The big carpets are certainly enjoying the warm nights, this one from up on Mt Glorious just out of Brisbane.
Cheers thanks Firepac, they are all beautiful but I have always had a fondness for the big old carpets. Watching them quietly moving through the night I'm glad I'm not at sleeping bird or a small mammal.
I am not sure if it is because it is so dry but my chookie population isn't being decimated this year. Early in the warmer weather we relocated a couple of big carpets from their intended dinner.
We are thinking they must be hanging closer to the dams. Not that I am complaining.
Gee that brown sure is a healthy looking fella.
Finding a few around Bathurst this summer too.
I had a medium sized carpet snake in my shed last Sunday. Chasing rats as I have grain in steel rubbish bins for our geese, ringnecks and budgie etc. He had a lovely lump in his tummy and was quite placid. I just picked him up and put him over the fence into an old run down mango plantation. He will return again as I have plenty of rats and I quite like him and his mates hanging around. Now if I could just hire a scrub python for a couple of weeks to get rid of the bloody possums in my roof I would be more than happy. Wife isn't fussed 1 way or the other with snakes but she does get the irits with the common tree snakes hiding in our hanging self watering pot plants and they stick their heads out when she is filling up the reservoirs. We had an Eastern Brown a couple of years ago and he wasn't welcome and was removed by a local snake catcher.
that lump in his tummy wasn't a tennis ball was it??
Does anyone know much about Sea Krates (type of sea snake) .Laticaudids Highly venomous.
Found one on the beach and will post pic soon.
Amazing they spend up to 50% of their life in the water and 50% on the land and come out of the water to lay eggs.
Lol no it was not round but looked like a definite rat shaped. Nice old bloke, very good manners and he didn't play up as I fed him over the fence.
I got a nasty nip on the heel of my palm from a carpet snake when I was a kid in PNG. I have had worse bites from a 2 year old rug rat but man it did tickle a bit. Lol.
A stunning Blue Phase Common Tree snake.
Some may be interested in this article.
Been a while since anyone posted in this thread. Here's a couple of pics of a 4.6M Scrub Python that was recently relocated.
Nice little specimen on my deck this morning. Must be something in the air today as I have seen 3 different goannas and this little guy.
Believe it or not he was over a metre long and quite the gymnast. He was climbing up the wall of the house before that was taken.
Last year was pretty mild for snakes for me.
This year they are out in force.
Pretty sure the snake that went onto the veranda at work the other week as I went off was a good sized taipan of about 4 or so feet. I didn't ask him to stop so I could measure him but let him have that side of the house and went the very long way to the clothesline.
I am sure that I have had a clutch of carpets hatch. Or maybe 2 or 3 clutches.
I have removed a couple from the chook pen, only babies. Went to get a bag from the shed to put one in that was in the house yard last week at night (before the dogs found it) only to notice the rope beside the baling twine was moving. I ignored the little brown tree snake that was making haste to get away from me.
Couple of days later the dogs found a very young baby carpet in the yard. I am sure they think they are doing the right thing by killing them but I would rather they didn't.
We had new fencing put in and I decided that I should have a solar light put above the houseyard gate. Hubby didn't like the position I wanted it directly above the gate. He wanted it so I could see people outside the gate, I wanted it directly above so I could easily see if there were any snakes on it before opening it at night. "How often is there a snake on the gate?" "I have seen lots on it so want the light above it thank you" "Allright, but I think it is in the wrong spot and you are exaggerating about snakes on the gate"
That same night sons stupid dog is barking. Go and investigate. Yep, Mr Little Brown Tree snake is using the gate to get from one side of the garden to the other. I might have done a bit of rubbing it in on that one.
Dogs are all on chains/locked up at night to stop them snake chasing. I prefer to know what they are up to.
Same around this area. I see dead ones on the road most days and the day I took that photo we saw another tree snake around the corner from here and had 3 different goannas in the vicinity of the house (all different size) .
I am happy to see the goannas here. I am told they keep the browns at bay which I am keen to keep away from my dogs.
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After Twitter user c0mpl3x1ty had a few drinks, they booted up Techland's open world zombie game, Dying Light. An electrical engineer by day, they noticed a problem: there should be no way for the city to generate power. It's all wrong! But when I contacted Techland, they revealed a huge secret about the game.
Because c0mpl3x1ty know how power grids are supposed to work in real-life, this got under their skin; the Twitter rant went on for nearly 30 minutes.
"I admit that I got kinda drunk," c0mpl3x1ty told me over email.
The detail in c0mpl3x1ty's tweets caught my eye. We've all complained about one thing or another in a game on Twitter, and we're used to granting games a pass for not exactly adhering to reality. I'm willing to bet c0mpl3x1ty is the only person who noticed these details in Dying Light, and Techland figured they were fine. It's possible Techland never properly researched how the power worked.
Not only does Dying Light's power grid make it hard to imagine where power comes from, their safety standards are pretty lax, even for a zombie apocalypse.
Ok the cat is out the bag. Yeah it's true, our electrical systems break conventional design. But when you're stuck in a zombie outbreak you're going to have to adapt and therefore bypass certain "rules". The people of Harran had to apply a really resourceful design which required the existing infrastructure to be tweaked. That's why when you look at the current electrical setup in Harran things appear "wrong".
We didn't want this ground-breaking design out in the public before we could patent it, but your interest has shown us that electrical engineering world as a whole needs to know there are other ways to generate electricity despite "conventional knowledge". Feel free to share this with your fellow engineers.
In an industry that normally keeps quiet, it's heartening to hear such honesty.
One way or another, the mystery has been solved.
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What Happens to Corporations Who "Quit" ALEC?
Last year, a number of national progressive groups with ample funding spent a lot of time working to get corporations to change their business paradigms and cut their ties to ALEC. A very admirable undertaking, as this was supposed to cut directly into ALEC's operating capital while putting them (ALEC and the progressive groups) in the spotlight of at least cable news shows and internet media reporting. A spot of MSM coverage, but just a spot.
I have asked before on these pages, and will ask again–did these corporate members of ALEC back off their financial support for a radical right wing agenda when they quit ALEC–after all, most of them claimed to know nothing about ALEC's political work. They were just involved for "business".
Coca Cola, for example, issued a statement that "Our involvement with ALEC was focused on efforts to oppose discriminatory food and beverage taxes, not on issues that have no direct bearing on our business."
Well, don't believe for a second that Coca Cola participated in ALEC meetings and never heard a word about Voter ID laws or immigration laws, or women's health laws, or any number of other radical right wing model legislation. I can't prove this because Coca Cola's PR department is not taking questions on this subject and I wasn't allowed into any of the ALEC meetings. But none of the photos and videos we have of Coca Cola members at ALEC meetings—in social situations or in task force meetings–show them wearing blinders and ear plugs.
So what exactly did Coca Cola – and the other insurgents– do to get their "get out of jail free card" from MSNBC, big national public interest groups like Color of Change and Common Cause, and the written press?
Are they making any sort of amends for the ALEC written model legislation they voted for?
Are they making any sort of rest itution to those directly hurt by
model legislation that ALEC passed?
Are they encouraging legislatures not to pass these hateful bills?
Are they now doing anything to help black voters register to vote? Again,No.
To put it succinctly, many of the corporations that are no longer bankrolling ALEC continue to engage in stealth lobbying through other Cabal members.
Stealth lobbying. ALEC is a 501(c)3 so it is precluded from lobbying. There have been three whistleblower complaints filed with the IRS about ALEC, in fact, being a lobbying organization. (VLTP has the master complaint of those filed, rather than one by any of the big national interest groups. Let's hear it for grass roots activism!)
And appropriately, this is all about money. Money is at the core of what ALEC stands for. And despite claims of success at getting corporations to quit ALEC, we can plainly see that in about half the cases money flowing into ALEC went to "another ALEC" instead.
Were goals actually achieved, or did ALEC slip past this attack?
The results are indeed mixed. Assuming that companies actually are not making any donations to ALEC or actively involved in ALEC policy-writing, let's take a look. (Please click on any of the blue-colored links to find out more about these members of "The Cabal", or "The Other ALECs" (as Truthout has dubbed them) with whom the quitting corporations are now in bed.) Then let's say it again, without laughing, that they did not know about ALEC's political agenda.
List of Corporations Which Have Dumped ALEC Which Are Still Supporting the Radical Right Wing:
1.) Coca-Cola – NGA, SGAC, SLLF
2.) Kraft – SGAC, CSG,SLLF
3.) Intuit – CSG, SLLF,NGA
4.) McDonald's – SGAC, CSG,SLLF
5.) Mars – SGAC
6.) Reed Elsevier – SGAC
7.) American Traffic Solutions – SLLF
8.) Blue Cross, Blue Shield – CSG,NGA
9.) Procter and Gamble – SGAC, CSG, SLLF,NGA
10.) Scantron -NGA
11.) Amazon -NGA
12.) Medtronic -CSG
13.) Walmart – SGAC, CSG, SLLF, NGA
14.) Johnson & Johnson – NCSL, CSG,NGA
15.) John Deere -SGAC
16.) CVS – SGAC, SLLF,NGA
17.) Hewlett-Packard – SGAC, CSG,NGA
18.) Best Buy – SGAC, NCSL,NGA
19.) ExpressScripts -CSG
20.) Gates Foundation – SLLF
21.) Lumina Foundation – NGA
To summarize, while ALEC may have been financially hurt by the exodus of these corporations, corporate behavioral change was most certainly not achieved as monies were simply re-directed to other influential members of the Cabal. These corporations need to be treated accordingly for trying to pull the wool over the publics' eye.
Please, write to these corporations and tell them that they have not fooled you by "quitting" ALEC only to stay involved with those rad-right groups which are
supporting financial de-regulation
supporting privatization of government
supporting the elimination of unions
supporting the elimination of the minimum wage
supporting climate change denial legislation
supporting Voter ID
supporting Kill at Will
These corporations have certainly NOT distanced themselves from the extremist agenda of ALEC, and in fact manipulated the progressive media into creating the echo chamber that sold this to the public.
By Bob Sloan ALEC, ALEC Corporate Members, Conservative Dogma, exploitation and manipulation, Koch brothers, lobbying, The Cabal No comments Tags: ALEC, ALEC insurgency, ALEC's political agenda, Amazon, American Legislative Exchange Council, American Traffic Solutions, Best Buy, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Charles and David Koch, climate change denial legislation, Coca Cola, Council of State Governments (CSG), CVS, elimination of the minimum wage, elimination of unions, ExpressScripts, financial de-regulation, Gates Foundation, Hewlett-Packard, Intuit, John Deere, Johnson & Johnson, Kraft Foods, Lumina Foundation, Mars, McDonalds, medtronic, National Governor's Association (NGA), privatization of government, Procter and Gamble, Reed Elsevier, Scantron, stand your ground, State Government Affairs Council (SGAC), State legislative leadership Foundation (SLLF), Trayvon Martin, Voter ID, walmart
ALEC-New Partnerships and Exposing Hidden Foreign Influences – with a Comparison to the NCSL
ALEC Finds New Friends
Republican Study Committee (RSC) a Quiet New Partner…
Seems ALEC is searching for legislative support through a new partnership as dozens of members – legislative and corporate – abandon membership in the organization. In the article about this they provide the RSC is meeting with ALEC at the Heritage Foundation next week:
"Frankly, this gathering is long overdue," Paul Teller, the executive director of the RSC said in a statement.
"As Washington encroaches more and more into state and local spheres, it's important that conservative legislators at the federal and state levels collaborate on policies to stop and roll back the ever-expanding federal government."
"Recent legislative proposals on Capitol Hill have focused on rolling back federal involvement in states, such as efforts to replace Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program with block grants and to allow states to opt out of the federal highway and mass transit programs. Those positions are very much in line with ALEC's efforts to empower states…Kaitlyn Buss, a spokeswoman for ALEC, said in an email that there is "no formal partnership with ALEC and any organizations."
"Obviously federalism is one of ALEC's foundational principles, and so facilitating a conversation about federalism is very much in line with our work," Buss added."
I would suggest to the RSC that they fully research ALEC and understand the extent of the group's efforts to "Roll Back" the federal government before ecstatically climbing into bed with them…but of course, since the RSC, ALEC and the Heritage Foundation were all founded by Conservative activist, Paul Weyrich, they're already well acquainted.
This is why it is important for us to understand just how far ALEC will go to influence state sovereignty by attempting to lessen the controls exerted upon individual states through federal governmental controls and oversight. In the past the Heritage and members of the RSC have quietly lent assistance to ALEC in their pursuits – now it appears they are preparing to remove the curtain obscuring the close troika-like relationship. I think this removes any further claim of ALEC being truly "bi-partisan" in their operation and legislative pursuits.
Before we consider what the impact of a joint RSC/ALEC partnership against federal controls would have upon the U.S., we should first look at current ALEC activities along these lines involving memberships held by foreign representatives. Together ALEC's state lawmakers work hand in hand with several influential foreign elected officials to establish US state and foreign policies and pass laws suggested by those representing foreign powers…and the claim ALEC makes that their activities are similar to those of the National Conference of State Legislators (NCSL)….not by a long shot More →
By Bob Sloan ALEC, ALEC Corporate Members, Campaign Finance, Disgusting New Republican Laws, Election Fraud, Elections, Elections 2012, Ethics in Government, exploitation and manipulation, Federal Forum, Koch brothers, Legislators with ALEC Ties, The Cabal, Voter Restrictions No comments Tags: Adam Bielan, ALEC, ALEC alumni, alec federal corrupt practices, ALEC insurgency, American Legislative Exchange Council, Ayesha Javed, bilderberg group, CATO, Charles and David Koch, Chris Heaton-Harris, Christopher Fjellner, Citizens United, common cause, Cory Bernardi, Daniel Hannan, Disenfranchisement, federal corrupt practices, Global Intellectual Property Center/ Chamber of Commerce, Harvey Boulter, Heritage foundation, Inc., International Relations Task Force, Intuit, Ivo Strejcek, Koch, Koch Brothers, Koch Industries, Konrad Szymanski, Kristin Parde, Liam Fox, Martin Callanan, Michael Kaminski, Mirostaw Piotrowski, Model Legislation, National Conference of State Legislators, NCSL, Niranjan Deva, Philip Claeys, PhRMA, Porton Group, Republican Study Committee, Reynolds American, Richard Ashworth, Roger Helmer, Syed Kamall, TPP, trans pacific partnership, transparency, U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform, U.S. Department of Justice, Voter ID Legislation, voter suppression
Center for Media and Democracy Comes Under Attack For Reporting on ALEC
A VLTP OP-ED in response to an article from PRWatch today by Lisa Graves — August 29, 2012
"The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) sent a message to hundreds of legislators across the country attacking the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), the creator of ALECexposed.org. Among other things ALEC claimed, "CMD is an attack-dog, not a watch-dog."
The error-filled missive, which was intended to buck up the ALEC faithful as more and more corporations flee the organization, has us here at CMD pondering the old adage, "First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they want to attack you and then you win…"
You should read this important article by Lisa Graves here…
It appears the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is tiring of losing legislative and corporate members and support due to exposure of their ultra-conservative activities.
For years bloggers, citizen journalists at Daily Kos, PFAW, Think Progress and even foreign news services have reported on various activities and actions of ALEC. Until 2011 those reports and mentions of ALEC were rare, sporadic and lacked any real depth about the organization. This was because while many were concerned about the activities of this registered U.S. charity's involvement in crafting and supporting partisan legislation, they had few facts and little documentation to work with.
Concerned citizen journalists at Daily Kos worked for a couple of years developing facts and documenting activities of ALEC. In April of last year students activists from Cincinnati and many of the DK writers worked to plan and implement a protest and rally at ALEC's Spring Summit held in that city. By anyone's measurement the event held on April 29th could best be described as a "small but enthusiastic" event with Teach-Ins to educate Ohioans about ALEC and report on their activities. There were speakers, a rally at Fountain Square and a couple of hundred of us marched around the hotel where ALEC's corporate and legislative members were meeting to determine new laws they wanted imposed upon Americans.
ALEC members strolled through the rally, laughing and shaking their heads at such foolishness aimed at them. Many smirked, asking; "ALEC? Alec who…Baldwin?" Legislative members came out of the hotel during the march, attempting to speak with marchers and inform that "they" were not the ones supporting SB 1070 style legislation, or in favor of attacking collective bargaining…while around the corner at another entrance to the Hilton Netherland Plaza hotel corporate members laughed and pointed at marchers passing by, shaking their heads at the futile protest while they smoked their cigarettes and cigars, holding drinks in their hands.
Though all of this took place in view of the Cincinnati Enquirer's windows, not one word about the protest march was reported in the Gannett owned paper. To the ALEC contingent and their supporters, the rally, march and teach-ins were nothing more than a minor inconvenience and served to fill them with a sense of pride that their power and influence were so vast – and opposition to both so small.
That all changed after the CMD and Nation Magazine went public with documents and materials turned over to a protest organizer in Cincinnati by a whistleblower associated with ALEC. As the site "ALEC Exposed" went up in July 2011 with public access to all of the "model bills" in ALEC's arsenal, the Nation and CMD published several articles detailing the model legislation disseminated by ALEC to every state and chronicled the impact that legislation had upon various segments of our society.
By Bob Sloan ALEC, ALEC Corporate Members, Campaign Finance, Citizens United, Consumer exploitation, decriminalization, Disgusting New Republican Laws, Elections, Elections 2012, Ethics in Government, Immigration, Koch brothers, Protests, The Cabal, Voter Restrictions, Women's Rights No comments Tags: ALEC, ALEC insurgency, American Legislative Exchange Council, Center for Media and Democracy, Charles and David Koch, Citizens United, Coca Cola, Color of Change, common cause, Disenfranchisement, Education, environment, federal corrupt practices, FedEx, florida, George Soros, Greenpeace, Intuit, Koch, Koch Brothers, Koch Industries, Kraft Foods, Model Legislation, NRA, OSI, PepsiCo, PFAW, privatization, Supreme Court, transparency, Voter ID Legislation, voter suppression, Wal-Mart
Third IRS Whistleblower Complaint Brought Against American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)
BREAKING NEWS FROM VLTP –
Earlier this year two complaints were filed against the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) by Common Cause and Clergy Voice, alleging major violations of IRS Code lobbying prohibitions committed by ALEC, a "charity" which enjoys a 501(c)(3) tax exempt status with the IRS.
ALEC claims their activities are all related to educating lawmakers and that none are related to lobbying for or against legislation or a particular candidate. Nearly all of their activities, however, appear to be directly related to creating thousands of pieces of model legislation and lobbying for passage of each one in most U.S. states. ALEC openly boasts a success rate of 17% of "their" model legislation becoming law.
The first two complaints address issues of lobbying and soliciting contributions from corporations, businesses and other organizations. The contributions are then used to reimburse ALEC state legislative members for their travel, lodging and incidental expenses related to attending any of ALEC's three annual events (Summits or Meetings). The money is requested by ALEC's state chairmen and when received they forward the funds to ALEC to "hold" until an event is concluded. Then state legislators submit requests for reimbursement for the costs of their attending, and ALEC disburses the held funds.
A third issue involves state lawmakers strategizing with corporate lobbyists or representatives at these annual meetings to develop proposed legislation in one or more of nine (9) ALEC task forces. Once adopted by ALEC these model bills are sent back to states with ALEC members who are required by ALEC's by-laws to ensure introduction of any legislation adopted by ALEC.
The Voters Legislative Transparency Project (VLTP), Inc. filed a third complaint and in it reports that it concurs with and supports the allegations put forth in both of the now pending complaints.
By Bob Sloan ALEC, ALEC Corporate Members, Campaign Finance, Ethics in Government, Koch brothers, Michigan, The Cabal No comments Tags: ALEC, ALEC alumni, American Legislative Exchange Council, CATO, Center for Media and Democracy, Charles and David Koch, Clergy Voice, Coca Cola, common cause, corruption, Disenfranchisement, Education, federal corrupt practices, FedEx, Intuit, IRS, IRS Whistleblower complaint, Koch, Koch Brothers, Koch Industries, Kraft Foods, Model Legislation, NRA, PepsiCo, privatization, tax avoidance, transparency, Voter ID Legislation, voter suppression, Wal-Mart
ALEC and Their Corporate Member AT&T team up in CA.on ALEC Model Legislation To Rip-Off Consumers
From Nieman Watchdog by Bruce Kushnick
As the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) continues to bleed corporate, foundation and legislative members the "we don't lobby" conservative lobbyist group out of DC continues to pursue their agenda undauntedly. AT&T has been under increased pressure from activist and Occupy groups for months to dump ALEC following the Trayvon Martin murder in Florida. This legislative action in California demonstrates clearly why AT&T has refused to give in to the continuous pressure by consumers and activists alike to quit the legislative ghost-writing organization.
ALEC meets this coming week in Salt Lake City, UT. where no doubt AT&T will be present and pushing for increased dissemination of this CA. bill to the other states…and possibly more of similar self-serving telecom legislation.
From the Kushnick article:
"AT&T is asking the California legislature for a big favor. A new bill — based on model legislation from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) would remove all regulations on voice-over-Internet services (VOIP) — meaning that, as one progressive group put it, 'just as most Americans are moving to new technologies, the state might pull out the rug on any rules to protect consumers who use it.'"
Read the entire article with links here…
By Bob Sloan ALEC, ALEC Corporate Members, Consumer exploitation, Disgusting New Republican Laws, Ethics in Government, Public Utilities, The Cabal No comments Tags: ALEC, ALEC insurgency, American Legislative Exchange Council, Disenfranchisement, George Zimmerman, Intuit, Koch Brothers, Model Legislation, NRA, Occupy, stand your ground, transparency, Trayvon Martin
EnergySolutions and Connections Education are 27th and 28th Corporations to Leave ALEC
Two more corporations have publicly left the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC): EnergySolutions, a nuclear services company based in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Connections Education, LLC, a private school entity based in Baltimore, Maryland, that contracts with charter schools, school districts, or governmental entities to provide "online" lessons to students. This brings the total to 28 corporations and four non-profits — 32 total private sector members — that have cut ties to the right-wing corporate bill mill.
EnergySolutions is a $1.8 billion company whose business includes, in its words, "decommissioning and remediation of nuclear sites and facilities, management of spent nuclear fuel, the transportation of nuclear material and the environmental cleanup of nuclear legacy sites."
EnergySolutions was a member of ALEC's Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force in 2011. Bills approved by this task force work to undermine environmental protections, limit the ability of local government to manage land use, protect corporate polluters, and streamline the siting of nuclear power plants. EnergySolution's former vice president of legislative and community affairs, Bette Arial, represented the company on the ALEC task force. Arial left EnergySolutions last May to become a fundraiser for the Sutherland Institute, a Utah "think tank" belonging to the State Policy Network, which is also an ALEC member. EnergySolutions has apparently decided its relationship with ALEC is not worth the controversy on the eve of ALEC's annual meeting in Salt Lake.
Connections Education, LLC is a subsidiary of the largest education company and largest book publisher in the world — $5.8 billion GBP London-based Pearson Education, as of November 2011.
Connections operates "virtual" K-12 schools. Until as recently as May, Connections Academy's co-founder and senior vice president of state relations, Mickey Revenaugh, was the "private sector" co-chair of ALEC's Education Task Force, as she had been since at least 2008. During its tenure with ALEC, Connections Education participated in the development of ALEC's "Virtual Public Schools Act," its "Next Generation Charter Schools Act," and the "Longitudinal Student Growth Act," among other ALEC bills.
To read more about these latest ALEC insurgents, please click here
By Bob Sloan ALEC, ALEC Corporate Members, Privatized Education System, Privatized Utilities No comments Tags: "virtual" K-12 schools, ALEC, ALEC insurgency, Amazon.com, American Legislative Exchange Council, American Traffic Solutions, Arizona Public Service, Best Buy, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Center for Media and Democracy, Coca Cola, Connections Education, CVS Caremark, Dell, Education, Energy Solutions, environment, Express Scripts/Medco, Hewlett-Packard, Intuit, John Deere, Johnson & Johnson, Kaplan Higher Education, Kraft Foods, LLC, Lumina Foundation for Education, Mars, McDonalds, medtronic, MillerCoors, nuclear cleanup, nuclear services, PepsiCo, privatization, privatize public education, Procter & Gamble, radioactive waste, radioactive waste disposal, Reed Elsevier, Scantron Corporation, State Policy Network, Sutherland Institute, the Gates Foundation, the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA), the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS), Wal-Mart, Wendys, YUM! Brands
Tell ALEC Companies to Stand Down!
For the past year, the Center for Media and Democracy has worked to expose the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), through its ongoing www.ALECexposed.org investigation into ALEC's operations, lobbying, and "model" bills voted on behind closed doors by corporate lobbyists and legislators voting as equals. ALEC's extreme agenda has included templates to change our laws to make it harder for juries to hold vigilantes who kill people accountable, for American citizens to vote, for Congress to limit the distorting and corrupting influence of money in our elections, and numerous other bills that undermine the rights and opportunities of Americans.
Please join us in reaching out to corporate members of ALEC to demand that they stop bankrolling ALEC and stop corrupting the democratic process. Tell them to dump ALEC!
To read and sign the letter to corporate members of ALEC, please click here
By Bob Sloan ALEC, ALEC Corporate Members, Protests No comments Tags: ALEC, ALEC insurgency, ALECExposed.org, American Legislative Exchange Council, Castle Doctrine, Cener for Media and Democracy, Charles and David Koch, Disenfranchisement, dump ALEC, Education, environment, George Zimmerman, Intuit, Koch, Kraft Foods, Model Legislation, NRA, PepsiCo, PR Watch, prison labor, privatization, privatized prison system, Scott Walker, stand your ground, transparency, Trayvon Martin, UPS, USPS, USPS Privatization, Voter ID Legislation, voter suppression, Wal-Mart
Who is ALEC?
This is a good overall story about ALEC for those looking for a good overview. It is from the CBS Evening News with Roger Pelley. Hope you saw it on TV, but if not, here it is.
This is one of the better :summary" stores that I have seen on the MSM. I hope that CBS will realize what they are looking at here and put their investigative reporters on this story and shine more light on this secretive organization which does its best to avert attention.
To read the entire report, including the embedded video, please click here.
To see the video only, please click here for the VLTPVideoChannel.
By Bob Sloan ALEC No comments Tags: ALEC, ALEC insurgency, American Legislative Exchange Council, Castle Doctrine, Charles and David Koch, Coca Cola, Education, environment, George Zimmerman, inmate labor, Intuit, Koch, Koch Brothers, Kraft Foods, Model Legislation, NRA, PepsiCo, postal service, prison labor, privatization, privatized prison system, stand your ground, Trayvon Martin, USPS Privatization, Voter ID Legislation, voter suppression, Wal-Mart
Dell drops membership in right-wing corporate front ALEC – Joins 20 Other Companies
From Think Progress Special Report…
BREAKING: DELL BECOMES 21ST COMPANY TO DROP ALEC | Computer technology giant Dell has decided to drop its membership in the American Legislative Exchange Council, a right-wing corporate front group behind the spread of voter suppression laws and Stand You Ground legislation. According to a letter from Dell's Principal Social Strategist obtained by ThinkProgress, the company has decided not to renew its membership. Dell is the 21st group to end its relationship with ALEC, but some large corporations remain in the fold, including State Farm and AT&T.
Full article found here…and a longer article here by Death And Taxes.
By Bob Sloan ALEC, ALEC Corporate Members, Consumer exploitation, Education, Ethics in Government, The Cabal No comments Tags: ALEC, ALEC alumni, ALEC insurgency, American Legislative Exchange Council, Center for Media and Democracy, Coca Cola, Disenfranchisement, Education, FedEx, Intuit, Kraft Foods, Model Legislation, NRA, Occupy, PepsiCo, transparency, UPS, Voter ID Legislation, voter suppression, Wal-Mart
Johnson & Johnson becomes first N.J. company to part ways with ALEC
Today Johnson & Johnson became the next company to dump the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). J&J held a seat upon ALEC's Private Enterprise Board as well as key positions within ALEC's numerous task forces. They are following the lead of companies such as Coca~Cola, Yum Brands, Wal-Mart, Amazon, PepsiCo and McDonalds and several foundations, including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
ALEC's response to this latest blow is best described by one of J&J's consumer ads…and they should consider J&J's advice across the bottom of the ad…
When announcing their decision to leave ALEC, Johnson & Johnson spokeswoman Carol Goodrich, said in a statement today:
"We have been in dialogue with ALEC for some time, and while we acknowledge ALEC's recent decision to focus only on innovation and growth-supporting policies, we have decided to suspend our participation and membership," Johnson & Johnson spokeswoman Carol Goodrich, said in a statement today…"
Read the Nj.com article here…
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The bonus burn: After running at a steady pace, you'll continue to burn extra calories over the rest of the day. (If that's not motivation to tackle the treadmill, nothing is).
To torch more during and after your workout, add short bursts of sprints or faster running into your jog, says Tamir. He recommends keeping a 2:1 work-to-rest ratio to get the most afterburn. For example, if you run for 60 seconds, walk 30 seconds.


Frame cabinet door fronts with picture frame molding. Attach the molding with finishing nails, and countersink the nail heads with a nailset. Stain or paint the molding before attaching it to the front of the cabinet doors if you want to keep cabinets the same color. Paint or stain the doors and molding after installing the new trim if you want a completely new look.
Dress up cabinet doors by gluing on wood motifs carved in substantial relief on the front with flat backs. Apply wood glue to the back of the motifs and hammer in a few well-placed finishing nails to attach them to the cabinets. Countersink the heads of the finishing nails by tapping them in with a nailset. Fill in the small depression with wood filler before painting or staining the motifs and cabinet fronts.
Decoupage pictures or collages of pictures on cabinet doors. Choose fruits and vegetables as one theme for a kitchen. Select images of gardens and plants, including flowers, for a garden shed. Incorporate pictures of tools for crafting or enlarged photos of successful projects for a crafter's space.
Remove hardware, including hinges, before painting cabinet doors. Number the doors in pencil on the narrow top where it won't show. Begin the numbering at one end of the cabinets so you can put the doors back where they were.
Visit a home improvement center to get ideas from the cabinet doors in its showroom.


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American Samurai is a martial-arts action film directed by Sam Firstenberg and starring David Bradley and Mark Dacascos and produced by Cannon Films. Filmed in Turkey, it was released in the United States in 1992.

Premise
After a plane crash in the Japanese mountains, its only survivor—a baby named Andrew Collins—is adopted by Tatsuya Sanga, a samurai master. Andrew, along with the samurai's son, Kenjiro, are trained in the warrior's way. Andrew excels in his training and soon surpasses his stepbrother's skills. Kenjiro's jealousy pushes him to join the Yakuza, where he takes the Yakuza oath and forsakes the moral values of the samurai's code. He leaves his father's home, swearing to one day take revenge on his brother.
Ten years later, Andrew works in L.A. as a journalist. He and a female photographer track down an opium-smuggling operation in Turkey. Soon, the drug dealers kidnapped the girl, forcing Andrew to enter a deadly weapons based martial-arts tournament ruled by illegal gamblers whose greatest champion is the lethal Kenjiro.

Cast
 David Bradley as Andrew "Drew" Collins
Mariano Edelman as Drew Collins As Teenager
Euthymios Logothetis as Drew Collins As Baby
 Mark Dacascos as Kenjiro Sanga
Tal Akioshi Kitaoka as Kenjiro Sanga As Teenager
 Valarie Trapp as Janet Ward
 Rex Ryon as Ed Harrison
 Melissa Hellman as Samantha
 John Fujioka as Tatsuya Sanga
 Douvi Cohen as Stephano
 Rocky McDonald as Conan
 Ron Vreeken as McKinney
 Dion Lam as Hsing Yi / Lee
 Antony Szeto as Phan-Xu
 Melnik Dubroviko as Contestant
 Kevin Villis as Contestant
 Avi Mamn as Contestant
 Vladimir Markov as Contestant
 Mark Warren as Turk In Disco / Lars
 Koby Azarly as Turk In Disco
 Shalom Avitan as Turk In Disco
 Baruch Berkin as Hotel Clerk
 Arie Moscuna as Announcer
 Michael Morim as Police Chief
 Misha Gal as Body Guard
 John Slater as Body Guard
 Sigalit Shiry as Belly Dancer

Home media and alternate versions
The DVD is available in Region 1. However, it is based on the edited R-rated cut. This version has subtitles added to the days of the tournament (i.e. "Day 2", "Day 3", etc.) Additionally, many scenes of violence or injury are zoomed in on, poorly cropped, or deleted altogether to avoid explicit details. The unrated cut has different dialogue in some scenes, no subtitles, and all of the violence is onscreen and considerably more graphic. This version is not available in the United States but can be found in other regions. There is an uncut Belgian bootleg DVD and the British version has approximately one second of footage cut.

See also
 List of American films of 1992
 List of martial arts films

References

External links

See also
 American Ninja (film series) from Cannon Films

1992 films
1992 martial arts films
American action films
American martial arts films
1990s English-language films
Fictional samurai
Films directed by Sam Firstenberg
Films set in Japan
Golan-Globus films
Yakuza films
Japan in non-Japanese culture
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Treatment for acne scars
Review question
Which treatments are effective for acne scars?
Acne scars may have a damaging effect on a person's physical, mental, and social well-being. Although a wide range of treatments are used, there is a lack of high-quality evidence on which are the most effective for acne scars.
This review aimed to better inform patients and healthcare providers about the most effective and safe methods to manage this problem. We have examined treatments for atrophic scars (depressions in the skin surface) and hypertrophic scars (lumpy scars that stick out from the skin surface) in acne but have concentrated on facial atrophic scarring. Our main outcomes of interest were participant-reported scar improvement and any adverse effects serious enough to cause participants to withdraw from the study.
Study characteristics
We include 24 randomised controlled trials (RCTs) with 789 people with acne scars (from searches up to November 2015). Twenty-one RCTs (706 people) enrolled both men and women, three RCTs (75 people) enrolled only women and one RCT (eight people) enrolled only men. Most of the studies we included (21 RCTs with 744 people) enrolled people with atrophic acne scars. One RCT enrolled 20 individuals with mixed atrophic and hypertrophic acne scars.
There is insufficient evidence from trials to support fractional laser for treatment of acne. However, this management approach is adopted by some in clinical practice for the treatment of acne scarring.
For our outcome 'Participant-reported scar improvement' fractional laser was more effective in producing scar improvement change than non-fractional non-ablative laser. Fractional radiofrequency showed similar scar improvement to fractional laser. Chemical peeling showed similar scar improvement to both fractional laser and skin needling. Combined chemical peeling with skin needling showed similar scar improvement to fractional laser and to deep chemical peeling. Injectable fillers provided better scar improvement compared to placebo.
Our outcome 'Serious adverse effects' was reported in one study, showing that chemical peeling was not tolerable in 16% of those taking part. Other outcomes, 'Participant-reported' and 'Investigator-assessed' adverse events in the short term (less than 24 weeks), were more or less acceptable by those taking part and by investigators and did not reveal a big difference between the studied interventions.
Four out of six of our comparisons were completely inconclusive and they were of very low-quality evidence. There is a lack of studies that establish efficacy of treatments compared to placebo or sham interventions, and it is possible that finding no evidence of difference between two active treatments could mean that neither is very useful.
We did not identify any trials that examined treatment for acne scars on the back.
The results of this review do not support the first-line use of any intervention in the treatment of acne scars, and no studies provided evidence to confirm that any short-term benefit will translate to long-term effects.
Quality of the evidence
We rated the quality of the evidence for several outcomes as very low to moderate. The lower quality evidence for treatments was mostly because there were few people in the studies, making the results less precise, and there was a lack of blinding (people knew the treatment they were receiving).
Future studies should consider adopting patient-reported outcomes as a primary measure. There should be a set of core outcome measures reported in all RCTs for treating acne scars, and outcomes should be evaluated several months after the treatment has been done. Lack of reporting of serious side effects was one of the research gaps found in this review.
There is a lack of high-quality evidence about the effects of different interventions for treating acne scars because of poor methodology, underpowered studies, lack of standardised improvement assessments, and different baseline variables.
There is moderate-quality evidence that injectable filler might be effective for treating atrophic acne scars; however, no studies have assessed long-term effects, the longest follow-up being 48 weeks in one study only. Other studies included active comparators, but in the absence of studies that establish efficacy compared to placebo or sham interventions, it is possible that finding no evidence of difference between two active treatments could mean that neither approach works. The results of this review do not provide support for the first-line use of any intervention in the treatment of acne scars.
Although our aim was to identify important gaps for further primary research, it might be that placebo and or sham trials are needed to establish whether any of the active treatments produce meaningful patient benefits over the long term.
Acne scarring is a frequent complication of acne and resulting scars may negatively impact on an affected person's psychosocial and physical well-being. Although a wide range of interventions have been proposed, there is a lack of high-quality evidence on treatments for acne scars to better inform patients and their healthcare providers about the most effective and safe methods of managing this condition. This review aimed to examine treatments for atrophic and hypertrophic acne scars, but we have concentrated on facial atrophic scarring.
To assess the effects of interventions for treating acne scars.
We searched the following databases up to November 2015: the Cochrane Skin Group Specialised Register, the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) in the Cochrane Library (2015, Issue 10), MEDLINE (from 1946), EMBASE (from 1974), and LILACS (from 1982). We also searched five trials registers, and checked the reference lists of included studies and relevant reviews for further references to randomised controlled trials.
We include randomised controlled trials (RCTs) which allocated participants (whether split-face or parallel arms) to any active intervention (or a combination) for treating acne scars. We excluded studies dealing only or mostly with keloid scars.
Three review authors independently extracted data from each of the studies included in this review and evaluated the risks of bias. We resolved disagreements by discussion and arbitration supported by a method expert as required. Our primary outcomes were participant-reported scar improvement and any adverse effects serious enough to cause participants to withdraw from the study.
We included 24 trials with 789 adult participants aged 18 years or older. Twenty trials enrolled men and women, three trials enrolled only women and one trial enrolled only men. We judged eight studies to be at low risk of bias for both sequence generation and allocation concealment. With regard to blinding we judged 17 studies to be at high risk of performance bias, because the participants and dermatologists were not blinded to the treatments administered or received; however, we judged all 24 trials to be at a low risk of detection bias for outcome assessment. We evaluated 14 comparisons of seven interventions and four combinations of interventions. Nine studies provided no usable data on our outcomes and did not contribute further to this review's results.
For our outcome 'Participant-reported scar improvement' in one study fractional laser was more effective in producing scar improvement than non-fractional non-ablative laser at week 24 (risk ratio (RR) 4.00, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.25 to 12.84; n = 64; very low-quality evidence); fractional laser showed comparable scar improvement to fractional radiofrequency in one study at week eight (RR 0.78, 95% CI 0.36 to 1.68; n = 40; very low-quality evidence) and was comparable to combined chemical peeling with skin needling in a different study at week 48 (RR 1.00, 95% CI 0.60 to 1.67; n = 26; very low-quality evidence). In a further study chemical peeling showed comparable scar improvement to combined chemical peeling with skin needling at week 32 (RR 1.24, 95% CI 0.87 to 1.75; n = 20; very low-quality evidence). Chemical peeling in one study showed comparable scar improvement to skin needling at week four (RR 1.13, 95% CI 0.69 to 1.83; n = 27; very low-quality evidence). In another study, injectable fillers provided better scar improvement compared to placebo at week 24 (RR 1.84, 95% CI 1.31 to 2.59; n = 147 moderate-quality evidence).
For our outcome 'Serious adverse effects' in one study chemical peeling was not tolerable in 7/43 (16%) participants (RR 5.45, 95% CI 0.33 to 90.14; n = 58; very low-quality evidence).
For our secondary outcome 'Participant-reported short-term adverse events', all participants reported pain in the following studies: in one study comparing fractional laser to non-fractional non-ablative laser (RR 1.00, 95% CI 0.94 to 1.06; n = 64; very low-quality evidence); in another study comparing fractional laser to combined peeling plus needling (RR 1.00, 95% CI 0.86 to 1.16; n = 25; very low-quality evidence); in a study comparing chemical peeling plus needling to chemical peeling (RR 1.00, 95% CI 0.83 to 1.20; n = 20; very low-quality evidence); in a study comparing chemical peeling to skin needling (RR 1.00, 95% CI 0.87 to 1.15; n = 27; very low-quality evidence); and also in a study comparing injectable filler and placebo (RR 1.03, 95% CI 0.10 to 11.10; n = 147; low-quality evidence).
For our outcome 'Investigator-assessed short-term adverse events', fractional laser (6/32) was associated with a reduced risk of hyperpigmentation than non-fractional non-ablative laser (10/32) in one study (RR 0.60, 95% CI 0.25 to 1.45; n = 64; very low-quality evidence); chemical peeling was associated with increased risk of hyperpigmentation (6/12) compared to skin needling (0/15) in one study (RR 16.00, 95% CI 0.99 to 258.36; n = 27; low-quality evidence). There was no difference in the reported adverse events with injectable filler (17/97) compared to placebo (13/50) (RR 0.67, 95% CI 0.36 to 1.27; n = 147; low-quality evidence).
Skin disorders > Acne
Abdel Hay R, Shalaby K, Zaher H, Hafez V, Chi C, Dimitri S, Nabhan AF, Layton AM
Skin Group
Abdel Hay R, Shalaby K, Zaher H, Hafez V, Chi C, Dimitri S, Nabhan AF, Layton AM. Interventions for acne scars. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2016, Issue 4. Art. No.: CD011946. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD011946.pub2


Despite my initial aversion to black and white film, I've been completely convinced that it captures some of the most beautiful photos. It's hard to imagine that a gorgeous landscape of bright orange and red leaves scattered on a mountain over a fjord might be equally as beautiful with no color at all, but it's true.
We brought one vintage Canon point and shoot (that actually used to belong to my parents when we were babies), and managed to shoot 3 rolls of black and white film. Since I carried the DSLR most of the time, Margaret took most of the film pictures. I have a tendency to "save" the film and try not to waste pictures which leads to way fewer photos than if I had the digital camera. Margaret doesn't have that issue, so we have plenty. Enjoy!


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Friday Fish Frame: Josi's known as Catch & Release
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Do It! Pittsford artist paints fish at their finest
Josi Etter was about 16 when she painted her first fish portrait
Growing up in Bonn, Germany, she visited places like France, Austria, Yugoslavia and Spain on family vacations. She can remember salt-water fishing off piers and trout fishing on streams.
As only an artist might, Etter didn't look at fish as well, fish. She saw amazing subject material, offering shapes, lines and textures. She noticed the tiniest details in a tailfin, a gill, an eye. Of course, she marveled at the rainbow of color, shimmering shades of silver, red, gold, yellow and brown.
"People always think a fish is a fish but they're not. Every fish is different," Etter said. "They have details and coloring that you might not see immediately. This is where the painting comes into play."
This is where the fly angler and the artist swim together.
With the grace of a double haul, Etter uses brushes and pencils to create stunningly realistic and beautiful life-size watercolor paintings of fish. For fishermen who desire to preserve a memory, her 10-year-old Pittsford village home business, Sketch and Release (sketchandrelease.com, (585) 542-8861), offers customers a sophisticated and conservation-minded alternative to traditional taxidermy mounts.
Steelhead by Etter.
Etter, 44, respects the artistic quality of good taxidermy work, including plastic replica mounts that also promote the catch-and-release ethos so important to sustaining quality fishing for future generations. But by spending an average of 6 to 30 hours per painting, by studying photographs or working off information and descriptions provided by customers, she's able to capture what she called "the personality of the fish."
"I used to photograph lots of fish in black and white and you can see enormous differences in each one," Etter said. "When you get into color photography, you see even more differences. In painting, I like to draw the details."
Those details leap off a collection of framed prints that hang in her family's den. The head of a steelhead colored in shades of silver, blue and pink; the distinctive red jaw patch of a westslope cutthroat trout; the fat red belly and steely hooked jaw of a Coho salmon.
With outdoor shows and the Internet her main source of marketing, Etter nets orders from Maine to California. She charges $15 an inch and can add in touches like a rod and reel, the fly or lure used to land the fish or a landmark. She has worked on projects for the Museum of Modern Art in New York and Chicago Art Institute and her work appears regularly in Trout Unlimited Magazine. Many pieces hang in Orvis-endorsed fishing lodges.
"What I love is that her work is a very accurate rendering and precise reproduction of your fish. They are beautiful to look at, too," said Jeff McEvoy, owner of famed Weatherby's Lodge on Grand Lake Stream, Maine, where Ted Williams stayed.
McEvoy first glimpsed Etter's work at the Somerset, N.J., Fly Fishing Show. He now proudly hangs a Josi Etter smallmouth bass and landlocked salmon in his lodge's dining room, right next to some highly valuable skin mounts from the early 1900s. For guests who want the memory of a catch preserved, McEvoy suggests a painting and passes on Etter's contact information.
Josi's booth last year at the Somerset (New Jersey) Fly Fishing Show.
"The most obvious benefit of the painting is that the fish is returned to the water it came from to be hopefully caught again next year," he said. "I also believe the paintings are classier than the mounts and can be tactfully displayed in many more places in a home or business."
Sure enough, Etter said her paintings lure more hang time in a prominent place than traditional taxidermy mounts.
"I've had a lot of customers tell me, 'My wife wouldn't let me hang the fish mount, maybe in the garage or basement or the man cave, but not the family room,' " Etter said. " 'But your painting — we hang that in the living room.' "
Etter's mother worked as a teacher/consultant for the United Nations and her family lived for periods of time in West Africa and the Philippines. Her sense of adventure led Josi to the United States in 1996 to study film preservation at the George Eastman House.
There were three things she heard would indoctrinate her into America culture: baseball, square dancing and fly fishing. The first two she didn't take to that well. Fly fishing, yes.
That's how she landed her husband, Calvin Curtice, an Irondequoit native and avid fly angler. They met through friends. He taught her how to cast. It was love at first bite.
In Germany, acquiring a fishing license requires hours of course work and passing a test and it's very expensive. When Etter learned that a fishing license in New York cost $15 back then no questions asked and the local waters were world class, she was hooked.
"To go to Oatka Creek, the Genesee River, Sandy Creek or the Salmon River, it's fantastic," she said. "And the Adirondacks aren't far away. People talk about out West, but we really have the best fishing right here and so scenic."
Calvin, who works in the computer field, admitted that helping his wife with her business is a guilty pleasure.
"Selfishly as a fisherman, it's been awesome," he said. "We've been able to work a lot of shows, like the big one in New Jersey, and just had a fantastic response to her paintings there. We've been able to meet a lot of really important people in the fishing world."
People who walk past their booth always stop in their tracks to admire Josi's artwork, Calvin said proudly.
"We hear all the time, 'That painting looks exactly like the fish when I took it from the water,' " he said. "As you know, you maybe have a minute before the colors change. That moment when it's a breathtaking image right before you let it go, that's what she paints. She's blended that accuracy of the scientific side with the artistic coloration. … That's why people relate to her work."
When too many fish are jumping in her sleep, Etter will paint portraits of people. Her avocation is most definitely her occupation.
"I like painting a lot and it gives me a lot," she said. "It makes me feel good. So it's my meditation and my pleasure. Everyone has a talent and that's mine."
You catch it, she'll sketch it. Poetry, art and fly fishing are life itself.
This story by Leo Roth . . .
View our previous post about Josi . . .
artartistcatch & releaseChicago Art Institutefeature storyfly fishingFriday Fish FrameJosi EtterMuseum of Modern ArtSlideTrout Unlimited Magazine.


How do I confront a busy week? With a Plant-Based Meal Plan of course!
A few upcoming events include a side walk fair at Keystone Natural Family Medicine! I'll be a vendor so if you are in the area please stop by between 9 and noon on Wednesday, October 9th. They are having some great specials too including a Food Sensitivity Panel and Instant Cholesterol Checks. We LOVE our doctor.
Thursday is Healthy Cravings. If you are new here Healthy Cravings is a once a month meeting I host to show people how easy, inexpensive and delicious a Plant-Based Diet can be. This month is all about BEANS! If you are in the area and want more information email me.
Saturday my husband and I have the privilege to team up with Danny Collier of Simplicity Fitness and teach a cooking class for individuals going through a 21 Day Clean Eating Cleanse. The recipe will also be featured on the menu at Red Mountain Ranch Country Club.
To make things a little easier each week I choose a one to two things that will be the cornerstone of the Meal Plan. This week it is definitely Quinoa with some reoccurring chickpeas, noodles and broccoli as well. The quinoa, chickpeas and noodles are ready for anything I can dream up.
I just received my bulk order of Gluten-Free Oats so there will be a lot of oatmeal this week.
With such a busy week I'll eat a lot of sandwiches and wraps this week plus a few easy meals. My kids always love Breakfast Quinoa for lunch too!
I'll be making some desserts for the side walk fair also!
Since Thursday's Healthy Cravings is all about beans I'm sure a few of these meals will be side lined for more bean-centric meals. I didn't plan for them because I didn't want to cook beans early in the week then have to cook them again. There may be a Chipotle run or too also. What can I say, it is convenient and delicious.
I'm looking forward to that apple coffee cake recipe!
Oh no! That is sad. 🙁 I am glad to hear that you go to salvage a bit of it, though.
Thanks for all your writing on this blog.
Where do you buy your bulk oats from? Do you have any good sources for ordering grains in bulk?
Hi Daniel, Occasionally I'll hear of local co-ops that offer bulk grain purchases but I usually stick to Amazon (I have Prime with free shipping) and Bob's Red Mill Brand. Since my son has so many allergies/intolerance's I'm willing to pay more for the peace of mind of Certified GF Oats. Also, buying the larger quantities gives me a better deal.
I remember Sarah at gazingin.com mentioning a great source for bulk oats and that she buys 20 to 25 lbs at a time.
For some things like quinoa, our local Costco has the cheapest price by far.


Breez hub is a multi-protocol, voice-enabled, offline first, high performance, and battery-powered smart home hub that works as the brain of your home and a coordinator between devices from different brands using many wireless technologies.
With a powerful processor, Breez Hub can handle data locally and store data in the hub itself, no risk of exposing data to cloud.
Breez Hub fully operate even without internet. A local area network is needed which can be solved with a router.
Breez Hub adds end to end encryption to protect data transmission. Data will only be recognized by the hub and your phone.
Breez Hub comes with built-in voice recognition hardware, the assistant is being developed and will be released in future update.
In case of a power failure, Breez hub can continue working for up to 4 hours with the built-in rechargeable battery.
With our intuitive and easy to use mobile apps, anyone can install and setup Breez. Everything is DIY. We've made sure managing and automating your home is as effortless and enjoyable as possible. No professional installation is necessary.
All the event from and to the devices are recorded and can be monitored easily in a single UI.
Create routines that can be activated automatically on certain events, or can be used to activate a preset scene.
Control your home from anywhere in the world when Breez is online and in case of losing connection, you can fully control it using the local connection.
Invite your family and friends to your home and assign them the right roles to keep your home under control.
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A damning report by the Auditor General's Department on the position of the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) in 2009 has highlighted many irregularities in the cash strapped government institution. The Auditor General's report has been handed over to the Parliamentary Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) for further inquiries. COPE is currently probing the observations made by the Auditor General on the CPC for the years 2007, 2008 and 2009.
However, the observations on CPC for 2009 have shocked the members of COPE.
The report has highlighted financial irregularities and false tax declarations among a long list of misdeeds at the institution.
According to the report, the CPC has violated several provisions in the Sri Lanka Accounting Standards (SLAS).
The CPC had failed to include certain taxes, which are not recoverable from tax authorities in determining the cost of purchase.
The Auditor General had observed that the advertising cost of Rs. 2.9 million had been included in the manufacturing cost in violation of SLAS 05-Inventories.
The Corporation had not adopted appropriate procedures to identify impairment indicators for its assets as required by SLAS.
Interestingly, the Corporation had not obtained bank guarantees from aviation customers, private customers, dealers and government customers whose outstanding balances amount to millions.
The CPC has also understated some amounts while overstating some.
The rent income of the Corporation had been understated by Rs. 1.8 million since the rent income had not been recognized according to the rent agreement.
Goods-in-transit (crude oil) amounting to Rs. 8,700 million had not been disclosed in the financial statements.
The closing stock of fuel of Lanka Furnace Oil (LFO) 800 had been overstated by Rs. 66.6 million due to erroneous valuations.
The Auditor General had also noted that there has been a lack of evidence for audit.
The CPC has failed to produce the title deeds for the Sapugaskanda mini terminal land valued at Rs. 67 million.
The existence and recoverability of the investment aggregating to Rs. 55.5 million could not be determined due to lack of evidence.
Meanwhile, 25 acres of land valued at Rs. 259 million at Muturajawela had been shown as an asset in the balance sheet. However there are no title deeds or documents to establish ownership of the land.
The CPC had failed to provide sufficient evidence regarding the assets purchased prior to December 31, 2002 reflected under property, plant and equipment.
No evidence had been made available regarding the assets prior to December 31, 2002 reflected under property, plant and equipment. As a result, the ownership, existence and completeness of such assets could not be determined in the audit.
Sufficient evidence was not made available to determine the recoverability of the Exercise Duty amounting to Rs. 714 million from the General Treasury.
The CPC has also obtained services of private lawyers amounting to Rs. 5 million in the year under review, which is a higher rate, without obtaining prior approval of the Auditor General.
The Auditor General has noted that nine motor vehicles had been released to two government institutions and 18 employees had been released to several government institutions without the approval of appropriate authorities and disregarding the instructions contained in the Public Enterprise Circular No. PED/12 of 02 June 2003.
A COPE member told The Sunday Leader that the Committee has called on the CPC officials to appear before COPE with all relevant documents since a full probe is being carried out following the Auditor General's observations.
COPE has expressed dissatisfaction at the CPC's functions given the severity of the misappropriation of CPC funds.
Several attempts by The Sunday Leader to contact officials from the CPC for comment failed.
When The Sunday Leader telephoned the CPC head office, we were informed that the Chairman was busy and that there was no General Manager.
Jayawardena was not contactable on his direct office telephone line on Thursday and Friday.


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Alpha Software Helps Evolytix Achieve Up to 75% Productivity Boost
Developers know that the future --- and the present --- of software is writing cloud-based applications. What they might not know, though, is that low-code platforms are the ideal tools for writing cloud-based apps, including SaaS subscription-based ones.
But Scott Binger, partner of Evolytix, knows that well from long experience. For years he's been using Alpha Software low code software to write cloud-based applications (as well as mobile applications) and he says Alpha is ideal for the task. With it, he's been able to write many cloud-based custom applications for a wide variety of customers in many industries, from healthcare to financial services to entertainment and beyond. He says Alpha has helped him dramatically increase productivity, reduce the time it takes to write applications, deliver exactly what customers want, and better attract and retain clients.
"Alpha has really perfected rapid application development," he says. "It lets us build cloud-based applications quickly while being very versatile and flexible. It allows us to show our clients the work as it proceeds, so they can make changes, and we can respond to them quickly. That way, they get the exact features they want, and we don't have to spend extra time delivering it to them."
Having clients so involved early in the development process also increases their buy-in, which ultimately leads to more satisfied customers. That, in turn, leads to higher retention rates and increased revenue.
He adds, "Particularly compelling for us about Alpha is not to have to spend time on certain aspects of projects, which could be very time-consuming. For example, it provides a robust security framework, as well as login components, many registration forms, two-factor authentication and a lot more. It's all taken care of, packaged nicely, and easy to use. That saves us a tremendous amount of time. And ultimately, we pass along those savings to our customers."
He says that using Alpha leads to "dramatic improvement in our efficiency, often between fifty and seventy-five percent." That lets his company deliver software more quickly, and also lets him offer lower prices to his clients than he otherwise would have been able to do.
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A remote phone deployment is completely different than SIP trunking. Remote phones are dynamic in location, and require significantly more calling features. Remote phones cannot be considered as peers, since phones register for services and change IP addresses often across multiple devices and locations. Remote phones require automatic provisioning with file servers and possibly require web access and REST API access to the IP‑PBX. The interconnectivity between a remote phone and IP‑PBX is complicated with many communication requirements.


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Julián Bértola Alareo (25 February 1895 – unknown) was an Uruguayan football player and manager who played as a right-half.

Playing career

Club
A right-half, an older version of a right midfielder, Bértola was a product of Nacional youth system, making his senior debut in a 1-0 win versus River Plate Football Club on 2 May 1913. He made a total of 18 appearances for the club during three steps: 1913–1914, 1916, 1917–1919. Along with Nacional, he got the 1917 Campeonato Uruguayo, making 3 appearances in the championship. In Uruguay, he also played for both Independencia and  as well as for the Nacional Reserves.

In 1917, Bértola joined Brazilian side Grêmio. After his retirement, he worked as Consul of the club in Montevideo.

International
In September 1916, Bértola took part in a 1-2 loss of the Uruguay national team versus Grêmio in Porto Alegre, Brazil

Coaching career
At the amateur era, it was normal that the team captains performed as the head coach and/or fitness coach of his teams. So, in 1917, Bértola performed as player, captain, manager and fitness coach of Nacional at the same time.

In the same year, Bértola and his teammates took part of the training sessions of both the Chile and the Brazil national teams at the Estadio Parque Central before the 1917 South American Championship. On 30 September 1917, he officially assumed as the Chile national team coach for the championship, where Chile loss all the matches: 0-4 versus Uruguay, 0-1 versus Argentina, 0-5 versus Brazil.

In the same year, Bértola coached the Uruguay national team.

Personal life
At the same time he was a football player and coach, he performed as a PE Teacher.

Honours
Nacional
 Campeonato Uruguayo (1): 1917
 Copa de Honor (2): 1914, 1917
 Copa Competencia (3): 1913, 1914, 1919

References

External links
 Julián Bértola at AtilioSoftware (in Spanish)
 Julián Bértola at PartidosdelaRoja (in Spanish)

1895 births
Footballers from Montevideo
Uruguayan footballers
Uruguay international footballers
Association football midfielders
Club Nacional de Football players
Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense players
Uruguayan Primera División players
Uruguayan football managers
Club Nacional de Football managers
Uruguayan Primera División managers
Chile national football team managers
Uruguay national football team managers
Uruguayan expatriate footballers
Uruguayan expatriate football managers
Uruguayan expatriate sportspeople in Brazil
Expatriate footballers in Brazil
Uruguayan expatriate sportspeople in Chile
Expatriate football managers in Chile
Place of death missing
Year of death missing


The Maine Department of Education is offering five half-day sessions for NEO updates and training and one half-day for Synergy Training. An additional full-day session will also be held for districts who manually enter information into the State level Student Information System.
During the NEO session, Maine DOE Helpdesk members will review changes to NEO, which include Maine State Reports previously located in Infinite Campus State Edition. Other changes to NEO include the new Data Collection and Reporting (DC&R) module, access to NEO, changes to NEO staff, and clarification of Staff and District Roles. There will also be a short session on Student Data Privacy. Attendees should include those who currently complete NEO Reports, those who previously worked with student reports in Infinite Campus State Edition, and those who will be doing these activities in the coming school year. Student data certifications will now be done in NEO, so Superintendents who certify reports may also want to attend.
A light lunch will be provided, and during this time, Maine DOE and Synergy staff will be available for questions.
For the Synergy session, participants will learn how to use Synergy DOE to upload student data required by the State of Maine. In addition, participants will learn how to use Synergy DOE to enter and validate student data that is not included in the upload process.
The August 1st, Manual Entry Session will be an all-day in-depth look at how to enter student information directly into the system. (NEO topics will not be covered at this session).
If you have any questions please contact Maine's Data Systems Helpdesk Manager Shannon Bartash at (207) 624-6799.


Bathtub Bombs – What Made Them So Well-liked?
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There have been instances when individuals used to dissolve sandalwood powder and different related merchandise so as to add aroma and results to their baths. Nonetheless, in the present day the development has modified in the present day. These days, issues like tub bombs and tub salts are used to make the washing expertise extra stress-free and invigorating. This development has grown enormously particularly after the web has invaded our lives. There are quite a few suppliers of those merchandise on-line who promote them at fairly an inexpensive fee. So, who would thoughts to spend a number of to sensationalize their bathing time Moisturize Aromatherapy B07HQS94KN?
As a result of sudden growth within the demand, several types of such merchandise can be found in the present day. You will get the milky ones, the natural ones, selfmade ones, and so on. All of them are principally strong combination type of components equivalent to citric acid, baking soda, and so on. As quickly as they're put into water, they dissolve including shade, aroma and naturally bubbles to the tub tub. Some admirers of tub bombs additionally argue that these little balls are extremely efficient for stress-free the physique and revitalizing it. Medically, it has been confirmed that bombs with important oils and minerals can moisturize and revitalize the pores and skin however to the minimal. Henceforth, it may be stated that these merchandise are good however they shouldn't be used as a substitute for drugs.
At the moment, even youngsters know what the fizzy little balls are. There are particular ones accessible for teenagers that are made of soppy cleaning soap, no acidic components and lotion or lotions at instances. Once more, tub bombs may not be extraordinarily useful in moisturizing the pores and skin of your baby nevertheless it for certain could make them love their bathing time. It's fairly troublesome to make a child love his bathing time however with the assistance of those any mother could make her child love the second. That is one other main motive of those merchandise being in demand in the present day.


The Mueller report has shown that there was no collusion between President Trump and the Russians leading up to the 2016 election, but that doesn't mean the witch hunt is over. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York is still pursuing at least three investigations that have not yet concluded.
Sworn enemy of President Trump, former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Preet Bharara, recently told ABC News Powerhouse Politics, "There is still "plenty of evidence" of collusion," despite a letter from Attorney General William Barr indicating otherwise.
NBC News reports – With a staff of about 220 assistant U.S. attorneys, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York is one of the largest in the country. But that prosecutorial firepower isn't the only reason why it has become among the most sought-after assignments for aspiring federal prosecutors.
Cohen's cooperation "would send a chill up my spine" if he worked at the White House, former New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christie, who also was a federal prosecutor, told ABC News during the hearing, referring to the ex-Trump fixer's statement to lawmakers that he was helping prosecutors in their Trump-related investigations.
What's more, prosecutors in Manhattan's Southern District aren't saddled with a limited mandate like special counsel Robert Mueller in his Russia probe; they can follow the trail wherever it leads.
The office has "historically been very independent, with very little oversight by DOJ, especially in the financial crimes space," said Lynn Neils, a former assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District in New Jersey. That's the sphere where the office "has made its name," she added.
The Canada Free Press reveals the name of an unexpected player in the U.S. Attorney of the Southern District New York investigation into President Donald J. Trump.
From the True Life Is Stranger Than Fiction Department, James Comey's 30-year-old daughter Maurene Comey is on the SDNY posse that will carry on investigating the Trump-Russia conspiracy.
Maureen Comey is seated second from right in the photo above. She's seen sitting between her father, former FBI Director, James Comey, who openly despises President Trump, and her Hillary Clinton supporting mother, Patrice Comey.
Like her father who served as a US attorney for SDNY from Jan. 7, 2002 to Dec. 15, 2003, Maurene Comey has been an assistant US attorney in the SDNY office since 2015.
Maurene Comey went to William and Mary School, where she earned a Bachelor's degree in History & Music and attended Harvard Law School.
Her position at the SDNY office may have gone ignored had not The Daily Mail raked over the coals of the ex-FBI director's career as "a hedge fund high roller" living high off the hog, in an April 1st story.
Comey was hot on the trail to destroy Trump's presidency long before Trump fired him as FBI director.
Now it's Comey daughter Maurene's turn over at the all-powerful SDNY.
For the Comey family bringing down President Trump seems to be generational.


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Effective and Safe Fibrinolysis Requires both Plasminogen Activators in a Sequential Combination
Victor Gurewich
DOI Number: https://doi.org/10.33805/2576.8484.162
Published on February, 2019
A clot that obstructs blood flow triggers the onset of most heart attacks and 85% of strokes, the leading causes of death and disability worldwide. Reestablishing blood flow rapidly limits damage to the heart or brain, saves lives, and can restore well-being. Since "time is heart or brain," treatment must be initiated rapidly, which means by a readily available method.
Fibrinolysis is the only therapy able to fulfill these criteria but the current method using tissue Plasminogen Activator (tPA) monotherapy is not sufficiently safe to be administered without pre-testing nor is it sufficiently effective to be very useful. Although anticoagulants have evolved, especially in recent years, the same thrombolytic has been used since 1987, when tPA monotherapy was approved for the treatment of Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) and subsequently also for ischemic stroke.
However, the clinical results with tPA given within the time window was never shown to be significantly better than those obtained with the previous thrombolytic, Streptokinase (SK) [1], moreover tPA caused more bleeding side effects than SK. When tPA is used for ischemic stroke there is a 6-7% incidence of symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage complications [2]. As a result, tPA has recently been replaced, not by another thrombolytic, but by Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI), a method that is costly and time-consuming. Nevertheless, the results of PCI were superior to those obtained with tPA. In stroke, tPA is used in only about 5% of patients because of its limited efficacy and hazard.
tPA is part of the bodys natural thrombolytic system that controls the size of "good" blood clots needed to stop bleeding, and which is also needed for the repair of "wear and tear" injuries of blood vessels. In this system, tPA is remarkably effective, in contrast to its relatively poor efficacy in therapy. This discrepancy is explained by the presence of the other thrombolytic, urokinase Plasminogen Activator or uPA, in the natural system.
The Fibrinolytic System
In the biological system, tPA is found in the vessel wall, and in the event of an obstructive thrombus, it is released at that site. Due to its high fibrin affinity, mediated by both its finger and kringle domains, tPA binds to the fibrin clot, and activates an adjacent fibrin-bound plasminogen [3] thereby initiating fibrinolysis. This fibrin degradation exposes two new plasminogen binding sites on the fibrin surface. Since tPA has only a single fibrin binding site on the fibrin D-domain, it cannot activate the plasminogen on these new sites which are on the fibrin E-domain. Only at very high doses, at which tPA is no longer fibrin-specific, can tPA activate these new plasminogens. Instead, the first of these new plasminogens is activated not by tPA but rather by prourokinase (proUK), which has a high substrate affinity for plasminogen on the fibrin E-domain. Activation of this plasminogen is followed by the reciprocal activation of proUK to UK by plasmin. The UK then activates the remaining plasminogen completing fibrinolysis [3].
Therefore, fibrinolysis involves the sequential effects of both plasminogen activators with tPA initiation of lysis and proUK/UK continuing and completing it. As a result, tPA is responsible for 33% of the process and proUK/UK the remaining 66%. The dominant role of proUK in fibrinolysis has been generally over looked, which may be explained by the fact that most of it is carried on the surface of platelets to which proUK is tightly bound and where it is fibrinolytically active [4]. Unfortunately, since proUK was ignored, therapeutic fibrinolysis has consisted of tPA alone for the past 32 years. However, since tPAs function is limited to the initiation of fibrinolysis, its therapeutic effect has always been a disappointment being somewhat analogous to trying to run a car on the starter motor alone.
At the same time, the complementary fibrinolytic properties of tPA and proUK show that in biology they were intended to function in combination. When used alone to dissolve a clot they are inefficient and requiring high, non-specific doses, whereas in combination low, fibrin-specific doses can be used since their combined effects are synergistic. For example, small doses of tPA and proUK that induce 25% clot lysis by each alone, induce 100% lysis when they are combined (Figure 1).
Figure 1: Lysis by tPA/uPA alone or in combination.
A similar low-dose combination was tested clinically in 101 patients with AMI who were given a 5 mg bolus dose of tPA followed by an infusion of 40 mg/h of proUK for 90 min. The coronary vessel responsible for the attack was opened in 82% of the patients, and there was only one death and no bleeding complications [5] (Figure 2). These unprecedented results are a substantial improvement over GUSTO, the best of the tPA trials, in which the coronary responsible for the AMI was opened in only 45% of patients, and deaths were 6.3%. These results represent a clinical verification of in vitro studies tPA and proUK and show that effective and safe fibrinolysis requires both of these natural plasminogen activators in a sequential combination, and that monotherapy with tPA alone has been an unfortunate mistake.
Figure 2: Clinical trial of combination in heart attack. PATENT trial of sequential combination (green) vs GUSTO trial of tPA mono therapy (red).
1. Brophy JM and Joseph L. Placing trials in context using Bayesian analysis. GUSTO revisited by reverend Bayes (1995) JAMA 273: 871-875.
2. IST-3 Collaboration Group. The benefits and harms of intravenous thrombolysis with recombinant tissue plasminogen activator within 6 h of acute ischemic stroke: a randomized control trial (2012) Lancet 379: 2352-2363. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(12)60768-5
3. Pannell R, Li S and Gurewich V. Highly effective fibrinolysis by a sequential, synergistic combination of mini-dose tPA plus low dose proUK (2015) PLOS One 10: 1-15.
4. Rijken DC, Hoylaerts M and Collen D. Fibrinolytic properties of one-chain and two-chain (human) tissue type plasminogen activator (1982) J Biol Chem 257: 2920-2925.
5. Gurewich V, Johnstone M, Loza JP and Pannell R. Prourokinase and prekallikrein are both associated with platelets. Implications for the intrinsic pathway of fibrinolysis and for therapeutic thrombolysis (1993) FEBS Lett 318: 317-321. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0014-5793(93)80537-5
6. Zarich SW, Kowalchuk GJ, Weaver WD, Loscalzo J, Sassower M, et al. Sequential combination of thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction: results of the Pro-Urokinase and tPA enhancement of thrombolysis (PATENT trial) (1995) J Am Coll Cardiol 26: 374-379. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0735-1097(95)80009-6
7. GUSTO Angiographic investigators. The effects of tissue plasminogen activator, streptokinase or both on coronary patency and survival after acute myocardial infarction (1993) New Eng J Med 329: 1615-1622.
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import unittest
from cm_api.endpoints.clusters import *
from cm_api.endpoints.types import *
from cm_api_tests import utils

class TestCluster(unittest.TestCase):

  def test_add_hosts(self):
    resource = utils.MockResource(self)
    cluster = ApiCluster(resource, name="foo")

    data = ApiList([ ApiHostRef(resource, hostId='foo') ])

    resource.expect("POST", "/clusters/foo/hosts",
        data=data,
        retdata={ 'items' : [ { 'hostId' : 'foo' } ] })
    cluster.add_hosts(['foo'])

  def test_update_cdh_version(self):
    resource = utils.MockResource(self)
    cluster = ApiCluster(resource, name="foo")

    data = ApiCluster(resource, name='foo', fullVersion='4.2.1')

    resource.expect("PUT", "/clusters/foo",
        data=data,
        retdata={ 'name' : 'foo'})
    cluster.update_cdh_version('4.2.1')

  def test_upgrade_cdh(self):
    resource = utils.MockResource(self)
    cluster = ApiCluster(resource, name="foo")

    data = dict()
    data['deployClientConfig'] = False
    data['startAllServices'] = True
    data['cdhParcelVersion'] = '5.0.0.1-cdh5-1.2.3'

    resource.expect("POST", "/clusters/foo/commands/upgradeCdh",
        data=data,
        retdata={ 'name' : 'foo'})
    cluster.upgrade_cdh(False, True, data['cdhParcelVersion'])

  def test_restart(self):
    resource = utils.MockResource(self, version=5)
    cluster = ApiCluster(resource, name="foo")
    resource.expect(
      method="POST",
      reqpath="/clusters/foo/commands/restart",
      data=None,
      retdata={'name' : 'foo'})
    cluster.restart();

    resource = utils.MockResource(self, version=7)
    newCluster = ApiCluster(resource, name="bar")
    data = dict()
    data['restartOnlyStaleServices'] = False
    data['redeployClientConfiguration'] = True
    resource.expect(
      method="POST",
      reqpath="/clusters/bar/commands/restart",
      data=data,
      retdata={'name' : 'bar'})
    newCluster.restart(False, True);

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Good news for our local medical center! U.S. News and World Reports listed Elmhurst Memorial Hospital as one of the best in Illinois in its 2016 rankings report.
Elmhurst came in at #11 in Illinois and #10 in the Chicago area.
The survey used data from nearly 5,000 centers across the country. Scores were based on patient outcome and care-related factors, such as patient safety and nurse staffing.
Elmhurst Hospital received the highest possible rating in seven out of the nine procedures and conditions evaluated, including abdominal aortic aneurysm repair, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, colon cancer surgery, heart bypass surgery, heart failure, hip replacement, and knee replacement.
It also received highest scores in four of the 16 medical specialties evaluated: gastroenterology and GI surgery, orthopedics, pulmonology, and urology.
The top three hospitals in Illinois include Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Rush University Medical Center, and the University of Chicago Medical Center, all in Chicago. Elmhurst Memorial came in at #11 and sister hospital Edward Hospital came in at #14.
The Mayo Clinic in Minnesota was ranked #1 in the country.
Elmhurst Hospital has 259 beds, and had 14,105 admissions, 3,370 inpatient surgeries, and 5,456 outpatient surgeries last year as well as 48,045 emergency room visits.
With its nationally acclaimed staff and state-of-the-art facilities, Elmhurst Memorial Hospital is another reason why people choose to live in our community. To find out more, call us at (630) 441-5570 or visit us at ww.gmregroup.com.