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United States District Court, D. Utah
March 1, 2017
KELLI B. SLADE, Plaintiff,v.NANCY A. BERRYHILL, Acting Commissioner of Social Security, Defendant.
J. Furse United States Magistrate Judge
Kelli B. Slade ("Ms. Slade") appeals the
Commissioner of Social Security's decision denying her
claim for Disability Insurance Benefits under Title II of the
Social Security Act (the Act), 42 U.S.C. §§
401-433, as well as Supplemental Security Income, 42 U.S.C.
§§ 1381-1383f. (ECF No. 3.) Having considered the
parties' briefs, the administrative record, the arguments
of counsel, and the relevant law, the Court[1] REMANDS the
Commissioner's decision for further consideration.
Slade filed an application for Disability and Disability
Insurance Benefits ("DIB"), as well as,
Supplemental Security Income ("SSI") on April 24,
2012, alleging disability beginning March 25, 2011. (A.R.
155-160, 161-67.) The Social Security Administration denied
Ms. Slade's claims initially on July 26, 2012, and again
upon reconsideration on November 29, 2012. (A.R. 59, 60, 81,
82.) Thereafter, Ms. Slade timely requested a hearing before
an Administrative Law Judge ("ALJ") on April 17,
An ALJ
held a hearing on March 11, 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (A.R.
41-58.) The ALJ found Ms. Slade not disabled on May 28, 2014.
(A.R. 22-40.) The Appeals Council denied Ms. Slade's
request for review on November 16, 2015. (A.R. 1-6.) This
Appeals Council denial made the ALJ's decision the final
decision of the Commissioner.
Slade brought this action to appeal the Commissioner's
decision pursuant to 24 U.S.C. § 405(g), which provides
for judicial review of the defendant's final decision.
Factual History
automobile accident at age twelve injured Ms. Slade,
resulting in chronic back pain. (A.R. 282, 339, 458.) This
pain worsened in 2005 making work more difficult. (A.R. 458.)
She began receiving pain medication and injections for the
pain. (A.R. 458.) In March 2011, Ms. Slade received a
cervical spine steroid injection that caused a cervical spine
hematoma. (A.R. 278, 282.) An MRI of her spine showed that
the hematoma caused cervical spinal cord compression. (A.R.
285, 307.) Eventually Ms. Slade underwent a C6-C7 laminectomy
and removal of the hematoma to alleviate the pain. (A.R.
287.) An MRI after the surgery showed post-surgical changes
at ¶ 6-T1 and small amounts of fluid within the
postsurgical space. (A.R. 365.) Ms. Slade continued to
complain of neck pain, upper back pain, and pain in her upper
extremities. (A.R. 387.) Physical examinations showed
decreased range of motion in the cervical spine and decreased
reflexes in both the left and right triceps and biceps. (A.R.
390.) In October 2012, the record reflects that Ms. Slade had
difficulty using a knife and fork due to pain in her upper
extremities. (A.R. 458.) She had decreased range of motion in
her neck. (A.R. 462.) She had reduced motor strength,
decreased sensation, and decrease reflexes in her upper
extremities. (A.R. 462, 463.) A Romberg test showed some
instability. (A.R. 462.)
Slade also suffered from headaches since the hematoma. She
was diagnosed with chemical meningitis, a severe headache
caused by neurosurgical procedures. (A.R. 314-320.) Ms. Slade
consistently complained of headaches throughout the record.
February 2014, Dr. Rox Burkett, reviewed Ms. Slade's
entire file and submitted a report and a residual functional
capacity assessment. (A.R. 532-38.) Dr. Burkett noted that
Ms. Slade had severe degenerative disc disease in her
cervical spine confirmed by multiple doctors including
specialists. (A.R. 536-37.) Dr. Burkett noted that even the
DDS examiner stated Ms. Slade had credible neck pain and
limited strength and range of motion but did not reflect this
finding in his residual functional capacity. (A.R. 537.)
Burkett stated that Ms. Slade had the diagnoses of advanced
degenerative disease of the C-spine with chronic pain and
weakness, as well as, migraine headaches. (A.R. 532.) He
stated she has significant sustainable weakness in her upper
extremities. (A.R. 532.)
Hearing Testimony
At the
hearing, Ms. Slade testified she does not drive because she
has difficulty turning her head and keeping her foot on the
accelerator. (A.R. 44.) Ms. Slade stated that her pain runs
along her entire spine. (A.R. 46.) The pain radiates into her
shoulders, and her fingertips are tingly and painful. (A.R.
46.) She has difficulty gripping things. (A.R. 46.) She has
headaches. (A.R. 46.) Ms. Slade's mother helps with most
of the daily activities including helping her dress and
shower. (A.R. 47.) Ms. Slade testified that at least once a
week, the headaches are bad enough that she cannot perform
any activities. (A.R. 50.)
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Sunday, September 06, 2009
It appears that some people couldn't run a bath
London Midland is a train operating company with a fairly extensive network of services.
Today (Sunday 6th September 2009) nearly all of London Midland's train services have been cancelled, due to many staff not volunteering to work today.
According to Bob Crow, the failure to volunteer "was not organised action by workers but a case of the contractual right not to work being exercised".
I find this a little strange. I don't know how many people have failed to volunteer to work today, but it strikes me that if London Midland have had to cancel most of their trains, the number must be statistically significantly different to the norm. In my experience, such a significant variation in the behaviour of people is rarely un-coordinated, or without cause.
Which ever way you look at it, this appears to be a case of management incompetence at London Midland.
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It doesn't make sense, does it? Assuming most people quite like having the right not to work Sundays then why put that at risk?
This has to be organised in some way so all they've done is draw attention to the fact that Sunday's are voluntary. All that can happen from here is that LM tighten things up and start making Sundays contractual.
- Sunday, September 06, 2009 12:31:00 pm
- Central User said...
As I understand the position, an agreement to pay drivers more for working on Sundays expired at the end of August. No agreement means staff volunteers don't get paid more for working on Sundays, so they have declined to volunteer.
Clearly a solution will have to be found - it does however seem to be a very strange way to run a 364 day business.
- Sunday, September 06, 2009 4:49:00 pm
Ah, I see, makes total sense now!
A clever way of doing it though rather than going on strike or something like that. With the latter public sympathy probably wouldn't be great but now everyone is looking to London Midland as being at fault.
- Monday, September 07, 2009 6:30:00 pm


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THE dad of a teenager found frozen to death hit out at the decision to post armoured officers at the police disciplinary hearing into his son's death.
Neville Sellers believed North Wales Police's actions were "over the top" as the internal inquiry into 17-year-old Lee's death got under way yesterday.
Mr Sellers said: "I didn't agree with the fact they were dressed in full body armour, had pepper spray and CS gas.
"I thought it was a bit over the top. I had already been fully searched beforehand.
"I objected to their presence and they ended up sitting outside the room."
Two police officers accused of failing to help Lee are under scrutiny at the disciplinary hearing.
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"A compromise was reached and they sat outside and afterwards he had a cordial relationship with them."
The 45-year-old, who runs a B&B with his partner in Barmouth, has accused the two officers of neglect of duty.
In the early hours of a freezing cold morning on January 29, 2004, 17-year-old Lee Sellers, of Lyme Grove, Buckley, was seen walking barefoot along the A550 near Penyffordd.
He had been drinking with friends in the Cross Keys pub, Buckley.
Why he was walking towards Penyffordd, the opposite direction to his home, is unclear.
Police received at least one call from a motorist who passed Lee and was concerned for his safety.
Mr Sellers believes the officers should have either arrested Lee or taken him home.
Two weeks later his body was found in a disused coal bunker on farmland several miles outside Penyffordd. He died of hypothermia.
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Their request was thrown out and Mr Sellers was allowed to watch the proceedings begin yesterday. Mr Sellers has been informed the hearing is scheduled to take two weeks.


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There are so far two self-governing Kurdish states, one in Rojava (Western Kurdistan) within the borders of Syria and one in Bashur (Southern Kurdistan) within the borders of Iraq and the latter is officially known as the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). These two states are de facto independent yet not internationally recognized as independent states and due to this lack of international recognition the Obama administration has enforced a de facto weapons embargo against Kurdistan while providing vital air support for the military ground forces of the two Kurdish states in their defensive war against Daesh. Although this US policy may seem paradoxical, this is due to the US government seeking a return to the borders of status quo ante bellum, meaning the arbitrary colonial borders drawn by France and the United Kingdom, then global colonial powers.
It is peculiar that the Obama administration which regards itself as the first "post-colonial" US administration does not recognize that these antiquated borders are part of the problem and not the solution. Also the Daesh genocide against the Yezidis could have been prevented had the US intervened militarily one day earlier rather than one day too late. The United States should reassess its Kurdistan policy and recognize its complicity in failing to prevent the two genocides against the Kurds; the Anfal genocide by Saddam Hussein and particularly so in 1988 and more recently by Daesh in particularly targeting the Yezidis in 2014.
This is a double failure of US policy as genocide prevention should indeed be a core consideration in US military decision-making. The US government should officially acknowledge this double failure and also anchor the establishment of Kurdish independence as a core objective of US Middle East policy. The Kurdish people are victims of imperialist colonial borders that have lost all relevance and the United States government should side with the people of Kurdistan who along with the people of Israel are the two most pro-American peoples in the world.
Israel and the organized American Jewish community have for decades already performed the vital role of advocates for and go-betweens in the US-Kurdistan relationship with Israeli diplomats and Diaspora Jewish advocates quietly arguing and pushing for Kurdish security and Kurdish self-determination. However, the US government needs to acknowledge that new borders in the Middle East will need to be drawn in accordance with the respective wishes of the local inhabitants.
While the people of Kurdistan and the two Kurdish states and governments deserve the wholehearted support of the free world including from the United States of America; the leaders of the various political parties of Kurdistan need to draw up a realistic plan for political unification of the two Kurdish states by means of democratization, liberalization and secularization. The people of Kurdistan are ready for liberal democracy and Kurdish independence also requires serious and determined implementation of liberal democracy in Kurdistan.
Liberal democracy is not something that can wait until after Kurdish independence is achieved but rather independence and international legitimacy should be achieved precisely through democratization, liberalization and secularization. Yet, successful democratization in most Muslim countries requires a policy of zero-tolerance towards all forms of Islamism, a form of Muslim extremism seeking a global religious dictatorship. Any Islamist organization should be automatically illegal by law in every country and Islamism needs to be marginalized and stigmatized worldwide as the extremist, totalitarian political movement that it really is.
The Israeli-Kurdistani relationship was born in the mid-20th century out of very strong mutual sympathies and shared geostrategic interests between Israelis and Kurds but also through tribal ties between Kurdish rabbinic Jews who had immigrated to Israel and their Muslim tribal kin in Iraqi Kurdistan whose rabbinically Jewish ancestors had been involuntarily Islamized. The blood ties and common ancestry between the Jewish Barzanis in Israel and the Muslim Barzanis in Iraqi Kurdistan thus remains part of the strong foundation upon which the Israeli-KDP relationship was built, KDP being the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Israel's oldest ally in the Middle East.
While some Kurdish clans are indeed descendants of involuntarily Islamized rabbinic Jews, most Muslim Kurds are descended from involuntarily Islamized descendants of Kurdish religion, namely Yezidism, Yarsanism and Alevi-Bektashi; all of which are prominent denominations of Median Crypto-Judaism in the Middle East. This was not yet understood by the Israeli government when its alliances with KDP and later PUK (Patriotic Union of Kurdistan) were formed in the course of the 20th century.
Awareness of the reality of the Kurdish people being a Crypto-Jewish people has further strengthened the relationship between Israel and Kurdistan and has not least enhanced the trust between the sides in an Anti-Israel region where Anti-Jewish suspicions are the norm with Jews being near automatically cast as dangerous, parasitic, evil, psychopathic and genetically alien. The increasing knowledge and awareness regarding the Jewish roots of Kurdish religion has crucially also contributed to enabling the formation of the alliance between the PKK (Kurdistan Worker's Party) and the State of Israel. PYD (Democratic Union Party) is part of the PKK movement and has established and currently governs the self-governing Kurdish state in Rojava (Syrian Kurdistan) and has become particularly closely aligned with the State of Israel.
The political parties and governments of Kurdistan need to educate their peoples about Kurdish religion, about the history of religion in Kurdistan and about the fact that Kurdish religion is made up of three major denominations of Median Crypto-Judaism. Kurds whose ancestors had been involuntarily Islamized therefore need to be welcomed back home into Kurdish religion. The two Kurdish governments need to do everything that is possible in a secular state to educate all Kurds about their shared Kurdish religious heritage and encourage patriotic Kurds to return to their own Kurdish religion and especially so Kurdish youth.
While it is very appropriate indeed that a Kurdish clan, tribe or community returns to the denomination that their ancestors once belonged to, whether that is Yezidism, Yarsanism, Alevi-Bektashi, Rabbinic Judaism or possibly even Karaite Judaism, there should be a smorgasbord of different denominations available for those individual Kurds particularly in urban or Diaspora contexts wishing to make more personalized choices and themselves choose which denomination that they would wish to return to. While Bektashism (namely the Bektashi Order) and part of Yarsanism do welcome new converts and religious returnees, the caste-based Yezidism rather needs to create a new religious caste for nominally Muslim Kurds either wishing to return to Yezidism or preferring Yezidism to return to another denomination of Median Crypto-Judaism.
Geographic isolation between Kurdistan and Israel – and Kurdistan being landlocked have historically limited the scope of bilateral cooperation between Israel and Kurdistan and still limits the way that Israel is positioned to aid Kurdistan and Kurdish military forces. However, bilateral cooperation needs to be advanced as much as practically possible without recourse to historically counter-productive exaggerated "secrecy". The Israel-Kurdistan relationship is anything but secret and to pretend that it is still secret is unfortunately a mere public exercise in hypocrisy. Considering the history of abandonment by the neighbors of Kurdistan and global great powers alike, many Kurds still incorrectly claim that "the Kurds have no friends but the mountains".
Tevel (the Political Action and Liaison Department) is part of the Mossad and includes the Mossad's own diplomatic service which also maintains diplomatic representation offices in both Rojava (Syrian Kurdistan) and Bashur (Iraqi Kurdistan) and these offices could easily be upgraded into regular Israeli consulates once Israel's Kurdish partners so prefer. However, this is the first time in history that Israel is allied with most of the Kurdish movement in all four parts of Kurdistan and since the PKK no longer spreads anti-Israel propaganda as it tragically did when it was allied with Ba'athist Syria this change has helped enable the formation of the Israel-PKK alliance.
While Israel has a fundamental responsibility to aid Kurdish movements that are friendly towards the Jewish state; Israel has obviously no moral responsibility whatsoever to aid or even to take into consideration any organization of any ethnic background that is hostile to Israel. The PKK movement has however undergone a very substantial process of de-radicalization and profound democratization and so the designation as terrorist needs to be removed from all organizations in the PKK movement as it has been rather transformed into a major counter-terrorism force in the war against Daesh.
The Israel-Kurdistan relationship was not historically founded on the fact that rabbinic Jews and Kurds are two distinctive Jewish peoples; however the awareness of this historical fact certainly obliges Israel and Kurdistan to gradually pursue optimal mutual military integration. Once Kurdistan is free, liberal-democratic and mostly returned to Kurdish religion (Median Judaism), Kurdistan should become eligible to freely join a liberal-democratic Federal Israel that would politically unite Para-Jewish peoples/lands in the region and worldwide (such as Druzistan and Alawistan) with Israel. The processes of accession to and integration towards a Federal Israel will however necessarily need to be gradual over the years and completely voluntary on the model of the European Union's own processes of accession and integration.
While people-to-people relations and economic cooperation are very important; military cooperation needs to be advanced in new and ground-breaking ways. Kurdistan needs to be built up into a unified military giant like Israel – and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are well positioned to aid and train in building up the currently mostly low tech Kurdish military forces into a formidable and unified high tech army with an advanced air force. The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) of Iraqi Kurdistan is due to its own relative military weakness in comparison with Iran's well-equipped and technologically relatively advanced military forces constantly concerned about the Iranian threat, something which has very much contributed to keeping the KRGs relationship with Israel nominally secretive.
The solution is therefore for Kurdistan to develop its own defense industry and technological knowhow will therefore need to be transferred from Israel and other countries. The Israeli defense industry could even establish its own local production plants in Kurdistan and defense industries from other friendly countries should be invited to do so as well. An Israeli military airbase could be established in Rojava (Syrian Kurdistan) with US coordination if the government of Rojava so wishes. This would immensely strengthen not only Rojava but also the strategic military posture of the KRG towards Iran which will therefore be much less inclined to invade Bashur (Iraqi Kurdistan).
Also, the Iranian regime has lost nearly all public support among its own population and so the peoples of Iran are ready for a revolution, the only question being precisely what will ignite a revolution in Iran. An Israeli strategic military operation against the Iranian nuclear weapons program may quite possibly become what will trigger a spontaneous revolution in Iran which will provide opportunities for the establishment of a third self-governing Kurdish state, this time in Rojhelat (Eastern Kurdistan) within the current international borders of Iran.
The war against Daesh could be relatively easily won once the United States makes a strategic decision to supply Jordan and Kurdistan with weaponry funded by the Gulf monarchies for the specific purpose of completing this essential task. It is abundantly clear that neither the Syrian and Iraqi militaries, nor the various forces commanded by Iran in Syria and Iraq are capable of defeating Daesh. The Shia-dominated Iraqi military does not feel welcome in the Sunni areas of central Iraq and the Syrian military is defending a completely illegitimate regime that does not even promote Alawite interests.
Indeed, the Israel-Jordan-Kurdistan axis is very much up to the task with highly motivated and very determined military forces. However, American supply of advanced weaponry to Kurdistan with extensive funding from Gulf states is vital precisely as America is yes the indispensable nation without which the international system simply does not function. The attempted but failed isolationism of the Obama administration has instead spawned multiple forms of neo-imperialism around the world.
There needs to be a sustainable process of credible nation building in place whereby Kurdistan is supplied, funded and internationally recognized as it unifies both politically and militarily while responsibly promoting democratization, liberalization, secularization as well as return to indigenous Kurdish religion by means of educating the general public in Kurdistan about the particularly rich heritage that is Kurdish religion.


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What is the Objective?
To get a selection of photos from DorsetFest 2017 festival that show the festival as a fun, family friendly music festival and that capture all the different elements of the day.
What are we looking for?
That's up to you. It could be the music, the camping, the scenery. The most important thing is that it must be to do with DorsetFest 2017 and capture the spirit of the festival.
How do I enter?
After the festival, simply e-mail your best photos to email@example.com by midnight on Sunday 16th July 2017. If you have lots of photos, please select a maximum of 10 and send idividually or use a free online transfer site like www.wetransfer.com. When you e-mail us, please include your name and a contact number
Are there any specifications?
The images must be hi-res as they may be used for printed adverts/articles in local press such as the Dorset Echo as well as online. They must also be JPEG or PNG files.
What about judging?
The entries will be reviewed by members of the DorsetFest Team and we will try to get a shortlist onto our Facebook (@DorsetFest) by the end of July, but it may be a little later depending on entries and availability of the team. We'll then give everyone the opportunity to like their favourite(s) during August/September. This will be taken into account by the team and the winner/runners up will be announced at the end of September. Please note, the teams decision will be the important one and may not be the same as the public vote, though that will clearly be a major factor in the decision.
What will you do with the photos?
We'll use the photos for advertising and driving awareness of DorsetFest so by entering you are giving us the rights to use the photos online or in print. This may also involve adapting the photo (for example changing the shape or creating a collage). Wherever possible we will credit the photographer, but this may not always be possible.
What about privacy?
We will take individuals privacy extremely seriously. Having said that, in attending the festival there is a probability that we will all end up in a photograph or two, so there is a degree of consent that is assumed. All we ask is that you do everything in your power to ensure that you have their permission, especially if it's of an individual. Also, if anyone asks you to remove a photo that they are in, please delete it and do not submit.
If anyone sees a photo we've used that they are unhappy with, then please e-mail us on firstname.lastname@example.com and we will remove it as quickly as possible. We will always aim to ensure images appear on our social media and website before being shared externally to ensure we retain control of the image and give individual's a chance to contact us if there is a problem
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By Aug. 2, it was threatening to enter the Royal Teton Ranch, owned by the Church Universal and Triumphant, a religious group that had been feuding with the park over CUT's plans to develop its ranch as a world headquarters for its followers.
Instead of CUT threatening the park, the park's natural burning policy was threatening CUT's ranch.
"I think they've been acting like pyromaniac," said Ed Francis, CUT's ranch manager.
Church leader Elizabeth Clare Prophet took the matter into her own hands. She led 250 of her followers in chants aimed at stopping the fire.
"After we called for reversing of the tide, the wind shifted to the north and we attribute this to our prayer," she said.
The 1,500 firefighters battling the blaze contained the northern front of the fire Aug. 8, and its threat diminished steadily throughout the rest of the month.
Firefighters, forest and park managers huddled in West Yellowstone Aug. 3 to outline strategy for controlling the fires that had reached 121,000 acres or 6.5 percent of the park. They brought in what Barbee called the best fire behavior experts in the country to predict where the fires would be at the end of the month.
The team of experts predicted no more than 200,000 acres of the park would burn.
"They will probably run into fuels that won't carry the fire very well, and the fire will slow down considerably before the end of August if we don't have rain," said Despain. "If we do have rain, the fires will cover far short of what we've mapped out."
Even before fire behavioralists made their presentation, the winds on Aug. 2 had sent flames over a substantial portion of the land they predicted would burn. By Aug. 12, the total burned area reached 201,000 acres.
The worst was yet to come.
Aug. 20 was the 78th anniversary of the infamous "Big Blowup," a wildfire that burned 3 million acres of Idaho and Montana in 48 hours in 1910.
Firefighters in Yellowstone will remember the anniversary date as Black Saturday.
Eighty mph winds breathed new life into nearly every fire. With the humidity explosively low, the North Fork fire steamrolled through the Norris Geyser Basin.
It reached several areas where winds had blown down dead lodgepole pine, turning the concentrated fuel into an inferno. It left behind only ashes and a few black, skeletal trees.
That day, winds also pushed trees onto two separate sections of power lines south of Yellowstone. The Huck fire started in Grand Teton National Park and quickly jumped to 5,000 acres, sending employees and visitors at Flagg Ranch fleeing.
"We were close to the fire when it was coming toward us," Irma Tsosie, a firefighter from San Carlos, Calif., told the Jackson Hole News about the Huck fire. "It went to the top of the trees and the wind shifted toward us and it came toward us, they kept telling us 'go back, go back.'"
The Hunter fire, in the Bridger-Teton National Forest, forced the evacuation of the Teton Science School and a dude ranch.
The Clover-Mist fire, which had been creeping north, made a run toward Crandall, Wyo., and the communities of Silver Gate and Cooke City, Mont. At the end of the day, it was less than 3 miles away.
Seventy to 80 mph winds brought the Storm Creek fire back to life for the third time, fueling a 10 mile run in three hours.
To the west, the Hellroaring fire grew to more than 30,000 acres. It had started in the Custer National Forest Aug. 15 when a spark from a horseshoe started brush on fire.
Black Saturday had shattered the artificial limits placed on the fires' potential by Despain and other fire experts. It had also shattered the illusion that the fires had climaxed.
"This is going to be a long, slow slugfest," said Rich Gale, Yellowstone Area Fire Commander. "This isn't a three-round event, this is going the full 15 rounds."
Despite the fury of Black Saturday, it pales in comparison to a ghastly firestorm exactly 78 years before.
On August 20, 1910, hurricane-strength wind whipped forest fires around northern Idaho and Montana into a flaming frenzy that made the worst day of the Yellowstone fires seem like a wiener roast.
This was the "Big Blowup' that burned nearly three million acres in Idaho and Montana in only 48 hours. By the end of the fire season, more than five million acres of national forest land had been burned throughout the northern Rockies.
Most forest experts say that 1988 will go down as the worst fire season since that terrible year. More than four million acres, including 1.75 million acres in Alaska, have gone up in smoke this year. The concentration of fires in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, burning through more than 1.5 million acres, compares with Big Blowup.
"I think you can say it's comparable but it's different," said Steve Arno, a research forester at the U.S. Forest Service's forest fire laboratory in Missoula, Mont. "The 1910 fire was burning in commercial forest sites; therefore, the impact on natural resources was great."
Yellowstone's fires have primarily been in wilderness or roadless lands. Fewer economic resources have burned.
The most striking difference is in the loss of life. This year, forest fires have been responsible for four deaths. A helicopter crash in Wyoming killed three, and one firefighter was crushed in Montana by a falling tree. No one has died fighting Yellowstone fires.
In 1910, the racing crown fires trapped hundreds of people and 85 were killed. Only the heroics of a few crew bosses saved many others.
The most famous escape was that of Edward Pulaski and his crew. Trapped in Placer Creek Canyon by approaching fire, Pulaski rounded up 45 men, most panicking and some crying, and led them through the inferno to an old mine shaft.
"Outside the tunnel, the canyon was a raging furnace," Pulaski said.
One man was killed on the way to the mine by a falling tree. The others lay down in the shaft as Pulaski threw water on the burning timbers at the mouth of the tunnel. All of them soon fell unconscious from the smoke, heat, and fire gases.
The first man to awaken once the fire had passed went for help in nearby Wallace. All but five were eventually saved, though their boots were burned off their feet and their clothes has been parched into rags.
Improved firefighting techniques and a better understanding of fire behavior have cut down injuries and deaths. But the nature of the fires was different.
In 1910, the fire burned through cedar, white pine, and hemlock forests. Once the crown fire started in that dense forest of large trees, it raced unimpeded at speeds of up to 70 miles per hour.
The lodgepoles that make up most of Yellowstone's forests lie at higher altitudes and, despite their dry condition, do not crown as easily as the larger trees. The fires built up as the humidity dropped. They peaked on a windy days at about 3 to 5 p.m., then settled down into the evening as cooler temperatures and higher humidity return.
"It's not a running crown fire like the fire in 1910," said Arno. "It's a passive crown fire.
"The 1910 fire accumulated a lot of acreage in one or two days running across those crowns," he said.
One similarity between 1910 and 1988 is the weather.
"Never within the memory of old timer did the Coeur d'Alene experience such a dry spell as occurred during the summer of the year 1910," remembered William Morris, a fire crew leader.
Yellowstone's first fires this year were in May, but they quickly burned themselves out.
The first fires in 1910 came in late April. By June, fires appeared throughout the northern Rockies, increasing in frequency through July and August, exploding on August 20 in both cases.
But Arno expects a great difference in the aftermath of the two fires. The fires of Yellowstone burned very unevenly, leaving a mosaic of contrasting effects.
The 1910 fires burned extremely hot, leaving little ground cover, killing many of the animals, and leading to heavy soil erosion.
"I don't think you'll see that kind of think in Yellowstone," said Arno. "There will be some erosion, but it will be within the realm of what happens naturally over the centuries."


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United States District Court, W.D. Arkansas, Fayetteville Division
July 6, 2017
PATRICK LEWIS HUBBARD PLAINTIFFv.EDGAR GONZALEZ, Rogers Transport Officer; DETECTIVE EDDIE WEIMER, Rogers Police Department; OFFICER T. DEVORE, Benton County Detention Center BCDC; LIEUTENANT R. HOLT, BCDC; DETECTIVE MIKE DIEHL, Benton County Sheriff's Office; and SERGEANT MIKE LIRA, BCDC DEFENDANTS
This is
a civil rights case filed by the Plaintiff Patrick Lewis
Hubbard under the provisions of 42 U.S.C. § 1983.
Hubbard proceeds pro se and in forma
pauperis. He is incarcerated in the Benton County
Detention Center.
matter is presently before the Court for initial screening of
Hubbard's pleading pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915A.
For the reasons discussed below, the Court finds that this
action should be summarily dismissed pursuant to Section
1915A and Section 1915(e)(2)(B).
to the allegations of the Complaint (Doc. 1), on November 2,
2016, Hubbard was incarcerated in the Pope County Jail. On
that day, Transport Officer Gonzalez took him into custody on
a felony warrant and transported him to Benton County, where
he was booked into the Benton County Detention Center
("BCDC"). Hubbard alleges Officer Gonzalez lacked
authority to do this because he was not a police officer.
does not further explain what he means by this statement. He
contends Officer Gonzalez caused him to be illegally arrested
and falsely incarcerated for months.
respect to Detective Eddie Weimer, Hubbard alleges he gave
Officer Gonzalez a felony warrant for Hubbard and had him
taken into custody and confined in a hostile environment.
Hubbard alleges Detective Weimer engaged in a conspiracy to
falsely imprison him. Hubbard further alleges that after he
was booked in, Detective Weimer came to the Benton County
Sheriffs Office, got a warrant out of Hubbard's file
"that someone forgot to serve and signed it, as if he
served it." (Doc. 1, p. 7).
alleges Officer Devore allowed him to be booked into the BCDC
without the booking detention form being filled out
completely or the warrant having been served. Hubbard alleges
these actions allowed the false imprisonment to continue.
November 6, 2016, to the present, Hubbard alleges Lieutenant
Holt, Detective Diehl, and Sergeant Lira, each knew that he
was being imprisoned based on documents falsified by
Detective Weimer, yet did nothing to stop this injustice and
instead threatened Hubbard or punished him for "not
letting the subject rest." Id. at 8. As a
result, Hubbard alleges that he has required psychological
help, has lost work, has missed time with his family, and has
been subjected to a hostile environment. Hubbard seeks to
recover compensatory and punitive damages and any other
relief to which he may be entitled.
the Prison Litigation Reform Act ("PLRA"), the
Court is obligated to screen the case prior to service of
process being issued. The Court must dismiss a complaint, or
any portion of it, if it contains claims that: (a) are
frivolous or malicious; (b) fail to state a claim upon which
relief may be granted; or (c) seek monetary relief from a
defendant who is immune from such relief. 28 U.S.C. §
A claim
is frivolous if "it lacks an arguable basis either in
law or fact." Neitzke v.
Williams, 490 U.S. 319, 325 (1989). A claim fails to
state a claim upon which relief may be granted if it does not
allege "enough facts to state a claim to relief that is
plausible on its face." BellAtl. Corp. v.
Twombly, 550 U.S. 544, 570 (2007). "In evaluating
whether a pro se plaintiff has asserted sufficient facts to
state a claim, we hold 'a pro se complaint,
however inartfully pleaded, ... to less stringent standards
than formal pleadings drafted by lawyers."'
Jackson v. Nixon, 747 F.3d 537, 541 (8th Cir. 2014)
(quoting Erickson v. Pardus, 551 U.S. 89, 94
In the
case at bar, Hubbard argues that his arrest and subsequent
incarceration in the BCDC were unlawful. However, Hubbard
does not deny that Benton County had a valid felony warrant
for his arrest. He alleges in his Complaint that the officer
who picked him up from the Pope County Jail and transported
him to the BCDC did not have the lawful authority to arrest
him. But whether the transport officer was a civilian
employee or a certified law enforcement officer is of no
consequence here. The Court is not aware of-and Hubbard has
not identified-any constitutional provision or law that
prohibits transport of a prisoner from one county to another,
within the same state, based on the existence of a valid
felony warrant. Furthermore, Arkansas law explicitly permits
the execution of arrest warrants by law enforcement officers
in any county in the state. See Engleman v. Murray,546 F.3d 944, 948 (8th Cir. 2008). Finally, as to
Hubbard's claim that Detective Weimer obtained a warrant
"out of [his] file, " and then signed it after
Hubbard was already booked, the law ...
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It was during this relatively tranquil and productive time in the group's history that Victoria made a horrible discovery.
Group was breaking up for the week, that twilight time after the work had been done and the administrative details attended to, when we all relaxed and smiled at each other and yawned and stretched, when Eleanor hustled to the "washroom," as she called it, while Imani and Vic bussed the table, and Frederick and Sabrina gossiped (about who? Who did they have in common? Or were they talking about TV? Probably TV…). Dan never lingered; he always started packing his things and patting his pockets while we were still discussing the next deadline and meeting, and as soon as it was decided, he rose from him seat and gave his funny little bow – "Good night, all." – then swept out the door.
But the rhythms were off tonight. Imani had beat Eleanor to the bathroom, so Eleanor had started telling Vic about something her daughter Marian had written – so talented, Eleanor's daughter was, and Vic hypothesized that it probably ran in the family. The detail, said Eleanor. Just wonderful, so creative. Her daughter Marian inspires her so much.
Vic smiled at Eleanor. It felt good to be around someone who enthused, instead of critiquing all the time; it was a nice antidote to all the skepticism and sarcasm we might have fallen prey to without her there. If there were disagreements, as there sometimes were, Eleanor was quick to step in and take a side. And in a way, her entering the conflict mollified it. While we would all be bitchy with each other, there was no way we were going to be bitchy with the old lady, and so contentious tones became more even, the agreement to disagree reached much more quickly. Vic wondered if Eleanor knew how powerful she was.
Eleanor went off to the washroom, leaving Vic to look around and notice that the glasses had been collected, while Frederick and Sabrina scorned some absent party named Bethany. The coffee table was smudged, so she went to the kitchen for some glass cleaner and paper towels. And there, to her great dismay, were Dan and Imani. Kissing.
Oh, bloody hell. She yipped in surprise, and Frederick called out from the living room, "You okay?"
"Yep!" Dan and Imani moved apart, Imani flushing and pressing her lips together in a line, Dan moving back into the living room, fluidly leaving the scene. Imani looked up at Vic, helpless – Please don't think badly of me. Please don't tell. Vic drew her chin back, eyes open extra wide – Well, well, young lady. What have we here?
They could hear Dan in the living room. "Good night. See you week after next." Vic gaped at Imani – He's leaving? Just like that? Did I just see what I think I saw? Imani cringed and shrugged a little, elated and miserable in equal degree. Vic scooted past her to the cabinet, got her cleaning supplies, and went back out into the living room. Eleanor, Frederick and Sabrina were standing and waiting for Imani. Dan was gone.
"Imani, you taking the train?"
Vic wanted her to stay, wanted to hear what she had to say for herself, and she could tell that Imani wanted to confide in her too. "Actually, Imani, can you hang out a minute? I want to ask you about your yoga class…"
"Oh, yeah, yoga." She moved to the couch, and the rest of them took their leave.
Vic waited for Imani to start. Imani seemed to be waiting for Vic. She looked like a little girl about to be punished for stealing a cupcake, a cupcake she had obviously wanted and enjoyed very much. Vic didn't want to punish her – she didn't know what she wanted. Her first instinct was to warn Imani against Dan, but mostly, she wanted to hear about it.
"So," she said – supportively, she hoped.
"Please, please don't think I'm a terrible person."
"I don't."
"I am. I am a terrible person. I have a wonderful boyfriend, I know." Vic thought back to Benji – sweet, but mediocre at best. "I don't know…I'm just…"
"Hey, it's okay. I didn't mean to put you on the spot. I just thought, if you wanted to talk…"
"I do." Her head hung and she started to cry. "I'm sorry. I'm sorry." She wasn't apologizing to Vic, or she was. "I don't know what I'm doing."
"When did it start?"
"Just now! When you walked in…" There was the edge of accusation, when you walked in and spoiled it. "I mean, I guess it's been…brewing. But we never said anything. We never planned it."
Was that true? In a way, yes. They'd never said anything. But they'd said enough of nothing. Three meetings ago, he'd pretended to have some business in her neighborhood, he'd walked to the subway with the gang and sat next to her on the train and got off at her stop. She'd known, even before she asked, as they emerged onto the sidewalk – "So, wait, where are you going?"
Nowhere, he'd said. I just wanted to talk with you.
I have a boyfriend, she could have said, the most hackneyed thing in the world to say. But he knew that. And he hadn't said he wanted to fuck her, or to kiss her. He just wanted to talk with her. He made no motion to touch her. And suddenly she wanted him to try, very badly. But she couldn't, it wasn't up to her. He had to make the first move.
Well, he said, it was a pleasure. And he gave his funny bow, and went back down into the subway.
Since then, nothing. Not an extra glance in her direction during group, but neither did he avoid her eye. No emails except those sent to the group. Not, "I enjoyed our subway ride, I'd like to do it again," which is the email she composed in her head, the one she wanted to receive, if not to send. She'd hoped he would join them again after group, walk towards the subway with them, the two of them trailing behind and talking, but he resumed his usual habit of disappearing as soon as group was done. She'd even gathered her things quickly last meeting, thinking she'd slip out with him, but he was too quick for her.
And then tonight, he'd lingered. None of them had noticed, but Imani noticed. He had not packed during the denoument. He was sitting in his chair, relaxed. She went to the bathroom and her hands were sweating because she knew, he was waiting for her. She looked at herself in the mirror and it seemed to be someone else, someone much younger, looking back at her. She went back into the living room, and picked up her glass from the table, and brought it into the kitchen, where he was waiting. They didn't say anything. He just stepped forward one step, and…
"Wow," said Vic.
"I know," said Imani.
"He's really good."
Imani looked startled. "Have you…?"
"No! No, I just mean – he's very…" She had to tread carefully, she realized, as she was talking about the man Imani loved. "Persuasive."
"He didn't say anything. Neither of us did. It was just like…" She shrugged, and her shoulders stayed up, like she was hugging herself. She let them drop. "I don't know what I'm doing."
Vic realized that this revolting development, which was sure to fuck up our lovely group, was almost exciting and welcome, not just for the novelty and the intrigue, but because Imani was confiding in her, like a friend. "What do you want to do?" she asked.
"Dan." They laughed. "Don't laugh. I mean, I know I laughed, but…is it laughable? I mean, he's…weird, I know."
"His work speaks volumes."
"I know! I know! I could barely stand him the first few weeks! I can barely stand him now! I don't know what I'm doing. I really don't."
"What about Benji?"
Imani groaned like Vic was the world's worst killjoy. "I think I'm going to throw up. I don't want to hurt Benji. I love Benji. We were just at his mom's the other day, and she was all like, 'When you two have kids…' And I used to want that, you know? I mean, I still do, part of me, but it's like everything changed in a month. In a day. Ever since we took that subway together..."


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In honor of USAF SSgt Travis L. Griffin, 28, who was killed April 3, 2008 in the Rasheed district of Baghdad by an IED strike to his vehicle. Travis is survived by his son Elijah.
Thanks to Chris Jones: For those who were asking, there is a way to donate to the family. My unit received him here in Ohio when he was flown back from overseas. We have established an account for his son if interested in donating. Checks and money orders can be sent to the following: "Sergeant Travis Griffin Family Fund" Wright-Patt Credit Union Building 1224 WPAFB, OH 45433
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800 meter run forward
400 meter run backward
800 meter run forward
400 meter run backward
Get Down and Dirty Core Down ***Suggest you wear something you're ok rolling in the field on****:
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PHP Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples - Version 4.18, by Dr. Herong Yang
Constant and define() Function
This section describes what is a constant, define() function defines a constant name to a value, constant value can retrieved by the name directly or by the constant() function, any string can be used as constant name.
What Is a Constant? A constant is an identifier for a data value. Once defined, the data value identified by a constant can not be changed. PHP supports constants with following basic rules:
1. A constant must be defined with the define(name, value) funtion. For example, define("PI", 3.14159); defines a constant named as PI to a value of 3.14159.
2. To retrieve the value defined in a constant, you can use the constant name directly in any expression. For example, define("PI", 3.14159); $area = PI * $radius * $radius; uses the value define in PI to calculate the area.
3. You are allowed to use any string for the constant name. For example, define("LONG PI", 3.14159265359); defines a constant named as 'LONG PI' to a value of 3.14159265359. But using special characters in constant names are not recommended.
4. If a constant name contains special characters, you need to use the constant(name) function to retrieve the value defined in the constant. For example, define("LONG PI", 3.14159265359); $area = constant("LONG PI") * $radius * $radius; uses the value defined in "LONG PI" to calculate the area.
5. If you want to know if there is a constant defined for a given constant name, you can use the define(name) function. For example, define("LONG PI", 3.14159265359); defined("LONG PI"); returns TRUE. And defined("LONG RI") returns FALSE.
6. Constants can be defined with only value of scalar data types: boolean, integer, float, and string.
7. The PHP engine provides a number of prefined (built-in) constants. For example, __FILE__, __LINE__, PHP_OS, PHP_VERSION, PHP_INT_MAX, DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR, ...
Now let's look at my tutorial example below to confirm some rules mentioned above:
<?php # ConstantTest.php #- Copyright (c) 2015, HerongYang.com, All Rights Reserved. # print "\n PI is not defined as a constant:\n"; print " PI: "; var_dump(PI); define("PI", 3.14159); print "\n PI is defined to a constant now:\n"; print " PI: "; var_dump(PI); define("LONG PI", 3.14159265359); print "\n LONG PI is defined to a constant now:\n"; print " LONG PI: "; var_dump(constant("LONG PI")); print "\n LONG RI is not defined as a constant:\n"; print " LONG PI: "; var_dump(defined("LONG PI")); print " LONG RI: "; var_dump(defined("LONG RI")); print "\n Trying to define DAYS to an array:\n"; define("DAYS", array("Jan"=>31,"Feb"=>28)); print " DAYS: "; var_dump(DAYS); print "\n PHP built-in constants:\n"; print " __FILE__: "; var_dump(__FILE__); print " __LINE__: "; var_dump(__LINE__); print " PHP_OS: "; var_dump(PHP_OS); print " PHP_VERSION: "; var_dump(PHP_VERSION); print " PHP_INT_MAX: "; var_dump(PHP_INT_MAX); print " DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR: "; var_dump(DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR); ?>
If you run this sample script, you should get:
PI is not defined as a constant: PI: string(2) "PI" PI is defined to a constant now: PI: float(3.14159) LONG PI is defined to a constant now: LONG PI: float(3.14159265359) LONG RI is not defined as a constant: LONG PI: bool(true) LONG RI: bool(false) Trying to define DAYS to an array: Warning: Constants may only evaluate to scalar values in C:\herong\php_book\ConstantTest.php on line 20 DAYS: string(4) "DAYS" PHP built-in constants: __FILE__: string(43) "C:\herong\php_book\ConstantTest.php" __LINE__: int(25) PHP_OS: string(5) "WINNT" PHP_VERSION: string(5) "5.0.4" PHP_INT_MAX: int(2147483647) DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR: string(1) "\"
Last update: 2015.
Table of Contents
Introduction and Installation of PHP 7.0
PHP Data Types and Data Literals
►Variables, References, and Constants
Variables and Assignment Operations
Variable Variable Name - Name Variables with Expressions
►Constant and define() Function
Expressions, Operations and Type Conversions
Conditional Statements - "if" and "switch"
Loop Statements - "while", "for", and "do ... while"
Function Declaration, Arguments, and Return Values
Configuring and Sending out Emails
Retrieving Information from HTTP Requests
Creating and Managing Sessions in PHP Scripts
Sending and Receiving Cookies in PHP Scripts
Controlling HTTP Response Header Lines in PHP Scripts
MySQL Server Connection and Access Functions
Functions to Manage Directories, Files and Images
SOAP Extension Function and Calling Web Services
SOAP Server Functions and Examples
Localization Overview of Web Applications
Using Non-ASCII Characters in HTML Documents
Using Non-ASCII Characters as PHP Script String Literals
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First, we lightly stretch the Achilles' tendon to relax the tension in the muscl
We stimulate the entire arch of the foot and toes.
If the patient is constantly suffering from stiff shoulders, we massage the whole foot focusing on the area surrounding the side of the small toe.
(To fix stiff shoulders, massaging the hands may be more effective rather than massaging the feet, depending on the person.) We use pressure points on the feet which helps to remove exhaustion. Our technician Hataya has been giving this medical treatment for over 16 years! 「Ask me anything about your feet. 」
The top of the foot is also another great place to remove exhaustion. We adjust the strength of our massage depending on how exhausted your body is. The reason why we do that is to relax the tension in all of your body's muscles starting from your feet.
There are some pressure points on the shin which help reduce the exhaustion in your eyes, stress and pain in your lower back. We also stimulate the calf.
Depending on how exhausted your body is, we will asses and massage the corresponding part to provide the best medical treatment.
It may be hard to see in these pictures, but this shows what we do to relax your body by massaging your feet.
(These pictures are samples. The order of our massage may differ from the process shown.)
We also customize our original medical treatment and its combination to match your body's condition.
Please experience how refreshed you will feel after our medical treatment!


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Public Health England (PHE) announced an investigation into a outbreak in over 150 people of a type of Salmonella Enteritidis.
Dr Kimon-Andreas Karatzas, a food microbiologist at the University of Reading, said:
"Salmonella is quite common and found in the intestines of chickens, which is why outbreaks are often associated with chicken or egg products in the human food chain. Salmonella is totally harmless to chickens, but pathogenic to humans – in other words, it makes us ill. While it is not as deadly as Listeria monocytogenes (most deadly foodborne pathogen with 30% mortality rate) it is the second most common cause of foodborne disease in the UK after Campylobacter. However, it has very low mortality rates and the disease is usually associated with vomiting and diarrhoea which can last between 1 to 7 days. Since it can cause dehydration it can be particularly bad for the elderly or those with underlying health problems.
"Salmonella is found naturally in the intestines of reptiles and birds and there have been cases where people developed salmonellosis just by handling such animals even as pets. However, this specific outbreak seems to have been caused by a strain of Salmonella Enteritidis which is often associated with poultry or eggs.
"As it is found in chicken faeces, most eggs are contaminated on their surface when just laid. However, high standards of food production and preparation can minimise the risks of transferring salmonella into the human food chain. Meat producers with high welfare and production standards reduce the risks of producing chicken which is contaminated, but chicken should still be properly cooked through before eating to kill off any bugs that remain.
"From the details given so far about this outbreak, it sounds as if it will be linked to a contaminated prepared Ready-to-Eat food product. The strain that denotes poultry origin suggests that the food product might contain something prepared from chicken or egg origin from which salmonella was not eliminated. However, this serotype has caused outbreaks in the past that were not linked to food products with chicken ingredients. In these cases either equipment that was contaminated with Salmonella was used without thorough cleaning or water containing salmonella contaminated the product.
"Until the source is found, there is little that people can do to protect themselves, other than remembering to take care when handling raw meat and eggs and making sure food is cooked properly before eating."
Professor Anthony Hilton, Head of Biological & Biomedical Science at Aston University, said:
"If the cases are related the next important stage will be identifying common risk factors which are associated with the infected individuals. This might be consumption of a contaminated food or ingredient or even a common exposure at an event or activity.
"Compiling food and exposure histories of cases occurring over several months can be complex and time consuming depending on the quality of the information available and it may be some time before we know the true extend of the outbreak and the causative link, if any."
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New Delhi, May 2 (PTI) Tracking a weak trend overseas, gold fell for the second day and prices eased further by 0.17 per cent to Rs 28,714 per 10 grams in futures market today as speculators engaged in trimming their positions.
At the Multi Commodity Exchange, gold for delivery in far-month August declined by Rs 49, or 0.17 per cent, to Rs 28,714 per 10 grams, in a business turnover of 68 lots.
In a similar fashion, the metal for delivery in June traded lower by Rs 44, or 0.15 per cent, to Rs 28,609 per 10 grams in 3,658 lots.
Analysts said offloading of positions by participants in line with a weak trend overseas mainly kept pressure on gold prices at futures trade.
Besides, a subdued trend at the domestic spot markets too weighed on prices, they added.
At the spot market in the national capital, gold traded Rs 100 down at Rs 29,350 per 10 grams.
Globally, gold fell 0.10 per cent to USD 1,254.90 an ounce in London. PTI KPS SUN SRK


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Anyone else watching this?
The main male character looks like/is voiced by a girl and the bad guy has a twelve year old boy "companion" that he constantly holds and for lack of a better word, pets.
It's really fucked up and every other asset of the show is just horrible; that includes but it not limited to character design, plot, episode structure, animation and music.
For some reason though, I just keep watching.
EDIT:So sixth episode shows that the main guy/girl really is a girl. She's just a tomboy and no one else knew it.
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Scotland would be hit hardest
with Brexit vote
by Gordon MacIntyre-Kemp
Business for Scotland 03/06/2016
THE EU referendum campaign has started to stutter into life and with the UK wide polls sitting at 50-50 and the last two showing Leave taking a lead we just don't know who will win. In the last few weeks I have criss-crossed Scotland and debated with Brexiters, almost all of whom were prominent Better Together campaigners in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Perth and Dundee. The lack of understanding of the specific economic impact on Scotland of a Brexit within the Leave campaign has been astounding. The trouble is that the UK media present the financial and economic implications of a Brexit as if it would have the exact same impact on all regions of the UK – but my research has shown that a Brexit would very definitely impact more negatively on Scotland.
Out of the UK, in the EU?
Confusing times ahead
by Gordon MacIntyre-Kemp
The National June 3rd, 2016
I would like to see the UK vote to stay and for Scotland to become an independent nation with an EU-style relationship with the rest of the UK and the EU. The tightening of the polls UK-wide however also brings in the possibility of what I call the Schadenfreude scenario when Scottish Stay votes keep England in the EU against its will, if Leave win in England by less than a per cent then it could happen and boy, would that make politics interesting.


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Praying for a miracle
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Been a slow few days on The Ignatian Educator because of devastating developments at Xavier. One of our seniors was involved in a major accident on St. Patrick's Day and is in extremely critical condition. We had a prayer service last night at the ICU and are praying for a miracle.
At another prayer service today on campus, we prayed over the story in scripture where Jesus heals Jairus's daughter (Mk 5:21-43). Jairus runs to Jesus and tells him, "My little daughter is at the point of death. Come and lay your hands on her, so that she may be made well, and live." Shortly thereafter, Jesus comes to the house and says (in Aramaic), "Talitha koum," or "Little girl, get up!" Immediately the girl gets up. She is healed.
Today my prayer has been simple: I want Jesus to tell Greg to get up.
Another prayer of mine has been to let myself, and our community, be desperate — and to lay our collective anguish at the feet of Jesus. To tug at his cloak, to shout His name, to drop before Him with nowhere else to turn. So many miracles begin just this way, with people surrendering everything — their hope, their pride, their theorizing — to Christ and Him alone. So this is what we shall continue to do, all the while praying for a miracle.
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Around the world before bedtime – Big Egg Hunt
Well, The Big Egg Hunt finishes in a week and I still have a stack of eggs to talk about, so it will be eggs, eggs and more eggs over here until after Easter.
We embarked on a family expedition to hunt for the eggs, and found some wonderful works. So here is the fifth egg we found on our journey.
Around the world before bedtime, by Miss Dee, on the round-about at Trafalgar Square.
The egg is painted with a whimsical scene of a little girl, an umbrella and her bear, floating away in the wind. The work is sweet and reminds me of the stories of Winnie the Pooh. Christopher Robin with his umbrella, and Winnie the Pooh blowing away on windy days.
"You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes." - Winnie the Pooh
Stay tuned for more eggs....


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Students in a 2016 computer science course at Georgia Tech got a surprise as the semester was wrapping up: It was revealed that one of their teaching assistants, a friendly but serious-minded young woman named Jill Watson, was a robot.
The students had never met Watson, but felt they knew her. Over the course of the semester she had fielded hundreds of inquiries posted to the class' digital bulletin board, offering homework tips, leading online discussions and winning praise for her quick, helpful responses. But unlike the other teaching assistants, Watson was actually a "chatbot" — a virtual assistant created by Professior Ashok Goel to reduce the strain on his human helpers.
"I was flabbergasted," one student said after the big reveal. "Just when I wanted to nominate Jill Watson as an outstanding TA," another declared.
Goel's teacher-bot offers a glimpse of a possible future for the world's workplaces. The same techniques Goel used to help students and colleagues could easily be adapted to the needs of a human resources division, offering unflagging, customized and virtually instant support to employees, says Bill Meisel, a consultant who has researched the rise of digital assistants in the workplace.
"A natural-language chatbot, available to employees on mobile devices or a website, could automate much of the burden of answering employee questions without forcing the employee to wade through material to find the answers or require the time of an HR professional," he says.
Meisel isn't just theorizing. Thanks to the efforts of tech giants like Apple, Amazon and Microsoft, along with a host of smaller companies, the robotic colonization of the workplace is well underway. Forrester reported in 2017 that 41 percent of businesses were already using or developing AI tools; three years from now at least 843 million enterprise users are expected to be using digital assistants in the workplace.
Many digital assistants focus on the consumer, and some are more gimmick than game-changer — Taco Bell's "Tacobot," for instance, lets Slack users order lunch via a chatbot, but still requires a human to pick up the order. Still, the future is bright for sales- and service-oriented bots: By 2020, a Gartner report predicts, customers will handle 85 percent of their dealings with businesses without interacting with a human.
'A Democracy of Data'
As technologies evolve, bots are expected to become a bigger part of companies' strategic planning around HR and even management functions. That has the potential to be a democratizing force by giving employees frictionless access to information and helping them to work smarter and make the most of opportunities, says Roberto Masiero, senior vice president of ADP Innovation Labs.
ADP's own chatbots, which it uses internally and is testing with around 2,000 employees at partner organizations, can issue reminders, offer career tips and provide workers with access to HR information on a 24/7 basis. "It becomes an enabler," Masiero says. "It creates a democracy of data that didn't exist before."
And it's not just ADP that sees enormous potential for enterprise-focused digital assistants. Microsoft and Amazon are both fighting to bring voice-operated assistants into the workplace, in the hope that workers will one day use Cortana or Alexa to manage their calendars, handle to-do lists and carry out some job functions.
Other companies are developing more specialized tools. Voicera recently launched a voice-operated digital assistant called Eva that can take notes during meetings and send reminders based on the discussions it overhears. And IBM is using AI to improve talent management, saying it envisions a future in which "every employee has a personal mentor."
Bots could also have a big role to play in onboarding and training. A Navy project found that recruits who received IT training from a digital tutor subsequently outperformed human-trained recruits, and after seven weeks of training could perform at a level that matched that of an specialist with three years of on-the-job experience.
Bracing for a Potential Belly-Flop
Still, not everyone's excited about the promised AI-powered techno-utopia. An HR.com survey found that 89 percent of HR professionals either "detest," "dislike" or "have some reservations" about AI adoption in the workplace.
Even former Google HR chief Laszlo Bock, who is upbeat overall about AI's potential, says he's a little freaked out by the business community's rapid embrace of the technology. "It's the feeling when you stand on top of a high dive for the first time: You know you probably won't belly-flop, but you're also a little terrified," he says.
There are many ways in which AI could make the workplace better and make employees "happier and more productive," says Bock, who is now leading a startup called Humu with a goal of improving work "through science, machine learning, and a little bit of love." But there are also plenty of scenarios in which artificial intelligence could alienate workers, reinforce existing institutional biases or impede the human interactions that make good leadership possible.
"You gain a lot of insight into your organization by having human beings talk to people," Bock says. "In most chatbots, you lose that insight and knowledge."
Part of the problem is that the term "artificial intelligence" is something of a misnomer — there's nothing truly intelligent, and certainly nothing self-aware, about even the most sophisticated digital assistants. That means any humanity or empathy manifested by a bot ultimately rings hollow.
That's not necessarily always a bad thing, because removing the human element from workplace interactions might make it easier for employees to talk about sensitive issues. Computer scientists at DARPA, for instance, found people were more likely to open up to an AI-powered therapist when they believed they were talking to a soulless chatbot rather than to a human-supervised system.
That led psychologists to develop Woebot, a digital assistant that checks in on mental health patients' wellbeing and that gets franker responses than humans tend to receive. Other digital assistants specialize in discussing end-of-life issues, giving terminal patients a safe space to figure out their options. "It's hard for humans to be nonjudgmental when they're having these kinds of conversations. So some people might find it easier to talk to a chatbot about their thoughts," the Rev. Rosemary Lloyd from The Conversation Project, an end-of-life charity, told New Scientist.
Finding Ways to Mitigate Risks
A bigger concern, Bock says, is that AI systems are prone to amplifying the conscious or unconscious biases of their designers and users. Bock notes that Microsoft launched a Twitter chatbot in 2016 that used machine learning to hone its conversational skills based on interactions with real people — and within 24 hours Twitter users had trained the bot to parrot horrendously racist views, forcing Microsoft to pull the plug.
That's an extreme example, but all AI systems rely on real-world data for their training and so by their nature tend to reinforce the status quo. Add in features that fine-tune algorithms based on user feedback and it's all too easy for cognitive technologies to reinforce institutional biases, even as they offer a veneer of objectivity.
"If all you're doing is training on existing data, you'll build systems that replicate the bias that already exists, and expand it into new arenas," Bock warns. "The approach most organizations are taking to applying machine learning today will make problems of bias worse, not better."
Such problems can be planned for and avoided, but only if managers know what they're doing, says Dave Millner, an executive consulting partner with IBM. Unfortunately, there's a troubling gap between the perceived potential of AI systems and managers' understanding of the technology.
The HR.com survey found that most HR professionals believe AI will be widely used in their organizations over the next five years, with 70 percent saying chatbots will become an important way for employees to access HR information and more than half saying workers will take orders directly from computers, without the involvement of human bosses.
However, just 8 percent of HR professionals are confident that they understand AI technologies. That combination of ambition and ignorance is dangerous, Millner says, because it can prevent managers from engaging with AI in a clear-eyed way. "There are early adopters, and that's great," Millner says. "But there's still a lot of ignorance, a lack of knowledge and understanding about what it can do and, more importantly, what it can't do."
Millner says what is needed is a more considered approach that begins with education and culminates in the implementation of well-understood systems that are designed to avoid bias and other potential pitfalls. "It's a risk, of course," he says. "But if it's introduced in an appropriate way, with testing and piloting and continual learning, then you can mitigate those risks."
The Long-Term View: 'A Net Positive'
Bock also says workplace AI can be a boon if it's handled responsibly. "In the long term it's going to be a net positive," Bock says. "But in the short/medium term it all depends on the values and perspectives of the people building these systems."
The takeaway for decision-makers isn't that AI is best avoided, Bock says. The key is to be cognizant of the risks and mindful in reaching for the potential rewards. "It's a huge opportunity," he says. "There's a window in the next three to five years where the companies that are thoughtful about using this technology well are going to crush it, and absolutely win. There's a huge amount of upside."
Rather than viewing digital assistants in the workplace as money-saving technologies that can automate away the need for human interaction, Bock says, companies should see them as a means to augment human decision making and to give managers more time for the difficult but important tasks of building relationships and nurturing their employees.
"Fundamentally I'm an optimist," he says. "A little machine learning can go a long way toward helping us be better leaders."
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Okay.. so we've talked about all kinds of storage solutions. We decided to buy some tubes from SKS for gemstones and glass. WELL! I LOVE them!!!!!
The small ones are 4" tall and the large ones are 6" tall. The ones in the picture are the 6" tubes. We intend to use the hanging tabs at the top to... well... hang them. The plan is to get a piece (or 2 or 3 or... ) of pegboard and hang them on the pegboard.
Michael says we should probably paint the pegboard white so that the colors of the beads are clear. The picture below is of some 10mm Czech crystals. Michael's first picture was on a white background, but you couldn't see the tabs, so this one is on a pale blue background.
I got out my new tubes and my trusty label maker and had a great time! When I get new beads, I'm going to label each tube with the name of the gemstone, glass, or crystal- the size - where we got it - and how much they cost.
I can't tell you how many times I come home from a bead show and I know what the beads are when I get home and how much I paid, but 3 months later? Good luck! I have an idea, but I'm sure that sometimes I'm WAY off!
Using beads BT (before tubes) led to beads EVERYWHERE. I'd take what beads I thought I needed and go "play". I'd have 3 or 4 beads left when I was finished and I'd put those beads in a small plastic box or in a small bag. Before I knew it, I had bags and boxes of small amounts of beads EVERYWHERE. They never seemed to get back into the original storage container (that often held 24 different types of beads - each container containing a different color group.
Now, I can take the whole tube, use what I want and hopefully put the tube back on the pegboard, but even if the tube doesn't make it back to the pegboard right way, at least all of the beads of that type are together.
Talk to me in 3 months (make that 2 months) and I'll let you know how it's working. I know that there is no such thing as perfection when it comes to beads, but this one seems to make sense to me.
Any comments or suggestions????
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Storage - moving forward...
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Valentines Day Recital
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Kimberley takes the listeners' breath away with her brilliant country songs. Now that Valentine's Day is approaching she has written a romantic song for her fiancee and determined to steal his heart once again by playing it for the first time only for him. What do you think she should wear on this poetical day?