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RENÉ SONNY STERMOLE
René Sonny Stermole, the creator of the "Ministry of Bible Defense" website shot his next door neighbor in cold blood on June 13, 2007. News reports indicated Mark A. Wright had gone outside to light his barbeque grill for a family meal when he was shot six times in the chest by Mr. Stermole who was subsequently charged with 1st-Degree Intentional Homicide and found Guilty but Not Guilty Due to Mental Disease/Defect. Mr. Stermole, over the course of the trial, fired a couple of attorneys and asserted he was not mentally defective. He was ordered placed in a psychiatric facility and now (as of June, 2009) is attempting to be released. Mr. Wright's widow has begun a lawsuit against him as well.
Several years ago, Mr. Stermole's online blathering caught our attention and as a result we created this page which noted his bizarre claims, not limited to only Masonic world domination but also including his fantasies about the CIA, Kaddafi, the mafia and more. While links to his material are long since broken, you can see what was written earlier by this man who, according to court records of his case, was alternately using a public defender and defending himself, apparently claiming that the court has no jurisdiction over him. Sadly, Mr. Stermole is not alone in allowing his paranoia and Masonophobia to result in violence which ends the lives of others. What is particularly ironic is that he - like others who've claimed that the Masons are the ones destroying religion, acts in a way which is so opposite the teachings of ANY faith.
Stermole, 56, lived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Many thanks to Bro. David Baylor for his initial 'heads-up' on this story.
Our deepest sympathies are extended to the Wright family.
As of December 13, 2007, the court found that the defendant was not competent to proceed, but more likely than not to regain competency if treated. They suspended proceedings and committed Mr. Stermole to a state institution for treatment including psychotropic medication. In February, 2008, he was adjudicated competent to stand trial and eligible for $500,000 cash bail which, fortunately, was never attained. The trial occurred during the June, 2008 and at its conclusion, the jury returned the following:
Question 1: At the time the crime was committed, did the defendant have a mental disease or defect? YES
Question 2: As a result of the mental disease or defect, did the defendant lack substantial capacity either to appreciate the wrongfulness of the conduct or to conform that conduct to the requirements of law? YES
Court polled the jury to which each answered that this was their verdict. Court excused panel from further service.
Court enters judgment of conviction and finds the defendant not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect pursuant to 971.165(3)(b).
At a sentencing hearing on June 23, 2008, "The court finds by clear and convicing <sic> evidence that the defendant poses a significant risk to himself or others and commits the defendant for LIFE to the Department of Health and Family Services. The defendant is not capable of refusing psycho-tropic medications."
You can follow additional developments on the court's website here.
"The research work
AMERICA'S SUBVERSION
is presented "as is" and is not completed. It represents an historical and current analysis of related New Age subject matter, as well as a critical analysis of the claims of Masonic scholars and New Age leaders.
The presentation is without warranties but represents a sincere effort to distinguish fact from fiction.
The Ministry of Biblical Defense presents this analysis on a not-for-profit basis."
It's just too bad that Sonny Rene Stermole didn't bother to deal with some very simple research before he spent all this time quoting stuff that has been proven as A HOAX!
Swing by his web site but be careful! They like BIG letters and LOTS OF UNDERLINING!!! He's also gotten their hands on a text-art program and have decided that somehow that'll make their site more readable. Just pick any of the pages that talk about Freemasonry, though, and you'll find LOTS of quotes ostensibly from Albert Pike. The only problem, though, is that they're ALL FROM THE TAXIL HOAX!!! (We'll cut out copying his format, now. We just couldn't help it! <giggle>)
The Leo Taxil hoax is documented in brief here on our site as well as in great detail here and here by recognized Masonic scholars. You'll notice that the Ministry of Biblical Defense has many quotes from William Schnoebelen, Jim Shaw, and the (in)famous "Lady Queenborough (Edith Starr Miller), 1933". Defense with lies - an interesting concept! - but of course, it is "without warranties" you'll remember!
From his web site on June 7, 1998, we find these several examples where "Bible Defense" has simply copied the works of others who've quoted the Taxil hoax. Sloppy scholarship or a hatred which Jesus would have never condoned: you decide!
Retired Commander of the Royal Canadian Navy {William Guy Carr} ...
"While Pike was Sovereign Pontiff of Universal Freemasonry, and Head of the Illuminati during the 1870's he revised and modernized the ritual of the Black Mass celebrated to emphasise the Luciferian and Satanic victory achieved in the Garden of Eden, and over Christ to end his mission on earth. The celebrant of the Black Mass plays the part of Satan. He introduces a Virgin Priestess to the joys of sexual intercourse and makes known to her the mystery of procreation. ... The desecration
of a Host consecrated by a Roman Catholic Priest is part of this abomination. Lucifer is worshipped as "The giver of the True light"; the fountain of All wisdom; and as the greatest of all Supernatural Beings. Satan is worshipped as Lucifer's Prime Minister ... a Black Mass is usually followed by a Bacchanalian orgy. Those who attend are supplied with sex-stimulating drugs and beverages. They worship the body and indulge in sexual excesses, and perversions, of all kinds. Priestesses are provided for the occasion.
p. 122 Hidden Secrets of the Eastern Star: The Masonic Connection,
Dr. Cathy Burns, 1994
quoting from David Carrico's exposé, quoting Commander William Guy Carr, Lucifer--Eliphas Levi--Albert Pike and the Masonic Lodge, p. 15
Note the "Supreme Pontiff" part? Here's a quote of a quote of a quote of a lie! Well, you see the point....
We tend to think that anti-Masons make some very odd charges when they try to connect 'Masonic evil' with their personal lives. Sonny René Stermole, however, has one of the most vivid we've seen. Rather than recount his contacts with the CIA, the Mafia, and more, jump on over to his web site (link long gone and not retrievable through Internet Archive). You'll find it quite interesting!
Here's just a little 'teaser':
"To provide a little more perspective, it was in the fall of 1986 that a Mafia figure and a "biker" figure observed me in an another "establishment" and discussed what to do about me. What could they fear from a guy who was only drinking soda ?" The Mafia figure who was apparently from Chicago stated he knew of persons who could take care of me. Only a few days later, even immediately after expressing my concerns to an "off-duty" Milwaukee police officer who has otherwise been seen on television knocking down a door in a drug bust in the inner city, I was confronted at gunpoint by the most notorious gang in Chicago, whose founder was from Milwaukee. It was the same gang which is known in Chicago for performing murder for the Mafia, and which has been pursued by the FBI for conspiring to blow up federal buildings with the aid of Muhamar Kaddaffi. They made threats and instructed me to sell my parent's home. I was told the arrangements would be handled by a man who would pursuantly show up across the street from the front of the house in an automobile, and exactly as they described, a mature white man in a Caddilac showed up. It must have been a nice casual wait for him, because I only observed. So, in the spring of '87 a Mafia "family" man nearly breaks my neck. His comments to me, intriguingly, reflected similar sentiments as those expressed by the two assailants from the Mafia-connected gang. Religious and political denunciation of my beliefs. They were strikingly similar encounters in that respect.
Masonicinfo note: all typographic errors left as created by Mr. Stermole.


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38. Atriplex mucronata Rafinesque, Amer. Monthly Mag. & Crit. Rev. 2(2): 119. 1817.
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Atriplex arenaria Nuttall; A. cristata Humboldt & Bonpland ex Willdenow var. arenaria (Nuttall) Kuntze; A. pentandra (Jacquin) Standley subsp. arenaria (Nuttall) H. M. Hall & Clements
Herbs, annual. Stems erect, ascending, or procumbent, much branched, obtusely angled, 1-6 dm, stout, scurfy when young. Leaves alternate or proximalmost opposite or subopposite; petiole to 1.5 cm or sessile; blade paler abaxially, oblong or oval, lanceolate, or elliptic to broadly obovate or narrowly oblong, 10-40(-60) × (2-)4-20 mm, base rounded to cuneate, margin entire or undulate, rarely with 1-2 teeth, apex rounded to acute, mucronate, thin, often densely white scurfy beneath, grayish green and glabrate above. Staminate glomerules terminal or in dense or interrupted, terminal or axillary, naked spikes or shortly branched panicles. Pistillate flowers fascicled in axils. Fruiting bracteoles subsessile or with stipes to 1 mm, cuneate-orbiculate, compressed, 4.5-7 × 3.5-5.6 mm, typically longer than wide, united to middle, apex rounded, 3-5-toothed, teeth subequal, sides irregularly tuberculate or with 2 lateral dentate crests, rarely not appendaged. Seeds reddish brown, 2 mm. 2n = 18.
Flowering summer-fall. Sandy seashores, salt marshes; 0 m; Ala., Fla., La., Md., Mass., Miss., N.H., N.J., N.C., Tex., Va.
Problems with prior applications of the name Atriplex mucronata lie in the mistaken determination of the place of publication as Amer. Monthly Mag. & Crit. Rev. 2: 176. 1818 (where the name is only mentioned), instead of 2: 119. 1817 (where accompanied by a description and notes). H. M. Hall and F. E. Clements (1923) evidently relied on P. C. Standley's (1916) interpretation, which indicated the wrong citation (see also A. dioica Rafinesque as an identical example). Hall and Clements applied the name mucronata to their interpretation of A. patula subsp. hastata or to A. hastata (i.e., to A. prostrata according to this treatment).
The treatment of Obione by C. H. B. A. Moquin-Tandon (1849) included "A. mucronata Rafin.!" as a synonym of O. arenaria. Possibly a sheet in the Prodromus herbarium at Geneva was the basis for that decision. It has two mounted specimens, one labeled A. arenaria Nuttall, collected by Nuttall in "N. Jersey, 1826," and a second labeled "Atriplex mucronata Rafinesque (A. arenaria Nuttall, N. Jersey) Maritime NY, Rafinesque 1819." From that information (although the year is 1819, not 1817), and from the description of the taxon, it seems clear that A. arenaria Nuttall is a later synonym of A. mucronata Rafinesque by at least half a year.
H. A. Gleason and A. Cronquist (1991) indicated that this taxon, by whatever name, is "perhaps better treated as a variety of the more tropical Atriplex pentandra (Jacquin) Standley, but the proper nomenclatural combination not yet made." The present writer agrees with that conclusion, but such subjugation might indicate further contraction into the species of additional closely related taxa, e.g., A. wrightii, which is clearly closely allied as well.
Plants from the coastal states from New England south to New Jersey are much alike and seldom, if ever, display prominent, terminal, naked spikes or panicles with beadlike glomerules of staminate flowers. Plants from Florida westward sometimes have such staminate spikes or panicles.
Specimens from Florida and some from Texas can be distinguished from Atriplex pentandra only with difficulty, especially those individuals with entire leaves. However, the fruiting bracteole length-width ratio and overall shape, with some allowance for overlap, can serve to distinguish most specimens; those of A. mucronata are proportionately longer than broad and, on average, larger.

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Champagne Wishes and RV Dreams
living the dream on the open road...
Snags & Brags
The Charm of Charleston
Charleston South Carolina may not be as big and as bold as Savannah, but that's a good thing. It's more independently manageable. This city Jack and I could do on our own...well, with a little help from our friend, the AAA Guide Book! With that in hand, we walked the city, well a lot of the city anyway.
Charleston has charm. The homes here are filled with flower boxes and wrought ironwork that New Orleans would envy! The people here are soooo friendly and sweet. Everywhere we walked, when someone would see me looking in the guide book, they would stop and ask if they could help us find some place. I was offered more help in one day here, than in a year elsewhere! Charlestonians are proud too. We met an artist, W Hampton Brand, who paints on slate and painstakingly researches the subjects to make sure he has the accurate information and detail. He gave us detailed information regarding the very popular Rainbow Row, a well painted and photographed cluster of colorful stucco Georgian houses. It seems that two of the houses are not really authentic, that when they were being renovated, those two were completely rebuilt, without any parts from the original remaining intact - therefor, shouldn't be a part of the cluster! He only paints the "correct" cluster. We bought one of his paintings (of a wrought iron gate tho, not the houses). He was quite a character and a great detailed artist.
It also has some of the most beautiful and unusual churches I've ever seen. Two were the most interesting, the Huguenot Church built in in 1845. It had the most beautiful ceilings, pure art form. The other, was the Romanesque Circular Congregational Church first built in 1681 (had to be rebuilt after a fire). It's graveyard is said to be the oldest in the city; headstones date from 1690. They were a joy to photograph. A funny bit of history on one of the churches, the St Michael's Episcopal. It seems that one of the church's most notable feature, the 186-foot tall steeple, was painted black during the American Revolution in an attempt to mask it from British ship gunners; instead, it became an easier target!
A full day of walking exhausted us and stirred up an appetite, so we were more than happy to be treated to a home cooked meal by our friend Harold. A great way to end the day...with friendship, food and wine!
If you wish to view the rest of the photos from this trip, you can at my Flickr account at:
...kicking back in South Carolina, Marie
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2019- A NEW YEAR, A NEW JOURNEY
At the start of our grand adventure...
We can hardly believe it's now year seven for Jack and I, in our quest to "see the USA" in our 36' Tiffin Allegro Motorhome.
It all started in January, 2012, after retiring from the printing industry (Jack) and the San Diego Zoo (Marie). We sold our Escondido (California) home, put our remaining treasures in storage, bought the motorhome of our dreams (a 2008 little used beauty) and set out to see all that we could see!
Our only goal was to "follow the sun" as neither one of us are big fans of cold weather, especially driving in snow. Our first destination was to head slightly east towards friends. Several years ago we had a number of our friends who had abandoned the work-a-day-world in favor of a full-time RV life, two couples that had done that, now were living in Nevada, & Arizona and we wanted not only to see them, but to learn as much as we could from them!
With little more than their wonderful sage advise, we soon set off for the adventure of our life. We loved every moment of it; so much so, we are now going forth with year seven!
If you followed along with us during our first years, welcome to year seven, and thanks, as it's nice to have company (be sure to say "hi" sometimes)! If you are new to the blog, "welcome" and I hope you enjoy the trip.
You would think that after all these years, we'd "seen it all"...but no, we haven't! This is a beautiful country and we never get tired of discovering it. Every back road leads to a new and wonderful adventure! We finally have "crossed off" all the lower 48 states, but that doesn't mean there are no surprises left, no new campsites to explore, no new parks to visit and favorite spots to see once again!
We changed our "status" this year, in that we went from "being on the road full-time" to "being on the road part-time"...but the adventure is still the same!
Come along with us and see!
The Bonaventure...
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Savannah - a true Southern Belle...
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Does Leland's Brunswick Forest still plan to build a movie megaplex?
Judy Royal
Why is the electronic sign on U.S. 74/76 so inconsistent as to the status of the Cape Fear bridge?
How can I get the police to patrol my neighborhood more? I'm tired of cars speeding through it.
Who maintains the streets and roads in the Birch Creek community of Leland?
Are service dogs required to be leashed in Brunswick County?
Where are the dog parks?
How many homes have been built in Brunswick Forest? How many will there be when the development is complete?
Why were the only community Christmas decorations in Brunswick Forest a few white lights?
What happened Brunswick Forest's plans to build a beach club in Oak Island?
What retail buildings are going up in Brunswick Forest?
How do I find out about a specific property in Pender County?
Why is there a city of Wilmington dump truck behind a private residence being renovated?
Could you tell me whether DirecTV has plans to offer local HD channels for Wilmington?
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Not much has changed since the StarNews' last update about the proposed Brunswick Forest movie theater nearly three years ago. That's when Florida-based Frank Family Entertainment group put the brakes on plans for a 14-screen complex that was originally scheduled to open in 2009.
"There's still nothing happening," said Brunswick Forest spokesman Tobin Spirer. "It's very difficult to attract a theater."
While he's not completely ruling out the possibility of Frank eventually resuming its original plans, Spirer said the company has taken down its sign at Brunswick Forest.
"They certainly have not stepped forward the way we had originally anticipated," he said. "We're still hopeful it may occur, but there's been no substantive activity with Frank in the past two years."
During that time, Brunswick Forest has "worked diligently to find another theater complex with other entertainment" by "actively negotiating" with various major movie chains but has not found "anyone willing to commit," Spirer added. "It really is a question of population density," he said. "We just need to get to that magic number that will attract a theater. While Brunswick Forest is doing very well, the county is still relatively sparsely populated and many large players look at numbers."
By his own estimation, Spirer expects a theater will happen within the next two or three years. "We hope it will be sooner rather than later," he said. "I think it's inevitable, but when is a matter of conjecture. I can't imagine any other venue in Leland other than Brunswick Forest for a multiplex cinema."
What happened to the plans to build a CMS Food Solutions plant in Leland?
Does UNCW plan to remove the Cinema 6 sign from its property on Oleander Drive?
Date posted: March 21, 2012


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›Conference›Ag research under the microscope
Ag research under the microscope
June 23, 2015| Agri-food Innovation Council | Conference
The Agricultural Institute of Canada looks at the implications of changing government support
Source: Alex Binkley, ONTARIO FARMER
Section: News Page: A23
The Agricultural Institute of Canada (AIC) is hosting its first national policy conference this summer to take a hard look at what's happened to agriculture research in recent years and its future direction.
Governments have moved away from basic research to support applied research and partnerships with commodity groups to pursue marketable projects. AIC CEO Serge Buy says it's time to discuss what this means for the future of agriculture scientists in Canada.
The conference July 12-14 in Ottawa will focus "on how we move ahead during the next few years," he said in an interview. "While the research sector needs more funding, it also has to be clear on how the partnerships between the public and private sectors will proceed."
There remains a clear need for basic research to gain the knowledge that will translate into new products and farming techniques for the future, he added. "We want to focus on this issue during the conference. We hope there is a good debate on both side of the issue."
"We have to make sure that proper basic research is carried out in Canada"
The goal is to create an agriculture research policy over the summer that will be ready for release after the federal election in October.
The AIC aims to attract scientists, producers, government officials and businesses to the conference to create a policy for the 21st Century that will make Canada a leader in research standards for innovation and sustainability.
Buy says the Council has been examining itself to determine its mandate and future role. "We've really been looking at where agriculture is going."
Including individual and group memberships, the Council is in contact with several thousand people in the agriculture community.
"If Canadians – and our export markets – are to be able to derive food, bio-products such as renewable fuels and bio-materials, and environmental goods and services from agriculture, people with professional expertise and science from a broad array of disciplines are urgently needed – from agrologists, bioengineers, crop protection scientists to zoonotic disease specialists," the AIC says in a backgrounder on agriculture research.
"They may be soil or animal scientists, agronomists, food scientists, economists, geographers, farmers, geneticists, engineers, health professionals, public policy analysts, government regulators or business managers or owners. They may work in government, business, not-for-profits or academia."
"Collectively, they invest their intellectual capital to satisfy individual and societal demands of contemporary agriculture, for example from improving yields to discovering and extracting new value streams from agribased products.
"They all share a common science-based concern on how to increase the sustainable output from the agriresource base and how to ensure that the end-products derived from that resource meet consumer and societal needs. Now and into the future. Goods and services that are green, safe, and healthy. Products that make our lives richer."
Learn more about the conference and how to register here.
Media Release: Ag Research Policy Poised to Enhance Canada's Prospects on International Scene AIC vows quick action on policy


Vaccines and therapeutics developed using mice often don't work as expected in humans. New research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis points to the near-sterile surroundings of laboratory mice as a key reason.
When the researchers infected laboratory mice with the mouse equivalent of microbes that cause common infections in humans, the infections changed the animals' immune systems. The immune systems of uninfected mice resembled those of newborn humans, but the immune systems of the infected mice behaved like those of adult humans.
The paper is published April 20 in Cell Host & Microbe.
"If mice aren't perfect models, maybe part of the reason is that we've cleaned them up so much," said senior author Herbert "Skip" Virgin, IV, MD, PhD, the Mallinckrodt Professor of Pathology and Immunology and professor of microbiology and medicine. "Maybe we could make them better models for human diseases by giving them back some of the infections that would be normal to us as humans and every other mammal on the planet."
Animal studies do not always accurately predict how a vaccine or treatment will fare in humans. This is partially due to genetic differences - obviously mice are not just tiny, furry humans - but it also may be due to environmental differences between lab mice, which live in almost-sterile, well-controlled environments, and people, who are exposed to countless microbes starting at birth.
As part of the study, researchers infected mice raised in a clean research facility with two kinds of herpes viruses and an intestinal parasite that cause chronic infections, as well as the influenza virus, which causes a short-lived infection. Worldwide, all are related to common infections in humans, although in the United States intestinal worms are uncommon.
Once the mice had recovered from the acute infections and the chronic infections had been established, the researchers extracted immune cells from their blood and studied which genes were active.
"There is almost no overlap between the genes that were active in the immune cells of the uninfected mice and in the infected mice," said Virgin. "These differences in which genes were turned on means that the activity of the whole immune system really fundamentally changed."
The same pattern of gene activity changes was found when the researchers and their collaborators compared immune cells from human umbilical cords with those from adult humans. Like research mice, newborn humans have experienced few, if any, infections.
"By giving the mice infections, we altered their gene expression in a way that made them more like adult humans and less like newborns," said Virgin. "This really suggests that lack of infection may be part of the reason that research mice are different than humans."
To test what effect these changes in the immune system had on the ability of the mice to respond to vaccination, the infected and control mice were given the yellow fever vaccine. Both groups produced effective, but somewhat different, responses.
"Something about the history of infections changed the quality of the antibody response," said Virgin.
People nearly always produce a strong immune response to the yellow fever vaccine, but that is not true of all vaccines. Some are more effective in one population than another. The vaccine for tuberculosis, for example, has been reported to work better in European than African populations, and the reasons may have as much to do with the environment as with genetics.
"We all are chronically infected with multiple things, and that's normal," said Virgin. "It doesn't make us sick, but it may make us different from one part of the world to another, because of changes to those chronic infections or the commensal organisms that live on us."
To make a mouse model that accurately predicts how vaccines will work in people, scientists need to understand both the variation in human immune responses around the world, and the effect of different infections on the mouse immune system.
"We've established the principle that you can substantially change the nature of the immune response, but what we can't yet do is make the mouse make a human response," said first author Tiffany Reese, PhD, who led the project while a postdoctoral researcher in Virgin's lab and who is now an assistant professor of immunology and microbiology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. "We don't know which organisms change the immune system in which way. That's what we're working on now."


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Unidentified Female - Baltimore
On July 27, 2005, at approximately 2:57 p.m., officers responded to the wooded area off Cross Street near Wasena Avenue in Baltimore where two juveniles had located human remains while playing in the area. The scene was secured and homicide detectives responded to investigate. The recovered remains were identified as a nineteen to twenty-three year old white female, approximately 5'05 to 5'08 tall with dark reddish or brown curly hair. To date, the female still remains unidentified and The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has been unable to provide an exact cause and manner of death.
The Anne Arundel County Police has not given up hope on positively identifying this female and hopes to provide some closure to her surviving family members. The Anne Arundel County Police Cold Case Unit recently sought the services of Parabon Nano Labs to assist with this investigation. Parabon Labs utilized "Snapshot", a forensic DNA analysis tool, in an effort to predict the physical appearance and ancestry of the unknown female. The Anne Arundel County Police are hoping the public will view the attached informational flyer and assist in positively identifying the recovered remains.
The Anne Arundel County Police are urging anyone with information to come forward by calling the Homicide Unit at 410-222-4731. Anyone wishing to remain anonymous may contact the Anne Arundel County Police Tip Line 410-222-4700 or Metro Crime Stoppers.
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Annual Check Ups: What you need to know.
I know children need an annual check-up, but do adults really need one as well?
Yes – an annual physical can help spot potential problems before they get serious and can also prevent future problems. It is important to keep track of key health measurements over time.
For most people, an annual visit is a preventive measure. By seeing your primary care physician every year, certain issues can be caught at an early stage when treatment is easier. In addition, most physicians encourage patients to ask questions about their own health and to express their concerns. At the end of a visit, the doctor and patient together usually agree on a plan of care for the patient to follow to address any health concerns.
Also if problems do develop in the future, a baseline record of your general health has been established. This will be very helpful if changes occur and comparisons need to be made to previous health issues.
Your doctor will review your medical history and the family's medical history and ask questions about your lifestyle. These conversations can indicate possible risks for certain diseases or other medical conditions.
You will also receive a hands-on physical exam along with appropriate screening tests, based on your age, gender, health risks, and current condition.. For example, a blood pressure reading or glucose test to determine your risk for hypertension or diabetes.
What will I take away from the visit?
At the end of the visit, your doctor may make recommendations for lifestyle modifications, such as dietary changes or establishing an exercise routine. You may also learn how to do self-examinations and take other steps to stay healthy between visits. Your PCP may also prescribe medications or order further tests.


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What is a CASA Volunteer?
A Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) volunteer is a trained citizen who is appointed by the court to represent the best interests of a child involved in child welfare matters. Children helped by CASA volunteers include those for whom home placement is being determined in juvenile court. Most of the children are victims of abuse and neglect.
What is the role of a CASA volunteer?
A CASA volunteer provides the child's attorney with carefully researched background details about the child to help the court make a sound decision about that child's future. Each home placement is as unique as the child involved. The case worker and their supervisor usually make the decision as to where the child is placed, although the CASA volunteer can report on the appropriateness of that placement. The CASA volunteer reports all information gathered to the Guardian ad Litem (GAL). The GAL gives a formal report to the judge at each hearing. The CASA consistently visits the child and reports to the GAL until the case is permanently resolved or closed.
How do CASA volunteers investigate a case?
To prepare a recommendation, the CASA volunteer talks with the child, parents, family members, social workers, school officials, and others who are knowledgeable about the child's history. The CASA volunteer also reviews all records pertaining to the child such as: school, medical, case worker reports and other documents. This allows the CASA to be well imformed and able to make the appropriate recommendation.
How are CASA volunteers different from social service caseworkers?
Social workers generally are employed by state governments sometimes working on as many as 15 to 20 cases at a time; they are frequently unable to spend adequate time with the child. The CASA volunteer has more time and a smaller caseload (average of 1-2 cases) to investigate a case. The CASA volunteer does not replace a social worker on a case; they are an independent appointee of the court. The CASA volunteer thoroughly examines a child's case, knows about various community resources and makes recommendations to the court independent of the case worker or Assistant Attorney General's Office.
How are CASA volunteers different from attorneys?
The CASA volunteer does not provide legal representation in the courtroom-that is the role of the attorney. However, the CASA volunteer does provide crucial background information that assists attorneys in presenting their case. It's important to remember that a GAL speaks specifically for the child's best interests, not their parents.
How do CASA Volunteers advocate for children?
CASA volunteers offer children trust and advocacy during complex legal proceedings. They help explain to the child the events happening involving the case, reasons they are in court and the roles of the judge, lawyers, and case workers. While remaining objective observers, CASA volunteers also encourage the child to express his or her own opinion and hopes about the case.
How many cases does a CASA volunteer carry at a time?
The number varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, but an average caseload is one to two.
How much time is required to be a CASA?
Each case is different. A CASA volunteer usually spends about 5 hours doing research and conducting interviews prior to the first court appearance. More complicated cases may take longer. Once initiated into the system, volunteers work about 5-10 hours per month.
How long does a CASA volunteer remain involved?
The volunteer continues until the case is permanently resolved. One of the primary benefits of the CASA program is that, unlike other court principals who often rotate cases, the CASA volunteer is a consistent adult advocate and provides continuity for a child until the case closes.
What children are assigned CASA volunteers?
Children who are victims of abuse and neglect and become wards of the court are assigned CASA volunteers. The program is most common in juvenile and family court cases.
Are there other agencies or groups providing a similar service?
No. There are other child advocacy organizations, but CASA is the only program where volunteers are appointed by the court to represent a child's best interests.
How effective are CASA programs?
Preliminary findings show that children who have been assigned CASA volunteers tend to spend less time in court and less time in the foster care system than those who do not have CASA representation. Judges have observed that children with a CASA also have better chances of finding permanent homes.
Is there a Atypical CASA volunteer?
CASA volunteers come from all walks of life and possess a variety of professional, educational, and ethnic backgrounds. There are more that 70, 000 CASA volunteers nationally. Local programs vary in number of volunteers they utilize. Aside from their CASA volunteer work, 64% are employed in full or part-time jobs; the majority tend to be professionals with 58% college or university graduates. The majority (82%) of the volunteers nationwide are women.
How many CASA programs exist?
There are now over 950 CASA programs in every state across the country, including Washington DC and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Do lawyers, judges and social caseworkers support CASA?
Yes. Juvenile and family court judges implement the CASA program in their courtrooms and appoint volunteers. CASA has been endorsed by the American Bar Association, the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention of the U.S. Department of Justice.
Does the federal government support CASA?
CASA is a priority project of the Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. The office encourages the establishment of new CASA programs, assists established CASA programs, and provides partial funding for the National CASA Association.
What does the National CASA Association provide?
The National CASA Association is a nonprofit organization that represents and serves the local CASA programs. It provides training, technical assistance, research, media and public awareness services to members.
How is CASA funded?
At the local level, CASA programs are generally funded through a state's department of justice. Many programs are privately funded through service organizations such as the Junior League and the National Council of Jewish Women. The National CASA Association is funded through a combination of private grants, federal funds (U.S. Justice Department), memberships and contributions.
How can I find the CASA program in my community?
CASA programs are administered by the Administrative Office of the Courts in Utah. If you cannot find a program in your area, contact the National CASA Association for referral.
How do I get more information about becoming a CASA volunteer?
Please go to: UtahCASA.org
450 S. State Street, N31
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When I first started to tell people that Rachael and I were moving to the Middle East, and that we were taking a short trip there in May, one of the first questions people would ask was: "Is it safe there?" What they're really asking, I think, is if petty crime is high, whether kidnappings are common, or if Qatar or Lebanon is a sworn enemy of the United States (they're not).
I can't speak for Qatar since we haven't moved there yet, but I feel relatively safe in Lebanon. That's just my perception, of course. I'm not an actuary, and I can't say for sure what is safe or unsafe here.
That said, there are two things here in Lebanon that make me fear for my safety [Mom, you can stop reading here]: Violence as the result of terrorism and war is the minor worry, and cars, motorcycles, or basically anything with wheels is the major worry. I'll start with the minor worry.
Yesterday we traveled to a Anjar, which is right on the border with Syria, and to Baalbek, the headquarters of Hezbollah, which is classified as a terrorist organization by the United States. It's important to point out though that Hezbollah isn't an international network like Al Qaeda. It's a political party in Lebanon that gained prominence for driving Israel out of the country in 2006. They build hospitals and schools, and hold seats in parliament. In many ways, they're not so different from political parties or the military in any country: they want to defend their people, and they'll do some unsavory things to accomplish that goal. That said, they have been accused of suicide bombings against Israelis, Americans, and people from France.
Needless to say, the fact that we were traveling in Hezbollah territory was never far from my mind. The neon green Hezbollah flag flies from many lampposts, and they've erected large posters on the sides of highways in commemoration of their martyrs. All of this is compounded by the fact that Hezbollah is aligned with Assad and the Syrian government, which the American government could eventually be at war with (not probable, but possible). It's less obvious to the naked eye, but it still makes you think.
So how would all of this effect my safety? I don't know. I guess that if the United States did enter some sort of conflict with Syria we'd probably avoid the Hezbollah regions of Lebanon, if not the entire country. But it still occupies my mind. I don't like to be in tightly crowded areas, whether in or out of a vehicle, because it makes me think about a bombing. Similarly, I'd rather not be in big groups of Westerners because I know it makes us stand out. We're probably totally safe, but every once in a while I think I consider the fact that if someone wanted to hurt a bunch of Americans and make it into the news, we'd be an excellent target.
Despite my occasional worries, recent history says that getting hurt or killed in Lebanon as the result of violence is unlikely. Unfortunately, I don't think I can say the same for my major worry, which is getting hurt in a car, or getting hit by a car.
When we drove in from the airport a week ago, the first thing that stuck out was the lack of people wearing seat belts. This isn't uncommon in many countries, and I suppose I should've expected it, but it still caught me off guard. Next was the traffic: fast, rarely staying in lanes, weaving in and out. Again, not uncommon, but still a dramatic transition since it's been a couple years since I've been out of the country. One thing that I saw on the drive into Beirut that I hadn't seen anywhere else was a handful of kids on street motorcycles popping wheelies at 60 miles per hour. I suppose there's a first time for everything.
After a few days walking around and riding in taxis, I began to sense that even though the drivers appear crazy, passing and weaving with tiny margins between their cars, they can actually be sort of courteous. You have to look closely, but they'll let one another pass and merge. Not so surprising in the United States, but you don't expect it in a place like Lebanon.
Still, you can't help but think about safety. Especially after seeing car accidents and blood on the road.
Our hosts, Rachael's aunt and uncle, don't often buckle up in cabs, even when seat belts are available (they aren't always). I'm not sure if they've grown used to the local customs or if they just don't expect anything bad to happen, but I still find myself reaching for the seatbelt as soon as we get in a car. When my seat has a belt and Rachael's doesn't, I reach my arm over her in the totally unrealistic belief that I could keep her safe if we got into an accident.
When it comes to being a pedestrian, I'm constantly reminded that even when I'm walking on the sidewalk, it's not really my turf. Cars are often parked there, and sometimes people drive their scooters and motorcycles down the sidewalk when the traffic is particularly bad.
So there you have it, the two things I think about while I'm walking around Lebanon, trying not to stand out, and looking both directions before I cross the street.


The Kansas House gave first-round approval by a 67-49 vote Thursday to a measure legalizing the use of low-THC marijuana oil for people with persistent seizure disorders.
Rep. John Wilson, a Lawrence Democrat, championed the oil legalization on behalf of Ryan and Kathy Reed, who moved to Colorado to access it for their young son, Otis.
Wilson successfully brought together House colleagues from across the political spectrum on the measure Thursday by emphasizing how much narrower it was than prior medical marijuana bills that never cleared the committee process.
Wilson's amendment allows for regulated facilities to grow low-THC marijuana, manufacture oil from it and dispense it to patients with cards verifying they have persistent seizures that have defied other treatments. The plants grown must be 3 percent THC or less, rendering them unable to provide the "high" that recreational marijuana users seek.
Prospective dispensary owners would have to apply for registration through the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. They would be required to pass a background check, show evidence of at least $250,000 in liquid assets and pay a $20,000 registration fee.
Opponents of Wilson's amendment questioned the evidence that low-THC marijuana oil is beneficial to seizure patients, noted that all forms of marijuana remain illegal at the federal level and questioned whether the bill, by circumventing the Food and Drug Administration approval process, puts patients at risk.
"What this says is, 'Fine, do whatever experiments you want on people, and hopefully the results will be good,'" said Rep. Jan Pauls, a Republican from Hutchinson.
Pauls, an attorney, said the bill provides no legal recourse for patients harmed by the oil.
Rep. John Carmichael, an attorney who has worked on both sides of medical malpractice cases, said her concerns were well-taken. But Carmichael, a Democrat, said Wilson's bill was so narrowly tailored as to make serious harm unlikely and the risk-benefit ratio acceptable.
Wilson had support from across the aisle, as well.
Rep. Barbara Bollier, a Republican from Mission Hills who is a retired physician, said she was skeptical of the bill at first but swayed by the pleas of desperate parents whose children suffer hundreds of seizures a day.
Rep. Scott Schwab, a Republican from Olathe, called Rep. Don Hill, a Republican from Emporia, up the podium to ask Hill several questions in his professional capacity as a pharmacist.
Hill said he prefers the standardization in dosage produced by the FDA testing and approval process. He cautioned colleagues not to oversell the benefits of the oil in question for treating seizure disorders, noting that initial research has shown benefits in only half — or less — of study participants.
But Hill said he still supported Wilson's narrowly tailored amendment.
"The determinant for me is putting myself in the position of Otis' family," Hill said.
Schwab and Hill both voted for it.
So did Rep. Brett Hildabrand, a libertarian-leaning Republican from Shawnee. To illustrate the bipartisan nature of the oil bill, Hildabrand noted that both Oklahoma and New York have passed similar laws in recent years.
If the marijuana oil measure passes the Senate and is signed by the governor, Kansas would join 23 other states that allow some level of marijuana for medical use.
Wilson's amendment was tacked on to House Bill 2049, a bill to lessen the penalties for first and second convictions of possession of small amounts of marijuana.
The sponsor of that bill, Rep. John Rubin, said he's against decriminalization of marijuana. But he said current law — which makes possession a felony on second conviction — is not serving the state or offenders well.
Rubin said his bill would save the state money on prison bed space, push low-level drug offenders toward community treatment that's more beneficial than jail time and bring the state's drug sentences more proportionate to the offense when compared to penalties for more serious crimes.
"It's good public policy, and it's good for the individual involved," Rubin said.
Andy Marso is a reporter for KHI News Service in Topeka, a partner in the Heartland Health Monitor team.
For the first time, a Kansas House committee has approved a bill allowing some form of medical marijuana.
House Bill 2282 was limited in scope to begin with, and Rep. John Wilson, the bill's sponsor, proposed amendments to further limit it Monday in the hopes of assuaging concerns about opening the state to legal pot abuse.
The effort worked, and Wilson's bill passed the House Health and Human Services Committee verbally with only a few "nay" votes. Wilson said the somewhat anti-climactic vote was appropriate.
A prison space crunch amid a state budget crisis is lending urgency to legislative proposals aimed at steering drug offenders toward community treatment rather than prison time.


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Man gets life for killing man dating his ex-girlfriend
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By - Associated Press - Friday, March 2, 2018
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A man has been sentenced to life in prison for killing a man who was dating his ex-girlfriend.
The Kansas City Star reports that 22-year-old Dairian Stanley, of Kansas City, was sentenced Thursday for first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the September 2016 death of Torrence Evans.
Court documents say Stanley confronted his former girlfriend, assaulted her and threatened to kill her after learning she was involved in a relationship with Evans. Stanley made her drive with him to an area, where he confronted Evans and fatally shot him.
The woman ran away, and Stanley reportedly fled in her car. He was later arrested in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was acquitted of a kidnapping charge during his trial earlier this year.
Information from: The Kansas City Star, http://www.kcstar.com


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Quiring C, Sanoski CA, Vallerand AH. Altavera. Davis's Drug Guide. 16th ed. F.A. Davis Company; 2019. https://emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/Davis-Drug-Guide/109691/all/Altavera. Accessed April 24, 2019.
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The days of digging out cash and stopping at the Golden Gate Bridge toll plaza will soon be over.
President Obama is pushing both political parties to come up with an agreement to solve America's immigration problems.
Former social activist and Vanguard Foundation CEO Hari Dillon was sentenced to prison this week for embezzling $2.5 million.
Biologists estimate domestic cats in the U.S. kill up to 3.7 billion birds and as many as 20.7 billion small mammals each year.
Android and Apple captured 92 percent of global smartphone sales in the fourth quarter, giving the two systems an effective duopoly.
Recent concerns raised about San Francisco's renewable energy program, CleanPowerSF, shows that going green isn't always easy — or cheap.
Bay to Breakers organizers are scrambling to find a new sponsor after Zazzle pulled its funding from the infamous event.
Could California's high-speed rail project become train in vain?
SFMTA slaps a hefty $200 million price tag on their ambitious new bike plans.


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Q: Bootstrap Dropdown button drops only the first time I have the following Dropdown button. It drops and select just fine when the page refresh, but as soon as I click on it once, it does not drop anymore.
Tried this article but did not really help.
Bootstrap dropdown only drops once
Using latest Bootstrap version.
I added this in the JS and it fixed the issue:

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Plans underway for 10th Anniversary of the Queen Isabella Causeway Collapse
In the early morning hours of September 15, 2001, just four days after 9/11, a barge struck the Queen Isabella Causeway causing a portion of it to collapse. Eight lives were lost and three survivors rescued from the waters of the Laguna Madre Bay.
A decade later, members of the communities bridged by the Queen Isabella are planning a memorial ceremony scheduled for 10 a.m., September 15th. Residents of Port Isabel and South Padre Island have formed a committee which has created a program that will be held on the South Padre Island side of the bridge at the Queen Isabella Causeway Collapse Memorial.
The Port Isabel South Padre Press is working on a reprint of the Special Edition printed on the afternoon of the collapse. Ray Quiroga, Press Publisher, reported that staff will be conducting interviews to add to the original content.
Speakers scheduled for the Thursday memorial ceremony will include residents from both communities, first responders, elected officials, members of the business community and others involved in the aftermath of the collapse and the bridge reconstruction.
In addition to remembering those lost in the collapse and those rescued in those pre-dawn hours, this committee also wants to celebrate the togetherness that our communities still enjoy, the result of realizing that we are more than just neighbors, we are friends.
For more information on the 10th Anniversary of the Queen Isabella Causeway Collapse Memorial Ceremony, contact: Port Isabel City Manager Edward Meza at 956/943-2682, citymanager@copitx.com or Darla Jones 956/761-3037, djones@myspi.org.
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Q: Reading files with jQuery? I would like to read a file (server-side) using jQuery. I have tried code supplied by multiple sites and it has not worked.
The code I tried last is:
jQuery.get("users/" + get("user") + "/display.txt", function(data) {
    fullName = data;
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However the variable 'fullName' (which is previously declared in the code) comes out as 'undefined'. How can I get this to work?
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A: You can't modify fullName var with data value inside that function and read it outside.
If you need to use that info outside the function, you need to export the data value within another function.
Something like:
var fullName = "not-set";
console.log('fullName is:', fullName); // not-set

function set_fullName( data ) {
    fullName = data;
    console.log('fullName is:', fullName); // must be `Levi` now
}

jQuery.get("users/" + get("user") + "/display.txt", function(data) {
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A: You're probably just trying to access fullname before the ajax call finishes.
Try this:
var fullName = "";
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    jQuery.get("users/" + get("user") + "/display.txt", onGetComplete);
}
function onGetComplete(data){
    fullName = data;
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function continueProgram(){
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Folk Art > Print > Mark Sabin
Mark Sabin
Screenprint, signed in pencil
Edition of AP 40, HC
Image Size: 16 x 20 inches
About The Artist: Mark Sabin
Mark Sabin was born in New York City in 1936 but raised in Florida. After graduation from Columbia University Law School in 1961, serving in the U.S. Navy, and writing several screenplays and novels, he worked in the entertainment industry. Eventually he began to create art. According to biographical sources, his first paintings were composed of acrylic on canvas. He has been described as a fantasy painter, blending elements in a juxtaposition...
About The Medium: Screenprint
A stencil process employing a frame on which silk or synthetic fabric is stretched. Stencils are hand-drawn or hand-cut and placed on the stretched fabric and act as a block out when the ink passes through the screen by means of a squeegee onto the paper, the non-stencil areas create the image. Also known as silkscreen or serigraph.


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I am writing a stored procedure to fetch data from above table.
The input parameters are:
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I want to fetch a unique templateId from above table if any record found for above combination, if not, it should return templateId for JobCode and ServiceType, and if this is also not found the it should look for SegmentType.
Example:

*

*If JobCode = DC123, ServiceType = Paid and SegmentType = New, then the code should return TemplateId = 1

*If JobCode = DC123, ServiceType = Free and SegmentType = New, the code should return TemplateId = 2

*If JobCode = DC123, ServiceType = Paid and SegmentType = Old, the code should return TemplateId = 3

A: Here is an aggregation query which you may use:
CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[sp_yourproc]
    @jobCode varchar(100),
    @serviceType varchar(100),
    @segmentType varchar(100)
AS
BEGIN

    DECLARE @templateId int

    SET @templateId = (SELECT TemplateId FROM yourTable GROUP BY TemplateId
        HAVING
            (MAX(CASE WHEN FilterName = 'JobCode'     THEN MappingValue END) = @jobCode OR
             @jobCode IS NULL) AND
            (MAX(CASE WHEN FilterName = 'ServiceType' THEN MappingValue END) = @serviceType OR
             @serviceType IS NULL) AND
            (MAX(CASE WHEN FilterName = 'SegmentType' THEN MappingValue END) = @segmentType OR
             @segmentType IS NULL);

    -- do something with the @templateId

END

In the context of a stored proc, you might not want to check all three filter names.  In this case, I treat a NULL input parameter as being valid, which means that any of the three inputs can be omitted, if desired.


With the school year ending, many college students are starting to search for jobs. Some North Jersey students, however, are looking beyond getting a job and are trying to start their own businesses instead.
From an app that connects college students with small businesses, to an improved design for traditional power strips, local college-age entrepreneurs have taken their ideas and turned them into growing businesses.
Fair Lawn, N.J., residents at the State University of New York at Binghamton, Shachar Avraham, 19, and Scott Wisotsky, 21, launched an app called Campus Pursuit this January. It focuses on so-called treasure-hunt marketing. Each day, Campus Pursuit delivers three or four notifications to its customers? phones that gives clues that have been hidden around the campus for prizes from affiliated small businesses.
?We like to think of ourselves as a pioneer of treasure-hunt marketing,? Wisotsky said. ?It?s a form of advertising that reaches something traditional advertising really hasn?t ? college-aged students.?
According to the New York City-based marketing firm re:fuel?s 2013 College Explorer Survey, college students have $404 billion in total spending power, and $117 billion in discretionary purchasing power. The survey said $42.1 billion is dedicated to food purchased in grocery stores, followed by $7.9 billion at convenience stores and $13.1 billion in restaurants ? many of which Campus Pursuit has already partnered with on a local level.
Avraham and Wisotsky said small businesses that sign up with Campus Pursuit will offer gift cards, one-month passes to local gyms and discounts for Avraham and Wisotsky to hide under bushes, benches or in bookshelves around the campus. Once a business is signed up with Campus Pursuit, someone using the app must watch a brief advertisement before being given clues about where the gift or voucher might be hidden. The advertisements are how Campus Pursuit makes money.
Avraham and Wisotsky say the app has been popular at Binghamton, as more than 1,000 of the campuses? 15,000 students have downloaded Campus Pursuit. Small businesses have given away more than $4,000 in prizes.
But as a business, Campus Pursuit said it offers analytics on who is engaged with their affiliated small businesses, including how many people use the gift cards they find, how many people use the app, as well as other data.
?We have a product that really works,?? Avraham said. ?Every week we are getting calls from new small businesses in our area.?
Avraham and Wisotsky said they are launching Campus Pursuit at the State University at Albany next semester.
?Right now, we work with small businesses, but we think in the future this has potential to work with larger corporations looking to advertise to college-aged students,? Wisotsky said.
Also trying to convert an idea into a business is Northvale resident Greg McNeil, a freshman at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken.
McNeil is the team leader for five students who have created Modularity Inc., a company trying to create a power strip that has flexibility for different-size chargers and other devices needing power.
?We sat down as a team and asked, ?What problems do we as college students have?? ? McNeil said. ?We decided that with all of the different technology we have, that a power strip would be a good idea.?
The idea for the Modu-Strip started as a concept in McNeil?s entrepreneurial management course at Stevens. Now McNeil and his colleagues are trying to raise money for the Modu-Strip on the crowdfunding website Kickstarter.
The Modu-Strip essentially has differently size outlets that link together in any combination, as opposed to traditional power-strip sockets that are evenly spaced.
Modularity has a working prototype of the Modu-Strip and has drummed up $5,833 of the $10,000 goal needed to finance the project on Kickstarter, an amount it must raise by May 26.
If successful, McNeil said Modularity will use the $10,000 to design a prototype that would more closely resemble the product it hopes to put on the market. McNeil said his team is focusing on attaining the Kickstarter goal before thinking of ways to introduce the Modu-Strip to market.
McNeil said that if Modularity achieves the $10,000 goal, Stevens will offer the team free housing over the summer and give them access to legal support to help build the company.
?Between all of our 18-credit course loads and different responsibilities, this has been a little difficult,? McNeil said. ?But we have been given an amazing opportunity, and we hope we can take advantage of that.?


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Triad Security integrates systems to provide complete security solutions for each client.
Intrusion (or burglar) alarms are found in electronic forms today. Sensors are connected to a control unit via either a low-voltage hardwire or narrowband RF signal, which is used to interact with a response device. The most common security sensors indicate the opening of a door or window or detect motion via passive infrared (PIR).
New construction systems are predominately hardwired for economy while in retrofits wireless systems may be more economical and certainly quicker to install. Some systems are dedicated to one mission. Others handle combination fire and intrusion protection. Sophistication ranges from small, self-contained alarms to complicated, multi-zoned systems with color-coded computer monitor outputs. Triad Security is skilled in intrusion detection, burglar alarms, perimeter detection systems (perimeter protection) for high end residential and, of course, commercial applications which is Triad's primary business.
Triad Security Systems recommends that clients take additional protection measures to safeguard against theft, intrusion and burglary by way of redundant monitoring.
When a client uses a central station they are safeguarding their business by sending a signal to an alarm monitoring company and having the proper authorities dispatched. By adding radio backup or cellular telephone backup (cellular backup) other than an ordinary telephone (POTS) line, an alarm system can transmit a signal to a central station. Signals can be sent via radio transceiver (i.e. radio backup) or digitally over a cellular network. Some systems employ more sophisticated methods that include supervised transmissions over proprietary, wireless networks. The alarm system sends regularly scheduled signals to the central station that denotes a normal state. This means that even if power and phone lines are cut, the alarm system will communicate to the central station that things are "not OK". Proper authorities (e.g. fire, police or other emergency service providers) can be dispatched by our central station operators to your business location.
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Some 287,000 people made their first application for asylum in the EU in the first quarter of this year, a fall of 33 percent from the last quarter of 2015, Eurostat figures show.
Syrians continue to be the most common nationality asking for protection, making up a third of all requests, the EU's statistical office said on Thursday (16 June).
Iraqis and Afghans remained the second and third largest groups, with around 35,000 applications each. The three nationalities account for 60 percent of all first-time applicants.
The highest number of applications were still filed in Germany, which has taken in over a million migrants since last summer.
Almost 175,000 first-time applicants were registered there, 61 percent of all the first-time applicants in the EU.
Italy received 22,300 requests, followed by France with 18,000 claims.
Austria registered 13,900 applications and the UK received 10,100 claims.
The number of first-time applicants dropped sharply in the Nordic countries. Sweden, which introduced border checks with neighbouring Denmark, experienced a 91 percent drop.
Applications filed in Finland fell by 85 percent, in Denmark they were down by 74 percent.
In the Netherlands registered asylum requests dropped by 72 percent, while in Belgium they fell by 70 percent.
Austria, which also introduced increased border checks, received 55 percent fewer requests, according to Eurostat figures.
The lowest number of asylum applications was in Estonia, where just five Russians requested protection.


There's a newer, easier method to root your Karbonn A111 instead the old method. This one is pretty simple. Rooting the Karbonn A111 will voids the warranty and we are not responsible if the device is damage during flashing process.
Before beginning the process, the recommended step is to create the full backup of your device. Things for which you need to create the backup are SMS, call logs, contacts, password, APN and internet access point's settings.


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Book Reviews: February 2006
Out There Outdoors February 1, 2006 Book ReveiwsMagazine Article
Being Caribou
Karsten Heuer
Mountaineers Books, 2005, 237 pages. Winner 2005 Banff Mountain Book Festival Grand Prize.
Imagine yourself embarking on a five-month, 1000-mile skiing/backpacking trek across the wilds of Canada's Yukon and Alaska's North Slope following a herd of caribou from their wintering grounds to their summer calving grounds and back. Do this knowing that, "Being caribou means not having fixed goals, objectives, or destinations." Your only link to the 13 two-week bundles of food that will sustain you is a satellite phone and the pilots who will fly in the food drops. Finally, plan your departure only months after your wedding. Thus, the stage is set for Karsten Heuer and Leanne Allison's epic journey with the Porcupine Caribou herd to their calving ground on the North Slope of the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge.
Ultimately the book is about the demerits of oil drilling on the Refuge. The first being how the best estimates see less than a year's supply of oil for the United States under the Refuge, and another, how a small increase in vehicle efficiency or alternative energy sources could reduce petroleum dependency. But Heuer's story is not about numbers. It's about developing a connection with the animals. As Heuer and Allison move with the caribou, "… the thrill matures into a deep honor." Then, after bonding with the herd on the calving grounds, knowing they "… had become part of something immense and immensely fragile." While camped among the caribou on the calving grounds discussing oil companies' position that they could develop the area without affecting the animals, Leanne laments, "… but I can't even step outside this tent [without the animals freaking out]?"
While reading Being Caribou you will feel the fear of icy river crossings and bear encounters; you will understand death as part of the cycle of life. You will laugh, you will cry, and if you care at all for the natural world you will be angry-angry at yourself for wasting energy and angry at your government for endorsing waste.
The Villain: The Life Of Don Whillans
Jim Perrin
Mountaineers Books, 2005, 354 pages. Winner 2005 Banff Mountain Book Festival for Best Book: Mountain History & Winnner 2005 Bordman-Tasker Award for Mountain Literature.
Jim Perrin's biography The Villain: The Life of Don Whillans, provides an easily read account of the life of one of Britain's best climbers of the 1960s and 70s. The book describes Whillans' life prior to his untimely death from a heart attack in 1985, his rise to the apex of British climbing then fall into near obscurity.
Perrin carefully explores the complex and dynamic relationship between Don Whillans and Joe Brown. Brown was Whillans equally talented climbing partner during the early rock climbing days. Brown and Whillans fronted a shift in the British climbing community as the most successful working-class challengers to the upper-class climbing establishment. Brown's successes on alpine expeditions, in addition to other factors, led to friction between the two in the middle of their careers.
Perrin often tries to parse the philosophy of climbing to understand Whillans' attitudes and behaviors. Perrin describes climbing as, "…a form of play, and a public that views it ignorantly as heroism is palpably placing upon it false values." Whillans, who often referred to climbs as "jobs" betrayed his working class background, thus upping his conflict with the climbing establishment. Regardless of his view of climbing, Whillans began his career during an age in which climbers, especially in Europe, rose to near celebrity status. In Perrin's eye Whillans' avoiding the limelight of his celebrity likely cost him climbing opportunities.
Perrin's title for the book, The Villain …, recalls one of the Whillans' myths that Perrin discusses and to some extent dismisses. Focusing on Whillans' climbing, Perrin places the seedier aspects of his reputation into proper context. The context of a somewhat wild, working-class youth with an innate talent for climbing who used that talent to pursue a career on the rock and in the hills.
Ecotopia: 30th Anniversary Edition
Ernest Callenbach
Heyday Books, 2005, 176 Pages (with a new Afterword by the author).
Secession-it's not as farfetched as it sounds. Just this past year citizens in the state of Vermont organized the Second Vermont Republic committed to, "the return of Vermont to its rightful status as an independent republic as it once was between 1777 and 1791." Ecotopia, Ernest Callenbach's book of "political fiction" explores these potentials when the Pacific Northwest and northern California secede from the United States.
Most of us like to simply complain about the problems of society. By contrast, Callenbach offers us his vision of the Garden of Eden and the ideal society. Ecotopia follows the travels of international reporter, William Weston, sent from the United States to investigate the goings-on in the isolationist country. The initially skeptical Weston is gradually shaken to the core. His preconceptions of what life is and should be are turned on their side.
The book's structure consists of a contrasting set of entries by Weston; the first, a series of reports sent back to the fictional Times-Post in the United States for publication, and the other a set of private journals entries. The public reports detail Ecotopia's transition from an economy based on continual growth and production to a stable-state system, a 20-hour work week and a nationalized organic farming program. Weston describes Ecotopian mini-cities, their car-free zones and quiet streets where pedestrians are the priority.
Far more unsettling to Weston are the social and pyschological undercurrents running through Ecotopian interpersonal relationships. Prolonged eye contact among strangers, the public support and encouragement of the expression of all emotions, and their collective enjoyment of the physical, leave the staid Weston confused and uncomfortable. His romantic relationship with a vibrant, earthy Ecotopian woman allows him to begin to question his life back the United States.
At its core Ecotopia is a homecoming. The novel touches on our collective struggle to readapt to a completely new way of life and our continued attachments to what is comfortable or known-even if it is no longer sustainable. Weston's final struggle to come to terms with his own attachments to the people and place of Ecotopia in the end, allows him to move into and accept a deeper, more meaningful life.
Juliet Sinisterra
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Q: How to remove title bar in android api 22 and api 25? I am using android studio 2.2.3. How can i remove title bar from my application?
I am tried by putting
<activity android:name=".ActivityName"
    android:label="@string/app_name"
    android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Black.NoTitleBar.Fullscreen">
</activity>

in AndroidManifest.xml file but it doesn't worked.
Here is screenshot my project
My Project
My Style.xml file code is
<style>
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
    <!-- Customize your theme here. -->
    <item name="colorPrimary">@color/colorPrimary</item>
    <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
    <item name="colorAccent">@color/colorAccent</item> </style>

What should have to change in style.xml file?

A: Add this style in Style.xml
<!-- Base application theme. -->
    <style name="AppBaseTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
        <!-- Customize your theme here. -->

    </style>
    <style name="AppTheme" parent="AppBaseTheme">
        - <!--  All customizations that are NOT specific to a particular API-level can go here.
  -->
        <item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item>
        <item name="android:windowActionBar">false</item>
        <item name="colorPrimary">@color/colorPrimary</item>
        <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
        <item name="colorAccent">@color/colorAccent</item>

A: Programmatic way
  @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
       super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
       this.requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
       this.getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN, WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN);
       setContentView(R.layout.your_xml);

A: Just change your line this way
android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Black.NoTitleBar.Fullscreen"

to
android:theme="@style/Theme.AppCompat.NoActionBar"


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TV Critics: Theresa vs Boris: How May Became PM; Blind Date; Pitch Battle
"It is a lot of fun. Until you suddenly remember that it is not The Thick of It, it is our government."
Theresa vs Boris: How May Became PM, BBC2
"It is a lot of fun. Until you suddenly remember that it is not The Thick of It, it is our government. And that these people are running the country."
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian
"It rattled along nicely enough but the overriding sense was one of egos and grudge-settling taking precedence over the good of the country. As we begin the most complex diplomatic negotiations since the Second World War, it's worrying to think the same people are still in charge."
Jeff Robson, The i
"With acted-out segments broken up by the candid recollections of various Westminster heavyweights, this docudrama hybrid was both illuminating and depressing."
Matt Baylis, Daily Express
"Perhaps if the Prime Minister had delivered her ambition of winning a strong and stable landslide, Theresa v Boris might have seemed as harmlessly retrospective as was intended when it was filmed. As it is, the new reality that all the jostling, backstabbing, and in-fighting might be going on again in Westminster even as we watched, felt too near the knuckle to be amusing."
Gerard O'Donovan, The Telegraph
"The gold standard for these accounts remains Randolph Churchill's 1964 The Fight For the Party Leadership revealing how Alec Douglas-Home emerged from the Tory magic circle, but, with frank contributions, especially from Nigel Adams and Will Walden in the Boris camp, this did not fall far short."
Andrew Billen, The Times
Blind Date, Channel 5
"Paul O'Grady proved the natural heir to Cilla Black – engaging but occasionally acerbic – and the innuendo-laden format was pleasingly unchanged."
"This was a stale formula when it last aired 14 years ago. Now, thanks to First Dates and Take Me Out, and Tinder and Grindr, it's irrelevant. Oh, and offensive."
"The decision to revive Blind Date is as relevant as a campaign to reinvent the fax machine. O'Grady's acerbic style simply emphasises what a tawdry format this is."
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail
Pitch Battle, BBC1
"Pitch Battle doesn't exactly break the mould or turn the whole thing on its head but at the same time it is bursting with promise. This is a talent contest that's finally returned to the subject of talent, a battle without bullying or blubbing. I'd call it pitch-blooming perfect."
Critics: Ghislaine, Prince Andrew and the Paedophile
"A pacey, if pretty tabloid, overview of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell's vile exploits"
What is the True Potential of 5G for Video Contribution?
Kieran Kunhya of Open Broadcast Systems, explains why 5G will have such an impact on live production
Keeping Up With the Aristocrats; Kelvin's Big Farming Adventure
"The series is warm-hearted and great fun"


"No one lives forever...I might as well enjoy life while I can!"
"So what if I die a few years early? It's worth it to be able to enjoy my donuts and fast food."
We all have! But how many people regret this thinking later in life?
"It's not dying you should worry about…it's chronic disease."
"What are the most important lessons you have learned over the course of your life?"
Their advice includes insight on marriage, money, career, everyday happiness, health, illness and how to grow old well.
According to the elders, this thinking of "everyone is going to die of something" is not just wrong, but DEAD wrong! They know from experience that the penalty from a lifetime of bad health habits is NOT death, but likely years and years of suffering from chronic disease. Their advice: what you do TODAY for your health is critically important.
"It is not how long you will live, but how well you will live -- your body may need to last you 100 years, so you should live that way."
Charlotte, 84 years old, says, "What you do when you're young, it will hunt you up when you get old. If you're young, take care of your body and live right and go to the doctor and keep yourself in good shape. Don't abuse your body in any way, shape, or form. Now if you don't do that, a lot of things come out later on in life."
Tina, 80 years old, talks about her beloved husband: "We were married 47 years. He promised me we'd have a 50th anniversary, and he lied to me. He left me at 47 and a half. He was sick for quite a while. He had a heart attack and prior to that he had carotid surgery, first one side then the other. He was a smoker. The kids saw how he had to suffer. And when you told him something about it, 'Don't smoke like that' or his drinking, he'd say 'So what? You've got to die sometime.' But who suffers? The family."
Terry, 77 years old, says caring for your health when you're young is his top lesson for living: "You need to have your health. If you have to be pushed around in a wheelchair with an oxygen tank, if there's anything in life that you know right now that can prevent that, do it. Because as you get older, that's when you really have an opportunity to sit back and enjoy life a lot more if you're not in terrible health...whatever you can do to maintain your health...it will definitely make a difference later on in life."
How many people just drop dead one day from smoking or being overweight? It typically doesn't work that way, especially with advances in medical technology. The result is often years of additional life, but a lower quality of life. Many people with chronic disease may become dependent on medication, have increased pain and suffering, and experience a deterioration in their daily activities (simple joys like walking the dog, playing with kids or grandkids or even taking a shower). Unfortunately, this can place new burdens on family members. Plus, these diseases can increase the cost of living for the patient and their family (higher co-pays and out-of-pocket costs), not to mention society as a whole!
These chronic diseases – such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes, hypertension and cancer – are long-term diseases. They develop as a result of long-term decisions and the consequences are long-lasting. They account for 75% of all costs spent on healthcare in the U.S. And the real kicker is…many of these are preventable! Smoking-related chronic disease has decreased in recent years (possibly because of a variety of anti-smoking initiatives); however, diet-related disease continues to increase.
A scary trend is how chronic disease is affecting people at younger ages…even kids! Have you noticed that it's no longer called "adult-onset diabetes?" The "adult-onset" description has been dropped because of how prevalent this disease has become among children and teenagers.
It is Not too late to take action!
Evidence even shows that existing disease can be reversed! YES -- it can be reversed! Don't we all deserve to continue to enjoy life as we get older?! Of course, we want to enjoy every moment with our kids today…and then when our kids are grown, we want to be around to spoil our grandkids too! Plus, have more free time to do more volunteer work, travel, and enjoy our hobbies.
We know simple behaviors can lead to much better health...it doesn't have to be expensive...it doesn't have to include a fancy diet...and it doesn't have to be complicated. It's really simple...EAT REAL FOOD!
Of course, physical activity is important too, but eating REAL food can be even MORE important than exercise. We have heard from SO MANY Eat REAL America members who have changed their eating habits and consistently say "it is so much easier than I thought it would be!"
Enjoy breakfast like a king.
Eat lots of vegetables, fruits, nuts and whole grains (in other words, REAL FOOD!).
Enjoy meat and fish in small portions – 3 to 4 ounces – occasionally.
Cook at home...where you control the ingredients.
Eat until your stomach is 80% full. Emphasize quality over quantity -- no mindless eating.
Celebrate and enjoy quality REAL food!
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I currently enjoy a 1 year subscription to EATREAL courtesy of our department director and have enjoyed it greatly. Love this particular article from the elderly (quotes), and hope that many will take it to heart. It is truly wisdom, and no one has too much of that!
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Been a member for about a month now. Love the articles and recipes. Thanks for your hard work and the website.
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What's not to love about Spanish celebrity chef and dynamic personality José Andrés' gastronomic wonderland? Dinner at the Bazaar is like a trip down the culinary rabbit hole. Your palate will never experience a dull moment — from liquid nitrogen caipirinhas (that drink like adult sorbets and rouseoohs and ahhs throughout the under-the-sea-like white dining room) and the onion soup with foie gras cappuccino to the airbread cubano ($12), chock full of Swiss foam and topped with house-made pickles and Ibérico pork meat that literally explodes in your mouth. Try a bevy of fusion tapas that pay homage to the Caribbean, Asia, and the Americas while still keeping a Miami taste and feel. Take, for instance, the coffee with foie gras, yuca churros with peanut butter and local honey, and conch fritters with a liquid center.