure. The stock prices of both companies are very low, historically. That the founders did not use their wisdom to fix problems before a buyout implies that they can be fixed in the future to pay off the leverage that goes with most PE deals.
Quite simply, neither Dell nor Best Buy can be fixed, at least not more than temporarily. Best Buy could close underperforming stores - a one-time trick. But it has been unable to find success online, which will not change. Dell could shrink its PC business and rely more on consulting and software sales. It already has been crushed in those businesses by the likes of International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) and Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL). Why Dell would be able to build a real rivalry with those companies is difficult to tell.
Dell and Schulze no longer completely control their companies, and that may be the heart of the matter for both. Each has been burdened by pressure from public shareholders and boards of directors over quarterly earnings. But each of these will revert to related problems if PE firms and banks become major holders. The notion that a private company has more independence to pursue new strategies is false. Earnings are earnings, whether their purpose is to fund operations, pay dividends or fatten balance sheets.
If either company or both go private, Dell and Schulze must have the confidence to believe that the magic that they made once, they can make again. But each company has an ancient model now. Whatever Dell and Schulze think about their brilliance, it will not overcome the reality that neither company can be fixed and both are doomed.
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DWTS Season 16, The Music Video (Entertainment Tonight)
As most know by now, Pitbull and the season 16 pro dancers filmed a video the other day as a way to promote Season 16. This was covered by Entertainment Tonight as seen in the video below. ET says this was done to promote DWTS, so I'm assuming we'll see it in a commercial. Can't wait!! Perhaps as soon as Monday night during the Bachelor??
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The Dish
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Krispy Kreme Leaves a Donut-Hole in Its Wake—Just five years after opening its doors in Albuquerque, the last of the city's two coveted Krispy Kreme shops failed to open Thursday morning. And every morning since. Susan Stiger wrote a rather poetic front-page eulogy in the Albuquerque Journal Saturday, stating that the company that owns the Albuquerque stores—as well as eight others in Arizona—has made a claim for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. In other words, the franchisers are out of business, not the Krispy Kreme corporation itself. It's still possible for another shop or two to take their place. But with slipping sales, stadium-sized pools of excess American blubber and more explicit health issuances from the government, the question is whether anyone will be willing to try again. Is there room for donuts in the 21st-century? Or are we in the midst of another health craze like we saw in the '20s, when heritage recipes began to disappear and processed, faux-health food took their place? (In Candyfreak, Steve Almond mentions two chocolate-covered candy bars of the day made with dehydrated vegetable matter. One was called Vegetable Sandwich.) Your mouth is a minefield. Choose carefully what goes in it.
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On the edge of Yellowstone National Park, Montana's first buffalo hunt in 15 years is underway. For each licensed buffalo hunter there is a herd of observers. Hunting with an entourage only works if the prey doesn't run away.
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Le Café Miche Bistro
A tale of two Miches
French food is misunderstood. In fact, it's one of the most misunderstood styles of food here in the States. (Probably because many of us have grown up on the Bugs Bunny cartoons where the slinky, mustachioed waiter screams "oui, oui!!" every couple of seconds.) French cuisine is generally perceived as being too exclusive, with impossible-to-navigate menus and single meals that will cost you a firstborn child. How did we get here? Can we keep it real with French food?
The Itis
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Chowtown Restaurant Guide
Whether you're more familiar with the French Riviera or the French Quarter, there are plenty of places in Albuquerque to get a taste of authentic French cuisine. Read Hosho McCreesh's review of Le Quiche Parisienne in this issue, and check out these other restaurants in the city that will cater to your wanderlust and make you feel, if only for the evening, that you're dining in the City of Lights. Bon appetit, mes amis.


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When you finally have eliminated the enemies from the catwalks around you and have thinned out the enemy numbers below, you can either jump down to the main floor, or run down the staircase leading to the same location (easier to do the former, safer to do the latter). Then, begin opening up on the enemies surrounding you. There's plenty of cover in the area, so get behind something and begin firing away at your opponents. We understand that this is a frustrating area since there are numerous enemies and they aren't represented on your HUD. The best way to proceed forward is to rush forward without Phil, capping enemies as you head to the far side of the warehouse. Here, you can climb up onto another segment of the catwalk and eliminate the rest of the enemies. While you can bring Phil with you, he's a bit of a liability, so we recommend clearing the entire warehouse of enemies before going back and joining back up with him.
The office is on the far end of the warehouse, along the catwalks, and that's where the money is being kept. There will be enemies within the office, but they can be easily slain with a grenade or some bullets through the windows. Be positive to go back and join back up with Phil at this point, because you won't be able to breach the office without him. Once you do, a cutscene will ensue and one of the last remaining thugs will make off with the money. As you give him chase outside, you'll have to deal with a few remaining enemies on the periphery, but nothing too out of control. Just give him chase and follow him outside.
Stupidly, the foe will get into a slow-moving box truck, and you can hop into a pickup truck outside, making this chase rather simple. Though there will be debris falling out of the back of the box truck, and though there will be obstacles in your path throughout the chase (which mostly takes place in the industrial complex, though it eventually works its way onto some city streets), keeping up with the truck shouldn't be an issue. When you finally manage to stop the truck in its tracks, the driver will get out. Run the driver over or in some other way end his life, and then bring Phil back to his place off of Latchkey Avenue, where this whole ordeal began in the first place.
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C++ Developer (low level, multiprocessor, low latency) Top Financial NYC
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Note: This is the team developing applications and data solutions for company's core trading platform. The team is undertaking a major new development initiative. The team will only hire people with significant academic and professional accomplishments. Must have a Computer Science degree from top Comp Sci program, ideally Masters or PhD. The team is open to hiring a recent PhD grad with a few years of experience or a senior developer with 8+ years of relevant development experience in large-scale, high performance, robust C++ based software solutions. Ideally person would also have experience developing solutions for handling large amounts of data. The team would prefer to hire someone from outside the financial industry who has stronger computer science fundamentals and stronger interest in technology.
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This senior software developer position with Enterprise Application Infrastructure group of the bank includes responsibilities for developing and supporting core C++ application toolkits and components for use throughout the business.
The focus of the role is the development of the C++ libraries which are used to build applications across the firm, the firms next generation C++ infrastructure, as well as further developing the functionality of our existing systems
The successful candidate should have performance optimization experience, in-depth knowledge of low-latency networking and multicore scalability.
The products developed by this team are used across the firm. This means that the role requires a developer with strong technical skills and the experience to understand the implications of their design decisions and good understanding of current best practices in application architecture, software design and code development.
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Extensive knowledge of C++ on Linux and/or Windows.
- Deep understanding of multi-threading and multicore architecture as well as low-latency networking issues.
- Track record of multi-tier application design and development in C++.
- Experience building re-usable code.
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills; Broad interest in technology.
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NCSACW provides technical assistance (TA) on substance abuse issues in the child welfare population. TA is available to national, state, tribal, and local agencies and individuals.
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