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You guys think this is a joke. This is not a joke. Dennis Rodman is seated at the dais in a conference room at the Soho Grand Hotel behind a bronze bust of himself. Next to him is a smartly dressed Irish bookmaker named Paddy Power. On Power's other side is Daniel Pinkston, a North Korea expert with the International Crisis Group, a pro-NATO think tank that focuses on war and violent conflict. Before them are scads of reporters and cameras. Despite Rodman's admonishment, a TV personality from Fox Sports wearing a shirt that says I <3 DEAR LEADER clearly thinks this is a joke. He asks Rodman if he would share the personal phone number of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. Everyone laughs. I have all their personal logistics. Private phone numbers, e-mails, everything, Rodman responds. The laughter stops. This is not a joke.
Rodman was there to make big announcements about his recent trip to North Korea as the guest of Kim Jong Un, his second in a year. And big announcements he delivered. During his seaside vacation with the Supreme Leader's family, Rodman cut a deal not only to stage a series of exhibition basketball games in North Korea with exNBA stars but also to train the North Korean national team for the upcoming Olympics. He even invited Kim to a Knicks game.
Should any one of these things actually happen, it would be a historic event. No North Korean leader has ever visited the United States. Just this past spring, Kim threatened a nuclear attack on U.S. bases.
I'm pretty important now, right? Rodman asks. Call me, Obama. I've got the inside track. He's beating his chest, but he's also kind of right. This most unserious man, who holds a celebrity-wrestling title and three Razzies alongside his five NBA-championship rings, now holds the keys to the Hermit Kingdom. This is our guy in Pyongyang.
Rodman's first dive into international diplomacy came last fall, when the media company Vice invited him to shoot an episode for its new HBO series. Vice reporters had visited the country in 2008 for an online series in which they exposed North Korean labor camps in Siberia. The regime wasn't thrilled, so to win them over for a second trip, Vice suggested bringing in the Harlem Globetrotters for some goodwill games. The North Koreans seemed unmoved, so they offered to bring a former member of the Chicago Bulls' championship squads, an idea inspired by the revelation during Vice's first trip that one of Kim Jong Il's most prized possessions had been a Michael Jordansigned basketball presented to him by thenSecretary of State Madeleine Albright.
When Vice approached him, Rodman's only recent public appearances had been the occasional headline for getting tossed from a restaurant for drunken obnoxiousness. During the trip, Kim and Rodman sat side by side while the Globetrotters and North Koreans played together in mixed squads. Kim chatted up Rodman at dinner after the game while guests performed karaoke. The Marshal was so smitten he invited Rodman to come back and visit.
Once home, Rodman told reporters, Guess what, I love him, and called Kim his friend for life. When he was then accused of tacitly supporting an oppressive regime, instead of backing off he doubled down on his one-of-a-kind relationship. He suddenly found himself the only conduit the outside world had to a rogue nuclear power.
The press surrounding the trip caught the attention of the Irish online bookmaking operation Paddy Power (the name of the company as well as of the company's spokesperson), which signed Rodman to promote its betting offerings on the selection of the new pope. Rodman flew to Rome. It was in Vatican Square that he first pitched his idea of a more extended basketball diplomacy to Paddy.
When news broke that Rodman would be going back to North Korea, humanitarian groups saw it as an opportunity to press for reform. An op-ed in the Seattle Times asked Rodman to advocate for the release of Kenneth Bae, an American citizen serving a fifteen-year sentence for hostile actshe allegedly possessed footage of malnourished children. Former U.N. ambassador Bill Richardson and Google co-founder Eric Schmidt had traveled to North Korea with a letter from Bae's family, but neither was granted an audience with Rodman's friend for life. The U.S. human-rights envoy to North Korea, Robert King, had been scheduled to visit Pyongyang just days before Rodman, but that invitation was rescinded after the U.S. participated in military drills with South Korea. Now, the op-ed argued, it was time for the Worm to come off the bench. Rodman tweeted that he'd read the article and agreed to help.

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In 1999, he successfully completed the four-year Executive Fire Officer Program at the National Fire Academy. He has also completed a three-week Harvard's Fellowship Annual Program for Senior Executives in State and Local Government.
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On May 5, 2008, at 2:13 PM, Lachlan Hunt wrote: > > *Solution 5* > > Define the methods to behave as if an implicit :scope selector > and descendant combinator were prepended to each selector in > the group. > > This would work by taking the selector and appending the equivalent > of ":scope " to the beginning of it, and then parsing as > usual. :scope could be implemented in any way the UA wanted here > since it's not actually used by the author. > While this looks promising on the surface, the real problem lies in > the implementation of the selector parsing. This requires signifant > changes to the grammar of selectors, and thus alteration of the > selector engines in browsers. > > Consider the following selector: > > ">strong, >em" > > The expectation would be for this to become: > > ":scope >strong, :scope >em" > > The question is how to parse and convert it. One possibility is to make the scoped API (whether that is querySelector on elements or some new method) only accept a single selector, not a group of selectors. This would remove any parsing difficulties. Also, if commas are only ever used to separate the selectors in a group in Selector syntax, then prepending ":scope " and inserting " :scope " after every comma before parsing would work. I believe this is currently true of Selectors, though it may change in the future. I would guess the only likely place for commas to appear would be in parameters to function-like pseudo-classes, in which case the algorithm above but excluding commas nested inside parentheses would be more future-proof. Detail of the algorithm: 1. Initialize nesting level to 0 2. Initialize the output string to the empty string 3. While characters in the input string remain: 3.a. read the current character 3.b. if the current character is: ",": if the nesting level is 0, append ", :scope " to the output string "(": increase the nesting level by 1, and append "(" to the output string ")": decrease the nesting level by 1, and append ")" to the output string anything else: append the current character to the output string 3.c. advance to the next character 4. return the output string Regards, MaciejReceived on Monday, 5 May 2008 21:49:58 UTC
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Alice Slater, Froeign Policy in Focus - It is ironic that at this moment in history, when so many people and nations around the world are acknowledging the 100th anniversary of our planet's hapless stumble into World War I, great powers and their allies are once again provoking new dangers where governments appear to be sleepwalking towards a restoration of old Cold War battles.
A barrage of conflicting information is broadcast in the various national and nationalistic media with alternative versions of reality that provoke and stoke new enmities and rivalries across national borders.
Moreover, NATO's new disturbing saber-rattling—with its chief, Anders Rasmussen, announcing that NATO will deploy its troops for the first time in Eastern Europe since the Cold War ended, build a "readiness action plan," and boost Ukraine's military capacity so that "In the future you will see a more visible NATO presence in the east," all while disinviting Russia from the upcoming NATO meeting in Wales—opens new possibilities for endless war and hostilities.
With the United States and Russia in possession of over 15,000 of the world's 16,400 nuclear weapons, humanity can ill afford to stand by and permit these conflicting views of history and opposing assessments of the facts on the ground to lead to a 21st-century military confrontation between the great powers and their allies.
While sadly acknowledging the trauma suffered by the countries of Eastern Europe from years of Soviet occupation, and understanding their desire for the protection of the NATO military alliance, we must remember that Russia lost 20 million people during World War II to the Nazi onslaught and is understandably wary of NATO expansion to its borders in a hostile environment.
This despite a U.S. promise to Gorbachev, when the wall came down peacefully and the Soviet Union ended its post-WWII occupation of Eastern Europe, that NATO would not be expanded eastward, beyond the incorporation of East Germany into that rusty Cold War alliance.
Russia has also lost the protection of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, which the United States abandoned in 2001, and warily observes missile bases metastasizing ever closer to its borders, in new NATO member states, while the U.S. government rejects repeated Russian efforts for negotiations on a treaty to ban weapons in space, or Russia's prior application for membership in NATO.
Alice Slater is a founder of Abolition 2000, which works for a treaty to ban nuclear weapons.


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And today, we are visiting the 'Pyramid Giza.' I won't bore you with history but still, a little bit of background is cool. Pyramid Giza is the oldest of the 'Seven wonders" of ancient the world that still exists and largely intact --and the last survivor!
|Five thousand years ago, Giza was the burial place for the Memphis, the pharaoh's capital city. The three pyramids and the Sphinx were built by arguably the greatest civilization on earth.
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|The Sphinx and the second tallest pyramid was built by Khafre, Khufu's next successor. The littlest one was built by the grandson, Menkaure
Hope you enjoy this little getaway and see you tomorrow on our journey to the "Adventure into the Red Pyramid." (http://journeyofmylifendestiny.blogspot.com/2012/08/journey-deep-into-red-pyramid.html)
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As always I've made quite a few of my Christmas pressies and this was one I've enjoyed making immensely. The shaving soap is citrus flavour and is simply melt and pour soap with the addition of olive oil and kaolin to give it a good slip when shaving.
To finish the kit I added a shaving brush and a 100% cotton, hand knitted face cloth, knitted fairly loosely to ensure it rinses out well. The box was made out of Kanban Papers with a tag made using the robin stamps from Woodware.
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Applebee's Guests Raise Funds from Flapjacks for Stephen Decatur Volleyball on 10/6/2018Ocean City, MD (October 6, 2018) — The Rose Group, franchisee of Applebee's restaurants in Eastern Pennsylvania; Mercer County, New Jersey; Greater Baltimore and the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Delaware, is proud to have helped Stephen Decatur Volleyball raise $526 at a recent Flapjack Fundraiser at the Ocean City Applebee's Neighborhood Grill and Bar. Stephen Decatur Volleyball describes the fundraiser as follows: "support for Stephen Decatur HS volleyball team".
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Our administrative expenditure keeps the organisation going – office costs, travel where it cannot be externally supported, production of Australasian Plant Conservation, and office staff salaries. In the past we have successfully secured funding for admin purposes but more recently these types of grants have significantly diminished.
Since the last AGM, the ANPC Committee and Office have adopted a new financial management system. This, and prompt analysis by our new Treasurer Chris Ikin, have revealed an immediate and urgent shortfall on the administrative side of our budget – this must be remedied before the end of this financial year (30 June 2018) if we are to avoid technical insolvency. If we succeed, we will have breathing space to reappraise the budget, search for more admin funding, and decide what activity remains financially prudent.
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Swindon DIY store helps out CALM children's charity
A local charity which supports children with cancer and leukaemia has been chosen by B&Q Extra as their charity of the year.
CALM, the Children's Cancer and Leukaemia Movement, was chosen after workers read South Swindon MP Robert Buckland's column in the Adver which talked about the charity, as well as a story about CALM survivor Zara Holland.
To mark the launch of the partnership, members of the CALM committee were invited to the superstore.
Mr Buckland said: "I am delighted that B&Q Swindon have decided to support CALM in the coming year. It is great that the business community are getting behind this excellent charity. CALM is led by parents who have been affected by childhood cancer or leukaemia. They receive no public funding and have no paid staff or offices, yet they provide families with holidays, day trips and vital help with the costs of transport to and from hospitals."
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Last month, D.C. Councilmember David Grosso (I-At Large) introduced a bill to decriminalize sex work in Washington, D.C.
Although this editorial board endorses the council's goal of protecting the safety and rights of sex workers in D.C., it believes the manner in which this bill attempts to do so will only worsen the problems associated with sex work.
Grosso's bill was developed in consultation with the Sex Workers Advocates Coalition, a group of organizations dedicated to helping the District rethink its policy surrounding sex work, and was co-sponsored by Councilmember Robert White Jr. (D-At Large). The bill seeks to decriminalize, but not legalize, sex work in the District: It aims to repeal laws that make sex work illegal and lift criminal penalties for it, but it would not regulate the industry.
Currently, it is illegal to engage in or solicit sex for money in D.C. As such, sex workers are often unable to reach out to law enforcement or health services in cases of abuse or trauma for fear of legal repercussions.
Problems such as human trafficking and cases of abuse continue to persist in the sex work industry. The National Human Trafficking Resource Center has reported 256 cases of sex trafficking in the District since 2012.
Proponents of decriminalization argue that it will help mitigate these issues by allowing sex workers to come out of the shadows and seek protections, such as the ability to report to law enforcement when they face abusive situations. However, many of the empirical studies about legalization and decriminalization indicate that such measures fail to adequately protect sex workers and instead exacerbate current problems.
Critics note that this method — decriminalization without legalization — could empower pimps to expand their enterprises without fear of repercussions, essentially allowing already-dismal conditions for sex workers to be further exacerbated.
The primary concern of any policy related to sex work must be to protect as many sex workers as possible, particularly those from marginalized groups — such as members of the LGBTQ community — who currently have little access to protections. Though Grosso's bill intends to remedy the current situation, as a policy, decriminalization is empirically ineffective and remains problematic.
Denmark, for example, decriminalized prostitution in 1999, with the justification that decriminalization would make it easier to police. Yet, there is also evidence that decriminalization and legalization of sex work increases rates of human trafficking. A 2013 article in the European Journal of Law and Economics found a strong link between harsher laws surrounding prostitution and lower levels of sex trafficking.
Similarly, an article in World Development, a peer-reviewed academic journal, noted that in 2004, though its population was about 40 percent larger than Denmark's, the number of human trafficking victims in Sweden was less than four times that of its neighbor.
In 1999, Sweden made it illegal to buy sex, but decriminalized the sale of sex. As such, the punitive measures were shifted from sex workers to their customers.
This "Swedish Model" of sex work policy appears to be the most effective option to protect the rights and safety of sex workers.
This model allows sex workers to come forward to law enforcement and health services — one of the most prominent advantages of decriminalization — while also enforcing criminal penalties for the purchase of sex to curb demand for sex work and prevent the rise of human trafficking.
The Swedish Model places the power in the hands of sex workers, giving them greater access to resources without the detrimental effects of decriminalization. That trafficking rates are significantly lower in Sweden proves the efficacy of this policy.
The criminalization of the purchase of sex, rather than the sale of it, is a necessary first step toward creating a safer environment for sex workers. If the D.C. Council hopes to protect the health and safety of sex workers in the District, it must recognize the Swedish Model as the superior alternative to the outright decriminalization of sex work.


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Source: National Bureau of Economic Research
Release: NBER Macrohistory Database
Series Is Presented Here As Two Variables--(1)--Original Data, 1910-1953 (2)--Original Data, 1953-1959. In February 1954 The Accounting Procedures For Receipts And Expenditures Were Changed And Later Figures Are Not Completely Comparable. Source: U.S. Treasury Department, Daily Statement Of The U.S. Treasury
This NBER data series m15002a appears on the NBER website in Chapter 15 at http://www.nber.org/databases/macrohistory/contents/chapter15.html.
NBER Indicator: m15002a
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Difficult Choices
Erica Plower's eyes widened as she set her cup aside, glancing sideways at Mom. The former second of my coven, now my representative on Council, wasn't exactly on my side. "The law is clear, Syd," she said, blonde hair, once a cute bob, now grown out to rival my mother's long, black locks. "And you've broken it. We've pushed our willingness to accept a little leeway, but with the approach of conclave…" She sat back as the others—minus Mom—murmured their agreement. "You must get married."
So that's what this was about. They're worried about saving face? I sent the tight mental question to Mom.
Witches are always worried about appearances, she sent with a heavy dose of laughter in her voice.
Nice to see someone found my imminent doom amusing.
Conclave approaches, a full two months after Syd's twenty-first birthday. With no husband decision in sight, she instead focuses on the gathering of witches come from the four corners of the globe to debate and create law. Her plan to scour all of witchdom for Brotherhood influence encourages Miriam to open the proceedings to every magical race. But, in doing so, she leaves the door gaping for the enemy to come knocking...
Enforcer Review
This is probably the best Hayle Coven Novel so far!
Enforcer sees the entire magical kingdom descend on Winding Springs for a conclave to secretly scout out the true effects of the Brotherhood thrall. As we know, diplomacy and politics are not Syd's strengths. She's overwhelmed with the goddess worship from others, boredom, and not to mention that small matter of the responsibilities, duties and expectations of her cover leader role. Syd's running out of time to choose between the men in her life who want to marry her and the one who loves her, doesn't want her to marry anyone else and yet won't marry her himself. It's a good thing the Brotherhood have a few tricks up their sleeves to keep Syd and her allies occupied. It's time for the rest of the magical kingdom to wake up and taste the bitter Brotherhood coffee Sydlynn Hayle style.
Syd and her egos are totally on form, I giggled so much through Enforcer. Once again I've devoured the entire book in one sitting, lost time (because its early hours and I'm sure that much time couldn't have passed since I picked up my kindle). I love the way Larsen pulls surprises on you, as much as I thought I knew where the plot was heading the words 'I so did not see that coming' crossed my mind quite a few times. Even Syd's choice of husband surprised me. There's so many great things I could tell you about Enforcer, but I don't want to spoil it. It's another magical must read for everyone.
The preview first chapter of HCN 19: Coven Leader is a mixture of heart warming and heart breaking, its torture. I still feel a little emotional. I can't wait to get my hands on it. :)
Buy Enforcer (Hayle Coven Novels: Book Eighteen) at Amazon.


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Great, inexpensive way to capture your game play.Cons
Does not record in high definition.Verdict
Worth the price for what you get. Great way to capture your gameplay videos.
REVIEW: Roxio Game Capture (Is it worth the buy?)
Roxio Game Capture software is one program that I heard about and my first question was Is it worth the buy? I had tried free programs before and they were not worth it. They lagged up my game too much and gave me very choppy video. But when I looked into paid programs, some of them were just way out of my price range for what I needed to do with it. Roxio is moderately priced at around $80 from Amazon, so it made it to the top of my list of considerations.
Before I made that purchase, it was time to learn more.
Product Features
- Capture Xbox 360 and PS3 gameplay to your PC for easy editing and sharing online
- Perfect for bragging rights--show high scores or post personal game reviews
- Add voice-over or webcam commentary; share on sites like WeGame, Facebook and YouTube
- Gain the best performance from ATI Stream, Intel Enhanced for Core, and NVIDIA CUDA
- Record video or take screenshots; keep track of gameplay activity and achievements
The most important thing to note about Roxio is that this is a console-to-PC recording and editing program. This means it allows you to capture gameplay from your Xbox 360 and PS3 and send it to your PC to edit and also to share it online. This was not previously possible- at least not in an easy format or unless you had a lot of technical skill.
Ease of Use
Now, you dont need fancy tech skills or equipment to record your play videos from the console and add them to your computer to edit or share online. Its very easy to use and comes with all the hardware and software you need to edit and share Xbox 360 and PS3 game sessions. The device is small and wont get in the way or take up a lot of room. Its also portable and easy to set up so you can take it to a friends and record your play there as well.
What Do you Need it For?
So what does a gamer need something like Roxio for? Well, you can show off your skill by capturing video of your best moves. This gives you bragging rights or could help you get into a clan or on a team for competition. You can take screenshots or record video inside your favorite games to create cheat/tips videos or to add to reviews on the game.
You can also use it to help you keep track of your game time and achievements. You can show high scores, post your own walk-throughs and more.
It also allows you to add voice-over or webcam commentary and to share on common sharing sites and social media sites.
Get Social
Gamers today are more social than ever before. The gaming consoles themselves now make it easier with features like Xbox Live offering communities for gamers to share, brag and more. Software like this allows you to take it to the next level and get social with other gamers who enjoy the same games as you. Its possible to plan events and record those events to show others and to help everyone remember the fun you had, show off your skills or that funny shot of that awesome kill you got on your buddy when he had his guard down. Its just one more way to share and communicate with those who like the same things you do.
What about Quality?
Another question that comes up with game capture software like this is whether or not the quality will be good. This is not going to carry over well from high definition devices but it is pretty decent as far as cheap screen capture technology goes. Roxio has very good feedback when it comes to quality of the footage, voice-over, customization and more. It has the latest NVIDIA CUDA, ATI Stream and Intel Enhanced for Core technologies and you can record your footage in AVI, DivX or WMV.
When buying home design software, it also pays to do some research first into what other people are saying.
What Others Say about It
In addition to my review, I wanted to be able to provide some feedback from other users. While I found a few complaints on the Internet, most were in reference to people not knowing how to use it correctly or those who had trouble with the installation. The general consensus was very positive on this product.
Joe from Amazon says, Once I had it hooked up, I installed the software on my computer, rebooted my computer, and I was ready to record. I launched the software, which was insanely simple to use, and I recorded my first Rock Band 3 video. I recorded a short 5-minute video, uploaded it to youtube, and I was watching my video in 480p in less than 15 minutes. Most of the time was spent uploading and waiting for youtube to process the video. It was amazingly slick, simple, and easy to use.
Justin from Amazon says, This capture card is amazing. The quality is great and the software is easy to use. Easy to set up. Definitely worth $80.
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Anyone reading this blog?
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Sorry it seems to have lapsed, and the AmplioAudio link has gone too. Hope you've found something else to keep you busy on the audio front.
Thanks for your words of encouragement. I'll probably post some new articles in the near future. I have a few other things on my plate, but I should have a little more time in the near future. As for amplioaudio.com, it wasn't much of a website and I got tired of paying Yahoo! for a placeholder. I changed the domain from Yahoo! to GoDaddy to Namecheap (long story) and if I ever have something useful to post, I'll consider paying for a website. In a future article, I'll explain where I'm at regarding any future products. I also plan to post a few articles about ripping SACD and Blu-ray discs.ReplyDelete
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I finally got around to publishing my post about ripping SACDs to your PC.Delete
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This #TasteTheSeason shop has been compensated by #CollectiveBias, Inc. and its advertiser.
All opinions are mine alone.
With Halloween celebrations almost over, we had our trick-or-treat yesterday afternoon, Thanksgiving and Christmas are just around the corner. And with that comes the fun, but also stressful time of gift giving. With a new bundle of joy joining our family in the next few weeks, just in time for the holidays, money will be even tighter than usual – especially if the hubby needs to take any extra time off work if things don't go as planned. Something I have learned over the years is that a gift doesn't have to cost a lot to mean a lot. It seems so cliché to say, but it truly is the thought that counts. I would much rather receive an inexpensive gift that the giver knew I would absolutely love than a pricey gift that I would never use. And even better yet are homemade gifts! While picking up some groceries at Walmart the other afternoon I decided to pick up some baking supplies to put together a little thank you gift.
I love both receiving and giving homemade gifts because they are so much more personal. When receiving a homemade gift I know that the giver has spent time going to the store, perhaps even multiple stores, to gather the supplies they will need and then taken time out of their own busy schedules to put everything together. Just knowing that they spent time making something specifically for me gives me that warm fuzzy feeling inside. And just as much as I love the feeling that someone did this for me I also love doing the same for others as well. Plus there is always the added bonus that making a homemade gift can save you a significant amount of money during the most stressful penny pinching time of the year. With soon to be four kiddos and one income I totally understand the stress.
And so today I am excited to share how I put together just a few inexpensive ingredients to make an adorable fall themed delicious gift.
Jet Puffed Marshmallows
Pretzel Rods
Baker's Chocolate – white & semi-sweet
bamboo skewers
To begin I melted the Baker's Chocolate in the microwave. It melts so easily which is a huge plus for me since I can literally burn anything in the kitchen, hehe. I then placed one Jet Puffed Marshmallow on each bamboo skewer and dipped them about halfway into the semi-sweet chocolate.
I dipped the pretzel rods about halfway as well, but into the white Baker's Chocolate and topped both with orange crystal sprinkles. Everything was then placed in the fridge for the chocolate to harden.
Presentation is everything when it comes to homemade treats and so to dress up my chocolate covered marshmallows and pretzel rods I used just three supplies: mason jar, cardstock, and raffia. I ran a sheet of orange and brown cardstock through my paper shredder which resulted in a nice filler for the jar and then I simply tied a bow of raffia around the neck of the mason jar. This would also be a perfect spot to add a cute little to/from note on matching cardstock.
I then arranged the chocolate covered pretzel rod and marshmallows inside the jar. I recommend using small plastic treat bags to cover each item. Wilton makes the perfect size for both the marshmallows and pretzel rods to keep them fresh until you are ready to deliver and the recipient is ready to eat. Though with how yummy these treats are it most likely won't be long at all, hehe.
The great thing about these simple yet delicious treats is that with just a few tweaks they can be perfect for Christmas gifts too. Red & green cardstock filler inside the jar. Red & green sprinkles to top. The possibilities are truly endless.
If you need more inspiration, check out the Kraft Walmart Hub Cooking Up Good website. They have recipes, sweepstakes, loyalty programs, coupons and more! What's not to love? If you're looking for a new dinner idea or a chance to win some awesome prizes, be sure to check it out!
So what are your thoughts on homemade gifts? Do you love giving them? Receiving them? Do you have any plans for making homemade gifts this year? Let me know in a comment below!
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Grade One Tricks and Tales
Our class website full of information and great links for primary learners!
Welcome to Mrs. Martel's Grade One Page
We are at St. Stephen School in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
What an Awesome First Day!
Today was a great day! Everyone did an excellent job learning the routines, remembering where our classroom is and finding there way home at the end of the day. Great job everyone! Thanks for a wonderful first day of 2012-2013!
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Vegans are often left out in any catering occasion as their limited diet excludes any ingredient derived from animal produce. This includes dairy products, eggs and of course meat of any kind. Make sure that you're offering something for everybody and put our fresh bowl of spinach and grilled vegetable salad on the menu.
We've created this special recipe specifically for veggie lovers and you can order this dish with the utmost confidence knowing that you're getting something that your vegan guests will truly appreciate.


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This month it will be a bit more complicated and fortunately my colleague Stefan Gossner already figured out what is the best to do in case there is a need to be on the latest bits or August 2014 CU contains an important fix.
We have no Full-Server package this month and therefore the best idea we can recommend is to have SP2 plus July 2014 CU Full-Server and then install the packages for August 2014 CU.
To not reinvent the wheel please check the post from my colleague.
Update 25/Aug/2014
We have one more hotfix package available for August 2014 CU:
2760757 Hotfix KB2760757 for SharePoint Foundation 2010 August 22, 2014 (Wss-x-none.msp; Wssmui-<Language-Code>.msp)
Download Link: http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=2760757
One package for all available languages. This one has to do with RichText Editor columns/fields and the behavior of CTRL-C, CRTL-V, CTRL-A and more. The local Internet Explorer first needs to download the updated form.js from SharePoint, after you installed the fix on the SharePoint Server.


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Erica Verrillo has written seven books and published five. She doesn't know why anyone with an ounce of self-preservation would ever want to publish. But, if you insist on selling your soul to the devil, learn how to do it right: marketing, literary agents, book promotion, editing, pitching your book, how to get reviews, and ... most important of all ... everything she did wrong. She's a member of PEN, and in the interest of protecting the 1st Amendment, she did not vote for Trump.
Monday, September 29, 2014
Self-Publishing Boom in Great Britain
While the book industry continues to regard the self-publishing market with a somewhat lazy eye, Amazon has not. As a consequence, it is attracting increasing numbers of self-published authors, even as it undercuts its competition.
Great Britain is taking steps to curb Amazon's enthusiasm, but given the growing popularity of its self-publishing platform, as well as the increasing use of ebook readers, it's not likely traditional retailers will be able to get a foot in the door of the ebook market. Especially now that self-published authors are beginning to gain a following on Amazon.
Self-publishing boom lifts sales by 79% in a year
By Alison Flood - The Guardian, June 13, 2014
As authors are becoming more established, they get followings, just like mainstream authors, so the self-published market is becoming more like the traditionally published market," [Bohme] said.
"Self-published ebooks tend to be impulse buys, discovered by browsing in genre, or in the recommendation or offer sections. However, they are increasingly planned, via author. [So] price and blurb are the top prompts to buy self-published ebooks, but series and characters are increasingly important."
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Look who's got a shiny new suit for season four of Arrow. John Diggle (David Ramsey) now has a look to match Oliver "Arrow" Queen's season four make-over (see here), though he does also look a bit like Magneto getting ready for a Hell's Angel rally.
So now Diggle's ready to hit the streets as a properly kitted out costumed crimefighter in the season four premier which is timely as this season is going to prove to have a personal angle for ex-bodyguard. The big bad this year is DC Comics villain Damien Darhk (Neal McDonough), who's the head of H.I.V.E . who were responsible for Diggle's bother's death.
"You'll see Diggle take on a leadership role on Team Arrow in Oliver's absence," says executive producer Andrew Kreisberg to The Hollywood Reporter. "But Damien Darhk is going to prove to be much more than he can handle on his own, and that's when Oliver is brought back to help."
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• Visual Proof That Arrow's Starling City Is Getting A Name Change
• Check out the Arrow Cave Makeover For Season 4
• Constantine's Return In Arrow Will Have Major Ramifications SPOILERS


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Get Out Of Bed …
… and be ready to face the morning! There are lots of benefits to waking up early. Here's how to do it successfully.
- Turn off the smartphone at least an hour before bedtime.
- Leave the curtains open and rise with the sun. Use a dawn simulator if you struggle to wake up.
- Wake up at the right time in your sleep cycle. Use an app to help you regulate this.
- Avoid hitting the snooze button.
- Drink a glass of water and exercise first thing in the morning to feel more alert all day.


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Sometimes, I wish I could see the world through their eyes -- a world saturated with wonder and endless possibility. A world where imagination is kindled by the slightest spark, and is never snuffed out by constraints like time, money, or "practicality."
And yet, it's a world that can be completely overturned by the slightest mishap, from the "wrong spoon" to catastrophes such as bedtime. Sometimes I'm very glad indeed to be "all grown up."
Perhaps it's enough to catch just a little glimpse of their world now and again...
And where is this window to a different world? My favorite little corner of the gardens at the Governor's Palace in Colonial Williamsburg -- in fact, my Blogger profile pic is a snapshot in the same spot about 10 years ago! In reality, all that lies beyond is a pretty field -- but with the imagination... well, anything is possible!


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Season Low for Happless Mariners
Brad Peacock gave up one run in six innings and Chris Carter singled in two runs to lead the Houston Astros to a 6-1 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Wednesday night.
The Astros — who have the worst record in the majors (50-96) — won all three games in Seattle for their third sweep of the season, and first since early June.
In the lone bright spot for the Mariners, Kendrys Morales hit the 100th home run of his career. Seattle has lost four straight at home and starts a 10-game trip on Friday.
Peacock (5-5) allowed four hits, struck out four, walked one and retired the final nine batters he faced.
Josh Zeid got out of an eighth-inning jam and finished the ninth for his first career save.
Brandon Maurer (4-8) allowed five runs — all scoring with two outs — and seven hits in three innings


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KMET Program Director George Harris believes his original listeners are "still rock 'n' rollers" and to win them back (how did you lose them?) he will feature "good old rock 'n' roll" and special features such as Psychedelic Psupper (Pop Eye, "KMET Joins the Ranks of the Metal Defectors," by Patrick Goldstein).
Doesn't he realize that rock 'n' rollers want to hear all the music--new wave to heavy metal (if that's where his imagination stops)--just as long as it rocks? His proposed format will succeed only in turning KMET into the Yuppie KRTH.
The format aside, the more serious argument I have with his station is the puerility of the jocks. Most people mature as they grow older; not so the people on KMET.
My advice: 1--Change the personnel or make them grow up; 2--Decide upon an "oldie but goodie" or adventurous format-- sitting on the fence is boring; 3--Go for it.


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I have now made great progress on the line of Cruses who ran Cruse's Stores in Rottingdean, Sussex, for most of the twentieth century. Andrew Millard very helpfully reminded me of the Historical Directories website . Kelly's Directory of Sussex for 1911 and 1915 lists a Walter Cruse, grocer, at 14 Upper St James' Street, Brighton. Jimmy Cruse, the founder of Cruse's Stores, was said to have had a grocer's shop at this address before opening the Rottingdean store in 1918. There are no matching entries in the GRO indexes in Sussex for James or Jimmy Cruse, but there are corresponding entries for Walter Cruse, so it seems certain that Jimmy and Walter are one and the same person. Walter Cruse was born in 1870 in New Shoreham, Sussex. He was the son of Richard Cruse, a gardener, and Mary Jane White. Walter married Laura Holford in 1904 in the Brighton Registration District. The mother's maiden name is unfortunately not given in the GRO indexes before 1911, but the birth of an Eric Walter Cruse is registered in Brighton in the September quarter of 1905 who is almost certainly Walter and Laura's first child. From the death indexes I know that Eric was born on 9th July 1905 and that he died at the age of 92 in Lincoln in 1998. Ronald Thomas Cruse, Walter and Laura's second son, was born on 19th August 1909 and died in 2004 aged 95 in the Worthing Registration District. Walter and Laura did not enjoy such long lives as their sons. Laura died in 1918 at the age of 48, leaving Walter to raise his two young sons on his own and manage the grocery business. Walter died in 1931 at the age of 61 supposedly from "overwork".
Walter's father Richard Cruse was born about 1832 in Chailey, Sussex, and was the son of Richard Cruse, an agricultural labourer, and Mary Mitchell. The Chailey tree can be traced back to Thomas Cruse and Joan Wood who married on 18th November 1688 in Chailey. Richard Cruse worked for most of his life as a domestic gardener. He married Mary Jane White in 1858 in the Tavistock Registration District in Devon. Mary Jane was born in 1838 in Winchester, Hampshire. It seems likely that both Richard and Mary Jane were in service in Devon and that this is probably where they met. Richard and Mary Jane had eight children: Caroline, born in 1862, Charity Clara, born in 1864, Elizabeth, born in 1867, Walter (Jimmy), born in 1870, William Henry, born in 1872, Thomas, born in 1876, Edith Ellen, born in 1879, and Gladys, born in 1887. Caroline was born in Brighton and the other seven children were born in New Shoreham, Sussex. Two of the children died at a young age: William Henry died in 1899 at the age of 27, and Edith Ellen died in 1902 aged 22. Elizabeth married John Thomas Foster in 1900 in the Epsom Registration District. In the 1901 census John and Elizabeth Foster were living at Wateringbury Road, Nettlestead, Kent. John, 32, was a grocer's manager. He is therefore the Jack Foster, brother-in-law of Walter/Jimmy, who subsequently ran Cruse's Stores in Rottingdean. Mary Jane Cruse née White died in 1893 and Richard died in 1910. Their deaths were both registered in the Maidstone Registration District.


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It's hard to believe that this very girly storage space from Craving Some Creativity was once a manly nuts and bolts storage unit. It's so pretty!!
See this Small Craft Item Storage.
It's what I use! I currently have two the same size as the photo you show here and then three slightly larger ones. I LOVE the idea of doing the decorations. Mine are still very much ugly lol!ReplyDelete
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1 apple, finely chopped
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Line a large baking pan or cookie sheet with aluminum foil. If the yams are very large, cut them into big chunks so that they will roast evenly. Bake yams at 350 until softened, 1 1/2 -2 hours. Remove yams from the oven and let them sit until slightly cooled. Remove skins and put the yams into a large bowl. Mash cooked yams with the butter and brown sugar. Then, stir in the pecans and apple. Mix well and pour into a greased 8x8 baking dish. (At this point, the yams may be stored in the refrigerator up to 2 days.) Bake yams at 350 for 30 minutes, or until hot and bubbly. If desired, just before serving, top the yams with mini marshmallows and place under the broiler until the marshmallows are toasted. Don't leave marshmallows unattended! Serve immediately. Makes 8 side dish servings.


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1. There are three types of memory:
The TM (Translation Memory), the TB (Termbase) and the lexicon for each project.
- The TM is a database where you can save the sentences from your source text together with your finished translation.
- The TB is a terminology database which you can use for single words or whole phrases.
- The lexicon is a database which only applies to the individual project. For every project file you can create a new lexicon.
2. Big Mama and Big Papa:
You can keep all of your work in just one TM ("Big Mama") and one TB ("Big Papa"). If you are careful to give your entries the appropriate subject and client codes, DVX2 will take these codes into account when suggesting translations from your databases. My main TM contains about 40,000 sentence pairs accumulated over 12 years, and my main TB has about 55,000 entries.
3. Separate TMs and TBs:
In DVX2 Professional you can have up to 5 TMs and 5 TBs open in any project, and DVX2 Workgroup has no limitation. So you can use your Big Mama/Papa together with external databases, e.g. a TM or terminology list provided by the client, general reference material such as the EU DGT database, or terminology lists from major enterprises such as Microsoft, SAP or from various banks. Or you may even decide to keep separate databases for different subjects or clients instead of a Big Mama or Big Papa. You may feel that this is safer if you work on texts for competing engineering or IT firms which deliberately use different terminology for their own brands. The problem is that it may be more difficult to access all of your reference material, for example if you know that you have dealt with a term or sentence in DVX2, but you can't remember which database you were using at the time.
4. Fuzzy matching:
You can allow DVX2 to find matching material which is not quite exact. Under Tools>Options>General you can set a percentage figure for the variants which DVX2 is allowed to find (= "Minimum Score"). The default setting is 75%, but depending on the type of inflections which occur in your languages it may be useful to set it to 50% or less. The percentage applies to both the TM and TB. It does not apply to the lexicon – only exact matches are found in the lexicon. And the "minimum score" does not affect the performance of the DVX2 functions DeepMiner and AutoWrite.
5. Adding new entries:
This is very quick and easy in DVX2. For the TM you enable AutoSend (either with the tick box at Tools>Options>Environment, or via the icons at the bottom of the DVX2 window – AutoSend is the second icon from the right). Then all you need to do is click CTRL-DownArrow when you have finished each segment. For the lexicon you have to highlight the word or phrase in the source and target text, then hit the F10 key. For the TB you again highlight the word or phrase in the source and target text, then hit F11. This brings up the following window:
Here you can edit the term in either language to add or remove declensions, correct spelling problems etc. You can check that the terms are marked with the right subject and client codes. There are additional fields, too (Definition, Part of Speech, Gender, Number, and you may also see a field called Context). I have not yet seen any reason to use any of these fields, although some users may have found ways to do so.
The termbase (TB) is one of the keys to productivity in DVX2. It is advisable to add words, and even whole phrases, as often as you can. Some users have the principle of adding an entry to the TB in every single sentence they translate. Steven Marzuola's article about using the terminology database was based on the previous version of DVX (now often called DVX1), but it offers great advice which is also relevant to DVX2.
6. Subject and client codes:
These are important, because DVX2 refers to them when it decides what material to offer to help you with your current translation. When you first install DVX2, you will see a suggested list of subjects, but you can easily delete this and create your own list if you think this is better for your work. Each subject consists of a short index code (435 in my example above) and a descriptive text (Regional planning/ecology). When DVX2 decides how close the subject is to your current project, it works hierarchically, so in this example it would consider that entries with my subject codes 43 (Urban planning) and 4 (Building) are closely related. You can use letters instead of numbers if this suits your work.
7. Build lexicon:
This is a function which you can find in the "Lexicon" menu, and which is sometimes useful in preparation for a job which is heavy on terminology. I use this function for between 5% and 10% of my jobs. My procedure is as follows. First I call up "Build lexicon" and define the maximum number of words (usually 4). The program then takes a couple of minutes to find solutions. Then I open the lexicon (with the Project Explorer), click on the heading over the left hand column and define the sort criteria: 1. Number of words (descending), 2. Frequency (descending). Then I go through the list manually from the top. First I decide which four-word phrases are worth adding a lexicon entry for. This is usually only worthwhile for phrases which are meaningful in themselves and which occur frequently. When I get down to phrases which appear three times or less, I then use the scroll bar to move down to the most frequent three-word phrases. And so on, until I have defined a number of lexicon entries. Then I select "Remove entries" from the Lexicon menu, click on "Entries with empty targets" and OK. Typically, this gives me between 30 and 50 lexicon entries for a job consisting of several hundred segments, but they are entries which occur frequently and require consistency, so this preliminary process improves the results achieved by Pretranslate or Assemble as I work on the job.
This function (Build lexicon) can also be used to identify terms that can be used for a terminology list to be delivered to the client if this is part of the client's instructions for the job. Over the years I have only had one such project, but this may be relevant for translators who often work in highly technical fields.
8. Names, places and proprietary titles:
These are the classic elements which should be added to the lexicon. If you have a product name or number, this is normally only relevant to the job in hand. You do not usually want this term to occur in jobs for other clients. The same applies to the names of the people who work for the client. Therefore, such elements should only be sent to the lexicon, and not to the termbase. But some names occur so often that they may be useful in the TB. My general principle here: if names could be confused with actual words in the language, they are not suitable for the TB. So the common German name Helmut is not in my TB because, depending on the level of fuzzy matching, it could be confused with the word Helm=helmet (and the declined forms Helme/Helmen/Helmes). Similarly, the surname Kohl is not in the TB to avoid confusion with Kohl=cabbage (and the near-match Kohle=coal). But the two names together are in the TB – i.e. the former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. And other famous politicians are there too with the spelling in German and English, such as Gorbatschow/Gorbachev.
9. Adapting your use of the databases to your languages:
In some cases, your language pair and translation direction will influence the way you use the different databases because of issues such as word order and inflection. One example of this is the English phrase "public green spaces". In French the words come in a different order, e.g. "espaces verts publics", and alternative wordings are possible, e.g. "espaces verts des lieux publics", "espace verts ouverts au public", "espaces verts pour le public" etc. (Thanks to Dave Turner for providing these and other examples). In German the first translation that comes to mind is "öffentliche Grünflächen", although the first word could also be declined as "öffentlichen".
If you are translating from French to English, you will probably want to enter each and every French phrase as a lexical unit, especially if it occurs frequently in the type of text you deal with. Merely entering the elements does not help very much, because the order of the words must be changed. Depending on your type of work and the frequency of such phrases, you may decide to store them in the lexicon, the TB or the TM.
If you are translating from German, in this case it is sufficient to add the two words to the termbase and let DVX2 handle the endings as "fuzzy matches". Even if we consider phrases with a greater number of inflected variants such as "public building", ("öffentliche Gebäude", "öffentliches Gebäude", "öffentlichen Gebäudes", "öffentlichem Gebäude"), it is still possible to enter just one version of each word and use fuzzy matching. The advantage here is that although the German source is inflected, the English target phrase is not.
Translating from a largely uninflected language into inflected languages like French and German can be more complicated, so you will have to find a strategy which fits the languages that you work with. There is no single solution which will work for all languages and all subject areas, but DVX2 offers flexibility in the use of the databases.
10. Looking things up in the database:
There are various ways to access the information that is in your databases. The first is that DVX2 uses this information to compile its suggested translation (when you use the functions "Pretranslate", "Assemble" or "AutoAssemble"). When you have done that, you will see that some words or phrases in the suggested translation are underlined in blue. These are terms for which your databases contain several possibilities. Right clicking on the word or phrase will show you the other suggestions, and you can examine these and select them with the mouse or by using the number shown. The third way to see the relevant content of your database is by looking at the "Portions" window or windows. There are several screenshots illustrating this here. The fourth way to look up the information is to use Scan (CTRL-S) to call up a concordance from the TM, or Lookup (CTRL-L) to see entries from the TB.
11. Moving databases to another computer:
If you need to move your work to a different computer, e.g. to work on a laptop while you are travelling, you will need to copy certain files to the other computer. The first file is your project file, which has the extension .dvprj. The project file contains the lexicon, so no special steps are needed to transfer the lexicon. The termbase is a single file with the extension .dvtdb. The TM consists of at least four files. The main content is in a file with the extension .dvmdb. Then there is an index file for each of your languages; my index files have the extension en.dvmdi and de.dvmdi (for English and German). There is also a file with the extension .dvmdx. When you open the project on the other computer, DVX2 may complain that it cannot find the databases. But this is not a problem – when the project is open, you can select them with Project>Properties>Databases.
Another file which is worth moving to the other computer is the settings file with the extension .dvset. This contains your subject and client lists and various other settings. And don't forget your dongle, or if you use an electronic licence key, make sure that the key will apply to the other computer.
12. How to find out more:
For more detailed information it is worth looking at the DVX2 User Guide for DVX2 Professional or DVX2 Workgroup. The link is at the bottom of the page, and the user guides are PDF files with over 600 pages. On the website http://www.atril.com there are also links to various videos, webinars and training courses, and also to the mailing list dejavu-l (under Support>Technical forum).
I already mentioned Steven Marzuola's article on terminology databases. It is also worth looking at Nelson Laterman's collection of tips and tricks for DVX1 (and even its predecessor DV3).
I am sure there are plenty of tips and questions which I have not covered, so I am looking forward to reading comments by my readers.


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A Healthcare Power of Attorney is a document in which you give another person (your agent) the power to make decisions about your care. If you want to name someone to make healthcare decisions for you, you should sign a healthcare power of attorney no matter what other documents you have.
Frequently asked questions about a Healthcare Power of Attorney:
How is a healthcare power of attorney different from a normal power of attorney?
A healthcare power of attorney is a document in which you give another person (your agent) the power to make decisions related to your care. A normal power of attorney gives a person the power to make decisions about your money, property or business transactions. A normal power of attorney, however, will not necessarily allow your agent to make healthcare decisions for you. If you want an agent to be able to make healthcare decisions for you, you should sign a healthcare power of attorney no matter what other documents you may have. If you want an agent to make decisions about money, you will need a different power of attorney.
Whom should I appoint as my agent? What if my agent cannot serve?
You should appoint a person you trust and who knows how you feel about healthcare. You should also name an alternate in case your agent is unwilling or unable to serve. You should talk to the persons you choose as your agent and alternate to be sure they are willing to serve, and so that they know how you feel about healthcare.
Why should I sign a healthcare power of attorney?
You may become unable to make healthcare decisions for yourself. You can name the person who will make these decisions for you by signing a healthcare power of attorney. Through this person, you can make sure you continue to control your own healthcare. Without such a document, the courts may be called upon to make the decisions or to appoint another person to make them.
What can I authorize an agent to do for me in a healthcare power of attorney?
You can authorize your agent to make healthcare decisions for you in case you become unable to make decisions for yourself. In your healthcare power of attorney, you may tell your agent that you do or do not want blood transfusions, life support, CPR, feeding tubes, dialysis, etc.
What are the requirements for signing a healthcare power of attorney?
At least two persons must sign the document as witnesses when you sign it. Only one hospital employee can serve as a witness. Information is listed on the document about who can or cannot serve as a witness. You do not have to record your healthcare power of attorney for it to be valid.
What if I change my mind?
You can revoke your healthcare power of attorney at any time while you are competent by informing your agent or doctor that you have changed your mind.
Where should I keep my healthcare power of attorney?
Keep the original in a safe place where your family members can get it. You should also give a copy to as many of the following persons you are comfortable with: family members, physician, attorney, minister, priest or clergyman, agent. Do not put your only copy of these documents in your safe deposit box.
Should I consider signing both a healthcare power of attorney and a living will?
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If I do not have a healthcare power of attorney or a living will, who will make healthcare decisions for me?
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The joint venture was established in 1997 as ninemsn and the combined online properties, including news.ninemsn.com.au, were viewed by up to 12 million each month in Australia, the companies say.
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Mark Britt will continue as CEO of Mi9. "Ninemsn and Mi9 have been a critical part of NEC's digital business for many years," he said. "NEC has always been a fantastic shareholder, so this is business as usual for us."
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