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There's a saying every mainlander, from taxi drivers to schoolchildren, can recite: "Up in the sky there is heaven; here on Earth we have Suzhou and Hangzhou."
Known collectively as SuHan, Suzhou, in Jiangsu province, and Hangzhou, in Zhejiang province, are situated at the southern end of the Grand Canal – the ancient waterway on which goods were shipped from the south to Beijing. SuHan was core to the economy of the Yangtze River Delta before Shanghai, 100 kilometres or so to the east, was a dot on the map, and much of what we associate with Han Chinese civilisation – silk, tea, calligraphy – developed here.
Today, these two cities boast tourist economies. Hangzhou's West Lake and Suzhou's classical gardens are designated Unesco protected heritage sites. Yet when we cycle through this so-called "heaven on Earth" we witness few of the wonders SuHan has to offer. The whole eastern seaboard is enshrouded in a foggy haze that recalls the "airpocalypse" of Beijing 12 months earlier.
Eight of us have been cycling through dense smog since Ningbo, unaware that we are peddling through historically abysmal pollution.
Just before we reach Lake Taihu, on the Yangtse River Plain, south of Shanghai, Ride For Hope organiser Nicholas Smith calls together the riders for a roadside meeting. "I've just received word from Shanghai – I'm afraid we won't be able to cycle into the city tomorrow," he tells us, his face grave. "The pollution is too serious."
According to the Shanghai Daily, "The city's PM2.5 density soared to 468 micrograms per cubic metre by midnight, more than six times the nation's limit of 75."
"We'll have to reconvene in a month or two to finish this leg of the journey," says Smith.
We've made it across four provinces and already ridden more than 2,000 kilometres. Now it looks as though our grand finale, a triumphant ride into Shanghai, will have to wait. There is no disguising the despondency of the team as we proceed into a mist-enshrouded Suzhou.
The Ride for Hope cycle tour began in Shenzhen on November 16 and was meant to link the mainland's original free-trade zone to its newest.
It was organised by Smith, resident manager of the Futian Shangri-La hotel, to raise funds for the construction of water cellars for a remote Yao-minority village in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.
The team – who have, over the course of three weeks, been in the saddle for eight to 14 hours a day, loosely following G, or secondary, roads – includes Li Xiaobao, 27, a Hubei province native who now resides in Nanning (in Guangxi Zhuang), where he operates a successful food-processing business. He is sharp, and doesn't suffer fools gladly. Also from Nanning are 27-year-old Lu Baokang (who we call Big Lu) and 21-year-old Lu Yushui (Small Lu). Both are crazy about bikes and their athleticism has been crucial in the mountain stages of the journey as they have hung back to assist anyone trailing – usually me. Shenzhen native Carl Wu Zhifeng has been Ride For Hope's mechanic. Stoic and unwavering, he has been on hand whenever punctures or malfunctions have hindered our progress north. Smith, 38, a two-metre-tall tank of a man, has led from the very beginning. Ex-military, the Welshman's navigational skills and, occasionally, his first-aid training have helped us through some difficult situations. Hongkonger Herman Wong Yat-ming completes the team. At 52, he is the oldest participant, but in excellent physical shape.
He speaks English, which has been invaluable in helping Smith communicate with the team.
We hardly knew each other when we set out, following a starting ceremony in Shenzhen, but over the weeks we have bonded like men at war while negotiating the obstacles that litter the mainland's frenetic roads.
"I FEEL LIKE I'M WEARING Dongguan on my face," Smith says on the second day of cycling. "I had no idea there was so much construction."
Navigating the Pearl River Delta is hardly the best way to ease into our journey. This is the manufacturing centre of the world and – beyond the ostentatious downtown areas – the delta is essentially a sea of factories connected by bumpy roads upon which overloaded trucks spill debris as they hurtle along. There's very little countryside. Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Dongguan converge as one great, chaotic megacity and crisscrossing it is enough to drive any reasonable man insane. Everything appears hurried, temporary and unsound. "China's ambitions are boundless, the execution abysmal," I tell my diary.
We finally find open country after passing Huizhou, a small city bisected by the East River on the fringes of the delta. We are only seven at this point and our small fleet pedal in unison down empty roads, enjoying views dominated by rice paddies and water buffalo.
Nevertheless, man's impact is never far away in such a populated country and even while cycling the rural back roads, one passes quarries, swathes of deforested hillsides and the occasional building site.
"I don't think we've gone 10 kilometres without seeing some kind of construction work," says Smith, as we peddle towards the quaint river town of Huidong, where bicycles and scooters still outnumber cars.
Only in the most mountainous regions will we witness China untamed.
We encounter our first mountain range later that day as we cycle through the Hakka uplands – the craggy areas of Guangdong province occupied by a Han sub-group that arrived in the south long after the Cantonese. The traditional way of life of the Hakka persists only in these isolated valleys. Our thighs burn as we crawl up unforgiving slopes but the stunning scenery, dotted with sequestered farmhouses, gives rise to the sensation that we are somehow travelling back through time, towards a less contaminated age.
Our final stop in Guangdong is harrowing. The road we enter the city of Jieyang on has been widened at the expense of the front halves of several houses. Still inhabited, these homes let it all hang out. Bathrooms and shower-heads are visible; wooden bedroom doors open straight onto the street; furniture has been left balancing on lips of concrete – balconies that were once part of whole rooms. As we peddle on, we ride alongside rivers coated in algae born from the overuse of chemical fertilisers.
The traffic is an abomination, as the new BMW class wrestles for space with the toiling masses still getting by on rickshaws, motorbikes and smog-bellowing trucks. A restaurateur has caged a live deer outside his eatery and goats are being milked in the middle of busy turnpikes.
Small Lu makes the decision to purchase a beautiful river bird from a restaurant and sets it free in a rural area between Chaozhou and the provincial border.
We enter Fujian province with a sense of relief. There is a salty sea breeze, the mountains are forested and the rivers flow with clear water. People wear bamboo hats and inhabit towns that are distinctly middle class. The area elicits what Smith calls "the China of the imagination".
The most sensational day of cycling comes on the 150- kilometre leg between Yunxiao county and Xiamen, when Smith leads us off the main road and through a series of villages set against towering mountain vistas. A temple set before a stream calls to mind scenes from mountainwater ink paintings.
Southern Fujian may well be all that is left of old China; as we push north we cycle past Qing villages, ancient Taoist shrines, Buddhist temples and ancestral burial grounds. But much of this heritage is marked for demolition. As the Communist Party seeks to turn this agrarian land into an urban nation, it is not only the natural environment that is taking a hammering: history, too, is succumbing to the endless drive towards modernity.
Xiamen presents us with a clear example of just how absolutely this country is being remodelled. In this special economic zone, vast areas have been demolished to make way for malls and high-rise residential housing. There is little left to recall historic Amoy, as early European traders knew this thriving port.
The 260 kilometre-long coastal conurbation of Xiamen and Fuzhou, though not as polluted or anarchic as the Top: Ride for Hope cyclists head for the mountains.
Above: Singaporean Xin Xin is assisted by Smith after falling from her bike on the road to Hangzhou.
Pearl River Delta, presents us with a few more days of tough urban cycling. Beyond Ningde, in northern Fujian, however, we get back onto rural roads. The cacophony of car horns is replaced by the sound of the wind as we ride past farmers harvesting orange groves and crisscross the many waterways on scenic stone bridges.
On day 14 of Ride For Hope we make our toughest ascent – a gruelling 1,320 metres through bamboo forests.
"Keep going!" Li yells as I groan my way up the slope.
The climb is arduous but the scenery is spectacular as we ascend through the tea fields for which Fujian is renowned.
When night falls, however, the scene turns from picturesque to perilous.
As the prospect of pedalling off a cliff plays on my mind, it is the crashing temperature that most hinders our progress. We finally arrive in remote Zherong at about 8pm, with the mercury at zero; just a few days earlier we were lathering ourselves in suncream. Zherong is a small, well-mannered town and, as we leave early the next morning, one coated in frost.
In Wenzhou, a Zhejiang city whose skyline is dotted with the red crosses of Christian churches, we are joined by our "auspicious" eighth rider, a triathlete from Singapore named Xin Xin. She is a veracious team player whom the boys warm to immediately. She will have to become road-hardened quickly, but none of us are fully prepared for what we are about to encounter crossing Zhejiang. The first thing that becomes apparent is how aggressive the drivers are here.
"They're known to be assertive in business," Smith says, as we cross the brown expanse of the Ou River on a heavy, metal barge straining with cyclists and pedestrians impatient to alight on the mountainous side of town. "I think this is reflected in their driving etiquette."
For a government whose main aim – as confirmed at The Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party – is to "boost economic development", car ownership is a key driver. "Car sales remain in fast lane," China Daily reports. "Double-digit increase seen for 2013 …" The world's most populous country, once equated with the bicycle, is fast becoming the world's largest traffic jam. As we peddle into horrendous smog, I wonder how the Party plans to realise its "strong commitment to environmental sustainability", as proclaimed in the same edition of the newspaper.
We are back to wrestling for space with uncivil drivers in the same kind of industrial landscape we saw in the Pearl River Delta. Only day 18 yields any worthwhile Zhejiang scenery. Autumn has settled along the 200- kilometre, 14-hour expanse between the cities of Taizhou and Ningbo, turning the leaves myriad shades of crimson and amber.
Here, the bathroom-tile housing of the south has given way to more scenic brick farmhouses. From fences hang strings of rice noodles that look like sheets of white cotton blowing in the breeze.
Exhaustion begins to take its toll in Zhejiang. Both Wong and Small Lu fall off their bikes, but it is Xin Xin's tumble that proves most serious. She fractures her arm on the road to Hangzhou and though she will heroically complete the day's segment, doctor's orders prevent her from cycling on to Suzhou.
"The devil on my shoulder is saying get a first-class ticket to Hangzhou," says Smith, parked up next to a highspeed- rail station. He later expounds, "China is so forward in some ways, so misguided in others. They have the most amazing train system and 50 metres away they're burning trash. There's no middle ground; it's one extreme or the other. Everyone's just pushing, pushing on ahead."
THERE IS A GREAT SENSE of injustice at the prospect of being prevented from completing Ride For Hope.
All along the way we've negotiated environmental travesties but now it looks as though the smog has brought down the curtain on our adventure. Cycling into Shanghai as a group required permission from the local government; the Party is sensitive about privately organised group activities. We were given authorisation but now the health department is leaning on the event organisers.
A smoggy finale could prove a PR catastrophe for the city and for Shangri-La hotels. Nevertheless, after some latenight negotiations, Smith announces the powers-that-be will, after all, let us cycle into Shanghai.
"They've agreed, as long as we wear masks," he says.
It appears our tenacity has won us favour with the gods. Just outside Shanghai, the air clears somewhat.
Xin Xin joins us in Pudong as we cycle towards the Kerry Hotel. It is an emotional experience as we take our last turn together towards the finish and are showered in champagne and flash photography. Having cycled for three weeks and raised 400,000 yuan (HK$507,000) for charity, our modest team basks in the adulation.
As the fanfare dies down, I recall a propaganda poster we saw on a bridge somewhere between Xiamen and Fuzhou. It read simply, "Eat Great Bitterness." For three weeks we have witnessed people enduring calamitous pollution, dreadful traffic, relentless construction, poverty born of rural isolation and – in the big cities – the emergence of slums, hitherto almost unheard of in China.
Our endurance ride is now at an end but many of the people who live along the roads we've travelled will be eating great bitterness for years to come.
Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts is owned by the Kerry Group, the biggest shareholder of the SCMP Group, publisher of the South China Morning Post. Thomas Bird is the author of a new book, Hong Kong's Back Yard: A Guide to the Pearl River Delta.


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Huffman is an ungodly rare thing in Congress: a nonbeliever
Rep. Jared Huffman recently did something radical for a member of Congress: The San Rafael Democrat revealed publicly that he doesn't believe in God.
To put that in context, coming out as a nonbeliever is more rare than coming out as a nonheterosexual — there are seven LGBTQ members in the reality-challenged zone known as "Congress."
These days, 91 percent of legislators identify as Christian. That makes Congress "about as Christian today as it was in the early 1960s," according to a Pew Research study done earlier this year, and unlike the America of 2017, where 70 percent of people are Christian and 23 percent are, to use the clinical term, "unaffiliated." Former East Bay Rep. Pete Stark is believed to be the only other out nonbeliever in congressional history.
Huffman wants to be clear he doesn't hate religion — far from it. He was tapped to be a leader in the offshoot of Mormonism he grew up in, and eventually left. His wife and kids regularly attend Catholic Mass. After Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., was shot during practice for a congressional baseball game in June, Huffman joined other Democrats in a prayer for their wounded colleague. He said he is somewhat envious of the community that many religious people enjoy through their shared bonds.
He says he's coming out of the godless closet now because he's sickened by how politicians increasingly use their faith to breach the separation of church and state in ways that are dangerous to democracy.
While Huffman may be an outlier in Congress, he's on the leading edge of younger Americans' feelings about religion — 38 percent of people under 30 are unaffiliated like him, said Dan Cox, research director at the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute.
"I have no problem with people practicing their religion," Huffman told me this week from Washington, D.C., "I just don't think it's right to drag your religion into the public square."
And there's a lot of that going on right now.
Start with Alabama GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore. When Moore was cornered with accusations from five women that he had sexually harassed or assaulted them when they teenagers and he was in his 30s, Moore's wife released a letter from 53 Alabama pastors giving him their support.
"Roy Moore has been an immovable rock in the culture wars," the pastors wrote. "A bold defender of the 'little guy,' a just judge to those who came before his court, a warrior for the unborn child, defender of the sanctity of marriage and a champion for religious liberty."
"When you hear all of this stuff about 'religious freedom' and 'religious liberty,' it is such an insult to our intelligence," Huffman said. It insinuates that "Christians are being persecuted. Nobody is preventing Christians from practicing their religion in this country."
Then there's Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, the heiress and longtime donor to private and religious schools before she joined President Trump's Cabinet. The Republican tax plans now before Congress include a new provision that would enable parents to use a tax-free savings account to pay for private and religious schools.
Those tax plans also include a provision to repeal the Johnson Amendment, which allows religious institutions to keep their prized tax-exempt status as long as they don't preach politics from the pulpit. That's long been on the evangelical right's wish list.
"If you want to (preach politics from the pulpit)," Huffman said, "you've got to pay taxes."
And then there's Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt. He quoted the Book of Joshua this month to explain why he's forbidding scientists who receive grants from the agency to serve on EPA advisory panels. Stripping the scientists from boards that require scientific knowledge, Huffman said, will make it easier for the EPA to stack those boards with industry shills who will go easy on polluters.
So how does the Book of Joshua relate to science and the EPA? It doesn't. But still, Pruitt persisted:
"Joshua says to the people of Israel: Choose this day whom you are going to serve," Pruitt said when he announced the change. "This is sort of like the Joshua principle — that as it relates to grants from this agency, you are going to have to choose either service on the committee to provide counsel to us in an independent fashion or chose the grant. But you can't do both."
Huffman, a former attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, was aghast.
"Pruitt brings this evangelical, messianic delusion to the work he does," Huffman said. "He guts an independent science board and then quotes the Bible to give some Old Testament cover to his cynical, pro-polluter agenda."
Huffman's spiritual journey began when he was growing up in Independence, Mo., which has historic significance to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, or Mormons. In 1831, founder Joseph Smith said it would be the site of a new Jerusalem for his people.
When Huffman was 18, a church elder told the congregation that Jared had been called to be a church leader. For a short time, Huffman enjoyed the leadership role.
"And then I went to college at UC Santa Barbara and the whole world changed," Huffman said and laughed. He questioned dogma and started reading about Eastern religions and other practices. His father died when he was 19, and "the religious answers to all of this began to make less sense."
Now 53, Huffman has been "searching" ever since. To a politician, that's meant dodging the question asked on surveys about his religious affiliation. If one had to put a label on him, he suggested "humanist."
He acknowledged it is also easier for him to wear that label because his district, which runs from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Oregon border, has long been a nurturing haven for seekers of all kind.
Reaction to his announcement has been uniformly positive. He said there are probably at least 10 other "seekers" like him in the House. Just before we spoke, one stopped Huffman on the floor of the House and said he, too, was thinking of coming out of the religious closet.
"Knowing this person's district," Huffman said and laughed, "I told them I didn't think it was a good idea."
Joe Garofoli is The San Francisco Chronicle's senior political writer. Email: email@example.com Twitter: @joegarofoli


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LAS VEGAS - And so for the next 72 hours or so, Vegas Golden Knights GM George McPhee stands at the very epicenter of the hockey universe.
Sunday morning McPhee was handed the protected and unprotected lists produced by the National Hockey League's other 30 teams and shortly thereafter McPhee and his staff began poring over those lists to see how they compared to the mock lists they have been working and reworking for the better part of a year.
No doubt the moment those lists were formally presented McPhee's phone lit up with calls from other GMs looking to spin the expansion draft into something of value for them.
It is an unprecedented moment in the history of the NHL's expansion process with McPhee able to approach restricted and unrestricted free agents before he must produce a final list that will be revealed as part of the NHL's annual awards ceremony Wednesday night.
McPhee's breadth of power extends to making deals with teams who covet some of the players left unprotected by other NHL clubs. So, in theory, McPhee could select Minnesota defenseman Matt Dumba and then flip him to say Tampa or Dallas in exchange for different assets.
McPhee holds all the cards and for this brief period of time is the single-most important figure in hockey.
It's also the most important time in his long career as an NHL executive as McPhee must balance the lure of dealing for future assets - some believe he could end up with as many as four additional first-round picks in the next year or two via expansion draft deals - with selecting a roster that fans in Las Vegas will connect with when they begin the real business of playing hockey as the NHL's 31st franchise in October. Furthermore, McPhee has to spend enough money to get to 60% of the salary cap or about $45 million.
In short, McPhee is a busy man.
Here's a look at some interesting elements of the lists that were released Sunday morning.
It's believed several teams already have deals in place with McPhee to avoid selecting top players that were exposed Sunday morning. Anaheim, which exposed defensemen Sami Vatanen and Josh Manson, is believed to be one of those teams so don't look for Vatanen or Manson to be going anywhere unless it's via trade.
The same is believed to be the case with Minnesota, another team with a glut of attractive defenders. The Wild protected Jonas Brodin but exposed Marco Scandella and Dumba, both of whom are of interest to other NHL teams looking to bolster their blue line, including the Dallas Stars.
Veteran Columbus beat writer Aaron Portzline reported earlier in the week that Columbus had a deal in place to have Vegas select from a small group of players exposed (likely William Karlsson), which would allow them to keep Josh Anderson, Jack Johnson and backup netminder Joonas Korpisalo, who just signed a two-year contract extension. It's believed a first-round pick is part of that deal.
The goalie situation is perhaps the single-most fascinating part of McPhee's strategy to watch unfold. When it leaked earlier in the week that three-time Stanley Cup champion Marc-Andre Fleury was willing to waive his no-move clause for purposes of being exposed by Pittsburgh in the expansion draft, the belief was that McPhee would take Fleury and make him the Golden Knights' first-ever starting netminder. Any idea that McPhee might take Fleury, who has two years left on his deal with a $5.75 million cap hit, and then flip him to, say, Calgary went out the window with Saturday's deal that saw veteran netminder Mike Smith go from Arizona to Calgary.
Did the Fleury move allow Detroit GM Ken Holland to expose Petr Mrazek with little fear he'd be taken? Maybe. Still it was a curious move protecting veteran Jimmy Howard, who is older, 33 compared to 25, and more expensive (two more years with a cap hit just under $5.3 million), while exposing Mrazek who might represent an excellent one-two punch in goal with Fleury.
Still with goalies, the Coyotes protected unrestricted free agent Chad Johnson, 31, whose rights were acquired in the Smith deal with Calgary, but exposed youngster Louis Domingue, 25, who has shown flashes that suggest he has the goods to be an NHL starter. The Coyotes are among several teams whose goaltending situation remains unclear. Winnipeg is another as the Jets need a starter to be a playoff threat. There are also a handful of teams looking for backup help, which suggests McPhee could leverage players like Domingue, Malcom Subban, who was left unprotected by Boston, Linus Ullmark exposed by Buffalo or Antti Raanta, who was a terrific backup to Henrik Lundqvist in New York, into other assets moving forward. There's also Philipp Grubauer in Washington who has high end talent and whom McPhee drafted while he was the GM there. Our guess is that McPhee takes defenseman Nate Schmidt instead.
And finally with netminders, we were surprised that Colorado exposed Calvin Pickard, who is coming off a strong tournament for Canada at the World Championships, especially given the inconsistency and injury issues veteran Semyon Varlamov has faced in Colorado. Hard to imagine McPhee would have jumped on Varlamov, even though McPhee drafted Varlamov back in the day in Washington. Similarly, it's hard to imagine McPhee would have much interest in another former Washington netminder Michal Neuvirth, who was signed to a new deal by Philadelphia in the off-season.
Lots of familiar veteran names were exposed and while McPhee does have to spend money to get to the floor and he has indicated he's willing to take on an unwanted contract or two from other teams provided the incentive is right, don't look for too many of these players to end up donning a new Golden Knights jersey. In fact, we'd be shocked if any of the following are selected by the Golden Knights; Bobby Ryan coming off a terrific playoff in Ottawa, Detroit's gritty, veteran defenseman Nicklas Kronwall, veteran netminder Roberto Luongo, former Los Angeles captain Dustin Brown and his teammate Marian Gaborik.
Veteran players we do like as a fit? We were a bit surprised Eric Staal was exposed by Minnesota after a renaissance season for the longtime Carolina captain. Is Minnesota GM Chuck Fletcher anteing up a big return for Vegas to stay away from the top Wild players? If not, we like Staal as a potential first captain in Vegas. James Neal, fresh off a run to the Stanley Cup Final with Nashville, was our pick a long time ago to be exposed and would provide instant offense for a team that figures to struggle to score. Michael Grabner is available via the New York Rangers after a 27-goal campaign, while veteran defender Calvin de Haan might make sense especially given that McPhee did some scouting for the New York Islanders before taking the Vegas job last off-season. Montreal veteran Tomas Plekanec has been tabbed by many, including us, as the Habs' donation to the Vegas cause and it makes sense on a number of levels. And unless the Ottawa Senators can steer McPhee clear of veteran defenseman Marc Methot, exposed when Dion Phaneuf declined to waive his no-move clause, it's easy to see Methot playing top four minutes for the Golden Knights.
Under the radar names that popped out for us included emerging young defenseman Jake Dotchin, 23, who played well for Tampa after being called up from the American Hockey League last season. He's a right-handed shot and played some with Victor Hedman last season. Unless GM Steve Yzerman has a side deal in place, it's hard to imagine Vegas ignoring this kind of ready to play asset. Jonathan Marchesseault had a breakout year for injury-plagued Florida last season, leading the team with 30 goals. He's small and while not a natural center, he could play down the middle. Plus, he's known to Golden Knights coach Gerard Gallant, who was unceremoniously fired by the Panthers during a season of upheaval in south Florida. Got to figure that's the pick for Vegas.
This story was not subject to approval of the National Hockey League or Dallas Stars Hockey Club. You can follow Scott on Twitter @OvertimeScottB.


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Thatcham, UK – Electronic Manufacturing Solutions Limited (EMS), announced today the successful completion of the re-training of three fire marshals, certified through to 2018.
The marshals were trained by JJ Medics, covering;
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Volkswagen Lupo Cup, converted from rFactor.
Convertido a partir do rFactor.
Importante, não se esqueça de configurar o RealFeel.
Thx for the car,
can you please tell me the name in the [] brackets for the realfeelplugin? just [lupo]?
Funny car and on twisty tracks great fun!
is a fun and interesting mod, thanks !!!!, you can bring of rfactor, "TC URBANO V8"
Awsome mode !
Great for online and offline races, if you want to drive fighting for every 0.1 sec on 100% AI this is the right mod for you.
Nice cockipit and fun skins too.
Great races at any course specially the short ones.
FF fun for every one!
Is there any mirror? RD network is bad for download.
question: Does it work online?


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More things to remember: 7) The value of time; 8) The pleasure of working; 9) The obligation of duty; 10) The power of kindness; 11) The wisdom of economy; 12) The virtue of patience. Votes: 4Marshall Field
In the long run, the power of kindness can redeem beyond the power of force to destroy. There is a vast reservoir of kindness that we can no longer afford do disregard. Votes: 4John MacAulay
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Twelve Priceless Qualities of Success: 1. The value of time. 2. The success of perseverance. 3. The pleasure of working. 4. The dignity of simplicity. 5. The worth of character. 6. The power of kindness. 7. The influence of example. 8. The obligation of duty. 9. The wisdom of economy. 10. The virtue of patience. 11. The improvement of talent. 12. The joy of originating. Votes: 4Marshall Field
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Simplicity gives you the power of freedom.Kindness gives you the power of boldness.Humility gives you the power of acceptance. Votes: 0Debasish Mridha
Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct. Votes: 0Idries Shah
No matter what, we always have the power to choose hope over despair, engagement over apathy, kindness over indifference, love over hate. Votes: 0Cory Booker
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Sociopaths love power. They love winning. If you take loving kindness out of the human brain, there's not much left except the will to win. Votes: 0Martha Stout
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. Votes: 7 Mark Twain


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In exactly 5 days, I'll be at the TD Garden watching the Bruins play my beloved Penguins — all because I have an AWESOME cousin. Free. 5th Row. Bruins. Pens. How the heck could I possibly turn that down?!
I was super excited for this about a week ago. But then this happened…
Tuesday night won't be ANY fun if my boy isn't playing.
Dearest Kristopher,
You have exactly 5 days to get you're beautiful body back on that ice. Don't make me have my dad drag you to Boston himself. I already have him on the lookout for you while he spends this week in Pittsburgh without me!
Your Future Wife
He just can't catch a break this season. I feel like I've executed at least 4 prayer circles — maybe more — over the past 70 somethin' games. Enough is enough. It may be time to pull out the bubble wrap for realz.
Ok, I'm back. And I'm exaggerating. This game will probably be the best game I've ever been too — besides the game S & I went to last year in da 'Burgh.
The game is being broadcasted on NBCSports on Tuesday night. My cousin will be there next to me with an "I'm With Stupid" sign pointed right at me. If you find us, let me know. We'll be the girls trying to scale the glass.


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Mighty Ducks' Best Season Getting Better
AP Sports Writer
The Mighty Ducks don't have to go far to find a kindred spirit as they make a run at their first Stanley Cup title. The World Series champion Angels play right up the street.
With the Ducks' game against Dallas tied in the third period Monday night, the video board at Anaheim Arena showed Scott Spiezio's dramatic three-run homer in Game 6 of the World Series. Next was a shot of the Angels first baseman sitting in a luxury suite holding his young son.
The caption read, "Game 6 karma."
A few minutes later, defenseman Sandis Ozolinsh knocked a rebound past Stars goaltender Marty Turco with 1:06 remaining to give Anaheim to a 4-3 victory. The Ducks clinched the series 4-2 and advanced to their first Western Conference finals.
The Ducks, who swept defending Stanley Cup champion Detroit in the first round then knocked off the top-seeded Stars in the second, seem to be benefiting from an Anaheim "halo" effect.
Steve Thomas, acquired by the Ducks from Chicago at the March 11 trading deadline, and teammate Rob Niedermayer recently visited the Angels' clubhouse.
"Spiezio was kind enough to spend a lot of time talking with me and Rob," said Thomas, who had a goal and three assists in the clinching win over Dallas. "He's a real hockey fan. We were walking around the locker room, and I got to talk to Tim Salmon and Mike Scioscia.
"They're a great bunch of guys, and they can appreciate what we're going through, just as we can appreciate exactly what they went through last year."
Spiezio said Tuesday that watching the Ducks the previous night evoked memories of last October.
"To see those guys play was pretty awesome. I'm not a guy who will sit and watch every single hockey game, but when those guys came over here last year and rooted us on, I really paid attention to them this year," said Spiezio, who attended the hockey game on a day off with several teammates, including Troy Glaus, Brendan Donnelly and Benji Gil.
The Walt Disney Co. owns both the Ducks and Angels, but has agreed in principle to sell the baseball team to Arizona businessman Arturo Moreno, and has the hockey team up for sale.
While the Ducks shocked the Red Wings in the opening round, the Angels' improbable run to their first World Series championship last fall included an opening series win over the defending AL champion New York Yankees.
Spiezio believes there's some Disney-Anaheim magic in the air.
"I'm telling you, it's working. It's incredible what we did last year, and what they're doing right now is just as incredible," he said.
He believes the Angels' success may have inspired the Ducks.
"If the roles were reversed, we definitely would thrive off of something like that. (Injured Ducks forward) Dan Bylsma came over and saw us in the suite last night and he had a purple stripe in his goatee. So I think that some of the things we did are rubbing off on them," said Spiezio, who sported a red stripe in his goatee last October.
"The great thing about them is, even if you're not a hockey expert, you can see that they're playing as a team and they really believe, when other people don't. They beat the two best teams in the game right now."
As the Ducks have built up steam in the postseason, the scene at the arena more and more resembles an indoor version of the nearby baseball stadium that was rocking last fall.
With fans banging their plastic "Pond Rockers" _ white versions of the red "ThunderStix" used by Angels fans last October _ and waving "Fowl Towels," the Ducks trailed early against the Stars.
They moved ahead only to see Dallas come back to tie twice, the final time on Brenden Morrow's goal with 5:11 remaining.
The crowd of 17,174 erupted when Ozolinsh scored, and the roar continued several minutes after the game ended.
"Anytime you hear that and feel the building shaking, people are into it," said rookie coach Mike Babcock. "The crowd was deafening. We couldn't even communicate with each other."
The Ducks next face the winner of the Vancouver-Minnesota series. The Canucks lead 3-2 heading into Wednesday night's Game 6.
"I'm going to watch," Babcock said. He grinned and added, "I hope they play two more."
Game 7 in that series would be Thursday. Ducks general manager Bryan Murray said the Ducks' first game of the conference finals will be Saturday on the road.


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Forza Motorsport 7 – It's All About The Avatar
Forza Motorsport has been leading the racing genre thanks to its pristine presentation, consistent visual fidelity, and realistic driving simulation.
While some titles might not be on part with others, most of the series' games have demonstrated and backed Forza's pedigree in the domain. Is Forza Motorsports 7 a leader, or does it fail to innovate in the domain? There is a little of both, sadly.
"When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough." – Ayrton Senna
Forza Motorsport 7 starts off a little like Pokemon games – I am not even kidding. You are introduced to the game, the visuals, and then suddenly, "Are you a boy or a girl?" You are prompted to select your gender and have the option to slightly modify your appearance. From that point on, it is obvious, there will be a lot of focus on driver avatars. While this becomes significant later, the focus on cars come back when you start racing.
There Are Two Kind of Forza Players
Forza Motorsport 7 is like the rest of the series, a racing simulator first and an arcade racing game second. The game puts you from the get-go under a load of assist modules and what not. Everything is almost automated. For example, the brake assist slows down the car for you. Also, damage, fuel consumption, and tire usage are mainly aesthetic.
These are, in my opinion, the arcade settings for noobs, lazy drivers, or those that simply want to run and gun the game as fast as possible. Before a race starts, go in the options and remove all assists and switch the game to full simulation. Let's see how hard it is to finish first now!
Regardless of the level at which you are playing the game at, and by level, I mean simulation or arcade-ish, the game comes with an array of customization options. The most important ones are the ones you do on your cars. For example, in addition to purchasing engine parts, tires, rims and other useful car components, you can fine tune certain mechanics.
You can go as far as tuning the tire pressures, the tire alignments, springs, the anti-roll bars, the ride height, the downforce, the braking force and the differential. Note that changes may affect the car's acceleration, braking distance, handling, and more. Only in Forza, and with time and patience, can you make a C Class vehicle run side by side a Super Car.
It's All About the Driver
Forza has a load array of customization options and although it doesn't sound like much, the combinations are infinite. As a driver, do you prefer original settings, or do you like to tinker with tuning and make your car your own? Also, Forza Motorsport 7 has new features that get you a lot more involved. In addition to the MODS, a series of 'cards' that you can use to gain extra experience and game credit if you complete the requirements, you unlock treasure chests as well. All the loot in the game can either provide you with those MOD cards, free car unlocks, car parts, or a customization piece for your avatar driver.
From the moment you start the game, you are asked to customize your driver and that follows you during the entire game. It is only aesthetic, but some people like it. Personally, I find it to be a completely useless option for a racing game, especially considering that cars do all the talking. Instead of focusing on that aspect, a lot more effort should have put into customizing vehicles.
As a driver, you have experience points following you around. The more you gain, the higher your rank. There are many ways to increase it, and even shortcuts (MOD cards). As you level up, you are asked to choose between a few options. For example, one time I leveled up, I was asked to choose between a load of cash, a car unlock, or a MOD card.
Gaining experience as a driver is one thing. As a racer, in Forza, your goal is to cross the finish line as a top racer in various categories. In this title, there are six series: Seeker, Breakout, Evolution, Domination, Masters, and Forza. As you progress, races become a lot more difficult and challenging, but the rewards are higher. Within series, there are various championships, many of which have specific rules and regulations – you can only drive C Class cars is a good example, or you can only drive Audi. These challenges you to explore your driving horizons and test out new cars from various models and categories.
Finish enough races in a series to unlock the next one after that, and ultimately make your way to the top.
A Smart AI
For the past few titles now, Forza has introduced to their racing games the Drivatar, a smart AI system that represents your friends' racing style as much as possible. Although some of your friends in your Xbox list don't have the game or have never played, it doesn't prevent the Drivatar from taking on their names.
On higher difficulty levels, the Drivatar drives a lot more like actual racers; some become a lot more aggressive and others a lot more technical. The game becomes that much more challenging, especially when you play it the way it is supposed to be played, in full simulation mode.
Is Forza Motorsport 7 Just Another Racing Game?
At the point where we currently are, racing games have very little space for improvement and innovation. Of course, Forza Motorsport 7 delivers revolutionary visuals, but in terms of 'what's new?' that is pretty much it. Granting players extra customization options is fun, but for a game that focuses on championship races, avatar customization is not something to be considered as useful.
The game really shines with its visuals, car collection, and full simulation mode where you really get to feel like a professional driver. Even then, most of the features have been featured an introduced in past titles of the series, so there isn't anything new. Loot crates and MODS are also fun to use and make the game a little more interesting. Seems like every genre out there is trying to find a way to get loot crates in their game. For me, this addition shows what direction Forza is taking and although it is a profitable one, it fails to cater to the true fans of the series.


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I ran across a quote the other day from actor Ed Begley Jr.: "When we destroy something created by man we call it vandalism but when we destroy something by nature we call it progress".
This stopped me in my tracks as I thought about it. True, there is a difference when it's between untouched nature and a lifeless parking lot in downtown Toronto, but what if we're talking about progress in terms of leveling an established neighbourhood building? Should we hold the significance of a valued and aesthetically pleasing human-made structure in the same light as an untouched forest?
A lot of this came to mind when I last walked by the intersection of Bay and St Joseph Streets where the 1 Thousand Bay condo is taking root. It was the first time I saw the intersection without the iconic Bistro 990 restaurant there. Although not a historically protected building (even though it looked as old as the hills in Toronto…) it seems a shame that it disappeared.
It had a quaint European flare to it with wooden shingles, old-fashioned window frames and a rustic stucco facade. It was the home to many Toronto International Film Festival parties, Winterlicious and Summerlicious events and had been a neighbourhood spot for get-togethers for years. And in a flash, it's now gone.
The tower to take its place will be a gleaming glass condo of about 32 stories and 400 units, taking up the entire existing parking lot and the former location of Bistro 990.
Rarely does nostalgia hit me as condo developments rise up in the Bay Street Condo Corridor. Perhaps because we have been fortunate enough to only affect parking lots up until this point. And when a historic building has shifted plans for a builder, they have often incorporated the existing building into the plans. However, this is a unique time when a goodbye must be said to a landmark building.
Farewell Bistro 990. It was swell while it lasted!


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It was Prince William's and Kate Middleton's wedding yesterday and with the kinda of media coverage the Royal Wedding recieved, its no wonder a lotta folks didnt get to hear about the tornado incidents in Alabama, USA. Lightherlamp brings a whole new perspective to it with When Foundations Are Destroyed. My prayers of with the families affected in that devastation!
You look difficulty in the eye and you are Smiling through it, you are soooo winning! Check out Diary of an Unpaid Intern.
It Happens by Lily Johnson....Ladies, read!!
As usual, GISTDOTCOM addresses an important issue: The Power in Words with the post If Na Joke...
Excerpts from the post: "I know parents who bless their kids even when they are so pissed. Instead of yelling "you stupid boy, with your head like coconut"! Its much more constructive to yell "you this blessed boy, with your head like that of a king"…I've heard parents say this, and believe me I laughed!!! Retrospectively, I think they actually know what they are doing….you can't call your son Coconut head and then expect a coconut head to carry first in class."
Bissel, a little bits of this and that byThirdWorldProfashional. Y'all know TWP...she brings IT always but this post is most important because of....see below:
"P:S....If you read my blog frequently, you might remember a post I wrote in January called "Christmas, Reunions and New Year". In that post I mentioned reuniting with my friends from Queen's College when we attended the 50th birthday of the mother of one of us, Omowunmi Fosudo. This was just in December. Recently Omowunmi's mum who just celebrated her 50th birthday, a joyous celebration that had all her children flying in from different destinations, was diagnosed with cancer. Unknown to the family she had been living with cancer for a while and by the time she was diagnosed, it had progressed to Stage 3. Now the doctors at the University of Texas MD Cancer Center where she was diagnosed need to operate in 7 days or who knows what might happen. Because Mrs. Fosudo is uninsured, this operation will cost her family $60,000, which is about N9,000,000.
I'm writing all this because since yesterday when Omowunmi's brother Debo launched the campaign to raise the money aided by friends and family, some people have been thinking its a scam. I don't blame them because the kind of world we live in, such things are very possible and probably do happen, but I'm writing this to make it as personal for you as it is for me, to let you know these are real people going through a very real ordeal.
So far $31,627 has been raised, we're halfway there, no amount is too little, even N500 will go a long way. If you can help a family save their mother, you know your reward will be in heaven. These are the donation points.
1) You can pay at https://www.wepay.com/donate/92676
2) In Nigeria, pay at GTB #201101370110, name: Ade-Fosudo.
3) Paypal: email@example.com
Any little thing, 10 dollars, 10 naira, 10 pounds. Just help out anyway you can. She needs this surgery in 7 days, 7 days. It is not a joke, it is not a scam, this is a real person. Please find it in your heart to help.
Thank you."
Please help a family save their mother! PLEASE DONATE!!! Thank you!
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Switching from Blogspot to Wordpress
Another attempt to learn new things. Will WordPress give me more flexibility or ease? Will it let me make site that is half website, half blog? Will it be fun?
The blogspot blog will remain online until I decide. I really have gotten to like the colors on it! Guess I'll need to learn a bit of CSS to get similar results on WP.


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Monday, July 12, 2010
Crazy day at work
My intake was alright, but not great. Here it is:
- Breakfast: 10 raspberries (10)
- Lunch: Snow peas and water chestnuts (48), veggie lo mien (220), and 2 fortune cookies (70)
- Snack: Mini Crunch bar (52) and mini Butterfinger (45)
- Dinner: 1 piece of Schwan's pizza (240)
Total calories: 685
I was hoping to stay under 500 calories, but I was coerced into buying lunch at work, so I ended up eating more than I should have. However, I'm still under 800 calories, so it's ok :) I was going to work out, but I wanted to get home in time to go to Sam's Club with my bf's mom... but then we didn't even go! So I'll work out tomorrow... or maybe I'll drive over there tonight. I haven't decided yet. Either way, there is a work out in my future.
I finally weighed myself this morning, and I'm 182. However, this is likely due to both my Saturday binge day and the fact that I'm on my period. I feel nasty and bloated :( But I'm sure I can lose it quickly. I want to be 175 next Monday (July 19th).
Stay strong ladies! I love you all <3
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- AnonymousJuly 12, 2010 at 11:39 PM
So did you just get promoted? Or even just getting more responsibility is awesome, it's all experience!ReplyDelete
You so often sound completely on track with intake, you're very inspiring!
Lol, I don't know how I'm doing it. Start as you mean to go on, right?ReplyDelete
Good riddance to the office manager! People like that really grot me. They are lovely people who are great outside of work, but inside of work they are bloody awful for not doing their jobs D:
<3 Love you!
You're intake was fine! :]ReplyDelete
Stay strong. <3
Wow! I think you did very well!!ReplyDelete
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Recently, my bestest friend, Lori, and her adorable fiance, Nathan, tied the knot at the San Antonio Botanical Garden. The best way I can describe the wedding style is eclectic, vintage, fiesta! It was a colorful blast! I took on a few projects for the wedding including bright, big poms for the aisle and a fun honeycomb garland for the arbor area. I also helped Lori plan the design portion throughout the planning process - one of my absolute favorite things to do!
The wedding design incorporated tons of great details: colorful, vintage vessels for flowers and desserts; a green, golden yellow, and fuchsia color palette; succulent favors; a "cake bar"; and fun ribbon streamer wands to send them off into marital bliss in style! With Katherine O'Brien Photography of Austin snapping the wedding pictures, it's a wedding designer's dream come to fruition! Will post those pics when available.
Congratulations, Lori + Nathan! {10.01.2011}
{All pictures instagrammed by me!}


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The Cablecast Pro is the central hub to your complete automation system. It includes a web-based user interface for scheduling your shows. The Cablecast Pro controls your video decks, video servers and routing switcher. An optional 8 port RS-422/232 adapter is also available.
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Limited Means, Limited Options
College Remains Unaffordable for Many Americans
This paper offers five recommendations to address issues of affordability that negatively affect college access and completion:
- Federal policymakers should protect and strengthen the Pell Grant.
- States should strengthen direct investment in public colleges and need-based aid programs.
- Colleges should manage institutional costs to concentrate expenditures on students.
- Colleges with wealth at their disposal—either in the form of large endowments or company profits—should keep prices low for needy students.
- Congress should pass legislation to improve consumer information and transparency, giving students the information they need to make affordable choices.
A report from the Institute for Higher Education Policy shows that college affordability varies dramatically between students with different family incomes, enabling wealthy students to attend essentially any college while effectively shutting out many of their peers. The study offers five recommendations for federal, state, and institutional policymakers to level the playing field and jointly tackle the affordability issue together.


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mark, 06 May 2010can someone please help me about the apps on the htc desirewhat kind of apps are you looking for?
Checkout www.appbrain.com for some Android apps that can be run on HTC Desire. Note: There are other app stores as well.
Samsung AMOLED in DELL phones, HTC phones. Samsung you are giving you competitive advantage for a mere 30 dollar per amoled display in a HTC phone? Wake up!
sam, 03 May 2010how did u do it?www.nimbu.com will give the info on how to do it. No need to root your phone. you just install the programs and thats it.
sam, 03 May 2010how did u do it?See here http://nimbu.amorvi.com/2010/04/add-full-voice-to-text-to-htc-desire/
KEYSER SOZE, 29 Apr 2010just added speak to text. works perfectly. now instead of writing my messages i just speak to ... morehow did u do it?
One week since I got my Desire and I'm bowled over.. Great Phone, Congrats HTC and Google for coming up with this gem. Android 2.1 + Snapdragon 1Ghz + 572 MB RAM + Sense UI is a WINNING combo.. no doubt!! I'm fine with the battery life since I don't mind charging every night. The speaker-sound is tinny, but the headphone sound is perfect. Final verdict: Exceeded all my expectations!!
Any ideas on when HTC will fix the camera with the new OS update??
& When the Desire will be available in the ME??
just added speak to text. works perfectly. now instead of writing my messages i just speak to my phone :)
OMG... this cell is just awesome!! no issues up to now.. faster than expected!
speed wise performance..u all know 1ghz !
well the 120mb limitation for apps is not an issue.. at least for me... till nw i've installed almost 30 apps and still 50mb available(20-30more apps)
it's waaaaaay better than iphone.. iphone is lyk inserting the sim in ipod;p (no offence iphone frndz,sorry) anyways.. camera is at its best with strong led flash..
love it!
Danijel, 28 Apr 2010The sound on the external speaker is definitely not as good as the iPhones. But with headphone... morethanks danijel .. does anyone have a different opinion?
sam, 28 Apr 2010how is the music player and the sound? sounds better than 3gs with earphones?? i really need t... moreThe sound on the external speaker is definitely not as good as the iPhones. But with headphones it's a different story. Full and rich sound everywhere. Listening to music everyday.
how is the music player and the sound? sounds better than 3gs with earphones?? i really need that info please as i'm always listening to the music and i really liked iphones music quality though i hate apple :p
What about the screen? I've read it has problems with multi touch.
Is that true for the Desire? I know the N1 is horrible with that.
just upgraded to this from my 3gs and im loving it , great all round.
music player not as good as iphone but everything else is as good or better , just needs to be able to stnc with itunes so i can get all my audiobooks on it !
Baterry life gets better after a week o so. Just have to drain the battery completely and charge the phone while it is off. do this once or twice and the batery life gets better. I use my phone for internet alot around 2 hours of 3g internet, sending couple of emails and checking emails every hour o so, playing with the phone a lot , acouple of calls and text. by the time a get home around 6 and i still have around 40 % battery. if i go nuts on 3g internet it will be around 20 %. Had the iphone 3gs wasnt any better. Had the omnia hd even worse ( that had a bigger battery). Its a smart phone with shit loads of specs. Battery life is as accepted. when htc fixes the camera to hd and when android 2.2 cames with apps beening installed to the sd card this phone will be perfect.
Just purchased the Desire. I have to say what a fantastic phone.
I have used Android since its inception, (G1 also a great device)for those considering a pruchase you need to consider what you really want most from the phone.
There are so many pro's and few cons with this device, people would be crazy to turn down the chance to own such a device.
For those who no what Android is all about will not hesitate.
you will always get those people who are considering moving to a new experience expressing doubts about one thing or another.
Once you dig deep into the soul of this device i assure you, you will very pleased with purchase.
Well done HTC, 2 great devices Legend and Desire.


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Take a tour with Axiom's Senior Materials Engineer, Steve Woodward in this month's edition of Materials World and find out how success can be derived from initial failure.
Axiom Engineering Associates continues to support a national initiative which aims to provide an alternative route to a fulfilling career.
2017 finished in a flourish with a charity initiative driven by the company as a gesture of goodwill during the Christmas season.
Directors and staff are shown here enjoying Christmas Jumper Day on Friday 15th December in aid of the charity, Save the Children.
Axiom , one of the founder members of the Tees Engineering Network (TEN) had the pleasure of helping to organise a breakfast event held last Friday at the Darlington Campus of Teesside University
The breakfast event, hosted by Tees Engineering Network (TEN) and held at the Darlington Campus of Teesside University, welcomed John McNicholas, Engineering & Programme Director at the South Tees Development Corporation who gave an overview of the Master Plan.
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Patient Portal Software
Buyer's Guide
Patient portals are secure websites commonly integrated with electronic health records (EHR) systems that give patients 24-hour access to services, messages and information from their care team. These portals are like the Swiss army knife of medical software applications: They provide a wide range of tools to help providers carry out patient-related tasks, from scheduling and billing to corresponding and prescribing.
Patient portal vendors recognize the value of incorporating such a versatile application in their product offerings. As a result, there are hundreds of systems on the market today. We put together this buyer s guide to help you sort through them all, so you can find the solution that s ideal for your practice.
Here s what we ll cover:
Why Is Patient Portal Software Important?
Your practice should consider buying patient portal software for a number of reasons but perhaps the most compelling one involves the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act of 2009. HITECH offers federal stimulus money to practices that invest in health IT to achieve various meaningful use requirements.
These requirements have been introduced in stages; the final one, stage three, has a measure calling for the coordination of care through patient engagement. This means providers must use technology to give patients access to health information for viewing, downloading and/or transmitting to a third party. As we ll explain later in this guide, patient portal software can handle all these tasks, and more.
Another reason to implement patient portal software: It s in demand among providers, so patients will come to expect it at your practice. In fact, a recent survey presented by the Digital Health Coalition found that 52 percent of prescribers (M.D.s, N.P.s and P.A.s) offer a patient portal, while another 17 percent plan to offer one in the next 12 months.
As other studies show, patients are enthusiastic about this technology, too. Research published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons finds that a patient portal is a preferred follow-up channel for surgery patients: In fact, 76 percent say online-only follow-up care would be sufficient, rather than in-person visits.
A different study in the Journal of Medical Internet Research concludes that patients with portal access to notes from their primary care doctor are more likely to stick to their prescribed medication regime. Clearly, patient portals should be a top priority in any health IT investment plan.
Common Functionality of Patient Portal Software
Medical records access
The ability for patients to access personal medical records is key. These records include lab results, diagnoses, medications, allergies, clinical summaries and more. To encourage patients to use the software, some practices are instituting online-only lab results delivery.
Instead of filling out new patient registration forms at the office, users can fill out that paperwork online. Since the data is already digitized, office staff save time scanning documents. In addition to intake forms, portals can provide satisfaction surveys and general health assessments for patients to complete before or after a visit.
Typically, provider schedules are shown on a calendar in the portal, and patients can select the best time slot. Depending on your system, you can enable either appointment requests or live appointment scheduling. With the former, patients request a particular slot, an office staff member confirms the appointment and the patient is notified afterward. A system with live appointment scheduling automatically updates your practice management schedule as patients pick time slots, requiring no further staff involvement.
Automate prescription renewal requests by letting patients ask for refills through the portal. Most systems have a dedicated module where patients can enter their information (e.g. medication, pharmacy of choice) and then submit the prescription request. The provider s staff is notified, and can verify, approve and/or respond to the request through the portal.
Electronic billing statements take the collections process online. Patients can make secure payments through the patient portal using a credit card number. The system will automatically process those payments once they re submitted.
Exchange messages with patients through the portal instead of over the phone. Most systems provide a secure electronic messaging platform that emails patients when their care team sends a new message. Providers can respond to messages that patients send through the portal, too.
Deployment Strategies and Pricing
Patient portal vendors often package the software as part of an integrated EHR suite that includes other applications; however, the patient portal functionality can also be purchased as a stand-alone or best-of-breed program. If you go with a stand-alone system, it s important for you to make sure it can integrate with the EHR you re already using.
Some stand-alone patient portal vendors already have partnerships with EHR vendors, and offer complementary integration between the two but that s not always the case. Experts warn integrating a third-party patient portal with your EHR may cost you more time and money than you budgeted. If you plan to do this, be sure to get an interface cost estimate from any vendors you evaluate.
With an EHR suite, users typically don t pay extra for patient portal functionality. However, stand-alone systems have different pricing models in place, depending on whether a practice wants to pay per patient or per provider.
For example, buyers might pay a low monthly fee depending on how many patients actually use the portal during a set time period. In this model, the fee would be paid for each patient user.
Alternatively, a higher monthly pricing fee could be applied if the practice would rather pay based on the number of registered providers managing the patient portal. A provider is anyone providing care to patients (not counting administrative staff). Here, the fee would be paid for each provider user.
The two examples above are for a cloud-based deployment model . in which the system is hosted on external servers and accessed remotely through the Web. On-premise deployments. in which the software is hosted on the provider s own server, are also available from some patient portal vendors, coming with a one-time perpetual license fee that is significantly higher than cloud-based fees.
Market Trends to Understand
The following trends are common in the patient portal software market:
- Customizations: While fees may apply for customizing your portal, you may find this is worth the extra expense, depending on your practice s needs. Some examples of customizations include changes to registration form templates and custom home page designs.
- HIPAA compliance: The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) includes a series of mandates to protect the privacy and security of electronic patient records. Most patient portal vendors will advertise that their products are HIPAA-compliant and have security standards, such as data encryption technology, for their systems.


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Two Pakistan-based LeT militants killed in Jammu and Kashmir
Two Jaish-e-Mohammed militants were killed in an encounter with security forces in Sopore town of north Kashmir.india Updated: Jan 19, 2015 03:00 IST
Two Pakistan-based militants of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) were killed in a joint operation in Kashmir's Sopore area on Sunday even as security forces are on a high alert in view of US President Barack Obama's visit to India from January 25.
A number of operations against LeT and Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) are being carried out amid intelligence alerts that militants might strike during the US president's visit. A unified headquarters meeting comprising top officials of all security wings is being convened by Jammu and Kashmir governor NN Vohra soon amid reports of rising militancy in the state.
Army and police conducted a raid on Saidpora village, 55 km north of Srinagar, on Sunday. The holed-up militants fired at the security forces who retaliated and in the ensuing encounter two militants were killed.
"Two militants were killed in the exchange of fire," said Srinagar-based spokesman of police headquarters.
The slain militants, identified as Assadullah and Mohammad Ramzan of LeT, were foreigners.
Two AK rifles, two magazines, 140 AK rounds, two intercom sets, three GPS among others were recovered from the slain militants.
Eight militants have been killed in the last one week in three separate encounters in north and south Kashmir.
While five militants of JeM were killed in Shopian district, one LeT militant was killed in Sopore earlier.
Sources said the JeM is planning a comeback on a large scale in Jammu and Kashmir. Around half a dozen Jaish militants have also been arrested since last year.
First Published: Jan 18, 2015 10:23 IST