Cactus Red's is more than just a local favorite for delicious food and great company! Our new southwestern-style menu features authentic flavors with a modern touch. Cactus Red's is a place for the whole family-- there's something on the menu for everyone. Do not forget to try "the million dollar potatoes"-- one of our most popular dished and best-kept secret recipes.
There's a host of yummy choices on the Cactus Red's menu. Dine on a taco salad infused with a variety of Southwestern flavors, chow down on a ribeye steak, or indulge in a seafood platter! You can taste the difference in our smoked meats, which are all brushed with a hickory and mesquite blend and smoked in-house.
Start your meal with an appetizer from our Nibbles section and share nachos, carne asada fries, wings, or southwest sliders with your table. Our cozy meals come with a side of seasonal vegetables, warm bread, or soup – all crafted to remind you of home.
Start your day off on the right foot with our complimentary breakfast, served in the dining area of Cactus Red's. It's easy to build your own breakfast with a variety of hot and cold items. Enjoy a selection of eggs, breakfast meats, breads, cereal, yogurt, fruit, and make-your-own waffle station. Here at Comfort Suites Ogden, there is complimentary self-serve coffee available all day long and a variety of juice available at breakfast.
Cactus Red's is more than just a local favorite for delicious food and great company! Our new southwestern-style menu features authentic flavors with a modern touch.
Start your day off on the right foot with our complimentary breakfast, served in the dining area of Cactus Red's. It's easy to build your own breakfast with a variety of hot and cold items. Enjoy a selection of eggs, breakfast meats, breads, cereal, yogurt, fruit, and make-your-own waffle station.


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Q: laravel ajax store and update data I use ajax to store and update some data in DB,
it works when I store some data but when I remove comment from code to update some data i got the 500 Internal error .
public function update(Request $request){
        $newRecord = new AllAttendanceData;
        $newRecord -> studentId = $request->id;
        $newRecord -> studentState = $request->state;
        $newRecord ->save();
        $state = $request->state;
        $id = $request->id;
        $editStuState = StuAtt::first();
        // if ( $state == 1) {
        //  $editStuState -> present +=1;
        // }elseif ($state == 2) {
        //  $editStuState -> leave +=1;
        // }else{
        //  $editStuState -> absent +=1;
        // }
        // $editStuState ->save();
    return response($state );
    }

and my ajax code
    <script type="text/javascript">
  $(document).ready(function() {
    $('input[type=radio]').change(function() {
           $state = this.value;
           $id = $(this).attr('id')
           $.ajax({
         type: "get",
        url: '/singleAttData/',
        data: { state:$state ,id: $id},
        success: function(result) {
            window.console.log('Successful:'+result[0]);
        }
      });
    });
});
</script>

any one has solution?

A: In Chrome, open 'Developer Tools', go to 'Network' and select your Ajax request. Click the 'Response' tab and you will see why the failure is occurring.
Also, make sure to validate your input, even on Ajax requests.

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Q: Adding a dotted line spacer/infill with CSS I am working on a restaurant website.  The design calls for the typical dotted line infill between a menu item and the price.  I have been scouring the net and messing with it for an hour or so now and can't seem to find any good ways to do this with only CSS.  I found a couple of other solutions on here that work great if you have a solid color background, however on this site it uses a background image and those solutions wouldn't work.
Example: Menu style "...." - fill in with periods has a good solution, but it sets the background colors to white of the menu item and price to hide the dotted lines behind them, but the page I am building has a background image so any solid color backgrounds would look bad.
I have tried using all kinds of combinations of table-row/table-cell or any other type of CSS display attributes and width settings on the elements, but no dice.
Here is some fake sample markup:

Soup $2.99

Ice cream $5.99

Steak $20.99

I have been trying to get this to work by using the "dots" class element with a bottom border to fill in the gap, but nothing I try works.  I also just put a bottom border on the LI element all the way across the bottom of each row, but that is not what the designer wants.  I can only think of doing it in javascript as a last resort, but wanted to see if you guys had any ideas.  Or, I can just use tables, but really wanted to avoid that as well.
Thanks!

A: I can be achieved by using definition lists (fiddle):
HTML:

$2.89

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet

$21.89

In porta nisl id nisl varius ullamcorper

$5.99

Suspendisse augue mauris, mattis ac, commodo quis, lobortis vel, mauris. Etiam dolor neque, iaculis sit amet, tincidunt nec, elementum ut, lorem.

$8.99

Donec sed felis sit amet risus

$11.50

Maecenas ante. Suspendisse pharetra, metus in tempus egestas, purus ante pellentesque purus, at gravida metus elit nec nunc. Etiam ante ligula, porttitor et, euismod commodo, pulvinar id, pede. Curabitur et magna. Vestibulum leo nibh, viverra sed, imperdiet non,

$5.99

Etiam ante ligula,

$5.99

Fusce condimentum

$7.55

Morbi nibh velit, sodales eu

$6.50

Etiam ante ligula,

$11.50

Fusce condimentum

$2.50

Morbi nibh velit, sodales eu

$21.50

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. In porta nisl id nisl varius ullamcorper.

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    width:500px;
    border:1px solid #eff2df;
    margin:20px 20px;
    background:#809900;
}
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    padding:20px 40px;
    border:1px solid #4c7300;
    position:relative;
    left:-2px;
    top:-2px;
    background:#eff2df;
    color:#4c7300;
    width:418px;
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    position:relative;
    width:100%;
    border-bottom:1px solid #eff2df;
}
#wrap dd{
    line-height:1.2em;
    position:relative;
    padding:0 5em 0 0;
    text-align:left;
    border-bottom:1px dotted #000;
    clear:both;
    margin:0 0 .4em 0;
    min-height:0;
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    border:none;
    background: url(images/dotted-leader.gif) repeat-x left bottom;
    height:1%;
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    background:#eff2df;
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A: I would go with something like this:
Example Fiddle
It uses the dotted border on the .dots element and shifts it some pixels to the top.
ul li {
    display:table-row;
    width:15em;
}
ul li span{
  display:table-cell;
}
.dots{
    min-width:10em;
    position:relative;
    bottom:4px;
 border-bottom:1px dotted #777;
}

Nice sideeffect - you dont need to float the elements. However this solution uses display:table-cell so this won't work in old IEs (<IE8).
Depending on the background, you could use the li-border solution and replace the solid colors on the span-elements with the background-image itself.


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Taste of Cinema - Movie Reviews and Classic Movie Lists > Lists > Film Lists > 10 Great Movies That Are Best To Watch Alone
10 Great Movies That Are Best To Watch Alone
Posted on December 11, 2018 December 11, 2018 by Julia Sipowicz
Watching movies alone is a timeless practice. For many it can be a time of meditation, reflection, or simply uninhibited amusement. Solitude allows for the most intimate and distinctive viewing experiences as it allows for full immersion into the director's world, allowing one to notice all the minute nuances of a performance and slights of a filmmaker's hand that other people just distract from. Just like being alone in a room with a painting, spending such time with a film helps a viewer notice everything special and individual in the piece.
Somewhat like talk therapy, enjoying a good film in alone gives way for deeper, more personal emotions to rise. Be it a response to the family dysfunction in Magnolia or the slow approach of death in Melancholia, being alone lets the viewer explore those feelings in utter peace.
Whether making the trek to a theatre alone or staying in a room of one's own, here is a selection of films that are best to watch alone.
1. Last Year at Marienbad by Alain Resnais
Simply put, Last Year at Marienbad (1961) is a film about deja-vu, the phenomenon of feeling as though one's present experiences have occurred before. The entire film has a dreamlike structure that offers little explanation for jumps and lapses in time and setting, making the film so notoriously incomprehensible.
What makes this film so great to watch alone is the sense of intimacy laced throughout, due to solitude and earnestness of the characters within. Their isolation makes perfect sense for a private viewing context, in which the film can receive the attention it deserves.
Set in the beautiful Czech spa town of Marienbad, a historic watering hole for royals and other wealthy patrons, the plot follows a trio of Delphic characters: a man, a woman, and a second man, most likely the woman's husband.
The first man claims to have met the woman before, in his previous year at Marienbad, and that she told him that she needed to wait a year before committing to him. She denies this, prompting the man to make attempts at recovering her memory, while the second man tries to prove his dominance over the first through games of Nim.
2. Magnolia by Paul Thomas Anderson
Magnolia (1999) is a complicated film. Often hailed as a masterpiece of post-modern cinema, the film is rooted in human dysfunction and flaw. With themes of failure, addiction, greed, family, death, Exodus, and fate, the film paints a cynical portrait of the human condition.
Of all PTA's works, this one is particularly best digested in solitude for its dark themes and highly reflective nature. Magnolia can be uncomfortable and even awkward at times, but this naturalistic portrayal of its characters is what makes the film so special.
The plot is split into several intertwined narratives of the colourful inhabitants of San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles. Following figures like police officer Jim Kurring; quiz show host Jimmy Gator and his family; producer Earl Partridge, his wife Linda, and his son Frank; and former child prodigy Donnie Smith. Their stories are shown in pieces that slowly come together over the course of the film, comprising to form an epic tale.
3. Three Colours Trilogy by Krzysztof Kieslowski
There are a million reasons to adore the Three Colours (1993-94) and a million more for Kieslowski himself. Loosely based on the ideals of the French Republic – liberty, equality, and fraternity – the trilogy often takes on ironic interpretations, sending its characters down highly emotional pathways.
Through turbulent periods of joy and despair, the Three Colours provide a banquet of food for thought, presenting not only three great films of human character and flaw, but of moral dilemma.
The first of the trio, Blue, tracks a woman's attempts to distance herself from her former life after the death of her husband and daughter, but being repeatedly forced to face people from her past in often painful episodes. The film reflects on her inability to ever gain true freedom from what she wishes to escapes, making a joke out of the initial concept of liberty.
The second piece, White, is a far less disheartening tale of revenge. Beginning with a expatriate Polish man left to beg in the Paris Métro after being left by his wife, he is soon given a second chance after a fortuitous meeting gives him the opportunity to return to Poland with a mission. After a series of jobs, he schemes his way to becoming wealthy enough to take revenge on the woman who took everything from him before, balancing out the misfortune in his life.
The final film, Red, follows a part-time model and the people around her who form unlikely bonds and grow to care for each other. The three films connect together loosely, with leading characters from each appearing in the others.
4. Happiness by Todd Solondz
What stands out most about Solondz's Happiness (1998) is the director's fearless portrayal of contemporary themes and taboos, giving way to uncomfortable situations throughout the film. Behind the quaint suburban veneer lay heavy sexual themes; the film was deemed too controversial to screen at Sundance Film Festival.
While the topics addressed in this film are definitely issues deserving of discussion, no matter how upsetting, the provocative nature of scenes featuring paedophilia or fraud are especially difficult to watch. The depraved and almost vile nature of Solondz's characters makes them more human than caricatured for quite scary, true-to-life viewing experience.
The film follows three upper middle-class sisters, of three different personalities, each in pursuit of happiness. The eldest, Trish, is a housewife unknowingly married to a paedophile; the middle sister, Helen, is a successful author with unfulfilling love life; while Joy, the youngest, lacks direction and is used by one of her students. Their parents are separating after 40 years of marriage, but the change in their lives fails to bring them newfound joy, instead driving them, like their daughters, to further discontent.
5. Grave of the Fireflies by Isao Takahata
Unlike most war-set films, Grave of the Fireflies (1988) shows no glimmers of pride, hope, or patriotism. For Takahata, the writer and director, the film was never about war itself, but about personal survival. Takahata has argued that the film carries no anti-war message, instead focusing on themes of isolation and depravity.
Of the choices on this list, this piece is undoubtedly the most heartbreaking and difficult to watch for all the portrayed suffering that makes its audience feel so utterly helpless, however, it is also the most important to watch. As a Studio Ghibili film, it is naturally beautifully animated and filled child-like wonder, making the misery and futility of the war all the more harrowing.
Set in the last months of World War II in the city of Kobe, Japan, Grave of the Fireflies peaks into the lives of Seita and his younger sister, Setsuko, as they struggle to survive. With their father in the Navy, they are left alone after an air raid strikes their home, killing their mother.
Taken in by their aunt, they soon leave to fend for themselves after rations run low, eventually settling in an old bomb shelter. Seita tries his best to care for Setsuko, however, their struggle becomes increasingly more difficult as Setsuko falls ill and their means to live become scarce.
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Thrive Health Systems orders lab tests in bulk and therefore can get fantastic discounts for patients. We pass the actual cost of the lab test directly to the patient, meaning that we make no money on the test.
We only charge for the analysis of the test, not the test itself. The analysis is $99 for any lab test. The lab analysis is mandatory to go along with lab test. The analysis will include a 15 minute consultation with a doctor and a comparison of your results to researched healthy normals. You will find out if you are deficient, normal or toxic in the tested areas.
If you'd like help to naturally balance your blood chemistry, we can help. We will use dietary changes, cleanses and specific supplementation to balance your blood chemistry. Follow-up appointments would be $45 per 15 minutes.
Lab tests range in price from $99 to $199. We can even order hormone tests, urine test, heavy metal tests, and stool tests. We will order the test and you will make an appointment with the appropriate lab for either drop off of the sample or testing.
Our health care philosophy is that if the body is functioning according to its design, then it will demonstrate health and vitality. Balance and homeostasis is required for this. We help many people balance their muscles and their frame, and lab tests are a great way to determine if your blood chemistry is balanced.
For this reason, we recommend a blood test and analysis once every year.
There are times when other lab tests are called for. Thrive Health Systems also orders hormone tests, stool tests, urine analysis, toxicity tests (using hair samples), and others, depending on the patients needs and wants.
These tests can tell you a lot about the health of the body, the functioning of organs, and the body's ecosystem. If your sickness is a mystery, and you feel like you don't have the answers yet that you've been looking for, we have tests that can potentially shed light on what is causing your dysfunction.


"My mum keeps putting eye drops," the 11-year-old girl said again when the 2nd worst case of eye abscess hamster is discharged after 4 days of in-patient treatment.
The slim little girl is bright as she topped her Science examination but she confessed she failed her Maths. The mother had told me she applied eye drops but the dwarf hamster's lower eyelid kept growing bigger and bigger. "Pus leaked out from her eyelids," she said to me. So, she texted and emailed me to get an appointment.
The little girl could not understand why the mother was doing the hamster treatment but in the real world, many mothers would do that, to save money as a family expense in Singapore is very high.
The left lower eyelid was full of bacteria and pus kept forming. On the 2nd and 3rd day and even on the 4th day, I had to lance the residual pimple on the upper right eyelid and the lower conjunctiva.
The mother brought the daughter to visit the hamster on Day 3 and decided to wait another day for the pus to go away.


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In the latest AGD Podcast interview, Wes Blakeslee, DMD, FAGD, speaks with Rod P. Strickland, DDS, about his innovative technique for making Facelift Dentures™. Dr. Strickland, a practicing dentist, author, speaker, inventor, and researcher, is passionate about sharing his knowledge with other dentists and allowing them to create new profit centers within their own practices. He has pursued extensive postgraduate continuing education in cosmetic dentistry and neuromuscular dentistry, and held an appointment as a faculty-practitioner at Indiana University School of Dentistry for more than 10 years. Listen to the August podcast today.


Sosúa had a wonderful park built at the beginning of the 1940s. The park had two sections. One was diagonally across from the Colmado Sosúa and had two very large cement benches where people used to gather after they finished shopping. An inscription honoring Trujillo was on one of the lateral walls. A big bust of Trujillo was between the cement benches. It was removed after Trujillo was overthrown in 1961. The big esplanade in front of the Colmado was used for the "Manifestaciones a Trujillo"(Trujillo mass meetings ) and for military marches for the Dominican patriotic festivities like Independence Day on February 27 and "Restauracion" on August 16. The military also used it for training and marching.
The other section of the park had trees, trails, and green areas. The children used to go to this section of the park to climb the trees and play. Their favorite tree was a "Pink Shaving Tree". Many inscriptions were made in the tree's branches using the thorns from an aloe plant. Benches as well as some short trails were also located in the inner section of the park. The rear section of the park extended almost to the DORSA offices.
The Batey also had a lot of trees along its streets. Most of them were "javilla" trees. A "limoncillo" tree was also located at Pedro Clisante street to the delight of the children. Mango, cherry and lime trees grew in several places and in the yards and backyards of the settlers' homes. A favorite tamarind tree, used for climbing, was behind the post office.
The children considered most of the fruit from these trees to belong to anyone clever enough to be able to obtain it. This caused some altercations between the children and adults, who considered what grew on their property to belong to them. The children saw it as communal, and invariably they won the battle when the adults were not looking. When the children went so far as to go into someone's farm to get at the mangos growing there, trouble could ensue especially if the children were unaware that bulls or other animals were on those farms. Many races between animals and children luckily were won by the children.


Personal loans can help you take care of your personal financial needs. These include advance courses, medical emergency, wedding, renovation, vacation, and more. However, before signing on the dotted lines, make sure of certain things.
You should read the final agreement, in order to confirm that the features of the personal loan that you had read, and discussed with the advisor, are covered. For example, Flexi personal loan by some NBFCs provide flexible loan facility. The facility allows you to borrow amount as per your requirement, without using the whole loan limit. The interest is applicable on the borrowed sum.
The interest amount, tenor, interest rates should match with what you discussed with the lender. The personal loan emi calculator which you used to calculate the EMIs are indicative in nature. Before putting your signature, know what your actual EMIs would be.
The flexi personal loan offers multiple withdrawals. In flexi loan, the loan limit decreases every time you withdraw, but the loan limit does not increase when the principal is repaid. In flexi interest-only the loan limit increases when the principal is repaid. You need to be sure that there is no limiting clause for the option that you have chosen.
You need to read the fine print to know all the fees, and add-on charges, so that there are no costs hidden from your knowledge. The loan document lists general terms, and conditions. Peruse the stamp duty, taxes, part pre-payment charges, and penalty to understand your total costs.
Before taking the final plunge, revisit the tenor of the loan. A longer tenor may reduce your EMIs, but it increases your total interest payable.
For example: You withdraw a loan amount of Rs. 1 lakh at 16% interest rate.
For a tenor of 12 months, the EMI is Rs. 9,073 but total interest to be paid is Rs. 8,875.
For a tenor of 24 months, the EMI is Rs. 4,896 but total interest to be paid is Rs. 17,513.
You need to check your monthly savings, and determine a tenor that is best suited for you. Long tenor makes the loan expensive.
You should be aware of the events of default, and the remedies available. Do not fail to provide all the required documents. Failure to provide accurate information, and documents is considered as one of the cases of default.
Once you are sure of all the aspects, you can confidently sign a personal loan agreement.


According to Time, as many as 8 out of 10 Americans experience back pain at some point in their life.
According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Americans spend at least $50 billion every year, looking for ways to relieve low-back pain.
According to a 2011 study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, massage helps alleviate low-back pain and improves back pain symptoms overall.
The study notes that Swedish and structural massages are the most helpful types of massage to relieve low-back pain.
A 2011 study by the National Institutes of Health showed that massage can help decrease low back pain, and even decrease associated anxiety and depression.
Weekly or biweekly massages also help decrease stiffness in the back.
And according to a 2006 study published by the Yale Prevention Research Center, they improve the range of motion in people suffering from osteoarthritis.
Increasing neurotransmitters associated with reduced anxiety.
Decreasing hormones associated with intensified anxiety.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, at least 10% of all American adults are suffering from depression.
A 2012 study published in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine found that massage is effective for managing depression, thanks to its ability to reduce levels of cortisol (a stress hormone).
The study also showed that massage increases serotonin and dopamine (neurotransmitters that are linked to depression).
A 2010 study published by the National Institutes of Health concluded that the anti-depression benefits of massage are similar to those of psychotherapy.
Every year, stress-related ailments cost Americans $300 billion in medical bills and lost productivity.
And according to the American Institute of Stress , three out of four doctors' visits are due to stress-related ailments.
A 2008 study published by the National Institutes of Health showed that massage reduces physiological measures of stress (including hormonal and physical variables).
According to another 2008 study published in the National Institutes of Health, massage is effective for stress relief (on both physical and psychological levels).
This relief is due to massage's ability to decrease heart rate, blood pressure (both systolic and diastolic), and cortisol levels.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 50 to 70 million American adults experience sleep issues that affect their health.
According to a 2012 study by the American Massage Therapy Association, massage is effective for treating insomnia.
It boosts the production of melatonin, which directly affects the quality of sleep.
According to a 1992 study published in the National Institutes of Health, massage improves the quality of sleep.
This improvement is due to its abilities to reduce cortisol levels and alleviate symptoms of anxiety and depression.
Post-exercise tissue inflammation manifests itself in the form of muscle soreness and joint pain, slows post-exercise recovery, and causes overuse injuries.
According to a 2012 study published in Science Translational Medicine, massage can reduce inflammation and help people recover after exercise-induced muscle damage.
The study found that massage is effective for the physical rehabilitation of skeletal muscles, as well as reduction of the inflammation and pain that promote recovery after exercise or injury.
Muscle tension often occurs when one or more muscles in the body remain contracted for a prolonged period of time.
According to a 2005 study published by the National Institutes of Health, massage helps directly affect the muscle tissue and release its contraction (which results in muscle-tension relief).
A 2014 study published in the International Journal of Sports Physical Therapy found that massage is helpful for releasing contracted muscles and lengthening tight ones.
The study also found that massage helps treat stiff, sore muscles (while reducing painful contractions, spasms, and nerve compression).
Anyone who exercises (including amateur and professional athletes) faces poor performance (e.g., low energy levels, soreness, slow recovery, frequent injuries, and no visible fitness gains) every now and then.
A 2008 study published by the National Institutes of Health found massage to be effective for enhancing exercise performance, promoting faster recovery, improving conditioning, preventing injuries, and helping maintain fitness.
According to a 2008 study published in the North American Journal of Sports Physical Therapy, massage enhances exercise performance.
This enhancement is due to its abilities to relieve muscle tension, improve soft-tissue function, promote relaxation, and decrease delayed-onset muscle soreness.
According to the American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association, about 50 million Americans suffer from autoimmune disease.
A 2012 study by the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine linked massage to enhancement of the immune system.
The study found that weekly and biweekly massages effectively decreasing cortisol levels, while increasing oxytocin and white blood cells (which help fight disease).
The study also showed that massage affects OT and AVP levels, which play an essential role in the functioning of the immune system.
According to the Migraine Research Foundation, 12% of the world's population suffers from migraines and intense headaches.
According to a 2009 study published in the National Institutes of Health, massage helps relieve pain from migraines and tension headaches.
The study also found massage to be effective at curbing some of the stress and anger associated with headaches.
A 2002 study by the American Public Health Association found that massage can reduce the frequency, intensity, and duration of headaches.
It also decreases medication usage and increases the range of cervical motion.
According to the American Society of Clinical Oncology, as many as one in three cancer patients suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder.
A 2012 study by BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care showed that massage provides clinical benefits that ease cancer treatments.
In addition to improving the overall emotional and physical states of cancer patients, the study showed that massage helps reduce their pain, fatigue, and nausea.
Therefore, in combination with standard care, massage can improve the quality of life in cancer patients.
In 2010, an estimated 35.6 million people worldwide had dementia.
And according to the National Institutes of Health, that number is expected to double to 65.7 million by 2030.
According to a 2013 study by the Journal of Clinical Nursing, massage helps significantly reduce agitated and aggressive behavior in older adults with dementia.
A 2014 study published in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine found that massage can be effective for relieving psychological stress in patients with dementia.
The close presence of another human being (the massage therapist) reduces anxiety and distress, while promoting comfort.
According to the Official Journal of the American Pain Society, most patients who undergo surgical procedures experience postoperative pain.
According to a 2007 study published by the National Institutes of Health, massage can relieve postoperative pain by decreasing its intensity (and the distress that comes along with it).
The study also found that massage is an effective tool for relieving acute postoperative pain in patients undergoing major surgical procedures.
It decreases doses of analgesics, while increasing the levels of calmness.
A 2010 study published by the National Institutes of Health showed that massage helps patients deal with the challenging physical and psychological aspects of their health condition.
According to the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, fibromyalgia affects 5 million American adults.
A 2002 study published in the National Institutes of Health found that massage is helpful for reducing fibromyalgia pain.
It decreases stiffness, fatigue, anxiety, and depression (all of which are primary symptoms of fibromyalgia).
The study also showed that massage can help reduce fibromyalgia pain by reducing tender points, decreasing cortisol levels, and improving the quality of sleep.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States (25%).
A 2013 study by the International Journal of Preventative Medicine found that massage is effective at reducing heart rates.
High blood pressure and heart rates are associated with cardiovascular disease (including hypertension and coronary artery disease).
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, osteoarthritis (a degenerative joint disease) affects nearly 14% of American adults 25 years old or over.
According to a 2012 study published in the National Institutes of Health, massage can significantly reduce pain caused by osteoarthritis of the knee.
The study found that Swedish massage is particularly effective for alleviating the pain of osteoarthritis.
According to Health Line, over 4.5 million Americans are currently living with at least one total knee replacement.
A 2015 study by the Journal of Physical Therapy Science showed that massage can reduce (or even eliminate) pain after total joint replacement (arthroplasty).
The study also found massage to be effective at decreasing muscular tightness, softening tissues, and decreasing swelling in the joints.
In the study, the group that received mechanical massage showed a significant reduction in edema and pain, while also showing improvements in active knee flexion.
An estimated 76.5 million Americans (26%) report that they have experienced pain of some sort for more than 24 hours at a time.
And according to the American Academy of Pain Medicine, about 70% of American adults have had neck pain at least once in their life.
A 2009 study published by the National Institutes of Health linked massage to relieving neck pain (at least in the short term).
The study showed that massage can effectively get rid of discomfort in the neck, and even improve posture to further relieve neck pain.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in the period between 2010 and 2012, about 52.5 million American adults (22.7%) were annually diagnosed with some form of arthritis (including rheumatoid arthritis).
A 2012 study published in the Journal of Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice showed that massage can produce positive effects in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.
The study found that massage is effective at decreasing pain in patients suffering from rheumatoid arthritis in their arms and hands.
The study also showed that massage has a positive effect on the ability of some patients to control the mobility of their arms and hands.
According to a 2015 study published by the National Institutes of Health, massage is also linked to reducing pain and stiffness, and it improves the overall function of the joints.
By 2056, it is estimated that the population of Americans 65 years old or over will become larger than the population of American under 18 years old.
And the U.S. Department of Commerce projects that 28 million Americans will be 80 or above by 2040.
According to a 2007 study published in the National Institutes of Health, massage provides clinical benefits of enhancing positive well-being and reducing anxiety and depression in older adults.
The study also found massage to be effective at reducing stress perception, boosting vitality, and improving the quality of life in older adults.
According to the American Psychological Association, nearly half of Americans report irritability or anger that results from stress.
According to a 2010 study published by the National Institutes of Health, back and hand massages show significant improvements for both the physiological and psychological indicators of relaxation.
And a 2011 study published by the National Institutes of Health found that the relaxation produced by massage can last for at least 16-18 hours.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 75 million American adults (29%) have high blood pressure.
A 2014 study published in the Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing showed that massage is highly effective at reducing both systolic and diastolic blood pressure.
High blood pressure is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease.
And a 2013 study published in the National Institutes of Health showed that massage can lower blood pressure for up to 72 hours.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an estimated 3% of employed adults aged 18-64 years have carpal tunnel syndrome.
And according to a 2013 study published by the National Institutes of Health, massage helps significantly lower the severity of symptoms and functional status of this syndrome.
A 2008 study published in The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine showed that massage can be effective at alleviating symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome and improving grip strength.
Range of motion is the full movement potential of a joint. A 2008 study published by the National Institutes of Health found that massage can be effective at increasing range of motion, while relieving low-back pain and sciatica symptoms.
According to a 2002 study published in the National Institutes of Health, massage can increase range of motion (even in patients suffering from chronic low-back pain).
The study also showed that massage can improve flexion performance and pain in the trunk.
According to the National Hospice and Palliative Care, nearly 40% of all U.S. deaths in 2007 occurred in hospice care.
While the quality of life for patients in palliative and care is often compromised, a 2011 study published in the National Institutes of Health showed that massage can improve quality of life of such patients.
It has the ability to provide comfort and relaxation.
The study also found that massage is effective at alleviating symptoms and conditions commonly associated with such patients (including anxiety, depression, stress, fatigue, pain, nausea, and insomnia).
According to the National Institutes of Health, nausea and vomiting affect 70% to 80% of all pregnant women.
And according to a 2007 study published in The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, massage significantly relieves nausea in women who are undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer.
A 2006 study published by the National Institutes of Health showed that massage reduces severe nausea during pregnancy.
Hormones are essential to human health.
They affect the endocrine system, thyroid, metabolism, reproductive glands, liver, kidneys, and heart.
A 2012 study published in the National Institutes of Health showed that massage regulates and stimulates hormone levels in the human body.
The study found massage to be effective at increasing oxytocin and reducing the adrenocorticotropic hormone in humans.
According to a 2005 study published by the International Journal of Neuroscience, massage helps decrease cortisol and activate serotonin and dopamine.
According to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease, between 60 and 70 million people around the world are affected by digestive disorders.
A 2011 study published by the National Institutes of Health found that massage is effective at treating digestive disorders.
The study concluded that massage can help stimulate peristalsis, increase the frequency of bowel movements (of constipated patients), and decrease colonic transit time.
The same study also showed that massage can reduce that discomfort and pain that accompany digestive disorders, and help treat long-term constipation.
According to the Association for Safe International Road Travel, nearly 1.3 million people around the world die in road crashes every year.
A large share of car crashes is caused by a lack of alertness and drowsy driving.
A 1996 study published by the National Institutes of Health showed that massage can increase alertness.
The study linked massage to better brainpower and an increased ability to solve problems more quickly and accurately.
According to the American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology, about 25 million of the U.S. population (8%) has asthma.
And according to a 2011 study published in The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, massage improves the lung function in children with asthma.
According to the World Health Organization, complications during pregnancy and childbirth are the second biggest cause of death in girls who are 15 to 19 years old.
A 2010 study published in the National Institutes of Health found massage to be highly effective during pregnancy — due to its abilities to reduce depression and anxiety, and alleviate leg and back pain.
The study also showed that massage can reduce the risk of prenatal complications, which decreases the need for medication.
In addition, the study showed a lower incidence of prematurity and low birth-weight in massaged pregnant women.
Massage can provide you with a wide range of health benefits.
It helps to decrease stress and to relax, alleviates pain and provides general health improvement.
Undergoing massage regularly boosts your immune system and helps fitness performance.
Nowadays, you can pick from more than 80 massage types and find the one that will suit your needs.
Don't forget that it's always better to consult a physician before starting any procedures.
From Helen Nichols' Well-being Secrets.com/massage-benefits/ Used by permission.


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SU/FGCU RECAP
Fort Myers, FL- FGCU (24-2, 11-0) won their 13th game in a row Monday night vs Stetson University (10-13, 4-6) 67-54.
Anja Marinkovic had a huge 1st half for the Eagles scoring 14 of her 16 points in the 1st half. Keri Jewett-Giles had another big 2nd half for the Eagles scoring 21 points overall with a majority of her points being in the last 20 minutes of the game when it mattered and helping put the game out of reach. Tytionia Adderly brought down 21 rebounds in the game for FGCU. Stetson was led by Junior G Tonysha Curry who finished with 15 pts. Stetson at one point had an 8 point lead but the Eagles were able to score 37 2nd half points to put the game away. Stetson showed vast improvements in this game compared to the 89-47 game back on 1/11 at Edmunds Center.
FGCU shot 32% from the field (22/68), 28.6% from beyond the arc (10/35) and outrebounded the Hatters 41-35. The Eagles dished out 10 assists and on the defensive end of the ball had 8 steals and 1 block. FGCU forced 19 Hatters turnovers and had 6 team turnovers of their own.
Outstanding Players (SU):
Tonysha Curry 15 pts
Day'Neshia Banks 11 pts
Kimia Carter 11 pts
Keri Jewett-Giles 21 pts
Anja Marinkovic 16 pts
Nasrin Ulel 14 pts, 7 rebounds
FGCU heads on the road to face Lipscomb University (5-19, 2-9) on 2/15 at 2:30 PM from Allen Arena.
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A partner agency is our umbrella term for nonprofits such as food pantries, soup kitchens, homeless shelters, senior centers, and other organizations that provide emergency food assistance to people in need. These agencies are on the front lines of hunger, directly providing food and other human services to their community.
Across our 34 county service area, we work with over 800 partner agencies. These agencies are typically volunteer-run, community-based, and under-funded. Some are only open one day per month, others on a regular basis. Their sizes and services range from a food pantry in a church that provides groceries to the neighborhood, to a community center that offers a variety of resources such as affordable housing assistance, nutrition education, and programs for children.
Monday through Friday, our branches are filled with volunteers from these agencies who come to the Food Bank to pick out the food they will use to stock their shelves. Our trucks deliver food to our smaller or rural agencies who don't have the ability to pick up food from one of our branch locations.
As the Food Bank, we work full-time to build partnerships with our donors such as retailers, companies, and individuals to raise money and food year-round. We act as a large-scale resource not only for fundraising purposes, but also as a source of knowledge of providing hunger relief such as how to successfully run a food pantry, how to provide nutrition education to kids, and how to make the biggest impact in their community. We also regularly monitor all agencies for proper food storage, handling, and distribution. As we mentioned before, many of these agencies are volunteer-run and simply do not have the resources or person power to collect enough food and funds to provide to their clients on a regular basis.
Our partner agencies are crucial to the work we do and our ability to carry out our mission. They are the key to getting food to people who truly need it, and we are so grateful for their hard work and leadership across our service area. Thank y'all so much for your service to the community!
A volunteer from a food pantry comes to our Raleigh Branch to pick up fresh produce and bread.
Interested in becoming one of our Partner Agencies? Learn more about the Requirements for Partnership here.
CSO-Caring Sisters Outreach would like to become a partner agency. We give out nonperishable food and hygiene products to anyone in need. We also provide resources for the elderly. We are on Facebook and our number is 252-414-0428. Thank you.
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Eyes as Big as Plates has landed in Southeast Asia, just in time for the Seoul Artbook Fair 2017, UNLIMITED EDITION 9. In the next two weeks we will also be roaming the mountains of PyeongChang before heading to Japan, lucky us!
Hosted by Gallery FACTORY and Vice versa we have set camp in the heart of the Olympic bonanza, in a village called Cha-hang. We are about to start producing new works for a public art commission that will be exhibited on Seoullo, a newly renovated former highway turned into a pedestrian walkway. This is part of a series of art projects in celebration of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics 2018. The exhibition on Seoullo, SIGNAL LIGHTS. CONNECTED. will be open to the public from January 18th to February 28th 2018. Keep updated on the adventures through the Eyes as Big as Plates site right here.
Before that though, we look forward to seeing you all at Gallery FACTORY, right in the heart of Seoul for the Eyes as Big as Plates book launch this coming Friday at 4 pm.
Address: 127-3 Changseong-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul. Welcome!
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The international regulatory standards governing the specifications of electronic equipment have distinct guidelines for transformers, especially those needed for medical electronic products. Because these transformers are designed to protect caregivers, patients and the equipment used in their care, they are required to meet stringent specifications laid out by not one, but numerous standards, from a variety of agencies in the United States, Canada, and Europe, making the whole process a lot more complex.
Every standard laid out by the safety agencies is unique in nature and within each of these criteria lies specifications that define how power transformers should be built and installed. Therefore, it makes sense to have a clear understanding of these standards, as failing the compliance requirements might lead to expensive redesigns, dramatically increasing the product cost and time to market.
Underwriters Laboratories (UL) is perhaps the world's largest safety agency headquartered in Northbrook USA, holding the distinction of testing the highest number of electronic components than all other agencies combined. UL, operating in 140 countries, certifies every type of electronic component, but its accreditation for transformers is considered the most trusted safety endorsement worldwide.
The Canadian Standards Association, or the CSA, sets the safety benchmark for electronic products and components distributed throughout Canada. CSA has numerous standards for transformers, and its process differs from UL in certain occasions. Likewise, in Europe, most countries follow the standards of International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) or have their own safety criterion developed on IEC regulations.
Here are the regulations and their implications that designers should consider while deploying transformers for medical devices.
The leakage of current happens mainly due to the capacitance from primary to ground or secondary circuits. Essentially, the lower the leakage value, the better it is for medical applications. Most standards specify the maximum acceptable leakage current at 100 µA. MCI specializes in these types of high-class magnetic components and custom transformers, and is possibly the best in its class in maintaining the leakage current standards.
Almost all safety standards require the medical-grade transformers to pass the hipot or high-potential test. In a hipot test, the transformer is subjected to an "abnormal" scenario; for instance, an extreme situation where one secondary is shorted out and the other one operating at full load. All MCI transformers for the medical industry receive 100% production line testing which includes applicable hipot testing.
There are diverse temperature ratings for medical transformers. Typically, the higher the temperature rating of a transformer's insulation system, the less likely it is to break down during an extreme test. A higher temperature rating also helps improve the chances of clearing the hipot test. MCI transformer has many UL Recognized insulation systems ranging from Class A (105C) to Class H (180C) available for implementation into custom medical products.
Typically, there are two types of fuses used in an electronic equipment – overcurrent and thermal. Overcurrent fusing is a compulsory requisite for every medical-grade electronic product, but the requirement for thermal fusing is customarily determined by a specific agency standard. MCI Transformer regularly adds thermal protection to our medical transformers to aid in passing strict regulatory requirements. The thermal breaker fuse is an additional safety measure, which with its extra layer of assurance endorses the quality standard of a medical-grade transformer.
Over the last 50 years, MCI Transformer has evolved as one of the most trusted medical transformer makers for its high safety standards, reliability, and utmost commitment to quality. Our medical-grade transformers meet the strict medical regulatory standards required by today's healthcare industry.
To learn more about choosing MCI's medical-grade transformers for designing medical electronic products, contact us today!


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Q: atualizar conteudo da página automaticamente Como posso exibir no navegador as alterações realizadas na folha de estilo sem utilizar a meta tag refresh? Isso só é possível utilizando javascript?

A: se você quer que as modificações feitas nos arquivos css sejam automaticamente refletidas na pagina, acho difícil, a menos que você encontre uma forma de notificar o browser que uma nova versão do CSS está disponível.
você até poderia até tentar fazer um controle manual, onde todos os seus arquivos css teriam um complemento no link informando a versão mais recente, tipo arquivo.css?versao=3 e sempre que você inclui-se uma nova versão no servidor, o mesmo iria notificar o browser usando um websocket.
Se tudo que deseja é não ter o trabalho de usar o CRTL + F5 enquanto estiver montando o layout do seu site/app, então não acho que tenha uma solução simples para o seu problema.
Por um outro lado, se você deseja editar um arquivo CSS através do JavaScript, você pode manipular o CSSStyleSheet.

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O Plano inclinado de Ronquières é um elevador de barcos, de tipo funicular, inaugurado em 1968 no Canal Bruxelas-Charleroi na Província do Hainaut, Valónia, Bélgica.

Vence um desnível de 67,73 m ao longo de uma distância de 1432m em projecção horizontal, ao que corresponde uma inclinação ligeiramente inferior a 5%.

Características técnicas
No plano inclinado movem-se longitudinalmente, e de forma independente, dois vagões em que assentam caixões, cada um com 87,00 m de comprimento útil por 12,00 m de largura e com capacidade para 3,00 a 3,70 m de altura de água. Cada vagão, com uma massa de 5000 a 5700 toneladas, move-se sobre 59 eixos com um total de 236 roletes ao longo de um caminho de rolamento. Cada vagão está ligado por 8 cabos de aço de 55 mm de diâmetro a contrapesos de 5200 toneladas movendo-se sobre carris num caminho de rolamento inferior, sendo o conjunto accionado por guinchos.

O percurso entre as áreas de espera de montante e de jusante dura cerca de 50 minutos, atingindo uma velocidade máxima de 1,20 m/s, que é fortemente reduzida na fase de arranque e travagem para evitar a oscilação da água dentro dos caixões.

O acesso a montante é feito por uma ponte-canal com 290m de extensão e 59m de largura, que serve de área de espera de montante. No topo do plano inclinado fica uma torre com 160m de altura (125m acima do nível da água na ponte-canal).

Galeria

Bibliografia
Le canal de Charleroi à Bruxelles. Traces n.º 4. Ministère wallon de l'Équipement et des Transports & La Renaissance du Livre, 2001. ISBN 2-930148-52-7

Ligações externas

Infraestrutura hidroviária
Construções da Bélgica
Transportes da Bélgica

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Q: Law of large numbers: other formulae Let $X_1, X_2, \ldots $ be an infinite sequence of i.i.d. random variables with $E(X_i)=\mu$ and $\mbox{Var}(X_i) < \infty$.
The law of large numbers states $\lim_{n \rightarrow \infty} \sum_{i=1}^{n} \frac{X_i}{n} = \mu$.
Wikipedia mentions that "other formulas that look similar are not verified".
In other words $\lim_{n \rightarrow \infty} \sum_{i=1}^{n} X_i = n\mu$ is not correct?
Is there a counter-example or an obvious reason why this is not the case?

A: What do LLNs say?
At the risk of getting too oversimplistic, for independent sequence $\langle X_i\rangle_{i\in\mathbb  N},$ they say the partial sum (or average, precisely)
$$\frac{1}{n}(X_1+X_2+\ldots+ X_n) \tag 1$$
converges to common mean $\mu$ in certain sense provided second moment or forth moment be finite and uniformly bounded depending on what convergence one is bothered with.
When $\rm i.i.d.$ is imposed, only the first moment needs to be finite.
What is Wikipedia saying?
It is only saying form like
$$\sum_{i=1}^n X_i -n\times \bar X$$
doesn't make sense for

not only does it not converge toward zero as $n$ increases, but it tends to increase in absolute value as $n$ increases.

Finally as Xi'an noted in the comments, be careful with indexing set and limiting variable.

Further Read:
$\rm [I]$ A First Look at Rigorous Probability Theory, Jeffrey S. Rosenthal, World Scientific Publishing, $2006, $ section $5.3,~5.4,$ pp. $60-64.$


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The toxic algae scare in Toledo this past summer really drove home the problem of fertilizer pollution in this country, right through the faucets of half a million unsuspecting residents. Don't drink the water, officials warned. Don't even touch it.
We need and rely on farmers every day for our well-being. But when producing food for a growing population threatens to deprive us of water, another life essential, it's time to rethink the way we feed America.
That's why I'm so excited about EDF's new Sustainable Sourcing Initiative. Our goal in this collaborative effort is to engage every player in the U.S. grain supply chain to solve what has been an intractable problem for decades.
Fertilizer, of course, is necessary for achieving high crop yields. But its inefficient use contributes to climate instability and causes dead zones that contaminate water supplies and kill millions of fish each year.
In the U.S., we have tried to regulate our way to a solution for 40 years with far too limited results. Dead zones still persist in the Gulf of Mexico, Chesapeake Bay and Lake Erie. And greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, which already account for 8 percent of total GHG emissions in the United States, are likely to grow as the sector ramps up to feed a growing population.
For the past decade, EDF has worked with grower networks in several states to test and prove sustainable methods that enable farmers to become more productive while minimizing nutrient losses to water and air – losses that are costly to both the farmers' wallets and the environment. The good news is that we've managed to reduce nutrient losses by an average of 25 percent on half a million acres while increasing or maintaining yields. The challenge: figuring out how to scale these practices up.
EDF is working across the agricultural supply chain to end fertilizer pollution as a major environmental concern.
Last year, Walmart provided the catalyst we needed. As part of its commitment to slash greenhouse gas emissions from its supply chain, the nation's largest grocer asked its top suppliers to submit plans on how they would source nutrient-efficient grains to deliver real environmental improvements.
Fifteen food companies responded, and many turned to EDF for help in developing and implementing those plans – including Smithfield, the world's largest pork producer, General Mills and The Coca-Cola Company, which works in partnership with World Wildlife Fund.
Fifteen companies may not seem like a lot, but these brand giants represent 30 percent of the food and beverage market in North America!
Now we're drilling deeper into the supply chain, collaborating with agribusinesses like United Suppliers to help farmers meet the food companies' new demand. United Suppliers is a member-owned wholesaler based in Iowa that provides agricultural products and services to about 700 grower cooperatives and retailers across the United States and Canada.
Over the past six months, I have worked closely with United Suppliers to develop a sustainability program that will be rolled out to farmers by the company's network of well-trained retailer owners and expert staff. They've committed to enrolling about 10 million acres in the fertilizer efficiency program by 2020, which would reduce greenhouse gas emissions by nearly 5 million metric tons and help to improve water quality. Talk about scaling up!
You might think that commodity grain farmers would resist the supply chain demand for more sustainable grains, but they're enthusiastic about increasing the supply and being good stewards of the environment.
The farm is where it all starts, but to make food security and environmental resilience a reality, we need every link in the supply chain to play an active role and to embed sustainability into the core of their business. Our future depends on it.
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Stefanos Tsitsipas Fights Back Against Andrew Rublev To Reach Astana Open Final
Stefanos Tsitsipas in action vs Andrey Rublev during men's singles semi-final at the Astana Open.© AFP
Stefanos Tsitsipas set up a final against either Novak Djokovic or Daniil Medvedev with a come-from-behind victory against Andrey Rublev in Astana on Saturday. The Greek third seed won 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 to reach his sixth final of the season. On Sunday he will face the winner of the second semi-final between Wimbledon champion Djokovic and former world number one Medvedev. "It was not easy, being a set down," said Tsitsipas. "To have to deal with a very good opponent on the other side of the net made it an extremely physical battle.
"I am pleased with myself for being so determined to make it work so well."
A break in the opening game of the match proved enough to give fifth seed Rublev the first set.
But Tsitsipas, who saved five of six break points in the match, improved as the tie went on and he made his move in the 10th game of the second set to force a decider.
The 24-year-old was rock solid again in the third, wrapping up victory after two hours and 10 minutes to take his head-to-head record against Rublev to 6-4.
"My mentality kind of changed," Tsitsipas added. "I played with more of an aggressive game style and didn't have anything by luck."
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Pachycytes sericeovittata is een keversoort uit de familie van de boktorren (Cerambycidae). De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort werd in 1880 als Iresioides sericeovittata gepubliceerd door Charles Owen Waterhouse.

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Attorney General Axes BIA members in February 2002 — Rejecting EOIR "independence" farce
Juan Mann
One plan is the right direction . The other is the wrong direction. It's as simple as that.
The self-serving plan by the bureaucrats of the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) to elevate themselves to greater so-called "independence" in hearing the country's immigration cases is simply wrong. The plan by the Bush administration to scale back and streamline the laughable delay of the EOIR's appellate body, the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), is a step in the right direction. Someone in the Bush administration apparently knows the truth about the EOIR — that it's part of the problem, not part of the solution for better immigration law enforcement.
The recent "report" by a federal employee union, the National Association of Immigration Judges, calling for the EOIR to be taken out of the review of the Department of Justice does nothing but serve the interests of the EOIR's own bureaucratic empire. This power grab would do nothing to streamline the process of deporting illegal aliens and criminal alien residents from the United States. It would only add to the needless delay of the already broken Immigration Court system and its perpetual appellate review. An excellent article by Los Angeles attorney Carl Pearlston exposed the naked opportunism of the immigration judges and their union lobbyists in working to shape immigration policy.
Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, the Attorney General is delegated the task of enforcing the immigration laws of the United States passed by Congress and signed by the President. The Attorney General's authority in immigration enforcement is split between two agencies of the Department of Justice, namely the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) and the EOIR, creating a bureaucratic tug-of-war of overlapping roles. But basically, the INS catches the aliens (both illegal aliens and criminal alien residents) and the EOIR makes the rulings in Immigration Court on whether they should actually be detained and/or removed from the United States. From the alien's perspective, the goal in Immigration Court is just getting out of INS custody in order to disappear back into the United States. It's as simple as that.
Since interior enforcement in the United States is so lax, an alien ordered deported on paper will most likely never leave the country. The EOIR's process of endless hearings and appeals allows aliens and their immigration attorneys to play the system like a cheap fiddle. The immigration bar knows how to get their clients out of INS detention and prolong the stay of criminal aliens in the United States who have no business being here at all. The foreign nationals who are charged in Immigration Court proceedings are either in the country illegally, or are here under legal status that has been forfeited under the law for engaging in criminal activity. They either should be removed for their crimes, or because they are not entitled to be here. These are not difficult concepts, contrary to what immigration trial lawyers would have you believe.
The recent Bush plan to streamline the EOIR's appellate body by regulation is a positive move in the right direction. Someone in the Bush administration should be applauded for recognizing that the EOIR bureaucracy should be on the road to being disbanded rather than expanded. As I have been saying since October, 2001, on my web site, as long as aliens are allowed to "reserve appeal" of Immigration Court rulings, the system will remain as a lawyer's game of bureaucratic busy-work, where insiders know that "it's never over until the alien wins."
The thought of the EOIR becoming an "independent agency" would be laughable were it not so sinister. Since few people have ever even heard about the Immigration Court system, let alone know the truth about it, there's no time for laughter. Expanding the EOIR is a dangerous idea. A recent spoon-fed editorial in the LA Times calling for EOIR "independence" is chapter and verse from the mouth of pro-alien immigration trial lawyers and the immigration judges' labor union. Elevating the EOIR serves only to further the unnecessary formalism and bureaucratic delay of the system, where aliens "win" just by being in the system. The immigration judges' plan is yet another "full-employment act" for immigration trial lawyers, the members of the powerful pro-alien "American Immigration Lawyers Association" (AILA), who would like nothing better than to use the LA Times' so-called "shield for Immigration Court" to "shield" their clients from deportation.
There is a kernel of truth buried deep in the original story by Lisa Getter in the LA Times (Immigration Judges Call for Independent Court — 1/31/02). The quote attributed to House Judiciary Committee spokesman Jeff Lungren says it all. Lungren noted that "some members [of Congress] think the judges need more accountability, not more independence."
Amen, Mr. Lungren! You have spoken the truth. Listen up, Congress — for the good of the country, the EOIR should be abolished with its functions parceled out to a law enforcement agency that can do the job of removing illegal aliens and criminal alien residents from our shores. To accomplish this goal, the EOIR needs to be disbanded rather than expanded. Expanding the EOIR is an unnecessary waste of tax dollars that could be better directed toward actual immigration law enforcement. This is a simple question of resources. The EOIR hearing process is a waste of tax money!
While there has been a lot of talk lately about using 9/11/01 as a "pretext" to serve one's own ends, the immigration judges' "independence" plan is one of the more blatant examples. For the good of the country, the EOIR and its bureaucratic busy-work system of hearings and appeals should be abolished rather than exalted. The country would be much better off for it, if only as a first step on the road toward finally getting America's illegal immigration and criminal alien problem under control. EOIR "independence" is just another sorry example of federal government employees on a quest for power.
The immigration judges' labor union paints a false picture of the power relationship between the INS and their beloved EOIR. The truth is that the EOIR is advancing in power with the same intensity that the INS is giving its power away! The INS already is in retreat from the EOIR by not using all of its statutory authority to deport aliens to the fullest extent (i.e. "administrative removals" and Section 235(b) removals). Alien deportation hearings need to be streamlined, with as many cases as possible kept away from the redundancy and formalism of the Immigration Court bureaucracy. The EOIR's rush to formalism in the hearing process is already out of control, creating a bureaucretic morass where alien cases are held in orbit indefinitely through an endless appellate process. And with all of the relief from removal available for aliens in Immigration Court, the "removal proceedings" have become "get to stay" proceedings.
The immigration judges and their labor union would have you believe that the poor little EOIR is the victim of "undue influence" by the INS. They use the example of a defeat of the EOIR's proposed plan to put an extensive sanctions power in the hands of all of its immigration judges, to be wielded against the private immigration bar as well as the Department of Justice attorneys who represent the INS in Immigration Court. Fortunately, the plan was defeated.
The sanctions proposal that former INS General Counsel David Martin (and others) took a stand against was extremely draconian, with sanctions powers far beyond that of the real federal courts. The plan would have absolutely crushed the will of the already demoralized corps of INS attorneys who have to appear daily before the mini-potentates of the EOIR. The EOIR sanctions plan would have Justice Department government lawyers in robes sanctioning other Justice Department government lawyers with monetary damages for vague and undefined offenses. Nevertheless, both the immigration judges and the INS attorneys already are supervised by the Attorney General. They both have to answer to all Justice Department ethics rules as well as to the Office of Professional Responsibility. Thankfully someone in the administration also recognized the EOIR "attorney sanctions" push as a shamless quest for power.
Stopping the draconian sanctions plan was the only time the INS has taken a stand against the constant advance of the arrogant EOIR. This stand was unique, given a look at who the players were in the battle. The INS Office of the General Counsel is heavily populated at its management levels with government lawyers yearning for greener pastures at the EOIR and the BIA. Many plan their escape to the ascendant EOIR to join their former INS colleagues. INS lawyers working in downtown Washington, D.C., can't wait to get a high-paying job as an immigration judge in sunny California or with the BIA in Falls Church, Viginia. A job with the EOIR may be their only escape from the poorly-managed INS. The EOIR has little to fear from the Office of the INS General Counsel or INS management, since they are the EOIR's main applicant pool!
Unfortunately, few people within the government are willing to speak the truth about the crushing bureaucracy of the EOIR. Hopefully INS attorneys, INS officers and others familiar with the Immigration Court system will stand up and be counted. The American people deserve to know what is going on in their government, so that the perception of the EOIR and the Immigration Court system is not unduly influenced by self-serving immigration judges, their labor union, the private immigration bar and their many lobbyists.
Juan Mann is the proprietor of DeportAliens.com, the only immigration reform web site that exposes the bureaucracy of the EOIR. He dedicates his work to the principle that one man's opinion can make a difference.


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I have a drop down box which already hides any repeating table item that's does have the same value as the drop down, but it still queries all data since all the fields are a part of the main data connection, any help would be amazing!
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Just as an update, I removed the query on form load and created a button to query the data with the original data connection, it reduced the query time to around 1 minutes and 15ish seconds, which feels like forever, waiting for it while you can't do anything till it done but it did stop the form giving an error/crashing on load.
I feel like it will just get longer and longer for it to query over time. Does anyone have any suggestions that might help the speed at all?
Would creating a blank view with no fields and just the button to query help at all? then have it switch views or is the query tied to views and that wouldn't matter?


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One such author is the ethnobotanist and explorer, Wade Davis, who I first encountered unravelling the mysteries of the 'zombie' in Haiti and showing how a botanic (and chemical) mystery was woven within the fabric of social expectation (and conditioning) to yield a real notion of how a person might be persuaded that they had died and now lived, a suspended and animated life, under a new dispensation.
Davis' teacher was Richard Schultes, legendary botanist, not least because as an expert on hallucinogenics helped (unintentionally) the era of tuning in and dropping out promoted by his Harvard colleague, Timothy Leary.
'One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rainforest' is both Davis' biographical account of Schultes' career and accomplishment and an account of his own travels (often with Timothy Plowman, one of Schultes' most brilliant students). Schultes was mainly in the Amazon in the 30s through the 50s, Plowman and Davis' travels are in the 70s and 80s.
It is a wonderful and chastening book. Wonderful because you are ushered in to an extraordinary world - natural and human. Chastening because you are reminded of the depths to which we, humans, can descend. Offered an opportunity to tour the famous opera house at Manaus, built at the height of the late nineteenth century rubber boom in Brazil, Schultes declines saying it has been built from the blood of Indians; and, it simply was, murderously out of the momentum of raw greed. Nor do we intelligently distinguish between 'coca' and 'cocaine' - the former is a radically important dietary supplement for Andean people (and much else besides) and 'cocaine' a refined product, ripped out of any context, with complex social consequence but 'policy makers', ignorant of people's lives, grind on an eradication process regardless, with all kinds of saddening consequence.
But the deepest fascination of the book is a running, asked but as yet unanswered question, how did its native inhabitants learn so comprehensively, tailored to need, the secrets of its plant life for medicinal, hunting, sacred purposes? The usual answer is 'trail and error'.
The only problem with this is that it is wholly unconvincing. First because there is no evidence for it - the indigenous people only take to it in response to the usually calamitous interaction with colonising people (bringing unknown diseases) and with limited success. Second because the Amazon is the most biodiverse region in the world, with an extraordinary proliferation of plants where many of the indigenous treatments, poisons, intoxicants require not only extensive, complex preparation but unlikely combinations of material (and where one false step may have fatal consequences, so why proceed)?
The indigenous people explain how they arrived at their knowledge through a combination of myth, dream and 'listening to what a plant tells them' (a kind of listening that clearly is not what a traditional ethnobotanist might mean, though I expect Goethe might have understood). It is to Davis credit that he does leave this question open, dangling tantalisingly.
Meanwhile, through the eyes of these remarkable, and highly sympathetic, individuals, you are lead into a world that, to this day, remains full of undiscovered wonders and to allow it to play into your sympathy and love, and never with a hint of a misplaced romanticism. It is one that is increasingly necessary as our ways of life continue to threaten its very ongoing existence. Beauty may not save us directly (to distort Dostoyevsky) but a deeper acquaintance with, and love for, the beauty of the world may help save it (and with it, its most unruly, self-willed offspring, namely us).
Who knows, one day too, we may rediscover the wisdom of listening to the plants?


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Hauntings
BORLEY RECTORY
Borley Rectory was called 'the most haunted house in England'. It was built in 1863 by the Rev. H.D.E. Bull, and destroyed by fire in 1939.
It was built on the site of a monastery, and legend has it that a monk was planning to elope with a nun from a nearby nunnery, but they were caught, the monk was hanged and the nun was bricked up alive.
It was said that the nun's ghost walked on July 28th, each year. One such July 28th, in 1900, three of Rev. Bull's daughters saw the nun gliding along a path, which had been called the 'Nun's Walk'. When they went to get one of their sisters they approached the figure who then vanished.
Several others saw the nun, including a Mr. P. Shaw Jeffrey, former Headmaster of Colchester Grammar School, and Rev. Harry Bull, who became rector at Borley after his father's death in 1892.
But it wasn't only the nun, other strange things happened at Borley. In 1928, Rev. Guy Eric Smith became rector, and he claimed to have heard loud ringing of the doorbell, footsteps, whispers, saw lights switched on, and even saw a ghostly coach and horses.
In 1930 Rev. Lionel Foyster came to Borley, and even worse things happened to him and his young wife. Objects appearing from nowhere, things thrown about, and even his wife being thrown out of bed on more than one occasion.
Borley Rectory was sold to a Captain Gregson in December 1938, and in February 1939 the place was gutted by fire, and completely demolished four or five years later.
PLUCKLEY (known as the most haunted village in Kent.)
One haunting is of a beautiful woman, Lady Dering who died several hundred years ago. Her husband had her dressed in a rich gown with a red rose on her breast, and her coffin was airtight and made of lead encased in two more lead coffins and an oaken one, hoping to preserve her loveliness. It is said she walks in the churchyard, on certain nights still dressed in her finery and with her red rose. The story of this for many years was a closely guarded secret as it was suggested she was as wicked as she was beautiful. Two other members of the Dering family, both women are also said to haunt in Pluckley.
Among the many other ghosts of Pluckley, there is also a ghostly monk, a miller who walks at the full moon, a schoolmaster who is seen swinging from the tree where he hanged himself, a phantom coach and horses, a soldier who walks through Park Wood, and the most recent, a woman in the church, in modern dress.
THE PEAK DISTRICT.
The Peak District is one of the most haunted regions of the British Isles. Here is just a tiny selection of some ghostly goings-on there.
Across the road from St. Peter's Church, Hope, Derbyshire, the oldest recorded Christian place of worship in the northern Peak District, is the Traveller's Rest public house. It is home to the ghost of a woman dressed in black.
Legend has it a young woman died falling down a staircase, escaping from a drunken labourer on Christmas Eve, hundreds of years ago. It is rumoured that the ghost glides along an upstairs corridor of the inn each Christmas Eve, holding a bunch of keys in her hand.
In 1974 the landlord, Con Sullivan, told a local newspaper he had "a feeling that something is going on here. There is a 'presence' all the time, and it frightens me."
Highlow Hall, Hathersage, has been described as "reputedly the most haunted house in Derbyshire". The first record of a haunting there is from the fourteenth century when it is said the scheming Nicholas Eyre wooed two sisters for their inheritance. When the elder sister found out she fled the hall and was never seen alive again. Her ghost is said to have appeared to Nicholas and put a curse on the Eyre family.
Another ghost seen there is a 'white lady' thought to be the ghost of a lady murdered in an upstairs bedroom. Another 'lady in white' was seen in the yard at 2 one morning, and a lady visitor to the Hall saw a ghostly figure of a man.
One winter's evening early in the 1960s, a young couple were riding a motorbike and sidecar along the moorland road linking Fox House near Hathersage, with Sheffield. They were flagged down by a girl in a leather jacket with a crash helmet, who asked for a lift to an address in Sheffield. Before they got there, though, the man realised his pillion passenger had vanished. They returned to Fox House but found no trace of the girl.
After reporting it to the police the couple checked out the address the girl had given. The door was answered by the girls distraught mother, who told them her daughter had been killed only a few days before, in a motorcycle accident on the same stretch of road where they had picked up their female hitchiker.
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Last week we saw the horrific news of the Manchester attacks. It hard to prevent our children from seeing these types of news event. So what effect is this having on our kids and their mental health?
Breakfast's Jennie Lenman speaks with psychologist, Dr. Simon Crisp from Deakin University.


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Redesdale Primary School » Year 4 get Arty!
A great first week back in Y4. We introduced our new Topic, Rivers, and began exploring the River Series from artist Claude Monet. The children experimented with mixing acrylic paints to explore colour shades. Check back later in term for our finished masterpieces!


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It was the worst abuse I have experienced.
"You better not be taking a photograph of me. I'll come up there and smash your camera if you're taking a photograph of me. You can't take a photograph of me. It's illegal. I'll rip you're head off if you take a photograph of me."
He went on (at the top of his voice).
"Right, I'll come up there now and smash your f***ing camera. Don't you dare talk to me like that. I'm going to knock you're f***ing head off. Come on, I'll have you now."
Admittedly, by the time this 50-year-old man told me not to talk to him like that I had called him a kn*bhead about six times, an idiot more than once and had invited him to come up and join me on the upper level of the precinct so we could discuss the matter further.
The strange thing was, this wasn't a drunken smoker or heavy drinker at 11.30 at night. It was 11.30 in the morning in the drafty concrete courtyard at the back of Gateshead Indoor Market.
I had been invited onto an organised trip to the top of Gateshead car park and was taking some pictures around the shopping centre beforehand. Both are scheduled for demolition within weeks.
My camera, on a tripod, was pointing across the square, taking in both upper and lower levels (through a Sigma 12-24mm wideangle lens, if you're interested).
The occasional shopper on the open-air lower level wandered into frame, but were nothing more than specks in the frame. As was Mr Furiously Angry, the man who walks around Gateshead giving Geordies a bad name. Thank god we don't get any tourists here.
In my defence, and I should stress that angry responses should be treated with good manners to reduce the chance of escalting violence, my first words to this man were 'you don't have to be so rude'.
I was genuinely shocked at this man's reaction to my camera. I was genuinely shocked at this man's attitude. And his vitriol.
When he dropped his bag to the floor and gestured that he was about to run towards the stairs I thought I might have a situation on my hands. But I just could not stop myself calling him a kn*bhead. Quite frankly, he was. Of the highest order.
If someone doesn't want their photo taken, that's fine by me. But I don't think anyone deserves to be spoken to like that. I wouldn't do it myself, I won't accept it to myself.
* And if you're wondering, Mr Furiously Angry is the tiny body who is furthest away in the photograph above.