Thanks to a generous sponsorship from Regal, we are proud to award $5,600 to area schools through our 2019 Fittest School Challenge.
The Fittest School Challenge was a competition between area schools that awarded winners based upon percentage of participation. Each child that participated in the March 30, 2019 Covenant Kids Run earned one point for their school. We tallied up each school's respective points and divided that number by the total enrollment of that school to determine their participation percentage. We will award prize money to the top schools in a ten county radius. More than one school in each county will be eligible to win prize money.
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Results are in for the 2019 Fittest Company Challenge, presented by Humana!
These nine companies will receive awards at a Knoxville Chamber function on May 21 at Fort Sanders Health and Fitness Center. Congratulations!
For a listing of top companies, click here.
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Street and lane closures will occur throughout the center city and surrounding areas for the Covenant Health Knoxville Marathon race events, which will be held March 30-31. All roads are expected to be open by 2:30 p.m. Sunday, March 31.
The Clinch Avenue Viaduct serves as the start for all races and will be closed to traffic starting at 2 p.m. Saturday until 2:30 p.m. Sunday. Parking will be prohibited on Clinch Avenue between 11th and 16th streets, and vehicles parked on the street will be towed Saturday evening.
On Saturday, the Covenant Kids Run starts at 5:30 p.m., necessitating closures of 11th Street and World's Fair Park Drive in front of the former Candy Factory building and Knoxville Museum of Art, and periodic closures of Clinch and White avenues between 11th and 13th streets and a small portion of 13th Street between Clinch and White avenues during the run.
The 5K starts at 7 p.m. on Saturday with closures at Clinch Avenue between World's Fair Park and 16th Street, portions of Volunteer Boulevard, Peyton Manning Pass, Phillip Fulmer Way and James Agee Street until about 8:30 p.m.
The Covenant Health Knoxville Marathon is a premier event organized by the Knoxville Track Club, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to the encouragement of physical well being through running and walking.
As we approach race day, here is IMPORTANT information for you and your child.
There is plenty of free parking near the expo, race start, and race finish. Here are a few options for parking on race weekend.
– Park in a city owned lot or garage. There are several within walking distance of the venue. We recommend both Market Garage and Locust Garage for Saturday.
– 11th Street Parking Garage. This University of Tennessee owned garage is at the corner of Clinch and 11th Street and is one block from the start line and two blocks from the finish line.
Children must pickup their t-shirt, bib, and goody bag at the Health and Fitness Expo on Saturday, March 30. Hours of the Expo are 9 am – 8 pm at the World's Fair Exhibition Hall. NOTE: THIS IS A NEW LOCATION FOR US IN 2019!
The address of the Expo is 935 World's Fair Park Drive. NOTE: This is across from the Knoxville Convention Center and is located down the escalators from the Holiday Inn at World's Fair Park.
Feel free to come early and enjoy shopping and sampling from more than 60 exhibitors.
As part of their registration, each child will receive 2 IDENTICAL bibs. BE SURE AND KEEP THIS DUPLICATE BIB ON YOU AT ALL TIMES. One bib is for the child to wear for the fun run; the duplicate is for ONE accompanying Parent/Guardian/Relative to wear if they choose to join the child on the course. If a parent chose to add an additional adult entry to the entry fee of their child (for the additional $5 fee), this enables a second Parent/Guardian/Relative to accompany the child on the course. This additional bib, which reads "PARENT" and has the child's information on it, will also be available for pickup during Packet Pickup at the Health and Fitness Expo. (NOTE: If you did not choose to have an additional entry for a second Parent/Guardian/Relative to accompany during preregistration, you may purchase this additional bib at the Expo for $5).
If a parent does not want to accompany their child on the course but will meet him/her at the finish line at World's Fair Park, the parent STILL NEEDS to hold onto the duplicate bib. This will be their ticket to access the Festival Lawn and meet their child in the Parent/Child Reunite Area (see "Parent/Child Reunite Area at World's Fair Park" Section below).
NOTE: No child will be allowed to leave the lawn at World's Fair Park Festival Lawn unless they have been checked by the Knoxville Police Department to have a matching bib with an accompanying parent or guardian.
4:30 pm – PHOTOS AT WFP AMPHITHEATER – Join us at 4:30 pm at the Amphitheater in World's Fair Park for group photos/school photos. Our photographers will be on hand to assist and organize the schools. The Amphitheater is just outside the doors of the Expo and visible from the Start Line on the Clinch Avenue Bridge.
5:15 pm – START LINE – Children and families will need to head to the Start Line on the Clinch Avenue Bridge by 5:15 pm. Children will then line up in their respective wave in preparation for the start of the race.
KIDS RUN COURSE FOR 2019!
For safety reasons, parents and participants will immediately be directed through the finish chute to the designated reunite location on the Festival Lawn at World's Fair Park. This area is for parents who are not running with their child, but instead will meet him or her on the field after the child's finish. There will be LIMITED ACCESS to the field and parents MUST have the duplicate bib (as referenced in the section above) or "PARENT" Bib in order to gain access to the Parent/Child Reunite Area on the field.
Before parents and children exit the festival lawn via the exit on the southwest corner of the lawn, volunteers will check to make sure that the bib number on the child and the bib number on the parent are an exact match. The Knoxville Police Department will patrol and assist in this exit area.
Strollers will be allowed for the Covenant Kids Run (Strollers are NOT allowed for any of the Sunday races). For the safety of all participants, parents with strollers MUST line up in the very back of the last wave.
Finally, HAVE FUN! We are looking forward to seeing you and your child on Saturday, March 30!


My Name Is Khan is a 2010 Indian drama film directed by Karan Johar and produced by Hiroo Yash Johar and Gauri Khan and stars Shahrukh Khan and Kajol in lead roles. The film was jointly produced by Dharma Productions and Red Chillies Entertainment and was distributed by FOX Star Entertainment, which had bought the rights for the film for a sum of ₹100 crore (US$15 million), making it the most expensive Bollywood film of 2010. It is also the highest buyover for any Indian film, surpassing Ghajini's record of ₹90 crore (equivalent to ₹176 crore or US$26 million in 2016). Before its release, the film generated a great deal of publicity for itself due to three main reasons: first, the multiple political controversies surrounding the film and its lead actor; second, Khan's presence in the film (he was last seen in a leading actor role in December 2008, when Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi was released); and third, the reunion of the "golden pair" of Khan and Kajol, who last appeared together in the film Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham in 2001. My Name Is Khan debuted in Abu Dhabi, UAE, on 10 February 2010. It premiered globally in cinemas on 12 February 2010. It was also screened as part of the 60th Berlin International Film Festival's official selection the same month. Upon its release, the film broke many box office records. My Name Is Khan was the highest-grossing Bollywood film overseas at the time, which was then overtaken by 3 Idiots. Within four weeks, the film crossed the ₹70 crore (US$10 million) mark in India and became the first film of 2010 to do so. In the overseas markets, the film grossed ₹110.34 crore (US$16 million). My Name Is Khan earned a worldwide gross of 200 crores. The film was released in India on DVD on 28 April 2010. Blu-ray in India, plus a DVD release worldwide followed on 10 August 2010.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Science Foundation has named William E. Easterling III, professor of geography and dean of Penn State's College of Earth and Mineral Sciences (EMS), to serve as director for the Directorate for Geosciences (GEO) in Washington D.C., which supports fundamental research spanning the atmospheric, earth, ocean and polar sciences.
In naming Easterling, who has been dean at Penn State since 2007, NSF Director France Córdova cited his "extensive leadership experience and a clear vision for the Geosciences Directorate" as the reason for this appointment, along with "a legacy of dealing with challenging research topics head-on to advance America's strategic and economic interests." As head of EMS, Easterling has strengthened the college's position as a world leader in the earth, material and energy sciences and engineering. He led strategic planning for research initiatives focusing on the food-energy-water nexus, clean carbon energy, additive manufacturing, big data challenges in forecasting, risk and uncertainty in environmental decisions, and more.
As a part of the NSF, the GEO provides about 61 percent of the federal funding for basic research at academic institutions in the geosciences. These investments improve the understanding of the many processes that affect the global environment, including the planetary water cycle, geologic interactions that cross the land-ocean interface, and the behavior of ice sheets.
Easterling currently oversees five highly ranked academic departments: the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering; Geography; Geosciences; Materials Science and Engineering; and Meteorology and Atmospheric Science. He oversees two research institutes, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute (EESI), and EMS Energy Institute; and an innovative online education institute, the John A. Dutton e-Education Institute. As dean, Easterling helped to bring together one of the largest contingents of natural gas experts in the United States in the Institute for Natural Gas Research INGaR); he also works closely with industry, and state and federal government partners to increase the research capabilities of the college.
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MIT Press First to Distance Itself from Publisher Association over Research Works Act
By Ellen Finnie	on January 25, 2012 in All news
MIT Press was the first publisher to publicly disavow the Association of American Publishers' support of the Research Works Act, a bill which would make the NIH Public Access Policy, along with any other similar government effort to make taxpayer-funded research openly accessible to the public, illegal.
"The AAP's press release on the Research Works Act does not reflect the position of the MIT Press; nor, I imagine, the position of many other scholarly presses whose mission is centrally focused on broad dissemination," says Ellen Faran, Director of the MIT Press.
Many university presses are members of the Association of American Publishers (AAP), and others have followed MIT Press in distancing themselves from the AAP's action in recent days, including the University of California Press and Rockefeller University Press. Other publishers who are members of AAP have also spoken out against the bill, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Nature Publishing Group.
The Research Works Act "would forbid federal agencies to do anything that would result in the sharing of privately published research—even if that research is done with the help of taxpayer dollars—unless the publisher of the work agrees first" according to Jennifer Howard of the New York Times.
Chronicle of Higher Ed: Who Gets to See Published Research?
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Denton with Wootton is a civil parish in the Dover District of Kent, England. The parish contains the settlements of Denton and Wootton,  apart.

Denton with Wootton is approximately  east-southeast from the county town of Maidstone. The south of the parish is  north-west from the channel port of Dover, and the north,  south-east from Canterbury. The A260 Barham to Folkestone road runs through the parish, and a  section of the major A2 London to Dover road is part of the parish at the east.

Parishes surrounding Denton with Wootton are Barham at the north; Shepherdswell with Coldred at the north-east; Lydden at the south-east; Swingfield at the south; Acrise at the south-west; and Elham at the west.

The Lydden Hill Race Circuit is within the eastern border of Denton with Wootton.

There are two parish churches: St Martin's in Wootton, and St Mary Magdalene's in Denton.

Historically Denton and Wootton contained two manors each: Denton and Tappington at Denton; Wootton and Wickham Bushes at Wootton.

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Health Center Partners is the region's preeminent authority and health care policy advocate for community health centers, serving as the trusted voice for our members, who serve the health needs of communities throughout southern California in San Diego, Riverside and Imperial counties.
Health Center Partners ensures our members' voices are heard, putting the issues confronting community health centers and their patients in front of lawmakers at the local, state and national levels to advance policies that expand access to care and improve health outcomes for Californians.
We partner with our state and national advocacy networks:
State: CPCA and CaliforniaHealth+ Advocates
National: NACHC and Health Center Advocacy Efforts
Click here to view the Federal and State Legislators representing our members.
Contact the HCP Policy / Advocacy Team
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Click Here to Show Your Support of Long Term Community Health Funding
To date, several bills have been introduced in the Senate and House of Representatives to extend the Community Health Center Fund (CHCF) for five years alongside funding for critical workforce programs.
Click here to ask your Member of Congress to co-sponsor HR 1943
the Community Health Center and Primary Care Workforce Expansion Act
the Community Health Investment, Modernization, and Excellence (CHIME) Act of 2019
the Training the Next Generation of Primary Care Doctors Act of 2019
2019 Federal and State Supported Policies and Procedures
CaliforniaHealth+ Advocates
Senate Bill 66 (Atkins and McGuire) Same Day Billing
In partnership with the Steinberg Institute, Advocates has moved forward with reintroducing Same Day Billing legislation. With a raging opioid epidemic, a greater appreciation for the intersection of primary care and mental health services, and the need to increase access to behavioral health preventive and diagnostic services, Advocates is excited to be working with the Steinburg Institute and the California Association of Public Hospitals on this important effort. Talking Points
Assembly Bill 899 (Wood) – Streamlining Expansion of Primary Care Facilities
Assembly Bill 899 will maximize the ability of community health centers to expand access to health care for all Californians, by giving them the option to utilize an existing outpatient clinic or previously licensed primary care clinic to meet the growing demand for services. In addition, this bill will also ensure that that the Community Clinics Advisory Committee is empaneled by 2020 to provide counsel and assistance to the regulators about the function and operation of CHCs. Talking Points
Assembly Bill 1494 (Aguiar-Curry) – Declared Emergencies
Assembly Bill 1494 would ensure that communities continue to receive timely access to care when disaster strikes. AB 1494 seeks to clarify state law to ensure that health centers can provide care to patients; through telephonic visits, in a shelter or in a patients home utilizing telehealth technology during a declared state of emergency. Talking Points
Protect the savings of the 340B Program for Medi-Cal Fee For Service and Managed Care
Governor Newsom signed Executive Order (N-01-19) to create a single-purchaser system of drugs in California. The Executive Order directs the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) to transition all pharmacy services for Medi-Cal managed care to Fee For Service (FFS) by January 2021, which could effectively end the savings received through the 340B program and ultimately limit services and access for California's low-income, vulnerable communities. CaliforniaHealth+ Advocates is committed to ensuring the resources health centers need, which today come from 340B savings, remain. Staff developed talking points to use when meeting with legislators and key stakeholders on this issue. Advocates' staff asks that you share with us the results of your conversations so that we can be as coordinated as possible as we seek a solution that works for the Administration, Medi-Cal, health centers and patients.
Health Center Advocacy Network
Strong Medicaid Program
Preserve the FQHC Prospective Payment System (PPS) methodology within a strong Medicaid Program.
340B Drug Discount Pricing Program
Community Health Centers need continued, assured access to the 340B Program to sustain their essential model of care.
Allow FQHCs to be eligible for reimbursement in Medicare as both "distant and originating sites", and to allow for reimbursement for remote patient monitoring.
Health Center Funding, Fiscal Cliff - TAKE ACTION HERE
$7.8 billion dollars in federal grant funding for the Community Health Center program was included in the bipartisan budget deal passed by Congress on February 8, 2018. Congress recognized the growing value of health centers by including an additional $600 million dollars to further support health center operations and address unmet need in communities across the country, as well as $60 million dollars to assist health centers in areas impacted by recent natural disasters. We are also grateful for the funding extensions of the National Health Service Corps and the Teaching Health Centers Graduate Medical Education program, two vital resources that support the health center workforce.
Protect Medicaid (Medi-Cal)
Adequate Medicaid payments are essential to Health Centers' viability and ability to innovate. Each health center's unique, per-visit Medicaid payment is intended to cover the comprehensive set of services provided by the health center and covered by the Medicaid program. In addition to primary medical care, these services typically include dental, mental health, and pharmacy, and may also include services such as care management and health education.
The Role of Medicaid Expansion in Care Delivery at Community Health Centers (April 2019, via The Commonwealth Fund)
Read Issue Brief
Health Centers care for more than 1 in 6 Medicaid beneficiaries nationally
Health Centers provide care to 17% of all Medicaid beneficiaries, but Medicaid payments to health centers make up only 1.8% of total Medicaid spending
Health Centers' Medicaid patient population is approximately double that of the general population
Health Centers save, on average, $2,371 (or 24%) per Medicaid patient when compared to other providers
Health Centers to have lower total spending per Medicaid patient compared to non-health centers within each of the states studied.
Health Centers save the Medicaid program $6 billion annually
Health Center patients with Medicaid have lower utilization of costly hospital and emergency department-related services compared to patients at other providers, even under managed care
Medicaid payments represent 43% of health centers' total revenue, making it their largest revenue source.
Yet, despite serving increasing numbers of Medicaid patients, the amount of Medicaid revenue collected in 2016 only covered 80% of the cost associated with caring for that population, leading to a significant and unremitting uncompensated care gap for Health Center.
Protect 340B
Read HCP's Op-Ed
The 340B Drug Discount Program is a US federal government program created in 1992 that requires drug manufacturers to provide outpatient drugs to eligible health care organizations and covered entities at significantly reduced prices.
Health Centers reinvest these "savings" in underserved communities to expand services, add staff, and increase access to care for families.
Common examples include:
Extended hours of operation for Federally Qualified Health Centers;
HIV clinics offering a full range of medical and mental health services for patients;
Hepatitis C clinics that provide lifesaving, curative treatments for Medi-Cal patients;
Post-operative services including "meds to beds" programs that allow patients to be discharged from major operations, like cardiac surgeries and organ transplants, with critical medications needed for proper recovery, and to ensure patients receive necessary follow-up with pharmacists;
Specialized treatments at infusion clinics, like those provided to patients with congestive heart failure, hemophilia, multiple sclerosis and cancer;
Case workers for individuals experiencing homelessness and additional support staff to address patients' complicated care needs;
Increased access to specialty care through expanded transportation services to patients without reliable transportation;
Expanded pharmacy access for Medi-Cal and uninsured patients; and, much, much more.
Title X, The GAG Rule
Title X Family Planning Annual Report 2017 Summary
Eliminates the requirement to provide options counseling to pregnant women, but permits nondirective counseling; and
More than four million people rely on affordable birth control and reproductive health care services that are funded by Title X. Many of these people don't even know Title X exists, but without it they wouldn't be able to access this essential care.
Public Charge
Joint Statement Opposing Public Charge
The proposed public charge regulation was published on the Federal Register and the comment period ended on December 10, 2018
Public Charge is a term used in immigration law to describe an individual who is dependent on the government for financial and material support. The likelihood that a person will become a public charge is considered when the U.S. State Department Embassy or Consular officers abroad review visa applications for entrance or re-entrance into the United States, as well as when USCIS reviews applications for legal permanent resident (LPR) status in the US (i.e. applying for a green card). Public charge is NOT taken into consideration for people who have LPR status and are applying to become U.S. citizens.
When determining if a person is likely to become a public charge, the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) requires the government to consider a variety of factors, including the person's age, health, resources, family size, and education and skills.
The proposed rule would amend the definition of public charge and would expand the public benefit programs currently considered in the public charge determination. At the moment the only public benefit programs considered are cash assistance (like TANF) and institutionalized long term care on the government's expense.
It is vital our patients and their families continue to access medical care and other social services without fear of adverse immigration consequences as healthy families are better able to assimilate and contribute to the U.S. economy
DHS published a press release
CPCA Public Charge Resources Page
CA Census
Once each decade, the U.S. Census Bureau attempts to count every person in the United States. The next enumeration will be April 1, 2020 and will be the first to rely heavily on online responses. An accurate count is one in which every person is counted once, only once, and in the right place.
2020 Census Timeline & Milestones
2020 Census advertising campaign begins in early 2020
March 16-23 – USCB Mailing #1 sent to homes
March 20-27 – USCB Mailing #2 sent to non-respondents
March 30-April 6 – USCB Mailing #3 – a postcard – sent to non-respondents
March – USCB Service-based enumeration begins (for transitory locations like RV parks and campgrounds, tent cities, marinas, hotels)
March – USCB Group quarters enumeration begins (for those living in group quarters like dorms, nursing homes, etc. and for the homeless)
April 1, 2020 – NATIONAL CENSUS DAY!
Early April-Late July – USCB Non-response follow-up (NRFU)
April 12-19 – USCB Mailing #4 – letter & paper questionnaire sent to those who have not yet responded
April 23-30 – USCB Mailing #5 – It's not too late! postcard
CCCs urge households who do not respond to cooperate with census takers
Click Here for Voter Resources
WE STILL NEED YOUR VOICE - Stay Loud!
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Jax Daily Record Monday, Aug. 7, 201706:50 AM EST
By wide margin, voters OK consolidated government
Mayor calls for more jobs for black residents; San Jose Country Club protests tax assessment
by: Max Marbut Associate Editor
History often repeats, and there often are parallels between the news of today and 50 years ago. Here are some of the top news stories of this week in 1967 compiled from the Jacksonville Public Library's periodical archives by Associate Editor Max Marbut.
Yes: 52,585; No: 28,872
It wasn't the record turnout of 100,000 voters predicted by Supervisor of Elections Harry Nearing, but the Jacksonville and Duval County electorates went to the polls on Tuesday this week in 1967 and approved consolidating the two governments.
With all 187 precincts reporting, the tally was 52,585 for consolidation to 28,872 against.
About 3,000 absentee ballots had not been counted.
It was observed that the campaign for consolidation was one of the "longest and most highly-publicized and vigorously contested elections in the state's history."
The vote set up the current strong mayor and 19-member City Council format for local government.
The Beaches cities and Baldwin exercised their option to remain outside the consolidation.
On another ballot question, the Duval County School Board was denied the fiscal independence it sought, with 41,055 against allowing the board to control its finances and 39,863 in favor of the proposal.
Voters in Duval County, particularly those who lived within the city limits, had been to the polls eight times and county voters four times as of August 1967. They would be called on to vote three more times before the end of the year to fill offices created by the new consolidation charter.
That would make 11 elections for the year – an average of almost one each month. Assistant Supervisor of Elections Jerry Harris said he knew of no other series of elections anywhere to equal the local record.
The cost of the 11 elections would be nearly $500,000. Already, the city had paid for four and the county had covered the cost of four, depleting the elections funds appropriated for the year by both.
The city would have to borrow money for the three upcoming ballots, which was allowed under the new charter, Harris said.
Mayor calls for more jobs for black residents
Less than 24 hours after Mayor Hans Tanzler issued a call to business and industry leaders to create immediate job opportunities for black residents, more than 65 openings had been reported.
Tanzler and W. Ashley Verlander, president of the Jacksonville Area Chamber of Commerce, had met with more than 80 local business leaders to issue the plea for more jobs. They called the lack of jobs "the No. 1 cause of racial unrest" and received from the business owners, many of them the area's largest private employers, pledges of 100 percent cooperation.
The first wave of jobs included openings for switchboard operators, warehouse workers, welders, clerk-typists and insurance salesmen.
"We've just begun," Verlander said.
San Jose Country Club protests tax assessment
San Jose Country Club was asking the county to lower the 1967 assessed valuation on its property for tax purposes from $872,200 to $400,000.
The club's attorney, Clark Toole Jr., told the County Equalization Board that the assessor's office wrongfully set the higher figure because the land had been assessed for its highest and best use for residential subdivision purposes at $3,000 an acre. However, he said, the law required assessment of land at "the highest and best use to which the property can be expected to be put in the immediate future."
Toole said the San Jose property had been used exclusively for country club and golf course purposes for the past 19 years and no change was considered or contemplated that the property would be used for any other purpose.
He further pointed out that the Hyde Grove Golf Club and Brentwood Golf Club, both formerly owned by the city, were being assessed at $500 rather than $3,000 an acre, even though they were being used for the same purpose.
"San Jose Country Club wishes to assume its rightful share of the tax burden, but not the tax burden of others," said Toole.


In our last discussion on building a plan, we finished with our three month vision. Here was the example we were using from our last post.
This was built from a combination of our critical few objectives and our overall three month time boxed aspiration to understand who we are. In the next steps of building our scorecard, we build out the specifics of how we will realize this vision. This starts with our big rocks.
I first heard the term big rocks from Dr. Stephen R. Covey as one of the anecdotes he references in 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. In case you haven't read the book, or it's been a while, I'll sum up the idea here. Covey asks us to think about our time as a mason jar that slowly gets filled up with all the things that we need to do. All of the big important things we need to do are represented by big rocks. We can think of all of the urgent things that come up throughout the day that we have to take care of as smaller rocks or gravel. Finally, we can think of all the little things that we have to take care of as sand. The sand items are things like email, text messages, interruptions, Facebook, etc.
Covey posits that the most effective people are those that focus on the big rocks first. Back to the mason jar analogy, if we put the big rocks in the mason jar first, then we still have room for the urgent stuff (the small rocks) and the not so urgent (the sand). The point of the analogy is that most people don't work like this. Most people tend to focus on the urgent which is not necessarily the important. If you start filling your mason jar with the gravel and the sand, there's no room for the big rocks. When you are focusing on the urgent, those big important things never get done. These are the big ticket items, the goals that, if completed, could have a big impact on your life. Big rocks are the tools that allow us to work smarter rather than working harder. These are the targets that drive purpose, rather than just pass time.
As I explained this analogy to one of the groups I was working with, one of the participants claimed that he was nothing but a sand person. Without missing a beat, one of the other participants said, "the sand people are easily startled, but they will soon be back, and in greater numbers." Star Wars hilarity aside, there are some lessons here. This particular participant is one of the best educated people I have ever met, having both a Ph.D. and a law degree. He claimed that as a patent attorney, his entire work existence was driven by sand and small rocks, by the urgent. For him, he feels like it is just one case after another. He wasn't alone. My wife is a doctor and she has felt the same way. While she is at work, seeing patients, it is all about the urgent. One patient after another, it becomes difficult to focus on the big stuff.
This is true with a lot of professionals, especially those professionals where he/she is the product. The services they provide drive the business. One of the sad realities of the schooling that professionals receive is that it is so specialized. My wife spent four years in medical school and another three in residency and never once had a single class or lesson on business. When she opened her practice, she felt constantly overwhelmed. She had to see 12 to 15 patients a day as a family doc and try to run a business on top of that. So where can big rocks possibly fit in with all of that urgency? The answer for her was nowhere. After about five years of this urgency, like a lot of professionals and certainly like a lot of family docs, she wanted to quit. She loved the patients and the medicine but hated the system that forced her to practice medicine like a drive through attendant. She was becoming bitter and that bitterness was making her unhealthy.
It took a couple of years of further unhappiness before she finally was forced into realizing that she would need to make some big changes. She could either quit and do something else or she could focus on the business and become a business owner and not just the product. After years as a sand person, she came to a tipping point where the big rock decisions she had to make were forced on her. After going through that pain, she now splits her time between being a business owner and being a provider. When she's a business owner, she is allowed to work on the big rocks that allows her practice to work smarter. When she's a provider and back in the sand, things are running far better because the business invested in efficiency. The sand doesn't seem nearly as suffocating.
The moral of the story is that the big important stuff has to get done one way or another. You can either wait until there is an emergency or you can be proactive and enjoy the journey. If you look with the attitude of – let's catch this before it turns into a fire drill – you will find that there is always time for the big things that drive improvement. Big rocks create opportunity. Sometimes that opportunity comes in the form of efficiency. Efficiency creates time. Sometimes big rocks create happiness, sometimes they create better relationships and sometimes they create mastery. Regardless of the big rocks that you choose, they are going to affect change that will impact your life for the better. The only mistake we can make when focusing on big rocks is not spending time on them.
Back to the process. Once we have our critical few objectives, we need to figure out what we can do in the short term to accomplish our three month critical few objectives. When we build out our big rocks we are now working at the one month level. These big rocks are the important things that you can get done in the next thirty days that will move your three month objective forward.
Each big rock needs to fit the SMART goal definition. This means that it needs to be Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Results oriented and Time boxed. When setting goals, most people go wrong at this stage. The two big mistakes I see all the time is that folks will either try to boil the ocean and go waaaay too big or they pick something that is too ambiguous, where you can't tell if you've succeeded or not.
It's ok to lean on the obstacle and plans from the WOOP step as a reminder of what you are nervous about in hitting your targets. The obstacle and plan become far more important in our next step however, when building out our metrics.
In our next process post we will discuss how we are going to measure for success and how we set our time boxes on each big rock.
When we last wrote about building the personal development plan, we ended with building out the four skills and passions that we wanted to focus on over the next three months. These skills recognized the character strengths necessary to improve or create these skillsets.
When building these skills out with some of the groups we've worked with, the number one piece of feedback we received was that it is difficult to come up with skills and passions that you want to improve when they are not related to problems being faced in the day to day. Utilizing that feedback, our next sessions will prime the pump before we start deciding on skills. We will do this by asking our users to first think of those things in the last couple of months where they fell short on something, they felt scared, or they were disappointed in their own performance. We will be asking them to do this in all four life categories of Work, Health, Play and Love. Once these issues have been identified we will then ask our users to build out the skills and passions that would have changed these outcomes for the better.
Once the skills and passions have been identified, we then move on to how we are going to act on them. In a previous post we discussed the benefits of WOOP. This is a great tool for crystallizing goals. Once we have identified the problem space and the skills and strengths necessary to overcome those problems, we focus on specifics. This is where WOOP becomes the go to tool.
The first step of WOOP is the Wish element. We spend a couple minutes thinking about the most important goal we wish to accomplish in the next three months related to the particular skill or problem set. Once we have this written down, we focus on outcome. Outcome forces us to ask: if your wish were fulfilled, what would be the best possible outcome? How would that outcome make you feel?
Some of ours users struggled with understanding the difference between wish and outcome. Most of our test group seemed to think it was the same thing. The difference between the two steps is that the wish is defining what you want to accomplish and the outcome is taking the step of visualizing the positive outcome. Most of our users believed that they were doing that anyway in the wish step so felt the outcome step was redundant. To each their own. We are going to keep both steps because we believe that reinforcing the visualization of success is really powerful. Not all users will do that in the wish step and we want to make sure that we explicitly call this out.
In the next step we explore our obstacles. This is where we spend some time trying to understand what is going to prevent us from hitting our goal. The trick is to be specific. There are a lot of obstacles that we don't have any control over. So we need to hone our focus by asking: what is your main inner obstacle? What within you is holding you back from accomplishing this wish? This is a critical step in pulling ourselves out of the victim mindset. In this step, we are acknowledging that our biggest challenges come from within.
Once we identify the obstacle, we work on the plan. This is a traditional If..then statement. If we hit this obstacle then we take this action. The question we ask: what can you do to overcome this obstacle? What action can you take when it arises? This plan gives us the power to do something about the obstacles we know we will run into.
This was just the first of four WOOPs. Once all four WOOPs are completed, we then move on to building our vision.
The critical few objectives concept comes from the balanced scorecard discipline. These objectives are critical because they are our top priorities for the three month period. If we complete them, they will have a changing impact on our lives. They are few because our only chance at success is if we keep focus. The whole thing only works if we pick a small number of achievable goals. We set the max here at four. Finally the objective is the SMART goal that comes out of the WOOP Process.
As an aside, we did receive some feedback that we are using way too many acronyms. Guilty as charged. This all comes from a biz background where the landscape is littered with these capitalized eyesores. We will be working to personalize our terms as we build the software.
Once all the CFOs are created, they fit nicely into a vision statement. The vision statement becomes the north star for the next three months. The beginning and end of the vision statement are boilerplate for the first plan. Moving forward these become custom tailored as our users get closer to defining their own purpose. Here is an example of a vision statement.
The vision becomes the keystone for building out the rest of the scorecard. Stay tuned as we'll cover that in our next process blog!


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Le trafic maritime de marchandises des ports de commerce en France représente 365 millions de tonnes. Les six ports autonomes maritimes français (Dunkerque, Le Havre, Rouen, Nantes/Saint-Nazaire, Bordeaux et Marseille) traitent plus de 80 % du trafic maritime de marchandises.

Le Havre permet l'entrée des plus grands porte-conteneurs et des plus grands pétroliers. C'est le premier port Français pour les conteneurs par an avec plus de deux millions d'EVP (équivalent vingt pieds) tandis que Marseille-Fos est le premier port français pour le trafic total.

La flotte de commerce française aujourd'hui se répartit ainsi :
 230 navires de transport (marchandises et passagers) sous pavillon français.
 179 navires sous pavillon tiers.

Cette situation place la France au  mondial aujourd'hui, après avoir été  y a 25 ans. Ce décalage est dû en grande partie au développement des pavillons de complaisance.

Voir aussi
 Transport en France
 Transport maritime


The property is an ex orchard and has two large dams for water storage. The dam has fairly steep sides and our clients wanted better access to the water for recreational canoeing and kayaking.
We installed a floating pontoon style jetty that fluctuates in height with the water level in the main dam. We also did earthworks to dig into the bentonite clay lined dam to create a beach area. Clay and soil were removed to create a more gentle slope in one section of the bank, then the excavation was lined with GCL (Geosynthetic clay liner - An engineered bentonite clay & geotextile matting) and covered in course white sand. End result a white sandy beach and excellent canoe access to the water.
We also built an overflow inlet and stream lined with a mixture of GCL and plain geotextile to help spread the water in high rainfall/inflow events.
A range of landscaping using local gravel and coffee rock in gabion cages and battered creates amenity areas and complements the property.
Overflow inlet to help spread the load when the dam has a very high rainfall & stream inflow event. The dam overflows into this inlet then the overflow continues through the pipe into a rocky streambed beyond.


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I've been thinking of making another attempt at building a photo booth for DNA Lounge.
I last tried this back in 2007, and gave up, because back then, no cheap video cameras were good enough in low light, and getting a Mac to remotely control a DSLR and then get images out of it was basically impossible.
But hey, eight years later! And the world has changed so much that there are not only a ton of people out there selling photo booths, but there are a ton of people selling just the software to turn a DSLR, a printer and a tent into a photo booth. With anim-GIFs.
The world has changed so much that there is a Photo Booth Expo. Yes, there really is a convention for everything.
So, Lazyweb, what do you know about this stuff?
Have you used photo booth software? Have you maintained a photo booth and seen what happens upon contact with the enemy?
Which software, cameras and printers are any good? I guess I want:
Mac-based, not Windows;
Live video preview;
The preview works well enough in low light that the booth doesn't have to leak light all over the nightclub (a flash is ok, but a constant-on 100 watt bulb is not);
Auto-upload all photos to our own web site;
A photo printer that can stand up to an extraordinary amount of abuse;
Ability to take cash or credit cards to pay for the prints;
Is not going to require an operator to fuss with it multiple times a night.
There are lots of companies out there who will happily put a photo booth inside your business, charge for the photos, and keep all of the money, but if I've learned anything from owning my own ATMs and owning my own ticketing service, it is this: "never, ever do that."
The turnkey photo booths you can buy seem to go for $8,000 to $15,000, which seems crazy for a fabric tent that has at best $1,600 worth of hardware and off-the-shelf software in it. But, maybe answering the questions I asked above is harder than I think it is.
(If you are about to suggest running Apple's "Photo Booth" application then you are missing the point about how combat-hardened this solution needs to be. In fact if you're about to begin a sentence with "Why don't you just...", please don't, that means you haven't thought it through and you're not helping.)
Tags: dnalounge, firstperson, lazyweb, mac, photobooth
Current Music: Gazelle Twin -- I Turn My Arm (Alixander III Remix) ♬
Today in "Glistening Fatberg" news...
Sewer Snake: Boss Level
A 10-tonne lump of wet wipes and fat has been removed from a sewer in Chelsea, west London.
The toxic lump of congealed fat and household waste -- known as a fatberg -- was 40 metres long and so heavy that it broke the 1940s-era sewer.
Repairing the damaged sewer is expected to cost Thames Water £400,000 and take more than two months, the company said.
Stephen Hunt, a repair and maintenance supervisor at Thames Water, who is overseeing the fatberg's removal, said its size was staggering.
"We see blockages all the time on household sewer pipes, which are about big enough for a cricket ball to pass through, but to have this much damage on a sewer almost a metre in diameter is mind-boggling.
"The original sewer has been so badly abused by fat being chucked down the plughole we've had to opt for the time-consuming and disruptive option of replacing many metres of pipe."
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Tags: blobs, doomed, mpegs, mutants, poop
A dialog with some DMT entities
"Universal Love," Said The Cactus Person.
"Transcendent joy," said the big green bat.
"Right," I said "I'm absolutely in favor of both those things. But before we go any further, could you tell me the two prime factors of 1,522,605,027, 922,533,360, 535,618,378, 132,637,429, 718,068,114, 961,380,688, 657,908,494 ,580,122,963, 258,952,897, 654,000,350, 692,006,139?
The sea was made of strontium, the beach was made of rye. Above my head, a watery sun shone in an oily sky. A thousand stars of sertraline whirled round quetiapine moons, and the sand sizzled sharp like cooking oil that hissed and sang and threatened to boil the octahedral dunes.
"Okay," I said. "Fine. Let me tell you where I'm coming from. I was reading Scott McGreal's blog, which has some good articles about so-called DMT entities, and mentions how they seem so real that users of the drug insist they've made contact with actual superhuman beings and not just psychedelic hallucinations. You know, the usual Terence McKenna stuff. But in one of them he mentions a paper by Marko Rodriguez called A Methodology For Studying Various Interpretations of the N,N-dimethyltryptamine-Induced Alternate Reality, which suggested among other things that you could prove DMT entities were real by taking the drug and then asking the entities you meet to factor large numbers which you were sure you couldn't factor yourself. So to that end, could you do me a big favor and tell me the factors of 1,522,605,027, 922,533,360, 535,618,378, 132,637,429, 718,068,114, 961,380,688, 657,908,494, 580,122,963, 258,952,897, 654,000,350, 692,006,139?
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Tags: mad science, mutants, religion, space
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Uber might have safety training, but if they do, it's secret.
Safety Courses Not Required For Uber, Lyft, Others
In the wake of an Uber driver arrested after allegedly hitting and injuring a cyclist in Fisherman's Wharf on Sunday, more questions are being raised about driver safety requirements.
Specifically, taxis are regulated by SFMTA and are required to take 28 hours of classes through one of four approved private driving schools, and another day of training through the SFMTA. An hour of the SFMTA training includes instruction on sharing the road with bicyclists and pedestrians, is taught by a member of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition. At least two hours of testing is required. And as part of the city's Vision Zero plan, which aims to eliminate traffic deaths by 2024, SFMTA is instituting a large vehicle urban driving safety program for all large vehicle drivers who work for the city.
All told, as Central City Extra covered in their latest issue, there are 71 pages of dense regulations for cab drivers to follow. Not so for drivers working for Uber, Lyft, Sidecar or limo companies, which are not regulated by the SFMTA -- they only have 28 simple regulations to follow. [...]
Frisbee confirmed that the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition is in talks with Lyft to include online safety training. What about Uber? "At this point, Uber has decided that our safety training is not worth their investment," Frisbee said. She said Uber told the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition the company "found someone else to do it," but when it asked for details, including who was giving the training, how long it lasted and what was included, "they said 'we're not sharing it'," she said.
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Tags: bike, corporations, doomed, sf
DNA Lounge: Wherein I ridicule Facebook some more, then collaborate with the Panopticon.
In my last update, I busted on Facebook for their relentless -- yet halfassed and inconsistent -- morality policing. They had blocked a bunch of ads that Hubba Hubba Revue had purchased, claiming that the ads didn't follow the rules, when in fact they did. Eventually they relented -- who knows why. But some of the most telling responses I got were from several people who said, "I sent this to my friend who works at Facebook, and they said that that definitely should not have happened, and they probably could have fixed it, but they weren't going to because they didn't like your tone."
So let's get this straight: Facebook has a widely known, years-long reputation for capricious, fickle enforcement of their policies; a corresponding reputation for giving the victims of their inconsistencies no recourse; and despite this, when these fine employees of theirs hear of a problem, their response is, "Well, because that guy pointed out a bug without also blowing sunshine up my ass, I'm going to just leave our product buggy." They seem to love their company so much that they're willing to let their own product suffer, so that they don't have to open their eyes to the problem. It's the other kind of "tech bubble".
Say you're driving at night, and someone yells, "Hey jerk, your headlights are out!" Do you say, "That guy was mean, so I'll show him, I'm going to keep driving in the dark!"
I ended that post with:
Fuck Facebook. They really are just the worst.
If you work there, I implore you to quit. I'm sure you can find a job working for a company that you don't have to apologize for all the time. You can do it. I believe in you.
But, you know, maybe they have attracted exactly the employees that they deserve: the kind who care more about their feels than about shipping products that work.
Meanwhile:
Facebook remains the 800 pound gorilla in the room, and you've just got to hope it doesn't poop too much. And this brings me to a change I made to our web site recently that makes me feel really, really dirty. But I went and did it just the same.
You're probably aware that Facebook knows just about every single web page you've ever looked at. If you're logged in to Facebook, and you visit some other page that has a Like button on it, Facebook knows what page you visited, even if you didn't click the button. In fact, they probably know who you are and what page you visited even if you aren't logged in to Facebook at the time. There are ways, and they've been sued over that sort of thing before.
You've probably noticed this if you ever browsed something on Amazon that you've never looked at before, and suddenly Facebook has ads for it. That's how it happens. Facebook knows all about your dildos and hemorrhoids. (And the NSA has all your dick pics.)
(Google has just as much information as Facebook, not because of Like or Plus buttons, but because everyone in the world uses Google Analytics, which invisibly tracks you just as well as those buttons do.)
Anyway --
We buy ads on Facebook, because they work. When you buy ads, you try to narrow the scope to one that makes sense: geographically, and by using keywords like the band that is playing, or other bands that they sound like, and based on that, Facebook shows those ads to some random set of people that they think are most likely to click it. But buying ads is always kind of a gamble, because it's really hard to tell whether that ad turned into a sale.
Except, you can add "conversion tracking" to your checkout page, which basically means we added an invisible piece of Javascript similar to a Like button to the checkout page that says, "Hey Facebook, twenty bucks just got spent, ka-ching!"
We don't have to give them any identifying information about who spent the money, like name or email address -- because they already know, by virtue of the fact that you left yourself logged in to Facebook in another window.
So what this means is, the ad report now says things like: "This ad was shown to 500 people, 50 of them clicked on it, and shortly after those clicks, 20 of those same people spent a total of $300 with you."
So that's some pretty positive evidence of whether the ad was worth buying! Maybe those 30 people would have found out some other way and bought tickets anyway, but drawing a direct line between an ad purchase and a sale is not something you can often do.
It's so gross, though.
The first gross part is that it just highlights how heavily surveilled you are by Facebook, all across the web. Even before we put this checkout tracker on, we already had Like buttons, because everyone does it and those drive traffic. This new thing feels like snitching on our customers, but those Like buttons were already "game over".
The second gross thing is that we've given just one more piece of information about our customers to Facebook, but not in a way that is directly useful to us. Even though we're doing the leg work to build up this dossier on our customers, we don't actually get to look into the file. Only Facebook does. When Facebook eventually goes away, the information is gone. When Facebook becomes more extortionate, the information is gone.
The future of this looks a lot like all of those bands who spent years building up subscriptions to their Facebook fan pages, only to have Facebook turn around and tell them, "We've changed our mind, if you want to actually reach those fans, suddenly you have to pay."
I'm sure now someone in the peanut gallery is going to pop up and call me a hypocrite for despising Facebook's business practices, and yet still taking advantage of their services. Well, I don't like it, but I am pretending to run a business here, and that leaves you with something less than absolute moral clarity.
So I guess what I'm saying here is:
Run an ad blocker.
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Adult Wednesday Addams pulled from Youtube
Unlimited copyright extension encourages innovation! Youtube's algorithmic interpretation of "fair use" use is reasonable and even-handed!
Hi everyone! Thank you for the outpouring of support and concern about the disappearance of Adult Wednesday Addams from the internet. As many of you have seen, the Tee & Charles Addams Foundation flagged the show and, for now, it is off of YouTube. I am working actively on coming to a resolution and will not let Wednesday be caged in internet purgatory. I appreciate your patience and support while... I sort this issue out!
Obviously, this is very upsetting that the videos aren't online. Wednesday means so much to me as I know she does to you. Thank you for all of your enthusiasm. Your support every step of the way has meant the world to me.
UPDATE: At this point, the Tee & Charles Addams Foundation cannot do anything to change the status of this issue, so sending messages and donations will not remedy the situation. If there is anything that can be done in support of the series, I will let you know. Thank you again for everything!
Full Heart, Dead Eyes, Can't Lose.
Her now-mostly-empty Youtube channel is here. If you haven't seen all 13 episodes of this hilarious series, it's still easy for you to do so: oh look, torrents. That doesn't give her the ad money, though.
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Tags: copyright, corporations, doomed, mpegs, tv
Emoji taxonomy:
"Happy faces, sad faces, hearts, hand gestures, romance, other, monkeys, party, holiday, violent, flowers, clocks."
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Tags: computers, monkeys, phones, poop, www
Current Music: Vanbot -- Make Me, Break Me ♬
Youtube has finally destroyed their RSS feeds
A few days ago they turned off the v2 API in favor of v3, but v3 has no mechanism to get an RSS feed (or any other kind of listing) of a Youtube user's uploaded videos without authenticating first.
Because RSS feeds are not a thing that you should want.
Youtube: every day, making everything worse, in every way.
I don't know if anyone but me is using my youtubefeed program, but if you are, and you had Youtube users in your feeds list, you'll need to upgrade, and cope with the horrible fact that it now has a dependency on youtube-api.pl. (You'll need the latest version of that, as well as of youtubedown.)
But using youtube-api.pl at all means that first you have to jump through a bunch of hideous hoops to generate authentication keys and session IDs, pretty much ensuring that it's far too much of a pain in the ass for anyone to actually use it. Are you using it? Let me know.
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Tags: big brother, computers, conspiracies, corporations, doomed, firstperson, mpegs, security, www
Current Music: Abe Duque -- What Happened ♬
How a pro-domme, a Russian diplomat, U.S. intelligence and Mary Tyler Moore's landscaper conspired to create a dance classic
In 1978, the CIA was caught up in a BDSM Cold War affair.
A potential Soviet asset had fallen for a professional dominatrix who made decent money peeing on entertainment lawyers. Also in play was Mary Tyler Moore's landscaper, merely because he was sweet on the dominatrix and her record collection.
The most actionable intelligence from these black leather ops would not be obtained by the Agency, but by the landscaper himself, Stuart Argabright. Under the alias Dominatrix, Argabright recorded "The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight," a New York club hit released in 1984. [...]
This all started like so many high-school dreams: with no wheels and dumb luck. In 1977, Argabright was picked up while hitchhiking back home on the Key Bridge crossing the Potomac from Washington, D.C. He was 18, wearing a Tubes T-shirt and had just won tickets to see the Stooges. He was six years away from borrowing Iggy Pop's swim trunks in West Berlin, and seven from Dominatrix turning Iggy and Bowie's "Play It Safe" into a post-punk seizure.
The woman driving was older, and her red Corvette Stingray smelled of spy perfume. [...] They began seeing each other, spending nights at her East Side apartment, getting high and listening to Bowie records. After Argabright noticed the bull whips and manacles hanging in the closet, it became apparent that his friend's occupation entailed visiting all manner of welt and contusion upon the no-account hides of wealthy degenerates.
They soon compared clientele: He had Dylan, Paul Simon and Rock Hudson. She had music executives and a Russian official in D.C., who apparently had been beaten senseless enough to fall in love, with ambitions of defection and marriage. ("But a dominatrix doesn't often entertain marriage thoughts," says Argabright.) Always game for defection, the CIA contacted the dominatrix and encouraged her to "play ball." She reluctantly agreed while continuing to make the landscaper late for his mulching appointments on the Upper West Side. [...]
"The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight" was recorded in the studio of Tangerine Dream's Peter Bauman, with vocalist Claudia Summers, Ken Lockie of Public Image, Ltd., and Bow Wow Wow remixer Ivan Ivan. [...] One imagines the boys at Langley picking up this 12-inch and adding it to the Argabright-Argabright folder, somewhere between "weeded Paul Simon's periwinkle bed" and "shared stage with Klaus Nomi." Not to mention those gigs with Rammellzee, G.G. Allin, and good lord, Max Headroom. Best keep that tab open.
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Tags: big brother, mpegs, music, perversions
Current Music: Dominatrix -- Dominatrix 12" Mix ♬
Drunkspo
If You Add Drunk People to Fitness Quotes, Things Get Hilarious.
Tags: art, dnalounge, doomed, pranks
Current Music: Ultraísta -- Wash It Over ♬


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Sensenbrenner calls for investigation into botched ATF sting
January 30, 2013 By WRN Contributor
Wisconsin Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) is calling for an investigation, to find out why the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives botched a storefront sting operation in Milwaukee.
A report in The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel details the story of an ATF storefront called "Fearless Distributing" that was supposed to buy illegal drugs and guns from felons. It ran for 10 months before it was burglarized, and $35,000 in store merchandise was stolen. When the ATF closed the store, the paper said the agency left behind a sensitive document that exposed information about undercover agents. And the building's owner says the ATF still owes him $15,000 in utility bills and damage to the building.
In a statement released Wednesday, Congressman Sensenbrenner called the news "extremely concerning," noting that the "Obama Administration wants to pass new gun laws and give new responsibilities to the ATF, but the agency has been inept at enforcing the laws that we already have."
Sensenbrenner said "giving them more responsibility is like promoting someone who can't do the job. I will be investigating the ATF's actions and mistakes because this type of mismanagement is not acceptable. Wisconsinites deserve answers, and I am not going to wait until we have another Fast and Furious-like situation to find them."
Thirty people were charged in the sting, but the wrong person was named in three of the cases, including one who was in prison for another ATF violation.
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Q: Adding shapefile or feature class as layer in ArcMap using ArcPy I am trying to automate various tasks in ArcGIS Desktop (using ArcMap generally) with Python, and I keep needing a way to add a shapefile to the current map. (And then do stuff to it, but that's another story).
The best I can do so far is to add a layer file to the current map, using the following ("addLayer" is a layer file object):
def AddLayerFromLayerFile(addLayer):
 import arcpy
 mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument("CURRENT")
 df = arcpy.mapping.ListDataFrames(mxd, "Layers")[0]
 arcpy.mapping.AddLayer(df, addLayer, "AUTO_ARRANGE")
 arcpy.RefreshActiveView()
 arcpy.RefreshTOC()
 del mxd, df, addLayer

However, my raw data is always going be shapefiles, so I need to be able to open them. (Equivalently: convert a shapefile to a layer file without opening it, but I'd prefer not to do that).

A: Here's what I found worked:
import arcpy
from arcpy import env

# get the map document
mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument("CURRENT")

# get the data frame
df = arcpy.mapping.ListDataFrames(mxd,"*")[0]

# create a new layer
newlayer = arcpy.mapping.Layer(path_to_shapefile_or_feature_class)

# add the layer to the map at the bottom of the TOC in data frame 0
arcpy.mapping.AddLayer(df, newlayer,"BOTTOM")

The dataframe (variable df) that this code will put the new layer into is the first dataframe in the map document.  Also note that this code adds the data as a new layer at the bottom of the TOC.  You can also use the other arrangement options, which are "AUTO_ARRANGE" and "TOP".

A: Make Feature Layer (Data Management)
http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#//00170000006p000000.htm
I just tried it in the Python window of ArcMap and it adds directly to my map ( I didn't have to get my dataframe and call AddLayer).
arcpy.MakeFeatureLayer_management('r:/temp/a.shp','test')


This release corrects a bug introduced at release 3.4-8 where use of INS, INSERT() or <-1> to append a field to a dynamic array could cause a following field extraction to return incorrect data.
The IF command in a paragraph now has an option to perform case insensitive relational comparisons.
A "B" option has been added to commands within the SHOW utility to move to the bottom of the available items.
An ECS quaifier has been added to the QMBasic OPENTEMP statement to create the file in ECS mode.
A PARAMS property as been added to the !CALLHTTP.CLS class module to provide an alternative way to pass URI parameters in a GET request.


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Archive for the 'Big Society Debate' Category
Big Society Debate
The Big Society could be perceived as part of an overall government policy to push back the power and associated cost of the state, and which can help to fill the resulting services shortfall through more privately funded or voluntary initiatives.
The selection of comments below on the Big Society (see also Categories/Chairmans Blog/Big Society in the right hand index column) add to the debate on a concept which seems yet to gain traction in the minds of the British public perhaps due to a lack of clarity and convincing argument from the government. How does the concept differ from what already happens naturally in civil society through the voluntary and charitable sectors for example and also in the past when people had to organise themselves through e.g. co-operatives, friendly societies, unions etc.? Does the initiative of Jeremy Hunt, Minister of Culture, in seeking philanthropists to contribute to the shortfall in the Arts budget fall under the Big Society? Following on from the comments of the Archbishop of Westminster below, the Church has certainly played an even larger role in the past when religious belief had greater influence on society e.g. in education, Quaker businessmen etc. How essential is a successful Big Society to the need to cut the central government budget e.g. for education and health? With the basic idea appearing to be the devolving of power from central government to local council level and below, also presumably involving the transfer of related costs from central budget to local government/ council tax or the private sector at the same time, how can central government be held accountable other than at the ballot box, if it cannot control the outcome?
The National Citizen Service (NCS) proposed by David Cameron can form part of the overall narrative in encouraging 16-year-olds to spend their summer after leaving school doing voluntary residential placement. Charities, social enterprises and private firms would then be invited to apply to the government to become providers of placements. Although this is already criticised as only likely to interest the middle class and motivated teenagers, it does serve to illustrate the key value of self-reliance which underlies the concept of the Big Society and is generally shared by this part of the community.
The unions are wary of the concept and hostile to the voluntary sector with its do-it-yourself attitude, accusing it of lack of capability and taking jobs from the public sector. Protesters have already occupied the council chamber in Lambeth Town Hall Brixton south London, where the local authority has a radical plan to become the first cooperative council in Britain with services provided by voluntary groups wherever possible.
Small Business comment to our www.conservatives-paris.org blog:
? As the Big Society idea of David Cameron looks like coming apart already because of government cuts, he?s lining it up to get government funding. I mean, why make cuts in the first place?
Archbishop of Westminster speaking at LSE (as reported in the Times, 4th March 2011):
? The religious contribution to the renewal of civil society is more significant than had been thought. How we achieve this renewal is a good moral question at the heart of the idea of the Big Society. The debate opened up by David Cameron under the uneasy title of the Big Society is indeed a big one, for it invites us to ask what the purpose of society actually is, and that in turn depends on an understanding of what it is to be human. This is an important debate for our society to have, and it is a different debate from the other necessary debate about public expenditure.
Francis Maud, Cabinet Office Minister giving evidence to Commons Public Administration Select Committee (as reported in same Times article as above):
? Implementation of the Big Society programme will be untidy (neither chaos nor tidy) and difficult to plan. There will be a different pattern in different parts of the country. The idea is to devolve power to charities, voluntary organisations and businesses while retaining accountability. Although there will be lines of accountability to the centre, the government could no longer be responsible for every school and hospital.
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Big plans cooking for popular Co Armagh butchers with 22 jobs served up!
New relocated business will include 48-seat cafe and bistro
A popular Portadown butchers which was run by two brothers is set to close its doors this weekend.
The Meat Cleaver will close its doors for the final time this weekend, however, one half of the family duo will be opening brand new, much larger premises, with the promise of creating 22 new jobs.
Plans for the move include features such as a bigger butchery and larger delicatessen – complete with a 48 seater café bistro!
Dwaine Smyth, who set up the Meat Cleaver back in 2011 alongside his brother Gary, spoke to Armagh I about the expansion.
He said that the new venture is set to be a "one-stop food hall" and is "probably the biggest project" he has ever undertaken.
The Portadown man has already amassed a portfolio which includes fish and chips shops and barber shops, alongside his foray into butchery.
Dwaine said: "The butchers was my first ever business and I started that six and a half years ago."
The business was started after coming back from Dubai, where Dwaine lived for a short time.
He told Armagh I : "I always wanted to be self-employed no matter what it was."
This new venture – rebranded as Smyth and Cleaver – is a solo-project for Dwaine with him promising "it is not just a butcher's but a bigger beast in itself".
He summed up the whole concept of the new business as "whatever is on our menu you can buy at the butchers or the deli section – full farm to fork food".
Smyth and Cleaver also hope to keep with its predecessor's boast of keeping all of its suppliers within a 10-mile radius.
In this new food savvy world people, according to Dwaine "want to know about traceability, they want to know about sustainable agriculture".
He revealed that both the meat prepping station and kitchen will all be open plan "so that customers will be able to see the whole process".
Dwaine explained: "In essence, it is a farm shop, but someone posed to me if you slapped the interior of this new place on the Lisburn Road in Belfast it wouldn't look out of place!"
He also revealed to Armagh I his wish to give back to the community by offering free monthly butchery classes.
And there's a good reason too, as he adds: "I have had kids come into the shop that don't understand that your pork sausages come from a pig!"
Looking forward he is proud and privileged to be moving on to even bigger things.
Said Dwaine: "It's probably the biggest project I have undertaken in terms of jobs and creating something for the community."
The new Smyth and Cleaver premises, situated on the Armagh Road, is planned to open within the next few weeks.
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