1986 was one of the most difficult bosses from the headquarters of Mercedes. For the first time in the history of the powerful and prestigious corporation, to the factory held a protest demonstration. Not by workers seeking wage increases and of angry taxi drivers protesting against the numerous defects in the latest model of Mercedes – average "E" Class with factory designation W-124.
Most loyal customers and many of the company reached an extreme. They wanted to stop the production of new and back on the conveyor to move the old model. Defects were most blocked with automatic transmissions, cylinder heads curves flowing detachable roofs, problems with the electrical system, rattling seats, squeaky dashboard. A blessing in disguise.
Perhaps it was the anger of the company led consumers to throw tens of millions of marks to eliminate all the problems in a very short time. To make this particular model in the highest quality and best buy car produced by Mercedes of all time, at least so far.
Diversity of the engines can satisfy even the most demanding customer. From diesel to 72 horsepower V-shaped eight-cylinder engine with powerful 326 hp is any power of various swept volume of the engine. Bestsellers is a little low for diesel fuel, although very heavy body. A good purchase is a five-cylinder engine, which since 1989 has a 94 horse power. In combination with the turbo machine is a genuine alternative to petrol engines, spend at least 5 liters less fuel, with excellent dynamic qualities.
Most diesels in the appropriate maintenance support to 500,000 km without major repairs. If you buy a diesel sedan with great mileage, pay attention to some typical weaknesses. During hard acceleration the exhaust should not go dark blue smoke. This means a defect in the fuel pump and ensure light-budget by at least one thousand German marks. Raise the hood and if detect the characteristic odor of oil is certain that injection nozzles or piping leak fuel. When the engine reaches normal operating temperature at the particular noise coming from the area of the cylinder head – it occurs when a defect in the hydraulic valve lifters.
Gasoline engines, diesels are also extremely reliable and durable. Traveled over 300,000 km without any problems. As always, however, buying a used car does not mean reliance on brand image. These defects early in the 1985-86 year long been removed, but still look for a newer model. 230 is the most typical problem is a worn camshaft – is known in irregular engine operation. If the expansion tank for the coolant notice greasy residue, surely burnt the head gasket.
Deserves scrutiny and rear muffler of the exhaust system, which often corrode. Another weak spot is unmarked windscreen wipers – the mechanism is too sensitive and damaged pretensioners rear door. If the front axle even catch the patter is certainly flawed camp hydraulic engine suspension. After mileage of 200,000 kilometers are replacement Rubber bushings at the rear. Star defect known from older Mercedes models, the relationship between the gimbal and the differential.
The average Mercedes coupe is broad and comfortable boot – enough for a large family. Because refined materials too difficult to guess how many miles has passed the appropriate drive. Which means once again caution when buying second-hand. The suspension is solid, unpretentious dry time, but due to rear-wheel drive requires a skilled hand in wet and slippery conditions. A best set of new winter tires.
Mercedes is synonymous with quality, made in Germany. Buying a second hand Mercedes and maintain expensive. But glad to have it is unique ..
Among fans of conspiracy theories can often hear the opinion that automakers simply have no interest in creating "timeless" cars. So who would buy their new models if the old is not amortized, no TPO-Shalit and doing their jobs? In support of this opinion can bring thousands evidence forming fleets worldwide. However, there are several facts that seriously sting antikonspiratorite opinion. One of the most striking examples of a car that crashes that theory has short factory index W124. Displayed for the first time in the fall of 1984 and output ratio remains almost 12 years.
In this period managed to become the best-selling Mercedes-Benz of all time and one of the finest vehicles ever constructed. Nearly two decades after its appearance on the market W124 continues to search the market for used cars far more sustainable than many other far more advanced models, and prices are only marginally affected by the age of the car. The reasons are simple – upon completion of the necessary care so Mercedes-Benz has the resources to come together in one million kilometers, while preserving all their merits.
At the dawn of his career, however vertiginous W124 prospects for success have never been so glamorous. Thousands of minor and more serious problems hit the image of the Stuttgart concern. Mercedes-Benz had to deal with a number of structural weaknesses of its new sedan defects whose removal costs billions and even the protests of the taxi drivers in front of the giant. The result of the efforts of German engineers, however, became the benchmark for mid-size car, as some of the other major manufacturers and have achieved goals after 19 years.
(Cx = 0.29) and an absolute classic design that has won sympathy. The exquisite workmanship excludes defects caused by age, but, as with any car, disadvantages though not lacking – especially in the oldest specimens. Since the start of production in October 1986 Mercedes-Benz constantly improving design and manufacturing technology, but leaks from the sunroof occur even in cars in 1988 Upon purchase of diesel modification you should pay special attention varnish to avoid "chosen" who previously worked as a taxi. Mercedes-Benz W124 offers almost perfect corrosion protection and all traces of rust should be considered highly suspicious because of the possibility that the vehicle was hit. The only weak spot is open to the jack where corrosion occurs relatively frequently.
Like everything else on this model, it features an amazing build quality and materials used. Over time, however, may occur parasitic noises from inside the front doors and creaking of seats. Cheaper versions boast a particularly nice touch trim, but at the expense of its strength is impressive. The steering wheel is not adjustable and has a slightly larger diameter than usual – a slight defect, which is offset by the magnificent hydraulics.
mounted on a Mercedes-Benz W124 is a topic that itself can take several pages. The model is equipped with a huge choice of power units with a power range of diesel modest 75 horses to 326 stallion of the V-shaped 8-cylinder Monster 500 E. The total amount of modifications is 19 and their description is given in the table here. In literate service and timely service resource for each of these power units constitute not less than 500-600 thousand km. Traditionally, their distribution mechanism is driven by a chain, which serves mostly true throughout the life of the engine. Be confused with the choice of modification is virtually excluded – each motor has its own characteristics and advantages. Experts and owners are still the most flattering to the six-cylinder petrol engines and 2.5-liter turbodiesel with 113 hp Their only drawbacks are leaking due to fatigue trimmings – once replaced – rarely call otnovo.Mercedes-Benz W124 is equipped with four-and five-speed manual and automatic transmission boxes.
The first surprise defects extremely rare and are virtually maintenance free. Is not the case with guns – especially five-speed. Often spinning wheel can knock out the fifth gear. In addition to normal working machines need to change the oil and filter every 60 thousand km and 170 thousand since then have replaced the friction lining and sealing gaskets. Articulation, hang back and camp gear have enough resources, but every 80 thousand km must check the condition of the elastic gimbal joints.
inherited from W201. Even more impressive are the characteristics of adjustable pneumatic dampers T station wagon, which allows preservation of clearance in the limits regardless of load. Incidentally, the price of the universe are much higher than the sedan, which is easily explained by their qualities. When buying a wagon, however you should check that is basically the rear axle, which repairs out salty.
In the professional vocabulary Mercedes-Benz W124 is used as a synonym for "eternal" car. While not perfect (see schedule of defects above), most failures occur very rarely, once removed thousands of kilometers ahead without any repairs. The only really serious flaw in the German limousine prices are high using specimens and expensive maintenance. Any pleasure, however, pay, and Mercedes W124 is definitely one.
I want to ask ,what type of petrol can the 1989 w124 300e use? such as could this model use the number 95 or 98 petrol?


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by Daniel G. Reinhold
There was a man who had a broken heart. It was so broken that it had shattered into hundreds of small pieces. It was much like smashing a head of iceberg lettuce that had been dipped in liquid nitrogen. Except that the pieces of his broken heart lodged themselves into his belly. His belly was very big because he drank lots of beer. He drank lots of beer because he had a broken heart. He read an ad in the Village Voice, he lived in Manhattan, that touted a doctor in Guadalajara, Mexico who claimed he could replace broken hearts with piñatas. First, the man had to have the pieces of his broken heart removed. It took seven women seven hours to extract the pieces of the man's broken heart. The women used steel tweezers and a Hoover vacuum cleaner. The doctor, who also sold handwoven baskets to tourists, replaced the man's heart with a very colorful piñata. The piñata was painted with the most electric reds, yellows, and blues. The piñata looked like a parrot. The man believed that the piñata that replaced his broken heart was a gift from God. He knew it was very fragile. But he was comforted by the single fact that if anyone ever broke his heart again it would explode with trinkets, baubles, candies. He was comforted by this single fact that his heart would break in the most wonderful of wonderful ways.
This poem was originally published in The New Orleans Review.
Daniel G. Reinhold was Lunch Ticket's inaugural poetry editor and the MFA and post-MFA graduate of Antioch University Los Angeles. His poetry was published in The Painted Bride Quarterly, Samizdat, Axe Factory Review, and H_NGM_N, and his teaching was featured on New Orleans public radio. The recipient of a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship, Daniel also lived in Ithaca and New Orleans, and worked as an acrylic and encaustic painter. He died unexpectedly in the early hours of Tuesday, April 21, 2015. Daniel liked to say he was obsessed with "rhinos, Gatorade, and the promise of rain."
October 16, 2017 Janie Cannarella

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Most people are unaware that aggregate extraction is a temporary operation. Each site has a fixed lifespan; part of the planning when a site is open and operating deals with the eventual closing and re-establishment of the site to it's natural state, or to a different planned end use. Remediation, Reclamation, Restoration, Rehabilitation are necessary steps in the mining cycle.
In the Greater Vancouver Lower Mainland and Greater Victoria areas there have been some significant projects that have been undertaken over the years. Many people will recognize the names of the places but it is less likely that they know what the origins of these areas are.
Butchart Gardens
Butchart Gardens, just outside of Victoria in Brentwood Bay, B.C. is a world renowned garden showcase that started life as a rich limestone quarry. When the quarry was exhausted the Butchart's began the process of reclaiming the pit by creating the Sunken Garden. In the ensuing years more of the site was transformed, section by section, carried on by family members to this day. In 2005 Butchart Gardens was designated a a National Historic Site by the Government of Canada. For a complete history visit www.butchartgardens.com.
Lafarge Lake
Lafarge Lake in Coquitlam B.C. is a man-made lake; originally the Lafarge sand and gravel quarry and processing plant. The land was donated to the city by the Lafarge company in the mid 1980's and has been developed into a top notch sports, arts and entertainment area know as Towne Centre Park. In addition, the 5 hectare lake is a stocked trout lake providing urban anglers the opportunity to fish without having to go far. For more information please go to www.coquitlam.ca.
Vancouver is home to a real jewel that is not only a multi purpose site but also one of only a handful of reclaimed quarry sites to be visited by royalty. Queen Elizabeth Park sits at one of the highest points in Vancouver and after the quarry was decommissioned, was developed as a water reservoir for the City of Vancouver. The Parks Board acquired the property in 1929 and with the suggestion from the BC Tulip Association, transformed the pit areas over a period of 10 years into sunken gardens. By the early 1960's a park plan was put into place that developed the rest of the quarry garden areas and laid the foundation for the recreational facilities and attractions. The 52 hectare site is the home to two of the Vancouver water reservoirs, the Bloedel Floral Conservatory, tennis courts, pitch and putt, lawn bowling, rose gardens, and ornamental gardens. The site also boasts a full service restaurant and the Dancing Waters fountain. More information on Queen Elizabeth Park can be found at www.vancouver.ca.
Aldergrove Lake Regional Park
In the Fraser Valley, between Langley and Abbotsford at 8th Ave. and 272nd St., is Aldergrove Lake Regional Park. The park is part of the Metro Vancouver Regional District and is a very popular destination for people of all ages due to it's accessibility, hiking and horseback trails and the mixture of
meadow and forest. A portion of the park was once the site of a sand and gravel pit operation that has now been reclaimed and restored. For more information please visit http://www.metrovancouver.org/services/parks/parks-greenways-reserves/aldergrove-regional-park.
Rotary Stadium, Abbotsford
Rotary Stadium in Abbotsford, located in Abbotsford Exhibition Park, has utilized a large area pit excavation to create a full service 4000 seat stadium facility that includes a natural surface playing field, track, covered stadium and support facilities for teams and administration. The stadium and track have been built up against a former pit wall, giving it a low profile from Discovery Trail road. The area around the stadium is at the same level and has been developed to include soccer fields, baseball diamonds, a baseball stadium, children's play areas, buildings for club and community use and ample parking for all the facilities.


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Health Secretary Matt Hancock announces details of coronavirus contact tracing app pilot
Monday 4 May 5:44pm
Health Secretary Matt Hancock has announced details of a coronavirus contact tracing app pilot that will begin on the Isle of Wight from Tuesday 5 May.
Leading the government's daily briefing, Mr Hancock explained that the app will be available to the Island's 80,000 households. The residents will all receive a letter with comprehensive details about the trial and instructions about how to use the app to document Covid-19 symptoms if they appear.
"From tonight the contact tracing capability will go live and from tomorrow NHS staff on the island will be able to download the app," he said.
The aim of the new test, track and trace programme is to continue to keep the rate of infection below one.
Mr Hancock said: "Test, track and trace becomes more effective the lower the number and then we want to keep the number going down by keeping the R below one, the rate of infection."
"Our goal is not simply to flatten the curve, it is to get the occurrence of Covid-19 infections to very low levels," he added.
The Health Secretary said that the scheme will allow the government to take a "more targeted approach to lockdown while safely containing the disease."
"Creating this system is a huge national undertaking of unprecedented scale and complexity," Mr Hancock added.
The announcement comes after Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed that the UK is "passing through the peak" of the pandemic.
However, Mr Hancock insisted that the social distancing measures still remain in place and won't be eased until the five tests are met.
"This trial does not mean the end of social distancing on the Isle of Wight or anywhere else for that matter," he warned.


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#include <iostream>
#include <cmath>
#include <ctype.h> // for isdigit
#include "console.h"
#include "gwindow.h" // for GWindow
#include "simpio.h"  // for getLine
#include "string.h" // for stringSplit
#include "vector.h"
using namespace std;

// Quadratic Equation Solver

struct Roots {
    double root1;
    double root2;
};

// Function prototypes
Roots quadratic(double a, double b, double c);
void parseRoots(string eq, double &a, double &b, double &c);
double dirtyStringToDouble(string dirtyStr);

int main() {
    string equation;
    while (true) {
        equation = getLine("Please enter an equation in the form Axx + Bx + C: ");
        if (equation == "") {
            break;
        }
        double a,b,c;
        parseRoots(equation,a,b,c);
        Roots roots = quadratic(a,b,c);
        cout << "Solution:" << endl;
        cout << "Root 1:" << roots.root1 << endl;
        cout << "Root 2:" << roots.root2 << endl;
    }
    return 0;
}

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 * storing the results in output parameters root1 and root2.
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Roots quadratic(double a, double b, double c) {
    Roots roots;
    double d = sqrt(b * b - 4 * a * c);
    roots.root1 = (-b + d) / (2 * a);
    roots.root2 = (-b - d) / (2 * a);
    return roots;
}

void parseRoots(string eq, double &a, double &b, double &c) {
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"Advances which relate to food and nutrition give us translational opportunities to develop product and services that can either optimize the microbiome or optimize overall health."
Potential impacts of the biome on overall health and disease prevention.
History and function of microbiota in human health.
Advances in research suggest a link to metabolism and make a case for a personalized approach.
The ability of the microbiota to influence brain and behavior.
The fundamental characteristics and three main roles of microorganisms.
How to reverse dysbiosis and the role of probiotics, postbiotics and prebiotics.
The potential for botanicals to replenish a microbial community back to a healthy state.
Clinical studies of fraxinus angustifolia and it's potential to reduce metabolic disorders.
What variation of bacteria do we need to maintain a healthy microbiome?
What companies should look for when partnering with a next-generation sequencing company.
Identifying the root cause of dysbiosis.
Find out the best approach for selecting the right probiotic.
This session—Demystifying Microbiome Research, New Opportunities for Health & Business—was recorded at Natural Products Expo West 2017. Click "download" below to access the presentation slides.


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Medicare Appeals Backlog: A Setback and New Opportunities for Providers
September 26, 2017 | Nicholas Francis Alarif
Sanità Conformità Regolamentare nel Sistema Sanitario Ospedali, Servizi Sanitari e
Centri Medici Scienze della vita America
As of June 2017, the Office of Medicare, Hearing and Appeals (OMHA) had 607,402 appeals pending with a current estimated wait time of three years for an Administrative Law Judge to process a provider's appeal. At this rate, the backlog is predicted to reach 950,520 appeals by the end of the 2021 fiscal year. Though recent developments in the DC Circuit offered little hope of relief, OMHA's implementation of alternative programs may present dynamic, strategic opportunities for providers.
The massive backlog of appeals pending before the Office of Medicare, Hearing and Appeals (OMHA) continues to vex providers. As of June 2017, there was a back log of 607,402 pending appeals, and providers face a current estimated wait time of three years for an appeal to be processed by an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ). The appeal backlog is predicted to reach 950,520 by the end of 2021's fiscal year. Recent developments in a key case in the DC Circuit offered little hope of relief. However, new alternative programs being implemented by OMHA may present new strategic opportunities for providers.
Recent Development from the DC Circuit
Health care providers hoping that the DC Circuit Court of Appeals (DC Circuit) would affirm a District Court mandate for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to clear the Medicare appeals backlog, were left sorely disappointed last month. On August 11, 2017, the DC Circuit ruled in American Hospital Association, et al v. Thomas Price, No. 1:14-cv-00851, in a 2-1 opinion, that the District Court had failed to weigh the Secretary's assertion that compliance with the District Court's mandated deadlines to clear the backlog, would be impossible. Thus, in this latest iteration, the DC Circuit has again remanded the case to the District Court for further reconsideration to weigh HHS's claim that clearing the backlog as directed by the District Court would require the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services to violate the Medicare statute by paying meritless claims.
The initial suit, filed in 2014 by the American Health Association and several providers, sought a mandamus order to compel the Secretary to clear the Medicare Appeals backlog at OMHA. OMHA is the 3rd level of Medicare Appeals where appellants receive a de novo hearing from an ALJ. The mandamus order would also compel OMHA ALJs to comply with the ninety-day (90) statutory deadline to issue a decision, dismissal order or remand. On first pass, the District Court granted the Secretary's motion to dismiss, citing budgetary constraints faced by HHS and the fact that HHS was actively proposing solutions to resolve the issues. The DC Circuit thereafter reversed the District Court's dismissal, finding that the providers had met threshold requirements for mandamus jurisdiction and instructed the District Court to examine the equitable merits of the mandamus request. On remand, the District Court found that the current measures proposed by the Secretary were unlikely to resolve substantive issues with the appeals process and concluded the equities of the parties weighed in favor of the providers. The court ordered that the Secretary set a timetable for clearing the backlog. The Secretary appealed arguing, among other things, that meeting the court-ordered targets would be impossible absent settling claims en masse without regard to the individual merit of the claims, which would conflict with the Medicare Statute. The Secretary also argued that establishing a timetable would incentivize providers to appeal claims, regardless of their merit, because providers would wager that the Secretary would be forced to pay the claims under a court-imposed timetable.
DC Circuit Finding
The DC Circuit concluded that the District Court erred by not taking into account the Secretary's position that it would be impossible to both meet the mandamus order without violating the Medicare Statute by paying meritless claims. The DC Circuit also criticized the District Court's failure to consider the Secretary's contention that a court-ordered timetable would increase, not decrease, the number of backlogged appeals because providers would begin appealing an even larger number of claims. The DC Circuit indicated that "[i]t is not appropriate for a court—contemplating the equities—to order a party to jump higher, run faster, or lift more than she is physically capable." Moreover, "equity courts, like any other, may not order parties to break the law." The DC Circuit again remanded the case back to the District Court to review the Secretary's claim that lawful compliance with the timetable would be impossible.
This decision marks the latest move in the DC Circuit's game of ping pong with the District Court.
Backlog History and Causes
The number of appeals filed at OMHA dramatically ballooned after 2011, due at least in part to the aging of the baby boomers, which has led to a significant increase in Medicare beneficiaries. In very simple terms, more beneficiaries means more claims, and also more appeals. Indeed, a Pew Research Article indicated that on January 1, 2011, the oldest baby boomers would be turning 65 and that every day for the next 19 years, 10,000 more baby boomers would cross that threshold. Perhaps even more significant has been the implementation and expansion of the Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) program. The RAC program allows contractors who are paid on a contingency basis to examine Medicare claims to identify potential overpayments for recoupment. The RAC program began as a demonstration project in 2005 and expanded nationwide in January 2010. As a result of the RAC program, the number of claims that have been challenged has increased significantly. Unsurprisingly, the number of appeals filed at OMHA has also increased dramatically following the expansion of the RAC program. In 2011, OMHA saw 59,600 Medicare appeals. By 2013, this number had increased to more than 384,000.
As time has passed, government appropriations to OMHA have not increased to reflect the unprecedented number of appeal increases, leaving OMHA significantly understaffed. Providers are thus left in a precarious position when faced with a Medicare claims denial or notification of overpayment (especially if the appellant is not in a financial position to wait for potentially more than three years for an ALJ hearing). A provider has always had the option of "escalating" their appeal to the Medicare Appeals Council (MAC). However, doing so forfeits an appellant's right to a hearing in front of an independent ALJ (or a hearing at all for that matter). Thus, providers have had few options but to wait years if they want an independent hearing in front of an ALJ.
New Programs from OMHA
Although limited fiscal resources have constrained OMHA, it has initiated new programs that may alleviate the wait time for providers with appeals meeting certain criteria. These include OMHA's Statistical Sampling Initiative, Settlement Conference Facilitation and the Attorney Adjudicator Initiative.
Statistical Sampling Initiative
The Statistical Sampling Initiative enables providers to expedite large numbers of appeals for similarly categorized claims by consenting to a statistical sampling approach. Under this initiative, a provider gives OMHA permission to examine a specified universe of claims that are currently in the backlog at OMHA and allows OMHA to take a statistically significant sample of these claims to adjudicate. The provider receives a hearing regarding each of the claims in the sample created by OMHA, and the findings for these claims are then extrapolated and applied across the entire universe of the provider's claims waiting at OMHA. Thus, by way of example, if a sample of 10 appeals were established for a universe of 1000 claims, the ALJ would hold a hearing to examine the individual administrative record for each of the 10 sample claims. The provider is able to proffer evidence and make Medicare reimbursement arguments for each of the sampled claims just as they would in a normal ALJ hearing. The ALJ's findings—i.e., the rate of favorable/unfavorable—is then applied across the universe of claims. In this example, if the ALJ were to find that 9 out of 10 sample claims were favorable, OMHA would then apply this rate to the entire universe of claims, meaning 900 claims of the 1000 claims in the universe would be deemed favorable. For appeals involving a larger universe of claims, a panel of two to four additional ALJs may be assigned to a case to adjudicate roughly equal portions of the claims sample. The providers overall payment by HHS would reflect the favorable vs. unfavorable ratio of the sample.
To qualify for the Statistical Sampling Initiative, a provider must meet several criteria, including: (1) the appellant must be a single Medicare provider or supplier; (2) there must be a minimum of 250 claims (not appeals) at issue; and (3) all claims must be pre-payment claim denials, post-payment non-RAC claim denials, or post-payment RAC claim denials from one RAC. Additional details regarding the requirements to participate in the Statistical Sampling Initiative are available on HHS's site.
The Statistical Sampling Initiative may present potential advantages to some providers as opposed to the traditional Medicare appeals process. First and foremost, it has the potential to expedite the time frame for resolving a large number of pending appeals cumulatively. Second, it allows an appellant to focus their advocacy on presenting compelling and thorough Medicare reimbursement arguments on the select sample claims. This is in contrast to the normal appeals protocol where a provider must argue each appeal individually. Thus, the statistical sampling approach may reduce litigation costs for the provider.
Settlement Conference Facilitation
The Settlement Conference Facilitation program is a pilot program administered by OMHA whereby OMHA acts as a facilitator between the provider and a CMS representative. An OMHA "settlement conference facilitator" will work with both parties to discuss a potentially mutually agreeable resolution for claims appealed to OMHA. If both the provider and the CMS official can reach an agreement on the amount of payment for the claims at issue, a settlement document is drafted by the settlement conference facilitator. The settlement conference is available to providers appealing specific types of Medicare Part A and B claims. There are other limitations on claims eligible for the Settlement Conference Facilitation, which HHS outlines.
The Settlement Conference Facilitation program offers providers an opportunity to potentially expedite a large number of outstanding claims by settling multiple large dollar claims through dispute resolution, rather than through the normal course of Medicare appeals. Thus, if a provider opts for Settlement Conference Facilitation, in theory, the claims will not be subject to the extraordinary delays usually associated with the traditional Medicare appeals process. However, unlike the Statistical Sampling Initiative, the claims will not receive review from an ALJ and will not receive an individualized hearing; rather, OMHA acts as a facilitator between the provider and CMS in what amounts to a settlement negotiation.
Senior Attorney Advisors and On-the-Record Decisions
Providers seeking to decrease wait times at OMHA may also wish to consider requesting an "on-the-record" decision. The option to request an on-the-record decision is not new. However, OMHA has recently empowered lawyers in the office to issue decisions for appeals that do not require a hearing. Thus, if an appellant wishes to have an individualized determination of their appeal, whilst expanding the available pool of adjudicators, requesting an on-the-record decision may be an option.
An important consideration when requesting an on-the-record decision is that such a request will deprive a provider of a full hearing. Further, providers will have to wait for all of their appeals to be adjudicated individually rather than all outstanding claims being decided concurrently. However, a provider will have the same appeal rights as if they had requested a traditional ALJ hearing request.
As the DC Circuit continues to determine whether or not HHS must commit to a timeline to clear the backlog of Medicare appeals, providers continue to face uncertainty regarding Medicare claims appeals. New programs from OMHA may offer some relief, and providers should carefully weigh their strategic options based on the nature of the claims and the associated disputes, the financial implications of waiting years for resolution, and whether the claims at issue are pre-payment denials, overpayments or a combination. Ultimately, the optimal strategy for a particular provider requires an individualized approach tailored to their specific circumstances.


What is the GOLO Diet and What Will it Do for Your Skin?
The GOLO diet was one of the top ten googled diets in 2016. According to the makers of GOLO, "on GOLO you will stay in the insulin optimization zone allowing you to burn fat while maintaining energy." Developed by a New York psychiatrist named Keith Ablow, MD, GOLO targets overproduction of insulin, a hormone produced by the pancreas, that causes weight gain and slows metabolic function. Through this diet, people are able to effectively regulate insulin levels, allowing the body to burn fat and lose weight.
How Does the GOLO Diet Help You Lose Weight?
Insulin resistance occurs in people who are obese and in people with prediabetes and diabetes mellitus type 2.
When we eat carbohydrates, they are broken down into glucose (aka – sugar) which enters the bloodstream. The pancreas (located behind the stomach) responds by secreting insulin.
Insulin's job is to help cells throughout our body absorb the glucose and use it for energy. It also helps the liver and muscles store the glucose as energy for later, called glycogen.
With insulin resistance, cells are unable to properly absorb glucose so more and more insulin is pumped from the pancreas. Over time, blood sugar rises and can lead to prediabetes, diabetes type 2, and many other health problems.
The causes of insulin resistance are thought to be: excess weight (especially around the belly) and physical inactivity.
The producers of the GOLO diet claim that "healthy and optimized insulin levels are very important in helping the body release stored fat." Therefore, by following an insulin resistance diet, you can lose weight and potentially normalize your insulin levels.
According to the GOLO website, a 2010 controlled open clinical study followed 35 obese people on the GOLO diet for 12 months, and at 26 weeks the average weight loss was almost 31 pounds. No further results were disclosed, including evidence or statistics.
What Do I Eat on the GOLO Diet?
Limit Calorie Intake. In a study of obese patients with type 2 diabetes, two months of caloric restriction (400-800 calories per day restricted) resulted in significant improvement in insulin secretion and insulin sensitivity.
Avoid Refined Carbohydrates. High carbohydrate diets are associated with increased insulin resistance in animals and humans, especially diets high in sucrose and fructose sugars. Guidelines published in a diabetes medical journal recommend to carefully monitor carbohydrate intake and to limit carbohydrates to only those from fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and legumes.
Eliminate Sweetened Beverages. A clinical study showed that people who drank fructose-sweetened beverages had significantly increased insulin resistance and were 26% more likely to develop diabetes.
Increase Fiber Intake. People who eat over 50 grams of fiber per day have better control of blood sugar and insulin regulation.
Replace Saturated Fats with Omega-3 Fatty Acids. People with insulin resistance should avoid saturated and trans fats and choose unsaturated fats such as tuna, walnuts, and flax seeds.
How Might the GOLO Diet Affect My Skin?
Acanthosis nigricans – dark velvety plaques on the back of the neck, armpits, and groin area, and thought to be highly associated with insulin resistance.
Acne – insulin resistance has been shown to significantly contribute to the occurrence of acne.
Hidradenitis suppurativa – this painful, chronic disease consists of recurring pus-filled bumps, sinus tracts, and scarring. Along with obesity, insulin resistance may contribute to the occurrence of this skin disease.
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Success, in today's complex and globalizing world of business, is usually linked to identifying and capitalizing upon opportunities. This implies orienting toward the future and leaving the past behind. Nowadays, focusing on building "track records" of excellence and adding value almost seems to be at risk of becoming "history," meaning outdated. Instead, entrepreneurship and innovation have become the preferred paths toward "making history," meaning—in some fashion—escaping from it.
Despite these trends, acquiring and applying knowledge of business history remains useful to future business enterprises. For starters, learning about business in the past is still pertinent to the training of future business leaders.
Bethlehem Steel Works in 1881, by Joseph Pennell. In 1904, Charles M. Schwab and Joseph Wharton created the Bethlehem Steel Corp. out of the Bethlehem Steel Co. Photo credit: U.S. Library of Congress.
In varying contexts, yet strikingly similar ways, this is what a budding or midcareer business student learning from a case tries to do, is something that experienced business decision-makers value, and is something a historian, or anyone else, will often do to round up and harness usable insights from the past.
Interestingly, academic leadership in the interdisciplinary field of business history has long resided less in departments of history or economics than in schools of business and management. Three of the most prominent business history journals in the United States (Business History Review, Enterprise & Society and Journal of Management History) are edited by business school professors. The U.K.-based Association of Business Historians is headed by a business school professor, as is the Business History Society of Japan, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. The profession is attempting a major reshaping of research and teaching agendas to better address 21st century business environments, where large, vertically hierarchical corporations no longer enjoy the dominance they widely possessed throughout the late 19th and most of the 20th centuries. Wharton management professor Daniel Raff authored the lead article How to Do Things with Time, in a recent scholarly forum, seeking to articulate new directions in business history.
Prof. William Gomberg, who worked for over two decades for the International Ladies Garment Workers Union before becoming a professor at the Wharton School. Photo credit: University Archives Digital Image Collection.
When I was a Wharton student in the late 1970s and early 1980s, one of the most popular MBA classes was William Gomberg's seminar in Managerial Philosophy and Social Demands on the Corporation. The course had a strong historical dimension and provided an appealing contrast to finance, marketing and other curriculum staples. Understanding and being responsive to the societal environment are part of a corporate manager's tool kit, and similar material can be found in nooks and crannies of the course offerings of business schools today.
Beyond its long-term contribution in managerial skill-building, however, business history also has tangible relevance to more immediate business activities. Skill at business, like the mastering of history, is more an art than a science, and the historian's craft—locating and interpreting past information—is essential to developing a credible business plan, adhering to a viable marketing strategy, communicating with potential investors, and promulgating a strategic vision for partners, executives and employees.


Each year the Sunday Times produces a table of the top secondary schools in Ireland . They haven't got much information to help them determine the best schools since Leaving Cert results aren't published . So they rank the schools on the percentage of pupils going to University. This may not be a good indicator of the "best" schools – but it's what they use – and here are their top 20 schools for 2013 .. the figure on the end is the percentage entering University.


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Food & Water Watch Applauds Sen. Booker's Groundbreaking Food and Agribusiness Merger Moratorium Bill
Statement by Wenonah Hauter, executive director, Food & Water Watch
WASHINGTON - "Big Ag wields extraordinary power over our food system, which prioritizes industry profits over public health, the environment, and farming communities. That's why we are excited to enthusiastically support groundbreaking new legislation introduced today by Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) to halt the merger mania that has contributed to this dysfunctional system.
"His bill would provide needed relief to farmers, rural communities and eaters across the country. The Food and Agribusiness Merger Moratorium and Antitrust Review Act of 2018 (S. 3404) would create a strategic pause in the wave of mega-mergers that have hyper-consolidated every link in the food chain, from seed to supermarket. This legislation is a crucial step to busting up the Foodopoly in which a handful of players drive food policy in the service of Wall Street, not Main Street.
"An unprecedented wave of mergers in food and agriculture markets has driven down the prices farmers receive, lowered wages for food workers, raised the prices consumers pay at the supermarket, eliminated choices for both farmers and consumers, and fueled the environmental and public health impacts of factory farms and chemical agriculture. Food & Water Watch is proud to endorse Sen. Booker's merger moratorium bill, which revives Senator Paul Wellstone's vision for a fairer food and agriculture landscape, and we urge other Senators to co-sponsor this legislation."
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Reading Eagle: Harold Hoch | The Pennsylvania House Judiciary Committee discusses overdose deaths at the ADAPPT halfway house in Reading.
Reading Eagle: Harold Hoch | Representative Todd Stephens questions Department of Corrections officials as members of the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing about state halfway houses and focus on ADAPPT, at the Reading Regional Airport on Thursday, January 25, 2018.
Reading Eagle: Harold Hoch | Representative Dom Costa questions Department of Corrections officials as members of the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing about state halfway houses and focus on ADAPPT, at the Reading Regional Airport on Thursday, January 25, 2018.
Reading Eagle: Harold Hoch | Representative Jim Cox questions Department of Corrections officials as members of the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing about state halfway houses and focus on ADAPPT, at the Reading Regional Airport on Thursday, January 25, 2018.
Reading Eagle: Harold Hoch | Judith Wert of Ontelaunee Township, whose daughter died of an overdose at ADAPPT, pages through her files before addressing members of the House Judiciary Committee at a hearing about state halfway houses and focus on ADAPPT, at the Reading Regional Airport on Thursday, January 25, 2018.
Reading Eagle: Harold Hoch | Representatives Barry Jozwiak, Jerry Knowles and Jim Cox question Department of Corrections officials as members of the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing about state halfway houses and focus on ADAPPT, at the Reading Regional Airport on Thursday, January 25, 2018.
Reading Eagle: Harold Hoch | Representative Barry Jozwiak questions Department of Corrections officials as members of the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing about state halfway houses and focus on ADAPPT, at the Reading Regional Airport on Thursday, January 25, 2018.
Reading Eagle: Harold Hoch | Members of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, at table from left, Christian Stephens, George Little and Daniel McIntyre respond to members of the House Judiciary Committee at a hearing about state halfway houses and focus on ADAPPT, at the Reading Regional Airport on Thursday, January 25, 2018.
Reading Eagle: Harold Hoch | Representatives Thomas Caltagirone, left, and Mark Gillen address members of the House Judiciary Committee at a hearing about state halfway houses and focus on ADAPPT, at the Reading Regional Airport on Thursday, January 25, 2018.
Reading Eagle: Harold Hoch | Representative Mark Gillen, second from left, addresses members of the House Judiciary Committee at a hearing about state halfway houses and focus on ADAPPT, at the Reading Regional Airport on Thursday, January 25, 2018.
Legislative leaders scheduled the hearing after a series of stories in the Reading Eagle publicized a string of eight deaths among ADAPPT residents.
The illicit drug K2 was being smoked everywhere, mice were common, and residents were shooting up other drugs and overdosing and dying.
Those were impressions of ADAPPT, a state-funded halfway house in Reading, shared by people who testified on Thursday at a Pennsylvania House Judiciary Committee hearing held at Reading Regional Airport.
Legislative leaders scheduled the hearing after a series of stories in the Reading Eagle publicized a string of eight deaths among ADAPPT residents between May 30, 2016 and Sept. 25, 2017.
Judith Wert of Ontelaunee Township described how her daughter, 33-year-old Lindsay Hiester, witnessed two overdose deaths at ADAPPT last year, when Hiester lived in the aging buildings along Walnut Street.
Stacey Jordan of Lancaster County said her son, Brandon, spent 30 days at ADAPPT in late 2015. She said his progress in removing drugs from his life stopped, he contracted a MRSA infection and suffered from living in what she described as a dilapidated building with bad food.
"The residents were treated like caged animals," she said.
Her son later died of an overdose at Wernersville Community Corrections Center, the other state-funded halfway house in Berks County.
It, too, was a major focus at the hearing.
Sean McKee, South Heidelberg township manager, told of a constant flow of complaints from neighbors of the Wernersville center concerning crime, drug use and harassment of residents by offenders living at the center.
The Wernersville center is operated directly by the Department of Corrections, which has responsibility for all 55 halfway houses around the state. Forty-three are run by private contractors.
ADAPPT is run by GEO Group, a Florida-based for-profit company. Under a contract, the company collected $7.6 million from the state to run ADAPPT during a recent 16-month period.
GEO Group submitted written testimony, but no one from the company attended the hearing.
State Rep. Mark Gillen, a Robeson Township Republican, is not a committee member but made an unscheduled visit to ADAPPT soon after the stories were published. Gillen noted that a plane ticket from Florida, where GEO is based, cost less than $400 and that at least five GEO executives make more than $1 million a year.
Two corrections officials and a Field Office of Probation and Parole leader testified at the start of the hearing, answered questions from lawmakers, then left to attend a funeral in the Hershey area for a slain U.S. marshal. They told of population reductions, procedures changes and physical improvements that have taken place at the two halfway houses recently.
One of the three, Daniel McIntyre, head of the state Bureau of Community Corrections, said there were fewer overdoses in halfway houses during the fourth quarter of 2017 than any quarter since 2016.
The three officials departed the hearing before the testimony from parents, ADAPPT residents, police and the Berks coroner's office.
Committee Chairman Rep. Ron Marsico, a Dauphin County Republican, opened the hearing with a statement that the session resulted in part from Reading Eagle stories on "the tragic deaths at the ADDAPT facility" and the many overdoses at Wernersville CCC.
A December story noted that while ADAPPT had the worst record of fatal overdoses in the state, the Wernersville facility had more nonfatal overdoses than any other facility.
State Rep. Jim Cox, a Spring Township Republican whose district includes the Wernersville center, said he had heard time and again from corrections department officials about planned changes to address problems, followed by little action.
"The department has continued to let us down," he said.
Cox said he was crafting legislative language that would strip funding from the state budget for the Wernersville CCC.
"I am going to come, loaded for bear, if these changes do not occur," Cox said.
George Little, chief deputy secretary for community corrections and reentry at the department, said the worsening opioid crisis affected halfway houses in drastic and unpredictable ways, as it had the public at large.
He pointed out that offenders in halfway houses, referred to as "reentrants," are citizens with rights who not only are free to come and go, but are encouraged to go out and get jobs.
The population at Wernersville, he said, has been reduced to about 200 offenders from 350. At the same time, he said, operations have been consolidated in two buildings, rather than three, allowing for better staff-to-offender ratios.
At ADAPPT, he said, GEO Group recently announced plans for a $4 million upgrade of the facility. A lot of the money, he said, will go into security and treatment improvements.
McIntyre said ADAPPT on Thursday had 73 residents. Last year, at times, the population exceeded 200.
New data was submitted at a legislative hearing held at Reading Regional Airport Thursday.


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What Xi Jinping's Longer-term Rule Will Mean for China's Economy
Wharton's Marshall Meyer, Penn's Jacques deLisle and NYU's Ann Lee discuss Xi Jinping's remaining in power beyond 2023.
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With the path now apparently cleared in China for President Xi Jinping to continue in office past 2023 as officials scrap the two-term limit rule, questions about how the change will affect the economy, foreign investment and political power there abound.
While the timing of the move surprised many, the ultimate consolidation of power by Xi in this way was not unexpected, say three experts who discussed the major development on the Knowledge@Wharton show, which airs on SiriusXM channel 111. The guests included Jacques deLisle, a professor of law and political science, and director of the Center for East Asian Studies at Penn; Ann Lee, a professor of economics and finance at New York University; and Marshall W. Meyer, a Wharton emeritus management professor and China expert. (Listen to the complete podcast at the top of this page.)
The experts were divided on what the move could mean for China: Xi's new mandate could allow him to better meet a long-standing Chinese goal of becoming a more socialist society modeled on northern Europe, and it could give Xi more time to see through important longer-term projects like the "One Belt, One Road initiative" – the country's plan for a new Silk Road trade route from China to Europe. Or, it could ultimately be a setback for democratic rule, particularly as it applies to limits on institutions, while enhancing a growing tendency to expand the "surveillance state."
Too Much Power?
Meyer pointed out that historically, China has moved its economy along through decentralization. The motto of Deng Xiaoping — China's transformative ruler from 1978 to 1989 — was to let each province try its own way, and the winners can be copied. According to Meyer, the question is: "Does [more] centralization potentially up-end China's very successful economic growth?"
"Does [more] centralization potentially up-end China's very successful economic growth?" –Marshall Meyer
The strengthening of Xi's power is a cause of concern, deLisle agreed. "One of the things that authoritarian regimes do to avoid some of the pathologies of overconcentration of power is to have the leader think [that they are] going to be out of office in five-to-10 years," he said, adding that is not the case with China. "Obviously, a great deal of power can be used to any number of ends – good, bad and indifferent. What we're seeing right now is mostly a mix of bad and indifferent. But the potential for good is still there, of course."
It helps that Xi has also gradually consolidated power, said deLisle. "[He] clearly is a strong leader for a strong China internationally that sells pretty well at home. It sells better at home when they can portray the U.S. as being in chaos and other Western governments as being in some chaos. It undercuts the argument for political change."
With a longer term, Xi also would be able to more fully pursue his vision for China to become more like a socialist society modeled on northern European countries, which include Denmark, Sweden and Norway, said Lee. "Northern Europe is obviously a western society, and he would like the end goal for China to be like that – a very high income, innovative and socialist government." With the "respect and attention" that Xi has cultivated within the world community, he is seen as the right person to pursue that model, she added. On its part, the Communist Party would not "want to mess around with that formula," she said.
Xi could also use his power "to push forward with bold economic reforms, [but there is] not a whole lot of evidence of much movement in that direction," deLisle said. What is evident, however, is that Xi has led a "very repressive regime in terms of civil liberties-type issues, in terms of dissident views and [other] such things, and there's absolutely no sign" that is going to change, he pointed out. "So whatever the economic outcome, it's not going to look like Northern Europe in terms of its politics."
Unexpected Timing
Meyer said the move to enable Xi to continue in office beyond 2023 was "not a surprise," but he was taken off guard by the timing – he expected it to happen "much later." Another surprise, according to deLisle, is that "there's been very little pushback as one would expect from foreign governments, particularly the U.S. Usually we would say this is a setback for democratic governance, which China doesn't really have," he noted. "But … [it is] disconcerting in an era when authoritarianism seems to be on the rise."
The U.S. and other countries haven't spoken up against Xi's tenure extension for good reason, said Lee. "The U.S. and every other country also have interests in having a stable China," she explained. "They have major investments in China, and so corporate leaders certainly don't want uncertainty from China in an already uncertain world with Trump."
According to Lee, the move is significant in that it reaffirms China's commitment to the One Belt, One Road project in the face of opposition to it from several countries. "They feel it's important to perhaps signal to the world, and even domestically, that Xi's going to be around for a while so that everyone knows that this [initiative] will continue because he is the face of it."
"[Xi could also use his power] to push forward with bold economic reforms, [but there is] not a whole lot of evidence of much movement in that direction." –Jacques deLisle
The move to extend Xi's term is likely be ratified in the Communist Party's plenary sessions coming up in March, or it could be put off for later, considering that he has just begun his second term, said deLisle. In any event, "it's going to happen unless there's a decision to change policy direction," he added.
According to Meyer, Xi himself and his party wanted his term extended. "Here's a person who likes power and breaks norms regularly," he said. He noted that at the same time, Xi is "being pushed from left and from right." The opposition from the "right" includes the faction led by former president and party chairman Jiang Zemin, who appears to have been sidelined by the Xi regime, he explained. The pushback on Xi's policies from the left include those who want to return to what they see as "the good old days" before Deng Xiaoping. "[Xi] followed his own predilections, but I also think that he's being pushed to have to consolidate power."
A Balancing Act
Meyer spotted inconsistencies between Xi's supposed attempts to "westernize the economy" and the baggage China continues to carry of loss-making state-owned enterprises (SOEs), saddling banks with capital shortages. He noted that on the one hand, Xi is taking steps to consolidate his grip on the economy by elevating two senior officials in particular. Liu He, who is credited with leading the effort to draft Xi's economic blueprint, is tipped to be named vice premier in the March party meeting, and to be in charge of China's financial system and its industrial sector, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Also, Wang Qishan, who led Xi's anti-corruption drive, is likely to be named vice president at the March meeting. Those moves stem from worries that foreign investors will pull out from China as interest rates in that country and those in the U.S. begin to converge, said Meyer.
On the other hand, Meyer pointed out state-owned enterprises "are taking up a lot of the credit space in China, and dragging the economy." According to Lee, China's economy could continue to move forward despite the drag of loss-making SOEs. She pointed to the country's internet-era giants such as Alibaba and Tencent, pointing out that they don't rely on credit and are growing with their own equity resources and cash flows. "These new economy companies don't require debt to grow," she added. "China has always kept one foot in the old space while letting companies grow into some new space. That's how they moved in to the industrial revolution, and that's how they're going to move into this new economy innovation society."
A Plateful of Challenges
China has its share of challenges, too, and they don't have easy solutions, deLisle noted. He pointed out that the country's economic growth has slowed to the "new normal" of 6%-7%, adding that analysts are concerned about how sustainable that is. China also has an aging population. "China is trying to deal with that through moving up the value added chain – more brainwork, less brawn work and more automation," he said. "But these are all tough things to do in any circumstance, and they're facing this transition at a rapid pace. They're getting older sooner than most countries at their level of development."
"The last thing they want is to have another Tiananmen Square." –Ann Lee
Other concerns relate to the future of unviable SOEs, and obstacles the country has faced in using its specialties elsewhere, such as building infrastructure in Africa and Central Asia. "Not every country is as effective at absorbing and using infrastructure as China has been, and so there have been problems there," deLisle noted.
Lee agreed that China faces those challenges. It is precisely in such circumstances that it helps to have leadership stability "to navigate these very uncertain waters," she said. "The last thing they want is to have another Tiananmen Square [protest], because that happened when China was experiencing really high inflation – in the double digits." At that time, China was making a transition from an agricultural society into a more modern one with increased exports and so forth, but that was painful, and caused "an enormous amount of unemployment and inflation," Lee noted.
China's leaders probably see the present times as being equally challenging, said Lee. That must be the key driver for them to decide to bring more durability to Xi's leadership and "stick with the formula that seems to be working well for them." Its leaders are looking for "consistency," even if that means slowing economic growth, she added. In any event, a 7% GDP growth on an economy of its size is "a tremendous amount of economic growth," she pointed out.
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On The Right TRAX (OTRT)	Concert/ Festival, Country Music, Entertainment, Interview, Irish, Music	 September 29, 2020 September 30, 2020 9 Minutes
First Published June 2017
A HURRICANE AT HARVEST TIME
Since first appearing on the country music scene in Ireland in the last few years, Mayo based band Hurricane Highway have been gathering new fans as fast as they've been releasing some top quality tunes. And that's pretty fast! The music, however, is just one of the reasons why the band have come so far in such a short time.
Another, and one that's equally as important, is the fact that frontman and lead-singer Ed Holland, and band co-founder Kevin Collins, are two of the nicest guys you'll ever meet. And funny, too. What you see is what you get with both men, and what you'll also get whenever you're in their company is some good laughs. They take their music seriously, but they know life is to be enjoyed. So they make it as enjoyable as they can for themselves and those around them.
Ed and I had been trying to make our diaries match up for some time so we could have a chat about all the exciting things that have been happening for Hurricane Highway. Sadly, though, we were finally able to catch up on the morning after the terrible events at the M.E.N. Arena in Manchester a couple of weeks back, when twenty-two innocent men, women, and children were murdered in cold blood by a callous, and cowardly, act of terrorism. And equally sadly, our chat on that morning is now published here only a few days after yet another despicable terror attack in London.
We began by Ed telling me how he'd become aware of unfolding events in Manchester the night of the atrocity at the M.E.N. Arena….
"Well basically I was havin' a kind of a sleepless night so I logged onto Facebook, and I hadn't heard anything at that stage cos' I'd been watchin' a bit of a film before I went to bed. I hadn't even switched over to the news. So I logged onto Facebook, saw what was happening, and my first thought was just shock, horror straight away. I mean, at a concert, such a cowardly attack, ya know. I jumped up outta bed and I switched on Sky News, that's what I did. It was horrific, such a helpless feeling. Needless to say, myself and Kevin (Collins, from Hurricane Highway), and everyone involved with the band send our condolences and our deepest sympathies to all of those affected and to Manchester."
Moving on to happier matters, and one of the main reasons why we'd scheduled our chat in the first place, the release of Hurricane Highway's fantastic debut album, 'Exposed', in late April. As the days ticked down to the album finally being released, I wondered what was life like for the band as they prepared for their big day?
"Very nervous! [laughs]. And excited, too. Both. So much work went into it, three years of work and seven singles in that time. There was anticipation, nerves, and excitement all at once. And anxiety, too, I'll be honest [laughs]. All of those emotions were involved. And we weren't expecting to hit the number one spot with it, we thought if we charted at all it would be great because there's so much competition out there. So to actually do that, to get to number one, we were delighted. And the way it's been received so far, and the airplay it's been getting, it's actually given life again to all the older singles. It's been great."
What had Ed been most worried about around the album's launch?
"I suppose any artist's biggest worry is that it wouldn't realise the potential you feel it should. Especially when you put so much into something, with no stone left unturned, and that's really the way we kind of tried to deliver each song and our videos, as we were goin' along. Doin' it all to the best of our own abilities anyway. So you'd worry that certain people mightn't like it, that it might get slated. I haven't really thought about it like this before, it's a good question."
So, for fans who may not have managed to get their hands on a copy yet, what can they expect to find on the album? Will all seven singles be there?
"Yeah, all seven singles are on 'Exposed', everything we've done since the very beginning. There's eleven tracks in total on there, so a good few new ones as well. We have the current single, 'Make You Mine', which is track one on the album, and we're hoping to release another single from it in September. We're already workin' on new stuff cos' goin' into next year we'll be back in the studio again workin' on the next album. We'll probably pick a song to be the new single and test the water with it. That system kinda works for us. A lot of other artists maybe record the whole album then pick the best singles out of it, but we kinda do it the other way round [laughs]. But that just seemed to be the way it happened, there wasn't any plan. We recorded 'Your Man' and that took off with all the regional radio stations. Then we were under pressure to get somethin' else out after that, and so on it went. Yeah, so that's kind of how it happened."
The release of Exposed was one huge date in the diary for Hurricane Highway in 2017, and there's another coming up in August when the band will be among an impressive homegrown contingent who will entertain country music fans at Harvest Fest.
"Yeah, Aiken Promotions rang us on a Friday and asked would we be available to go to a press-conference on a Monday, the official launch of the festival, so we said absolutely! On the Saturday they rang us again just to confirm everything and say they were delighted to have us as part of the line-up. And we were obviously pretty delighted with that, too, of course [laughs]. So we're up in Enniskillen on the Saturday, the 26th, and Westport then on the Sunday, the 27th. We have some other good shows comin' up too in the next while. We're in the Roisin Dubh in Galway on the 4th of August, we're in Ballymaloe at their festival on the 1st of July, and a few more cool ones like those, too."
Hurricane Highway, for those of you who may not know, are very much a country-rock band with a distinctly American country influence. And to the best of this writer's knowledge, Hurricane Highway are also the only band of their kind in Ireland. Given that fact, how would Ed describe the journey of trying to establish themselves?
"It's been a building process, for definite. I'll have to say that. You're competing with all the main contenders who are in the charts, and then there's a certain flavor of country too, so you're goin' to be competing with the country stars as well. Ours is more of a cross-over style, though, so there's a small percentage of the market that we're lookin' at in some ways. But look, I suppose it's about carving out a niche for ourselves in that market, really. And that's the way it's been from the start. So we've been building it all song by song. So people are getting to like us through the songs, more so than just because we happen to be the only band of our kind or anything like that, ya know. A lot of people have come up to us and said, 'You're brave for goin' down the route you have', and what they mean by that, I think, is that sometimes you'll see even some of the big country acts comin' in from America, the ones that are kind of doin' what we're doin', and it can be hard for them in Ireland, too."
At this stage, I suggest to Ed that we better bring his Hurricane Highway co-founder Kevin Collins into the conversation, or he won't be too pleased with either of us!
"[Laughs], I suppose we better! Yeah, it was myself and Kevin that started Hurricane Highway. Kevin's wife passed away a couple of years ago and he was goin' through a kind of a hard time. And I was just after breakin' up from a twelve year relationship around the same time. Now I'd known Kevin alright, but not very well. Anyway, he was playin' in a bar in Westport and I went in when he was playin' one night, and he asked me up to sing a song. So up I went, and I sang 'Sweet Sixteen.' Now I only found out a couple of months ago that this was actually his wife's favourite song, which was a bit of a mad coincidence. But we've always felt like there was something kinda guiding us along the way, with all of the positive things that have happened. It's been an amazing journey. So the band helped Kevin in that way, brought him out of that place he was in and gave him a kind of a distraction, I suppose you could call it. We just really bounce well off each other musically. Kevin came to me with 'Your Man' and said, 'Hey, I think we should record this', and that's how the whole journey started. We recorded it, and from that Hurricane Highway was born. So out of bad can come good, ya know."
I wondered if there had been any particular piece of advice that's ever come Ed's way, about either life in general or life in the music business, that has really helped to shape him?
"Oh yeah, jeez, that's a tough one. But yeah, there is, plenty. I suppose one would definitely be to enjoy the journey because you don't know what the destination is gonna be like! And that really applies to so much in life, including what happened yesterday in Manchester, ya know. Because you just don't know what's goin' to happen, you have to really live in the day, I think. There's certain things that everybody has to plan in life, but you can't be livin' in next August or whatever. It has to be for today, for the moment you're in right now. We know the work we have to do for Hurricane Highway, and I know the work I have to do for it myself, but it's still important to enjoy every part of it. And that's more what we're tryin' to do with Hurricane Highway, more so than saying, well we want to reach such a peak, but never knowing if we'll ever get there, ya know. You have to set standards, and you have to set goals, and try to achieve them all even though there'll be some you won't. And in this business it's very tough because you do get a lot of knock-backs. But that's the music business, it's one of the toughest businesses to be in, so you have to be able to take it. I think acceptance is key as well, acceptance of life's circumstances. Accepting life on life's terms, I suppose."
If it was in Ed's power to change one thing about the country music scene in Ireland, a change that he feels would be for the better and for the greater good, what would it be?
"I'd stop people from jiving!! [laughs]. I'd get them to sit down and then they might go to more concerts! [laughs]. Ah no, I'm only joking there. I know plenty of people who are mad into jiving, they love it. But I think people sitting down to enjoy more country artists, concert style, that mightn't be such a bad thing either, ya know! [laughs]"
To wrap things up, I decided to really get Ed thinking! So, if a movie was about to be made of Ed's life, what would it be called? And not only that, but what songs would play over the opening and closing credits?
"That's a tough one now! I'd have to think about that! I don't know, 'Exposed', maybe, get a bit of promotion out of it for the album, too! [laughs]. I'll probably be thinkin' about this later and I'll come up with a great answer altogether! I'll ring ya back later! [laughs] And songs? Right, for the opening credits. Well I have to look at this in two different ways if it's a movie about my life. Are we looking at the happiness, or the sad parts, ya know? I think, Aerosmith's 'I Don't Want To Miss A Thing', is that too cheesy? [laughs] I don't know really. But there's a song or two on the album which are very meaningful to us. 'More Than I Could Be' is one, track seven, and 'If This Is Goodbye', track number ten. Those two songs explain so much actually, they'd be great for a movie."
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Well, he's alive after all. Looks like we're going to trial.
BOSTON — His arm in a cast, Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev pleaded not guilty to terrorism charges Wednesday in his first courtroom appearance since his capture at the end of a chaotic week in April.
Tsarnaev, 19, smiled crookedly — he appeared to have a jaw injury — at his sisters in court as he arrived.
Then, after he leaned over toward a microphone and said, "Not guilty" over and over in a Russian accent, he was led out of the courtroom, making a kissing motion toward his family as he left.
The proceedings lasted just seven minutes and took place in a courtroom packed with victims of the bombing, their families, police officers, and members of the public and the media.
Tsarnaev faces 30 charges, including using a weapon of mass destruction to kill.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was arrested on April 19 when he was found hiding in a boat in a suburban backyard. He was initially charged in the hospital, where he was recovering from wounds suffered in a police shootout….


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Dr. Alan Hogg, from the Sweetland Writing Center at the University of Michigan, will talk about general paper writing for 30 minutes, then spend the remaining 60 minutes discussing thesis writing. Dr. Hogg received his Ph.D. in Atmospheric Chemistry from the University of Michigan.
Three panelists including Professor Scott Larsen and Professor Anne McNeil from University of Michigan, as well as Kenneth Foster from Momentive shared their thoughts on presenting a successful job talk from both an academic and industrial perspective. Two students presented their mock job talks and were critiqued by the panelists. This event helped students learn the difference between a job talk and academic talk, and helped them improve their presentation skills.
Four University of Michigan Postdoctoral Researchers spoke to the audience about finding their positions and how Postdoctoral life is different from that of a graduate student. The panelists include Dr. Rebecca Loy (Sanford Group, Organic), Dr. Jennifer Knight (Brooks Group, Physical), Dr. Chengbao Ni (Szymczak Group, Inorganic), and Dr. Onas Bolton (Matzger Group, Materials).
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Dr. Mark Ott (Jackson Community College), Dr. David Waggoner (Monroe Community College) and Dr. Victor Chen (Thurston High School) discussed their roads to their current positions and answered audience questions.
Attendees learned about other colors in the Drug Development Spectrum.Three managing members of Pfizer's team (from Analytical, Microbiology, and Engineering) presented a company overview and described the internal functions of Process R & D.
Dr. Carmen Drahl, an Associate Editor at C&E News, visited and spoke informally to students and post-docs about how to transition into science writing as well as her day-to-day life and activities working at C&E News. She also gave a presentation "Telling Chemistry's Story: A Science Writing Primer" where she spoke about science writing careers and how to work with science writers to communicate exciting science breakthroughs.
Three UM Chemistry postdoctoral fellows and former students, Dr. Marion Emmert (Sanford Lab), Dr. Mary Grace I. Galinato (Lehnert Lab), and Dr. Dipannita Kalyani (Sanford Lab) shared their perspectives on obtaining academic positions at various types of colleges and universities.
Three recent graduates, Dr. Erica Lanni (McNeil lab), Dr. Zach Buchan (Montgomery Lab), and Dr. Jenny Schnobrich (Matzger Lab) shared their strategies and experiences in seeking an industrial position in today's economy.
In this installment of our networking event series, we played a networking "treasure hunt" game, helping us to catch up with old colleagues and interact with new faces, while we enjoyed Ben & Jerry's hot chocolate floats (with ice cream!).


There's so much misunderstanding surrounding this word...and when you hear the truth, it's going to knock your socks off! Find out why it's Good to see 50!
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Jesus gave "The Great Commission" before He ascended...but then He said "WAIT!" Why would He do that? We'll explore the absolute NECESSITY of the wait in the message "Wait and See."
Peter spoke boldly. Paul spoke boldly. Jesus spoke boldly. Think it's important?
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Q: What is the proper way for a Windows service to fail during its startup I need my service to check for existence and structure of certain files during its startup and exit/fail/stop if some conditions aren't met.
I read this thread: What is the proper way for a Windows service to fail?
but it does not help.
I set the ServiceBase.ExitCode property non-zero and then call ServiceBase.Stop. But I get 5 event log entries. See below:
Starting service. (I log this event via code)
Config.xml file not found. (I log this ERROR event via code)
Service stopped successfully. (SCM logs this message)
Service started successfully. (SCM logs this message)
Service cannot be started. The handle is invalid  (SCM logs this message)

As you see everything goes OK except for the last two entries. Why are they there? What can I do to properly shutdown the service during startup? Why doesn't SCM see the service as stopped/failed?

A: You don't provide enough code to really know, but I suspect you are trying to validate the service and stop it in either the constructor or the OnStart.  The way I like to handle services is start my timer in the OnStart.  In the first interval of the timer I can validate all the code, if its invalid close the Service.  If its valid, reset the interval of the timer to how frequently I want it to run then set a bool that tells it not to check for validity of files again.

A: What is the return code you are using for your ExitCode? If it matches the corresponding windows ExitCode, then that is what will be recorded by SCM. I'm assuming you are returning a 6 for your  ExitCode.
The other thing is if you can run on Default values do that, let Config.xml be missing and just record the problem in the EventLog. "Configuration file Missing"
If you really want it to just abort during OnStart, set your ExitCode and then Throw an Exception (InvalidArgumentException, InvalidOperationException) for example
This article also has some good advice. .NET: Which Exception to Throw When a Required Configuration Setting is Missing?

A: You are trying to start second instance of service (another service registered for the same .exe)

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In this day and age, interacting somehow with a computer has become an integral part of a daily routine for millions of people. I have realised that whatever career I choose to follow, I will probably be a frequent user of computers. As technologies press forward, IT becomes progressively more important in our society and many jobs are changing.
A good example showing the overtaking by IT is where the typewriter has been replaced by a word processing package on a computer system. Instead of a typist having to produce documents using the equipment that he/she was initially trained on, they now have to get to grips with this new technology. A major reason this new equipment has been introduced is because of the far greater efficiency resulting from the enhanced speed and accuracy of document production. On a typewriter, the correction of errors is quite difficult and generally leaves some evidence behind. However, with the use of word processors, editing is simple and the final document is not printed out until all the corrections have been made, resulting in a perfect copy. The documents can also be saved and used again if needed.
This chapter has also helped me understand the argued disadvantages. The system required for word processing will require a personal computer with software and a printer which will cost far more than a standard typewriter. However, it is also argued that this investment will enable you to do other tasks too - by using other applications and software. Another disadvantage is that the user has to be trained into using the specific applications before he can make full use of the system, which could take a lot of time.
This chapter also explains about copyright issues. I have learnt from this chapter that computer software is copyright material. Copyright means that the specific product or material is protected in the UK by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. This act outlines that the product or material belongs to the software producer and it is illegal to make unauthorised copies.