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What the new HIPAA rules say about health information technology for users, developers and investors
Duane Morris LLP
USA March 13 2013
Health Information Technology Under HIPAA
Central to healthcare reform efforts is the use of health information technology ("HIT"), a broad term that is often used in conjunction with electronic health records ("EHRs"), mobile health ("mHealth"), telemedicine, health information organizations / health information exchanges ("HIOs," also known as "HIEs") and other developments that are revolutionizing the healthcare industry. HIT supports the development of a national information highway to facilitate the transmission of health data for treatment, payment, quality analysis and a myriad of other uses. HIPAA-covered entities and many of their vendors—among them are HIO and EHR consultants, data analytic firms, data transmission facilitators, software vendors and device vendors—rely on HIT to accomplish their purposes. Large data companies, small entrepreneurs and investors are participating in the growth of HIT.
While the use of HIT presents enormous benefits, it also poses significant risks with respect to the privacy and security of health data. On January 25, 2013, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS") announced the final omnibus rule amending the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 ("HIPAA") in accordance with the HITECH Act of 2009 (the "2013 Amendments"). The 2013 Amendments, which are effective on March 26, 2013 (with some exceptions), supplement and modify the HIPAA Privacy, Security, Breach Notification and Enforcement Rules (the "HIPAA Rules"). This Alert examines the key ways in which the 2013 Amendments impact HIT.
1. Business Associates Include HIOs, Data Transmission Services and Others
The HIPAA Rules expanded the definition of a business associate to include any entity that creates, receives, maintains or transmits PHI on behalf of a covered entity, or other business associates. The 2013 Amendments now require that a subcontractor of a business associate that handles PHI provided by the business associate, qualifies as a business associate in its own right. Moreover, the revised definition specifically includes HIOs, e-Prescribing Gateways and any other entity that provides data transmission services. Data transmission services are a core building block of the national health information highway.
In HHS's view, a data transmission organization requires access to personal health information ("PHI") on a routine basis to perform data transmission services. An HIO is a data transmission organization because it transmits data through an enterprise-based network, such as a hospital's internal or community-based network, or on a geographic basis, including a regional HIO. The 2013 Amendments do not define HIOs due to the fact that as the industry develops, HIOs will continue to evolve. However, HHS promises to issue guidance on HIOs in the future. Other data transmission organizations include e-Prescribing Gateways that facilitate electronic prescribing, as well as entities that manage the exchange of PHI through a network, including providing record locator services and performing various oversight and governance functions. In addition, a data storage entity that "maintains" PHI qualifies as a business associate, even if it does not routinely access PHI. This is because, according to HHS, the data storage entity (like a paper record storage company) has a "persistent," as opposed to "transient," opportunity to access the PHI.
HHS gives examples of entities that provide data transmission services but do not qualify as business associates (called "conduits") due to the transient nature of their access to PHI. Those entities that provide "mere courier services"—such as Internet service providers ("ISPs"), broadband suppliers and telecommunications companies—effectively act like the U.S. Postal Service in transporting data. These entities do not routinely access PHI except on a random or infrequent basis to provide the transportation service, such as to ensure that the data are arriving at their intended destination or in temporary storage, or otherwise as required by law. However, the conduit exception is a narrow one, and it has to be determined on a case-by-case basis.
Finally, as specifically required under the HITECH Act, the definition of a business associate also includes a personal health record ("PHR") vendor. A PHR is distinct from an EHR because the individual controls the PHR, whereas the covered entity such as a hospital controls the EHR (with certain rights, such as amendment, provided to the individual). In the preamble, HHS explains that a PHR vendor is a business associate when the hospital or other covered entity offers PHRs for its patients, such as through a patient portal, and the covered entity provides the vendor with access to PHI, such as the patient's laboratory results, to display in the PHR. By contrast, a PHR vendor is not a business associate solely because it maintains an interoperability agreement with a covered entity that governs the exchange of the data. In other words, the PHR vendor is not providing services for or on behalf of a covered entity, such as a hospital, solely because the PHR vendor and the hospital maintain an agreement that specifies, for instance, the technical specifications for exchanging data or that exchanged data will be kept confidential. In this situation, the PHR is independent of the covered entity, even if data is exchanged between them. (Whether the entity that is involved in transmitting or maintaining the data that the hospital receives from the PHR vendor qualifies as a business associate or is a mere conduit would be separately determined under the analysis of when a data transmission service is a business associate, as described above.)
2. The Security Rule and HIT
Because the HIPAA Security Rule applies to all electronic PHI ("ePHI") that is created, received, maintained or transmitted by a covered entity, Security Rule compliance has always been key for HIT entities in arrangements with covered entities. Under HITECH and the 2013 Amendments, business associates and their subcontractors are now directly subject to the HIPAA Security Rule. HIT entities that now fall under the definition of a business associate as a data transmission service or a PHR vendor, or who are business associates to business associates, must ensure compliance with the HIPAA Security Rules.
The Security Rule applies a long list of required and addressable administrative, technical and physical standards that covered entities and now business associates must implement in order to be HIPAA-compliant. These standards include administrative safeguards (comprehensive security policies, training, security incident procedures, etc.), physical safeguards (workstation security, device and media controls, etc.) and technical safeguards (audit controls, transmission security, etc.). Covered entities and business associates are required to enter into agreements that ensure compliance with the Security Rule standards.
The 2013 Amendments did not amend the basic Security Rule standards except, significantly, that the standards now apply directly to business associates and their subcontractors that handle PHI. Thus, business associates and their subcontractors that handle PHI, such as a software company providing maintenance services for a business associate that require access to PHI, will now be subject to penalties for violations of the Security Rule, and must enter into agreements that address compliance with the Security Rule standards. HITECH also provided monies for a pilot security audit program, in which HHS conducts Security Rule compliance audits on a random basis. Although the pilot program has ended, the government will continue its security audit activities when, for instance, a breach is investigated.
3. The Breach Notification Rule and HIT
The Breach Notification Rule applies to "unsecured PHI" that has been accessed, acquired, used or disclosed. Unsecured PHI is data that have not been rendered unusable, unreadable or indecipherable through a use of a technology or methodology specified by HHS. In 2009 guidance, HHS identified encryption and destruction in accordance with certain standards published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. See http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/administrative/breachnotificationrule/brguidance.html. PHI that is unsecured and is breached must be reported.
Significantly, breach reporting will become even more common because the 2013 Amendments lowered the standard for constitutes a "breach." A use, disclosure, acquisition or access that violates the Privacy Rule is presumed to be a breach, unless the covered entity or business associate can demonstrate that there is "low probability" that the PHI has been compromised based on four factors, including the likelihood of re-identification and the extent to which the risk to the PHI was mitigated. For HIT entities, ensuring that PHI is encrypted and destroyed according to the NIST standards is vital.
4. Definition of Electronic Media
The definition of PHI includes individually identifiable health information that is transmitted by or maintained in "electronic media" or any other form. When the HIPAA Rules were originally drafted, HIT was not yet prevalent. In accordance with current technology, the definition of "electronic media" now includes electronic storage material on which data are or may be stored electronically, including hard drives and any removable/transportable memory medium such as a memory card. HHS notes that photocopiers, fax machines and other devices that store, or potentially store, PHI are subject to the HIPAA Rules.
"Electronic media" also includes transmission media used to exchange information already in electronic storage media—such as the Internet, extranet or intranet, leased lines, dial-up lines and private networks—as well as the physical movement of electronic storage media. However, certain transmissions, such as by faxes, voice or telephone, are not considered electronic media transmissions if the information did not exist in electronic form "immediately" prior to the transmission. This exclusion covers, for instance, the transmission of a fax that originated from printing from an electronic file.
5. Privacy Rule Changes
While the Security Rule addresses the "locks and keys" that are necessary to protect ePHI, the Privacy Rule describes the confidentiality standards that apply to all PHI (i.e., not just electronic PHI). The principal changes in the HITECH rules that concern HIT are found in the Security Rule. However, there are new requirements in the Privacy Rule that impact HIT. Covered entities must provide to individuals a copy of the PHI held in an electronic designated record set (e.g., an EHR). Covered entities must also ensure that their HIT systems are able to address the other new Privacy Rules: restricting PHI regarding an item or service provided to a health plan upon request by an individual, and new restrictions on the use of PHI for marketing, fundraising and sale purposes. Finally, not only does a business associate have to support the covered entity in meeting these requirements, but a business associate is also directly subject to HIPAA penalties in its own right for violations of these new Privacy Rule standards.
HHS has promised further guidance in some areas under the Privacy Rule, such as marketing. In addition, HHS has not yet issued a final Accounting Rule regarding the HITECH Act's requirement that covered entities and business associates provide an accounting of all disclosures for the prior three-year period. (The proposed Accounting Rule was issued on May 31, 2011.) The anticipated Accounting Rule may be delayed because of the burdens that would be imposed on covered entities and business associates whose designated record sets are not yet digitized. As HIT becomes more widespread, the duties on covered entities and business associates under HIPAA will increasingly focus on their uses of technology to deliver healthcare.
Duane Morris LLP - Lisa W. Clark and Neville M. Bilimoria
IT & Data Protection
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act 1996 (USA)
HITECH Act 2009 (USA)
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10 minute scenic drive to one of natures outstanding sculptures not far from Mannum.
This is a popular bush walking destination, with moderate to steep walking tracks along Reedy Creek to the falls. The falls are a geological phenomenon with large granite outcrops rising from the plains around the Reedy Creek to provide natural waterfalls. Alongside these outcrops are walking trails for those who wish to enjoy the scenery at close proximity.
With very scenic views, an abundance of wild life, along with fascinating geology.
Access to the falls is a walk from one of the two car parks. The first car park is on the left, which leaves a one kilometre steep walk to the falls. The second car park is situated above the falls with a short walk down to them. Toilets are available and located 600 meters from the car park.
Not always possible but the most spectacular time to view the falls is after recent rains in the hills catchment area during winter months.
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Volunteers try to uproot an invasive plant named Myriophyllum aquaticum (also known as parrot feather) out of a pond, on Aug. 14, 2018, near Viriat, eastern France.
Photographer: Philippe Desmazes/AFP/Getty Images
Invasive Weed Creep Spurs Concern Over Roundup Bans
By Adam Allington
Feb. 7, 2019, 11:15 AM
Conservationists say glyphosate is important tool in fighting invasive weeds
Increased public pressure leading to restrictions on the chemical around the world
The threat to public lands posed by invasive plant species is increasing by about ten million acres each year, and conservationists fear they will lose their best tool to combat it.
That's according to data from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) which manages 245 million acres of public land—about one in every 10 U.S. acres.
As pressure from invasive plants grows, conservation groups and land managers worry that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, might soon be off limits or severely curtailed.
"As it stands, glyphosate is really the best tool we have for fighting invasive plants," said Brendan Quirion, an invasive species specialist with The Nature Conservancy, the largest conservation advocacy group in the world.
The safety of glyphosate, developed by Monsanto, which is now owned by Bayer AG, has been disputed by scientists and regulatory bodies.
Across the six-million-acre Adirondack Park in Upstate New York where Quirion is based, The Nature Conservancy has removed over 1,000 infestations of invasive plants such as phragmites and Japanese knotweed, he said.
According to one report, the annual cost of controlling Japanese knotweed in the U.K. alone costs their economy around $214 million.
Bans and Restrictions
Farmers have been spraying glyphosate on their fields for decades, thanks to its low cost and effectiveness. But it has been dogged by emerging fears that at sufficient exposure levels, it may cause cancer.
The European Union came close to banning glyphosate in 2018 but opted instead to grant a five-year extension for the use of the product. A number of European countries including France, Belgium, Germany, Sweden, and the Netherlands have all passed their own restrictions.
In 2018, glyphosate was added to California's official list of chemicals known to cause cancer. That move has since prompted dozens of local governments to ban glyphosate spraying in public school districts, parks, and gardens, and in some cases, private property.
California's warning followed a similar one by the World Health Organization in 2015, which found that glyphosate was "probably carcinogenic to humans."
Despite the more recent concerns, most of the world's top regulatory agencies have found it to be among the safest herbicides on the market—a fact that Bayer officials continue to emphasize.
More Invasive Weeds
In recent years, California has been fighting a raging battle with non-native aquatic weeds, which now cover one-third of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, the nexus of California's statewide water system.
"Back in 2014-2015 we really had a crisis on our hands with water hyacinth," said John Madsen, a California-based weed scientist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Madsen said water hyacinth—along with several other aquatic invasives—have been choking harbors, snarling boat propellers, and contributing to declines in fish populations in the delta.
"If we don't have glyphosate available, we'll either have to switch to newer herbicides that are much more expensive, which means less acres controlled, or we'll have to go with chemicals that are more concerning from a toxicological standpoint," he said.
Spurred on by a number of factors including increased global trade and climate change, invasive species have emerged as a growing threat to human livelihoods and biodiversity generally.
"In 2000 we inventoried the presence of invasive and noxious weeds on 35 million acres of BLM land," said Gina Ramos, a senior weeds specialist with Bureau of Land Management.
"When we updated the inventory in 2014 the number went up to 79 million acres," or more than double the acreage, she told Bloomberg Environment.
The bureau's integrated pest management program employs a three-pronged approach to pesticide use, together with mechanical and biological methods of weed control, such as introducing species that feed on invasive plants.
But unlike other herbicides, Ramos said, glyphosate works well on almost any plant and has the added benefit of killing them at the root level, eliminating the need and cost of going back to apply more chemicals.
Divisions in Conservation Community
The public row over glyphosate also has brought out divisions within the conservation community between those who want to preserve access to the chemical for habitat restoration and preservation, and anti-GMO activists and pesticide protection groups.
"We know that glyphosate is a probably carcinogen and a chemical that harms soil health," said Marcia Ishii-Eiteman, a senior scientist at the Pesticide Action Network.
In an emailed statement, Ishii-Eiteman pointed to new evidence of the emergence of glyphosate-resistant superweeds.
"Rather than relying on a harmful, likely carcinogenic, and increasingly ineffective herbicide that poses a serious threat to public and ecosystem health, we need to ground efforts to restore habitat and manage invasive plants firmly in an ecological approach to plant pest management," she said.
But others maintain that the limited application of glyphosate to control invasive species on public lands has little connection with broader concerns such as its use in agriculture.
"I think we need to fully consider both the ecological and societal impacts of not having this tool," said The Nature Conservancy's Quirion. "And then compare the risks of using a small amount of herbicide, versus the much greater impacts of having invasive species spread across the landscape."
To contact the reporter on this story: Adam Allington in Washington at aallington@bloombergenvironment.com
To contact the editors responsible for this story: Gregory Henderson at ghenderson@bloombergenvironment.com; Steven Gibb at sgibb@bloombergenvironment.com; Andrew Childers at achilders@bloombergenvironment.com
Adam Allington
Brazil Fighting Judge's Glyphosate Ban, Industry Expects Reversal
Aug. 24, 2018, 3:32 PM
Roundup Products Could See Challenging Future From French Ruling
Jan. 16, 2019, 7:27 PM
Pesticide Controls Needed for Endangered Species, Petition Says
Jan. 7, 2019, 8:19 PM
Bayer Faces Roundup Woes in Germany as Ministry Urges Retreat
Nov. 6, 2018, 6:32 PM
German Coalition Plans to 'Massively Restrict' Glyphosate Uses


Is your little one ready to take the potty plunge? This real mama reveals her secrets to toilet-training perfection.
Over the last couple of weeks, my daughter Isla has started to show an interest in potty training. As a mother who has had two kids in diapers for the last five years, I am thrilled that shes's ready. (Well, except for the fact that Isla still yells, "Poop!" at the top of her lungs every time she needs to go to the restroom — yes, even in public.)The idea of having only one child in diapers is like a dream come true. As soon as she started showing all the potty-training-readiness signs, I stopped by my local Sam's Club to stock up on potty-training essentials.
We started out with a Minnie Mouse potty chair. Isla thinks it's the most amazing thing she has ever seen. I'm pretty sure she sometimes pretends she has to go to the bathroom just so she can play with it, which is just fine by me. The more time she spends with her Minnie Mouse potty chair, the more opportunities for success we have. Her favorite part is the music that plays when she "flushes" — it makes her dance with excitement, and she is always so proud of herself. Mommy's a big fan of the chair too. It's so easy to empty and clean, and the seat comes out so she can use the regular toilet as well. Keeping both of us excited about potty training definitely won't be a problem with the Minnie Mouse potty chair.
When we bought Isla's chair at Sam's Club, we also stocked up on pull-ups. While I was potty training my son Boston a few years ago, I never thought we would use them, but I changed my mind after a few weeks spent washing sheets every morning. At around $0.31 a pull-up, they're affordable and make the whole process easier. They give my kids the feeling of underwear, and I can wake up to clean sheets in the morning. Thanks to pull-ups, Boston perfected the potty, and now that it's Isla's turn she's very excited to feel like she's a big girl now.
Potty training can seem like a difficult task, but with the right supplies and the right timing, the transition can be smooth and simple. So far, Isla is doing a great job, and I am so proud of my growing girl.


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We treat women through all of life's changes, from teenage years to post-menopausal. All treatment sessions are conducted in private treatment rooms with targeted hands-on therapy.
Our specialised women's health physiotherapists evaluate and treat the underlying cause of pelvic floor problems and encourage active participation from our patients during the healing process. We specialise in rehabilitation programmes for treatment of pelvic floor pain and dysfunction, abdominal diastisis (tummy gap), incontinence, pre-natal/post partum conditions, pelvic girdle pain, pelvic organ prolapse and sexual dysfunction.
I learned about Women's Health Physio from an article about treatments for vulvodynia. I really did not know what to expect from the treatment and was quite apprehensive. I am pleased to say that Caitlin was very reassuring, gentle and sensitive from the start. She is a patient listener and excellent communicator who aims to understand all aspects of your condition and offers encouragement throughout the treatment process. Caitlin also has a wealth of information about how to aid her treatment sessions with self care. I cannot lie, some aspects of the treatment can be uncomfortable but Caitlin's calm and caring demeanour make it tolerable. The improvements in my condition, most notably total pain relief, were well worth any momentary discomfort.
From my first appointment with Caitlin it was a relief to find someone who would listen and who understood my pelvic condition, especially after being dismissed and misunderstood in clinics elsewhere. She is very calm and reassuring and made me feel positive that the pain I was experiencing would eventually get better. I have seen improvements in my pelvic muscles quite quickly, now that I have found the treatment I needed, overcoming this condition is not as difficult as I thought it would be.
Caitlin exceeded my expectations. She really listened to me which is a breath of fresh air after the vast amounts of specialists I have been to with regards to my condition. She made me feel so welcome and comfortable and really took the time to explain my pelvic issues.
I had a few sessions with Helen, in late December, when very heavily pregnant and suffering from bad pelvic girdle pain. I wanted- rather belatedly- to say a big thank you to her. My baby boy arrived the day after my last appointment (Christmas Day baby!) and the pain completely disappeared within minutes of giving birth, but Helen made such a difference in the last, uncomfortable weeks, and I am very grateful. My GP had said physio would be no use and I'm so glad I ignored him. I've recommended the clinic to a number of friends who are having post-birth issues.


Netflix is coming your way!
At the CES, Netflix announced it is expanding its services all over the world!
Netflix, the world's leading Internet TV Service that was successfully launched in 2007, made the announcement at CES 2016 and the streaming service went live simultaneously for the first time in additional 130 countries.
During the keynote at CES 2016, Co-founder and Chief Executive Reed Hastings said that we are now witnessing the birth of a new global Internet TV network. "With this launch," he added, "consumers around the world - from Singapore to St. Petersburg, from San Francisco to Sao Paulo - will be able to enjoy TV shows and movies simultaneously with no more waiting. With the help of the Internet, we are putting power in consumers' hands to watch whenever, wherever and on whatever device."
Netflix currently boasts 70 million members in over 190 countries who are able to enjoy over 125 million hours of TV programme every single day. For a monthly subscription (the amount depends on selected scheme), members are able to watch Netflix original TV productions as well as licensed TV shows, movies and documentaries. Beside English, members can choose from 21 languages, with more being added in the future.
In their press release, Netflix stated that 2016 will see the company release "31 new and returning original series, two dozen original feature films and documentaries, a wide range of stand-up comedy specials and 30 original kids series - available at the same time to members everywhere."
The beauty of Netflix for all cineasts lies in the fact that you can actually watch as much as you want, anytime, anywhere, on nearly any Internet-connected screen (TV, tablet, computer, etc). Members can play, pause and resume watching, all without commercials or commitments.
Due to U.S. government restrictions on American companies, Netflix streaming service will not yet be available in China, Crimea, North Korea and Syria.
There is a one-month free trial period available for you to check out by signing up at Netflix's website.
To see the full list of all the countries where Netflix is available, click here.
Mukesh Ambani says the digital age will see drastic changes in the next 20 years, prompting tremendous economic potential - and India must not be left behind.


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12-1 The Diaphragm – Not only a Muscle for Respiration
The Diaphragm – Not only a Muscle for Respiration
Eli Carmeli, PhD, Einat Kodesh, PhD, Miri Maor, DDS
Background: The diaphragm is actually two muscles, which are differentiated one from the other by structural, physiological and functional characteristics. The anterior (sternal) portion is a respiratory muscle while the posterior (crural) portion acts as a sphincter around the esophagus, preventing gastric reflux.
Aim: To investigate the effect of running on both portions of the diaphragm muscle
Methods: Four-month-old Sprague-Dawley rats (n=13) were divided into three groups. Group 1 (slow running) ran for 3 weeks at a rate of 18 m/min; Group 2 (fast running) ran for 3 weeks at the rate of 32 m/min; and Group 3 ran for 1 week and thereafter functioned as a control group. The running time for the first two groups was gradually increased; they started with 15 minutes of running, and each day 2 minutes were added so that 3 weeks later, after 15 days of actual training, the rats were running for 45 minutes. Immediately after their final run, the rats were sacrificed and both areas of the diaphragm were removed. Biochemical analysis at the protein level (using western blot) and at the level of messenger RNA, using reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), was performed, and the level of activity of the copper-zinc superoxide dismutase enzyme (CuZn SOD1) was determined.
Results: In the fast running group, levels of CuZn SOD1 decreased significantly in the posterior diaphragm, while levels of the enzyme remained unchanged in the anterior diaphragm. Levels of protein and of the RNA messenger of matrix metalloproteinase type 2 increased after both fast and slow running, particularly in the posterior diaphragm.
Conclusion: The crural diaphragm muscle fibers, which contain significantly more type IIb fibers, were more strongly affected following fast running than sternal/costal diaphragm muscle fibers, which contain an equal distribution of slow twitch (type I) and fast twitch (type IIb) muscle fibers.


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Britain, the EU and the World
30 Eylül 2012 Pazar 03:36
The Liberal Democrat European Group (LDEG) and Liberal International British Group (LIBG) joined forces last night at a fringe meeting at the LibDems' autumn conference on the place of Britain in the European Union and Europe's place in the world.
I was the first speaker, stressing how important it is that the Party continues to publicise its commitment to internationalism and to the UK's European future (as Nick Clegg had indeed done just minutes before in a speech to diplomats at the International Reception). I was dismayed that there was virtually no mention of international or European issues in the main agenda of the Brighton conference, though there have been several related fringe meetings.
The Coalition government as such is hampered in its championing of the importance of Britain's EU membership by David Cameron's perceived need to appease his eurosceptic backbenchers. I fear that in the 2014 European elections the Tories will be tempted to try to out-UKIP UKIP, too, in an attempt to staunch the haemorrhaging of votes. And Labour is too split on the issue of Europe to be a reliable advocate. The City of London and business in general seems too nervous to stick its head above the parapet, although most businesses recognise the vital importance of EU membership.
So it is going to be up to the Liberal Democrats to make the case. A few, very simple messages need to be honed, to be used on the doorstep, of which perhaps the most important is the fact that in an increasingly regionalised, globalised world, in which big new players such as China, India and Brazil are making their presence felt, Europe needs to be more united in order to be a powerful force. Britain on its own in the 21st Century never could be, despite what the Little Englanders think.
GDIF 2014 at the Cutty Sark
Vienna's Albertina
The Liberal Democrats' IN-OUT Gamble
Jonathan Fryer; 'Britain's Soft Power'
Is Syria Completely Hopeless?


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CHICAGO -- A community activist who has pushed for more police transparency said Monday that he's asked Chicago police for the body camera footage from all the officers at the scene where one of them fatally shot a black man over the weekend.
More than 200 protesters showed up in Chicago's South Shore neighborhood Monday, protesting violence by police, CBS Chicago reports.
The station reports unrelated violence broke out before the protest began. About 45 minutes before the protest, violence struck only one block away. Police secured the scene at 70thand Jeffrey, as two shooting victims were taken away by ambulance. The shooting happened only feet from the memorial for a barber who demonstrators were marching for.
At a news conference Sunday to announce the release of the 51-second video, Johnson said the way the technology works is that there is a "30-second buffer period" without audio before the sound is activated. It is unclear why there is no sound throughout the entire video.
After the shooting Saturday evening, tensions rose quickly, CBS Chicago reported. Dozens of people showed up, and at some point the officers had to push the crowd back.
"We're pissed off; we're tired," community activist William Calloway said on Sunday the day after the shooting and standoff with officers. "You're killing us!"
"Our voice is not gonna be silenced."
Calloway demanded the police release the video of the shooting immediately.
"We don't trust what CPD says. Show us. Don't wait 60 days. Show the community now."
Johnson said Sunday that release of the video one day after the shooting was the quickest he had ever ordered such a disclosure. He said that he did so to avoid a repeat of the clashes between angry residents and police that took place Saturday night. Protesters threw rocks and bottles -- some filled with urine -- at police and officers responded by hitting some demonstrators with their batons.


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Q: Firebase Admin SDK initializeApp returns invalid_token var admin = require("firebase-admin");
var serviceAccount = require("service_account.json")

admin.initializeApp({
  credential: admin.credential.cert(serviceAccount),
  databaseURL: "https://******.firebaseio.com"
});

Returns:

Error: Credential implementation provided to initializeApp() via the
"credential" property failed to fetch a valid Google OAuth2 access
token with the following error: "Error fetching access token:
invalid_grant (Invalid JWT: Token must be a short-lived token and in a
reasonable timeframe)". The most likely cause of this error is using a
certificate key file which has been revoked. Make sure the key ID for
your key file is still present at
https://console.firebase.google.com/iam-admin/serviceaccounts/project.
If not, generate a new key file at
https://console.firebase.google.com/project/_/settings/serviceaccounts/adminsdk.

The service_account and Key ID are present.

A: The same incident happened to me. I have a structure that admin is nodejs, client is android and ios. This happened to me when i tried to run in my local host then i moved admin to heroku and it solved.

A: i ran into the same problem when using the node js firebase SDK.
in the error message there are two possible course (1) wrong or expired credentials. (2)re-sync the time on your server
the second error occurs due to wrong date and time on your computer,
you can force Windows 10 time to synch with a time server by doing the following:
Follow the steps mentioned below.
Press Windows + X and select Command prompt(Admin).
Type each one of the command below and press enter.
net stop w32time

w32tm /unregister

w32tm /register

net start w32time

w32tm /resync

Restart the computer to test the issue again.

try making your request again and it should work.

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Moving to next page in a thread?
I'm new on this forum and have been reading through many pages trying to catch up on some threads.
One thing I have noticed though, where a thread goes on for several pages, the only place I can see, to move to the next page is at the top left of the screen. This means when I reach the bottom of the page, I have to scroll back up to the top again in order to select the next page.
Am I missing something here? Surely this isn't right? Is it just me?
Thanks guys. Some great stuff on here.
No, it is not just you. That is the way that I go to the next page too. As for missing something, there could possibly be a keyboard shortcut that I am unaware of.
As far as I can tell, there's supposed to be a kind of navigation bar that stays in fixed position at the top of the page no matter where you scroll down to, but I have found it very temperamental and unreliable. It only seems to work properly on a handful of browsers, and not always even for those.


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Selflessness, generosity symbolize Fidel and Cuba
Arley Gill
by Arley Gill
Fidel Castro Ruz. The greatest revolutionary that ever lived is no more. His life was one of exemplary human sacrifice for the advancement of the human race.
Now, if you listen and looked at the American media over the last week or so, one will take away the impression that Fidel was a "murderous dictator," "common criminal," and every negative thing that go with those pejorative terms.
In St Vincent and the Grenadines, where Prince Harry was visiting, he took part in a minute's silence as the Vincentian government and people paid their respects to Fidel. The British press created a controversy by saying he was forced to do so, and it was a breach of protocol to have Prince Harry take part in a minute's silence for this worthless terrible tyrant.
The British press forgot, or chose to ignore, that during the days when "the sun never set on the British Empire," the British themselves raped, kidnapped, enslaved, murdered, and committed genocide against indigenous populations in the so-called "New World." These British atrocities were inflicted on millions, including large numbers in the Caribbean and Africa. They are crimes against humanity that Fidel, for all his sins, did not even come close to committing.
The Americans, for their part, have their own laundry list of criminal activities, They include their treatment of the indigenous Indians; the enslavement of Africans; discrimination against people of colour; their economic injustices to the poor and downtrodden; their criminal blockade against Cuba and the Cuban people; their over 600 assassination attempts against Fidel; their invasion of sovereign states; the undermining and sabotaging of governments throughout the developing world; and their assassination of leaders of nations. And these American atrocities, and much more not listed pale in comparison to anything that Fidel would have done over his 90 years of life.
As we pay tribute to the great man, we can acknowledge that the Revolution he led in Cuba was not perfect. As well, the life he lived would have had its shortcomings. But, let the one among us who does not have sin cast the first stone.
The Grenada reality is that Cuba — more than any other country — assisted us in transforming our post-independence society. The Maurice Bishop International Airport as an economic plant would have played, and continues to play, a critical role in our economic advancement.
Cuba and Fidel have made it possible for poor Grenadians to obtain a university education in the fields of medicine, engineering, economics and so on. These professionals have played a critical role in the socio-economic transformation of our country. They have made a significant contribution to our economic advancement.
Cuba has sent their own experts in the fields of health, sport, culture and other professions, to countries and places where their assistance was badly needed. When South Africa and Nelson Mandela's African National Congress were under the yoke of Apartheid, and the Frontline States of Africa were in danger of being overrun by western-backed racist forces, Cuba offered to send its soldiers to assist our besieged black brothers and sisters.
The Caribbean has benefitted greatly from the selflessness and generosity of the Cuban people. Citizens of the region and people throughout the length and breadth of the developing world can testify to the Cuban contribution to their countries.
The Americans and the British, for all their wealth, have taken away more from us than they gave.
In Haiti, there was a cholera outbreak after the devastating earthquake of a couple years ago. It was Cuban health professionals that risked their lives to save those of countless Haitian nationals. The United Nations, which in large measure, was responsible for the outbreak has failed to acknowledge the heroic efforts of the Cuban people.
Cuba, today, does not suffer the ills of drugs and crime, as so many of its Latin American neighbours. True, there are economic challenges; but the Cuban people, along with their leaders, have survived and flourished through it all.
The western press would like us to believe that because of its communist system, Cuba is in the economic situation it is in. They fail to acknowledge that it is the economic blockade of more than 50 years that is directly responsible for the strangulation of the Cuban economy and its people. That the country has withstood the blockade is a sheer miracle. No other country the size of Cuba, facing such a measure, would still be on its feet.
In present day America, we see unarmed black men being shot by white police officers in a country that is supposed to be a model for others. But, a society that is riddled with institutional racism. A country in which white folks are more equal than others. And, with all that, they say to us that Cuba is such a terrible society in which to live.
In many ways, I wonder if Fidel wasn't simply a gift from God to humanity.
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The story of the nameless Samaritan woman at the well, recorded only in the Gospel of John, is a revealing one, full of many truths and powerful lessons for us today. The woman at the well follows on the heels of Jesus' interaction with Nicodemus, a Pharisee and prominent member of the Jewish Sanhedrin (John 3:1-21). In John 4:4-42 we read about Jesus' conversation with a lone Samaritan woman who had come to get water from a well (known as Jacob's well) located about a half mile from the city of Sychar in Samaria.
5) Our testimony about Jesus is the most powerful tool we have to lead others to believe in Jesus: "Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony, 'He told me everything I ever did.' So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days. And because of his words many more became believers. They said to the woman, 'We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world"' (John 4:39-42).
The Bible is filled with characters, literally and figuratively. Perhaps the best way to describe how the Bible portrays its characters is "human" because they are, in fact, human. The Bible is true and the people that inhabit its pages were real people with real problems, just like us. The Bible does not shy away from presenting both the strengths and weaknesses of those it portrays. This makes the characters in the Bible "practical" in the sense that we can relate to them and educational in the sense that we can learn from their successes and failures. Adam and Eve were disobedient blame-shifters. Abraham was a liar. Jacob was a schemer. Joseph had somewhat of the "I'm better than you" attitude. Moses made excuses. Saul was jealous. David was an adulterer. Solomon was the smartest fool in the history of the world. Elijah seemed to be somewhat bi-polar. Peter definitely had "foot-in-mouth" disease. The list goes on and on. No matter your personality and struggles, there is someone in the Bible you can relate to and learn from. The Apostle Paul wrote, "Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ" (1 Corinthians 11:1). Ultimately, that must be our goal when we study Bible characters. Where they were successful in following God, we are to emulate them. Where they failed, we are to avoid making the same mistakes. "Now these things occurred as examples to keep us from setting our hearts on evil things as they did…These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us…No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it" (1 Corinthians 10:6-13).


The place: Edge City, U.S.A., the time: unknown. A geeky bank teller accidentally discovers a crudely carved wooden mask. Beguiled by a strange light glittering within its grain, he is unable to resist a strange urge... to wear it. Immediately, it's alive, fusing itself to his features. It transforms the bank teller, externalising his inner self. As that inner self is obsessed by cartoons in the Tex Avery and Chuck Jones mould, he finds himself changing into a green faced, teeth chomping, eyeball popping, dumb joke cracking, rubber bodied dementoid, able to change wardrobe at will, and possessed of powers of mass hypnotism. After quickly dispensing with those people who make the teller's life a misery, The Mask announces himself a superhero. Following a robbery at the bank where he works, he attracts the unwelcome attention of both the police and the local Mafia, who were poised to rip off the bank themselves. Now the cops and the mob alike are hunting The Mask, and all he wants is to get a beautiful girl to love him for who he really is.
There are only two reasons to see The Mask: the special effects, and Jim Carrey. Only two reasons, but they're great ones. The ultra weird, ultra wild effects in which Tex Avery gets spliced into live action and results in a Roger Rabbit-style, anything's possible, anarchic clashing of humanity with animation are superb. Not always seamless, the effects nevertheless are super exciting, stretching, spinning, squashing and distorting Carrey's face and body into as many cartoony weird-outs as possible; acknowledging its Looney Toons sources with references including a Tasmanian Devil cushion, which crops up when Carrey goes into his Taz-like super spins. The effects appear only sporadically, presumably due to budget, but it doesn't matter. The film rockets along, powered by Carrey's high octane energy, equally enjoyable as nerdy loser or effects-twisted Mask. His performance is astounding, zipping from one schizoid personality to another, evoking TV and movie characters, re-inventing stock lines, mugging bits of half-remembered dialogue at breakneck speed, riffing madly through his repertoire of stock and cliché characters, redefining them with hilarious, even subversive intent. Charles (previously Chuck) Russell's direction echoes his star's performance, letting anything and everything be grist to his mill, from Joe Dantesque low and raked angles, to cod slow motion and Hitchcock appropriations, glitzy parties and dimly lit gangster hideouts, all dust motes floating through beams of murky diffused light.
When the chief baddie gets to wear the mask, the invention falters. Carrey tells us "If someone like him wears the mask, you'd better leave town', but the film fails to deliver. Instead, the baddie ends up as an extra from The Unnamable, with glow in the dark eyeballs, a lizard tongue but little else. The story is typical exploitation fodder, over-familiar from a million ill-advised straight-to-video titles. As such, it has some strengths, and another rewrite or two may even have provided a workable sub-text about the need to be yourself. Yet, in some ways its dislocated tone is just right, one more cut up to throw into the meaningless mix. The Mask is the true face of the 90's. It has no face, just a mask, made from the stolen pieces of a million predecessors stitched together and computer smoothed into something 'new'. From sampled hip hop beats to the endless computer-guided consciousness tampering of virtual reality, The Mask serves warning that the future is going to be a mad place. No resonance, just thrills. It's enough.


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package io.airlift.http.server;

import com.google.common.base.Charsets;
import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableSet;
import com.google.common.io.Files;
import io.airlift.event.client.NullEventClient;
import io.airlift.http.client.ApacheHttpClient;
import io.airlift.http.client.HttpClient;
import io.airlift.http.client.HttpClientConfig;
import io.airlift.http.client.StatusResponseHandler.StatusResponse;
import io.airlift.http.client.StringResponseHandler.StringResponse;
import io.airlift.node.NodeInfo;
import io.airlift.testing.FileUtils;
import io.airlift.tracetoken.TraceTokenManager;
import io.airlift.units.Duration;
import org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64;
import org.testng.annotations.AfterMethod;
import org.testng.annotations.BeforeMethod;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;

import javax.servlet.Filter;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.ConnectException;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

import static com.google.common.io.Resources.getResource;
import static io.airlift.http.client.Request.Builder.prepareGet;
import static io.airlift.http.client.StatusResponseHandler.createStatusResponseHandler;
import static io.airlift.http.client.StringResponseHandler.createStringResponseHandler;
import static org.testng.Assert.assertEquals;
import static org.testng.Assert.assertTrue;
import static org.testng.Assert.fail;

public class TestHttpServerProvider
{
    private HttpServer server;
    private File tempDir;
    private NodeInfo nodeInfo;
    private HttpServerConfig config;
    private HttpServerInfo httpServerInfo;

    @BeforeMethod
    public void setup()
            throws IOException
    {
        tempDir = Files.createTempDir().getCanonicalFile(); // getCanonicalFile needed to get around Issue 365 (http://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/issues/detail?id=365)
        config = new HttpServerConfig()
                .setHttpPort(0)
                .setLogPath(new File(tempDir, "http-request.log").getAbsolutePath());
        nodeInfo = new NodeInfo("test");
        httpServerInfo = new HttpServerInfo(config, nodeInfo);
    }

    @AfterMethod
    public void teardown()
            throws Exception
    {
        try {
            if (server != null) {
                server.stop();
            }
        }
        finally {
            FileUtils.deleteRecursively(tempDir);
        }
    }

    @Test
    public void testHttp()
            throws Exception
    {
        createServer();
        server.start();

        HttpClient client = new ApacheHttpClient();
        StatusResponse response = client.execute(prepareGet().setUri(httpServerInfo.getHttpUri()).build(), createStatusResponseHandler());

        assertEquals(response.getStatusCode(), HttpServletResponse.SC_OK);
    }

    @Test
    public void testFilter()
            throws Exception
    {
        createServer();
        server.start();

        HttpClient client = new ApacheHttpClient();
        StatusResponse response = client.execute(prepareGet().setUri(httpServerInfo.getHttpUri().resolve("/filter")).build(), createStatusResponseHandler());

        assertEquals(response.getStatusCode(), HttpServletResponse.SC_PAYMENT_REQUIRED);
        assertEquals(response.getStatusMessage(), "filtered");
    }

    @Test
    public void testHttpIsDisabled()
            throws Exception
    {
        config.setHttpEnabled(false);

        createServer();
        server.start();

        HttpClient client = new ApacheHttpClient(new HttpClientConfig().setConnectTimeout(new Duration(2.0, TimeUnit.SECONDS)));
        try {
            StatusResponse response = client.execute(prepareGet().setUri(httpServerInfo.getHttpUri().resolve("/")).build(), createStatusResponseHandler());

            if (response != null) { // TODO: this is a workaround for a bug in AHC (some race condition)
                fail("Expected connection refused, got response code: " + response.getStatusCode());
            }
        }
        catch (RuntimeException e) {
            assertTrue(e.getCause() instanceof ConnectException, e.getCause().getClass() + " instanceof ConnectException");
        }
    }

    @Test
    public void testAuth()
            throws Exception
    {
        File file = File.createTempFile("auth", ".properties", tempDir);
        Files.write("user: password", file, Charsets.UTF_8);

        config.setUserAuthFile(file.getAbsolutePath());

        createServer();
        server.start();

        HttpClient client = new ApacheHttpClient();
        StringResponse response = client.execute(
                prepareGet()
                        .setUri(httpServerInfo.getHttpUri())
                        .addHeader("Authorization", "Basic " + Base64.encodeBase64String("user:password".getBytes()).trim())
                        .build(),
                createStringResponseHandler());

        assertEquals(response.getStatusCode(), HttpServletResponse.SC_OK);
        assertEquals(response.getBody(), "user");
    }

    @Test(expectedExceptions = IllegalStateException.class, expectedExceptionsMessageRegExp = "insufficient threads configured for HTTP connector")
    public void testInsufficientThreadsHttp()
            throws Exception
    {
        config.setMaxThreads(1);
        createAndStartServer();
    }

    @Test(expectedExceptions = IllegalStateException.class, expectedExceptionsMessageRegExp = "insufficient threads configured for HTTPS connector")
    public void testInsufficientThreadsHttps()
            throws Exception
    {
        config.setHttpEnabled(false)
                .setHttpsEnabled(true)
                .setHttpsPort(0)
                .setKeystorePath(getResource("test.keystore").toString())
                .setKeystorePassword("airlift")
                .setMaxThreads(1);
        createAndStartServer();
    }

    @Test(expectedExceptions = IllegalStateException.class, expectedExceptionsMessageRegExp = "insufficient threads configured for admin connector")
    public void testInsufficientThreadsAdmin()
            throws Exception
    {
        config.setAdminMaxThreads(1);
        createAndStartServer();
    }

    private void createAndStartServer()
            throws Exception
    {
        httpServerInfo = new HttpServerInfo(config, nodeInfo);
        createServer();
        server.start();
    }

    private void createServer()
    {
        HashLoginServiceProvider loginServiceProvider = new HashLoginServiceProvider(config);
        HttpServerProvider serverProvider = new HttpServerProvider(httpServerInfo,
                nodeInfo,
                config,
                new DummyServlet(),
                ImmutableSet.<Filter>of(new DummyFilter()),
                ImmutableSet.<Filter>of(),
                new RequestStats(),
                new NullEventClient());
        serverProvider.setTheAdminServlet(new DummyServlet());
        serverProvider.setLoginService(loginServiceProvider.get());
        serverProvider.setTokenManager(new TraceTokenManager());
        server = serverProvider.get();
    }
}


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THE C.J. KREHBIEL COMPANY Charles Krehbiel has been named chief executive officer of the 132-year-old Cincinnati-based printing and binding firm.
THE CHILDREN'S BOOK COUNCIL Molly Ker Hawn has been promoted to v-p, national programs, from national programs officer.... Coleen Venable has been named programs associate.... Andrew Garrison has joined as editorial associate.
CLEIS PRESS Diane Levinson, former publications director at Publishers Group West, has been appointed marketing director.... Chris Fox, bookseller, journalist and activist, has been named publicity coordinator.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS Coleen Lanick, senior publicist, has been promoted to assistant publicity director.... Rose Ann Miller has been promoted to senior publicist.
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY Christine Ball has been promoted to assistant director of publicity from publicity manager.
CHRONICLE BOOKS Kendra Kallan, a retail design and marketing consultant for The Body Shop and Pottery Barn, has been named director of marketing.... Andrea Burnett, a former Bay Area public relations consultant, has been appointed director of publicity.
PICADOR USA Amber Qureshi, former assistant to Gary Fisketjon at Alfred A. Knopf, has been named an associate editor.
SCB DISTRIBUTORS Lance Tilford, former marketing manager at Publishers Group West, has been named marketing director.... Gabriel Wilmoth has been appointed trade sales coordinator following four years in publicity, marketing and sales at Hill Street Press.
BOOKSPAN Jay Franco has been named associate editor of Military Book Club; he continues to oversee the Altiverse section of Science Fiction Book Club.
GELLER MEDIA MANAGEMENT Lori Pope has been named head of the literary department, where she will develop book projects for agency clients. She spent five years as an agent and has held positions with various publishers.
HARCOURT TRADE PUBLISHERS Samantha McFerrin has been appointed editor, children's books, following sales and editorial positions at Chronicle Books.... Ellen Greene, formerly of Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, has been named institutional and educational marketing manager at the San Diego office.
PROMETHEUS BOOKS Benjamin Keller has joined the Amherst, N.Y. publisher as assistant editor.... David Blouin has joined as an editorial assistant.
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Jon successfully ran our first pop-up cart in collaboration with Textile Hall. There was more excitement and buzz than we anticipated. He had great conversations about the business and employment model we're working to build as well as chatting about coffee in general. Multiple people commented that our model sounded similar to Purple Door, which was awesome! I'm working with Mark, Purple Door's executive director, to figure out how I can continue serving on the board after moving to Greenville as well as how PD and BC can partner together in the future. It was encouraging to Jon and me that people know about Purple Door across the country in Greenville in general, but that they also connected our model to it. All in all, our first event was a success.
1. Wholesale and individual accounts for roasted coffee Info for wholesale and any of our beans for individuals will be on the website soon. We are very excited and proud of the sourcing model we're building. Typically, in the coffee world, beans can pass through as many as 8 different parties before reaching your cup (farmer, co-op, washing/processing, exporter, importer, distributor, roaster, shop). While this is definitely necessary in a variety of contexts, it isn't always. We're in the process of finalizing some key relationships. However, by late 2017 all of the coffees, yes all, you will have the chance to experience through Bridge City will be sourced and handled in ways that we trust by people that we know, trust, and support. Our goal is to always provide full transparency with our coffees and our sourcing model is designed to minimize the number of hands that touch every bean we use. This will maximize the profit our farmers and their communities receive, allow us to maintain more direct and authentic relationships with them, and in the end create a better product with real community through it all. We'll talk more in depth about how we do this in future post. Or you can reach out and ask us for more details, we'd love to tell you about it!
2. Raising capital and exploring investment opportunities To get our physical shop location and the employment model up and running we need a substantial amount of capital, substantial to us anyway. The good thing is that as our wholesale and general accounts increase, the amount of investment we need decreases. While this is a positive thing we would rather have the shop up and running as soon as feasibly possible. Thankfully, we recently obtained our first investors! This was a big deal for us both tangibly and intrinsically that people believe enough in what we're doing to invest. Thank you, you know who you are! Having said that, we still have quite a bit to procure to get the shop up and running and this will be a focus for both Jon and me in the foreseeable future.
*Update We are currently talking with a huge potential client that would speed things up for purchasing a bigger roaster and warehouse space.
What Is Bridge City Coffee?
Quick important detail on where we currently are while this is being written – It's the beginning of April now and my wife and I plan to move from Denver, CO to Greenville, SC sometime around June. Jon is going to do our first pop-up cart at a First Friday event at Textile Hall this week. It's a good bit sooner than we anticipated to actually launch, but we're not complaining! Just have to get ready for it.
I love good coffee. I enjoy the way it tastes and how it wakes me up in the morning. I love how therapeutic it is to make. I love how it makes me think about things in a healthy big picture perspective with the journey each single coffee bean goes through to end up producing my morning fuel (more about this in an upcoming post). In addition to all that, I love the community, massive life or business decisions, and simple relaxation that all occur within the walls of coffee shops.
Through a quick Google search I found 50 independently owned coffee shops just around the downtown Denver area. That number doesn't include any big chains like Starbucks and Dazbog or places like Dunkin Donuts that serve coffee drinks. So throw in the big chains and you're easily close to 200 shops. That's a saturated market to say the least. Out of all those shops there is one like Purple Door Coffee and simply put, Purple Door is one of the biggest reasons I want to create Bridge City Coffee.
I heard Mark, the executive director, speak at a 1 Million Cups meeting. I was fascinated by what they were doing and approached Mark following the meeting. After a lot of conversations and meetings with Mark I've been on the board of Purple Door for 6 months now. I still have a hard time not being overwhelmed when I go to the coffee shop or roaster and see the employees doing their jobs. There is a truth that hits me like a ton of bricks every time - I am witnessing each individual employee having their lives renewed while they are gaining applicable life skills and simultaneously learning about their worth and dignity as individuals. It's not just a job, it's the restoration of people's lives. That's why Jon and I want to build with Bridge City Coffee.
Two of the main differences between Purple Door and Bridge City will be the target demographic of employees and how the business will be structured. Purple Door was born out of Dry Bones, an NP that does amazing relief work for Denver's homeless youth. They wanted something further down the scale from relief work more into rehabilitation and development, hence where Purple Door was conceived. At Bridge City our goal is to catch people and equip them to succeed before they end up in need of serious relief or deep rehabilitation.
The way Bridge City will be structured is similar to a for-profit B-Corp (Benefit Corporation). We're still working on honing in the exact percentages, but a percentage of our net profits will be reinvested back into the employee's communities, some partner organizations, and the farming communities we source our beans from. We'll call it the community fund. Of the community fund, Jon and I will work with the employees to help them reinvest 50% of the community fund directly back into the communities they are from. 35% will go towards partner organizations around the Greenville area, and 15% will go toward the farming coops and communities we work with. One of the main drivers behind forming as a for-profit entity is to empower the employees with the knowledge that they are earning their own wages and keeping the business afloat through their hard work.
We'll write about the mission, goals, and unique factors of Bridge City in later posts. Part of the beauty of this blog (hopefully) is the dynamic nature of it all during the construction of the company. We may plan for one thing only to learn that it won't work and we have to pivot. Again, that's the terrifying and unique nature of writing something in the thick of it all. So keep following us, we'll make it worth it!


Full Tilt offers the widest selection of games, bar none. They were the first to add HORSE tournaments and recently added mixed ring games. Along with the exotic choices, you will be able to play the standard Texas Hold'em, Stud, Omaha, in limit, pot limit and no limit. Full Tilt has turbo rooms and heads up sit n go's, both becoming favorites for serious players.
And one more time, just in case you missed it in the summary. This is the best place to "sit on the rail" and watch real poker pros in action. You can even play against them, without having to be rich to do so. It's pretty common to see big names like Phil Ivey or Jennifer Harman sitting down at a $1/$2 table.
Full Tilt offers a large deposit bonus of 100% match up to $600 free. The bonus is a gradual release bonus, and is best released at $2/$4 limits or higher. They give you plenty of time to release your bonus, so you can do it at lower limits if you like. The bonus code EXTRACHIPS will get you FullTilt's maximum bonus of 100% up to $600.
Full Tilt does not have a lot of reloads, but you can catch one every now and then.
Full Tilt is right at the second largest online poker room in the world. They do a lot of television advertising. The combination of marketing and star power that the pro's bring to the table means players are flocking to Full Tilt as fast as or faster than any other online poker room in the world. With big numbers come big fish. You'll generally find loose action at every game and every limit.
Full Tilt has lots of bells and whistles for you to play with when it comes to software. Avatar "bobbleheads", backgrounds, regular or racetrack table view, among other things. Most importantly, Full Tilt software is extremely stable. Hands are dealt quickly enough to keep everyone happy. If for some reason you want your hands faster, just check out the turbo tables.
Full Tilt is still open to USA players. They have some interesting VIP player promotions too, if you play a lot, including your own custom designed avatar to actually look like you. (Just like the pros have).


Hornady® offers the same Flex Tip® technology for handguns that revolutionized lever guns. Typical hollow point pistol bullets deliver good performance at modest velocities, but have a tendency to expand too quickly and sacrifice penetration at the higher velocities achieved with lever action rifles.
Hornady FTX® bullets achieve reliable expansion over a wide range of velocities. Upon impact, the patented FTX tip is compressed into the front of the bullet, causing the bullet to expand and transfer immediate energy for a devastating temporary cavity-even at low velocity.


Suicidal thoughts, just like any mental health condition, can affect anyone regardless of their age, gender, background or veteran status. Statistics have shown that more often than not, suicide can be a result of an untreated mental health condition. These can include depression, PTSD, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, anxiety or personality disorders. Suicidal thoughts, although rather common, should not be considered normal and can often can indicate a more serious issue.
Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death among adults in the US and 2nd leading cause of death of people 10-24. Suicide claims the lives of 22 Veterans and 1 Active Duty personnel, every day.
Suicidal thoughts and behaviors are both damaging and dangerous and therefore are considered to be a psychiatric emergency. Having suicidal thoughts does not mean someone is weak or flawed but if you or someone you know is having these thoughts they should seek immediate assistance from a health or mental health care provider. Quick Reaction Force 22 is here to assist you or your loved ones with the proper resources to address suicidal thoughts that may be experienced.
Each year more than 41,000 individuals die by suicide with more than 8,000 of these being Veterans, leaving behind their friends and families to navigate their loss. In many cases, these individuals known as 'suicide loss survivors' have been left in the dark leading up to this tragedy. All too often, the feelings of shame, judgement, stigma or resentment prevent them from talking openly – which ultimately could save their life.
September is National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month – a time where we wish to take to emphasis our focus on preventing Veteran Suicide by raising awareness to the Veteran Epidemic that is plaguing our country. We use this moth to reach out to those affected by suicide, connect individuals who have suicidal ideas with trained professionals and treatment services, ensuring that individuals, friends and families have access to the resources they need as well as educate Veterans and civilians alike on the warning signs to be mindful of.
We can all play a vital role in preventing suicide, and it doesn't mean that there is a requirement for a grand gesture or complicated task. Simply helping someone feel included, supported and needed can make a huge difference during a challenging time in their life. We ask you to check in on your buddies, communicate with our team and engaging those you think may need help in a positive and supportive way. A simple 'I care' can do more than you think.
Quick Reaction Force 22 is here to help.


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De Edensermolen is a smock mill in Iens, Friesland, Netherlands which was built in 1847. The mill has been restored to working order. It is listed as a Rijksmonument, number 21575.

History

De Edensermolen was built in 1847 to drain the Breeuwsma Polder. It was restored in 1958. A new pair of sails were required to replace those damaged in a storm. A secondhand pair were fitted, bringing the cost of the restoration down from an anticipated ƒ765 to ƒ485. The mill was sold to Stichting De Fryske Mole () on 13 October 1977. In 1995, it was restored to full working order. In 2006, the mill was officially designated by Wetterskap Fryslân as being held in reserve for use in times of emergency.

Description

De Edensermolen is what the Dutch describe as an grondzeiler. It is a two-storey smock mill on a single-storey base. There is no stage, the sails reaching almost to the ground. The mill is winded by tailpole and winch. The smock is covered in horizontal boards, while those on the cap are vertical. The sails are Common sails. They have a span of . The sails are carried on a wooden windshaft. The windshaft also carries the brake wheel which has 32 cogs. This drives the wallower (17 cogs) at  the top of the upright shaft. At the bottom of the upright shaft, the crown wheel, which has 26 cogs drives a gearwheel with 25 cogs on the axle of the Archimedes' screw. The axle of the Archimedes' screw is  diameter. The screw is  diameter and  long. It is inclined at 24°. Each revolution of the screw lifts  of water.

Public access
De Edensermolen is open by appointment.

References

Windmills in Friesland
Windmills completed in 1847
Smock mills in the Netherlands
Windpumps in the Netherlands
Rijksmonuments in Friesland
Octagonal buildings in the Netherlands
1847 establishments in the Netherlands
19th-century architecture in the Netherlands

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The food industry is currently facing challenges from many angles, including catering to new consumer trends, which include the increased popularity of vegetarianism, veganism, and the desire for greater availability of "free from" foods, in addition to meeting the requirements of new government guidelines relating to consumer health.
For example, Public Health England (PHE) has published new guidelines regarding sugar reduction in the food industry, aiming at reducing the amount of sugar in children's food by 20% by 2020, with a 5% reduction in the first year. This presents a significant challenge for those in the food industry to comply with these guidelines whilst meeting consumer expectations relating to taste, colour and texture.
One organisation taking this challenge head-on is Lucozade Ribena Suntory (LRS), a UK soft drinks manufacturer, which has announced that it aims to reduce the sugar content of all of its existing and new beverages to less than 4.5g per 100 ml (compared to previous 10 to 11g per 100 ml). To date LRS has managed to remove a staggering 25,500 tons of sugar and 98 billion calories from the company's annual drinks production and states that this dramatic change has not affected the taste of the soft drinks produced.
So how are manufacturers meeting these new government lead and consumer driven targets?
One main method of lowering sugars in food is to replace at least some of the sugar present with sweeteners. However, the incorporation of higher amounts of sweeteners can lead to the presence of an off-taste/bitter taste. It is known that the presence of artificial sweeteners within food products not only stimulates the human sweet taste receptors but also activates bitter taste receptors (TAS2Rs), causing this unpleasant "off-taste". In order to overcome this disadvantage, the food industry has often turned to the use of a combination of sweeteners. Combinations of saccharin and cyclamate are known to produce higher sweetness levels with reduced bitter off-taste, however, the reasons as to why this effect is achieved by this specific combination were unknown, leaving those in the food industry to resort to a trial and error approach when formulating new/and or improved combinations of sweeteners.
Research by Behrens et al. has now shown that the combination of non-caloric sweetener cyclamate inhibits the two bitter taste receptors, TAS2R31 and TAS2R43, stimulated by saccharin and, in turn, saccharin suppresses the response of the human bitter taste receptor, TAS2R1, to cyclamate. Thus, it is this mutual suppression of bitter taste receptors which leads to the "higher sweetness levels with reduced bitter off-taste" observed.
Furthermore, the results of Behrens et al. indicate that "mixtures of two or more bitter compounds could exhibit lower overall bitterness as a result of inhibition between the substances".
Whilst the current challenges faced by those in the food industry may have once seemed insurmountable, it is clear that current research, such as that discussed above, is helping to provide new insights into the issues faced. This can, in turn, lead the way to new and inventive methods of tackling these challenges. However, in a competitive industry where the total consumer expenditure on food, drink at catering in 2016 was around £206 billion, it is more vital than ever for companies to protect their innovations to prevent the possibility of reducing their market share.
In Mathys & Squire, our specialist food technology team works with clients to help identify, protect and commercialise their food intellectual property (IP), whether through identifying relevant chemical compounds in new food products, how food is manufactured or through packaging design and processes.
For further information regarding the research by Behrens et al. please see the following article.


Along the bonny banks of the Ottawa River, government officials from both Scotland and Canada gathered Monday during our sesquicentennial anniversary to celebrate 150 years of friendship between our two close-knit countries.
The reception was held at the British high commissioner's official residence, Earnscliffe, also known as the one-time home of Canada's Glasgow-born first prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald.
Deputy British High Commissioner Thomas Barry formally welcomed guests and remind everyone of the "vibrant, deep and enduring" ties that Canada has with the United Kingdom, starting with our shared Queen.
Scottish immigrants are credited with significantly contributing to the fabric of Canadian society and identity. More than five million people in the Great White North -- roughly the same population living in Scotland -- claim to be of Scottish heritage.
The reception featured Scotland's economy secretary, Keith Brown, who is visiting several North American cities to showcase Scotland as one of the best places in the world to live, visit, study and do business.
Canada is one of Scotland's top inward investors, with approximately 3,600 people in Scotland employed by Canadian-owned businesses. It also currently exports £470 million-worth of products to Canada.
Scotland excels in food and drink (such as whisky and craft beer), financial services and wealth management, oil and gas along with renewable energy research and development, tourism, and education (five Scottish universities are among the world's top 200). It also has a talent for computer gaming; Grand Theft Auto was created in Dundee.
"There are areas where I think there is great potential for Canada and Scotland to work more closely together," said Brown. "It's been driven home to me today how comfortable both Scotland and the UK is with Canada. It is a comfortable relationship based on shared values.
Brown unveiled a gift, created by young apprentice stone masons, depicting the famous ship Hector that brought the first migration of Scottish settlers to Nova Scotia in 1773. It was received by Charlottetown MP Sean Casey, parliamentary secretary to Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly. "I'm as Scottish as Paddy's pig," joked the politician, referring to his Irish heritage. However, Prince Edward Island was heavily influenced by Scottish Gaelic settlers and, today, almost 50 per cent of its islanders has Scottish roots.
Also present from Prince Edward Island were Senators Mike Duffy and Diane Griffin. In the kilt-wearing crowd was Scottish-born Liberal MP Mike Levitt, from Toronto's York Centre riding.
Attendees also included members of the Scottish Society of Ottawa, including its chair, George Brown, and executive director, Andrew Caddell. Among the events the society organizes in order to promote awareness and appreciation of Scottish culture are its Great Canadian Kilt Skate and its Ottawa Hogmanay on New Year's Eve.
The society is looking to grow the Hogmanay celebration into the second-largest in the world, after Edinburgh, of course.


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Q: Read gml file in R i have problem when i try to read a gml file of political books dataset. i use the command:
hh=read.table("polbooks.gml")

Erreur dans scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines,
  na.strings,  :    la ligne 2 n'avait pas 2 éléments

and when i use this one:
library(multiplex)
hh=read.gml("polbooks.gml")

Erreur dans (grep("graphics", edg, fixed = TRUE)[(i - 1)] +
  2):(grep("graphics",  :   argument NA / NaN

i have this problem in every dataset ".gml"

A: you can do like this,
 g<-read.graph("dolphins.gml",format=c("gml"))

and it's can be used for any foreign format: it's used the igraph package
 read.graph(file, format = c("edgelist", "pajek", "ncol", "lgl",
        "graphml", "dimacs", "graphdb", "gml", "dl"), ...)

A: Version 1.5 of multiplex solved this bug.


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Carols @ Creek Road South Bank #southbankdoescaroLs
Creek Road South Bank is a church that has been meeting in the Queensland Theatre Company's Billie Brown Theatre for almost 3 years.
In that time we've had productions of works by Shakespeare, Sophocles and local playwrights.
With each production bringing its own set and a different vibe to the room.
This time we brought the lights.
As 120 people gathered to sing carols and celebrate the magic of Christmas; that God would send his son, 'the light', into the world as a human; with a name.
"The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world." — John 1:9
That's why Christmas lights are so good. Christmas is all about lights.
"She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins." — Matthew 1:21
We even had a dash of Farsi, first O Holy Night, then the story of Jesus read in Farsi by Masoud, and in English by Jonas.
Christmas has a way of bringing people together; young and old, families, and people from different tribes and tongues, and nations. All people with names; names that mean and signify something to others (even if your life isn't synonymous with the meaning of your name in the baby name books). Names are universal. They're part of our humanity.
At Christmas, the light that gives life gets a name.
The one who saves; God with us; becomes one of us and is named Jesus. He becomes 'The Christ'... and so, this is Christmas. The magic. The miraculous. The beauty that truly brings a people together in a way that tears down the boundaries we would put up if not for Christmas. Between each other; across divides like age, and language, and nation... but more than that... the barrier between us and God; the finite and the infinite, the sinners and the Holy... that barrier is bridged as God becomes human; and then as that human goes on to offer us a way back to God; as he saves us from our sin.
Merry Christmas. Why not join us at 9am on Christmas morning, in the Billie Brown Theatre, for more celebrating of the magic of this 'season'...
Nathan Campbell
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"When I was young for me the kitchen was a nightmare. I never dreamed of becoming a chef. The first time I made the batter I smeared the stove, the sink and even my hair.
Even today I do not like fry and do not have the deep fryer. Over the years I have arranged and now I cook in a simple and fresh way, without many sauces and "greasy". They are imaginative and I love experiencing new things. Some recipes are unique."
We are farmers happy to respect the tradition and the specialties of our land.
Always ready to lead our guests to discover the recipes of local cuisine in a cozy family-type organizational dimension, we are proud to prepare dishes that have roots in agriculture and rural tradition of Tuscany.
Our guests can expect the best of the table: from organic spelled, proposed by Maura in many different ways to sausages "casentinesi" of Marcello, as finocchiona, sausage, sambudello, the Capaccia, ham and salami.
The menus change with the seasons and the availability of fresh produce, marrying always original ideas of our cooks.


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"How?" es una canción de John Lennon incluida en su segundo álbum de estudio Imagine, lanzado en 1971. Es una canción inspirada en la contemplación Terapia Primal que él estaba experimentando con su esposa Yoko Ono, donde se enfrentó a muchas preguntas personales como "¿Cómo puedo seguir adelante cuando no sé qué camino está enfrentando?". Esta canción también muestra sus pensamientos sobre el mundo en general (por ejemplo, "Y el mundo es tan difícil, a veces siento que he tenido suficiente").

El sonido de "How?" es típico de varias de las canciones de Imagine, incluyendo el tema que da título y "Jealous Guy", con Lennon en el piano y sonido de cuerda, algo que no se había presentado en su anterior álbum John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band.

Versiones

La canción fue tocada por la banda Stereophonics y lanzada como un lado B de la canción "Handbags and Gladrags".
Ozzy Osbourne también ha lanzado una versión de esta canción en apoyo de Amnistía Internacional en la misma semana en la que John Lennon habría llegado a su cumpleaños número 70, este grabó un vídeo musical en las calles de Nueva York para promocionar el sencillo. Osbourne ha mencionado que la canción de Lennon "Imagine"(del mismo álbum que "How?") le sirvió de inspiración para su canción "Dreamer".

Referencias
Covermesongs.com. 2010-10-06.

Canciones de John Lennon
Canciones de 1971
Canciones en inglés


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Rematch and debut: what awaits Medvedev and Rublev at the ATP Final Tournament of the Year in London
Russian tennis players Daniil Medvedev and Andrei Rublev will take part in the ATP Final Tournament. They are among the top eight players of the season to play London for the last title of the season. Medvedev will try to take revenge for three defeats last year. Rublev will make his debut at this tournament.
The ATP Tournament of the Year will take place from 15 to 22 November in London.
Eight best athletes and eight best couples at the end of the season will play for the last title, which is on a par with victories at Grand Slam tournaments and Masters.
Among those who will fight for the singles victory, for the first time in 20 years, there will be two Russians.
Daniil Medvedev officially qualified back on September 14th, shortly after reaching the semi-finals of the US Open.
He became the fourth in the list of qualifiers after Serb Novak Djokovic, Spaniard Rafael Nadal and Austrian Dominik Tim.
A little later they were joined by the German Alexander Zverev and the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas.
On November 1, they were accompanied by Andrei Rublev, who won five ATP tournaments during the year.
Due to the refusal of the Swiss Roger Federer, who announced in the summer that he would skip the second half of the season due to a knee injury, Argentine Diego Schwartzman became the eighth participant in the ATP Final Tournament.
The selection for competitions in London did not follow the usual pattern with a set of points for performances in major tournaments throughout the year.
It had to be abandoned due to a break from March to August.
It was decided to distribute tickets among the best players according to the ATP rating.
However, if the previous selection format had been preserved, then the same tennis players who deserved it by rating would go to London.
The only exception would be Roger Federer, who has almost never scored any rating points this season.
For the last time, two Russian tennis players at once found themselves in the company of the best players at the final tournament of the year in 2000.
Then it was Marat Safin and Evgeny Kafelnikov.
Safin, who was the first racket of the world, lost in the semifinals to American Andre Agassi.
Kafelnikov was unable to pass the group stage.
In the entire 50-year history of the ATP Final Tournament, the Russian tennis player only reached the final twice, and only once won it.
In 2008 and 2009, Nikolai Davydenko achieved this.
Medvedev already has experience of participating in tournaments of this level.
Last season, he entered the final eight, but that performance can hardly be called successful.
In three group stage matches, he was able to win only one set against Nadal.
Rublev is waiting for his debut at the Final Tournament, previously he participated only in its analogue for young tennis players ATP Next Generation and reached the final in 2017.
At the draw, held on November 12, two Russian tennis players were in different groups.
In the quartet, named "Tokyo 1970" in honor of the first tournament of its kind, Medvedev will play with Djokovic, Zverev and Shvartsman.
In addition to Rublev, the London 2020 group includes Nadal, Tim and Tsitsipas.
If we take into account the statistics of personal meetings, then the Russians can hardly be called favorites, and Rublev should even be recognized as an outsider.
The ratio of Medvedev's victories and defeats with other participants is 17 to 16 (but 5 to 6 in the halls).
The Russian has negative statistics of games with Djokovic and Zverev, although in recent meetings they always had an equal fight.
Shvartsman can be called a convenient rival for Medvedev - all four matches between them ended with the victory of the first racket of Russia.
With Rublev, personal meetings are much worse.
During his career, he defeated only Tim and Tsitsipas, and it can be called luck that he will meet with them in the group stage.
However, his score with the Austrian and Greek is still a draw, he lost to them as much as he defeated them.
Rublev met with Nadal only once and lost to the US Open in 2017.
However, the results of this year do not allow Rublev to be discounted.
He is the leader of the season in winning matches, one victory ahead of even the first racket of the world Novak Djokovic.
The statistics of Rublev looks even better if we take into account only matches on indoor hard courts - these are the conditions that tennis players are waiting for in London.
The Russian won 13 meetings and lost only twice.
Nevertheless, the Russian tennis player is cautiously assessing his chances in the first-ever ATP Final Tournament.
"I don't feel that I have made it into the final eight.
In general, I do not expect anything, I hope I will be able to show my maximum and fight to the end.
Of course, I'm insanely worried a week before the competition.
I don't want to be a tourist, I want to show that it was not by chance that I got there ", - said Rublev in an interview with Match TV.
Medvedev's chances of success in London are enhanced by his recent victory at the Masters in Paris.
In the French capital, he not only won the first title of the season, but also beat two rivals in the group stage.
In the quarterfinals, the Russian easily passed Shvartsman, and in the title meeting he won a strong-willed victory over Zverev.
Rublev, Nadal and Tsitsipas dropped out even before the meeting with the first racket of Russia.
With Djokovic and Tim, Medvedev did not have a chance to play - the last time a Serb and an Austrian entered the court at a tournament in Vienna, where they lost in the quarterfinals.
The final ATP tournament of the year could have a profound impact on the distribution of the world rankings.
Medvedev will have a chance to become the third racket of the planet for the first time in his career.
To do this, however, he needs to go through the entire tournament without defeats, and Tim must lose in all meetings.
Rublev can ideally play two lines and climb into sixth place if he wins the title, and Tsitsipas and Zverev will not interfere with him in this.
Source: russiart
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Q: C#, Windows Services: ServiceBase.Run with several services of the same type I'm trying to run several similar services via ServiceBase.Run(ServiceBase[] ) but it's only running the first one.  MSDN doesn't explicitly deny this; does this excerpt mean that they all must be different types?  (the bold is by me, not MSDN)

Call this overload in the main() function of the service executable to load an array of associated services.

A: That is the intent.  The idea here is that you can have a single executable create "multiple services" instead of just a single type of service.
When a service is registered with the SCM, it's expected that each service is unique.  This would suggest (and I believe it's the case) that each element in your array must be a unique implementation of ServiceBase.
If you really are just trying to have multiple copies of the same service, I would rethink your design.  Just have the service fire off multiple threads using the same method, and it will provide that same effect with a single service instance.